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ef Software Driver Guide

Chapter 4

The Mainboard Software Guide is found on the CD-ROM that is enclosed with your
mainboard and is a PDF file which must be viewed with Adobe's freeware called
Acrobat

®

 Reader.  The Acrobat Reader software is also included on the same CD-

ROM.  See the Readme.txt file in the CD-ROM's root directory for installation
instructions of the Acrobat 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.

- ACPI Patch Installation
- Sound Driver and Utility Installation

- USB Driver Installation

- Updating Your System BIOS

- Installing and Using a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) Utility  for DOS

The DMI utility is a DOS utility, operating under Windows or other operating

       system might cause damage to the BIOS.

Brief Software Driver Guide

Summary of Contents for 7AIV2

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 ma...

Page 2: ...nce with 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 Departm...

Page 3: ...Features 26 3 4 Integrated 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 O...

Page 4: ...HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPI etc Includes Trend ChipAway Virus protection for virus free boot and virus free operating system BIOS Wonder technology including ChipAway Virus Flash BIOS Write Protect Embedd...

Page 5: ...nology licensed from ERSO w General MIDI 128 sounds 8 drum kit 32 voice HRTF 3D positional audio CRL 3D supports MS DirectSound3D Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions APIs 4 Channe...

Page 6: ...024 Supports NTSC and PAL digital output 16 32MB SDRAM for video buffer w 2 4x16 SDRAM x 4 16M 2x32 x2 32M 2x32 x4 32M 4x16 x4 Onboard 128 bit AGP VGA Controller Optional Chrontel CH7004 for TV out Su...

Page 7: ...ree booting procedure Embbeded Flash Utility ease the upgrade way and solve the incompatibility between flash type and flash utility Advanced Management Features Power on events WOL Wake on LAN networ...

Page 8: ...ne CD ROM that includes Acrobat Reader Award Flash EPROM Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc VIA Sound Driver for DOS Wi...

Page 9: ...6 Chapter 1 Memo...

Page 10: ...ting 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 Puttingjumpercapsonanything...

Page 11: ...possible burnout of your CPU 2 3 Plug and Play CPU Configuration This board support plug and play CPU configuration if you install a CPU on this mainboard the board will automatically detect and set...

Page 12: ...X Power Supply Connector 10 CN5 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 14 CN7 Auxiliary CD ROM Audio in Connector 15 CN8 CD ROM Audio in Connector 15 CN9 USB 2 3 Connector 15 CN10 Over ride Power Button Connector...

Page 13: ...nterface 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...

Page 14: ...g the mouse will bring the system back to Full On Pushing the button while in Full On mode for more than 4 seconds will switch the system completely off See Over ride Power Button Operation diagram B...

Page 15: ...ity LED 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 wi...

Page 16: ...wer 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 choo...

Page 17: ...ability to remotely manage PCs on a network 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 con...

Page 18: ...to use a USB keyboard you must enable the onchip USB USB keyboard support function in BIOS s Integrated Peripherals menu See Section 3 4 USB is an open industry standard providing a simple and inexpe...

Page 19: ...ardware 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...

Page 20: ...Setup PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Ports CN2 If a PS 2 mouse is used BIOS will automatically detect and assign IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse Pin Definition 1 Data 2 No Connection 3 Ground 4 5V fused 5 Clock 6 No...

Page 21: ...uffered registered 64 72 bit SDRAM with SPD Module size Single double side 16 32 64 128 256 512MBytes Parity Either parity or non parity This mainboard supports 3 3v unbuffered 4 clock SDRAM DIMM only...

Page 22: ...lete 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...

Page 23: ...med 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 inst...

Page 24: ...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...

Page 25: ...re 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 discusse...

Page 26: ...eliminating 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 2000 Awar...

Page 27: ...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 dr...

Page 28: ...hadow 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 to RAM address C0000h...

Page 29: ...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 res...

Page 30: ...eo 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 i...

Page 31: ...nces between the CPU and the PCI bus J 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 s...

Page 32: ...al 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...

Page 33: ...computer operation Select enabled to use this function F IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports bl...

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 diag...

Page 35: ...This 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 m...

Page 36: ...n on the resume event in green mode H 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...

Page 37: ...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 functi...

Page 38: ...oard CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 8 PC Health Status Screen CurrentCPUTemp Current System Temp Current CPU FAN Speed Current S...

Page 39: ...0 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 B CPU...

Page 40: ...nu 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 Cont...

Page 41: ...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 Integra...

Page 42: ...m 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 pu...

Page 43: ...tup 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 th...

Page 44: ...Acrobat 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 AG...

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

Page 46: ...able 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 IRQ...

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

Page 48: ...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 WRIT...

Page 49: ...46 User s Manual Memo...

Page 50: ...or to the release of this mainboard Figure 1 1 Figure 1 2 VIA686B Driver Installation Instruction October 13 2000 Please note that when you installed the VIA service pack driver and then reboot your s...

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