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440BX/440ZX/Apollo Pro Plus 

 ATX Motherboard 

User's Manual 

Version 1.0A 

 
 

Summary of Contents for TI6NBF+

Page 1: ...TI6NBF 440BX 440ZX Apollo Pro Plus ATX Motherboard User s Manual Version 1 0A...

Page 2: ...hout prior consent in writing from the manufacturer The information in this document has been carefully checked and is believed to be accurate However the manufacturer assumes no responsibility for an...

Page 3: ...etting 15 4 2 100MHz CPU Host Frequency Force Selector JP7 16 4 3 133MHz CPU Host Frequency Force Selector JP10 16 4 4 Clear CMOS Select JP4 16 Chapter 5 Installation 17 5 1 I O Connectors 19 5 2 J1 P...

Page 4: ...efaults 52 6 9 Load Setup Defaults 52 6 10 CPU Speed Setting 53 6 11 Integrated Peripherals 56 6 12 Supervisor User Password 59 6 13 IDE HDD Auto Detection 60 6 14 Save Exit Setup 61 6 15 Exit Without...

Page 5: ...iption Configuring the Motherboard Installation BIOS and System Setup System Monitor Utility User s Guide LANDesk User s Guide Checklist Please check that your package is complete and contains the ite...

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Page 7: ...Hz Katmai L2 Cache CPU integrated L2 cache CPU Voltage Switching voltage regulator on board supporting multiple voltage ranging 1 8V 3 5V Main Memory 32MB or 64MB SDRAM on board Three 168 pin DIMM soc...

Page 8: ...I O Onboard super I O is a Winbond W83977TF that provides z Two 16550 UART compatible serial ports z One parallel port ECP EPP compatible z One floppy controller 2 88MB compatible z One IrDA port z Ke...

Page 9: ...F motherboard The layout 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 8...

Page 10: ...Chapter 3 Hardware Description 6 TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual Figure 1 Layout of the TI6NBF Motherboard...

Page 11: ...emory Module sockets DIMM modules can be 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB and 128MB in SDRAM DRAM In populating the DIMM sockets DIMM1 DIMM2 and DIMM3 bank can be populated first Refer to the following table showin...

Page 12: ...OS The BIOS on the TI6NBF motherboard provides the standard BIOS functions plus the following additional features 1 ISA Plug and Play PnP Extension Unlike PCI cards that are Plug and Play ISA cards re...

Page 13: ...20h 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...

Page 14: ...ved or PCI Slot Int IRQ11 Reserved or PCI Slot Int IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse or PCI Slot Int IRQ13 Co Processor IRQ14 Primary IDE IRQ15 Secondary IDE IRQ3 Serial Port 2 IRQ4 Serial Port 1 IRQ5 Parallel Port 2...

Page 15: ...up to 2 88 MB format 3 10 Onboard AGP Slot The AGP Accelerated Graphics Port slot supports AGP compliant VGA cards to achieve rich 3D and video graphics display AGP is a platform bus specification th...

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Page 17: ...edures and proper jumper settings to configure the TI6NBF motherboard For the locations of the jumpers refer to Figure 2 4 1 CPU Frequency Setting 15 4 2 100MHz CPU Host Frequency Force Selector JP7 1...

Page 18: ...Chapter 4 Configuring the Motherboard 14 TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual Figure 2 Jumper Location on the TI6NBF...

Page 19: ...00MHz 66x3 350MHz 100x3 5 233MHz 66x3 5 400MHz 100x4 266MHz 66x4 450MHz 100x4 5 300MHz 66x4 5 500MHz 100x5 333MHz 66x5 550MHz 100x5 5 366MHz 66x5 5 600MHz 100x6 400MHz 66x6 650MHz 100x6 5 433MHz 66x6...

Page 20: ...tor When it is short the host frequency bus speed is auto detected by the system When it is open the host frequency is set to 133MHz The 133MHz forced setting applies only to the TI6NBFV motherboard t...

Page 21: ...5 1 I O Connectors 19 5 2 J1 PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connectors 19 5 3 J8 ATX Power Supply Connector 20 5 4 J17 CPU Fan Power Connector 20 5 5 USB1 USB Connector 20 5 6 J2 J3 Serial Ports 21 5 7...

Page 22: ...Chapter 5 Installation 18 TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual Figure 3 Connector Location on the TI6NBF...

Page 23: ...1 of the cables 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...

Page 24: ...5 5 Ground Ground 16 6 5V Ground 17 7 Ground 5V 18 8 Power good 5V 19 9 5VSB 5V 20 10 12V 11 1 20 10 5 4 J17 CPU Fan Power Connector J17 is a 3 pin header for the CPU fan power connector The fan must...

Page 25: ...9 external connectors The following table shows the pin out assignments of the these connectors Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name DCD Data carrier detect 1 6 DSR Data set ready RXD Receive data 2 7 RTS...

Page 26: ...0 2 15 Error PD1 parallel data 1 3 16 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...

Page 27: ...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...

Page 28: ...E 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 select 1 Activity 39 40 Ground J18 Secondary IDE Connector Signal Name Pin Pin...

Page 29: ...ard Disk Drive LED Turbo LED Connector SMI Hardware Switch Speaker Reset Switch ATX Power On Switch Power LED and Keylock Speaker Pins 1 4 This connector provides an interface to a speaker for audio t...

Page 30: ...otherboard that connects to the power switch on the case When pressed the power switch will force the motherboard to power on When pressed again it will force the motherboard to power off Turbo LED Co...

Page 31: ...wer connector The fan must be a 12V fan Pin Signal Name 1 Rotation 2 12V 1 2 3 3 Ground 5 13 J23 AGP Fan Power Connector J23 is a 3 pin header for the AGP fan power connector The fan must be a 12V fan...

Page 32: ...pin out assignments of this connector This connector is used for the Creative Sound AWE64D PCI sound card The SB Link uses Intel s PC PCI technology to deliver Creative s Sound Blaster 16 compatibili...

Page 33: ...Internal Cache External Cache 38 CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking 38 Memory Parity ECC Check 38 Processor Number Feature 38 Quick Power On Self Test 38 Boot Sequence 38 Swap Floppy Drive 39 Boot Up Floppy Se...

Page 34: ...43 Delayed Transaction 43 AGP Aperture Size MB 43 Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk 43 Spread Spectrum 44 OnChip USB 44 USB Keyboard Support 44 6 6 Power Management Setup 44 ACPI Function 45 Power Management...

Page 35: ...Warning Temperature 54 Current System CPU Chips VGA Temperatures 55 Current CPU Fan Speed Chassis Fan Speed 55 VCCP VTT VCC3 55 Shutdown Temperature 55 CPU Chassis VGA Fan Monitor 55 6 11 Integrated...

Page 36: ...rn 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 T...

Page 37: ...F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk 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 t...

Page 38: ...R MODE Primary Master 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...

Page 39: ...ser is user definable 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 dr...

Page 40: ...stalled 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 mod...

Page 41: ...m OS Select For DRAM 64MB Non OS2 F1 Help PU PD Modify HDD S M A R T Capability Enabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Report No FDD For WIN 95 No F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel...

Page 42: ...ern PCs have additional external cache memory When the CPU requests data the system transfers the requested data from the main DRAM into cache memory for even faster access by the CPU These items allo...

Page 43: ...ed This has no function and selects the default system speed High IDE HDD Block Mode This field allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to and from your hard disk...

Page 44: ...isabled a PCI VGA cannot work with an MPEG ISA VESA Card OS Select for DRAM 64MB This option allows the system to access greater than 64MB of DRAM memory when used with OS 2 that depends on certain BI...

Page 45: ...dify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 440BX 440ZX chipset ROM PCI ISA BIOS CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Bank 0 1 DRAM Timing SDRAM 10ns...

Page 46: ...rds DRAM clock can be set to Host CLK bus speed and 66MHz For a VIA chipset based board the options are Host CLK HCLK 33M and HCLCK 33M By default this field is set to Host CLK DRAM Data Integrity Mod...

Page 47: ...ace to ISA expansion cards This makes memory from 15MB and up unavailable to the system Expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB By default this field is set to Disabled Passive Release When...

Page 48: ...turn off video display after a period of inactivity ROM PCI ISA BIOS POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC ACPI Function Disabled Reload Global Timer Events Power Management User Define IRQ3 3 7 9...

Page 49: ...AN Disabled ESC Quit Select Item RTC Alarm Resume Disabled F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For VIA Apollo Pro Plus 82C693 chipset ACPI Fu...

Page 50: ...ces the system in a very low power usage state with only enough circuitry receiving power to detect power button activity when pressed for less than 4 seconds The default value is Instant Off Doze Mod...

Page 51: ...Chapter 6 BIOS and System Setup TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual 47 mode...

Page 52: ...puter to be turned on automatically through the timer set in the BIOS to make the system more scheduleable By default this field is set to Disabled IRQ 8 Break Suspend You can enable or disable the mo...

Page 53: ...lts DMA 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 440BX 440ZX chipset ROM PCI ISA BIOS PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC PNP OS Installed No CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled Res...

Page 54: ...1 3 5 6 7 assigned to These fields allow you to determine the IRQ DMA assigned to the ISA bus and is not available to any PCI slot Used MEM base addr Select a base address for the memory area used by...

Page 55: ...ster 1 WS Read When enabled reads to the AGP bus are executed with 1 wait states By default this field is set to Enabled PCI IRQ Activated by This field allows you to select the method by which the PC...

Page 56: ...hift F2 Change 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 va...

Page 57: ...U Fan Monitor Disabled F1 Help PU PD Modify Chassis Fan Monitor Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color VGA Fan Mon 1 10 Only Disabled F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 440BX 440ZX...

Page 58: ...z 66x5 550MHz 100x5 5 366MHz 66x5 5 600MHz 100x6 400MHz 66x6 650MHz 100x6 5 433MHz 66x6 5 B Manual CPU Speed Manual CPU Speed Manual CPU Clock Multiplier X 3 CPU Clock Multiplier X 3 5 CPU PCI Clock S...

Page 59: ...These read only fields show the current voltages in the voltage regulators and power supply as monitored by the To clear CMOS the ATX power connector should be disconnected from the motherboard hardw...

Page 60: ...Disabled Init AGP Display First AGP POWER ON Function KB Power ON Password Enter ESC Quit Select Item Hot Key Power ON Ctrl F1 F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults...

Page 61: ...en Auto is selected the BIOS will select the best available mode IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA These fields allow your system to improve disk I O throughput to 33Mb sec with the Ultra DMA 33...

Page 62: ...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 values for these ports are Serial Port 1 3F8 I...

Page 63: ...o type it again After 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 c...

Page 64: ...HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ 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...

Page 65: ...TS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ESC Quit 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...

Page 66: ...e the functions of the utility System Monitor is a software utility that oversees the general performance of systems covering areas like system temperature system voltage CPU and system fan rotational...

Page 67: ...3 The following screen appears upon clicking on the System Monitor icon Clicking on the X on the upper right corner would show you the latest company information or on any icon on the left side to dis...

Page 68: ...tem Monitor Utility User s Guide 64 TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual 1 Computer displays the operating working system version and processor type 2 Memory displays the current memory...

Page 69: ...s Guide TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual 65 3 Hard Disk displays the supported disk formats and disk space 4 Heat displays the current rotational speed of CPU and Chassis fans as we...

Page 70: ...oard User s Manual 5 Power displays the current voltage status NOTE For Pentium II processors System Monitor detects the VCC3 and VCCP values For Pentium level processors System Monitor detects the VC...

Page 71: ...mit and Lo Limit value Temperature temperature threshold Fan Rotation Speed the minimum rotation speed NOTE Intel has defined a margin of difference for the voltages as below 12 Volts 10 10 8V 13 2V 5...

Page 72: ...ntroduction to the optional LANDesk Client Manager LDCM utility as well as the installation procedures The following items are covered in this chapter 8 1 Introduction 69 8 2 Installation 70 8 2 1 Ins...

Page 73: ...mation about remote PCs as well as remotely controlling the PCs The remote access is based upon granted rights by the managed client LDCM provides the user with self help diagnostics including a PC he...

Page 74: ...ws 95 operating system Upon entering the Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 95 environment insert the CD Windows will autorun the installation program and show the following screen NOTE During Setup you will b...

Page 75: ...nual 71 8 2 1 Installing the Local Version of LDCM Double Click on LANDesk Client Manager in the initial screen and the following screen will appear Double click on the local version of LANDesk Client...

Page 76: ...rectory location where Setup will install LANDesk Client Manager Click Browse if you want to change the directory suggested Otherwise click Next to start installing LDCM When Setup is finished changes...

Page 77: ...ing on LANDesk Client Manager in the initial screen select the administrative version of the LDCM and the Welcome screen below will appear Click on Next to continue The screen below allows you to inst...

Page 78: ...Chapter 8 LANDesk User s Guide 74 TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual After LANDesk Client Manager Setup is complete restart your computer to be able to use the LANDesk Client Manager...

Page 79: ...t 1 Retention Mechanism The retention mechanism that comes with your motherboard as seen in the above figure accommodates all kinds of Pentium II processors For Celeron processors place the two caps s...

Page 80: ...dix TI6NBF Pentium II III ATX Motherboard User s Manual 76 B Additions Errata This section is allotted for future page inserts containing any additional information or correction that the users should...

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