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BIOS

EP-MVP4G

Page 4-17

IDE HDD Block Mode:  IDE Block Mode allows the controller to access blocks of
sectors rather than a single sector at a time.
The default is Enabled.

Enabled:  Enabled IDE HDD Block Mode. Provides higher HDD
transfer rates.
Disabled:  Disable IDE HDD Block Mode.

Onchip IDE Channel: The default value is Enabled.

Enabled: Enables Onboard IDE primary port.
Disabled: Disables Onboard IDE primary port.

Onchip IDE Channel:
The default is Enabled.

Enabled: Enables Onboard IDE secondary port.
Disabled: Disables Onboard IDE secondary port.

 Primary Master PIO
The default is Auto.

Auto: BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Master PCI 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 Accessing mode.
Mode 0~4: Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode.

Secondary Master PIO:
The default is Auto.

Auto: BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Secondary Master PCI
IDE HDD Accessing 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 0~4:  Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode.

Summary of Contents for EP-MVP4G

Page 1: ...MVP4G EP MVP4G EP MVP4G EP MVP4G ISA PCI Mainboard with Onboard AGP ISA PCI Mainboard with Onboard AGP ISA PCI Mainboard with Onboard AGP ISA PCI Mainboard with Onboard AGP ISA PCI Mainboard with Onbo...

Page 2: ...t 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 identificat...

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: ...pers 3 3 System Memory Configuration 3 5 Device Connectors 3 8 External Modem Ring in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Function KBPO 3 10 Section 4 Award BIOS Setup BIOS Instructions 4 1 Standard CMOS S...

Page 5: ...itWithoutSaving 4 24 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...

Page 6: ...EP MVP4G Page Left Blank...

Page 7: ...ts Checklist A 1 One mainboard B 1 One user s manual C 1 Floppy ribbon cable D 1 IDE ribbon cables E 1 COM Port Connector F 1 Ultra_DMA IDE driver diskette 1 AGP Drivers 1 Audio Drivers USER S MANUAL...

Page 8: ...tary button that is normally open The EP MVP4G 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 Off button and the ot...

Page 9: ...on EP MVP4G Page 1 3 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT82C501 VT82C686A I O Bridge socket 7 Processor 100 66 MHz 100 66 MHz USB 0 1 USB 2 3 AC97...

Page 10: ...Introduction EP MVP4G Page 1 4 Page Left Blank...

Page 11: ...nce PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA 33 66 devices The EP MVP4G supports 2 PCI Bus Master slots and a jumperless PCI INT control scheme which reduces configuration c...

Page 12: ...ware sleep and SMM System Management Mode Supports Keyboard power ON function KBPO Supports USDM software to offer motherboard various status Supports the CPU and Chassis fan Auto stop in sleep mode B...

Page 13: ...Installation EP MVP4G Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 14: ...USB VGA Parallel Port USB 1 Top Mouse Top USB 0 Bottom PS 2 Keyboard Bottom IDE1 Secondary IDE FDD1 Flash Memory for BIOS J7 WOL Game Port SOCKET 7 JP4 1 DIMM 3 Bank 2 DIMM 2 Bank 1 DIMM 1 Bank 0 CPU...

Page 15: ...board with the fewest jumpers to make your install fast and easy The following will describe all of the jumpers that you are required to set before moving on to step 3 2 Note The jumpers as depicted a...

Page 16: ...0 3 R P z H M 0 5 2 z H M 0 0 1 6 6 3 R P Z H M 0 0 2 X 3 z H M 6 6 6 6 2 R P z H M 5 7 0 0 3 R P z H M 0 5 2 z H M 3 8 3 3 3 R P z H M 5 9 0 0 4 R P z H M 0 0 3 z H M 0 0 1 3 3 4 R P z H M 3 3 2 X 5...

Page 17: ...configurations using SDRAM only supports 8 16 32 64 128MB 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...

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 s...

Page 19: ...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 b...

Page 20: ...an Power J7 WOL Wake On Lan Connector PW1 ATX Power Connector 20 pin power connector J2 J3 Chassis Panel Connector Power_LED Speaker Reset Sleep Turbo LED and HDD LED IDE1 Primary IDE Connector IDE2 S...

Page 21: ...delay mode we has added a special feature to make the system go into suspend mode when the button is pressed momentarily J2 Section 3 3 Device Connectors continued Speaker Connect to the system s spea...

Page 22: ...l Modem Ring in Power ON function Once users connect the external modem to COM1 or COM2 the EP MVP4G mainboard allows users to turn on their system through the remote and host s dial up control Exclus...

Page 23: ...e 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 24: ...e 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 by...

Page 25: ...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 PCI ISA BIOS 2A5...

Page 26: ...creasing performance Disabled 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 Enanb...

Page 27: ...number NOTE BIOS can not tell the difference between 720K 1 2MB and 1 44MB drive types as they are all 80 tracks Boot Up NumLock Status This controls the state of the NumLock key when the system boots...

Page 28: ...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 the incorrect password is not entered at the prompt PCI...

Page 29: ...enabled Disabled Video shadow is disabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow CC000 CFFFF Shadow D0000 D3FFF Shadow D4000 D7FFF Shadow D8000 DBFFF Shadow DC000 DFFFF Shadow These categories determine whether ROMs from...

Page 30: ...ect Enabled fo this field when PBSRAMs are installed Pipelining improves system performance The Choice Enabled Disabled ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LHPA9 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Bank 0 1 DRA...

Page 31: ...FFFH to be cached provided that the cache controller is enabled The Choice Enabled Disabled Memory Hole You can reserve this memory area for the use of ISA adaptor ROMs The default is Disabled Enabled...

Page 32: ...ssable by the AGP card Frame Buffer Size Specify the size of system memory to allocate for video memory from 1 MB to 8 MB The Choice NA 2MB 4MB 8MB OnChip USB Select Enabled if your system contains a...

Page 33: ...ings 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 2A5LHPA9 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC AC...

Page 34: ...nk Screen System only writes blanks to the video buffer MODEM Use IRQ Name the interrupt request IRQ line assigned to the modem if any on your system Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the sy...

Page 35: ...OM When set to On default any event occurring at a COM serial LPT printer port will awaken a system which has been powered down HDD FDD When set to On default any event occurring at a hard or floppy d...

Page 36: ...re 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 resource automatically Reset Configuration Data This setting allows y...

Page 37: ...igh performance PCI bust protocol in which graeater amounts of data are transferred at a single command The Choice Enabled Disabled PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are command...

Page 38: ...ce where the errors occur Depending on the configuration of your IDE subsystem this field may not appear and it does not appear when the Internal PCI IDE field above is Disabled The Choice Enabled Dis...

Page 39: ...mary Master PIO The default is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode 0 4 Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode Primary Slave PIO...

Page 40: ...drive will run in normal mode Secondary Slave 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 setting Disabled The...

Page 41: ...d I O chip The Choice Standard ASKIR HPSIR Onboard Parallel port This field allows the user to configure the LPT port The default is 378H IRQ7 378H Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 378H and IRQ7...

Page 42: ...ed 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 Should not be used to clock processor fas...

Page 43: ...fan speed in RPMs CPU V The voltage level of the CPU Vio Vcore 2 5V 3 3V 5V 12V The voltage level of the switch power supply 4 8 Change Supervisor or User Password To change the password choose the S...

Page 44: ...P You don t need the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION utility The BIOS will Auto detect the hard disk size and model on display during POST Figure 10 IDE HDD Auto Detection NOTE HDD Modes The Award BIOS support...

Page 45: ...ed by sector head cylinder into its own physical address inside the HDD The maximum HDD size supported by LBA mode is 8 4 GigaBytes which is obtained by the followingformula no Cylinder 1024 x no Head...

Page 46: ...4 10 HDD Low Level Format Interleave Select the interleave number of the hard disk drive you wish to perform a low level format on You may select from 1 to 8 Check the documentation that came with the...

Page 47: ...CFFF 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 020 021 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER...

Page 48: ...P 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 Channel 6 Available DMA Channel 7 Available A 4 INT...

Page 49: ...ter 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 13 Reserve 14 Equipment type 15 Base memory...

Page 50: ...Appendix EP MVP4G A 4 Page Left Blank...

Page 51: ...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 256K DRAM 09 OEM...

Page 52: ...BIOS checksum Non Compress Version 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 channe...

Page 53: ...the screen wait for user to 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 th...

Page 54: ...ystem configuration 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 hardw...

Page 55: ...rrupted LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROMPCI ISABIOS 2A5LHPA9 CMOSSETUPUTILITY AWARDSOFTWARE INC Load SETUP Default Y N Y STANDARD CMOS SETUP SENSOR AND CPU SPEED SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD C...

Page 56: ...Appendix EP MVP4G A 10 Page Left Blank...

Page 57: ...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 58: ...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 59: ...EP MVP4G 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 60: ...x EP MVP4G 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 61: ...ppendix EP MVP4G 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 62: ...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 63: ...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 64: ...Appendix EP MVP4G 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 65: ...endix EP MVP4G 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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