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Chapter 1

1-3 Mainboard Layout

1-4 Jumper and Connector Reference Page Chart

Jumper &

Connector No.

Function

Page

JP1

 AT/ATX power supply jumper

10

JP2

 Clear CMOS data jumper

11

JP4

 CPU voltage jumpers

8/9

JP5-7

 System frequency jumpers

7

JP8-10

 System frequency ratio jumpers

7

JP11

 Memory-bus frequency setting jumper

16

CN3

 AT Power supply connector

10

CN4

 PS/2 mouse, USB, infrared connector

14

 PS/2 mouse connector

15

 USB connector

14

 Infrared connector

14

CN5

 Front panel connector set

12/13

 Keyboard lock & Power indicator LED connector

12

 System reset switch connector

12

 Speaker connector

13

 Green switch & Green LED connector

13

 Turbo LED connector

13

 IDE activity LED connector

13

 Override power button (for ATX power supply)

12

CN6

 FAN-78 connector

45

CN7

 ATX Power supply connector

10

SYSFAN

 System cooling fan connector

11

CPUFAN

 CPU cooling fan connector

11

Summary of Contents for 5AGM2

Page 1: ...of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This declaration is given to the manufacturer CHAINTECH COMPUTER U S INC 509 Valley Way Milpitas CA 95035 U S A Tel 1 408 935 6988 Fax 1 408 935 6989 Chaintech President R...

Page 2: ...ations 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 ...

Page 3: ...iii Main Board User s Manual ...

Page 4: ...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 Bus Master PIO IDE Driver Installation USB Driver Installation Removing the Exclamation and or Question Mark...

Page 5: ...y bus Frequency setting jumper 16 Flash BIOS Protection 27 Power On by Alarm 31 Appendices Appendices Appendices Appendices Appendices Appendix I On Board I O Addresses IRQ Maps 43 Appendix II FAN78 SMART Technology Upgrade Kit 45 Quick Connector and Jumper Reference 24 A ...

Page 6: ...vi Memo ...

Page 7: ...ing Power Module Supports a full range of CPU core voltages 2 0 3 5v for future processors r Cache Memory Standard 512KB 64k 64x1 Pipelined Burst SRAM on board r Main Memory Three 3 3V unbuffered 168 pin DIMM sockets support 8 16 32 64 128MB 64 72 bit DRAM memory modules Supports up to 384MB EDO and Synchronous DRAM Supports single bit ECC capability Special asynchronous mode for low speed SDRAM m...

Page 8: ...ports 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 Dimensions Baby AT form factor 220mm x 240mm 4 layer PCB Five mounting holes r r r r r Green PC Meets EPA Green PC standard power consumption under 30W in Doze Standb...

Page 9: ... PS 2 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 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 One Us...

Page 10: ...wer supply connector 10 CN4 PS 2 mouse USB infrared connector 14 PS 2 mouse connector 15 USB connector 14 Infrared connector 14 CN5 Front panel connector set 12 13 Keyboard lock Power indicator LED connector 12 System reset switch connector 12 Speaker connector 13 Green switch Green LED connector 13 Turbo LED connector 13 IDE activity LED connector 13 Override power button for ATX power supply 12 ...

Page 11: ...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 12: ... 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 13: ...gs CPU Bus Frequency Frequency Ratio Configuration CPU Speed Frequency ratio x System Frequency PCI Frequency AGP Frequency JP5 JP7 JP8 JP10 Freq Ratio JP8 JP10 x 1 5 x 2 x 2 5 x 3 x 3 5 x 4 x 4 5 x 5 x 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 System Freq JP5 JP7 60MHz 66MHz 68MHz 75MHz 83MHz 100MHz 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Figure 2 4 System Frequency Jumper Settings System Freq MHz PCI Freq MHz AGP Freq MHz 60 30 60 66 33 60 68...

Page 14: ...ajor processor types in general use single and dual voltage processors Most single voltage processors such as Pentium AMD K5 and Cyrix 6x86 processors use a single voltage value of 3 5v for both core and I O voltage settings 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 setti...

Page 15: ...Hz x3 Pentium w MMX 233MHz x3 5 Cyrix IBM 6x86 PR166 133MHz 3 5 66 x2 6x86 PR200 150MHz 75 6x86L PR166 133MHz 3 3 2 8 66 6x86L PR200 150MHz 75 6x86MX PR166 2 9 66 6x86MX PR200 x2 5 6x86MX PR200 75 x2 6x86MX PR233 x2 5 83 x2 MII 300 66 x3 5 75 x3 AMD K5 PR166 116 7MHz 3 5 66 x2 5 K6 166 3 3 2 9 K6 200 x3 K6 233 3 2 x3 5 2 2 K6 266 x4 K6 300 x4 5 K6 2 266 x4 K6 2 300 100 x3 IDT C6 200 3 5 66 x3 C6 2...

Page 16: ...upply 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 CN3 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 Power Supply Connector CN7 The ATX pow...

Page 17: ...te 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 Disconnec...

Page 18: ...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 19: ...gement Setup screen in BIOS D Speaker Connector E System Reset Switch Connector This 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 mainboar...

Page 20: ...eplaced relieving the user wasted time and inconvenience USB Kit Connector CN4 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 I...

Page 21: ... 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 supports sophisticated devices and application programs This board contains a USB Host controller and...

Page 22: ...e details in section 2 3 When synchronous mode cannot be used due to speed limitations of your SDRAM modules DRAM Specifications Types Supported EDO Extended Data Output and Synchronous DRAM Speed requirement EDO 70 ns or faster for 50 or 60MHz system frequency and 60 ns for 66MHz system frequency SDRAM 10 12ns Module types sizes 8 16 32 64 128 MBytes single double sided 3 3v DIMM Parity Both pari...

Page 23: ... 1 1 The DIMM sockets will quickly replace SIMM 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 wit...

Page 24: ...Chapter 2 18 Memo ...

Page 25: ...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 26: ...vents 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 HA...

Page 27: ... 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 28: ...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 29: ...ow 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 Anti Virus Protection This is an anti virus code incorporated in the mainboard s BIOS firmware During the boot up sequence BIOS...

Page 30: ...will function as drive A Note that the boot sequence assignment mentioned directly above does not inlcude booting 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 an...

Page 31: ...larger than 64MB and you are running OS 2 select OS 2 as the item value Otherwise set the item value to Non OS 2 for all other operating systems I 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...

Page 32: ...BIOS ROM at C0000h 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 Se...

Page 33: ... 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 G AGP 2X Mode Enable this setting to utilize the 2X mode twice as fast as 1X offered by ad...

Page 34: ...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 35: ... 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 36: ...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 37: ...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 38: ...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 39: ... 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 40: ...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 41: ...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 42: ...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 43: ...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 44: ...Chapter 3 38 Figure 3 10 Set Both Supervisor and User Password B Set Both Supervisor Password and User Password ...

Page 45: ...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...

Page 46: ...Chapter 3 40 Memo ...

Page 47: ...on the same CD ROM See the Readme txt file in the CD ROM s root directory for installation instructions of the Acrobat Reader The Mainboard software guide discusses the following items VIA ACPI Patch for Win 95 VIA IDE Bus Master Drivers for Win95 and WinNT VIA AGP VxD Drivers for Win 95 Trend Antivirus Utility for Win95 Shepherd System Monitoring Software for Win95 OR Genesys System Monitoring So...

Page 48: ...Chapter 4 42 Memo ...

Page 49: ... 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 ...

Page 50: ...44 User s Manual Memo ...

Page 51: ...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 ...

Page 52: ...46 Memo ...

Page 53: ...2 x 2 5 x 3 x 3 5 x 4 x 4 5 x 5 x 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 System Freq JP5 JP7 60MHz 66MHz 68MHz 75MHz 83MHz 100MHz 1 1 1 1 1 586AGM2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 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 JP4 MHz JP5 JP7 Speed rate JP8 JP10 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 233...

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