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TS-ASL3

TS-ASP3

USER’S MANUAL
Intel

Socket 370 Celeron

Pentium

III FC-PGA Series

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Page 1: ...TS ASL3 TS ASP3 USER S MANUAL Intel Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III FC PGA Series ...

Page 2: ...pecifications 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 in no way liable for any indirect special incidental ...

Page 3: ...em Configuration 7 2 3 2 Using Jumper JP1 to clear CMOS 8 2 3 3 Onboard Audio Setting 9 2 3 4 Keyboard Wake Up 10 2 3 5 VCC3 Adjust 11 2 4 Connector Description 12 2 4 1 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors 12 2 4 2 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 13 2 4 3 Fan Power Connectors 14 2 4 4 Memory Configuration 15 2 4 5 Panel Connectors 16 2 4 6 Wake on LAN Connector 18 2 4 7 Power Connector 19 2 4 8 IrDA Comp...

Page 4: ... 5 3 10 Frequency Voltage Control 4 6 3 11 Load Fail Safe Defaults 4 8 3 12 Load Optimized Defaults 4 8 3 13 Supervisor Password 4 9 3 14 User Password 5 0 3 15 Save Exit Setup 5 0 3 16 Exit Without Saving 5 1 CHAPTER 4 SOFTWARE SETUP 52 4 1 INF Update for 815E Chipset 5 2 4 2 VGA Driver Setup 5 3 4 3 Intel Security Controller Driver 5 4 4 4 Audio Driver Setup 5 5 CHAPTER 5 BIOS UPGRADE 58 5 1 How...

Page 5: ... 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 plug into the expan...

Page 6: ...age should contain the following items Please check them as soon as you unpack If you find any damaged or missing items please contact your retailer Motherboard 1 X CD ROM 1 X FDD cable User s Manual COM port cable x 1 optional Ultra DMA 66 100 cable x 1 USB Cable x 1 optional 1 3 Specifications and Features CPU Supports Intel Pentium III CeleronTM Series Chipset TS ASL3 Intel 815E GMCH ICH2 FSB 6...

Page 7: ...oard Supports IrDA port Supports 4 USB Universal Serial Bus ports Supports VGA port TS ASL3 Only INTRODUCTION 3 Supports Line out Line in and MIC in jack Supports Game MIDI port Switching Voltage Regulator Intel VRM 8 4 compliant On Board VGA TS ASL3 only Full 2D 3D Direct X acceleration Texture mapped 3D with point sampled bilinear trilinear and anisotropic filtering Supports 640 by 480 16 256 Hi...

Page 8: ...compliant Power failure resume FWH Firmware Hub supports security manageability BIOS Virus protection warning PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Wake Up Supports Wake on LAN function Remote Ring Wake Up Time Wake Up Board voltage monitors for CPU core 3 3V 5 0V 12 0V VTT 3 3VSB 5VSB CPU overheat alarm CPU fan auto off in sleep mode ...

Page 9: ...rts PS 2 KB PS 2 Mouse ports CPU Main Memory M Bits FWH Flash Memory System BIOS 4 System BIOS PCI IDE Connector Bus Master DMA Mode 2 PCI IDE Connector Bus Master PIO Mode 3 4 5 DMA Mode 2 Ultra DMA 33 66 100 FDD Connector Floppy Disk Drive Connector FDD Connector Line out Line in MIC in TS ASL3 Intel 815E TS Chipset GMCH ICH2 Intel 815E chipset TS ASP3 Intel 815EP Chipset LPC Super I O Expansion...

Page 10: ...T Port 1 B Port 2 USB Battery DIMM1 64bit 168pin SDRAM Module DIMM2 64bit 168pin SDRAM Module DIMM3 64bit 168pin SDRAM Module P R N CD2 KB MOUSE GMCH 815 STBY LED MEM LED J P 2 8 J P 6 FC PGA Game Audio AUX VIDEO JP2 Panel USB3 4 CNR COMB C a s e F a n W O L IrDA Power Fan AGP CPU Fan FDC IDE2 IDE1 J P 4 ICH2 F W H PCI Slot5 PCI5 PCI Slot4 PCI4 MODEM J P 1 CD1 ...

Page 11: ...z to 99MHz through CPU Host PCI Clock of Frequency Voltage Control in the BIOS Setup menu When you set the FSB to 100MHz you can select a system bus frequency from 100MHz to 132MHz When you set the FSB to 133MHz you can select a system bus frequency from 133MHz to 166MHz HARDWARE INSTALLATION 7 Transcend 66 100 133MHz FSB Configuration Jumper 66MHz 100MHz 133MHz JP4 AUTO BUS_Freq 2 3 1 66 100 133 ...

Page 12: ...RDWARE INSTALLATION 2 3 2 Using Jumper JP1 to clear CMOS To clear the CMOS data you should turn off your computer s power and short pin1 and pin2 in JP1 CLEAR NORMAL JP1 CMOS_CLR Transcend Clear COMS Jumper ...

Page 13: ...CI Sound Card or an CNR Audio Card When you install a CNR card remember that the onboard audio CODEC uses the primary channel Therefore if you want the onboard CODEC to work you must set the CNR to be secondary HARDWARE INSTALLATION 9 Audio Selection Jumper JP2 Audio Enable Disable Transcend 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 3 Onboard Audio Setting JP2 ON BOARD AUDIO ...

Page 14: ... makes the Keyboard Power Up the system Set this jumper to Enable if you d like your Keyboard to Power Up your computer Then go to the Power On Function in the Integrated Peripherals in BIOS to choose the setting you prefer Transcend Keyboard Wake Up Disable Enable KB AWK JP6 ...

Page 15: ...VCC3 Adjust JP28 VCC3 Low Load Medium Load High Load Transcend 2 3 5 VCC3 Adjust HARDWARE INSTALLATION 11 Keep this selection fixed unless you are familiar with the system Default is Medium ...

Page 16: ... use an 80 wire cable otherwise the HDD won t be able to reach this speed 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 A Hard Disk Drive CD ROM or other IDE device can have either setting depending on the device s jumper Please refer to the device s manual for more information NOTE The Connectors must be attached to th...

Page 17: ...erboard package After connecting the single end to the board connect the two plugs at the other end to the floppy drive s Remember as in the last section the red stripe on the edge of the ribbon cable must be the nearest to PIN1 or your connection won t work PIN1 is on the left as shown below Floppy Disk Drive Connector PIN1 FDC Floppy Disk Drive Connector Transcend ...

Page 18: ...rd CPU FAN POWER FAN and CASE FAN Each connector provides 12V power The cables can only be attached a certain way If you try to put them in the wrong way they won t fit These connectors support cooling fans of 500 mA 6W or less CPU FAN POWER FAN CASE FAN Fan Power Connectors GND FAN Rotation 12V Transcend ...

Page 19: ...dules in any combination of memory capacities listed below in any socket but never exceed 512MB total memory capacity NOTE This motherboard supports memory modules with 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MB Unbuffered Position 3 3V Position 168 pin Unbuffered SDRAM Module DIMM1 168 pin Unbuffered SDRAM Module DIMM2 168 pin Unbuffered SDRAM Module DIMM3 168Pin Memory DIMM Sockets Transcend ...

Page 20: ...onnectors Power LED Lead 3 pin POWER LED This 3 pin connector attaches to the power LED Pin1 5V Pin3 NC Pin5 GND Keylock Lead 2 pin KEYLOCK Use the keylock to enable or disable the Keyboard Pin7 KEYLOCK Pin9 GND Speaker Lead 4 pin SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker Pin13 5V Pin15 GND Pin17 NC Pin19 SPK ...

Page 21: ... the LED of the hard disk The LED lights up when a HDD is active Pin6 5V Pin8 GND Reset Switch Lead 2 pin RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without turning on your power switch Pin14 Pin16 Soft Power Off Lead 2 pin SOFT_OFF Attach the SOFT_OFF switch of the panel to this connector Use the switch to Power On Off your system Pin18 Pin20 ...

Page 22: ...can be Powered Up when a wake up packet or signal is received from the LAN card NOTE This function requires that the Wake Up by PCI WOL function in the Power Management Setup in BIOS is set to Enabled and that your system has an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power 5V Standby Wake on LAN Connector GND PME W O L Transcend ...

Page 23: ...efinition is shown below Make sure that your ATX power supply can support at least 720mA 5V standby power for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI functions Power Connector PWR CONN PSON Power Supply on Power Good 3 3V 3 3V GND 5 0V GND 5 0V GND 5 0V Standby 12 0V 3 3V 12 0V GND PSON 5 0V 5 0V 5 0V GND GND GND Transcend ...

Page 24: ...must also configure the setting through UART Mode Select in Integrated Peripherals in BIOS to select IrDA Connect the Standard IR SIR device to the onboard SIR connector according to the pin definitions An optional Consumer Infrared CIR set connects to the CIR and SIR connectors simultaneously for both wireless transmitting and remote control functions through one external infrared module 20 HARDW...

Page 25: ... Internal Serial Port Connector COMB You can use the provided serial port bracket to add a serial port for additional serial devices Internal Serial Port Connector COMB COMB DCD SIN DTR GND DSR CTS RTS RI NC 9 10 1 2 SOUT Transcend ...

Page 26: ...r 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 Connectors Transcend Left Audio Channel MODEM Modem In Voice to Modem CD2 VIDEO GND Modem Out Voice from Modem AUX GND Left Audio Channel GND Right Audio Channel Left Audio Channel Left Audio Channel GND Right Audio Channel Right Audio Channel GND...

Page 27: ...HARDWARE INSTALLATION 23 2 4 11 USB 3 4 Connector USB 3 4 Connector Transcend GND USBP2 GND USBP2 USB Power USB Power USBP3 USBP3 NC ...

Page 28: ...Serial Port COMA Turquoise 9 pin COMA 6 Display VGA Port Blue 15 pin VGA TS ASL3 Only 7 Game Port MIDI Port Gold 15 pin GAME 8 Line_out Lime Green 1 8 LINE_OUT 9 Line_in Light blue 1 8 LINE_IN 10 MIC_in Pink 1 8 MIC 2 5 External Back Panel I O Ports There are 10 kinds of external connectors on the back panel of the motherboard The view in the drawing below is the back panel of the motherboard hous...

Page 29: ... 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 then enter its sub menu by press...

Page 30: ...hipset 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 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 and provid...

Page 31: ...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 32: ... Normal Maximum number of cylinders heads and sectors supported are 1024 16 and 63 respectively LBA Logical Block Addressing During drive access the IDE controller transforms 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...

Page 33: ...m in your computer The BIOS will detect the correct video type automatically The BIOS supports a secondary video subsystem but 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 i...

Page 34: ...etup system features according to your preferences Virus Warning When this function is enabled you will receive a warning message if a program 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 diagn...

Page 35: ...ice The original IBM PCs loaded the DOS operating system from drive A floppy disk So IBM PC compatible systems are designed to search for an operating system first on drive A and then on drive C hard disk However BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in this field In addition to the traditional drives A Floppy and C HDD 0 options include HDD 1 HDD 2 H...

Page 36: ...u can select a typematic rate the rate at which a character repeats when you hold down a key of 6 8 10 12 15 20 24 or 30 characters per second Typematic Delay Msec When the Typematic Delay setting is enabled you can select a typematic delay the delay before key strokes begin to repeat of 250 500 750 or 1000 milliseconds Security Option If you have set a password you can select whether the password...

Page 37: ...Module and choose the proper setting SDRAM Cycle Time Tras Trc Select the number of SDRAM clocks used per access cycle Setting available is 7 9 or 5 7 SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay This controls the latency between SDRAM active command and the read write command Leave it on the default setting SDRAM RAS Precharge Time This controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to SDRAM Leave it on th...

Page 38: ...CI again AGP Graphics Aperture Size The Aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Access to the aperture range is forwarded to AGP without any translation Available options are 64MB and 32MB Display Cache Frequency When you have AIMM installed you can set the frequency according to the speed of the SDRAM of your AIMM System Memory Frequency D...

Page 39: ...2 will set the value of this field to 2 RAS Timing Set the RAS timing of the onboard display cache memory RAS Precharge Timing Set the RAS precharge timing of the onboard display cache memory BIOS SETUP 35 CAS Latency Set the CAS Latency of the onboard display memory Paging Mode Control Open or close the paging mode control of the onboard display cache memory ...

Page 40: ...d IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate this interface when you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO The four IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 5 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 through 5 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system au...

Page 41: ...A PCI AGP AC97 Audio Modem If you select Enabled BIOS will detect whether you are using any Audio Modem devices When an Audio Modem device is detected the onboard Audio Modem controller will be enabled If you want to use your own Audio Modem card set these fields to Disabled If not set these fields to Auto IDE HDD Block Mode Block Mode is also called Block Transfer Multiple Commands or Multiple Se...

Page 42: ...u can use this function to enable or disable the onboard FDC 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 2F8 IRQ3 and Auto The second serial port shares the resources address and IRQ with IrDA UART Mode Select Choose the right type of infrared device Norma...

Page 43: ... system to automatically Power On after the power has failed Off Disable this function On Enable this function Former Sts Not only Power On the system but also to return it to its former status Game Port Address Set Joystick Game Port Address The choices are Disabled 201 and 209 Midi Port Address Set Midi Port Address The choices are Disabled 330 300 and 290 Midi Port IRQ Assign IRQ 5 or 10 to the...

Page 44: ... cards do not support the STR function you must leave this field on S1 POS setting The STR Suspend to RAM is an energy saving feature It takes only a few seconds to wake up the system and return to the previous situation NOTE This feature STR requires an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI functions Otherwise the system will...

Page 45: ...ethod Defines the Video Off features Blank Screen Only blanks the screen Use this for monitors without power management and green features V H SYNC BLANK Blanks the screen and turns off vertical and horizontal scanning DPMS The DPMS Display Power Management System feature allows the BIOS to control the video display card if it supports the DPMS feature VIDEO Off In Suspend This determines the mann...

Page 46: ...ur system when the external modem receives a call NOTE This function requires an external modem which supports the Ring Wake Up function USB KB Wake Up From S3 When your system is in S3 Suspend to RAM mode you can wake up the system by pressing the wake up key on the USB Keyboard CPU Thermal Throttling Select the CPU Thermal Throttling rate If BIOS detects that the CPU temperature is too high it w...

Page 47: ...reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD if you have just installed a new add on card and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system cannot boot The setting will automatically be set back to Disabled the next time the system reboots Resources Controlled by The Award Plug and Play BIOS can automatically configure all the boot and Plug and Play PnP c...

Page 48: ...nterrupt to one of the following depending on which type of device is using the interrupt Legacy ISA Devices requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial port1 compliant with the original PC AT bus specification PCI ISA PnP devices whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture compliant with the Plug and Play standard PCI VGA Palette Snoop Some VGA cards such as graphics accelerators ...

Page 49: ... 122 F to 70 C 158 F or even Disabled if you like Current CPU System Temperature These two fields display the CPU and the on board system temperature Current CPU Power Case Fan Speed These fields display the fan speeds of the CPU fan Power fan and Case fan VCORE This field displays the CPU working voltage VTT This field displays the GTL bus voltage 5V 12V 12V 5V These fields show the power supply ...

Page 50: ...s on your CPU type When JP4 is set to 66MHz you can select the system bus frequency from 66MHz to 99 MHz When JP4 is set to 100MHz you can select the system bus frequency from 100MHz to 132MHz When JP4 is set to 133MHz you can select the system bus frequency from 133MHz to 166MHz When you overclock the CPU too much some devices on the motherboard might not function well like onboard CODEC When thi...

Page 51: ...m bus frequency System bus frequency is set in the previous field CPU Host PCI Clock The choices are 3 3 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 5 7 7 5 and 8 or 8 5 9 10 10 5 11 11 5 12 The two different tables depend on your CPU type NOTE Because Intel has locked the frequency ratio for new CPU settings this field to adjust the frequency ratio is usually useless However it is effective for older version CPUs BIOS SET...

Page 52: ...ored 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 48 BIOS SETUP ...

Page 53: ...s 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 Enter key when prompted to enter the password The screen displays a message confirming that the password has been disabled Forget the password If you forget the password you can clear ...

Page 54: ...tion allows you to set a password to prevent others from changing the BIOS settings of your system This operation is the same as Supervisor Password 3 15 Save Exit Setup Save the settings and exit the BIOS utility 50 BIOS SETUP ...

Page 55: ...BIOS SETUP 51 3 16 Exit Without Saving Abort current changes and exit the BIOS utility ...

Page 56: ...sn t match your motherboard please select the correct one 4 1 INF Update for 815E Chipset This section introduces INF files in Windows 95 98 for the following items System and Graphics LPS Interface SM Bus PCI Bridge Bus master IDE USB Host and Controllers Click INF Update Utility for Intel 81X chipset and follow the figures as below Click here 2 Click here 3 Click here 4 52 SOFTWARE SETUP Click h...

Page 57: ...ETUP 53 Click here 5 Click here 6 4 2 VGA Driver Setup This section introduces Intel 815 system and graphics controller driver Click VGA Driver Setup and the follow the figures as below Click here 1 Click here 2 ...

Page 58: ...e 4 4 3 Intel Security Controller Driver This section helps you to install a security controller for Windows 95 98 Click Security Driver Setup and then follow the figures as below Click here 1 Click here 2 54 SOFTWARE SETUP ...

Page 59: ...ction helps you to setup the onboard audio device Click Audio Driver Setup and choose the operating system you use A Audio Driver for Windows 95 98 2000 The following figures are captured from Windows 98SE You can setup the Audio CODEC in almost the same way in Windows 95 and Windows 2000 ...

Page 60: ...56 SOFTWARE SETUP Click here 1 Click here 2 Click here 3 Click here 4 Click here 5 ...

Page 61: ...B Audio Driver for Windows NT SOFTWARE SETUP 57 Click here 1 Click here 2 Click here 3 Click here 4 Click here 5 ...

Page 62: ...a com On the front page click on the Motherboard icon which is the second one down On the Motherboard page click on the BIOS icon near the top The BIOS page contains important information please take the time to read this page carefully Go to the bottom of the BIOS page click on Slot 1 and choose your motherboard model Your BIOS file name must absolutely match the one shown on our web site Then do...

Page 63: ...stem Write down the value of each parameter in order to re configure your system after BIOS updating Step 2 Make a System Disk Put a clean 3 5 disk in Drive A MS DOS Key in Format A S and press Enter Windows O S Select the My Computer icon 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 Sta...

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