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1-2 P55-VP 2

P55-VP 2 Layout

BIOS

PCI#1

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BIOS

PRINTER

W83877F

5

1

82C585

    VIA

    VIA

  K/B
CONN.

Power Conn.

J1

DIMM1

SIMM1

SIMM2

SIMM3

SIMM4

COM2

COM1

J2

1

5

3

1

JP1

FDD CONN.

PCI#3

PCI#2

 

64K*32

64K*32

 82C587

    VIA

 

82C587

    VIA

Figure 1-1

HD-LED+

G-LED+

TB-LED+

SPEAKER

KEYLOCK

J5

5                1

3       1  3       1

JP8   JP7

J3

JP3

1
3

TAG  SRAM

 

\

 Bank 4,5 

/  \

 

Bank 2,3

 

/

Bank 0,1

Primary IDE

Secondary IDE

SLEEP

RESET

1        2

7        8

JP6

JP2-2

JP2-1

JP2-3

JP2-4

82C586A

JP4

1
3

Socket 7

Summary of Contents for P55-VP 2

Page 1: ...elined Burst synchronous L2Write Back Through Cache Thecachememorycombinationcanbe256KB 512KB 32KB 32 64KB 32SRAM respectively Supports four 16 bit ISA slots and three 32 bit PCI slots and provides two independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIOMode3 4andUltra DMA33 devices TheP55 VP2supportsthreePCI Bus Masters and a jumperless PCI INT control scheme which reduces co...

Page 2: ... SIMM2 SIMM3 SIMM4 COM2 COM1 J2 1 5 3 1 JP1 FDD CONN PCI 3 PCI 2 64K 32 64K 32 82C587 VIA 82C587 VIA Figure 1 1 HD LED G LED TB LED SPEAKER KEYLOCK J5 5 1 3 1 3 1 JP8 JP7 J3 JP3 1 3 TAG SRAM Bank 4 5 Bank 2 3 Bank 0 1 Primary IDE Secondary IDE SLEEP RESET 1 2 7 8 JP6 JP2 2 JP2 1 JP2 3 JP2 4 82C586A JP4 1 3 Socket 7 ...

Page 3: ...ronglyrecommendedwheninstallingP54C P54CTB P55C K5 K6 6x86 6x86L M2 processor due to possible overheat TheP55 VP2supportsaminimumof4MBandamaximumof192MBofSystem Memory while L2 Cache can be 256KB 512KB synchronous SRAM Onboard to increasesystemperformance RefertoPage2 6CacheMemoryConfigurationfor thedetails The P55 VP 2 supports standard Fast Page EDO Extended Data Out or Hyper Page Mode or synchr...

Page 4: ... Saving mode Reset Switch Closed to restart system Speaker connect to the system s speaker for beeping KeyLock Keyboardlockswitch PowerLEDconnector Sleep Resume switch Closed to enter sleep mode A keystrobe or mouse movement mouse driver exists Will instantly wake up the system TurboLEDindicator LEDONwhenhigherspeedisselected IDELEDindicator LEDONwhenOnboardPCIIDE Harddisks activate There is no de...

Page 5: ...inbond 2 3 12VFlashEPROM Intel JP3 CPUVcorevoltageselection 1 2 2 9VForAMDK6 PR166 200 2 3 2 8VForPentiumMMXProcessor Cyrix6x86L Open 3 2V Reserved JP4 CPUTypeSelection 1 2 Auto forIntelPentiumMMXProcessor AMDK5 K6andCyrix6x86 6x86L M2 2 3 Manual forIntelPentiumProcessor 3 1 3 1 3 1 JP6 DIMM Working Voltage Selection 1 2 3 4 5V 5 6 7 8 3 3V Default Refer to 2 3 Memory Configuration for the detail ...

Page 6: ...ock is System Clock Intel Pentium Processor Pentium MMX Processor AMD K5 K6 Installation 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 R R ON OFF ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON OFF ON OFF ON ON OFF ON OFF ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON Clock CPU Op JP2 1 JP2 2 JP2 3 JP2 4 JP7 JP8 66 200 MHz JP8 JP7 3 1 3 1 60 90 MHz 66 100 MHz 66 133 MHz 60 150 MHz 60 180 MHz 66 166 MHz JP2 1 2 3 4 50 75...

Page 7: ...ils 3 1 JP3 CPUVcorevoltageselection 1 2 2 9VForAMDK6 PR166 200 2 3 2 8VForPentiumMMXProcessor Cyrix6x86L Open 3 2V Reserved JP4 CPUTypeSelection 1 2 Auto forIntelPentiumMMXProcessor AMDK5 K6 andCyrix6x86 6x86L M2 2 3 Manual for Intel Pentium Processor 1 3 DIMM SIMM4 SIMM2 SIMM3 BANK 4 5 5V FP EDO DRAM BANK 2 3 5V FP EDO DRAM 3V Synchronous DRAM or 3V FP EDO DRAM BANK 0 1 NOTE 1 P55 VP 2 supports ...

Page 8: ...orts 168 pin DIMM module to extend system memory size You can install 3 3V Unbuffered Fast Page EDO or Synchronous DRAM Besides to support 5VFP and EDO DRAM with DIMM socket The P55 VP 2 provides JP6 to allow user using 3 3V Unbuffered DIMM module with 5V FP and EDO DRAM chips The setting of the JP6 is shown as follows When you have a DIMM module to plug into a 168 pin dual readout connnector you ...

Page 9: ...d by ISA add in cards in the BIOS Setup utility However if a Legacy card such as plugging a paddle card and cable into an ISA slot ispluggedinthesystem modificationinthe ROMSETUPUTILITYbecomes necessary Firstofall youmustenter PCICONFIGURATIONSETUPutilityfrom theROMSETUPUTILITYmainmenutoset ISA forthe PCIIDEIRQMAPTO Secondly youmustentertheCHIPSETFEATURESSETUPUTILITYfromtheROM SETUPUTILITYmainmenu...

Page 10: ...TWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT PNP PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE EXIT SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC QUIT SELECT ITEM F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type Figure 3 1 CMOS SETUP UTILITY The men...

Page 11: ... help message of the selected item This setup program also provides 2 convenient ways to load the default parameter data fromBIOS F6 orCMOS F7 areaifshowndataiscorrupted Thisprovides thesystem a capability to recover from any possible error 3 2 BIOS FEATURES SETUP NOTE The Halt On field is to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if an error occurrs NOTE If the hard disk Primary Master Sla...

Page 12: ...d Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when any attempt to access the boot sector or harddiskpartitiontable Disabled No warning message to appear when any attempt to access the boot sector orharddiskpartitiontable ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LDPA9 BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 ...

Page 13: ...he floppydiskdriveinstalledis40or80tracks Only360Ktypeis40trackswhile760K 1 2Mand1 44Mareall80tracks ThedefaultvalueisEnabled Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks Note that BIOS cannot tell from 720K 1 2M or 1 44M drive type as they are all80tracks Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number Note that there will not b...

Page 14: ...limit access to the system and Setup or just to Setup The default value is Setup 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 the correct password is not entered at the prompt PCI VGAPaletteSnoop ThisfiledcontrolstheabilityofaprimaryPCIVGA controller t...

Page 15: ...Optional shadow is enabled Disabled Optional shadow is disabled DRAM Auto Configuration 70 ns DRAM Timing Control Auto Video BIOS Cacheable Enabled System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Memory Hole At 15Mb Addr Disabled Fast DRAM Decoding Disabled Sustained 3T Write Enabled 2 Bank PBSRAM 3 1 1 1 Read Pipeline Enabled Write Pipeline Enabled Cache Timing Fast Linear Burst Disabled SDRAM Cycle Length 2 SDRA...

Page 16: ...e for 70ns Fast Page Mode EDO DRAM Video BIOS Cacheable The default value is Enabled Enabled Enabled the Video BIOS Cacheable to speed up the VGA Performance Disabled DisabledtheVideoBIOSCacheablefunction Memory Hole at 15M 16M The default value is Disabled Disabled Normal Setting Enabled This field enableds the main memory 15 16MB remap to ISA BUS ...

Page 17: ...and the Power Management function is disabled Max saving Thismodewillmaximizethepowersavingcapability Min saving Thismodewillminimizethepowersavingcapability User define Allow user to define time out parameters to control power saving mode Refer to item B shown below Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Power Management User Define Power Dow...

Page 18: ...ition the hardware suspend function is supported when the J5 SLEEP Refer to Figure1 1 is closed to enter the Suspend function The detailed description of these functions is provided in the next page HDDStandbyMode When system stops reading or wiriting HDD the timer starts to count The system will cut off the HDD power when timer runs out of time The system will not resume operationuntileitheraread...

Page 19: ...ick out the rescouces ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LDPA9 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 No Change Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Figure 3 6 PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP PNP Installed No CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled Resources Controlled By Manual PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled Reset Configuration Data Disabled PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled PCI Peer C...

Page 20: ...to be Enabled and to clear ESCD at one time when some Legacy cards are removed PCIIDEIRQMapTo ThedefaultvalueisPCI AUTO When you have true PCI card s plugged into the system you will not need to change any thing here in the SETUP program However if you do not know whether you are using a true PCI card please refer to your PCI card user s manual for the details When you have a Legacy card described...

Page 21: ...ard 1st channel IDE port Disabled Disable Onboard 1st channel IDE port When use On card PCI or ISA card IDE connector Onboard Secondary PCI IDE The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable Onboard 2nd channel IDE port Disabled Disable Onboard 2nd channel IDE port When use On card PCI or ISA card IDE connector 3 6 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS Note ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 No Change Shi...

Page 22: ...rt 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 Disabled Disable Onboard SMC CHIP s Serial port 1 IDE Secondary Master PIO The default value is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Secondary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode0 4 Manually set the IDE Accessing mode IDE Primary Sla...

Page 23: ... the user to sellect the parallel port mode The default value is ECP EPP Normal Standard mode IBM PC AT Compatible bidirectional parallel port EPP Enhanced Parallel Port mode ECP ExtendedCapabilityPortmode EPP ECP ECP Mode EPP Mode ECP Mode USE DMA This field allows the user to sellect DMA1 or DMA3 for the ECP mode The default value is DMA3 DMA1 The filed selects the rounting of DMA1 for the ECP m...

Page 24: ...the SETUP UTILITY will display a message and ask for a confirmation ConfirmPassword 3 Afterpressingthe Enter key ROMpasswordiftheoptionwasnotused orcurrent password user definedpassword theusercanchangethepasswordandstorenew oneinCMOSRAM Amaximumof8characterscanbeentered 3 8 CHANGE SUPERVISOR or USER PASSWORD ROMPCI ISABIOS 2A5LDPA9 CMOSSETUPUTILITY AWARDSOFTWARE INC Load SETUP Default Y N Y STAND...

Page 25: ...IZE CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE Primary Master 343 665 16 65535 664 63 NORMAL Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave Select Secondary Slave Option N Skip N OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE 1 Y 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORMAL ESC Skip NOTE HDDModes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes NORMAL LBA and LARGE NORMAL mode Generic access mode that is neither the BIOS nor the IDE co...

Page 26: ... no Sector 63 x bytes per secttor 512 8 4 Gigabytes LARGE mode This is an extended HDD access mode supported by Award Software Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinders without LBA support in some cases user does not want LBA The Award BIOS provides another alternative to support these kinds of LARGE mode CYLS HEADS SECTOR MODE 1120 16 59 NORMAL 560 32 59 LARGE BIOS tricks DOS or other OS tha...

Page 27: ...heinterleavenumberoftheharddiskdrivethatyouwishtoperformalow levelformaton Youmayselectfrom1to8 Checkthedocumentationthat camewiththedriveforthecorrectinterleavenumber orselect0forautomatic d e t e c t i o n Auto scan bad track This allows the utility to scan first then format by each track Start Press Y to start low level format 3 11 SAVE EXIT SETUP 3 12 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING The SAVE EXIT SETUP op...

Page 28: ...F 4K Plug and Play ESCD data area FE000 FFFFF 8K BIOS runtime service routine 1 000 01F DMA controller Master 020 021 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER Master 022 023 CHIPSET control registers I O ports 040 05F TIMER control registers 060 06F KEYBOARD interface controller 8042 070 07F RTC ports CMOS I O ports 080 09F DMA register 0A0 0BF INTERRUPT controller Slave 0C0 0DF DMA controller Slave 0F0 0FF MATH COPR...

Page 29: ...ult DMA Channel 4 Cascade for DMA controller 1 DMA Channel 5 Available DMA Channel 6 Available DMA Channel 7 Available 4 3 INTERRUPT MAP NMI Parity check error IRQ H W 0 System TIMER interrupt from TIMER 0 1 KEYBOARD output buffer full 2 Cascade for IRQ 8 15 3 SERIAL port 2 4 SERIAL port 1 5 PARALLEL port 2 6 FLOPPY DISK SMC CHIP 7 PARALLEL port 1 8 RTC clock 9 Available 10 Available 11 Available ...

Page 30: ...atus 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 low byte 16 Base memory high byte 17 Extension memory low byte 18 Extension memory high byte 19 2d 2E 2F 30 Reserved for ectension memory low bytw 31 Reserved for extension memory high byte 32 DATE CENTURY byte 33 INFORMATION FLAG 3...

Page 31: ... CMOS s basic R W functionality Auto detection of onboard DRAM Cache Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000 FFFFF shadow RAM so that POST will go faster Test the first 256K DRAM OEM specific cache initialization if needed 1 Initialize the first 32 interrupt vectors with corresponding Interrupt handlers Initialize INT no from 33 120 with Dummy Suprious Interrupt Handler 2 Issue CPUID instruction to iden...

Page 32: ...und 2 Show messages including Award Logo Copyright string BIOS 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 DMA channel 0 test DMA channel 1 test DMA page registers test Reserved Test 8254 Timer 0 Counter 2 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channe...

Page 33: ...y the cache is turn on later in POST 61h Reserved 1 Program the rest of the Chipset s value according to Setup Later Setup Value Program 2 If auto configuration is enabled programmed the chipset with pre defined Values Initialize floppy disk drive controller Initialize Hard drive controller If it is a PnP BIOS initialize serial parallel ports Reserved Initialize math coprocessor Reserved If there ...

Page 34: ...into a timer tick value Setup Virus Protection Boot Sector Protection functionality according to Setup setting 1 Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note if L2 cache is already turned on in POST 3D this part will be 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 configu...

Page 35: ...1 14 13 26 Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name DCD SIN SOUT DTR GND 1 6 DSR 2 7 RTS 3 8 CTS 4 9 RI 5 10 N C STROBE Data Bit 0 Data Bit 1 Data Bit 2 Data Bit 3 Data Bit 4 Data Bit 5 Data Bit 6 Data Bit 7 ACJ BUSY PE SLCT 1 14 AUTO FEED 2 15 ERROR 3 16 INIT 4 17 SLCT IN 5 18 Ground 6 19 Ground 7 20 Ground 8 21 Ground 9 22 Ground 10 23 Ground 11 24 Ground 12 25 Ground 13 2...

Page 36: ...DIR 19 20 STEP 21 22 Write Data 23 24 Write Gate 25 26 Track 00 27 28 Write Protect 29 30 Read Data 31 32 SIDE 1 SELECT 33 34 Diskette Reset IDE Host Data 7 Host Data 6 Host Data 5 Host Data 4 Host Data 3 Host Data 2 Host Data 1 Host Data 0 Ground DRQ3 I O Write I O Read IOCHRDY DACK3 IRQ14 Addr 1 Addr 0 Chip Select 0 Activity 1 2 Ground 3 4 Host Data 8 5 6 Host Data 9 7 8 Host Data 10 9 10 Host D...

Page 37: ... 2 8 MB Empty 24MB 8M x 2 16 MB 8M x 2 16 MB Empty 32MB 8M x 2 16 MB 16M x 2 32 MB Empty 48MB 8M x 2 16 MB 32M x 2 64 MB Empty 80MB 16M x 2 32 MB Empty Empty 32MB 16M x 2 32 MB 4M x 2 8 MB Empty 40MB 16M x 2 32 MB 8M x 2 16 MB Empty 48MB 16M x 2 32 MB 16M x 2 32 MB Empty 64MB 16M x 2 32 MB 32M x 2 64 MB Empty 96MB 32M x 2 64 MB Empty Empty 64MB 32M x 2 64 MB 4M x 2 8 MB Empty 72MB 32M x 2 64 MB 8M...

Page 38: ...8MB 72MB Empty Empty 16MB 16MB Empty 4M x 2 8 MB 16MB 24MB Empty 8M x 2 16 MB 16MB 32MB Empty 16M x 2 32 MB 16MB 48MB Empty 32M x 2 64 MB 16MB 80MB Empty Empty 32MB 32MB Empty 4M x 2 8 MB 32MB 40MB Empty 8M x 2 16 MB 32MB 48MB Empty 16M x 2 32 MB 32MB 64MB Empty 32M x 2 64 MB 32MB 96MB NOTE 1 DIMM Module Specification 3 3V Unbuffered LEFT KEY ZONE UNBUFFERED CENTER KEY ZONE 3 3 V DRAM ...

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