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BUILT-IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS

User’s Manual

Since some changes only take effect after your system reboots, it is important that you quit
this 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 package.

Summary of Contents for P6E40-A4

Page 1: ...MAINBOARD User s Manual REV 1 01 Date April 98 All other products names are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners ...

Page 2: ...ever 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 equipment a...

Page 3: ...rs 12 Connections 13 Installing the Memory DIMM 19 Installing an AGP Card 19 MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP 20 About the BIOS 20 Main Menu 21 Standard CMOS Setup 22 BIOS Features Setup 25 Chipset Features Setup 28 Power Management Setup 31 PNP PCI Configuration Setup 33 Load BIOS Defaults 35 Load Setup Defaults 35 Integrated Peripherals Setup 36 Supervisor Password and User Password Setting 39 IDE HDD Auto ...

Page 4: ...TABLE OF CONTENTS User s Manual User s Manual 4 4 Save Exit Setup Exit Without Saving 41 PCI Device Listing 41 BUILT IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS 42 FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY 48 DMI UTILITY 49 HARDWARE MONITORING UTILITY 51 ...

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 this mainboard 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: ...2 Serial Ports 16550 Fast UART Compatible 2xUSB Ports 1 IrDA TX RX Header 1xWake up On LAN Header 1xPower state Header Advanced Features 1 Accelerated Graphics Port AGP slot supports AGP 66 133 MHz Sideband 3 3V device 2 Hardware monitoring Voltage CPU Fan Temperature 3 Modem Ring in Power on PCI Bus Master IDE 2 UltraDMA 33 IDE Ports support UltraDMA 33 33MB Sec Expansion Slots 1 32 bit AGP slot ...

Page 7: ...or top 3 Mainboard BIOS 13 PS 2 keyboard connector bottom 4 PCI slots 14 Power connector 5 AGP slot 15 Intel 440EX chipset 6 Infrared IR connector 16 DIMM sockets 7 SLOT 1 CPU 17 Floppy connector 8 COM2 connector 18 Secondary IDE connector 9 Printer port connector 19 Primary IDE connector 10 COM1 connector Board Size ATX 305 mm x 185 mm 12 x 7 3 ...

Page 8: ...e 25 pin D Sub parallel port 10 COM1 CONNECTOR High speed UART compatible serial port 11 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 12 PS 2 MOUSE CONNECTOR Supports PS 2 style mice 13 PS 2 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR Supports PS 2 style keyb...

Page 9: ...INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION User s Manual 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 mainboard features SLOT 1 architecture a modular design that can accommodate Intel Pentium II as well as Celeron processors Before installing the CPU attach the retention mechanism first Attaching the Retention Mechanism ...

Page 11: ... a CPU Cooling Fan to prevent the CPU from overheating Install the fan first before inserting the CPU into the socket 1 Slide the CPU down into the retention mechanism and seat it firmly into the slot Make sure the CPU is correctly oriented Fig 1 2 Lock the CPU in place by pushing the two tabs on the CPU outwards Fig 2 Fig 1 Fig 2 ...

Page 12: ...2 and JP5 on the mainboard Set the jumper according to the 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 These jumpers automatically set the ISA Clock as well Intel 440EX chipset supports only 66 MHz bus clock The 75 83MHz settings are for internal test only Over clocking...

Page 13: ...lug in the fan cable to the connector Pin 2 corresponds to the RED power lead as shown CPU Thermal Sensor JP12 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 G ND 12V GND Fan Power Thermal Sensor ...

Page 14: ... than 4 seconds to power off your system regardless of the BIOS setting Refer to page 31 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 keyed to preve...

Page 15: ...nabled 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 from the system s case Pins 8 10 connect to th...

Page 16: ...re through the BIOS 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 up By Ring ...

Page 17: ...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 at the END...

Page 18: ...device is one that is ALONE on the IDE cable whereas a Slave 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...

Page 19: ...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 outwards to release the module then pull the module out of the socket Installing an AGP Card This mainboard provides an AGP slot to support a new generation of graphics cards with high performance graphics capability Note Make sure that the AGP card is firmly seat...

Page 20: ...ur 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 F1 will displ...

Page 21: ...o 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 HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS...

Page 22: ...like that above 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 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...

Page 23: ...g 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 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...

Page 24: ...s are supported you do not have to select their type in Setup EGA VGA Enhanced 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 prom...

Page 25: ... DBFFF Shadow Disabled Auto Disable Unused Clock Enabled DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 Typematic Delay Msec 250 Security Option System ESC Quit Select Item PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled F1 Help PU PD Modify Assign IRQ For VGA Enabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults Virus Warning When enabled the BIO...

Page 26: ...anted 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 on every boot A C System will first search for boot sector on floppy disk then ...

Page 27: ...ord 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 MP...

Page 28: ...M RAS Precharge Time Fast DRAM Speed Selection 60ns SDRAM CAS Latency Time 2 MA Wait State Slow EDO RAS To CAS Delay 2 System Hardware Monitor EDO RAS Precharge Time 4 CPU Overheat Alarm 65o C Disabled EDO DRAM Read Burst x333 CPU Fan Malfunction Alarm Disabled EDO DRAM Write Burst x222 System 5V Alarm 4 7V Disabled CPU To PCI IDE Posting Enabled System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video BIOS Cacheable...

Page 29: ...l be lost Options are 3 or 4 Clocks EDO DRAM Read Burst Sets the burst mode read timing for EDO DRAM Burst read and write requests are generated by the CPU in four separate parts The first part provides the location within the DRAM where the read or write is to take place while the remaining three parts provide the actual data The lower the timing numbers the faster the system will address memory ...

Page 30: ... DRAM array Delayed Transaction When enabled the delay transaction mechanism will be in effect when PIIX4 is the target of a PCI transaction Disabled is the default AGP Aperture Size MB Options are 4 8 16 32 64 default 128 and 256 MB SDRAM RAS To CAS Delay This option allows you to determine the delay time between the assertion of RAS To CAS Options are slow and fast default This has no impact on ...

Page 31: ...y Ring LAN Disabled Power up by Alarm Disabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color IRQ 8 Break Suspend Disabled 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 sele...

Page 32: ...l other devices still 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 inactiv...

Page 33: ...ad 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 PC hardware designers today a How to...

Page 34: ...F7 Load Setup Defaults PNP OS Installed Set to Yes if your operating system supports Plug Play such as Windows 95 Resources Controlled 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 Res...

Page 35: ...evices and an ISA slot requires an IRQ set this function to Disabled The IRQ previously occupied by the USB device will be available for the ISA slot Used MEM base address This item allows you to determine which basic addresses are not to be occupied by PCI Card and leave these addresses for some special ISA Card used only Choices are C800 CC00 D000 D400 D800 DC00 Load BIOS Defaults Loads Fail Saf...

Page 36: ...ect Item Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto F1 Help PU PD Modify InfraRed COM2 Selected UART COM2 F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 F6 Load BIOS Defaults Onboard Parallel Mode ECP EPP 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 defaul...

Page 37: ... your system has an AGP card coexisting with other PCI or ISA VGA cards enabling this option tells your system to use the AGP card Onboard FDD 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 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 or 2E8 IRQ3 Auto is Default Onboard Serial Port 2 With this option the ...

Page 38: ...MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP User s Manual User s Manual 38 38 Parallel Port EPP Type Options are 1 7 and 1 9 default IEEE 1284 compliant ...

Page 39: ...et 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 40: ...ZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE Primary Master 850 1647 16 65535 1646 63 AUTO Primary Slave 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO Secondary Master 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO Secondary Slave 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO Up Down Select item ENTER Accept ECS Exit Abort Copyright c Award Software Inc 1992 98 All Rights Reserved SELECT DRIVE Select from installed hard disk drive C or D Listed at the bottom of the screen is the drive auto...

Page 41: ...ce Listing This list of installed PCI devices appears after the System Configuration screen PCI device listing Bus No Device No Func No Vendor ID Device ID Device Class IRQ 0 7 1 8086 7111 IDE Controller 14 15 0 7 2 8086 7112 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 ...

Page 42: ... 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 following...

Page 43: ...r 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 select it an...

Page 44: ...dia 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 disable d...

Page 45: ...p 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 SYM53C860 Dev...

Page 46: ...on 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 adapter waits...

Page 47: ...ation 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 package ...

Page 48: ...H 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 AWDFLASH Utility ...

Page 49: ...type memory size type L1 L2 cache port connectors IDE floppy 2S 1P USB keyboard mouse slots etc Using DMI remote PC management software is able to obtain various information about the system including hardware profiles capabilities operational status installation dates and other information about the system and its components This DMI utility DMICFG EXE allows you to add additional information suc...

Page 50: ...DMI UTILITY DMI UTILITY User s Manual User s Manual 50 50 ...

Page 51: ... 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 Readme fil...

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