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2-6 P55TV2

2-4 System Memory Configuration

The

P55TV2

supports different types of settings for the system memory. The

memory configuration does not need jumper or hardware setting. The following
tables provide all possible memory combinations.

Installed

None
None

None

Installed

None

Installed

None

Installed

Installed
Installed

None
None

Installed

None

Installed

None
None

None

Installed

(BANK 0)

(BANK 1) (BANK 0)

(BANK1)

OK
OK

Not allowed
Not allowed

Installed

Not allowed

SIMM3,4 SIMM1,2 DIMM2

DIMM1 STATUS

None

Installed

None

Installed

None

Installed

None

Installed

None

Installed

None

>
>

SIMM4

SIMM2

SIMM3

SIMM1

BANK 0 5V FP / EDO DRAM

BANK 1 5V FP / EDO DRAM

DIMM1

BANK 1

DIMM2

BANK 0

Synchronous DRAM
or FP / EDO DRAM

LEFT KEY ZONE

CENTER KEY ZONE

(3.3 V DRAM)

(UNBUFFERED)

NOTE :

1.The P55TV2 supports both Fast Page DRAM and EDO DRAM SIMMs,but

they cannot be used in the same memory bank.

2.The

KEY ZOOM

of the DIMM socket is

3.3V/Unbuffered

DRAM chip

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Page 1: ...Supports Onboard Pipelined Burst synchronous L2 Write Back Cache The cache memory combination can be 256KB 512KB 32KB 32 and 64KB 32 SRAM respectively Supports four 16 bits ISA slots four 32 bits PCI slots and provides two independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 and Mode 4 devices TheP55TV2 supports four PCI Bus Masters and a jumperless PCI INT control sche...

Page 2: ...3977 COM1 SIMM 1 SIMM 2 SIMM 3 SIMM 4 DIMM 2 DIMM 1 BIOS USB Conn COM2 82438VX 82438VX 64 K 32 64K 32 PRINTER CN1 Socket 7 82437VX Intel Intel 82371SB HD LED TB LED G LED RESET SLEEP SPEAKER KEYLOCK J2 P55TV2 Layout 1 14 13 26 1 2 7 8 JP1 1 JP3 JP2 J1 1 Figure 1 1 J3 12V JP5 GND GND Note Means Pin 1 JP6 2 1 8 7 ...

Page 3: ...B P55C K5 K6 6x86 6x86L processor due to possible overheat TheP55TV2supportsaminimumof8MBofSystemMemoryandamaximumof 128MB while L2 Cache can be 256KB 512KB synchronous SRAM Onboard to increase system performance Refer to Page 2 10 Cache Memory Configuration for the details The P55TV2 supports standard Fast Page EDO Extended Data Out or Hyper Page Mode or synchronous DRAM The P55TV2 provides four ...

Page 4: ...CI IDE Harddisks activites 2 2 Connectors and Jumpers This section describes all of the connectors and jumpers built into the mainboard Please refer to Figure 1 1 page 1 2 for the location of each connector and jumper The following figures shows connector and jumper setting means connecting to pins 1 2 and means connecting to pins 2 3 means setting jumpers with two pins open and means setting jump...

Page 5: ... 1 2 16 15 CN1 USB CONNECTOR Reserved for USB port Adapter refer to APPENDIX B I O Connectors JP3 BIOS Flash Mode Selection 1 2 Normal operation Default 2 3 BootBlock Flash 3 1 JP1 DIMM Working Voltage Selection 1 2 3 4 5V 5 6 7 8 3 3V Default Refer to 2 4 Memory Configuration for the detail 1 2 7 8 JP2 EPROM BIOS Selection 1 2 5V Flash ROM Default 2 3 12V Flash ROM 3 1 ...

Page 6: ...d suitable for this mainboard these jumper settings will be correctly updated 13 26 Pentium Bus Freqency PentiumMMX x Cyrix 6x86 L 6x86MX AMD K5 K6 Multiplier IBM 6x86 L 6x86MX JP5 1 14 CPU 1 14 90MHz 60MHz x 1 5 2 15 100MHz 66MHz x 1 5 3 16 120MHz 60MHz x 2 6x86 L PR150 4 17 133MHz 66MHz x 2 6x86 L MX PR166 5 18 150MHz 60MHz x 2 5 6x86MX PR166 6 19 166MHz 66MHz x 2 5 6x86MX PR200 7 20 188MHz 75MH...

Page 7: ... Real Time Clock Battery Replacement The battery can be replaced with an equivalent coin lithium battery such as Sanyo Panasonic CR2032 Please follow the following steps to replace the battery 1 Remove 2 Insert 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 ...

Page 8: ...OK OK OK OK OK OK Not allowed Not allowed Installed Installed Not allowed Not allowed SIMM3 4 SIMM1 2 DIMM2 DIMM1 STATUS None None Installed None None Installed Installed Installed None None None Installed Installed None None Installed Installed None Installed None None SIMM4 SIMM2 SIMM3 SIMM1 BANK 0 5V FP EDO DRAM BANK 1 5V FP EDO DRAM DIMM1 BANK 1 DIMM2 BANK 0 Synchronous DRAM or FP EDO DRAM Syn...

Page 9: ...16MB 40MB 72MB 16MB 24MB 48MB 80MB 32MB 40MB 48MB 64MB 96MB 72MB 64MB 80MB 96MB 128MB 24MB 32MB Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty 4M x 2 8 MB Empty 32M x 2 64 MB 8M x 2 16 MB 32M x 2 64 MB 32M x 2 64 MB 4M x 2 8 MB Empty 8M x 2 16 MB Empty Empty Empty The P55TV2 supports two 168 pin DIMM module sockets to extpand system memory size You can install 3 3V Unbuffered Fast Page EDO or Synchronous DRA...

Page 10: ...6MB 16MB 16MB 16MB Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty SIMM1 2 Bank1 Memory Configuration Table3 DIMM1 Bank1 DIMM2 Bank0 TOTAL 16MB 48MB 40MB 8MB 16MB 24MB 40MB 72MB 24MB 80MB 32MB 48MB 64MB 96MB 72MB 64MB 96MB 128MB 32MB 80MB TOTAL 8MB 16MB 24MB 40MB 72MB 16MB 24MB 32MB 48MB 80MB Table 3 CONT 32M x 2 64 MB Empty Empty 32M x 2 64 MB 8MB Empty Empty Empty Empty E...

Page 11: ... x 2 8 MB 8M x 2 16 MB 16M x 2 32 MB 4M x 2 8 MB 8M x 2 16 MB 16M x 2 32 MB Empty Empty Empty Empty 8MB 8MB 8MB 8MB 8MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 64MB 64MB 64MB 64MB Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty Empty SIMM1 2 Bank1 SIMM3 4 Bank0 DIMM2 Bank0 DIMM1 Bank1 Memory Configuration Table4 TOTAL 32MB 40MB ...

Page 12: ... not listed you may use other configurations not listed on the above BIOS will detect your memory configuration automatically 2 5CacheMemoryConfiguration The second level L2 cache is installed in the mainboard to increase the system performance The P55TV2supports512KBcache piplinedburstSRAM 64K 32 64K 32 U22 16K 8 TAG SRAM U16 U21 DATA SRAM Note 3 The 70ns Fast Page Mode or 60ns EDO DRAM is necess...

Page 13: ...ot have to configure jumpers or worry about potential resource conflicts Because PCI cards use the same interrupt resource as ISA cards you must specify the interrupts used by ISA add in cards in the BIOS Setup utility If a Legacy card such as paddle card and cable is plugged into the ISA slot the following modifications in the ROM SETUP UTILITY become necessary First enter PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP...

Page 14: ...r is moving to various items which provides a better under standing of each function When a selection is made the menu of selected item will appear so the user can modify associated configuration parameters Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup Award s ROM BIOS provides a built in Setup program which allows user to modify the basic system configuration and hardware parameters The modified data will be stored...

Page 15: ...help message of the selected item This setup program also provides 2 convenient ways to load the default parameter data fromBIOS F6 orCMOS F7 areaif theshowndataiscorrupted 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 hard disk Primary Master Slav...

Page 16: ...nabled Activate automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when any attempts to access the boot sector or the hard disk partition table Disabled No warning message to appear when any attempts to access the boot sector or the hard disk partition table ROMPCI ISABIOS 2A59GPAC BIOSFEATURESSETUP AWARDSOFTWARE INC Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values S...

Page 17: ...isabled Enabled Floppy A B will be swapped under the O S Disabled Floppy A B will be not swapped Boot Up NumLock Status The default value is On On Keypad is number keys Off Keypad is arrow keys Boot UP System Speed Select the default system speed The system will run at the selected speed after the system boots High Set the speed to high Low Set the speed to low Boot Up Floppy Seek During POST BIOS...

Page 18: ... access to the system and Setup or just to Setup The default value is Setup System The system will not boot and access to Setup 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 VGA Palette Snoop This filed controls the ability of a primary PCI VGA controller to share a com...

Page 19: ... Assertion 4 Clks ISA Bus Clock PCICLK 4 Pipline Cache Timing Fastest System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video BIOS Cacheable Enabled 8 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 16 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 Memory Hole At 15M 16M Disabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow CC000 CFFFF Shadow D0000 D3FFF Shadow D4000 D7FFF Shadow D8000 DBFFF Shadow DC000 DFFFF Shadow These categories determine whether other expansion card optional ROM wi...

Page 20: ...t value is 1 8 Bit I O Recovery Time This field defines the recovery time from 1 to 8 for 8 bit I O 16 Bit I O Recovery Time To define the recovery time from 1 to 4 for 16 bit I O 3 4POWERMANAGEMENTSETUP Choose the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY to display the following screen This menu allows user to modify the power management parameters and IRQ signals In general these paramet...

Page 21: ...r item selection You can only changethecontentofDozeMode StandbyMode andSuspendModewhenthePower Managementissetto UserDefine Note When the computer enters the suspend mode setting the suspend mode valid range from 1 minute up to 1 hour activated by the BIOS Power Manage ment you need to RUN a program POWER EXE under DOS root or need to add DEVICE C DOS POWER EXE in your CONFIG SYS This will keep t...

Page 22: ... installed In addition the suspend function is supported when the J2 s sleep refer to Figure1 1 is closed to enter the green function The detailed descriptions of these functions are provided in the next page HDD Power Down When system stop reading or writing 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 operation until e...

Page 23: ...ING Conflicting IRQs may cause the system to not find cutain devices ROMPCI ISABIOS 2A59CPAC PNP PCICONFIGURATION AWARDSOFTWARE INC Resources Controlled By Manual PCI IRQ Actived By Level Reset Configuration Data Disabled PCI IDE IRQ Map To PCI AUTO Primary IDE INT A IRQ 3 assigned to Legacy ISA Secondary IDE INT B IRQ 4 assigned to Legacy ISA IRQ 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Used MEM base addr N A I...

Page 24: ...own below tells you how the Rotating Priority Mechanism is designed INTA INTD PCI 1 PCI 2 PCI 3 INTA INTD INTD INTC INTB INTC INTB INTB INTA INTD INTC INTC INTB INTA PCI 4 INTA INTB INTC INTD Figure 3 7 The Combination of PCI INT lines Used MEM base addr and Used MEM Length The default value is N A The Used MEM base addr CB00 CC00 D000 D400 D800 DC00 andUsedMEMLength 8K 16K 32K 64K weretosupportso...

Page 25: ...ondary PCI IDE The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable Onboard IDE secondary port Disabled Disable Onboard IDE secondary port when usingOn card PCI or ISA card IDE connector 3 6 INTEGRATEDPERIPHERALS Note ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 No Change Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard IR Controller Disabled IDE Primary Master PIO Auto IDE Primary ...

Page 26: ...d 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 Slave PIO ...

Page 27: ...ws 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 Extended Capabilities Port mode 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 th...

Page 28: ...d the SETUP UTILITY will display a message and ask for a confirmation Confirm Password 3 Afterpressingthe Enter key ROMpasswordiftheoptionwasnotused orcurrent password user defined password the user can change the password and store new one in CMOS RAM A maximum of 8 characters can be entered 3 8 CHANGESUPERVISORorUSERPASSWORD ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A59GPAC CMOSSETUPUTILITY AWARDSOFTWARE INC Load SETUP...

Page 29: ...SIZE 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 HDD Modes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes NORMAL LBA LARGE NORMAL mode Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE con...

Page 30: ...ector 63 x bytes per secttor 512 8 4 Gigabytes LARGE mode ExtendedHDDaccessmodesupportedbyAwardSoftware Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder 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 that the number of cylinder...

Page 31: ...nterleavenumberoftheharddiskdrivethatyouwishtoperformalow 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 EXITWITHOUTSAVING The SAVE EXIT SETUP option ...

Page 32: ...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 33: ...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 34: ...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 35: ... 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 36: ...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 37: ...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 38: ...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 39: ...gnal Name Pin Pin Signal Name DCD SIN SOUT DTR GND 1 6 DSR 2 7 RTS 3 8 CTS 4 9 RI 5 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 Pin Signal Name CN5 Parallel Port Connector 5 1 1 6 5...

Page 40: ...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 41: ...4 10 CHAPTER 4 1 USB Port 1 USB Port 2 1 CN1 USB Connector Figure 4 1 USB Port Adapter PS 2 Mouse Connector ...

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