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BIOS

EP-3VCA2

Page 4-15

Onboard Legacy Audio:  

Legacy Audio enabled/disabled.

Sound Blaster:  

Sound Blaster compatible device enabled/disabled.

SB I/O Base Address:  

Sound Blaster I/O resource selection.

SB IRQ Select: 

Legacy audio device IRQ selection.

SB DMA Select:  

Sound Blaster DMA channel selection.

MPU-401:  

MPU-401 function enabled/disabled.

MPU-401 I/O Address:  

Built-in MPU-401 compatible MIDI I/O port selection:

300-303H

310-313H
320-323H

330-333H (default)

Game Port (200-207H):  

Built-in joystick port support disabled/enabled(default).

Summary of Contents for EP-3VCA2

Page 1: ...Soc A 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 13...

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 driv...

Page 4: ...3 Jumper Settings 3 5 System Memory Configuration 3 7 Device Connectors 3 9 External Modem Ring in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Function KBPO 3 12 STR Suspend To RAM Function 3 13 Section 4 Award B...

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 3VCA2 Page Left Blank...

Page 7: ...ents Checklist A 1 EP 3VCA2 mainboard B 1 EP 3VCA2 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 USB Cable Optional G...

Page 8: ...ntegrators 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 c...

Page 9: ...first is the front panel Power On Off button and the other is the Soft Off function coming from the EP 3VCA2 s onboard circuit controller that can be controlled by the operating system such as Window...

Page 10: ...4 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT82C694X 133 100 66MHz 133 100 66MHz 66MHz 4X AGP Bus AGP Slot Socket 370 Processor VT82C686A I O Bridge AC...

Page 11: ...erfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA 33 66 devices The EP 3VCA2 supports 5 PCI Bus Master slots and a jumperless PCI INT control scheme which reduces configuration confusion when p...

Page 12: ...n when using Windows 95 98 Supports ring in feature remote power on through external modem allows system to be turned on remotely Resume by Alarm Allows your system to turn on at a preselected time Po...

Page 13: ...Installation EP 3VCA2 Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 14: ...Installation EP 3VCA2 Page 3 2 EP 3VCA2 Detailed Layout Figure 1...

Page 15: ...n 3 1 CPU Insertion CPU Insertion use CuMineTM 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 aligning the...

Page 16: ...se 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: ...N O V 0 2 N O N O N O N O N O N O V 5 0 2 N O N O V 1 2 N O N O V 2 2 Section 3 2 Jumper Settings The EP 3VCA2 motherboard was designed with very few jumpers to make your installation faster and easi...

Page 18: ...stallation EP 3VCA2 Page 3 6 JP4 Keyboard Power ON Function JP4 1 2 Disabled Default 2 3 Enabled 1 JP5 Power Loss Recovery JP5 1 2 Disabled 2 3 Enabled 1 JP6 STR Function JP6 1 2 Disabled 2 3 Enabled...

Page 19: ...tween 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 of the system DIMM 1 DIMM 2 Bank...

Page 20: ...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 af...

Page 21: ...6 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 Connector FDD1 Floppy Controller Conne...

Page 22: ...R c c V r e w o P e l b a C 2 e t i h W a t a D a t a D 3 n e e r G 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 k c a l B d n u o r G d n u o r G e s a C 6 k c a l B d n u o r G d...

Page 23: ...stem 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 LE...

Page 24: ...work 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...

Page 25: ...he Power Management Setup menu b Then please type the following before installing the Windows 98 Driver Setup p j If the Windows 98 installed in your system without the parameters above please do refe...

Page 26: ...FF OFF c It saves and keeps all on screen data including any executed applications to SDRAM d You must push the Power button connected with onboard J3 pin to wake up you system not to click to mouse o...

Page 27: ...rned 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 possible fo...

Page 28: ...cted 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 29: ...t is a mode used to support a special 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 Advanced BIOS Features Selecting the BIOS FEATURES...

Page 30: ...able the virus warning CPU Internal Cache This controls the status of the processor s internal cache area The default is Enabled Enabled This activates the processor s internal cache thereby increasin...

Page 31: ...r 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 Enabled The BIOS will search the floppy di...

Page 32: ...ic auto repeat The default is 250 250 250 msec 500 500 msec 750 750 msec 1000 1000 msec Security Option This category allows you to limit access to the System and Setup or just to Setup The default is...

Page 33: ...D0000 D3FFF Shadow D4000 D7FFF Shadow D8000 DBFFF Shadow DC000 DFFFF Shadow These categories determine whether ROMs from option cards will be copied into RAM This will be in 16K byte or 32K byte units...

Page 34: ...s 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 Bank Interleave The item allows...

Page 35: ...n cacheable Video BIOS Cacheable This option copies the video ROM BIOS to fast RAM C0000h to C7FFFh The default is Disabled Enabled Enables the Video BIOS Cacheable to speed up the VGA Performance Dis...

Page 36: ...is ready to receive the data The Choice Enabled Disabled PCI Dynamic Bursting When Enabled data transfers on the PCI bus where possible make use of the high performance PCI bust protocol in which gra...

Page 37: ...cm OnChip IDE Channel0 The default value is Enabled Enabled Enables Onboard IDE primary port Disabled Disables Onboard IDE primary port OnChip IDE Channel1 The default is Enabled Enabled Enables Onboa...

Page 38: ...ng mode Mode 0 4 Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode Secondary Slave PIO The default is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Secondary Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode...

Page 39: ...ble the Onboard VIA686A Chips s floppy drive interface controller Disabled Disable the Onboard VIA686A Chip s floppy drive interface controller Onboard Serial Port 1 This field allows the user to conf...

Page 40: ...PT port and address is 378H and IRQ7 278H Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 278H and IRQ5 3BCH Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 3BCH and IRQ7 Disabled Disable Onboard Winbond Chip s LPT por...

Page 41: ...Blaster I O resource selection SB IRQ Select Legacy audio device IRQ selection SB DMA Select Sound Blaster DMA channel selection MPU 401 MPU 401 function enabled disabled MPU 401 I O Address Built in...

Page 42: ...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 43: ...oze mode setting Suspend Video powers off after time 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 vide...

Page 44: ...m will not turn off the CPU fan during suspend mode 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 eve...

Page 45: ...Configuration 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 Reset Configuration...

Page 46: ...tomatically PCI VGA Palette Snoop Leave this field at Disabled The choice Enabled Disabled Assign IRQ For USB This item allows BIOS to assign whether IRQ is with USB or not If you have not connect the...

Page 47: ...e This is the Current temperature of the system Current CPU FAN Speed The current CPU fan speed in RPMs Current Chassis FAN Speed The current chassis fan speed in RPMs CPU V The voltage level of the C...

Page 48: ...cally disable the clock source for a DIMM socket which does not have a module in it Same applies for PCI slots The default is Enabled Enabled Enables this option Disabled Disables this option Spread S...

Page 49: ...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 Enter on this item you get a confirmation dial...

Page 50: ...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 di...

Page 51: ...urn your system off The next time you boot your computer the BIOS configures your system according to the Setup selec tions stored in CMOS After saving the values the system is restarted again Exit Wi...

Page 52: ...BIOS EP 3VCA2 Page 4 26 Page Left Blank...

Page 53: ...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 54: ...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 55: ...hannel 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 regis...

Page 56: ...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 57: ...ace 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 2...

Page 58: ...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 59: ...Values 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...

Page 60: ...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 61: ...CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 1998 Standard CMOS Feature Advanced BIOS Feature Advanced Chipset Feature Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configurations PC Health Status Freq...

Page 62: ...Appendix EP 3VCA2 A 10 Page Left Blank...

Page 63: ...older 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 a...

Page 64: ...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 65: ...EP 3VCA2 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 bac...

Page 66: ...x EP 3VCA2 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 67: ...ppendix EP 3VCA2 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 Partitio...

Page 68: ...rtition 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...

Page 69: ...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 70: ...Appendix EP 3VCA2 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 71: ...endix EP 3VCA2 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 er...

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