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Appendix

EP-BX6

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 backup file.

Summary of Contents for EP-BX6

Page 1: ...EP BX6 EP BX6 EP BX6 EP BX6 EP BX6 A P A P A P A P A Pentium entium entium entium entium II III Celer II III Celer II III Celer II III Celer II III Celeron on on on on Slot1 Processor based AGP Slot1...

Page 2: ...out 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 identific...

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 driv...

Page 4: ...1 Section 3 Installation EP BX6 Detailed Layout 3 2 Easy Installation Procedure Configure Settings 3 3 System Memory Configuration 3 6 Installing a Pentium II III Processor 3 8 Device Connectors 3 10...

Page 5: ...4 27 Save Exit Setup 4 29 Exit Without Saving 4 29 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 CMOS RAM Map A 3 Appendix B POST Codes A 5...

Page 6: ...EP BX6 Page Left Blank...

Page 7: ...s Checklist A 1 EP BX6 mainboard B 1 EP BX6 user s manual C 1 Floppy ribbon cable D 1 Hard driver ribbon cables E 1 Foldable Retention Module F 1 PS 2 to AT keyboard connector adapter optional G 1 Bus...

Page 8: ...peed 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 1...

Page 9: ...s 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 t...

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: ...is 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 products in the...

Page 12: ...power On Off button should be a momentary button that is normally open The EP BX6 has been designed with Soft Off functions You can turn Off the system from one of two sources The first is the front p...

Page 13: ...ntroduction EP BX6 Page 1 7 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram Pentium II or Processor Pentium III PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller 443BX PllX4E I O Bridge 100 66MHz 100 66MHz 66MH...

Page 14: ...Introduction EP BX6 Page 1 8 Page Left Blank...

Page 15: ...ules Supports 1 16 bit ISA slots 6 32 bit PCI slots 1 AGP slot and provides 2 independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA 33 devices The EP BX6 sup...

Page 16: ...ntervention Supports CPU Hardware sleep and SMM System Management Mode Supports Desktop Management Interface DMI facilitating the manage ment of desktop computers hardware and software components and...

Page 17: ...Installation EP BX6 Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 18: ...Installation EP BX6 Page 3 2 Figure 1 EP BX6 Detailed Layout...

Page 19: ...o Detect DIMM PCI Clk Enabled Spread Spectrum Modulated Disabled CPU Host Clock Default CPU PCI Clk Ratio Auto CPU AGP Clk Ratio Auto CPU Int Clk Ratio x3 CPU Clk Frequency 300 100x3 MHz CPU AGP Clk C...

Page 20: ...n the EPoX brand motherboard we recommend use only the finest quality modules EPoX would like to stress that using non compliant PC100 SDRAM modules with a 100MHz or higher FSB severely compromises th...

Page 21: ...or J1 SB LINK Connector Reserved for Creative SB LINK Sound Blaster LINK with the Sound Blaster AW E64D PCI Sound Card to com patible T M T M 1 2 Sixth Slave Default 2 3 Sixth M aster JPX1 JPX2 The Fi...

Page 22: ...DRAM only supports 8 16 32 64 128MB DIMM modules Using non compliant memory with higher bus speed over clocking may severely compromise the integrity of the system Section 3 2 System Memory Configurat...

Page 23: ...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 24: ...ble pentium II 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 scre...

Page 25: ...Now 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 sli...

Page 26: ...t COM1 USB COM2 J2 J3 Chassis Panel Connector Power LED Speaker Reset Turbo LED HDD LED IR Conn Sleep Power_ON J4 CPU Fan Power A plug in for the CPU Fan Power J6 Power Supply Fan Monitoring A plug in...

Page 27: ...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 indicator L...

Page 28: ...it Step 1 Please check that JP4 is at the position 1 2 after you finished the system installation Step 2 Push the momentary switch J3 PW ON to turn on your system and then push again and hold for mor...

Page 29: ...B standby power only has to be 0 1A 100mA then you can enjoy this unique benefit However the ATX power supply which is 0 1 100mA is still applicable to your system by placed JP4 at the position 2 3 to...

Page 30: ...nable and ACPI Suspend Type S3 STR in the Power Management Setup menu c Then please type the following before installing the Windows 98 Drive Setup p j If Windows 98 was installed in your system witho...

Page 31: ...N Blanking OFF OFF c It saves and keeps all on screen data including any executed applications to DRAM d You must push the Power button connected with onboard J3 pin to wake up you system not to click...

Page 32: ...Installation EP BX6 Page 3 16 Page Left Blank...

Page 33: ...ossible for the 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...

Page 34: ...f hard disk drive installed floppy drive type and display type Memory size is auto detected by the BIOS and displayed for your reference When a field is highlighted use direction keys to move the curs...

Page 35: ...ll display a help message for the selected item Figure 3 BIOS Features Setup Virus Warning During and after the system boots up any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard d...

Page 36: ...The default is Enabled Enabled This activates the processor s internal cache thereby increasing performance Disabled This deactivates the processor s internal cache thereby lowering performance Exter...

Page 37: ...hey are all 80 tracks Boot Up NumLock Status This controls the state of the NumLock key when the system boots The default is On On The keypad acts as a 10 key pad Off The keypad acts like the cursor k...

Page 38: ...VGA Palette Snoop This field controls the ability of a primary PCI VGA controller to share a common palette When a snoop write cycles with an ISA video card The default is Disabled Enabled If an ISA...

Page 39: ...3 2 Provides faster memory performance 3 Provides better memory compatibility 4 3 Chipset Features Setup Choose the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu to display following menu ROM...

Page 40: ...to fast RAM The default is Disabled Enabled The option will improve system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result Disabled System BIOS non cacheable V...

Page 41: ...active during passive release Otherwise the arbiter only accepts another PCI master access to local DRAM The default is Enabled Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled Delayed Transaction This option allow...

Page 42: ...ion The default is User define Disabled The system operates in NORMAL conditions Non GREEN and the Power Management function is disabled ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69KPAI POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE...

Page 43: ...elect this option if your monitor supports the Display Power Management Signaling DPMS standard of the Video Electronics Standards Association VESA Use the software supplied for your video subsystem t...

Page 44: ...performance will be lost during a power management mode Default is 62 5 PCI VGA Act Monitor Use this option if your monitor has advanced power saving features The default is Disabled Enabled Your mon...

Page 45: ...day This option is only available when Power Loss Recovery is Enabled The default is Enabled Enabled The system will turn on at the preset time Disabled The system can not have this function Reload Gl...

Page 46: ...NP cards BIOS will assign the interrupt resource automatically PNP OS Installed NO Slot 1 Use IRQ No Auto Resources Controlled By Manual Slot 2 Use IRQ No Auto Reset Configuration Data Disabled Slot 3...

Page 47: ...r to specify what IRQ will ne assigned to PCI devices in the chosen slot Options available Auto 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 The default are auto Used MEM base addr The Used MEM base addr CB00 CC00 D000 D...

Page 48: ...led IDE HDD Block Mode Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69KPAI INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE INC IDE HDD Block M...

Page 49: ...Secondary Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode IDE 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 set...

Page 50: ...default is PCI Slot PCI Slot PCI Video card will be primary adapter AGP AGP Video card will be primary adapter Power On Function There are Button Only Hot Key and Any key can be chosen by this field...

Page 51: ...ess is 3F8H IRQ4 COM2 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 2F8H IRQ3 COM3 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 3E8H IRQ4 COM4 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 2E8H IRQ3 Disabl...

Page 52: ...le Onboard Winbond Chip s LPT port Parallel Port Mode This field allows the user to select the parallel port mode The default is ECP EPP Normal Standard mode IBM PC AT Compatible bidirectional paralle...

Page 53: ...the CMOS SETUP UTILITY to display the following screen This menu allows to choose the correct CPU speed to match your CPU installed Figure 8 Sensor and CPU Speed Setting Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help...

Page 54: ...clock frequency information No option Display only CPU Vcore Voltage The default is 0 00V Options 0 00V 0 05V 0 10V 0 20V 0 30V 0 40V and 0 50V minor increase to CPU working voltage CPU Vcore Voltage...

Page 55: ...e proper password is given 2 If the CMOS is corrupted or the option was used earlier and the user wishes to change the default password the SETUP UTILITY will display a message and ask for a confirmat...

Page 56: ...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 sectors...

Page 57: ...ytes 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 58: ...he 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 59: ...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 MAP...

Page 60: ...el 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 defa...

Page 61: ...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 62: ...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 63: ...ce 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 25...

Page 64: ...S 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 65: ...oppy 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 4E If there is any erro...

Page 66: ...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 table 62 1 Setup daylight...

Page 67: ...is corrupted LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69KPAI CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC Load SETUP Default Y N Y STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIP...

Page 68: ...Appendix EP BX6 A 10 Page Left Blank...

Page 69: ...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 70: ...et 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 71: ...x EP BX6 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 back...

Page 72: ...ix EP BX6 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 73: ...Appendix EP BX6 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 Partition...

Page 74: ...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 75: ...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 requires...

Page 76: ...Appendix EP BX6 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 77: ...pendix EP BX6 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 err...

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