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Federal Communications Commission Statement

This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two
conditions:

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This device may not cause harmful interference

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This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may
cause undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment
generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy. If this equipment is not installed
and used in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, it may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will
not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to
radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on,
the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following
measures:

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Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

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Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

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Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the
receiver is connected.

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Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required
to assure compliance 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 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.

Manufacturer's Disclaimer Statement

The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a
commitment on the part of the vendor.  No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied,
is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular purpose of this document.
The manufacturer reserves the right to make changes to the content of this document and/or the
products associated with it at any time without obligation to notify any person or organization of
such changes.  In no event will the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental
or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use this product or documentation,
even if advised of the possibility of such damages.  This document contains materials protected
by copyright.  All rights are reserved.  No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form, by any means or for any purpose without expressed written consent of it's authors.
Product names appearing in this document are mentioned for identification purposes only.  All
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of their respective owners.

Printed in Taiwan

December 2001

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Page 1: ...15 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 th...

Page 2: ...e 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 Departmen...

Page 3: ...rated 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 35 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 36 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 36...

Page 4: ...res 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 BIOS Wonder technology including ChipAway Virus Flas...

Page 5: ...kit 32 voice HRTF 3D positional audio CRL 3D supports MS DirectSound3D Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions APIs Optional supports 24 bit S PDIF in out for digital audio Selection...

Page 6: ...Memory Architecture SMA supports 16 and 32MB frame buffer using system memory Supports AGP 4x including sideband addressing and execute mode Supports up to 1920x1440 resolution Motion Video compensat...

Page 7: ...for a 100 virus free system boot up 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...

Page 8: ...User s Manual One CD ROM that includes Acrobat Reader Award Flash EPROM Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS VIA Service Pack for Win9x ME 2000 XP NT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc S3...

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

Page 10: ...ng 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 Puttingjumpercapsonanythingth...

Page 11: ...erheating and 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 de...

Page 12: ...9 Hardware Setup JP2 J1 J2 COM2 CN4 CN5 CN7 CN8 CN9 FAN1 JP3 JPX1 CN11 CN12 FAN2 FAN3 JP5 PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 0 1 COM1 VGA Line out Line in MIC...

Page 13: ...ector 16 CN6 ATX Power Supply Connector 11 CN7 Auxiliary CD ROM Audio in Connector 16 CN8 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 17 CN9 TV out DFP Connector 17 CN11 USB 2 3Connector 17 CN12 Over ride Power Button...

Page 14: ...the very last part connected when assembling a system The ATX power supply provides a single 20 pin connector interface which incorporates standard 5V 12V optional 3 3V and Soft power signals The Soft...

Page 15: ...he 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 Pow...

Page 16: ...tivity 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...

Page 17: ...to use this function The OnChip USB and USB Keyboard support must be set to Enable see section 3 4 Clear CMOS Data Jumper JP5 To clear the contents of the CMOS please follow the steps below 1 Disconn...

Page 18: ...Connector J2 Select an IR mode at the UART 2 Mode in BIOS Integrated Peripherals menu to enable the IR functions on this mainboard See Section 3 4 PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Ports CN1 Vcc Vcc Ir Rx GND...

Page 19: ...CD ROM s audio function Bass Center and Rear L R Connector CN5 This connector must be connected to the cable from the voice modem card to support modem audio signals Auxiliary Audio in Connector CN7 2...

Page 20: ...Ncontrollerisenabled When the LAN controller receives a Magic Packet frame theLANcontrollerwillwakeupthePC This header is used to connect an add in NIC Network Interface Card which gives WOL capabilit...

Page 21: ...aders modems printers and many more can all be used at the same time CPU System Chip Cooling Fan Connectors FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 These added connectors allow the fan to draw their power from the mainboard i...

Page 22: ...etup CPU Bus Frequency JPX1 This switch allows you to select between 100MHz FSB or 133MHz FSB frequency speed You must set the jumper s cap to pins 1 2 for 100MHz or set the jumper s cap to pins 2 3 f...

Page 23: ...nbuffered registered 64 72 bit SDRAM with SPD Module size Single double side 32 64 128 256 512MBytes Parity Either parity or non parity This mainboard supports 3 3v unbuffered 4 clock SDRAM DIMM only...

Page 24: ...ress the Delete key to enter the Award BIOSsetupprogram TheprimaryscreenasshowninFigure3 1isalistofthemenus andfunctionsavailableinthesetupprogram Selectthedesireditemandpressenter to make changes Ope...

Page 25: ...es Choosethememorycapacityanddisksizethatcorrespondswiththatofyourfloppy diskdrive s Video Video Video Video Video Selectthetypeofvideoadapterpresentinyoursystem Youcanignorethissetting ifyouareusinga...

Page 26: ...nupdatesafternewviruseshavebeenfound I t e m H e l p Menu Level Figure3 3AdvancedBIOSFeaturesScreen Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Set...

Page 27: ...romafterPOST completes BIOSwillsearchthesedrivesforanoperatingsystem SwapFloppyDrive Enabling this function will swap the floppy drive assignment so that drive A will function as drive B and drive B w...

Page 28: ...eitemvalue Otherwise settheitemvaluetoNon OS 2forallother operatingsystems G G G G G Shadow Memory Shadow Memory Shadow Memory Shadow Memory Shadow Memory SoftwaresuchassystemBIOS videoBIOS SCSIBIOS e...

Page 29: ...cydependsontheDRAMtiming Donotresetthissettingfromthedefault valuespecifiedbythesystemdesigner Figure3 4 AdvancedChipsetFeaturesSetupScreen I t e m H e l p Menu Level DRAM Timing By SPD X DRAM Clock X...

Page 30: ...ows caching of the video RAM resulting in bettersystemperformance However ifanyprogramswritetothismemory area asystemerrormayoccur E E E E E AGP Aperture Size AGP Aperture Size AGP Aperture Size AGP A...

Page 31: ...o set JP1 jumper to pin 2 3 as discussed in Section 2 4 of this manual to enable this function J J J J J CPU to PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer...

Page 32: ...ttingperipheraldevices Bychoosingthe IntegratedPeripheralsoptionfromthe CMOSSetupUtilitymenu Figure3 1 the screenbelowisdisplayed Thissamplescreenisforreferrenceuseonly Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Ut...

Page 33: ...DC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system...

Page 34: ...wer Management B Power Management B Power Management B Power Management B Power Management Powermanagementallowsthecomputertosaveelectricitywhenitisnotinuse by entering increasingly deep power saving...

Page 35: ...be the same as if you had selectedBlank Thisfunctionservesasbothascreensaverandanelectricity saver DPMSSupported SelectthisoptionifyourvideocardsupportstheDisplay PowerManagementSignaling DPMS standa...

Page 36: ...esasignalwillwakeupthesystem 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 Whenenabled thissettingallowsthesyst...

Page 37: ...in flash memory Each data structuredefinestheresourcesusedbyadeviceoracardinthesystem ThisincludeslegacyandPCI ISAPnPdevices C C C C C FDD IRQ Can Be Free FDD IRQ Can Be Free FDD IRQ Can Be Free FDD I...

Page 38: ...tus PC Health Status PC Health Status PC Health Status I t e m H e l p Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS...

Page 39: ...t Setup PnP PCI Configu PC Health Status Select Item Load Optimized Defaults E s c Q u i t F10 Save Exit Setup Figure3 11 Sampleof LoadOptimizedDefaultsScreen Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoe...

Page 40: ...ariablesareuserpasswordandsupervisorpasswordselectedinBIOS Figure3 1 Themainpurposeofseparatinguserandsupervisoristoallowonlythesupervisor tohavecontroloverthesettingsinBIOS Theuser ontheotherhand iso...

Page 41: ...User s Manual 38 M e m o...

Page 42: ...ware 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 drive...

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

Page 44: ...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 45: ...42 User s Manual Memo...

Page 46: ...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 47: ...44 User s Manual Memo...

Page 48: ...t samples using PC RAM Supports HRTF 3D positional audio with MSDS DS3D DirectMusic Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions C3DX APIs 6 Channel speaker audio support is easy to build...

Page 49: ...is 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 hardwar...

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