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User's Manual

Appendix

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Embedded Flash Utility

This mainboard is equipped with an Erasable Flash ROM and an Embedded

Flash Utility which allows the user to update the BIOS to a newer version.

Embedded Flash Utility eases BIOS upgrade and eliminate the compatibility

issue  between  different  Flash  ROM  type  and  version  of  Flash  utility.

    

Update Your System BIOS

1. Start computer, upon post, press ALT+F2 Keys to enter AWDFLASH setup.
2. Insert the floppy disk with the latest BIOS file into the floppy drive A(or B)

 

  and  then  press  Enter  to  start  programming.

3. When finished, the system will automatically restart.

 

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.
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 Memory

 

6VIA5T813.BIN

Sample of Programing Flash Memory Screen

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Summary of Contents for 6VIA5T

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: ...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 apparatusses set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communicatio...

Page 3: ...pset Setup 17 3 4 Integrated Peripherals 21 3 5 Power Management Setup 22 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 24 3 7 PC Health Status 25 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 25 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 26 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 26 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 27 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 27 3 13 Exit Without Saving 27 Appendix Embedded Flash Utility 28 Feature Explanations Feature Explana...

Page 4: ...ting features i 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 sup...

Page 5: ...ns Micro ATX form factor 244mm x 194mm 4 Layers 1 2 Package Contents This product comes with the following components One mainboard One 40 pin 80 wire UDMA 66 100 IDE connector ribbon cable Figure 1 1 Color coded connection for UDMA 66 100 cable Blue to mainboard Gray to 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 Award ...

Page 6: ...3 Introduction 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 0 1 COM1 Line out Line in MIC CN1A CN17 JP1 FAN2 JP2A B JP4 CN2 CN3 CN4 CN5 CN20 CN22 IR1 JP6A COM2 JP6 FAN1 ...

Page 7: ...ivity LED Connector JP1 Clear CMOS Data 8 JP2A JP2B External Clock Frequency 8 JP4 CPU Frequency Ratio 8 JP6 JP6A Power On By USB 8 CN2 CD ROM Audio in Connector 9 CN3 Auxilliary Audio in Connector 9 CN4 Audio Mono in out Connector 9 CN5 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 9 CN17 Blue Led Connector 9 USB1 CN20 USB 0 1 Ports and USB 2 3 Connectors 9 CN22 Front Panel Audio Connector 9 IR1 IR Connector 9 FAN1 ...

Page 8: ...the 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 Theu...

Page 9: ...RT button on the Windows 95 task bar Select Shut Down The Computer and the system turns off The message It is now safe to turn off your computer will not be shown when using this function 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 in BIOS s Power Management Setup menu See section...

Page 10: ...ator 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 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 C...

Page 11: ...peci fication 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 been overset Power On By USB JP6 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 S3 option under Wake Up Events in the BIOS s Power On Management screen ...

Page 12: ... the other is red LED USB 0 1 Ports and USB 2 3 Connector USB1 CN20 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 This board contains a USB Host controller and includes a root hub with two USB 0 1 ports a connector for optional USB Adaptor USB 2 3 Front Panel Audio Connector CN22 This connector give you the...

Page 13: ...nly use one bank it does not matter which one you use and if you use two or more banks it does not matter which bank you install first DRAM Specifications DIMM type 3 3V 64 72 bit Synchronous DRAM Module size Single double sided 32 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 Buffere...

Page 14: ...e 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 Item ...

Page 15: ...r timed events such as power management 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 2001 Award S...

Page 16: ...nt in your system You can ignore this setting if you are using a VGA monitor since VGA BIOS automatically configures this setting Halt When the system is powered on BIOS performs a series of diagnosis tests called 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 specific errors ...

Page 17: ...rus eliminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found 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...

Page 18: ...boot up is better than loosing data during your work First Second Third Boot Other Device This option sets the sequence of drives BIOS attempts to boot from after POST completes BIOS 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 t...

Page 19: ...e set the item value to Non OS 2 for all other operating systems H 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 co...

Page 20: ...s in this setup menu You can look on the world wide web for helpful chipset and RAM configuration information including AWARD s web site at http www award com A DRAM Timing By SPD The function allows you to enable or disable the DRAM timing by SPD When Disabled you can select the DRAM Clock SDRAM Cycle Length and Bank Interleave configuration B SDRAM Cycle Length When synchronous DRAM is installed...

Page 21: ...t Caching the system BIOS results in better performance than shadowing the system BIOS as discussed in Section 3 2 F 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 G AGP Aperture Size This function determines the amount of system memory that is given to...

Page 22: ...rminate this function set it to disabled J PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states K 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 ...

Page 23: ... 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 OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Primary Slave PIO Seco...

Page 24: ...ur 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 drive select Disabled in this ...

Page 25: ...r 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 C Video Off Option This setting allow you to selects the power saving modes during which the monitor goes blank Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure3 6 PowerMa...

Page 26: ...ions 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 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 coordination with APM 1 2 compliant operating systems F Soft Off by PWR BTN When ...

Page 27: ... set to Yes B Resources Controlled By When set to Manual the system BIOS will not refer to the ESCD for IRQ DMA information Instead it will refer to the items in the setup menu for assigning IRQ DMA When set to Auto the system BIOS will refer to the ESCD for all legacy information ESCD Extended System Configuration Data provides a detailed format of the configuration data structures stored in flas...

Page 28: ...ination for the CPU and the PCI bus 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 System Temp Current CPU FAN Speed Current SYS FAN Speed Vcore 2 5V 3 3V 5V 12V 48 o C 8...

Page 29: ...ized 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 Load Fail Safe Defaults Figure3 10 LoadFail SafeDefaultsScreen Load Fail Safe Defa...

Page 30: ...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 change the user password in BIOS Note that when there is no supervisor password set the user password controls access to all ...

Page 31: ... 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 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 ...

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