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Manual Revision 1.2

September 22, 2000

EP-3VWM

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mainboard (133/100/66MHz)

mainboard (133/100/66MHz)
Suppor

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Supports PC100 SDRAM Module

ts PC100 SDRAM Module

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Page 1: ...A Sock k k k ket 370 Pr et 370 Pr et 370 Pr et 370 Pr et 370 Processor based ocessor based ocessor based ocessor based ocessor based mainboard 133 100 66MHz mainboard 133 100 66MHz mainboard 133 100...

Page 2: ...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 identification purposes only Pro...

Page 3: ...ng 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 BIOS updates tech notes and im...

Page 4: ...n Procedure CPU Insertion 3 3 Jumper Settings 3 5 System Memory Configuration 3 6 Device Connectors 3 8 Section 4 Award BIOS Setup Main Menu 4 1 Standard CMOS Setup 4 2 Advanced BIOS Features 4 3 Adva...

Page 5: ...ap 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 B 1 Appendix C Load Setup Defaults C 1 Appendix D GHOST 5 1 Quick User s Guide D 1 All manual...

Page 6: ...EP 3VWM Page Left Blank All manuals and user guides at all guides com a l l g u i d e s c o m...

Page 7: ...mponents Checklist A 1 EP 3VWM mainboard B 1 EP 3VWM user s manual C 1 Floppy ribbon cable D 1 ATA 66 Hard drive ribbon cable E 1 USB Cable Optional F 1 Driver and utility A B USER S MANUAL EP 3VWM F...

Page 8: ...rentiate 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 cost of cables an...

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

Page 10: ...Introduction EP 3VWM Page 1 4 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram All manuals and user guides at all guides com...

Page 11: ...hen plugging in PCI card s Supports ATAPI e g CD ROM devices on both Primary and Secondary IDE interfaces Designed with on chip Multi I O 1 floppy port 1 parallel port EPP ECP and 2 serial ports 16550...

Page 12: ...ws system to be turned on remotely Resume by Alarm Allows your system to turn on at a preselected time Power Loss Recovery In the event of a power outtage your system will automatically turn itself ba...

Page 13: ...Installation EP 3VWM Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION All manuals and user guides at all guides com...

Page 14: ...Installation EP 3VWM Page 3 2 EP 3VWM Detailed Layout Figure 1 All manuals and user guides at all guides com...

Page 15: ...t by raising the actuation lever Figure 2 Step 2 Insert the processor Ensure proper pin 1 orientation by aligning the FC PGA corner marking with the socket corner closest to the actuation arm tip The...

Page 16: ...g 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 fin array See Figure 5 Figure 4 Fig...

Page 17: ...6 6 3 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 1 3 3 1 1 2 P J 9 1 P J 8 1 P J 0 2 P J O I T A R Q E R F 2 1 2 1 3 2 2 1 5 1 X 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 X 2 3 2 2 1 3 2 3 2 X 5 2 3 2 3 2 2 1 3 2 X 3 3 2 2 1 2 1 3 2 X 5 3 3 2 3 2 3 2...

Page 18: ...sible memory configuration SDRAM only supports 32 64 128 256MB DIMM modules We recommend to use PC100 Memory Module for bus speed between 66MHz and 100MHz Using non compliant memory with higher bus sp...

Page 19: ...e 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 after installation To remo...

Page 20: ...J6 Power Fan A plug in for the Power Supply Fan Power J7 WOL Wake On Lan Connector IDE1 Primary IDE Connector White color IDE2 Secondary IDE Connector Black color FDD1 Floppy Controller Connector PW2...

Page 21: ...n u o r G d n u o r G e s a C 7 k c a l B d n u o r G d n u o r G e l b a C 8 n e e r G a t a D a t a D 9 e t i h W a t a D a t a D 0 1 d e R c c V r e w o P e l b a C USB port header pin descriptions...

Page 22: ...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 indicator LED ON when...

Page 23: ...he 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 for the CMOS battery to...

Page 24: ...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 allows the user to conf...

Page 25: ...port 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 SETUP option in the CM...

Page 26: ...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 increasing performance Disabled This deactiva...

Page 27: ...sk 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 disk drive to determine i...

Page 28: ...lt 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 Setup System The system...

Page 29: ...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 and the size will depen...

Page 30: ...es faster memory performance 3 Provides better memory compatibility Bank Interleave The item allows you to set how many banks of SDRAM support in your mainboard The Choice 2 Bank 4 Bank Disabled Memor...

Page 31: ...ble function Video RAM Cacheable This option allows the CPU to cache read writes of the video RAM The default is Enabled Enabled This option allows for faster video access Disabled Reduced video perfo...

Page 32: ...abled PCI Dynamic Bursting When 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 co...

Page 33: ...led Disables Onboard IDE primary port OnChip IDE Channel1 The default is Enabled Enabled Enables Onboard IDE secondary port Disabled Disables Onboard IDE secondary port IDE Prefetch Mode Enable prefet...

Page 34: ...4 Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode Primary Master UDMA This allows you to select the mode of operation for the hard drive The default is Auto Auto The computer will select the optimal s...

Page 35: ...to configure the 1st serial port The default is Auto AUTO Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is Auto adjusted COM1 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 3F8H IRQ4 COM2 Enable Onboard Seri...

Page 36: ...ct 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 the routing of DMA3 for the ECP mode Parallel Port EPP Type Th...

Page 37: ...ult is Enabled Enabled Support ACPI function for new O S Disabled No Support ACPI function You can only change the content of Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode when the Power Management is set t...

Page 38: ...u to select how the video will be disabled by the power management The default is V H Sync Blank V H Sync Blank System turns off vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and writes blanks to the...

Page 39: ...any event occurring at a hard or floppy drive port will awaken a system which has been powered down PCI Card When set to On default any event occurring to the DMA controller will awaken a system whic...

Page 40: ...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 controlled the system PNP PCI resources The default is Auto Manual PNP Card...

Page 41: ...r to clear ESCD 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...

Page 42: ...mperature 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 CPU Vcore Vtt 3 3V 5V 12V...

Page 43: ...ots The default is Enabled Enabled Enables this option Disabled Disables this option Spread Spectrum The default is Enabled Enabled Enables this option Disabled Disables this option CPU Host Clock CPU...

Page 44: ...ilar 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 Enter on this item you...

Page 45: ...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 disabled the system will...

Page 46: ...u 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 Without Saving Pressing Enter on this...

Page 47: ...F 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 MAP 000 01F DMA controlle...

Page 48: ...est 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 default DMA Channel 4 Casc...

Page 49: ...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 register B 0C Status register...

Page 50: ...yte 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 INFORMATIONFLAG 34 3F Reserve 40 7F Reserved...

Page 51: ...k 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 Reserved 05h 1 Blank out screen 2 Cle...

Page 52: ...t 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 type Cyrix or Intel an...

Page 53: ...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 class CPU 3 Program earl...

Page 54: ...h 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 Reserved 4Ch Reserved 4Dh R...

Page 55: ...E 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 e not until this POST...

Page 56: ...IP 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 Reserved 7Fh 1 Switch back to text mod...

Page 57: ...eserved 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 initialization 5 Clear scre...

Page 58: ...Appendix EP 3VWM B 8 Page Left Blank All manuals and user guides at all guides com...

Page 59: ...TS 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 F...

Page 60: ...Appendix EP 3VWM C 2 Page Left Blank All manuals and user guides at all guides com...

Page 61: ...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 and Partition In which Disk indicates...

Page 62: ...on 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 use this function the s...

Page 63: ...K 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 backup file All manuals and...

Page 64: ...m 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 start All manuals and u...

Page 65: ...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 All manuals and user g...

Page 66: ...tition partition cloning 2 Partition To Image partition backup 3 Partition From Image restore partition Partition To Partition Partition Cloning The basic unit for partition cloning is a partition Ref...

Page 67: ...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 requires longer execution time...

Page 68: ...ndix EP 3VWM D 8 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 All manuals and user guides at all guides...

Page 69: ...lect 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 error All manuals and user...

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