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IDE HDD Block Mode

The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IED

channels.  Select Enabled to activate the primary and/or secondary IDE

interface.  Select Disabled to deactivate this interface, if you install a

primary and/or secondary add-in IDE interface IDE interface.

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The choice: Enabled or Disabled.

Init Display First

This item is used to determine initial device when system power on.

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The choice: AGP or PCI Slot.

AGP Auto Calibration

This item enable/disable the AGP driving functions.

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The choice: Enabled or Disabled.

IDE Access Interface

This item select the IDE data transfer use PCI bus or Embedded(MuTIOL)

bus. The MuTIOL bus is faster.

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The choice: Embedded Bus or PCI Bus.

USB1 Access Interface

This item select the USB1 data transfer use PCI bus or Embedded(MuTIOL)

bus. The MuTIOL bus is faster.

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The choice: Embedded Bus, or PCI Bus.

USB0 Access Interface

This item select the USB0 data transfer use PCI bus or Embedded(MuTIOL)

bus. The MuTIOL bus is faster.

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The choice: Embedded Bus, or PCI Bus.

Audio Access Interface

This item select the Audio data transfer use PCI bus or Embedded(MuTIOL)

bus. The MuTIOL bus is faster.

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The choice: Embedded Bus or PCI Bus.

Summary of Contents for Spacewalker MS50

Page 1: ...MS50 MS50N Pentium 4 Processor Based AGPset MAIN BOARD User s Manual...

Page 2: ...n carefully checked for reliability however no guarantee is given as to the correctness of the contents In the interest of continued product improvement this company reserves the right to revise the m...

Page 3: ...STEP 2 Set Jumpers 14 STEP 3 Install SDR SDRAM System Memory 14 STEP 4 Install Peripherals in System Case 15 STEP 5 Mount the Mainboard on the Computer Chassis 16 STEP 6 Connect Front Panel Switches...

Page 4: ...B2 Port Connectors 29 COM1 Port Connector 29 VGA Port Connector 29 Parallel Port Connector 30 Line Out Port Connector 30 Line In Port Connector 30 Mic In Port Connector 30 MIDI GAME Port Connector 30...

Page 5: ...Audio Auxiliary IN Connector CN4 White 39 Front Panel Microphone and Line_out Header JP19 39 3 3 SYSTEM MEMORY CONFIGURATION 40 1 INSTALL MEMORY 40 2 UPGRADE MEMORY 40 4 SOFTWARE UTILITY 41 4 1 Mainb...

Page 6: ...NCED BIOS FEATURES 62 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES 66 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 68 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 72 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION 75 PC HEALTH STATUS 77 FREQUENCY VOLTAGE CONTROL 78 LOAD FAIL SAFE DEFAULTS...

Page 7: ...umper Settings A Closer Look Page 23 Drivers Software Utilities How to Install Page 41 BIOS Setup How to Configure Page 55 About This Manual For First Time DIY System Builder Page 6 For Experienced DI...

Page 8: ...MS50N mainboard provides you with a total solution to build the most stable and reli able system Refer to sections 3 2 Jumper Settings and Chapter 4 Drivers Software Utilities to find out how to get...

Page 9: ...AC 97 Audio driver LAN driver MS50N only Award Flashing Utility UKN 20 L 022 0127 950202C F KB_MS USB COM 1 VG A PR T AU D I O 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I T 8 7 1 2 F A 9 9 4 4 D X S M A 4 5 0 0 FAN3 FAN1 FAN2...

Page 10: ...ion FSB The FSB speed is software configurable from 100MHz to 166MHz in the Frequency Voltage Control of BIOS setup program AC 97 Link for Audio and Telephony CODEC AC 97 2 1 compliant Spread independ...

Page 11: ...apabilities Port ECP data transmission schemes 1 Line Out port 1 Line In port 1 Mic In port 1 MIDI GAME port PCI Bus Master IDE Controller Onboard Two Ultra DMA 100 66 33 Bus Master Dual channel IDE p...

Page 12: ...er is Soft Off mode Pushing the power button for less than 4 seconds places the system into Suspend mode When the power button is pressed for longer than 4 seconds the system enters Soft Off mode Mode...

Page 13: ...UX _IN TA D_IO CD_ IN CO M 2 JP2 JP1 JP3 JLP1 JP4 JP7 IR Fr ont A ud io P CI1 A GP 1 P CI2 P CI3 R T L 8 1 0 0 B 1 8 0 3 4 T 3 0 09 B T A I W A N 4 M C C 9 6 1 S I S 0 0 E L D 2 6 9 1 0 1 3 8 E A 5 E...

Page 14: ...tallation Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket 1 Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90 degree angle 2 Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on t...

Page 15: ...13 3 Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation Note If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well it may damage the CPU...

Page 16: ...u are not totally familiar with the mainboard configuration procedures The factory set default settings are tuned for opti mum system performance For the advanced users who wish to customize their sys...

Page 17: ...ufacturer IDE devices HDD and CD ROM have to set jumpers to Master or Slave mode depending on whether you install more than one device of each kind 2 Connect IDE cable and FDD cable on the back panel...

Page 18: ...and the mainboard The studs are used to fix the mainboard and to keep a certain distance between the system chassis and the mainboard in order to avoid any electrical shorts between the board and the...

Page 19: ...s and USB connectors to the mainboard s front panel connectors group JP4 and JP18 as shown below 1 ATX Soft Power On Off PWON 2 System Management Interface Button EPMI 3 HDD LED HLED 4 Green LED and P...

Page 20: ...IDE cable connector 2 Floppy cable connector Step 8 Connect Other Internal Peripherals 1 CD IN Auxiliary IN TAD IN and Front Audio connectors 2 IR header IDE1 IDE2 1 1 1 FDD FDC 1 1 1 1 CN4 CN7 CN5 J...

Page 21: ...19 Step 9 Connect the Power Supply 1 System power connector Step 10 Install Add on Cards in Expansion Slots 1 Accelerated Graphics Port AGP Card 2 PCI Card 1 ATX PW R CN6 1 1 JP16 JP20 ATX12V ATPW4...

Page 22: ...gether and get on to the external peripherals connections to your system s back panel 1 PS 2 Mouse and PS 2 Keyboard 2 LAN Port MS50N only 3 USB1 2 Ports 4 Parallel Port 5 COM1Port 6 VGA Port 7 MIDI G...

Page 23: ...available to the extended partition The FDISK utility will assign a drive letter i e C D E to each partition which will be shown in the FDISK program After FDISK procedure reboot your system by using...

Page 24: ...Insert the MS50 MS50N bundled CD ROM into your CD ROM drive The autorun program will display the drivers main installation window on screen 2 Choose Install SIS Chipset Driver and complete it 3 Choos...

Page 25: ...on the bottom Jumpers with two pins are shown as for Close On or for Open Off To Short jumper pins simply place a plastic mini jumpers over the desired pair of pins Caution 1 Do not remove the mainbo...

Page 26: ...y jumpers slots and connec tors along with their assigned functions CPU Memory Expansion Slots Socket478 CPU Socket for Pentium 4 processors DIMM1 2 Two DIMM Slots for 16 32 64 128 256 512 MB and 1GB...

Page 27: ..._IN Mic In port GAME MIDI GAME MIDI port Front Panel Connectors PWON ATX power on off momentary type switch EPMI System Management Interface GLED PLED Green LED ON when system stays in power saving mo...

Page 28: ...N1 CPU fan connector FAN2 AGP fan connector FAN3 System fan connector JP7 IR header J3 COM2 connector CN5 CD_IN connector CN7 TAD IN connector CN4 Auxiliary_IN connector JP19 Front Panel Microphone an...

Page 29: ...is used to clear CMOS data Clearing CMOS will result in the perma nently erasing previous system configuration settings and the restoring origi nal factory set system settings Pin 1 2 Default Pin 2 3...

Page 30: ...used to protect BIOS from abnormal writing You may choose to place jumper cap on pins 1 2 for BIOS write protection however please place jumper cap on pins 2 3 if you need to reflash BIOS To enable r...

Page 31: ...nd mouse jacks into their corresponding con nectors LAN Port Connectors MS50N only This mainboard can accommodate one device on LAN Attach a 10 100 bseeT cable to the RJ45 at the back panel of your co...

Page 32: ...tal sound recording a source to be mixed with the output or both Mic In Port Connector Mic In is a 1 8 inch jack that provides a mono input It can use a dynamic mono or stereo microphone with a resist...

Page 33: ...Connector EPMI Hardware System Management Interface EPMI header may attach to 2 pin momentary switch Press the switch to force system into power saving mode press it again to resume back the normal op...

Page 34: ...Standby Suspend When the system resumes to normal opera tion mode the Green LED will go off power LED on This Power LED will go off during power saving mode Attach a 2 pin Green LED Power LED cable to...

Page 35: ...set Connector RST Attach the 2 pin hardware reset switch cable to the RST header Pressing the reset switch causes the system to restart Speaker Connector SPEAKER Attach the PC speaker cable from the c...

Page 36: ...ttached to USB connectors which are mounted on front panel or back panel But the USB cable is op tional at the time of purchase Pins Assignment 1 5V 3 USBD0 5 USBD0 7 GND 9 KEY 2 5V 4 USBD1 6 USBD1 8...

Page 37: ...ard also includes one 34 pin floppy disk controller FDC to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive FDD Moreover this mainboard comes with one 80 pin ATA 100 66 33 ribbon cable to connect to IDE H D D and on...

Page 38: ...ilure you must press power button to power on Note 1 The ATX power connector is directional and will not go in unless the guides match perfectly making sure that pin 1 is properly positioned Note 2 Ma...

Page 39: ...ed device this mainboard can implement IR transfer function To enable the IR transfer function follow these steps Note Before connect your IR device please be sure each IR on board pin allocation is m...

Page 40: ...r cable from the CD ROM drive Pin Assignments 1 CD L 2 CD GND 3 CD GND 4 CD R Audio TAD _IN Connector CN7 Green Port CN7 can be used to connect a modem audio line to MS50 MS50N mainboard Typically you...

Page 41: ...rophone and line out ports for easier access Either the Mic and Line_out connector on back panel or JP19 header are available at the same time If you would like to use this JP19 header on front panel...

Page 42: ...configure memory since the BIOS utility can detect the system memory automatically You can check the total system memory value in the BIOS Standard CMOS Setup menu 2 Upgrade Memory You can easily upg...

Page 43: ...exe assuming that your CD ROM drive is drive D Navigation Bar Description F Install Mainboard MS50 Software Installing SIS chipset Audio VGA drivers F Install Mainboard MS50N Software Installing SIS c...

Page 44: ...screen Select using your pointing device e g mouse on the Install Mainboard MS50 Software or Install Mainboard MS50N Software bar to run into sub menu The Mainboard MS50 Software include 4 2 A Instal...

Page 45: ...ice e g mouse on the Install SIS Chipset Driver bar to install SIS chipset driver Once you made your selection a Setup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sur...

Page 46: ...e g mouse on the Install Audio Device Driver bar to install AC 97 Audio driver Once you made your selection a Setup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sure...

Page 47: ...tallation automatically When the copying files is done make sure you reboot the system to take the installation effect Note When Install VGA driver please confirm your OS and correctly install driver...

Page 48: ...creen Select tab Settings and Display Type bar to continue The Display Type windows will appear on your screen Click on Change bar to install driver Key in the driver s location as D VGA WINNT SISGR I...

Page 49: ...e system to take all the changes effect Make sure SiS Compatible VGA driver and click on Yes After restart you may check Display under the location mentioned at right figure The Display Properties sho...

Page 50: ...etup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sure you reboot the system to take the installation effect Note When Install LAN driver please confirm your OS and co...

Page 51: ...en PCI Ethernet Controller Properties windows will appear on your screen Click on the Reinstall Driver bar to install driver Select tab Device Manager You will find a yellow mark at PCI Ethernet Contr...

Page 52: ...river and click on Next bar to continue Select Network adapters bar for LAN device and click on Next bar to con tinue Insert the support CD by the mainboard manufacturer and choose Have Disk bar to co...

Page 53: ...ast Ethernet NIC driver and click on Next Then the system will do the setup procddure automatically Completing the upgrade device driver and click on Finish to restart the system to take all the chang...

Page 54: ...ers and Add bar to install driver Insert the support CD by the mainboard manufacturer and choose Have Disk bar to continue next step Key in the driver s location as D lan WINNT4 In this location CD di...

Page 55: ...ffect Make sure Realtek RTL8139 810X Family PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver and click on Close Setting yourself network Then the system will do the setup procddure automatically After restart you may...

Page 56: ...double click on AutoRun icon in My Computer to bring up Shuttle Mainboard Software Setup screen Select using your pointing device e g mouse on the Manual bar Then Online Information windows will appe...

Page 57: ...ower On Self Test routine checks Step 2 Press Del key immediately or at the following message Press DEL to enter SETUP or simultaneously press Ctrl Alt Esc keys Note 1 If you miss trains of words meat...

Page 58: ...een Setup Items The main menu includes the following main setup categories Recall that some systems may not include all entries Standard CMOS Features Use this menu for basic system configuration Adva...

Page 59: ...of your system to operate Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default values that are factory set for optimal performance system operation While Award has designed the custom BIOS t...

Page 60: ...the value you want in each item Date Month DD YYYY Set the system date Note that the Day automatically changes when you set the date Time HH MM SS The time is converted based on the 24 hour military...

Page 61: ...py mode 3 options This mode is used mostly in Japen PC The choice Disabled Drive A Drive B or Both Video Select the default video device The choice EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 or MONO Halt On Select the sit...

Page 62: ...let you select the number of cylinders heads etc Note PRECOMP 65535 means NONE The choice None Auto or Manual Access Mode Choose the access mode for this hard disk The choice CHS LBA Large or Auto Ca...

Page 63: ...61 Precomp Warning Setting a value of 65535 means no hard disk Min 0 Max 65535 Landing zone Set the Landing zone size Min 0 Max 65535 Sector Number of sector per track Min 0 Max 255...

Page 64: ...ne attempts to write data into this area BIOS will show a warning message on screen and an alarm beep Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when...

Page 65: ...ese items The Choice Floppy LS120 HDD 0 SCSI CDROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 ZIP100 LAN or Disabled Boot Other Device Select Your Boot Device Priority The choice Enabled or Disabled Swap Floppy Drive If the s...

Page 66: ...ptly Setup The system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered promptly The choice System or Setup Note To disabled security select PASSWORD SETTING at Main...

Page 67: ...eport no FDD runs for Win 95 or not The choice Yes or No Video BIOS Shadow Determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM However it is optional depending on chipset design Video Shadow will incr...

Page 68: ...e altered The default settings have been chosen because they provide the best operat ing conditions for your system If you discovered that data was being lost while using your system you might conside...

Page 69: ...Accelerated Graphics Port AGP aperture The aper ture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated to graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to t...

Page 70: ...r IDE devices that the onboard IDE inter face supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device The c...

Page 71: ...hare Memory Size This Item will be disabled by BIOS code It is for 650 chipsets The choice 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB or 64MB Onboard Super IO Device Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub me...

Page 72: ...er available modes The choice SPP EPP ECP or ECP EPP ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA channel for the parallel port for use during ECP mode The choice 1 or 3 Game Port Address This item selects Game Port...

Page 73: ...e AGP driving functions The choice Enabled or Disabled IDE Access Interface This item select the IDE data transfer use PCI bus or Embedded MuTIOL bus The MuTIOL bus is faster The choice Embedded Bus o...

Page 74: ...e This item allows you to select sleep state when suspend The choice S1 POS S3 STR or S1 S3 Video Off Option When enabled this feature allows the VGA adapter to operate in a power saving mode Always O...

Page 75: ...hich the MODEM can use The choice 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 or Auto HDD Off After The IDE hard drive will spin down if it is not accessed within a specified length of time Options are from 1 Min to 15 Min and D...

Page 76: ...e Up Control This item enable disable the USB wakeup function The choice Enabled Disabled Power Up by Alarm When set to Enabled the following three fields become available and you can set the month da...

Page 77: ...iguration Data ESCD when you exit from Setup if you have installed a new device or software and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system can not boot The...

Page 78: ...CI slot Legacy ISA for devices is compliant with the original PC AT bus specification PCI ISA PnP for devices is compli ant with the Plug and Play standard whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architec...

Page 79: ...C 140 F 65 C 149 F 70 C 158 F System Component Characteristics These fields provide you with information about the systems current operating status You cannot make changes to these fields The fields i...

Page 80: ...le disable auto detection DIMM PCI Clock The choice Enabled or Disabled Spread Spectrum This item allows you to enable disable the spread spectrum modulation The choice Enabled or Disabled CPU Host SD...

Page 81: ...N N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal performance system operations LoadOptimizedDefaults When you press Enter on this item you will get a confirmation dialog box wi...

Page 82: ...o confirm new password by asking you to key in new password again 4 Once the confirmation is completed new code takes effect No Password Setting 5 If you want to delete password just press Enter key i...

Page 83: ...ext time you boot your computer the BIOS configures your system according to the Setup selections stored in CMOS After saving the values the system is restarted again Exit Without Saving Pressing Ente...

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