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The

 

"

LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS

" function loads the system default data directly

from ROM and initializes associated hardware properly.  This function will be
necessary when you accept this motherboard, or the system CMOS data is corrupted.

LOAD SETUP DEFAULT

NOTE :

ROM PCI/ISA BIOS

CMOS SETUP UTILITY

AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.

Load SETUP Default (Y/N)? 

Y

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  CONFIGURA

                         ETUP

INTEGRATED PERIPH

                         SAVING

LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS

ESC: QUIT

      :SELECT ITEM

F10:Save & Exit Setup                                          (Shift)F2  :Change Color

Load Setup Defaults Except Standard COMS SETUP

Summary of Contents for PP6-NF

Page 1: ... and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders The specification is subject to change without notice PP6 NF ISAPCIM otherB o ard with Onboard PCI IDE and Super Multi I O 82440FX PCIset ...

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Page 3: ...1 4 1 Standard CMOS Setup 4 2 4 3 BIOS Features Setup 4 2 4 3 Chipset Features Setup 4 6 4 4 Power Management Setup 4 8 4 5 PNP PCI Configuration 4 10 4 6 Integated Peripherals 4 12 4 7 Load Setup Defaults 4 14 4 8 Change Supervisor or User password 4 15 4 9 IDE HDD Auto Detection 4 16 4 10 HDD Low Level Format 4 18 4 11 Save Exit Setup 4 18 4 11 Exit Without Saving 4 18 Chapter 5 Onboard Technica...

Page 4: ...UP DEFAULT NOTE ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC Load SETUP Default Y N Y 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 CONFIGURA ETUP INTEGRATED PERIPH SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC QUIT SELECT ITEM F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Load Setu...

Page 5: ...der execution dynamic branch prediction speculative execution and a pipestage time 33 percent less than the Pentium Processor which helps achieve a higer clock rate on any given Process It will be superpipelined for high clock speed from 150MHz up to 233MHz The Pentium Pro Processor was used to the Dynamic Execution that is the combination of improved branch predic tion speculative execution and d...

Page 6: ... performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 and Mode 4 devices The PP6 NF supports four PCI Bus Masters and a jumperless PCI INT control scheme which reduces configuration confusion when plugging in PCI I O controller card s Supports ATAPI e g CD ROM devices on both IDE interfaces Supports 1 floppy port 1 parallel port EPP ECP port and 2 serial ports 16550 Fast UART compatible...

Page 7: ...due to possible overheat The PP6 NF supports minimum of 8MB of System Memory and maximum of 768MB while L2 Cache and cache controller included in Pentium Pro Processor CPU The PP6 NF supports standard Fast Page EDO Extended Data Out or Hyper Page Mode or Burst EDO DRAM The PP6 NF provides six 72 pins SIMM sites for memory expansion The socket support 1M x 32 4MB 2M x 32 8MB 4M x 32 16MB 8M x 32 32...

Page 8: ...JP10 4 3 2 1 JP6 J10 U18 U21 U31 U39 J17 J15 J16 Q4 Q3 Figure 1 1 PP6 NF Layout JP1 KEYLOCK J5 J6 J1 SPK R TBLED PWRON PS 2 MOUSE K B CONN PRINTER CONN COM2 FDD CONN Primary IDE Secendary IDE USB CONN Socket 8 J7 J4 J2 SLEEP HD LED G LED 82442FX Intel 82441FX Intel Keyboard BIOS COM1 SIMM 6 SIMM 5 SIMM 4 SIMM 3 SIMM 2 SIMM 1 J3 JP16 8 1 82371SB ...

Page 9: ... Bridge 208 PQFP PD 15 0 CONTROL IDE HDD Graphics Port_A Port_B MD 63 0 MPE 7 0 PMC PCI Bridge and memory controller 208 PQFP BIOS Flash EPROM KBC 8042 RTC IDE CD ROM Universal Serial Bus Figure 1 2 System Block Diagram PCI Slots ISA Slots HOST BUS PCI BUS MAIN MEMORY MA 11 0 CONTROL ...

Page 10: ...dicator LED ON when Onboard PCI IDE Harddisks activate J1 KeyLock Keyboard lock switch Power LED connector JP1 The system power ON OFF switch for ATX power supply Use a mometary switch which is normally open The system power will be on when pushing the switch close and releasing immedi ately 2 2ConnectorsandJumpers This section describes all of the connectors and jumpers equipped in the motherboar...

Page 11: ...s chip select Open Normal operation Default Close Disable the Onboard SMC chip JP2 EPROM BIOS Select 1 2 for 12V Flash EPROM 2 3 for 5V Flash EPROM Default Note The JP2 setting is dependent on which EPROM type is attached J10 USB CONNECTOR 1 VCC 6 VCC 2 USB P1 7 USB P0 3 USB P1 8 USB P0 4 GND 9 GND 5 NC 10 NC I O back pannel connector COM1 PS 2 Keyboard PS 2 Mouse parallel port COM2 6 10 1 5 ...

Page 12: ...tages for Pentium Pro Processor on PP6 NF board Older Pentium Pro Processors without VID Supports so that require manual Voltage ID setting from JP10 But current Pentium Pro Processors support VID and will automatically setting the voltage regulator so that no jumper settings are needed JP10 is setting all open at Auto OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE CLO...

Page 13: ...B 32MB 40MB Empty 40MB 56MB 72MB 32MB 32MB Empty 72MB 104MB 32MB 32MB 136MB 64MB 64MB Empty Empty Empty 136MB Empty Empty Empty 32MB 16MB 48MB 80MB 80MB 112MB 144MB 48MB M1 M2 BANK 0 M3 M4 BANK 1 M5 M6 BANK 2 Total Size 8MB 8MB 8MB 8MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 8MB 8MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 4MB 4MB 8MB 8MB 8MB 8MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 8MB 8MB 16MB 16MB 4MB 4MB 4MB 4M...

Page 14: ...ly 2 PP6 NF support Fast Page DRAM EDO or BEDO DRAM SIMMs but they cannot be mixed within the same memory bank 3 SIMMs may be parity x 72 or non parity x 64 or ECC x 72 4 The 70nS Fast Page Mode or 60nS EDO BEDO DRAM is necessary 5 BANK 64 Bit M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 64MB 64MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 128MB 16MB 16MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 16MB 16MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB Empty 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB ...

Page 15: ...space and other paramaters You do not have to configure jumpers or worry potential resource conflicts Because PCI cards use the same interrupt resource as ISA cards you must specify the interrupt used by ISA add in cards in the BIOS Setup utility If however a Legacy card such as plug paddle card and cable into the ISA slot is plugged in the system modification in the ROM SETUP UTILITY becomes nece...

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Page 17: ...dd on card can be used to host more on board I O From Figure 3 1 Summary of ATX chassis features layout the user can gain a great deal improved functionality 1 2 3 4 5 Enhance the PC ease of use Supports full Length Slots for ISA and PCI Card Easy to install the SIMM Memory Better Support for the processor located Great blows air into the chasis with ATX power Supply Floppy IDE connectors close to...

Page 18: ... ON OFF switch The system power ON OFF button should be a momentary Switch that is normally open If you use traditional power Supplies AT Power Supply with mechanical ON OFF switches or buttons this Remote ON OFF function is not available The PP6 NF has been designed with soft off functions You can turn OFF the system from one of two sources One is the front panel power ON OFF switch and the other...

Page 19: ...ILITY ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE 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 H...

Page 20: ...arameters Pressing F1 key to display help message of the selected item This setup program also provides 2 convinent ways to load the default parameter data from BIOS F6 or CMOS F7 area if shown data is corrupted This provides the system a capability to recover from any possible error 4 2 BIOS FEATURES SETUP NOTE The Halt On field is to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if error occurrs...

Page 21: ... Activates automatically when th e system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table Disabled No warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table ROM PCI ISA BIOS BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Figure 4 3 BIOS FEATURES SETUP Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU ...

Page 22: ...ed Enabled Floppy A B will be swapped under the DOS Disabled Floppy A B will be not swap Boot Up Floppy Seek During POST BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K 1 2M and 1 44M are all 80 tracks The default value is Enabled Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks Note that BIOS can not tell...

Page 23: ... 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 will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt Setup The system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the incorrect password is not entered at the prompt PCI VGA Palette Snoop This filed controls the ability of a primary PCI VGA controller t...

Page 24: ...M s timing that supports by chipset below item Note When you insert slower memery modules in the system and set a faster timing Maybe the system will hang up Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults F6 Load Bios Defaults Auto Configuration Enabled 8 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 16 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 DRAM Speed Selection 60ns Memory Hole AT 15M 1...

Page 25: ...ad Write burst mode The value x 2 2 3 is stand for BEDO x222 EDO x222 or FPM x333 respectively DRAM timing ISA Bus Clock The default value is PCICLK 4 PCICLK 4 The system is operating at 60 66MHz than PCICLK is 30 33MHz PCICLK 3 The system is operating at 50MHz than PCICLK is 25MHz DRAM RAS Only Refresh The default value is Disabled Enabled The DRAM Refresh type is RAS only Disabled The DRAM Refre...

Page 26: ...MAL conditions Non GREEN and and the Power Management function is disabled Max saving This mode will maximize the power saving capability Min saving This mode will minimize the power saving capability User define Allow user to define timeout parameters to control power saving timing Refer to item B shown below Power Management User Define Power Down Resume Events PM Control by APM Yes IRQ3 COM 2 O...

Page 27: ...essor is installed In addition the suspend function is supported when the J5 sleep ref Figure1 1 be close to enter the green function The detail description of these functions are provided in next page HDD Standby Mode When system stop 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 operation until eithe...

Page 28: ...he PNP PCI configuration program is for the user to modify the PCI ISA IRQ signals when various PCI ISA cards are inserted in the PCI or ISA slots WARNING Any misplacing IRQ could cause system can t pick out the rescouces ROM PCI ISA BIOS PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC Figure 4 6 PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP Resources Controlled By Manual PCI IRQ Actived By Level Reset Configuration Data Disa...

Page 29: ...ld to Enabled and to clear ESCD one time When some Legacy cards were removed PCI IDE IRQ Map To The default value is PCI 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 have true PCI card or not please refer to your PCI card user s manual for the details When you have a Legacy card des...

Page 30: ...ue is Enabled Enabled Enable Onboard 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 4 6 INTEGATED PERIPHERALS Note IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled...

Page 31: ...nd 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 32: ...de This field allows 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 rount...

Page 33: ... password 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 4 8 CHANGE SUPERVISOR or USER PASSWORD ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC Load...

Page 34: ...SKS TYPE 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 th...

Page 35: ...ector 63 x bytes per secttor 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 some cases user do 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 cyl...

Page 36: ...ecttheinterleavenumberoftheharddiskdriveyouwishtoperformlow levelformat Youmayselectfrom1to8 Checkthedocumentationthat camewiththedriveforthecorrectinterleavenumber orselect0forutility automaticdetection Auto scan bad track This allows the utility to scan first then format by each track Start Press Y to start low level format 4 11 SAVE EXIT SETUP 4 12 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING The SAVE EXIT SETUP option...

Page 37: ...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 38: ...ult DMA Channel 4 Cascade for DMA controller 1 DMA Channel 5 Available DMA Channel 6 Available DMA Channel 7 Available 5 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 39: ...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 40: ... 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 41: ...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 42: ...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 43: ...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 44: ...Signal 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 1 5 6 1 13 14 25 9 J11 Parallel Por...

Page 45: ... 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 ...

Page 46: ...4 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5 0V 5 0V 5 0V GND GND GND PS ON GND 12 0V 3 3V 10 11 20 1 ATX Power Supply Connector Reserve Connector For TV remote controller device when remove RN101 resistor PACK 0 ohms 1 8 JP16 KBCLK KBCLK KBDATA KBDATA MSDATA MSDATA MSCLK MSCLK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Signal Name Pin ...

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