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If the setting is "Setup", the system will only require the password you activate CMOS Setup Utility.

3.13 Save & Exit Setup

When all the changes have been made, highlight "Save & Exit Setup" and press <Enter>. The message
below will appear:

Save to CMOS and Exit (Y/N)? N

Type "Y" and press <Enter>. The modifications you have made will be written into the CMOS memory, and
the system will reboot.

3.14 Exit Without Saving

When you do not want to save the changes you have made, highlight "Exit Without Saving" and press
<Enter>, The message below will appear:

Quit Without Saving (Y/N)? N

Type "Y" and press <Enter>. The system will reboot.

Chapter 4. Driver Installation

4.1 Sound Driver Installation

4.1.1 Windows 95 Installation

Please refer to the readme.txt file that in \VIA\686SOUND directory in the CD Driver Disk first then follow
the instruction to setup sound driver for Windows 95.

4.1.2 Windows 98 Installation

1. 

Insert the CD Driver into the CD drive-enter the 

\VIA\686SOUND 

directory on the CD-ROM

and double-click SETUP.EXE.

2. 

Follow the prompts to complete the installation.

3. 

System will restart and automatically detect some devices.

4. 

If the Insert Disk dialog is displayed, please insert the Windows 98 CD-ROM into the CD drive,
then click "OK" button.

5. 

If system needs to copy some files (e.g., ksclock.ax, mspclock.sys or swmidi.sys), please type
D:\WIN98 to copy file then click " OK " button.

     

Note: D: is the drive where Windows 98 CD-

ROM has been inserted.

6. 

You must restart your computer again to take new driver effect.

Note: If your Operation System is Windows 98 first edition, please make sure you have setup the MIDI
output. Please follow the below steps to setup MIDI instruments.

1. 

Double click " Multimedia " icon from Start \ Setting \ Control Panel

2. 

Select " MIDI " page and select " VIA FM Synthesis " from Single instrument field.

3. 

Click " Apply " button then click " OK " button.

4.1.3 Windows 2000 Installation

1. 

Insert the CD Driver into the CD drive-enter the 

\VIA\686SOUND 

directory on the CD-ROM

and double-click SETUP.EXE.

2. 

Follow the prompts to complete the installation.

3. 

System will restart and automatically detect some devices. Follow the prompts to complete the
installation.

4. 

You must restart your computer again to take new driver effect.

4.1.4 Windows NT 4.0 Installation

1. 

Install Service Pack 4 or later first.

2. 

Insert the CD Driver into the CD drive-enter the 

\VIA\686SOUND 

directory on the CD-ROM

and double-click SETUP.EXE.

3. 

Follow the prompts to complete the installation.

4. 

Restart system.

Summary of Contents for 370PMA Series

Page 1: ...2 5 0x 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 5 5x 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 6 0x 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 6 5x 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 7 0x 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 7 5x 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 8 0x 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 370PMA Series Motherboard User s Manual Product Na...

Page 2: ...Connectors 2 4 12 Game MIDI Line Out Line In Mic In Connector optional 2 4 13 Line Out Connector 2 4 14 Line In Connector 2 4 15 Microphone In Connector 2 4 16 Game MIDI Port 2 4 17 ATAPI IDE SONY Aud...

Page 3: ...ade Support Ultra DMA 33 66 370PMA L Uses VIA ProSavageTM PL133 VT8604 VT82C686A chipset Support Ultra DMA 33 66 370PMA H Uses VIA ProSavageTM PM133 VT8605 VT82C686B chipset Support AGP slot for exter...

Page 4: ...4 EIDE devices for HDD or CD ROM Supports PIO Mode 4 with data transfer rate up to 14 MB Sec Supports Multiword DMA Mode 0 1 2 Supports Ultra DMA 33 66 UDMA with data transfer rate up to 33 66 MB Sec...

Page 5: ...are power off function Supports RTC Wake Up Supports Wake up on LAN Expansion Slots Two 32 bit PCI expansion slots One 32 bit AGP expansion slot for 370PMA 370PMA H only One Audio Modem Riser AMR slot...

Page 6: ...er 2 Hardware Setup 2 1 Installation Procedure 1 Jumper settings BIOS and CPU 2 Installation of CPU 3 Installation of Memory 4 I O Connections Panel Connections 2 1 1 Jumper Settings In this manual 1...

Page 7: ...er Cap from JRTC 1 2 and put on JRTC 2 3 5 Connect ATX power cable back to connector ATXPWR 6 Turn on the power 7 While the system reboots press DEL key to set the BIOS setup 2 1 3 CPU Voltage Setting...

Page 8: ...llation of Memory The motherboard has 2x168 pin 64 bit Dual Inline Memory Module DIMM sockets divided into 2 banks You can install 3 3V Unbuffered PC100 133 compliant Synchronous DRAM SDRAM memory Thi...

Page 9: ...OM audio cable 2 4 1 Infrared Connector 5 pin SIR This connector supports the optional wireless transmitting and receiving infrared module with this module and application software such as Laplink or...

Page 10: ...h device can be connected on secondary channel as master and slave mode respectively There are three connectors on the 80 pin IDE ribbon cable The blue connector must connect with motherboard s IDE co...

Page 11: ...D type COM1 10 pin COM2 2 4 10 Printer Port 25 pin D type PRINTER You can enable the parallel port and choose the IRQ through the Onboard Parallel Port setting in Integrated Peripherals of the COMS SE...

Page 12: ...device for playback mixing or recording 2 4 17 ATAPI IDE Sony CD ROM Audio 4 pin SONY The ATAPI IDE Sony CD ROM Audio connector is used to connect the audio cable from either an ATAPI IDE or Sony CD...

Page 13: ...ndard CMOS Features With the sub menu Figure 3 2 you can setup the system date system time hard and floppy drive type and display adapter type Please refer to your equipment specification when changin...

Page 14: ...20KB 3 5 1 2MB 5 25 1 44MB 3 5 2 88MB 3 5 3 2 5 Floppy 3 Mode Support This is required to support older Japanese floppy drives Floppy 3 Mode support will allow reading and writing of 1 2MB as opposed...

Page 15: ...L1 Cache or External L2 Cache 3 3 3 CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Select Enabled to enable CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Select Disabled to disable CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking 3 3 4 Processor Number Feature Th...

Page 16: ...ity Screen 3 3 15 OS Select for DRAM 64MB If you are using OS 2 operating system and installed memory is larger than 64MB You need to have the setting in the enable mode 3 3 16 Report No FDD For WIN 9...

Page 17: ...according to the Host CPU Clock and DRAM Clock 3 4 3 SDRAM Cycle Length This item allows you to set the SDRAM Latency Timer Options are 2 3 3 4 4 Memory Hole Enabling this feature reserves 15MB to 16M...

Page 18: ...oller will be enabled if no sound modem is detected the onboard sound modem controller will be disabled If you want to use different controller cards to connect sound and modem connectors set these fi...

Page 19: ...ard Legacy Audio Sound Blaster SB I O Base Address SB IRQ Select SB DMA Select MPU 401 MPU 401 I O Address Game Port 200 207H Enabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Standard Half No Yes 378 IRQ7 Normal 3 EPP1 9 En...

Page 20: ...ess and interrupt for the Parallel port 3 5 11 Onboard Parallel Mode Select an operating mode for the parallel port Mode options are Normal EPP ECP ECP EPP 3 5 12 ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA channel...

Page 21: ...PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Value F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults 3 6 3 HDD Power Down This instructs hard drives to shut off while in the Power Management m...

Page 22: ...re the system will automatically power on Auto When power returns after an AC power failure the system will return to the state where you left off before power failure occurs If the system s power is...

Page 23: ...ur Minute Second 3 6 21 Primary INTR When set to On default any interrupt request is set to Enabled see below will awaken the system which has been powered down Following this option is a list of IRQs...

Page 24: ...P IRQ 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Legacy ISA for devices IRQ 9 assigned to PCI ISA PnP compliant with the IRQ 10 assigned to PCI ISA PnP original PC AT bus IRQ 11 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Specification P...

Page 25: ...for the USB device connected to your system However if you are not using USB devices and an ISA slot required an IRQ address set this function to Disabled The IRQ address previously occupied by the U...

Page 26: ...Fail Safe Defaults This loads the troubleshooting default values permanently stored in the ROM chips These settings are not optimal and turn off all high performance features You should use these valu...

Page 27: ...k dialog is displayed please insert the Windows 98 CD ROM into the CD drive then click OK button 5 If system needs to copy some files e g ksclock ax mspclock sys or swmidi sys please type D WIN98 to c...

Page 28: ...from Start Settings Control Panel menu 4 Select Settings page then click Advanced button 5 Select Adapter page then click Change button Click Next button 6 When Update Device Driver Wizard dialog is...

Page 29: ...5VGA NT40 then click on the OK button 9 From the list of displayed S3 devices select your S3 device 10 From Third party Drivers click on the Yes button to proceed 11 If a message appears stating the d...

Page 30: ...ou need to upgrade the system in order to support ACPI Please contact Microsoft for upgrade information 7 Boot Windows 98 In the Windows 98 desktop click the Start button Move the cursor to Setting th...

Page 31: ...process of closing files applications and operation system You can power off the computer at once by pressing the power button or selecting Standby when you shut down Windows 98 To power on the compu...

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