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Chapter 1

1-4 Connector and Jumper Reference Chart

Jumper &

Connector No.

Function

Page

JP1

Clear CMOS Data Jumper

JP2

CPU Frequency Ratio

JP3/JP4

External Clock Frequency Jumper

8/13

CN1

Over ride Power Button Connector

Power Indicator LED Connector

Green LED Connector

System Reset Switch Connector

Speaker Connector

IDE Activity LED Connector

CN2

CD-ROM Audio in Connector

CN3

Auxiliary CD-ROM Audio-in Connector

CN4

Audio Mono-in/out Connector

CN6

WOL (Wake-on-LAN) Connector

USB1/CN14

USB Ports and USB 3/4 Connector

IR1

Infrared Connector

PW1

ATX Power Supply Connector

FAN1/FAN2

CPU/System Cooling Fan Connector

PT1

PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Ports

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Page 1: ... 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 Sim...

Page 2: ...odifications 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 Communications Manuf...

Page 3: ...d Peripherals 29 3 5 Power Management Setup 31 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 34 3 7 PC Health Status 35 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 36 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 37 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 38 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 39 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 40 3 13 Exit Without Saving 40 Chapter 4 Brief Software Driver Guide 41 Feature Explanations Feature Explanations Feature Explana...

Page 4: ...ev 2 2 compliant One CNR slot Optional PCI Riser Connector One PCI riser connector for low profile PC designs 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 BIOS Wonder technology including ChipAway Virus Flash BIOS Write Protect EmbeddedFlashUtility Trend ChipAway Virus is a rule based anti viru...

Page 5: ...D Sub female Game MIDI port AudioSubsystemwithAC link Built in Sample Rate Converter to ensure all internal operation at 48KHz Full duplex operation for simultaneous recording and playback Built in FM emulation music synthesizer AC 97 CODEC provides 90dB SNR CD quality audio using wavetable data on the system memory EmbeddedSystemMonitorHardware 5 external voltage inputs 2 temperature sensor with ...

Page 6: ...ure AdvancedManagementFeatures Power on events WOL Wake on LAN network card Modem ring RTC Alarm Software power off control for Win95 Over ride power button Power failure recovery Blinking Power LED in suspend Hardware Reset Protect Switching Power Supply Requirement 3 3V at 15Amps is necessary too guarantee full loading operation because some AGP cards and memory modules have high current consump...

Page 7: ...lave One 34 pin floppy disk drive ribbon cable Figure 1 2 Optional USB adaptor Figure 1 3 One User s Manual One CD ROM that includes Acrobat Reader Award Flash Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS VIA audio driver for DOS Win95 98 NT VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc Optional Value Pack 2000 software group including Trend PC cillin Norton AntiVirus ADOB...

Page 8: ...Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 1 2 COM1 Line out Line in MIC JP2 FAN2 JP3 JP4 CN2 CN3 CN4 JP1 CN1 CN6 CN14 IR1 COM2 FAN1 ...

Page 9: ...Connector 11 Green LED Connector 12 System Reset Switch Connector 12 Speaker Connector 12 IDE Activity LED Connector 12 CN2 CD ROM Audio in Connector 14 CN3 Auxiliary CD ROM Audio in Connector 14 CN4 Audio Mono in out Connector 14 CN6 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 15 USB1 CN14 USB Ports and USB 3 4 Connector 15 IR1 Infrared Connector 16 PW1 ATX Power Supply Connector 10 FAN1 FAN2 CPU System Cooling Fa...

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: ...cket 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 Installing 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 Jumpe...

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: ...d 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 the Windows 95 Software Power Off function To power down your computer click the ST...

Page 14: ... 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 the...

Page 15: ...tem without turning the power off E SpeakerConnector 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 ...

Page 16: ...s it may or may not run at that ratio depending on the quality of your CPU and the extent to which the ratio has been overset This option will not work with frequency lockCPU External Clock Frequency JP3 JP4 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 frequency your CPU support Normal defau...

Page 17: ...ROM disk drive to connect the CD ROM to your mainboard ThiswillenableyourCD ROM saudio function Auxiliary Audio in CN3 This connector is used for DVD ROM or Add on Card Audio Mono in out CN4 This connector is used for Add on Card e g modem with Mono In Out connector L 1 R GND ...

Page 18: ...Card whichgivesWOL capability to the mainboard To support this function a switching power supply with a minimum of 750mA 5VSB standby signal is required USB Ports and USB 3 4 Connector USB1 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 4 USB is an open industry standard providing a simple and inexpensive...

Page 19: ...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 connectors supports 3 pin cooling fans with minimum of 3500 RPM The wiring and plug may vary depending on the manufacturer On standard fans the red is positive 12V the black is ground and the yellow wire is the rot...

Page 20: ... 64 128 256 512MBytes DRAM speed 8 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 FSB SDRAM Type S...

Page 21: ...Chapter 2 18 Memo ...

Page 22: ...ystem 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 bottom edge...

Page 23: ...nagement 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 2000 Award Software Standard CMOS Feature...

Page 24: ...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 25: ...se None for Type if there 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 Floppy Disk Drives Choose the memory capacity and disk size that corresponds with that of your floppy disk dri...

Page 26: ...been found B Cache Control CPU Internal Cache External Cache Cache memory is much faster than conventional DRAM system memory These fields allow you to enable or disable the CPUs Level 1 built in cache and Level Anti Virus Protection Disabled CPU Internal Cache Enabled External Cache Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Enabled Processor Number Feature Enabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled First B...

Page 27: ...on 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 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 ...

Page 28: ...CSI 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 ROM based firmware you need to know the address range the ROM occupies to shadow it into the correct area ...

Page 29: ...epending on whether 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 SDRAM 8 10ns Bank 2 3 DRAM ...

Page 30: ...ideo 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 ...

Page 31: ... When disabled your PC s hardware reset button will function normally J OnChip Sound This function must be enabled in order to use 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 CNR slot optional To terminate this function set it to disabled L Memory Parity ECC Check If the DRAM chip...

Page 32: ...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 2000 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help Menu Level On Chip IDE Channel0 Enabled On Chip IDE Channel1 Enabled IDE Prefetch Mode Enable...

Page 33: ...ltiple 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 add in FDC or the system has no floppy ...

Page 34: ...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 2000 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure 3 6 Power Management Setup Screen Move E...

Page 35: ...f 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 system is in Green mode the modem requires an IRQ as...

Page 36: ...n 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 37: ...on 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 allow the IRQ to be free PNP OS Inst...

Page 38: ...ndsbeyondthelimit any warning mechanism programmed into your system will be activated CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 8 PC Health Status Screen Current CPU Temp 31 o C 87 o F Current System Temp 31 o C 87 o F Current CPU FAN Speed 3500 RPM Current System FAN Speed 3500 RPM VCore 1 57V 2 5V 2 48V 3 3V 3 32V 5 V 5 05V 12 V 12 16V...

Page 39: ... the mainboard Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Frequency Voltage Control CPU BUS Frequency Default 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 Val...

Page 40: ...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 Configure PC Health Status CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N Esc...

Page 41: ...you turn on the computer Figure 3 11 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 Configure PC Health Status Frequency Voltage Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setup S...

Page 42: ...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 43: ...etup 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 44: ...oard software guide discusses the following items The following items are discussed in the TXT or PDF 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 Sound Driver and Utility Installation Optional...

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Page 46: ...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 ...

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Page 48: ...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 avoid confusion 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 x...

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