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P6F121 Mainboard Manual

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Page 3: ... this user s manual and all accompanying documentation and to make changes in the con tent without obligation to notify any person or organization of the revision or change IN NO EVENT WILL THE VENDOR BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT OR DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES I...

Page 4: ...es an introduction a checklist of the items that ship with this mainboard and a summary of the principal features and components Chapter 3 Hardware Installation This chapter explains how to prepare your mainboard for use and how to make the various connections to other computer components and peripheral items Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration This chapter explains how to use the system setup utility th...

Page 5: ...sor 10 2 5 CPU Packaging 10 2 6 Chipset 10 3 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 12 3 1 Unpacking 12 3 2 Installation 13 3 3 Safety Measures 13 3 4 Connector Jumper Location 14 3 5 Attaching Connectors 15 3 5 1 Front Panel Connectors 15 3 5 2 Infrared IR Connectors 16 3 5 3 CD ROM Connectors 16 3 5 4 Wake on LAN Modem Connectors 17 3 5 5 Floppy Drive Connector 17 3 5 6 IDE Connectors 18 3 5 7 Back Panel Connect...

Page 6: ... Option 54 4 9 Frequency Voltage Control 55 4 10 Load Fail Safe Defaults Option 56 4 11 Load Optimized Defaults Option 57 4 12 Set Supervisor User Password 57 4 13 Save Exit Setup 58 4 14 Exit Without Saving 58 5 DRIVER AND UTILITY 59 5 1 Flash Utility 59 5 2 VIA 4 in 1 Driver 59 5 3 System Environment Monitor 60 5 3 1 Hardware Monitor System Setup 60 5 3 2 Setting the Threshold 61 5 4 ATA66 Contr...

Page 7: ... and serial ports USB ports PS 2 mouse keyboard ports Game and audio ports 1 Socket 462 CPU socket Socket 462 2 ATX power connector POWER 3 DIMM module sockets DIMM1 3 4 CPU FSB Switch SW3 5 CPU fan connector CPU FAN 6 Floppy drive connector FDC 7 Accelerated Graphics Port slot AGP 8 IDE connector IDE1 9 IDE connector IDE2 10 Wake on Modem WOM connector 11 Wake on LAN WOL connector 12 Infrared IR ...

Page 8: ...phone Game port Line in 1 3 Panel Connector The following illustration shows the front panel connector pin as signments HDD LED STANDBY LED SPEAKER Ground Ground LED cathode LED cathode LED cathode LED anode LED anode LED anode Keylock Non Ground Ground Power on off Reset Single 5V 5V Speaker out POWER LED KEYLOCK RESET BUTTON POWER SWITCH Pin 1 ...

Page 9: ... used for remote wake up of the computer through a network card WOM Wake On Modem Connector This 3 pin header is used for remote wake up of the computer through a modem IR Infrared IR Connector This 5 pin header is used to connect an infrared IR port for use of IR devices 1 7 Memory Installation 168 Pin DIMM SDRAM Memory Configuration Bank 0 DIMM1 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 MB Bank 1 DIMM2 8 16 32 64 ...

Page 10: ...mmodates SDRAM Synchronous DRAM memory and sup ports ATA 33 66 100 The mainboard achieves the highest reliability by supporting ECC Error Checking and Correction memory protection enabling the mainboard to achieve superior data integrity and fault tolerance in re spect to memory errors while running applications In addition to superior hardware capabilities features like bus mas tering EIDE driver...

Page 11: ...8 MB to 1 5 GB memory Supports SDRAM and VCM SDRAM memory types EIDE Controller Supports four IDE devices in two channels Supports PIO mode 0 through mode 4 drives Supports Bus Mastering DMA mode 2 drives Supports Bus Mastering Ultra DMA 33 66 drives Supports ATA 66 for South Bridge 686A Supports ATA 100 for South Bridge 686B Supports Iomega ZIP or LS 120 removable drives Enhanced I O One floppy d...

Page 12: ...RPM detection Voltage Regulator Switching regulator CPU voltage auto detection Form Factor ATX form factor 22 5 cm x 30 5 cm 8 8 inchx12 0 inch 2 2 2 Software BIOS AWARD AGP PCI BIOS 2M bit Flash BIOS with ESCD Extended System Configuration Data block Supports APM ACPI Plug and Play Multi Boot DMI and EIDE devices Supports high capacity LS 120 and ZIP removable media drive Driver and Utility IDE B...

Page 13: ...fications and Features 7 2 2 3 Environment Ambient Temperature 0ºC to 50ºC operating Relative Humidity 0 to 85 operating Vibration 0 to 500 Hz DC Voltage 4 9V to 5 2V DC Voltage 1 3V to 3 50V DC Voltage 5V 12V 12V 5VSB 5 tolerance ...

Page 14: ...Manual 8 Mainboard Layout 2 3 Mainboard Layout 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 Note Because of optional items and design changes your mainboard may not be identical to the one shown in the illus tration ...

Page 15: ...IDE 2 connector black VIA VT82C686A ATA 66 PCI to ISA bridge 9 VIA VT82C686B ATA 100 PCI to ISA bridge 10 USB2 Connector for USB port 2 11 Front Panel Connector for front panel switches and indi cators 12 BAT RTC battery 13 U19 Flash BIOS 14 PCI1 5 32 bit PCI expansion slots 15 ISA ISA expansion slot 16 AGP Accelerated Graphics Port AGP slot 17 Game port top Audio port bottom 18 Parallel port top ...

Page 16: ...ect voltage for the processor 2 5 CPU Packaging Socket 462 CPUs are packaged in a PGA configuration 2 6 Chipset The P6F121 supports the VIA KT133 KM133 chipset The chipset comes in pairs the North Bridge chip and the South Bridge chip North Bridge CPU interface controller 200 MHz FSB AGP interface controller AGP 4x Integrated DRAM controller Synchronous 100 133 MHz SDRAM Fully synchronous PCI 2 2 ...

Page 17: ...en DMA channels One timer counter Two 8 channel interrupt controllers NMI logic and SMI interrupt logic PCI ISA bus arbitrator SMBus interface Power management Logic Realtime clock RTC ACPI controller This concludes Chapter 2 Chapter 3 covers hardware installation ...

Page 18: ...e PS 2 mouse One PS 2 keyboard One set of loudspeakers Of course you can use the system I O ports and expansion slots to add many more features and components to your system than the items listed above 3 1 Unpacking The P6F121 mainboard package contains the following items q One mainboard q One IDE 40 pin ribbon cable q One floppy 34 pin ribbon cable q Driver and utility CD q User s manual After r...

Page 19: ...f static electricity Working on computers that are still connected to a power supply can be extremely dangerous Follow the simple guidelines below to avoid damaging your computer Always disconnect the mainboard from the ATX power supply and disconnect the computer from the power outlet whenever you are working inside the computer case If possible wear a grounded wrist strap when you are in stallin...

Page 20: ...ual 14 Connector Jumper Location 3 4 Connector Jumper Location 3V COM2 CD1 C D2 IR WOL WOM PCI5 ISA PCI4 PC I3 PCI2 PCI1 A GP CN1 J1 J3 J2 J4 J5 J6 JP2 JP1 J7 BAT PW SW3 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 IDE1 IDE2 FDD ON 1 2 3 4 LOCK FREE ...

Page 21: ...TANDBY BUTTON RESET BUTTON POWER SWITCH Pin 1 Front Panel Connectors Speaker This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker Power LED Keylock This 5 pin connector connects to the case mounted key lock switch and the power LED The keylock switch is used to lock the keyboard for security purposes HDD LED This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted HDD LED to indicate hard disk activ...

Page 22: ...J 3 J 2 J 4 J 5 J 6 J P2 JP1 J 7 BAT PW SW 3 DIMM3 DIMM 2 DIMM 1 IDE1 IDE2 FDD O N 1 23 4 L O C K FREE IR Infrared Connector IR Receiver Pin 1 Ground IR Transmitter IRM_IRR 5V 3 5 3 CD ROM Connectors These connectors enable you to connect a CD ROM to the main board and receive stereo audio input 3 V C O M2 CD1 CD2 IR W O L WOM P CI5 IS A P CI4 P CI3 PCI2 P CI1 AGP C N1 J 1 J 3 J 2 J 4 J 5 J 6 J P2...

Page 23: ...Wake On LAN Wake On Modem features in the BIOS setup if you use this feature Refer to the Power Management section in Chapter 4 for details 3 5 5 Floppy Drive Connector A floppy disk drive ribbon cable has two connectors to support two floppy disk drives The connector with twisted wires always connects to drive A the connector with untwisted wires connects to drive B You must orient the cable conn...

Page 24: ...ult the documentation that came with your IDE drive for details on jumper locations and settings You must orient the cable connec tor so that the pin 1 color edge of the cable corresponds to pin 1 of the I O port connector Note 1 The CPU ratio is auto detected by the system 3 5 7 Back Panel Connectors The back panel provides external access to PS 2 style keyboard and mouse connectors one serial po...

Page 25: ... as the keyboard mouse joystick scanner printer and telephony devices and also support MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 digital video The USB ports have a maximum bandwidth of 12 Mbits sec equivalent to 1 5 Mbytes sec and up to 127 devices can be a t tached Fast devices can use the full bandwidth while lower speed ones can transfer data using a 1 5 Mbits sec sub channel Parallel Port Connect a printer or other p...

Page 26: ...l port IRQs in BIOS The VGA port is used to connect an external monitor Refer to Integrated Pe ripherals in Chapter 4 for details Serial port COM 1 VGA port Note Serial printers must be connected to the serial port Game Port You can connect a joystick game pad or other game device to the gold 15 pin game port You can also connect a MIDI device for play ing or editing audio Game Port ...

Page 27: ... with a clip on one side of the plastic housing There is only one way to plug the lead into the ATX power connector Press the lead connector down until the clip snaps into place and secures the lead onto the connector 3 V CO M2 CD 1 CD2 IR WOL WOM PCI5 ISA PCI4 PCI 3 PCI2 PCI1 AG P CN1 J 1 J 3 J 2 J 4 J 5 J 6 J P2 JP1 J 7 BAT PW SW 3 DIMM3 DIMM 2 DIMM 1 I D E1 IDE2 F DD O N 12 3 4 L O C K FREE Pow...

Page 28: ...ower consumption You can monitor the fan speed by way of the VT82C686A chip providing the fan comes with a tachometer output You can monitor the fans RPM with the Hardware Doctor utility Refer to System Environment Monitor in Chapter 5 for details 3 V COM2 CD1 C D2 I R WOL WOM PCI5 ISA PCI4 PCI3 PCI 2 PCI1 AGP CN 1 J 1 J 3 J 2 J 4 J 5 J 6 J P2 JP1 J 7 BAT PW SW 3 DIMM 3 DIMM 2 DIMM 1 IDE1 IDE2 FDD...

Page 29: ...e empty 3 6 2 Installation Procedure 1 On the motherboard identify the CPU Socket 462 and the cooling fan power supply connector CPU FAN 3 V C O M 2 C D 1 C D 2 I R W O L W O M P C I 5 I S A P C I 4 P C I 3 P C I 2 P C I 1 A G P C N 1 J 1 J 3 J 2 J 4 J 5 J 6 J P 2 J P 1 J 7 B A T P W S W 3 D I M M 3 D I M M 2 D I M M 1 I D E 1 I D E 2 F D D O N 1 2 3 4 L O C K FREE FAN1 L O C K F R E E CPU Fan Pow...

Page 30: ...tch on the side of the socket 7 Plug the cable from the heat sink cooling fan assembly into the processor cooling fan power supply CPU FAN 8 Configuration of the processor is carried out using the sys tem setup utility as described in Chapter 4 Configure the processor the first time you turn on the assembled com puter 3 6 3 Removing the Processor First remove the mainboard from the chassis To remo...

Page 31: ...itor s Note Please corrected the number of pins in the drawing 3 V C O M 2 C D 1 C D 2 I R W O L WOM PC I 5 I SA PC I 4 P C I 3 PC I 2 PC I 1 A G P C N 1 J1 J3 J 2 J4 J5 J6 JP2 J P 1 J7 B A T P W SW3 D I M M 3 D I M M 2 D I M M 1 I D E1 I D E2 FD D O N 1 234 L O C K F R E E Memory modules DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 Lock Lock 88 pins 60 pins 20 pins You must use 3 3V unbuffered DIMMs in the mainboard To ...

Page 32: ...4 4Mx64 8Mx64 16Mx64 32Mx64 EDO Extended Data Output SDRAM Synchronous DRAM Requirements DRAM Speed 60 ns or faster RAS Access Time 60 ns or faster CAS Access Time 20 ns or faster DIMM module 3 3V unbuffered Speed Grade 66 6 MHz or faster CAS latency 3 or faster Install the 168 pin SDRAM modules in any combination as follows BANK 0 DIMM1 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 MB BANK 1 DIMM2 8 16 32 64 128 256 51...

Page 33: ...I 2 P C I 1 A G P C N 1 J 1 J 3 J 2 J 4 J 5 J 6 J P 2 J P 1 J 7 B A T P W S W 3 D I M M 3 D I M M 2 D I M M 1 I D E 1 I D E 2 F D D O N 1 2 3 4 L O C K FREE J3 J4 J5 J6 Jp1 Sw3 Clear CMOS Password Settings CPU FSB Switch Pin 1 O N 1 2 3 4 Frontside BUS Speed Switch Use this switch to set the system s frontside bus FSB speed SW3 4 3 2 1 CPU PCI OFF OFF OFF OFF 133 33 ON OFF OFF ON 115 38 OFF OFF ON...

Page 34: ...nt back to pin 1 and pin 2 of JP1 4 Power on the system Solution B If the CPU clock setup is incorrect you may not be able to boot up In this case follow these instructions 1 Turn the system off then on again The CPU will auto matically boot up using standard parameters 2 As the system boots enter BIOS and set up the CPU clock Note If you are unable to enter BIOS setup turn the system on and off a...

Page 35: ...on utility that displays the system s configuration status and provides you with a tool to set system pa rameters These parameters are stored in non volatile battery backed up CMOS RAM that saves this information even when the power is turned off When the system is turned back on the system is config ured with the values found in CMOS Using easy to use pull down menus you can configure such items ...

Page 36: ...ing the password or making other changes to the security setup Normally CMOS setup is needed when the system hardware is not consistent with the information contained in the CMOS RAM when ever the CMOS RAM has lost power or the system features need to be changed 4 1 Entering Setup When the system is powered on the BIOS will enter the Power On Self Test POST routines These routines perform various ...

Page 37: ...ave Exit Setup Exit Without Saving Esc Quit F9 Menu in BIOS Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type Figure 4 1 Setup utility main screen These screens provide access to the utility s various functions Listed below are explanations of the keys displayed at the bottom of the screen Key Function Esc Escape key Exits the current menu Cursor keys Scroll through the items on a menu PU P...

Page 38: ...Keyboard Base Memory 640K Extended Memory 64512K Total Memory 65536K Menu Level Change the day month year and century Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Figure 4 2 Standard CMOS setup screen The Standard CMOS Setup utility is similar for all three chipsets and is used to configure the following features Dat...

Page 39: ...omatically detect and configure a hard disk drive on the IDE channel If your system has an IDE hard drive you can use this utility to de tect its parameters and enter them into the Standard CMOS Setup automatically If the auto detected parameters displayed do not match the ones that should be used for your hard drive do not accept them Press the N key to reject the values and enter the correct one...

Page 40: ...Mode This item defines some special ways that can be used to access IDE hard disks such as LBA Logical Block Addressing Leave this value at Auto and the system will automatically decide the fastest way to access the hard disk drive Press Esc to close the IDE device sub menu and return to the Standard CMOS Features page Floppy Drive A and Floppy Drive B Options for these fields are None Not Install...

Page 41: ...All Errors No Errors All But Keyboard default All But Diskette All But Disk Key Base Extended Total Memory These items are automatically de tected by the system at start up time These are display only fields You cannot make changes to these fields After you have made your selections in the Standard CMOS Setup screen press ESC to go back to the main screen ...

Page 42: ...al Typematic Rate Setting Disabled x Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 x Typematic Delay Msec 250 Security Option Setup OS Select For DRAM 64MB Non OS2 Video BIOS Shadow Enabled Menu Level Allows you to choose the VIRUS warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection If this function is enabled and someone attempts to write data into this area BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm...

Page 43: ... system if it fails to find one in the devices specified under the first second and third boot devices The default setting is Enabled Swap Floppy Drive If you have two floppy diskette drives in your system this item allows you to swap the assigned drive letters so that drive A becomes drive B and drive B becomes drive A The default setting is Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek If this item is enabled it...

Page 44: ...h Select System if you want to use the password feature every time the system boots up The default setting is Setup You can create your password by us ing the SUPERVISOR USER PASSWORD utility in the main program screen OS Select For DRAM 64MB Set to OS2 if the system memory size is greater than 64 MB and the operating system is OS 2 The de fault setting is Non OS2 Video BIOS Shadow When set to Ena...

Page 45: ...ue F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Figure 4 4 Chipset features setup This screen controls the settings for the board s chipset All entries related to the DRAM timing on the screen are automatically configured Do not make any changes unless you are familiar with the chipset DRAM Timing by SPD Enable this item if you want the system SP...

Page 46: ...ock to the turn around of back to back DRAM cycles Options are The default is Disabled System BIOS Cacheable When set to Enabled default the Sys tem BIOS will be cached for faster execution Video RAM Cacheable When enabled the graphics card s local memory will be cached for faster execution However if any pro gram writes to this memory area a system error may result The default is Enabled AGP Aper...

Page 47: ... The default is Auto CPU to PCI Write Buffer When enabled up to four words of data can be written to the PCI bus without interrupting the CPU When disabled a write buffer is not used and the CPU read cycle will not be completed until the PCI bus signals that it is ready to receive the data The default is Enabled PCI Dynamic Bursting When enabled every write transaction goes to the write buffer Bur...

Page 48: ...ult two wait states are used by the system allowing for greater stability The default is Disabled Memory Parity ECC Check Enable this item to allow BIOS to perform a parity ECC check to the POST memory tests Enable only if the system DRAM supports parity ECC checking Default is Dis abled CPU Vcore Select Enables you to set the CPU Vcore voltage Op tions are Default default 0 05V 0 1V 0 2V 0 3V 0 4...

Page 49: ... Serial Port 2 Auto UART 2 Mode Standard X IR Function Duplex Half X TX RX inverting enable No Yes Menu Level MoveEnter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Figure 4 5 Integrated peripherals OnChip IDE Channel 0 1 This option enables or disables the on board IDE controller The default setting is Enabled IDE Prefetch Mod...

Page 50: ...rive supports block mode Block mode enables BIOS to automatically de tect the optimal number of block read and writes per sector that the drive can support The default setting is Enabled Onboard FDD Controller This option enables the onboard floppy disk drive controller The default setting is Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 2 These options are used to assign the I O addresses for the two onboard ser...

Page 51: ...he I O address for the onboard parallel port The options are Disabled disables the onboard parallel port 3BC IRQ7 378 IRQ7 default 278 IRQ5 Onboard Parallel Mode There are four options Normal de fault EPP Enhanced Parallel Port ECP Extended Capabilities Port and ECP EPP Change the mode from Normal to the enhanced mode only if your peripheral device can support it ECP Mode Use DMA When the onboard ...

Page 52: ...able or disable the MPU 401 function for the game port The default is Disabled MPU 401 I O Address Use this item to set the I O address for the game port There are four options 300 303H 310 313H 320 323H 330 333H default Note To use the MPU 401 standard on the game port you need to use a MIDI adapter Game Port 200 207H This item shows the I O address for the game port If you make any changes to th...

Page 53: ... PWRBTN Instant Off Wake Up Events Press Enter Menu Level MoveEnter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Figure 4 6 Power management setup ACPI Function When set to Enabled turns on the ACPI Func tion The default setting is Enabled Note ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface is a power management specification ...

Page 54: ...ter a short timeout If this item is set to Min Saving power saving modes occur after a longer time out If the item is set to User Define you can insert your own timeouts for the power saving modes HDD Power Down The IDE hard drive will spin down if it is not accessed within a specified length of time Options are from 1 Min to 15 Min and Disable The default is Disable Doze Mode The system speed wil...

Page 55: ...ff method in power saving mode The default setting is V H SYNC Blank which disables V H SYNC signals and blanks the screen Other op tions are DPMS and Blank Screen The DPMS option allows the BIOS to control the video card if it has the DPMS Display Power Management System feature The Blank Screen option is used when you do not have a Green monitor MODEM Use IRQ If you want an incoming call on a mo...

Page 56: ... system power will resume the system from a power saving mode if there is any VGA activity Default is Off LPT COM When this item is enabled the system will restart the power saving timeout counters when any activity is detected on the serial ports or the parallel port Default is LPT COM HDD FDD When set to On any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices wakes up the system PCI Mas...

Page 57: ... Disabled IRQ 10 Reserved Disabled IRQ 11 Reserved Disabled IRQ 12 PS 2 Mouse Enabled IRQ 13 Coprocessor Enabled IRQ 14 Hard Disk Enabled IRQ 15 Reserved Disabled Menu Level MoveEnter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Set Primary INTR to ON to allow you to enable or disable IRQ 3 through IRQ 15 activity monitoring Se...

Page 58: ...esources Controlled by Auto ESCD x IRQ Resources Press Enter x DMA Resources Press Enter PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled Assign IRQ For VGA Enabled Assign IRQ For USB Enabled Menu Level Default is Disabled Select Enabled to reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the O...

Page 59: ...tive IRQs and DMAs for each peripheral The other option is Manual which allows you to control IRQs and DMAs individually IRQ and DMA Assigned to These fields only become available if the Resources Controlled By field is set to Manual If there is a legacy ISA device which uses an IRQ or a DMA set the correspond ing IRQ or DMA to Legacy ISA otherwise you should set this field to PCI ISA PnP PCI VGA ...

Page 60: ...rent System Temp Current CPU FAN speed Current FAN2 speed Vccp 2 5V Vcc3 5V 12V Menu Level MoveEnter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Figure 4 8 PC Health Status configuration System Component Characteristics These fields provide you with information about the systems current operating status You cannot make changes...

Page 61: ...ect DIMM PCI Clk Disabled Spread Spectrum Modulated Disabled CPU Hst PCI Clock Default Method In Linear Funct Increase CPU HOST By Linear Funct 0 Menu Level MoveEnter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk When this item is enabled BIOS will disable the clock signal of free DIMM and PCI slots Spre...

Page 62: ...ility Use this option if you have changed your system and it does not op erate correctly or does not power up When you select Load Fail Safe Defaults fromthe main menu you see the following screen Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N Press the Y key and then Enter to install the defaults Press the N key and then Enter to return to the previous screen without in stalling the defaults The fail safe default...

Page 63: ...r User Password utility sets the password The mainboard is shipped with the password disabled If you want to change the password you must first enter the current password then at the prompt enter your new password The password is case sensi tive You can use up to eight alphanumeric characters Press Enter after entering the password At the next prompt confirm the new password by retyping it and pre...

Page 64: ... information in the CMOS memory and continue with the booting process 4 14 Exit Without Saving Selecting this option and pressing Enter will exit the Setup Utility without recording any new values or changing old ones This concludes Chapter 4 Chapter 5 describes the drivers and utility programs that are packaged with the mainboard ...

Page 65: ...ble floppy diskette which does not contain CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files If you are using MS DOS 6 x you can press the F5 function key when the Starting MS DOS message appears on the screen to by pass the CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT 5 2 VIA 4 in 1 Driver A 4 in 1 driver has been designed for the VIA Apollo Pro chipset You can install AGP IRQ ACPI and IDE drivers together from the manufacturer ...

Page 66: ... pop up on the screen when the monitored parameters move out of the preset range This software must be installed under Windows 9x However the feature version may run on different operating systems such as Windows NT 5 3 1 Hardware Monitor System Setup The Installation Steps 1 Insert the manufacturer s CD ROM into your CD ROM drive 2 Install Hardware Monitor System from the directory Monitor Setup ...

Page 67: ...r and Utility System Environment Monitor 61 4 Click on the VIA Hardware Monitor System icon to ac cess the program 5 3 2 Setting the Threshold Set the threshold for system temperature voltages and fan speeds ...

Page 68: ...ption allows users to choose the boot sequence for the hard disk s No options will be shown if there is a bootable disk on default IDE channels 5 5 VIA AC 97 Audio Codec This folder has software and drivers for the VIA codec sound system that is integrated on this mainboard The VIA codec allows the sys tem to generate optimal sound effects Drivers are provided for DOS and Windows NT 2000 98 95 Win...

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