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Part No:MN-133-2A1-41

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BX6 Motherboard

USER’ S MANUAL

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction of BX6 Features

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(1) Specifications

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(2) Layout Diagram

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(3) The System Block Diagram

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Chapter 2 Installing the Motherboard

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(1) Installing the Motherboard to the Casing

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(2) Standard External Connectors

2-3

(3) Jumper and Switches

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(4) Installation of the Pentium

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II/III, Celeron

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CPU

2-11

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Installing System Memory

2-12

Chapter 3 Introduction of BIOS

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(1) CPU Setup <CPU SOFT MENU

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(2)

Standard CMOS Setup Menu

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(3) BIOS Features Setup Menu

3-11

(4) Chipset Features Setup Menu

3-17

(5) Power Management Setup Menu

3-21

(6) PnP/PCI Configuration

3-28

(7) Load Setup Defaults

3-31

(8) Integrated Peripherals

3-32

(9) Password Setting

3-37

(10) IDE Hard Disk Detection

3-37

(11) Save & Exit Setup

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(12) Exit Without Saving

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Summary of Contents for BX6

Page 1: ...l the manufacturer be liable for direct indirect special incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are property of their respective owners This document contains materials protected under Internati...

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Page 3: ...rs 2 3 3 Jumper and Switches 2 9 4 Installation of the Pentium II III Celeron CPU 2 11 5 Installing System Memory 2 12 Chapter 3 Introduction of BIOS 3 1 1 CPU Setup CPU SOFT MENU II 3 3 2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu 3 8 3 BIOS Features Setup Menu 3 11 4 Chipset Features Setup Menu 3 17 5 Power Management Setup Menu 3 21 6 PnP PCI Configuration 3 28 7 Load Setup Defaults 3 31 8 Integrated Peripherals...

Page 4: ...IOS Flashing User Instructions C 1 Appendix D How to install the IDE Bus Master driver D 1 Appendix E How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX chipset E 1 Appendix F Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility F 1 Appendix G Install Winbond Hardware Doctor Utility G 1 Appendix H Technical Support H 1 ...

Page 5: ... Supports Intel Pentium II 350 450MHz processor cartridge Based on 100MHz and Pentium II 233 333MHz processor cartridge Based on 66MHz q Supports Intel Celeron 266 433MHz processor Based on 66MHz 2 Chipset q Intel 440BX chipset 82443BX and 82371EB q Supports Ultra DMA 33 IDE protocol q Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface ACPI q Accelerated Graphics Port connector support...

Page 6: ...q SB LINK header q Hardware monitoring G Included fan speed voltages CPU and system environment temperature q Keyboard Wake Up or PS 2 Mouse Wake Up need 5VSB at least720mA q Board size 305 210mm Note All brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners Œ The actual specs of Intel Celeron processor will depend on Intel s shipping specs Above 66MHz 100MHz bus speed supported b...

Page 7: ...Introduction of BX6 Features 1 3 2 Layout Diagram Figure 1 1 Motherboard Component Locations ...

Page 8: ...Chapter 1 1 4 3 The System Block Diagram ...

Page 9: ...asing 2 Standard external connectors 3 Jumpers and switches 4 Installation of the Pentium II III Celeron CPU 5 Installing the system memory NNNN Before proceeding with the installation Before installing the motherboard please be sure to turn off or disconnect the power supply unit Before making any modifications to the hardware configuration of the motherboard the power supply to any areas of the ...

Page 10: ...these holes up with the mounting holes on the base If the holes line up and there are screw holes this means you can attach the motherboard with bolts If the holes line up and there are only slots this means you can only attach the motherboard with spacers Take the tip of the spacers and insert it into the slots After doing this to all the slots you can slide the motherboard into position aligned ...

Page 11: ... the significance of the first pin PN1 Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Keylock and Power LED Header There is a specific orientation for pin 1 through pin 5 Insert the two threaded keylock cable into pin 4 and pin 5 and three threaded power LED cable to Pin 1 pin 3 Check to make sure the correct pins of connector on the motherboard Pin number Name or significance of signal Connector Name 1 5VDC Power LED 2 No connec...

Page 12: ...r significance of signal 13 Vcc 14 Suspend signal PN2 Pin 1 2 Hardware Reset Header Attach the cable from the case s Reset switch to this connector Press and hold the reset button for at least one second to reset the system Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 Reset input 2 Ground PN2 Pin 4 5 6 7 Speaker Header Attach the system speaker to connector PN2 Pin number Name or significance of si...

Page 13: ...n number Name or significance of signal 1 Mouse data 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 5VDC 5 Mouse clock 6 No connection KM1 KB PS 2 Keyboard Connector Attach a keyboard to this 6 pin Din connector Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 Keyboard data 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 5VDC 5 Keyboard clock 6 No connection ...

Page 14: ...onnectors from the power supply to CONT1 Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 3 3VDC 2 3 3VDC 3 Ground 4 5VDC 5 Ground 6 5VDC 7 Ground 8 Power Good 9 5VSB 10 12VDC 11 3 3VDC 12 12VDC 13 Ground 14 On Off control signal 15 Ground 16 Ground 17 Ground 18 5VDC 19 5VDC 20 5VDC FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 CPU FAN Pin number Name of the signal or signification 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Sense signal ...

Page 15: ...tor FDC 34 Floppy disk connector LPT 25 Parallel port COM1 9 Serial port COM1 connector COM2 9 Serial port COM2 connector USB 8 Universal serial Bus Notes IDE1 IDE2 are high performance PCI IDE connectors Up to four IDE interface devices are supported WOL1 Wake On LAN Header Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 5VSB 2 GND 3 Sense input SB1 SB Link Header Pin number Name or significance of s...

Page 16: ...in the BIOS menu see Chipset Features Setup Menu According to ACPI specifications CPU fan speed is relative to the CPU temperature In order to avoid confusing ACPI functions we strongly suggest that you connect the additional thermistor to the CPU Note Before you install or unplug any connectors or add on cards please remember to turn the ATX power supply switch off fully turn the 5V standby power...

Page 17: ...bols are used to indicate jumper settings For 3 pin jumpers the symbols below are used For 2 pins jumpers the following symbols are used Note To avoid losing jumper caps attach the removed jumper cap to one of the jumper pins Short Pins 1 and 2 with a jumper cap Short Pins 2 and 3 with a jumper cap Place the jumper cap over the two pins of the jumper to Short the jumper Remove the jumper cap to Op...

Page 18: ...he motherboard make sure this jumper is set for Normal Operation 1 2 See the jumper below Setting CCMOS Normal Operation Default Discharge CMOS Note Before you clear the CMOS you have to turn the power off first including the 5V standby power Otherwise your system may work abnormally or malfunction ...

Page 19: ...f you want to install the Celeron PPGA processor you have to use an additional adapter that allows you to use a Celeron PPGA processor in a slot 1 board For this ABIT makes the SlotKET adapter Note l Installing a heat sink and cooling fan is necessary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and damage of your CPU l Please refer to your box...

Page 20: ... a memory array certain rules must be followed The following set of rules allows for optimum configurations l The memory array is 64 or 72 bits wide Without parity or with parity l Those modules can be populated in any order l Support single and double density DIMMS The following is the valid memory configuration Bank Memory Module Total Memory Bank 0 1 DIMM1 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB 8MB 256...

Page 21: ... 4M 4 4M 8M Asymmetric 12 10 2 32MB 64MB 4M 4 4M 8M Asymmetric 14 8 2 32MB 64MB 2M 32 2M 4M Asymmetric 12 9 2 16MB 32MB 2M 32 2M 4M Asymmetric 13 8 2 16MB 32MB 4M 16 4M 8M Asymmetric 12 10 2 32MB 64MB 4M 16 4M 8M Asymmetric 14 8 2 32MB 64MB 8M 8 8M 16M Asymmetric 14 9 2 64MB 128MB SDRAM 64M 2 Bank 16M 4 16M 32M Asymmetric 14 10 2 128MB 256MB 2M 32 2M 4M Asymmetric 13 8 4 16MB 32MB 4M 16 4M 8M Asym...

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Page 23: ...ly when these tasks are completed does it give up control of the computer to the program of the next level which is the operating system Since the BIOS is the only channel for hardware and software to communicate it will be the key factor for system stability and to ensure that your system performs at its best After the BIOS has achieved the auto diagnostic and auto detection operations it will di...

Page 24: ...p Page Down or keys when you want to modify the BIOS parameters for the active option B Computer Knowledge B CMOS DATA Maybe you have heard somebody saying that their CMOS DATA was lost What is the CMOS Is it important The CMOS is the memory used to store the BIOS parameters that you have configured This memory is passive You can read its data and you can also store data in it But this memory has ...

Page 25: ...stall the CPU without configuring any jumpers or switches The CPU must be setup according its specifications In the first option you can press F1 at any time to display all the items that can be chosen for that option Fig 3 2 CPU SOFT MENU II CPU Name Is ä Intel Pentium III MMX ä Intel Pentium II MMX ä Intel Celeron MMX CPU Operating Speed This option sets the CPU speed In this field the CPU speed...

Page 26: ...2 5 This feature is used to verify the design flexibility It is a very important tool for test units to verify CPU stability Do not use this feature äDisabled CPU external clock is operating within the normal limits äEnabled CPU external clock is operating within the limits of the Turbo mode Ext Clock PCI ä 66MHz 1 2 ä 75MHz 1 2 ä 83MHz 1 2 ä 100MHz 1 3 ä 112MHz 1 3 ä 117MHz 1 3 ä 117MHz 1 4 ä 124...

Page 27: ...able If you choose the setting to Enable when CPU speed setting is wrong then system will hold Normally we do not recommend that you use the User Define option to setup CPU speed and multiplier factor This option is for the setup of future CPUs whose specifications are still unknown The specifications of all present CPUs are included in the default settings Unless you are very familiar with all CP...

Page 28: ...PU parameters again Note The increase by 2 5 of the CPU speed is not a standard feature of this product It is only for use by our development department to verify that the CPU is able to work normally when CPU speed operating temperature and power supply are 2 5 higher or lower than the standard values This is to guarantee product stability We require the manufacturer of the Clock Generator to mee...

Page 29: ...ltiplier and external clock in certain circumstances may cause CPU damage Setting the working frequency higher than the PCI chipset or processor specs may cause abnormal memory module functioning system hangs hard disk drive data lose VGA card abnormal functioning or abnormal functioning in other add on cards Using non specification settings for your CPU is not the intention of this explanation Th...

Page 30: ...n in this item month mm date dd and year yyyy Time hh mm ss You can set time information in this item hour hh minute mm and second ss Setup of HDD operating mode i NORMAL LBA LARGE j Since old operating systems were only able to support HDD whose capacity was not bigger than 528MB any hard disk with more than 528MB was unusable AWARD BIOS features a solution to this problem you can according to yo...

Page 31: ... s why we recommend you use this mode Currently the BIOS can support INT 13h extension function then the LBA mode supports hard disk drives capacity exceeding 8 4GB ä LARGE Mode When the number of cylinders CYLs of the hard disk exceeds 1024 and DOS is not able to support it or if your operating system does not support LBA mode you should select this mode Drive A If you have installed the floppy d...

Page 32: ... can select which type of error will cause the system to halt Five options are available All ErrorsèNo ErrorsèAll But KeyboardèAll But DisketteèAll But Disk KeyèBack to All Errors You can see your system memory list in the lower right box it shows the Base Memory Extended Memory and Other Memory size in your system 2 For further information about HDD installation refer to Appendix B ...

Page 33: ...s Setup Virus Warning This item can be set as Enable or Disable When this feature is enabled if there is any attempt from a software or an application to access the boot sector or the partition table the BIOS will warn you that a boot virus is attempting to access to the hard disk CPU Level 1 Cache This item is used to Enable or to Disable the CPU level 1 cache When the cache is set at Disable it ...

Page 34: ...Quick power on self test feature is Enable the BIOS will simplify the test procedures in order to speed up the boot process The default is Enable Boot Sequence When the computer boots up it can load the operating system from floppy drive A hard disk drive C SCSI disk drive or CD ROM There are many options for the boot sequence ä A C SCSI ä C A SCSI ä C CD ROM A ä CD ROM C A ä D A SCSI At least 2 I...

Page 35: ...o access data When this item is enabled the BIOS will automatically detect if your hard disk drive supports this feature or not and will choose the right settings for you The default is Disable 2 For further details about hard disk drive installation refer to appendix B Typematic Rate Setting This item allows you to adjust the keystroke repeat rate When enabled you can set the two keyboard typemat...

Page 36: ...the CMOS before you can start up the system But doing this you have to reset all the options you had set up before PCI VGA Palette Snoop This option allows the BIOS to preview VGA Status and to modify the information delivered from the Feature Connector of the VGA card to the MPEG Card This option can solve the display inversion to black after you have used the MPEG card OS Select For DRAM 64MB Wh...

Page 37: ...Shadow This option allows you to decide if the memory block BIOS of an interface card at the address D0000 D3FFF uses the shadow feature or not If you have no interface card using this memory block don t enable this option Shadowing address ranges D4000 D7FFF Shadow This option allows you to decide if the memory block BIOS of an interface card at the address D4000 D7FFF uses the shadow feature or ...

Page 38: ...hat is the SHADOW The BIOS of standard video or interface cards is stored in ROM and it is often very slow With the Shadow feature the CPU reads the BIOS on the VGA card and copies it into RAM When the CPU runs this BIOS the operation is speeded up ...

Page 39: ...ULTS option Fig 3 5 Chipset Features Setup You can use the arrow keys to move between the items Use PgUP PgDn or key to change the values When you have finished setting up the chipset press ESC to go back to the main menu SDRAM CAS latency When synchronous DRAM is installed you can control the numbers of CLKs between when the SDRAMs sample a read command and when the controller samples read data f...

Page 40: ...manual to find out if any compatibility problems will occur 8 Bit I O Recovery Time Nine options are available NA è 8 è 1 è 2 è 3 è 4 è 5 è 6 è 7 èBack to NA This option specifies the length of a delay inserted between consecutive 8 bit I O operations For an earlier 8 bit Add on card sometimes you need to adjust its recovery time to make it work normal 16 Bit I O Recovery Time Five options are ava...

Page 41: ...imal result AGP Aperture Size MB Seven options are available 4 è 8 è 16 è 32 è 64 è 128 è 256 è Back to 4 This option specifies the amount of system memory that can be used by the AGP device The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Spread Spectrum Four options are available Disableè0 50 CNTR è0 5 DOWN For EMC Electro Magnetic Compatibili...

Page 42: ...es for temperature fans and voltages will occupy the I O address from 294H to 297H If you have a network adapter sound card or other add on cards will use those I O address so please adjust your add on card I O address to avoid the use of those address because those addresses will occupied by the LM79 and cannot changed There are small differences in the chipset feature setup according to differen...

Page 43: ...r device These are referred to as Power Management Events In cases when none of these events occurs the system enters the power saving mode When one of the controlled events occurs the system immediately returns to normal mode and operates at its maximum speed Power saving modes can be divided into three modes according to their power consumption Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode The four mo...

Page 44: ...anufacture for more information If you want to know more about ACPI specifications please go to the address below for more detailed information http www teleport com acpi acpihtml home htm ACPI requires an ACPI aware operating system ACPI features include l Plug and Play including bus and device enumeration and APM functionality normally contained in the BIOS l Power management control of individu...

Page 45: ...mode USB Sleeping mode PS 2 keyboard Sleeping mode PS 2 mouse Sleeping mode Sleep button Sleeping mode Table 5 2 Effect of Pressing the Power Switch IF THE SYSTEM IS IN THIS STATE AND THE POWER SWITCH IS PRESSED FOR THE SYSTEM ENTERS THIS STATE Off Less than four seconds Power on On More than four seconds Soft off Suspend On Less than four seconds Fail safe power off Sleep Less than four seconds W...

Page 46: ...d DPMS The default is V H SYNC Blank If this setting does not shut off the screen select Blank Screen If your monitor and video card support DMPS standard select DPMS Video Off After Select the saving mode in which the video is switched off ä NA The video will never be switched off in no power saving mode ä Suspend The video will only be switched off in Suspend mode ä Standby The video will only b...

Page 47: ...andby power saving mode If this mode is disabled the system will enter the next mode in the sequence Suspend mode Suspend Mode When the setting selected for Power Management is User Define you can define for this mode any delay from 1 minute to 1 hour If no power management event occurs during this time period meaning the computer is inactive during this period the system will enter the Suspend po...

Page 48: ...can set date of month and time hour minute second PM Timer Events When one of the specifics occurs the count down made for entry in power saving mode goes back to zero Since the computer will enter a power saving mode only after an inactivity delay specified time specific for Doze Standby and Suspend modes and after it has no activity during this time period any event will cause the computer to re...

Page 49: ...count the time elapsed äIDE Secondary Slave If any IDE secondary slave I O activity occurs it will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed äFloppy Disk If any floppy disk I O activity occurs it will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed äSerial Port If any serial port I O activity occurs it will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed äParallel Port If any IDE secondary m...

Page 50: ...ESCD If you want to clear ESCD data next time you boot up and ask the BIOS to reset the settings for the Plug Play ISA Card and the PCI Card select Enabled But the next time you boot up this option will automatically be set as Disabled B Computer Knowledge B ESCD Extended System Configuration Data The ESCD contains the IRQ DMA I O Port Memory information of the system This is a specification and a...

Page 51: ...u can select Manual to set which IRQ and DMA are assigned to PCI ISA PnP or legacy ISA cards Assign IRQ For VGA You can assign an IRQ for the PCI VGA or Auto Assign IRQ For USB If you need another IRQ to be freed up you can choose to disable this item and you can get an IRQ But in some situations in Windows 95 it may cause the USB port to malfunction or other problems Two options are available Ena...

Page 52: ...iguration status and you want to change it For the relations between the hardware layout of PIRQ the signals from the PIIX4 chipset INT means PCI slot IRQ signals and devices please refer to the table below Signals PCI slot 1 AGP slot PCI slot 2 PCI slot 3 PCI slot 4 PCI slot 5 PIRQ_1 INT A INT B INT C INT D PIRQ_2 INT B INT C INT D INT A PIRQ_3 INT C INT D INT A INT B PIRQ_4 INT D INT A INT B INT...

Page 53: ...his option the following message is displayed Load Setup Defaults Y N N If you want to use BIOS Setup default values press Y than Enter to complete the loading of the settings for best performance You should first load the best settings than enter the CPU Soft Menu to set up CPU parameters otherwise the BIOS will replace set parameters by default parameters ...

Page 54: ...ter Drive PIO Mode ä Auto the BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Default You can select the PIO mode from 0 to 4 of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Slave Drive PIO Mode ä Auto the BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Default You can select the PIO mode fr...

Page 55: ... controller can be set at Enabled or Disabled Master Drive PIO Mode ä Auto the BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Default You can select the PIO mode from 0 to 4 of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Slave Drive PIO Mode ä Auto the BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data tra...

Page 56: ... settings With the BIOS option you can use a USB keyboard under the MS DOS environment but don t need to install a driver Init Display First When you install more than one display cards you can choose either a PCI display card or an AGP display card to activate the display boot up screen If you only installed one display card the BIOS will detect which slot AGP or PCI you installed it in then ever...

Page 57: ... IRQ10 2E8h IRQ11 and AUTO Onboard Serial Port 2 This is used to specify the I O address and IRQ of Serial Port 2 Ten options are available Disable 3F8h IRQ4 2F8h IRQ3 3E8h IRQ4 or 2E8h IRQ3 3F8 IRQ10 2F8 IRQ11 3E8 IRQ10 2E8 IRQ11 and AUTO Onboard IR Function Three options are available ä IrDA HPSIR mode ä ASK IR Amplitude Shift Keyed IR mode ä Disabled RxD TxD Active Set IR transmission reception...

Page 58: ...ard parallel port is ECP the DMA channel selected can be Channel 1 or Channel 3 EPP Mode Select When the mode selected for the onboard parallel port is EPP two EPP version options are available EPP1 7 2 For further information about HDD installation refer to Appendix B ...

Page 59: ...played Enter Password Press Enter the message Password Disable is displayed Press a key The password clearing procedure is completed Notice Do not forget your password If you forget it you will have to open the computer case clear the contents of the CMOS and boot the system up again By doing this you must reset all your parameters 10 IDE Hard Disk Detection After you have installed the hard disk ...

Page 60: ...Save Exit Setup You can save all your selection to CMOS and exit BIOS to reboot your computer 12 Exit Without Saving Fig 3 10 Exit Without Saving You can exit and without saving all your selections to CMOS then exit BIOS to reboot your computer ...

Page 61: ...d set up the CPU in the CPU SOFT MENU II of the BIOS SETUP Installing System Memory You can install the SDRAM module 168 pin DIMM module to the DIMM sockets DIMM 1 DIMM5 the maximum memory capacity of this motherboard is 1GB Installing FDD Watch the pin position and the orientation FDC Connect one end of the 34 pin cable that comes with the motherboard or the drive to the FDD connector and the oth...

Page 62: ...e pin position and the orientation PN1 Pin 1 5 There is a specific orientation for pin 1 to pin 5 Insert the two threads keylock cable into pin 4 and pin 5 and three threads power LED cable to Pin 1 pin 3 Correct pins of header on the motherboard Pin number Name of the signal or signification 1 5VDC 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 Keyboard inhibit Signal 5 Ground Installing HDD LED connector Watch the ...

Page 63: ...ard You can ignore this connector since most of computer cases do not support this feature the motherboard itself supports it Pin number Name of the signal or signification 13 Vcc 14 Suspend signal Installing Hardware Reset Switch Connector PN2 Pin 1 2 Attach the cable from the case s Reset switch to this header Press and hold the reset button for at least one second to reset the system Pin number...

Page 64: ...1 Connect the power supply unit to the correct connectors on the motherboard Pin number Name of the signal or signification Pin number Name of the signal or signification 1 3 3VDC 11 3 3VDC 2 3 3VDC 12 12VDC 3 Ground 13 Ground 4 5VDC 14 ON OFF control signal 5 Ground 15 Ground 6 5VDC 16 Ground 7 Ground 17 Ground 8 Power Good 18 5VDC 9 5VSB 19 5VDC 10 12VDC 20 5VDC Installing Keyboard connector Wat...

Page 65: ...ation 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Sense signal Adjusting other jumpers Some jumpers are reserved for future functions or are not to be adjusted in normal operation Adjust them according to the following recommendations CCMOS G Always put jumper on pin 1 and pin 2 this is default setting BIOS Setup Parameters and CPU settings After you have followed the steps described above and completed the installation whe...

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Page 67: ...sk by the chipset on the motherboard using a DMA or a PIO mode and then the data is put into the memory In this case the CPU does not participate in the data transfer What is the DMA mode Usually DMA mode refers to accessing the hard disk data by the chipset it does not refer to the data transfer mode Here are some examples of data transfer rates for IDE HDD with PIO interface PIO Mode 0 The faste...

Page 68: ...ond HDD is referred to as Slave Note The Master or Slave status of the hard disk drive is set on the hard disk itself Refer to the hard disk drive manual Installing one HDD The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector Be sure that your hard disk drive is set at Master Actually most hard disk drives are set at Master as a default so you don t need to adjust any ...

Page 69: ...Ds one CD ROM drive The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector Method 1 Set the hard disk drive used for boot up as Master set the other HDD at Slave connect one connector of the 40 pin cable to the first drive another connector to the second drive and the other end of the cable to connector IDE1 on the motherboard You can ignore the setting of the CD ROM dri...

Page 70: ...ther end of the cable to connector IDE2 on the motherboard Installing three HDDs one CD ROM drive The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master set another HDD the second at Slave connect one connector of the 40 pin cable to the first drive another connector to the second drive and the other end of the cable to ...

Page 71: ...then enter FDISK Using FDISK DOS command This command is found in the DOS disks FDISK is a tool used to organize and to partition the hard disk The hard disk must have been partitioned before use You can create one unique partition on the hard disk or create several partition and use a different Operating System on each partition Just don t forget that you have to specify an Active partition other...

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Page 73: ... your system and going directly into DOS Basically there are two ways to flash your BIOS One is to directly type the full line commands that are described in this section The utility will then flash your BIOS When you finish the flash operation you will see the screen as in Figure C 2 The other method is to just type awdflash then press enter the Flash Memory Writer V6 66 screen will show up pleas...

Page 74: ...e F1 key to reset the system or press the F10 key to exit the writer Figure C 2 Award Flash Memory Writer V6 66 Complete Screen Figure C 3 shows you what commands you can use for the flashing program you need to go into the pure DOS environment and type awdflash then you will see Figure C 3 Figure C 3 Flash Commands Screen ...

Page 75: ...IOS the user can choose a different file name in place of SAVEBIOS Explanation of parameter names CC Clears CMOS data CP Clears PnP data Remarks When executing AWDFLASH EXE do not run HIMEM SYS and EMM386 EXE in the CONFIG SYS Please take the following actions to solve problems caused by power shortage or other non preventable malfunctions during BIOS updating that lead to update failure First it ...

Page 76: ...eed to type A AWDFLASH IT6B_FZ bin PY SN CC If you try to flash a version of BIOS that is for the incorrect motherboard model the following message will appear The program file s part number does not match with your system ...

Page 77: ...stallation process exactly as below In Windows 95 place the CD ROM into the computer The main menu will show up Click the Drivers button then select the IDE Master button again select the OS in which you want to install the driver We have provided the OS 2 Windows 95 and Windows NT Bus Master driver for you Direct clicking the OS button will automatically install the Bus Master driver to your syst...

Page 78: ...D 2 Appendix D Step1 Welcome Click NEXT Step2 License screen Notepad will show the content close the notepad to continue ...

Page 79: ...How to install the IDE Bus Master driver D 3 Step3 Question Click Yes Step4 Select Components Click INSTALL Step5 Question Click Yes ...

Page 80: ...en you restart your Windows 95 just follow the step shows on the screens After you see the screen below please set the path to C WINDOWS SYSTEM IOSUBSYS then finish the following steps You will need to restart Windows then Windows will find several I O devices when finished with this procedure you will need to restart Windows 95 yet again This will fully complete the installation of the IDE Bus Ma...

Page 81: ...te 3 2 2 drives version It can be used to update the 440BX chipset motherboard The following procedure describes how to install and update the PCI bridge If you have a floppy diskette and not the CD ROM just insert the diskette and execute the Setup exe file to start installation of the INF update files Step 1 Check your Windows 95 Device Manager and find the question mark showing the PCI Bridge ...

Page 82: ...tep 2 Execute the Product CD Title ABITCD EXE and choice Driver è PCI Bridge Driver for Windows 95 then you will see the screen below Step 3 Click NEXT Step 4 You will see the license agreement dialog screen click Yes ...

Page 83: ...How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX chipset E 3 Step 5 Click Next then wait a while until you see the installation complete screen Step 6 Click OK the system will restart ...

Page 84: ...E 4 Appendix E Step 7 Restart your computer then check the Device Manager again First you can check Hard Disk Controller then take a look to see if the Bus Master driver is already recognized ...

Page 85: ... to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX chipset E 5 Step 8 Also check System Device to find out if four devices are identified as well Please see the arrows below You have completed all things now ...

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Page 87: ...ess We ll tell you more about it CD ROM technology is growing fast but its performance is still unacceptable compared to today s hard drives The transfer rates of today s hard drives can exceed 18MB sec with access times below 12ms However transfer rates for the fastest CD ROM drives on the market are below 2MB sec with access times over 100ms CD Xpress was created to accelerate the accessing spee...

Page 88: ...automatic setting 7 Uncheck the box and when the system asks you to reboot click yes 8 After the system restarts the yellow mark should be gone 4 De Installation To uninstall XStore Pro from your system run Uninstall from the HighPoint XStore Pro program group This uninstall utility will deactivate CD Xpress if CD Xpress is active remove the buffer space and uninstall XStore Pro and CD Xpress from...

Page 89: ...your system If you have a floppy diskette but not the CD ROM just insert the diskette and run the Setup exe file to start installation Step 1 In Windows 95 98 place the CD ROM into the computer The main menu will show up Click the HighPoint XStore Pro Install button then you will see the XStore Pro installer is preparing the InstallShield Wizard When it is done the Welcome screen will show up ...

Page 90: ...u will see the screen below You then need to choose you want to install XStore Pro only or you want to install both of XStore Pro and CD Xpress Then you can press the Next key to continue Step 3 Press the Next key you will see the license screen ...

Page 91: ...ress the Yes to continue screen below Step 5 When install process done you will see the screen below This screen will show up only when you select install both XStore Pro and CD Xpress If you want to see the ReadMe file you can click on to the circle ...

Page 92: ...F 6 Appendix F Step 6 Choose the Yes I want to restart my computer now button then system will restart Or you can choose the No I will restart my computer later ...

Page 93: ...ding power supply voltages CPU system fans speed and CPU and system temperature These items are important for the operation of the system errors may result in permanent damage of the PC Once any item is out of its normal range a warning message will pop up and remind the user to take proper measures The following description will tell you how to install the Hardware Doctor Version 2 2 and use it T...

Page 94: ... the screen below Step 3 You can specify the program install path by clicking Change Directory button Or if you want to use the default path click the icon to continue the install process Now the screen will show you the percentage of install progress ...

Page 95: ...nd Hardware Doctor Utility G 3 Step 4 When the progress finishes click the OK button Step 5 Go to the Windows toolbar and click the Start button then choose the program è HWDoctor See the arrow mark on figure below ...

Page 96: ...en like the figure below You will see voltages fans speed and temperature readings as well If any item reading is critical or less than the limitation the reading will turn red Also it will show the pop up windows to warn you the system has a problem ...

Page 97: ...e computer Help You can read more information and self diagnose simple problems If the warning message pops up due to the wrong warning limit you can adjust it in the Configuration option For example if you set the temperature high limit to 40 C you are easy to exceed proper temperature Please pay attention to two things when you want to make any changes in the Configuration option Firstly you hav...

Page 98: ...G 6 Appendix G ...

Page 99: ...ed below First remove all interface cards except the VGA card and try to reboot FIf you still cannot boot up Try installing another brand model VGA card and see if the system will start If it still does not start note the VGA card model motherboard model Bios identification number CPU on the technical support form refer to main instructions and describe the problem in the problem description space...

Page 100: ...XEC BAT edit CONFIG SYS with a text editor and in function the line that loads the Sound Card Driver add a remark REM in order to disable the Sound Card Driver See the example below CONFIG SYS DEVICE C DOS HIMEM SYS DEVICE C DOS EMM386 EXE HIGHSCAN DOS HIGH UMB FILES 40 BUFFERS 36 REM DEVICEHIGH C PLUGPLAY DWCFGMG SYS LASTDRIVE Z Restart the system If the system starts and does not reset you can b...

Page 101: ... your user s manual Example BX6 BH6 etc 2 Motherboard model number REV Note the motherboard model number labeled on the motherboard as REV Example REV 1 01 3 BIOS ID and Part Number See below Example 4 DRIVER REV Note the driver version number indicated on the DEVICE DRIVER disk if have as Release Example IDE Device Driver Drivers Diskette Release 1 09A Release 1 09A ...

Page 102: ...the brand and specifications of your CD ROM drive specify if it uses IDE1 or IDE2 A and check ü in case you give no indication we will consider that your CD ROM is þIDE2 Master Example In the CD ROM drive space check the box in the Brand space write Mitsumi in the Specifications space write FX 400D 9 System Memory DRAM Indicate the brand and specifications SIMM DIMM of your system memory Examples ...

Page 103: ...upport Form Company name Phone J Contact Fax Model BIOS ID Motherboard model no DRIVER REV OS Application Hardware name Brand Specifications C P U HDD IDE1 IDE2 CD ROM Drive IDE1 IDE2 System Memory DRAM ADD ON CARD Problem Description ...

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