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EP-3VCA

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EP-3VCA serial number:

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Summary of Contents for EP-3VCA

Page 1: ...Soc A Soc A Sock k k k ket 370 Pr et 370 Pr et 370 Pr et 370 Pr et 370 Processor based 4X ocessor based 4X ocessor based 4X ocessor based 4X ocessor based 4X A A A A AGP GP GP GP GP mainboard 133 100...

Page 2: ...out 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 identific...

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 drive...

Page 4: ...PU Insertion 3 3 Jumper Settings 3 5 System Memory Configuration 3 6 Device Connectors 3 8 External Modem Ring in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Function KBPO 3 10 Section 4 Award BIOS Setup BIOS Inst...

Page 5: ...g 4 25 Appendix Appendix A Memory Map A 1 I O Map A 1 Timer DMA Channels Map A 2 Interrupt Map A 2 RTC CMOS RAM Map A 3 Appendix B POST Codes A 5 Unexpected Errors A 8 Appendix C Load Setup Defaults A...

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

Page 7: ...UCTION Components Checklist A 1 EP 3VCA mainboard B 1 EP 3VCA user s manual C 1 Floppy ribbon cable D 1 ATA 66 Hard drive ribbon cable E 1 PS 2 to AT keyboard connector adapter optional F 1 Driver and...

Page 8: ...egrators differentiate their products in the marketplace and better meet your needs By integrating more I O down onto the board and better positioning the hard drive and floppy connectors material cos...

Page 9: ...two sources The first is the front panel Power On Off button and the other is the Soft Off function coming from the EP 3VCA s onboard circuit controller that can be controlled by the operating system...

Page 10: ...VCA Page 1 4 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT82C694X 133 100 66MHz 133 100 66MHz 66MHz Socket 370 Processor VT82C686A I O Bridge AC 97 USB 0 1...

Page 11: ...lots 5 32 bit PCI slots 1 4X AGP slot 1 AMR slot and provides 2 independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA 33 66 devices The EP 3VCA supports 5 PC...

Page 12: ...ly connector Software power down when using Windows 95 98 or Windows 2000 Supports ring in feature remote power on through external modem allows system to be turned on remotely Resume by Alarm Allows...

Page 13: ...Installation EP 3VCA Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION EP 3VCA Mainboard...

Page 14: ...Installation EP 3VCA Page 3 2 EP 3VCA Detailed Layout Figure 1...

Page 15: ...ection 3 1 CPU Insertion CPU Insertion Step 1 Open the socket by raising the actuation lever Figure 2 Step 2 Insert the processor Ensure proper pin 1 orientation by aligning the FC PGA corner marking...

Page 16: ...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 17: ...0 0 6 N O N O X 5 3 3 3 0 0 5 7 6 6 N O X 5 5 6 6 3 0 5 5 3 3 7 N O N O N O X 6 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 8 N O N O X 5 6 3 3 4 0 5 6 6 6 8 N O N O X 7 6 6 4 0 0 7 3 3 9 N O X 5 7 0 0 5 0 5 7 0 0 0 1 N O N O X...

Page 18: ...100 Memory Module for bus speed between 66MHz and 100MHz and PC133 Memory for bus speed over 100MHz Using non compliant memory with higher bus speed over clocking may severely compromise the integrity...

Page 19: ...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 20: ...A plug in for the CPU Fan Power J6 Chassis Fan Power A plug in for the chassis Fan Power J7 WOL Wake On Lan Connector J8 WOM Wake On Modem Connector IDE1 Primary IDE Connector IDE2 Secondary IDE Conne...

Page 21: ...tem is in 4 sec delay mode there is a special feature to make the system to go into suspend mode when the button is pressed momentarily Turbo LED indicator LED ON when higher speed is selected IDE LED...

Page 22: ...rk with it Step 1 Please check JP4 at the position 2 3 after you finished the system installation Step 2 You can enjoy the Keyboard Power ON function KBPO by pressing any key and BUTTON only to turn o...

Page 23: ...is turned off In general the information saved in the CMOS RAM will stay unchanged unless there is a configuration change in the system such as hard drive replacement or a device is added It is possi...

Page 24: ...ted item will appear so that the user can modify associated configuration parameters 4 1 Standard CMOS Setup Choose Standard CMOS Setup in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY Menu Figure 2 The Standard CMOS Setup...

Page 25: ...3 5 drive used in Japan This is a 3 5 disk that stores only 1 2 MB the default setting for this is disabled 4 2 BIOS Features Setup Selecting the BIOS FEATURES SETUP option in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY m...

Page 26: ...e This controls the status of the processor s internal cache area The default is Enabled Enabled This activates the processor s internal cache thereby increasing performance Disabled This deactivates...

Page 27: ...ng Power On Self Test POST BIOS will deter mine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks Only 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K 1 2MB and 1 44MB are all 80 tracks The default is Enabled E...

Page 28: ...s is the number of characters that will be repeated by a keyboard press The default is 6 6 6 characters per second 8 8 characters per second 10 10 characters per second 12 12 characters per second 15...

Page 29: ...ble SMART hard drive functions for compat ible hardware The default is Disabled Enabled S M A R T features are available Disabled S M A R T features will not be available Report No FDD For WIN95 This...

Page 30: ...setting defines the CAS timing parameter of the SDRAM in terms of clocks The default is 3 2 Provides faster memory performance 3 Provides better memory compatibility SDRAM Bank Interleave The item all...

Page 31: ...sult Disabled System BIOS non cacheable Video BIOS Cacheable This option copies the video ROM BIOS to fast RAM C0000h to C7FFFh The default is Enabled Enabled Enables the Video BIOS Cacheable to speed...

Page 32: ...us USB controller and you have a USB peripheral USB Keyboard Support This controls the activation status of an optional USB keyboard that may be attached The default is disabled Enabled Enable USB key...

Page 33: ...tion This option allows you to select ACPI Function The default is Enabled Enabled Support ACPI function for new O S Disabled No Support ACPI function You can only change the content of Doze Mode Stan...

Page 34: ...e shown in suspend mode setting N A Video power off not controlled by power management Video Off Method This option allows you to select how the video will be disabled by the power management The defa...

Page 35: ...VGA When set to On default any event occurring at a VGA port will awaken a system which has been powered down LPT COM When set to On default any event occurring at a COM serial LPT printer port will...

Page 36: ...Setup PNP OS Installed Do you have a PNP OS installed on your system The default is No Yes Select if you are using a PNP OS No Select if your OS does not support PNP Resources Controlled By Who contro...

Page 37: ...hen Enabled data transfers on the PCI bus where possible make use of the high performance PCI bust protocol in which graeater amounts of data are transferred at a single command The Choice Enabled Dis...

Page 38: ...data is corrupted 4 7 Integrated Peripherals Figure 7 Integrated Peripherals Note If you do not use the Onboard IDE connector then you will need to set Onboard Primary PCI IDE Disabled and Onboard Sec...

Page 39: ...CI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode 0 4 Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode Primary Slave PIO The default is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Slave PCI IDE HDD Access...

Page 40: ...card will be primary adapter AGP AGP video card will be primary adapter Onboard FDD Controller This controls the state of the onboard floppy controller The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable the...

Page 41: ...is 3BCH and IRQ7 Disabled Disable Onboard Winbond Chip s LPT port Parallel Port Mode This field allows the user to select the parallel port mode The default is Normal Normal Standard mode IBM PC AT Co...

Page 42: ...Enables this option Disabled Disables this option CPU Host Clock CPU PCI Allows the external clock to be modified depending upon what FSB has been selected Should not be used to clock proces sor fast...

Page 43: ...The system will not turn off the CPU fan during suspend mode Current System Temp This is the Current temperature of the system Current CPU Temperature This is the current temperature of the CPU Curren...

Page 44: ...in the ROM will be used The screen will display the following message Enter Password Press the Enter key to continue after the proper password is given 2 If the CMOS is corrupted or the option was us...

Page 45: ...HDD modes NORMAL LBA LARGE NORMAL mode Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make any transformations during accessing The maximum number of cylinders head sectors...

Page 46: ...Bytes which is obtained by the following formula no Cylinder 1024 x no Head 255 x no Sector 63 x bytes per sector 512 8 4 GigaBytes LARGE mode Extended HDD access mode supported by Award Software Some...

Page 47: ...he whole INT 13h UNIX operating systems do not support either LBA or LARGE and must utilize the Standard mode UNIX can support drives larger than 528MB 4 11 Save Exit Setup The SAVE EXIT SETUP option...

Page 48: ...BIOS EP 3VCA Page 4 26 Page Left Blank...

Page 49: ...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 50: ...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 51: ...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 52: ...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 53: ...ce 07 Reserved 08 Verifies CMOS s basic R W functionality C1 Auto detection of onboard DRAM Cache C5 Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000 FFFFF shadow RAM so that POST will go faster 08 Test the first 25...

Page 54: ...OS Data code Part No OEM specific sign on messages Energy Star Logo Green BIOS ONLY CPU brand type speed Test system BIOS checksum Non Compress Version only 0F DMA channel 0 test 10 DMA channel 1 test...

Page 55: ...alues 42 Initialize floppy disk drive controller 43 Initialize Hard drive controller 45 If it is a PnP BIOS initialize serial parallel ports 44 Reserved 45 Initialize math coprocessor 46 4D Reserved 4...

Page 56: ...kipped 2 Set the boot up speed according to Setup setting 3 Last chance for Chipset initialization 4 Last chance for Power Management initialization Green BIOS only 5 Show the system configuration tab...

Page 57: ...pted STANDARD CMOS SETUP SENSOR AND CPU SPEED SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP PCI CONFIGURA ETUP IN...

Page 58: ...Appendix EP 3VCA A 10 Page Left Blank...

Page 59: ...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 60: ...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 61: ...EP 3VCA A 13 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 62: ...ix EP 3VCA A 14 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 63: ...ppendix EP 3VCA A 15 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 64: ...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 65: ...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 66: ...Appendix EP 3VCA A 18 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 67: ...endix EP 3VCA A 19 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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