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PlatiniX 7B(P7B) series mainboard

QDI Utility CD

User’s manual

IDE ribbon cable

floppy ribbon cable

I/O shield(option)

10-pin ribbon cable with bracket for USB Connector(option)

Summary of Contents for PlatiniX 7B

Page 1: ...e or the possibility of such damages All trademarks are the property of their respective owners If you need any further information please visit our web site w ww qdigrp com Item Checklist This item c...

Page 2: ...ements of radio disturbance characteristics of information technology equipment EN 50081 1 Generic emission standard Part 1 Residential commercial and light industry EN 50082 1 Generic immunity standa...

Page 3: ...ct Mainboard Manufacturer Quantum Designs HK Inc Address 20th Floor Devon House Taikoo Place 979 King s Road Quarry Bay HONG KONG Supplementary Information This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC...

Page 4: ...Power LED Connector PWR LED 8 GREENLEDConnector GREEN LED 8 ACPI LEDConnector ACPILED 8 Hardware Green Connector SLEEP SW 8 Key Lock Connector KEYLK 8 USB3 4 and USB5 6 Connectors 9 S PDIFOutputConne...

Page 5: ...Optimized Defaults 24 Standard CMOS Features Setup 24 QDI Innovation Features 28 Advanced BIOS Features Setup 30 Advanced Chipset Features Setup 32 Power Management Setup 34 PNP PCIConfigurationSetup...

Page 6: ...Caution Be sure to add some Silicone Grease between the CPU and the heatsink of FAN to keep them fully contact meanwhile to meet the heat sink requirement...

Page 7: ...Audio OnboardLAN NorthBridge P7B Without Without 845G P7B A 2channel Without 845G P7B 6A 6channel Without 845G P7B L Without With 845G P7B AL 2channel With 845G P7B 6AL 6channel With 845G P7BL Without...

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Page 9: ...n and Power Interface ACPI specification makes the PC s power consumption drop to the lowest possible level and enable quick wakeup BootEasy our innovation lets the PC boot freely and rapidly Key Feat...

Page 10: ...and CD ROM DVD ROM drivers USB Ports l 1 EHCI controller and 3 USB Host Controllers with total of 6 ports l USB 2 0 compliant operates at 480Mbps about 40X times faster than USB 1 1 which currently wo...

Page 11: ...ed AWARD phoenix BIOS l Supports Flash RAM with plug and play ready l Supports IDE CD ROM or SCSI boot up Advanced features l PCI 2 2 Specification Compliant l Provides Trend ChipAwayVirus On Guard l...

Page 12: ...n l Supports ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface and ODPM OS Directed Power Management l Supports ACPI power status S0 full on S1 power on suspend S3 Suspend to RAM S4 Suspend to Disk depe...

Page 13: ...y attention to the directions External Connectors PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Connector PS 2 keyboard connector is for the usage of PS 2 keyboard If using a standard AT size keyboard an adapter should be used...

Page 14: ...is available the front Left Right jack can be connected to the Front speakers the Rear Left Right jack can be connected to the rear speakers and the Center Woofer jack can be connected to the center...

Page 15: ...itch Hard Disk LED Connector HD_LED The connector connects to the case s IDE indicator LED indicating the activity status of IDE hard disk The connector has an orientation If one way doesn t work try...

Page 16: ...nge light then Pin2 drives the green light the following status will come out When the system is in S0 status the LED is green on When the system is in S1 status the LED is green blink When the system...

Page 17: ...board which may connect to front panel USB cable to provide additional 4 USBPorts D4 GND GND GND D5 D5 5V D4 1 5V GND USB4 USB3 D2 GND GND GND D3 D3 5V D2 1 5V GND S PDIF Output Connector SPDIF Optio...

Page 18: ...CD audio connectors each of them can be connected to a CD ROM drive through a CD audio cable The Modem_IN connector allows the onboard audio to interface with a voice modem card with a similar connect...

Page 19: ...ff after the system enters suspend mode Chassis Security Switch CHSSEC Reserved The connector connects to the chassis security switch on the case The system can detect the chassis intrusion through th...

Page 20: ...the BIOS Save and exit then boot the operating system once to make sure this function takes effect Wake Up On LAN WOL Through the Wake Up On LAN function a wake event occurring from the network can wa...

Page 21: ...can act as a master by initiating data transfer SMBUS Connector Smart Card Reader Connector SCR Optional The SCR includes a standard UART to control Smart Card interface handshaking and then performs...

Page 22: ...ActiveAudio will be cut off when the FrontAudio jack is inexistence Pin11 and Pin12 Pin13 and Pin14 must be short connected F_AUDIO Pin No Symbol Pin No Symbol 1 Active LINE Out R 2 Active LINE Out L...

Page 23: ...rough a cable Intruder Detect Switch JINTR Reserved The connector connects to the chassis security switch on the case The system can detect the chassis intrusion through the status of this connector I...

Page 24: ...Islots AGP 1 optional AGP slot CNR 1 CNRslot IDE 2 IDEports FLOPPY 1 Floppy Drive port DIMM 2 DIMMsockets USB 6 USB connectors COM 2 COMconnectors PARALLEL 1 Parallelconnector VGA 1 VGA Output connect...

Page 25: ...be shown as to represent pin1 pin2 1 2 connected and to represent pin2 pin3 2 3 connected 3 pin 2 pin set pin1 and pin2 closed Symbol Jumper set the pins closed set pin2 and pin3 closed set the pins o...

Page 26: ...rthermore the item Wake Up From S3 by USB in BIOS setup should also be set corespondingly to enable or disable this function JFUSB Only for USB3 USB4 JUSB Only for USB1 2 Disable Enable Default JUSB J...

Page 27: ...OS Save and exit then power off your system In this case the power button s power on function has been disabled Note 1 If using this function 5VSB line of the power supply should be capable of deliver...

Page 28: ...e mainboard provides the BootEasy function If you want to use this function Please set the jumper BIOS_WP as open before you use this function Refer to the BootEasy introduction Flash Write Enabled De...

Page 29: ...0MHz even if a processor with 533MHz FSB is installed Setting up to 133 x 4 MHz using processors with 400MHz bus speed is also supported However whether or not the system can be overclocked depends on...

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Page 31: ...vironment 2 Copy AWDFLASH EXE version 7 95 from the directory Utility located on QDI Mainboard Utility CD onto your new bootable diskette 3 Download the updated BIOS file from the Website http www qdi...

Page 32: ...up functions and two exit choices Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press the Enter key to accept or enter the sub menu Figure 1 Main Menu Load Optimized Defaults The Optimized Defaults...

Page 33: ...the HDD types of 2 IDE channels installed in the computer system TherearethreechoicesprovidedfortheEnhancedIDEBIOS None Auto andManual None means no HDD is installed or set Auto means the system can...

Page 34: ...al address described by sector head and cylinder number into its own physical address inside the HDD Large mode Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support in some cases users do...

Page 35: ...s that may be detected All errors Whenever the BIOS detects a non fatal error the system will stop and you will be prompted All But Keyboard The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error but it w...

Page 36: ...is item is only for users who understand all the CPU parameters This function will not take effect for bus ratio locked processor SpeedEasy setting l CPU Host PCI Default Set CPU PCI Clock as default...

Page 37: ...d system boots up otherwise no logo appears on the screen RecoveryEasyII setting l Menu language English Select RecoveryEasyII Interface Menu Select Chinese language l Hotkey for NULL Backup Recovery...

Page 38: ...screen and alarm beep Disabled Invalidates this function l CPU L1 L2 Enabled Enable CPU L1 L2 cache Cache Disabled Disable CPU L1 L2 cache l Quick Power Enabled Allow the system to skip certain tests...

Page 39: ...l Typematic Rate 6 30 The rate at which character repeats when you chars sec hold down a key l Typematic Delay 250 1000 The delay before keystrokes begin to repeat Msec l Security Option Setup Select...

Page 40: ...5 6 7 Set precharge delay time Delay l DRAM RAS to 2 3 Set DRAM RAS to CAS delay 3 SCLKs or 2 CAS Delay SCLKs l DRAM RAS 2 3 Set DRAM RAS precharge as 3 or 2 Precharge l Memory Frequency Auto Set Memo...

Page 41: ...lly enters thermal thermal 32Min mode l AGP Aperture 4 8 16 32 Set the effective size of the Graphics Aperture to Size MB 64 128 be used in the particular GART Configuration It is not available when o...

Page 42: ...S3 STR l Run VGABIOS Auto The VGA device could be initialized automatically if S3 Resume when system was waken up from S3 status Yes Enable VGA device be initialized when system was waken up from S3...

Page 43: ...10 11 NA This function is not applied l Suspend Mode Disabled The system never enter Suspend mode by timer 1Min 1Hour Define the continuous idle time before the system enters Suspend mode If any item...

Page 44: ...e system wake up from S3 from S3 status Disabled Disable this function l Resume Enabled RTC alarm can be used to generate a wake up by Alarm event to power up the system 30Disabled RTC has no alarm fu...

Page 45: ...w add on and the system reconfiguration has caused serious conflicts preventing the OS from booting Disabled Disable the configuration data function l Resources Auto ESCD BIOS can automatically config...

Page 46: ...n l IDE Auto Ultra DMA mode will be enabled if an Ultra DMA Primary Secondary device is detected Master Slave UDMA Disabled Disable this function l USB Controller Enabled Enable onchip USB controller...

Page 47: ...12 16 MHz MHz l Power On Button only Power on by power button Function Password Power on with keyboard password l KB Power ON Enter Enter keyboard password Password l Onboard FDC Enabled Onboard flopp...

Page 48: ...e the parallel port mode Mode EPP ECP ECP EPP l EPP Mode Select EPP1 7 Set EPP Mode as EPP 1 7 or EPP1 9 Version EPP1 9 l ECP Mode Use 3 Set ECP Mode Use DMA 1 or 3 DMA 1 l PWRON After off on The syst...

Page 49: ...F 700 C 1580 F 630 C 1450 F 750 C 1670 F 800 C 1760 F 850 C 1850 F 900 C 1940 F 660 C 1510 F 950 C 2050 F 700 C 1580 F 750 C 1670 F 800 C 1760 F 850 C 1850 F 900 C 1940 F 950 C 2050 F Disabled No alar...

Page 50: ...PU Voltage is the CPU core VBAT Voltage voltage from the on board switching Power 5V Standby Voltage Supply The VBAT Voltage is the voltage of battery l Shutdown 600 C 1400 F The system will shut down...

Page 51: ...eely PASSWORD DISABLED If you have selected System in Security Option of BIOS Features Setup menu you will be prompted for the password every time the system reboots or any time you try to enter BIOSS...

Page 52: ...Cblogo exe C Lf exe The files included in Documents are A Adobe Acrobat Reader V5 0 Norton AntiVirus When you install Norton AntiVirus and accept options your computer is safe Norton AntiVirus automat...

Page 53: ...right corner display It also supports simulta neous display of logo and sign on message of the BIOS testing system LOGOEASY II is a tool that can be operated in multi platforms to refresh and change...

Page 54: ...SH EXE or Download the BIOS file from the Website http www qdigrp com and copy the BIOS file xxxxxx bin to your hard disk 3 Boot the system into DOS environment Put your favor picture into BIOS file b...

Page 55: ...Backup area is invisible to any operating system and its upper software making it impossible to be attacked completely Ease to Operate 1 RcoveryEasy II is supported in both Chinese and English You can...

Page 56: ...vide two menu language for user to select English is the default 2 Hot key for Backup There are 12 options including NULL and F2 F12 Key F11 is default If NULL is selected Backup interface can not be...

Page 57: ...ou can scroll the highlight bar to the option you want to work with using arrow key Press ENTER to confirm figure 3 Backup Interface Hard Disk Selection Menu If you installed the system with several I...

Page 58: ...hard disk freeing the hard disk space 6 Exit Backup Menu It is used to Exit Backup Interface 1 Backup Partition Table It is used to backup partition table of current hard Disk A partition table keeps...

Page 59: ...on and contents in other partitions will be untouched 3 Recover Whole Disk It used to restore all the Hard Disk data stored in current backup area to current Hard DIsk This operation will restore the...

Page 60: ...IOS Setup your system will now boot successfully CPU SpeedEasy Setup Menu Select QDI Innovation features item from the main menu and enter the sub menu BIOS provides you with a set of basic values for...

Page 61: ...CMOS SETUP refer to QDI Innovation features it can be easily booted quickly BootEasy save all the information when PC first normally boot up and it restores all the parameters for the system and thus...

Page 62: ...the steps of tuning the CPU frequency there is almost no risk to adjust the frequency Its second strong function is system monitoring enables you to view some key reference data concerning computer he...

Page 63: ...is obtained immediately 5 Whenclickonthe Min button theutilitywillminimizetoaniconintheright bottomtasktray Whenever user clicks the QSE QDI StepEasyII abbr icon in the task tray the utility will be a...

Page 64: ...aus dem Speicher ab und kann so innerhalb von wenigen Sekunden den Boot Prozess abschlie en Bei nderungen am System beispielsweise nach dem Einbau eines neuen Prozessors muss deshalb zuvor die BootEas...

Page 65: ...PIN1 para todos los jumpers esta marcado con una l nea m s gruesa Consulte el apartado Jumper Settings en el manual de usuario de su placa Legend QDI PlatiniX 7B en el cap tulo 2 5 Inserte el procesa...

Page 66: ...formaci n las funciones de la Bios consulte el apartado BIOS Description en el manual de usuario de la placa base Legend QDI Superb4 Presione la tecla F10 y seleccione la opci n Save Exit Setup en el...

Page 67: ...A Driver Opcional E DirectX F USB2 0 Opcional 2 Accessorios A QFlash B QDI StepEasy Opcional C Norton AntiVirus 3 Navegue por el CD Usted puede leer todos los documentos incluidos en este CD incluidos...

Page 68: ...tionnelle 2 V rifier que le c ble lectrique reli au bo tier d alimentation de l unit centrale de l ordinateur est d connect Se relier la terre gr ce un bracelet li au poignet A d faut de disposer d un...

Page 69: ...recte en v rifiant que le liser rouge de ces derni res correspond l emplacement de la broche num ro 1 du connecteur 9 Connecter les c bles de l unit centrale de l ordinateur sur les broches int gr es...

Page 70: ...au syst me Dans ce but il est important de v rifier que la s quence de d marrage du syst me param trable partir du menu de BIOS permet la proc dure d installation du syst me d exploitation de s initi...

Page 71: ...dossier A Qflash B Legend QDI StepEasy Caract ristique technique optionnelle C Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 3 Browse CD Avec cette option il est possible de consulter l ensemble des donn es contenue...

Page 72: ...ot la ventola del processore deve essre collegato nello speciale connettore targato CPUFAN 6 Inserire il modulo i di memoria nell apposito memory slots 7 Inserire le periferiche Pci negli appositi Pci...

Page 73: ...i scelte ed uscire dal BIOS program 4 Installare il sistema operativo non dimenticando di mettere nelle giuste condizioni di partenza la sequenza di boot 5 Dopo una giusta installazione accertarsi che...

Page 74: ...QDI StepEasy Optional C Norton AntiVirus Guardando il CD Questo manuale di installazionee disponibile anche nella sua versione elettronica all interno del cd accompagnativo insieme anche diverse util...

Page 75: ...Board Layout of PlatiniX 7B This layout is just for your reference...

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