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Chapter 1 Introduction

TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User’s Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction

This manual is designed to give you information on the TI7NBA
motherboard. It is divided into the following sections:

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Introduction

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Specifications

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Hardware Description

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Configuring the Motherboard

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Installation

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BIOS and System Setup

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Audio Driver Installation Guide

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System Monitor Utility User’s Guide

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LANDesk User’s 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.

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The TI7NBA Motherboard

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1 IDE ribbon cable

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1 floppy ribbon cable

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1 CD containing

System Monitor

, PIIX4 Bus Master IDE driver

and utilities.

The Intel LANDesk Client Manager software is

optional.

Summary of Contents for TI7NBA

Page 1: ...TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual Version 1 0B...

Page 2: ...ut 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 any...

Page 3: ...following figure d Install the VGA driver as supplied by the VGA vendor e Install the VIA IDE driver version V2 1 26 or later version from the enclosed CD 2 For Windows 98 a Install the VIA Chipset F...

Page 4: ...rd 13 4 1 CPU Frequency Speed Setting 15 4 2 Clear CMOS Select JP10 15 4 3 Bus Speed Select JP8 16 Chapter 5 Installation 17 5 1 I O Connectors 19 5 2 JP1 PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connectors 19 5...

Page 5: ...d BIOS Defaults 53 6 9 Load Setup Defaults 53 6 10 CPU Speed Setting 54 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...

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Page 7: ...Motherboard Installation BIOS and System Setup Audio Driver Installation Guide System Monitor Utility User s Guide LANDesk User s Guide Checklist Please check that your package is complete and contain...

Page 8: ...multiple voltage ranging 1 3V 2 0V Main Memory Three 168 pin DIMM sockets NOTE For 440ZX chipset based motherboard there are only two DIMM memory sockets Memory types SDRAM Synchronous DRAM NOTE Use...

Page 9: ...us Master IDE Ultra DMA 33 controller with two connectors for up to four IDE devices in two channels supporting enhanced IDE devices such as Tape Backup and CD ROM drives PIO Mode 3 4 and Bus Masterin...

Page 10: ...display AGP is a bus specification that enables 3D graphics capabilities including support for z buffering alpha blending and faster texture mapping Expansion Slots Four PCI 32 bit slots Two ISA 16 bi...

Page 11: ...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 9 3 5 I O Port...

Page 12: ...Chapter 3 Hardware Description 6 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual Figure 1 Layout of the TI7NBA Motherboard...

Page 13: ...ee 168 pin DIMM Dual In line Memory Module sockets to form a memory configuration from 8MB to 384MB DIMM modules can be 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB and 128MB in SDRAM DRAM In populating the DIMM sockets DIMM1...

Page 14: ...8MB 32MB 160MB 32MB 32MB 8MB 72MB 64MB 32MB 8MB 104MB 128MB 32MB 8MB 168MB 32MB 32MB 16MB 80MB 64MB 32MB 16MB 112MB 128MB 32MB 16MB 176MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 96MB 64MB 32MB 32MB 128MB 128MB 32MB 32MB 192MB...

Page 15: ...monitor screen and stopping the HDD spindle motor The BIOS fully conforms to ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface specification 3 5 I O Port Address Map Each peripheral device in the system...

Page 16: ...ard IRQ2 Interrupt Cascade IRQ8 Real Time Clock IRQ9 Software Redirected to Int 0Ah or PCI Slot Int IRQ10 Reserved or PCI Slot Int IRQ11 Reserved or PCI Slot Int IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse or PCI Slot Int IRQ13...

Page 17: ...ation that enables 3D graphics capabilities including support for z buffering alpha blending and faster texture mapping 3 11 Hardware Monitoring IC The TI7NBA comes with the Winbond W83783 hardware mo...

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Page 19: ...tions describe the necessary procedures and proper jumper settings to configure the TI7NBA motherboard For the locations of the jumpers refer to Figure 2 4 1 CPU Frequency Speed Setting 15 4 2 Clear C...

Page 20: ...Chapter 4 Configuring the Motherboard 14 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual Figure 2 Jumper Location on the TI7NBA...

Page 21: ...eed can be set to 200MHz 66x3 233MHz 66x3 5 266MHz 66x4 300MHz 66x4 5 333MHz 66x5 366MHz 66x5 5 400MHz 66x6 and 433MHz 66x6 5 Press the and keys to change the CPU speed or press the PageUp or PageDown...

Page 22: ...ard 16 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 4 3 Bus Speed Select JP8 Use JP8 a 2 pin header to configure the bus speed at 100MHz or by CPU Auto Detect JP8 Jumper Setting Function open 100MH...

Page 23: ...5 2 JP1 PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connectors 19 5 3 J1 J2 Serial Ports 20 5 4 J4 Parallel Port Connector 20 5 5 P1 Line Out Line In Microphone Game Port 21 5 6 JP3 IrDA Connector 21 5 7 JP5 JP6 CD...

Page 24: ...Chapter 5 Installation 18 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual Figure 3 Connector Location on the TI7NBA...

Page 25: ...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 JP1 PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connectors P...

Page 26: ...ndicator GND ground 5 10 Not Used J4 Parallel Port J1 COM1 J2 COM2 5 4 J4 Parallel Port Connector J4 is a DB 25 external connector as seen in the above figure The following table describes the pin out...

Page 27: ...LineOut LineIn Mic 5 6 JP3 IrDA Connector This connector is used for an IrDA connector that supports infrared wireless communication JP3 Pin Signal Name 1 5V 2 No connect 3 Ir RX 4 Ground 5V IRRX IRTX...

Page 28: ...n Signal Name 1 5VSB 2 Ground 3 2 1 3 Wake on LAN 5 9 J7 CPU Fan Power Connector J7 is a 3 pin header for the CPU fan power connector The fan must be a 12V fan Pin Signal Name 1 Rotation 2 12V 1 2 3 3...

Page 29: ...11 1 20 10 5 13 J16 Floppy Drive Connector J16 of the TI7NBA is a 34 pin header and will support up to 2 88MB floppy drives The following table shows its pin out assignments Signal Name Pin Pin Signa...

Page 30: ...und 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 J15 Secondary IDE Connector Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name Rese...

Page 31: ...d 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 ton...

Page 32: ...herboard 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 Conn...

Page 33: ...370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 27 Hard Disk Drive LED Connector Pins 10 and 20 This connector connects to the hard drive activity LED on control panel This LED will flash when the HDD is being acce...

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Page 35: ...Features Setup 37 Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Quick Power On Self Test Boot Sequence Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up NumLock Status Boot Up...

Page 36: ...covery Time Memory Hole at 15MB 16MB Passive Release Delayed Transaction AGP Aperture Size MB Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk Spread Spectrum 6 6 Power Management Setup 46 ACPI function Power Management PM C...

Page 37: ...d CPU Clock Multiplier CPU PCI Clock Select CPU Warning Temperature Current System CPU Temp Current CPU Chassis VGA Fan Speed Vcore 5V 3 3V 12V 12V CPU Chassis VGA Fan Monitor Shutdown Temperature 6 1...

Page 38: ...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 39: ...Type For Intel 82440BX ZX GX or VIA 82C693 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 con...

Page 40: ...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 Memor...

Page 41: ...r 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 driv...

Page 42: ...nstalled 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 mo...

Page 43: ...abled F1 Help PU PD Modify Report No FDD For WIN 95 Yes F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 82440BX ZX GX or VIA 82C693 Virus Warning This item protects...

Page 44: ...ve assignments so that Drive A becomes Drive B and Drive B becomes 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...

Page 45: ...p PCI VGA Palette Snoop Some non standard VGA display cards 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 en...

Page 46: ...40 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual C8000 CBFFF Shadow DC000 DFFFF Shadow Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640KB to 1024KB These fields determine whether optional R...

Page 47: ...Disabled F1 Help PU PD Modify Spread Spectrum Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 82440BX ZX GX ROM PCI ISA BIOS CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD S...

Page 48: ...tself and to 66MHz By default this field is set to Host CLK SDRAM Precharge Control This field enables of enables the SDRAM Precharge Control SDRAM Cycle Length This field sets the SDRAM cycle length...

Page 49: ...h resulting in better video performance However if any program writes to this memory area a memory access error may result 8 Bit I O Recovery Time This option specifies the length of the delay in sysc...

Page 50: ...Chapter 6 BIOS and System Setup 44 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual...

Page 51: ...ry address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation The options available are 4M 8M 16M 32M 64M 128M a...

Page 52: ...e by Ring Disabled Resume by Alarm Disabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify IRQ 8 Break Suspend Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 8...

Page 53: ...device to enhance the Max Power Saving mode and stop the CPU s internal clock If the Max Power Saving is not enabled this will be preset to NO Video Off Method This field defines the Video Off feature...

Page 54: ...the time You may select the percent of time that the clock runs PCI VGA Act Monitor When enabled any video activity restarts the global timer for Standby mode The default setting is Disabled Soft Off...

Page 55: ...which can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from such a mode When an I O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system it signals this by caus...

Page 56: ...ad BIOS Defaults DMA 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 82440BX ZX GX ROM PCI ISA BIOS PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC PNP OS Installed No CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enab...

Page 57: ...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 a...

Page 58: ...er 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 PCI...

Page 59: ...ft 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 valu...

Page 60: ...Setup Defaults CPU Speed CPU Clock Multiplier CPU PCI Clock Select The motherboard allows users to set the CPU speed through the BIOS The parameters in setting the CPU speed include CPU Clock Multipl...

Page 61: ...nitors the chip blocks and system temperatures to ensure the system is stable Current CPU Chassis VGA Fan Speed These read only fields show the current speeds in RPM revolution per minute for the CPU...

Page 62: ...port Disabled Init AGP Display First AGP POWER ON Function Button Only ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F6 Load BIOS Defaults F7 Load Setup Defaults For Intel 824...

Page 63: ...A 33 feature The options are Auto and Disabled On Chip Primary Secondary PCI IDE The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled to acti...

Page 64: ...he 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 IRQ...

Page 65: ...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 con...

Page 66: ...AD 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 N...

Page 67: ...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 th...

Page 68: ...373 Chip AC97 With a PCI Bus Mastering interface with DOS compatibility it supports 32 voices wavetable surround sound 3D audio and audio effects such as reverb and chorus Creative ES1373 uses single...

Page 69: ...Chapter 7 Audio Driver Installation Guide TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 63 2 Under the Control Panel window click the System icon...

Page 70: ...Chapter 7 Audio Driver Installation Guide 64 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 3 Click Device Manager...

Page 71: ...Chapter 7 Audio Driver Installation Guide TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 65 4 Click Other Device then select PCI Multimedia Audio Device and click the Remove icon...

Page 72: ...Chapter 7 Audio Driver Installation Guide 66 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual Confirm the remove command by clicking OK...

Page 73: ...Chapter 7 Audio Driver Installation Guide TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 67 6 Click Close...

Page 74: ...7 Audio Driver Installation Guide 68 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 7 Insert the CD that comes with your motherboard into your CD ROM drive The following screen will appear Now click...

Page 75: ...Chapter 7 Audio Driver Installation Guide TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 69 8 Double click Creative Labs 1373...

Page 76: ...procedure in each screen until you arrive the Setup Option screen as shown below then select Full Installation 11 Proceed with Setup to install the Windows 98 Drivers Legacy DOS Drivers into your sys...

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Page 78: ...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 s...

Page 79: ...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 displ...

Page 80: ...ystem Monitor Utility User s Guide 74 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 1 Computer displays the operating working system version and processor type 2 Memory displays the current memory u...

Page 81: ...r s Guide TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 75 3 Hard Disk displays the supported disk formats and disk space 4 Heat displays the current rotational speed of CPU and Chassis fans as well...

Page 82: ...TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard 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...

Page 83: ...Chapter 8 System Monitor Utility User s Guide TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual 77 6 Log displays errors occurring after System Monitor is started...

Page 84: ...X and MIN 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 Volts...

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Page 86: ...ntroduction to the optional LANDesk Client Manager LDCM utility as well as the installation procedures The following items are covered in this chapter 9 1 Introduction 81 9 2 Installation 82 9 2 1 Ins...

Page 87: ...version has the ability to gather information 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...

Page 88: ...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 be...

Page 89: ...al 83 9 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 M...

Page 90: ...ctory 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 w...

Page 91: ...g 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 instal...

Page 92: ...Chapter 9 LANDesk User s Guide 86 TI7NBA Socket 370 ATX Motherboard User s Manual After LANDesk Client Manager Setup is complete restart your computer to be able to use the LANDesk Client Manager...

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