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Manual Revision 1.1

October 1, 1999

EP-MVP3C

EP-MVP3C2

ISA/PCI AGP Mainboard with Onboard

PCI IDE and Super Multi-I/O

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Page 1: ...VP3C EP MVP3C EP MVP3C EP MVP3C EP MVP3C EP MVP3C2 EP MVP3C2 EP MVP3C2 EP MVP3C2 EP MVP3C2 ISA PCI AGP Mainboard with Onboard ISA PCI AGP Mainboard with Onboard ISA PCI AGP Mainboard with Onboard ISA...

Page 2: ...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 identificati...

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 question...

Page 4: ...gure Jumpers 3 3 SystemMemoryConfiguration 3 5 DeviceConnectors 3 8 External Modem Ring in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Function KBPO 3 10 Section 4 Award BIOS Setup BIOSInstructions 4 1 Standard CM...

Page 5: ...ing 4 21 Appendix Appendix A Memory Map A 1 I O Map A 1 Timer DMAChannelsMap A 2 InterruptMap A 2 RTC CMOS RAM Map A 3 Appendix B POST Codes A 5 UnexpectedErrors A 8 Appendix C Load Setup Defaults A 9...

Page 6: ...EP MVP3C 2 Page Left Blank...

Page 7: ...nents Checklist A 1 One mainboard B 1 One user s manual C 1 Floppy ribbon cable D 1 IDE ribbon cables ATA 66 IDE ribbon cable EP MVP3C2 only E 1 PS 2 Mouse connector F 1 COM Port LPT Port Connector G...

Page 8: ...on should be a momentary button that is normally open The EP MVP3C 2 has been designed with Soft Off functions You can turn Off the system from one of two sources The first is the front panel Power On...

Page 9: ...EP MVP3C 2 Page 1 3 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT82C598 VT82C596 I O Bridge Socket 7 Processor 100 66 MHz 100 66 MHz 66 MHz Winbond 83877TF...

Page 10: ...Introduction EP MVP3C 2 Page 1 4 Page Left Blank...

Page 11: ...rovides 2 independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA 33 66 for EP MVP3C2 only devices The EP MVP3C 2 supports 4 PCI Bus Master slots and a jumperl...

Page 12: ...lows system to be turned on remotely Resume by Alarm Allows your system to turn on at a preselected time Supports CPU Hardware sleep and SMM System Management Mode Supports Keyboard power ON function...

Page 13: ...Installation EP MVP3C 2 Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 14: ...C598 J7 WOL J1 1 IDE1 IDE2 FDD1 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 Bank 1 Bank 0 DIMM 3 Bank 2 PCI Slot 1 J2 RESET SPK KEYLOCK POWER_ON 1 J3 IR CONN 5 1 1 5 JP5 1 1 JP4 POWER_ON JP3 2 1 28 27 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 4 ISA Slo...

Page 15: ...you are required to set before moving on to step 3 2 Note The jumpers as depicted as shown Figure 1 in their correct physical orientation J7 W O L W ake O n Lan Connector Reserved for NIC Network Int...

Page 16: ...I IDT C6 Cyrix IBM 6x86MX MII IDT Winchip 2 Rise MP6 166MHz PR200 66MHz 2 5X PR233 75MHz PR266 233MHz 83MHz PR300 PR333 95MHz 250MHz PR366 300MHz PR366 100MHz 200MHz PR266 200MHz 66MHz 3X PR300 225MHz...

Page 17: ...rations using SDRAM only supports 8 16 32 64 128MB DIMM modules Table 1 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 Bank 0 1 Bank 2 3 Synchronous ED O DIMM 3 Bank 4 5 y r o m e M l a t o T 1 M M I D 1 0 k n a B 2 M M I D 3 2 k n a...

Page 18: ...memory module DIMMs have 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...

Page 19: ...e 3 7 Figure 4 DIMM Module clip before installation 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...

Page 20: ...g 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 SB LINK Connector 5 PIN Header for Creative Blaster AWE64D PCI Sound Card PW1 AT Pow...

Page 21: ...e Using the Soft Off 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 th...

Page 22: ...al Modem Ring in Power ON function Once users connect the external modem to COM1 or COM2 the EP MVP3C 2 mainboard allows users to turn on their system through the remote and host s dial up control Exc...

Page 23: ...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 24: ...ze 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 be changed b...

Page 25: ...ssage will appear You should then run an anti virus program to locate the virus Keep in mind that this feature protects only the boot sector not the entire hard drive The default value is Disabled ROM...

Page 26: ...internal cache thereby increasing performance Disabled This deactivates the processor s internal cache thereby lowering performance Quick Power On Self Test This category speeds up the Power On Self T...

Page 27: ...like the cursor keys Gate A20 Option This refers to the way the system addresses memory above 1MB extended memory The default is Fast Normal The A20 signal is controlled by the keyboard controller or...

Page 28: ...to share a common palette When a snoop write cycles with an ISA video 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 conne...

Page 29: ...0 1 DRAM Timing SDRAM Fast Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk Enabled Bank 2 3 DRAM Timing FP EDO Fast Spread Spectrum Disabled Bank 4 5 DRAM Timing FP EDO Fast CPU Host Clock CPU PCI Default SDRAM Cycle length...

Page 30: ...P Aperture Size The amount of system memory that the AGP card is allowed to share The default is 64 4 4MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card 8 8MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP car...

Page 31: ...imum power savings Inactivity period is 1 hour in each mode User define Allows user to define PM Timers parameters to control power saving mode ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEPA9 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD S...

Page 32: ...ent values Blank Screen System only writes blanks to the video buffer Video Off option Tells you what time frame that the video will be disabled under current power management settings The default is...

Page 33: ...is Delay 4 sec Instant Off Turns off instantly Delay 4 Second Turns off after a 4 second delay If momentary press of button the system will go into Suspend Mode Press again to take system out of Suspe...

Page 34: ...s will be controlled manually You can set which IRQ X and DMA X are assigned to PCI ISA PNP or Legacy ISA Cards Auto If your ISA card and PCI card are all PNP cards BIOS will assign the interrupt reso...

Page 35: ...vice rather than a PCI controller If you are using a PCI controller then you will need to change this to specify which PCI slot has the control ler and which PCI interrupt A B C or D is associated wit...

Page 36: ...DE HDD Block Mode Provides higher HDD transfer rates Disabled Disable IDE HDD Block Mode ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEPA9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE INC OnChip IDE Channel0 Enabled Onboard Paralle...

Page 37: ...uto BIOS 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...

Page 38: ...select the optimal setting Disabled The hard drive will run in normal mode USB Keyboard Support This controls the activation status of an optional USB keyboard that may be attached The default is dis...

Page 39: ...lect The mode of the IR Controller The default is Normal IrDA Support a Serial Infrared Inferface IrDA ASKIR Support a Sharp Serial Infrared Interface formats Normal The IRRX and IRTX pins of IR funct...

Page 40: ...corrupted or the option was not used a default password stored in the ROM will be used The screen will display the following message Enter Password Press the Enter key to continue after the proper pas...

Page 41: ...d BIOS supports 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 cylin...

Page 42: ...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 IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support in...

Page 43: ...A or LARGE and must utilize the Standard mode UNIX can support drives larger than 528MB 4 10 Save Exit Setup The SAVE EXIT SETUP option will bring you back to the boot up procedure with all the change...

Page 44: ...BIOS EP MVP3C 2 Page 4 22 Page Left Blank...

Page 45: ...e 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 M...

Page 46: ...nnel 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 de...

Page 47: ...channel 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 regi...

Page 48: ...17 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 3...

Page 49: ...face 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...

Page 50: ...IOS 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 tes...

Page 51: ...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 52: ...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 configuration ta...

Page 53: ...corrupted LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEPA9 CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC Load SETUP Default Y N Y STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET...

Page 54: ...Appendix EP MVP3C 2 A 10 Page Left Blank...

Page 55: ...folder 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...

Page 56: ...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 T...

Page 57: ...EP MVP3C 2 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 ba...

Page 58: ...EP MVP3C 2 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 t...

Page 59: ...pendix EP MVP3C 2 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 Partiti...

Page 60: ...artition 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 61: ...4 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 requir...

Page 62: ...Appendix EP MVP3C 2 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 63: ...ndix EP MVP3C 2 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 e...

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