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PRM-0084I VBX

High Performance

Pentium II PCI Mainboard

User’s Guide

Edition 1.00

1998 DTK Computer, Inc.

P/N: 155100-8695

Summary of Contents for PRM-0084I VBX

Page 1: ...PRM 0084I VBX High Performance Pentium II PCI Mainboard User s Guide Edition 1 00 1998 DTK Computer Inc P N 155100 8695 ...

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

Page 3: ...he lowest setting 133MHz for Pentium II 5 Save and exit BIOS setup your system can now boot successfully JUMPERLESS CPU SETUP MENU Select CPU Speed Setting item from the main menu and enter the sub menu ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGG3A CPU FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC CPU Speed 350MHz 100x3 5 ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults WARNING Don t ...

Page 4: ...IUM II CPU 14 3 11 SJ4 CD ROM AUDIO CONNECTOR MITSUMI PANASONIC 15 3 12 SJ6 CD ROM AUDIO CONNECTOR SONY 15 3 13 J1 ATX POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR 15 3 14 PS 2 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR 16 3 15 PS 2 MOUSE CONNECTOR 16 3 16 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PORT 0 1 16 3 17 SERIAL PORT COM1 COM2 16 3 18 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR 16 3 19 AUDIO PORT CONNECTOR 17 3 20 RETENTION MECHANISM KITS INSTALLATION GUIDE 17 CHAPTER 4 AWA...

Page 5: ...8 39 5 2 AGP VxD SETUP PROGRAM 39 5 3 VIA PCI MINIPORT DRIVER SETUP PROGRAM 39 5 4 VIA POWER MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER SETUP PROGRAM 40 5 5 SOUND DRIVER INSTALLATION 40 5 6 THE YSTATION APPLICATION FOR WINDOWS 95 WINDOWS 98 41 CHAPTER 6 FLASH AND DMI UTILITY 43 6 1 AWARD FLASH UTILITY 43 6 2 DESKTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE DMI OVERVIEW 45 APPENDIX A QUICK GUIDE 49 ...

Page 6: ... VT82C596 PCI ISA IDE Xcelerator Winbond W83977EF Super I O Controller Winbond W83781D optional Yamaha YMF740 Audio Drive Sound Controller Main Memory 3 DIMM socket constitute 6 memory banks DIMM Type 16 64 128 256MB 168 pin 3 3V unbuffered SDRAM with SMBus connections for memory detection ECC Functions ensure data correction and integrity SDRAM only Memory Configurations up to 768MB 100MHz SDRAM ...

Page 7: ...uch as HDD CD ROM drive and Tape Back up drives etc PCI Master IDE controller supports PIO Mode 3 and 4 devices I O data transfer rate can be up to 16 6MB s Ultra DMA Mode supported Transfer rate can be up to 33MB s Sound Controller Optional PCI 2 1 complaint PC97 PC98 specification compliant PCI Bus Power Management Rev 1 0 compliant PCI Bus Master for PCI Audio Supports PC PCI for legacy DMAC em...

Page 8: ...Introduction 3 Fig 1 Key Components of the Mainboard ...

Page 9: ...Chapter 1 4 ...

Page 10: ...ATION Pins 1 and 2 are shorted with a jumper cap 1 2 3 Pins 2 and 3 are shorted with 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 ...

Page 11: ...Chapter 2 6 2 2 GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF JUMPER SETTINGS Fig 2 Jumper Location of the mainboard ...

Page 12: ...ar CMOS 2 4 JP2 CPU SPEED PROTECTION This jumper sets CPU speed can change or not JP2 CPU Speed 2 3 selection 1 2 show only Table 2 2 5 MEMORY CONFIGUARTION The mainboard lets user upgrade system memory via DIMM sockets on the mainboard On board memory is located in six banks Bank 0 5 Three DIMM sockets are provided for Synchronous DRAM Table 3 provides the typical memory configurations supported ...

Page 13: ... each DIMM can be 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB or 256MB Bank 0 1 DIMM2 Bank 2 3 DIMM1 Bank 4 5 DIMM3 Installed None None None Installed None None None Installed Installed Installed None Installed None Installed None Installed Installed Installed Installed Installed Table 3 ...

Page 14: ...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 15: ...tor 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 SLEEP HARDWARE GREEN CONNECTOR Sleep is for SMI Break switch setting When Sleep is trigger from Open to Close and back to Open th...

Page 16: ...connected to a HDD LED on front of the system case If the HDD is in operation the indicator lights during operation Fig 4b HDD LED Connector SPEAKER SPEAKER CONNECTOR Speaker is a four pin connector which is used to connect the system speaker Fig 4c Speaker Connector ...

Page 17: ...RLED POWER LED AND KEYLOCK CONNECTOR Attach the power led cable to this connector If the system is power on the indicator lights Fig 4d Power LED Keylock Connector GRNLED GREEN LED CONNECTOR Fig 4e Green LED Connector ...

Page 18: ... the board connect the two plugs on the other end to your hard disk or other device 3 4 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 the floppy drive 3 5 CPUFAN CPU FAN CONNECTOR It is a three pin connector which is used to connect with the CPU Fan Power cable 3 6 BAKFAN B...

Page 19: ...OR It is a three pin connector which is used to connect with the Chassis Fan Power cable 3 8 WOL WAKE UP ON LAN Fig 6 Wake up On LAN 3 9 WOM WAKE UP ON MODEM Fig 7 Wake up On Modem 3 10 SLOT 1 FOR PENTIUM II CPU Fig 8 Slot 1 for Pentium II CPU ...

Page 20: ...Configuration 15 3 11 SJ4 CD ROM AUDIO CONNECTOR MITSUMI PANASONIC Fig 9 CD ROM Audio 3 12 SJ6 CD ROM AUDIO CONNECTOR SONY Fig 10 CD ROM Audio 3 13 J1 ATX POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR Fig 11 ATX Power Supply Connector ...

Page 21: ...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 16 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PORT 0 1 These connectors are two four pin female sockets which are available for connecting USB device 3 17 SERIAL PORT COM1 COM2 This is a D Type 9 pin male connector for pointing devices or other serial devices 3 18 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR...

Page 22: ...to headphones or powered speakers Line In allows tape players or other audio sources to be recorded by your computer or played through the Line Out MIC allows microphones to be connected for inputting voice 3 20 RETENTION MECHANISM KITS INSTALLATION GUIDE Retention Mechanism Kits includes following components 1 Retention mechanism Assembly Fig 13a ...

Page 23: ...Chapter 3 18 2 Retention Mechanism Attach Mount Fig 13b 3 Heatsink Top Support Fig 13c 4 Heatsink Support Base Fig 13d ...

Page 24: ...onnector Configuration 19 5 Top Holder for Celeron Fig 13e 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 14 ...

Page 25: ...ut 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 15 4 Insert the Heatsink Top Support to the Pentium II Heatsink and the Heatsink Support Base as the following diagram Fig 16 ...

Page 26: ...RM Attach Mounts onto the motherboard from bottom side These mounts will be used to attach the RM Assembly 2 Put the RM Assembly on the Slot 1 and use the four screws to fix RM Assembly to the RM attach Mount 3 Insert the Top Holder for Celeron as the following diagram Fig 17 ...

Page 27: ...el Box Celeron CPU s Cooler with normal Pentium II retention Cause the CPU with a bit inclination When installing the Top Holder for Celeron make sure that the PCB of the CPU is fitted into the rail inside the Top Holder The situation is shown as below Fig 18 ...

Page 28: ...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 29: ...SOR PASSWORD 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 M...

Page 30: ...rrors Base Memory Extended Memory Other Memory Total Memory 640K 64512K 384K 65536K 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 25i...

Page 31: ...N 95 Disabled 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 partition table of the hard disk drive You should then run an anti virus progra...

Page 32: ... 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 selected the password should be set PCI VGA Palette Snoop Select Disabled or Enabled If Enabled the MPEG Card can synchronised with PCI VGA OS Select For DRAM 64MB If the syst...

Page 33: ...oncurrent PCI Hose Video RAM Cacheable AGP Aperture Size MB AGP 2x Mode Onchip USB Disabled Disabled 128 Enabled Disabled Vcore V 3 3 V 12 V 5 V 2 01V 3 28V 12 03V 4 90V VTT V 5 V 12 V 1 47V 5 02V 11 59V H W Reset Protection Disabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 22 A short description of the screen items follows Bank 0 1 2 3 4 5 ...

Page 34: ...ithout any translation The available options are 4 8 16 32 64 128 and 256MB Onchip USB This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you wish to use it Even when so equipped if you add a higher performance controller you will need to disable this feature The choice is Enabled or Disabled CPU Warning Temperature This defines the CPU warning temperature If CPU tem...

Page 35: ...y VGA LPT COM HDD FDD DMA master OFF LPT COM ON OFF IRQ13 Coprocessor IRQ14 Hard Disk IRQ15 Reserved Primary Primary Disabled Wake Up On LAN Modem Ring Resume RTC Alarm Resume Enabled Disabled Disabled ESC Quit 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 ACPI Function To enabled feature for supporting t...

Page 36: ...ct 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 function is enabled the corresponded ...

Page 37: ...CI ISA PnP 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 ISA PnP CPU to PCI Write Buffer PCI Dynamic Bursting PCI Master 0 WS Write PCI Delay Transaction 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 Disabled Enabled Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled Level Disabl...

Page 38: ...our Dwords of data can be written to the PCI bus without interrupting the CPU When disabled a write buffer is not used and the CPU read cycle will not be completed until the PCI bus signals that it is ready to receive the data Choices are Enabled and Disabled PCI Dynamic Bursting When enabled every write transaction goes to the write buffer Burstable transactions then burst on the PCI bus and nonb...

Page 39: ...Enabled Enabled Enabled Auto Auto Auto Auto Auto Auto Auto Auto Disabled Button Only Onboard Serial Port 2 UART Mode Select RxD TxD Active IR Transmittion delay Onboard Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA ECP Mode Select 2F8 IRQ3 IrDA Hi Lo Enabled 378 IRQ7 ECP EPP 3 EPP1 7 Onboard FDC Controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Enabled 3F8 IRQ4 ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old ...

Page 40: ...ller to be functioned otherwise the users should use other sources Onboard Serial Port 1 Choose Auto Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 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 ...

Page 41: ...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 42: ...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 DE00 Format the SCSI disk by the Formatter provided in the SCSI BIOS 4 13 SAVE EXIT SETUP MENU When you select this function the following message will appear at ...

Page 43: ...Chapter 4 38 ...

Page 44: ...ows 95 d Type D 84ivbx drivers Ide master 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 VxD SETUP PROGRAM 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 84ivbx dr...

Page 45: ...ay D c When Windows 95 ask for driver browse for driver D 84ivbx drivers sound win95 or win98 directory D being the letter of CD ROM drive d For the GamePort joy stick setting use the default driver provided from Windows 95 CD e Insert the required Windows 95 distribution disk and click OK f After the installation is completed Windows 95 should be restarted to let the drivers take function II Wind...

Page 46: ...ows 95 Windows 98 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 84ivbx utility ystation setup exe D being the letter of CD ROM drive e Follow the on screen instructions to complete the installation ...

Page 47: ...Chapter 5 42 ...

Page 48: ...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 26 3 Type the program name test bin and ...

Page 49: ...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 50: ...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 51: ... 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 52: ...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 53: ...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 54: ... summaries the functions and settings of each jumper of the motherboard Function Jumper Settings CPU Speed show only JP2 1 2 short CPU Speed Protection CPU Speed selection JP2 2 3 short Normal JCC 2 3 short Clear CMOS Data Clear JCC 1 2 short ...

Page 55: ...Appendix A 50 ...

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