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6P2BX2/6P2ZX2

ATX  Form  Factor

Main Board

User's   Manual

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Page 1: ...6P2BX2 6P2ZX2 ATX 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: ...e without notice The manufacturer of the system board will not be held responsible for technical or editorial omissions made herein nor for the incidental or consequential damages resulting from its f...

Page 4: ...allation 8 Chapter 2 Installation 9 2 1 Layout Reference 9 2 2 CPU Speed Setup 10 2 3 Jumper Setting 11 RTC Clearing Content of CMOS 11 2 4 Connectors 12 2 4 1 Front Panel 12 System Management Interru...

Page 5: ...3 2 Standard CMOS Setup 37 3 3 BIOS Features Setup 39 3 4 Chipset Features Setup 43 3 5 Power Management Setup 46 3 6 PNP PCI Configuration Setup 49 3 7 Integrated Peripherals 51 3 8 Supervisor User...

Page 6: ...III Chapter 5 Q A 72 5 1 Error Messages During Power on Self Test 72 5 2 Frequently Asked Questions 74...

Page 7: ...main board using the slot 1 socket accepts Intel Pentium II III 66 100 MHz processors at speeds from 233 MHz to 500 MHz and is able to support faster CPUs upgrated in the future Built in second level...

Page 8: ...ened with Power Management Wake up Event such as Wake on LAN and Modem ring on which are the new inventions to enable PCs to be turned on over the network or modem These are also key benefits in PC op...

Page 9: ...applications as well Below is reference for Pentium II CPUs suitable f or this main board Note1 CPU is not enclosed in the package Note 2 Celeron has 2 models One is with internal cache and one witho...

Page 10: ...66 MHz freq SDRAM up to 384MB 440BX SDRAM up to 256MB 440ZX Basic PC 66 MHz freq 1 SDRAM up to 384MB 2 SDRAM up to 256MB 440ZX Expansion slots 2x ISA slots 5 x PCI slots 4 bus master 1 slave slots i82...

Page 11: ...hnology ATX is an evolution of the popular Baby AT form factor By mounting the power supply on its side the processor is relocated away from the expansion slots and the longer side of the board is use...

Page 12: ...tion Power supply regulation Onboard switching voltage that support appropriate power to the CPU and future upgraded CPUs Over current protection circuit With AIC 1569CS AH13 protect CPU from accident...

Page 13: ...act 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 the main board manual cables driver utility CD retention...

Page 14: ...HTML format CD driver is always updated with the latest version so the actual CD content may have some difference with the above picture 1 Main boards i440BX ZX i440EX i440LX i430TX VIA VPX VP3 based...

Page 15: ...set GL518SM will be removed not support hardware monitor function TURBO66 is an over clocking jumper which enables 66 MHz CPU to run at 100 MHz TURBO66 is only reserved for internal test only No guara...

Page 16: ...below options Frequency 66 MHz Frequency 100 MHz Manual P II 233 233 MHz 66x3 5 default P II 350 350MHz 100x3 5 P II 266 266 MHz 66x4 P II 400 400MHz 100x4 P II 300 300 MHz 66x4 5 P II 450 450MHz 100...

Page 17: ...signment Operation 1 2 Normal setup default 2 3 Clear CMOS Procedure to clear CMOS Step 1 Shut down the system and disconnect the power supply from AC power Step 2 Pull out the ATX cable from ATX conn...

Page 18: ...Page 12 2 4 Connectors 2 4 1 Front Panel Front panel has connectors such as SMI Turbo LED HD LED reset speaker keylock and power LED Please refer to details as below...

Page 19: ...ll enter sleep mode immediately This function is to make sure power saving is working well In PC system it is used to connect to the push button SMI switch located on the case s front panel if there i...

Page 20: ...rbo LED with a 2 pin Berg strip on front panel indicates the current speed status of system It is used to connect to the Turbo Led on the case front panel if there is Pin assignment Signal Pin 1 Anode...

Page 21: ...to front panel Hard Disk LED Pin assignment Signal Pin 1 with signal Anode Pin 2 GND Speaker Speaker SPK connector is a 4 pin keyed Berg strip It is used to connect to the case speaker to the main bo...

Page 22: ...to the push button reset switch on the case front panel Shorting both pin 1 pin 2 can effect system reset function which is similar to the power turned off and then on again Pin assignment Signal Pin...

Page 23: ...onnect the key lock on the case front panel if there is Keyboard may be disconnected with the system through this function Pin assignment Signal Pin 1 GND Pin 2 Keylock Keylock Operation Open Normal C...

Page 24: ...Page 18 Power LED Power LED is a 3 pin connector It is used to connect to the LED on the case front panel The LED shows the status of the power Pin Signal Pin 1 VCC Pin 2 NC Pin 3 GND...

Page 25: ...Page 19 2 4 2 Back Panel There are COM1 COM2 LPT USB and keyboard mouse on case back panel Please refer to more details as below Back panel PS 2 K B Mouse USB LPT COM1 COM2...

Page 26: ...abled 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 ready...

Page 27: ...n 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 6 P...

Page 28: ...nect USB devices There are 2 USB connectors on this main board Keyboard Mouse The onboard PS 2 keyboard and mouse connector are 6 pin Mini Din connectors marked as KB and Mouse Pin Description Pin 1 D...

Page 29: ...w bus standard that allows the bus speed to run at 66 MHz with up to 133 MHz data transfer capabilities which is four times as fast as that of the PCI bus At this speed the AGP graphic cards can trans...

Page 30: ...transfer rate from CPU to PCI with good graphic performance While plugging into 5 PCI add on cards PCI 1 PCI 4 are master bus and PCI5 is slave bus If there are 4 PCI add on cards or below 4 cards al...

Page 31: ...itch 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 the syste...

Page 32: ...s Pin Signal Pin 1 5VSB Pin 2 PWR in 2 4 6 CPU Fan Connectors There are 3 fan connectors on this system board and they are marked as FAN 1 FAN2 and FAN3 Each fan connector has three pins Pin Signal Pi...

Page 33: ...ep pulse output to the drive during a SEEK operation Pin 21 GND Pin 22 FDC write enable serial data to the Drive Pin 23 GND Pin 24 FDC write enable identify Pin 25 GND Pin 26 Floppy disk track 0 Indic...

Page 34: ...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 Pin 20 Key NC Pin...

Page 35: ...rect Cable Connection user can transfer data to or from laptops notebooks PDA and printers This connector supports HPSIR ASKIR and Fast IR Attach Infrared module to IR connector and enable BIOS Infrar...

Page 36: ...ink SB LINK is used to attach any PC PCI standard sound card like Creative AWE64D or Yamaha XG for compatibility under DOS mode Pin Signal Pin 1 GNT Pin 2 GND Pin 3 NC Pin 4 REQ Pin 5 GND Pin 6 SIRQ S...

Page 37: ...e system More than that a network management software must be installed too Pin Signal Pin 1 5V trickle voltage Pin 2 Ground Pin 3 PME signal WOL Wake up on LAN function requirement Power supply shoul...

Page 38: ...2 5 DIMM Memory Installation There are three DIMM sockets on this main board Either DIMM 1 DIMM2 or DIMM3 supports 8 MB 16 MB 32 MB 64 MB and 128MB Maximum memory for SDRAM is up to 384MB EDO RAM up t...

Page 39: ...fit in the orientation as shown There is no jumper setting for memory configuration Chipset only allows synchronuos operation for DIMM and CPU Therefore the system must install 100 MHz PC 100 SDRAM me...

Page 40: ...nd Deschutes It is not necessary to change different CPU RM Kits for different CPU models 1 Check if the following set of piece parts are included in your package 4 seperate piece parts in total Reten...

Page 41: ...htly 5 Put the CPU in the RM kit you must push the CPU horizontally into the RM kit Due to different packages of Celeron Klamath and Deschutes there are 2 positions to lock them in the RM kit Below is...

Page 42: ...s 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 provides use...

Page 43: ...lled 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 move cursor...

Page 44: ...e 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 type autom...

Page 45: ...rs 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 is corru...

Page 46: ...rches first Take A C SCSI for example System will search in turn 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...

Page 47: ...nd 12 12 Characters Per Second 15 15 Characters Per Second 20 20 Characters Per Second 24 24 Characters Per Second 30 30 Characters Per Second Typematic Delay Msec This is the interval between the fir...

Page 48: ...or other operating systems like Windows 95 98 or NT Non OS2 default OS2 Video BIOS Shadow It determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM However it is optional from chipset design Video shadow...

Page 49: ...cally 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 CAS Delay...

Page 50: ...ther 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 allows cach...

Page 51: ...GP without any translation 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 eit...

Page 52: ...Page 46 3 5 Power Management Setup ACPI function Disabled Enabled default Power Management users can configure their own power management User Define default Min Saving Max Saving Disabled...

Page 53: ...he timer is time out the APM will not prompt the BIOS to put the system into any power saving mode Note2 If APM is not installed this option has no effect Video Off After Standby Doze NA Suspend defau...

Page 54: ...unction system can be turned on through modem Note this function only works when the system is turned off from Windows mode and Doze mode will not function Poweron by alarm auto power on at the appoin...

Page 55: ...range 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 shown ite...

Page 56: ...s 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 ISA DMA 0 assigned to DMA 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP default L...

Page 57: ...nce 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 Primary Sl...

Page 58: ...select use chip support primary PCI IDE Enabled default Disabled On chip secondary PCI IDE select use chip support secondary PCI IDE Enabled default Disabled Onboard FDC Controller Enabled default Di...

Page 59: ...Page 53 Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 default 3BC IRQ7 278H IRQ5 Disabled...

Page 60: ...sor 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 setup menu...

Page 61: ...After setting password enter Security Option in BIOS Features Setup There are 2 options Setup System Setup will only secure CMOS setup through password System is to secure PC sytem and password is re...

Page 62: ...ord 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 Then it informs PASSWORD DISABLED PRESS ANY KEY T...

Page 63: ...ard 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 SECTORMODE Pr...

Page 64: ...e 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 cylinders heads s...

Page 65: ...plied 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 Sector 63 X...

Page 66: ...atures 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 on screen a...

Page 67: ...Page 61 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 68: ...ge 62 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 be destroye...

Page 69: ...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 routine fo...

Page 70: ...rts 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 Graphics a...

Page 71: ...resh 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 DMA chann...

Page 72: ...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 available 12 PS...

Page 73: ...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 extension...

Page 74: ...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 42MB 18 977 7 65535 977 17...

Page 75: ...535 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 39 918 15 65535 1023 17 119MB 40 820 6 65535 820 17 42MB 41...

Page 76: ...A Controller 2 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...

Page 77: ...er 3F8 3FF Serial 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...

Page 78: ...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 will always...

Page 79: ...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 specify the t...

Page 80: ...OS will automatically detect the CPU frequency 66MHz or 100 MHz Therefore if your CPU frequency cannot be adjusted to 100 MHz then your CPU may be 66 MHz In BIOS speed setup there are other frequencie...

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