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BIOS Firmware

This mainboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to configure
many system features including the following:

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Power management

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Wake-up alarms

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CPU parameters and memory timing

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CPU and memory timing

The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different
processor clock speeds.

USB 2.0

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Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification
Revision 2.0

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Compliant with Intel’s Enhanced Host Controller
Interface Specification Revision 0.95

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Compliant with Universal Host Controller Interface
Specification Revision 1.1

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PCI multi-function device consists of two

UHCI Host

Controller

cores for full-/low-speed signaling and one

EHCI Host Controller

core for high-speed signaling

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Root hub consists 4 downstream facing ports with
integrated physical layer transceivers shared by

UHCI

and

EHCI

Host Controller

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Support PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
Specification release 1.1

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Legacy support for all downstream facing ports

Built-in Ethernet LAN (Optional)

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100Base-TX/10Base-T Physical Layer Solution

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Dual Speed – 100/10 Mbps

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MII Interface to Ethernet Controller/Configuration &
Status

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Auto Negotiation: 10/100, Full/Half Duplex

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Meet All Applicable IEEE802.3, 10Base-T and 100Base-
TX Standards

Summary of Contents for M950HLU

Page 1: ...anges from time to time in the content hereof without obligation of the manufacturer to notify any person of such revision or changes Trademarks IBM VGA and PS 2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Intel Pentium Pentium II Pentium III Pentium 4 MMX Celeron and Tualatin are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation Microsoft MS DOS and Windows 98 ME NT 2000 XP are register...

Page 2: ...ify its compatibility with Windows XP Please rest assured that our RD department has already tested and verified these drivers Just click the Continue Anyway button and go ahead the installation 2 USB 2 0 Driver Limitations 2 1 The USB 2 0 driver only supports Windows XP and Windows 2000 2 2 If you connect a USB 2 0 hub to the root hub plugging USB devices into this hub the system might not succes...

Page 3: ...ion 14 Expansion Slots Installation 15 Connecting Optional Devices 16 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup Utility 18 Introduction 18 Running the Setup Utility 19 Standard CMOS Setup Page 20 Advanced Setup Page 21 Power Management Setup Page 24 PCI Plug and Play Setup Page 25 Load Optimal Settings 26 Load Best Performance Settings 26 Features Setup Page 27 CPU PnP Setup Page 28 Hardware Monitor Page 29 Change Pas...

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Page 5: ...Specification Revision 2 0 and is compliant with UHCI 1 1 and EHCI 0 95 This mainboard has five 32 bit PCI slots one 8xAGP slot one CNR Communications and Networking Riser slot and an onboard 10BaseT 100BaseTX Network interface optional This mainboard has a full set of I O ports including two PS 2 ports for mouse and keyboard one serial port one parallel port and maximum six USB 2 0 ports four bac...

Page 6: ...oller bus with pipelined burst and concurrent operation Provide a 533MB sec bandwidth Host Client V Link interface with V Link PCI and V Link LPC controllers Support five PCI slots of arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus Memory Support The mainboard accommodates two DDR 184 pin 2 5V DIMM sockets with a total capacity of 2 GB system memory Supports DDR 266 333 MHz memor...

Page 7: ... In and Microphone In Sound Blaster Sound Blaster Pro Compatible Digital I O compatible with consumer mode S PDIF Advanced power management support Expansion Options The mainboard comes with the following expansion options Five 32 bit PCI slots capable of Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 33 66 100 133 MB sec One 8xAGP slot One CNR Communications and Networking Riser slot Onboard I O ...

Page 8: ...rface Specification Revision 1 1 PCI multi function device consists of two UHCI Host Controller cores for full low speed signaling and one EHCI Host Controller core for high speed signaling Root hub consists 4 downstream facing ports with integrated physical layer transceivers shared by UHCI and EHCI Host Controller Support PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification release 1 1 Legacy suppor...

Page 9: ...are specifications and software items are subject to change without notification Package Contents Attention This mainboard serial has two models M950HLU Hyper Threading CPU LAN USB2 0 and M950HU Hyper Threading CPU USB 2 0 Please contact your local supplier for more information about your purchased model Each model will support different specification listed as below Model Specification M950HLU Hy...

Page 10: ...ts out of their original static proof package until you are ready to install them 2 While installing please wear a grounded wrist strap if possible If you don t have a wrist strap discharge static electricity by touching the bare metal of the system chassis 3 Carefully hold this mainboard by its edges Do not touch those components unless it is absolutely necessary Put this mainboard on the top of ...

Page 11: ...this mainboard in a system chassis case Connect any extension brackets or cables to connecting headers on the mainboard Install other devices and make the appropriate connections to the mainboard connecting headers Note 1 Before installing this mainboard make sure jumper JBAT1 is under Normal setting See this chapter for information about locating JBAT1 and the setting options 2 Never connect powe...

Page 12: ... the mainboard via this diagram underneath Note Any jumpers on the mainboard that do not appear in this illustration are for testing only I O Ports The illustration below shows a side view of the built in I O ports on the mainboard shared with JUSBC 8 ...

Page 13: ... for stereo Line In signal The second jack is for stereo Line Out signal The third jack is for Microphone Installing the Processor This mainboard has a Socket 478 processor socket When choosing a processor consider the performance requirements of the system Performance is based on the processor design the clock speed and system bus frequency of the processor and the quantity of internal cache memo...

Page 14: ... 333 MHz DDR SDRAM DDR SDRAM is a type of SDRAM that supports data transfers on both edges of each clock cycle the rising and falling edges effectively doubling the memory chip s data throughput DDR DIMMs can synchronously work with 100MHz 133MHz or 166MHz memory bus DDR SDRAM provides 1 6 GB s or 2 1 GB s data transfer rate depending on whether the bus is 100 MHz or 133 MHz DDR SDRAM uses additio...

Page 15: ...rrectly The socket latches are levered upwards and latch on to the edges of the DIMM 5 Install any remaining DIMM modules Jumper Settings JP4 JP3 JP5 1 1 1 JP2 1 1 JP1 1 JBAT1 JBAT1 Clear CMOS Jumper This jumper is to clear the contents of CMOS memory You may need to clear the CMOS memory if the settings in the Setup Utility are incorrect that prevents your mainboard from operating To clear the CM...

Page 16: ...er On function JP4 Flash ROM Size Selector This jumper enables to select size of flash ROM Function Jumper Setting 2M Short Pins 1 2 4M Short Pins 2 3 JP5 Flash ROM Voltage VCC Selector This jumper enables to select voltage of flash ROM Function Jumper Setting 5V Short Pins 1 2 3V Short Pins 2 3 Install the Mainboard Install the mainboard in a system chassis case The board is an ATX size mainboard...

Page 17: ... to the SYSTEM_FAN fan power connector on the mainboard The Panel Connector PANEL1 This panel connector provides a set of switch and LED connectors found on ATX case Refer to the table below for information Device Pins Empty 10 N C 9 Power ON OFF 6 8 Reset Switch 5 7 SPD LED Indicator 2 4 HDD LED 1 3 HDD LED Pins 1 3 2 1 Reset Switch Pins 5 7 Power Switch Pins 6 8 SPD LED Pins 2 4 Empty Pin 10 10 ...

Page 18: ...pports one or two floppy diskette drives You can install a 5 25 inch drive and a 3 5 inch drive with various capacities The floppy diskette drive cable has one type of connector for a 5 25 inch drive and another type of connector for a 3 5 inch drive IDE Devices Your mainboard has a primary and secondary IDE channel interface IDE1 and IDE2 An IDE ribbon cable supporting two IDE devices is bundled ...

Page 19: ...ng 8xAGP specification in the AGP slot This slot has one 8xAGP edge connector CNR Communications Networking Riser Slot You can install a CNR the Communications Networking Riser card in the CNR slot PCI Peripheral Components Interconnect Slot You can install the 32 bit PCI interface expansion cards in the slots PCI 4 PCI2 AGP1 CNR1 PCI 5 PCI3 PCI1 1 Remove a blanking plate from the system case corr...

Page 20: ... rear edge I O port array Some computer cases have a special module that mounts USB ports at the front of the case If you have this kind of case use auxiliary USB connectors USB2 to connect the front mounted ports to the mainboard Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 VERG_FP_USBPWR0 2 VERG_FP_USBPWR0 3 USB_FP_P0 4 USB_FP_P1 5 USB_FP_P0 6 USB_FP_P1 7 GROUND 8 GROUND 9 KEY 10 USB_FP_OC0 JUSBC USB Card Reader Con...

Page 21: ...VD Audio Input Connector If you have installed a CD ROM drive or DVD ROM drive you can connect the drive audio cable to the onboard sound system When you first start up your system the BIOS should automatically detect your CD ROM DVD drive If it doesn t enter the Setup Utility and configure the CD ROM DVD drive that you have installed On the mainboard locate the 4 pin connector CD2 CD2 Pin Signal ...

Page 22: ...y configuration is incorrect it may cause the system to malfunction It can even stop your computer booting properly If it happens you can use the clear CMOS jumper to clear the CMOS memory which has stored the configuration information or you can hold down the Page Up key while rebooting your computer Holding down the Page Up key also clears the setup information You can run the setup utility and ...

Page 23: ...hanging time date hard disk type etc You can use cursor arrow keys to highlight anyone of options on the main menu page Press Enter to select the highlighted option Press the Escape key to leave the setup utility Hold down the Shift key and press F2 to cycle through the Setup Utility s optional color schemes Some options on the main menu page lead to tables of items with installed values that you ...

Page 24: ...m Year 1901 2099 PU PD Modify Shift F2 Color F3 Detect All HDD Date Time Use these items to set up system date and time IDE Pri Master Pri Slave Sec Master Sec Slave Use these items to configure devices connected to the Primary and Secondary IDE channels To configure an IDE hard disk drive choose Auto If the Auto setting fails to find a hard disk drive set it to User and then fill in the hard disk...

Page 25: ...2 No L2 Cache Enabled System BIOS Cacheable Enabled DRAM Timing by SPD Disables SDRAM Frequency 100MHz DRAM CAS Latency 2 5 DRAM Bank Interleave Disabled AGP Comp Driving Auto Manual AGP Comp Driving CB AGP Aperture Size 64MB ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults Quick Boot If you enable this item the system starts up mo...

Page 26: ... entered a password for the system use this item to determine if the password is required to enter the Setup Utility Setup or required both at start up and to enter the Setup Utility Always Boot to OS 2 64MB Enable this item if you are booting the OS 2 operating system and you have more than 64MB of system memory installed L2 Cache Leave these items enabled since all the processors that can be ins...

Page 27: ... stronger than normal driving current in order to operate We recommend that you set this item to the default Manual AGP Comp Driving When AGP Driving is set to Manual use this item to set the AGP current driving value AGP Aperture Size This item defines an AGP for the graphics Leave this item at the default value 64MB Auto detect DIMM PCI Clock When this item is enabled BIOS will disable the clock...

Page 28: ...es Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults ACPI Aware O S This item supports ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power management Interface Use this item to enable or disable the ACPI feature Power Management Use this item to enable or disable a power management scheme If you enable power management you can use the items below to set the power management operation Both APM and ACPI...

Page 29: ...r to use this feature Keyboard Power On Wake Up Key Wake Up Password If you enable this item system can automatically resume by pressing hot keys on the keyboard or typing in the password You must enable the Keyboard Power On jumper and use an ATX power supply in order to use this feature PCI Plug and Play Setup Page This page sets up some parameters for devices installed on the PCI bus and those ...

Page 30: ...is item at the default value Load Optimal Settings If you select this item and press Enter a dialog box appears If you press Y and then Enter the Setup Utility loads a set of fail safe default values These default values are not very demanding and they should allow your system to function with most kinds of hardware and memory chips Note It is highly recommended that users enter this option to loa...

Page 31: ...oad BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults OnBoard FDC Use this item to enable or disable the onboard floppy disk drive interface OnBoard Serial PortA Use this item to enable or disable the onboard COM1 2 serial port and to assign a port address OnBoard IR Port Use this item to enable or disable the onboard infrared port and to assign a port address Parallel Port Mode Use this item to set the parall...

Page 32: ...or the USB ports CPU PnP Setup Page This page helps you manually configure the mainboard for the CPU The system will automatically detect the type of installed CPU and make the appropriate adjustments to the items on this page AMIBIOS SETUP CPU PnP SETUP 2000 American Megatrends Inc All Rights Reserved CPU BRAND INTEL CPU Type Pentium 4 CPU Ratio 8 0x CPU Frequency 100 MHz ESC Quit Select Item F1 ...

Page 33: ...ts F7 Load Setup Defaults CPU System Temperature These items display CPU and system temperature measurement FAN Voltage Measurements These items indicate cooling fan speeds in RPM and the various system voltage measurements Change Password If you highlight this item and press Enter a dialog box appears that you can enter a Supervisor password You can enter no more than six letters or numbers Press...

Page 34: ... item and press Enter to save the changes that you have made in the Setup Utility configuration and exit the program When the Save and Exit dialog box appears press Y to save and exit or press N to exit without saving 30 ...

Page 35: ...in the same directory as the software To run the support CD simply insert the CD into your CD ROM drive An Auto Setup screen automatically pops out and then you can go on the auto installing or manual installation depending on your operating system If your operating system is Windows 98 ME 2000 XP it will automatically install all the drivers and utilities for your mainboard if Windows NT or manua...

Page 36: ...the software auto installing program as explained in next section The Browse CD button is a standard Windows command that you can check the contents of the disc with the Windows 98 file browsing interface The Exit button closes the Auto Setup window To run the program again reinsert the CD ROM disc in the drive or click the CD ROM driver from the Windows Explorer and click the Setup icon The Appli...

Page 37: ...the items that you want to setup by clicking on it the default options are recommended Click the Next button to proceed 3 The support software will automatically install Once any of the installation procedures start software is automatically installed in sequence You need to follow the onscreen instructions confirm commands and allow the computer to restart as few times as needed to complete insta...

Page 38: ... Find out your mainboard model name and click on it to obtain its correct driver directory 3 Install each software in accordance with the corresponding driver path Bundled Software Installation All bundled software available on the CD ROM is for users convenience You can install bundled software as follows 1 Click the Application button while the Auto Setup screen pops out after inserting the supp...

Page 39: ...tion which you must set Enabled if you want to test HT CPU function If there is no HT CPU this option is hidden and default Disabled You must re install WINXP to activate the HT CPU function While you are in Windows Task Manager please push down ctrl Alt Del keys A dual CPU appears in the CPU Usage History Device Manager under WinXP Note Hyper Threading Function only works under WINXP Operating Sy...

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