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User's Manual

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I.   OnChip  Sound

This function must be enabled in order to use the onboard audio function. To

terminate this function set it to disabled.

J.  OnChip  Modem

This function must be enabled in order to use the soft modem riser card on AMR

slot(optional). To terminate this function set it to disabled.

K.  PCI  Master  0  WS  Write

When Enabled, writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states.

L.  PCI  Delay  Transaction

The chipset has an embedded  32-bit posted write buffer to support delay

transactions cycles. Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification

version 2.1.

M. 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.

Summary of Contents for 6AIV2T

Page 1: ...ct 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 M...

Page 2: ...s 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 Commu...

Page 3: ...Chipset Setup 18 3 4 Integrated Peripherals 21 3 5 Power Management Setup 23 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 25 3 7 PC Health Status 26 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 26 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 27 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 27 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 28 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 28 3 13 Exit Without Saving 28 Appendix Embedded Flash Utility 29 Feature Explanations Feature Expl...

Page 4: ...e floppy LS120 CD ROM HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPIetc Includes Trend ChipAway Virus protection for virus free boot and virus free operating system 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 Mode 4 up to 66MBps and Multi Word Mode 5 up to 100MBps with bus mastering Onboard Ultra I O Two UARTs support serial port...

Page 5: ...suspend Embedded USB Controller UHCI compliant USB host controller with Root Hub FourUSBports UHCIv1 0compliant Optional USB riser with additional 2 USB ports Board Dimensions Micro ATX form factor 244mm x 194mm 4 Layers Advanced Management Features Poly fuse protection for USB and keyboard circuitry Complete Data Security Flash BIOS write protection against unauthorized access Trend ChipAway Viru...

Page 6: ...ility 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 OptionalValuePack2001softwaregroupincludingNortonAntiVirus AutoSave ADOBE ActiveShare Acrobat Reader Imagemore X stop Appio and Ewalla See the Readme txt file in the CD ROM s...

Page 7: ...hapter 1 1 3 Mainboard Layout Line in MIC PS 2 Mouse Printer Port GamePort RJ45 PS 2 Keyboard USB 0 1 VGA Line out COM1 JP1 JP6A IR1 CN20 JP2A JP2B JP4 FAN2 CN2 CN3 CN4 CN5 JP5 JP6 FAN1 JP11 CN22 CN1A CN17 ...

Page 8: ...10 CN1A Over Ride Power Button connector 8 Power Indicator LED Connector 8 System Reset Switch connector 8 Speaker connector 8 Green Switch GreenLED connector 8 IDE Activity LED connector 8 CN2 CD ROM Audio in connector 10 CN3 Auxilliary Audio in connector 10 CN4 Audio Mono in out Connector 10 CN5 WOL Wake on LAN connector 10 CN17 Blue LED Connector 10 USB1 CN20 USB 0 1 Ports and USB 2 3 Connector...

Page 9: ... same corner of Socket 370 that contains the end of the lever Allow 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 Installingaheatsinkwithcoolingfanisnecessaryforproperheatdissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burn out of your CPU Theuseo...

Page 10: ...wer 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 power down your computer click the START button on the Windows 95 task bar Select Shut Down The Computer and the system turns off The message It is now safe to t...

Page 11: ... 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 the order of these two connectors C Green Switch Green LED Connector Some ATX cases provide a Green switch which is used to put the system in Suspend mode In suspend mode the power supply to the system is reduced to a trickle the CPU clock is stopped an...

Page 12: ...ratio has been overset Power On By Keyboard JP5 This board is able to be turned on by the PS 2 keyboard hot key To use this function select a hot key of your choice at the PS2KB Wakeup option under Wake Up Events in the BIOS s Power On Management screen You must also set this jumper s cap to pins 2 3 to use this function Power On By USB 0 1 and 2 3 JP6 JP6A ThisboardisabletobeturnedonbyaUSBkeyboar...

Page 13: ...ke on LAN Connector CN5 Enable the Wake Up On LAN selection in BIOS s Power Management Menu to use this function This header is used to connect an add in NIC Network Interface Card which gives WOL capability to the mainboard Blue LED Connector CN17 This feature work entirely the same as the power indicator LED bothshowsthesystem spowerstatus Theonlydifferenceis that this oneisbluewhiletheotherisre...

Page 14: ... is the rotation signal IR Connector IR1 Select a UART Mode in BIOS s Integrated Peripherals menu the UART port to support IR CIR functions See section 3 4 2 4 Main Memory Configuration The DRAM memory system consists two banks and the memory size ranges from 32MBytes 1GBytes If you only use one bank it does not matter which one you use and if you use two or more banks it does not matter which ban...

Page 15: ...ess the Delete key to enter the Award BIOSsetupprogram TheprimaryscreenasshowninFigure3 1isalistofthemenus andfunctionsavailableinthesetupprogram Selectthedesireditemandpressenter to make changes Operating commands are located at the bottom of this and all otherBIOSscreens Whenafieldishighlighted on linehelpinformationisdisplayed on the right side of the screen Select Item Esc Quit F10 Save Exit S...

Page 16: ... timed events such aspowermanagement savingfiles etc arebasedonthistimer HardDiskSetup Primary Secondary Master Slave This category identifies up to four IDE hard disk drives that have been installed inthecomputer ThissectiondoesnotshowinformationonotherIDEdevicessuch asCD ROMdrivesorotherharddrivetypessuchasSCSIdrives CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Standard CMOS Features ...

Page 17: ...entinyoursystem Youcanignorethissetting ifyouareusingaVGAmonitorsinceVGABIOSautomaticallyconfiguresthissetting Halt Whenthesystemispoweredon BIOSperformsaseriesofdiagnosistestscalled POST Power On Self Test This function stops the computer if BIOS detects a hardware error You can tell BIOS to halt on all errors no errors or not to halt on specificerrors ...

Page 18: ...ingtheneedtoperformperiodicalversion updatesafternewviruseshavebeenfound Item Help Menu Level Figure3 3AdvancedBIOSFeaturesScreen 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 Protection CPU Internal Cache External Cache CPU L2 C...

Page 19: ...loosing data during your work First Second Third BootOtherDevice ThisoptionsetsthesequenceofdrivesBIOSattemptstobootfromafterPOST completes BIOSwillsearchthesedrivesforanoperatingsystem SwapFloppyDrive 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 bootsequenceassignmentmentioneddirectlyaboved...

Page 20: ...2astheitemvalue Otherwise settheitemvaluetoNon OS 2forallother operatingsystems H Shadow Memory SoftwaresuchassystemBIOS videoBIOS SCSIBIOS etcthatresidesinROM ReadOnlyMemory chipsiscalledfirmware Shadowingoffirmwareoccurs whenBIOSiscopiedtoRAMaddressC0000hthroughDFFFFh VideoBIOS loadsintotheC0000 C7FFFmemoryareawhenvideoshadowingisenabled If anexpansionperipheralinyoursystemcontainsROM basedfirmw...

Page 21: ...pset Features BychoosingtheAdvancedChipsetFeaturesoptionfromthe CMOSSetupUtility menu Figure3 1 thescreenbelowisdisplayed Thissamplescreencontainsthe manufacturer sdefaultvaluesforthemainboard Alloftheabovesettingshavebeendeterminedbythemainboardmanufacturer andshouldnotbechangedunlessyouareabsolutelysureofwhatyouare doing ExplanationoftheDRAMtimingandchipsetfeaturessetupislengthy highlytechnicala...

Page 22: ...a asystemerrormayresult CachingthesystemBIOSresults inbetterperformancethanshadowingthesystemBIOSasdiscussedinSection 3 2 F Video RAM Cacheable Enabling this function will allows caching of the video RAM resulting in bettersystemperformance However ifanyprogramswritetothismemory area asystemerrormayoccur G AGP Aperture Size ThisfunctiondeterminestheamountofsystemmemorythatisgiventotheAGP card Opti...

Page 23: ...function set it to disabled K PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states L PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactionscycles SelectEnabledtosupportcompliancewithPCIspecification version2 1 M Memory Parity ECC Check ThismainboardsupporttheParity ECCcheckingfunction If youselect Enabled in...

Page 24: ...vices Bychoosingthe IntegratedPeripheralsoptionfromthe CMOSSetupUtilitymenu Figure3 1 the screenbelowisdisplayed Thissamplescreencontainsthemanufacturer sdefault valuesforthemainboard CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help Menu Level OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Primary Slave PIO Secondary Master PIO ...

Page 25: ...ur IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do selectEnabledforautomaticdetectionoftheoptimalnumberofblockread writes persectorthedrivecansupport F Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install an add in FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this field G UART 2 M...

Page 26: ...anagement Powermanagementallowsthecomputertosaveelectricitywhenitisnotinuse by entering increasingly deep power saving modes as shown by the diagram below C Video Off Option This setting allow you to selects the power saving modes during which the monitorgoesblank Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure3 6 PowerManagementSetupScree...

Page 27: ...options E Modem Use IRQ Ifyourcomputerhasanmodem usethisfunctiontotellBIOSwhichIRQisbeing occupiedbythemodemcard WhenthesystemisinGreenmode themodem requires an IRQ assignment to wake up the system and perform tasks This assignment is compliant with the APM 1 2 specification and is to be used in coordinationwithAPM1 2compliantoperatingsystems F Soft Off by PWR BTTN WhensettoDelay4Sec thisfunctiona...

Page 28: ...osing the PNP PCIConfigurationoptionfromthe CMOSSetupUtilitymenu Figure3 1 thescreen belowisdisplayed Thissamplescreencontainsthemanufacturer sdefaultvalues forthemainboard A PNP OS Installed If you want to install a PNP compatible OS such as Windows 95 set to Yes B Resources Controlled By WhensettoManualthesystemBIOSwillnotrefertotheESCDforIRQ DMA information Instead it will refer to the items in...

Page 29: ... speed of the CPU Front Side Bus for overclocking posibility Figure3 8 PCHealthStatusScreen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software PC Health Status Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Item Help Menu Level Current CPU Temp Current CPU FAN Speed Current SYS FAN Speed Vcore 2 5V 3 3V 5V 12V 48 ...

Page 30: ...visor 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 Load Fail Safe Defaults Figure3 10 LoadFail SafeDefaultsScreen Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N Frequency Vo...

Page 31: ...swordandsupervisorpasswordselected inBIOS Figure3 1 Themainpurposeofseparatinguserandsupervisoristoallow onlythesupervisortohavecontroloverthesettingsinBIOS Theuser ontheother hand isonlyallowedtoaccessthecomputer soperatingsystemandchangetheuser passwordinBIOS Notethatwhenthereisnosupervisorpasswordset theuser passwordcontrolsaccesstoallBIOSsettings 3 12 Save and Exit Setup If you select this and...

Page 32: ... 3 Don tturnofforrestartyoursystemduringprogrammingprocess 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 Program Programming Flash ...

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