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Chapter 6  BIOS Configuration 

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MI5VP4 User’s Manual 

 

  

 

NOTE:  The specifications of your drive must match with the drive 

table. The hard disk will not work properly if you enter 
incorrect information in these fields. If your hard disk drive 
type is not matched or listed, you can use Type User to define 
your own drive type manually. 

 
Drive A / Drive B 

These fields identify the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that has 
been installed in the computer. The available specifications are: 
 360KB 

5.25 in. 

1.

2MB 

5.25 in. 

720KB 

3.5 in. 

1.

44MB 

3.5 in. 

2.

88MB 

3.5 in. 

 

 

  

 

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 field determines whether or not the system will halt if an error is 
detected during power up. 
No errors 

The system boot will not be halted for any error 
that may be detected. 

All errors 

Whenever the BIOS detects a non-fatal error, 
the system will stop and you will be prompted. 

All, But Keyboard 

The system boot will not be halted for a 
keyboard error; it will stop for all other errors 

All, But Diskette 

The system boot will not be halted for a disk 
error; it will stop for all other errors. 

All, But Disk/Key 

The system boot will not be halted for a key- 
board  or disk error; it will stop for all others. 

Summary of Contents for MI5VP4

Page 1: ...MI5VP4 MVP4 Micro ATX Motherboard User s Manual Version 1 1...

Page 2: ...ufacturer be liable for direct indirect special exemplary incidental incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect or omission in this manual even if advised of possibility of such dam...

Page 3: ...r 4 Configuring the Motherboard 13 4 1 SW1 4 8 CPU Voltage Setting 15 4 2 SW2 1 4 CPU Bus Speed FSB Selector 16 SW1 1 3 CPU Bus Speed Multiplier 16 4 3 JP2 Clear CMOS Select 20 Chapter 5 Installation...

Page 4: ...52 6 10 CPU Features Setup 53 6 10 Integrated Peripherals 54 6 11 Supervisor User Password 56 6 12 IDE HDD Auto Detection 57 6 13 Save Exit Setup 58 6 14 Exit Without Saving 58 Chapter 7 VIA Drivers...

Page 5: ...Guide 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 MI5VP4 Motherboard 1 IDE ribbon cable 1...

Page 6: ...Chapter 1 Introduction 2 MI5VP4 User s Manual This page was intentionally left blank...

Page 7: ...lowing CPU Socket Socket 7 System Speed 120 500MHz Bus Speed 60 124MHz Processor Intel Pentium 120 133 150 166 200 Intel Pentium MMX P55C 120 133 150 166 200 233 Cyrix 6x86 6x86L P150 P166 P200 Cyrix...

Page 8: ...nd Bus Mastering Ultra DMA 66 NOTE A UDMA66 cable should be used for UDMA66 interface Under Windows NT 4 0 you need to install Windows NT Service Pack 4 BIOS Award BIOS with ISA Plug and Play PnP exte...

Page 9: ...ut of the board in Figure 1 shows the location of the key components The topics covered in this chapter are as follows 3 1 Processor 7 3 2 L2 Cache 7 3 3 Main Memory 7 3 4 BIOS 9 3 5 Onboard VGA 9 3 6...

Page 10: ...Chapter 3 Hardware Description 6 MI5VP4 User s Manual Figure 1 Layout of the MI5VP4 Motherboard...

Page 11: ...iplier Please refer to the following chapter on how to configure the CPU frequency 3 2 L2 Cache The L2 cache is integrated in the processor 3 3 Main Memory The MI5VP4 motherboard supports three 168 pi...

Page 12: ...DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 Total Memory 32MB 32MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 128MB 32MB 32MB 64MB 64MB 32MB 96MB 128MB 32MB 160MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 96MB 64MB 32MB 32MB 128MB 128MB 32MB 32MB 192MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 128MB 64MB...

Page 13: ...ates a 64 bit 3D 2D graphic engine and video accelerator with advanced DVD video capability It provides a flexible and high performance solution for graphics and video playback acceleration for variou...

Page 14: ...DE IRQ15 Secondary IDE IRQ3 Interrupt IRQ4 Serial Port 1 IRQ5 Interrupt IRQ6 Floppy Disk Controller IRQ7 Parallel Port 1 3 9 Onboard PCI IDE The VIA VT82C686A chip built in s PCI IDE controller suppor...

Page 15: ...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 0DF...

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Page 17: ...s and proper jumper settings to configure the MI5VP4 motherboard For the locations of the jumpers refer to Figure 2 4 1 SW1 4 8 CPU Voltage Setting 15 4 2 SW2 1 4 CPU Bus Speed FSB Selector 16 SW1 1 3...

Page 18: ...Chapter 4 Configuring the Motherboard 14 MI5VP4 User s Manual Figure 2 Jumper Location on the MI5VP4...

Page 19: ...f 3 0V xx xx xx on on off off on 1 75V xx xx xx on off off on off 2 9V xx xx xx on off off off on 1 7V xx xx xx off off off on off 2 8V xx xx xx on on on on off 1 65V xx xx xx on on on off off 2 7V xx...

Page 20: ...3 400 450 500 550 2 8V IDT Winchip3 Pentium w MMX 3 2V K6 233 4 2 SW2 1 4 CPU Bus Speed FSB Selector SW1 1 3 CPU Bus Speed Multiplier SW2 1 4 Bus Speed SW2 1 4 Bus Speed off off off off 60MHz on on o...

Page 21: ...x off on off xx xx xx xx xx 3x off off on xx xx xx xx xx 5 5x For Intel IDT CPUs SW2 1 4 SW1 1 3 CPU on off off off off on off xx Pentium with MMX 200MHz Winchip2 3D C6 200 66MHz x 3 on off off off of...

Page 22: ...ff on on off xx Cyrix MII 300 90MHz x 2 5 off off off on off on off xx Cyrix MII 300 75MHz x 3 on off off off off off off xx Cyrix MII 300 66MHz x 3 5 on off on off off on off xx Cyrix MII 333 83MHz x...

Page 23: ...6 2 333 66MHz x 5 on off off off off off on xx K6 2 366 66MHz x 5 5 off on on off on off on xx K6 2 380 95MHz x 4 off on on off off on on xx K6 2 475 K6 3 475 95MHz x 5 on on on off off on off xx K6 2...

Page 24: ...eader to clear the contents of the CMOS RAM Do not clear the CMOS RAM unless it is absolutely necessary You will lose your password etc To clear CMOS the ATX power connector should be disconnected fro...

Page 25: ...PS 2 Mouse Connectors 23 5 3 J2 USB Connector 24 5 4 J3 J12 Serial Ports 24 5 5 J4 Parallel Port Connector 25 5 6 J5 VGA Port Connector 25 5 7 J6 J7 J8 J9 Line Out Line In Mic In Game Port 26 5 8 J10...

Page 26: ...Chapter 5 Installation 22 MI5VP4 User s Manual Figure 3 Connector Location on the MI5VP4...

Page 27: ...to that of the connectors Refer to Figure 4 for the location and orientation of the connectors Figure 4 Orientation of the I O Connector 5 2 J1 PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connectors PS 2 Mouse PS 2...

Page 28: ...ame 1 Vcc 2 USB 3 USB 4 Ground Port 1 Port 2 5 4 J3 J12 Serial Ports The onboard serial ports are J3 a DB 9 connector which is COM1 and J12 a 10 pin header connector which is COM2 The following table...

Page 29: ...6 Initialize PD2 parallel data 2 4 17 Select PD3 parallel data 3 5 18 Ground PD4 parallel data 4 6 19 Ground PD5 parallel data 5 7 20 Ground PD6 parallel data 6 8 21 Ground PD7 parallel data 7 9 22 Gr...

Page 30: ...nector J10 CPU fan power connector is a 3 pin header supporting a 12V fan Pin Signal Name 1 Rotation 2 12V 1 2 3 3 Ground 5 9 J11 ATX Power Supply Connector J11 is a 20 pin ATX power supply connector...

Page 31: ...l Name Pin Pin Signal Name Left 1 1 Ground Ground 2 2 Left Ground 3 3 Ground Right 4 4 Right 5 11 J17 Wake on LAN Connector J17 is a 3 pin header for the Wake on LAN function on the motherboard The fo...

Page 32: ...n IrDA connector that supports infrared wireless communication Pin Signal Name 1 5V 2 No connect 3 Ir RX 4 Ground 5V IRRX IRTX N C GND 5 Ir TX 5 13 J19 Chassis Fan Power Connector J19 Chassis fan powe...

Page 33: ...vides interfaces for the following functions Hard Disk Drive LED Turbo LED EXT SMI Speaker Reset Switch PW BM Power LED Speaker Pins 1 4 This connector provides an interface to a speaker for audio ton...

Page 34: ...and 17 This 2 pin connector is an ATX Power Supply On Off Switch on the motherboard that connects to the power switch on the case When pressed the power switch will force the motherboard to power on W...

Page 35: ...l support up to 2 88MB floppy drives The following table shows its pin out assignments 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 Gro...

Page 36: ...d IRQ14 31 32 No connect Address 1 33 34 UDMA66 Enable Address 0 35 36 Address 2 Chip select 0 37 38 Chip select 1 Activity 39 40 Ground J22 Secondary IDE Connector Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name Res...

Page 37: ...1 Virus Warning 41 CPU Internal Cache External Cache 41 Quick Power On Self Test 42 Boot Sequence 42 Swap Floppy Drive 42 Boot Up Floppy Seek 42 Boot Up NumLock Status 42 Boot Up System Speed 42 Gate...

Page 38: ...up 47 ACPI Function 47 Power Management 47 PM Control by APM 48 Video Off Method 48 Doze Mode 48 Suspend Mode 48 HDD Power Down 48 Soft Off by PWRBTN 48 PWRON After PW Fail 49 PM Events 49 PWR ON By M...

Page 39: ...Integrated Peripherals 54 OnChip IDE Channel0 1 54 IDE Prefetch Mode 54 IDE HDD Block Mode 54 Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO 54 Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA 55 Init AGP Display First 55 On...

Page 40: ...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 w...

Page 41: ...isk Type The section below the setup items of the Main Menu displays the control keys for this menu At the bottom of the Main Menu just below the control keys section there is another section which di...

Page 42: ...ster Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Primary Slave Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Secondary Master Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Secondary Slave Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Drive A 1 44M 3 5in Base Memory 640K Drive B None Extended M...

Page 43: ...able 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 P...

Page 44: ...ystem 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 Hercul...

Page 45: ...or DRAM 64MB Non OS2 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 di...

Page 46: ...r 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...

Page 47: ...standard VGA display cards may not show colors properly This field allows you to set whether or not MPEG ISA VESA VGA Cards can work with PCI VGA When this field is enabled a PCI VGA can work with an...

Page 48: ...lock Select Auto ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Spread Spectrum Disabled F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults DRAM Tim...

Page 49: ...y access memory up to 16MB By default this field is set to Disabled Init AGP Display First This field allows the system to initialize first the AGP VGA display on the motherboard when system is turned...

Page 50: ...default setting is Disabled This field is for CE testing use only OnChip USB This field allows you either to enable or disable the USB function By default this field is set to Disabled USB Keyboard S...

Page 51: ...condary PWON After PW Fail Off IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse Primary PM Events IRQ13 Coprocessor Primary VGA OFF IRQ14 Hard Disk Primary LPT COM LPT COM IRQ15 Reserved Primary HDD FDD ON ESC Quit Select Item DMA m...

Page 52: ...Doze Standby Suspend and N A Modem Use IRQ This field specifies IRQ used by the Modem The default setting is IRQ3 Doze Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the CPU clock will...

Page 53: ...en the system from such a mode When an I O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur When the operating system is ready to respond to the re...

Page 54: ...RQ 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 a...

Page 55: ...fault this field is set to Disabled PCI Delay Transaction When enabled this option delays PCI data transaction By default this field is set to Enabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry This item enables PC 2 Acces...

Page 56: ...lor 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 syst...

Page 57: ...Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults Current CPU System Temp These read only fields reflect the functions of the hardware thermal sensor that mo...

Page 58: ...Serial Port 2 2F8 IRQ3 Parallel Port Mode Normal UART 2 Mode Standard F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults OnChip IDE Channel0 1 The integrate...

Page 59: ...in this field 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...

Page 60: ...ter 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 passwor...

Page 61: ...Z SECTOR MODE Primary Master Select Primary Master Option N SKIP N OPTIONS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE 1 Y 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORMAL NOTE Some OSes like SCO UNIX must use N N N NORMAL for...

Page 62: ...AVING ESC Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Save Data to CMOS Exit Setup 6 14 Exit Without Saving Select this option to exit the Setup utility without saving the changes you h...

Page 63: ...please install USB supplement to OSR2 from the original Windows 95 CD or download it from Microsoft s web site after you have installed Windows 95 even before you have started to install the drivers...

Page 64: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 60 MI5VP4 User s Manual 2 Click Next to continue the installation process 3 Click Next to install all the drivers shown...

Page 65: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide MI5VP4 User s Manual 61 4 Click Next to install the Ultra DMA for IDE driver 5 Click Next to install the AGP driver...

Page 66: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 62 MI5VP4 User s Manual 6 Click Next to install the VIA chipset functions registry 7 Click Finish to restart the computer...

Page 67: ...MI5VP4 User s Manual 63 8 To enable disable HDD or CD ROM DVD ROM DMA mode when Windows reboots execute the VIA 4 IN 1 Drivers setup program again Click Next to install the Bus Master PCI IDE driver 9...

Page 68: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 64 MI5VP4 User s Manual 10 Select or deselect devices to setup the hard drive s DMA mode then click Next 11 Click Finish to restart your computer...

Page 69: ...2 Windows 98 95 DirectX Installation 1 Insert the driver CD disc to the CD ROM drive The CD ROM autoruns and displays the selections available Click on Tools and the following window appears Click Dir...

Page 70: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 66 MI5VP4 User s Manual 3 Click Yes to continue 4 When DirectX setup is completed click OK...

Page 71: ...User s Manual 67 7 3 Windows 98 95 VGA Driver Installation 1 Insert the driver CD disc to the CD ROM drive The CD ROM autoruns and displays the selections available Click on VIA M B Drivers and the fo...

Page 72: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 68 MI5VP4 User s Manual 2 Click Next to install the VGA driver on the computer 3 Click Finish to restart the computer and for changes to take effect...

Page 73: ...o Driver Installation 1 Insert the driver CD disc to the CD ROM drive The CD ROM autoruns and displays the selections available Click on VIA M B Drivers and the following window appears Click VIA 686A...

Page 74: ...ick Next to install the audio driver on the computer 4 Click Next to install WDM Audio Driver When the next screen appears click Finish to restart the computer When prompted to insert the Windows 98 C...

Page 75: ...ndows 95 VXD Driver Installation 1 Insert the driver CD disc to the CD ROM drive The CD ROM autoruns and displays the selections available Click on VIA M B Drivers and the following window appears Cli...

Page 76: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 72 MI5VP4 User s Manual 3 Click Next to install the VIA AGP VxD in turbo mode 4 Click Finish to restart the computer and for changes to take effect...

Page 77: ...6 Windows 95 VIA IDE Bus Master Driver Installation 1 Insert the driver CD disc to the CD ROM drive The CD ROM autoruns and displays the selections available Click on VIA M B Drivers and then click V...

Page 78: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 74 MI5VP4 User s Manual 3 Choose Install and click Next 4 After files have been copied click Finish to restart the computer...

Page 79: ...Chapter 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide MI5VP4 User s Manual 75 5 Click on VIA IDE BUS Master Driver 6 Click Next to continue the VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Driver Setup...

Page 80: ...r 7 VIA Drivers Installation Guide 76 MI5VP4 User s Manual 7 To enable disable HDD or CD ROM DVD ROM DMA mode select Enable Disable Ultra DMA and click Next 8 Setup the hard drive s DMA mode and click...

Page 81: ...Control Panel 2 Double click System 3 Click Device Manager 4 Expand Other Devices 5 Double click PCI Multimedia Audio Device 6 Click Driver 7 Click Update Driver 8 Click Next 9 Click Other Locations...

Page 82: ...lation IMPORTANT You should install the Windows NT 4 0 Service Pack 3 or higher first before installing the VIA 686A PCI multimedia audio device drivers If you don t have Windows NT 4 0 Service Pack 3...

Page 83: ...nstallation Guide MI5VP4 User s Manual 79 2 Click Next to continue with the VGA driver installation 3 When Setup has finished copying files to the computer click Finish to restart the computer and for...

Page 84: ...4 0 Service Pack 3 or higher please contact your software vendor or download it from Microsoft s web site To install the VIA 686A audio driver for Windows NT follows the steps below 1 Click Start Set...

Page 85: ...sees to it that the most up to date and accurate information are contained in this manual This section would contain page insert s of additional information updates or corrections that the user should...

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