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MAXI 6560 Series User‘s Guide

BIOS Setup 4-

PCI/VGA Active Monitor

When Enabled, any video activity restarts the global timer for Standby mode.
The Choice: Enabled

(Default)

, Disabled.

IRQ 8 Break Suspend

You can Enable or Disable monitoring of IRQ8 so it does not awaken the system

from Suspend mode. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled

(Default)

Reload Global Timer Events

When Enabled, an event occurring on each device listed below restarts the global
time for Standby mode.

IRQ[3 -7, 9-15], NMI

Enabled

(Default), Disabled

Primary IDE 0

Enabled

, Disabled

(Default)

Primary IDE 1

Enabled

, Disabled

(Default )

Secondary IDE 0

Enabled

, Disabled

(Default)

Secondary IDE 1

Enabled

, Disabled

(Default)

Floppy Disk

Enabled

, Disabled

(Default)

Serial Port

Enabled

(Default), Disabled

Parallel Port

Enabled

, Disabled

(Default)

Summary of Contents for MAXI 6560

Page 1: ...MAXI 6560 Compact PCI Computer User s Guide All brand names are registered trademarks of their owners ...

Page 2: ...rietary information protected by copyright All rights are reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced by any mechanical electronic or other means in any form without prior written permission of the manufacturer Trademarks The MAXI 6560 is a registered trademark of NEXCOM International Co Ltd IBM PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation Intel and Pentium are...

Page 3: ...3 Getting Help 4 3 4 4 The Main Menu 4 4 4 5 Standard CMOS Setup Menu 4 6 4 6 BIOS Features Setup Menu 4 9 4 7 Chipset Features Setup Menu 4 14 4 8 Power Management Setup 4 17 4 9 PnP PCI Configuration 4 21 4 10 Integrated Peripherals 4 23 4 11 Supervisor User Password Setting 4 26 4 12 IDE HDD Auto Detection 4 27 4 13 HDD Disk Low Level Format Utility 4 30 4 14 Power On Boot 4 32 4 15 BIOS Refere...

Page 4: ...ons of Switches and Connectors that you may easily configure and set up per your requirement Chapter 3 Capability Expanding describes how to change or expand the CPU Board by changing system memory cache memory and CPU to get more power out from the CPU board Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup describes how to use the advanced PCI Green BIOS to control almost every feature of the MAXI 6560 including watch...

Page 5: ... real ruggedized applications One additional SO DIMM is reserved to double the memory size if necessary The computing power is kept high and growing even higher when CPU and memory getting faster and larger The MAXI 6560 adopts the brand new C T 69000 VGA panel controller from Chip Technologies with the embedded 2 MB SDRAM This chip can support TFT panel up to 1280 x 1024 256 color 75 Hz or suppor...

Page 6: ... J5 As to J1 J2 they are reserved for the primary cPCI channel supporting up to 7 cPCI slots The notebook type floppy connector and IDE connector are reserved The watch dog timer is on board The Flash ROM BIOS is also standard for easier BIOS update The IDE supports mode 4 PIO mode 2 DMA master and ultra DMA 33 The MAXI 6560 will be available with four models depending on the memory size mounted o...

Page 7: ...400MHz and up support reserved MMC2 MMC1 connector x 1 MMC2 connector x 1 l Cache memory 512KB 2nd Level 2 cache pipeline burst SRAM on Pentium Pentium II IMM No more cache memory on Board Level 2 Cache ECC l Main memory Only support SDRAM 64Mb SDRAM support On board 64MB SDRAM 144 pin SO DIMM x 1 reserved Maximum256 MB SDRAM supported l BIOS Award System BIOS with PC 97 support 2M bit flash ROM C...

Page 8: ...IEEE 802 3 IEEE 802 3U Backward compatible with former 82557 Ethernet controller based net modules Driver support Dos Windows Netware Windows95 98 Windows NT 4 0 5 0 SCO Open server 5 0 RJ45 jack x 1 l On Board LAN Intel 82558 100 Base TX Ethernet controller PCI V2 1 and full duplex Support IEEE 802 3 standard 8 pin conn for RJ45 JACK l Ultra 2 SCSI Adaptec AIC7890 RISC Controller for Ultra 2 SCSI...

Page 9: ...E Devices support On chip Keyboard mouse controller PS 2 Keyboard 6 pin mini DIN x 1 PS 2 mouse 6 pin mini DIN x 1 On Board buzzer x 1 l On Board RTC High precision clock calendar with battery back up l On Board solid state Disk Socket reserved for M systems DiskOnChip DOC Memory size up to 72MB single chip Drivers support DOS Windows Win 95 and NT Bootable l Watchdog timer 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 second...

Page 10: ...Rear I O IDE x 2 FDC x 1 100 Base T Ultra 2 SCSI 4S1P KBD Mouse VGA Panel Connector LVD l Dimensions Dimensions 233 35mm D x 160mm W l Power requirements 3 3V 12A Max 5V 6A Max l Environments Operating temperatures 0 C to 60 C Storage temperatures 20 C to 80 C Relative humidity 10 to 90 Non condensing ...

Page 11: ... cPCI CPU Board x 1 SIO cable x 2 Printer cable x 1 FDC cable x 1 Keyboard mouse adapter cable x 1 IDE cable for 40 44 pin x 1 Integrated I O kit x 1 for LAN USB KBD Mouse VGA Driver Diskette x 1 LAN Driver Diskette x 1 Panel cable x1 Power adapter cable x 1 VGA adapter cable x 1 If any of these items is missed or damaged please contact your vendor for what you need ...

Page 12: ...rs 2 1 Switches Switches on the CPU board are used to select options for different functions used The switch on or off is to accommodate the variations of the following table Figure 2 1 Switches Positions J2 J6 J9 J11 DEC 21150 PIIX4 82558 69000 7890AB J15 Buffer Clock J4 J5 RTC DOC J1 J3 J7 PI J8 J10 S6 J12 On Board DRAM SO DIMM Socket MMCII MMC1 SMC SMC S4 S5 BIOS S1 S2 S3 BZ S8 J14 1 1 2 ...

Page 13: ...S3 3 RS232 ON OFF OFF RS422 OFF ON OFF RS485 OFF OFF ON Mode S1 1 S1 2 S1 3 S1 4 S1 5 S1 6 S1 7 RS232 OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF RS422 ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON RS485 ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON Mode S2 1 S2 2 S2 3 S2 4 S2 5 S2 6 S2 7 S2 8 S2 9 S2 10 RS232 OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON RS422 ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF RS485 ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF l Serial Port 3 Mode S3 4 S3 5 S3 ...

Page 14: ...F ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF l Disk On Chip configuration table Active Address S3 7 S3 8 S3 9 S3 10 C000H ON OFF OFF OFF C800H OFF ON OFF OFF D000H OFF OFF ON OFF D800H OFF OFF OFF ON l RTC Clearing Mode S8 5 Clear RTC ON Normal OFF 2 2 Connectors Connectors on the CPU Board provide interfaces to other devices Figure 2 2 Connector positions Figure 2 2 Connector Positions On board DRAM ECC RAM J16...

Page 15: ...ouse Connector J12 USB Connector J14 Thermal Resistance Connector J15 Ultra II SCSI Connector J16 Notebook Type Floppy Connector JP2 Notebook Type HDD Connector P1 Parallel Port Connector S6 Reset Push Button Pin Definition of Connector l J1 LAN Connector PIN No Description PIN No Description 1 TD 2 TD 3 RD 4 TERMPLANE 5 TERMPLANE 6 RD 7 TERMPLANE 8 TERMPLANE 9 NC 10 N C 11 Ground 12 Ground l J3 J...

Page 16: ...Data Terminal Ready DTR 5 Ground GND 6 Data Set Ready DSR 7 Request to Send RTS 8 Clear to Send CTS 9 Ring Indicator RI l J4 CPU FAN Connector PIN No Description 1 Ground 2 5V 3 FAN rotational speed l J5 Key Lock Connector PIN No Description 1 Key lock 2 Ground l J8 VGA Connector PIN No Description PIN No Description 1 Red 2 Green 3 Blue 4 N A 5 Ground 6 Ground 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 5V 10 Ground 11 ...

Page 17: ...7 Data 0 4 8 Ground l J16 FDD Connector PIN No Description PIN No Description 1 Ground 2 Index Pulse Input 3 Ground 4 Drive Select 0 5 Ground 6 Disk Change 7 N A 8 N A 9 N A 10 Motor On 0 11 N A 12 Step Direction 13 Drive Density Select 0 14 Step Pulse 15 Ground 16 Write Disk Data 17 Ground 18 Write Gate 19 Ground 20 Track 0 21 Ground 22 Write Protected 23 Ground 24 Read Disk Data 25 Ground 26 Hea...

Page 18: ... DMA ACK 30 Ground 31 Interrupt 14 32 N C 33 Disk Address 1 34 N C 35 Disk Address 0 36 Disk Address 2 37 HDC CS100 38 HDC CS300 39 HDD Active Led 40 Ground 41 5V 42 5V 43 Ground 44 Ground l P1 Parallel Port Connector PIN No Description PIN No Description 1 Strobe 2 Data 0 3 Data 1 4 Data 2 5 Data 3 6 Data 4 7 Data 5 8 Data 6 9 Data 7 10 Acknowledge 11 Busy 12 Paper Empty 13 Printer Select 14 Auto...

Page 19: ...C3_DTR LAN_SPD VCC RI4 FD_DRV1 GND 17 C3_TXD C3_RI DTR4 CTS4 I2KCLK GND 18 C3_RXD C3_CTS TXD4 RTS4 I2KDATA GND 19 C3_DSR C3_RTS RXD4 DCD4 SCSI_LED GND 20 DTR2 C3_DCD DSR4 VCC PWRLED GND 21 TXD2 RI2 GND L1_SLIN RST_BUT GND 22 RXD2 CTS2 USB1 L1_INIT VCC GND 23 DSR2 RTS2 USB1 L1_ERROR L1_D7 GND 24 GND DCD2 USB2 L1_STROB L1_D6 GND 25 C1_DTR C1_RI USB2 L1_AFEED L1_D5 GND 26 C1_TXD C1_CTS VCC3 L1_SLCT L...

Page 20: ... BVSYNC GREEN RED BLUE DDCCLK DDCDAT Keyboard KB_DATA KB_CLK PS 2 Mouse MS_CLK MS_DATA LCD LCD_TX0 LCD_TX1 LCD_TX2 LCD_TX3 LCD_CLK0 ENAVDD ENKBAL Ultra II SCSI LVDM0 15 LVDP0 15 LVREQM P LVIOM P LVCDM P LVSELM P LVMSGM P LVRSTM P LVACKM P LVBSTM P LVATNM P LVDPLM P LVDPHM P DIFFSENSE Parallel Port L1_D0 7 L1_SLCT L1_ACK L1_PE L1_BUSY L1_SLIN L1_INIT L1_ERROR L1_STROB L1_AFEED 1 With RS422 485 Func...

Page 21: ...s 2 10 Floppy FD_MTR0 1 FD_DS0 1 FD_DRV0 1 FD_TRK0 FD_STEP FD_DIR FD_RDAT FD_WRPT FD_WGATE FD_INDX FD_DCHG FD_WDATA IR IR_TX IR_RX LAN RJ1 RJ2 RJ3 RJ4 RJ5 RJ6 RJ7 RJ8 SMBus SMBCLK SMBDATA Other SCSI_LED PWRLED LAN_ACTIVE LAN_LINK LAN_SPD RST_BUT SPEAKER ...

Page 22: ... configurations for the memory banks and the figure helps you correctly install the DIMM modules See Figure 3 2 for memory bank s location The MAXI 6560 only supports the SDRAM For the reservation to support the CPU module with 100 MHz External Bus the 100 MHz SDRAM is used So the 66 MHz SO DIMM is not recommended The on board memory also has parity bit support up to 128MB ECC capability Please be...

Page 23: ... SO DIMM module gently but firmly into the SO DIMM socket with roughly 30 degree angle to the socket Please note that the dented portion should coincide with the protruding spot of the socket When the gold finger of the memory module is completely slid into the socket push the memory module onto the clip of the socket With two clicks the memory module is firmly held by SO DIMM socket See figure 3 ...

Page 24: ...tom side of the CPU module To mount the CPU module first move the IMM within the area of the four mounting holes on the MAXI 6560 main board Then carefully put the male portion of the MMC1 on the CPU module right on the female portion of the MMC1 on the main board Press the CPU module evenly but firmly to the main board until the module is completely fitted into the MMC1 See Figure 3 3 There are t...

Page 25: ...MAXI 6560 User s Guide Capability Expanding 3 4 Figure 3 3 Mount Change the CPU ...

Page 26: ...he below message appears briefly at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self Test press Del key or simultaneously press Ctrl Alt and Esc keys TO ENTER SETUP BEFORE BOOT PRESS CTRL ALT ESC OR DEL KEY If the message disappears before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup restart the system to try again by turning it OFF then ON or pressing the RESET button on the system case Yo...

Page 27: ...e changes PgDn key Decrease the numeric value or make changes F1 key General help only for Status Page Setup Menu and Option Page Setup Menu Shift F2 key Change color from total 16 colors F2 to select color forward Shift F2 to select color backward F3 key Reserved F4 key Reserved F5 key Restore the previous CMOS value from CMOS only for Option Page Setup Menu F6 key Load the default CMOS value fro...

Page 28: ...f the highlighted setup function is displayed at the bottom of the screen Status Page Setup Menu Option Page Setup Menu Press F1 to pop up a small help window that describes the appropriate keys to use and the possible selections for the highlighted item To exit the Help Window press F1 or Esc ...

Page 29: ... PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP PCI CONFIGURATION HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS SAVE EXIT SETUP LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING Esc Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Standard CMOS Setup This setup page includes all the items in a standard compatible BIOS See Page 4 6 to Page 4 8 for details ...

Page 30: ...ts indicates the values required by the system for the maximum performance The OEM manufacturer may change to defaults through MODBIN before the binary image burn into the ROM Integrated Peripherals This category allows you to set up all the on board I O controllers like IDE SCSI FDC etc See Page 4 23 to Page 4 25 for details Supervisor User Password Change set or disable password of supervisor or...

Page 31: ... ss 13 49 3 HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE Primary Master 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORMAL Primary Slave 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORMAL Secondary Master 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORMAL Secondary Slave 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORMAL Drive A None Drive B None Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled LCD CRT Both Halt On All Errors ESC Quit Select Item PU PD Modify F1 Help Shift F2 Change Color Date The date format is day date...

Page 32: ... drive must match with the drive table The hard dis k will not work properly if you enter improper information for this category If your hard disk drive type is not matched or listed you can use Type User to define your own drive type manually If you select Type User related information is asked to be entered to the following items Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press Enter T...

Page 33: ...e floppy 3 mode support is enabled or not LCD CRT On board VGA select display type Type Function CRT Boot from CRT only LCD Boot on LCD only BOTH Boot both LCD and CRT AUTO Boot on CRT or LCD Error Halt On The category determines whether the computer will stop or not if an error is detected during power up No Errors Whenever the BIOS detects a non fatal error the system will be stopped and you wil...

Page 34: ...000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled Boot Sequence A C SCSI DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled Swap Floppy Drive Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled Boot Up NumLock Status On Gate A20 Option Fast Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 Typematic Delay Msec 250 Esc Quit Select Item Security Option Setup F1 Help PU PD Modify PCI VGA palette Snoop Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color OS Select For...

Page 35: ...s function is available only for DOS and other OSes that do not trap INT13 CPU Internal Cache External Cache These two categories speed up memory access However it depends on CPU chipset design The default value is Enable If your CPU without Internal Cache then this item CPU Internal Cache will not be show Enabled Default Enable cache Disabled Disable cache Quick Power On Self Test This category s...

Page 36: ...80 tracks 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K 1 2M and 1 44M are all 80 tracks Enabled Default BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks Note that BIOS can not tell from 720K 1 2M or 1 44M drive type as they are all 80 tracks Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive ins...

Page 37: ...haracters per second Typematic Delay Msec When holding a key the time between the first and second character displayed 250 Default 250 msec 500 500 msec 750 750 msec 1000 1000 msec Security Option This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup or just to Setup System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt S...

Page 38: ...bled Disabled Video shadow is disabled C8000 CFFFF Shadow D0000 DFFFF Shadow These categories determine whether optional ROM will be copied to RAM by 16K byte or 32K byte per unit and the size depends on chipset Enabled Optional shadow is enabled Disabled Default Optional shadow is disabled Note 1 For C8000 DFFFF option ROM on PCI BIOS BIOS will automatically enable the shadow RAM User does not ha...

Page 39: ...ent Vdd V DRAM Data Integrity Mode Non ECC System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Disabled 8 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 16 Bit I O Recovery Time 1 Esc Quit Select Item Memory Hole At 15M 16M Disabled F1 Help PU PD Modify Passive Release Enabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Delayed Transaction Disabled F6 Load BIOS Defaults AGP Aperture 64 F7 Load Setup Defaul...

Page 40: ...t BIOS access not cached Video BIOS Cacheable Select Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS ROM at C0000h F7FFFh resulting in better video performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result Enabled Video BIOS access cached Disabled Default Video BIOS access not cached 8 Bit I O Recovery Time The recovery time is the length of time measured in CPU clocks which...

Page 41: ...les Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2 1 AGP Aperture Size MB Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port AGP aperture The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation See www agpforum org for AGP information The choic...

Page 42: ... Mode Disabled Secondary IDE 1 Disabled Standby Mode Disabled Floppy Disk Disabled Suspend Mode Disabled Serial Port Enabled HDD Power Down Disabled Parallel Port Disabled Throttle Duty Cycle 62 5 PCI VGA Act Monitor Disabled IRQ 8 break Suspend Disabled Esc Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults Power Management This categor...

Page 43: ...er Saving is not enabled this will be preset to No Video Off Method This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked V H SYNC Blank Default This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video buffer DPMS Initial display power management signaling Vi...

Page 44: ...rate at full speed Standby Mode 1 Disable System will never enter STANDBY mode 2 1 Min 2 Min 4 Min 6 Min 8 Min 10 Min 20 Min 30 Min 40 Min 1 Hr Defines the continuous idle time before the system entering STANDBY mode If any item defined in J is enabled active STANDBY timer will be reloaded Suspend Mode When enabled and afterthe set time of system inactivity all devices except the CPU will be shut ...

Page 45: ...end mode The Choice Enabled Disabled Default Reload Global Timer Events When Enabled an event occurring on each device listed below restarts the global time for Standby mode IRQ 3 7 9 15 NMI Enabled Default Disabled Primary IDE 0 Enabled Disabled Default Primary IDE 1 Enabled Disabled Default Secondary IDE 0 Enabled Disabled Default Secondary IDE 1 Enabled Disabled Default Floppy Disk Enabled Disa...

Page 46: ...Use IRQ No Auto Resources Controlled By Manual Slot 2 Use IRQ No Auto Reset Configuration Data Disabled Slot 3 Use IRQ No Auto Slot 4 Use IRQ No Auto IRQ 3 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 4 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Used MEM base addr N A IRQ 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Assign IRQ For USB Enabled IRQ 7 assigned to e PCI ISA PnP IRQ 9 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 10 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 11 assigned t...

Page 47: ...sabled Default IRQ n Assigned to When resources are controlled manually assign each system interrupt as one of the following types depending on the type of device using the interrupt Legacy ISA Devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial port 1 PCI ISA PnP Devices compliant with the Plug and Play standard whether designed for P...

Page 48: ...3 Use IRQ IRQ10 IDE Primary Master UDMA Auto Onboard Serial Port 4 2E8H IDE Primary Slave UDMA Auto Serial Port 4 Use IRQ IRQ5 IDE Secondary Master Auto IDE Secondary Slave Auto On Chip Primary PCI IDE Enabled On Chip Secondary PCI IDE Enabled Onboard PCI SCSI Chip Enabled USB Keyboard Support Disabled Init Display First PCI Slot Onboard FDC Controller Enabled Esc Quit Select Item Onboard UART 1 3...

Page 49: ... party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and y our system software both support Ultra DMA 33 select Auto to enable BIOS support The Choice Auto Default Disabled On Chip Primary Secondary PCI IDE The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled Default to activate each channel separately Onboard PCI SCSI Chip This item allows you...

Page 50: ...RQ5 3BCH IRQ7 Disabled Parallel Port Mode Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel port Select Compatible or Extended unless you are certain both your hardware and software support EPP or ECP mode The choice SPP ECP EPP1 7 EPP1 7 SPP EPP1 9 SPP ECP ECP EPP1 9 and Normal ECP Mode Use DMA When the mode selected for the onboard parallel port is ECP the DMA channel selected can be Channel 1 o...

Page 51: ...t characters in length and press Enter The password typed now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory You will be asked to confirm the password Type the password again and press Enter You may also press Esc to abort the selection and not enter a password To disable a password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will confirm the password will b...

Page 52: ...DD Auto Detection The Enhance IDE features was included in all Award BIOS Below is a brief description of this feature 1 Setup Changes I Auto detection BIOS setup will display all possible modes that supported by the HDD including NORMAL LBA LARGE if HDD does not support LBA modes no LBA option will be shown Users can select a mode which is appropriate for them ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2XXXXXXX CMOS SETUP...

Page 53: ...L LBA LARGE NORMAL mode Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make any transformations during accessing The maximum number of cylinders head sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024 16 63 no Cylinder 1024 x no Head 16 x no Sector 63 x no per sector 512 528 Megabytes If user set his HDD to NORMAL mode the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528 Megabytes even though its ...

Page 54: ...s mode supported by Award Software Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support in some cases user do not want LBA The Award BIOS provides another alternative to support these kinds of HDD Example of LARGE mode CYLS HEAD SECTOR MODE 1120 16 59 NORMAL 560 32 59 LARGE BIOS tricks DOS or other OS that the number of cylinders is less than 1024 by dividing it by 2 At the same time ...

Page 55: ...s Award Low Level Format Utility is designed as a tool to save your time formatting your hard disk The Utility automatically looks for the necessary information of the drive you selected The Utility also searches for bad tracks and lists them for your reference Shown below is the Main Menu after you enter into the Award Low Level FormatUtility Hard Disk Low Level Format Utility SELECT DRIVE NO CYL...

Page 56: ...ity Select Drive Select from installed hard disk drive C or D List at the bottom of the screen is the drive automatically detected by the utility Bad Track List Auto scan bad track The utility will automatically scan bad tracks and list the bad tracks in the window at the right side of the screen Add bad track Directly type in the information of the known bad tracks in the window at the right side...

Page 57: ...number or select 0 for utility automatic detection Auto scan bad track This allows the utility to scan first then format by each track Start Press Y to start low level format Power On Boot After you have made all the changes to CMOS values and the system cannot boot with the CMOS values selected in Setup restart the system by turning it OFF then ON or Pressing the RESET button on the system case Y...

Page 58: ...p code or display a message If a message is displayed it will be accompanied by PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE CTRL ALT ESC OR DEL TO ENTER SETUP POST Beep Currently there is only one beep code in BIOS This code indicates that a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information This beep code consists of a single long beep followed by two short be...

Page 59: ... found This could mean that either a boot drive was not detected or the drive does not contain proper system boot files Insert a system disk into Drive A and press Enter If you assumed the system would boot from the hard drive make sure the controller is inserted correctly and all cables are properly attached Also be sure the disk is formatted as a boot device Then reboot the system DISKETTE DRIVE...

Page 60: ...nfiguration information stored in the EISA non volatile memory is incomplete Note When either of these errors appear the system will boot in ISA mode which allows you to run the EISA Configuration Utility ERROR ENCOUNTERED INITIALIZING HARD DRIVE Hard drive cannot be initialized Be sure the adapter is installed correctly and all cables are correctly and firmly attached Also be sure the correct har...

Page 61: ...ON ALL BUT KEYBOARD This will cause the BIOS to ignore the missing keyboard and continue the boot Memory Address Error at Indicates a memory address error at a specific location You can use this location along with the memory map for your system to find and replace the bad memory chips Memory parity Error at Indicates a memory parity error at a specific location You can use this location along wit...

Page 62: ...es you to reboot Press any key and the system will reboot PRESS F1 TO DISABLE NMI F2 TO REBOOT When BIOS detects a Non maskable Interrupt condition during boot this will allow you to disable the NMI and continue to boot or you can reboot the system with the NMI enabled RAM PARITY ERROR CHECKING FOR SEGMENT Indicates a parity error in Random Access Memory Should Be Empty But EISA Board Found PLEASE...

Page 63: ...SA mode which allows you to run the EISA Configuration Utility SYSTEM HALTED CTRL ALT DEL TO REBOOT Indicates the present boot attempt has been aborted and the system must be rebooted Press and hold down the CTRL and ALT keys and press DEL Wrong Board In Slot PLEASE RUN EISA CONFIGURATION UTILITY The board ID does not match the ID stored in the EISA non volatile memory NOTE When this error appears...

Page 64: ... POST will go faster 01 02 Reserved 03 Initialize EISA registers EISA BIOS only 04 Reserved 05 1 Keyboard Controller Self Test 2 Enable Keyboard Interface 06 Reserved 07 Verifies CMOS s basic R W functionality BE Program defaults values into chipset according to the MODBINable Chipset Default Table 09 1 Program the configuration register of Cyrix CPU according to the MODBINable Cyrix Register Tabl...

Page 65: ... controller 8237 Programmable Interrupt Controller 8259 Programmable Interval Timer 8254 RTC chip C1 Auto detection of onboard DRAM Cache C3 Checking checksum of compressed code C5 Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000 FFFFF shadow RAM so that POST will go faster 01 Clear base memory 0 640K 0C Initial interrupt vector 00 1FH 0D Initial ISA VGA 41H Enable FDD and detect media type FFH Boot from FDD ...

Page 66: ...es CMOS s basic R W functionality BE Program defaults values into chipset according to the MODBINable Chipset Default Table C1 Auto detection of onboard DRAM Cache C5 Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000 FFFFF shadow RAM so that POST will go faster 08 Test the first 256K DRAM 09 1 Program the configuration register of Cyrix CPU according to the MODBINable Cyrix Register Table 2 OEM specific cache ini...

Page 67: ...e CGA EGA VGA If no display device found the speaker will beep which consists of one single long beep followed by two short beeps 0E 1 Initialize the APIC Multi Processor BIOS only 2 Test video RAM If Monochrome display device found 3 Show messages including Award Logo Copyright string BIOS Date code Part No OEM specific sign on messages Energy Star Logo Green BIOS ONLY CPU brand type speed Test s...

Page 68: ... pre defined values in the MODBINable Auto Table 41 Initialize floppy disk drive controller 42 Initialize Hard drive controller 43 If it is a PnP BIOS initialize serial parallel ports 44 Reserved 45 Initialize math coprocessor 46 4D Reserved 4E If there is any error detected such as video kb show all the error messages on the screen wait for user to press F1 key 4F 1 If password is needed ask for ...

Page 69: ...ecomp Land Zone Example Model 1 10 306 4 17 128 305 TEAC SD510 MMI 112 5412 2 21 615 4 17 300 615 Seagate ST225 ST4026 3 32 615 6 17 300 615 4 65 940 8 17 512 940 5 49 940 6 17 512 940 6 21 615 4 17 65535 615 Seagate ST125 Tandon TM262 7 32 462 8 17 256 511 8 31 733 5 17 65535 733 Tandon TM 703 9 117 900 15 17 65535 901 10 21 820 3 17 65535 820 11 37 855 5 17 65535 855 12 52 855 7 17 65535 855 13 ...

Page 70: ...xtor 1085 Micropolis 1325 30 98 1024 11 17 65535 1023 Maxtor 1105 1120 4780 31 87 918 11 17 65535 1023 Maxtor 1170 32 72 925 9 17 65535 926 CDC 9415 33 89 1024 10 17 65535 1023 34 106 1024 12 17 65535 1023 35 115 1024 13 17 65535 1023 36 124 1024 14 17 65535 1023 37 17 1024 2 17 65535 1023 38 142 1024 16 17 65535 1023 39 119 918 15 17 65535 1023 Maxtor 1140 4380 40 42 820 6 17 65535 820 Seagate ST...

Page 71: ...MAXI 6560 User s Guide Appendix 1 Watch Dog Timer Watch Dog Timer Working Procedure Watch Dog Timer character and function ...

Page 72: ...MAXI 6560 User s Guide Watch Dog Timer Control Register 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 X x X ...

Page 73: ...XI 6560 User s Guide Watch Dog Timer Programming Procedure 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 2 6 7 4 4 Initialize the SQW of RTC set SQW output period 0 5 second 3 8 8 9 5 5 0 8 9 2 4 4 4 9 4 4 4 9 0 8 2 4 4 6 4 9 6 4 4 4 9 ...

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Page 76: ...MAXI 6560 User s Guide Memory Mapping A2 1 Appendix 2 Memory Mapping ...

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