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PREFACE

Thank you for purchasing the 586MI system board. This document gives an aid to the configuration and installation of this
system board.

The information in this document is subject to change without notice.

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Page 1: ...used or reproduced in any forms or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without prior written permission TRADEMARKS Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation IBM is a re...

Page 2: ...tivity LED Connector 18 CHAPTER 3 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 19 THE DRAM SIMMs 19 Installing DRAM SIMMs 20 INSTALLING A VL BUS CARD 21 INSTALLING EXTERNAL I O CARD 22 EQUIPMENT REQUIRED 23 CHAPTER 4 BIOS S...

Page 3: ...l Pentium 60 66MHz and Pentium Overdrives Cache Memory Supports 256K and 512K cache memory Main Memory Supports 256Kx36 512Kx36 1Mx36 2Mx36 4Mx36 and 8Mx36 72 pin SIMM modules Up to 128 MBytes on boar...

Page 4: ...two 3 5 inch or 5 25 inch floppy disk drives Supports 360KB 720KB 1 2MB 1 44MB densities Floppy Disk Controller can be disabled Peripherals Supports two Serial ports and one Parallel port On Board Bat...

Page 5: ...roper operation caution should be taken when connecting these components SYSTEM BOARD JUMPERS Jumpers are used to select between various operating modes A jumper switch consists of two three or four g...

Page 6: ...in 1 on the CPU is denoted by a small notch VESA Local Bus Jumpers These jumpers allow any VL Bus adapter to identify the speed of the system board VL Bus Clock Speed JO5 JO6 JO7 JP19 33MHz Default SH...

Page 7: ...None 512KB 32Kx8 32Kx8 Clear CMOS Data Jumper The CMOS jumper JP15 is used to clear the system configuration data currently stored in the CMOS RAM All system setup information hard disk type date time...

Page 8: ...hard disk 1 2 2 3 2 3 Speed 2 Slow speed IDE hard disk 2 3 1 2 2 3 Parallel Port Jumper Parallel Port JP32 Select interrupt line IRQ7 for Parallel port 1 2 Default Select interrupt line IRQ5 for Para...

Page 9: ...P12 to enable disable video signals This pin should be connected to pin 18 of VGA Feature connector 2 7 Keyboard P13 to control video card HSYNC This pin should be connected to pin 11 of VGA Feature...

Page 10: ...nnectors two of the wires on each connector are black Align the two six wire connectors so that the two black wires on each connector are in the middle as shown below Pin Connector PS1 Connector PS2 1...

Page 11: ...Fused VDC Power LED and Keyboard Lock Connector The Power LED and Keyboard Lock connector KEYLOCK is 5 pin keyed BERG strip It is used to connect 5 VDC power to the power indicator LED at the front pa...

Page 12: ...tion 1 Speaker Data Out 2 Key No Connection 3 Ground 4 5 VDC Reset Connector The system RESET connector RESET is a 2 pin BERG strip It is used to connect the push button reset switch located on the fr...

Page 13: ...System runs at Turbo speed when pins 1 and 2 are shorted System runs at Slow speed when pins 1 and 2 are open Turbo LED Connector The Turbo LED connector marked as TB LED is a 2 pin BERG strip It is...

Page 14: ...COM1 and COM2 Users should use a flex cable with a 9 or 25 pin male D subminiature receptacle at one end and a 2x5 pin female header at the other end to provide RS 232 serial interface COM1 and COM2...

Page 15: ...n Description Pin Description 2 RPM 1 Ground 4 No Connection 3 Ground 6 No Connection 5 Ground 8 Index 7 Ground 10 Motor 1 9 Ground 12 Drive 2 11 Ground 14 Drive 1 13 Ground 16 Motor 2 15 Ground 18 Di...

Page 16: ...12 Data 12 11 Data 3 14 Data 13 13 Data 2 16 Data 14 15 Data 1 18 Data 15 17 Data 0 20 No Connection 19 Ground 22 Ground 21 No Connection 24 Ground 23 I O Write 26 Ground 25 I O Read 28 ALE 27 No Con...

Page 17: ...36 2Mx36 34MB 256Kx36 4Mx36 66MB 256Kx36 8Mx36 4MB 512Kx36 None 8MB 512Kx36 512Kx36 12MB 512Kx36 1Mx36 20MB 512Kx36 2Mx36 36MB 512Kx36 4Mx36 68MB 512Kx36 8Mx36 8MB 1Mx36 None 16MB 1Mx36 1Mx36 24MB 1Mx...

Page 18: ...3 Gently push the SIMM to an upright position until it snaps into place 4 Repeat above steps until the entire bank is filled Page 18 586MI System Board User s Manual...

Page 19: ...cover 10 Reconnect all the wires and cables INSTALLING EXTERNAL I O CARD The BIOS on 586MI automatically detects external I O devices It will arrange the on board I O addresses accordingly to prevent...

Page 20: ...he external I O card There are no jumpers on 586MI to be changed Game Port If an external Game port is installed and enabled the on board Game port will be disabled IDE Floppy Ports If there is an ext...

Page 21: ...reas with noisy transmission A 2 inch 8 Ohm speaker to provide sound capability A 2 position switch with a 2 pin connector for speed function A push button switch with 2 pin connector for reset functi...

Page 22: ...S detects this condition and prompts user to go through the SETUP section This chapter explains how to use the BIOS SETUP program and make the appropriate entries Some of the parameters are already fa...

Page 23: ...lor F10 Save Exit 4 Choose an option and press Enter Modify the system parameters to reflect the options installed in the system 5 Press Esc at anytime to return to the Main Menu 6 In the Main Menu ch...

Page 24: ...ive parameters If your particular drive is not one of the 46 pre defined types simply scroll down to select type 47 and enter the appropriate values for cylinders heads WPcom LZone and sectors Size is...

Page 25: ...y to use the numeric keypad for this The default setting is On Floppy Drive Seek At Boot Default is Disabled On this setting the system will check the hard disk first to find the disk operating system...

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Page 27: ...abled to slow down the system 512K to 640K DRAM Select Disabled for some ISA adapters that reserve this address area for their specific requirements Normally select Enabled Cache Read Burst Mode Cache...

Page 28: ...and are defined as connector W1 on the motherboard Please refer to Chapter 2 for detailed description of these connectors CPU and Green PC devices connected to W1 will go in to power saving mode if th...

Page 29: ...opriate address as shown below Select Disabled if an external Parallel port adapter is present with the same address 378 default 2 3 278 2 3 AUTO CONFIGURATION WITH BIOS DEFAULTS Use this option to lo...

Page 30: ...to do low level harddisk format Auto Interleave and Media Analysis of your MFM harddisk drive IDE ESDI and SCSI drives don t need this utility and you should not use it on them Low level harddisk form...

Page 31: ...puts the system into immediate power down mode This hot key sequence is active if the Green PC system power saving mode is enabled in BIOS Setup PASSWORD STATE The table below lists the Green PC power...

Page 32: ...Windows SYSTEM directory for example COPY A IDEDRV 386 C WINDOWS SYSTEM 2 Check the Windows file SYSTEM INI located under Windows directory i e c windows and make sure that the following lines exist i...

Page 33: ...There are two available speeds as shown below Turbo speed System runs at full speed Set by pressing key once while holding Ctrl Alt and Shift keys Slow speed System is slowed down Set by pressing key...

Page 34: ...B 23 306 4 0 336 17 10MB 24 925 7 0 925 17 54MB 25 925 9 65535 925 17 69MB 26 754 7 754 754 17 44MB 27 754 11 65535 754 17 69MB 28 699 7 256 699 17 41MB 29 823 10 65535 823 17 68MB 30 918 7 918 918 17...

Page 35: ...F 64K Extended BIOS Not Cached 000F0000 000FFFFF 64K On Board BIOS ROM Cached 00100000 00BFFFFF System Memory RAM Cached 00C00000 00FFFFFF System Memory RAM Cached 01000000 BFFFFFFF System Memory RAM...

Page 36: ...pter 0 2F8 2FF Serial Port 2 RS 232 C 300 31F Prototype Card 360 363 PC Network Low Address 364 367 Reserved 368 36B PC Network High Address 36C 36F Reserved 378 37F Parallel Printer Port 1 380 38F SD...

Page 37: ...rrupts from IRQ8 to IRQ15 IRQ3 Serial Port 2 IRQ4 Serial Port 1 IRQ5 Parallel Port 2 IRQ6 Diskette Controller IRQ7 Parallel Port 1 IRQ8 Real Time Clock IRQ9 Expansion Bus Pin IRQ10 Expansion Bus Pin I...

Page 38: ...10 Amp maximum Ripple Noise 100mV maximum TEMPERATURE RANGE Operating 50o to 104o Fahrenheit 10o to 40o Celsius Non Operating 50o to 104o Fahrenheit 10o to 40o Celsius Shipping 22o to 140o Fahrenheit...

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