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Declaration of Conformity

According to 47 CFR, Parts 2 and 15 of the FCC Rules

The following designated product:

EQUIPMENT:  MAINBOARD

MODEL NO.: 9BJA

is a Class B digital device that complies with 47 CFR Parts 2 and 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

that may cause undesired operation.

This declaration is given to the manufacturer:

CHAINTECH - EXCEL COMPUTER U.S., INC.

4427 Enterprise ST. Fremont, CA 94538, U.S.A.

hattp://www.chaintech-excel.com

Chaintech President:  Simon Ho

Signature:

Summary of Contents for 9BJA

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 EXCEL COMPUTER U S INC 4427 Enterprise ST Fremont CA 94538 U S A hattp www chaintech excel com Chaintech President Sim...

Page 2: ...ance 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 Canad...

Page 3: ...es 15 3 3 Advanced Chipset Features 18 3 4 Integrated Peripherals 19 3 5 Power Management Setup 21 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 Feature Explanations Software Power off Contro...

Page 4: ...ice booting features i e floppy LS120 CD DVD ROM HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPI etc r r r r r Embedded Ultra DMA 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 Bus Mastering software drivers for common multi task operating systems r r r r r Onboard Ultra I O ITE 87...

Page 5: ...tobuildupa HomeTheaterenvironment r r r r r Embedded System Monitor Hardware 8 external voltage inputs 2 temperature sensor with thermistor for CPU and System 2 Fan speed monitoring with ON OFF control in suspend r r r r r Board Dimensions ATX form factor 305mm x 220mm 4 Layers r r r r r Advanced Management Features Embedded System Monitoring Hardware Poly fuse protection for USB and keyboard circ...

Page 6: ...al USB adaptor Figure 1 3 r One User s Manual r One CD ROM that includes Acrobat Reader Award Flash Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS Audio driver and ultlity Intel Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc OptionalValuePack2001softwaregroupincludingNortonAntiVirus AutoSave ADOBE ActiveShare Acrobat Reader Imagemore X stop Appio and Ewalla See the Readme txt fil...

Page 7: ...ut 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 0 1 COM1 Line out Line in MIC COM2 CN1 CN5 CN7 CN17 JP1 IR2 FAN2 FAN1 PW1 CN2 CN3 CN4 CN4B CN4C CN6 CN10 JP8 JP5 JP6 PW3 3 3V 5V PW2 12V ...

Page 8: ...nnector IDE Activity LED Connector CN2 CD ROM Audio in Connector 9 CN3 Auxiliary Audio in Connector 9 CN4 Optional Audio Mono in out Connector 10 CN4B AC3 Surround Center Bass Connector 10 CN4C Optional S PDIF in out Connector 10 CN5 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 10 USB1 CN6 USB 0 1Ports and USB 2 3 Connector 10 CN7 Smart Card Reader Connector 10 CN10 Alert On LAN Connector 11 CN17 Blue LED Connector ...

Page 9: ...f Socket 478 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 standard Intel specified 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 ...

Page 10: ...T button on the Windows 9x 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 Chapter ...

Page 11: ...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 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 CPU clock i...

Page 12: ...B JP6 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 Kb Power Wake Up From S3 S4 S5 optionunderWakeUpEventsintheBIOS sPowerOnManagement screen You must also set this jumper s cap to pins 2 3 to use this function Onboard Audio JP8 This function allows you to enable or disable the on board audio You mu...

Page 13: ...AN selection in BIOS s Power ManagementMenutousethisfunction Thecapabilitytoremotely manage PCs on a network is a significant factor in reducing administrative and ownership costs Magic Packet technology is designed to give WOL capability to the LAN controller This header is used to connect an add in NIC Network Interface Card which gives WOL capability to the mainboard USB 0 1Ports and USB 2 3 Co...

Page 14: ...nectors supports 3 pin cooling fans with minimum of 4500 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 rotation signal 2 4 Main Memory Configuration The DRAM memory system consists three banks and the memory size ranges from 32MBytes 1GBytes If you only use one bank it does not matter which one...

Page 15: ... 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 of t...

Page 16: ...ion as all of your 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 ...

Page 17: ... 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 diagnotic 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 18: ... of the partition table or boot sector ChipAway Virus loads with BIOS and is able to detect boot up viruses before they have a chance to infect the hard drive ChipAway Virus employs rule based logic that doesn t look for specific viruses but rather detects patterns found in every virus eliminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found Anti Virus Protectio...

Page 19: ...letes BIOS will search these drives for an operating system SwapFloppyDrive 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 inlcude booting from floppy drive B This function is useful if floppy drives B and A are of a different format a...

Page 20: ...1 must be set to take advantage of this function See Section 3 11 for password setting information When the Security Option is set to System a password must be entered to boot the system or enter the BIOS setup program When the Security Option is set to Setup a password is required to enter the BIOS setup program G OS Select For DRAM 64MB If your system s DRAM is larger than 64MB and you are runni...

Page 21: ...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 Memory Hole at 15M 16M Enabling this function will reserve the memory address space between 15MB and 16MB for ISA expansion cards The default setting is Disabled is enabled B AGP Aperture Size SelectthesizeofAcceleratedGraphicsPort...

Page 22: ...you install the audio riser card AC97Modem Select Enabled if you install the soft modem riser card 3 4 Integrated Peripherals This section provides information on setting peripheral 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 S...

Page 23: ...pt for the physical parallel port D USB Controller Enable the on board Universal Serial Bus USB controller if you want to connect a USB keyboard to your system Note that if this setting is disabled you can still temporarily use a USB keyboard during bootup so that you can enter BIOS and enable this setting If you pass the bootup stage without enabling this function your PS 2 keyboard will no longe...

Page 24: ... by entering increasingly deep power saving modes C Video Off Method This function serves as both a screen saver and power saver for monitors See the next function Video Off After for setting the video timer Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure 3 6 Power Management Setup Screen ACPI Function ACPI Suspend Type Power Management Vi...

Page 25: ...termines when the monitor enters power saving mode If set to Yes the monitor enters the power saving mode after the chosen event expires The Power Management function must be enabled to use this function 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 ...

Page 26: ...ume 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 Control in Section 2 4 of this manual for instructions Power On Function Select Button Only ...

Page 27: ...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 flash memory Each data structure defines the resources used by a device or a card in the system Thi...

Page 28: ...00MHz Figure 3 8 PC Health Status Screen 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 Shutdown Temperature CPU VCore 1 5V 3 3V 5 V 12V 12V 5 V 5VSB V Voltage Battery Current SYSTEM Temp Current CPU Temp Current CPU FAN Speed...

Page 29: ...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 Figure 3 10 Load Fail Safe Defaults Screen Load Fail Safe Defau...

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: ...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 2001 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 xV ...

Page 32: ...or Equivalent Backup depends on your O S type Smart Backup FAT16 32 format i e Win 95 98 O S Backup space is the actual system space used Equivalent Backup NTFS format i e Windows 2000 NT Backup space equivalent to the drive space where the O S located Utility Installation 1 Enable the HDD Instant Recovery in the BIOS Features setup from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Save and exit to reboot 2 Upon s...

Page 33: ...n system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Selet Defragmenter by pressing Alt F4 key 2 You will be prompt to confirmed defragment your drive Type Y and press Enter key 3 Wait for the defrgmentation process to finish and the system will automatically reboot H Hard Disk Copy 1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Selet Ha...

Page 34: ...pports 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 up a 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 6 Speakers System The CMedia 8738 Audio subsystem provi...

Page 35: ...ion 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 multi ...

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