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P6F40-B5 User’s Manual

BIOS FEATURES SETUP................................................................................. 20

CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP.......................................................................... 23

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

HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT .......................................................................... 33

SAVE & EXIT SETUP / EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ........................................ 34

BUILT-IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS ....................................................... 35

FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY ....................................... 40

DMI UTILITY ...................................................................................... 41

DC-310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER ............................................. 42

MAINBOARD DIAGRAMS

Board Level Features ........................................................................................ 5

Comprehensive Mainboard View ....................................................................... 7

Jumper Locations .............................................................................................. 11

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Page 1: ...P6F40 B5 MAINBOARD User s Manual REV 1 1 Date 01 97 All other products names are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners ...

Page 2: ... Cooling Fan 8 Setting the CPU Clock Selection Jumpers 9 Installing the Memory DRAM SIMMS 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 MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP 15 Using Setup 15 Getting Help 15 A Final...

Page 3: ...EFAULTS 29 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS 29 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 30 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD AND USER PASSWORD SETTING 32 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION 33 HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT 33 SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING 34 BUILT IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS 35 FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY 40 DMI UTILITY 41 DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER 42 þ MAINBOARD DIAGRAMS Board Level Features 5 Comprehensive Mainboard View 7 Jumper Locatio...

Page 4: ...s as 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 P6F40 B5 facilitates easy system configuration and peripheral setup With support for up to 512MB of System RAM Fast Page mode EDO and BEDO the P6F40 B5 is the ideal foundation for high end co...

Page 5: ... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 Keyboard BIOS 11 DRAM SIMM sockets 2 Mainboard BIOS 12 Floppy connector 3 USB connector 13 Primary IDE connector 4 Back Infrared IR connector 14 Secondary IDE connector 5 PS 2 mouse connector 15 Front Infrared IR connector 6 AT keyboard connector 16 Real Time Clock Battery 7 COM1 connector 17 CPU socket 8 COM2 connector 18 ISA slots 9 Printer port connector 19 PCI slo...

Page 6: ... AT style keyboards 7 COM1 CONNECTOR High speed UART compatible serial port 8 COM2 CONNECTOR High speed UART compatible serial port COM2 can be directed to the Infrared Module for wireless connection capability 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 memo...

Page 7: ... 4 PCI Bus 5 ISA Bus 1 ISA Bus 2 ISA Bus 3 Key board PS 2 Mouse 1 1 1 1 USB IrDA IR 1 IrDA IR Fan Power JP1 JP2 JP3 JP4 J13 J14 JP5 1 7 8 2 1 HD LED IDE CPU Clock ratio JP6 1 Clear CMOS J16 1 20 19 Turbo LED SMI Reset Keyboard Lock Speaker J15 1 2 Socket 8 1 1 1 1 x2 x4 x3 x2 5 x3 5 66MHz 60MHz JP3 JP4 Bus Clock Super I O Enabled Disabled PS 2 mouse Enabled Disabled normal Clear 12V G G CPU Clock ...

Page 8: ...he tabs on the socket holding the fan and CPU firmly in place and preventing the CPU from working loose during shipping Other Fans should be installed first before inserting the CPU into its socket 1 Locate the ZIF Zero Insertion Force Socket 8 This socket supports Pentium Pro CPUs 150 200Mhz 2 First open the socket by pulling the lever sideways then upwards Notice how the lever locks in place whe...

Page 9: ...e below 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 Bus Clock MHz CPU Clock Ratio 60 66 x2 x2 5 x3 x3 5 x4 JP3 JP4 JP5 These jumpers automatically set the ISA Clock as well If you are uncertain about the speed or voltage requirements of your particular CPU you should obtain Technical ...

Page 10: ... four 128MB SIMMS Installed Minimum RAM capacity is 8MB With two 4MB SIMMS Installed 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 2 Install SIMMS 1 and 2 first The SIMMS must be oriented in the correct way There is a notch in one end of ...

Page 11: ...1 2 Enabled 2 3 Disabled The onboard Super I O controller W83877F can be disabled to allow the use of an add on I O controller Set JP1 to pins 2 3 to disable the onboard Floppy Controller Serial Ports Parallel Port and IrDA support JP2 PS 2 Mouse on IRQ12 JP2 enables or disables the on board PS 2 mouse lead connector When closed the port becomes active and uses IRQ12 3 pin Jumper 2 pin Jumper Pin ...

Page 12: ... used to save electricity by putting the system into a suspend mode when the computer is not being used This switch could also be used by the Turbo switch on the front of the system since this mainboard does not support that function For this 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 S...

Page 13: ...oard 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 the mainboard to the RED stripe on the ribbon cable IrDA co...

Page 14: ...rives 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 jumpers which allow the user to configure the device as ei...

Page 15: ... 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 16: ...ns 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 2A59F008 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...

Page 17: ...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 18: ...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 19: ...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 20: ...ow Disabled System 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 Palette Snoop Disabled F1 Help PU PD ...

Page 21: ...s 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 C A System will first search hard disk drive then floppy disk drive for boot sector A C System will first search for boot sector on floppy disk then hard disk CDROM C A System will first se...

Page 22: ... 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 23: ...doff Timing Disabled Read Around Write Enabled PCI Burst Write Combine Enabled PCI To DRAM Pipeline Enabled CPU To PCI Write Post Enabled ESC Quit Select USWC Write Posting Enabled F1 Help PU PD Mod CPU To PCI IDE Posting Enabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color System BIOS Cacheable Disabled F6 Load BIOS Defaults Video RAM Cacheable Disabled F7 Load Setup Defaults Auto Configuration When Enabled pre ...

Page 24: ...take place while the remaining three parts provide the actual data The lower the timing numbers the faster the system will address memory x2 3 4 timing is the default x2 3 4 Read DRAM BEDO EDO FPM timings are 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 x2 2 3 Read DRAM BEDO EDO FPM timings are 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 x3 4 4 Read DRAM BEDO EDO FPM timings are 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 DRAM Write Burst B E F Sets the timing for burst mode...

Page 25: ...fault the CPU to PCI IDE posting cycles will be treated as normal I O write transactions System BIOS Cacheable When Enabled Default the contents of the F0000h system memory segment can be read from or written to the Level 2 cache memory The contents of the F0000h memory segment are always copied from the BIOS ROM to system RAM for faster execution Video RAM Cacheable Enabled will cause access to t...

Page 26: ...o Off Option Susp Stby Off IRQ5 LPT 2 ON Suspend Switch Enabled IRQ6 Floppy Disk ON MODEM Use IRQ 3 IRQ7 LPT 1 ON IRQ8 RTC Alarm OFF Doze Mode Disabled IRQ9 IRQ2 Redir ON Standby Mode Disabled IRQ10 Reserved ON Suspend Mode Disabled IRQ11 Reserved ON HDD Power Down Disabled IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse ON IRQ13 Coprocessor ON Wake Up Events In Doze Standby IRQ14 Hard Disk ON IRQ3 Wake Up Event OFF IRQ15 Reser...

Page 27: ... setting tells the BIOS which IRQ the modem is using so that any activity on that interrupt can bring the system out of power saving mode Options are NA 3 Default 4 5 7 9 10 11 PM Timers The following four modes are Green PC power saving functions which are only user configurable when User Defined Power Management has been selected See above for available selections Doze Mode When enabled and afte...

Page 28: ...ces such as Network cards EIDE or SCSI controllers PCI accomplishes these goals with its 32 bit Data path Local Bus design and support for Plug Play Unlike older expansion bus architectures PCI provides peripherals with a direct connection to the CPU and memory The PCI bus runs at 33Mhz and has a maximum transfer capability of 132MBps With Plug Play the system BIOS automatically determines hardwar...

Page 29: ...hoices are Level Default and Edge PCI IDE IRQ Map To Configures what type of IDE disk controller is in use By default Setup assumes that you are using the on board PCI IDE Controller and this option is set to PCI AUTO If you have equipped your system with an add on PCI controller changing this setting allows you to specify which slot has the controller and which PCI interrupt A B C or D is associa...

Page 30: ... 30 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS Loads the default values for best system performance into the BIOS Setup program To load the default values highlight this option and press ENTER Enter Y in the confirmation screen and press ENTER again User defined options in the Standard CMOS Setup are not affected ...

Page 31: ...lp PU PD Modify 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 32: ... 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 CO...

Page 33: ...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 34: ...ACK LIST PREFORMAT Current select drive is C Drive C CYLINDER 0 HEAD 0 SIZE 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 94 All Rights Reserved SELECT DRIVE Select from installed ha...

Page 35: ...r key to abort The Exit Without Saving option allows the user to exit the BIOS Setup without updating any changes made during the current session PCI Device Listing This list of installed PCI devices appears after the System Configuration screen 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 controlle...

Page 36: ...ARD BIOS SETUP P6F40 B5 User s Manual P6F40 B5 User s Manual 36 36 The PCI device listing is useful for troubleshooting purposes More detailed information for each field may be obtained through the PCI specification documentation ...

Page 37: ...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 38: ...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 39: ... 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 40: ...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 41: ... 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 42: ...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 43: ...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 44: ...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 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...

Page 45: ...DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER P6F40 B5 User s Manual P6F40 B5 User s Manual 45 45 Mainboard BIOS Support Adapter Setup Device Setup ...

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