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Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide

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Step 6 Attach Cables, 

Continued

P12 Parallel Port  P12 is a 26-pin connector for a parallel port. The P12 pinout is shown

below. Connect the 16-pin to DB25 cable provided with the motherboard to
P12.

All parallel port settings can be configured through Peripheral Setup in
WINBIOS Setup.

Pin

Signal Description

Pin

 Signal Description

1

STROBE#

2

PD0

3

PD1

4

PD2

5

PD3

6

PD4

7

PD5

8

PD6

9

PD7

10

ACK#

11

BUSY

12

PE

13

SLCT

14

AUTOFD#

15

ERROR#

16

INIT#

17

SLCTIN#

18

Ground

19

Ground

20

Ground

21

Ground

22

Ground

23

Ground

24

Ground

25

Ground

26

Ground

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Summary of Contents for Titan III

Page 1: ...Titan III PCI EISA Pentium Motherboard User s Guide MAN 729 5 20 96...

Page 2: ...provided with the product Trademarks Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation MS DOS Microsoft Word and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Microsoft...

Page 3: ...the specifications and features of the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard It explains how to assemble a system based on the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard and how to use the AMIBIOS that is specifically d...

Page 4: ...hone Numbers The following table lists the characteristics of the BBS phone numbers The BBS requires no parity eight data bits and one stop bit Phone Number Characteristics 770 246 8780 28 800 baud ra...

Page 5: ...e excessive loading in the Titan III motherboard circuitry The Titan III chipset will have timing problems and the Titan III motherboard will not work reliably Do not Install 70 ns SIMMs Only 60 ns DR...

Page 6: ......

Page 7: ...is shared The motherboard conforms to the PCI Version 2 0 specification The PCI slots are automatically configured by the AMIBIOS The PCI slots operate synchronously with the CPU clock as follows CPU...

Page 8: ...ansion Slots 0 62 Keyboard Connectors 0 85 SIMM Sockets 2 5 CPU Heat Sinks 1 75 Power Connectors 2 0 Power Connectors 2 0 Important Make sure that the Pentium CPUs have adequate airflow Install an 8 c...

Page 9: ...otherboard 5 Set Jumpers 6 Attach cables to connectors Connect the Power Supply Attach the Keyboard Cable Connect the Mouse Cable Connect Onboard I O Connect the Serial Ports Connect the Parallel Port...

Page 10: ...2 Parallel J4 Real Time Clock J20 J22 HLED P17 KEYLOCK P18 PCI SLOT3 P15 PCI SLOT 1 P19 PCI SLOT 4 EISA Master Slot 1 EISA Master Slot 2 EISA Master Slot 3 EISA Master Slot 4 P5 P6 P14 P8 P11 Floppy J...

Page 11: ...Remove the sponge and the anti static bag Place the motherboard on a grounded anti static surface component side up Save the original packing material 4 Inspect the motherboard for damage Press down o...

Page 12: ...ou can provide 3 3V through regulator default or 3 3V power supply From Regulator Set J1 J2 J13 and J18 as follows to configure 3 3V power from the regulator J2 Pin 1 Pin 6 2 3 4 5 J3 Pin 1 Pin 6 2 3...

Page 13: ...EN Shorted OPEN Shorted OPEN 150 MHz Shorted OPEN Shorted Shorted Shorted 166 MHz OPEN Shorted Shorted Shorted OPEN Important Call American Megatrends technical support at 770 246 8645 to support a CP...

Page 14: ...the motherboard You must follow the procedures in this section exactly as documented Make sure you wear an antistatic wristband while installing the CPU Step Action 1 Lift the lever on the ZIF socket...

Page 15: ...lever to the other side of the socket as shown below Important Make sure that the Pentium CPUs have adequate airflow Install an 8 cm 0 2 Amp fan in the front of the computer case to pull air into the...

Page 16: ...32 or 36 1 MB x 32 or 36 2 MB x 32 or 36 4 MB x 32 or 36 8 MB x 32 or 36 or 16 MB x 32 or 36 SIMMs consisting of 16 MB x 4 chips Do not use 64 MB SIMMs that have 36 chips The motherboard supports ban...

Page 17: ...T12D136M 6 Mitsubishi MH1M36ADJ 6 PNY P361000 60 Motorola MCM36100AS 60 Oki MSC2355 60YS12 Samsung KMM5361000AV 6 2 MB x 36 PNY P362000 60 Samsung EMM53620036 60 4 MB x 36 Micron MT12D436M 6 Mitsubish...

Page 18: ...r 36 SIMMs Place the motherboard on an anti static mat With the component side of the SIMM facing you firmly push the SIMM into the socket at an angle then push it up When properly inserted the SIMM c...

Page 19: ...d the motherboard component side up with the edge with the SIMM sockets toward you and the edge with the power supply connector away from you The keyboard mouse and video connectors should be to the l...

Page 20: ...II PCI EISA Motherboard User s Guide 14 Step 4 Install Motherboard Continued The screw head must not be larger than the plating around the mounting hole Plating Plated Mounting Hole Non Plated Mountin...

Page 21: ...elect IRQ 5 for the parallel port Short Pins 1 2 Select IRQ 7 for the parallel port Factory Setting Select Parallel Port DMA J16 is a 3 pin berg that selects the ECP Extended Capabilities Port DMA cha...

Page 22: ...sword J28 should always remain OPEN in normal operation If you forget the AMIBIOS password or want to delete the system configuration data stored in CMOS RAM turn the power off and open the computer c...

Page 23: ...22 Serial port connectors P3 and P4 Parallel port connector P12 Floppy connector P11 IDE drive connectors P1 and P2 Cable Connector Ends When connecting chassis connectors to the motherboard make sure...

Page 24: ...must be set usually via a switch to the proper range Use at least a 300 watt power supply which should have built in filters to suppress radiated emissions Connect Power Cables Attach the power suppl...

Page 25: ...tor keys must be cut to fit some power supplies as shown below P8 Pinout Pin Description 1 Power Good Orange wire Not used 2 VCC Red wire 3 12 Volts Yellow wire 4 12 Volts Blue wire 5 Ground Black wir...

Page 26: ...5 3 3V 6 3 3V P5 Pinout P5 provides auxiliary 5V power Some 400 watt power supplies have an auxiliary 5V connector Pin Description 1 Vcc 2 Vcc 3 Vcc 4 Ground Black wire 5 Ground Black wire 6 Ground B...

Page 27: ...k 2 N C 3 N C 4 N C 5 N C 6 VCC 7 N C 8 Mouse Data 9 Ground 10 N C J24 Reset Switch Connector J24 is a two pin single inline berg that is attached via a cable to an externally mounted reset switch Whe...

Page 28: ...fied by the broad arrow Pin Description 1 VCC 2 N C 3 Ground 4 Keyboard Lock KBDINH 5 Ground J29 Turbo LED J29 is a 2 pin berg that is attached via a cable to the externally mounted bipolar Turbo LED...

Page 29: ...r cards installed in the expansion slots on the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard for a hard disk or floppy controller and serial or parallel ports P3 P4 P3 serial port1 and P4 serial port 2 are 10 pin c...

Page 30: ...5 cable provided with the motherboard to P12 All parallel port settings can be configured through Peripheral Setup in WINBIOS Setup Pin Signal Description Pin Signal Description 1 STROBE 2 PD0 3 PD1 4...

Page 31: ...is installed Choose Standard Setup and Peripheral Setup to configure the floppy controller The motherboard supports up to two 720 KB 1 44 MB or 2 88 MB 3 drives and 360 KB and 1 2 MB 5 drives The con...

Page 32: ...GND 8 INDEX 9 GND 10 MOTOR0 11 GND 12 FDSEL1 13 GND 14 FDSEL0 15 GND 16 MOTOR1 17 GND 18 DIR 19 GND 20 21 GND 22 WDATA 23 GND 24 WGATE 25 GND 26 TRK0 27 GND 28 WRPROT 29 GND 30 RDATA 31 GND 32 HDSEL...

Page 33: ...ter 1 Hardware Installation 27 Step 6 Attach Cables Continued IDE Drives Attach the IDE drives in the following manner Choose Peripheral Setup in WINBIOS Setup to enable the onboard IDE controller Con...

Page 34: ...ow P1 is a 40 pin dual inline berg that connects an IDE drive to the primary onboard IDE connector This motherboard supports IDE Modes 0 1 2 3 and 4 IDE prefetch LBA Logical Block Address mode high ca...

Page 35: ...N C 21 DMARQ0 22 GND 23 IOW 24 GND 25 IOR 26 GND 27 IDERDY 28 ALE 29 DMACK0 30 GND 31 INT14 32 IOCS16 33 HA1 34 N C 35 HA0 36 HA2 37 CS0 38 CS1 39 IDEACT 40 GND P2 Secondary IDE Controller P2 is the...

Page 36: ...DAMRQ0 22 GND 23 IOW 24 GND 25 IOR 26 GND 27 IDERDY 28 ALE 29 DMACK0 30 GND 31 INT15 32 IOCS16 33 HA1 34 N C 35 HA0 36 HA2 37 CS2 38 CS3 39 N C 40 GND Bus Master IDE The Titan III EISA motherboard su...

Page 37: ...t if there are problems BIOS Errors If the system operates normally a display should appear on the monitor The BIOS Power On Self Test POST should execute If POST does not run successfully it will bee...

Page 38: ...Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User s Guide 32...

Page 39: ...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 have had user in...

Page 40: ...lick to perform an operation in the selected field Using the Keyboard with WINBIOS Setup WINBIOS has a built in keyboard driver that uses simple keystroke combinations Keystroke Action Tab Change or s...

Page 41: ...s to a section in this chapter Each section contains several icons Clicking on each icon activates a specific AMIBIOS function The WINBIOS Setup main windows and related functions are described below...

Page 42: ...ndard Setup options are described in this section Date Time Select the Date and Time icon The current values for each category are displayed Enter new values through the keyboard Floppy Drive A and B...

Page 43: ...pacity greater than 540 MB Select Block Mode Select On to allow block mode data transfers Select 32 Bit Transfer Select On to allow 32 bit data transfers Select the PIO Mode It is best to select Auto...

Page 44: ...on 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 number where write precompens...

Page 45: ...535 977 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 2...

Page 46: ...VGA EGA or Absent The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are VGA EGA Mouse Support Set this option to Enabled to enable AMIBIOS support for a PS 2 type mouse Short J23 on the motherboard if PS 2...

Page 47: ...or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Floppy Drive Seek When this option is set to Enabled AMIBIOS performs a Seek command on floppy drive A before booting the system The...

Page 48: ...ternal Cache This option enables L2 secondary cache memory The L2 secondary external cache memory is always in Write back mode The settings are Disabled or Enabled The Optimal default setting is Enabl...

Page 49: ...lt setting is Cached The Fail Safe default setting is Disabled C800 16K Shadow CC00 16K Shadow D000 16K Shadow D400 16K Shadow D800 16K Shadow DC00 16K Shadow These options enable shadowing of the con...

Page 50: ...ts the type of system memory integrity tests that are used The settings are Parity ECC or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled ISA 8 Bit I O Recovery Time This option speci...

Page 51: ...urn to full power instantly when any system activity occurs This option is only available if supported by the computer hardware The settings are Disabled or 1 Min through 15 Min in 1 minute intervals...

Page 52: ...his option specifies the length of a period of system inactivity while in Full power on state When this length of time expires the computer enters Standby power state The settings are Disabled or 1 Mi...

Page 53: ...BIOS watches for activity on the specified IRQ line The computer enters the full on power state if any activity occurs AMIBIOS reloads the Standby and Suspend timeout timers if activity occurs on the...

Page 54: ...ptimal and Fail Safe default settings are No PCI VGA Palette Snoop When this option is set to Enabled multiple VGA devices operating on different buses can handle data from the CPU on each set of pale...

Page 55: ...The settings are 32 64 96 128 160 192 224 or 248 The Optimal default setting is 248 The Fail Safe default setting is Empty Slot PCI Slot 1 IRQ Preference PCI Slot 2 IRQ Preference PCI Slot 3 IRQ Prefe...

Page 56: ...ng an ISA setting to it Onboard I O is configured by AMIBIOS All IRQs used by onboard I O are configured as PCI PnP IRQ12 only appears if Mouse Support in Advanced Setup is set to Disabled IRQ14 and 1...

Page 57: ...ze of the memory area reserved for legacy ISA adapter cards The settings are Disabled 16K 32K or 64K The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Reserved Memory Address This option specifi...

Page 58: ...re Setting Description Disabled The onboard IDE controller is not used Primary The primary channel on the onboard IDE controller is used Secondary The secondary channel on the onboard IDE controller i...

Page 59: ...on the onboard IDE controller The settings are Setting Description Disabled The onboard IDE controller is not used Primary The primary channel on the onboard IDE controller is used Secondary The secon...

Page 60: ...fe default settings are Disabled Serial Port2 Address This option specifies the base I O port address for serial port 2 The settings are Disabled 2F8h or 2E8h The Optimal default setting is 2F8h The F...

Page 61: ...provide asymmetric bidirectional data transfer driven by the host device ECP The parallel port can be used with devices that adhere to the Extended Capabilities Port ECP specification ECP uses the DMA...

Page 62: ...ord must be set first The system can be configured so that all users must enter a password every time the system boots or when WINBIOS Setup is executed using either or both the Supervisor password or...

Page 63: ...password is encrypted and stored in NVRAM As shown on the above screen you are prompted for a 1 6 character password You can either type the password on the keyboard or select each letter of the passw...

Page 64: ...eep a record of the new password when the password is changed If you forget the password you must erase the system configuration information in NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory Anti Virus When...

Page 65: ...OS Setup 59 Section 3 Utility The icons in this section of the WINBIOS Setup main screen permit you to choose a different set of colors for the WINBIOS Setup screens Color Set Color Set sets the Setup...

Page 66: ...sent 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 b...

Page 67: ...he Flash EPROM based AMIBIOS The bootblock code immediately reads the A drive looking for the new BIOS information 4 When the flash ROM has successfully been programmed the computer will reboot Boot B...

Page 68: ...empts to read from floppy drive A 2 Look for S729P ROM on the floppy disk S729P 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 Th...

Page 69: ...eep codes and when they can occur are Number of Beeps Description 1 Insert diskette in floppy drive A 2 The AMIBOOT ROM file was not found in the root directory of the diskette in floppy drive A 3 Bas...

Page 70: ...et if any E9h Program the CPU clock dependent chip set parameters EAh Enable the timer and the floppy diskette interrupt Enable the internal cache Copy the boot block BIOS and pass control to the boot...

Page 71: ...stem BIOS is always copied from ROM to RAM for faster execution The end user can shadow 16 KB ROM segments from C000h DCFFFh AMIBIOS features IDE block mode support IDE 32 bit data transfer support ID...

Page 72: ...r management Power management services include automatic IDE and video power down monitor blanking SMI System Management Interrupt support APM and system stop clock Speaker Standard four pin speaker c...

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