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Appendix

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Appendix

QDI Utility CD

A QDI Utility CD is supplied with this mainboard, the contents contained in it are showed

as below:

1. Driver Install

Using this choice, you can install all the drivers for your mainboard . You should

install the drivers in order, and you need to restart your computer until all the drivers

are installed.

A.

Chipset software

B.

USB2.0 Driver

C.

Network Driver(optional)

D.

Audio Driver

E.

DirectX

2. Browse CD

You could read all the contents contained in this CD, including Utility and Documents.

The files included in Utility are:

A.

Awdflash.exe

B.

Cblogo.exe

C.

Lf.exe

The files included in Documents are:

A.

Adobe Acrobat Reader V5.0

Summary of Contents for XV915 Series

Page 1: ...al damages arising out of the use or the possibility of such damages All trademarks are the property of their respec tive owners If you need any further information please visit our web site www qdigrp com This item checklist is only available for retail market Completely check your package If you discover damaged or missing items contact your retailer Item Checklist XV915 series mainboard QDIUtil...

Page 2: ...2000 Electromagnetic compatibility EMC Part 3 Limits Section 2 Limits for harmonic current emissions equipment input current 16A per phase þ EN 61000 3 3 A1 2001 Electromagnetic compatibility EMC Part 3 Limits Section 3 Limits of voltage fluctuations and flicker in low voltage supply systems for equipment with rated current 16A þ EN 55024 A1 2001 Information technology equipment Immunity charac te...

Page 3: ... Mainboard Manufacturer QDI TECHNOLOGY HK Inc Address 23Floor Lincoln House Taikoo Place 979 King s Road Quarry Bay HONG KONG Supplementary Information This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interfer ence and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause ...

Page 4: ...or HD_LED 7 Reset Switch RESET 7 SpeakerConnector SPEAKER 7 ACPILEDConnector ACPI_LED 7 PowerLEDConnector PWR_LED 8 FanConnectors CHS_FAN CPU_FANandSYS_FAN 9 USB5 USB6 USB7 USB8 ConnectorsandSerialPort Connector COM2 optional 9 AudioConnector CD_IN 10 Intruder Detect Switch JINTR 10 IEEE1394port optional 11 Infrared Header IrDA 11 I2CConnector optional 12 OnboardSATA 12 FrontAudioInterface F_AUDIO...

Page 5: ...CONTENTS Chapter 3 BIOSDescription 18 AWDFLASH EXE 19 AWARD BIOS Description 20 Appendix QDIUtilityCD 29 Using4 6 ChannelAudio 30 Layout ...

Page 6: ...he AC power supply before adding or removing expansion cards RAM or other system peripherals otherwise your mainboard and RAM might be seriously damaged Note This manual is suitable for XV915 series of mainboards Each mainboard is carefully designed for the PC user who wants different features 6A with 6 channel Audio L with onboard 10 100M LAN F with onboard IEEE 1394 ...

Page 7: ... 4 SATA and ATA100 66 33 give customers an advanced multimedia solution at reasonable price It provides 533 800MHz host bus speed to support Intel LGA775 processors and the DDR333 400 memory It also provides advanced features such as ACPI function Suspending to RAM the optimal implementation of the Ad vanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI specifica tion makes the PC s power consumption dro...

Page 8: ...port supporting up to one 3 5 floppy drives with 1 44M format Two high speed 16550 compatible COMs with 16 byte send receive FIFO One parallel port supports SPP EPP ECP ECP EPP mode Supports PS 2 mouse and PS 2 keyboard Provides one IrDA connector All I O ports can be enabled disabled in the BIOS setup Onboard Audio AC 97 2 3 Specification Compliant Provides onboard Line in Jack Microphone in Jack...

Page 9: ...pend S3 suspend to RAM S4 suspend to Disk depends on OS and S5 soft off Main Expansion Slots and Connectors Slot Port Quantity Description PCI 3 PCI slots IDE 1 IDE port FLOPPY 1 Floppy Drive port DDR 2 DIMM socket USB 8 USB connectors LAN 1 optional LAN connector COM 2 optional COM connectors PARALLEL 1 Parallel connector IrDA 1 IrDA connector 1394 1 optional IEEE 1394 connector ...

Page 10: ... chart for locations of all jumpers external connectors slots and I O ports Fur thermore this section lists all necessary connector pin as signments for your reference The particular state of the jumpers connectors and ports are illustrated in the follow ing figures Before setting the jumpers or inserting these connectors please pay attention to the direction ...

Page 11: ... Port Serial Port Connectors COM1 and VGA Port The parallel port connector can be connected to a parallel device such as a printer The serial port COM1 connector can be connected to a serial port device such as a serial port mouse You can enable disable them and choose the IRQ or I O address in Integrated Peripherals from AWARD BIOS SETUP The VGA connector is for output to a VGA Compatible device ...

Page 12: ...ar Right Center and Woofer for a complete surround sound effect When 6 Channel audio is available the front Left Right jack can be connected to the Front speskers the Back Left Right jack can be connected to the rear speakers and the Center Woofer jack can be connected to the center speaker and woofer Microphone function is offered by F_AUDIO Connector on the mainboard now If set 2 Channel Audio m...

Page 13: ...status the LED is orange on When the system is in S4 S5 status the LED is off ATX 12V Power Supply Connector Power Switch POWER SW The power switch POWER SW should be connected to a momentary switch When powering up your system first turn on the mechanical switch of the power supply if one is provided then push once the power switch When powering off the system you needn t turn off the mechanical ...

Page 14: ...rientation Note the mainboard provides one panel cable HDD_LED SPEAKER RESET ACPI LED POWER SW ACPI_LED YELLOW GREEN LED VCC CUT GND POWER SW POWER HDD LED SPEAKER RESET GND RESET SPKDATA NC GND VCC HDD LED HDD LED POWER LED Power SW RESET SW Reserved POWER LED HDD LED HDD LED HDD LED G N D RESET EMPTY RESERVED G N D P O W E R PWR LED RESET SW PWR LED POWER SW After connecting the panel cable the ...

Page 15: ...ur USB ports The serial port COM2 is not available on the back panel Therefore we provide a 9 pin header Fan Connectors CHS_FAN SYS_FAN and CPU_FAN The fan speed of these three fans can be detected and viewed in PC Health section of the CMOS SETUP SYS_FAN CPU_FAN 12V GND SENSE CHS_FAN 12V GND SENSE 12V GND SENSE PUSB5_6 PUSB7_8 COM2 optional DCD GND TXD RTS RI RXD NC DSR CTS DTR 1 5V USB0 USB0 GND...

Page 16: ...ommon CD Left Channel JINTR GND Indicate signal 1 Intruder Detect Switch JINTR The connector connects to the chassis security switch on the case The system can detect the chassis intrusion through the status of this connector If the connector has been closed once the system will send a message over the network to alert the net work manager through the on board LAN controller within ICH4 ...

Page 17: ...ng this function configure the settings for IR Address IR Mode and IR IRQ from the INTE GRATED PERIPHERALS section of the CMOS SETUP IrDA 1 VCC IRRX CUT 1394 1 TPA TPB Cut away TPA GND TPB POWER Ground GND IRTX IEEE 1394 port optional The mainboard have one 10 pin header on board to provide IEEE 1394 port DETECT GPIO ...

Page 18: ...us that is multiple devices can be connected to the same bus and each one can act as a master by initiating data transfer Onboard SATA The mainboard provides four Serial ATA connectors SATA is a storage interface that is compliant with SATA 1 0 Specification With speed of up to 150Mbps you can con nect Serial ATA cable to Serial ATA hard disk SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 RX TX GND GND GND RX TX ...

Page 19: ...nd Pin6 must be short connected Note the mainboard provides one audio cable Pin No Symbol Pin No Symbol 1 MIC 2 GND MIC 3 Front LINE Out R 4 LINE Next R 5 Front LINE Out L 6 LINE Next L 7 GND fLO 8 Cut away F_AUDIO 2 4 6 1 3 5 7 8 After using audio cable the definition of pins as follow When the FrontAudio is absent Pin5 and Pin6 Pin9 and Pin10 must be short connected F_AUDIO Pin No Symbol Pin No ...

Page 20: ...Installation Instructions XV915 14 FRISW GND POWER ON 5VSB FRISW Connector FRISW The FRISW can connector to front pannel through one cable ...

Page 21: ...If the jumper BIOS_WP is set as closed the system BIOS is protected from being attacked by serious virus such as CIH virus you will be unable to flash the BIOS to the mainboard in this status The DMI Desktop Management Interface system information such as the CPU type speed memory size and expansion cards will be detected by the onboard BIOS and stored in the flash ROM Whenever the system hardware...

Page 22: ... case the power button s power on function is disabled JKB Disable Enable 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 If using this function 5VSB line of the power supply should be capable of delivering enough current for all the devices con nected to the keyboard port if not you will be unable to power up the system using the keyboard 2 If you set JKB with pin2 pin3 closed set POWER ON Func tion to BUTTON ONLY don t set it to...

Page 23: ... If you want to clear CMOS unplug the AC power supply first close CLR_CMOS pin1 pin2 once set CLR_CMOS back to the normal status with pin2 pin3 connected then power on the system 1 Normal status CLR_CMOS Unplug the AC power supply 1 3 2 3 2 ...

Page 24: ...nix AWARD BIOS Setup pro gram that provides a Setup utility for users to modify the basic system configuration The information is stored in CMOS RAM so it retains the Setup information even if the power is turned off This chapter provides you with the overview of the BIOS Setup ...

Page 25: ...ows 9x environment 2 Copy AWDFLASH EXE version 8 24 from the directory Utility located on QDI Driver CD to your new bootable diskette 3 Download the updated BIOS file from the Website http www qdigrp com Please be sure to download the suitable BIOS file for your motherboard 4 Decompress the file download copy the BIOS file xx bin to the bootable diskette and note the checksum of this BIOS which is...

Page 26: ...Power on the computer when the following message briefly appears at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self Test press Del key to enter the AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Press Del to enter SETUP When you have entered the Main Menu appears on the screen Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press the Enter key to accept or enter the sub menu Main Menu Standard CMOS Feature...

Page 27: ...se PnP PCI Configurations This section describes how to configure the PCI bus system This section covers some very technical items and it is recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default setting IDE Primary Master Setup Menu Hard Disk Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave These categories identify the HDD types of 2 IDE channels installed in...

Page 28: ... disabled Once the password is disabled the system will boot and you can enter BIOS Setup freely 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 BIOS Setup If you have selected Setup at Security Option from BIOS Features Setup menu you will be prompted for t...

Page 29: ...in 8 Select the multiplication of processor core Max 50 frequency If a Ratio locked processor is installed this item will be hidden This item is only for users understanding all the CPU parameters Auto Detect PCI Clk Enabled Close empty PCI clock to reduce EMI Disabled Do not close empty PCI clock Spread Spectrum Enabled Enable Clock Spread Spectrum to reduce EMI Disabled Disable this function ...

Page 30: ... Disabled Floppy Hard Disk CDROM Boot Other Device LAN USB FDD USB ZIP USB CDROM LAN CPU L1 L2 Cache Enabled Enable CPU L1 L2 cache Disabled Disable CPU L1 L2 cache CPU L3 Cache Enabled Enable CPU L3 cache Disabled Disable CPU L3 cache Boot Up On Keypad is used as number keys NumLock Status Off Keypad is used as arrow keys Security Option Setup Select whether the password is required System every ...

Page 31: ...ency Time 2 2 5 3 Set CAS latency time Auto DRAM RAS to 2 3 4 5 Set DRAM RAS to CAS delay 2 SCLKs CAS Delay 3 SCLKs 4 SCLKs or 5 SCLKs Auto DRAM RAS Precharge 2 3 4 5 Set DRAM RAS precharge as 2 3 4 or 5 Auto Precharge Delay tRAS 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Set precharge delay time Auto System Memory Auto Set memory frequency Frequency 333MHz 400MHz 533MHz System BIOS Enabled Besides conventional memory the sy...

Page 32: ...e by timer 1Min 1Hour Define the continuous idle time before the system enters Suspend mode If any items defined in PM Events are on and activated the system will be woken up Wake Up by PCI card Enabled Allow the system to be waked up by PCI card Disabled Do not allow the system to be powered on by PCI card Power on by Ring Enabled Allow the system to be powered on when a Ring indicator signal com...

Page 33: ...PATA IDE mode Secondary SATA port P1 P3 is secondary set SATA port P0 P2 is primary Onboard device Press Enter Press Enter to set onboard device AC97 Audio Auto If audio codec was installed on board the AC97 Audio function can be used otherwise the function is disabled Disabled Disable the AC97 Audio onboard Onboard LAN Device Enabled Enable onboard LAN device Disabled Disable onboard LAN device S...

Page 34: ... and describes their meaning Item Option Description Shutdown 600 C 1400 F The system will shut down automatically Temperature 650 C 1490 F under the ACPI OS when the CPU tempera 700 C 1580 F ture reaches the previous setting 750 C 1670 F Disabled The system remains on regardless of how much the CPU temperature is ...

Page 35: ...u should install the drivers in order and you need to restart your computer until all the drivers are installed A Chipset software B USB2 0 Driver C Network Driver optional D Audio Driver E DirectX 2 Browse CD You could read all the contents contained in this CD including Utility and Documents The files included in Utility are A Awdflash exe B Cblogo exe C Lf exe The files included in Documents ar...

Page 36: ...el Audio Function You can start to use the 4 6 channel audio function After the driver is installed completely The first you can connect 4 or 6 speakers to the audio output connector Then open utility to set the work parameter Attaching speakers To perform multichannel audio operation connect multiple speakers to the system You should connect the same number of speakers as the audio channels you w...

Page 37: ...5 31 6 Channel Analog Audio Output Description Both Line In and MIC are converted to Line Out function under 6 channel configuration Line Out Front channels Line Out Rear Channels Line Out Center Subwoofer Channels ...

Page 38: ... audio icon from the window tray at the bottom of the screen 2 Select any surround sound effect you prefer from the Environment pull down menu under the Sound Effect tab 3 Click the Speaker Configuration tab Click here and the pull down menu will appear Click here ...

Page 39: ...ed to test each connected speaker to make sure every speaker work properly If any speaker fails to sound then check whether the cable is inserted firmly to the connector or replace the bad speakers with good ones Testing Each Speaker 1 Click the audio icon from the window tray at the bottom of the screen 2 Click the Speaker Test tab 2 Channels Output 4 Channels Output 6 Channels Output Keep UnSele...

Page 40: ... the song The function is applied only for 2 channel audio operation so make sure 2 channels mode is selected in the No of Speakers column before playing KaraOK Playing KaraOK 1 Click the audio icon from the window tray at the bottom of the screen 2 Make sure the Sound Effect tab is selected 3 Select Voice Cancellation in the Karaoke column Subwoofer Front Right Rear Right Center Front Left Rear L...

Page 41: ...Mainboard Layout XV915 Note The layout includes all options It is for your reference only ...

Page 42: ...775 North Bridge South Bridge PUSB5_6 PUSB7_8 BIOS_WP CLR_CMOS Note Pin1 for all jumpers are located on the side with black line 1 HDD_LED 2 ACPI LED 3 POWER SW 4 SPEAKER 5 RESET 1 2 3 4 5 DIMM2 DIMM1 JKB ATX12V USB3_4 Top LAN Bttm USB1_2 Top PS 2 Mouse Bttm PS 2 Keyboard LPT COM1 AUDIO IrDA JINTR I2C VGA USB7_8 USB5_6 ...

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