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VIA 82C694 ATX Mainboard

AWARD BIOS SETUP

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Video RAM Cacheable

Select Enabled allows caching of the video RAM , resulting in better system
performance.  However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error
may result.

AGP Aperture Size

Select the size of Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) aperture.  The aperture is a
portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address
space.  Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without
any translation.

AGP- 4X Mode

This item allows you to enable / disable the AGP-4X Mode. Please make sure
your AGP card supports the 4X AGP display mode before you can select 

Enable

.

AGP Driving Control

This item allows you to adjust the AGP driving force.  Choose 

Manual

 to key in a

AGP Driving Value in the next selection. Basically, "Auto" is recommended to
avoiding any error in your system.

AGP Driving Value

This item allows you to adjust the AGP driving force.

OnChip USB

This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board
and you want to use it. Even when so equipped, if you add a higher performance
controller, you will need to disable this feature.

USB mouse Support

Select 

Enabled

 if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller

and you have a USB mouse.

USB Keyboard Support

Select 

Enabled

 if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller

and you have a USB keyboard.

OnChip Sound

This item allows you to control the onboard AC 97 audio.

OnChip Modem

This item allows you to control the onboard MC 97 Modem.

Summary of Contents for 694TX

Page 1: ...694TX 694TXL Pentium Celeron Socket 370 ATX MAINBOARD VER 1 x USER S MANUAL DOC NUMBER UM 694TX E3 PRINTED IN TAIWAN...

Page 2: ...S 3 2 3 3 CONNECTORS 3 3 3 4 JUMPERS 3 14 3 5 INSTALLATION OF DEVICE DRIVERS 3 19 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 1 4 1 GETTING STARTED 4 1 4 2 MAIN MENU 4 2 4 3 CONTROL KEYS 4 2 4 4 STANDARD CMOS SETUP 4 3 4 5...

Page 3: ...s the 5V standby voltage connected to the ATX form factor mainboard Without disconnecting the AC power connector from the PC system the mainboard can be damaged by any improper action WAKE ON LAN In o...

Page 4: ...ntroller two high speed Serial ports UARTs one multi mode Parallel port one PS 2 mouse port one IR interface and four USB ports designed on the board for wide variety of peripheral connection There is...

Page 5: ...T PCI SLOT JP2 CN17 CN12 IR CD IN Panel Button Chassis Fan CPU Fan ATX Power Connector A COM1 B COM2 C LPT CN16 WOL SW1 1 SPK OUT 2 LINE IN 3 MIC IN 4 MIDI GAME USB3 USB4 SPK PWR LED JP1 JP3 Mouse K B...

Page 6: ...h 8 bit 16 bit 32 bit 64 bit Address Path 32 bit PC SYSTEM CHIPSET VIA VT82C694X and VT82C686A chipset FRONT SIDE BUS FREQUENCY 66 MHz 100MHz and 133MHz MEMORY Three 168 pin DIMM sockets are designed...

Page 7: ...sound interface 694TXL does not support the 3D sound interface HARDWARE MONITORING The hardware monitoring feature is designed on the board to monitor hardware healthy status like system voltage syst...

Page 8: ...ing in RTC alarm or LAN signal 2 Power off soft off by OS or Panel switch 3 Resuming of PC system such as Modem ring in RTC alarm etc 4 Supports Full On Doze Standby Suspend operating modes DIMENSION...

Page 9: ...ents and it can be easily damaged by static electricity So please leave it sealed in the original packing until when installing A grounded anti static mat is recommended when unpacking and installatio...

Page 10: ...in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP please refer to Section 4 8 When you have stored the RTC alarm setting the PC system will be turned on automatically according to the date and time which is recorded in t...

Page 11: ...tion 4 8 for the settings Note This function is not available when using the internal MODEM card WAKE ON LAN WOL There is a WOL connector CN16 on the mainboard which is designed to connect to the sign...

Page 12: ...how all the connectors and jumpers on the mainboard 3 1 INSTALLATION OF CPU The connector on this mainboard where we can install the CPU is the socket 370 as shown in the following picture The front s...

Page 13: ...your PC system please refer to the following suggestion to install the memory 1 Outlook of DIMM modules Single Side DIMM module Double Side DIMM Module 2 Minimum one DIMM module must be installed on t...

Page 14: ...evices such as power mouse printer etc Followings are the connectors with its description and the pin assignment which is designed on the mainboard A BAT1 Battery Socket Use the 3 Volts Lithium batter...

Page 15: ...OM 2 Connector COM 1 COM 2 CPU I O address 3F8H 2F8H 3E8H 2E8H IRQ3 IRQ4 selected by CMOS setup E CN5 Parallel Port Connector Supports SPP EPP ECP modes IRQ7 or IRQ5 is selectable ECP mode will use ei...

Page 16: ...DWARE SETUP 3 5 F CN6 USB Port 1 Universal Serial Bus Connector G CN7 USB Port 2 Universal Serial Bus Connector USB 1 USB 2 CPU 1 2 3 4 A B C H CN8 Floppy Disk Control Port Connector Use IRQ6 DMA chan...

Page 17: ...IDE 1 Connectors Primary IDE Port 1F0H IRQ 14 J CN10 IDE 2 Connectors Secondary IDE Port 170H IRQ 15 CN10 IDE 2 CN9 IDE 1 CPU K CN12 IR Infrared Rays Connector 1 2 3 4 5 5VDC NO CONNECTION IR RECEIVE...

Page 18: ...VIA 82C694 ATX Mainboard HARDWARE SETUP 3 7 L CN13 CPU Cooling Fan Power Connector 1 2 3 CN13 GND 12V Fan Signal CPU M CN15 ATX Power Connector ATX Power connector CN15 CPU...

Page 19: ...to use the WOL LAN card to trigger the power of the PC system the switching power supply must be able to provide at least 700mA current driving ability on the 5V standby voltage CN 16 WOL 1 2 3 CPU O...

Page 20: ...PORT CN18 CPU Q CN21 CN22 CD IN Connector CN21 and CN22 are optional The CD IN connectors on the board can be used to connect to the CD ROM audio out There are two different type of connectors design...

Page 21: ...this mainboard Please contact your local supplier for the correct USB cable CPU CN31 CN30 USB 3 USB 4 Pin assignment of USB connector CN 30 USB3 CN 31 USB4 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 5 Ground BLAC...

Page 22: ...Sleep LED connector PW Power On Off Suspend switch PW SL HL RS CPU 1 RS Reset Button Connector Pin Signal name Pin1 2 Function 1 Reset Control Open No action 2 Ground Short System Reset 2 HL IDE HDD L...

Page 23: ...ON a The system is in Full ON mode a 1 Click on this switch less than 4 seconds the system will be turned into Suspend mode turn into the GREEN mode a 2 Press and hold this switch for more than 4 seco...

Page 24: ...LED Connectors SPK 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 PWRLED CPU SPK Speaker connector 1 Pin Signal name 1 5V DC 2 No Connection 3 No Connection 4 Speaker Data Signal 5 PWRLED Front Panel Power LED and Key Lock Connect...

Page 25: ...mini jumper on it The jumper setting is necessary when installing different components onto the mainboard A JP1 CPU Voltage Adjustment Optional JP1 is designed for some special purpose Sometimes you m...

Page 26: ...rong VID signal and send wrong Vcore to the CPU Unfortunately wrong Vcore may destroy the CPU In order to provide the protection to the mainboard and the CPU JP2 is designed on the board to control th...

Page 27: ...he following procedure to clear the information in the CMOS Note Improper BIOS setting may cause hang up to the PC system Should it be happened you may use JP9 to clear the information which is stored...

Page 28: ...UTO ON OFF ON OFF 66MHZ OFF ON OFF ON 100MHZ OFF OFF OFF ON 133MHZ OFF OFF OFF OFF Note The Auto setting shown in the above table is strongly recommended because it will detect the CPU type and decide...

Page 29: ...ect the clock ratio CPU SW2 CPU Clock Ratio and its frequency SW2 Ratio 66MHz 100MHz 133MHz SW2 1 SW2 2 SW2 3 SW2 4 3X 200 300 400 ON OFF ON ON 3 5X 233 350 467 OFF OFF ON ON 4X 266 400 533 ON ON OFF...

Page 30: ...ver B Install the device driver for the onboard audio interface When there is the 3D sound interface installed on this mainboard Please refer to the following procedure to install the device drivers y...

Page 31: ...malfunction detected the BIOS will give a series of beeping sound or display the error message on screen When the system is normal the simulate figure Fig 4 1 will be displayed on the screen when the...

Page 32: ...P MAIN MENU screen 4 3 CONTROL KEYS Listed below is the explanation of the keys displayed at the bottom of the screens which will be used in the CMOS SETUP program Arrow Keys Use the arrow keys to mov...

Page 33: ...DE Primary Slave Press Enter None Year and century IDE Secondary Master Press Enter None IDE Secondary Slave Press Enter None Drive A 1 44 3 5 in Drive B None Video EGA VGA Halt On All But Keyboard Ba...

Page 34: ...isabled Warning message on Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 Screen and alarm beep Typematic Delay Msec 250 Security Option Setup PS 2 mouse function control Enable OS Select For DRAM 64MB Non OS2 HDD S M A...

Page 35: ...u have the Pentium processor installed on the mainboard There is the serial code inside every Pentium processor and it will be accessed by application to show your personal ID If you don t feel like t...

Page 36: ...2 mouse port In case that you prefer to connect a serial mouse to the serial port instead of using the PS 2 mouse you may choose Disable in this field so that the IRQ12 can be released for the other d...

Page 37: ...B Keyboard Support Disabled USB Mouse Support Disabled OnChip Sound Auto OnChip Modem Auto CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled PCI Delay Transact...

Page 38: ...number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing Do not reset this field from the default value specified by the system designer DRAM Clock This selecting option allows you to control...

Page 39: ...g Control This item allows you to adjust the AGP driving force Choose Manual to key in a AGP Driving Value in the next selection Basically Auto is recommended to avoiding any error in your system AGP...

Page 40: ...tes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select Enabled to support compli...

Page 41: ...IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard FDC Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 Auto Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto UART 2 Mode Standard IR Function Duplex Half TX RX inverting enable No Yes Onboard Para...

Page 42: ...third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 66 select Auto to enable BIOS support Init Display First This field allows you to decide to active...

Page 43: ...ort controller I O address setting Onboard Parallel Port Mode Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel printer port Select Normal Compatible or SPP unless you are certain your hardware and so...

Page 44: ...RBTN Instant off Wake Up Events Press Enter The Power Management Setup allows you to configure you system to most effectively save energy while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of...

Page 45: ...he set time of system inactivity the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active Doze Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the CPU clock will ru...

Page 46: ...ports the Display Power Management Signaling DPMS standard of the Video Electronics Standards to select video power management values MODEM Use IRQ This determines the IRQ in which the MODEM can use f...

Page 47: ...INTR ON IRQs Activity Monitoring Press Enter VGA When Enabled you can set the VGA awakens the system LPT COM When On of LPT COM any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices or IRQs w...

Page 48: ...the operating system it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur When the operating system is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself and performs the service When set On activity will ne...

Page 49: ...you need the BIOS to configure non boot device PNP OS Installed This item allows you to determine PnP OS is installed or not Reset Configuration Data Normally you leave this field Disabled Select Enab...

Page 50: ...ether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture DMA Resources When resources are controlled manually assign each system DMA channel as one of the following types depending on the type of device using t...

Page 51: ...le above allows you to monitor the PC system healthy status You can check on the related field and monitor the status like voltage Temperature etc Current CPU Temp This field will show you the current...

Page 52: ...t the presence of devices on DIMM and PCI slots When there is no device presented on some of the PCI or DIMM connector the clock on the related DIMM and PCI slot will be disabled to reduce the Electro...

Page 53: ...use the Award BIOS setup program to select the settings you may use this field to load the optimized default which is defined in the system BIOS Basically the optimized default is chosen by the factor...

Page 54: ...e Exit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type The SUPERVISOR PASSWORD will be used to check the authority when power on the PC system The Supervisor Password will have different function according to the Secu...

Page 55: ...ervisor Password and the Security Option setup in Section 4 5 A When there is the password stored in the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 1 When Setup is selected in Security Option When you use the User Password...

Page 56: ...d Power Management Setup Save Exit Setup PNP PCI Configuration Exit Without Saving PC Health Status ESC Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type Save Exit Setup This option will s...

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