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PAM-0079V

High Performance

Pentium PCI Mainboard

User’s Guide

Edition 1.10

©

 1999 DTK Computer, Inc.

P/N: 155100-8797

Summary of Contents for PAM-0079V

Page 1: ...PAM 0079V High Performance Pentium PCI Mainboard User s Guide Edition 1 10 1999 DTK Computer Inc P N 155100 8797 ...

Page 2: ...of Microsoft Corporation Novell Netware are trademarks of Novell Inc Lotus 1 2 3 and Symphony are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation PC AT PC DOS OS 2 and Presentation Manager are trademarks of IBM Corporation UNIX is the trademark of AT T Intel i82440EX and Pentium II are registered trademark of Intel Corporation All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks o...

Page 3: ...PEED 13 2 9 JP1 CLEAR CMOS DATA 14 2 10 J6 VOLTAGE SELECTION FOR SYSTEM ROM 14 2 11 JP7 ONBOARD AUDIO SELECT 14 2 12 MEMORY CONFIGUARTION 15 CHAPTER 3 CONNECTOR CONFIGURATION 17 3 1 J1 POWER ON OFF SWITCH 18 3 2 J3 KEYLOCK CONNECTOR 18 3 3 J4 SPEAKER 18 3 4 J5 RESET 18 3 5 J7 GREEN LED 19 3 6 J8 HDD LED 19 3 7 JP2 IrDA CONNECTOR 19 3 8 JP3 WAKE UP ON LAN 20 3 9 JP4 INTERNAL MODEM RING UP 20 3 10 S...

Page 4: ... 36 4 10 USER PASSWORD 37 4 11 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION 37 4 12 SCSI HARD DISK INSTALLATION 37 4 13 SAVE EXIT SETUP MENU 37 4 14 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING MENU 38 CHAPTER 5 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 39 5 1 VIA BUS MASTER PCI IDE DRVIVER FOR WINDOWS 95 39 5 2 AGP VxD SETUP PROGRAM 39 5 3 VIA PCI MINIPORT DRIVER SETUP PROGRAM 40 5 4 VIA POWER MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER SETUP PROGRAM 40 5 5 SOUND DRIVER INSTALLATION ...

Page 5: ...SDRAM EDO DIMM socket for SDRAM 3 3V unbuffered Support both Synchronous DRAM and Extended Data Output EDO Mode DRAM Modules Multi I O On board Multi I O supports two serial one parallel ports and floppy drive controller Serial ports are 16550 Fast UART compatible Parallel port has EPP and ECP capabilities PS 2 keyboard and PS 2 mouse connector is provided IrDA supported USB supported Accelerated ...

Page 6: ... and Play support for Audio Joystick FM Controller MPU 401 Wave Audio support sample rates from 4KHz to 44KHz Full duplex monophonic mode half duplex stereo mode System BIOS Award BIOS 128KB Flash EPROM Slots One AGP slot Three PCI slots One ISA slots Form Factor Micro ATX Form Factor Size 244mm x 195mm 4 Layer Fig 1 Key Components of the Mainboard ...

Page 7: ...ree Celsius 10 to 65 Degree Celsius Relative Humidity without condensation 8 to 85 5 to 95 Altitude 10 000ft 40 000ft Vibration 1 000Hz Electricity 4 75 5 25V Power Specification Configuration 133MHz Intel P54C CPU 32MB 60ns EDO DIMM 512KB Cache 3 5 inch floppy drive 840MB Hard Disk running at DOS prompt DC Voltage Tolerance Consumption mA 5V 5 860 5V Standby 5 0 5 5V 5 0 12V 5 200 12V 5 30 ...

Page 8: ...Chapter 1 4 ...

Page 9: ...ed from jumper 2 2 CPU TYPE 2 2 1 INTEL PENTIUM CPU The pentium processors have different operation voltage In order to using the CPU Voltage correctly the following is the marking for identify the CPU type Fig 2a CPU Description Bottom Side Description X Voltage Specification S or V Y Timing Specification S or M S Standard Voltage 3 4V S Standard EDS timings V VRE 3 4 3 6V 3 5V M Min Valid Delay ...

Page 10: ...ndicate a valid product marking Fig 2b CPU Description Top Side 2 2 3 AMD K6 CPU The AMD K6 CPU family requires dual voltage power for operation The AMD K6 166 200 require a voltage of 2 9V core and 3 3V I O The AMD K6 233 requires a voltage of 3 2V core and 3 3V I O The following diagram is provided as an example only It does not necessarily indicate a valid product marking Fig 2c CPU Description...

Page 11: ...f the CPU The following diagram is provided as an example only It does not necessarily indicate a valid product marking Fig 2d CPU Description Top Side 2 2 5 CYRIX 6x86 CPU The Cyrix 6x86 has different nominal voltage depends on different lot Please refer to the CPU marking Fig 2e CPU Description Top Side Marketing Recommended Nominal Voltage 3 3V or 3 52V 3 52V 028 3 52V 016 3 3V Blank 3 52V ...

Page 12: ...oltage Please refer to the CPU marking Fig 2f CPU Description Top Side 2 2 7 CYRIX 6x86MX CPU The Cyrix 6x86MX has different I O and Core Voltage Please refer to the CPU marking Fig 2g CPU Description Top Side I O Voltage Core Voltage Cyrix 6x86MX 3 3V 2 9V Cyrix 6x86L 3 3V 2 8V ...

Page 13: ...Jumper Settings 9 2 2 8 IDT WinCHIP C6 CPU The IDT WinChip C6 CPU has different operating voltage Please refer to the CPU marking to identify the operating voltage Fig 2h CPU Description ...

Page 14: ...Chapter 2 10 2 3 GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF JUMPER SETTINGS Fig 3 Jumper Location of the mainboard ...

Page 15: ... M II 3 2 3 2V AMD K6 233 3 3 Intel Pentium 3 3V IDT WinChip C6 3 52 Cyrix 6x86 AMD K5 3 5V IDT WinChip C6 Table 1a Note If the BIOS doesn t show CPU Core Voltage item in Chipset Features Setup menu You need setup the CPU Core Voltage by jumpers B Jumper Setup The board also provides the hardware solution to select the CPU voltage Voltage Jumper Voltage Jumper 2 2V 3 2V 2 4V 3 3V 2 8V 3 5V 2 9V Ta...

Page 16: ...SW1 1 2 3 These switches set the frequency ratio between the Internal frequency of the CPU and the External frequency called the Bus clock within the CPU These must be set together with the above switches CPU External Bus Frequency Selection 2 7 SDRAM FREQUENCY SELECTION SW1 7 This switch set the SDRAM frequency same as CPU External frequency or AGP frequency SW1 7 ON SDRAM frequency AGP frequency...

Page 17: ...K6 2 266 266MHz 4 0x 66MHz ON OFF ON OFF ON ON AMD K6 2 300 300MHz 3 0x 100MHz OFF ON OFF OFF OFF OFF AMD K6 2 333 333MHz 3 5x 95MHz OFF OFF OFF ON OFF OFF AMD K6 2 350 350MHz 3 5x 100MHz OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF AMD K6 2 380 380MHz 4 0x 95MHz ON OFF ON ON OFF OFF AMD K6 2 400 400MHz 4 0x 100MHz ON OFF ON OFF OFF OFF AMD K6 2 450 450MHz 4 5x 100MHz ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF AMD K6 III 400 400MHz 4 0x 10...

Page 18: ...ild in PIIX4 chip Table 3 Clear CMOS Data 2 10 J6 VOLTAGE SELECTION FOR SYSTEM ROM J6 is used to select the operation voltage of the System ROM Table 4 Voltage Selection for System ROM 2 11 JP7 ONBOARD AUDIO SELECT JP7 is set to select the Onboard Audio enabled or disabled Table 5 Onboard Audio Select ...

Page 19: ... four banks Bank 0 3 Two DIMM sockets are provided for EDO DRAM or Synchronous DRAM Table 6 provides the typical memory configurations supported by the mainboard The maximum memory size is up to 256MB SDRAM EDO The size of each DIMM can be 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB or 128MB Bank 0 1 DIMM1 Bank 2 3 DIMM2 Installed None None Installed Installed Installed Table 6 ...

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Page 21: ...t step is to connect the internal cables The internal cables are wire leads with plastic female connectors that attach to the connectors The mainboard connectors have varying numbers of pins and are the points of contact between the mainboard and other parts of the computer Fig 4 Connector Location ...

Page 22: ...onds to turn it off when it has not start to display 3 2 J3 KEYLOCK CONNECTOR Attach the power led cable to this connector If the system is power on the indicator lights Fig 5 Keylock Connector 3 3 J4 SPEAKER J4 is a four pins connector which is used to connect the system speaker Fig 6 Speaker 3 4 J5 RESET Attach the Reset switch cable to this connector The Reset switch restarts the system ...

Page 23: ... LED will blink during suspend mode Fig 7 Green LED 3 6 J8 HDD LED J8 is usually connected to a HDD LED on front of the system case If the HDD is in operation the indicator lights during operation Fig 8 HDD LED 3 7 JP2 IrDA CONNECTOR JP2 is an IrDA connector that use UART2 as interface of IrDA Infrared and ASKIR Fig 9 IrDA Connector ...

Page 24: ...AKE UP ON LAN Fig 10 Wake up On LAN 3 9 JP4 INTERNAL MODEM RING UP Fig 11 Internal Modem Ring Up 3 10 SJ4 CD ROM AUDIO CONNECTOR MITSUMI PANASONIC Fig 12 CD ROM Audio 3 11 SJ6 CD ROM AUDIO CONNECTOR SONY Fig 13 CD ROM Audio ...

Page 25: ...E0 IDE1 PRIMARY SECONDARY IDE CONNECTORS These connectors support the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable After connecting the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to your hard disk or other device 3 15 FLOPPY FLOPPY DRIVE CONTROLLER This connector supports the floppy drive ribbon cable After connecting the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to...

Page 26: ...ese connectors are two four pin female sockets which are available for connecting USB device 3 19 SERIAL PORT COM1 COM2 This is a D Type 9 pin male connector for pointing devices or other serial devices 3 20 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR This is a D Type 25 pin female connector 3 21 AUDIO PORT CONNECTOR Three 1 8 female connectors used as line out line in and microphones Line Out can be connected direct...

Page 27: ...he BIOS setup program to tell the operating system what type of devices such as disk drives are connected to the system board The system setup is also called CMOS setup Normally users need to run system setup if either the hardware configuration is not identical with information contained in the CMOS RAM or the CMOS RAM has lost power 4 1 AWARD BIOS SETUP The setup program provided with the mainbo...

Page 28: ...ORD USER PASSWORD IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING Esc Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Data Hard Disk Type Fig 16 3 Choose an option and press Enter Modify the system parameters to reflect the options installed in the system see the following sections for more information 4 Press ESC at anytime to return to the Main Menu 5 In the Main Menu ...

Page 29: ...ll Errors Base Memory Extended Memory Other Memory Total Memory 0K 0K 512K 512K Esc Quit Select Item PU PD Modify F1 Help Shift F2 Change Color Fig 17 Date mm dd yy Type the current date Time hh mm ss Type the current time Hard Disks Choose from the standard hare disk types 1 to 45 Type 47 is user definable Type Auto is for auto detect the hard disk type Drive A B Choose 360K 5 25in 1 2M 5 25in 72...

Page 30: ...isabled Disabled Disabled Disabled HDD S M A R T capability Report No FDD For WIN 95 Disabled No ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 18 BIOS Setup Defaults A short description of the screen items follows Virus Warning When enabled you receive a warning message if a program specifically a virus attempts to write to the boot sector or the...

Page 31: ...te A20 Typematic Rate Setting Choose Enabled or Disabled Enabled will determines the typematic rate defined by following two options Typematic Rate The number selected 6 8 10 indicates how fast the number of characters can response in one second Typematic Delay Msec The number selected indicates the time period between two identical keys appear Security Option Choose Setup or System If system is s...

Page 32: ...iar with the Chipset ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEG3D CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Bank 0 DRAM Timing Bank 1 DRAM Timing SDRAM Cycle Length DRAM Read Pipeline Cache Rd CPU W Pipeline FP EDO 70ns FP EDO 70ns 3 Disabled Disabled Onchip USB USB Keyboard Support Enabled Disabled Cache Timing Video BIOS Cacheable System BIOS Cacheable Memory Hole At 15M 16M AGP Aperture Size CPU Core Voltage Fast...

Page 33: ...able options are Fast and Faster System Video BIOS Cacheable Choose Enabled or Disabled Enabled allows system video BIOS be cacheable Memory Hole At 15M 16M Choose Enabled or Disabled Enabled allows some linear VGA cards to run larger frame port or it can be reserved for some operating system AGP Aperture Size It is used to setup the maximum aperture size used by the AGP Graphic Card The available...

Page 34: ...Q14 Hard Disk IRQ15 Reserved Disabled Disabled HDD FDD DMA Master Modem Ring Resume RTC Alarm Resume Date of month Timer hh mm ss OFF OFF Disabled Enabled 1 0 0 0 ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 20 A short description of the screen items follows Power Management Available selections are Disabled User Define Max Saving and Min Saving...

Page 35: ...for 4 second HDD Power Down To select the time period will turn the HDD off Accessing the HDD again will take a few seconds for HDD to spin up for operation Suspend Mode To set the time period waiting for Suspend Mode when the Power Management function is set to User Define VGA LPT COM HDD FDD DMA Master All of these functions are used to control the wake up event from the Suspend Mode Once the fu...

Page 36: ... PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP CPU to PCI Write Buffer PCI Dynamic Bursting PCI Master 0 WS Write PCI Delay Transaction PCI Master Read Prefetch PCI 2 Access 1 Retry AGP Master 1 WS Write AGP Master 1 WS Read PCI IRQ Actived By Assign IRQ For USB Assign IRQ For VGA Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Level Disabled Enabled DMA...

Page 37: ...PnP is chosen the BIOS will make the specified IRQ DMA have a chance to be assigned to the PCI or ISA PnP devices CPU to PCI Write Buffer It is used to enable or disable the CPU to PCI Write Buffer PCI Dynamic Bursting It is used to enable or disable the PCI dynamic bursting cycles PCI Master 0 WS Write Choose enable to let the PCI Master using 0 wait state in write cycle PCI Delay Transaction Sel...

Page 38: ...to Auto Auto Auto Auto Auto Auto Auto AGP Enabled Onboard Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA EPP Mode Select 378 IRQ7 SPP 3 EPP1 7 Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Serial Port 2 UART Mode Select RxD TxD Active IR Transmittion delay 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Standard Hi Lo Enabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 22 A short descri...

Page 39: ...r sources Onboard Serial Port 1 Choose Auto Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ2 3E8 IRQ4 and 2E8 IRQ3 While choosing proper I O Address IRQ be sure not to cause Address conflict with other I O devices The default setting is 3F8 IRQ4 Onboard Serial Port 2 Choose Auto Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ2 3E8 IRQ4 and 2E8 IRQ3 While choosing proper I O Address IRQ be sure not to cause Address conflict with other I O de...

Page 40: ...assword is supported Depending on the setting of the Security Option in the BIOS FEATURES SETUP the system BIOS will ask for password every time booting up the System or entering BIOS Setup With the supervisor password both the system booting and BIOS setup changing is allowed This main menu item lets the user to set up the Supervisor Password Change the password as follows 1 Choose PASSWORD SETTI...

Page 41: ... acceptance then enter 4 The process will repeat for Primary Slave Secondary Master and Secondary Slave Hard Disks 4 12 SCSI HARD DISK INSTALLATION In Standard CMOS Setup Utility select hard disk type to be Not Installed In Advanced CMOS Setup Utility Disable Adapter ROM Shadow DC00 On the SCSI Controller card set the jumpers which configure the SCSI card BIOS segment address located at DC00 or DE...

Page 42: ...pter 4 38 4 14 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING MENU When you select this function the following message will appear at the centre of the screen to assist you to Abandon all Data and Exit Setup Quit Without Saving Y N ...

Page 43: ...VIA BUS MASTER PCI IDE DRVIVER FOR WINDOWS 95 a Under Windows 95 insert the CD title into the CD ROM drive say D b Click Start on the taskbar in Windows 95 c Click Run on the menu bar in Windows 95 d Type D 79VE0 drivers idemas 2 setup exe D being the letter of CD ROM drive e Follow the on screen instructions to complete the installation Restart Windows 95 to let the drivers take function 5 2 AGP ...

Page 44: ...ivers Acpi setup exe D being the letter of CD ROM drive e Follow the on screen instructions to complete the installation Restart Windows 95 to let the drivers take function 5 5 SOUND DRIVER INSTALLATION I Windows 95 Windows 98 For a newly installed Win95 system a Upon boot up the system will detect the Yamaha OPL3 SAx Sound System b Windows 95 will prompt for the driver diskette then insert the CD...

Page 45: ...rivers sound winnt general D being the letter of CD ROM drive and then click OK i Select the right OPL3 SA sound system and follow the on screen instructions to complete the installation j Restart the system 5 6 THE YSTATION APPLICATION FOR WINDOWS 95 WINDOWS 98 a Under Windows 95 Windows 98 insert CD title into the CD ROM drive say D b Click Start on the taskbar in Windows 95 c Click Run on the m...

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Page 47: ...les to let you have a more clear understanding of the updating process How to Begin 1 Please type awdflash and press the ENTER key to begin the updating process 2 Once you enter you will see a main menu displaying FLASH MEMORY WRITER V5 XX Copyright C 1996 Award Software Inc For I430HX 2A59F000 Flash Type File Name to Program DATE 06 18 96 Error Message Fig 23 3 Type the program name test bin and ...

Page 48: ...n the file name 2A59F000 OLD 11 Then you will be requested to answer Are You Sure to Program Y N 12 Type Y to begin programming and press the ENTER key 13 When the programming is finished the showing message will appear Programming Flash Memory 1FF00 0K Message Please Power off or Reset System 14 Once you see the showing message Power Off or Reset System please re start your system 15 When you pow...

Page 49: ...hose collected information in a 4KB block in the motherboard s flash EPROM and allow the DMI to retrieve data from this database The DMI Configuration Utility DMICFG EXE must be used in real mode in order for the program to run the base memory must be at least 180K Memory managers like HIMEM SYS required by windows must not be installed You can boot up from a system diskette without AUTOEXEC BAT a...

Page 50: ... up menu is available use the plus minus keys to change the settings Enter to exit and save ESC to exit and not save If the user has made changes ESC will prompt you to answer Y or N Enter Y to go back to the left hand screen and save enter N to go back to left hand screen and not save If editing has not been made ESC will send you back to the left hand menu without any messages Add DMI This DMI C...

Page 51: ...Flash and DMI Utility 47 Load DMI File You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here ...

Page 52: ...DMI File You can save the DMI normally only saved to flash ROM to a file by entering the drive and path here If you want to cancel save you may press ESC and a message Bad File Name appears here to show it was not saved ...

Page 53: ...PU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON For 120MHz Intel Pentium AMD K5 PR120 and Cyrix 6x86L PR150 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 ON OFF OFF ON ON ON For 133MHz Intel Pentium AMD K5 PR133 REV C and Cyrix 6x86L PR166 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 ON OFF OFF OFF ON ON For 150MHz Intel Pentium and Cyrix 6x86MX PR166 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 ON O...

Page 54: ...6MX PR233 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 ON ON OFF ON ON OFF For 200MHz Intel Pentium AMD K6 200 Cyrix 6x86MX PR233 and IDT WinChip C6 200 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 OFF ON OFF OFF ON ON For 208MHz IBM 6x86MX PR266 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 ON ON OFF OFF ON OFF For 225MHz Cyrix M II 300 using 75MHz CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 OFF ON OFF ON ON OFF For...

Page 55: ...0 and Cyrix M II 350 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 OFF ON OFF OFF OFF OFF For 333MHz AMD K6 2 333 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 OFF OFF OFF ON OFF OFF For 350MHz AMD K6 2 350 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF For 380MHz AMD K6 2 380 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 ON OFF ON ON OFF OFF For 400MHz AMD K6 2 400 and AMD K6 III 400 CPU SW1 1 SW1...

Page 56: ...D K6 2 450 and AMD K6 III 450 CPU SW1 1 SW1 2 SW1 3 SW1 4 SW1 5 SW1 6 ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF Clear Normal JP1 1 2 short CMOS Data Clear JP1 2 3 short Voltage For 12V Flash ROM J6 1 2 short System ROM 5V Flash ROM J6 2 3 short Onboard Disabled JP7 open Audio Enabled JP7 short ...

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