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2. Hardware Installation

User’s Manual

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relationship. The MASTER device has priority over the SLAVE device (refer
to illustration on the below).

                              

CD_IN  J6, J7 : Audio Connector

You can connect the audio output from your CD-ROM (or DVD) drive into the
audio input connectors (either J6 or J7) on the motherboard.

Primary IDE1

Secondary IDE2

Master

Slave

Master

Slave

Status 1

Primary channel has

priority over the

Secondary channel

HDD

C:

HDD

D:

Master has priority

over the Slave devices

Status 2

HDD

C:

HDD

D:

HDD

HDD

E:

F:

Hard disk drives have

priority over the CD-

ROM devices

Status 3

HDD

C:

E:

CD

F:

CD

HDD

D:

Summary of Contents for M694X-MX Series

Page 1: ...z Intel Pentium Pentium II Pentium III Celeron and Slot1 are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation All other product names mentioned herein are used for identification pur poses only and may be...

Page 2: ...hipset Features 47 Integrated Peripherals 50 Power Management Setup 53 PnP PCI Configurations 57 PC Health Status 59 Frequency Control 59 Load Fail Safe Optimized Defaults 61 Set Supervisor User Passw...

Page 3: ...verything and that individual components are not damaged If you find any component missing or damaged contact your retailer immediately M694X MX series Motherboard User s Manual Driver and Utility CD...

Page 4: ...rface z 33MHz PCI Bus for PCI Interface z 66MHz AGP Bus for AGP Interface z 100MHz PC 100 133MHz PC 133 SDRAM Bus for Memory Interface Memory z 64 bit Advanced Memory Controller supporting PC 100 PC 1...

Page 5: ...t z Smart BIOS ROM protect function z Power recovery after interrupt feature Extend Feature Support z Hardware monitoring temperature supply voltages and fan speed z System power on by PS 2 keyboard a...

Page 6: ...ssis z Connect IDE CD ROM Drives and Ribbon Cables z Install Add on Card z Connect Panel Wires and Power Supply z Connect PS 2 USB Serial Parallel and Others Devices z Setup the BIOS Configuration and...

Page 7: ...port 2 K B MS Lower PS 2 Keyboard port 3 USB1 LAN Upper RJ 45 Ethernet port Optional 4 USB1 LAN Lower USB ports 5 LPT1 Upper Parallel port 6 COM1 2 Serial ports 7 GAME_AUDIO Upper Game MIDI port 8 GAM...

Page 8: ...One AMR Audio Modem Riser slot 15 J8 Infrared connector Optional 16 ISA1 One 8 16 bit ISA expansion slot 17 FSP1 Connectors for panel switches and indicators 18 JP2 Jumpertosetclockratio 19 PWR LED Po...

Page 9: ...h large power consumption is connected for the system Pre Installation Procedure Before you install your motherboard into a chassis it s convenient to install the CPU install the memory modules and se...

Page 10: ...ase following instructions can be performed to clear CMOS memory z Disconnect the ATX power supply cable from the motherboard then move the jumper cap to short Pins 2 3 of JP4 for 3 5 seconds z Return...

Page 11: ...least 720mA 5V standby power BAT1 Lithium CR2032 Battery It is a coin cell style Lithium CR2032 battery is used to provide power to the Realtime Clock and CMOS memory for keep the data inviolate and e...

Page 12: ...e This module mounts to a small opening on system chassis that support this feature You must also configure the setting through UART2 Mode Select in chapter 3 Integrated Peripherals to select whether...

Page 13: ...or CPU FSB setting JP2 Clock Ratio Setting Table list the available clock ratios internal external and the corresponding jumper settings Note that these settings are also included in the CPU FSB and T...

Page 14: ...yrixIII CPU only The following table is for application USB2 Auxiliary USB Connector It provides 2 USB connections to the rear of your system case by the USB cable assembly Follow the procedure below...

Page 15: ...es the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset with Award BIOS It can support speed of 300MHz through 733MHz on the Intel CPU and up to 533MHz on the Cyrix111 CPU and FSB of 66MHz to 133MHz The CPU is a sensitive...

Page 16: ...t into the PGA370 socket Push down lightly on the CPU and lower the arm on the PGA370 socket to secure the CPU A squeaking noise is normal as the arm lowers Never force a CPU into a socket Forcing a C...

Page 17: ...able into the cooling fan connector on the motherboard There will be a plastic clip assembly that will force you to connect the fan cable correctly J9 10 CPU Chassis FAN Connector This connector suppo...

Page 18: ...mory to CPU and can accommodate up 512MB of SDRAM The 168 Pin DIMMs Dual In line Memory Modules must be of the 3 3V unbuffered variety The position of the notch in the SDRAM key position will tell you...

Page 19: ...liant Also at least one unbuffered SDRAM memory module must be installed for the system to POST Follow the procedure below to install the SDRAM memory module z On the motherboard locate the DIMM socke...

Page 20: ...connecting essential peripherals items to the connectors on the motherboard This is a Micro ATX motherboard so you must use a system case that is installed with an ATX power supply unit The case shoul...

Page 21: ...he plug while your hands are wet Failure to follow this warning may cause an electric shock Connecting Front Panel I O This motherboard connectors to the front panel I O are located an jumper block FS...

Page 22: ...tem Power LED Pins 18 20 The connector connects the system Power LED which lights when the system is powered on z KB LK Keyboard Lock Switch Pins 24 26 This connector connects to the case mounted lock...

Page 23: ...both the rising and falling end of the clock cycle yielding an effective speed of 133MHz z PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI is a 32 bit local bus data pathway which is faster than...

Page 24: ...s slots on the motherboard Select which slot you plan to use according to the kind of add on card you are going to install z In the system case remove the blanking plate from the opening in the case a...

Page 25: ...0 drives When you install two devices on a single IDE channel you must configure one of the devices as a MASTER device and one of the devices as a SLAVE device These configurations have no effect on p...

Page 26: ...a connector on the rear edge of the second device z If you have install a CD ROM or DVD drive you need to connect the audio output of the drive to the sound system integrated on the motherboard This p...

Page 27: ...output from your CD ROM or DVD drive into the audio input connectors either J6 or J7 on the motherboard Primary IDE1 Secondary IDE2 Master Slave Master Slave Status 1 Primary channel has priority over...

Page 28: ...e floppy disk drive connector on the motherboard The connector is named FDC1 Plug one end of the floppy ribbon cable into FDC1 Plug one of the other connectors into the data connector on the rear edge...

Page 29: ...e procedure below to connect the power supply z Locate the power connector ATX1 on the motherboard and devices z Plug the main power supply cable from the power supply unit into the ATX1 connector on...

Page 30: ...r I O panel provides external access to PS 2 style keyboard and mouse port two USB ports a parallel port a RJ 45 port two serial ports a game MIDI port and three audio jacks which are integrated on th...

Page 31: ...s or connect a MIDI device for playing or editing professional audio z GAME_AUDIO Lime Light Blue Pink Three 1 8 Audio Jacks you can connect a headphone or preferably powered speaker to the left side...

Page 32: ...s of the jack will also be disabled Table shows all the status of the Link LED it is useful as a trouble shooting aid Match the activity of LED on the port with one of the status indicated in the tabl...

Page 33: ...er s Manual 33 should be blinking when the data packet being transmitted from the cable Table shows status of the activity LED Off State Blink Description z Datapacketbeingtransmitted z Power off z No...

Page 34: ...II or VIA Cyrix111 z One SDRAM memory module z One graphics adapter z One IDE HDD drive one CD ROM drive and one FDD drive Networksystem on LAN Multiporthub PS 2 Mouse PS 2 Keyboard Device with the US...

Page 35: ...appear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you run on the power the system may have failed a power on test Recheck your jumper setting and connections or call your...

Page 36: ...t or write down your current system parameters This information will be need to restore your system after motherboard replacement if any The post runs automatically when you power on the system or res...

Page 37: ...ssembled your system you should immediately run the setup utility to configure the new hardware that you have used to build your system Thereafter you may not need to attend the setup utility again un...

Page 38: ...the main menu from a sub menu or Keypad arrow Selects the menu item to the left or right or Keypad arrow Moves the highlight up or down between fields Minus key Scrolls backward through the values for...

Page 39: ...r are Month 1 to 12 Day 1 to 31 Year up to 2079 The time format is based on the 24 hour military time clock Press the arrow keys to move to the desired field Press the PgUp or PgDn key to increment th...

Page 40: ...and cylinder num ber into a physical block address significantly improving data transfer rates For drives with greater than 1024 cylinders Floppy Drive These fields record the type of floppy disk driv...

Page 41: ...ng POST and continue the boot up process These are the selections z z z z z All But Keyboard The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error it will stop for all other errors z z z z z All But Disk...

Page 42: ...e system After you have made your selection s in the Standard CMOS Features press the Esc key to go back to main program screen Advanced BIOS Features Selecting Advanced BIOS Features on the main prog...

Page 43: ...sabled the cache of your system The cache fea ture enhances system performance because the most frequently used data is accessed from and written to the high speed cache memory The available options f...

Page 44: ...ROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 LAN Disabled LS ZIP Boot Other Device If you enable this item the system will search all other possible locations for an operating device it fails to find one in the devices spec...

Page 45: ...setting is enabled you can select a typematic delay the delay before key strokes begin to repeat to define how many milliseconds The available options for Typematic Rate Setting are Disabled Enabled...

Page 46: ...ystem BIOS and similar ROM firmware for expansion peripherals but it also reduces the amount of high memory 640KB to 1MB available for loading device drivers etc Enable shadowing into each section of...

Page 47: ...a tures of the installed chipset This chipset manages bus speeds and access to system memory resources such as DRAM and the external cache The default settings have been chosen because they provide th...

Page 48: ...ay cause a system error The available options for System BIOS Cacheable are Enabled Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video RAM resulting in better sys tem performan...

Page 49: ...nual AGP Fast Write Select Enabled if your system has an AGP adapter installed on the mother board in order to improve performance The available options for AGP Fast Write are Disabled Enabled Onchip...

Page 50: ...UDMA z OnChip IDE Channel 0 Channel 1 This chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled to activate the primary and or secondary onboard IDE interface Select D...

Page 51: ...m automatically determines the optimal data trans fer rate for each IDE device The available options for Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA are Auto Disabled Init Display First Allows you to decide t...

Page 52: ...rate up to 57 6K bps The available options for UART 2 Mode are Standard HPSIR ASKIR Onboard Parallel Port Allows you to determine onboard parallel port controller I O address setting The available opt...

Page 53: ...for ECP Mode Use DMA are 3 1 Parallel Port EPP Type allows you to select a DMA channel for the parallel port for use during EPP mode The available options for Parallel Port EPP Type are EPP1 9 EPP1 7...

Page 54: ...Suspend modes See the section PM Timers for a brief description of each mode z User Define allows you to set each mode individually Select time out periods in the HDD Power Down Doze Mode and Suspend...

Page 55: ...e enabled a hot key or password power on The system will resume in just a few seconds and it will appear in exactly the same state as it was before it was suspended to RAM The available options for AC...

Page 56: ...ower Management Signaling DPMS standard of the Video Electronics Standard Association VESA Use the software supplied for your video sub system to select video power management values The available opt...

Page 57: ...AC power resume z Off If yu select Off the system keep power off state after AC power resume The available options for State A fter Power Failure are Auto On Off Wake Up Events Wake Up Events are I O...

Page 58: ...d Select Enabled to rest Extened Sys tem Configuration Data ESCD when you exit setup if you have installed a new add on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious confilict that the oper...

Page 59: ...e options for Assign IRQ For USB are Enabled Disabled PC Health Status Selection PC Health Status on the main program screen display this menu You cannot change any values in the PC Health Status fiel...

Page 60: ...ence is reduced The available options for Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk are Enabled Disabled System EMI Support If you Enabled this item the EMI generated by the system is greatly reduced The available opt...

Page 61: ...press the Esc key to go back to the main program screen Load Fail Safe Optimized Defaults Selecting Load Fail Safe Defaults on the main program screen and press Enter key on this option You get a con...

Page 62: ...options of the setup menus When you select these function the following message will appear at the center of the screen to assist you in creating a password Type the password up to eight characters in...

Page 63: ...OS to request a password every time your system is rebooted This would prevent unanthorzed use of your system You determine when the pass word is required within the Advanced BIOS Feature setup menu a...

Page 64: ...ccording to the setup selections stored in CMOS After saving the values the system is restarted again Selecting Exit Without Saving on the main program screen and press Enter key on this option You ge...

Page 65: ...on program that runs automatically when you insert the CD ROM into your CD ROM drive If the program doesn t run open the Windows run Command from the Start menu and browse to the file Autorun on the C...

Page 66: ...se monitored parameters A per warning message will pop up on the screen when the monitored parameters is out of the preset range This software have to installed under Windows OS z Click HardWare Docto...

Page 67: ...licking the option item to increase decrease setting Figure 5 Figure 6 Four in One Driver For Win9X Installation This folder installs upgraded information files for Windows registry so that the featur...

Page 68: ...ides bus mastering UltraDMA 66 drivers for IDE devices runing on Windows NT4 0 system If you are runing Windows NT4 0 click on this item to install drivers z Click IDE Driver For NT40 on the Figure 2...

Page 69: ...Figure 2 the screen will appear Figure 11 Install the Audio driver from sub folders for Windows 95 98 NT4 0 and Win 2000 z z z z z Click Audio Driver For Win95 98 on the Figure 11 the screen will appe...

Page 70: ...Driver Installation In the driver provides the information about the driver installation guide for SIS900 Ethernet network operation system The following section will de scribe the most popular networ...

Page 71: ...Device Manager Click to the left of the Network adapters the screen will appear Figure 17 Highlight the LAN driver is installed successfully Figure 17 z Or allows your OS specify the path for LAN driv...

Page 72: ...it to a bootable DOS 6 X or Windows 98 diskette z If you are using DOS 6 X reboot your system with the bootable diskette in the A drive To make sure a clean DOS environment is loaded press the F5 key...

Page 73: ...verify that the new BIOS version appear on the screen After reprogramming the BIOS you may need to enter BIOS setup and reset your settings Make a backup copy of each provided drivers and utility CD...

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Page 75: ...inaccordancewiththeattachedmanu facturing drawings which form part of this declaration Assessment of compliance of the product with the requirements relating to electromag netic compatibility was base...

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