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Manual Revision 3.1

January 28, 2000

EP-7KXA

An AMD Athlon Slot A Processor

based mainboar

based mainboard (133/100MHz)

d (133/100MHz)

Suppor

Supports PC-133 SDRAM Modules

ts PC-133 SDRAM Modules

Summary of Contents for EP-7KXA

Page 1: ...AMD Athlon Slot A Processor An AMD Athlon Slot A Processor An AMD Athlon Slot A Processor An AMD Athlon Slot A Processor An AMD Athlon Slot A Processor based mainboar based mainboar based mainboar ba...

Page 2: ...2 1 Section 3 Installation EP 7KXA Detailed Layout 3 2 Easy Installation Procedure Configure Jumpers 3 3 System Memory Configuration 3 5 Installing Processor 3 7 Device Connectors 3 8 External Modem R...

Page 3: ...Setting 4 23 Exit Selecting 4 24 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 Appendix C Load Setup Defaul...

Page 4: ...EP 7KXA Page Left Blank...

Page 5: ...9 9 9 A 1 EP 7KXA mainboard 9 9 9 9 9 B 1 EP 7KXA user s manual 9 9 9 9 9 C 1 Floppy ribbon cable 9 9 9 9 9 D 1 ATA 66 Hard drive ribbon cable 9 9 9 9 9 E 1 Foldable Retention Module F 1 USB Cable Op...

Page 6: ...branch prediction S2K Interface Technology The AMD Athlon processor is the first x86 processor ever to incorporate the S2K interface technology to deliver unprecedented system performance The S2K inte...

Page 7: ...ge Terminology Processor card The green PCB with or without components on it Processor core The CPU silicon chip on the processor card Cover The plastic cover on the opposite side from the thermal pla...

Page 8: ...will cause a rise in costs for both end users and manufacturers Lowering these costs as well as improving performance is the primary motivation behind AGP By providing a massive increase in the bandwi...

Page 9: ...ion of this aperture is defined allowing PC manufacturers to add new I O features e g TV input TV output joystick modem LAN etc to systems This will help systems integrators differentiate their produc...

Page 10: ...two sources The first is the front panel Power On Off button and the other is the Soft Off function coming from the EP 7KXA s onboard circuit controller that can be controlled by the operating system...

Page 11: ...P 7KXA Page 1 7 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT8371 133 100MHz 133 100MHz 66MHz 4X AMD Athlon Processor VT82C686A I O Bridge AC 97 USB 0 1 US...

Page 12: ...Introduction EP 7KXA Page 1 8 Page Left Blank...

Page 13: ...dependent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA 33 66 devices The EP 7KXA supports 5 PCI Bus Master slots and a jumperless PCI INT control scheme which r...

Page 14: ...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 Recovery In...

Page 15: ...Installation EP 7KXA Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 16: ...Installation EP 7KXA Page 3 2 Figure 1 EP 7KXA Detailed Layout...

Page 17: ...Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions KBPO 3 6 STR Suspend To RAM Function Section 3 1 Jumper Settings The EP 7KXA motherboard was designed with very few jumpers to make your install fast and easy...

Page 18: ...1 JP1 CMOS Clear JP1 1 2 Normal Default 2 3 Clear CMOS 1 JP5 Power Loss Recovery JP5 1 2 Disabled 2 3 Enabled JP4 Keyboard Power ON Function JP4 1 2 Disabled Default 2 3 Enabled 1 1 JP2 STR Function...

Page 19: ...ory 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 Bank 2 3 DIMM 3 Bank 4 5 y r o m...

Page 20: ...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 aft...

Page 21: ...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 lift upright the foldable parts of the Retention module to fit...

Page 22: ...g in for the Power Supply 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 JV1 Reserved JV2 Reserved IDE1 Primary IDE Conn...

Page 23: ...tem 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 LED...

Page 24: ...ork 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: ...e 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 refer...

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: ...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 possible...

Page 28: ...ted 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: ...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 increasing performance D...

Page 31: ...s 40 or 80 tracks Disabled The BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number Note BIOS can not tell the difference between 720K 1 2MB and 1 44MB drive types as they are all 80...

Page 32: ...etup 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 th...

Page 33: ...dow 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 depend on chipset of the option card Enabled Optional...

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: ...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: ...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: ...g 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 0...

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: ...er to select the parallel port mode The default is Normal Normal Standard mode IBM PC AT Compatible bidirectional parallel port EPP Enhanced Parallel Port mode ECP Extended Capabilities Port mode EPP...

Page 41: ...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 42: ...ze 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 video...

Page 43: ...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 even...

Page 44: ...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 contro...

Page 45: ...and they were recorded into ESCD Extended System Configuration Data you can set this field to Enabled in order to clear ESCD PCI VGA Palette Snoop Leave this field at Disabled The choice Enabled Disab...

Page 46: ...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 CPU...

Page 47: ...es this option CPU Host Clock CPU PCI Allows the external clock to be modified depending upon what FSB has been selected Should not be used to clock proces sor faster than it was designed for The defa...

Page 48: ...box with a message similar 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...

Page 49: ...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 50: ...rn 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 Wit...

Page 51: ...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 52: ...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 53: ...annel 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 regist...

Page 54: ...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 55: ...S code to DRAM C5h Call chipset hook 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 Re...

Page 56: ...pset 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...

Page 57: ...rved 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 early ch...

Page 58: ...eserved 47h 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 Rese...

Page 59: ...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 stage c...

Page 60: ...ROM 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 mode if...

Page 61: ...92h Reserved 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 Clea...

Page 62: ...Appendix EP 7KXA A 12 Page Left Blank...

Page 63: ...ad Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Save Exit Setup Exit Without Saving Esc Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type Appendix C NOTE The LOAD Optimized...

Page 64: ...Appendix EP 7KXA A 14 Page Left Blank...

Page 65: ...lder 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 an...

Page 66: ...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 67: ...EP 7KXA A 17 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 back...

Page 68: ...ix EP 7KXA A 18 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 69: ...ppendix EP 7KXA A 19 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 Partition...

Page 70: ...tition 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 p...

Page 71: ...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 72: ...Appendix EP 7KXA A 22 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 73: ...endix EP 7KXA A 23 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 err...

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