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Page 1: ...ions Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Canadian Department of Communications Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for audio noise emissions from digital apparatusses set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Co...

Page 2: ...20 3 2 BIOS Features Setup 23 3 3 Chipset Features Setup 26 3 4 Power Management Setup 28 3 5 PnP PCI Configuration 32 3 6 Load Setup Defaults 34 3 7 Integrated Peripherals 35 3 8 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 37 3 9 IDE HDD Auto Detection 39 3 10 Save and Exit Setup 39 3 11 Exit Without Saving 39 Chapter 4 Mainboard Software Guide 41 VIA ACPI Patch for Win 95 VIA IDE Bus Master Driver...

Page 3: ...ower Off Control 11 Power On By Modem 11 32 Over ride Power Button Connector 12 Poly fuse Over Current Protection 14 Flash BIOS Protection 27 Power On By Alarm 32 Quick Connector and Jumper Reference 22 A Appendix I On Board I O Addresses IRQ Maps 43 Appendix II FAN78 SMART Technology Upgrade Kit 45 Reader s Feedback 47 ...

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Page 5: ...lock speeds 321 pin ZIF Socket 7 High efficiency Switching Power Module Supports 68 75MHz system clock for over clocking possibility r Cache Memory Standard 512KB 64k 64x1 Pipelined Burst SRAM on board r Main Memory Two 5V 72 Pin SIMM sockets support 4 8 16 32MB 32 36 bit DRAM memory modules Two 3 3V unbuffered 168 pin DIMM sockets support 8 16 32 64 128MB 64 72 bit DRAM memory modules Supports Sy...

Page 6: ...r r Two Ultra DMA 33 PCI IDE Ports Supports up to PIO Mode 4 Multi word DMA Mode 2 Ultra DMA 33 timings Complete Bus Master Drivers for well known multi tasking operating systems r r r r r Two Channel USB Ports Under compatibility testing with different peripherals r PCB Dimension Baby AT form factor 220mm x 230mm 4 layer PCB Five mounting holes r r r r r Green PC Meets EPA Green PC standard power...

Page 7: ... mouse infrared and two USB ports Figure 1 5 r One CD ROM disk that includes Award Flash EPROM Utility Award DMI Utility VIA IDE Bus Master Drivers for Win95 and WinNT VIA ACPI Patch VIA AGP VxD Drivers for Win95 Shepherd System Monitoring Software for Win95 OR Genesys System Monitoring Software for Win95 WinNT Trend PC cillin Anti virus v3 0 OEM Utility for Win95 in eight different languages r On...

Page 8: ...PS 2 mouse USB Infrared connector 14 PS 2 mouse connector 15 USB connector 15 Infrared connector 14 CN2 AT Power supply connector 10 CN5 ATX Power supply connector 10 CN6 FAN 78 connector 45 CN7 Front panel connector set 12 13 Keyboard lock Power indicator LED connector 12 System reset switch connector 13 Speaker connector 13 Green switch Green LED connector 13 Turbo LED connector 13 IDE activity ...

Page 9: ...d pins that protrude from the surface of the mainboard It is important not to confuse jumpers with connectors or headers Putting jumper caps on anything that is not a jumper may result in damaging your mainboard Please refer to Section 1 3 Mainboard Layout for the location of jumpers on your mainboard As indicated in Figure 2 1 below a cap is used to cover the pins of a jumper resulting in shortin...

Page 10: ... CPU See Figure 2 2 2 Pull up the lever of Socket 7 so that it is perpendicular with the surface of the mainboard Gently insert the CPU with Pin 1 at the same corner of Socket 7 that contains the end of the lever Allow the the weight of the CPU to push itself into place Do not apply extra pressure as doing so may result in damaging your CPU Snap the lever back into place See Figure 2 3 Installing ...

Page 11: ...requency than its specification allows is called overclocking If the CPU frequency is set at a higher frequency than its specification allows it may or may not run at that freqency depending on the quality of the CPU and the extent to which the the frequency has been overset The mainboard manufacturer highly discourages overclocking as it may result in data loss CPU burn out system failure etc Sys...

Page 12: ...ngs Most dual voltage processors such as Pentium processors with MMX technology and Cyrix 6x86L processors use a dual voltage value of 2 8v for core and 3 3v for I O voltage settings To make the voltage setting for single and dual voltage processors simply set JP10 according to the table on the next page The voltage range supported by this mainboard is detailed in Figure 2 5 below Vcore JP10 2 2V ...

Page 13: ...50 105MHz x2 5 P54C 100 K5 PR100 66 x1 5 P54C 133 K5 PR133 100MHz x2 P54C 166 K5 PR166 116 7MHz x2 5 Intel P54C 200 x3 Pentium w MMX 166MHz 3 3 2 8 x2 5 Pentium w MMX 200MHz x3 Pentium w MMX 233MHz x3 5 Cyrix 6x86 PR150 120MHz 3 5 60 x2 6x86 PR166 133MHz 66 6x86L PR166 133MHz 3 3 2 8 6x86L PR200 150MHz 75 6x86MX PR166 150MHz 2 9 60 x2 5 6x86MX PR166 133MHz 66 x2 6x86MX PR200 166MHz x2 5 6x86MX PR2...

Page 14: ...ts If you want to use an AT power supply short pins 1 and 2 with the jumper cap If you want to use an ATX power supply short pins 2 and 3 with the jumper cap AT Power Supply Connector CN2 Most power supplies have two sets of six wire leads Making sure the black wires of each lead are in the center plug both leads into the AT power supply connector The power supply requirement is as follows ATX Pow...

Page 15: ... activate this function See Section 3 4 CPU System Cooling Fan Connectors CPUFAN SYSFAN These added connectors allow the fans to draw their power from the mainboard instead of the disk drive connector These fan connectors are available because some systems have all the disk drive power connectors in use Clear CMOS Data Jumper JP2 To clear the contents of the CMOS please follow the steps below 1 Di...

Page 16: ...idly again or any occurence of external activity such as pressing a key on the keyboard will bring the system back to Full On Pushing the button while in Full On for more than 4 seconds will switch the system to Soft off and pushing the button again rapidly will turn the system back to Full on See Over ride Power Button Operation diagram B Keyboard Lock Power Indicator LED Connector Plugging this ...

Page 17: ... connector should be connected to the reset switch on the front panel of the system case The reset switch allows you to restart the system without turning the power off F IDE Activity LED Connector The IDE activity LED lights up whenever the system reads writes to the IDE devices G Turbo LED Connector This mainboard does not have turbo de turbo speed mode Even though this function does not exist t...

Page 18: ... replaced relieving the user wasted time and inconvenience USB Kit Connector CN1 A through C The USB Kit connector is a combination of of USB PS 2 mouse and Infrared functions grouped on the same connector The USB Kit Figure 1 5 is installed in a back panel of the chassis and is connected to the USB Kit connector with an 18 pin cable A Infrared Connector If the IR Address Select function in BIOS s...

Page 19: ... a simple and inexpensive way to connect up to 125 devices to a single computer port Keyboards mice tablets digitizers scanners bar code readers modems printers and many more can all be used at the same time USB is a dynamically reconfigurable serial bus with an elementary data rate of 12Mbps based on off the shelf low cost micro controller technology It s modular layered software protocol support...

Page 20: ... Parity Both parity and non parity modules may be used however the parity function is not supported by this mainboard Most SDRAM will be 3 3V only i e SDRAM I O pins will not be 5V tolerant It is not recommended to mix 3 3V EDO SDRAM DIMM with 5V EDO FPM SIMM Because 64 128MB DIMM is not yet mainstream the compatibility of 64 128MB DIMM can not be 100 guaranteed Due to loading anomalies using DIMM...

Page 21: ...as the next module standard for the PC industry and will become the memory subsystems standardized 64 bit data interface Recently JEDEC committee passed the unbuffered DIMM pinout specification as a standard for higher speed transfer The unbuffered DIMM allows for SDRAM EDO and FPM DRAM compatibility as well as pinouts for x64 x72 with parity x72 with ECC and x80 ECC The unbuffered DIMM is disting...

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Page 23: ...Select the desired item and press enter to make changes Operating commands are located at the bottom of this and all other BIOS screens When a field is highlighted on line help information is displayed on the left bottom edge of the screen Chapter 3 ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEC39 CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SUPERVISOR PASSWORD USER PASSWORD IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION SAVE E...

Page 24: ...d events such as power management saving files etc are based on this timer Hard Disk Setup Primary Secondary Master Slave This category identifies up to four IDE hard disk drives that have been installed in the computer This section does not show information on other IDE devices such as CD ROM drives or other hard drive types such as SCSI drives Date mm dd yy Fri July 25 1997 Time hh mm ss 9 14 43...

Page 25: ... improper information for these categories Precomp Older hard drives i e MFM or RLL drives have the same number of sectors per track at the innermost tracks as at the outermost tracks Thus the data density at the innermost tracks is higher and the bits are lying closer together Even though the physical size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track diameter diminishes each sector must st...

Page 26: ...ection function to auto detect your hard drive parameters Using this function will automatically insert the parameters discussed under Hard Disk Setup and will indicate User for the Field value Please see Section 3 9 for more information Floppy Disk Drives Choose the memory capacity and disk size that corresponds with that of your floppy disk drive s Video Select the type of video adapter present ...

Page 27: ...tup Defaults Video BIOS Shadow Enabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow Disabled CC000 CFFFF Shadow Disabled D0000 D3FFF Shadow Disabled D4000 D7FFF Shadow Disabled D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled Figure 3 3 BIOS Feature Setup Screen ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEC39 BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC A VIRUS PROTECTION Virus Warning When Enabled BIOS activates a warning message to the user ...

Page 28: ...ing from floppy drive B This function is useful if floppy drives B and A are of a different format and you want to boot from floppy drive B Boot up Floppy Seek During POST BIOS will determine if the installed floppy disk drive has 40 or 80 tracks A 360K drive has 40 tracks and 720K 1 2M and 1 44M drives have 80 tracks All modern floppy disk drives have 80 tracks Boot Up NumLock Status This functio...

Page 29: ...lue Otherwise set the item value to Non OS 2 for all other operating systems H Shadow Memory Software such as system BIOS video BIOS SCSI BIOS etc that resides in ROM Read Only Memory chips is called firmware Shadowing of firmware occurs when BIOS is copied to RAM address C0000h through DFFFFh Video BIOS loads into the C0000 C7FFF memory area when video shadowing is enabled If an expansion periphe...

Page 30: ...0000h C7FFFh resulting in better video performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result Caching the video BIOS results in better performance than shadowing the video BIOS as discussed in Section 3 2 ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEC39 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Select Item PU PD Modify Shift F2 Color ESC Quit F1 Help F5 Old Values F7 Load Setup Defaults ...

Page 31: ... 256MB This is a dynamic memory allotment in that the AGP card will only use the amount of memory that it needs The remaining memory not in use will be available for the system to use For example if 16MB is alloted to the AGP card and the card only needs 8MB the remaining 8MB will be available for system use F AGP 2X Mode Enable this setting to utilize the 2X mode twice as fast as 1X offered by ad...

Page 32: ...wer saving modes as shown by the diagram below The computer runs in Normal operation mode until the Doze timer expires at which point the computer enters Doze mode If no external activity occurs the computer will go into Standby and Suspend modes when their respective timers expire If external activity occurs the computer will wake up from Power Management and return to Normal mode To activate the...

Page 33: ... For example run the Power utility program located in the DOS directory C DOS POWER EXE to use Power Management features under DOS For Windows 3 1x and Windows 95 you need to install Windows with the APM feature C Video Off Option This setting determines when the monitor enters power saving mode As the function name indicates the monitor enters the power saving mode after the chosen event expires ...

Page 34: ...e the Power Management function is not set to disabled When the HDD idle time has elapsed BIOS sends a command to the hard disk to turn off the motor Set a time between 1 and 15 to indicate time required to wait before the hard drive enters a power saving mode Some old hard drives may not support this function H Doze Mode To enable this function make sure the Power Management function is not set t...

Page 35: ...are Power off See the Software Power Off control description in Section 2 4 of this manual K Power On By Alarm When enabled this setting allows the system to turn back on at a designated time of the month User must designate date of month and time of day This function is only available when using an ATX pwer supply and Software Power Off See the Software Power Off control description in Section 2 ...

Page 36: ...nes the resources used by a device or a card in the system This includes legacy and PCI ISA PnP devices ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEC39 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC Select Item PU PD Modify Shift F2 Color ESC Quit F1 Help F5 Old Values F7 Load Setup Defaults PNP OS Installed No Resources Controlled By Manual Reset Configuration Data Disabled IRQ 3 assigned to Legacy ISA IRQ 4 assigned to Leg...

Page 37: ... ISA cards please set the necessary corresponding resources INT DMA from PCI ISA PnP to Legacy ISA All ISA non PnP devices are legacy devices that select resources I O Addr INT or DMA by using hardware jumpers on these devices IRQ 3 4 7 12 14 15 have been set as default for on board devices COM2 COM1 Printer port PS 2 mouse IDE1 and IDE2 E FDD IRQ Can Be Free This function allows users to choose i...

Page 38: ...on the computer INTERGRATED PERIPHERALS SUPERVISOR PASSWORD USER PASSWORD IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEC39 CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS Select Item Shift F2 Color ESC Quit F10 Save Exit Setup Load SETUP Defaults...

Page 39: ...er PIO Auto IDE Primary Slave PIO Auto IDE Secondary Master PIO Auto IDE Secondary Slave PIO Auto IDE Primary Master UDMA Auto IDE Primary Slave UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Master UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Slave UDMA Auto Onboard FDC Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8 IRQ4 Onboard Serial Port 2 2F8 IRQ3 IR Address Select Disabled A On chip Primary Secondary PCI IDE Disable these settings to tu...

Page 40: ...mal use of the floppy drive connected to the mainboard If you install an add in FDC or the system has no floppy drive disable this function F IR Address Select Make sure this function is not set to Disabled to activate IR functions When this function is enabled you must also indicate and IR Mode and designate and IRQ to be used by your IR port G OnChip USB Enable the on board Universal Serial Bus ...

Page 41: ...tem for example Windows 95 found on the boot drive This is shown in Figures 3 9 and 3 10 The third and fourth variables are user password and supervisor password selected in BIOS Figure 3 1 The main purpose of separating user and supervisor is to allow only the supervisor to have control over the settings in BIOS The user on the other hand is only allowed to access the computer s operating system ...

Page 42: ...Chapter 3 38 Figure 3 10 Set Both Supervisor and User Password B Set Both Supervisor Password and User Password ...

Page 43: ...f you select this and type Y for yes followed by the Enter key the values entered in the setup utilities will be recorded in the CMOS memory of the BIOS chip 3 11 Exit Without Saving Selecting this option and pressing Y followed by the Enter key lets you exit the Setup program without recording any new values or changing old ones ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEC39 CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC HARD...

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Page 45: ... file will remove question and or exclamation marks However since the performance of Windows 95 was not compromised by the lack of this patch there will be no increase in Windows 95 performance after installation To use the auto install feature to install the VIA ACPI Patch do the following 1 Start Windows 95 2 Insert the CD ROM disk that came with your mainboard into your CD ROM drive The CD ROM ...

Page 46: ...P port 1 Use Windows 95 version OSR2 1 OEM Service Release 2 plus USB supplement If you have Windows 95 OSR2 and you would like to update to the USB supplement obtain and install USBSUPP EXE from Microsoft which also includes the new memory manager VMM32 VxD needed for the AGP DIME Direct Memory Execute feature 2 Install DirectX 5 0 from Microsoft DirectX 5 0 is the first DirectX version that supp...

Page 47: ...r Win95 WinNT Depending on the type of packaging your system assembler ordered you will either receive Shepherd or Genesys System monitoring software Shepherd or Genesys in combination with this mainboard s system monitoring hardware detects the rpm speed of both system and CPU fans CPU temperature and the input and output of one on board voltage Genesys detects four on board voltages If something...

Page 48: ...opy the following two programs to a formatted bootable disk A The new version of BIOS this is a bin file B The Award Flash Utility located in the enclosed CD ROM s root directory D FLASH AWDFLASH EXE assume D is CD ROM Drive Follow the instructions below to complete the BIOS upgrade 1 Insert the disk prepared above into the floppy disk drive 2 Type A or B AWDFLASH at DOS command line and press Ent...

Page 49: ...tte please key in N 6 If you want to save the previous BIOS data to the diskette please key in Y FLASH MEMORY WRITER V5 35a Copyright C 1996 Award Software Inc For VP3 568B 8661 2A5LEC39C DATE 03 04 98 FlashType SST28EE010 28EE011 5V File Name to Program 5AGM BIN Now Backup System BIOS to BIOS Old file Error Message Please Wait FLASH MEMORY WRITER V5 35a Copyright C 1996 Award Software Inc For VP3...

Page 50: ...y to allow dynamic real time update system information and store those collected information e g CPU type and speed Bus frequency memory size and speed block in the motherboard s Flash EPROM We also provide a friendly DMI utility DMICFG EXE to allow the system integrator or end user to place necessary information in MIFD such as the serial number on the motherboard add on cards monitor etc This in...

Page 51: ...Inc 1996 Edit DMI Add DMI Load DMI FILE Save DMI FILE The DMICFG EXE DMI Configuration Utility for modifying reviewing the MIFD contained in Drivers Disk that comes with your mainboard Please remove or remark any installed Memory Management Utility such as EMM386 EXE QEMM EXE etc in the CONFIG SYS files before running this utility Run DMICFG EXE at D DMI DMICFG and the following screen will prompt...

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Page 53: ... 060 064 3 Programmable INT IRQ2 0020 0021 00A0 00A1 4 COM2 B IRQ3 2F8 2FF 5 COM1 A IRQ4 3F8 3FF 6 Floppy IRQ6 3F0 3F7 7 LPT1 IRQ7 378 37F 8 Real Time Clock IRQ8 070 071 9 PS 2 Mouse IRQ12 060 064 10 Math coprocessor IRQ13 0F0 0FF 11 IDE 1 IRQ14 1F0 1F7 12 IDE 2 IRQ15 170 177 IRQ 5 9 10 and 11 are available for interface cards ...

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Page 55: ... 5 x 4 System Freq JP3 JP5 50MHz 55MHz 60MHz 66MHz 75MHz 1 1 1 1 1 Vcore JP10 2 2V 2 8V 2 9V 3 2V 3 3V 3 5V 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 CPU type CPU Power Voltage System freq Freq ratio I O Vcc Core Vcc JP10 MHz JP3 JP5 Speed rate JP6 JP8 Intel P54C 133 3 5 66 x2 P54C 166 x2 5 P54C 200 x3 Pentium w MMX 166MHz 3 3 2 8 x2 5 Pentium w MMX 200MHz x3 Pentium w MMX 233MHz x3 5 Cyrix IBM 6x86 PR166 133MHz 3 ...

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Page 57: ...g technology Features Detects four on board voltages CPU Core Voltage 3 3V 5V 12V Two fan speed sensing One precise CPU temperature sensor and one chassis temperature sensor Four types of speaker driver signal output Supports system monitor software and drivers for LDCMTM utility V3 1 EISCA v1 0 compliant FAN78 Connector FAN78 System Monitor Software for Win95 ...

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