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BX Pentium® II Mainboard 

 
 

User’s Manual

 
 

Version 1.00

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Copyright © 1998 Jaton Corporation 

 
 

Summary of Contents for BX Pentium II

Page 1: ...BX Pentium II Mainboard User s Manual Version 1 00 Copyright 1998 Jaton Corporation...

Page 2: ...leafing through reference works It wants to flip back and forth between a particular set of pages at a time Flipping rightto them instead of taking that extra microsecond to find them makes the whole...

Page 3: ...5 SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM 6 PENTIUM II CPU INSTALLATION 7 SYSTEM MEMORY INSTALLATION 10 MAINBOARD INSTALLATION 11 INSTALLING THE MAINBOARD 12 STANDARD EXTERNAL CONNECTORS 12 JUMPER AND SWITCHES 17 INTROD...

Page 4: ...SETUP 35 LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS 39 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS 39 PASSWORD SETTING 39 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION 40 INSTALLATION 40 HOW TO INSTALL THE ULTRA DMA 33 DRIVE 41 INSTALL PCI BRIDGE DRIVER FOR 440BX 42 TEC...

Page 5: ...1 SPECIFICATIONS...

Page 6: ...MHz and Pentium II 233 333MHz processor cartridge Based on 66 MHz Chipset Intel 440BX chipset 82443BX and 82371EB Supports Ultra DMA 33 IDE protocol Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Manageme...

Page 7: ...nctions Floppy port supports up to 2 88MB and 3 mode floppy Ultra DMA 33 bus master IDE supports up to 4 IDE devices Including LS 120MB floppy drive Built in Standard EPP ECP parallel port connector T...

Page 8: ...circuitry for LDCM feature Hardware monitoring Included fan speed voltages and system environment temperature Board size 305 245mm Note All brand names and trademarks are the property of their respec...

Page 9: ...e CPU SLOT1 COMM LPT PORTS CCOMS 1 1 3 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM 4 BIOS ALi BAT PIIX4 ATXPWR 443BX 1 1 IDE 1 IDE 2 1 FDC PCI 1 PCI 2 PCI 3 PCI 4 PCI 5 ISA 1 ISA 2 1 5 WOR Green_LED SPEAKER RST SMI POW...

Page 10: ...T1 PMC 82443BX Main Memory DRAM AGP SLOT PIIX4E 83977F Buffer Serial LPT IrDA KBC RTC FLASH BIOS FDC X BUS ISA SLOT s PCI SLOT s Control Address Data Address Control PCI BUS USB 1 USB 2 Universal Seri...

Page 11: ...to attach the fan heatsink supports Notice that one hole and the base of one peg are larger than the other hole and peg base Push each peg into its hole firmly to the end until you hear it click into...

Page 12: ...at the hole and clip are on the outside edge of the support Slide each support toward the center of the processor until the supportis secured to the outside groove of the fan housing Top of Processor...

Page 13: ...the plug in Slot 1 5 Slide the clips on the supports D forward until they click into place to hold the pegs securely Apply slight pressure on the peg and push the peg forward the clip while pushing t...

Page 14: ...ollowing is the valid memory configuration Bank Memory Module Total Memory Bank0 DIMM1 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 8MB 128MB Bank1 DIMM2 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 8MB 128MB Bank3 DIMM3 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB...

Page 15: ...metric 14 9 4 64MB 128MB 16M 4 16M 32M Asymmetric 14 10 4 128MB 256MB Mainboard Installation This BX6 mainboard notonly provides all standard equipmentfor classic personal computers butalso provides g...

Page 16: ...les line up and there are only slots this means you can only attach the mainboard with spacers Take the tip of the spacers and insertit into the slots After doing this to all the slots you can slide t...

Page 17: ...nal 5 Ground Attach the case s keylock to the connector PN 1 7 8 HDD LED Connector Pin Number Name or significance of signal 7 LED power 8 HDD active Attach the cable from the case s HDD LED to this c...

Page 18: ...ber Name or significance of signal 1 Ground 2 Reset input Attach the cable from the case s Reset switch to this connector Press and hold the reset button for at least one second to reset the system PN...

Page 19: ...rd data 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 5VDC 5 Keyboard clock 6 No connection Attach a keyboard to this 6 pin Din connector ATX PWR ATX Power input Connector Pin Number Name or significance of signal 1 3 3...

Page 20: ...oppy disk connector LPT 25 Parallel port COM 1 9 Serial port COM 1 connector COM 2 9 Serial port COM 2 connector USB 8 Universal serial Bus Notes IDE1 IDE2 are high performance PCIIDE connectors Up to...

Page 21: ...On LAN Pin Number Name or significance of signal 1 5VSB 2 Ground 3 LID LAN Indicator Jumper and Switches You can set jumper switches on the mainboard to configure various hardware options See Figure 1...

Page 22: ...S discharge CMOS memory When you install the mainboard make sure this jumper is set for Normal Operation 1 2 Introduction of BIOS 3 2 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 Pin 1 2 Pin 2 3 ON OFF Short Pins 1 and 2 with a j...

Page 23: ...ters are not correct they will produce errors the computerwill crash and sometimes you will even not be able to boot the computerafterit has crashed We recommend that you do not change the parametersi...

Page 24: ...e Down or keys when you want to modify the BIOS parameters for the active option CMOS DATA Computer Knowledge Maybe you have heard somebody saying that their CMOS DATA was lost What is the CMOS Is it...

Page 25: ...n be chosen for that option CPU Operating Speed This option sets the CPU speed In this field the CPU speed is indicated like this CPU speed external clock rate x multiplier factor Selectthe CPU speed...

Page 26: ...he limits of the Turbo mode Disable CPU external clock is operating within the normal limits Note The increase by 2 5 of the CPU speed is not a standard feature of this product It is only for use by o...

Page 27: ...the CPU it could be a good idea to use the CCMOS jumper to erase the parameters of the original CPU and to enter BIOS Setup to configure the CPU parameters again Attention After you have set up the pa...

Page 28: ...tect the parameters of your hard disk and the mode supported Normal mode Standard normal mode supports hard disks of 528MB or less This mode directly uses positions indicated by Cylinders CYLS Heads a...

Page 29: ...rse you must have a 3 Mode floppy drive BIOS Features Setup Menu BIOS Features Setup Menu has already been set for maximum operation If you do not really understand each of the options in this menu we...

Page 30: ...used to enable or to disable the CPU level 2 cache ECC checking function Quick power on self test After the computer has been powered on the BIOS of the mainboard will run a series of tests in order t...

Page 31: ...c Keypad is in numeric mode Off At boot up the Numeric Keypad is in cursor control mode IDE HDD Block Mode This item can be set as Enable or Disable Most of new hard disk drives IDE drives support mul...

Page 32: ...art SETUP When you choose Setup a password is required only when accessing the BIOS Setup If you have not set a password in the PASSWORD SETTING option this option is not available Notice Don t forget...

Page 33: ...dow feature or not If you have no interface card using this memory block don tenable this option Shadowing address ranges CC000 CFFFF Shadow This option allows you to decide if the memory block BIOS o...

Page 34: ...S of standard video or interface cards is stored in ROM and it is often very slow With the Shadow feature the CPU reads the BIOS on the VGA card and copies it into RAM When the CPU runs this BIOS the...

Page 35: ...hat is the reason why we do not describe all the features of this menu Power Management Setup Menu The difference between Green PCs and traditional computers is that Green PCs have a power managementf...

Page 36: ...you have configured the Power Managementfeature press Esc to go back to the Main Menu We are now going to briefly explain the options in this menu Power Management Four options User Define User Defin...

Page 37: ...video is switched off NA The video will never be switched off in no power saving mode Doze The video will be switched off in all power saving modes Standby The video will only be switched off in Stand...

Page 38: ...can define for this mode any delay from 1 minute to 1 hour If no power managementeventoccurs during this time period meaning the computer is inactive during this period the system will enter the Susp...

Page 39: ...e countthe time elapsed Resume events are operations or signals that cause the computer to resume time counting Resume by Ring If you connectan external modem to the onboard serial port the system wil...

Page 40: ...nel uses IRQ15 if you want to use this channel you have to enable this option to make the BIOS assign IRQ15 to this channel PCI IDE CardIRQ Map to Three options are available for this item PCI Auto PC...

Page 41: ...ilable Disable 3F8h IRQ4 2F8h IRQ3 3E8h IRQ4 or 2E8h IRQ3 3F8 IRQ10 2F8 IRQ11 3E8 IRQ10 2E8 IRQ11 and AUTO Onboard IR function Three options are available IrDA HPSIR mode ASK IR Amplitude ShiftKeyed I...

Page 42: ...set its data transfer rate Default PIO 0 PIO 4 User can specify the PIO mode of the HDD in order to set its data transfer rate On board IDE 2 Controller The onboard IDE 2 controller can be set at Ena...

Page 43: ...u wantto use BIOS Setup defaultvalues press Y than Enter to complete the loading of the settings for best performance You should firstload the best settings than enter the CPU Soft Menu to set up CPU...

Page 44: ...ction After you have installed the hard disk in old systems you had to know the hard disk specifications such as the number of cylinders heads and sectors and to enter the relevantinformation into the...

Page 45: ...red line on the cable connects to the firstpin of the connectors IDE1 Connectone end of the 40 pin cable that comes with the drive to the HDD connector and the other end to IDE1 pin connector on the m...

Page 46: ...p right 3 Agreement Click on Yes 4 Select Components Click on Install 5 Update system s files Click on Yes 6 Intel PIIX Bus Master IDE driver Click on Yes 7 Restart your system Click on OK After previ...

Page 47: ...n that screen menu Step 3 Click Next to start Step 4 Click on Yes on License agreementdialog screen Step 5 Click Next then waita while until the installation complete screen pops up Step 6 Restart you...

Page 48: ...low First remove all interface cards except the VGA card and try to reboot If you still cannotboot up Try installing another brand model VGA card and see if the system will start If it still does not...

Page 49: ...ark REM in order to disable the Sound Card Driver See the example below CONFIG SYS DEVICE C DOS HIMEM SYS DEVICE C DOS EMM386 EXE HIGHSCAN DOS HIGH UMB FILES 40 BUFFERS 36 REM DEVICEHIGH C PLUGPLAY DW...

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