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6MZX1

microATX  Form  Factor

Main Board

User's   Manual

Summary of Contents for 6MZX1

Page 1: ...6MZX1 microATX Form Factor Main Board User s Manual...

Page 2: ...ted transcribed stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means without prior written permission This manual and the information contained...

Page 3: ...ge without notice The manufacturer of the main board will not be held responsible for technical or editorial omissions made herein nor for the incidental or consequential damages resulting from its fu...

Page 4: ...lation 12 2 1 Layout Reference 12 2 2 Quick reference to CPU Speed Setup 13 2 3 Jumper Settings 14 2 3 1 JP1 Flash ROM Voltage Selector 14 2 3 2 JP2 CMOS Status 15 2 4 Connectors 18 2 4 1 Front Panel...

Page 5: ...7 Integrated Peripherals 49 3 8 Supervisor ser Password 52 3 9 IDE HDD Auto Detection 55 3 10 Load Setup Defaults 58 3 11 Save and Exit Setup 59 3 12 Quit Without Saving 60 Chapter 4 Appendix 61 4 1...

Page 6: ...1 is also designed for multimedia functions containing LGS Semicon MPACT 2 which makes it a big difference among all the Pentium II main boards 6MZX1 utilizes Intel i440ZX chipset and supports new arc...

Page 7: ...servation 6MZX1 is specialized in a jumperless design hardware monitoring auto detection of CPU voltage speed temperature fan speed and multimedia functions on board Jumperless design meets current te...

Page 8: ...rDA infrared connector Green function Complied with APM Advanced Power Management Form factor microATX form factor Voltage Tolerance Current 5V 5 22 Amperes 3 3V 5 3 Amperes 12V 10 800 mA 5V 5 150 mA...

Page 9: ...oped from ATX form factor to meet new market trends and PC technologies The following features of microATX form factor can tell why microATX is used for 6MZX1 Maximum size 244 x 244 mm smaller mother...

Page 10: ...raw 3D Graphics Full 3D acceleration through Direct3D using the MPACT 2 3D graphics engine Video Digital Video Disk DVD MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 decode NTSC and PAL video out Digital Audio Dolby Digital AC 3...

Page 11: ...D The MPACT engine is like a CPU so 6MZX1 could support all DVD functions which means 6MZX1 provides hardware DVD playback The minimum system requirement is Pentium 133 MHz Since 6MZX1 supports Pentiu...

Page 12: ...issing or damaged contact the dealer from whom you purchase Leave this main board in its original package until you are ready to install it In the package there are 6MZX1 main board manual cables driv...

Page 13: ...o install driver The other main board CD contains below directories Read Index before installing required drivers Index file is HTML format 1 Main boards i440BX i440EX i440LX i430TX VIA VPX VP3 691BX...

Page 14: ...isk performance up to 50 and system performance up to 10 System requirement Under the below environments the driver will perform its best in your system No extra computer components are required Windo...

Page 15: ...Bridge Primary PCI Bus 2 IDE Ports Ultra DMA 33 2 USB Ports System BIOS ISA Bus ISA Slots PCI Slots Main Memory Pentium II processor 82443ZX Host Bridge Host Bus Graphics Local Memory Video DVD Camera...

Page 16: ...ial and technical applications and future s emerging applications as well Below is reference for Pentium II CPUs at 66 MHz 100 MHz F S B Note1 CPU is not enclosed in the package Note 2 Celeron has 2 m...

Page 17: ...eed Setup C O M 2 I O M ulti m edia K B M O U SE USB1 J1 W O L1 SLO T1 J5 J6 J7 FA N 1 D IM M 1 D IM M 2 FA N 2 R A M B U S x 4 M PACT TM V G A B IO S AT X B IO S IS A 1 IS A 2 P C I1 P C I2 J4 JP4 JP...

Page 18: ...350 350MHz 100x3 5 CPU Ratio 2x 5 5x P II 266 266 MHz 66x4 P II 400 400MHz 100x4 P II 300 300 MHz 66x4 5 P II 450 450MHz 100x4 5 P II 333 333 MHz 66x5 CPU Freq 66 75 83 100 103 112 133 Selecting manu...

Page 19: ...gs Benefiting from jumperless design hardware installation becomes an easier procedure to achieve 2 3 1 JP1 Flash ROM Voltage Selector JP1 is a 3 pin jumper to select flash ROM voltage JP1 Flash ROM v...

Page 20: ...supply from AC power Step 2 Pull out the ATX cable from the power supply connector Step 3 Short the CMOS jumper by putting jumper cap on Pin 1 2 for a few seconds Step 4 Return to off status for norma...

Page 21: ...board Refer to the following pages for details 2 4 1 Front Panel Connectors Front panel has connectors as SMI TB LED RESET SPEAKER KEYLOCK and POWER LED SOFT PWR Refer to details as below Front Panel...

Page 22: ...ere is Keyboard may be disconnected with the system through this function Pin Operation Open Normal Close Short the connector to be disconnected with the system SPEAKER connector is a 4 pin keyed Berg...

Page 23: ...onnectors There are COM1 COM2 LPT USB keyboard mouse VGA Midi Game Port and external audio connectors on case back panel Please refer to more details as below PS 2 Mouse Keyboard U SB LIN E O U T C O...

Page 24: ...disabled in BIOS setup Please refer to Chapter 3 Integrated Peripherals for more information Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin 1 Carrier detect CD Pin 5 Signal ground Pin 2 Receive data RXD Pin 6 Data set re...

Page 25: ...d Pin 2 Data bit 0 Pin 15 Error Pin 3 Data bit 1 Pin 16 Init Pin 4 Data bit 2 Pin 17 SLCT in Pin 5 Data bit 3 Pin 18 Ground Pin 6 Data bit 4 Pin 19 Ground Pin 7 Data bit 5 Pin 20 Ground Pin 8 Data bit...

Page 26: ...onnector VGA Connector has 15 pins connecting to the monitor cable USB1 Universal Serial Bus Universal Serial Bus connector marked USB1 is used to connect USB devices There are 2 USB connectors on thi...

Page 27: ...n connectors Midi Game Port External Audio Connectors Midi Game port has 15 pins connecting to the game joystick External Audio connectors are LINE OUT LINE IN MIC IN for audio functions PS 2 M ouse K...

Page 28: ...X Main Board 23 2 4 3 Internal Audio Connectors J1 J5 J6 J7 J8 are internal audio connectors providing functions like LINE OUT LINE IN AUX IN AND MIC IN J1 J1 LINE OUT J5 AUX IN J6 TUNER IN J7 CD IN J...

Page 29: ...ower switch on the back of ATX power is turned on the full power will not go into the system board until the front panel switch is momentarily pressed Push the switch again to turn off the power to th...

Page 30: ...cation software like LAPlink or WIN95 Direct Cable Connection user can transfer data to or from laptops notebooks PDA and printers This connector supports HPSIR ASKIR and Fast IR Attach Infrared modul...

Page 31: ...ZX1 I440ZX Main Board 26 2 4 6 FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 Connectors There are 3 fan connectors and they are marked as FAN 1 FAN2 and FAN3 Each fan connector has three pins FAN3 FAN1 FAN2 G N D 12V Sense Fan Sign...

Page 32: ...ep pulse output to the drive during a SEEK operation Pin 21 GND 22 FDC write enable serial data to the Drive Pin 23 GND 24 FDC write enable identify Pin 25 GND 26 Floppy disk track 0 Indicates that th...

Page 33: ...6 Pin 6 Data 9 Pin 7 Data 5 Pin 8 Data 10 Pin 9 Data 4 Pin 10 Data 11 Pin 11 Data 3 Pin 12 Data 12 Pin 13 Data 2 Pin 14 Data 13 Pin 15 Data 1 Pin 16 Data 14 Pin 17 Data 0 Pin 18 Data 15 Pin 19 Ground...

Page 34: ...his feature a network card is required for the system More than that a network management software must be installed too Wake up on LAN function requirement Power supply should offer at least 750mA to...

Page 35: ...6MZX1 I440ZX Main Board 30 2 4 10 J4 SBLINK SB LINK is used to attach any PC PCI standard sound card like Creative AWE64D or Yamaha XG for compatibility under DOS mode 1 2 5 6 J4 SB LINK...

Page 36: ...ots and two ISA slots on this main board Below are details There are two standard PCI slots on board 133MB s data transfer rate on PCI bus can be compared to 33MB s on EISA bus or 8MB s on ISA bus Syn...

Page 37: ...ain Board 32 2 6 DIMM Memory Installation There are 2 DIMMs on board Either DIMM 1 or DIMM2 supports 8 MB 16 MB 32 MB 64 MB and 128MB Maximum memory for SDRAM is up to 256 MB EDO RAM is up to 512 MB D...

Page 38: ...6MZX1 I440ZX Main Board 33 Insert the module as shown Due to different number of pins on either side of the breaks the module will only fit in the orientation as shown DIMM...

Page 39: ...lection is made by moving cursor press any direction key to the item and press Enter key An on line help message is displayed at the bottom of the screen as cursor is moving to various items which pro...

Page 40: ...rive installed in the system floppy drive type and the type of display monitor Memory size is auto detected by the BIOS and displayed for your reference When a field is highlighted direction keys to m...

Page 41: ...disk drive heads read write are seated when the disk drive is parked 7 SECTOR the sector number of each track defined on the hard disk The range is from 1 to 64 8 MODE select AUTO to detect the mode...

Page 42: ...parameters pressing F1 key to display help message of the selected item This setup program also provide 2 convenient ways to load the default parameter data from BIOS F6 or CMOS F7 area if shown data...

Page 43: ...for floppy disk drive second is hard disk drive and finally SCSI drive Default value is A C SCSI Options are as below A C SCSI C A SCCI C CDROM A CDROM C A D A SCSI E A SCSI F A SCSI SCSI A C SCSI C...

Page 44: ...d 30 30 Characters Per Second Typematic Delay Msec This is the interval between the first and second character displayed 250 250 msec default 500 500 msec 750 750 msec 1000 1000 msec Security Option S...

Page 45: ...er video BIOS will be copied to RAM However it is optional from chipset design Video shadow will increase the video speed Enabled Video Shadow is enabled default Disabled Video Shadow is disabled C800...

Page 46: ...automatically detect the CPU speed and will auto configurate the bus frequency DRAM speed cache and read write cycle Enabled default Disabled EDO DRAM Speed Selection 60ns default 50ns SDRAM RAS to C...

Page 47: ...Define whether system BIOS area cacheable or not Enabled default Disabled Video BIOS cacheable to define whether video BIOS area cacheable or not Enabled default Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Enabled a...

Page 48: ...tion 256M default 128M 64M 32M 16M 8M 4M CPU speed Please refer to page 10 2 2 CPU speed setup for details CPU Warning Temperature This function is CPU over heat alarm Select either of the below tempe...

Page 49: ...1 I440ZX Main Board 44 3 5 Power Management Setup ACPI function Disabled default Enabled Power Management User Define default users can configure their own power management Min Saving Max Saving Disab...

Page 50: ...ystem into any power saving mode Note2 If APM is not installed this option has no effect Video Off Method DPMS default Blank Screen V H Sync Blank MODEM Use IRQ 3 default 4 5 7 9 10 11 NA Soft Off by...

Page 51: ...ot function RTC Alarm Resume auto power on at the appointed date and time Enabled key in the date of current month and time of the day System will turn on then Disable default disble this function Not...

Page 52: ...S will arrange the setup of PnP devices Resources Controlled By Manual default The table will show the below items Reset Configuration Data IRQ 3 assigned to DMA 0 assigned to The user can adjust the...

Page 53: ...installed a new add on card and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system can not boot up IRQ 3 Assigned To IRQ 15 Assigned To PCI ISA PnP default Legacy...

Page 54: ...k performance by making multi sector transfer instead of one sector per transfer Most of IDE drivers except very early designs can use this feature Enabled default Disabled IDE Primary Master PIO IDE...

Page 55: ...interface VGA card and then the onboard AGP function POWER ON FUNCTION Item Setup Procedure Special note KB power on password 1 Enter password 5 spaces allowed 2 Confirm password key in the password...

Page 56: ...ain Onboard FDC Controller Enabled default Disabled Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8 IRQ4 default 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Auto Disabled Onboard Serial Port 2 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 default 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Au...

Page 57: ...s Supervisor Password this function allows you the right to change the options of setup menu User Password this function only allows you to enter the setup menu but not to change the options of the se...

Page 58: ...ease clear CMOS refer to jumper JP2 CMOS status Step 3 Set Security Option in BIOS Features Setup After setting password enter Security Option in BIOS Features Setup There are 2 options Setup System S...

Page 59: ...rd first Setp 2 Enter Supervisor Password or User Password After enter it shows Enter Password Press the Enter key instead of entering a new password when ENTER PASSWORD appears It will inform PASSWOR...

Page 60: ...the standard CMOS setup You don t need the IDE HDD Auto Detection utility The BIOS will auto detect the hard disk size and model on display during post HARD DISK TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECT...

Page 61: ...le HDD size will be 528 MB even though its physical size may be greater than that 2 LBA Logical Block Addressing Mode A new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 MB bottleneck The number of cylinde...

Page 62: ...s is multiplied by 2 A reverse transformation process will be made inside int 12h in order to access the right HDD address the right HDD address 4 Maximum HDD Size No Cylinder 1024 X No Head 32 X No S...

Page 63: ...ct BIOS Features Setup and Chipset Features Setup screens There is no effect on the standard CMOS setup To use this feature highlight it on the main screen and press the Enter key A line will appear o...

Page 64: ...6MZX1 I440ZX Main Board 59 3 11 Save Exit Setup The Save Exit Setup option will bring you back to boot up procedure with all the changes you have made which are recorded in the CMOS RAM...

Page 65: ...X Main Board 60 3 12 Quit Without Saving The Quit Without Saving option will bring you back to normal boot up procedure without saving any data into CMOS RAM All of the old data in the CMOS will not b...

Page 66: ...ea if PS 2 mouse is installed A0000 C7FFF 160K Available for hi DOS memory C8000 DFFFF 96K Available for hi DOS memory and adapter ROMs E0000 EEFFF 60K Available for UMB EF000 EFFFF 4K Video service r...

Page 67: ...7F RTC ports CMOS I O ports 080 09F DMA register 0A0 0BF Interrupt controller slave 0C0 0DF DMA controller slave 0F0 0FF Math coprocessor 1F0 1FB Hard disk controller 278 27F Parallel port 2 2B0 2DF G...

Page 68: ...1 DRAM refresh request Timer channel 2 speaker tone generator Dma channels DMA channel 0 available DMA channel 1 onboard ecp option DMA channel 2 floppy disk smc chip DMA channel 3 onboard ECP default...

Page 69: ...from timer 0 1 keyboard output buffer full 2 cascade for IRQ 8 15 3 serial port2 4 serial port1 5 parallel port 2 6 floppy disk smc chip 7 parallel port 1 8 RTC clock 9 available 10 available 11 avail...

Page 70: ...0d status register d 0e diagnostic status byte 0f shutdown byte 10 floppy disk drive type byte 12 hard disk type byte 13 reserve 14 equipment type 15 base memory low byte 16 base memory high byte 17 e...

Page 71: ...5 65535 901 17 117MB 10 820 3 65535 820 17 21MB 11 855 5 65535 855 17 37MB 12 855 7 65535 855 17 52MB 13 306 8 128 319 17 21MB 14 733 7 65535 733 17 44MB 16 612 4 0 663 17 21MB 17 977 5 300 977 17 42M...

Page 72: ...926 17 72MB 33 1024 10 65535 1023 17 89MB 34 1024 12 65535 1023 17 106MB 35 1024 13 65535 1023 17 115MB 36 1024 14 65535 1023 17 124MB 37 1024 2 65535 1023 17 17MB 38 1024 16 65535 1023 17 142MB 39 91...

Page 73: ...8237A 5 0F0 0FF i486 Math Coprocessor 1F0 1F8 Fixed Disk Drive Adapter 200 207 Game I O 20C 20D Reserved 21F Reserved 278 27F Parallel Printer Port 2 2B0 2DF Alternate Enhanced Graphic Adapter 2E1 GP...

Page 74: ...ial Port 1 RS 232 C 6E2 6E3 Data Acquisition Adapter 1 790 793 Cluster Adapter 1 AE2 AE3 Data Acquisition Adapter 2 B90 B93 Cluster Adapter 2 EE2 EE3 Data Acquisition Adapter 3 1390 1393 Cluster Adapt...

Page 75: ...ctly When VGA card and DIMM modules are not plugged well the system makes longer and constant beep sounds 2 BIOS ROM checksum error It indicates the checksum of the BIOS code is not right and system w...

Page 76: ...ut Unlock the key Normally when this message comes out check if there is anything mis placed on the keyboard Be sure nothing touches the keys 9 Memory test fails There will be more information to spec...

Page 77: ...A There are many reasons for this condition One of the most common is that SDRAM does not match PC 100 specification When system is operated under 100 MHz in addition to 100 MHz CPU SDRAM must be PC 1...

Page 78: ...io SRS True surround SPDIF digital audio output Q Can I install this main board to normal ATX case A No based on microATX form factor 6MZX1 fits in microATX case or 3 in case Q Can I upgrade my VGA me...

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