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Excalibur PCI Pentium ISA Motherboard User's Guide

Reprogramming from System Boot,

Continued

Sequence of Operation

The following table lists the sequence of operation and the expected behavior of the AMIFlash Code.

Step

Expected behavior

1 Look for floppy disk.

The system beeps one time before the BIOS attempts to
read from floppy drive A:.

2 Look for S701P.ROM
on the floppy disk.

S701P.ROM must be in the root directory of the floppy
disk in drive A:. There is no beep if successful.

3 Read the floppy disk.

The floppy disk is read. There is no beep if this step is
successful.

4 Check for BIOS file
size.

The BIOS file size is checked. There is no beep if this
step is successful.

5 Check for Flash
EPROM.

The BIOS looks for an Intel i28F001BX-T Flash
EPROM. It does not beep if this step is successful.

6 Erase the Flash
EPROM.

Two beeps sound when the BIOS begins erasing the
Flash EPROM.

7 Program the Flash
EPROM.

Three beeps sound when the AMIFlash Code begins
reprogramming the Flash EPROM.

8 Continue programming
the Flash EPROM.

Four beeps sound when reprogramming has been
successfully completed.

9 AMIFlash does a reset.

A CPU reset is generated (the system reboots).

10 Reboot

Reboot the system.

Summary of Contents for Excalibur PCI

Page 1: ...uyer agrees if this product proves to be defective that American Megatrends Inc is only obligated to replace or refund the purchase price of this product at American Megatrend s discretion according to the terms and conditions on the motherboard warranty card American Megatrends shall not be liable in tort or contract for any loss or damage direct incidental or consequential Please see the Warrant...

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Page 3: ...Cable 27 Step 6 Connect the Mouse Cable 28 Step 7 Connect Cables 28 Step 8 Connect Onboard I O 32 Step 9 Install Floppy Drive 38 Step 10 Install Hard Disk 40 Step 11 Install Adapter Cards 41 Step 12 Test and Configure 46 Chapter 5 AMIBIOS Power On Self Test 47 Beep Codes 49 AMIBIOS Displayed Error Messages 50 Chapter 6 WinBIOS Setup 55 Section 1 Setup 59 Standard Setup 59 Advanced Setup 63 Chipset...

Page 4: ...It explains how to assemble a system based on the Excalibur PCI motherboard and how to use the AMIBIOS that is specifically designed for this motherboard This manual is not meant to be read by the computer owner who purchases a computer with this motherboard It is assumed that you the computer manufacturer will use this manual as a sourcebook of information and that parts of this manual will be in...

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Page 6: ...B of non interleaved system memory via two to six x 36 single sided or double sided SIMMs on the motherboard supports fast PCI local bus resident IDE on the motherboard with support for IDE Mode 0 1 2 and 3 with 32 bit read write readaheand and write posting includes an SMC FDC37C665 100 pin PQFP Universal Peripheral Controller that supports two National Semiconductor NS16C550 serial ports a paral...

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Page 8: ...that permits all PCI Local Bus products to be totally interchangeable PCI is a multiplexed extension of the CPU bus In PCI the CPU bus control mechanisms have been extended to optimize I O support PCI establishes a local bus standard in which a large variety of I O components can be directly connected without using any glue logic What PCI Accomplishes PCI is a way to physically interconnect highly...

Page 9: ...s on a 64 bit data path has an optional 64 bit data path that is transparently interoperable with the 32 bit data path has low latency random accesses about 60 ns write access latency to slave registers from a PCI bus master on the PCI bus is capable of full concurrency with the processor and PCI bus masters has full multimaster capability allowing any PCI Master peer to peer access to any PCI sla...

Page 10: ...ds and Writes The PCI Controller buffers reads and writes between the memory CPU and PCI peripheral devices PCI Component Classes PCI components must be one of three classes bus master slave or master slave combination Bus Mastering PCI devices can be bus masters slaves or a combination of bus master and slave ...

Page 11: ...3 MHz in a PCI environment Burst Mode The PCI specification also provides for burst mode of any length for both reads and writes Multiplexing PCI is a multiplexed bus Multiplexing allows more than one signal to be sent on the same electrical path The control mechanisms have been modified and extended to optimize I O support Using PCI Adapter Cards The American Megatrends Excalibur PCI motherboard ...

Page 12: ...arallel port with ECP and EPP capabilities Motherboard Frequency The Excalibur PCI motherboard operates at either High or Low speed High speed is the same as the speed of the CPU mounted on the motherboard Low speed is approximately the same speed as that of an 8 MHz IBM AT Low speed is achieved by emulation Socketed CPU The Excalibur PCI Pentium ISA motherboard supports a 60 MHz Pentium CPU Inter...

Page 13: ...of system memory The Excalibur PCI motherboard can have two four or six x 36 SIMMs in six SIMM sockets The Excalibur PCI motherboard supports 256 KB x 36 1 MB x 36 and 4 MB x 36 single sided SIMMs and 512 KB x 36 2 MB x 36 and 8 MB x 36 double sided SIMMs 70 ns fast page mode DRAMs are required Parity is checked on all system memory reads to ensure data integrity CMOS RAM The Excalibur PCI motherb...

Page 14: ...8 MB to be used Adaptor ROM BIOS The Adaptor ROM BIOS between C0000h EFFFFh can be shadowed to RAM The contents can be read from or written to secondary cache memory and the contents can be write protected with 16 KB granularity via AMIBIOS Setup ISA Expansion Slots and Bus Speed The Excalibur PCI motherboard has four ISA expansion slots operating at 7 5 MHz Mouse The Excalibur PCI motherboard sup...

Page 15: ...ations Continued Excalibur PCI Motherboard Dimensions The Excalibur PCI motherboard is approximately 8 5 inches wide by 13 inches long the standard Baby AT size with similar mounting hole locations The following graphic shows the dimensions and height restrictions ...

Page 16: ... Port and EPP Enhanced Parallel Port capability Onboard PCI IDE Support The onboard IDE is on the PCI bus The IDE controller supports IDE Mode 0 Mode 1 Mode 2 and Mode 3 It also supports IDE read data prefetch and write posting The AMIBIOS supports 32 bit data transfers as well as the following cycle times for each IDE Mode IDE Mode Cycle Time in nanoseconds 0 600 1 383 2 240 3 180 PCI IDE Support...

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Page 18: ...tead of the anti static mat Similarly a strip of conductive aluminum foil wrapped around the wrist and grounded through a 1 megohm resistor serves the same purpose as the wristband 3 Inside the carton the motherboard is packed in an anti static bag and sandwiched between sheets of sponge Remove the sponge and the anti static bag Place the motherboard on a grounded anti static surface component sid...

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Page 20: ... Page 47 Warning This motherboard contains sensitive electronic components which can be easily damaged by static electricity Follow the instructions carefully to ensure correct installation and to avoid static damage Step 1 Set Switches and Jumpers Set all user configurable jumpers and switches before installing the motherboard in the chassis There are two user configurable switches and two jumper...

Page 21: ...um Frequency SW1 switch 1 controls the Pentium CPU frequency Frequency Switch 1 66 MHz ON 60 MHz Factory setting OFF SW1 Switch 2 Pentium Internal Caching Algorithm Switch position 2 controls the type of caching algorithm used internally by the Pentium CPU Caching Algorithm Switch 2 Write back factory setting OFF Write through ON SW1 Switch 3 Reprogram Flash ROM Set SW1 switch 3 ON only when Ameri...

Page 22: ...lled in PCI expansion Slot 1 PCI Adapter Card in SLot 1 SW1 Switch 8 Setting A PCI IDE Adapter Card is in PCI Slot 1 ON No PCI IDE Adapter Card is in PCI Slot 1 OFF J2 Parallel Port IRQ Select J2 is a three pin header that sets the parallel port IRQ Pin Settings LPT1 Short Pins 1 2 IRQ7 Factory setting Short Pins 2 3 IRQ5 J3 Select Enhanced Parallel Port DMA Request J3 is a three pin header that s...

Page 23: ...he Password LED The end user must enter the correct system password if the Password LED is blinking If the password LED blinks the system has experienced no system activity during the length of time specified in Power Management Setup The AMIBIOS system password feature and AMIBIOS Power Management feature must be enabled before the Password LED will blink when the correct system password must be ...

Page 24: ...2 Install System Memory The main memory subsystem on the Excalibur PCI motherboard consists of six 32 bit memory sockets Each bank of memory consists of two sockets Either two four or six SIMMs must be installed the memory banks are always non interleaved One x 36 SIMM package is the equivalent of four x 9 SIMM packages You can use 256 KB x 36 512 KB x 36 1 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 or 8 MB x 36...

Page 25: ...512 KB x 36 36 480 KB 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 1 MB x 36 1 MB x 36 40 576 KB 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 48 768 KB 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 None None None None 32 384 KB 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 256 KB X 36 256 KB x 36 None None 34 432 KB 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 256 KB X 36 256 KB x 36 256 KB X 36 256 KB x 36 36 480 KB 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 512 KB x 36 512 KB x 36 No...

Page 26: ...B x 36 1 MB x 36 106 112 KB 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 2 MB x 36 114 304 KB 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 130 668 KB 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 None None 130 688 KB 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 256 KB x 36 256 KB x 36 132 736 KB 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 512 KB x 36 512 KB x 36 134 784 KB 8 MB x 36 8 MB x 36...

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Page 28: ...ki MSC2320A 70YS9 PNY P36256 70 Samsung KMM536256B 7 512 KB x 36 Samsung KMM536512W 7 single sided KMM536512W3 7 double sided Motorola MCM36512S 70 1 MB x 36 Micron MT12D136M 7 Mitsubishi MH1M36ADJ 7 PNY P361000 70 Motorola MCM36100AS 70 Oki MSC2355 70YS12 Samsung KMM5361000AV 7 2 MB x 36 Micron MT24D236M 7 Samsung KMM5362000A 7 Motorola MCM36200S70 4 MB x 36 Micron MT12D436M 7 Mitsubishi MH4M36SA...

Page 29: ... the socket at a 45 degree angle then push it up to a vertical position When properly inserted the SIMM clicks into place as the latching pins engage See the following figure Normally the x 36 SIMMs look like this Reporting Memory The system memory configuration is reported by AMIBIOS as it boots and again when the AMIBIOS System Configuration Screen is displayed just before the operating system i...

Page 30: ...tandoffs from the solder side of the motherboard into the holes provided for them The standoffs lock in place Find the slots provided for the standoffs on the chassis Hold the motherboard component side up with the edge with the standoffs toward you and the edge with the power supply connector away from you The edge connectors for the adapter cards should be to the left 5 Carefully slide the mothe...

Page 31: ...e range of voltages and must be set usually via a switch to the proper range Use at least a 230 watt power supply that has built in filters to suppress EMI radiated emissions Connect to P5 and P2 Attach the power supply cables to P5 and P2 on the motherboard AT compatible power supplies have two 6 pin connectors The 6 pin connector with 3 red wires and 2 black wires is connected to P5 and the rema...

Page 32: ...d The power connectors are keyed to prevent incorrect installation The keys on the connector must be cut to fit on some power supplies as shown below P5 Pinout Pin Description 1 Power Good Orange wire 2 5V VCC Red wire 3 12 Volts Yellow wire 4 12 Volts Blue wire 5 Ground Black wire 6 Ground Black wire ...

Page 33: ... Pinout Pin Description 1 3 3V Vcc 2 3 3V Vcc 3 3 3V Vcc 4 Ground Black wire 5 Ground Black wire 6 Ground Black wire Step 5 Connect the Keyboard Cable The keyboard connector is a 5 pin DIN socket labeled KEYBRD and P3 on the motherboard Attach a standard AT compatible keyboard cable A 5 pin DIN to 6 pin mini DIN converter is needed to connect a PS 2 type keyboard Pin Assignments 1 Keyboard clock 2...

Page 34: ...LED to the same pin on the connector end There may be more than one connector with the same color coded wires If so follow the wire to the switch or LED Pin 1 of all connectors can be determined easily Each jumper is surrounded by a white line etched on the motherboard One end of the white line always ends in a arrow Pin 1 is always at the pointed end of the white line Pin 1 is designated by a squ...

Page 35: ...d Pin 2 is the anode If a Password LED is not mounted on the computer case another LED such as the Power LED can be made to flash if Pins 1 2 of J4 are shorted P30 Sleep Switch P30 is a four pin berg that attaches to an externally mounted switch via a two wire cable as shown below and to P32 the Password LED The computer enters Sleep Mode immediately when the end user presses this switch P21 Diag ...

Page 36: ...tween Pins 1 and 2 or Pins 3 and 4 P27 Turbo LED P27 is a two pin berg that is attached via a cable to the externally mounted Turbo LED The LED lights when the motherboard is running at high speed Pin 1 is cathode Pin 2 is anode P34 Reset Switch Connector P34 is a two pin single inline berg that is attached via a cable to an externally mounted reset switch When the reset switch is pressed a hard r...

Page 37: ...r Pin Description 1 VCC 2 Key 3 N C 4 Data out P31 Keyboard Lock Connector P31 is a five pin single inline berg that attaches via a cable to the keyboard lock connector The keyboard lock allows the user to lock the keyboard protecting the system from unauthorized use Pin Description 1 LED power 2 Key 3 Ground 4 Keyboard lock 5 Ground The front panel LED flashes if the system AMIBIOS Low Power Mode...

Page 38: ... cable that can turn off power to the auxiliary power output P12 can be used to switch off power to the monitor after the timeout specified in Power Management Setup expires P12 Pin 2 is GND Pin 1 is the signal to switch off power Step 8 Connect Onboard I O Onboard Serial Ports Parallel Port Floppy and IDE The Excalibur PCI motherboard has two serial ports P14 and P10 a parallel port P8 an IDE con...

Page 39: ...is automatically disabled finds serial ports on an adapter card in an expansion slot the onboard serial ports are automatically disabled finds a parallel port on an adapter card in an expansion slot the onboard parallel port uses an alternative address P14 Serial Port 1 COM1 and P10 Serial Port 2 COM2 P14 and P10 are 10 pin dual inline bergs that connect via 10 pin double row ribbons to male 9 pin...

Page 40: ...tinued Attaching the Serial Port Cables Two serial port cables are supplied with the motherboard Attach the cables to P14 and P10 and to the external serial port connectors on the chassis as shown below See the drawing on page 19 for the P14 and P10 location ...

Page 41: ...n below See the motherboard graphic on page 19 for the P8 location P5 Parallel Port Connector P5 is a 26 pin dual inline berg The parallel port is bidirectional A 26 pin double row ribbon cable connects P5 and a female 25 pin D sub connector on the chassis shown above The P5 pinout is Pin Use Pin Use 1 STROBE 14 AUTOFEED 2 PD0 15 ERROR 3 PD1 16 INIT 4 PD2 17 SLCTIN 5 PD3 18 GND 6 PD4 19 GND 7 PD5 ...

Page 42: ... outputs Monitors that support the display power management specification DPMS can switch the power off after examining this condition thereby saving power The P13 pinout follows Pin Signal Description Pin Signal Description 1 N C 6 N C 2 N C 7 N C 3 TTL output for SYNC enable 8 Open Collector output for HSYNC control 4 N C 9 Open Collector output for VSYNC control 5 N C 10 GND P13 Green PC Pin Ar...

Page 43: ...y drive s to P11 The onboard floppy controller cannot be used if an adapter card with floppy controller is installed The motherboard supports up to two 720 KB 1 44 MB 2 88 MB 3 drives and or 360 KB and 1 2 MB 5 floppy drives The 34 pin ribbon attaches to P11 and the drives The cable has a small twist between the floppy connectors The end connector is connected to floppy drive A ...

Page 44: ... INDEX 9 GND 10 MOTOR0 11 GND 12 FDSEL1 13 GND 14 FDSEL0 15 GND 16 MOTOR1 17 GND 18 DIR 19 GND 20 STEP 21 GND 22 WDATA 23 GND 24 WGATE 25 GND 26 TRK0 27 GND 28 WRPROT 29 GND 30 RDATA 31 GND 32 HDSEL 33 GND 34 DSKCHNG Twist in Floppy Cable Floppy B to A Floppy B to A Floppy B to A Floppy B to A 10 to 16 12 to 14 14 to 12 16 to 10 11 to 15 13 to 13 15 to 11 ...

Page 45: ...15 The onboard IDE controller is on the PCI bus for higher performance The P15 pinout is Pin Use Pin Use 1 RESET 2 GND 3 DATA7 4 DATA8 5 DATA6 6 DATA9 7 DATA5 8 DATA10 9 DATA4 10 DATA11 11 DATA3 12 DATA12 13 DATA2 14 DATA13 15 DATA1 16 DATA14 17 DATA0 18 DATA15 19 GND 20 KEY N C 21 N C 22 GND 23 IOW 24 GND 25 IOR 26 GND 27 IOCHRDY 28 ALE 29 N C 30 GND 31 IDEINT 32 IOCS16 33 HA1 34 N C 35 HA0 36 HA...

Page 46: ...ockets are distinctly different than the standard ISA expansion slot sockets These slots obviously accept a different kind of adapter card than the standard ISA adapter cards The slots are much more compact and smaller PCI Slot 1 and Slot 2 are master slots Slot 3 is a slave only slot ISA Adapter Cards Two sets of pinouts are provided in the following pages for ISA expansion slot sockets The first...

Page 47: ...2 B7 12 A8 SD01 B8 OWS A9 SD00 B9 12 A10 IOCHRDY B10 GND A11 AEN B11 SMEMW A12 SA19 B12 SMEMR A13 SA18 B13 IOW A14 SA17 B14 IOR A15 SA16 B15 DACK3 A16 SA15 B16 DREQ3 A17 SA14 B17 DACK1 A18 SA13 B18 DREQ1 A19 SA12 B19 REF A20 SA11 B20 SYSCLK A21 SA10 B21 IRQ7 A22 SA09 B22 IRQ6 A23 SA08 B23 IRQ5 A24 SA07 B24 IRQ4 A25 SA06 B25 IRQ3 A26 SA05 B26 DACK2 A27 SA04 B27 T C A28 SA03 B28 BALE A29 SA02 B29 5 ...

Page 48: ...11 C5 LA20 D5 IRQ12 C6 LA19 D6 IRQ15 C7 LA18 D7 IRQ14 C8 LA17 D8 DACK0 C9 MEMR D9 DREQ0 C10 MEMW D10 DACK5 C11 SD08 D11 DREQ5 C12 SD09 D12 DACK6 C13 SD10 D13 DREQ6 C14 SD11 D14 DACK7 C15 SD12 D15 DREQ7 C16 SD13 D16 5 C17 SD14 D17 MASTER C18 SD15 D18 GND PCI Local Bus Pinout The first three expansion slots in the Excalibur PCI Pentium motherboard are for PCI Local Bus adapter cards as shown on the ...

Page 49: ... Reserved 5V I O 11 PRSNT2 Reserved 12 Ground Ground 13 Ground Ground 14 Reserved Reserved 15 Ground RST 16 CLK 5V I O 17 Ground GNT 18 REQ Ground 19 5V I O Reserved 20 AD 31 AD 30 21 AD 29 3 3V 22 Ground AD 28 23 AD 27 AD 26 24 AD 25 Ground 25 3 3V AD 24 26 C BE 3 IDSEL 27 AD 23 3 3V 28 Ground AD 22 29 AD 21 AD 20 30 AD 19 Ground 31 3 3V AD 18 32 AD 17 AD 16 33 C BE 2 3 3V 34 Ground FRAME 35 IRDY...

Page 50: ...AD 15 45 AD 14 3 3V 46 Ground AD 13 47 AD 12 AD 11 48 AD 10 Ground 49 Ground AD 09 50 5V Connector Key 51 5V Connector Key 52 AD 08 C BE 0 53 AD 07 3 3V 54 3 3V AD 06 55 AD 05 AD 04 56 AD 03 Ground 57 Ground AD 02 58 AD 01 AD 00 59 5V I O 5V I O 60 ACK64 REQ64 61 5V 5V 62 5V 5V ...

Page 51: ...ll the connectors Call American Megatrends Technical Support at 404 246 8600 if there are problems AMIBIOS Errors If the system operates normally a display should appear on the monitor AMIBIOS Power On Self Test POST should execute If POST does not run successfully it will beep or display error messages Beeps indicate a serious problem with the system configuration or hardware The Beep Code see pa...

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Page 53: ...stem Test and Initialization test and initialize motherboards for normal operations and System Configuration Verification compare defined configuration with there hardware actually installed AMIBIOS Error Reporting The AMIBIOS performs diagnostic when the system is powered up Error s are reported in one of two ways If Then the error occurs before the display device is initialized a series of beeps...

Page 54: ...n exception interrupt 8 Display Memory Read Write Error The system video adapter is either missing or its memory is faulty 9 ROM Checksum Error The ROM checksum value does not match the value encoded in AMIBIOS 10 CMOS Shutdown Register Read Write Error The shutdown register for CMOS RAM failed What to Do If the Computer Beeps If the system beeps then 1 2 or 3 times reseat the memory SIMMs or DIPs...

Page 55: ...value is different from the current value Run AMIBIOS Setup CMOS System Options Not Set The values stored in CMOS RAM are either corrupt or nonexistent Run AMIBIOS Setup CMOS Display Type Mismatch The video type in CMOS RAM does not match the type detected by AMIBIOS Run AMIBIOS Setup CMOS Memory Size Mismatch The amount of memory on the motherboard is different than the amount in CMOS RAM Run AMI...

Page 56: ...he Keyboard option in STANDARD CMOS SETUP to Not Installed to skip the keyboard POST routines KB Interface Error Error in the keyboard connector on the motherboard No ROM BASIC Cannot find a proper bootable sector on either diskette drive A or hard disk drive C Use a bootable disk Off Board Parity Error Parity error in offboard memory The format is OFF BOARD PARITY ERROR ADDR HEX XXXX XXXX is the ...

Page 57: ...ime out A device other than the CPU has driven the bus signal for more than 7 8 microseconds AMIBIOS Configuration Summary Screen AMIBIOS displays the following screen when the POST routines are successfully completed AMIBIOS System Configuration C Copyright 1985 1993 American Megatrends Inc Main Processor Pentium Base Memory Size 640 KB Numeric Coprocessor Present Ext Memory Size 7808 KB Floppy D...

Page 58: ... BIOS Identification strings These strings contain system information The AMIBIOS Identification String are described in the ISA and EISA Hi Flex AMIBIOS Technical Reference When a problem occurs freeze the screen by powering on the system and holding a key down which causes a Keyboard Error message Copy the BIOS Identification Strings and report this information to American Megatrends Technical S...

Page 59: ...rom the keyboard at any time Keyboard Speed Switching You can increase the processor speed at any time by pressing Ctrl Alt Processor speed can be decreased by pressing Ctrl Alt The above values are the default settings Enable Cache Memory Secondary external cache memory can be enabled by pressing Ctrl Alt Shift or disabled by pressing Ctrl Alt Shift The above values are the default settings ...

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Page 61: ...ains control when the computer is powered on The system parameters are configured by a system BIOS Setup utility Historically BIOS Setup utilities have been character based required keyboard input and has user interfaces that were not very intuitive A New Type of System BIOS Setup Utility American Megatrends has now made available a new type of system BIOS Setup utility WinBIOS Setup has a graphic...

Page 62: ...th WinBIOS Setup WinBIOS has a built in keyboard driver that uses simple keystroke combinations Tab Change or select a global field Change or select the current field Enter Performs an operation in the current field Increments a value Decrements a value Esc Aborts any window function PgUp Returns to the previous page PgDn Advances to the next page Home Returns to the beginning of the text End Adva...

Page 63: ...The screen sections are Setup described in Section 1 on page 61 this section has five icons that permit you to set system configuration options such as date time hard disk type floppy type and many others Utilities described in Section 2 beginning on page 77 has four icons that perform system functions Security described in Section 3 beginning on page 79 has two icons that control AMIBIOS security...

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Page 65: ...dard Setup is selected from the Setup section on the WinBIOS Setup main menu see the previous page All displayed icons are described in this section although the screen display is often all you need to understand how to set the option The Standard Setup screen follows Date Day and Time Configuration Select the Standard option Select the Date and Time icon The current values for each category are d...

Page 66: ...er of cylinders in the disk drive Heads The number of heads Write Precompensation The size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track diameter diminishes Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes Write precompensation circuitry on the hard disk compensates for the physical difference in sector size by boosting the write current for sectors on inner tracks This parameter is the track numbe...

Page 67: ...7 17 57 MB 19 1024 7 512 1023 17 60 MB 20 733 5 300 732 17 30 MB 21 733 7 300 732 17 43 MB 22 733 5 300 733 17 30 MB 23 306 4 0 336 17 10 MB 24 925 7 0 925 17 54 MB 25 925 9 65535 925 17 69 MB 26 754 7 754 754 17 44 MB 27 754 11 65535 754 17 69 MB 28 699 7 256 699 17 41 MB 29 823 10 65535 823 17 68 MB 30 918 7 918 918 17 53 MB 31 1024 11 65535 1024 17 94 MB 32 1024 15 65535 1024 17 128 MB 33 1024 ...

Page 68: ...nu AMIBIOS automatically finds all IDE hard disk drive parameters AMIBIOS places the hard disk drive parameters that it finds in the Drive C Type or Drive D Type fields in Standard Setup Floppy Drive A Floppy Drive A Floppy Drive B Move the cursor to these fields via and and select the floppy type The settings are 360 KB 5 inch 1 2 MB 5 inch 720 KB 3 inch 1 44 MB 3 inch or 2 88 MB 3 inch ...

Page 69: ...r 30 characters per second System Keyboard This option does not specify if a keyboard is attached to the computer Rather it specifies if error messages are displayed if a keyboard is not attached This option permits you to configure workstations with no keyboards The settings are Absent or Present Primary Display Select this icon to configure the type of monitor attached to the computer The settin...

Page 70: ...it DEL if you want to run Setup from appearing when the system boots The settings are Enabled or Disabled Extended BIOS RAM Area Specify in this option if the top 1 KB of the system programming area beginning at 639K or 0 300 in the BIOS area in low memory will be used to store hard disk information The settings are Top 1K or 0 300 Wait for F1 If Any Error AMIBIOS POST runs system diagnostic tests...

Page 71: ...loppy drive A or hard disk drive C that the AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes The settings are C A or A C System Boot Up CPU Speed This option sets the speed of the CPU at system boot time The settings are High or Low External Cache This option enables secondary cache memory If Both is selected internal cache and external cache memory is enabled If Internal is chosen only ...

Page 72: ...wer On defaults are Setup Video ROM Shadow C000 32K When this option is set to Enabled the video ROM area from C0000h C7FFFh is copied shadowed to RAM for faster execution The settings are Absent NoShadow or Shadow ISA Adaptor ROM at C800 16K ISA Adaptor ROM at CC00 16K ISA Adaptor ROM at D000 16K ISA Adaptor ROM at D400 16K ISA Adaptor ROM at D800 16K ISA Adaptor ROM at DC00 16K These options ena...

Page 73: ...de This option sets the DRAM system memory performance mode The settings are Standard or Enhanced The Standard setting will have one extra DRAM lead off wait state ISA DMA Master Performance This option enables the ISA DMA master performance mode feature The settings are Standard or Enhanced If Enhanced is selected the ISA and DMA line buffers are enabled ISA Performance Mode This option enables t...

Page 74: ...located to the PCI bus The settings are Free or Used ISA IRQ 10 At least one IRQ must be free for each PCI Card in the system If the PCI Card includes a multifunction device at least two or more IRQs must be free This option specifies if IRQ 10 is used on the ISA bus If it is not used on the ISA bus it may be allocated to the PCI bus The settings are Free or Used ISA IRQ 11 At least one IRQ must b...

Page 75: ...east two or more IRQs must be free This option specifies if IRQ 15 is used on the ISA bus If it is not used on the ISA bus it may be allocated to the PCI bus The settings are Free or Used The Optimal and Power On defaults are Free PCI VGA Palette Snooping This option must be set to Enabled if any ISA adapter card installed in the system requires VGA palette snooping The settings are Enabled or Dis...

Page 76: ...ach its two wire cable to P12 and shut off auxiliary power The settings are Disabled and 1 Min through 255 Min in one minute intervals The Optimal and Fail Safe settings are Disabled Monitor Low Power Mode This option specifies the length of time of keyboard mouse COM1 and COM2 inactivity that must expire before the motherboard drives the SYNC ENABLE HSYNC and VSYNC signals Low through open collec...

Page 77: ...ed Drive Electronics controller on an adapter card in an expansion slot is configured before onboard I O If Auto is selected the BIOS also attempts to avoid IRQ conflicts If the offboard serial ports are configured to specific starting I O ports via jumper settings the BIOS will configure the onboard serial ports to avoid conflicts For example if the default serial port starting I O ports serial p...

Page 78: ...port 1 on the motherboard if installed The settings are 2E8h Second Serial Port Address IRQ3 is used for the second serial port COM2 This option enables serial port 2 on the motherboard if installed The settings are 2E8h Parallel Port Address IRQ7 is used for the parallel port LPT1 The IRQ can be changed to IRQ5 This option enables the parallel port on the motherboard if installed The settings are...

Page 79: ...BIOS IDE support The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled IDE 32 Bit Transfer 32 bit data transfer on the IDE data port can be enabled through this option If disabled 16 bit data transfer is used by the BIOS 32 bit data transfers can only be enabled if IDE prefetch mode is also enabled The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Saf...

Page 80: ...y on hard disk drive C disk 0 The settings are Auto Mode 0 Mode 1 or Mode 2 If Auto is selected AMIBIOS automatically determines the optimal mode The WinBIOS Auto Detect Hard Disk feature can detect and report all IDE drive parameters The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Mode 0 PCI IDE 1 Transfer Mode This option sets the data transfer mode for the Performance Rich IDE circuitry on hard ...

Page 81: ...reported to the Hard Disk Drive C screen in Standard Setup so you can easily configure drive C Detect D if drive D is an IDE drive the hard disk drive parameters for drive D are automatically detected and reported to the Hard Disk Drive D screen in Standard Setup so you can easily configure drive D Color Set sets the WinBIOS Setup screen colors Language permits you to select a foreign language spe...

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Page 83: ... enabled in Advanced Setup see page 68 by choosing either Always the password prompt appears every time the system is powered on or Setup the password prompt appears only when WinBIOS is run The password is stored in CMOS RAM The system asks for a password Enter a 1 6 character password The password does not appear on the screen when typed Make sure you write it down If you forget it you must drai...

Page 84: ...is incorrect an error message appears If the new password is entered without error press Esc to return to the WinBIOS Main Menu The password is stored in CMOS RAM after WinBIOS completes The next time the system boots you are prompted for the password if the password function is present and is enabled Remember the Password Keep a record of the new password when the password is changed If you forge...

Page 85: ...e boot sector of the hard disk drive The settings are Enabled or Disabled If enabled the following appears when a write is attempted to the boot sector You may have to type N several times to prevent the boot sector write Boot Sector Write Possible VIRUS Continue Y N _ The following is displayed after any attempt to format any cylinder head or sector of any hard disk drive via the BIOS INT 13 Hard...

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Page 87: ...present in WinBIOS Setup when you first began this WinBIOS Setup session Optimal You can load the optimal default settings for the WinBIOS by selecting the Optimal icon The Optimal default settings are best case values that should optimize system performance If CMOS RAM is corrupted the Optimal settings are loaded automatically Fail Safe You can load the Fail Safe WinBIOS Setup option settings by ...

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Page 89: ...ing the Flash EPROM program from system boot set SW1 switch 3 ON or run the AMIFlash utility Programming Flash from System Boot Using the floppy disk with the new BIOS file press and hold down Ctrl Home to reprogram the Excalibur PCI Pentium motherboard Flash EPROM based AMIBIOS before DOS boots Using AMIFlash AMIFlash is a DOS utility that is executed from the DOS command line You can reprogram t...

Page 90: ...es on a floppy disk and contains the updated main BIOS code American Megatrends will provide this file when the AMIBIOS for the Excalibur PCI Pentium motherboard must be updated S701P ROM must be present in the root directory of the floppy disk before the onboard Flash EPROM can be reprogrammed The file that has the main BIOS code must be named S701P ROM Programming the Flash EPROM Step Action 1 T...

Page 91: ... floppy disk The floppy disk is read There is no beep if this step is successful 4 Check for BIOS file size The BIOS file size is checked There is no beep if this step is successful 5 Check for Flash EPROM The BIOS looks for an Intel i28F001BX T Flash EPROM It does not beep if this step is successful 6 Erase the Flash EPROM Two beeps sound when the BIOS begins erasing the Flash EPROM 7 Program the...

Page 92: ...ror beep codes and when they can occur Step Beeps Description None Successful completion 1 Continuous Single Beep There is no floppy disk in Drive A 2 Five Beeps S701P ROM is not present in the root directory of the floppy disk in the A drive 3 Seven Beeps Floppy Read Error 4 Six Beeps BIOS File Size Error 5 Eight Beeps An Intel i28F001BX T Flash EPROM is not present 6 Continuous Two Beeps There i...

Page 93: ...nitialize the interrupt controller 80h Initialize the I O chipset if any 85h Enable the appropriate IRQs 86h Enable the internal cache memory 88h Initialize the floppy drives 90h Indicate an error The BIOS stops here if there is an error A0h Reading the floppy disk in drive A to program the Flash EPROM E0h Configure the proper stack E3h Display a message to ask the user to insert the AMIFlash Flop...

Page 94: ... prompt for the filename Type S701P ROM and press Enter Pressing Esc exits AMIFlash any time before Flash EPROM reprogramming begins General Operation If Flash EPROM is present AMIFlash asks if you want to save the existing BIOS file If you choose to save the BIOS enter the filename where the existing BIOS will be saved ...

Page 95: ...ng BIOS will be saved in the following format Drive Pathname Filename Ext and press Enter Enter BIOS Filename Enter the filename with which the Flash EPROM will be programmed in the following format Drive Pathname Filename Ext and press Enter Programming Flash EPROM Displayed when the Flash EPROM is being programmed Saving BIOS File in Disk Displayed when the existing BIOS is saved to disk Reading...

Page 96: ...grammed Flash EPROM BIOS File Not Of Proper Size Displayed when the file size of the new program does not match the Flash EPROM size Flash EPROM Programming is going to start The system is not usable until Flash EPROM programming is completed successfully If an error occurs the existing Flash EPROM must be replaced by a new programmed Flash EPROM The system must not be turned off during programmin...

Page 97: ...3 Cables Connecting 28 Cache Memory 8 Chipset Setup 68 70 CMOS Display Type Mismatch 50 CMOS RAM 8 CMOS Shutdown Register Read Write Error 49 CMOS System Options Not Set 50 COM1 COM2 33 Concurrent Operation 6 Configuring System 46 Conflict Resolution 33 ...

Page 98: ...ion Slots 41 Error Messages 50 Extended BIOS RAM Area 65 External Cache 66 Fast IDE Host Timing 74 Features 1 Figures Attaching serial port cables 34 Cutting serial and parallel connector pins 37 Floppy drive cable 38 Floppy drive connector 38 IDE cable 40 Keyboard connector 27 Keyboard lock connector 31 Layout of motherboard 14 Power Supply Connectors 25 Power supply key cutting 26 Reset switch c...

Page 99: ...ng the Motherboard 24 IRQ Active State 73 ISA Adapter Cards 41 ISA Adaptor ROM at CC00 16K 67 ISA Adaptor ROM at D000 16K 67 ISA Adaptor ROM at D400 16K 67 ISA Adaptor ROM at D800 16K 67 ISA Adaptor ROM at DC00 16K 67 ISA Expansion Slots 9 ISA IRQ 10 69 ISA IRQ 11 69 ISA IRQ 15 70 ISA IRQ 9 69 ISA Performance Mode 68 ISA VGA Frame Buf Base Addr 69 ISA VGA Frame Buffer Size 68 ISA DMA Master Perfor...

Page 100: ... Fatal Error Messages 50 On Board Floppy Drive 73 On Board IDE Drive 73 Onboard Adapters 32 P6 Floppy Disk Drive 33 Onboard I O 11 Connecting 32 Original 82 P17 Diag LED 29 P3 Keyboard connector 27 Parallel Connectors Cutting pins 37 Parallel Port 35 Pinout 35 Parallel Port Address 73 Parallel Port Cable Attaching 35 Parallel Port Connector 36 Parallel Port Mode 73 Password Checking 67 PCI 3 Expan...

Page 101: ... PCI Local Bus 44 Reset Switch 30 Serial ports 33 Turbo LED 30 Turbo switch 32 Pins Cutting 37 POST 47 Memory Test 53 Phases 47 Power Supply 25 Connecting 25 Pinouts 26 Processor error 49 Processor Types 16 Programming Option 72 PS3 25 Reset Switch Connector 30 Second Serial Port Address 73 Serial Connectors Cutting pins 37 Serial Port 1 33 Serial Port Cables Attaching 34 Setup 56 Wait for F1 If A...

Page 102: ...Drive Types 62 I O conflicts 33 IDE pinout 40 Keyboard Connector Pinout 27 Memory configurations supported 20 Memory parameters 22 Mouse Connector Pinout 28 NMI Messages 52 P1 Pinout 26 P2 Pinout 27 Parallel port pinout 36 Serial port pinout 33 Speaker connector pinout 31 Steps for installing motherboard 24 Twist in floppy cable 39 Unpacking instructions 13 VL Bus pinout 43 Testing System 46 Testi...

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