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Chapter 3

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The built-in MS-6557 mainboard is designed for MS-6243 barebone only.

Except MS-6557 mainboard, the built-in components of MS-6243 barebone
include power supply and PCI riser card.  In this chapter we’ll show you how to
install CPU,  FDD, HDD, CD-ROM and CPU Cooler.

Installation Tools

Screw Driver

Pliers

Rubber gloves

Forceps

Overview

Four types of screws are provided by MS-6243 Barebone:  Round-
headed screws, Hexagonal screw with washer and two kinds of Flat-
headed screws.  The screws that have been installed in the barebone
are not listed.

Round-headed screw

: This type of screw is used to attach

the HDD to the chassis.

Hexagonal screw with washer

: The screw is used to fasten

the mainboard, cover, and CD-ROM to the chassis.

Flat-headed screw

: This type of screw is used to fasten

the Standard FDD to the Front Panel Bezel.

Screws

Summary of Contents for MS6243

Page 1: ...i Version 2 2 G52 B6243X6 K01 Hermes 845GV Series MS6243 Barebone...

Page 2: ...ith the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will...

Page 3: ...MD Athlon Athlon XP Thoroughbred and Duron are registered trademarks of AMD Corporation PS 2 and OS 2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Windows 95 98 2000 NT XP...

Page 4: ...module 9 All cautions and warnings on the equipment should be noted 10 Never pour any liquid into the opening that could damage or cause electri cal shock 11 If any of the following situations arises...

Page 5: ...2 Mainboard Setup tells you how to set up the mainboard includes components introduction and jumpers setting It is helpful for the end and advanced users Chapter 3 Chassis Installation tells you how t...

Page 6: ...anual please contact your place of purchase or local distributor Alternatively please try the follow ing help resources for further guidance Visit the MSI website for FAQ technical guide BIOS updates...

Page 7: ...ooler 2 4 Memory Installation 2 5 Introduction to DDR SDRAM 2 5 DDR Module Combination 2 6 Installing DDR Modules 2 6 Power Supply 2 7 ATX 20 Pin Power Connector ATX1 2 7 ATX 12V Power Connector JPW1...

Page 8: ...2 21 TV Out Connector JTV1 2 21 Jumper 2 22 Clear CMOS Jumper JBAT1 2 22 Slot 2 23 PCISlot 2 23 PCI Interrupt Request Routing 2 24 Chapter 3 Chassis Installation 3 1 Overview 3 2 Installation Tools 3...

Page 9: ...ted Peripherals 4 22 PC Health Status 4 25 Frequency Voltage Control 4 26 Set Supervisor User Password 4 27 Load Optimal Fail Safe Defaults 4 28 Appendix Using4 or6 ChannelAudioFunction A 1 Installing...

Page 10: ...C choice Based on the all in one design idea the MS 6243 provides 2 1394 ports option 6 USB ports 2 TV out jacks option 1 DVI jack option and 1 SPDIF jack With the fantastic appearance and small form...

Page 11: ...x345mm D hMinimised screw structure hDetachable bay housing Barebone Specifications Front Panel 1 Slim Floppy Drive 2 CD ROM Drive 3 Power Switch 4 Power LED 5 HDD LED 6 4 Pin IEEE 1394 Port option 7...

Page 12: ...0 8A 5Vsb 2A hPower Supply Fan 80x80x25mm hDimension 80 H x120 W x120 D mm Daughter Board hPCI Riser Card 1 to 2 slot PCI Riser Card Back Panel 1 S Video Port option 10 DVI Port option 2 COM A 11 VGA...

Page 13: ...B USB2 0 controller 480Mb sec 2 channel Ultra ATA 100 bus Master IDE controller PCI Master 2 2 I O APIC AC 97 2 2 interface 3 UHCI Host controllers and 1 EHCI Host controller MainMemory hTwo 184 pin D...

Page 14: ...r Optional h Internal Pin Header Intel standard front panel pin header CPU fan system fan Clear CMOS pin header 2IDE ATA66 100 1 standard floppy connector 1 on board COM port pin header Audio CD in On...

Page 15: ...1 IDE 1 IDE 2 T RJ45 LAN jack B USB ports Top mouse Bottom keyboard NEC D72874GC SMSC LPC 47M133 NC Intel 82562EZ Chr ontel CH7009A T Codec JCD1 TV1 JTV1 Top COM A Bottom Line O ut Line In Mic COM 2 F...

Page 16: ...ng to ATX Power Supply See p 2 7 IDE1 IDE2 Connecting to HDD See p 2 17 JFP1 Connecting to Front Panel See p 2 18 JCD1 Connecting to CD ROM audio See p 2 19 CPUFAN SYS_FAN Connecting to system fan and...

Page 17: ...hile doing the installation be careful in holding the components and follow the installation procedures For some components if you install in the wrong orientation the components will not work properl...

Page 18: ...overheating If you do not find the heat sink and cooling fan contact your dealer or purchase them before installing the CPU Central Processing Unit CPU Overheating Overheating will seriously damage t...

Page 19: ...lled the pins should be completely embedded into the socket Any violation of the correct installation procedures may cause permanent damages to your mainboard 5 PresstheCPUdownfirmlyinto the socket an...

Page 20: ...normal CPU cooler the small size takes up less space z Special Fan Design The CPU fan has ball bearing solution The reliability is better than sleeve solution It is suitable for Slim PC z High Density...

Page 21: ...twice per cycle It uses 2 5 volts as opposed to 3 3 volts used in SDR SDRAM and requires 184 pin DIMM mod ules rather than 168 pin DIMM modules used by SDR SDRAM Two types of DDRareavailableatthetime...

Page 22: ...Double Side 128MB 1GB Combination Slot 1 2 DDR 1 S D S D DDR 2 S D S D Total Memory 64MB 2GB 64MB 2GB 1 The DDR DIMM has only one notch on the center of module The module will only fit in the right o...

Page 23: ...unction which means that system will boot up immediately when the power supply connector is inserted on the board This 12V power connector is used to provide power to the CPU PIN SIGNAL 11 3 3V 12 12V...

Page 24: ...ts USB by providing enhanced PC connectivity for a wide range of devices including consumer electronics audio video A V appliances storage peripherals other PCs and portable devices IEEE 1394 Port J13...

Page 25: ...a Channel 0 4 GND Ground 5 VCC 5V 6 Data 1 Negative Data Channel 1 7 Data 1 Positive Data Channel 1 8 GND Ground USB Port Description This allows you to connect the front audio device MIC in Line Out...

Page 26: ...l Ready 5 GND Ground 6 DSR Data Set Ready 7 RTS RequestToSend 8 CTS Clear To Send 9 RI RingIndicate Pin Definition 9 Pin Male DIN Connector 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 COM2 COM B 8 6 4 2 9 7 5 3 1 The mainboard...

Page 27: ...a TV or video device to TV1 connector for video out function which allows you to output the image to a TV or video device TV1 Connector TV Projector Note The mainboard supports 4 or 6 channel audio f...

Page 28: ...AL DESCRIPTION 1 STROBE Strobe 2 DATA0 Data0 3 DATA1 Data1 4 DATA2 Data2 5 DATA3 Data3 6 DATA4 Data4 7 DATA5 Data5 8 DATA6 Data6 9 DATA7 Data7 10 ACK Acknowledge 1 1 BUSY Busy 12 PE PaperEnd 13 SELECT...

Page 29: ...D S Data3 5V GND for 5V Hot Plug Detect T M D S Data0 T M D S Data0 T M D S Data0 5 Shield T M D S Data5 T M D S Data5 T M D S Clock Shield T M D S Clock T M D S Clock C 1 Analog Red C 2 Analog Green...

Page 30: ...394 Port J1394 1 Pin Definition Analog Video Display Connector DB 15S PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 Red 2 Green 3 Blue 4 Notused 5 Ground 6 Ground 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Power 10 Ground 1 1 Notused 12 SDA 13...

Page 31: ...ng a PS 2 mouse You can plug a PS 2 mouse directly into this connector USB Ports 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 VCC 5V 2 Data 0 Negative Data Channel 0 3 Data0 Positive Data Channel 0 4 GND...

Page 32: ...ng a PS 2 keyboard You can plug a PS 2 keyboard directly into this connector PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 Keyboard DATA Keyboard DATA 2 NC No connection 3 GND Ground 4 VCC 5V 5 Keyboard Clock Keyboard clo...

Page 33: ...t to only two IDE devices As the MS 6243 Barebone is a slim PC there is no extra space for you to connect two more IDE devices Also please be careful the two connectors can only connect to the specifi...

Page 34: ...LED Power Switch PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 HD_LED_P Hard disk LED pull up 2 FP PWR SLP MSG LED pull up 3 HD_LED_N Hard disk active LED 4 FP PWR SLP MSG LED pull up 5 RST_SW_N Reset Switch low referenc...

Page 35: ...Mainboard Setup 2 19 The connector is for CD ROM audio connector CD In Connector JCD1 I nte l 8 4 5 G V JCD1 GND R L...

Page 36: ...nd should be connected to GND If the mainboard has a System Hardware Monitor chipset on board you must use a specially designed fan with speed sensor to take advantage of the CPU fan control I n te l...

Page 37: ...oppy disk drive connec tor that supports 360K 720K 1 2M 1 44M and 2 88M floppy disk types In te l 84 5GV FDD1 The mainboard provides an onboard TV out connector for you to con nect to a TV or video de...

Page 38: ...e JBAT1 Clear CMOS Jumper to clear data Follow the instructions below to clear the data The motherboard provides one jumper for you to set the computer s function This section will explain how to chan...

Page 39: ...on cards You can insert any type of PCI cards to meet your needs When adding or removing expansion cards make sure that you unplug the power supply first Meanwhile read the documentation for the expan...

Page 40: ...are hardware lines over which devices can send interrupt signals to the microprocessor The AGP PCI IRQ pins are typically connected to the PCI bus INT A INT D pins as follows Order 1 Order 2 Order 3...

Page 41: ...lation 3 1 This chapter provides you with the installation procedures of the MS 6243 chassis It is useful for you to read the information of mainboard setup before assembling the whole system 3 Chassi...

Page 42: ...r gloves Forceps Overview Four types of screws are provided by MS 6243 Barebone Round headed screws Hexagonal screw with washer and two kinds of Flat headed screws The screws that have been installed...

Page 43: ...allation Flowchart START Remove Chassis Cover Remove Front Panel Bezel Install DIMM Module FINISH Install CPU Cooler Install CPU Install FDD Module Install HDD Module Install CD ROM Module Replace Cov...

Page 44: ...heck the items that are used Some items are in cluded in packing whereas some are not Check with your dealer for the real and complete packing list CPU Cooler Riser Card The Cables Footstand HDD Tray...

Page 45: ...s Installation 3 5 Remove the two screws on the cover Take out the cover Use your two hands to press the place indicated Remove the Front Panel Bezel Removing Cover Front Panel Bezel Installation Proc...

Page 46: ...cover and Front Panel Bezel Install the DIMM module Refer to p 2 6 for more information Put the CPU on the CPU socket Close the lever to finish the installation of CPU Refer to p 2 3 for more informa...

Page 47: ...Chassis Installation 3 7 Put the CPU cooler on the CPU Use screws to secure the CPU cooler...

Page 48: ...er in the direction indicated to take out the tray Insert the HDD module into the tray Using 4 screws to secure the HDD module Insert the HDD tray into the chassis Installing HDD Module Flip the tray...

Page 49: ...Chassis Installation 3 9 Finish the HDD installation Push the lever back into place Connect the cables including HDD cable and power cord HDD Cable Power Cord...

Page 50: ...3 3 10 Insert the FDD module into the Front Panel Bezel Using screws to secure the FDDmodule Installing FDD Flip the place indicated to take out the bracket of Front Panel Bezel Reverse the Front Pane...

Page 51: ...oles I E and S Please insert the screw into the third hole S Secure the CD ROM using the two screws on the right side Finish the FDD CD ROM installation Installing CD ROM Insert the CD ROM into the Fr...

Page 52: ...Chapter 3 3 12 Connecting the Cables Replacing Bezel Cover Connect the System Fan cable Replace the Front Panel Bezel Connect the LED indicator cable Connect the CD ROM cable...

Page 53: ...Chassis Installation 3 13 Connect the FDD cable Replace the cover and use screws to secure it Use screws to secure the Front Panel Bezel Place the barebone on the Footstand...

Page 54: ...S Setup pro gram and allows you to configure the system for optimum use You may need to run the Setup program when An error message appears on the screen during the system booting up and requests you...

Page 55: ...ing F11 When the same message as listed above appears on the screen press F11 to trigger the boot menu The POST messages might pass by too quickly for you to respond in time If so restart the system a...

Page 56: ...r all devices and the system while High Performance defaults pro vide the best system performance but may affect the system stability Control Keys Move to the previous item Move to the next item Move...

Page 57: ...rformance PowerManagementFeatures Use this menu to specify your settings for power management PNP PCIConfigurations This entry appears if your system supports PnP PCI IntegratedPeripherals Use this me...

Page 58: ...assword Set User Password Use this menu to set User Password Load Fail Safe Defaults Use this menu to load factory default settings into the BIOS for stable system performance operations LoadOptimalDe...

Page 59: ...This allows you to set the system to the date that you want usually the current date The format is day month date year day Day of the week from Sun to Sat determined by BIOS Read only month The month...

Page 60: ...of the device FloppyDriveA B This item allows you to set the type of floppy drives installed Available options Not Installed 360 KB 5 1 2 MB 5 720 KB 3 1 44 MB 3 2 88 MB 3 Boot Sector Virus Protection...

Page 61: ...seconds since it will skip some check items Available options Enabled Disabled Full Screen LOGO Show This item enables you to show the company logo on the bootup screen Set ting options Enabled Disab...

Page 62: ...M Legacy SCSI The system will boot from the SCSI Legacy NETWORK The system will boot from the Network drive BBS 0 The system will boot from the first BBS BIOS Boot Specification compliant device BBS 1...

Page 63: ...led will swap floppy drives A and B FloppyDriveSeek This setting causes the BIOS to search for floppy disk drives at boot time When enabled the BIOS will activate the floppy disk drives during the boo...

Page 64: ...a a system error may result Setting options Enabled Disabled C000 32k Shadow This item specifies how the contents of the adapter ROM named in the item are handled Settings are described below Flash Pr...

Page 65: ...lows you to select which MPS Multi Processor Specification version to be used for the operating system You need to select the MPS version supported by your operating system To find out which version t...

Page 66: ...s ConfigureDRAMTimingbySPD Selects whether DRAM timing is controlled by the SPD Serial Presence Detect EEPROM on the DRAM module Setting to Enabled enables CAS Latency RAS Precharge RAS to CAS Delay P...

Page 67: ...allows you to set the number of cycles for a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals used when DRAM is written to read from or refreshed Fast speed offers faster perform ance while slow sp...

Page 68: ...dress range dedicated to graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation The option allows the selection of an aperture size of 4...

Page 69: ...nts turn off to save energy The information stored in memory will be used to restore the system when a wake up event occurs Auto OS driver determines the best mode for ACPI standby state Re Call VGA B...

Page 70: ...press the power button the computer enters the suspend sleep mode but if the button is pressed for more than four seconds the computer is turned off Restore On AC Power Loss This setting specifies wh...

Page 71: ...f Resume On RTC Alarm is set to Enabled the system will automatically resume boot up on a specific date hour minute second specified in these fields Available settings for each item are Alarm Date 01...

Page 72: ...set to Yes BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for booting VGA IDE SCSI The rest of the cards will be initialized by the PnP operating system like Windows 98 2000 or ME When set to No BIOS w...

Page 73: ...GraphicsAdapterPriority This item specifies which VGA device is your primary graphics adapter Set tings are Internal VGA The system initializes the onboard VGA device PCI Int VGA The system initializ...

Page 74: ...are configured as PCI PnP If all IRQs are set to ISA EISA and IRQ 14 15 are allocated to the onboard PCI IDE IRQ 9 will still be available for PCI and PnP devices Available settings ISA EISA PCI PnP S...

Page 75: ...ed No Mice All Device OnBoardIDE This setting controls the on chip IDE controller Setting options Disabled Primary Secondary Both OnBoardAC 97Audio Auto allows the mainboard to detect whether an audio...

Page 76: ...ws you to enable the onboard 1394 function Set Super I O Press Enter to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears OnBoardFDC This is used to enable or disable the onboard Floppy controller O...

Page 77: ...Dir or EPP EPP Version The item selects the EPP version used by the parallel port if the port is set to EPP mode Settings 1 7 1 9 Parallel Port IRQ When Parallel Port is set to Auto the item shows Au...

Page 78: ...ng a warning message if the chassis is once opened To clear the warning message set the field to Reset The setting of the field will automatically return to Enabled later Settings Enabled Reset Disabl...

Page 79: ...o Enabled for EMI reduction Remember to disable Spread Spectrum if you are overclocking be cause even a slight jitter can introduce a temporary boost in clockspeed which may just cause your overclocke...

Page 80: ...een set you will be prompted to enter it every time you try to enter Setup This prevents an unauthorized person from chang ing any part of your system configuration Additionally when a password is ena...

Page 81: ...e Fail Safe Defaults are the default values also set by the mainboard manufacturer for stable performance of the mainboard When you select Load Optimal Defaults a message as below appears Pressing Y l...

Page 82: ...ped with Realtek ALC650 chip which provides support for 6 channel audio output including 2 Front 2 Rear 1 Center and 1 Subwoofer channel ALC650 allows the board to attach 4 or 6 speakers for better su...

Page 83: ...XP For Windows 2000 you must install Windows 2000 Service Pack2 or later before installing the driver The following illustrations are based on Windows XP environment and could look slightly different...

Page 84: ...Using 4 or 6 Channel Audio Function A 3 4 Click Finish to restart the system Click here Click here Select this option...

Page 85: ...to the Back Panel Configuration in the Software Utility 1 Click the audio icon from the window tray at the lower right corner of the screen 2 Select a desired surround sound effect from the Environmen...

Page 86: ...Multi Channel Audio Function mode properly in the software utility connect your speakers to the correct phonejacks in accordance with the setting in software utility 2 Channel Mode for Stereo Speaker...

Page 87: ...e for 4 Speaker Output The audio jacks on the back panel always provide 2 Channel analog audio output function however these audio jacks can be transformed to 4 or 6 channels analog audio jacks by sel...

Page 88: ...Speaker Output is selected 6 Channel Mode for 6 Speaker Output Refer to the following diagram and caption for the founction of each jack on the back panel when 6 Channels mode is selected If the Cent...

Page 89: ...nes Testing Each Speaker 1 Click the audio icon from the window tray at the lower right corner of the screen 2 Click the Speaker Test tab 3 The following window appears Select the speaker which you wa...

Page 90: ...tion A 9 4 While you are testing the speakers in 6 Channel mode if the sound coming from the center speaker and subwoofer is swapped you should select Swap Center Subwoofer Output to readjust these tw...

Page 91: ...ou to sing the song Note that this function applies only for 2 channel audio operation Playing KaraOK 1 Click the audio icon from the window tray at the lower right cornerof the screen 2 In the Sound...

Page 92: ...sk drives etc It executes hardware test on booting the system starts the OS and provides an interface between the OS and the components The BIOS is stored in a ROM chip Bus A set of hardware lines wit...

Page 93: ...itor to represent a bit As the development of technology the memory type and specification used in computer becomes variety such as SDRAM DDR SDRAM and RDRAM For further instruction please see the tab...

Page 94: ...de up of servers workstations shared resources a network oper ating system and a communications link These individual PCs and devices on a LAN are known as nodes and are connected by cables to access...

Page 95: ...ives etc to see if they are properly connected and operating PS 2 Port A type of port developed by IBM for connecting a mouse or keyboard to a PC The PS 2 port supports a mini DIN plug containing just...

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