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EP-5ATXA-M

ISA PCI

M a in B o a r d

with Onboard PCI IDE and Super Multi-I/O.

82430TX PCIset

V023

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Page 1: ...company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders The specification is subject to change without notice EP 5ATXA M ISAPCIM ain B o a rd with Onboard PCI IDE and Super Multi I O 82430TX PCIset V023 ...

Page 2: ...timewithoutnotice Forupdated BIOS drivers orproductsreleaseinformationyoumayvisitEPoX shomepageat http www epox com Productsmentionedinthismanualarementionedforidentificationpurposesonly Prod uctnamesappearinginthismanualmayormaynotberegisteredtrademarksofcopy rightsoftheirrespectivecompanies Theproductnameandrevisionnumberarebothprintedonthemainboarditself Copyright 1997byEPoXComputerCo Ltd Allri...

Page 3: ... Please make sure your package which should include all items listed below If you find any item damaged or missing items please contact your supplier One IDE ribbon cable One floppy ribbon cable One manual One Mainboard ...

Page 4: ...Standard CMOS Setup 4 2 4 2 BIOS Features Setup 4 2 4 3 Chipset Features Setup 4 6 4 4 Power Management Setup 4 8 4 5 Plug Play PCI Configuration 4 11 4 6 Integrated Peripherals 4 14 4 7 Load Setup Defaults 4 16 4 8 Change Supervisor or User Password 4 17 4 9 IDE HDD Auto Detection 4 18 4 10 HDD Low Level Format 4 20 4 11 Save Exit Setup 4 20 4 12 Exit Without Saving 4 20 Chapter 5 Technical Infor...

Page 5: ...TUP DEFAULTS ESC QUIT SELECT ITEM F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Load Setup Defaults Except Standard COMS SETUP 1 The LOADSETUPDEFAULTS functionloadsthesystemdefaultdatadirectlyfrom ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly This function is necessary when you accept this mainboard or the system CMOS data will corrupt Read me first 2 KBPO KeyBoard Power On Function There is a ...

Page 6: ...oard 72 Pin SIMM x 2 and 168 Pin DIMM x 3 BIOS will autometically detect and configure FP DRAM EDO DRAM and SDRAM Refer to Chapter 2 4 SystemMemoryConfiguration Supports Onboard Pipelined burst synchronous L2 Write Back Cache The cachememoryis512KB 64KB 32SRAM Supports four 16 bit ISA slots and four 32 bit PCI slots and provides two independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of suppor...

Page 7: ...power must be Supplies by onboard J4 J5 J6 connector Supports the Universal Serial Bus USB Connector onboard Utilizes a Lithium battery which provides environmental protection and longerlife time Supports a CPU temperature alarm sound Effect so that when CPU s cooling fan is malfunc tioning or CPU overheats CPU speed will automatically slow down Supports a dual button configuration which consists ...

Page 8: ...Graphics Port_A Port_B Universal Serial Bus ISA Slots R PCI Slots PB SRAM TAG Control TAG Control PCI BUS Super I O Serial 1 Serial 2 FDD Printer HOST BUS BIOS Flash EPROM MD 63 0 MTXC HOSTBridge 324BGA MA 11 0 CONTROL Figure 1 2 System Block Diagram IDE CD ROM Audio ...

Page 9: ...emperaturemonitorandalarmtopreventCPU scoolingfanfrommalfunctionor CPUoverheat There is a heat sensor to monitor CPU temperature If CPU overheats then speaker will alarm and CPU will slow down to save your data and shutdown the system The EP 5ATXA Msupports a minimum of 8MB of system memory and a maximum of 256MB with 512KB synchronous SRAM onboard to increase system performance The EP 5ATXA Msupp...

Page 10: ...nnector The mainboard layout and system block diagram are shown in Figure 1 1 andFigure2 1 The EP 5ATXA Mhas been designed the hardware monitoring to allows you to monitor various aspects of your system perations and status These indlude fcatures such as CPU temerature system temperature voltage and fan RPM s TheEP 5ATXA MSupportsYamahaYMF715Bonboarddesign Built inthe OPL3 FM synthesizer 3DEnhance...

Page 11: ... RESET KEYLOCK HD LED PW ON EP 5ATXA MLayout FDD CONN Secondary IDE IR CONN 5 1 JP3 1 25 26 BANK0 SIMM 2 SIMM 1 1 3 JP1 2 PIIX4 MTXC SOCKET 7 Primary IDE J3 J9 J2 FDD1 IDE1 J15 J6 64K 64 SRAM COM1 PS 2 MOUSE K B PRINTER PORT COM2 USB PORT M3 YMF715B S 1 3 JP13 1 5 JP2 6 10 BANK1 BANK2 BANK2 J4 J5 Line Out Line In Mic IDE2 ...

Page 12: ...yrix 6x86 L 6x86MX AMD K5 K6 Multiplier IBM 6x86 L 6x86MX JP3 1 2 90MHz 60MHz x 1 5 3 4 100MHz 66MHz x 1 5 5 6 120MHz 60MHz x 2 6x86 L PR150 7 8 133MHz 66MHz x 2 6x86 L MX PR166 9 10 75MHz x 2 6x86 L MX PR200 11 12 150MHz 60MHz x 2 5 6x86MX PR166 13 14 166MHz 66MHz x 2 5 6x86MX PR200 15 16 188MHz 75MHz x 2 5 6x86MX PR233 17 18 200MHz 66MHz x 3 6x86MX PR233 19 20 225MHz 75MHz x 3 6x86MX PR266 21 22...

Page 13: ... when the system is powered on andblinksinSLEEPMODE Suspend mode J9 SystemPowerON OFFSwitch ForATXPowerSuppplyConnector Pressing the button once will switch the system on and enter the SLEEPMODE Suspendmode WhileintheSLEEPMODE a keystrobe or mouse movement mouse driver exists will instantly wake up the system Pressing the button while the system is on for more than 4 seconds will turn the system o...

Page 14: ... should be brought back to pin 1 2 to restore the normal operation Here we strongly recommend you pull out the power cable for safety and for avoiding damaging befor clearing CMOSdata 3 1 5 1 VCC 2 NC 3 IRRX 4 GND 5 IRT 1 J3 IrDA ASKIRCONNECTOR JP13 KeyboardPowerONfunction 1 2 Enabled For the details please refer to Chapter 3 1 Keyboard Power On Function 2 3 Disabled Default 3 1 PS 2Mouse PS 2KB U...

Page 15: ...nlithiumbattery Pleasefollowthestepsbelowto replacethebattery 1 Remove 2 Insert 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 2 4SystemMemoryConfiguration The EP 5ATXA Msupports different types of settings for the system memory There is not jumper for SDRAM hardware setting is for memory configuration The following figures show all possible memory combinations ...

Page 16: ...pty Empty 32MB 16MB 64MB SDRAM SDRAM 8MB 16MB 8MB 16MB Empty Empty 32MB 32MB SDRAM SDRAM 64MB 128MB 64MB 128MB Empty Empty NOTE 1 DIMM3 Bank2 SIMM1 SIMM2 Bank2 areshared Thismeansthatif you use SIMM1 2 you can not use DIMM3 M3 2 DIMM module specification is 3 3V unbuffered BANK 0 BANK 2 5V FP EDO DRAM 3 3V Synchronous DRAM or 3 3V FP EDO DRAM 3 3V Synchronous DRAM or 3 3V FP EDO DRAM MemoryConfigu...

Page 17: ...d by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a 90 degree angle and pressing straight down figure 2 3 until it fits tightly into the DIMM socket figure 2 4 CENTER KEY ZONE 3 3 V DRAM LEFT KEY ZONE UNBUFFERED Figure 2 2 Figure 2 3 DIMM Module clip before installation Figure 2 4 DIMM Module clip after installation To remove the DIMM module simply press down both of the white clips on either side a...

Page 18: ...de or 60ns EDO is necessary BANK 64Bit SIMM1 SIMM2 DIMM1 DIMM2 2 5CacheMemoryConfiguration The second level L2 cache is installed in the mainboard to increase the system performance The EP 5ATXA Msupports512KBpiplinedburstsynchronous SRAM 64K 64 U17 U16 DATA SRAM TAG SRAM When you have a DIMM module to plug into a 168 pin dual readout connnector you must make sure that the DIMM module is 3 3V Unbu...

Page 19: ...er paramaters You do not have to configure jumpers or worry about potential resource conflicts Because PCI cards use the same interrupt resource as ISA cards you must specify the interrupts used by ISA add in cards in the BIOS Setup utility If a Legacy card such as plug paddle card and cable for the ISA slot is plugged inthesystem modificationinthe ROMSETUPUTILITYbecomesnecessary First enterPCICON...

Page 20: ... essentially an enlarged baby AT basedboard rotated 90 degrees within an ATX chassis and uses ATX power supply The changes make pentium processor able to locate away from the expansion slots and all onboard I Os able to hold full length add on cards The improved features of an ATX form factor from a baby AT or LPX form factor are shown as follows see Figure 3 1 1 2 3 4 5 Enhance the ease of use fo...

Page 21: ...ft OFF functions According to the definition of ACPI a Suspense mode will be enabled while you push the J9 system ON OFF button less than 4 seconds Nevertheless the system will be turned off by pressing for more than 4 seconds Regarding the Soft OFF coming from the EP 5ATXA M onboard circuit controller it is another way to turn off your system Your system can be shut down automatically by an opera...

Page 22: ...ase push the momentary switch J9 button to turn on your system Press Del keyimmediately ThiswillbringyouintoBIOSCMOSSETUP UTILITY Choosethe INTEGRATEDPERIPHERALS tosettingPOWER ON Function There are 4 difference way to select power ON function Such as password Hot key Mouse Left key and Mouse right key When the selection is mode by moving cursor to SAVE EXIT SETUP Then push again to hold for more ...

Page 23: ...UPUTILITY AWARDSOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT PNP PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE EXIT SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC QUIT SELECT ITEM F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type Figure 4 1 CMOS SET...

Page 24: ...e of the selected item This setup program also provides 2 convenient ways to load the default parameter data from BIOS F6 or CMOS F7 area if shown data is corrupted This provides the system a capability to recover from any possible error 4 2 BIOS Features Setup NOTE The Halt On field is to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if error occurrs during POST NOTE If hard disk Primary Master S...

Page 25: ...such a program we recommend that you disable the virus warning first ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A59IPAB BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Figure 4 3 BIOS FEATURES SETUP Virus Warning Disabled Video BIOS Shadow Enabled CPU Internal Cache Enabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow Disabled External Cache Enabled CC000 CFFFF Sh...

Page 26: ...bootable CD title then floppy disk drive Swap Floppy Drive This will swap your physical drive letter A B if you are using two floppy disks Default value is Disabled Enabled Floppy A B are able to swap under DOS Disabled Floppy A B are not able to swap BootUpFloppySeek During Power On Self Test POST BIOSwilldetermineifthe floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks Only is 360K type 40 tracks wh...

Page 27: ...750 750msec 1000 1000msec Security Option This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup or just to Setup The default value is Setup System The system will not boot and the access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt Setup The system will boot but the access to Setup will be denied if the incorrect password is not entered at the prompt PCI ...

Page 28: ...rature 38C 100F DRAM Leadoff Timing 10 6 3 Current System Temp 32C 90F DRAM Write Burst Timing x333 Current PWR SUP FAN Speed 0 RPM Fast EDO Lead Off Enabled Current CPU FAN Speed 5578 RPM Refresh RAS Assertion 4 Clks Current Chiassis FAN Speed 0 RPM Fast RAS To CAS Delay 2 Vcore v 2 8V Vcore v 2 80V DRAM Page Idel Timer 2 Clks V I O v 3 50V 5 v 5 16V DRAM Enhanced Paging Enabled 12 V 12 28V 12 v ...

Page 29: ...ls the number of 4 clocks RAS is asserted for Refresh 5 This field controls the number of 5 clocks RAS is asserted for Refresh Fast RAS To CAS Delay The default value is 2 2 This field controls a RAS to CAS delay is 2 3 This field controls a RAS to CAS delay is 3 FastMAtoRAS Delay The default value is 2 Clks 1 Clks This field controls Memory Address to RAS s timing is 1 HCLKS 2 Clks This field con...

Page 30: ...ction function so that we can detect and monitor the fluctuant temperature during system operation If the cooling fan applied to the CPU does not have enough power to control and cool down the heat or is broken while running the indicator of the current CPU tempera turewillrise To protect the CPU while the temperature exceeds the CPU warning temperature setting such as 60C the default value the al...

Page 31: ...e from 1 minute up to 1 hour activated by the BIOS Power Management you need to run aprogramPOWER EXEunderDOSroot orneedtoaddDEVICE C DOS POWER EXE in your CONFIG SYS This will keep the system time updated normally when the system wake up from the suspend mode The supend mode for Windows 95 or Windows 3 1x has to install windows APM feature Choose Advanced Power Management item from system device ...

Page 32: ...ult is Yes Yes APM controls your PM No APM does not control your PM Video Off Method This option allows you 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 video buffer DPMS Select this option if your monitor supports the Display Power Manage ment Si...

Page 33: ...uspend Mode This function works only when the Pentium II Processor is installed The timer starts to count when System Standby mode timer is timed out and no PM Events are occurring Valid range is from 1 minute up to 1 hour HDD Power Down HDD Standby timer can be set from 1 to 15 minute s VGA Active Monitor Use this option if your monitor has advanced power saving features The default is Enabled En...

Page 34: ...ult is Enabled Enabled The system will turn on at the preset time Disabled The system will not turn on until you turn it on Date of month Alarm This is how you set the date that the system will turn on The default is 0 0 Setting this to 0 will turn the system on everyday at the preset time 1 31 Represents the day of the month that you need the system to turn on Time hh mm ss Alarm This sets the ti...

Page 35: ...tely The power consumption in Suspend Mode is lower than in standby mode The screen is also blanked out PMEvents AWARD BIOS defines Reload Global Timer Events in the power management mode Doze standby suspend The user can initialize any PM Events to be Enabled or Disabled When the system detects all of the enabled events which do not have any activity it will start the system Doze timer first if t...

Page 36: ...setConfigurationData Thedefaultvalueisdisabled Disabled NormalSetting Enabled If you had plugged some Legacuy cards in the system and recorded into ESCD Extended System Configuration Data you can set this field to enabled to clear ESCD PCIIDEIRQMapTo ThedefaultvalueisPCI AUTO When you have true PCI card s plugged into the system you do not have to change anything here in the SETUP program However ...

Page 37: ...Legacy cards with requested memory space below 1M address Now with these two functions users can define where the used memory address is located and its length of the legacy area corresponding Based on these BIOS will skip the UMB area that is used by the legacy device to avoid the memory space conflict For example if users select D000 for Used MEM base addr and 16K for Used MEM Length that means ...

Page 38: ...IDE Secondary Master UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Slave UDMA Auto Onboard Primary PCI IDE Enabled Onboard Secondary PCI IDE Enabled USB Keyboard Support Disabled Onboard FDD Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 Auto Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto UART 2 Mode Standard Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults IDEPrimary S...

Page 39: ...ial port 1 and address is 2F8H IRQ3 COM3 EnableOnboardSerialport1andaddressis3E8H IRQ4 COM4 EnableOnboardSerialport1andaddressis2E8H IRQ3 Disabled DisableOnboardSMCCHIP sSerialport1 IDESecondaryMasterPIO ThedefaultvalueisAuto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Secondary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode0 4 Manually set the IDE Accessing mode IDEPrimarySlavePIO ThedefaultvalueisAu...

Page 40: ...is field allows the user to sellect the parallel port mode The defaultvalueisECP EPP Normal Standardmode IBMPC ATCompatiblebidirectionalparallelport EPP EnhanceParallelPortmode ECP ExtendCapabilitiesPortmode EPP ECP ECP Mode EPP Mode ECPModeUSEDMA ThisfieldallowstheusertosellectDMA1orDMA3for the ECP mode The default value is DMA3 DMA1 The filed selects the rounting of DMA1 for the ECP mode DMA3 Th...

Page 41: ...TUP UTILITY will display a message and ask for a confirmation ConfirmPassword 3 Afterpressingthe Enter key ROMpasswordiftheoptionwasnotused orcurrent password user defined password the user can change the password and store the new one in CMOS RAM A maximum of 8 characters is acceptable 4 8 Change Supervisor or User Password ROMPCI ISABIOS 2A59IPAB CMOSSETUPUTILITY AWARDSOFTWARE INC Load SETUP Def...

Page 42: ...EADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE Primary Master 343 665 16 65535 664 63 NORMAL Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave Select Secondary Slave Option N Skip N OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE 1 Y 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORMAL ESC Skip NOTE HDDModes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes NORMAL LBA LARGE NORMAL mode Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will...

Page 43: ...ctor 63 x bytes per secttor 512 8 4 Gigabytes LARGEmode Extended HDD access mode is supported by Award Software Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinders without LBA support in some cases users do not want the LBA mode The Award BIOS provides another alternative to support these kinds of LARGE mode CYLS HEADS SECTOR MODE 1120 16 59 NORMAL 560 32 59 LARGE BIOS tricks DOS or other OS that the n...

Page 44: ...er of the hard disk drive you wish to perform low level format You may select from 1 to 8 Check the documentation of the drive for the correct interleave number or select 0 for utility automatic detection Auto scan bad track This allows the utility to scan first then format by each track Start Press Y tostartlowlevelformat 4 11 Save Exit Setup 4 12ExitWithoutSaving The SAVE EXIT SETUP option will ...

Page 45: ...K Plug and Play ESCD data area FE000 FFFFF 8K BIOSruntimeserviceroutine 1 000 01F DMA controller Master 020 021 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER Master 022 023 CHIPSET control registers I O ports 040 05F TIMER control registers 060 06F KEYBOARD interface controller 8042 070 07F RTC ports CMOS I O ports 080 09F DMA register 0A0 0BF INTERRUPT controller Slave 0C0 0DF DMA controller Slave 0F0 0FF MATH COPROCESSO...

Page 46: ...ault DMA Channel 4 Cascade for DMA controller 1 DMA Channel 5 Available DMA Channel 6 Available DMA Channel 7 Available 5 3InterruptMap NMI Parity check error IRQ H W 0 System TIMER interrupt from TIMER 0 1 KEYBOARD output buffer full 2 Cascade for IRQ 8 15 3 SERIAL port 2 4 SERIAL port 1 5 PARALLEL port 2 6 FLOPPY DISK SMC CHIP 7 PARALLEL port 1 8 RTC clock 9 Available 10 Available 11 Available 1...

Page 47: ...0D Status register D 0E Diagnostic status byte 0F Shutdown byte 10 FLOPPY DISK drive type byte 11 Reserve 12 HARD DISK type byte 13 Reserve 14 Equipmenttype 15 Base memory low byte 16 Base memory high byte 17 Extensionmemorylowbyte 18 Extensionmemoryhighbyte 19 2d 2E 2F 30 Reserved for ectension memory low byte 31 Reserved for extension memory high byte 32 DATECENTURYbyte 33 INFORMATIONFLAG 35 3F ...

Page 48: ...CMOS s basic R W functionality Auto detection of onboard DRAM Cache Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000 FFFFF shadow RAM so that POST will go faster Test the first 256K DRAM OEM specific cache initialization if needed 1 Initialize the first 32 interrupt vectors with corresponding Interrupt handlers Initialize INT no from 33 120 with Dummy Suprious Interrupt Handler 2 Issue CPUID instruction to ident...

Page 49: ...ice found 2 Show messages including Award Logo Copyright string BIOS 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 DMA channel 0 test DMA channel 1 test DMA page registers test Reserved Test 8254 Timer 0 Counter 2 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for ...

Page 50: ...he cache is turn on later in POST 61h Reserved 1 Program the rest of the Chipset s value according to Setup Later Setup Value Program 2 If auto configuration is enabled programmed the chipset with pre defined Values Initialize floppy disk drive controller Initialize Hard drive controller If it is a PnP BIOS initialize serial and parallel ports Reserved Initialize math coprocessor Reserved If there...

Page 51: ...e into a timer tick value Setup Virus Protection Boot Sector Protection functionality according to Setup setting 1 Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note if L2 cache is already turned on in POST 3D this part will be skipped 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 confi...

Page 52: ...e Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name DCD SIN SOUT DTR GND 1 6 DSR 2 7 RTS 3 8 CTS 4 9 RI 5 STROBE Data Bit 0 Data Bit 1 Data Bit 2 Data Bit 3 Data Bit 4 Data Bit 5 Data Bit 6 Data Bit 7 ACJ BUSY PE SLCT 1 14 AUTO FEED 2 15 ERROR 3 16 INIT 4 17 SLCT IN 5 18 Ground 6 19 Ground 7 20 Ground 8 21 Ground 9 22 Ground 10 23 Ground 11 24 Ground 12 25 Ground 13 Pin Signal Name J8 Parallel Port Connector 1 5 6 ...

Page 53: ... 19 20 STEP 21 22 Write Data 23 24 Write Gate 25 26 Track 00 27 28 Write Protect 29 30 Read Data 31 32 SIDE 1 SELECT 33 34 Diskette Reset IDE Host Data 7 Host Data 6 Host Data 5 Host Data 4 Host Data 3 Host Data 2 Host Data 1 Host Data 0 Ground DRQ3 I O Write I O Read IOCHRDY DACK3 IRQ14 Addr 1 Addr 0 Chip Select 0 Activity 1 2 Ground 3 4 Host Data 8 5 6 Host Data 9 7 8 Host Data 10 9 10 Host Data...

Page 54: ...V GND PS ON GND GND GND 5 0V 5 0V 5 0V 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 3V 3 3V GND 5 0V GND 5 0V GND PW OK 5VSB 12 0V 10 11 20 1 ATX Power Supply Connector 1 USB Port 1 USB Port 2 1 CN1 USBConnector Figure 5 1 USB Port Adapter PS 2 Mouse ...

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