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PRM-0081I E1

High Performance

Dual Pentium II

AGP/PCI Mainboard

User’s Guide

Edition 3.01

©

 1999 DTK Computer, Inc.

P/N: 155100-8812

Summary of Contents for PRM-0081I E1

Page 1: ...PRM 0081I E1 High Performance Dual Pentium II AGP PCI Mainboard User s Guide Edition 3 01 1999 DTK Computer Inc P N 155100 8812 ...

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Page 3: ...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 i82440BX and Pentium II are registered trademark of Intel Corporation All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks o...

Page 4: ...TOR 15 3 10 CPU1 CPU2 SLOT FOR PENTIUM II III CPU 15 3 11 FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 CPU FAN CONNECTOR 15 3 12 PS 2 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR 16 3 13 PS 2 MOUSE CONNECTOR 16 3 14 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PORT 0 1 16 3 15 SERIAL PORT COM1 COM2 16 3 16 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR 16 3 17 RETENTION MECHANISM KITS INSTALLATION GUIDE 17 3 18 OPTIONAL HEATSINK SUPPORT INSTALLATION GUIDE 19 CHAPTER 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP GUIDE 21 4 1 ...

Page 5: ...III CHAPTER 5 FLASH AND DMI UTILITY 37 5 1 AWARD FLASH UTILITY 37 5 2 DESKTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE DMI OVERVIEW 39 APPENDIX A QUICK GUIDE 43 ...

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Page 7: ...3V unbuffered Support both Synchronous DRAM and Extended Data Output EDO Mode DRAM Modules ECC Function ensures 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 suppo...

Page 8: ... at PCI data transfer rates Zero wait state bus master data bursts Up to 64 byte PCI burst size to maximize the PCI data transfer rate Complies with PCI specification 2 1 Supports 32 bit 33MHz PCI bus Functions as full 32 bit PCI DMA Bus Master System BIOS Award BIOS 128KB Flash EPROM Slots One AGP slot Four PCI slots Two ISA slots 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 3 2 1 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: ...lose 5 5x J6 1 open 2 open 3 open 4 close 4 0x J6 1 open 2 close 3 close 4 close 6 0x J6 1 close 2 close 3 close 4 open 4 5x J6 1 open 2 close 3 open 4 close 6 5x J6 1 close 2 close 3 open 4 open 5 0x 66MHz or 100MHz J6 1 open 2 open 3 close 4 close 66MHz or 100MHz Table 1 Jumper Setting 2 4 JP3 CLEAR CMOS DATA JP3 is used to clear the content of the CMOS Data in the RTC build in PIIX4 chip Table ...

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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 ...

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Page 17: ...ch cable to this connector The Reset switch restarts the system POWER POWER ON OFF SWITCH It is used to switch on or off the ATX power supply The power 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 IDE SCSI HDD LED IDE SCSI HDD LED CONNECTOR It is usually connected to a HDD LED on front of the system ca...

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Page 19: ...ose Fig 7 Wake On LAN Connector 3 3 J3 J4 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 4 J5 FLOPPY DRIVE CONTROLLER This connector supports the floppy drive ribbon cable After connecting the single end to the board connect the ...

Page 20: ...SI CONNECTOR J8 is a 50 pin connector for a SCSI device 3 7 J9 ULTRA WIDE SCSI CONNECTOR J9 is a high density 68 pin connector for a wide SCSI device 3 8 J10 ATX POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR J10 is a 2x10 pin male connector Plug the power connector of the ATX power supply onto the connector Fig 8 ATX Power Supply Connector ...

Page 21: ...rDA Infrared and HP SIR Fig 9 IrDA Connector 3 10 CPU1 CPU2 SLOT FOR PENTIUM II III CPU CPU1 and CPU2 are the slots for Pentium II or Pentium III CPU Fig 10 Slot for Pentium CPU 3 11 FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 CPU FAN CONNECTOR FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 are three pin connectors which are used to connect with the CPU Fan Power cable ...

Page 22: ...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 14 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PORT 0 1 These connectors are two four pin female sockets which are available for connecting USB device 3 15 SERIAL PORT COM1 COM2 This is a D Type 9 pin male connector for pointing devices or other serial devices 3 16 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR...

Page 23: ...ector Configuration 17 3 17 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 24: ... as following Fig 14 Installation Guide a Mount the two RM Attach Mounts onto the motherboard from bottom side These mounts will be used to attach the RM Assembly b Put the RM Assembly on the Slot 1 and use the four screws to fix RM Assembly to the RM Attach Mount c Please refer to the diagram for the installation of Pentium II CPU Fig 15 ...

Page 25: ...Connector Configuration 19 3 18 OPTIONAL HEATSINK SUPPORT INSTALLATION GUIDE Optional Heatsink Support includes following components 1 Heatsink Top Support Fig 16 2 Heatsink Support Base Fig 17 ...

Page 26: ... Heatsink Support Base onto the motherboard insert the two plastic nail to the hole in the Heatsink Support Base as following diagram Fig 18 b Insert the Heatsink Top Support to the Pentium II Heatsink and the Heatsink Support Base as the following diagram Fig 19 ...

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 20 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 21 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: ...escription of the screen items follows Anti Virus Protection When enabled you receive a warning message if a program specifically a virus attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive You should then run an anti virus program The default is Disabled CPU L2 Cache Checking Choose Enabled or Disabled This option check CPU L2 Cache Quick Power On Self Test Choose E...

Page 31: ...e this function Video BIOS Shadow ROM Shadow copies Video BIOS code from slower ROM to faster RAM Video BIOS can then execute from RAM C8000 DFFFF Shadow If enabled and BIOS is present in this segment then the BIOS is shadowed 4 4 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP The Advanced Chipset Setup option is used to change the values of the chipset registers These registers control most of the system options in the ...

Page 32: ...ted 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 Current CPUFAN1 Speed This item will show the rotate speed per minute of the CPUFAN1 Current...

Page 33: ...ial Port Parallel Port Disabled Enabled Disabled Resume by Ring Resume by Alarm Date of Month Alarm Timer hh mm ss Alarm Wake Up On LAN IRQ 8 Break Suspend Enabled Disabled 0 0 0 0 Enabled Disabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 24 A short description of the screen items follows ACPI Function Choose Enabled Can Support ACPI Functio...

Page 34: ...y restarts the global timer for Standby Mode Soft Off 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 PWRON After PWR Fail When Enabled th...

Page 35: ...Award BIOS Setup Guide 29 ...

Page 36: ... assigned to IRQ 5 assigned to IRQ 7 assigned to IRQ 9 assigned to IRQ 10 assigned to IRQ 11 assigned to IRQ 12 assigned to 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 ...

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 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 38: ... 2 UART Mode Select RxD TxD Active IR Transmittion delay On Board Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA EPP Mode Select Enabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Normal Hi Lo Enabled 378 IRQ7 ECP 3 EPP1 9 ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 26 A short description of the screen items follows IDE HDD Block Mode This allows your hard disk cont...

Page 39: ...2F8 IRQ3 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 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 No...

Page 40: ...Chapter 4 34 EPP Mode Select Choose EPP1 7 or EPP1 9 for the EPP Mode ...

Page 41: ...e 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 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 PA...

Page 42: ...onfirm 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 following mes...

Page 43: ...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 27 3 Type the program name test bin and ...

Page 44: ...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 45: ...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 46: ... 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 47: ...Flash and DMI Utility 41 Load DMI File You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here ...

Page 48: ...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 49: ... 1 close 2 open 3 open 4 close For Ratio 4 0x J6 1 open 2 close 3 close 4 close For Ratio 4 5x J6 1 open 2 close 3 open 4 close For Ratio 5 0x J6 1 open 2 open 3 close 4 close For Ratio 5 5x J6 1 open 2 open 3 open 4 close For Ratio 6 0x J6 1 close 2 close 3 close 4 open For Ratio 6 5x J6 1 close 2 close 3 open 4 open Clear Normal JP3 1 2 short CMOS Data Clear JP3 2 3 short ...

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