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BCM Advanced Research

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Summary of Contents for IN440EX

Page 1: ...BCM Advanced Research 1 Advanced Pentium II Motherboard IN440EX USER S MANUAL Copyright 1998 GVC CORPORATION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...

Page 2: ...um are registered trademarks of Intel IBM and OS 2 are registered trademarks of IBM AWARD is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc Winbond is a registered trademark of Winbond Electronics...

Page 3: ...ipment to which it relates satisfies all the provisions of the 1994 Regulations FCC Compliance FCC stands for Federal Communications Commission This product complies with FCC Rules Part 15 and has bee...

Page 4: ...ection in Chapter 3 Install the CPU by correctly aligning the CPU with the Slot 1 as noted in the motherboard diagram Once aligned press down on the CPU gently but firmly Next install either the 3 3 v...

Page 5: ...edded I O Subsystem 13 System Management Subsystem 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI 13 2 34 FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE 34 Processor Subsystem 34 SLOT 1 Processor Socket Pinout 34 Proces...

Page 6: ...s 43 ISA Bus Speed 44 AT Bus Refresh 44 Storage Subsystem 44 IDE Hard Disk Drive Interface 44 Floppy Disk Drive Interface 44 I O Subsystem 45 Serial Ports 45 Parallel Port 46 Keyboard Interface 47 Mou...

Page 7: ...lts 63 Integrated Peripherals 64 Supervisor Password 65 User password 65 Save Exit Setup 65 5 66 ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL SPECIFICATIONS 66 Absolute Maximum Ratings 66 Electrical 66 DC Specifications...

Page 8: ...BCM Advanced Research 8 Photo Of the Motherboard Drawing of Motherboard I O Back Plane Line Line Mic Out In In VGA Parallel Serial USB PS 2 Key Mouse Key Mopuse GAME...

Page 9: ...n the motherboard Integrated I O I O Controller Winbond W83977TF Plug Play Compliant Serial Ports One 9 pin connectors for dual asynchronous serial ports High speed 16C550 compatible serial ports Infr...

Page 10: ...t hardware for use with APM PNP BIOS APIs Jumpers and Front Panel Connectors Connectors Reset switch Suspend Resume Button Speaker HD PWR LED Power Button IR Jumpers CPU Speed Multiplier Password CMOS...

Page 11: ...e ratio is either 2 7 1 4 2 9 or 1 5 yielding the bus core frequency 66 233 66 266 66 300 or 66 333 MHz respectively High performance features including pipelined 32 bit addressing 64 bit data 16KB 16...

Page 12: ...s are included in the system These are 64 bit DRAM interface for EX chipset parity generation and checking on the PCI Bus and A G P for PCI transactions PCI Bus The system implements parity generation...

Page 13: ...ns 1 embedded device The ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo 1X Graphics Accelerator The 3D Rage Pro is a highly integrated graphics controller integrating the 2D 3D and video accelerators palette DAC and quadruple...

Page 14: ...sleep button This sleep button is a soft button which does not turn the machine physically off but signals the OS to go into a soft off or sleeping state ACPI defines two types of these soft buttons...

Page 15: ...essor maybe removed and replaced to accommodate Kamath or Deschutes Changes to the VCORE Core Voltage Selection are automatically adjusted Processor Heat Sink The IN440EX M B provides 12V power for th...

Page 16: ...ent the level one data and instruction L1 internal caches The L2 cache is Direct Mapped non sectored supporting the Write Back policy architecture Table 2 4 L2 Cache latency with Burst SRAM Cycle Type...

Page 17: ...elivers superior 3D performance TV quality scaled video optimized for MPEG playback industry leading Mach64 2D performance and video expansion capability suited for video conferencing cable TV viewing...

Page 18: ...pping Texture lighting modes Ability to use YUV format textures Alpha in texture map Texture maps up to 1024 x 1024 Non square texture maps Software driver support for Direct 3D QuickDraw 3D RAVE and...

Page 19: ...ent Blit and Masked Blit Increased display FIFO to 32 DWORDs Additional 64 entry FIFO for Bus mastering True 24 bit true color palette DAC Pixel clock rates up to 200MHz with 230MHz option for up to 1...

Page 20: ...3D Rage Pro Graphics and Video Controller Table 2 9 Video Modes Display Screen Resolution Re fresh Rate Hor Scan kHz Pixel Clock MHz Colors Bits per Pixel 1 MB DRAM 2 MB DRAM 4 MB DRAM 4 8 16 24 32 4...

Page 21: ...ion Pin Description Pin Description 1 GND 2 GND 73 MCK 74 MCK 3 VMD63 4 VMD62 75 VCC 76 VCC 5 VMD61 6 VMD60 77 NC 78 NC 7 VMD59 8 VMD58 79 GND 80 GND 9 VMD57 10 VMD56 81 VMA9 82 VMA8 11 VCC 12 VCC 83...

Page 22: ...42 SCL 22 71 GND 72 GND 143 VCC 144 VCC Video Monitor Connector Connection to VGA monitor is via a connector on the rear panel on the system PWA Reference J8 Video Connector Type female high density D...

Page 23: ...Address Decode Support 4248 Register Compatible Dynamic Range SNR Over 80dB ACP1 Compliant Line Out Connector The audio subsystem provides external sound through a user accessible stereo jack connecto...

Page 24: ...tput from the phone connection PCI ISA Expansion Slots ISA Interface The IN440EX incorporates a fully ISA AT bus compatible master and slave interface that is compatible with the IEEE 996 specificatio...

Page 25: ...Storage Subsystem IDE Hard Disk Drive Interface The IN440EX provides two 2 independent high performance bus mastering PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 Mode 4 and Ultra33 Synchronou...

Page 26: ...ARTs compatible serial ports configured as Data Terminal Equipment DTE The electrical characteristics are compliant with the EIA 232 D Serial Communications Specifications The serial ports may be rema...

Page 27: ...PT address or the tertiary LPT address through BIOS if other parallel ports are installed in the system The parallel port I O address can be relocated within 480 different locations Three 3 DMA channe...

Page 28: ...PS 2 compatible pinout and is located on the rear panel on the system PWA this connector is a dual package with the Mouse connector residing on top To meet the requirements for UL compliance the Vcc...

Page 29: ...hole pins connected to the metal connector housing Universal Serial Bus Connectors The Universal Serial Bus USB is a communications architecture that gives a PC the ability to interconnect a variety...

Page 30: ...ed for BIOS use One bank of CMOS memory is used to maintain the clock and user system setting configuration parameters when the main system power is removed The other bank 128 bytes is lockable in 4x3...

Page 31: ...o provides an infrared interface supporting a standard or custom remote control device to perform wireless keyboard or mouse functions IRDA Header J19 A header is available on the IRDA header for a ca...

Page 32: ...rn the system into Sleep Mode Power Button Switch J29 A header is available on the power button header J29 for connecting a momentary contact switch on the front panel which can be used to turn the sy...

Page 33: ...a jumper block of user accessible jumpers labeled JP1 To select the processor speed install the jumper as follows Table 3 1 CPU Speed Selection Klamath CPU Speed MHz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 233 ON OFF ON OFF...

Page 34: ...PTY 64MB 64MB 8MB 72MB 64MB 16MB 80MB 64MB 32MB 96MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 128MB EMPTY 128MB 128MB 8MB 136MB 128MB 16MB 144MB 128MB 32MB 176MB 128MB 64MB 192MB 128MB 128MB 256MB For simplicity other memory...

Page 35: ...BIOS firmware and follow the manufacturer instructions to update the BIOS General This product will have an Award Software Inc developed system Flash BIOS The BIOS will have a menu driven SETUP utilit...

Page 36: ...Press the DELete Key to display the Main Menu which looks like this Figure 4 1 BIOS Setup Main Menu ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A59GB3J CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SUPERVISOR PA...

Page 37: ...his menu to configure Power Management features Load BIOS Defaults Use this to load the BIOS Defaults except the Standard CMOS Setup Integrated Peripherals Use this menu to configure the Onboard perip...

Page 38: ...FTWARE INC Select Item Shift F2 Change Color Esc Quit F10 Save Exit Setup PU PD Modify Base Memory 640K Extended Memory 15360K Other Memory 384K Total Memory 16384K Date mm dd yy Wed Jan 1 1997 Time h...

Page 39: ...ive smaller than 514MB LBA and LARGE can be used for drives larger than 514MB Disk A Disk B 360KB 5 1 2MB 5 720KB 3 1 44M 3 2 88MB 3 None Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system...

Page 40: ...the following page to configure the features on the BIOS Features Setup menu ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A59GB3J BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Select Item PU PD Modify Shift F2 Color Esc Quit F1 Help F...

Page 41: ...wer On Self Test POST The system will boot more quickly Boot Sequence A C C A C CDROM A CDROM C A C only The BIOS attempts to load the Operating System from the disk drives in the sequence selected he...

Page 42: ...o OFF Method V H SYNC Blank MODEM Use IRQ 3 Doze Mode 1 Min Standby Mode 1 Min Suspend Mode 1 Min HDD Power Down 1 Min Wake Up Events in Doze Standby IRQ3 Wake Up Event ON IRQ4 Wake Up Event ON IRQ8 W...

Page 43: ...Interrupt that is used by the modem if one is installed Select NA if no modem is installed Doze Mode Standby Mode Suspend Mode Disable 1 min 2 min 4 min 6 min 8 min 10 min 20 min 30 min 40 min 1 Hour...

Page 44: ...A59GB3J INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE INC Esc Quit F1 Help F5 Old Values F6 Load BIOS Defaults Select Item PU PD Modify Shift F2 Color Onboard Audio Chip Enabled On Chip Primary PCI IDE Enable...

Page 45: ...of up to 115 kBaud ASK IR is used for Infra Red communication at up to 19 2kBaud Duplex Select Half Full Select Half or Full duplex to match the specification of the IR capable peripheral that is bein...

Page 46: ...a user password to prevent access to the CMOS Setup Utility program without entering the proper password If the security option in the BIOS Features Setup is set to System a password must also be ent...

Page 47: ...espect to VSS 0 3 to Vcc 0 3 V Supply Voltage with Respect to VSS 5v 0 3 to 5 5 V Supply Voltage with Respect to VSS 3 3V 0 3 to 4 0 V The topics in this section specify the normal operating condition...

Page 48: ...utput High Voltage 2 4 V Vol Ouput Low Voltage 0 4 V Power Supply Power Supply Connectors The input power is supplied via the ATX power supply The ATX power supply incorporates the power supply connec...

Page 49: ...m PWA Table 5 9 Accessible Sockets U22 BIOS System and Video BIOS PROM During development only MICROPROCESSOR UPGRADE SLOT 1 processor socket DIMM0 DIMM1 DIMM sockets Back Panel Interfaces The followi...

Page 50: ...tem PWA are Connector location labeling Jumper location labeling PWA bar code label part number and revision Flash BIOS DIMM sockets labeling location Video memory upgrade DRAM sockets labeling locati...

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