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ASUS C-P6ND User’s Manual

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IV.  BIOS SOFTWARE

IV

.  BIOS

(Chipset Features)

Onboard Serial Port 1
Settings are 3F8H/IRQ4 (default), 2F8H/IRQ3, 3E8H/IRQ4, 2E8H/IRQ10, and Dis-
abled 
for the onboard serial connector.

Onboard Serial Port 2
Settings are 3F8H/IRQ4, 2F8H/IRQ3 (default), 3E8H/IRQ4, 2E8H/IRQ10, and Dis-
abled 
for the onboard serial connector.

Onboard Parallel Port
This field sets the address of the onboard parallel port connector.  You can select
either: 3BCH / IRQ 7, 378H / IRQ 7 (default), 278H / IRQ 5, Disabled.  If you install
an I/O card with a parallel port, ensure that there is no conflict in the address assign-
ments.  The PC can support up to three parallel ports as long as there are no conflicts
for each port.

Parallel Port Mode
This field allows you to set the operation mode of the parallel port.  The setting
Normal, allows normal-speed operation but in one direction only; EPP allows bidi-
rectional parallel port operation at maximum speed; ECP allows the parallel port to
operate in bidirectional mode and at a speed faster than the maximum data transfer
rate; ECP+EPP (default) allows normal speed operation in a two-way mode.

ECP DMA Select
This selection is available only if you select ECP or ECP+EPP in the
Parallel Port Mode.  Select either DMA Channel 1, (default), or Disable.

UART2 Use Infrared
When enabled, this field activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second
serial UART to support the infrared module connector on the motherboard.  If your
system already has a second serial port connected to the onboard COM2 connector,
it will no longer work if you enable the infrared feature.  By default, this field is set
to Disabled, which leaves the second serial port UART to support the COM2 serial
port connector.  See section III of the baseboard manual for the IrDA-compliant
infrared module connector.

Onboard PCI IDE Enable
You can select to enable the primary IDE channel, secondary IDE channel, both
(default), or disable both channels (for systems with only SCSI drives).

IDE 0 Master/Slave Mode, IDE 1 Master/Slave Mode
Each channel (0 and 1) has both a master and a slave making four IDE devices
possible.  Because each IDE device may have a different Mode timing (0, 1, 2, 3, 4),
it is necessary for these to be independent.  The default setting of Auto will allow
auto-detection to ensure the optimal performance.

Summary of Contents for C-P6ND

Page 1: ...R C P6ND CPU Card USER S MANUAL ...

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Page 4: ...emory Writer Utility 6 Main Menu 6 Advanced Features Menu 7 Updating your Motherboard s BIOS 8 BIOS Setup 9 Load Defaults 10 Standard CMOS Setup 10 Details of Standard CMOS Setup 11 BIOS Features Setup 14 Details of BIOS Features Setup 14 Chipset Features Setup 17 Power Management Setup 20 Details of Power Management Setup 20 PNP and PCI Setup 22 Load BIOS Defaults 24 Load Setup Defaults 24 Superv...

Page 5: ...D User s Manual V CONTENTS V DESKTOP MANAGEMENT 29 Desktop Management Interface DMI 29 Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 29 System Requirements 29 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 30 Notes 30 ...

Page 6: ...lar installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on...

Page 7: ... BIOS Setup BIOS software setup information V DMI Utility BIOS supported Desktop Management Interface Item Checklist Please check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your retailer The ASUS C P6ND CPU Card Support drivers and utilities as follows view FILELIST TXT for details Flash Memory Writer utility to update the FLASH BIOS Desktop Management In...

Page 8: ... with I O subsystems Error Checking and Correcting ECC Using Intel s 440FX PCIset and par ity DRAM modules can detect and correct 1 bit memory errors Internal L2 Cache Support Supports Intel CPU s built in 256KB 512KB de pending on CPU Level 2 cache so that no external SRAM chips are needed Freq Ratio Fan Pwr JP7 JP6 BUS Freq PS 2 Mouse PS 2 Keyboard ZIF Socket 8 ZIF Socket 8 Fan Pwr Processor 1 P...

Page 9: ... must use the same settings J P 1 6 J P 1 5 J P 1 4 J P 1 3 CPU External Clock Chipset Frequency Selection for 440FX PCIset BUS Freq Selection on baseboard JP6 66MHz 60MHz JP7 JP6 JP7 You must also the the CPU External Frequency on the baseboard as follows CPU External Clock BUS Frequency Selection 60MHz JP2 JP3 1 2 3 66MHz JP2 JP3 1 2 3 Set the jumpers by the Internal speed of the Intel Pentium P...

Page 10: ...VID 1 S S O O S S O O S S O O S S O JP3 11 VID 2 S S S S O O O O S S S S O O O JP2 12 VID 3 S S S S S S S S O O O O O O O Voltage ID 0 1 2 3 VID Support or Manual VID Support CPU 1 VID Support CPU 0 4 CPU cooling fan connector JP1 JP8 This connector supports a CPU cooling fan of 500mAMP 6WATT or less Depending on the fan manufacturer the wiring may be different The red wire should be positive whil...

Page 11: ...d into the power supply located on the back of your system case as instructed by your system user s manual 4 Connect all power cords into a power strip that is equipped by a surge protector 5 You may then turn on your devices in the following order a Your monitor b External SCSI devices starting with the last device on the chain c Your system power 6 The power LED on the front panel of the system ...

Page 12: ... bootup Larger num bers represent a newer BIOS file NOTE A binary BIOS file is no longer included with the support software Save the motherboard s BIOS file to a floppy diskette as soon as your system is operational See Flash Memory Writer Utility in this section to Save Current BIOS to File Flash Memory Writer Utility IMPORTANT Flash Type may also be INTEL28F001BXT If unknown is shown after Flash...

Page 13: ...rameter Block This option erases the Plug and Play PnP configuration record 2 Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD This option updates the Boot Block the motherboard BIOS and the PnP ESCD Parameter Block from a new BIOS file NOTE Update BIOS Main Block from File and Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD requires that the system is running in real mode This utility will not operate if the ...

Page 14: ...r key The utility then uploads the BIOS file from disk The following message will appear DO NOT TURN OFF THE SYSTEM IF THERE IS A PROBLEM If you encounter problems while downloading the new BIOS DO NOT turn off your system since this might prevent your system from booting up Just repeat the process and if the problem still persists upload the original BIOS file you saved to disk in step 1 of the M...

Page 15: ...he motherboard reconfiguring your system or you receive a Run Setup message you will need to enter new setup information This section describes how to configure your system using this utility The BIOS ROM of the system stores the Setup utility When you turn on the com puter the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program This ap pears during the Power On Self Test POST Press the D...

Page 16: ...ck and error handling If the motherboard is already installed in a working system you will not need to select this option anymore However if the configuration stored in the CMOS memory on the board gets lost or damaged or if you change your system hardware configuration you will need to respecify the configuration values The configuration values usually get lost or corrupted when the power of the ...

Page 17: ...te and time prompts by creating an AUTOEXEC BAT file For information on how to create this file please refer to the MS DOS manual Hard Disk Drives This field records the specifications for all non SCSI hard disk drives installed in your system The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices Each chan nel can suppor...

Page 18: ... than 528MB set it to LBA for drives over 528MB that support Logical Block Addressing LBA to allow larger IDE hard disks set it to Large for drives over 528MB that do not sup port LBA Large type of drive can only be used with MS DOS and is very uncom mon Most IDE drives over 528MB support the LBA mode Auto detection of hard disks on bootup For each field Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Mast...

Page 19: ...t or right arrow key Floppy 3 Mode Support This is the Japanese standard floppy drive The standard stores 1 2MB in a 3 5 diskette This is normally disabled but you may choose from either Drive A Drive B Both Disabled Default Video Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system The options are EGA VGA Default Mono for Hercules or MDA CGA 40 CGA 80 If you are using a VGA o...

Page 20: ... This field protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk against acci dental modifications Any attempt to write to them will cause the system to halt and display a warning message If this occurs you can either allow the operation to continue or use a bootable virus free floppy disk to reboot and investigate your system The default setting is Disabled This setting is recommended b...

Page 21: ...SCSI drives or the primary operating system to boot using a SCSI hard disk drive Boot Sequence This field determines where the system looks first for an operating system Options are C CDROM A CDROM C A A C C A The setup default setting is to check first the hard disk and then the floppy drive that is C A Swap Floppy Drive When enabled the BIOS swaps floppy drive assignments so that Drive A becomes...

Page 22: ...64MB you need to Enable this option otherwise leave this on the setup default of Disabled MPS 1 4 Support MPS 1 4 is Intel s new Multi Processor Specification Some MP operating system still cannot support it If your MP operating system cannot support MPS 1 4 you must leave this feature on the default of Disabled PCI VGA Palette Snoop Some display cards that are non standard VGA such as graphics ac...

Page 23: ...PCI IDE posting cycles are treated as normal I O write transactions USWC Write Posting Leave on default setting of Enabled to allow USWC write posting during I O bridge access CPU to PCI Write Post The default setting of Enabled will increase the efficiency of the PCI bus and speed up the execution in the processor PCI to DRAM Pipeline The default of Enabled will increase the bandwidth of the path...

Page 24: ... and therefore two modules will give 72bits and the following will be displayed If your DRAM modules do not have parity chips e g 8 chips they are considered 32bits and the following will be displayed instead The default of Disabled for Data Integrity will not show memory errors on your monitor When using parity DRAM modules you can select ECC Error Checking and Correcting to correct 1 bit memory ...

Page 25: ...e ECP EPP default allows normal speed operation in a two way mode ECP DMA Select This selection is available only if you select ECP or ECP EPP in the Parallel Port Mode Select either DMA Channel 1 3 default or Disable UART2 Use Infrared When enabled this field activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second serial UART to support the infrared module connector on the motherboard If your ...

Page 26: ...is longer Disabled disables the power saving features User Defined allows you to set power saving options according to your preference IMPORTANT Advanced Power Management APM should be installed to keep the system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode acti vated by the BIOS Power Management For DOS environments you need to add DEVICE C DOS POWER EXE in you CONFIG SYS ForWindows 3 1x a...

Page 27: ...ting for this field is Enabled Doze Speed Stdby Speed These two fields set the CPU speed during each mode The number indicates what the normal CPU speed is divided by PM Timers This section controls the time out settings for the Power Management scheme The fields included in this section are HDD Power Down which places the hard disk into its lowest power consumption mode and the Doze Standby and S...

Page 28: ... for that IRQ here and the system will wake up when you move the mouse or click its button IRQ3 to IRQ15 You can set IRQs 3 15 individually Activity detected from any enabled IRQ channel will wake up the system PNP and PCI Setup This PNP and PCI Setup option configures the PCI bus slots All PCI bus slots on the system use INTA thus all installed PCI cards must be set to this value The first four f...

Page 29: ...A channel and you are not using an ICU you must set the field for that channel to Yes ISA MEM Block BASE This field allows you to set the base address and block size of a Legacy ISA card that uses any memory segment within the C800H and DFFFH address range If you have such a card and you are not using an ICU to specify its address range select a base address from the six available options the ISA ...

Page 30: ...y and then the Enter key to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen Load Setup Defaults This Load Setup Defaults option allows you to load the default values to the sys tem configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration set tings for the system To load these default values highlight Load Setup Defaults on the main screen and then p...

Page 31: ...assword is case sensitive and can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters long type in your password and then press the Enter key The system confirms your password by asking you to type it again After setting a password the screen automatically reverts to the main screen To implement the password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prom...

Page 32: ... IDE features in order to use Drive E and Drive F The onboard PCI IDE controller supports Enhanced IDE with two connectors for connecting up to four IDE devices If you want to use another con troller that supports four drives you must disable the onboard IDE controller in the Chipset Features Setup screen When auto detection is completed the program automatically enters all entries you accepted on...

Page 33: ... be readable If the auto detected parameters do not match the ones that should be used for your drive do not accept them Press the N key to reject the presented settings and enter the correct ones manually from the Standard CMOS Setup screen Save and Exit Setup Select this option to save into the CMOS memory all modifications you specify during the current session To save the configuration changes...

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Page 35: ...tem integrator or end user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers housing configurations and ven dor information Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIFD This DMI Configuration Utility provides the same reliability as PnP updat ing and will prevent the refreshing...

Page 36: ...vailable for editing The blue text Press ENTER for detail contains a second pop up menu is available use the plus minus keys to change the settings Enter to exit and save ESC to exit and not save If the user has made changes ESC will prompt you to answer Y or N Enter Y to go back to the left hand screen and save enter N to go back to left hand screen and not save If editing has not been made ESC w...

Page 37: ...ess ESC and a message Bad File Name appears here to show it was not saved Load MIFD You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here Load BIOS Defaults You can load the BIOS defaults from a MIFD file and can clear all user modified and added data You must reboot your computer in order for the defaults to be saved back into the Flash BIOS V DMI Using DMI Utility ...

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