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P5V30-B4 User’s Manual

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................4

Product Description ................................................................................. 4

Item Checklist ......................................................................................... 4

BOARD LEVEL FEATURES ..........................................................5

INSTALLING THE CPU AND MEMORY.........................................8

Static Precautions ................................................................................... 8

Installing the CPU.................................................................................... 8

Connecting the CPU Cooling Fan ............................................................ 8

Setting the CPU Clock Selection Jumper................................................. 9

Setting the CPU Voltage Selection Jumper.............................................. 9

Installing the Memory (DRAM SIMMS) .................................................... 10

The Level-2 Cache (SRAM)..................................................................... 10

SETTING THE JUMPERS..............................................................11

CONNECTIONS .............................................................................13

Power Supply Cables .............................................................................. 13

Serial and Parallel Ports .......................................................................... 13

IrDA-Compliant Infrared Module Connector ............................................. 13

USB Connector ....................................................................................... 13

Keyboard Connector................................................................................ 14

PS/2 Mouse Connector............................................................................ 14

Floppy Drives .......................................................................................... 14

IDE Hard Drives and CD-ROMs .............................................................. 14

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Page 1: ...P5V30 B4 MAINBOARD User s Manual Manual Rev 2 1a Date 03 97 All other products names are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners ...

Page 2: ...e CPU 8 Connecting the CPU Cooling Fan 8 Setting the CPU Clock Selection Jumper 9 Setting the CPU Voltage Selection Jumper 9 Installing the Memory DRAM SIMMS 10 The Level 2 Cache SRAM 10 SETTING THE JUMPERS 11 CONNECTIONS 13 Power Supply Cables 13 Serial and Parallel Ports 13 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 13 USB Connector 13 Keyboard Connector 14 PS 2 Mouse Connector 14 Floppy Drives 14...

Page 3: ... POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 26 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP 28 LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS 29 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS 29 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 30 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD AND USER PASSWORD SETTING 32 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION 33 SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING 33 PCI Device Listing 33 BUILT IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS 34 FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY 39 DMI UTILITY 40 DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER 41 þ MAINBOARD DIAGRAMS B...

Page 4: ...al Serial Bus USB onto the mainboard optimum system performance is assured and system design and implementation is simplified Fully Plug Play compatible via an Award BIOS the P5V30 B4 facilitates easy system configuration and peripheral setup With support for up to 128MB of System RAM EDO and Infrared the P5V30 B4 is the ideal foundation for high end computer systems Item Checklist Your mainboard ...

Page 5: ...IDE connector 3 USB connector 14 Secondary IDE connector 4 PS 2 mouse connector 15 L2 Pipeline burst cache 5 AT keyboard connector 16 Front Infrared IR connector 6 Back Infrared IR connector 17 CPU socket 7 COM2 connector 18 Clock Generator 8 COM1 connector 19 ISA slots 9 Printer port connector 20 PCI slots 10 Power connector 21 Mainboard BIOS 11 DRAM SIMM sockets ...

Page 6: ...ompatible serial port COM2 can be directed to the Infrared Module for wireless connection capability 8 COM1 CONNECTOR High speed UART compatible serial port 9 PRINTER PORT CONNECTOR EPP and ECP compatible parallel port 10 POWER CONNECTOR 12 Pin Power Connector 11 DRAM SIMM SOCKETS 4 72 pin SIMM sockets are provided to support a maximum RAM memory capacity of 128 MB SIMM types of either Fast Page M...

Page 7: ...uency for CPU 19 ISA SLOTS 3 16 bit ISA slots 20 PCI SLOTS 4 32 bit PCI slots are provided 21 MAINBOARD BIOS Award BIOS supporting Plug and Play Symbios SCSI BIOS DMI Green PC specification on screen setup for Enhanced IDE and Multi I O The BIOS is FLASH Upgradeable via the AWDFLASH Utility See page 35 Comprehensive Mainboard View ...

Page 8: ...ended The Fan should be installed first before inserting the CPU into its socket 1 Locate the ZIF Zero Insertion Force Socket 7 This socket supports Pentium P5 CPUs 75 200Mhz 2 First open the socket by pulling the lever sideways then upwards Notice how the lever locks in place when pressed all the way down 3 The CPU must be inserted with the correct orientation One corner of the CPU has a notch an...

Page 9: ... Such information is available via the Intel Cyrix and AMD WWW sites Setting the CPU Voltage Selection Jumper JP6 JP7 JP10 Locate Jumpers JP6 JP7 and JP10 on the mainboard Refer to the diagram on page 10 Set these jumpers in accordance with the table below for your specific CPU type Refer to the CPU documentation Intel AMD CPU Int Ratio Ext JPX1 6 75MHz 1 5x 50MH O O S S O O 90MHz 1 5x 60MH z O O ...

Page 10: ... SIMMS speed requirements 70ns or 60ns 1 This mainboard contains 2 SIMM Banks Each bank consists of 2 SIMM Sockets Memory must be installed two SIMMS 1 Bank at a time The two SIMMS in a bank must be identical 1 Install SIMMS 1 and 2 first The SIMMS must be oriented in the correct way There is a notch in one end of the SIMM Align this notch as shown in the Diagram below Retainers on either side of ...

Page 11: ...use lead connector When pins 2 3 are closed the port becomes active and IRQ12 is used by the PS 2 mouse To disable the PS 2 mouse port short pins 1 2 JP5 Clear CMOS RAM When closed the CMOS information is reset to default All user entered information is cleared To clear the CMOS first turn the computer off then connect a jumper cap over the two pins for a moment Remove the jumper and power the sys...

Page 12: ...the Power Management Setup in the BIOS Setup utility Pins 17 19 Reset switch lead Connects to the Reset Switch lead from the system s case The reset switch is used to cold boot the system without actually turning off the power reducing wear and tear on the power supply Pins 2 6 8 10 Keyboard lock switch lead Pins 2 6 connect to the Power LED from the system s case Pins 8 10 connect to the case mou...

Page 13: ... bracket hook to the COM1 and COM2 connectors on the mainboard Generally the upper serial port on the bracket would be configured as COM1 and the lower port as COM2 Make sure to orient Pin 1 marked on the mainboard to the RED stripe on the ribbon cables The cable from the supplied parallel port connector bracket hooks to the parallel connector on the mainboard Make sure to orient Pin 1 marked on t...

Page 14: ...CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS P5V30 B4 User s Manual P5V30 B4 User s Manual 14 14 This 8 pin connector permits connection of two USB peripheral devices directly to the system without an external hub ...

Page 15: ...to match the connector on your floppy drives IDE Hard Drives and CD ROMs The on board Enhanced IDE controller can support up to 4 IDE hard drives or other ATAPI devices such as CD ROMs This controller as with all Enhanced IDE controllers consists of both Primary and Secondary ports Each port has an associated connector and cable which can support up to 2 ATAPI devices each All IDE devices have jum...

Page 16: ... in your computer system s ROM Read Only Memory is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS This means that it supports Intel Cyrix AMD processors in a standard IBM AT compatible input output system Using Setup In general you use the arrow keys to highlight items press Enter to select use the PageUp and PageDown keys to change entries press F1 for help and press Esc to quit Getting Help Press...

Page 17: ...up functions and two exit choices Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press Enter to accept and enter the sub menu Note that a brief description of each highlighted selection appears at the bottom of the screen ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A59F008 CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER P...

Page 18: ...elow Again notice that the bottom of the screen provides information relating to the highlighted item as you move around the screen First let s set the system Date Use the arrow keys to move to and highlight the Date option Select the Month by using the PgDn and PgUp keys This is how most settings will be configured Then move to the day year and time via the arrow keys to finish setting the system...

Page 19: ...s a specific type stored in the Setup Program Again this would only be needed to assure that the parameters the drive was formatted with and those it is using now are identical For new hard drives the Auto option is the preferred choice Mode One of Enhanced IDE s most important features is LBA Logical Block Addressing Mode This feature allows the use of larger hard drives by providing a way to byp...

Page 20: ...ble sided drive 2 88 megabyte capacity Floppy 3 Mode Support Enable this option ONLY for floppy drive s that support the Japanese standard 1 2MB on 3 5 Diskette Options Disabled Default Both Drive A B Video This category selects the type of video adapter used for the primary system monitor Although secondary monitors are supported you do not have to select their type in Setup EGA VGA Enhanced Grap...

Page 21: ...FFF Shadow Disabled Boot Sequence C A D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled Swap Floppy Drive Disabled DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Disabled Floppy Disk Access Control R W Boot Up NumLock Status On Boot Up System Speed High Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 Typematic Delay Msec 250 Security Option System ESC Quit Select PCI VGA Palett Snoop Disabled F1 Help PU PD ...

Page 22: ...ys boot from the C drive first In this case this setting would need to be changed to A C so that the system would first check the floppy drive for a bootable disk This would slow bootup speed however since the floppy would be checked on every boot Swap Floppy Drive The hardware connections determine which floppy is configured as drive A and drive B Swapping the floppy drives can be useful if your ...

Page 23: ... checking every time the computer is powered on or every time BIOS Setup is executed If System is chosen a user password prompt appears every time the computer is turned on If Setup is chosen the password prompt appears only when the BIOS Setup program is executed Refer to the section Supervisor Password for more information PCI VGA Palette Snoop This option must be set to Enabled if any ISA MPEG ...

Page 24: ...e Enabled 8 Bit I O Recovery Time NA 16Bit I O Recovery Time NA ESC Quit Select Memory Hole At 15M 16M Disabled F1 Help PU PD Mod Peer Concurrency Enabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Passive Release Enabled F6 Load BIOS Defaults Delayed Transaction Disabled F7 Load Setup Defaults Auto Configuration When Enabled pre defined values for DRAM Cache Timings etc are set according to the CPU type system...

Page 25: ...ngs are 2 2 2 2 x333 Write DRAM timings are 3 3 3 3 x444 Write DRAM timings are 4 4 4 4 DRAM RAS Precharge Time DRAM must continually be refreshed or it will lose its data Normally DRAM is refreshed entirely as the result of a single request This option allows you to determine the number of CPU clocks allocated for the Row Address Strobe to accumulate its charge before the DRAM is refreshed If ins...

Page 26: ...t be delayed to allow for the completion of I O transfers This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 8 bit I O Choices are from NA 1 to 8 ISA BUS clocks NA is the default 16 Bit I O Recovery Time This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 16 bit I O Choices are from NA 1 to 4 ISA BUS clocks NA is the default Memory Hole At 15M 16M In order to improve perfo...

Page 27: ...ent OFF F1 Help PU PD Modify IRQ12 Wake Up Event ON F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults Power Management This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes Doze Mode Standby Mode Suspend Mode and HDD Power Down There are four selections for Power Management three of which have fixed mode setting...

Page 28: ...y Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the fixed disk drive and the video will be shut off while all other devices still operate at full speed Suspend Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity all devices except the CPU will be shut off HDD Power Down When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the hard disk drive will be powered down while...

Page 29: ...fying installation of multiple interface cards This Setup Menu provides configuration options for the PCI Bus and its assigned resources Resources Controlled by Manual PCI IRQ Activated By Level Reset Configuration Data Disabled PCI IDE IRQ Map To PCI AUTO Primary IDE INT A IRQ 3 assigned to Legacy ISA Secondary IDE INT B IRQ 4 assigned to Legacy ISA On Board SCSI BIOS Auto IRQ 5 assigned to PCI I...

Page 30: ...ller and which PCI interrupt A B C or D is associated with the Primary and or Secondary port Most add on IDE controllers are configured to use INT A for the primary and INT B for the secondary On Board SCSI BIOS When set to Auto Default the system will automatically sense the presence of any SCSI adapter that uses a Symbios SYM53C8XX SCSI chip If the SCSI adapter installed has its own BIOS on boar...

Page 31: ...MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP P5V30 B4 User s Manual P5V30 B4 User s Manual 31 31 screen and press ENTER again User defined options in the Standard CMOS Setup are not affected ...

Page 32: ...ected UART COM2 F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults IDE HDD Block Mode This allows your hard disk controller to use fast block mode to transfer data to and from your hard disk drive HDD Enabled or Disabled Enabled is the default PIO Mode IDE Programmed I O Mode This setting relates to the speed at which the hard drive is able to transfer data up to 16 6MB seco...

Page 33: ...s the on board USB Universal Serial Bus controller Onboard FDC Controller Enables or Disables the on board Floppy Disk Controller Onboard Serial Port 1 With this option the on board Serial Port 1 can be Disabled or set to COM1 3F8 Default COM2 2F8 COM3 3E8 or COM4 2E8 Onboard Serial Port 2 With this option the on board Serial Port 2 can be Disabled or set to COM2 2F8 Default COM1 3F8 COM3 3E8 or C...

Page 34: ...set a password 1 You must first set the Supervisor password by choosing Supervisor Password and pressing ENTER Setup prompts for a password 2 Enter a 1 8 character password using letters numbers or a combination of both The specific characters are not shown as you enter them Press ENTER 3 A confirmation box appears asking you to re enter the password Enter the password again Press ENTER Follow the...

Page 35: ...n PCI device listing Bus No Device No Func No Vender ID Device ID Device Class IRQ 0 7 1 8086 7010 IDE Controller 14 15 0 7 2 8086 8829 Serial bus controller 11 0 9 0 1013 7333 Display controller NA Bus No Encoded value indicating 1 of 256 possible buses in a system Device No Encoded value indicating 1 of 32 possible devices on a given bus Func No Encoded value indicating 1 of 8 possible functions...

Page 36: ...ws you to view and change the default configuration settings for host adapters using Symbios 53C8XX chips Note Pressing Ctrl A after memory count during re boot allows you to recover the default settings and reconfigure The following tables lists the configuration settings you can change Global Affects both adapter and all SCSI devices Device Affects only the individual SCSI devices Global Default...

Page 37: ...host adapter is present in the system To change an adapter s boot order select it and press Enter You are then prompted to enter the new boot sequence number When the adapters are ordered properly press the Esc key to exit this menu Boot Order Port Irq Status NvRAM Num Level Current Next Boot Found 1 SYM53C860 FC00 9 On On Yes 2 SYM53C820 0 0 Off Off 3 SYM53C825 FD00 9 On On Yes 4 SYM53C815 FE On ...

Page 38: ... but some SCSI devices do not So you are offered the option of disabling parity checking Note When disabling parity checking it is also necessary to disable disconnects for all devices as parity checking for the reselection phase is not disabled If a device does not generate parity and it disconnects the I O never completes because the reselection never completes Host SCSI ID It s not suggested to...

Page 39: ...a specific device from the Device Selection menu your computer displays the following Device Setup menu The settings in this menu effect individual SCSI devices attached to the selected host adapter Changes made from this menu do cause the system to reboot upon exit from the SCSI Configuration utility Dev0 N A Setup 1 SYM53C860 R Sync Rate Mega Bytes sec 20 Mb sec W Width bits 8 D Disconnect On T ...

Page 40: ... device Also on a bus with only a few devices attached you can speed up boot time by changing this setting to No for unused SCSI IDs Scan for SCSI LUNs You can set this option to No if you have problems with a device that responds to all LUNs whether they are occupied or not Queue Tags If your device driver can issue queue tags this option allows you to enable or disable the issuing of queue tags ...

Page 41: ...ASH EXE which is the FLASH BIOS Programming Utility The second file needed is the updated BIN file which contains the actual BIOS code This file will have the extension bin such as P598GH BIN Make sure these files are on the diskette or hard drive in the same directory 3 Start the AWDFLASH Utility by changing to the directory where the two required files exist and typing AWDFLASH and pressing ENTE...

Page 42: ...mation about the system and its components This DMI utility DMICFG EXE allows you to add additional information such as serial numbers vendor information and enclosure chassis configurations into the MIF áâßàMove cursor Enter Accept DEL Delete ESC Abort Exit Edit DMI Add DMI Load DMI FILE Save DMI FILE BIOS System Base Board Enclosure Chassis Processor Memory Controller Memory module Memory module...

Page 43: ...ng are a few more of the advanced features built in to the DC 310U providing the best performance and ease of use possible S P E C I F I C A T I O N S SCSI Performance SCSI Chip Symbios SYM53C860 SCSI devices Max 7 SCSI bus transfers Async 7MB sec Sync 20MB sec Bus master data transfers 132MB sec at 33MHz 80 byte DMA FIFO for 2 4 8 16 dwords burst across PCI bus PCI Integration Full 32 bit PCI DMA...

Page 44: ...DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER P5V30 B4 User s Manual P5V30 B4 User s Manual 44 44 Mainboard BIOS Support Adapter Setup Device Setup ...

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