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RAX Systems

System Board Manual

DHA034900

Summary of Contents for S1832DL Tiger 100

Page 1: ...RAX Systems System Board Manual DHA034900...

Page 2: ...Quick Reference for Jumpers 26 Map of Motherboard Jumpers 27 Soft Power Connector 31 Speaker Connector Installation 31 Hardware Reset Switch Connector Installation 31 External SMI 32 Chassis Intrusio...

Page 3: ...ser Security 67 Anti Virus Security 68 Detect IDE Utility 69 Language Utility 69 Flash Writer Utility 69 5 System Resources 72 Beep Codes 72 Troubleshooting System Problems 73 Displayed Error Messages...

Page 4: ...ties that are ideal for a wide range of demanding appli cations such as CAD CAM CAE desktop publishing 3D animation and video production This integrated system board achieves high reliability with num...

Page 5: ...the most vital paragraphs in a chapter you should always read every word in the text Failing to do so can lead to exasperation and expense Wherever possible we have included step by step instruc tions...

Page 6: ...Power ATX power supply connector Information 12V power source for DC fan onboard 3 3V DRAM support Utilizes GTL bus to reduce power consumption and EMI Main Memory Up to 1024MB onboard Four 168 pin DI...

Page 7: ...in98 NT5 ready DMI 2 0 compliant PCI 2 1 APM 1 1 compliant Disk Drive System I O Two PCI bus mastering EIDE channels Supports EIDE CD ROMs PIO Mode 3 4 up to 17MB sec DTR UltraDMA 33 bus mastering mod...

Page 8: ...es with your system you should turn to your dealer for help first Your system has most likely been configured by them and they should have the best idea of what hardware and software your system conta...

Page 9: ...ou can obtain service by calling the manufacturer for a Return Merchandise Authori zation RMA number The RMA number should be prominently displayed on the outside of the shipping carton and the packag...

Page 10: ...32DL mainboard One IDE 40 pin cable One 34 pin floppy cable User s manual Two retention modules One Tyan System Management Driver CD Installation You are now ready to install your mainboard The mounti...

Page 11: ...on t take any electronic device out of its protective bag until you are ready to actually install it into the computer case If you don t discharge yourself and you zap the motherboard or adapter card...

Page 12: ...r You shouldn t be able to plug the power connector in any other way but just to be safe make sure it looks like Figure 2 above Make certain that you do not miss any pins because if you do you will vo...

Page 13: ...therboard In Figure 3 you can see how the IDE cables should look when they are connected to your hard drive Notice how Pin 1 denoted by a red stripe is connected so that it is next to the power connec...

Page 14: ...constantly on bad IDE cable or defective drives motherboard Try another HDD Hard drives do not power up check power cables and cabling May also be a bad power supply or IDE drive Now that you have in...

Page 15: ...sed by faulty cables backward cables or a bad floppy or motherboard Try another single floppy drive to verify the problem or try another cable Also check to see if the onboard floppy is enabled in the...

Page 16: ...above Note that for this board the PS 2 mouse port is the upper PS 2 port and the PS 2 keyboard port is the lower PS 2 port The PS 2 connectors are probably quite familiar to you The USB connectors ho...

Page 17: ...one of the two PCI slots can support a Master or Slave device NEVER force a card into a slot If it doesn t fit look at the socket on the computer to make sure there are no wires or other obstructions...

Page 18: ...ured with performance in mind you should use add in components that match Some DIMM modules may seem to be high quality because of name or feel but that does not guarantee real world usability Some ch...

Page 19: ...M slot Figure 9 shows how to sit the DIMM into its slot To insert the DIMM push down vertically on the module with even force as shown in the photo Do not shove one end in first doing so will bend the...

Page 20: ...electronic component and it can easily be damaged by static electricity Do not touch the CPU pins with your fingers Before the CPU is installed the motherboard must be placed on a flat surface You sho...

Page 21: ...hich is first secured onto the motherboard To attach the retention module place the motherboard on a flat surface Locate the key pin on one end of the Pentium II slot on the board Then carefully line...

Page 22: ...t the CPU is fully locked into the retention module If you have an active processor you will also need to con nect the CPU s cooling fan cable to the cooling fan power connector on the board Locate th...

Page 23: ...slot Insert the heat sink mount into the holes on the motherboard When the bracket is properly inserted into the holes on the motherboard you will hear a clicking noise Align the CPU with the CPU rete...

Page 24: ...n unlocked Gently pull up on the CPU taking care not to bend the motherboard or the CPU retention module To remove the lock from the retention module gently press the ends of the locks inward and pull...

Page 25: ...jumper pins that are inactive Jumpers and pins are connected by slipping the blue plastic jumper connector overtop of two adjacent jumper pins The metal rod inside the plastic shell bridges the gap b...

Page 26: ...you locate the jumpers on your board A full page map of the motherboard can be found on the facing page These jumper settings manual revision 2 x correspond to S1832DL re vision B Your motherboard sho...

Page 27: ...rt PCI slot 2 PCI slot 3 AGP port PCI slot 4 PCI slot 5 ISA slot 2 ISA slot 1 Flash BIOS Intel PCI slot 1 CPU 2 Slot One type Intel 82371EB National LM75 FAN2 CPU1 National LM79 DIMM bank 2 DIMM bank...

Page 28: ...www tyan com 28 Chapter 3 Onboard Resource Settings Intel 443BX LM75 4 DIMM slots Intel PIIX4e AMIBIOS LM79 2 ISA slots 5 PCI slots Two SEC slots Slot One type PS 2 ports USB ports COM2 LPT1 COM1 AGP...

Page 29: ...nt on the system board CMOS Reset To reset CMOS settings place JP3 on pins 2 3 for 5 seconds then replace it to the default pins 1 2 setting again for normal operation d e e p S k c o l C t l u M 1 1...

Page 30: ...V 5 y b d n a t S D N G h g i H e v i t c A n O r e w o P e k a W 4 1 N A F D N G C C V r o t i n o M n a F D D F R I 4 P J 8 P J 9 P J D D F 2 N O 2 1 2 1 t l u a f e D D D F 1 R I 1 F F O 3 2 3 2 C...

Page 31: ...button once will wake the system or send it in to Suspend mode In this case you cannot turn the system off unless you shut down through the Windows operating system or you hold the power button down...

Page 32: ...by either upgrading to Windows 98 or by installing the Win 95 Patch found on the Tyan Driver CD and on the Tyan internet and ftp sites http www tyan com html drivers htmloratftp download intel com de...

Page 33: ...IOS defaults RAMInstallation The Tiger 100 uses a 64 bit data path from memory to CPU and can accommodate up to 1024MB of SDRAM The 168 pin DIMMs must be of the 3 3V unbuffered variety The position of...

Page 34: ...x B M 6 1 1 x B M 6 1 1 x B M 8 1 x B M 8 B M 8 4 1 x B M 6 1 1 x B M 6 1 1 x B M 6 1 0 B M 8 4 1 x B M 2 3 1 x B M 6 1 1 x B M 6 1 0 B M 4 6 1 x B M 2 3 1 x B M 2 3 1 x B M 6 1 B M 6 1 B M 6 9 1 x B...

Page 35: ...you have any device conflict in address IRQ or DMA If you are using Windows 95 the Device Manager is a good place to start Please consult your operating system manual for details Second of all slowin...

Page 36: ...B s at 33MHz bus speed and 533MB s at 66MHz bus speed respectively Compare this with the mere 132MB s at 33MHz bus speed that you get with the PCI bus Q Does my operating system support AGP A Currentl...

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Page 38: ...up screen is shown below Setup Security Standard Advanced Chipset Supervisor User Power Management PCI PnP Peripheral Anti Virus American AMIBIOS Setup Version 2 5 Megatrends 1997 American Megatrends...

Page 39: ...Setup menu you can only see Quick Boot through Try Other Boot Devices In order to see the other options you must scroll down the menu using either the scroll bar at the left hand side or the arrow ke...

Page 40: ...these options to configure the various drives A screen with a list of drive parameters appears Type To have the BIOS autodetect the IDE drive select Auto Other wise you may choose one of the 46 drive...

Page 41: ...a r t a t a d e d o m k c o l b w o l l a o t t c e l e S e d o M t i B 2 3 t c e l e S n O t c e l e S s r e f s n a r t a t a d t i b 2 3 w o l l a o t e h t e d o M O I P t c e l e s o t t s e b s...

Page 42: ...e t y b 2 1 5 d l o h l l i t s t s u m r o t c e s h c a e t e Y s e h s i n i m i d r e t e m a i d l a c i s y h p e h t r o f s e t a s n e p m o c k s i d d r a h e h t n o y r t i u c r i c n o...

Page 43: ...M 0 6 0 2 3 3 7 5 0 0 3 7 1 B M 0 3 1 2 3 3 7 7 0 0 3 7 1 B M 3 4 2 2 3 3 7 5 0 0 3 7 1 B M 0 3 3 2 6 0 3 4 0 7 1 B M 0 1 4 2 5 2 9 7 0 7 1 B M 4 5 5 2 5 2 9 9 5 3 5 5 6 7 1 B M 9 6 6 2 4 5 7 7 4 5 7...

Page 44: ...ng on them with your mouse or by using the and keys on your keyboard The clock runs on a 24 hour cycle i e 1 00 PM is 13 00 Floppy Drive A and B Move the cursor to these fields via the arrow keys and...

Page 45: ...with at any time Optimal Defaults The Optimal default values provide optimum performance settings for all devices and system features Fail Safe Defaults The Fail Safe default settings consist of the s...

Page 46: ...p i r c s e D d e l b a s i D y r o m e m m e t s y s l l a s t s e t S O I B I M A 5 r o f s t i a w S O I B I M A e v i r d k s i d d r a h E D I e h t m o r f l a n g i s Y D A E R a r o f s d n o...

Page 47: ...f it cannot find a boot drive among the drives specified in the 1st Boot Device 2nd Boot Device and 3rd Boot Device options The settings are Yes or No The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are Ye...

Page 48: ...The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are VGA EGA Password Check This option enables password checking every time the system boots or when you run AMIBIOS Setup If Always is chosen a user passwor...

Page 49: ...used by ISA adapter cards is allocated to PCI adapter cards The settings are BIOS g n i t t e S n o i t p i r c s e D d e l b a s i D M A R o t d e i p o c t o n e r a M O R o e d i v e h t f o s t n...

Page 50: ...SB KB Mouse Legacy Support Set this option to Enabled to enable support for older keyboards and mouse devices if the USB Function option is set to Enabled The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Opti...

Page 51: ...GA devices The settings are The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are Enabled BX Master Latency Timer Clks This option specifies the master latency timer in PCI clocks for devices in the computer...

Page 52: ...s 124 8 us or 249 6 us The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are 15 6 us Memory Hole This option specifies the location of an area of memory that cannot be addressed on the ISA bus The settings a...

Page 53: ...lt settings are Enabled ACPI Control Register Set this option to Enabled to enable the ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface control register The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Optimal...

Page 54: ...or Disabled The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are Disabled AGP Parity Error Response Set this option to Enabled to enable AGP parity error response The settings are Enabled or Disabled The O...

Page 55: ...The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are Enabled PIIX4 DELAYED TRANSACTION Set this option to Enabled to enable delayed transactions for the Intel PIIX4 chip This option must be Enabled to provi...

Page 56: ...tion specifies how the power button mounted externally on the computer chassis is used See Soft Power Connector on page 31 for more information The settings are shown in the table below The Optimal an...

Page 57: ...d of hard drive inactivity has expired The settings are Disabled Stand By or Suspend The Optimal default setting is Suspend The Fail safe default settings is Disabled Hard Disk Time Out Minute This op...

Page 58: ...s are Disabled Slow Clock Ratio This option specifies the speed at which the system clock runs in the Standby Mode power saving state The settings are expressed as a percentage of the normal CPU clock...

Page 59: ...in Suspend mode Note that if you do not have a two color LED your LED will turn off when the system is in Suspend mode if this option is set to Enabled The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Optima...

Page 60: ...160 192 224 or 248 The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are 64 PCI VGA Palette Snoop When this option is set to Enabled multiple VGA devices operating on different buses can handle data from th...

Page 61: ...MIBIOS automatically determines the correct setting including using the onboard controller if no offboard controller card is detected The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are Auto This option fo...

Page 62: ...cified IRQ line is used on These options allow you to reserve IRQs for legacy ISA adapter cards These options determine if AMIBIOS should remove an IRQ from the pool of available IRQs passed to device...

Page 63: ...t settings are Disabled Reserved Memory Address This option specifies the beginning address in hex of the reserved memory area The specified ROM memory area is reserved for use by legacy ISA adapter c...

Page 64: ...ault settings are Auto Onboard Serial Port1 This option specifies the base I O port address of serial port 1 The settings are Auto Disabled 3F8h 2F8h 3E8h or 2E8h The Optimal and Fail safe default set...

Page 65: ...IRRX1 OnBoard Parallel Port This option specifies the base I O port address of the parallel port on the motherboard The settings are Auto Disabled 378 or 278 The Optimal and Fail safe default settings...

Page 66: ...ard IDE This option specifies the IDE channel used by the onboard IDE control ler The settings are Disabled Primary Secondary or Both The Optimal and Fail safe default settings are Both g n i t t e S...

Page 67: ...a dialog box shown below will appear allowing you to enter a password You may either type the password in or click on the onscreen buttons Your password must be between one and six characters long On...

Page 68: ...nd a second time when asked to confirm the new password will uninstall the existing password Note that uninstalling the Supervisor password uninstalls the User password as well Anti VirusSecurity If E...

Page 69: ...und those values See pages 40 42 for a description of the drive parameters and of PIO Block and LBA modes Language Utility Currently the BIOS Setup program is available only in English FlashWriter Uti...

Page 70: ...wer on The system will begin to read from the A drive and write the BIOS information contained on the floppy disk in that drive to the EEPROM ROM chip When the BIOS has been totally reprogrammed the s...

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Page 72: ...ess are communicated through a series of audible beeps If AMIBIOS POST can initialize the system video display it displays the error message Displayed error messages in most cases allow the system to...

Page 73: ...r u l i a f y r o m e M 4 l a n o i t a r e p O t o N r e m i T t o n s i 1 r e m i T r o y r o m e m f o B K 4 6 t s r i f e h t n i e r u l i a f y r o m e m A g n i n o i t c n u f 5 r o r r E r o...

Page 74: ...a h t t n e r e f f i d s i m u s k c e h c M A R S O M C m e t s y S S O M C t e S t o N s n o i t p O p u t e S S O I B N I W n u R d e y o r t s e d n e e b e v a h M A R S O M C n i d e r o t s s...

Page 75: ...k s i d e h t d a e r n a c S O I B I M A s n o i t c u r t s n i n e e r c s e h t w o l l o f d n a e t t e k s i d t o o b r e h t o n a e s U t i h t i w m e t s y s s I d r a o b y e K t I k c o...

Page 76: ...IDE or ATA is a drive implementation that includes the disk controller on the device itself It allows CD ROMs and tape drives to be configured as master or slave devices just like hard drives The ATX...

Page 77: ...milar to DMA channels A cache is a temporary storage area for data that will be needed often by an application Using a cache lowers data access times since the needed information is stored in the SRAM...

Page 78: ...ards to access the main memory without involving the CPU This frees up CPU resources for other tasks As with IRQs it is vital that you do not double up devices on a single line Plug and Play devices w...

Page 79: ...lly a client Thus the client s data is protected during transmittal to the server HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive H SYNC controls the horizontal properties of the monitor IC Integrated Circuit is the f...

Page 80: ...parallel port transmits the bits of a byte on eight different wires at the same time that is in parallel form eight bits at the same time PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI is a 32...

Page 81: ...erm RAM Random Access Memory while technically referring to a type of memory where any byte can be accessed without touching the adjacent data is often used to refer to the system s main memory This m...

Page 82: ...aATA Without UltraDMA your system cannot take advantage of the higher data transmission rates of the new UltraATA hard drives Universal Serial Bus or USB is a versatile port This one port type can fun...

Page 83: ...ceiver Plug the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that of the receiver Consult the dealer or an experienced radio television technician for help CAUTION LITHIUM BATTERIES included w...

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