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6VA694

 

(VIA VT82C694X

4 x AGP

PC-133) 

ATX Form Factor 

Main Board

 

User's      Manual 

Ver. 1.0

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Summary of Contents for 6VA694

Page 1: ...6VA694 6VA694 VIA VT82C694X 4 x AGP PC 133 ATX Form Factor Main Board User s Manual Ver 1 0...

Page 2: ...nscribed 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 herein...

Page 3: ...hout 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 furnishi...

Page 4: ...tor 12 2 2 5 SW1 Pin3 Pin6 CPU Ratio Selector 14 2 2 6 JP4 JP7 Audio Function Selector 15 2 3 Connectors 16 2 3 1 Front Panel 16 2 3 2 Back Panel 18 Keyboard Mouse 19 USB1 USB2 Universal Serial Bus 19...

Page 5: ...tup 46 4 1 6 PNP PCI Configuration Setup 52 4 1 7 PC Health Status 54 4 1 8 Frequency Voltage Control 55 4 1 9 Load Optimized Defaults 56 4 1 10 Supervisor User Password 57 4 1 11 Save and Exit Setup...

Page 6: ...stalled with SDRAM memory The memory subsystem supports up to either 384 MB SDRAM The main board using the Socket370 accepts Intel Pentium II Celeron 66 MHz Pentium III 100 133 MHz processors Built in...

Page 7: ...ation asset management and new system setup and power conservation In conclusion the main board is a combination of the highest in performance flexibility efficiency and ease of use that meets a varie...

Page 8: ...3V DIMM Expansion Slot 1x ISA 5 x PCI slots 1x A G P slot and 1 x AMR allows MR card only Supports 1X 2X 4X AGP mode Chipset VIA VT82C694X VIA VT82C686A 6VA694 with VIA VT82C686B BIOS flash ROM for BI...

Page 9: ...ocated away from the expansion slots and the longer side of the board is used to host more on board I O connector this placing of I O on the board reduces cabling inside the box lower costs and improv...

Page 10: ...12A 5V 5 0 5A 0 5A 0 5A 12V 5 0 8A 0 8A 0 8A 5VSB 5 1A 1A 1A WOL Wake up on LAN function requirement Power supply should offer at lest 1A to the signal 5VSB to support WOL function Special features W...

Page 11: ...ou 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 B Make sure power is off During hard...

Page 12: ...6va694 6vapm 6VPM1 Amdk7 I810 I815e I820 K7vat KX133 please select 6VA694 directory for this main board 2 DX7 Windows DirectX7 driver 3 Flashrom Bios flashupgrade utility 4 Pccillin2K anti virus prote...

Page 13: ...B MOUSE USB1 AMR AGP1 PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 ISA1 BIOS WOL1 IR1 USB2 J1 DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 IDE2 IDE1 FDD1 CD_IN2 CD_IN1 GAME COM2 COM1 MIC LINE IN LINE OUT POWER1 VT82C694X VT82C686A PCI5 FAN2 RTC SW1 FAN...

Page 14: ...Step 1 Shut down the system and disconnect the power supply from AC power Step 2 Pull out the ATX cable from ATX connector POWER1 Step 3 Short the CMOS jumper by putting jumper cap on Pin 2 3 for a fe...

Page 15: ...pin connectors which provide to select CPU type JP1 JP2 JP3 CPU Type Selector JP2 JP1 JP3 JP2 JP1 JP3 CPU Type JP1 JP2 JP3 INTEL FC PGA PIII CPU CLOSE 1 2 1 2 Cyrix III CPU OPEN 2 3 2 3 INTEL PII Cele...

Page 16: ...PU and set details as below VID0 VID4 CPU Vcore Selector V ID 0 V ID 1 V ID 2 V ID 3 V ID 4 VID0 VID3 VID4 Default 1 2 Default 2 3 for Socket370 Intel PII PIII CPU 1 2 for Cyrix III 370 CPU VID0 VID1...

Page 17: ...5V 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 90V 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 85V 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 80V 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 75V 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 70V 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 65V 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 60V 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2...

Page 18: ...Frequency selection Please select the right ratio according to your CPU and set details as below SW1 Pin1 Pin2 Cyrix CPU Frequency Selector O N 1 2 D IP 3 4 5 6 SW1 Cyrix Frequency 1 2 66 MHz ON ON 10...

Page 19: ...ct the right ratio according to your CPU and set details as below SW1 Pin3 Pin6 CPU Ratio Selector O N 1 2 D IP 3 4 5 6 SW1 3 4 5 6 CPU Ratio ON OFF ON ON 3X OFF OFF ON ON 3 5X ON ON OFFF ON 4X OFF ON...

Page 20: ...e audio function Please see details as below JP4 JP7 Audio Function Selector JP7 JP4 JP6 JP5 JP4 JP5 JP6 AC97 OFF ON ON On board Audio only AC97 MC97 ON ON ON On board Audio an AMR Slot only MC97 MR o...

Page 21: ...LED RESET SPEAKER 2 3 Connectors There are many connectors on this main board Refer to the following pages for details 2 3 1 Front Panel Front panel has connectors as EXTSMI PW BT HD LED RESET SPEAKE...

Page 22: ...s the current power status of system It is used to connect to the Power Button on the front panel of the case if there is Marked as HD LED Hard Disk activity LED connector is a 2 pin keyed Berg strip...

Page 23: ...VIA694X System Board 18 2 3 2 Back Panel There are keyboard mouse USB1 USB2 COM1 2 LPT1 MIC_IN LINE_IN LINE_OUT and GAME port on the case back panel Please refer to more details as below...

Page 24: ...SB2 doesn t support USB K B support function COM1 COM2 The onboard serial port 1 and port 2 are the 9 pin D subminiature male connector COM1 2 COM1 2 can be disabled in BIOS setup Please refer to Chap...

Page 25: ...he function of the Soft Power On Momentary switch which connects on the front panel switch to the 2 pin PW BT on the system board While the power switch on the back of ATX power is turned on the full...

Page 26: ...VIA694X System Board 21 2 3 4 CPU Fan Connectors There are 2 fan connectors on this main board and it is marked as FAN1 FAN2 Each fan connector has three pins FAN2 FAN1 Fan Signal SENSE 12V GND...

Page 27: ...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 module to IR...

Page 28: ...VIA694X System Board 23 2 3 6 Floppy Disk Connector Floppy Disk Connector has 34 pins and is used to attach the floppy drive cable FDD1...

Page 29: ...ectors There are 2 IDE connectors supported on this system board IDE1 is primary channel and IDE2 is secondary channel Each channel supports 2 IDE devices and 4 devices in total for this main board It...

Page 30: ...VIA694X System Board 25 2 3 8 Internal Audio Connectors Internal Audio Connectors are CD_IN1 and CD_IN2 C D _ IN 1 C D _ IN 2...

Page 31: ...System Board 26 2 4 DIMM Memory Installation The main board has 3 DIMMs on board Either DIMM1 DIMM2 or DIMM3 supports 8 MB 16 MB 32 MB 64 MB and 128MB Maximum memory for SDRAM is up to 256MB DIMM3 DIM...

Page 32: ...e will only fit in the orientation as shown There is no jumper setting for memory configuration DIMM Chipset only allows synchronuos operation for DIMM and CPU Therefore to have a stable system the sy...

Page 33: ...uter and delivers promotional icons to the desktop PhonixNet delivers 1 one click easy access to the Internet 2 offers from leading Internet companies and 3 anti virus protection Trend ChipAway VirusT...

Page 34: ...n the boot process as the first image displayed on the screen This display remains on the screen throughout the normal BIOS initialization phase called POST The GLS component will replace the old text...

Page 35: ...ection 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 prov...

Page 36: ...ive 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 mo...

Page 37: ...VIA694X System Board 32...

Page 38: ...et at LARGE Select NORMAL if your hard disk supporting cylinder is below 1024 4 CYLS the cylinder number of the hard disk 5 HEAD the read write head number of hard disk The range is from 1 to 16 6 PRE...

Page 39: ...e cursor by pressing PageDown or PageUp key to modify the parameters press F1 key to display help message of the selected item This setup program also provide 2 convenient ways to load the default par...

Page 40: ...ache ECC checking Processor Number Feature Enabled default Disabled Quick Power On Self Test This category speeds up power on self test Enabled default BIOS will shorten or skip some check items Disab...

Page 41: ...tem will search in turn for floppy disk drive then hard disk drive and finally Floppy drive Default value is LS120 Options are as below FLOPPY LS120 HDD 0 SCSI CDROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 ZIP100 LAN Disab...

Page 42: ...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 first an...

Page 43: ...5 98 or NT Non OS2 default OS2 Video BIOS Shadow To determine whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM for faster execution Enabled default Video Shadow is enabled Disabled Video Shadow is disabled C8...

Page 44: ...DRAM Timing This will determine the timing of SDRAM The user can separately adjust the timing of bank 0 1 2 3 4 5 SDRAM 8 10ns default 10 nano second SDRAM 8ns normal medium fast turbo SDRAM Cycle Len...

Page 45: ...C C2P Concurrency Enabled default Disabled Fast R W Turn Around Enabled Disabled default System BIOS Cacheable Enabled default Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Enabled default allows caching of the video...

Page 46: ...Disabled default OnChip USB Enabled default Enabling this function adds the function of USB Keyboard Support Disabled OnChip USB2 Enabled Disabled default USB Keyboard Support Enabled enable this fun...

Page 47: ...Disabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Enabled default Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Write Enabled Disabled default AGP Master 1 WS Read Enabled Disabled default Memory Parity ECC Check Enabled enabled adds a pari...

Page 48: ...VIA694X System Board 43 4 1 4 Integrated Peripherals OnChip IDE Channel0 1 Enabled default Disabled IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled default Disabled...

Page 49: ...Secondary Slave PIO This feature detects your secondary master hard disk device Auto default Mode 0 1 2 3 4 Primary Master UDMA Primary Slave UDMA Auto default Disabled Secondary Master UDMA Secondar...

Page 50: ...unction Duplex and TX RX inverting enable HPSIR the user is allowed to modify IR Function Duplex and TX RX inverting enable Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 default 278H IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 Disabled Onboard P...

Page 51: ...to enable disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Management ACPI Enabled default Disabled ACPI Suspend Type S1 POS default S3 STR PM Control By APM No system BIOS will ignore APM Yes default sy...

Page 52: ...tical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen this option only writes blanks to the video buffer DPMS Support Initial display power management signaling...

Page 53: ...enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active Disabled default 1 Min 15 Min Doze Mode Disabled default 1 Min 2 Min...

Page 54: ...VIA694X System Board 49 VGA ON OFF default LPT COM LPT COM default NONE LPT COM HDD FDD ON default OFF PCI Master ON OFF default...

Page 55: ...this function only works when the system is turned off from Windows mode and Doze mode will not function RTC Alarm Resume auto power on at the appointed date and time Enabled key in the date of curre...

Page 56: ...VIA694X System Board 51 Primary INTR ON default Select on it adds the following functions IRQ3 COM2 IRQ15 Reserved OFF Select off IRQ3 COM2 IRQ15 Reserved will not show...

Page 57: ...VIA694X System Board 52 4 1 6 PnP PCI Configuration Setup...

Page 58: ...he system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system can not boot up Resources Controlled By Manual The table will show the below items IRQ Resources DMA Resources Th...

Page 59: ...X System Board 54 4 1 7 PC Health Status Current CPU Temperature Current CPU Fan1 speed CPU Fan2 speed Current Vin3 V Vin1 V VIN 2 Vdd V System will automatically detect the above items and show the s...

Page 60: ...Disabled default Spread Spectrum Enabled Disabled default This selection is reserved for manufacturers to pass CE test only not available for users CPU Host Clock CPU PCI 66 33 MHz 75 37 MHz 83 41 MHz...

Page 61: ...only affect 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 wil...

Page 62: ...erence is 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 o...

Page 63: ...S refer to jumper JBAT 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 Setup will only secure CMO...

Page 64: ...ed to key in password first Step 2 Enter Supervisor Password or User Password When it shows Enter Password press the Enter key instead of entering a new password when ENTER PASSWORD appears It will in...

Page 65: ...VIA694X System Board 60 4 1 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 66: ...stem Board 61 4 1 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 67: ...a 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 ro...

Page 68: ...F 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 Gr...

Page 69: ...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 ITE chip DMA channel 3 onboard ECP default D...

Page 70: ...rom timer 0 1 1 keyboard output buffer full 2 cascade for IRQ 8 15 3 serial port2 4 serial port1 5 parallel port 2 6 floppy disk ITE chip 7 parallel port 1 8 RTC clock 9 available 10 available 11 avai...

Page 71: ...C 0D Status Register D 0E Diagnostic Status Byte 0F Shutdown Byte 10 Floppy Disk Type Drive Type Byte 12 Hard Disk Type Byte 13 Reserved 14 Equipment Type 15 Base Memory Low Byte 16 Base Memory High B...

Page 72: ...1 17 32MB 8 733 5 65535 733 17 31MB 9 900 15 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...

Page 73: ...925 9 65535 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...

Page 74: ...BF Interrupt Controller 2 8259A 0C0 0DF DMA 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...

Page 75: ...or Adapter 3F0 3F7 Diskette Drive Controller 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 EE...

Page 76: ...ow device configuration is done correctly 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 th...

Page 77: ...keys are pressed during POST 8 Keyboard is lock out Unlock the key When this message comes out check if there is anything mis placed on the keyboard Be sure nothing touches the keys 9 Memory test fai...

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