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EP-3S1M

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Summary of Contents for EP-3S1M

Page 1: ...ice Manual Revision 1 1 September 26 2000 An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series ch...

Page 2: ...ut notice For updated BIOS drivers or product release information you may visit our websites at http www epox com or http www epox com tw Products mentioned in this manual are mentioned for identifica...

Page 3: ...____________________ Contacting Technical Support EPoX technical support is working hard to answer all of your questions online From our website you can find answers to many common questions drivers B...

Page 4: ...ck Diagram 1 8 Section 2 Features EP 3S1M Features 2 1 Section 3 Installation EP 3S1M Detailed Layout 3 2 Easy Installation Procedure CPU Insertion 3 3 Jumper Settings 3 5 System Memory Configuration...

Page 5: ...Password Setting 4 26 Exit Selecting 4 27 Section 5 815 Series VGA and Sound Driver Installation Easy Driver Installation 5 1 Appendix Appendix A Memory Map A 1 I O Map A 1 Timer DMA Channels Map A 2...

Page 6: ...EP 3S1M Page Left Blank...

Page 7: ...al 9 9 9 9 9 C 1 Floppy ribbon cable 9 9 9 9 9 D 1 ATA66 Hard drive ribbon cable 9 9 9 9 9 E 1 RS 232 9 PIN ribbon cable F 1 PS 2 to AT keyboard connector adapter optional 9 9 9 9 9 G 1 Onboard Graphi...

Page 8: ...ng the potential for reducing costs of processor retention and cooling solutions Like the Intel Celeron proces sors that utilize S E P P the Intel Celeron processors that use P P G A feature a P6 micr...

Page 9: ...s are attached directly to the back of the processor core package without the use of a thermal plate or heat spreader The Coppermine processor like the Intel Celeron Intel Pentium II and Pentium III i...

Page 10: ...CH features Intel R graphics technology and software drivers using Direct AGP integrated AGP to create vivid 2D and 3D effects and images The 82815 series chip feature integrated Hardware Motion Compe...

Page 11: ...y reusing existing system resources this feature adds flexibility improves sound and modem quality The 82802 Firmware Hub FWH 4MB stores system BIOS and video BIOS eliminating a redundant nonvolatile...

Page 12: ...nly the size and position of this aperture is defined allowing PC manufacturers to add new I O features e g TV input TV output modem LAN etc to systems This will help systems integrators differen tiat...

Page 13: ...pen The EP 3S1M has been designed with Soft Off functions You can turn Off the system from one of two sources The first is the front panel Power On Off the button and the other is the Soft Off functio...

Page 14: ...Introduction EP 3S1M Page 1 8 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram...

Page 15: ...odule or AIMM Card Supports up to 512 MB of DRAM minimum of 32 MB on board You can use 168 pin DIMM x 2 It will run Synchronous DRAM memory SDRAM at 100MHz 133MHz Integrated 2D 3D Graphics Engine H W...

Page 16: ...rough external modem allow system to be turned on remotely Resume by Alarm Allow your system to turn on according to setup schedule in the BIOS Supports CPU Hardware sleep and SMM System Management Mo...

Page 17: ...Installation EP 3S1M Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 18: ...Installation EP 3S1M Page 3 2 Figure 1 EP 3S1M Detailed Layout...

Page 19: ...ection 3 1 CPU Insertion CPU Insertion use CoppermineTM for reference Step 1 Open the socket by raising the actuation lever Figure 2 Step 2 Insert the processor Ensure proper pin 1 orientation by alig...

Page 20: ...e the socket by lowering and locking the actuation lever Note Intel s reference design thermal solution is an active heatsink an extruded alumi num heatsink based and a fan attached to the top on the...

Page 21: ...3 Clear CMOS ReservedFor Cyrix CPU 1 1 JP10 JP11 CPU Type Select Reserved 0 1 P J 1 1 P J t c e l e S e p y T U P C 2 1 2 1 t l u a f e D U P C l e t n I 3 2 3 2 U P C s r e h t O z H M 0 0 1 3 2 2 1...

Page 22: ...10ns or 133MHz 7 5ns bus speed Figure 6 and Table 1 show several possible memory configurations using SDRAM only supports 32 64 128 256MB DIMM modules We recommend to use PC100 Memory Module for bus...

Page 23: ...installed by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a 90 degree angle and pressing straight down figure 8 until it fits tightly into the DIMM socket figure 9 Figure 7 Figure 9 DIMM Module clip aft...

Page 24: ...wer A plug in for the chassis Fan Power J7 WOL Wake On Lan Connector COM2 RS232 COM2 Connector PW1 ATX Power Connector 20 pin power connector IDE1 Primary IDE Connector IDE2 Secondary IDE Connector FD...

Page 25: ...a N l a n g i S t n e m m o C 1 d e R c c V r e w o P e l b a C 2 k c a l B d n u o r G d n u o r G e s a C 3 e t i h W a t a D a t a D 4 k c a l B d n u o r G d n u o r G e l b a C 5 n e e r G a t a...

Page 26: ...oose either Instant Off turns system off immediatly or 4 sec delay you need to hold the button down for 4 seconds before the system turns off When the system is in 4 sec delay mode there is a special...

Page 27: ...t or digital display AIMM Card with AGP connector For integrated graphics to upgrade 4MB display cache TV Out Digital display DTFP To I O Rear Panel AIMM Card AGP Connector EP TV2 EP PL2 The EP TV2 an...

Page 28: ...Step 1 Please check JP13 at the position 1 2 after you finished the system installation Step 2 Push the momentary switch J3 PW ON to turn on your system and then push again to hold for more than 4 se...

Page 29: ...SB standby power only has to be 0 1A 100mA then you can enjoy this unique benefit However the ATX power supply which is 0 1 100mA is still applicable to your system by placed JP13 at the position 2 3...

Page 30: ...ng before installing the Windows 98 Driver Setup p j If the Windows 98 installed in your system without the parameters above please do refer your manual or contact Microsoft for more detail and then u...

Page 31: ...ON ON OFF J2 PW_LED OFF ON Blinking Blinking OFF d You must push the Power button connected with onboard J3 pin to wake up you system not to click to mouse or press keyboard to wake up the system Jus...

Page 32: ...Installation EP 3S1M Page 3 16 Page Left Blank...

Page 33: ...Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press Enter to accept and enter the sub menu Note that a brief description of each highlighted selection appears at the bottom of the screen Setup Ite...

Page 34: ...include Voltage Fan speed CPU temperature Frequency Voltage Control Use this menu to specify your settings for frequency voltage control Load Fail Safe Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default...

Page 35: ...Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories Each cat egory includes no one or more than one setup items Use the arrow keys to high light the item and then use the PgUp or PgDn keys to sel...

Page 36: ...ribed in Table 3 Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options Drive A Drive B None 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in Select the type of floppy disk drive install...

Page 37: ...M Page 4 5 IDE Adapters The IDE adapters control the hard disk drive Use a separate sub menu to configure each hard disk drive Figure 2 shows the IDE primary master sub menu Figure 2 IDE Primary Maste...

Page 38: ...heads etc Note PRECOMP 65535 means NONE Capacity Auto Display your disk drive size Disk drive capacity Approximated Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk gi...

Page 39: ...bled and someone attempt to write data into this area BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to ap...

Page 40: ...e quick POST Disabled Normal POST First Second Third Other Boot Device The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items The Choice Floppy LS120 H...

Page 41: ...en you enter setup System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt Setup The system will boot but access to Setup will be denied...

Page 42: ...ngs have been chosen be cause they provide the best operating conditions for your system The only time you might consider making any changes would be if you discovered that data was being lost while u...

Page 43: ...and the DRAM may fail to retain data Fast gives faster performance and Slow gives more stable performance This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system The Choice 2 3 System...

Page 44: ...to share The default is 64 32 32MB of systems memory accessable by the 815 series AGP 64 64MB of systems memory accessable by the 815 series AGP AGP Graphics Aperture Size MB The amount of system mem...

Page 45: ...ride Select the display cache clock periods control The Choice by CAS LT Override 2 RAS Timing This item controls RAS active to Protegra and refresh to RAS active delay in local memory clocks The Choi...

Page 46: ...DE interface supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device The choice Auto Mode 0 Mode 1 Mode 2 M...

Page 47: ...k Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of...

Page 48: ...Ctrl F10 Ctrl F11 and Ctrl F12 Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install and in FDC or...

Page 49: ...P1 9 EPP1 7 ECP Mode USE DMA This field allows the user to select DMA1 or DMA3 for the ECP mode The default is DMA3 DMA1 This field selects the routing of DMA1 for the ECP mode DMA3 This field selects...

Page 50: ...se ACPI Function This item allows you to enable disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Man agement ACPI The choice Enabled Disabled ACPI Suspend Type This item allows you to select S1 POS or S3...

Page 51: ...anges from 1 min to 15 min and disable Video Off Method This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked V H SYNC Blank This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and hori...

Page 52: ...n LAN WOL features The choice Enabled Disabled CPU Thermal Throttling Select the CPU THRM Throttling rate The choice 25 0 37 5 50 0 62 5 75 0 87 5 Resume by Alarm This option allows you to have the sy...

Page 53: ...et Configuration Data Normally you leave this field Disabled Select Enabled to reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add on and the system recon...

Page 54: ...that follows this field a sub menu is preceded by a The choice Auto ESCD Manual PCI VGA Palette Snoop Leave this field at Disabled Choices are Enabled Disabled INT Pin1 to Pin4 Assignment These settin...

Page 55: ...PU V The voltage level of the Vtt Vcore Vcc 5V 12V 12V 5V VBAT 5VSB The voltage level of the switch power supply Shutdown Temperature This is the temperature that the computer will turn off the power...

Page 56: ...to set the CPU SDRAM AGP PCI clock at jumperfree This item allows you to select the CPU Host speed and PCI clock speed by Enter key If default is means the CPU Host speed that depend on the CPU is 100...

Page 57: ...box with a message similar to Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal perfor mance system operations Load Optimized Defaults When you press...

Page 58: ...the selection and not enter a password To disable a password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will confirm the password will be disabled Once the pass word is dis...

Page 59: ...urn your system off The next time you boot your computer the BIOS configures your system according to the Setup selections stored in CMOS After saving the values the system is restarted again Exit Wit...

Page 60: ...rosoft Windows 95 OSR 2 1 and Windows 98 operating systems Step 2 To Click the Intel INF Installation Utility This installer will install up dated INF files onto the target machine Supported operating...

Page 61: ...Drivers Installation EP 3S1M Page 5 2 Page Left Blank...

Page 62: ...CGA adaptor F0000 F7FFF 32K BIOS CMOS setup utility F8000 FCFFF 20K BIOS runtime service routine 2 FD000 FDFFF 4K Plug and Play ESCD data area FE000 FFFFF 8K BIOS runtime service routine 1 A 2 I O MA...

Page 63: ...nel 1 DRAM REFRESH request TIMER Channel 2 SPEAKER tone generator DMA CHANNELS DMA Channel 0 Available DMA Channel 1 Onboard ECP Option DMA Channel 2 FLOPPY DISK SMC CHIP DMA Channel 3 Onboard ECP def...

Page 64: ...annel A 5 RTC CMOS RAM MAP RTC CMOS 00 Seconds 01 Second alarm 02 Minutes 03 Minutes alarm 04 Hours 05 Hours alarm 06 Day of week 07 Day of month 08 Month 09 Year 0A Status register A 0B Status regist...

Page 65: ...Extension memory low byte 18 Extension memory high byte 19 2d 2E 2F 30 Reserved for extension memory low byte 31 Reserved for extension memory high byte 32 DATE CENTURY byte 33 INFORMATION FLAG 34 3F...

Page 66: ...S code to DRAM C5h Call chipset hook to copy BIOS back to E000 F000 shadow RAM 0h1 Expand the Xgroup codes locating in physical address 1000 0 02h Reserved 03h Initial Superio_Early_Init switch 04h Re...

Page 67: ...ault values into chipset Chipset default values are MODBINable by OEM customers 15h Reserved 16h Initial Early_Init_Onboard_Generator switch 17h Reserved 18h Detect CPU information including brand SMI...

Page 68: ...put it into C000 0 24h Reserved 25h Reserved 26h Reserved 27h Initialize INT 09 buffer 28h Reserved 29h 1 Program CPU internal MTRR P6 PII for 0 640K memory address 2 Initialize the APIC for Pentium c...

Page 69: ...eserved 46h Reserved 47h Initialize EISA slot 48h Reserved 49h 1 Calculate total memory by testing the last double word of each 64K page 2 Program write allocation for AMD K5 CPU 4Ah Reserved 4Bh Rese...

Page 70: ...or entering AWDFLASH EXE from FDD optional 5Ch Reserved 5Dh 1 Initialize Init_Onboard_Super_IO switch 2 Initialize Init_Onbaord_AUDIO switch 5Eh Reserved 5Fh Reserved 60h Okay to enter Setup utility i...

Page 71: ...install all IDE devices HDD LS120 ZIP CDROM 76h Reserved 77h Detect serial ports parallel ports 78h Reserved 79h Reserved 7Ah Detect install co processor 7Bh Reserved 7Ch Reserved 7Dh Reserved 7Eh Re...

Page 72: ...erved 91h Reserved 92h Reserved 93h Read HDD boot sector information for Trend Anti Virus code 94h 1 Enable L2 cache 2 Program boot up speed 3 Chipset final initialization 4 Power management final ini...

Page 73: ...Appendix EP 3S1M A 12 Page Left Blank...

Page 74: ...d LOAD Optimized DEFAULTS CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 1998 Standard CMOS Feature Advanced BIOS Feature Advanced Chipset Feature Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configurat...

Page 75: ...Appendix EP 3S1M A 14 Page Left Blank...

Page 76: ...lder or Ghost exe to your hard disk The current market version is for single Client so the LPT and NetBios portions will not be explained further Description of Menus Ghost clones and backs up Disk an...

Page 77: ...set the required partition size as shown in the following figure There are 3 hard disk functions 1 Disk To Disk disk cloning 2 Disk To Image disk backup 3 Disk From Image restore backup Important 1 To...

Page 78: ...EP 3S1M A 17 4 Click OK to display the following confirmation screen Select Yes to start Disk To Image Disk Backup 1 Select the location of the Source drive 2 Select the location for storing the back...

Page 79: ...ix EP 3S1M A 18 Disk From Image Restore Backup 1 Select the Restore file 2 Select the Destination drive of the disk to be restored 3 Click OK to display the following confirmation screen Select Yes to...

Page 80: ...ppendix EP 3S1M A 19 3 When restoring disk backup set the required partition size as shown in the following figure 4 Click OK to display the following confirmation screen Select Yes to start Partition...

Page 81: ...tition functions 1 Partition To Partition partition cloning 2 Partition To Image partition backup 3 Partition From Image restore partition Partition To Partition Partition Cloning The basic unit for p...

Page 82: ...Is the file compressed There are 3 options 1 No do not compress data during backup 2 Fast Small volume compression 3 High high ratio compression File can be compressed to its minimum but this require...

Page 83: ...Appendix EP 3S1M A 22 Partition From Image Restore Partition 1 Select the backup file to be restored 2 Select the source partition 3 Select the disk to be restored...

Page 84: ...endix EP 3S1M A 23 4 Select the partition to be restored 5 Select Yes to start restoring Check This function checks the hard disk or backup file for backup or restoration error due to FAT or track err...

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