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TS-APM3

TS-APL3

USER’S MANUAL

Intel

Socket 370 Celeron

Pentium

III FC-PGA Series

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Page 1: ...TS APM3 TS APL3 USER S MANUAL Intel Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III FC PGA Series ...

Page 2: ...formation and specifications are subject to change without prior notice Disclaimer Transcend provides this manual as is without any warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Transcend its management employees distributors and agents are free of liability for any indirect spe...

Page 3: ...4 66 100 133MHz System Configuration 9 2 5 CPU Internal Frequency Ratio Setting 10 2 6 Memory Configuration 11 2 7 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors 12 2 8 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 13 2 9 Fan Power Connectors 13 2 10 Wake on LAN Connector 14 2 11 Wake on Modem Connector 14 2 12 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 15 2 13 Panel Connectors 15 2 14 Power Connector 17 2 15 External Back Panel I...

Page 4: ...ealth Status 48 3 10 Frequency Voltage Control 49 3 11 Load Fail Safe Defaults 50 3 12 Load Optimized Defaults 50 3 13 Supervisor Password 51 3 14 User Password 52 3 15 Save Exit Setup 53 3 16 Exit Without Saving 53 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE 54 4 1 How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version 54 4 2 Download the Correct BIOS File from Our Web Site 54 4 3 How to Upgrade Your Motherboard BIOS 55 2 21 V...

Page 5: ...th ground 2 Touch a grounded or anti static surface or a metal fixture such as a pipe or the chassis of your system before touching the motherboard 3 When you have removed the motherboard from its anti static packaging try to hold it only by the edges without touching any components 4 Avoid contacting the components on add on cards motherboards and modules with the gold colored connectors which pl...

Page 6: ...fore you unpack your motherboard from its anti static packaging and start building your system Computer case and chassis with appropriate power supply Monitor Socket 370 Central Processing Unit CPU DIMM memory module PS 2 or USB Keyboard PS 2 or USB Mouse Hard Disk Drive Floppy Disk Drive CD ROM Drive Optional External Peripherals printer speakers plotter modem Optional Internal Peripherals modem ...

Page 7: ...MB 1 5GB memory size 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MB SDRAM DIMM 64 data bits structure only PC100 PC133 SDRAM compliant I O BUS Slot 1 x AGP Pro slot TS APM3 only 5 x Master Slave PCI slots PCI 2 2 compliant 1 x ISA slot Shared with PCI 1 x AMR slot I O Functions Supports PIO Mode 3 4 ATAPI devices and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 for 686B Only Supports 2 high speed UART 16550 COM ports Supports SPP EPP ECP LPT p...

Page 8: ...e Up Time Wake Up Switching Voltage Regulator Intel VRM 8 4 compliant Other Features Year 2000 compliant Anti Virus Boot up System voltage monitors for CPU Vcore 2 5V 3 3V 5V and 12V CPU temperature monitor System temperature monitor FAN speed monitor Supports Line out Line in and MIC in jack Supports Game MIDI port PCB Dimensions ATX form factor 4 layer PCB 19 cm x 30 5 cm 7 5 inch x 12 inch ...

Page 9: ...or 2 x USB Ports Memory Bus Master PIO Mode 3 4 DMA Mode 2 Ultra DMA 33 66 WOL Header Wake on LAN Flash EEPROM Award BIOS PnP DMI ACPI compliant Intel Celeron TM Socket 370 PPGA CPU 300A 533 MHz FSB 66 MHz AGP Connector 5 x PCI Slots 1 x AMR Slot 1 x ISA Slot Shared with PCI Expansion Slots Expansion Slots 3 x 168 pin DIMM Sockets 8MB 1 5GB SDRAM Inte l Pentium III Socket 370 FC PGA CPU 533A 933 M...

Page 10: ... Slot Lithium Battery IDE1IDE2 DIMM1 168pin SDRAM VCM Module DIMM2 168pin SDRAM VCM Module DIMM3 168pin SDRAM VCM Module JP2 VIA 686A 686B Chipset PGA 370 FDC CPU FAN AUX VIDEO IRDA USB3 4 AMR COM2 JP5 SW2 SW1 TS APM3 Panel Connector SYS FAN ATX Power Connector JP1 MIC Line in Line out VIA VT8605 VT8604 JP4 Freq ratio FSB Freq CMOS CLR 2 2 Layout of Transcend TS APM3 TS APL3 Motherboard 6 HARDWARE...

Page 11: ...ecessary for the CPU to prevent overheating If no fan has been supplied with the CPU purchase and install one before you turn on your system WARNING Be sure that sufficient air circulation is available across the processor s passive heatsink Without sufficient circulation the processor could overheat and damage both the processor and the motherboard You may install an auxiliary fan if necessary Pl...

Page 12: ...cated on the diagram below Ensure that the cable is connected correctly It will be obvious which way it fits 8 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Socket 370 CPU Installation Socket 370 CPU BottomView Notch CPU FAN Socket 370 CPU Top View Notch Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER ...

Page 13: ...INSTALLATION 9 66 100 133 MHz FSB Configuration Jumper SW2 FSB Freq SW2 66 100 133 1 2 3 4 o x x x x o o o o x x o O ON X OFF Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER The SW2 allows you to set the FSB Front Side Bus for 66 100 or 133 MHz Configuration ...

Page 14: ...atio is defined in the table below The internal frequency can be calculated by the following formula CPU internal frequency frequency ratio x FSB frequency System bus frequency is set in CPU Host PCI Clock of Frequency Voltage Control in BIOS SETUP MENU Please refer to page 49 NOTE Because Intel has locked the frequency ratio for new CPUs setting SW1 to adjust the frequency ratio is useless Howeve...

Page 15: ...any combination as follows 168 pin DIMM SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 MBytes 1 5 GBytes max DIMM Location DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 Total Memory NOTE Different types of DRAM modules should not be installed on one motherboard at the same time 168Pin DIMM Sockets Unbuffered Position 3 3V Position 168Pin SDRAM VCM Module DIMM1 168Pin SDRA...

Page 16: ...If you intend to operate two IDE devices from the same channel one device must be set to Master mode the other to Slave mode Hard disk drives CD ROM drives and other IDE devices can be set as either master or slave depending on the device s jumper settings Please refer to the device s user manual for more information NOTE The connectors must be attached properly to the IDE channels Ensure that the...

Page 17: ...ector FDC Note Orient the red Floppy Drive Connector stripe to PIN1 PIN1 Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER 2 9 Fan Power Connectors There are two fan power connectors on the mothrboard the CPU FAN and the SYS FAN Each connector provides 12V power Make sure the power cables are connected in the right direc tion damage may occur These connectors support cooling fans of 500 mA 6W or less Fan P...

Page 18: ...at least 720mA 5V standby power Wake On LAN Connector W O L 5 Volt Standby GND PME Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER 14 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Wake On Modem Connector W O M 5 Volt Standby GND RI Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER 2 11 Wake on Modem Connector 3 pin WOM This connector allows the system to be powered up upon receipt of a call via the modem NOTE This function requires a mo...

Page 19: ...ch as Laplink or Win95 Direct Cable Connection the user can transfer files to or from laptops notebooks PDAs and printers IrDA Connector IrDA 1 5 5V NC IRRX GND IRTX Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER HARDWARE INSTALLATION 15 2 13 Panel Connectors Panel Connectors PIN 11 PIN1 HD_LED RST PW_BN SPEAKER PIN 20 PIN 10 PW_ LED SLPBTN Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER ...

Page 20: ...ector PIN9 PW_BN PIN10 GND 16 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Sleep Button Lead 2 pin SLPBTN PIN5 SLPBTN PIN6 GND Power LED Lead 3 pin PW_ LED This 3 pin connector attaches to the power LED PIN11 5V PIN12 NC PIN13 GND Speaker 4 pin SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker PIN17 5V PIN18 GND PIN19 NC PIN20 SPK HD_ LED 2 pin HD_LED This 2 pin connector connects to the LED of the hard ...

Page 21: ...USB port The motherboard contains two USB ports which are marked as USB USB Ports 3 4 are on board connectors with 2x5 Header 4 Parallel Port Burgundy 25 pin PRN The onboard printer port is a 25 pin D type connector marked PRN HARDWARE INSTALLATION 17 2 14 Power Connector 20 pin PWR CONN Make sure to plug the ATX power supply connector in the right direction The pin definition is shown below Make ...

Page 22: ...the location and details 6 Display VGA Port Blue 15 pin VGA The onboard VGA port is a 15 pin D type connector marked VGA 7 Game Port MIDI Port Gold 15 pin GAME The onboard Game port MIDI Port is a 15 pin D type connector marked GAME 8 Line_out Lime Green 1 8 LINE_OUT The onboard Line_out connector is a 1 8 stereo audio jack marked LINE_OUT 9 Line_in Light blue 1 8 LINE_IN The onboard Line_in conne...

Page 23: ...tting 3 Pin JP2 For an external AMR card the onboard audio CODEC can be enabled or disabled via this jumper Please disable the onboard audio CODEC if you want to use an AMR Sound Card Note If you want to use a PCI Sound Card with audio controller on it please disable the OnChip Sound function in Advanced Chipset Features See Page 35 Onboard Audio Setting Audio Selection Jumper 1 JP2 Default 1 1 On...

Page 24: ...onnector It also allows the sharing of mono_in such as a phone and mono_out such as a speaker between the onboard audio and the voice modem card Internal Audio Connecotrs AUX Green GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel CD2 White GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel CD1 Black GND Modem In PHONE Modem Out MOUT MODEM VIDEO White GND Left Audio Cha...

Page 25: ... bracket to add a serial port for additional serial devices Regarding the onboard COM1 please refer to Section 2 15 External Back Panel I O Ports page 18 Internal Serial Port Connector COM2 COM2 D C D S O U T SIN D T R G N D D S R C T S R T S RI N C PIN2 PIN9 PIN10 PIN1 Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER ...

Page 26: ...itional serial devices Regarding the onboard USB please refer to Section 2 15 External Back Panel I O Ports page 17 NOTE Please make sure that the two red stripes on the cable are seated on PIN1 and PIN2 Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER Internal USB Port Connector VCC USB3 USB3 GND VCC USB4 USB4 GND GND PIN1 PIN2 PIN9 PIN10 USB3 USB4 GND ...

Page 27: ...u can move on to Chapter 3 the BIOS Setup section and turn on your PC HARDWARE INSTALLATION 23 2 21 VIO Adjust Jumper 3 pin JP5 This function allows you to increase VCC3 Voltage for heavy loading VIO Adjust Jumper 1 Normal JP5 High 1 Transcend COMA VGA Parallel Port PRINTER ...

Page 28: ...e Main Menu As you turn on or reboot the system the BIOS is immediately activated It will read the system configuration information and check the system through The 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 an item and press the...

Page 29: ...tem Chipset Integrated Peripherals I O subsystems that depend on the integrated peripheral controllers in your system Power Management Setup Advanced Power Management APM and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI options PnP PCI Configurations Plug and Play standard and PCI Local Bus configuration options PC Health Status To display the fan status CPU temperature system temperature etc a...

Page 30: ...ettings in nonvolatile CMOS RAM and exit Setup Exit Without Saving To abandon all changes and exit Setup 3 3 Standard CMOS Features Date mm dd yy Time hh mm ss Highlight the items and use PageUp PageDown to change the value of Date Time IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave Press Enter to enter the sub menu ...

Page 31: ...rs heads and sectors supported are 1024 16 and 63 respectively LBA Logical Block Addressing During drive access the IDE controller transfers the data address described by sector head and cylinder number into a physical block address This will significantly improve data transfer rates for drives with more than 1024 cylinders Large For drives that do not support LBA and have more than 1024 cylinders...

Page 32: ...ut do not select it in this Setup EGA VGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter Video Graphics Array For EGA VGA SEGA SVGA or PGA 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 including high resolution Halt On During the Power On Self Test POST the computer stops if the BIOS detects a hardware error ...

Page 33: ...ogram specifically a virus attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive You should then execute an anti virus program Keep in mind that this feature protects the boot sector only not the entire 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 tha...

Page 34: ...Self Test POST The Quick POST skips certain steps We recommend that you normally disable Quick POST It s better to find a problem during POST than to lose data during your work First Second Third Boot Device Boot Other Device The original IBM PCs loaded the DOS operating system from drive A floppy disk Therefore IBM PC compatible systems are designed to search for an operating system first on driv...

Page 35: ...se the fast Gate A20 line Typematic Rate Setting When this function is disabled the following two items Typematic Rate and Typematic Delay are irrelevant Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller in your system When this function is enabled you can select a typematic rate and typematic delay Typematic Rate Chars Sec When the Typematic Rate setting is enabled you can select ...

Page 36: ...ation form ROM to RAM where the CPU can read data through the 64 bit DRAM bus This can enhance system performance C8000 DFFFF Shadow You can shadow the ROM on other expansion cards by setting these fields If you install other expansion cards with ROMs you need to know which address the ROMs use specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K depending on the used a...

Page 37: ... change 3 to 2 for better performance DRAM Timing By SPD The DRAM timing is determined by the SPD of Memory modules which are plugged on the motherboard BIOS SETUP 33 DRAM Clock Set the clock frequency of the DRAMs The default value is Host Clock You can select HCLK 33M if your DRAM modules are faster than the CPU a 66 MHz FSB CPU with a PC100 SDRAM or a 100 MHz FSB CPU with PC133 SDRAM or select ...

Page 38: ...hics data structures can reside in a Graphic Aperture We suggest you leave this field on the default setting AGP 4X Mode Select Enable if you use a AGP 4X VGA card AGP Driving Control This function allows you to adjust the AGP driving force Choosing Manual allows you key in an AGP Driving Value in the next selection We recommend that you set this field to Auto to avoid any error in the system Memo...

Page 39: ...the write is complete before starting another write cycle PCI Dynamic Bursting When Enabled every write transaction goes to the write buffer Burstable transactions then burst on the PCI bus and nonburstable transactions will write to PCI bus immediately PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32 b...

Page 40: ...e delay when writing to the AGP Bus By default two wait states are used by the system allowing for greater stability AGP Master 1 WS Read This implements a single delay when reading to the AGP Bus By default two wait states are used by the system allowing for greater stability ...

Page 41: ...ace IDE Prefetch Mode The On Board IDE drive interface supports IDE prefetching for faster drive access If your IDE drive has add in IDE interface and doesn t support prefetching please set this field to Disabled Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO The four IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Mode...

Page 42: ...ection of the optimal number of Block Read Writes per sector that the drive can support Onboard FDD Controller You can use this function to enable or disable the onboard FDD controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Port 2 Select an address and the corresponding interrupt for each of the first and second serial ports The Choices are Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 and Auto The second serial po...

Page 43: ...CP Mode Use DMA Assign DMA channel 1 or 3 to the port for ECP mode operation Parallel Port EPP Type Select EPP port type 1 7 or 1 9 Onboard Legacy Audio This field controls the onboard legacy audio related selection If Disabled all of the following selections will be disabled Select Enable if you want to use onboard audio Sound Blaster Select Enable to use Sound Blaster SB I O Base Address Assign ...

Page 44: ...40 BIOS SETUP MPU 401 I O Address Assign MPU 401 resource Game Port 200 207H Select Enabled to assign Game Port resource ...

Page 45: ...etup allows you to configure your system to minimize energy consumption according to your own style of computer use ACPI Function This item allows you to enable disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI Power Management BIOS SETUP 41 ...

Page 46: ...hen Yes an Advanced Power Management device will be activated to enhance the Max Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock 42 BIOS SETUP This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 Suspend Mode 2 HDD Power Down 3 Doze Mode There are three selections for Power Management Two of them have fixed mode settings 1 Min Pow...

Page 47: ... power management and green features V H SYNC Blank Blanks the screen and turns off vertical and horizontal scanning DPMS Support The DPMS Display Power Management System feature allows the BIOS to control the video display card if it supports the DPMS feature MODEM Use IRQ You can select one of the following interrupt resources for modem use N A 3 4 5 7 9 10 and 11 Soft Off by PWRBTN When set to ...

Page 48: ...A If you select On you can set the VGA to awake the system LPT COM Any activity LPT from LPT COM or LPT COM wakes up the system HDD FDD If you select On any activity from one of them wakes up the system PCI Master If select On any activity on PCI Master wakes up the system RTC Alarm Resume Select Disabled if you want to Power On your system at a certain time on the same day every month or at a cer...

Page 49: ... In the screen you can see a list of IRQs Interrupt Requests When an I O device wants to gain the attention of the Operating System it asserts an IRQ signal When the Operating System is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself and performs the service The IRQs Activity Monitoring function monitors the IRQs you select On any activity from one of them will awaken a system which has been ...

Page 50: ...oots Resources Controlled by The Award Plug and Play BIOS can automatically configure all the boot and Plug and Play PnP compatible devices If you select Auto ESCD all of the Interrupt Requests IRQs and DMA assignment fields will be deactived as the BIOS automatically assigns them PnP OS Installed This field allows you to use a Plug and Play PnP operating system to configure the PCI bus slots inst...

Page 51: ...g depending on which type of device is using the interrupt PCI ISA PnP devices whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture compliant with the Plug and Play standard Legacy ISA Devices requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial port1 compliant with the original PC AT bus specification DMA Resources BIOS SETUP 47 ...

Page 52: ...A cards such as graphics accelerators or MPEG video cards might not show colors properly Select Enabled to correct this problem If you don t have such problems leave this field at Disabled Assign IRQ For VGA Select Enabled only if your VGA card requires an assigned IRQ Most ordinary cards do not but some high end cards with video capture function do Consult your VGA documentation to set this field...

Page 53: ...ect a system bus and PCI bus frequency from 133 33 MHz to 150 37 MHz Current CPU Temperature This field displays the current CPU temperature Current System Temperature This field displays the current system temperature Current CPU SYS Fan Speed These fields display the fan speeds of the CPU and SYS cooling fans System Voltage Monitor These fields display the CPU core voltage Vcore 2 5V 3 3V 5V and...

Page 54: ...permanently stored in the BIOS ROM NOTE These default settings are non optimal and disable all high performance features 3 12 Load Optimized 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 55: ...word Your password can be up to 8 alpha numeric characters When you type the characters they appear as asterisks on the password screen box 2 After typing the password press the Enter key 3 At the next prompt re type your password and press the Enter key again to confirm the new password After password entry the screen automatically reverts to the main menu screen To disable the password press the...

Page 56: ...o erase the RTC RAM 1 Unplug your computer 2 Short the JP4 jumper 2 3 then return to 1 2 3 Turn on your computer 4 Hold down Delete key during the POST process and enter BIOS setup to re configure BIOS 3 14 User Password This option allows you to set a password to prevent others from changing the BIOS setting of your system This operation is the same as Supervisor Password ...

Page 57: ...3 16 Exit Without Saving Abort the current changes and exit the BIOS utility 3 15 Save Exit Setup Save the settings and exit the BIOS utility BIOS SETUP 53 ...

Page 58: ... BIOS File Name and Version Turn on your PC The first screen will display as follows TRANSCEND MODULAR BIOS APM3 APL3 Ver 1 01 The BIOS description occurs on the third line Your system could be damaged if a wrong BIOS version is accidently used If you are not sure what version you should choose please contact us at techsupport transcend com tw Warning BIOS Version 1 0 V11 for Version 1 1 BIOS File...

Page 59: ...an empty 3 5 disk in Drive A MS DOS Key in FORMAT A s and press Enter Windows O S Select the icon of My Computer Click 3 5 Floppy A Select File Format from 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 website to a second disk or other storage device Ref 4 1 and 4 2 S...

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