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PRM-0077I

High Performance

Dual Pentium II

AGP/PCI Mainboard

Edition 1.00

 1998 DTK Computer, Inc.

P/N: 155100-8548

Summary of Contents for PRM-0077I

Page 1: ...PRM 0077I High Performance Dual Pentium II AGP PCI Mainboard Edition 1 00 1998 DTK Computer Inc P N 155100 8548 ...

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Page 3: ...arks 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 i82440LX and Pentium II are registered trademark of Intel Corporation All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered tradema...

Page 4: ... 12 3 11 J9 RESET 12 3 12 J12 FLOPPY DRIVE CONTROLLER 13 3 13 JP5 WAKE ON LAN CONNECTOR 13 3 14 JP11 JP12 PRIMARY SECONDARY IDE CONNECTORS 13 3 15 PS 2 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR 14 3 16 PS 2 MOUSE CONNECTOR 14 3 17 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PORT 0 1 14 3 18 SERIAL PORT COM1 COM2 14 3 19 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR 14 3 20 RETENTION MECHANISM KITS INSTALLATION GUIDE 15 CHAPTER 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP GUIDE 19 4 1 AWARD...

Page 5: ...III 4 13 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING MENU 33 CHAPTER 5 FLASH AND DMI UTILITY 35 5 1 AWARD FLASH UTILITY 35 5 2 DESKTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE DMI 37 OVERVIEW 37 APPENDIX A QUICK GUIDE 39 ...

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Page 7: ...red Support both Synchronous DRAM and Extended Data Output EDO Mode DRAM Modules ECC Function ensure data correction and integrity 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 Accele...

Page 8: ...n up to 4Mbytes sec PCI Bus Master for data transfer 8 bit 16 bit SCSI Bus support System BIOS Award AMI BIOS 128KB Flash EPROM Slots One AGP slot Four PCI slots 1 shared Three ISA slots 1 shared One RAID port Form Factor Full ATX Size 305mm x 244mm 4 Layer ...

Page 9: ...Introduction 3 Fig 1 Key Components of the Mainboard ...

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Page 11: ...th a jumper cap 1 2 3 The jumper is shorted when the jumper cap is placed over the two pins of the jumper The jumper is open when the jumper cap is removed from jumper Jumpers Convention Different color of jumper caps mini jumpers are used on the board to represent different usage of the jumpers Red CPU Clock setting Black Other ...

Page 12: ...Chapter 2 6 2 2 GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF JUMPER SETTINGS Fig 2 Jumper Location of the mainboard ...

Page 13: ...um II 233MHz 3 5x JP8 1 2 open 3 4 open 5 6 close Pentium II 266MHz 4 0x 66MHz JP8 1 2 close 3 4 close 5 6 open Pentium II 300MHz 4 5x JP8 1 2 open 3 4 close 5 6 open Pentium II 333MHz 5 0x JP8 1 2 close 3 4 open 5 6 open Table 1 Jumper Setting 2 4 J10 CLEAR CMOS DATA J10 is used to clear the content of the CMOS Data in the RTC build in PIIX4 chip Table 2 Clear CMOS Data ...

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Page 15: ...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 3 Connector Location ...

Page 16: ...X Power Supply Connector 3 2 U27 U28 SLOT 1 FOR PENTIUM II CPU U27 and U28 are the slots for Pentium II CPU Fig 5 Slot 1 for Pentium CPU 3 3 FAN1 FAN2 CPU FAN CONNECTOR FAN1 FAN2 are three pin connectors which are used to connect with the CPU Fan Power cable ...

Page 17: ...6 IrDA Connector 3 5 J2 SCSI CONNECTOR J2 is a 50 pin connector for a SCSI device 3 6 J3 ULTRA WIDE SCSI CONNECTOR J3 is a high density 68 pin connector for a wide SCSI device 3 7 J5 HDD LED J5 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 7 HDD LED ...

Page 18: ...er is turned on by short the power switch once It needs to hold the power switch about 4 seconds to turn it off when it has not start to display 3 10 J8 SPEAKER J8 is a four pins connector which is used to connect the system speaker Fig 9 Speaker 3 11 J9 RESET Attach the Reset switch cable to this connector The Reset switch restarts the system ...

Page 19: ...r end to the floppy drive 3 13 JP5 WAKE ON LAN CONNECTOR JP5 is a 3 pin connector as interface of LAN card for wake up on LAN purpose Fig 10 Wake On LAN Connector 3 14 JP11 JP12 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 ...

Page 20: ...his connector is a six pin female mini DIN connector using a PS 2 plug Plug the jack on the PS 2 keyboard cable into this connector 3 17 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PORT 0 1 These connectors are two four pin female sockets which are available for connecting USB device 3 18 SERIAL PORT COM1 COM2 This is a D Type 9 pin male connector for pointing devices or other serial devices 3 19 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR...

Page 21: ...ector Configuration 15 3 20 RETENTION MECHANISM KITS INSTALLATION GUIDE Retention Mechanism Kits includes following components 1 Retention mechanism Assembly Fig 12 2 Retention Mechanism Attach Mount Fig 13 ...

Page 22: ...3 16 3 Heatsink Top Support Fig 14 4 Heatsink Support Base Fig 15 Before the installation of RM Kits find the six holes on the motherboard for RM installation The hole position and usage is as following Fig 16 ...

Page 23: ...t the RM Assembly on the Slot 1 and use the four screws to fix RM Assembly to the RM Attach Mount 3 Install the Heatsink Support Base onto the motherboard insert the two plastic nail to the hole in the Heatsink Support Base as following diagram Fig 17 4 Insert the Heatsink Top Support to the Pentium II Heatsink and the Heatsink Support Base as the following diagram Fig 18 ...

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Page 25: ...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 26: ...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 19 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 27: ...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 20 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 28: ...dow Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Report No FDD For Win95 No ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 21 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 pa...

Page 29: ...t to provide support for gate 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 Set...

Page 30: ...e 16 Bit I O Recovery Time Memory Hole At 15M 16M Passive Release x222 x333 Non ECC Enabled Disabled Enabled Enabled 1 1 Disabled Enabled Vcore 3 4 V 12 V 5 V 2 76 3 38 11 82 4 87 2 5 V 5 0 V 12 V 2 48 5 04 11 78 Delayed Transaction AGP Aperture Size MB SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay SDRAM RAS Precharge Time Disabled 64 Slow Slow ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Lo...

Page 31: ...erted between consecutive 8 bit I O operations The settings are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 or N A The default setting is 1 16 Bit I O Recovery Time This option specifies the length of the delay in SYSCLKs inserted between consecutive 16 bit I O operations The settings are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 or N A The default setting is 1 Memory Hole At 15M 16M Choose Enabled or Disabled Enabled allows some linear VGA cards to ...

Page 32: ... Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 23 A short description of the screen items follows Power Management Available selection are Disabled User Define Max Saving and Disabled will disable all the power saving functions User Define makes the time period waiting for Suspend Mode to be programmed Max Saving will set the time period waiting for Suspe...

Page 33: ...ff by PWR BTTN Available options are Instant Off and Delay 4 sec For Instant Off option the power of the system will be switched off at once when the power button is pressed for turn it off For Delay 4 sec Option the power of the system will be switched off with 4 seconds later after the power button is pressed CPUFAN Off In Suspend If the option is set to Enabled the CPUFAN will stop when system ...

Page 34: ...o IRQ 14 assigned to IRQ 15 assigned to No Manual Disabled Legacy ISA Legacy ISA PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI IDE IRQ Map To Primary IDE INT Secondary IDE INT Used MEM base addr Used MEM Length PCI AUTO A B C800 8K DMA 0 assigned to DMA 1 assigned to DMA 3 assigned to DMA 5 assigned to DMA 6 assigned to DMA 7 assigned to PCI IS...

Page 35: ... PnP is chosen the BIOS will make the specified IRQ DMA have a chance to be assigned to the PCI or ISA PnP devices PCI IDE IRQ Map To Choose PCI AUTO PCI SLOT1 PCI SLOT2 PCI SLOT3 ISA The default setting is PCI AUTO Primary Secondary IDE INT Each PCI peripheral connection is capable of activating up to four interrupts INT A INT B INT C and INT D By default a PCI connection is assigned INT A Assign...

Page 36: ...bled Enabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 IrDA Onboard Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA EPP Mode Select 378 IRQ7 ECP EPP 1 EPP1 9 RxD TxD Active IR Transmittion delay Hi Hi Enabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 25 A short description of the screen items follows IDE HDD Block Mode This allows your hard disk controller to use ...

Page 37: ...se Address conflict with other I O devices The default setting is 3F8 IRQ4 Onboard Serial Port 2 Choose Auto Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 and 2E8 IRQ3 While choose proper I O Address IRQ be sure not to cause Address conflict with other I O devices The default setting is 2F8 IRQ3 UART Mode Select Choose Normal ASKIR Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared Port or IrDA for serial Interface RxD TxD Act...

Page 38: ...ystem 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 SETTING in the Main Menu and press Enter The following message appears ENTER PASSWORD 2 Enter the Password and press Enter The following message appears CONFIRM PASSW...

Page 39: ...N to confirm the acceptance then enter 4 The process will repeat for Primary Slave Secondary Master and Secondary Slave Hard Disks 4 12 SAVE EXIT SETUP MENU When you select this function the following message will appear at the centre of the screen to assist you to Save data to CMOS and Exit the Setup Save to CMOS and Exit Y N 4 13 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING MENU When you select this function the followi...

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Page 41: ...ples 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 26 3 Type the program name test bin and...

Page 42: ...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 43: ...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 44: ... 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 45: ...Flash and DMI Utility 39 Load DMI File You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here ...

Page 46: ...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 47: ...board Function Jumper Settings CPU Speed Selection Pentium II 233MHz JP8 1 2 open 3 4 open 5 6 close Pentium II 266MHz JP8 1 2 close 3 4 close 5 6 open Pentium II 300MHz JP8 1 2 open 3 4 close 5 6 open Pentium II 333MHz JP8 1 2 close 3 4 open 5 6 open Clear Clear J10 1 2 short CMOS Data Normal J10 2 3 short ...

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