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EP-6VBA2

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Summary of Contents for EP-6VBA2

Page 1: ...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 4X AGP Slot1 Processor based 4X AGP Slot1 Processor based 4X AGP Slot1 Proce...

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 d...

Page 4: ...2 1 Section 3 Installation EP 6VBA2 Detailed Layout 3 2 Easy Installation Procedure Configure Jumpers 3 3 System Memory Configuration 3 4 Installing a Pentium II III Processor 3 6 Device Connectors 3...

Page 5: ...25 Exit Without Saving 4 25 Driver Installation 5 1 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 Unexpect...

Page 6: ...EP 6VBA2 Page Left Blank...

Page 7: ...Checklist A 1 EP 6VBA2 mainboard B 1 EP 6VBA2 user s manual C 1 Floppy ribbon cable D 1 ATA 66 Hard drive ribbon cable E 1 Foldable Retention Module F 1 PS 2 to AT keyboard connector adapter optional...

Page 8: ...speed bus The Pentium II or Pentium III Processor card supports both uni processor and dual processor implementations The Pentium II or Pentium III Processor utilizes Single Edge Contact S E C Figure...

Page 9: ...us 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 The plastic cover on...

Page 10: ...quires 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 wi...

Page 11: ...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 12: ...two sources The first is the front panel Power On Off button and the other is the Soft Off function coming from the EP 6VBA2 s onboard circuit controller that can be controlled by the operating syste...

Page 13: ...Page 1 7 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT82C694X 100 66MHz 100 66MHz 66MHz Pentium II or Processor Pentium III VT82C686A I O Bridge AC 97 USB...

Page 14: ...Introduction EP 6VBA2 Page 1 8 Page Left Blank...

Page 15: ...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 6VBA2 supports 5 PCI Bus...

Page 16: ...ftware power down 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 pre...

Page 17: ...Installation EP 6VBA2 Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 18: ...Installation EP 6VBA2 Page 3 2 Figure 1 EP 6VBA2 Detailed Layout...

Page 19: ...g 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 orientation 1 2 3 4 O N 1 W...

Page 20: ...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 0 1 B...

Page 21: ...installed by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a 90 degree angle and pressing straight down figure 4 until it fits tightly into the DIMM socket figure 5 Figure 3 Figure 5 DIMM Module clip af...

Page 22: ...III Retention Mechanism This pre installed device is designed for you to install Pentium II III CPU more easier and to avoide any damage on the board due to overtightening the four screws One thing m...

Page 23: ...ow we are ready to install the SEC Cartridge Pentium II III Processor into the Retention Module The SEC Cartridge is mounted by sliding the SEC Cartridge into the Retention Module and letting it slide...

Page 24: ...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 Conn...

Page 25: ...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 26: ...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 key and BUTTON only to turn on...

Page 27: ...r 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 poss...

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: ...ort 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 BIOS Features Setup 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: ...ing 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...

Page 32: ...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 33: ...able 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 34: ...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 al...

Page 35: ...on 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 up the VGA Performance Dis...

Page 36: ...Bus 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 ke...

Page 37: ...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 38: ...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 39: ...r 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 40: ...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 contr...

Page 41: ...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 42: ...data is corrupted 4 7 Integrated Peripherals Figure 8 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 43: ...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 44: ...o 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 th...

Page 45: ...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 C...

Page 46: ...Spectrum The default is Disabled Enabled 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 Sh...

Page 47: ...ault is Enabled Enabled The system will turn off the CPU fans during suspend mode Disabled The system will not turn off the CPU fan during suspend mode Current System Temp This is the Current temperat...

Page 48: ...d 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 u...

Page 49: ...3 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 sector...

Page 50: ...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 51: ...the 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 52: ...BIOS EP 6VBA2 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: ...7 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 INFORMATIONFLAG 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: ...upted 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 I...

Page 62: ...Appendix EP 6VBA2 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 6VBA2 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 6VBA2 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 6VBA2 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 6VBA2 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 6VBA2 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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