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C. Memory  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 timing

function  to  60ns  or  70ns,  depending  on  the  type  of  DRAM  you  install.

D. System  BIOS  Cacheable

Enabling this function allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh,

resulting in better system performance.  However, if any program writes to this

memory area, a system error may result.  Caching the system BIOS results in better

performance  than  shadowing  the  system  BIOS  as  discussed  in  Section  3-2.

E. Video  RAM  Cacheable

Enabling this function will allows caching of the video 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 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 the2X mode (twice as fast as1X) offered by advanced

AGP cards.  Your VGA card must support 2X mode in order to take advantage

of  the  faster  speed.

H. Flash  BIOS  Protection

The mainboard manufacturer developed BIOS protection technology that protects

the System BIOS from accidental corruption by unauthorized users or computer

viruses.  When enabled, the BIOS data cannot be changed when attempting to

update BIOS with the the FLASH utility.  When disabled, the BIOS data can be

updated  by  using  the  FLASH  utility.

Summary of Contents for 6VIA3-2

Page 1: ...f 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 Si...

Page 2: ...es 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 Department of Communication...

Page 3: ...p 21 3 3 Advanced Chipset Setup 24 3 4 Integrated Peripherals 27 3 5 Power Management Setup 29 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 32 3 7 Frequency Control 33 3 8 Load Fail Safe Defaults 34 3 9 Load Optimized Defaults 35 3 10 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 36 3 11 Save and Exit Setup 37 3 12 Exit Without Saving 37 Chapter 4 Brief Software Driver Guide 39 Feature Explanations Feature Explanations ...

Page 4: ...t Optional 2Mb Boot Block Flash ROM Award System BIOS supports PnP APM DMI ACPI multi device booting features Floppy LS 120 CD ROM IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPI etc Includes Trend ChipAway Virus protection for virus free boot and virus free operating system Embedded Ultra DMA 66 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 ...

Page 5: ...nt samples using PC RAM Supports HRTF 3D positional audio with MSDS DS3D DirectMusic Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions C3DX APIs 4 Channel speaker audio support is easy to build up a Home Theater environment Supports Fiber Optic module for Internet music PC and MD connections Supports MIDI and dual game ports Embedded32OHM 5wearphoneamplifier OptionalSystemMonitoringHardware...

Page 6: ...wer on events WOL Wake on LAN network card Modem ring RTC Alarm Software power off control for Win9X Over ride power button Three states Power failure recovery Always On or Always Off Last state Chassis intrusion detection with mnemonics during power loss Blinking Power LED in suspend Hardware Reset Protect Switching Power Supply Requirement 3 3V at 15Amps is necessary too guarantee full loading o...

Page 7: ...Master and Black to slave One 34 pin floppy disk drive ribbon cable Figure 1 2 One User s Manual One CD ROM that includes Acrobat Reader Award Flash Utility and Award DMI Utility for DOS VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc Cmedia Audio Driver for DOS Win9x NT4 0 System Health Monitoring Software Optional Value Pack 2000 software group including Sheperd...

Page 8: ...rd Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2 Mouse Printer Port USB 0 1 PS 2 Keyboard COM1 Line out Line in Game Port COM2 MIC J1 J2 J3 JP1 J6 PW1 JP11 JP13 FAN2 J5 JP4 FAN1 ...

Page 9: ... 12 JP11 JP13 External Clock Frequency 13 J1 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 13 J2 AUX Audio in Connector 14 J3 CD ROM Audio in Connector 14 J6 IR Connector 14 J5 Over ride Power Button Connector 10 Keyboard Lock Power indicator LED Connector 10 Green Switch Green LED Connector 11 System Reset Switch Connector 11 Speaker Connector 11 IDE Activity LED Connector 11 Turbo LED Connector 11 FAN1 FAN2 System ...

Page 10: ...to Jumpers Jumpers are used to select between 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 your mainboard Please refer to Section 1 3 Mainboard Layout for the location of jumpers on your mainboard...

Page 11: ... items may result in overheating and possible burn out of your CPU 2 3 Setting Your CPU s Parameters Jumperless CPU setting enables the user to setup a mainboard s CPU Host PCI Clock values through an easy to use BIOS setup procedure 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 your system s po...

Page 12: ...ard 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 9X Software Power Off function To power down your computer click the S...

Page 13: ...4 seconds will switch the systemcompletelyoff SeeOver ridePowerButton Operationdiagram B Keyboard Lock Power Indicator LED Connector Plugging this connector 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 p...

Page 14: ...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 Even though this function does not exist the turbo LED will light when the LED is connected and turbo button pressed Poly fuse Over Current Protection The poly fuse protects the system from dangerous voltages the system might be exposed to via t...

Page 15: ... please follow the steps below 1 Disconnect the system power supply from the power source 2 Set the jumper cap at location 2 3 for 5 seconds then set it back to the default position 3 Connect the system s power and then start the system 4 Enter BIOS s CMOS Setup Utility and choose Load Setup Defaults Type Y and press enter 5 Set the system configuration in the Standard CMOS Setup menu Normal Defau...

Page 16: ...abilitytoremotelymanagePCsonanetwork 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 Magic Packet frame the LAN controller will wake up the ...

Page 17: ...OM Audio in Connector J3 Use the audio cable enclosed with your CD ROM disk drive to connect the CD ROM to your mainboard ThiswillenableyourCD ROM saudio function IR Connector J6 Select a function at the UART2 Mode in BIOS s Integrated Peripherals menu UART2 mode will enable the IR support functions See section 3 4 L 1 R GND ...

Page 18: ...2V the black is ground and the yellow wire is the rotation signal USB Universal Serial Bus Ports 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 4 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 scan...

Page 19: ...arity Either parity or non parity The compatibility of 512MB DIMM is still under testing and cannot be guaranteed 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 use...

Page 20: ...art the system press the Delete 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 bo...

Page 21: ...gement saving files etc are based on this timer HardDiskSetup 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 2000 Award Software Standard CMOS Features It...

Page 22: ...st 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 sector size by boosting the write current for inner track sectors Landz This defines the ...

Page 23: ...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 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 in your system You c...

Page 24: ...patterns found in every virus eliminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found Anti Virus Protection CPU Internal Cache External Cache CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Quick Power On Self Test First Boot Device Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Boot Other Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up NumLock Status Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rat...

Page 25: ...es BIOS will search these drives for an operating system 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 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 ...

Page 26: ...s G Shadow Memory Software such as system BIOS video BIOS SCSI BIOS etc that resides in ROM ReadOnlyMemory chipsiscalledfirmware Shadowingoffirmwareoccurswhen 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 ROM based firmware you need to know the address range th...

Page 27: ...aged 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 SDRAM Cycle Length DRAM Clock Memory Hole...

Page 28: ...M 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 be avai...

Page 29: ...t function This function is especially useful to prevent accidental resets for file servers and routers etc which should be available 24 hrs day When disabled your PC s hardware reset button will function normally J Memory Parity ECC Check If the DRAM chips in your system support parity ECC check select Enabled ...

Page 30: ...ral 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 2000 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help Menu Level OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Primary...

Page 31: ...DE 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 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 boar...

Page 32: ...als devices 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 Figure 3 7 Power Saving Mode Flow Chart Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure 3 6 Power Manage...

Page 33: ...ricity 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 syst...

Page 34: ...from soft off and green mode You should 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 comp...

Page 35: ...n ESCD Extended System Configuration Data provides a detailed format of 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 al...

Page 36: ...d Software Frequency Control Spread Spectrum CPU Host Clock CPU PCI A Spread Spectrum When Enabled this function will cause lower EMI by spreading the system frequency spectrum For normal operation disable this function B CPU Host Clock CPU PCI The CPU Host Clock feature allow your to select a timing combination for the CPU and the PCI bus Figure 3 8 SeePU Setup Screen ô õ õ ôMove Enter Select PU ...

Page 37: ...n on the computer Frequency 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 Configura PC Health Status CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N Esc Quit F10 Save Exit...

Page 38: ...when you turn on the computer Figure 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults Screen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configura PC Health Status Frequency Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setup Savi...

Page 39: ... example Windows 95 found on the boot drive This is shown in Figures 3 11 and 3 12 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 40: ...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 12 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 41: ...User s Manual 38 Memo ...

Page 42: ...scusses the following items The following items are discussed in the PDF or TXT files Bus Master PIO IDE Driver Installation 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 Audio Driver Installation Optional Value Pack 2000 software group in...

Page 43: ...40 Chapter 4 Memo ...

Page 44: ...021 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 Appendix I Appendix I Appendix I Appendix I ...

Page 45: ...42 User s Manual Memo ...

Page 46: ...e CMOS Setup Utility menu 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 XXXXXXX 6A69MC3DC 0 DATE 06 20 2000 Flash Type XXXXX E82802AB 3 ...

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

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