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INTRODUCTION

P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual

Features & Specifications

Processor

Dual SLOT 1 support dual Intel Pentium



II processors,

233~333 MHz (FSB 66MHz), 350~450 MHz (FSB 100MHz), or
single Celeron



processor.

Chipset

Intel



440BX AGPset

BIOS

Award



PCI BIOS, support ACPI, DMI, Green PC, Plug-and-Play,

Boot from CD-ROM, SCSI, LS-120, and ZIP devices
Symbios



SCSI BIOS

System Memory

168-pin DIMM Sockets support up to 1 GB SDRAM memory

capacity
Support 8/16/32/64/128/256 MB Memory Module
ECC supported

On-board I/O
Features

Floppy Port (Up to 2.88MB)

Parallel Port (EPP, ECP Port)

Serial Ports (16550 Fast UART Compatible)

USB Ports

IrDA TX/RX Header

Wake-On-LAN Header

Advanced
Features

Dual Slot 1 ready for Dual Pentium II processors
CPU Fan, System Overheat and Voltage Hardware Monitoring
Modem Ring-in Power on
Soft Power Off

PCI Bus Master
IDE

UltraDMA/33 IDE Ports support

UltraDMA/33: 33MB/Sec.

Expansion Slots

32-bit AGP slot

32-bit PCI Bus Master slots

16-bit ISA slots

ATX Double
Decker

USB Ports

PS/2 Keyboard Port

PS/2 Mouse Port

Parallel Port

COM Ports

ATX Power
Connector

3V, 5V and 12V 20-Pin ATX Power connector

Switching VR

Switching Voltage Regulator to support 1.3V to 3.5V

Form Factor

ATX Form factor 12

″

by 9.5

″

( 305mm by 242mm )

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Page 1: ...P6B40D A5 MAINBOARD User s Manual REV 1 00 Date May 98 All other product names are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners ...

Page 2: ...ations However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause interference to radio or television equipment reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures l Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna l Move the e...

Page 3: ...umpers 12 Connections 14 Installing the Memory DIMM 20 Installing an AGP Card 20 MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP 21 About the BIOS 21 Main Menu 22 Standard CMOS Setup 23 BIOS Features Setup 26 Chipset Features Setup 29 Power Management Setup 32 PNP PCI Configuration Setup 34 Load BIOS Defaults 36 Load Setup Defaults 36 Integrated Peripherals Setup 37 Supervisor Password and User Password Setting 39 IDE HDD A...

Page 4: ... CONTENTS P6B40D A5 User s Manual P6B40D A5 User s Manual 4 4 PCI Device Listing 40 BUILT IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS 41 FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY 47 DMI UTILITY 48 HARDWARE MONITORING UTILITY 49 DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER 50 ...

Page 5: ...Bus Mastering IDE and Universal 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 P6B40D A5 facilitates easy system configuration and peripheral setup Advanced BIOS features include Intelligent Hardware Monitoring and Alert functions The Award BIOS also supports ACPI readiness ...

Page 6: ...es 1 Floppy Port Up to 2 88MB 1 Parallel Port EPP ECP Port 2 Serial Ports 16550 Fast UART Compatible 2 USB Ports 1 IrDA TX RX Header 1 Wake On LAN Header Advanced Features Dual Slot 1 ready for Dual Pentium II processors CPU Fan System Overheat and Voltage Hardware Monitoring Modem Ring in Power on Soft Power Off PCI Bus Master IDE 2 UltraDMA 33 IDE Ports support UltraDMA 33 33MB Sec Expansion Slo...

Page 7: ... 2 keyboard connector bottom 3 Mainboard BIOS 13 Power connector 4 Infrared IR connector 14 Intel 440BX chipset 5 SLOT 1 CPU1 15 DIMM sockets 6 SLOT 1 CPU2 16 Floppy connector 7 COM2 connector 17 Primary IDE connector 8 Printer port connector 18 Secondary IDE connector 9 COM1 connector 19 AGP slot 10 USB connectors Board Size ATX 305 mm x 242 mm 12 x 9 5 ...

Page 8: ...speed UART compatible serial port 10 USB CONNECTORS These connectors permit the connection of two USB peripheral devices directly to the port without an external hub USB is a new technology supporting printers fax modems and other telephony device 11 PS 2 MOUSE CONNECTOR Supports PS 2 style mice 12 PS 2 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR Supports PS 2 style keyboards 13 POWER CONNECTOR 20 Pin ATX Power Connector ...

Page 9: ...INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION P6B40D A5 User s Manual P6B40D A5 User s Manual 9 9 Comprehensive Mainboard View ...

Page 10: ...way touch a grounded anti static surface such as an unpainted portion of the system chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity Installing the CPU Your P6B40D A5 mainboard features dual SLOT 1 architecture a design that can accommodate dual Intel Pentium II processors as well as single Celeron processor Before installing the CPU attach the retention mechanism first Attac...

Page 11: ...e two identical CPUs in your system If you use CPUs with different speed requirements you must set the CPU Clock Selection Jumper Block to the lower frequency ü ü CPU cooling fan It is required to use a CPU Cooling Fan to prevent the CPU from overheating Install the fan first before inserting the CPU into the socket Installing Pentium II or Celeron CPU 1 Slide the CPU down into the retention mecha...

Page 12: ...e table at right for the CPU frequency you are using The CPU Clock corresponds to the number marked on the CPU The Bus Clock when multiplied with the Ratio gives the CPU Clock ü ü For a dual CPU system It is recommended that you use two identical CPUs in your system If your CPUs have different speed requirements you must set the CPU Clock Selection Jumper Block to the lower frequency If you are un...

Page 13: ...0BX chipset supports only 66 100 MHz bus clock The 66 8 MHz bus clock can be extended to 68 5 75 or 83 3 MHz and the 100 MHz bus clock to 103 112 or 133 3 MHz for internal test only Please refer to Chipset Features Setup on page 29 Setting the Bus Clock Override Jumper to Enabled overrides the CPU s default Bus Clock and set it at 100 MHz Over clocking may cause serious system damage ...

Page 14: ...nd chassis cooling fans Plug in the fan cable to the connector Pin 2 corresponds to the RED power lead as shown CPU Thermal Sensor JP10 and JP10A For the CPU Temperature Monitoring function to work properly you must use the optional CPU Cooling Fan provided by the manufacturer Hook the Thermal Sensor lead attached on the Fan to this connector regardless of the polarity GND 12V GND Fan Power Therma...

Page 15: ...for longer than 4 seconds to power off your system regardless of the BIOS setting Refer to page 32 Shortly after the system is powered on when the BIOS message is not yet appear When CPU hangs IDE Activity LED JP2 Hook the IDE LED lead to this connector with the RED lead corresponding to Pin 1 Power Supply Connector This mainboard features an ATX style Power Supply Connector This connector is keye...

Page 16: ...s switch to be functional it must first be enabled in 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 fr...

Page 17: ...OS setup where UART2 is directed COM2 or IrDA Pin 6 is reserved for consumer IR Wake up On LAN Connector J12 The Wake up On LAN function will allow the network to wake up a Soft Power Down Soft Off PC However if your system is in the Suspend mode you can wake up the system only through an IRQ or DMA interrupt To use the Wake up On LAN function you must enable the Power On by Ring LAN field in the ...

Page 18: ... external hub PS 2 Keyboard and Mouse Connectors These two connectors are located on the back panel of the mainboard Floppy drives The on board floppy controller supports 2 floppy disk drives with the floppy ribbon cable provided Make sure the RED stripe on the ribbon cable is oriented towards Pin 1 Notice the twist between the sets of connectors on the floppy cable The floppy drive A position is ...

Page 19: ...ve device is installed as a SECOND device on the same cable Keep in mind that the Master device will appear before the Slave device in the CMOS Setup as well as the Operating System software Refer to the device documentation for jumper settings The Secondary IDE port can be used for up to 2 additional ATAPI devices Normally it s recommended that you connect your first hard drive to the Primary por...

Page 20: ...the modules must be oriented in the correct way Notice the notches of the DIMM Align these notches as shown in the diagram below Gently push the DIMM until the retainers on both sides of the socket lock the module in place To remove a DIMM push the retainers outward to release the module then pull the module out of the socket notch notch DIMM 4 DIMM 3 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 1 1 1 1 1 Installing an AGP Card...

Page 21: ...nstalled in your computer system s ROM Read Only Memory is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS This means that it supports Intel processor 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 Pressing...

Page 22: ...tup functions and two exit choices Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press Enter to accept and enter the sub menu ROM PCI ISA BIOS xxxxxxxx CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE EXIT SETUP LOA...

Page 23: ...tem 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 date and time Keep in mind that the system time is set in 24 hour time With this method 1PM is represented as 13 00 2PM as 14 00 and so on with 00 00 corr...

Page 24: ...t features is LBA Logical Block Addressing Mode This feature allows the use of larger hard drives by providing a way to bypass the cylinder limitations imposed by many Operating Systems LBA Mode is used to extend a hard drive s useable capacity by remapping the cylinders in a way that is acceptable to these operating systems For instance a hard drive with the parameters of 2100 Cylinders 16 Heads ...

Page 25: ...nhanced Graphics Adapter Video Graphics Array For EGA VGA SEGA SVGA or PGA monitor adapters CGA 40 Color Graphics Adapter power up in 40 column mode CGA 80 Color Graphics Adapter power up in 80 column mode MONO Monochrome adapter includes high resolution monochrome adapters Halt On Determines whether or not the system will prompt you if an error is detected during POST No Errors The system boot wi...

Page 26: ...atic Rate Setting Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 Typematic Delay Msec 250 ESC Quit Select Item Security Option System F1 Help PU PD Modify PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Assign IRQ For VGA Enabled F6 Load BIOS Defaults MPS Version Control For OS 1 4 F7 Load Setup Defaults Virus Warning When enabled the BIOS will warn the user when any program attempts to write to ...

Page 27: ...ng For instance if your boot sequence was set to C A and for some reason you wanted to boot to your Floppy A Drive it would not be possible since the BIOS would always 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 o...

Page 28: ... 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 card installed requires VGA palette snooping The settings are Disabled or Enabled Assign IRQ For VGA The Enabled option ...

Page 29: ...Setup This setup menu contains advanced configuration options relating to the mainboard chipset These options are rarely changed by the user SDRAM CAS latency Time 3 Current CPU1 Temp 47 C 116 F DRAM Data Integrity Mode Non ECC Current CPU2 Temp 47 C 116 F System BIOS Cacheable Enabled Current System Temp 35 C 95 F Video RAM Cacheable Enabled Current CPU1 Fan Speed 5400 RPM 8 Bit I O Recovery Time...

Page 30: ...ry 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 1 is the default Memory Hole At 15M 16M In order to improve compatibility certain space in memory can be reserved for old style ISA cards that map memory between 15M 16M Do not enable this feature unless you use the old style ISA card otherwise the memory size may be reduced...

Page 31: ...ed a warning will be issued via the speaker Options are Disabled 40 C 104 F 45 C 113 F and 50 C 122 F CPUFAN Warning Speed Once the speed of the CPU cooling fan falls below the speed specified in RPM rotation per minute a warning will be issued via the speaker Options are Disabled 3000 3500 4000 RPM Auto Disable Unused Clock When enabled any clock not in use will be disabled to reduce EMI radiatio...

Page 32: ...ect Item Power On by Alarm Disabled F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults IRQ 8 Break suspend Disabled 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 thre...

Page 33: ...ll operate at full speed Standby 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 d...

Page 34: ...IRQ 3 7 9 15 NMI when asserted reload the Global Standby Timer Primary Secondary IDE 0 1 Floppy Disk Serial Port Parallel Port Enable reload events from the respective device monitor to reload the Global Standby Timer PNP PCI Configuration Setup The PCI Personal Component Interconnect Bus was developed by Intel and other industry leader partners primarily to address two important issues faced by P...

Page 35: ...trolled By The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices This capability is specifically designed for a Plug and Play operating system such as Windows 95 Choices are Auto and Manual default Reset Configuration Data Reset Configuration Data When set to Enabled ESCD Extended System Configuration Data is cleared This sett...

Page 36: ...oard SCSI BIOS will load and control the SCSI adapter Disabling the onboard SCSI BIOS prevents it from being active in any way PCI Latency Timer This option sets latency of all PCI devices on the PCI bus The settings are in units equal to PCI clocks Available settings are 0 248 The default is 80 Load BIOS Defaults Loads Fail Safe settings into the BIOS Setup program These options are designed to s...

Page 37: ...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 On Chip Primary PCI IDE Enables or Disables the primary controller Situations where this controller would be disabled are a You are not using any IDE Drives or b You are using an add on IDE controller in a PCI Slot On Chip Secondary PCI ...

Page 38: ...roller you will need to disable this feature Onboard Serial Port 1 With this option the on board Serial Port 1 can be Disabled or set to Auto 3F8 IRQ4 Default 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 or 2E8 IRQ3 Onboard Serial Port 2 With this option the on board Serial Port 2 can be Disabled or set to Auto 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Default 3E8 IRQ4 or 2E8 IRQ3 InfraRed COM2 Mode Selected By default this field is set to UART CO...

Page 39: ... back To 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 F...

Page 40: ...en 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 function...

Page 41: ...t invoking Configuration Utility After a brief pause your computer will display the Main Menu of the utility The Symbios SCSI Configuration Utility This menu driven utility allows 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...

Page 42: ...ange Adapter Status Allows you to activate or deactivate a host adapter and all SCSI devices attached to it The change takes place after a reboot which is automatic upon exit from the utility when this option is changed Adapter Boot Order Allows you to set the order in which host adapters will boot when more than one Symbios host adapter is present in the system To change an adapter s boot order s...

Page 43: ...movable Media Support None Help Restore Default Setup Exit this menu SCAM Support SCAM SCSI Configured AutoMatically is the SCSI Plug and Play protocol supported by Symbios BIOS version 4 X Parity The Symbios host adapters always generate parity but some SCSI devices do not Therefore you are offered the option of disabling parity checking Note When disabling parity checking it is also necessary to...

Page 44: ...tem boot up c Only media with 512Bytes sector is supported None The removable media devices will not be used as BIOS devices Boot Drive Only Allows only the removable media installed as Drive C to work as a BIOS device With Media Installed Enables all removable disk drives to work as BIOS devices Device Selections Settings for the devices attached to the selected adapter are viewed and changed SYM...

Page 45: ... this option as enabled Disconnect SCSI devices have the ability to disconnect from the bus during an I O transfer This option tells the host adapter whether or not to allow a device to disconnect Some devices run faster with disconnect enabled mostly newer devices while some run faster with disconnect disabled mostly older devices Read Write I O Timeout secs This option sets the time the host ada...

Page 46: ...s Configuration utility properly You should return to the Main Menu and exit via the Quit option If you reboot the system without properly exiting the utility some changes may not be saved Device Drivers To function properly with different SCSI devices under different operating systems you ll need to install device drivers The device driver information should be available in your SCSI adapter s pa...

Page 47: ...s 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 ENTER 4 The AWDFLAS...

Page 48: ...formation 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 Edit DMI Add DMI Load DMI FILE Save DMI FILE BIOS System Base Board Enclosure Chassis Processor Memory Controller Memory Module Memory Module Memory Module Memory Module Cache Cache Port Connec...

Page 49: ...RNING BEEP The Hardware Monitor utility included with your mainboard is designed for Windows 95 Windows NT With this utility installed an error message will pop up under Windows 95 Windows NT in addition to the warning beep to alert the user when problem occurs The utility includes the following files MONITOR EXE Hardware monitor utility HMINSTALL EXE Hardware monitor utility installation program ...

Page 50: ...ore 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 133MB sec at 33MHz 80 byte DMA FIFO for 2 4 8 16 dwords burst across PCI bus PCI Integration Full 32 bit PCI DMA bus master Ju...

Page 51: ...DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER P6B40D A5 User s Manual P6B40D A5 User s Manual 51 51 Mainboard BIOS Support Adapter Setup Device Setup ...

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