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GA - 586VX

USER'S MANUAL

PCI - ISA SOLUTION

PENTIUM



PCI - ISA BUS MAINBOARD

REV.2.0 Second Edition

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Page 1: ...GA 586VX USER S MANUAL PCI ISA SOLUTION PENTIUM PCI ISA BUS MAINBOARD REV 2 0 Second Edition...

Page 2: ...memory easily with flexibility Others don t because they only have 1 bank Sync DIMM Module 3 Just plug a 256KB Pipeline cache module and you can get cache size upto 512KB easily No jumper setting nee...

Page 3: ...irtual memory setting Hardware Configuration CPU Intel 166 MHz RAM 8MB 2pcs Total 16 MB Panasonic EUXSR08XX00E Cache size 256 KB Pipeline Burst SRAM UMC UM61L3232AF 7 2 pcs 512 KB Pipeline Burst SRAM...

Page 4: ...GA 586VX 4 A EDO DRAM or FAST PAGE DRAM one bank install only CPU B EDO DRAM or FAST PAGE DRAM two banks install CPU C SYNC DRAM one bank install only...

Page 5: ...Table of Contents 5 CPU 1 D SYNC DRAM two banks install CPU III Quick Installation Guide...

Page 6: ...OFF OFF 6 Pentium 150 MHz P55C 150MHz ON ON OFF ON 7 Pentium 166 MHz P55C 166MHz ON ON OFF OFF 8 Pentium 180 MHz OFF ON OFF ON 9 Pentium 200 MHz P55C 200MHz OFF ON OFF OFF 10 P54CT 125 MHz ON ON ON O...

Page 7: ...AMDK5 P200 OFF ON OFF OFF 24 Cyrix 6x86 100 MHz P120 ON OFF ON ON 25 Cyrix 6x86 110 MHz P133 ON OFF ON OFF 26 Cyrix 6x86 120 MHz P150 ON OFF OFF ON 27 Cyrix 6x86 133 MHz P166 ON OFF OFF OFF 28 Cyrix 6...

Page 8: ...GA 586VX 8 Pentium 75 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 2 Pentium 90 MHz Pentium 90 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 3 Pentium 100 MHz Pentium 100 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 4 Pentium 120 MHz...

Page 9: ...tents 9 Pentium 120 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 5 Pentium 133 MHz Pentium 133 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 6 Pentium 150 MHz P55C 150MHz Pentium 150 MHz P55C 150MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 7 Pentium 166 MHz...

Page 10: ...B58 B60 A52 A53 A54 A61 A55 A59 A56 A57 A58 A60 B62 A62 NC 12V NC NC VCC INTA INTC VCC NC VCC NC GND GND NC NC NC NC NC NC RST VCC GNT GND AD_30 AD_28 AD_26 GND AD_24 IDSEL NC AD_22 AD_20 GND AD_18 A...

Page 11: ...Table of Contents 11 P54CT 125 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 11 P54CT 150 MHz P54CT 150 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 12 P54CT 166 MHz P54CT 166 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 13 P54CTB 150 MHz...

Page 12: ...GA 586VX 12 P54CTB 150 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 14 P54CTB 166 MHz P54CTB 166 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 15 P54CTB 180 MHz P54CTB 180 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW...

Page 13: ...Table of Contents 13 16 P54CTB 200 MHz P54CTB 200 MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 17 AMDK5 75 MHz P75 AMDK5 75 MHz P75 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 18 AMDK5 90 MHz P90 AMDK5 90 MHz P90 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW...

Page 14: ...GA 586VX 14 19 AMDK5 100 MHz P100 AMDK5 100 MHz P100 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 20 AMDK5 90 MHz P120 AMDK5 90 MHz P120 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 21 AMDK5 100 MHz P133...

Page 15: ...Table of Contents 15 AMDK5 100 MHz P133 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 22 AMDK5 P166 AMDK5 P166 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 23 AMDK5 P200 AMDK5 P200 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 24 Cyrix 6x86 100 MHz P120...

Page 16: ...rix6x86 100 MHz P120 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 25 Cyrix 6x86 110 MHz P133 Cyrix6x86 110 MHz P133 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 26 Cyrix 6x86 120 MHz P150 Cyrix6x86 120 MHz P150 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 27 Cyrix 6x86...

Page 17: ...able of Contents 17 Cyrix6x86 133 MHz P166 CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 28 Cyrix 6x86L P150 2 8V Cyrix6x86L P150 2 8V CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW 29 Cyrix 6x86L P166 2 8V Cyrix6x86L P166 2 8V CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW...

Page 18: ...SRAM Pipeline 256KB Onboard 32K 32 2pcs CN2 Cache Module Cache Size 256KB Cacheable Memory Size 64 MB CPU U3 U8 SRAM Pipeline 256KB Onboard 32K 32 2pcs CN2 Cache 256KB installed 32K 32 Cache Size 512K...

Page 19: ...ng CPU 1 HD IDE Hard Disk Active LED Pin No Function 1 2 3 4 LED anode LED anode LED cathode LED cathode 1 GN Green Function Switch Close For system entering Green mode Open Normal operation CPU GD Gr...

Page 20: ...r hardware reset system Open Normal operation CPU TB Turbo Switch Close For low speed 50MHz Open For high speed Normal CPU Don t switch TB function when system is live TD Turbo LED Connector Pin No Fu...

Page 21: ...tion 1 2 3 4 VCC NC NC Data CPU 1 1 PWR Power LED and Key Lock Connector Pin No Function 1 2 3 4 5 LED anode NC LED cathode Key lock GND CPU 1 1 POWER Power Connector Pin No Function 1 2 10 11 12 3 4...

Page 22: ...1 Keyboard Connector Pin No Function 1 2 3 4 5 Key Clock Key Data NC VCC 5V GND 1 2 3 4 5 CPU J9 CPU Cooling Fan Power Connector Pin No Function 1 2 12V GND CPU 1 12V RN1 4 1 RN4 For EDO FPM installed...

Page 23: ...Table of Contents 23 RN1 For SYNC DRAM installed only 1 1 1 CPU CN3 4 J2 3 7 8 9 I O Ports Connector CN4 For Primary IDE port 1 RED LINE CPU 1 CN3 For Secondary IDE port 1 RED LINE CPU 1...

Page 24: ...GA 586VX 24 J2 For PS 2 Mouse port 1 RED LINE CPU 1 VCC J7 For COM A 1 RED LINE CPU 1 J3 For COM B 1 RED LINE CPU 1 1...

Page 25: ...J9 For Floppy port 1 RED LINE SW For CPU INT EXT FREQ SW1 SW2 SW1 SW2 SW1 SW2 SW1 SW2 x 1 5 x 2 x 3 x 2 5 OFF ON OFF OFF OFF ON ON ON CPU 50 MHz OFF OFF OFF ON ON ON 60 MHz 66 MHz SW3 SW4 SW3 SW4 SW3...

Page 26: ...odify Color DRAM Write Burst Timing DRAM RAS Precharge Time DRAM Read Burst EDO FPM Memory Hole At 15M 16M 6 x222 x333 System BIOS Cacheable Enabled 8 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 Auto Configuration Disabl...

Page 27: ...t to update the information contained herein IBM PC AT PC XT are trademarks of International Business Machine Corporation PENTIUM is a trademark of Intel Corporation AWARD is a trademark of Award Soft...

Page 28: ...3 5 SRAM INSTALLATION 3 5 Sync SRAM PipeLine Burst SRAM 3 5 3 6 CPU INSTALLATION AND JUMPERS SETUP 3 5 3 7 CMOS RTC ISA CFG CMOS SRAM 3 5 3 8 SPEAKER CONNECTOR INSTALLATION 3 5 3 9 POWER LED CONNECTO...

Page 29: ...SER PASSWORD 4 20 4 14 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION 4 21 4 15 HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT 4 22 4 16 SAVE EXIT SETUP 4 23 4 17 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING 4 24 5 AT TECHNICAL INFORMATION 5 1 5 1 I O BUS Enhanced Parallel P...

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Page 31: ...running at 75 200 MHz P54CT 125 150 166 P55C 150 166 200 P54CTB 150 166 180 200 AMDK5 P 75 P 90 P 100 P 120 P 133 P 166 P 200 Cyrix 6x86 100 110 120 133 P 120 P 133 P 150 P 166 Cyrix 6x86L P 150 P 166...

Page 32: ...83 6 Power Meter Dhrystone K Dstone s 119 0 147 0 Whetstone K Wstone s 25623 4 32235 9 V1 81 Data Transfer Rate KB S 14073 9 14275 0 Mean Seek ms 10 3 10 3 Track Track Seek ms 2 6 2 6 Norton System In...

Page 33: ...k Seek ms 2 6 2 6 Norton System Info CPU Index 423 5 529 4 V8 0 Disk Index 22 0 22 Core Test DATA Transfer Rate KB S 12448 12448 Sequential Read ms 6304 6304 V 3 02 Random Read ms 2384 2384 Performanc...

Page 34: ...USB 1 USB 2 Control Address Data Host Bus Second Level Cache Cache SRAM Tag Cntl Tag Cntl TIO 7 0 TXC Addr Data Cntl PCI Bus Control Address Data PCI Device s ISA Device s Universal Serial Bus PIIX3...

Page 35: ...usion The PCI bus standard under development since Jun 1992 which is designed to bring workstation level performance to standard PC platform The PCI bus removes many of the bottlenecks that have hampe...

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Page 37: ...le function DRAM MEMORY 2 banks 72 pins SIMM module socket on board 2 banks 168 pins DIMM module socket on board Use 4 8 16 32 MB 60 70 ns SIMM module DRAM 8 128 MB DRAM size Supports Fast Page EDO DR...

Page 38: ...lay power down Monitors all IRQ DMA Display I O events BIOS 128KB FLASH EEPROM Supports Plug Play Function DIMENSION 22cm 28cm 4 layers 2 2 SOFTWARE BIOS Licensed AWARD BIOS AT CMOS Setup BIOS Chipset...

Page 39: ...damage to your board Be sure there are no shipping and handling damages on the board before proceeding After opening the mainboard carton extract the system board and place it only on a grounded anti...

Page 40: ...re 3 1 3 3 QUICK REFERENCE FOR JUMPERS CONNECTORS t CN3 4 J2 3 4 5 6 I O Ports Connector CN3 For Secondary IDE port CN4 For Primary IDE port J2 For PS 2 Mouse port J3 For COM B Serial port2 J7 For COM...

Page 41: ...t SPK Speaker Connector Pin No Function 1 VCC 2 NC 3 NC 4 Data t SW CPU INT EXT FREQ RATIO SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 MHz OFF OFF X 1 5 ON ON 50 ON OFF X 2 ON OFF 55 OFF ON X 2 5 OFF ON 60 ON ON X 3 OFF OFF 66...

Page 42: ...odule in vertical direction until the left and right metal holders can keep the SIMM module standing up firmly DRAM Installation SYNC DRAM The mainboard can be installed with 8 16 32 64 MB Sync DRAM T...

Page 43: ...GA 586VX 3 5 32MB 2pcs 32MB 2pcs 128 MB 64MB 64MB 128MB...

Page 44: ...cket M Before the CPU is installed the mainboard must be placed on a flat plane in order to avoid being broken by the pressure of CPU installation 3 7 CMOS RTC ISA CFG CMOS SRAM There re RTC CMOS SRAM...

Page 45: ...uld be installed to RST on mainboard 3 13 GREEN FUNCTION INSTALLATION For the purpose of power saving there are two jumpers GN and GD to make sure that the power saving function is working The GD is a...

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Page 47: ...If you do not press the keys at the correct time and the system does not boot an error message will be displayed and you will again be asked to PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE CTRL ALT ESC OR DEL TO ENTER SETUP...

Page 48: ...ws you to select from twelve setup functions and two exit choices Use arrow keys to select among the items and press Enter to accept or enter the sub menu ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOF...

Page 49: ...he system would be in safe configuration Integrated Peripherals This setup page includes all the items of peripherals features Supervisor Password Change set or disable password It allows you to limit...

Page 50: ...MODE 0 SIZE 0 0 0 0 Drive A Drive B 1 44M 3 5 in None AUTO Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled Figure 4 2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu Date The date format is day date month year Press F3 to show the calendar...

Page 51: ...RECOMP write precomp LANDZONE landing zone SECTORS number of sectors If a hard disk has not been installed select NONE and press Enter Drive A type Drive B type The category identify the types of flop...

Page 52: ...p for all other errors All But Disk Key The system boot will not stop for a keyboard or disk error it will stop for all other errors Memory The category is display only which is determined by POST Pow...

Page 53: ...oad Setup Defaults Quit Help Old Values Load BIOS Defaults PU PD Shift F2 Modify Color Quick Power On Self Test Disabled Swap Floppy Drive Disabled Disabled D0000 D3FFF Shadow Disabled D8000 DBFFF Sha...

Page 54: ...t to Enable BIOS will skip some check items during POST The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable quick POST Disabled Normal POST Boot Sequence This category determines which drive computer searches...

Page 55: ...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 syste...

Page 56: ...t Timing 70 ns DRAM Timing DRAM RAS Precharge Time DRAM Read Burst EDO FP Memory Hole At 15M 16M 7 x222 x333 System BIOS Cacheable Enabled 8 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 Pipeline Cache Timing Faster Auto C...

Page 57: ...elay to 3 DRAM Read Burst EDO FP The default value is x222 x333 x444 x444 Set DRAM read burst to x444 x444 x333 x444 Set DRAM read burst to x333 x444 x222 x333 Set DRAM read burst to x222 x333 DRAM wr...

Page 58: ...e Video BIOS Cacheable The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable video BIOS cacheable Disabled Disable video BIOS cacheable 8 Bit I O Recovery Time The default value is 1 1 8 Set 8 Bit I O recovery...

Page 59: ...FTWARE INC Select Item ESC F1 F5 F6 F7 Load Setup Defaults Quit Help Old Values Load BIOS Defaults PU PD Shift F2 Modify Color Standby Mode Power Management HDD Power Down PM Control by APM Disabled V...

Page 60: ...Standard to control VGA card The Green type VGA card will turn of V H SYNC automatically Standby Mode The default value is Disable Disable Disable Standby Mode 1 min 1 Hour Setup the timer to enter S...

Page 61: ...cy ISA PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP Legacy ISA Legacy ISA Legacy ISA PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI ISA PnP PCI IRQ Actived By Level PCI IDE IRQ Map To PCI AUTO...

Page 62: ...DD LEVEL FORMAT LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS INTEG...

Page 63: ...HERALS SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ESC F10 Quit Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Select Item Chang Color Load SETUP Defaults Y N N Load Setup Defaults except Standard CMOS SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION...

Page 64: ...l Mode 3F8 IRQ4 Enabled 2F8 IRQ3 378H IRQ7 SPP ECP Mode Use DMA 3 USB Controller Disabled Figure 4 9 Integrated Peripherals This item will show up only if On board Parallel Mode set to ECP or ECP EPP...

Page 65: ...nable onboard Serial port 1 and address is 2F8H COM3 3E8 Enable onboard Serial port 1 and address is 3E8H COM4 2E8 Enable onboard Serial port 1 and address is 2E8H Disabled Disable onboard Serial port...

Page 66: ...ting a password ENTER PASSWORD HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP PNP PCI CON...

Page 67: ...r Setup 4 14 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP PNP PC...

Page 68: ...T SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ESC F10 Quit Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Select Item Chang Color Hard Disk Low Level Format Utility IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD USER PASS...

Page 69: ...ETUP DEFAULTS INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ESC F10 Quit Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Select Item Chang Color SAVE to CMOS and EXIT Y N N Save Data to CMOS EXIT SETUP IDE HDD...

Page 70: ...RATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ESC F10 Quit Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Select Item Chang Color Quit Without Saving Y N N Abandon all Datas EXIT SET...

Page 71: ...D14 D17 D01 D03 D06 D09 D12 D16 D18 C05 C07 C10 C13 C15 C02 C04 C08 C11 C14 C17 C01 C03 C06 C09 C12 C16 C18 SA19 SA18 SA17 SA16 SA15 SA14 SA13 SA12 SA11 SA10 SA09 SA08 SA07 SA06 SA05 SA04 SA03 SA02 SA...

Page 72: ...AT Technical Information 5 2 5 1 2 PCI BUS SLOT PIN OUT Pentium 200 MHz P55C 200MHz CPU 1 2 3 4 ON OFF SW...

Page 73: ...rts 080 09F DMA register 0A0 0BF INTERRUPT controller Slave 0C0 0DF DMA controller Slave 0F0 0FF MATH COPROCESSOR 1F0 1F8 HARD DISK controller 278 27F PARALLEL port 2 2B0 2DF GRAPHICS adapter controll...

Page 74: ...IMER 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 adapter 7 PARALLEL port 1 8 RTC clock 9 Available 10 Av...

Page 75: ...gister 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 byte 15 Base memory low byte 16 Base memory high byte 17 Ex...

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Page 77: ...S detects an error during the POST This list includes message for both the ISA and the EISA BIOS CMOS BATTERY HAS FAILED CMOS battery is no longer functional It should be replaced CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR...

Page 78: ...ile memory has become corrupted or the slot has been configured incorrectly Also be sure the card is installed firmly in the slot EISA Configuration Is Not Complete PLEASE RUN EISA CONFIGURATION UTILI...

Page 79: ...ake sure the keyboard is attached correctly and no keys are being pressed during the boot If you are purposely configuring the system without a keyboard set the error halt condition in Setup to HALT O...

Page 80: ...hat requires you to reboot Press any key and the system will reboot PRESS F1 TO DISABLE NMI F2 TO REBOOT When BIOS detects a Non maskable Interrupt condition during boot this will allow you to disable...

Page 81: ...ll boot in ISA mode which allows you to run the EISA Configuration Utility SYSTEM HALTED CTRL ALT DEL TO REBOOT Indicates the present boot attempt has been aborted and the system must be rebooted Pres...

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Page 83: ...sters CMOS shutdown byte Initialize timer 0 1 and 2 including set EISA timer to a known state Initialize DMA controllers 0 and 1 Initialize interrupt controllers 0 and 1 Initialize EISA extended regis...

Page 84: ...dapter E Test Video Memory Test video memory write sign on message to screen Setup shadow RAM Enable shadow according to Setup F Test DMA Controller 0 BIOS checksum test Keyboard detect and initializa...

Page 85: ...e 32 Test EISA Extended Memory If EISA Mode flag is set then test EISA memory found in slots initialization F This will be skipped in ISA mode and can be skipped with ESC key in EISA mode 33 3B Reserv...

Page 86: ...che before boot 52 Initialize Option ROMs Initialize any option ROMs present from C8000h to EFFFFh F When FSCAN option is enabled will initialize from C8000h to F7FFFh 53 Initialize Time Value Initial...

Page 87: ...17 65535 855 12 50 MB 855 7 17 65535 855 13 20 MB 306 8 17 128 319 Disctron526 MMI M125 14 43 MB 733 7 17 65535 733 16 20 MB 612 4 17 0 663 Microscience HH725 Syquest3250 3425 17 41 MB 977 5 17 300 9...

Page 88: ...2 1024 37 41 MB 615 8 17 128 615 38 25 MB 987 3 17 987 987 39 57 MB 987 7 17 987 987 Maxtor1140 4380 40 41 MB 820 6 17 820 820 Seagate ST251 41 41 MB 977 5 17 977 977 Seagate ST4053 Miniscribe3053 605...

Page 89: ...B DRAM Brand SRAM Size q 64KB q 128 KB q 256 KB q 512 KB SRAM Part No TAG DATA Video Card Video Chip or Brand Floppy Drive A Capacity Brand Floppy Drive B Capacity Brand Storage Controller Type q MFM...

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