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Manual Revision 4.2

May 25, 1999

EP-6VB

EP-6VBAAAAA

A P

A Pentium

entium

II or P

II or Pentium

entium

III

Slot1 Processor based AGP

mainboar

mainboard (100/66MHz)

d (100/66MHz)

Suppor

Supports PC-133 SDRAM Module

ts PC-133 SDRAM Module

Summary of Contents for EP-6VBA

Page 1: ...um entium II or P II or P II or P II or P II or Pentium entium entium entium entium III III III III III Slot1 Processor based AGP Slot1 Processor based AGP Slot1 Processor based AGP Slot1 Processor ba...

Page 2: ..._________________________ BIOS Upgrades Please use either our Web Site or BBS for current BIOS Upgrades Internet Access http www epox com http www epox com tw sales epox com tech epox com Modem Access...

Page 3: ...the manual or product EPoX may review this manual from time to time without notice For updated BIOS drivers or product release information you may visit EPoX s home page at http www epox com Products...

Page 4: ...Remote 1 6 System Block Diagram 1 7 Section 2 Features EP 6VBA Features 2 1 Section 3 Installation EP 6VBA Detailed Layout 3 1 Easy Installation Procedure Configure DIP Switch 3 3 System Memory Confi...

Page 5: ...D Auto Detection 4 25 HDD Low Level Format 4 27 Save Exit Setup 4 27 Exit Without Saving 4 27 Section 5 Appendix Appendix A Memory Map A 1 I O Map A 1 Timer DMA Channels Map A 2 Interrupt Map A 2 RTC...

Page 6: ...EP 6VBA Page Left Blank...

Page 7: ...inboard B 1 EP 6VBA user s manual C 1 Floppy ribbon cable D 1 Hard drive ribbon cables E 1 Foldable Retention Module F 1 Heatsink Support Unit Optional G 1 PS 2 to AT keyboard connector adapter option...

Page 8: ...r can supports both uni processor and dual processor implementations The Pentium II or Pentium III Processor utilizes Single Edge Contact S E C Figure 1 cartridge packaging technology The S E C cartri...

Page 9: ...s similar to previous names for packaging technology such as PGA or TCP Processor card The green PCB with or without components on it Processor core The silicon on the PLGA package on the PCB Cover Th...

Page 10: ...uires a tremendous amount of memory and demands ever increasing throughput speed as well As 3D products for the personal computer become more and more popular these demands will only increase This wil...

Page 11: ...tegrators 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 co...

Page 12: ...ne of two sources The first is the front panel Power On Off button and the other is the Soft Off function coming from the EP 6VBA s onboard circuit controller that can be controlled by the operating s...

Page 13: ...Page 1 7 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT82C693 100 66MHz 100 66MHz 66MHz Pentium II or Processor Pentium III VT82C686A I O Bridge AC 97 USB...

Page 14: ...Introduction EP 6VBA Page 1 8 Page Left Blank...

Page 15: ...es 2 independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA 33 66 devices The EP 6VBA supports 5 PCI Bus Master slots and a jumperless PCI INT control scheme...

Page 16: ...ndows 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 Power Loss Recove...

Page 17: ...Installation EP 6VBA Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 18: ...Installation EP 6VBA Page 3 2 Figure 1 EP 6VBA Detailed Layout...

Page 19: ...and easy The following will describe all of the DIP Switch that you are required to set before moving on to step 3 2 Note The DIP Switch as depicted as shown Figure 1 in their correct physical orient...

Page 20: ...IMM SDRAM only supports 8 16 32 64 128 256MB DIMM modules Table 1 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 B ank 0 B ank 1 Synchronous ED O DIMM 3 B ank 2 y r o m e M l a t o T 1 M M I D 0 k n a B 2 M M I D 1 k n a B 3 M M I D...

Page 21: ...168 pins and two notches that will match with the onboard DIMM socket DIMM modules are installed by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a 90 degree angle and pressing straight down figure 4 un...

Page 22: ...tallation EP 6VBA Page 3 6 Figure 5 DIMM Module clip after installation To remove the DIMM module simply press down both of the white clips on either side and the module will be released from the sock...

Page 23: ...evice is designed for you to install Pentium II CPU more easier and to avoide any damage on the board due to overtightening the four screws One thing must be kept in your mind that please make sure to...

Page 24: ...ink and then push forward until it clips into the bottom base figure 7 that is already there figure 9 Figure 8 Figure 7 shows the layout of Slot 1 and the holes for mounting the Heatsink base piece fi...

Page 25: ...et J3 Turbo LED HDD LED IR Conn Sleep Power_ON J4 CPU Fan Power 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 IDE1 Primary IDE I...

Page 26: ...f by Pwr BTTN feature you can choose 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 se...

Page 27: ...k 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 2 key and BUTTON only to turn...

Page 28: ...Installation EP 6VBA Page 3 12 Page Left Blank...

Page 29: ...CMOS battery to fail this will cause data loss in the CMOS only If this does happen you will need to reconfigure your BIOS settings To enter the Setup Program Power on the computer and press the Del...

Page 30: ...ype Memory size is auto detected by the BIOS and displayed for your reference When a field is highlighted use direction keys to move the cursor and the Enter key to select the entries in the field can...

Page 31: ...he BIOS FEATURES SETUP option in the CMOS SETUP UTIL ITY menu allows users to change system related parameters in the displayed menu This menu shows all of the manufacturer s default values for the EP...

Page 32: ...ed This deactivates the processor s internal cache thereby lowering performance External L2 Cache This controls the status of the external L2 cache area The default is Enanbled Enabled This activates...

Page 33: ...ped Boot Up Floppy Seek During Power On Self Test POST BIOS will determine 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 trac...

Page 34: ...in your system support parity ECC check select Enabled Typematic Rate Setting This determines the keystrokes repeat rate The default is Disabled Enabled Allows typematic rate and typematic delay progr...

Page 35: ...ideo card The default is Disabled Enabled If an ISA card is connected to a PCI VGA card via the VESA connector and that ISA card connects to a VGA monitor then that ISA card uses the RAMDAC of the PCI...

Page 36: ...ure 4 Chipset Features Setup ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGPAA CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Bank 0 1 DRAM Timing SDRAM Fast OnChip USB Enabled Bank 2 3 DRAM Timing SDRAM Fast USB Keyboard Support...

Page 37: ...et how many banks of SDRAM support in your mainboard The Choice 2 Bank 4 Bank Disabled DRAM Page Mode The item will active or inactive chipset page registers Enabled Page Mode Enabled Disabled No page...

Page 38: ...BIOS cache will cause access to video BIOS addressed at C0000H to C7FFFH to be cached if the cache controller is also enabled The Choice Enabled Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Select enabled allows cach...

Page 39: ...olutely necessary Figure 5 Power Management Setup ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGPAA POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC ACPI function Enabled Power Management User Define PM Control by APM Yes Video off...

Page 40: ...ing mode PM controlled APM This option shows weather or not you want the Power Management to be controlled the Advanced Power Management APM The default is Yes Yes APM controls your PM No APM does not...

Page 41: ...lay If momentary press of button the system will go into Suspend Mode Press again to take system out of Suspend Mode PWRON After PW Fail The system will stay of or power on after a power interrupte Th...

Page 42: ...tem which has been powered down DMA master When set to On default any event occurring to the DMA controller will awaken a system which has been powered down RTA Alarm Resume When set to Enable rta ala...

Page 43: ...NP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled PCI Delay Transaction Disabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Disabled AGP Mast...

Page 44: ...bus signals that it 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 pr...

Page 45: ...t appear when the Internal PCI IDE field above is Disabled The Choice Enabled Disabled ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGPAA INTEGRATEDPERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE INC OnChip IDE Channel0 Enabled OnChip IDE Channel...

Page 46: ...will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode 0 4 Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode Secondary Master PIO The default is Auto Auto BIOS will automati...

Page 47: ...normal mode Init Display First If two video cards are used 1 AGP and 1 PCI this specifies which one will be the primary display adapter The default is PCI Slot PCI Slots PCI video card will be primar...

Page 48: ...e This item allows you to determine which Infra Red IR function of onboard I O chip The Choice Standard ASKIR HPSIR IR Function Duplex This item allows you to select the IR function when you select th...

Page 49: ...DMA1 for the ECP mode DMA3 This field selects the routing of DMA3 for the ECP mode Parallel Port EPP Type This item allows you to determine the IR transfer mode of onboard I O chip The Choice EPP1 9...

Page 50: ...is Enabled Enabled Enables this option Disabled Disables this option Spread Spectrum The default is Disabled Enabled Enables this option Disabled Disables this option ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGPAA SENSORA...

Page 51: ...2 3 Host DRAM running with lower operation clock CPUFAN Off In Suspend This option is used to set if the CPU fans will turn off during suspend mode The default is Enabled Enabled The system will turn...

Page 52: ...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 53: ...HDD modes NORMAL LBA LARGE NOR MAL 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 sector...

Page 54: ...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 55: ...nterleave number of the hard disk drive you wish to perform a low level format on You may select from 1 to 8 Check the documen tation that came with the drive for the correct interleave number or sele...

Page 56: ...BIOS EP 6VBA Page 4 28 Page Left Blank...

Page 57: ...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 controller Master 02...

Page 58: ...MA 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 Cascade for DMA controller 1 DMA Channel 5 Available DMA Chan...

Page 59: ...9 Year 0A Status register A 0B Status register B 0C Status register C 0D Status register D 0E Diagnostic status byte 0F Shutdown byte 10 FLOPPY DISK drive type byte 11 Reserve 12 HARD DISK type byte 1...

Page 60: ...Appendix EP 6VBA A 4 Page Left Blank...

Page 61: ...c R W functionality C1 Auto detection of onboard DRAM Cache C5 Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000 FFFFF shadow RAM so thatPOST will go faster 08 Test the first 256K DRAM 09 OEM specific cache initializ...

Page 62: ...only 0F DMA channel 0 test 10 DMA channel 1 test 11 DMA page registers test 12 13 Reserved 14 Test 8254 Timer 0 Counter 2 15 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1 16 Test 8259 interrupt mask bit...

Page 63: ...o press F1 key 4F 1 If password is needed ask for password 2 Clear the Energy Star Logo Green BIOS only 50 Write all CMOS values currently in the BIOS stack area back into the CMOS 51 Reserved 52 1 In...

Page 64: ...ation table 62 1 Setup daylight saving according to Setup value 2 Program the NUM Lock typematic rate typematic speed according to Setup setting 63 1 If there is any changes in the hardware configurat...

Page 65: ...rrupted LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGPAA CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC Load SETUP Default Y N Y STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET F...

Page 66: ...Appendix EP 6VBA A 10 Page Left Blank...

Page 67: ...Notes You must already have Windows 95 98 install on your computer 1 Login windows 95 98 then click My Computer icon Control Panel icon and System icon 2 Before the Driver install into windows 95 98...

Page 68: ...on 6 Key in the driver location ex D Audio Win9x then click OK button You can use the Browse button to find the driver location if you don t know where the driver is 7 Click Finish button 8 The click...

Page 69: ...fter Windows 9x or Windows NT V4 0 was loaded click on My computer icon control panel icon and then the Display icon 2 You should now be in the Display Properties Windows select the Settings tab and c...

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