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Notice : .................................................................................................

Chapter 1: Introduction .......................................................................

Key Features .....................................................................................

Unpacking the Mainboard & Static Electricity Precautions ............... 8

Chapter2: Hardware Configuration ....................................................

Mainboard Component Locations ....................................................

Connectors ......................................................................................

CN7 - ATX Style Power Connector ............................................. 11

Software Power-Off ....................................................................

Modem Ring Power-On ..............................................................

CN11(PWRSW) - Power Button Connector ................................ 12

CN10 - VGA Connector .............................................................

External Connectors Location ....................................................

CN8 - Floppy Disk Port ..............................................................

IDE1/IDE2 - Primary/Secondary IDE Ports ................................ 12

CN11(PWRLED & K-LOCK) - Power LED & Keylock

Connector ..................................................................................

CN11(SPK) - Speaker Connector ................................................ 13

CN11(TB LED) - Turbo LED Connector .................................... 13

CN11(HDD LED) - HDD LED Connector .................................. 13

CN11(RST) - Reset Switch Connector ........................................ 14

JP4 - Infrared Connector ............................................................

J1 - Fan Power Connector ..........................................................

Sound Pro Connectors .....................................................................

J2/J3 - Analog Audio from CD-ROM ......................................... 15

Sound and Game(on the External Connectors) ........................... 15

JP6 - Digital Audio IN ...............................................................

JP5 - Digital Audio OUT ............................................................

Contents

Summary of Contents for M596

Page 1: ...ines Corporation Intel and Pentium are trademarks of Intel Corporation AMD is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Cyrix is a trademarks of Cyrix Corporation IDT is a trademark of Integrated Devi...

Page 2: ...Connector 12 External Connectors Location 12 CN8 Floppy Disk Port 12 IDE1 IDE2 Primary Secondary IDE Ports 12 CN11 PWRLED K LOCK Power LED Keylock Connector 13 CN11 SPK Speaker Connector 13 CN11 TB L...

Page 3: ...OS Setup 19 Entering BIOS Setup 20 Default 20 Load Optimal Settings 20 Load Best Performance Settings 21 BIOS Setup 21 Standard CMOS Setup 21 Advanced CMOS Setup 22 Advanced Chipset Setup 24 Power Man...

Page 4: ...otice Make sure the CMOS Clear jumper is set to Normal mode before use The shipped mainboard is set to Clear CMOS that will be not boot up the system See CMOS Clear Selector in Jumper Settings section...

Page 5: ...ard is a high performance mainboard based on the advanced Pentium microprocessor and featuring PCI Local Bus and the high end chipset The mainboard offers a high degree of flexibility in configuration...

Page 6: ...ory Onboard 64 bit 512KB L2 cache Provides 3 PCI and 1 ISA slots supports 5V PCI bus Interface Onboard 2 channel IDE maximum four IDE devices support supports PIO PCI Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33 opera...

Page 7: ...nd Peripheral interface include 1 floppy port with 1 Mb s transfer rate 2 serial ports with 16550 compatible Fast UART 1 parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities 2 USB ports PS 2 keyboard mouse por...

Page 8: ...y build up in your body while working on installation and or configuration For example you may ground yourself by grasping an unpainted portion of the system s metal chassis 3 Remove the mainboard fro...

Page 9: ...n Before you install this mainboard into the system chassis you may find it convenient to first configure the mainboard s hardware This chapter describes how to set jumpers and install memory modules...

Page 10: ...P8 J1 Sound Line out Line in MIC GAME1 IDE1 IDE2 COM2 COM1 PRN1 1 1 JP1 JP4 JP7 CN10 JP2 Socket 7 I O J3 J2 JP6 1 RST PWR SW 1 Connectors Note Make sure that the power is turned off before making any...

Page 11: ...Follow the steps below to use the Software Power Off Control function in Windows 95 98 1 Click the START button on the Windows 95 98 task bar 2 Select Shut Down The Computer to turn off the computer...

Page 12: ...apter 3 CN11 PWRSW Power Button Connector When the system is off push the power button to turn the system on When the system is on push the power button to turn the system completely off Pin Signals 5...

Page 13: ...und Pin Description CN11 PWRLED K LOCK Power LED Keylock Connector CN11 TB LED Turbo LED Connector Anode Ground Pin Description _ CN11 SPK Speaker Connector 1 2 3 4 5v Ground Ground Data Out Pin Descr...

Page 14: ...Reset Switch Connector Attach the Reset push button cable to this connector Normal Mode Reset System Open Close Setting Description 1 2 3 4 5 5 VDC Reserved IR In Ground IR Out Pin Signals JP4 Infrare...

Page 15: ...ed as the Joystic MIDI port connector Side View Game port Sound ports MIC Line out Line in JP6 Digital Audio IN Connect to DIGITAL AUDIO port of the CD ROM drive by using the SPDIF IN cable which give...

Page 16: ...ts to use Software Wave Table drivers as MIDI output device select MULTIMEDIA icon within CONTROL PANEL Select MIDI page and click on SoftMidi Driver then click OK to confirm 4 A Windows application n...

Page 17: ...ctor 1 3 Setting Description Normal Mode Clear CMOS while shiping 1 3 JP1 DIMM Voltage Selectors 5V 3 3V Setting Voltage 5V 3 3V 5V 3 3V JP7 Onboard Sound Selector 17 Hardware Configuration 1 Setting...

Page 18: ...owing memory configurations Memory Installation 18 Chapter 2 Notes 1 The speed of all DIMM modules have to be faster t han 70 ns 2 The DRAM must be installed in DIMM1 first if onboard VGA is being use...

Page 19: ...is achieved through Basic Input Output System BIOS programming You use the BIOS setup program to tell the operating system what type of devices are connected to your system board The system setup is...

Page 20: ...up Power Management Setup PCI Plug and Play Setup Load Optimal Settings Load Best Performance Settings Peripheral Setup CPU Plug and Play Setup Change Supervisor Password Auto Detect Hard Disks Save S...

Page 21: ...yed Enter new values on proper position Pri Master Pri Slave Sec Master Sec Slave Choose these options to configure the hard disk drive named in the option When you click on an option the following pa...

Page 22: ...g the Advanced CMOS Setup from the BIOS Setup main menu All Advanced Setup options are described in this section 1st Boot Device 2nd Boot Device 3rd Boot Device 4th Boot Device Set these options to se...

Page 23: ...bled BIOS supports a PS 2 type mouse Boot To OS 2 You need to set this option to Enabled when using the OS 2 operating system with installed DRAM which is greater than 64MB Password Check This option...

Page 24: ...ten to or D000 16K Shadow read from cachememory D400 16K Shadow Cached The contents of the ROM areaare D800 16K Shadow copied from ROM to RAMfor DC00 16K Shadow faster execution Advanced Chipset Setup...

Page 25: ...ction Set this option to Enabled to enable USB functions on Chipset USB Legacy Support Set this option to Enabled to enable the system BIOS USB functions for DOS OnBoard VGA Set this option to Enabled...

Page 26: ...ied period of display inactivity has expired Hard Disk Power Down Mode This option specifies the power conserving state that the hard disk drive enters after the specified period of hard drive inactiv...

Page 27: ...is in the Green mode PCI PnP Setup Choose the PCI Plug and Play Setup from the BIOSSetup main menu Plug and Play Set this option to Yes if the operation system Aware OS in this computer is aware of an...

Page 28: ...condary IRQ These options specify the PCI interrupt used by the Primary or secondary IDE channel on the offboard PCI IDE controller Assign IRQ to PCI VGA Card Set this option to Enabled to assign IRQ...

Page 29: ...dress of serial port 2 OnBoard Ir Port Set this option to Enabled the IR port Ir Mode Ir Duplex Set these option to select the type of IR module On board Parallel This option specifies the base I O po...

Page 30: ...P Onboard PCI IDE This option specifies the channel used by the IDE controller on the motherboard Pri Master Slave These options are available if the setting of the Prefetch Onboard IDE is not set to...

Page 31: ...OS memory by holding down the End key then powering on to reboot the system Auto Detect Hard Disks If your system has an IDE hard drive you can use this utility to detect its parameters and automatica...

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