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Product Model: TS-ABX31

Manual Version: 1.1

Release Date: November,1999

Summary of Contents for TS-ABX31

Page 1: ...TS ABX31 Intel Socket 370 Celeron Series USER S MANUAL Your Supplier Your Partner Your Friend Transcend ...

Page 2: ...her expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose In no event shall Transcend Information Inc its employers employees distribu tors or agents be liable for any indirect special incidental or consequential damages including loss of profits loss of business loss of use or data inter ruption of business and t...

Page 3: ...nstallation 5 2 4 66 100MHz System Configuration 6 2 5 CPU Internal Frequency Ratio Setting 6 2 6 Memory Configuration 8 2 7 Keyboard Wake Up 9 2 8 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors 9 2 9 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 10 2 10 Fan Power Connectors 10 2 11 Wake on LAN Connector 11 2 12 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 11 2 13 Panel Connectors 12 2 14 Power Connector 13 2 15 External Connectors ...

Page 4: ...uration Setup 30 3 8 Integrated Peripherals 32 3 9 Supervisor Password 35 3 10 User Password 36 3 11 IDE HDD Auto Detection 36 3 12 Save Exit Setup 37 3 13 Exit Without Saving 37 3 14 Load BIOS Defaults 38 3 15 Load Setup Defaults 38 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE 39 4 1 How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version 39 4 2 Download Correct BIOS File from Web 39 4 3 How to Update Your Motherboard BIOS 39 ...

Page 5: ...Support Intel Socket 370 Celeron Series Chipset Intel 440BX AGP DRAM Memory Support Synchronous DRAM 3pcs of 168 pin DIMM module sockets on board 8 768 MB memory size 8 16 32 64 128 256MB SDRAM DIMM 64 data bits and ECC structure I O BUS Slot 1 AGP slot 4 Master Slave PCI BUS slots PCI 2 1 compliant 2 ISA BUS slots one PCI ISA shared I O Functions Support PIO Mode 3 4 ATAPI devices and Ultra DMA 3...

Page 6: ...upport 2 Universal Serial Bus Ports Award BIOS Support Plug and Play Support ACPI DMI Green Feature Wake Up Features PS 2 mouse and keyboard Wake Up Support Wake on LAN function Remote Ring Wake Up PCB Dimensions ATX form factor 4 layer PCB 17 3cm x 30 5cm 6 8inch x 12inch ...

Page 7: ...DIMM Sockets I t l 440BX ATX Power Connector 66 100MHz 4 PCI Slots 2 ISA Slots AGP Port Multi I O Chip BIOS Walk On LAN T PS 2 Mouse B PS 2 Keyboard T USB1 B USB2 B COMB B COMA T Parallel Printer Floppy Driver Connector Socket 370 CPU Intel 440BX ChipSet Intel PIIX4 ChipSet Panel Connector CPU Freq Ratio DIP Switch LI Battery ...

Page 8: ...Slo ISA Slo AGP Se Floppy 2Mbit Flash BIOS Multi I O Keyboard Controller PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 ISA1 ISA2 Infr WOL Wake on LAN Hardware Monitor Socket 37 PS 2 T Mouse B Keyboard USB T Port 1 B Port 2 COMB COMA Printer Parallel Port Intel 440BX AGP Se ATX Power C Drive Connector CPU FAN FDC IrDA ared Port PWR C KB MOUSE USB COMB COMA Thermal Sensor KB AWK JP1 Pin1 nscend AGP Slot PCI1 PCI4 PCI2 PCI3 o...

Page 9: ...must have a fan attached to it to prevent overheating If there is no fan on it please purchase a fan before you turn on your system WARNING Be sure that sufficient air circulation is available across the processor s pas sive heatsink Without sufficient circulation the processor could overheat and damage both the processor and the motherboard You may install an auxiliary fan if necessary To install...

Page 10: ...o page 26 NOTE Because Intel has locked the Socket 370 Celeron CPU s frequency ratio setting SW1 to adjust the frequency ratio is useless Howerer it may be effective if Intel unlocks the frequency ratio in the future Transcend D I M M 1 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e D I M M 2 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e D I M M 2 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e...

Page 11: ... w i t c h PANEL P a n e l S w i t c h IDE1 IDE2 CASE FAN CPU FAN FDC PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 ISA1 ISA2 IrDA I n f r a r e d P o r t WOL W a k e O n L A N AGP COMA CMOS_CLR H a r d w a r e M o n i t o r CPU Freq Ratio D CPU Internal Frequency 333 500MHz 366 550MHz 400 600MHz 433 650MHz 466 700MHz 500 750MHz JP2 66 100MHz 66 100MHz 66 100MHz 66 100MHz 66 100MHz 66 100MHz 1 ON ON OFF OFF OFF OFF Freq Ra...

Page 12: ...N FDC IrDA I n f r a r e d P o r t PWR CONN KB MOUSE USB COMB COMA T h e r m a l S e n s o r KB AWK on Position MM1 MM2 MM3 168 pin DIMM SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MBytes 768MBytes MAX DIMM Location DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 Total Memory TS ABX31 168Pin Transcend A G P P C I S l o t 1 P C I 1 P C I S l o t 4 P C I 4 P C I S l o t 2 P C I 2 P C I S...

Page 13: ...a r d C o n t r o l l e r F r e q u e n c y D I P S w i t c h PANEL P a n e l S w i t c h IDE1 IDE2 CASE FAN CPU FAN FDC PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 ISA1 ISA2 IrDA I n f r a r e d P o r t WOL W a k e O n L A N AGP COMA T h e r m a l S e n s o r CMOS_CLR H a r d w a r e M o n i t o r KB AWK TS ABX31 Keyb Transcend D I M M 1 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e D I M M 2 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n...

Page 14: ... PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 ISA1 ISA2 IrDA I n f r a r e d P o r t WOL W a k e O n L A N AGP COMA CMOS_CLR H a r d w a r e M o n i t o r TS ABX31 Fan P Transcend A G P P C I S l o t 1 P C I 1 P C I S l o t 4 P C I 4 P C I S l o t 2 P C I 2 P C I S l o t 3 P C I 3 I S A S l o t 1 I S A 1 I S A S l o t 2 I S A 2 I n t e l 4 4 3 Z X A G P S e t I n t e l P I I X 4 C h i p S e t C R 2 0 3 2 3 V L i t h i u m C e ...

Page 15: ... P S w i t c h PANEL P a n e l S w i t c h IDE1 IDE2 CASE FAN CPU FAN FDC PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 ISA1 ISA2 IrDA I n f r a r e d P o r t WOL W a k e O n L A N AGP COMA T h e r m a l S e n s o r CMOS_CLR H a r d w a r e M o n i t o r TS ABX31 IrDA Transcend D I M M 1 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e D I M M 2 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e D I M M 2 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p...

Page 16: ... the suspend mode works Pin11 5V Pin12 GND Harddisk LED Lead 2 pin HDD_LED This 2 pin connector connects to LED of harddisk The LED lights when a HDD is active Pin13 5V Pin14 GND Suspend Switch Lead 2 pin SUS This allows the user to manually place the system into the suspend mode or Green mode where system activities will be instantly decreased to save electricity and expand the life of certain co...

Page 17: ...0mA on the standby lead TS ABX31 Pow Transcend D I M M 1 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e D I M M 2 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e D I M M 2 6 4 7 2 b i t 1 6 8 p i n S D R A M M o d u l e C O M 1 P r i n t e r P a r a l l e l P o r t A G P P C I S l o t 1 P C I 1 P C I S l o t 4 P C I 4 P C I S l o t 2 P C I 2 P C I S l o t 3 P C I 3 I S A S l o t 1 I S A 1 I S A S...

Page 18: ... 6 pin Mini Din connector marked KB The view angle of drawing shown here is from back panel of the housing 3 Universal Serial BUS USB Ports 1 2 Two 4 pin USBs You can attach USB devices to the USB connector The motherboard contains two USB connectors which are marked as USB 4 Parallel Port Connector 25 pin PRN The onboard printer connector is a 25 pin D type connector marked PRN The view angle of ...

Page 19: ... e l 4 4 3 Z X A G P S e t I n t e l P I I X 4 C h i p S e t C R 2 0 3 2 3 V L i t h i u m C e l l P r i m a r y I D E C o n n e c t o r S e c o n d I D E C o n n e c t o r F l o p p y C o n n e c t o r 2 M b i t F l a s h B I O S M u l t i I O K e y b o a r d C o n t r o l l e r F r e q u e n c y D I P S w i t c h PANEL P a n e l S w i t c h IDE1 IDE2 CASE FAN CPU FAN FDC PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 ISA1...

Page 20: ...activated It will read the system configuration information and check the system through Power On Self Test POST During the POST process press the Del key and you can enter the Award BIOS configuration system The following screen will appear In the Award BIOS system you can use the arrows to highlight the item and press the Enter key to enter the sub menu The following keys help you navigate in Se...

Page 21: ... is a brief summary of each setup category STANDARD CMOS SETUP Options in the original PC AT compatible BIOS BIOS FEATURES SETUP Award enhanced BIOS options CHIPSET SETUP Available options specific to your system Chipset POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP Advanced Power Management APM options PnP PCI CONFIGURATION Plug and Play standard and PCI Local Bus configuration options LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS BIOS defaults ...

Page 22: ...OUT SAVING Abandon all changes and exit Setup Date mm dd yy Time hh mm ss Highlight the items and use PageUp PageDown to change the value of Date Time Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave This mainboard can support four IDE devices We recommend that you select type AUTO for all drives The BIOS can automatically detect the specifications and optimal operating mode of almost...

Page 23: ...SIZE Disk drive capacity approximately Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk checking program CYLS Number of cylinders HEAD Number of heads PRECOMP Write precompensation cylinder LANDZ Landing zone SECTOR Number of sectors MODE AUTO NORMAL LARGE or LBA AUTO The BIOS automatically determines the optimal mode NORMAL Maximum number of cylind...

Page 24: ...monitor adapters CGA 40 Color Graphics Adapter powers up in 40 column mode CGA 80 Color Graphics Adapter powers up in 80 column mode MONO Monochrome adapter includes high resolution monochrome adapters Halt On During the Power On Self Test POST the computer stops if the BIOS detects a hardware error You can set the BIOS to ignore certain errors during POST and continue the boot up process The foll...

Page 25: ...re hard drive NOTE Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning message If you plan to run such a program we recommend that you first disable the virus warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache Cache memory is additional memory that is much faster than conventional DRAM system memory CPUs from 486 type or up contain internal cache memory Most but no...

Page 26: ...and F plus a SCSI hard drive a LS ZIP drive and a CD ROM drive Swap Floppy Drive This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives Selecting Enabled assigns physical drive B to logical drive A and physical drive A to logical drive B Boot Up Floppy Seek While enabled the BIOS will seek drive A once Boot Up NumLock Status Toggle between On and Off to control the state of the NumLock key...

Page 27: ... system with greater than 64 MB of RAM on your system HDD S M A R T capability S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting If your hard disk supports this function select Enabled REPORT NO FDD FOR WIN95 Select Yes to report when there is no floppy disk drive under win95 operating system Video BIOS Shadow Software that resides in a read only memory ROM chip on a device is called firmware The A...

Page 28: ...will alter Do not change any values if you are not familiar with the chipset Auto Configuration Auto configuration selects predetermined optimal values of chipset parameters When this function is disabled chipset parameters revert to setup information stored in CMOS Many fields in this screen are not available when Auto Configuration is enabled EDO DRAM Speed Selection The value in this field depe...

Page 29: ...ect Check function ECC Enable Error Correct Check Function System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS This action can increase system performance Video BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS This action can increase system per formance Video RAM Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video RAM which results in better system perfo...

Page 30: ...e Accelerated Graphics Port AGP aperture The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated to graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation For more infor mation please refer to www agpforrum org for AGP information CPU Host Clock CPU PCI This function allows you to set FSB frequency of the CPU and the speed...

Page 31: ...hoice Enabled Disabled Power Management This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 Doze Mode 2 Standby Mode 3 Suspend Mode 4 HDD Power Down There are three selections for Power Management Three of which have fixed mode settings 1 Disable Default No power management Disable all four modes 2 Min Power Saving Minimum power ma...

Page 32: ...nitor supports the Display Power Management Signaling DPMS standard of the Video Electronics Standards Associatoin VESA Use the software supplied for your video subsystem to select video power management values Blank Screen System only writes blanks to the video buffer Video Off After Select the power saving modes during which the monitor goes blank Doze Monitor remains on during Doze modes Suspen...

Page 33: ...arts the global timer for Standby Mode Soft Off by PWR BTTN When set to Instant off the ATX switch can be used as a normal system power off button When set to Delay 4 seconds you need to hold the ATX switch for more than 4 seconds if you want to power off system Ring Wake Up This allows either setting of Enabled or Disabled for powering up the computer when the modem receives a call and the comput...

Page 34: ...scribes configuring the PCI bus system PCI Personal Computer Interconnect is a system which allows I O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed that CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users can make some changes PNP OS Installed This field allows you to use a Plu...

Page 35: ... PCI ISA PnP devices whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture compliant with the Plug and Play standard DMA n Assigned to When resources are controlled manually assign each system DMA channel as one of the following types depending on the type of device using the DMA Legacy ISA Devices requiring a specific DMA channel compliant with the original PC AT bus specification PCI ISA PnP devices ...

Page 36: ... you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave Ultra DMA Ultra DMA 33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive can support and the operating environment includes...

Page 37: ...lows you to decide to activate PCI Slot or AGP first POWER ON Function 1 Button only Power on only by pushing button on the case Default 2 Keyboard 98 You can power on system by pushing Power On key of keyboard 98 3 Password Power on only if you key in correct password 4 Hot KEY You can choose either of followings as hot key to power on the system A CTRL F1 CTRL F10 B Mouse Left C Mouse Right KBC ...

Page 38: ...keyed infrared port Onboard Parallel Port Select a logical LPT port name and matching address for the physical parallel printer port The choice 378H IRQ7 278H IRQ5 3BCH IRQ7 Disabled Parallel Port Mode This field allows you to set the operation mode of the parallel port The setting Normal allows normal speed operation but in one direction only EPP allows bidirectional parallel port operation at ma...

Page 39: ...your password Your password can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters When you type the characters they appear as asterisks on the password screen box 2 After typing the password press Enter key 3 At the next prompt re type your password and press Enter key again to confirm the new password After the password entry the screen automatically reverts to the main screen To disable the password press Ente...

Page 40: ...o prevent others from making changes to your system when accessed by POWER ON This operation is same as SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 3 11 IDE HDD Auto Detection Use the BIOS utility to detect the HDD type automatically Press Y to accept N to reject and ESC to the next detection ...

Page 41: ...37 BIOS SETUP 3 13 Exit Without Saving Abort the current change and exit the BIOS utility 3 12 Save Exit Setup Save the setting and exit the BIOS utility ...

Page 42: ...ues permanently stored in the BIOS ROM These default settings are non optimal and disable all high performance features 3 15 Load Setup Defaults This option allows you to load the default values to the system configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration settings for the system ...

Page 43: ... web Then download the suitable version to your disk 4 3 How to Update Your Motherboard BIOS Please follow these 5 steps listed below to update your BIOS Step 1 Make a record of your original or existing BIOS Setup parameters Press Del during the Power On Self Test to enter BIOS Setup Program when you start your system Write down the value of each parameter in order to re configure your system aft...

Page 44: ...m Command Bar Under Format 3 5 Floppy A Menu select Format type Full item and Other Options Copy system files Click Start button Step 3 Download the updated BIOS EXE file from the web site to a floppy disk Ref 4 1 and 4 2 Step 4 Execute the download file to decompress it Step 5 Please read the file of Readme TXT carefully and follow the instructions step by step Then you can finish the BIOS update...

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