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Chapter 1

1-2 Product Features

- Innovative SeePU technology for jumperless CPU installation

- Superior Overclocking capability with up to 150MHz frequency, Subtle

1MHz frequency

- Complete CPU protection with OVT (Over Voltage Protect) and OCP (Over

Current Protect) technology

- Embedded System Monitor Hardware

- Poly-fuse over-current protection with error warning for keyboard circuitry

Complete Data Security:

*Flash BIOS write protection against unauthorized access

*Trend ChipAway Virus for a 100% virus free system boot-up

Advanced Management Features:

* Power-on events:

WOL(Wake-on-LAN) network card, Modem ring, RTC Alarm

* Software power-off control for Win95

* Over-ride power button

* Three states advanced Power-failure recovery: Always On, Always Off, Last

state

* Blinking Power-LED in suspend

* Hardware Reset Protect

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Page 1: ...t 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 MO...

Page 2: ...h 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 apparatuses set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Depa...

Page 3: ...etup 28 3 4 Integrated Peripherals 31 3 5 Power Management Setup 33 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 36 3 7 PC Health Status 37 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 38 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 39 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 40 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 41 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 42 3 13 Exit Without Saving 42 Chapter 4 Brief Software Driver Guide 43 Appendices Appendix I On Board I O A...

Page 4: ...Explanations Software Power off Control 13 Over ride Power Button 13 Blinking LED in Suspend Mode 13 Power On By PCI Card 35 Power On By Modem LAN 12 35 Power On By Alarm 35 Poly fuse Over Current Protection 12 ...

Page 5: ...liant Five 32 bit PCI slots with full master sharing controller for IDE RAID share w PCI 5 and Audio share w PCI 4 Rev 2 2 compliant One 16 bit ISA slot with sharing slot H 2Mb Boot Block Flash ROM Award System BIOS supports PnP APM DMI ACPI Multi device booting features i e floppy LS120 CD ROM HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPI etc Includes Trend ChipAway Virus protection for virus free boot and virus free o...

Page 6: ...a on the system memory Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real mode DOS legacy compatibility Complete software driver support for Win95 98 NT H Optional External PCI Audio Subsystem CMedia 8738 audio chip w legacy audio SB16 Pro compatible Advanced 64 Voice Wavetable synthesizer Programmable independent sample rate from 4KHz to 48KHz for recording and playback Full duplex operation ...

Page 7: ...e inputs for CPU Vcore 12v 5v 2 5v and 3 3v internal detecting 2 temperature sensor with thermistor for CPU System 2 Fan speed CPU and System monitoring and control with ON OFF control in suspend H Board Dimensions Standard ATX form factor 305mm x 210mm 4 Layers H Switching Power Supply Requirement 3 3V at 15Amps is necessary to guarantee full loading operation because some AGP cards and memory mo...

Page 8: ...are Poly fuse over current protection with error warning for keyboard circuitry Complete Data Security Flash BIOS write protection against unauthorized access Trend ChipAway Virus for a 100 virus free system boot up Advanced Management Features Power on events WOL Wake on LAN network card Modem ring RTC Alarm Software power off control for Win95 Over ride power button Three states advanced Power f...

Page 9: ...ser s Manual H One CD ROM that includes Award Flash EPROM Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc Audio drivers and Application for Win31 Win9x NT4 0 Win2000 and Linux Optional IDE RAID driver for Win98 NT and Win2000 VIA Sound Driver for DOS Win95 98 NT OptionalValuePack2001softwaregroupincludingNortonAntiVirus AutoSave A...

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Page 11: ...f the mainboard It is important not to confuse jumpers with connectors or headers Puttingjumpercapsonanythingthatisnotajumpermayresultindamaging 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 shorting those pins that it covers If the cap is removed fr...

Page 12: ...ems may result in overheating and possible burn out of your CPU 2 3 Setting Your CPU s Parameters This board support plug and play CPU configuration if you install a CPU on this mainboard the board will automatically detect and set CPU parameters It is no longer necessary to make many jumper settings as on conventional mainboards 1 After installing all your hardware into your PC system turn on you...

Page 13: ...ata loss CPU burnout system failure etc Many Intel 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 ...

Page 14: ...Chapter 2 10 PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 1 2 COM1 COM2 Line out Line in MIC CN6 CN14 J2 J3 JP1 CN2 CN3 CN4 JP3 JP4 JP7 JPX1 JP12 JP13 SW1 FAN2 CN1 IR FAN1 JP5 JP6 ...

Page 15: ...13 Green Switch Green LED Connector 14 System Reset Switch Connector 14 Speaker Connector 14 IDE Activity LED Connector 14 Turbo LED Connector 14 JPX1 IDE RAID Controller Optional 17 CN2 CD ROM Audio_in Connector 17 CN3 Auxiliary CD ROM Audio in Connector 17 CN4 Audio Mono in out Connector Optional 17 CN6 WOL Wake On LAN Connector 18 CN14 USB 2 3 Connector 18 USB Ports USB 0 1ports 18 IR Infrared ...

Page 16: ...onal 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 Power On By Modem While in Soft off state if an external modem ring up signal occurs the system wakes up and can be remotely accessed You may enable this function i...

Page 17: ...ctor into the lock on the front panel of the system case allows the lock to enable or disable the keyboard This function provides limited security against casual intruders 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 the order of these two connectors Software Power Off Control This mainboard ca...

Page 18: ...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 a Turbo De turbo speed modes So the turbo LED will always light Optional CPU Clock Ratio Setting SW1 This feature allows you to set a CPU at a higher clock ratio than it s specification allows it may or may not run at that ratio depending on the quality of...

Page 19: ...nal Boot BIOS Select JP5 This feature allows you to select a BIOS to boot up your system Set the pin to 1 2 to enable Boot BIOS select in the BIOS Features Setup and then select either BIOS 1 or BIOS 2 for startup see section 2 4 The feature also allows you to manually shift to another BIOS once the BIOS fail to boot Set pin to 2 3 to boot from BIOS 1 and then press the power on button to boot up ...

Page 20: ...d press enter 5 Set the system configuration in the Standard CMOS Setup menu Optional Primary Audio CODEC Select JP7 Short pin 1 2 to enable onboard AC 97 CODEC Short pin 2 3 to enable AMR Soft Audio Modem riser CPU Bus Frequency JP12 JP13 This jumper allows the CPU bus frequency to be determined either by the CPU or the user Set both jumper cups to pin 1 2 default if you are not sure what frequen...

Page 21: ...e to connect the CD ROM to your mainboard This will enable your CD ROM s audio function Auxiliary CD ROM Audio in Connector CN3 Use the auxiliary audio cable enclosed with your CD ROM disk drive to connect the CD ROM to your mainboard This will enable your CD ROM s audio function Optional Audio Mono in out Connector CN4 Use the mono audio cable enclosed with your CD ROM disk drive to connect the C...

Page 22: ...B 2 3 Connector CN14 If you want to use a USB keyboard you must enable the USB keyboard support function in BIOS s Integrated Peripherals menu See Section 3 7 USB is an open industry standard providing a simple and inexpensive way to connect up to 125 devices to a single computer port Keyboards mice tablets digitizers scanners bar codereaders modems printers and many more can all be used at the sa...

Page 23: ...black colored jack is for surround speaker output and the orange colored jack is for center bass speaker output System CPU 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 connect...

Page 24: ...ROM that contains speed and design information about the memory module The mainboard queries the module and makes adjustments to system operation based on what it finds ECC DRAM Capability This mainboard can be configured to support ECC Error Check and Correct functionwhenutilizingparityDIMMmodules Toutilizethechipset sECCfeatures you must use a 72 bit DIMM module These modules are automatically d...

Page 25: ...te 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 left bottom edge of the screen Selec...

Page 26: ...gement 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 1984 2001 Award Software Standard CMOS Features ...

Page 27: ...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 28: ...e 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 of ...

Page 29: ...tility See Appendix II 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 Boot ROM by BIOS setting Boot BIOS HDD Instant Recovery Anti Virus Protection CPU Internal Cache External Cac...

Page 30: ...of device initialization and diagnostic tests discussed below Quick Power On Self Test POST Enable this function to reduce the amount of time required to run the POST Power On Self Test BIOS saves time by skipping some items during POST It is recommended that you disable this setting Discovering a problem during boot up is better than loosing data during your work First Second Third Boot Other Dev...

Page 31: ...he BIOS setup program H OS Select For DRAM 64MB If your system s DRAM is 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 t...

Page 32: ...r the board has paged DRAM or EDO Extended Data Output DRAMs B SDRAM Cycle Length When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of the clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing Do not reset this setting from the default value specified by the system designer Figure 3 4 Chipset Features Setup Screen Item Help Menu Level Bank 0 1 DRAM Timing Bank 2 3 DRAM Timing Bank 4 5 DRAM Timing SDR...

Page 33: ...deo RAM resulting in better system performance However if any programs write to this memory area a system error may occur F AGP Aperture Size This function determines the amount of system memory that is given to the AGP card Options range from 4MB to 128MB 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 b...

Page 34: ...the onboard audio function To terminate this function set it to disabled K OnChip Modem This function must be enabled in order to use the soft modem riser card on AMR slot To terminate this function set it to disabled Be sure to set AMR MR Setting jumpers JP4A B C D as discussed in Section 2 4 of this manual to enable this function L Spectrum Spread When Enabled this function will cause lower EMI ...

Page 35: ...heral devices By choosing the Integrated Peripherals option from the Standard CMOS Features 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 On Chip IDE Channel0 On Chip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Pri...

Page 36: ...lock transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read writes per sector the drive can support 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 ad...

Page 37: ...OM 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 Figure 3 7 Power Saving Mode Flow Chart Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure 3 6 Power Management Setup Screen Move E...

Page 38: ...his function serves as both a screen saver and an electricity 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 whic...

Page 39: ...ld connect the modem to the COM port and turn on the resume event in green mode J 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 featu...

Page 40: ...SCSI RAID card installed on PCI slot and this feature is set to enabled The BIOS scan from the highest PCI bus number to boot up If set disabled BIOS scan from the lowest PCI bus number to boot up D 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 Menu Level PNP OS Installed Reset Con...

Page 41: ...ureextendsbeyondthelimit any warning mechanism programmed into your system will be activated CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 8 PC Health Status Screen CurrentCPUTemp Current System Temp CurrentCPUFANSpeed Current SYS FAN Speed Vcore 2 5V 3 3V 5 V 12 V Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous V...

Page 42: ...e mainboard Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Frequency Voltage Control A CPU BUS Frequency The CPU BUS frequency allows you to easily select your CPU s external clock frequency in BIOS Refer to Section 2 3 for details Figure 3 9 SeePU Setup Screen Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 ...

Page 43: ...hen you 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 Load Fail Save Defaults Y N N Esc ...

Page 44: ...u 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 Setup Savi...

Page 45: ...em for example Windows 95 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 ...

Page 46: ...up 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: ... Reader The Mainboard software guide discusses the following items The following items are discussed in the TXT or PDF files VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD IRQ routing mini port driver and etc Updating Your System BIOS Installing and Using a Desktop Management Interface DMI Utility for DOS Optional C Media drivers and utility for Win95 98 NT Optional IDE ...

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Page 49: ...mable 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 IDE 1 IRQ14 1F0 1F7 12 IDE 2 IRQ15 170 177 IRQ 5 9 10 and 11 are available for interface cards Appendix I ...

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Page 51: ... 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 1999 All Right Reserved Warning Don t Turn Off Power Or Reset System Write OK No Update Write Fail For XXX W83627HF 6A69MC3DC 0 DATE 01 20 2000 Flash Type INTEL E82802AB 3 3V 2Mb File Name to Prog...

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Page 53: ...the Smart 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 reboo...

Page 54: ... hard drive to backup Copy 1 to 2 or 2 to 1 or 1 to 2 3 4 3 Wait for the hard disk copy process to finish and the system will auto reboot Restore System 1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Selet Restore System by pressing Alt F3 key 2 You will be prompt to confirmed restore drive Type Y and press Enter key 3 Wait for the backup process to finish and t...

Page 55: ...hift to another BIOS once the the BIOS fails to boot Set JPX1 jumper pin to 2 3 and then press the reset button together with the power on button to boot up Selecting Boot BIOS Set JPX1 jumper pin to 1 2 to enable BIOS selection in the Advance BIOS Features setup from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Select Boot BIOS and choose between BIOS 1 default or BIOS 2 option to boot your system Update BIOS Usi...

Page 56: ...uter upon post press ALT F2 Keys to enter AWDFLASH setup Select the BIOS you want to update Press F1 BIOS 1 Press F2 BIOS 2 Press ESC to continue Post Note Flash BIOS Protection must be set to Disabled in the Advance Chipset Feature from the CMOS Setup Utility menu See Chapter 3 Don t turn off or restart your system during programming process ...

Page 57: ...e drive of 12GB 4GB x 3 versus 15GB RAID 0 offers double or more performance under sustained data transfers when one drive per IDE port is used In such a configuration unlike SCSI IDE drives are always available to the system SCSI requires more management of the SCSI bus Mirroring RAID 1 makes and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive or from multiple drives to a se...

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Page 59: ...TF 3D positional audio with MSDS DS3D DirectMusic Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions C3DX APIs 4 or 6 Channel speaker audio support for Home Theater environment Supports Fiber Optic module for Internet music PC and MD connections Supports MIDI and dual game ports Embedded 32OHM 5w earphone amplifier Multi Speakers System The CMedia 8738 Audio subsystem provides 3 wave channel...

Page 60: ...his option it means the rear speakers are connected to Line in Rear jack When Line in Rear jack is connected to other external Line in sources please DO NOT enable this option in order to avoid hardware conflicts Regarding rear speaker option you can turn ON or turn OFF the output of the back speakers and adjust the volume to have the rear front speakers have the same volume Note You can test your...

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