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INTRODUCTION

1.4 Specifications and Features

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CPU

- Supports Intel Socket 370 Celeron

- Supports Intel Pentium III FC-PGA

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Chipset

-TS-AVE3: VIA 694X/686A AGPset

-TS-AVE3/B: VIA 694X/686B AGPset

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DRAM Memory

- Supports Synchronous DRAM

- Supports Virtual Channel Memory

- 3 x slots for 168-pin DIMM module

- 8MB~1.5GB memory size

- 8/16/32/64/128/256/512MB SDRAM DIMM

- Supports ECC

- 64 data bits structure only

- PC100/PC133 SDRAM compliant

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I/O BUS Slot

- 1 x AGP slot

- 5 x Master/Slave PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compliant)

- 1 x ISA slot

- 1 x ARM slot (Share with ISA slot)

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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 port

- Supports 1.44/2.88 MB floppy drive

- Supports PS/2 Mouse and PS/2 Keyboard

- Supports IrDA port

- Supports 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports

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Page 1: ...Your Supplier Your Partner Your Friend Transcend TS AVE3 USER S MANUAL Intel Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III FC PGA Series ...

Page 2: ...n the information 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 in no way liable for any indir...

Page 3: ...6 2 3 CPU Installation 7 2 4 66 100 133MHz System Configuration 10 2 5 Memory Configuration 10 2 6 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors 11 2 7 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 12 2 8 Fan Power Connectors 12 2 9 Wake on LAN Connector 13 2 10 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 13 2 11 Panel Connectors 14 2 12 Power Connector 16 2 13 External Back Panel I O Ports 16 2 14 Using JPS to clear CMOS Jumper 1...

Page 4: ...I Configurations 38 3 9 PC Health Status 41 3 10 Frequency Voltage Control 42 3 11 Load Fail Safe Defaults 42 3 12 Load Optimized Defanlts 43 3 13 Supervisor Password 43 3 14 User Password 44 3 15 Save Exit Setup 44 3 16 Exit Without Saving 44 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE 45 4 1 How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version 45 4 2 How to Download the Correct BIOS File from Our Web Site 45 4 3 How to Upgr...

Page 5: ...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 golden fingers gold colored connectors which plug in...

Page 6: ... 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 LAN ...

Page 7: ...8 16 32 64 128 256 512MB SDRAM DIMM Supports ECC 64 data bits structure only PC100 PC133 SDRAM compliant I O BUS Slot 1 x AGP slot 5 x Master Slave PCI slots PCI 2 1 compliant 1 x ISA slot 1 x ARM slot Share with ISA 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 port Supports 1 44 2 8...

Page 8: ... function Remote Ring Wake Up Time Wake Up PCB Dimensions ATX form factor 4 layer PCB 19cm x 30 5cm 8 inch x 12 inch Switching Voltage Regulator Intel VRM 8 4 compliant Other Features Year 2000 compliant Anti Virus Boot up System voltage monitors for CPU Vcore 2 5 3 3V 5V and 12V CPU temperature monitor System temperature monitor FAN speed monitor ...

Page 9: ... VIA Apollo Pro 133A Chipset Supports 66 100 133MHz FSB VIA 686A Super South Bridge Supports System Health Monitor Build In Super I O 5 x PCI Slots 1 x AMR Slot 1 x ISA Slot Shared with AMR AGP Connector Supports AGP1X 2X 4X AC97 CODEC AC97 V2 1 Audio CODEC External USB Connector 2 x USB Ports Memory 3 x 168 pin DIMM Sockets 8MB 1 5GB SDRAM Intel VRM 8 4 Compliant Switching Reg Switching Reg Bus M...

Page 10: ...T G A M E M I C AC97 CODEC JP6 2M bit Flash BIOS EEPROM TS AVE3 IrDA Transcend JP3 JP7 PCI Slot 1 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 4 AMR Slot ISA Slot CN14 USB 3 4 JP2 JP4 ATX Power Connector IDE1 IDE2 CASE FAN Panel Connector PCI Slot 5 PCI Slot 2 Game Port Li Battery Chipset VIA 686A JP1 KB AWK AUDIO CMOS_CLR 66 100 100 133 Intel Cyrix VIO WOL 2 2 Layout of Transcend s TS AVE3 Motherboard 6 HARDWARE INSTALLA...

Page 11: ...ry for the CPU to prevent overheating If there is no fan on it please purchase 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 Please follow the steps below...

Page 12: ...short pin2 pin3 for a Cyrix Joshua series CPU Connect the CPU s fan cable to the CPU FAN connector indicated 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 Bottom View Socket 370 CPU Installation Notch CPU_FAN Socket 370 CPU Top View Notch INTEL JP2 JP2 CYRIX JP7 JP7 1 1 Transcend ...

Page 13: ... 100MHz you can select a system bus frequency from 100MHz to 124MHz through CPU Host PCI Clock in Frequency Voltage Control Please refer to page 46 When you set the FSB to 133MHz you can select a system bus frequency from 124MHz to 150MHz through CPU Host PCI Clock in Frequency Voltage Control Please refer to page 46 NOTE If you are not familar with this feature we recommend you set this jumper to...

Page 14: ...ng and Correcting modules You can install memory in any combination as follows 168 pin DIMM SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MBytes 1 5GBytes 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 Po...

Page 15: ...DD 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 CD ROM or other IDE device can have either setting depending on device s jumper Please refer to the device s manual for more information NOTE The connectors must be attached to the IDE channels the right way round Make sure th...

Page 16: ...loppy Disk Drive Connector PIN1 Floppy Drive Connector FDC Note Orient the red stripe to Pin1 Transcend 2 8 Fan Power Connectors There are two fan power connectors on the mainboard the CPU FAN and the CASE FAN Each connector provides 12V power Make sure they are in the right orientation or they may cause damage These connectors support cooling fans of 500 mA 6W or less Fan Power Connectors CASE FA...

Page 17: ...t to Enabled and that your system has an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power Wake On LAN Connector 5 Volt Standby GND PME W O L Transcend 2 10 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 5 pin IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support a wireless infrared module With this module and application software such as Laplink or Win95 Direct Cable Connection the user can transfer...

Page 18: ...PEAKER 19 20 POWER LED SLEEP Speaker Lead 4 pin SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker Pin13 5V Pin15 GND Pin17 NC Pin19 SPK Suspend Mode LED Lead 2 pin S_LED The S_LED will light when the suspend system is in mode works Pin2 5V Pin4 GND Harddisk LED Lead 2 pin HD_LED This 2 pin connector connects to the LED of the hard disk The LED lights up when the HDD is active Pin6 ...

Page 19: ... Lead 2 pin RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without turning off your power switch Pin14 RESET Pin16 GND Software Power Off Lead 2 pin SOFT_OFF Attach the SOFT_OFF Switch of the panel to this connector Pin18 SOFT OFF Pin20 GND ...

Page 20: ...s 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 5 Serial Ports Turquoise two 9 pin COMA COMB The onboard serial ports are 9 pin D type connectors on the back panel of motherboard The serial port 1 is marked as COMA and the serial port 2 is marked as COMB 16 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 12 Power Connector ...

Page 21: ... you should turn off your computers power and short pin1 and pin2 of JP5 Clear CMOS Jumper 1 JP5 Transcend CMOS_CLR Default 1 1 1 PS 2 Mouse 2 PS 2 Keyboard 4 Parallel Port Printer 3 USB2 5 COMB COMA 7 Game MIDI Port 8 Line out 9 Line in 3 USB1 10 MIC in External Back Panel I O Ports ...

Page 22: ...ard CODEC 1 2 3 JP6 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 Please reference Page 32 ...

Page 23: ...atched connector 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 Transcend AUX Green GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel CD2 GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel CD1 Black GND Modem In Voice to Modem Modem Out Voice from Modem MOD...

Page 24: ...A please refer to Section 2 13 External Back Panel I O Ports page 20 NOTE Please make sure that the two red stripes Onthe are cable seated on Pin1 and Pin2 Internal USB Port Connector VCC USB3 USB3 GND VCC USB4 USB4 GND GND 1 2 9 10 USB3 USB4 Transcend Congratulations you have now completed Hardware Setup This means that you can move on to Chapter 3 the BIOS Setup section and turn on your PC ...

Page 25: ...The 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 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 E...

Page 26: ...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 27: ...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 28: ...ers 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 cylinder...

Page 29: ...o 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 including high resolution Halt On During the Power On Sel...

Page 30: ...essage 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 diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning message If you plan to run such a program we...

Page 31: ...xternal Cache field may not appear if your system does not have external cache memory CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Select Enabled to make sure the data is accurate Processor Number Feature This function was designed with the internet in mind Select Enable to make the processor serial number serve as a means of identifying your system Quick Power On Self Test Select Enabled to reduce the amount of tim...

Page 32: ... B to logical drive A and physical drive A to logical drive B Boot Up Floppy Seek When you select Enabled the BIOS tests seeks floppy drives to determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks Only 360 KB floppy drives have 40 tracks drives with 720KB 1 2MB and 1 44MB capacity all have 80 tracks Because very few modern PCs have 40 track floppy drives we recommend that you set this field to Disabled to ...

Page 33: ...MB Select OS2 only if you are running OS 2 operating system with more than 64 MB of RAM on your system Video BIOS Shadow Select Enabled to change the video BIOS location 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 ...

Page 34: ...AM Timing The DRAM timing of Bank 0 1 2 3 4 5 is determined by the Memory modules which are plugged on the motherboard If you use PC100 SDRAM please select PC100 if you use PC133 SDRAM select PC133 instead 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 66MHz FSB CPU with a PC100 SDRAM or a 100MH...

Page 35: ...lows 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 performance AGP Aperture Size MB Memory mapped graphics 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 D...

Page 36: ...c 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 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select E...

Page 37: ... Memory Parity ECC Check When parity DRAM modules are installed select Enabled to correct 1 bit memory errors in the memory Otherwise select Disabled BIOS SETUP 33 ...

Page 38: ... channels Select Enabled to activate the first and or second IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate this interface if you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface 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 ...

Page 39: ...rive can support it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If both your hard disk drive and your system software can support Ultra DMA 33 66 select Auto to enable BIOS support Init Display First This item allows you to decide whether to activate either the PCI Slot or the AGP first IDE HDD Block Mode Block Mode is also called Bloc...

Page 40: ...T 2 Mode Choose the right type of infrared device Standard Normal operation HPSIR IrDA compliant serial infrared port ASKIR Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared Port IR Function Duplex Consult your IR peripheral documentation to select the setting for IR Half Full duplex function TX RX Invertiog Enable Consult your IR peripheral documentation to set this field The item Yes means Low Active and No means ...

Page 41: ...d 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 Sound Blaster resources We recommend you leave this field on default SB IRQ Select Assign Sound Blaster resources We recommend you leave t...

Page 42: ...r Management Setup 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 ...

Page 43: ...or Power Management Two of them have fixed mode settings 1 Min Power Saving Minimum power management mode Inactivity period is defined below Doze Mode 1 Hour Suspend Mode 1 Hour 2 Max Power Saving Maximum power management mode Inactivity period is defined below Doze Mode 1 Min Suspend Mode 1 Min 3 User Define Allows you to set each mode individually Select the time out period for each mode shown a...

Page 44: ...zontal 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 PM Control by APM When Yes an Advanced Power Management device will be activated to enhance the Max Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock VIDEO Off Option When Enabled this function allows the VGA adapter to operate in a power s...

Page 45: ...ure the system will automatically reboot as soon power is restored IF the PC was turned on when the power failed If the PC was already turned off when the power failed the system needs to be turned on again manually Wake Up Event VGA 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 fr...

Page 46: ...creen 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 powered d...

Page 47: ...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 48: ... the following 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 ...

Page 49: ...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 USB When Enabled BIOS will assign an IRQ channel for the USB controller Assign IRQ For VGA Select Enabled only if your VGA card requires an assigned IRQ Most ordinary cards do not but some high en...

Page 50: ...ystem bus frequency from 100 33MHz to 124 31MHz When JP4 is set to 133MHz you can select a system bus and PCI bus frequency from 133 33MHz to 150 37MHz 46 BIOS SETUP Current CPU Temperature This field displays the current CPU temperature Current System TEMP This field displays the current system temperature Current CPU Case Fan Speed These fields display the fan speeds of the CPU Power and Case Sy...

Page 51: ...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 52: ...assword 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 screen To disable the password press the E...

Page 53: ...to page 22 To erase the RTC RAM 1 Unplug your computer 2 Short the JP5 jumper 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 54: ...3 16 Exit Without Saving Abort the current change and exit the BIOS utility 50 BIOS SETUP 3 15 Save Exit Setup Save the setting and exit the BIOS utility ...

Page 55: ...se turn on your PC first the screen will display as follows TRANSCEND MODULAR BIOS AVE3 Ver 1 03 You can see a description shows at 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 Name AVE3 Ver 1 03 You ca...

Page 56: ... 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 icon of My Compute 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 floppy disk Ref 4 1 and ...

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