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Brief Software Driver Guide

Chapter 4

The Mainboard Software Guide is found on the CD-ROM that is enclosed with your

mainboard and is a PDF file which must be viewed with Adobe's freeware called

Acrobat

®

 Reader.  The Acrobat Reader software is also included 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:

The following items are discussed in the TXT or PDF files:

- Bus Master/PIO IDE Driver Installation
- USB Driver Installation
- Removing the Exclamation and/or Question Marks From the Windows 95 Device

Manager Menu

- Updating Your System BIOS
- Installing and Using a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) Utility for DOS
- Sound Driver and Utility Installation
- VGA AGP drivers for Win9x, NT4.0, Win2000

        The DMI utility is a DOS utility, operating under Windows or other operating

              system  might  cause  damage  to  the  BIOS.

Brief Software Driver Guide

Summary of Contents for 6AIV

Page 1: ...ject 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 EXCEL COMPUTER INC 4427 Enterprise St Fremont CA 94538 U S A http www chaintech excel com Chaintech President Simon Ho Signature EQUIPMENT MAINBOARD...

Page 2: ...ance with FCC regulations 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 Cana...

Page 3: ...egrated Peripherals 31 3 5 Power Management Setup 34 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 37 3 7 PC Health Status 38 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 39 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 40 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 41 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 42 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 43 3 13 Exit Without Saving 43 Chapter 4 Brief Software Driver Guide 45 Feature Explanations Software Power off Control 10 ...

Page 4: ...es i e floppy LS120 CD ROM HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPI etc Includes Trend ChipAway Virus protection for virus free boot and virus free operating system Trend ChipAway Virus is a rule based anti virus technology and does not require periodical updates of virus code H Embedded Ultra DMA 66 100 PCI IDE controller Supports two IDE ports up to 4 ATAPI devices Supports up to PIO Mode 4 up to 16 6MBps Multi M...

Page 5: ...Pro for Windows DOS box and real mode DOS legacy compatibility Complete software driver support for Win95 98 2000 H Integrated Trident Blade3D AGP Graphics Engine 64 bitSingleCycle2D 3DGraphicsEngine Supports 2 to 8 Mbytes of Frame Buffer RealTimeDVDMPEG 2andAC 3Playback Video Processor Integrated24 bit230MHzTrueColorDAC HEmbeddedSystemMonitorHardware 5 external voltage inputs internal detecting 1...

Page 6: ...Power on events WOL Wake on LAN network card Modem ring RTC Alarm Software power off control for Win9x Over ride power button Three states advanced Power failure recovery Always On Always Off Last state Over ride power button Blinking Power LED in suspend H Switching Power Supply Requirement 3 3V at 15Amps is necessary too guarantee full loading operation because some AGP cards and memory modules ...

Page 7: ...ash Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS Trident Blade3D VGA AGP drivers for Win9x ME NT4 0 Win2000 Audio driver and utility for Win9x ME NT and Win2000 VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc OptionalValue Pack 2001softwaregroupincludingNortonAntiVirus AutoSave ADOBE ActiveShare Acrobat Reader Imagemore X stop Appio and Ewalla Optional Items H LTI 2 Panel li...

Page 8: ... Introduction 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 0 1 COM1 VGA Line out Line in MIC CN1 CN5 IR4 JP2A JP2B JP4 JP20 FAN1 FAN2 CN3 CN4A CN6 JP1 JP6A JP5 JP6 CN2 CN17 CN18 ...

Page 9: ...r Ride Power Button connector 11 Power Indicator LED connector 11 System Reset Switch connector 12 Speaker connector 12 Green Switch connector 12 IDE Activity LED connector 12 CN2 CD ROM Audio in connector 15 CN3 Auxilliary Audio in connector 15 CN4A Front Panel Audio Connector 16 CN5 WOL Wake on LAN connector 16 USB1 CN6 USB 0 1Ports and USB 2 3 Connector 17 CN17 CN18 Optional TV Out DFP Connecto...

Page 10: ... various operating modes A jumper consists of a row of gold colored pins that protrude from the surface of the mainboard It is important not to confuse jumpers with connectors or headers Puttingjumpercapsonanythingthatisnotajumpermayresultindamaging yourmainboard PleaserefertoSection1 3 MainboardLayout forthelocation ofjumpersonyourmainboard As indicated in Figure 2 1 below a cap is used to cover ...

Page 11: ...ing a heat sink with cooling fan is necessary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burn out of your CPU 2 3 CPU Jumper Configuration Frequency Configuration If you install a CPU on this mainboard you must set JP2A JP2B for CPU Bus Frequency You can also manually select the Frequency Ratio JP4 optional if your CPU is not fre...

Page 12: ... system failure etc Many processors are frequency locked processors and are not able to perform overclocking Regardless of whether the processor is a frequency locked overclocking may cause some processors to hang when turning on the system When the processor hangs the screen remains blank and the system does not boot To solve this problem do the following 1 Turn off the computer and then press th...

Page 13: ...interface which incorporates standard 5V 12V optional 3 3V and Soft power signals The Soft power signal a 5V trickle supply is continuously supplied when AC power is available When the system is in the Soft Off mode this trickle supply maintains the system in it s minimum power state Software Power Off Control This mainboard can be powered down using theWindows 95 Software Power Off function To po...

Page 14: ...ing a key on the keyboardormovingthemousewillbringthesystem back to Full On Pushing the button while in Full On mode for more than 4 seconds will switch the systemcompletelyoff SeeOver ridePowerButton Operationdiagram B Power Indicator LED Connector The power indicator LED shows the system s power status It is important to pay attention to the correct cables and pin orientation i e not to reverse ...

Page 15: ...ning the power off E Speaker Connector F IDE Activity LED Connector The IDE activity LED lights up whenever the system reads writes to the IDE devices Poly fuse Over Current Protection The poly fuse protects the system from dangerous voltages the system might be exposed to via the keyboard or USB connectors In case of such exposure the poly fuse will immediately be disconnected from the circuit ju...

Page 16: ...s frequency speed Set both JP2A JP2B pins to 2 3 for 66MHz FSB set only JP2B pins to 2 3for100MHzFSBandleaveboth JP2A JP2Bpins open for 133MHz FSB Optional Frequency Ratio Setting JP4 This feature allows you to set a CPU at a higher frequency clock ratio than it s specification allows it may or may not run at that ratio depending on the quality of your CPU and the extent to which the ratio has bee...

Page 17: ...To use this function select a hot key of your choice at the USB Resume From S3 S4 S5 option under Wake Up Events in the BIOS s Power On Managementscreen Youmustalsosetthisjumper s cap to pins 2 3 to use this function Power On By USB 2 3 JP6A This board is able to be turned on by a USB keyboard hot key or a USB mouse click To use this function select a hot key of your choice at the USB Resume From ...

Page 18: ... CD ROM to your mainboard ThiswillenableyourCD ROM saudio function Auxiliary Audio in CN3 This connector is for use with a secondary CD ROM DVD ROM or CDR CDRW disk drive LCD On Off MODE A LCD OFF 2 3 LCD ON 1 2 LCD TYPE LCD Resolution D C B TFT 1024x768x18 bit 2 3 2 3 2 3 TFT 1280x1024x18 bit 2 3 2 3 1 2 TFT 800x600x18 bit 2 3 1 2 2 3 TFT 1024x600x18 bit 2 3 1 2 1 2 DSTN 1024x768x16 bit 1 2 2 3 2...

Page 19: ...s Power Management Menu to use this function ThecapabilitytoremotelymanagePCsonanetwork is a significant factor in reducing administrative and ownership costs Magic Packet technology is designed to give WOL Wake on LAN capability to the LAN controller When a PC capable of receiving wake up command goes to sleep theMagicPacketmodeintheLANcontroller is enabled When the LAN controller receives a Magi...

Page 20: ...tional TV Out DFP Connectors CN17 CN18 The connectors are to be connected to an optional TV Out DFP adapter card CPU System Cooling Fan Connectors FAN1 FAN2 These added connectors allow the fan to draw their power from the mainboard instead of the disk drive connector The board s management extension hardware is able to detect the CPU and system fan speed in rpm revolutions per minute These connec...

Page 21: ... IR4 If youenabletheUARTModeinBIOS sIntegrated Peripherals menu the UART port will support FIR functions See section 3 4 Audio Mono in out Connector CN4 This connector is used for Add on Card e g modem with Mono In Out connector ...

Page 22: ...d32 64 128 256 512MBytes DRAM speed 7 5 10ns for Synchronous DRAM Parity Either parity or non parity This mainboard supports 3 3v unbuffered 4 clock SDRAM DIMM only Buffered 5V or 2 clock SDRAM DIMMs should not be used Due to loading anomalies using DIMM with an n x 4 DRAM base on this mainboard is not recommended For example a DIMM that uses sixteen 16Mb x 4 devices should not be used 1 256 DIMM1...

Page 23: ...Chapter 2 20 Memo ...

Page 24: ...elete key to enter the Award BIOS setup program The primary screen as shown in Figure 3 1 is a list of the menus and functions available in the setup program 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 right side of the screen Select I...

Page 25: ...s all of your timed 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 CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 198...

Page 26: ...s 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 still hold 512 bytes Write precompensation circuitry compensates for the difference in sect...

Page 27: ...ere are no IDE HDD devices in your system You can use the IDE HDD Auto Detection 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 o...

Page 28: ...terns found in every virus eliminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 3 Advanced BIOS Features Screen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Anti Virus P...

Page 29: ... will search these drives for an operating system Swap Floppy Drive Enabling this function will swap the floppy drive assignment so that drive A will function as drive B and drive B will function as drive A Note that the boot sequence assignment mentioned directly above does not include booting from floppy drive B This function is useful if floppy drives B and A are of a different format and you w...

Page 30: ...our hard drive literature for more information 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 peripheral in your system contains RO...

Page 31: ...default values for the mainboard All of the above settings have been determined by the mainboard manufacturer and should not be changed unless you are absolutely sure of what you are doing Explanation of the DRAM timing and chipset features setup is lengthy highly technical and beyond the scope of this manual Below are abbreviated descriptions of the functions in this setup menu You can look on th...

Page 32: ...emory Hole at 15M 16M Enabling this function will reserve the memory address space between 15MB and 16MB for ISA expansion cards However enabling this function will result in not allowing the system to have access to memory above 16MB Please note that some expansion cards require this setting to be enabled The default setting is Disabled If Auto Configuration is enabled you must set the DRAM timin...

Page 33: ...d users or computer viruses When enabled the BIOS data cannot be changed when attempting to update BIOS with the FLASH utility When disabled the BIOS data can be updated by using the FLASH utility H Memory Parity ECC Check This mainboard support the Parity ECC checking function If you select Enabled in this field it will detect the memory parity and Error Checking Correcting ...

Page 34: ...e 3 4 Integrated Peripherals This section provides information on setting peripheral devices By choosing the Integrated Peripherals option from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Figure 3 1 the screen below is displayed This sample screen contains the manufacturer s default values for the mainboard CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help Menu Level VIA OnC...

Page 35: ...rd Parallel Port Select a logical LPT port address and corresponding interrupt for the physical parallel port Parallel Port Mode Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel printer port Select SPP unless you are certain your hardware and software support one of the other available modes On Board FIR Select This function allows you to select an IRQ for the FIR Fast Infrared port D Init Displa...

Page 36: ...board If your system has no USB keyboard select Disabled in this field G IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports block mode select Enabled to auto detect the optimal number of block read writes per sector the drive can support ...

Page 37: ... such as CD ROM players when they are not in use B Power Management Power management allows the computer to save electricity when it is not in use by entering increasingly deep power saving modes as shown by the diagram below Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure 3 6 Power Management Setup Screen Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10...

Page 38: ...tricity saver DPMS Supported Select this option if your video card supports the Display Power Management Signaling DPMS standard i e you have a monitor that supports Green features Use software supplied by your video subsystem to set video power management options E Modem Use IRQ If your computer has an modem use this function to tell BIOS which IRQ is being occupied by the modem card When the sys...

Page 39: ...resume event in green mode I 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 power supply and the Software Power Off function to turn off the computer See the Software Power Off feature in Section 2 4 of this manual for instructions ...

Page 40: ...the configuration data structures stored in flash memory Each data structure defines the resources used by a device or a card in the system This includes legacy and PCI ISA PnP devices C FDD IRQ Can Be Free This function allows user to choose if the FDD IRQ is able to be freed up The default setting is Yes and this does not allow the IRQ to be free CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award So...

Page 41: ...mperature external voltages input and the current CPU FAN and System FAN operating speed CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 8 PC Health Status Screen Current System Temp CPUFanSpeed SYS Fan Speed 12V 5V 2 5V Vcore Internal Vcc Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults ...

Page 42: ...m frequency spectrum When the system clock generator pulses the extreme values of the pulse generate excess EMI Enabling pulse spectrum spread modulation changes the extreme values from spikes to flat curves thus reducing EMI This benefit may in some cases be outweighed by problems with timing critical devices such as a clock sensitive SCSI device BX C Clock By Slight Adjust This field allows you ...

Page 43: ... turn on the computer Frequency Voltage Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setup Saving Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configur PC Health Status CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Esc Quit F10 Save Exit Setup Select Item ...

Page 44: ...hen you turn on the computer Figure 3 11 Load Optimized Defaults Screen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configur PC Health Status Frequency Voltage Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setu...

Page 45: ... example Windows 98 found on the boot drive This is shown in Figures 3 12 and 3 13 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 and ch...

Page 46: ...Exit Setup If 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 13 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 ...

Page 47: ...User s Manual 44 Memo ...

Page 48: ...der The Mainboard software guide discusses the following items The following items are discussed in the TXT or PDF files BusMaster PIOIDEDriverInstallation USBDriverInstallation Removing the Exclamation and or Question Marks From the Windows 95 Device Manager Menu Updating Your System BIOS Installing and Using a Desktop Management Interface DMI Utility for DOS Sound Driver and Utility Installation...

Page 49: ...46 Chapter 4 Memo ...

Page 50: ...mmable 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 Mathcoprocessor IRQ13 0F0 0FF 11 IDE1 IRQ14 1F0 1F7 12 IDE2 IRQ15 170 177 IRQ 5 9 10 and 11 are available for interface cards Appendix I ...

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Page 52: ...u See Chapter 3 Don t turn off or restart your system during programming process Make sure that your floppy diskette have only one BIN file to aviod confussion FLASH MEMORY WRITER V 7 52C C Award Software 2000 All Right Reserved Warning Don t Turn Off Power Or Reset System Write OK No Update Write Fail For XXX XXXXXXX 6A69MC3DC 0 DATE 01 20 2001 Flash Type XXXXX E82802AB 3 xV 1Mb File Name to Prog...

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Page 54: ...or Equivalent Backup depends on your O S type Smart Backup FAT16 32 format i e Win 95 98 O S Backup space is the actual system space used Equivalent Backup NTFS format i e Windows 2000 NT Backup space equivalent to the drive space where the O S located Utility Installation 1 Enable the HDD Instant Recovery in the BIOS Features setup from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Save and exit to reboot 2 Upon s...

Page 55: ...1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Selet Defragmenter by pressing Alt F4 key 2 You will be prompt to confirmed defragment your drive Type Y and press Enter key 3 Wait for the defrgmentation process to finish and the system will automatically reboot H Hard Disk Copy 1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Sel...

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