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Chapter 2

Board Installation

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Board Installation

Unpacking

The mainboard package should contain the following:

S1694SA/L Tigercub mainboard

One 40-pin IDE cable

One 34-pin floppy cable

User’s manual

One CPU retention module

Creative/Ectiva sound CD (optional, includes installation guide).

One LANDesk CD (optional)

Installation

You are now ready to install your mainboard. The mounting hole
pattern of the S1694SA/L matches the Micro ATX system board
specifications. The S1694SA/L will fit in a Micro ATX or a standard
ATX chassis.

Summary of Contents for S1694SA/L Tigercub

Page 1: ...he most novice of end users to understand the technical jargon that pops up in these pages The numerous pictures in the step by step installation guide make it easy for you to put together your system...

Page 2: ...rs 26 Map of Motherboard Jumpers 27 Soft Power Connector 31 Speaker Connector Installation 31 Hardware Reset Switch Connector Installation 31 External SMI 32 Chassis Intrusion Alarm Connector 32 CMOS...

Page 3: ...Integrated Peripherals 64 Password Setting 67 Flash Writer Utility 67 5 System Resources 70 POST Messages 70 Glossary 74...

Page 4: ...mance capabilities that are ideal for a wide range of demanding appli cations such as CAD CAM CAE desktop publishing 3D animation and video production This integrated system board achieves high relia...

Page 5: ...out the most vital paragraphs in a chapter you should always read every word in the text Failing to do so can lead to exasperation and expense Wherever possible we have included step by step instruc t...

Page 6: ...pply connector Information s 12V power source for DC fan onboard s3 3V DRAM support sUtilizes GTL bus to reduce power consumption and EMI sPower recovery after interrupt sWindows 95 soft power down Ma...

Page 7: ...x 7 1 inches sDouble row ATX connectors BIOS Information sAward Plug and Play flash BIOS sDeep Green Energy Star PC98 Year 2000 compliant sMultiple boot options Disk Drive System I O sTwo PCI bus mast...

Page 8: ...mation contained in this document is subject to change without notice Technical Support If a problem arises with your system you should turn to your dealer for help first Your system has most likely b...

Page 9: ...r should be prominently displayed on the outside of the shipping carton and the package should be mailed prepaid or hand carried to the manufacturer TYAN will pay to have the board shipped back to you...

Page 10: ...pin IDE cable One 34 pin floppy cable User s manual One CPU retention module Creative Ectiva sound CD optional includes installation guide One LANDesk CD optional Installation You are now ready to ins...

Page 11: ...on t take any electronic device out of its protective bag until you are ready to actually install it into the computer case If you don t discharge yourself and you zap the motherboard or adapter card...

Page 12: ...shouldn t be able to plug the power connector in any other way but just to be safe make sure it looks like Figure 2 above Make absolutely certain that you do not miss any pins because if you do you w...

Page 13: ...k when they are connected to your hard drive Notice how Pin 1 denoted by a red stripe is connected so that it is next to the power connector of the drive In most cases this is the proper way of connec...

Page 14: ...r HDD Hard drives do not power up check power cables and cabling May also be a bad power supply or IDE drive Now that you have installed your IDE drives your floppies are next Pin 1 on the floppy cabl...

Page 15: ...board Try another single floppy drive to verify the problem or try another cable Also check to see if the onboard floppy is enabled in the BIOS Floppy Drive Fail message at bootup the cable floppy or...

Page 16: ...own in Figure 6 above Note that for this board the PS 2 mouse port is the upper PS 2 port and the PS 2 keyboard port is the lower PS 2 port The PS 2 connectors are probably quite familiar to you The U...

Page 17: ...one of the two PCI slots can support a Master or Slave device NEVER force a card into a slot If it doesn t fit look at the socket on the computer to make sure there are no wires or other obstructions...

Page 18: ...ured with performance in mind you should use add in components that match Some DIMM modules may seem to be high quality because of name or feel but that does not guarantee real world usability Some ch...

Page 19: ...M slot Figure 9 shows how to sit the DIMM into its slot To insert the DIMM push down vertically on the module with even force as shown in the photo Do not shove one end in first doing so will bend the...

Page 20: ...easily be damaged by static electricity Do not touch the CPU pins with your fingers s Before the CPU is installed the mainboard must be placed on a flat surface You should be able to insert the CPU wi...

Page 21: ...erboard on a flat surface Locate the key pin on one end of the Pentium II slot on the board Then carefully line up the key notch on the retention module with the key pin on the Pentium II slot the key...

Page 22: ...you have an active pro cessor you will also need to connect the CPU s cooling fan cable to the cooling fan power connector on the board Locate the cooling fan connector e g FAN1 on the motherboard Plu...

Page 23: ...ot Insert the heat sink mount into the holes on the motherboard When the bracket is properly inserted into the holes on the motherboard you will hear a clicking noise Align the CPU with the CPU retent...

Page 24: ...unlocked Gently pull up on the CPU taking care not to bend the motherboard or the CPU retention module To remove the lock from the retention module gently press the ends of the locks inward and pull Y...

Page 25: ...jumper pins that are inactive Jumpers and pins are connected by slipping the black plastic jumper connector overtop of two adjacent jumper pins The metal rod inside the plastic shell bridges the gap...

Page 26: ...e jumpers for CPU speed wake on events and external connector pin assignments among others The miniature motherboard maps will help you locate the jumpers on your board A full page map of the motherbo...

Page 27: ...el 82371AB chip Intel 82443EX chip ATX power supply DIMM bank 2 ISA slot 1 ISA slot 2 AGP slot PCI slot 1 PCI slot 2 ITE 8671 Super I O chip USB1 Keyboard USB2 Mouse COM1 Parallel Printer Port COM2 MI...

Page 28: ...Resource Settings Intel 440EX LM81 optional 2 DIMM slots Intel PIIX4 Award BIOS Sound MIDI 2 ISA slots 2 PCI slots One SEC slot Slot One type PS 2 ports USB ports COM2 LPT1 COM1 AGP port ITE 8671 Sup...

Page 29: ...H M 6 6 2 N O N O N O F F O 5 4 x z H M 6 6 z H M 0 0 3 N O F F O N O F F O 5 x z H M 6 6 z H M 3 3 3 N O N O F F O F F O 5 1 P J t l u a f e D 2 1 S O M C t e s e R 3 2 s n i P 2 1 1 1 6 6 1 3 1 0 2...

Page 30: ...C 5 1 J D N G C C V r o t i n o M n a F n a F U P C 6 1 J D N G C C V r o t i n o M n a F r e p m u J n o i t c n u F 8 2 D D E L r o l o c o w t r o f r o t c e n n o C 3 1 P J I M S l a n r e t x E...

Page 31: ...will wake the system or send it in to Suspend mode In this case you cannot turn the system off unless you shut down through the Windows operating system or you hold the power button down for four sec...

Page 32: ...the devices in the Intel 82371AB chipset Neither the PCI Bridge nor the PCI Universal Serial Bus device IDs for this chipset also called PIIX4 are recognized by Windows 95 This is a software problem...

Page 33: ...llow the instructions below 1 Power off the system 2 Set jumper JP15 to pins 2 and 3 see previous page for location of JP15 3 Wait for 2 seconds then return jumper JP15 to pins 1 and 2 4 Power on the...

Page 34: ...essor has a phsyical L2 cache size of 512KB and a cacheable memory area of 512MB The Celeron CPU may have no L2 cache or 128KB of L2 cache Chapter 3 Onboard Resource Settings M M I D 1 k n a B M M I D...

Page 35: ...the system A The first thing to do is to check and see if you have any device conflict in address IRQ or DMA If you are using Windows 95 the Device Manager is a good place to start Please consult you...

Page 36: ...urrently the AGP supports 1X and 2X modes which yield bandwidths of 264MB s at 33MHz bus speed and 533MB s at 66MHz bus speed respectively Compare this with the mere 132MB s at 33MHz bus speed that yo...

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Page 38: ...IOS in your computer is a customized version of an industry standard BIOS for IBM PC AT compatible personal computers It supports Intel x86 and compatible processors The BIOS provides critical low lev...

Page 39: ...el immediately after switching the system on or 2 By pressing the Del key or by simultaneously pressing Ctrl Alt and Esc keys when the following message appears briefly at the bottom of the screen dur...

Page 40: ...e h t e s a e r c e D y e k s e g n a h c e k a m r o e u l a v c i r e m u n e h t e s a e r c n I y e k s e g n a h c e k a m r o e u l a v c i r e m u n e h t e s a e r c e D y e k 1 F d n a u n e...

Page 41: ...in the Chipset screen without a good reason The Chipset defaults have been carefully chosen by Award Software or your system manufacturer for the best perfor mance and reliability Even a seemingly sma...

Page 42: ...ghted selection appears at the bottom of the screen Following is a brief summary of each Setup category Standard CMOS Setup Options in the original PC AT compatible BIOS BIOS Features Setup Award Soft...

Page 43: ...rd In BIOS versions that allow separate user and supervisor passwords only the supervisor password permits access to Setup The user password generally allows only power on access IDE HDD Auto Detectio...

Page 44: ...our military time clock For example 1 p m is 13 00 00 Press the arrow keys to move to the desired field Press the PgUp or PgDn key to increment the setting or type the desired value into the field ROM...

Page 45: ...s into each drive parameter field 3 Use the IDE HDD Auto Dectection function in Setup Here is a brief explanation of drive specifications Type The BIOS contains a table of pre defined drive types Each...

Page 46: ...l the BIOS to ignore certain e n o N d e l l a t s n i e v i r d e t t e k s i d o N n i 5 2 5 K 0 6 3 y t i c a p a c e t y b o l i k 0 6 3 e v i r d d r a d n a t s e p y t C P h c n i 4 1 5 n i 5 2...

Page 47: ...r your information The fields show the total installed random access memory RAM and amounts allocated to base memory extended memory and other high memory RAM is counted in kilobytes KB approximately...

Page 48: ...e virus warning message If you plan to run such a program we recommend that you first disable the virus warning ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69JT50 BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Virus Warning Disabled...

Page 49: ...ata during your work Boot Sequence The original IBM PCs loaded the operating system from drive A floppy disk so IBM PC compatible systems are designed to search for an operating system first on drive...

Page 50: ...controls Gate A20 Setting Gate A20 to Fast improves system speed particularly with OS 2 and Windows Typematic Rate Setting When Disabled the following two items Typematic Rate and Typematic Delay are...

Page 51: ...for example a SCSI adaptor Shadowing copies firmware from ROM into system RAM where the CPU can read it through the 16 bit or 32 bit DRAM bus Firmware not shadowed must be read by the system through t...

Page 52: ...d DRAM Speed Selection The value in this field must correspond to the speed of the DRAM installed in your system DO NOT change the default setting of this ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69JT50 CHIPSET FEATURES SE...

Page 53: ...ache controller in the system supports pipeline burst transfer mode Unlike conventional DRAM which only allows one byte to be read at a time EDO DRAM can copy an entire block of memory to its internal...

Page 54: ...Burst Write Combining When this option is Enabled the chipset assembles long PCI bursts from the data held in these buffers PCI To DRAM Pipeline DRAM optimization feature If Enabled full PCI to DRAM...

Page 55: ...s Passive Release When Enabled CPU to PCI bus accesses are allowed during passive release Otherwise the arbiter only accepts another PCI master access to local DRAM Delayed Transaction The chipset has...

Page 56: ...value specified by the system designer The following features are only available with the optional LM81 chip CPU Warning Temperature Select the combination of lower and upper limits for the CPU temper...

Page 57: ...dby Mode 1 Min Serial Port Enabled Suspend Mode 1 Min Parallel Port Disabled HDD Power Down 1 Min Power Interruption Disabled Throttle Duty Cycle 62 5 PC98 LED Disabled ZZ Active in Suspend Disabled V...

Page 58: ...y Mode After the selected period of system inactivity 1 minute to 1 hour the fixed disk drive and the video shut off while all other devices still operate at full speed This mode is user configurable...

Page 59: ...system enters Doze mode the CPU clock runs only part of the time You may select the percent of time that the clock runs ZZ Active in Suspend When Enabled the ZZ signal is active during Suspend mode V...

Page 60: ...Global Timer Events When Enabled an event occurring on each device listed below restarts the global timer for Standby mode IRQ3 7 9 15 NMI Floppy Disk Primary IDE 0 Serial Port Primary IDE 1 Parallel...

Page 61: ...n Data ESCD when you exit Setup if you ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69JT50 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC PNP OS Installed No PCI IDE IRQ Map To ISA Resources Controlled By Manual Reset Configuration...

Page 62: ...A Devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification requiring a specific DMA channel PCI ISA PnP Devices compliant with the Plug and Play standard whether designed for PCI or ISA bus archite...

Page 63: ...I IDE channel having a lower interrupt than the secondary Used Mem base addr Select a base address for the memory area used by any peripheral that requires high memory Used Mem Length Select a length...

Page 64: ...rotocol that utilizes ATA commands and the ATA bus to allow DMA commands to transfer data at a maximum burst rate of 33 MB s When you select Auto in the ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69JT50 INTEGRATED PERIPHERAL...

Page 65: ...B Keyboard Support Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB keyboard Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk contr...

Page 66: ...physical parallel port Parallel Port Mode Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel printer port Select Normal or SPP unless you are certain both your hardware and soft ware support one of the...

Page 67: ...XE The Flash Memory Writer utility for Award to Award upgrade README TXT A text file of instructions S71AWXX BIN The new BIOS file This file name is subject to change and can have either a bin or rom...

Page 68: ...reen during boot up If you are uncertain whether or not you have a memory manager running try FMW If it works then there is no active memory manager on your system If you see a warning message about t...

Page 69: ...t If you cannot successfully program the new BIOS file for some reason re install your original BIOS from the backup file Remember always reset the CMOS after flashing to a new BIOS see page 33 Warnin...

Page 70: ...nclude additional messages An error message may be followed by a prompt to press F1 to continue or press DEL to enter Setup Beep Currently the only beep code indicates that a video error has occurred...

Page 71: ...to either mono chrome or color This message indicates the switch is set to a different setting than indicated in Setup Determine which setting is correct and then either turn off the system and change...

Page 72: ...out Unlock the key This message usually indicates that one or more keys have been pressed during the keyboard tests Be sure no objects are resting on the keyboard Memory Test This message displays du...

Page 73: ...m disk Press TAB to show POST screen The BIOS offers a save to disk feature for notebook computers This message may appear when the operator re starts the system after a save to disk shut down See the...

Page 74: ...IDE or ATA is a drive implementation that includes the disk controller on the device itself It allows CD ROMs and tape drives to be configured as master or slave devices just like hard drives The ATX...

Page 75: ...milar to DMA channels A cache is a temporary storage area for data that will be needed often by an application Using a cache lowers data access times since the needed information is stored in the SRAM...

Page 76: ...ards to access the main memory without involving the CPU This frees up CPU resources for other tasks As with IRQs it is vital that you do not double up devices on a single line Plug and Play devices w...

Page 77: ...lly a client Thus the client s data is protected during transmittal to the server HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive H SYNC controls the horizontal properties of the monitor IC Integrated Circuit is the f...

Page 78: ...parallel port transmits the bits of a byte on eight different wires at the same time that is in parallel form eight bits at the same time PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI is a 32...

Page 79: ...erm RAM Random Access Memory while technically referring to a type of memory where any byte can be accessed without touching the adjacent data is often used to refer to the system s main memory This m...

Page 80: ...aATA Without UltraDMA your system cannot take advantage of the higher data transmission rates of the new UltraATA hard drives Universal Serial Bus or USB is a versatile port This one port type can fun...

Page 81: ...re of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Plug the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that of...

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