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Page 1: ...AI5VP AI5VPB Pentium Baby AT Motherboard User s Manual Version 1 1A ...

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Page 3: ... 10 Chapter 4 Hardware Settings 11 4 1 SW2 1 8 CPU Frequency Selector 13 4 2 JBAT1 CMOS RAM Discharge 16 4 3 SW1 1 4 CPU Voltage Selector 16 4 4 CN7 7 17 ATX Power On Switch AI5VPB only 17 Chapter 5 Installation 18 5 1 J4 J5 Serial Ports 20 5 2 CN2 CN4 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connector 20 5 3 J2 Parallel Port Connector 21 5 4 CN5 AT Power Connector 21 5 5 CN6 ATX Power Supply Connector 22 5 6 J3 F...

Page 4: ... 4 BIOS Features Setup 35 6 5 Chipset Features Setup 38 6 6 Power Management Setup 40 6 7 PNP PCI Configuration 42 6 8 Load BIOS Defaults 44 6 9 Load Setup Defaults 44 6 10 Integrated Peripherals 45 6 11 Supervisor User Password 47 6 12 IDE HDD Auto Detection 48 6 13 HDD Low Level Format 48 6 14 Save Exit Setup 49 6 15 Exit Without Saving 49 ...

Page 5: ...ons Hardware Description Hardware Settings Installation BIOS Configuration Checklist Please check that your package is complete and contains the items below If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your dealer The AI5VP AI5VPB Motherboard This User s Manual 1 IDE Ribbon Cable 1 Floppy Ribbon Cable 2 Serial Ribbon Cables 1 Parallel Ribbon Cable Use the two serial cables provided to a...

Page 6: ...Cyrix 6x86 6x86L P150 P166 P200 Cyrix 6x86MX PR166 PR200 PR233 PR266 AMD K5 PR100 PR133 PR166 AMD K6 166 K6 200 K6 233 Pentium MMX P55C Processor Upgrade Intel P6 based Over Drive L2 Cache 256KB or 512KB Pipelined Burst Synchronous SRAM onboard Main Memory Four 72 pin SIMM and one 168 pin DIMM sockets up to 256MB Memory Type SIMMs FPM Fast Page Mode or EDO Extended Data Out SIMM Size 4M 8M 16M 32M...

Page 7: ...5 operating system This feature applies for AI5VPB and requires ATX power supply PC 97 Compliance With the VPX B chipset the BIOS and hardware levels of AI5VPB meet PC 97 compliance The new PC 97 requirements for systems and components are based on the following high level goals Support for Plug and Play compatibility and power management for configuring and managing all system components and 32 b...

Page 8: ...PB motherboard The layout of the board is shown in Figure 1 which shows the locations of the key components The topics covered in this chapter are as follows 3 1 Processor and CPU Voltage 6 3 2 L2 Cache Memory 6 3 3 Main Memory 6 3 4 BIOS 8 3 5 Onboard PCI EIDE 8 3 6 Onboard Multi I O 8 3 7 DMA Channels 9 3 8 I O Port Address Map 9 3 9 Interrupt Request Lines IRQ 10 ...

Page 9: ...scription AI5VP AI5VPB User s Manual 5 Figure 1 Layout of the AI5VP AI5VPB Motherboard NOTE The AI5VPB comes with an AT power connector CN5 and an ATX power connector CN6 The AI5VP does not have the ATX power connector CN6 ...

Page 10: ...onous Cache boosts the system s performance 10 higher than regular Asynchronous Cache 3 3 Main Memory The AI5VP AI5VPB motherboard supports four 72 pin SIMM and an optional 168 pin DIMM Dual In line Memory Module sockets for a maximum total memory of 256MB The DRAMs for the SIMM sockets can be 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB and 64MB in EDO and FPM types DIMM modules can be 8MB 16MB and 32MB The following shoul...

Page 11: ...2 8MB 8MB 2 16MB 16MB 2 32MB 32MB 2 64MB 4MB 2 4MB 2 16MB 8MB 2 4MB 2 24MB 16MB 2 4MB 2 40MB 32MB 2 4MB 2 72MB 8MB 2 8MB 2 32MB 16MB 2 8MB 2 48MB 32MB 2 8MB 2 80MB 16MB 2 16MB 2 64MB 32MB 2 16MB 2 96MB 32MB 2 32MB 2 128MB 64MB 2 64MB 2 256MB 2 168 pin DIMM 3 3V Optional SDRAM or Fast Page Mode EDO DRAM Bank0 DIMM1 Total Memory 8MB 8MB 16MB 16MB 32MB 32MB ...

Page 12: ...ment feature provides power savings by slowing down the CPU clock turning off the monitor screen and stopping the HDD spindle motor 3 5 Onboard PCI EIDE The PCI EIDE controller is part of the VPX chipset It supports PIO mode 3 4 and bus mastering The peak transfer rate of PIO mode 3 4 can be as high as 17MB sec Using HDDs that support bus mastering the peak transfer rate can reach 22MB sec There a...

Page 13: ... lists the I O port addresses used on the motherboard Address Device Description 000h 01Fh DMA Controller 1 020h 03Fh Interrupt Controller 1 040h 05Fh Timer 060h 06Fh Keyboard Controller 070h 07Fh Real Time Clock NMI 080h 09Fh DMA Page Register 0A0h 0BFh Interrupt Controller 2 0C0h 0DFh DMA Controller 2 0F0h Clear Math Coprocessor Busy Signal 0F1h Reset Math Coprocessor 1F0h 1F7h IDE Interface 278...

Page 14: ...e service required The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on the motherboard Level Function IRQ0 System Timer Output IRQ1 Keyboard IRQ2 Interrupt Cascade IRQ3 Serial Port 2 IRQ4 Serial Port 1 IRQ5 Parallel Port 2 IRQ6 Floppy Disk Controller IRQ7 Parallel Port 1 IRQ8 Real Time Clock IRQ9 Software Redirected to Int 0Ah IRQ10 Reserved IRQ11 Reserved IRQ12 Reserved IRQ13 80287 IRQ14 Pri...

Page 15: ...motherboard 4 1 SW2 1 8 CPU Frequency Selector 13 4 2 JBAT1 CMOS RAM Discharge 16 4 3 SW1 1 4 CPU Voltage Selector 16 4 4 CN7 7 17 ATX Power On Switch AI5VPB only 17 For the locations of the jumpers refer to Figure 2 on the following page The following examples show the conventions used in this chapter Jumper Open Jumper Closed Switch 1 and switch 2 are set to OFF Switch 3 and switch 4 are set to ...

Page 16: ...Settings 12 AI5VP AI5VPB User s Manual Figure 2 Jumper Locations of the AI5VP AI5VPB NOTE The AI5VPB comes with an AT power connector CN5 and an ATX power connector CN6 The AI5VP does not have the ATX power connector CN6 ...

Page 17: ... 5x P54C 75 60MHz 1 5x P54C 90 66MHz 1 5x P54C 100 60MHz 2x P54C 120 66MHz 2x P54C 133 60MHz 2 5x P54C 150 66MHz 2 5x P54C P55C 166 66MHz 3x P54C P55C 200 66MHz 3 5x P55C 233 P55C Pentium with MMX technology Caution When installing a CPU into the AI5VP AI5VPB ensure that 1 CPU clock multiplier settings are correct SW2 1 8 2 CPU voltage settings are correct SW1 1 4 ...

Page 18: ...0MHz 2x P120 100MHz 55MHz 2x P133 110MHz 60MHz 2x P150 120MHz 66MHz 2x P166 133MHz 75MHz 2x P200 150MHz For Cyrix 6x86MX CPU SW2 1 8 Bus Clock Multiplier CPU Freq 75MHz 2x PR200 150MHz 60MHz 2 5x PR166 150MHz 66MHz 2 5x PR200 166MHz 75MHz 2 5x PR233 233MHz 66MHz 3x PR233 200MHz 75MHz 3x PR266 225MHz 66MHz 3 5x PR266 233MHz ...

Page 19: ...off off on on on off 50MHz 1 5x PR75 60MHz 1 5x PR90 66MHz 1 5x PR100 60MHz 1 5x PR120 66MHz 1 5x PR133 60MHz 1 75x PR150 66MHz 1 75x 2 5x PR166 K6 166 66MHz 3x K6 200 WinChip 2 3D C6 200 66MHz 3 5x K6 233 75MHz 3x WinChip 2 3D C6 225 66MHz 3x K6 200 60MHz 4x WinChip 2 3D C6 240 66MHz 4x K6 266 K6 2 266 WinChip 2 3D C6 266 66MHz 4 5x K6 300 ...

Page 20: ...elector For Single Voltage CPU Intel P54C Cyrix 6x86 AMD K5 IDT WinChip C6 SW1 VIO VCORE on on on on 3 5V 3 5V For Dual Voltage CPU Intel P55C Cyrix 6x86L MX AMD K5 K6 SW1 VIO VCORE CPU 3 3V 3 5V WinChip 2 3D 0 35µ 3 3V 3 2V K6 233 3 3V 3 1V 3 3V 3 0V 3 3V 2 9V K6 166 200 6x86MX 3 3V 2 8V P55C 6x86L WinChip 2 3D 0 25µ 3 3V 2 7V 0 35µ and 0 25µ refers to the manufacturing process ...

Page 21: ...voltage as printed on the top side of the CPU 4 4 CN7 7 17 ATX Power On Switch AI5VPB only This connector provides two power modes sleep and soft off mode Pushing the power button for less than 4 seconds places the system into sleep mode Pressing the button for more than 4 seconds puts the system into the soft off mode This function works with an ATX power supply and according to the power button ...

Page 22: ...5 1 J4 J5 Serial Ports 20 5 2 CN2 CN4 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connector 20 5 3 J2 Parallel Port Connector 21 5 4 CN5 AT Power Connector 21 5 5 CN6 ATX Power Supply Connector 22 5 6 J3 Floppy Drive Connector 22 5 7 IDE1 IDE2 EIDE Connectors 23 5 8 CN7 Front Bezel Connector 24 Speaker Pins 1 4 Power Saving Switch Connector Pin 6 and 16 Turbo LED Connector Pins 8 and 18 Reset Switch Pins 9 and 19 Har...

Page 23: ...tion AI5VP AI5VPB User s Manual 19 Figure 3 Connector Locations of the AI5VP AI5VPB NOTE The AI5VPB comes with an AT power connector CN5 and an ATX power connector CN6 The AI5VP does not have the ATX power connector CN6 ...

Page 24: ...ignal Name 1 DCD Data carrier detect 2 RXD Receive data 3 TXD Transmit data 4 DTR Data terminal ready 5 GND ground 6 DSR Data set ready 7 RTS Request to send 8 CTS Clear to send 9 RI Ring indicator 10 Not Used 5 2 CN2 CN4 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connector CN2 AT Keyboard Connector CN2 Pin Signal Name 1 Keyboard Clock 2 Keyboard Data 3 N C 4 Ground 5 Vcc CN4 PS 2 Mouse Connector Pin Signal Name 1 M...

Page 25: ...rallel data 7 9 22 Ground ACK acknowledge 10 23 Ground Busy 11 24 Ground Paper empty 12 25 Ground Select 13 N A N A 5 4 CN5 AT Power Connector When using an AT compatible power supply plug both of the power supply connectors into CN5 Make sure the power supply connectors are connected in the right orientation the black wires of each power cable are ADJACENT to each other That is the black wires of...

Page 26: ... 5VSB 11 1 20 10 5V 20 10 12V 5 6 J3 Floppy Drive Connector J3 is a 34 pin header and will support up to 2 88MB floppy drives Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name Ground 1 2 RM LC Ground 3 4 No connect Ground 5 6 No connect Ground 7 8 Index Ground 9 10 Motor enable 0 Ground 11 12 Drive select 1 Ground 13 14 Drive select 0 Ground 15 16 Motor enable 1 Ground 17 18 Direction Ground 19 20 Step Ground 21 22...

Page 27: ...ta 5 7 8 Host data 10 Host data 4 9 10 Host data 11 Host data 3 11 12 Host data 12 Host data 2 13 14 Host data 13 Host data 1 15 16 Host data 14 Host data 0 17 18 Host data 15 Ground 19 20 Key DRQ0 21 22 Ground Host IOW 23 24 Ground Host IOR 25 26 Ground IOCHRDY 27 28 Host ALE DACK0 29 30 Ground IRQ14 31 32 No connect Address 1 33 34 No connect Address 0 35 36 Address 2 Chip select 0 37 38 Chip se...

Page 28: ...t IOR 25 26 Ground IOCHRDY 27 28 Host ALE DACK1 29 30 Ground MIRQ0 31 32 No connect Address 1 33 34 No connect Address 0 35 36 Address 2 Chip select 0 37 38 Chip select 1 Activity 39 40 Ground 5 8 CN7 Front Bezel Connector The front bezel of the case has a control panel which provides light indication of the computer activities and switches to change the computer s status CN7 is a 20 pin header th...

Page 29: ... to enter the suspend mode To wake up the system press any key on the keyboard or move the mouse This connector applies for AI5VP only For AI5VPB see section 4 4 on page 17 CN7 Pin Signal Name 6 Sleep 16 Ground Turbo LED Connector Pins 8 and 18 There is no turbo deturbo function on the motherboard The Turbo LED on the control panel will always be On when attached to this connector CN7 Pin Signal N...

Page 30: ...ill flash when the HDD is being accessed 5 9 J6 IrDA Connector This connector is used for an infrared wireless communication J6 Pin Signal Name 1 5V 2 No connect 3 Ir RX 4 Ground 5V IRRX IRTX N C GND 5 Ir TX 5 10 J1 USB Connectors J1 is the USB connector The following table shows the pin outs of the connector Pin Pin Signal Name 1 5 Vcc 2 6 USB 3 7 USB 1 2 3 4 USB 5 6 7 8 4 8 Ground ...

Page 31: ...Drive B Floppy 3 Mode Support Video Halt On 6 4 BIOS Features Setup 35 Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache Quick Power On Self Test Boot Sequence Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up System Speed Gate A20 Option Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate Chars Sec Typematic Delay Msec Security Option PCI VGA Palette Snoop OS Select for DRAM 64MB Video BIOS Shadow C8000 CBFFF Shadow...

Page 32: ...d by Reset Configuration Data ACPI I O Device Node AI5VPB only IRQ3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 DMA0 1 3 5 6 7 assigned to CPU to PCI Write Buffer PCI Dynamic Bursting PCI Master 0 WS Write PCI Peer Concurrency PCI Delay Transaction PCI IRQ Activated by PCI IDE IRQ Map To 6 8 Load BIOS Defaults 44 6 9 Load Setup Defaults 44 6 10 Integrated Peripherals 45 OnChip Primary Secondary PCI IDE IDE Prefetch Mo...

Page 33: ...hapter 6 BIOS Configuration AI5VP AI5VPB User s Manual 29 6 11 Supervisor User Password 47 6 12 IDE HDD Auto Detection 48 6 13 HDD Low Level Format 48 6 14 Save Exit Setup 49 6 15 Exit Without Saving 49 ...

Page 34: ... you turn on the computer the Award BIOS is immediately activated Pressing the Del key immediately allows you to enter the Setup utility If you are a little bit late pressing the Del key POST Power On Self Test will continue with its test routines thus preventing you from invoking the Setup If you still wish to enter Setup restart the system by pressing the Reset button or simultaneously pressing ...

Page 35: ...Date Hard Disk Type The section below the setup items of the Main Menu displays the control keys for this menu Another section at the bottom of the Main Menu just below the control keys section displays information on the currently highlighted item in the list NOTE After making and saving system changes with Setup you find that your computer cannot boot the Award BIOS supports an override to the C...

Page 36: ...to 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Primary Slave None 0 0 0 0 0 0 Secondary Master None 0 0 0 0 0 0 Secondary Slave None 0 0 0 0 0 0 Drive A 1 44M 3 5in Base Memory 640K Drive B None Extended Memory 15360K Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled Other Memory 384K Video EGA VGA Halt On All Errors Total Memory 16384K ESC Quit Ç È Æ Å Select Item PU PD Modify F1 Help Shift F2 Change Color At the bottom of the menu are the c...

Page 37: ...efinable For the Primary Master Slave as well as Secondary Master Slave you can select Auto under the TYPE and MODE fields This will enable auto detection of your IDE drives and CD ROM drive during POST Press PgUp PgDn to select a numbered hard disk type or type the number and press the Enter key The hard disk will not work properly if you enter incorrect information for this field If your hard di...

Page 38: ...e A Drive B Installed 3 mode drive at drive B Both Installed 3 mode drive at drive A and B Video This field selects the type of video display card installed in your system You can choose the following video display cards EGA VGA For EGA VGA SEGA SVGA or PGA monitor adapters default CGA 40 Power up in 40 column mode CGA 80 Power up in 80 column mode MONO For Hercules or MDA adapters Halt On This fi...

Page 39: ... Rate Setting Disabled Typematic Rate chars Sec 6 Typematic Delay Msec 250 Security Option Setup PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled OS Select For DRAM 64MB Non OS2 ESC Quit Ç È Æ Å Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults Virus Warning This item protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk against accidental modificati...

Page 40: ...Drive A By default this field is set to Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled the BIOS will seek whether or not the floppy drive installed has 40 or 80 tracks 360K type has 40 tracks while 760K 1 2M and 1 44M all have 80 tracks By default this field is set to Enabled Boot Up NumLock Status This allows you to activate the NumLock function after you power up the system By default the system boot...

Page 41: ... Supervisor Password only when the Setup utility is called up PCI VGA Palette Snoop Some display cards that are non standard VGA may not show colors properly This field allows you to set whether MPEG ISA VESA VGA Cards can work with PCI VGA or not When this field is enabled a PCI VGA can work with a MPEG ISA VESA VGA card When this field is disabled a PCI VGA cannot work with a MPEG ISA VESA Card ...

Page 42: ...hift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults DRAM Auto Configuration This field predefined values for DRAM cache timing according to CPU type and system clock When this field is enabled the predefined items will become read only DRAM Timing Control The DRAM timing is controlled by the DRAM Timing Registers The timing type is dependent on the system design Slower rates may be required...

Page 43: ...ideo BIOS Cacheable When enabled access to video BIOS addressed at C0000H to C7FFFH are cached provided that the cache controller is enabled System BIOS Cacheable When enabled access to the system BIOS ROM addressed at F0000H FFFFFH are cached provided that the cache controller is enabled Memory Hole at 15MB Addr In order to improve performance certain space in memory can be reserved for ISA cards...

Page 44: ...erved Disabled PM Events VGA OFF LPT COM LPT COM HDD FDD ON DMA master OFF ESC Quit Ç È Æ Å Select Item Primary INTR ON F1 Help PU PD Modify IRQ3 COM2 Primary F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color IRQ4 COM1 Primary F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults Power Management This field allows you to select the type of power saving management modes There are fours selections for Power Management Disabled N...

Page 45: ...r devices remain active Doze Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the CPU clock will run at a slower speed 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 PM Events The VGA LPT COM HDD FDD DMA master and Primary INTR section are I O events which can prevent...

Page 46: ...PCI ISA PnP IRQ 14 assigned to Legacy ISA IRQ 15 assigned to Legacy ISA DMA 0 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 1 assigned to PCI ISA PnP ESC Quit Ç È Å 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 OS Installed This fiel...

Page 47: ...d is set to Disabled PCI Peer Concurrency This field allows you to select the number of PCI devices to be activated at a time The default value is Disabled PCI Delay Transaction When enabled this option delays PCI data transaction By default this field is set to Disabled PCI IRQ Activated by This field allows you to select the method by which the PCI bus recognizes that an IRQ service is being req...

Page 48: ...e Color Load BIOS Defaults except Standard CMOS Setup To load BIOS defaults value to CMOS SRAM enter Y If not enter N 6 9 Load Setup Defaults This option allows you to load the default values to your system configuration These default settings are optimal and enable all high performance features ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS ...

Page 49: ...Slave UDMA Auto Onboard FDD Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 Auto Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto ESC Quit Ç È Å Select Item Uart 2 Mode Standard F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults Onboard Parallel Port 378H IRQ7 F7 Load Setup Defaults OnChip Primary Secondary PCI IDE These fields allow you either to enable or disable the Primary Secondary controller You mig...

Page 50: ...ave UDMA And Secondary Master Slave UDMA This field allows your system to improve disk I O throughput to 33Mb sec with the Ultra DMA 33 feature The options are Auto and Disabled Onboard FDD Controller This option allows you to select the onboard FDD port Onboard Serial Parallel Port These fields allow you to select the onboard serial and parallel ports and their addresses The default value for the...

Page 51: ...er setting a password the screen automatically returns to the main screen To disable a password just press the Enter key when you are prompted to enter the password A message will confirm the password to be disabled Once the password is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS...

Page 52: ...0 0 NORMAL NOTE Some OSes like SCO UNIX must use N N N NORMAL for installation Up to four IDE drives can be detected with parameters for each appearing in sequence inside a box To accept the displayed entries press the Y key to skip to the next drive press the N key If you accept the values the parameters will appear listed beside the drive letter on the screen 6 13 HDD Low Level Format This optio...

Page 53: ...G ESC Quit Ç È Æ Å Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Save Data to CMOS Exit Setup 6 15 Exit Without Saving Select this option to exit the Setup utility without saving the changes you have made in this session Typing Y will quit the Setup utility without saving the modifications Typing N will return you to Setup utility ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STAN...

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