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Award BIOS Setup Program

G. IRQ/Event Activity Detect

PS2KB Wakeup
When enabled, the system is able to be turned on by a PS2 keyboard hot key.

Power On PCI Card
When enabled, a PCI interface that receives a signal will wake up the system
from soft off and green mode.

Power On By Modem
When enabled, a modem that receives a signal will wake up the system from
soft off and green mode. You should connect the modem to the COM port
and turn on the resume event in green mode.

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 feature
in Section 2-4 of this manual for instructions.

Summary of Contents for 6VJD2

Page 1: ...of 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 EXCEL COMPUTER INC 4427 Enterprise St Fremont CA 94538 U S A http www chaintech excel com Chaintech President Simon...

Page 2: ...hanges 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 Communica...

Page 3: ...nt 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 Explanations Feature Explanations Feature ...

Page 4: ...tem 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 operating system Trend ChipAway Virus is a rule based anti virus technology and does not require periodical updates of virus code r r r r r Embedded Ultra DMA 100 PCI IDE controller Supports two IDE ports up ...

Page 5: ... variety of instrument 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 Optional supports Fiber Optic module for Internet music PC and MD connections Supports MIDI and dual game ports r r r r rEmbeddedSystemMonitorHardwar...

Page 6: ...s Trend ChipAway Virus for a 100 virus free system boot up Embbeded Flash Utility to ease BIOS upgrade and eliminate in compatibility with the flash utility version Advanced Management Features Power on events WOL Wake on LAN networkcard Modemring RTCAlarm Software power off control for Win9x Over ride power button Three states advanced Power failure recovery Always On Always Off Last state r Swit...

Page 7: ...udes Acrobat Reader Award Flash Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS VIA audio driver and utility for DOS Win9x NT VIA LAN driver for DOS Win9x Win2000 NT VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc Optional Value Pack 2001 software group including Norton AntiVirus AutoSave ADOBE ActiveShare Acrobat Reader Imagemore X stop Appio and Ewalla Figure Figure Figure Fi...

Page 8: ...5 Introduction 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 1 2 COM1 COM2 Line out Line in MIC CN6 JP1 JP5 JP6 JP12 FAN2 CN2 CN3 CN4 CN7 CN8 CN14 IR2 JP7 JP8 JP9 FAN1 CN5 ...

Page 9: ...5 CN4 Audio Mono in out Optional 15 CN5 Over Ride Power Button Connector 11 Power Indicator LED Connector 11 System Reset Switch Connector 12 Speaker Connector 12 Green Switch Connector 12 IDE Activity LED Connector 12 CN6 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 16 CN7 Bass Center Speaker Connector 16 CN8 SPDIF in out Connector 16 USB1 CN14 USB 1 2 Ports and USB 3 4 Connector 17 IR2 IR CIR connector 17 FAN1 FAN...

Page 10: ...o 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 yourmainboard PleaserefertoSection1 3 MainboardLayout forthelocation ofjumpersonyourmainboard As indicated in Figure 2 1 below a cap i...

Page 11: ...essary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burnout of your CPU 2 3 CPU Jumper Configuration Frequency Configuration Frequency Configuration Frequency Configuration Frequency Configuration Frequency Configuration If you install a CPU on this mainboard you must set JP5 JP6 for CPU Bus Frequency You must also select the exter...

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: ...interface which incorporates standard 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 95 Software Power Off function To po...

Page 14: ...ull 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 order of these two connectors Blinking LED in Suspend Mode While ...

Page 15: ...tem without turning the power off E Speaker Connector 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: ...ard CMOS Setup menu CPU Bus Frequency JP5 JP6 This jumper allows the system bus frequency to be determinedeitherby CPUortheuser IfsetbothJP8 JP9 pins to 1 2 the CPU determines the system bus frequency speed Set both JP8 JP9 pins to 2 3 for 66MHz FSB set only JP8 pins to 2 3 for 100MHz FSBandsetJP9toeither1 2or2 3pins for133MHz FSB Onboard Audio JP7 This function allows you to enable and disable th...

Page 17: ...evice of your choice at the Power on Function option in BIOS s Integrated Peripherals screen You must also set this jumper s cap to pins 2 3 to use this function Power On By USB JP9 This board is able to be turned on by a USB keyboard hot key Password or a USB mouse click To use this function select a device of your choice at the Power on Function option in BIOS s Integrated Peripherals screen You...

Page 18: ... use with a secondary CD ROM DVD ROM or CDR CDRW disk drive Optional Audio Mono in out CN4 Use the mono audio cable enclosed with your audio device to your mainboard This will enable mono audio in out function PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Ports PT1 If a PS 2 mouse is used BIOS will automatically detect and assign IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse Mono in 1 Mono out GND Pin Definition 1 Data 2 No Connection 3 Gro...

Page 19: ... will wake up the PC This header is used to connect an add inNIC NetworkInterfaceCard whichgivesWOL capability to the mainboard To support this function a switching power supply with a minimum of 750mA 5VSB standby signal is required Bass Center Speaker Connector CN7 This connector is for Center Bass speaker output ext Plug in the optional AC3 Surround Center Bass jack extension into this connecto...

Page 20: ...d a connector for optional USB Adaptor USB3 4 Four USB peripherals or hub devices are able to be connected IR CIR Connector IR2 IfyouenabletheUARTModeinBIOS sIntegrated Peripherals menu the UART port will support IR CIR functions See section 3 4 CPU System Cooling Fan Connectors FAN1 FAN2 These added connectors allow the fan to draw their power from the mainboard instead of the disk drive connecto...

Page 21: ...stered 64 72 bit SDRAM 2 5V Registered64 128 256 bitDDRSDRAM Module size Single double sided64 128 256 512MB 1GB DRAM speed 7 5ns for DDR SDRAM Parity Either parity or non parity DDR Double Data Rate transfers allows for data to be fetched on both the rising and falling edges of the clock thus doubling the effective transfer rate of the clock For example a 133MHz DDR clock would achieve a peak tra...

Page 22: ...elete 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 I...

Page 23: ...ll of your timed events such as power management 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 2...

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: ...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 26: ...iminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found 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 Anti Virus Protection CPU Internal Cache ...

Page 27: ...ill 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 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 wan...

Page 28: ...hard drive must support this capability and this function must be enabled in order to take advantage of this function See your hard drive literature for more information H Video BIOS Shadow 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 to RAM address C0000h through DFFFFh Video BI...

Page 29: ...solutely sure of what you are doing Explanation of the DRAM timing and chipset features setup is lengthy highly technical and beyond the scope of this manual Below are abbreviated descriptions of the functions 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 Clock Drive Control SDRAM ...

Page 30: ...n the CPU and the PCI bus 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 D 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 allowi...

Page 31: ...ea a system error may occur G 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 FLASH utility When disabled the BIOS data can be updated by using the FLASH utility ...

Page 32: ...vice 3 4 Integrated Peripherals This section provides information on setting peripheral devices 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 VIA ...

Page 33: ...ating mode for the onboard parallel printer port Select SPP unless you are certain your hardware and software support one of the other available modes D Init Display First This function allows user to choose between AGP slot or VGA slot to initialize Display first E OnChip USB Enable the on board Universal Serial Bus USB controller if you want to connect a USB keyboard to your system Note that if ...

Page 34: ...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 Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure 3 6 Power Management Setup Screen Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F...

Page 35: ...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 36: ...s a signal will wake up the system from soft off and green mode You should connect the modem to the COM port and turn on the resume event in green mode 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 ...

Page 37: ...OS Setup Utility menu Figure 3 1 the screen below is displayed This sample screen contains the manufacturer s default values for the mainboard A PNP OS Installed If you want to install a PNP compatible OS such as Windows 95 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 ...

Page 38: ...he system from overheating supports Windows 98 or above with ACPI function only CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 8 PC Health Status Screen ShutdownTemperature CPUVCore 1 5V 3 3V 5 0V 12V 12V 2 5V 5VSB Voltage Battery CPUTemperature CPU FAN Speed SYS FAN Speed Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Pre...

Page 39: ... Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Frequency Voltage Control A Spectrum Spread When Enabled this function will cause lower EMI by spreading the system frequency spectrum For normal operation disable this function 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 Optimized Defaults CP...

Page 40: ...enu Figure3 1 If the stored record created by the setup program becomes corrupted and therefore unusable these defaults will be loaded automatically when you turn on the computer Frequency Voltage Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setup Saving CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Esc Quit F10 Save Exit Setup Select ...

Page 41: ...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 Saving...

Page 42: ...em for example Windows 98 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: ...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 44: ...instructions of the Acrobat Reader The Mainboard software guide discusses the following items The following items are discussed in the PDF files VIAServicePackforWin9x WinNTincludingBusMasterIDEdrivers AGPVxD IRQ routing mini port driver and etc ACPI Patch Installation Sound Driver and Utility Installation USBDriverInstallation Updating Your System BIOS Installing and Using a Desktop Management In...

Page 45: ...42 Chapter 4 Memo ...

Page 46: ...oppy 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 IRQ5 9 10and11areavailableforinterfacecards IRQ5 9 10and11areavailableforinterfacecards IRQ5 9 10and11areavailableforinterfacecards IRQ5 9 10and11areavailableforinterfacecards IRQ5 9 10and11areavailableforinterfacecards Appendi...

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

Page 48: ...u 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 15 2 2001 Flash Type XXXXX E82802AB 3 xV 1Mb File Name to Progr...

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Page 50: ...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 51: ...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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