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MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP

P6L40-A4E

P6L40-A4E User’s Manual

User’s Manual

Integrated Peripherals Setup

This menu is used to configure the integrated IDE subsystem and other peripherals.

IDE HDD Block Mode

: Enabled

Parallel Port EPP Type

: EPP 1.9

On-Chip Primary PCI IDE

: Enabled

IDE Primary Master PIO

: Auto

IDE Primary Slave PIO

: Auto

IDE Primary Master UDMA

: Auto

IDE Primary Slave UDMA

: Auto

On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE

: Enabled

IDE Secondary Master PIO

: Auto

IDE Secondary Slave PIO

: Auto

IDE Secondary Master UDMA

: Auto

IDE Secondary Slave UDMA

: Auto

USB Keyboard Support

: Disabled

Onboard FDD Controller

: Enabled

Onboard Serial Port 1

: Auto

Onboard Serial Port 2

: Auto

ESC: Quit

↑

↓

→

←

Select

Item

InfraRed/COM2 Selected

: UART COM2

F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify

Onboard Parallel Port

: 378/IRQ7

F5 : Old Values (Shift) F2: Color

Onboard Parallel Mode

: ECP/EPP

F6 : Load BIOS Defaults

ECP Mode Use DMA

: 3

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

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

b) You are

using an add-on IDE controller in a PCI Slot

On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE

Enables or Disables the secondary controller. Situations

where this controller would be disabled are:

a) You are not using any IDE Drives

b) You

are using IDE Drives ONLY on the primary controller

c) You are using an add-on IDE

controller in a PCI Slot

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Page 1: ...P6L40 A4E MAINBOARD User s Manual REV 1 00 Date February 98 All other products 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: ... the Jumpers 12 Connections 13 Installing the Memory DIMM 19 Installing an AGP Card 20 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 37 Supervisor Password and User Password Setting 40 IDE...

Page 4: ... User s Manual P6L40 A4E User s Manual 4 4 Save Exit Setup Exit Without Saving 42 PCI Device Listing 42 BUILT IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS 44 FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY 49 DMI UTILITY 50 HARDWARE MONITORING UTILITY 51 DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER 52 ...

Page 5: ... such advanced features 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 P6L40 A4E facilitates easy system configuration and peripheral setup Advanced BIOS features include Intelligent Hardware Monitoring and Alert functions The Award BIOS al...

Page 6: ...allel Port EPP ECP Port 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 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 Slot...

Page 7: ...eyboard BIOS 12 PS 2 mouse connector top 3 Mainboard BIOS 13 PS 2 keyboard connector bottom 4 PCI slots 14 Power connector 5 AGP slot 15 Intel 440LX 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: ...le 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 key...

Page 9: ...INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION P6L40 A4E P6L40 A4E User s Manual User s Manual 9 9 Comprehensive Mainboard View ...

Page 10: ...cards and modules by the edges or mounting bracket ü Before you handle the mainboard in any 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 P6L40 A4E mainboard features SLOT 1 architecture a modular design that can accommodate Intel Pentium II processors Before install...

Page 11: ... use 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: ... 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 440LX chipset supports only 60 66 MHz bus clock The 75 83MHz settings are for internal test only Over clocking may caus...

Page 13: ...ling Fan Plug 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: ... for longer than 4 seconds to power off your system regardless of the BIOS setting Refer to page 33 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 key...

Page 15: ...irst 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 from the system s case Pins 8 10 conn...

Page 16: ...ON P6L40 P6L40 A A4 4E E User s Manual User s Manual 16 16 Ring LAN function from BIOS setup Please refer to page 32 This allows the modem to remotely power on the system or return it to full power out of suspend standby mode ...

Page 17: ...served 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 Resume By Ring LAN field in the Power Management Setup of the Award BIOS Connect the cable ...

Page 18: ...n 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: ...used for up to 2 additional ATAPI devices Normally it s recommended that you connect your first hard drive to the Primary port and the first CD ROM to the Secondary Make sure to align the RED stripe on the ribbon cable with Pin 1 on the mainboard IDE connector On most hard drives and CD ROMs the RED stripe should be oriented towards the power connector of the device Installing the Memory DIMM The ...

Page 20: ...hile then reinstalling it back CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor refers to the chip in which the BIOS information is stored The P6L40 A4E mainboard features Award BIOS which provides an easy to use Setup program to aid in hardware configuration In this section we will look at the various menus and options contained in the Award BIOS Setup Program This mainboard also features a Flash BIO...

Page 21: ...Shortly after the system is powered on provided a CPU and sufficient RAM are installed you will see the message Press DEL to enter SETUP Press the DEL key to enter the Award BIOS Setup program Main Menu Once you enter the Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility the Main Menu will appear on the screen The Main Menu allows you to select from several setup functions and two exit choices Use the arrow keys to s...

Page 22: ...stem 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 cor...

Page 23: ...ant 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 Head...

Page 24: ...A 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 prompt you if an error is detected during POST No Errors The system boot...

Page 25: ...s On D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled Auto Disable Unused Clock Disabled 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 enab...

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

Page 27: ...bles password 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 ...

Page 28: ...S To CAS Delay Fast DRAM Speed Selection 60ns SDRAM RAS Precharge Time Fast MA Wait State Fast SDRAM CAS Latency Time 2 EDO RAS To CAS Delay 2 EDO RAS Precharge Time 4 System Hardware Monitor EDO DRAM Read Burst x333 CPU Overheat Alarm 65o C Disabled EDO DRAM Write Burst x222 CPU Fan Malfunction Alarm Disabled System 5V Alarm 4 7V Disabled DRAM Data Integrity Mode Non ECC CPU To PCI IDE Posting En...

Page 29: ...nd data will be lost Options are 3 or 4 Clocks Default 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...

Page 30: ...reduced to 15 MB for some O S Disabled is the default Passive Release The PIIX4 provides a programmable Passive Release mechanism to meet the required master latencies When enabled default ISA masters may see long delays in access to any PCI memory including the main DRAM array Delayed Transaction When enabled the delay transaction mechanism will be in effect when PIIX4 is the target of a PCI tran...

Page 31: ...econdary IDE 0 Disabled Doze Mode Disabled Secondary IDE 1 Disabled Standby Mode Disabled Floppy Disk Disabled Suspend Mode Disabled Serial Port Enabled HDD Power Down Disabled Parallel Port Disabled Throttle Duty Cycle 62 5 VGA Active Monitor Enabled Soft Off by PWR BTTN Instant Off PWRON After PWR Fail On Resume By Ring LAN Disabled Resume By Alarm Disabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Mod...

Page 32: ...agement BIOS which IRQ is assigned to the installed MODEM Options are NA 3 default 4 5 7 9 10 and 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 below for available selections Doze Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the CPU clock will run at slower speed w...

Page 33: ...oft Off PC Refer to Wake up On LAN Connector on page 16 for more information Resume by Alarm When enabled the system will automatically power on or returns to full power out of suspend standby mode at the time and date of the month 0 for daily specified IRQ 8 Break Suspend When IRQ 8 Clock Event is enabled the unmasked IRQ8 will generate a Fast Burst Timer reload or stop break event Reload Global ...

Page 34: ...A PnP IRQ 12 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 14 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 15 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 0 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 1 assigned to PCI ISA PnP ESC Quit Select Item DMA 3 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F1 Help PU PD Modify DMA 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color DMA 6 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F6 Load BIOS Defaults DMA 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F7 Load Setup Defaults PNP O...

Page 35: ...IRQ For USB When Enabled the system automatically assigns an IRQ for the USB device connected to your system However if you are not using USB devices and an ISA slot requires an IRQ address set this function to Disabled The IRQ address 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...

Page 36: ...MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP P6L40 P6L40 A A4 4E E User s Manual User s Manual 36 36 ...

Page 37: ...elect Item InfraRed COM2 Selected UART COM2 F1 Help PU PD Modify Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Onboard Parallel Mode ECP EPP F6 Load BIOS Defaults ECP Mode Use DMA 3 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 On C...

Page 38: ...the operating system 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 on board Serial Port 2 can be Disabled or set to 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 or 2E8 IRQ3 Auto is Default InfraR...

Page 39: ...MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP P6L40 A4E P6L40 A4E User s Manual User s Manual 39 39 ...

Page 40: ...t 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 ...

Page 41: ... 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 97 All Rights Reserved SELECT DRIVE Select from installed hard disk drive C or D Listed at the bottom of the screen is the ...

Page 42: ...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 controller 11 0 9 0 1013 7333 Display controller NA Bus No Encoded valu...

Page 43: ...RD BIOS SETUP P6L40 A4E P6L40 A4E User s Manual User s Manual 43 43 The PCI device listing is useful for troubleshooting purposes More detailed information for each field may be obtained through the PCI specification documentation ...

Page 44: ...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 45: ... 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 46: ...I devices do not Therefore you are offered the option of disabling parity checking Note When disabling parity checking it is also necessary to disable disconnect for all devices as parity checking for the reselection phase will not be disabled If a device does not supporting parity disconnects the I O will never complete because the reselection phase will halt Host SCSI ID The host adapter SCSI ID...

Page 47: ...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 will require a system 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 Rea...

Page 48: ...hat 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 ta...

Page 49: ...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 50: ...n 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 Memo...

Page 51: ...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 52: ...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 53: ...DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER DC 310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER P6L40 A4E P6L40 A4E User s Manual User s Manual 53 53 Mainboard BIOS Support Adapter Setup Device Setup ...

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