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P/I-AP6N

All-In-One Pentium Pro Motherboard

USER'S MANUAL

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Page 1: ...R P I AP6N All In One Pentium Pro Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...sing from any defect or error in this manual or product ASUS may revise this manual from time to time without notice Products mentioned in this manual are mentioned for identification purposes only Product names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies Intel LanDesk and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation Symbio...

Page 3: ...om tw Gopher gopher asus com tw FTP ftp asus com tw pub ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL Marketing Info Address 721 Charcot Avenue San Jose CA 95131 USA Telephone 1 408 474 0567 Fax 1 408 474 0568 Email info usa asus com tw Technical Support BBS 1 408 474 0555 Email tsd usa asus com tw ASUS COMPUTER GmbH Marketing Info Address Harkort Str 25 40880 Ratingen BRD Germany Telephone 49 2102 445011 Fax ...

Page 4: ...WARE 32 Support Software 32 Flash Memory Writer Utility 32 Main Menu 32 Advanced Features Menu 33 Managing Updating your Motherboard s BIOS 34 6 BIOS Setup 35 Load Defaults 36 Standard CMOS Setup 36 Details of Standard CMOS Setup 37 BIOS Features Setup 40 Details of BIOS Features Setup 40 Chipset Features Setup 43 Details of Chipset Features Setup 43 Power Management Setup 46 Details of Power Mana...

Page 5: ...DeskScape Functions 75 Buttons 76 WinSwitch 76 Screen Adjustment 77 DPMS Parameters 79 VIII Windows Video Player 80 ATI Player and control panel Win3 1x and Win95 80 Features 80 Video Acceleration Performance 81 Playing Video Clips 81 Sizing Windows 81 IX Microsoft Windows NT 82 Video Driver Installation 82 X IBM OS 2 OS 2 Warp 86 Video Driver Installation 86 XI Other Video Drivers 87 AutoCAD Vide...

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: ...over damaged or missing items please contact your retailer The ASUS P I AP6N motherboard 1 IDE ribbon cable 1 floppy ribbon cable Support drivers and utilities as follows view FILELIST TXT for details Flash Memory Writer utility to update the FLASH BIOS Desktop Management Interface DMI utility Bus Master IDE Drivers for various operating systems Readme files for descriptions and use of the files T...

Page 8: ...MB 32MB or 64MB to form a memory size between 8MB to 384MB Sup ports both Fast Page Mode FPM and Extended Data Output EDO SIMMs Riser Expansion Slot Supports slot expansion through a daughter card called a Riser card with ISA and or PCI slots provided by retailer Super Multi I O Provides two high speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities UART2 can also ...

Page 9: ...that supports optionalASUS SCSI controller cards Parts of the ASUS Motherboard II FEATURES II FEATURES Parts of Board Intel s 440FX PCIset CPU ZIF Socket 8 IDE Connectors Riser Slot Monitor Programmable Flash ROM Multi I O RTC 6 72 pin SIMM DRAM Sockets Parallel COM 2 COM 1 PS 2 Mouse PS 2 Keyboard Audio Port USB Connector Reserved AMC Connector Floppy Connector Audio Wave Table Upgrade VGA Memory...

Page 10: ...M Socket 5 Bank 2 SIMM Socket 6 Bank 2 Wave Table Upgrade CR2032 3 Volts Lithium Button Cell CPU ZIF Socket 8 Panasonic CD In Mitsumi CD In Sony CD In Panel Connectors Infrared RTCLR BBLKW FS0 FS1 BUS FREQ FANPWR1 FANPWR2 CHASSIS Creative Labs ViBRA Audio ATI 3D Rage II Video Chipset Intel 440FX PCIset Intel PIIX3 PCIset Flash ROM for BIOS Intel 440FX PCIset Freq Ratio BF2 BF0 BF1 BF3 CPU Voltage ...

Page 11: ...COM1 COM2 p 24 Serial Port COM1 COM2 9 pin Male 4 PRINTER p 25 Parallel Printer Port Connector 25 pin Female 5 Video Monitor Output p 25 Video Connector for Video Monitor 15 pin Female 6 FLOPPY p 25 Floppy Drive Connector 34 pin Block 7 IDE1 IDE2 p 26 Primary Secondary IDE Connector 40 pin Blocks 8 IDELED p 26 IDE LED Activity Light 9 TB LED PANEL p 27 Turbo LED Power LED 2 pins 10 SMI PANEL p 27 ...

Page 12: ...y such as to connect pins 1 2 and to connect pins 2 3 Jumpers with two pins will be shown as for short On and for open Off For manufacturing simplicity the jumpers may be sharing pins from other groups Use the diagrams in this manual instead of following the pin layout on the board Settings with two jumper numbers require that both jumpers be moved together To connect the pins simply place a plast...

Page 13: ... BBLKW This sets the operation mode of the boot block area of the BIOS Flash ROM to allow programming in the Enabled position Programming BBLKW Disabled 1 2 Default Enabled 2 3 R Boot Block Programming Disable Enable Disabled Protected Default Enabled 1 2 3 1 2 3 BBLKW BBLKW III INSTALLATION Jumpers ...

Page 14: ...ser preferences Battery Test Jumper RTCLR You can test the battery s current by removing this jumper and attaching a cur rent meter to pins 2 3 WARNING You must unplug the power cord to your power supply to ensure that there is no power to your motherboard The CMOS RAM containing BIOS setup information may be cleared by this action You should enter BIOS to Load Setup Defaults and re enter any user...

Page 15: ...on AUDIO_JP This jumper allows you to Disable the onboard audio chipset in order to use your own audio card Otherwise leave on default of Enabled Onboard Audio AUDIO_JP Enabled 1 2 Default Disabled 2 3 R Onboard Audio Selection Enable Disabled Enabled Default Disabled 1 2 3 1 2 3 AUDIO_JP AUDIO_JP ...

Page 16: ...BUS Clock within the CPU These must be set together with the above jumpers CPU External BUS Frequency Selection R CPU External Clock BUS Frequency Selection FS1 FS0 FS1 FS0 FS1 FS0 FS1 FS0 60MHz 66MHz Reserved Reserved CPU BUS Frequency Ratio 2 0x 2 5x 3 0x 3 5x 4 0x 3 5 x 2 0 x 2 5 x 3 0 x 4 0 x BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 Set the jumpers by the...

Page 17: ...or so that no jumper settings are needed leave these jumpers open in this case Older processors without VID support require manual voltage ID setting Use S for Short and O for Open Voltage 3 5 3 4 3 3 3 2 3 1 3 0 2 9 2 8 2 7 2 6 2 5 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 1 Auto VID 0 S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O VID 1 S S O O S S O O S S O O S S O O VID 2 S S S S O O O O S S S S O O O O VID 3 S S S S S S S S O O O O O ...

Page 18: ...arity chips in pairs for all modules Mixing 32 bit non parity SIMM e g 8 chips and 36 bit SIMM e g 12 chips will work minus the ECC feature IMPORTANT Memory speed setup is required in BIOS Chipset Setup Auto Configuration Install memory in any or all of the banks in any combination as follows Bank Memory Module Total Memory Bank 0 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB x2 SIMM Sockets 1 2 72 pin FPM EDO BEDO SIMM...

Page 19: ...ule firmly into place starting from a 45 degree angle making sure that all the contacts are aligned with the socket 3 With your finger tips rock the memory module into a vertical position so that it clicks into place Metal Clip Plastic Safety Tab This Side Only Mounting Hole 72 Pin DRAM in SIMM Socket 4 The plastic guides should go through the two Mounting Holes on the sides and the Metal Clips sh...

Page 20: ...63A 40 Small indentation on the chip s sloped edge Socket s cut corner This is an example of an installed DRAM The indentation is made white for vis ibility it is normally black 1 Match the small indentation on the chip s sloped edge with the socket s cut corner 2 Place the chip flat and evenly into the socket and press firmly but carefully so that the chip enters evenly When installed the chip sh...

Page 21: ...pwards to a 90 degree right angle Insert the CPU with the correct orientation as shown Use the notched corner of the CPU with the white dot as your guide The white dot should point towards the end the of the lever Notice that there is a blank area where one hole is missing from that corner of the square array of pin holes and a 1 printed on the motherboard next to that corner Because the CPU has a...

Page 22: ...s that may be needed Expansion Card Installation Procedure 1 Read the documentation for your expansion card 2 Set any necessary jumpers on your expansion card 3 Remove your computer system s cover 4 Remove the bracket on the slot you intend to use Keep the bracket for possible future use 5 Carefully align the card s connectors and press firmly 6 Secure the card on the slot with the screw you remov...

Page 23: ...RQs are as signed automatically from those available If the system has both Legacy and PNP ISA cards installed IRQs are assigned to PNP cards from those not used by Legacy cards The PCI and PNP configuration of the BIOS setup utility can be used to indicate which IRQs are being used by Legacy cards For older Legacy cards that does not work with the BIOS you can contact your vendor for an ISA Confi...

Page 24: ...gs You may use a DIN to mini DIN adapter on standard AT keyboards PS 2 Keyboard 6 pin Female 2 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin Female The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not de tected expansion cards can use IRQ12 See PS 2 Mouse Control in BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE PS 2 Mouse 6 pin Female 3 Serial Port COM1 and COM2 Connectors Two 9 pin Male The two seria...

Page 25: ...ere is a built in video chip on this motherboard so that a separate video card is not necessary Connect your monitor cable to the onboard monitor output connector Video Monitor Output 15 pin Female 6 Floppy Drive Connector 34 pin block This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable After connect ing the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the floppy dr...

Page 26: ... BIOS SOFTWARE Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 20 plugged TIP You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector You may install one operating system on an IDE drive and another on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk throug...

Page 27: ...ushes depending on the position of the switch Wake up can be controlled by settings in the BIOS but the keyboard will always allow wake up the SMI lead cannot wake up the system If you want to use this connector Suspend Switch in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP of the BIOS soft ware should be on the default setting of Enable See the figure below 11 Reset Switch Lead RESET This 2 pin connector connects ...

Page 28: ...elect whether UART2 is directed for use with COM2 or IrDA Use the five pins as shown on the Back View and connect a ribbon cable from the module to the motherboard according to the pin definitions R Infrared Module Connector Front View 5V IRTX IRRX NC GND Back View IRRX 5V IRTX NC GND 15 Onboard Digital Audio Control VOL_CON This jumper allows you to adjust the audio volume digitally using case mo...

Page 29: ...TE The Rotation signal is to be used only by a specially designed fan with rotation signal WARNING The CPU and or motherboard will overheat if there is no air flow across the CPU and onboard heatsinks Damage may occur to the motherboard and or the CPU fan if these pins are incorrectly used These are not jumpers do not place jumper caps over these pins R Orientate the fins so that air flow runs acr...

Page 30: ...wer Connector with ATX Power Supply 3 pin JP2 For ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch and remote power on functions an ATX power supply and an ATX to AT power connector adapter are required The ATX to AT power connector adapter will allow an ATX power supply to be used on thisAT motherboard with additionalATX signals connected to this lead The ATX power switch button will be connected to JP3 For AT...

Page 31: ...he monitor LED may light up after the system s if it complies with Green stan dards or if it has a power standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running additional messages will appear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power the system may have failed a power on test Recheck your jumper set tings and connect...

Page 32: ...ng 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 below Flash Memory Writer Utility IMPORTANT Flash Type may also be INTEL 28F001BXT If unknown is shown after Flash type then this ROM chip is not prog...

Page 33: ...arameter 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 34: ...loppy diskette you created above 4 At the A prompt type PFLASH and then the Enter key 5 Enter 2 Update BIOS Main Block From File from the Main Menu or option 2 Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD from the Advanced Features Menu if prompted by option 2 of the Main Menu 6 The program displays a second screen prompting you for the name of the BIOS file Type in the complete file name and extensi...

Page 35: ... the 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...

Page 36: ...ock 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 37: ...ate 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 suppo...

Page 38: ...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 Master and Secondary Slave you can select...

Page 39: ...arrow key Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled 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 and Disabled Video EGA VGA Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system The options are EGA VGA Mono for Hercules or MDA CGA 40 and CGA 80 If you are using a VGA or ...

Page 40: ... to each function heading Details of BIOS Features Setup Virus Warning Disabled 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 invest...

Page 41: ...SI hard disk drive Boot Sequence C A This field determines where the system looks first for an operating system Options are A CDROM C 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 Disabled When enabled the BIOS swaps floppy drive assignments so that Drive A becomes Drive B and Drive B becomes Drive A under DOS Bo...

Page 42: ...n the Setup utility is called up You can specify a password by using the Supervisor Password or User Password option from the main screen as explained later in this section PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled Some display cards that are nonstandardVGAsuch as graphics accelerators or MPEG Video Cards may not show colors properly The setting Enabled should correct this problem Otherwise leave this on the...

Page 43: ...fault setting of RAS Only as this is the current standard CPU to PCI IDE Posting Enabled Leave on default setting of Enabled so that the CPU to PCI IDE posting cycles are treated as normal I O write transactions USWC Write Posting Enabled Leave on default setting of Enabled to allow USWC write posting during I O bridge access CPU to PCI Write Post Enabled The default setting of Enabled will increa...

Page 44: ...space to ISA expan sion cards that specifically require this setting This makes the memory from 15MB and up unavailable to the system Expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB The default is Disabled DRAM and ECC If all your DRAM modules have parity chips e g 8 chips 4 parity chips they are considered 36bits This motherboard sums the memory per bank and therefore two modules will give 72bi...

Page 45: ...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 allows normal speed operation in a two way mode ECP DMA Select 3 This selection is available only if you select ECP or ECP EPP in the Parallel Port Mode Select eit...

Page 46: ...that this time the system inac tivity period 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 ...

Page 47: ...stem automatically wakes up from any power saving mode when there is system activity such as when a key is pressed from the keyboard or when there is activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels HDD Power Down shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a pe riod of inactivity This time period is user configurable to 1 15 Mins or Disable This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives...

Page 48: ...tions are manual settings of 9 10 11 12 14 or 15 for each slot PCI Latency Timer 32 PCI Clock 32 PCI Clock enables maximum PCI performance for this motherboard IRQ xx Used By ISA No ICU These fields indicate whether or not the displayed IRQ for each field is being used by a Legacy non PnP ISA card Two options are available No ICU and Yes The first option the default value indicates either that the...

Page 49: ...nd you are not using an ICU to specify its address range select a base address from the six available options the ISA MEM Block SIZE field will then appear for selecting the block size If you have more than one Legacy ISA card in your system that requires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 32K or 64K If you are using an ICU to accomplish this task leave ISA ...

Page 50: ... Press the N key 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 sc...

Page 51: ...t the password 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 wi...

Page 52: ...rts 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 the field for that drive in the Standard CMOS Setup screen Skipped entries are ignore...

Page 53: ... 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 highlight the Save Exit Setup option on the main screen and then press the Enter key Exit With...

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Page 55: ...ng of DMI information versus creating a new BIOS image file and requiring the user to update the whole BIOS This DMI Con figuration Utility also allows the system 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 DM...

Page 56: ...available 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 ...

Page 57: ...ress 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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Page 59: ...R ATI VGA Series USER S MANUAL Hardware Video Drivers ...

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Page 61: ...ystem to hang If this happens follow these steps to reset your display driver to its basic defaults 1 Ener Windows 95 in safe mode by pressing F5 repeatedly during bootup 2 Right click the mouse on the open desktop not over any icons 3 Select Properties 4 Click the Settings tab Settings menu appears 5 Click Change Display Type Change Display Type windows appears 6 Click Change button Select Device...

Page 62: ...ult selection Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer 2 InsertASUS installation CD and click Browse button Open windows appears 3 Select you CD ROM drive in the Drives box 4 Selectwin95 english enhanced japanese macxw4 infshowsin Filename NOTE Select the directory according to your Windows language Enhanced pro duces slightly better performance but without Microsoft s Windows certificat...

Page 63: ...w appears 6 Select your CD ROM drive in the Drives box 7 Selectwin95 english enhanced japanese macxw4 infshowsin Filename NOTE Select the directory according to you Windows language Enhanced produces slightly better performance without Microsoft s Windows certification 8 Click the OK button Install from Disk appears Click OK button again 9 Click Show all devices if available 10 Select the appropri...

Page 64: ...vious procedures you may use the following steps 1 Insert theASUS installation CD or double click on the CD drive in My Com puter if CD already inserted ASUS Windows 95 Install Shell appears 2 Click Install Windows 95 Display Driver Display Properties and installa tion information appears 3 Select the Settings tab and Continue from step 2 above VI Microsoft Windows 95 Driver Installation VI Window...

Page 65: ...ick Install DirectX Click Next to install 3 Click Done button when finished Installing ATI Video Player in Windows 95 1 Reinsert the ASUS installation CD or select the CD from My Computer 2 Click Install Video Player ATI Setup ATI VIDEO PLAYER window ap pears 3 Click the OK button Installation complete message will appear 4 Click Restart Windows button when finished The setup program will give you...

Page 66: ... box to move your screen up down left right in or out in any application Click on Defaults button to fill in the Value box with default values Color This allows you to adjust the Gamma level for your monitor and color levels for Red Green and Blue You can save your settings by clicking Save As button and typing in a file name This allows you to recall pre viously saved settings Click on Defaults b...

Page 67: ...ASUS installation CD 4 Change to your CD drive 5 Double click setup exe ASUS Windows 3 1 Install Shell appears 6 Click on Install Windows 3 1 Display Driver Confirm Installation appears 7 Click Yes Copying Files appears Restart Windows appears 8 Click Restart now to complete installation ATI Desktop group and icon will appear upon restart Install Shell Message appears Now installation process will...

Page 68: ...rm path of Windows 3 x or change if necessary 5 ASUS driver is successfully installed press any key 6 Do you want to launch Windows 3 1 to continue installation now Y N Note You must make sure that ASUS ATI VGA device has been pluged in your machine Press Y 7 Install Shell Message appears Now installation process will continue If you want to install Video for Windows please keep your ASUS driver C...

Page 69: ...ete installation Installing ATI Video Player in Windows 3 x 1 Run File Manager 2 Insert the ASUS installation CD 3 Change to your CD drive 4 Double click setup exe ASUS Windows 3 1 Install Shell appears 5 Click on Install Video Player Memory Requirement appears TheATI Video Player needs at least 600K conventional memory to execute If you are not sure or memory is not enough you can type MEMMAKER u...

Page 70: ...n above Each feature icon in the Mach64 product group shown in this DeskTop is described on the following pages ATI Desktop Features Help On Click this icon then click any other icon in the product group to display Help information on the selected item Read Me Click this icon then click the Mach64 logo or feature icon to display the readme file on the item ATI Logo Double click this logo to genera...

Page 71: ...not supported by the device is shown in gray A slider will always snap to the nearest supported setting for the current slider combination The Sample Color Bar next to the Sample Monitor dynamically shows a color palette that approximates the Colors setting as you adjust the Colors slider NOTE If your desired resolution is not available check your monitor configura tion setting in the INSTALL prog...

Page 72: ...e changes will be effective Advanced Opens the Advanced panel See FlexDesk Advanced Settings Help Displays Help information on FlexDesk OK Exits the FlexDesk control panel and effects all new changes Cancel Discards all changes and exits the FlexDesk control panel FILE Menu Open Opens an existing Setting file Save Saves the current settings to the active Setting file SaveAs Saves the current setti...

Page 73: ...en this option is turned off On Allows the application to define color selection in the palette Off Choose colors from a fixed palette Dithering Control Dithering is meshing two colors to produce the illusion of a third This selection is only available in 256 color mode with 256 Color Palette on On Provides standard VGA dithering of colors and color selection boxes Off Provides smooth dithering wh...

Page 74: ...MS for Windows 1 Click the DPMS icon 2 Highlight the timer boxes one at a time and specify the values 3 Turn on DPMS Enabled 4 Click OK Timer Settings Standby Time Time value is in minutes after which Standby mode is activated if no user activity is detected Standby is the first level of power conservation Suspend Time Time value is in minutes after which Suspend mode is activated if no user activ...

Page 75: ...rger image but less of the desktop Zoom Out has the opposite effect What you can zoom is dependent on the relative settings of Screen Size and Desktop Size Use this panel to assign the six hot keys to Panning and Zooming functions Alpha numeric keys may be assigned in any combination with ALT Ctrl and Shift We recommend that you assign all the keys in one session DeskScape Functions Pan Up Moves t...

Page 76: ...6 7 million colors Therefore WinSwitch should be used only when color depth changes are desired For maximum performance in 256 or 65 000 color modes you should disable WinSwitch FlexDesk or DeskScan can provide the same dynamic screen size or desktop size switching functions Configuring the WinSwitch Panel At the top of the panel is a checkbox labelled WinSwitch Enabled This switch must be turned ...

Page 77: ...cked disabled when the box is empty Key Combination Fields Key 1 Field Keyboard key combinations to be used to activate WinSwitch are specified in the four key combination fields associated with Keys 1 4 Sliders These sliders provide the same functions as the FlexDesk sliders Colors Selects a color depth from one of the supported Colors Screen Size Sets the screen resolution to one of the supporte...

Page 78: ...tes You may try out different settings that will optimize your display preferences but too high of a refresh rate will push your monitor past its specifications Use the Preview Adjust to see the results and allow digital adjust ments to the screen If the image is distorted you may press Esc or wait a few seconds to return to the original menu without the change VII Microsoft Windows 3 x VII Window...

Page 79: ...gain without parameters will display the current timer values as fol lows Standby timer 15 minutes Suspend timer 30 minutes off timer 60 minutes If you run DPMS with at least one timer parameter DPMS will set that value and disable the unspecified timers DPMS parameters are to be included in the command separated by spaces as fol lows DPMS parameter Enter Example To set the Standby timer to 5 minu...

Page 80: ...er the individual buttons for a few seconds NOTE The video shown is an example only and not provided in the CD Features The question mark on top right of the Video Screen allows inspection into each button on the control panel Click on the then on a button that you would like to know about ATI Player Setup MPEG Play Stop Repeat Loaded Files Continuously Full Screen Start of Video End of Video Forw...

Page 81: ...on there are a number of factors which will negatively impact playback performance including the type of compression used RLE and Video 1 are manageable with most 386 or higher systems Indeo supports additional color depth and is best run on faster 486 or Pentium systems Playing Video Clips Use the Microsoft Windows Media Player to play or insert video clips i e files with the AVI filename extensi...

Page 82: ... 0 in safe mode by pressing F5 repeatedly during bootup 2 Right click the mouse on the open desktop not over any icons 3 Select Properties 4 Click the Settings tab Settings menu appears 5 Click Change Display Type Change Display Type windows appears 6 Click Change button Select Device windows appears 7 Click Show all devices Manufacturers and Models appears 8 Click Standard display types Standard ...

Page 83: ...Select from a list of alternate drivers 1 Click OK to use the default selection Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer 2 InsertASUS installation CD and click Browse button Open windows appears 3 Select you CD ROM drive in the Drives box 4 Select nt40 ati inf shows in File name NOTE Select the directory according to yourWindows language Enhanced pro duces slightly better performance but...

Page 84: ... to install a third party driver 11 Click Yes Copying Files appears message appears The drivers were successfully installed 12 Click OK button 13 Change your monitor type if necessary Click Close button when finished 14 Adjust the Desktop area Color palette and Font size if necessary Click Apply button when finished System Settings Change windows appears You must restart your computer before the n...

Page 85: ...T351 10 Click OK button 11 Select the appropriate driver for your ASUS 264 series device 12 Click Install button 13 Click Yes to change to your system configuration 14 Click Continue to confirm the full path name 15 If you are upgrading your driver you will be asked whether you want to use the Current or New driver Select New driver to install the drivers 16 After the files have been copied to you...

Page 86: ... C the drive letter of your OS 2 system Enter copying files appears 11 Exit the installation program 12 Type C Enter CD MACH_OS2 Enter DSPINSTL 13 Display Driver Install panel appears select Primary Display 14 Click OK Driver selection list appears 15 Select the latestATI mach64 enhanced driver version from the list click OK 16 In the Monitor Configuration Selection Utility select Install Using De...

Page 87: ...your CD ROM drive is letter D 3 Type D Enter CD DOS ENGLISH DOS JAPANESE Enter INSTALL Enter 4 Select Drivers Installation and press Enter 5 Select the Application name AutoCAD Enter 6 Follow the instructions to complete the installation of the drivers 7 Press Enter when completed and press ESC twice and Y to exit the installa tion program 8 Reboot the computer from DOS Your Windows 3 x DOS system...

Page 88: ...GLISH DOS JAPANESE Enter INSTALL Enter 4 Select Drivers Installation and press Enter 5 Select the Application name Microstation Enter 6 Follow the instructions to complete the installation of the drivers 7 Press Enter when completed and press ESC twice and Y to exit the installa tion program 8 Reboot the computer from DOS Your Windows 3 x DOS systemATI driv ers should be installed and ready to use...

Page 89: ...r correct resolution and refresh rate operation You have four options to choose a correct Monitor Type Selecting Your Monitor Type Factory Default Apple IBM MIT NEC VESA Std Generic Read VDIF Custom Select Read VDIF If you have a VDIF file for your monitor and wish to use its parameters to automatically configure the mach64 Additional VDIF details are pro vided later in this chapter in the section...

Page 90: ...resh rate on one resolution and not change the other resolutions Procedure 1 Start the INSTALL program 2 Select Quick Setup and press Enter 3 Select Custom and press Enter 4 Pick a resolution then a refresh rate You will see a box outline WARNING Using the wrong refresh rate may permanently damage your monitor For more information please refer to the manual NOTE An incorrect Monitor Type setting m...

Page 91: ...ING TheAdvanced Configuration option allows you to use certain features that may add additional performance to your device However these options may not be compatible with your system If problems appear after an advanced option is changed returning the device to factory defaults will rectify the situation Factory Defaults The device can be reset to factory defaults by pressing Shift F7 Saving Your...

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Page 93: ...tem consists of many different parts difficulties may arise from a combination of items from software or hardware installation to monitor compatibility Listed below are several checks you can make to help deter mine what the problem is System Lockup If you are using a memory manager such as QEMM or 386MAX you need to modify the command line in the CONFIG SYS file so that the address of the graphic...

Page 94: ... the INSTALL program as follows IN STALL APMAP Enter Now when you enable Memory Aperture you must se lect a location above but not overlapping System Memory S BIOS B or Re served R locations Not applicable for ISA cards Desired resolution is disabled and displayed in gray A mode displayed in gray means that the BIOS is told this mode is not available based on the device configuration Reinstall usi...

Page 95: ...d memory test error Run Detailed RAM Test several times to confirm the error and take notes of any messages and error codes DAC LUT test failure An error has occurred while testing the DAC LookUp Table The problem should be visible on the top color bar of any 8bpp mode ROM checksum error An error has been detected in the ROM Draw sequence failure An error has occurred in the draw engine If the err...

Page 96: ...dware wiz ard This is not recommended because when the Windows 95 mach64 enhanced display driver is installed via the Add New Hardware wizard the Settings page does not get installed into the mach64 display adapter property sheet Windows 95 property page problems While adjusting monitor settings in the Adjustment page of the Display Properties sheet your monitor could become unreadable If this occ...

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