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HX97

Pentium

Motherboard

USER'S MANUAL

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Page 1: ...R HX97 Pentium Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...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 Symbios is ...

Page 3: ... 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 49...

Page 4: ...gning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 21 5 External Connectors 22 Power Connection Procedures 31 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 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 39 Details of BIOS Features Setup 39 Chipse...

Page 5: ...g and Handling Precautions 61 Layout and Connectors 62 Connectors 62 CD Audio Connector Pin Definitions 62 The Following Sections are Available with ASUS Audio Bundle Only Creative Labs ViBRA 16C Series 1 Audio Drivers Installation 3 Manual Information 3 ASUS Installation CD 3 ASUS Audio Driver CD Contents 3 Win95 Audio Drivers 4 3D Sound 5 Win3 x Audio Drivers 7 Configuration Manager 7 Creative P...

Page 6: ...r 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 interfer ence 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 a...

Page 7: ...ndle IX DOS Win3 1x Audio Software Manual ASUS I A16C Audio bundle Item Checklist Please check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your retailer The ASUS HX97 motherboard 2 serial port ribbon cables attached to a mounting bracket 1 parallel ribbon cable with mounting bracket 1 IDE ribbon cable 1 floppy ribbon cable ASUS HX97 Support Drivers Flash M...

Page 8: ... two high speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections Two floppy drives of either 5 25 or 3 5 1 44MB or 2 88MB are also supported without an exter nal card Supports Japanese standard Floppy 3 mode 3 5 1 2MB Desktop Management Interface DMI Supports DMI through BIOS which ...

Page 9: ... Parts of Board 256 512KB Pipelined Burst L2 Cache CPU ZIF Socket 7 4 PCI Slots Super Multi I O Programmable Flash ROM 4 ISA Slots Floppy Conn Serial Parallel Floppy Intel s 430HX PCIset PS 2 Mouse USB IrDA Switching Voltage Regulators 4 SIMM Sockets 2 IDE Conn IrDA Connect PS 2 Mouse ...

Page 10: ...E Intel PIIX3 PCIset P9 P8 Intel 430HX PCIset PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 1 CPU ZIF Socket 7 PS 2 Mouse USB IrDA Parallel Printer Port Flash BIOS 256 512KB Pipelined Burst L2 Cache IDE HD LED CPU Voltage VID1 VID0 VID2 Switching Voltage Regulators CPU Fan Freq Ratio BF1 BF0 Boot Block Write Clock Freq FS1 FS0 FS2 SIMM Socket 4 32 bit 72 pin module SIMM Socket 3 32 bit 72 pin module S...

Page 11: ...2 FLOPPY p 22 Floppy Drive Connector 34 pin Block 3 PRINTER p 23 Parallel Printer Port Connector 26 pin Block 4 COM1 COM2 p 23 Serial Port COM1 COM2 10 pin Blocks 5 Primary Second IDE p 24 Primary Secondary IDE Connector 40 pin Blocks 6 IDE HD LED p 24 IDE HD Activity Light 7 PS2MOUSE USB IR p 25 PS 2 Mouse USB IR Combo Connector 18 pin Block 8 IR p 25 Second Infrared Port Module Connector 5 pin B...

Page 12: ...The jumpers will also be shown graphically 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 to gethe...

Page 13: ... area of the Programmable Flash ROM to allow programming in the Enabled position This is required only if prompted by the Flash MemoryWriterUtility as shown in BIOS SOFTWARE Programming BBLKW Disabled 1 2 Default Enabled 2 3 R Boot Block Programming Disable Enable Disabled Protected Default Enabled 1 2 3 BBLKW 1 2 3 BBLKW Jumpers III INSTALLATION ...

Page 14: ...battery s current by removing this jumper and attaching a cur rent meter to the pins 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 information after removing and reapplying this jumper RTC ...

Page 15: ...rix 6x86 MX PR166 and faster IBM Cyrix 6x86 M1 PR166 and faster Type Setting Voltage VID0 VID1 VID2 Intel AMD Cryix P54C CS K5 M1 3 5V VRE 1 2 1 2 2 3 Intel AMD P54C CS K5 3 4V STD 2 3 1 2 2 3 AMD K6 PR233 3 2V 2 3 1 2 AMD K6 PR166 PR200 2 9V 1 2 2 3 2 3 Intel Cyrix P55C MMX M2 2 8V 2 3 2 3 2 3 R Voltage Regulator Output Selection VID1 VID2 VID0 3 2 1 P54C CS M1 VRE3 5V VID1 VID2 VID0 3 2 1 P54C C...

Page 16: ...l speed of the Intel AMD or Cyrix CPU as follows BUS Frequency Freq Ratio CPU Model Freq Ratio BUS Freq FS0 FS1 FS2 BF1 BF0 Intel Pentium 200MHz 3 0x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 Intel Pentium 166MHz 2 5x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 Intel Pentium 150MHz 2 5x 60MHz 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 Intel Pentium 133MHz 2 0x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 Intel Pentium 120MHz 2 0x 60MHz 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 Intel Pentium 10...

Page 17: ...he ECC feature SIMMs must be installed in pairs so that each Row see Map of Motherboard for Row locations contains 64 bits of the same size and type of memory chips One side with memory chips of the SIMM module takes up half a Row on the motherboard IMPORTANT Memory speed setup is required through Auto Configura tion in BIOS Chipset Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE If both 60ns and 70ns memory are used ...

Page 18: ...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 72 Pin DRAM in SIMM Socket Support Clip Safety Tab This Side Only Mounting Hole 4 The plastic guides should go through the two Mounting Holes on the sides and the Metal Clips should snap on the ...

Page 19: ...hen upwards 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 ...

Page 20: ...ly 6 Secure the card on the slot with the screw you removed in step 4 7 Replace the computer system s cover 8 Setup the BIOS if necessary such as IRQ xx Used By ISA Yes in PNPAND PCI SETUP 9 Install the necessary software drivers for your expansion card Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards Some expansion cards need to use an IRQ to operate Generally an IRQ must be exclusively assigned to one use In ...

Page 21: ...s 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 Configu...

Page 22: ...101 enhanced keyboard R Keyboard Connector 5 pin female This motherboard accepts an AT Keyboard Connector Plug as shown here Keyboard Connector 2 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 drives Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting in the wron...

Page 23: ...ansion slot opening TIP You may also remove the bracket connectors and mount them directly to the case to save expansion slot space R 4 Serial Port COM1 and COM2 Connectors Two 10 pin blocks These connectors support the provided serial port ribbon cables with mounting bracket Connect the ribbon cables to these connectors and mount the bracket to the case on an open slot The two serial ports on the...

Page 24: ... 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 through BIOS Features Setup...

Page 25: ...USB IrDA Module Connector 1 9 18 10 10 USB 5 Volt 11 USB Port 1 12 USB Port 1 13 Ground 14 no connection 15 PS 2 Mouse Data 16 Ground 17 Infrared Receive 18 Infrared Transmit Optional USB MIR PS 2 Mouse Infrared USB 0 USB 1 R 8 Second Infrared IrDA Fast IR Compliant Infrared Connector IR This is a second connector that supports the optional wireless transmitting and receiving infrared module This ...

Page 26: ... on your computer s case The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not detected expansion cards can use IRQ12 See PS 2 Mouse Control in BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE section PS 2 Mouse Module Connector R 1 GND 2 DATA 3 NC 4 VCC 5 CLK 8 NC 1 34 2 5 8 1 34 2 5 8 This optional PS 2 mouse cable and bracket set is necessary to provide a connector for a PS 2 mouse o...

Page 27: ...yboard 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 SOFTWARE section should be on the default setting of Enable 12 Reset Switch Lead RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without having to turn off your power switch This is a pref...

Page 28: ...turer the wiring and plug may be different The red wire should be positive while the black should be ground Connect the fan s plug to the board taking into consid eration the polarity of the this connector WARNING The CPU and or motherboard will overheat if there is no airflow across the CPU and onboard heatsinks Damage may occur to the mother board and or the CPU fan if these pins are incorrectly...

Page 29: ...g six wires two of which are black Orient the connectors so that the black wires are together AT Power Connector on Motherboard Power Plugs from Power Supply Power Connector R 12V 5V GND 12V 5V 5V PG P9 P8 RED RED RED WHT BLK BLK BLK BLK BLU YLW RED ORG Using a slight angle align the plastic guide pins on the lead to their receptacles on the connector Once aligned press the lead onto the connector...

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Page 31: ... monitor LED may light up after the system s if it complies with Green standards or if it has a power standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running additional messages will ap pear 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 settings and connection...

Page 32: ... 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 INTEL 28F001BXT If unknown is shown after Flas...

Page 33: ...ameter 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 s...

Page 34: ...ppy 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 extension...

Page 35: ...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 36: ... 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 onboard CMOS battery weakens Asection at the lower right of the screen displays the control keys you can use ...

Page 37: ... up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices Each chan nel can support up to two hard disks the first of which is the master and the second is the slave Specifications for SCSI hard disks need not to be entered here since they operate using device drivers and are not supported by any the BIOS If you install the optional PCI SC200 SCSI controller card into the motherboard see section VI for inst...

Page 38: ... disk drive information has been entered into BIOS new IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned such as with FDISK and then formatted before data can be read from and write on Primary IDE hard disk drives must have its partition set to active also possible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A Drive B None These fields record the types of flo...

Page 39: ...n 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 This setting is recommended because conflicts with new operating sys tems Installation of new operating system...

Page 40: ...tion of files from the computer system to be copied to floppy drives by allowing the setting of Read Only to only allow reads from the floppy but not writes The setup default R W allows both reads and writes IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors HDD MAX This field enhances hard disk performance by making multi sector transfers instead of one sector per transfer Most IDE drives except older versions can utili...

Page 41: ...you install other expansion cards with ROMs on them you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640KB and 1024KB by the amount used for this purpose Boot Up NumLock Status On This field enables users to activate the Number Lock function upon system boot Boot Up System Speed High This has no function and should ...

Page 42: ... DRAM modules you must change this item to 70ns DRAM See section III for DRAM installation information Peer Concurrency Leave on default setting of Enabled PCI Streaming Leave on default setting of Enabled Passive Release Enabled This is a mechanism that allows concurrency of ISA EISA cycles and CPU to PCI cycles When this feature is enabled the TXC will be possible to re arbitrate PCI bus and all...

Page 43: ...ll be displayed instead The default of Disabled for Memory parity SERR NMI will not show memory errors on your monitor When using parity DRAM modules you can select from the default of Parity or ECC Error Checking and Correcting to correct 1 bit memory errors that may occur in the memory See pages 12 13 for more information on DRAM memory modules Onboard FDC Controller Enabled When enabled this fi...

Page 44: ...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 either DMA Channel 1 3 or Disable UART2 Use Infrared Disabled When enabled this field activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second serial UART to support the infrared module connector on the motherbo...

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Page 46: ...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 POWER EXE in yo...

Page 47: ... 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 The Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode fields set the...

Page 48: ...interrupts may be reas signed by the OS when Yes is selected When a non Plug and Play OS is installed or to prevent reassigning of interrupt settings select No here Slot 1 2 3 4 IRQ Auto The first four fields on the screen set how IRQ use is determined for each PCI slot Slot 1 Right is nearest the memory sockets The default setting for each field is Auto which uses auto routing to determine IRQ us...

Page 49: ...ng that channel If you install a Legacy ISA card that requires a unique DMA channel and you are not using an ICU you must set the field for that channel to Yes ISA MEM Block BASE No ICU This field allows you to set the base address and block size of a Legacy ISA card that uses any memory segment within the C800 CC00 D000 D400 D800 and DC00 address range If you have such a card and you are not usin...

Page 50: ...ress 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 scre...

Page 51: ...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 will...

Page 52: ...d 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 the field for that drive in the Standar...

Page 53: ... 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 highlight the Save Exit Setup option on the main screen and then ...

Page 54: ... 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 DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIF...

Page 55: ...ilable 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 wil...

Page 56: ...ad 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 SOFTWARE Using DMI Utility V SUPPORT SOFTWARE...

Page 57: ...erformance than the direct BIOS support To use these drivers you must install them into your system and add them to your system con figuration files Driver support for SCSI devices used with SCO UNIX is also pro vided These drivers are included in the second SCO UNIX floppy disk Windows 95 support is also available using the device drivers included within the Windows software The ASUS PCI SC200 is...

Page 58: ...u can connect SCSI devices installed in your system case to the internal connector on the card You also have the additional option of connecting external SCSI devices to the external SCSI 2 connector on the card If you get the ASUS PCI SC200 later on as an option you will need to install it yourself The setup procedure is explained here Setting Up the ASUS PCI SC200 There are two jumper settings y...

Page 59: ...e ASUS PCI SC200 with a fifty pin flat ribbon cable External devices connect to the external port with a SCSI 2 cable If there are more than one internal or external devices additional devices are connected with cables to form a daisy chain The SCSI chain must be terminated at both ends or the devices in the chain will not work properly Terminator Setting Terminated Not Terminated JP 5 Terminated ...

Page 60: ...ation Required End Device SCSI Device 3 SCSI Device 4 SCSI Device 2 SCSI Device 1 Termination Required End Device No Termination Required JP5 Short SCSI ID Numbers All SCSI devices including the ASUS PCI SC200 interface card must have a SCSI identification number that is not in use by any other SCSI device There are eight possible ID numbers 0 through 7 The ASUS PCI SC200 has a fixed SCSI ID of 7 ...

Page 61: ...C is easily damaged by static electric ity Observe the following precautions while unpacking and handling the board Before handling the board discharge static electricity form your body by touch ing an unpainted area of the system s metal chassis While installing the board ground yourself frequently to discharge any static electricity that may accu mulate in your body After removing the board form...

Page 62: ...ected to the Audio In on the card you can only use the direct output located in the front panel of the CD ROM and adjust volume level by the knob CD Audio Connector Pin Definitions Sony Audio In Mitsumi Audio In Panasonic Audio In Pin Definition Pin Definition Pin Definition l Right Signal 1 Ground 1 Left Signal 2 Ground 2 Left Signal 2 Ground 3 Ground 3 Ground 3 Right Signal 4 Left Signal 4 Right...

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