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 Mainboard User's Manual

IR Function Duplex

Available options : Full, Half.

TX,RX inverting enable

Onboard Parallel Port

Select a logical LPT port name and matching address for the physical parallel (printer) port. 
The choices: 378H/IRQ7, 278H/IRQ5, 3BCH/IRQ7, Disabled.

Onboard Parallel Port Mode

Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel (printer) port.  Normal EPP (Extended Parallel 
Port)  ECP  (Extended  Capabilities  Port)  ECP+EPP  PC  AT  parallel  port  Bidirectional  port  Fast, 
buffered port Fast, buffered, bidirectional port. Select Normal unless you are certain your hardware 
and software both supports these modes.
Choices are NORMAL, EPP, ECP, ECP/EPP.

ECP  Mode  Use DMA

Select a DMA channel for the port. Choices are 3, 1.

Parallel Port EPP Type

Select EPP port type 1.7 or 1.9. Choices are EPP1.7, EPP1.9.

Onboard Legacy Audio

Set  this  option  to  "Enabled"  to  enable  the  onboard  Legacy  Audio.  The  settings  are  Enabled 
or Disabled.

Sound Blaster

SB I/O Base Address

SB IRQ Select

SB DMA Select

These options configure the Sound Blaster emulation function of onboard audio system.

MPU-401 

MPU-401 I/O Address

These options configure the onboard MPU-401 MIDI interface.  Default is "Disabled".

Game Port (200-207H)

Set  this  option  to  "Enabled"  to  enable  the  onboard  Game  Port.  The  settings  are  "Enabled" 
or  "Disabled".

Summary of Contents for A694X

Page 1: ...more functional and more competitive Excellent quality and faster response Supporting Intel Pentium III FCPGA Celeron PPGA Celeron FCPGA or Cyrix III Socket 370 Processors UDMA33 66 100 PC100 133 SDRAM Quality Performance Mainboards ...

Page 2: ... Pentium II Celeron are registered trademark of Intel Corporation VIA is a registered trademark of VIA Technologies Incorporated IBM IBM PC IBM PC AT PC DOS OS 2 and OS 2 WARP are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Ms DOS Windows Windows NT Windows 98 and Windows 95 Windows 2000 and WindowsME are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation AMI BIOS is a product...

Page 3: ... Installing the CPU 11 Installing the Memory 13 ATX Power Connector 14 Floppy DIsk Drive Connector 15 IDE Connector 15 Mounting Mainboard to chassis 16 Installing Add In Boards 17 BIOS Setup 19 Glossary 37 CD Driver Software Installation Guide 45 Norton AntiVirus OEM Version Setup Guide 46 INSTANT ON Guide 48 Mainboard User s Manual Page 3 Table of Contents ...

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Page 5: ...grates floppy drive interface two 16C550 compatible serial ports one parallel port and one Consumer Infra Red compatible interface VIA VT82C694X chipset supports Intel Pentium III FCPGA Celeron FCPGA Celeron PPGA or Cyrix III Processors on Socket 370 with 66 100 133MHz Processor Front side Bus Support PC100 PC133MHZ SDRAM DIMM Two DIMM slots support up to 1GB Memory Capacity Four USB ports support...

Page 6: ...and corners and hot components Your location requirements are A sturdy level surface for placement Space allowance around mainboard A stable environment with no abrupt temperature or humidity changes No exposure to chemicals or direct sunlight Line voltage and frequency must be compliant with the specifications stated on the package or nameplate located on the back opposite the power plug of the p...

Page 7: ... items below are missing please contact your sales representative for part replacement ATX Box Standard Package 1 Mainboard 2 Driver CD with Norton AntiVirus 2001 OEM Version 3 User Manual 4 IDE Hard Drive Ribbon Cable 5 Floppy Drive Ribbon Cable 6 USB Cable for onboard USB Header Optional Installation Mainboard User s Manual Page 7 ...

Page 8: ...ower Supply Connector 38 C Universal Serial Bus USB Connector 39 c Universal Serial Bus USB Header 39 E Infra Red IR Header 39 F Memory Module Sockets 40 G Parallel Port Connector 40 H Accelerated Graphics Port AGP Connector 40 I Lithium Battery 41 J PCI Add in Board Connectors 41 M Front Panel Function Connector 41 N Flash BIOS 42 O Floppy Drive Header 42 P IDE Device Connector 42 Q Wakeup on LAN...

Page 9: ...Y IDE DIMM 1 DIMM 2 CPU FAN ATX POWER CONNECTOR BAT1 BATTERY 1 JBAT1 T SYSTEM FAN BIOS y JP3 TOP PS 2 MOUSE BOTTOM PS 2 KEYBOARD S3 S1 S2 CD AUDIO E IR PANEL AUXILIARY CD AUDIO H AGP PW LED EXTSMI SPEAKER RESET PW BN HD LED 1 2 Normal 2 3 Clear CMOS Mainboard User s Manual Page 9 Installation Mainboard Diagram ...

Page 10: ...r CMOS Remember Please set it back to normal 1 2 after clearing CMOS STR Function Select Set the Jumper JP3 to 2 3 to select STR function Remember If set JP3 to 1 2 the M B can t support STR function Page 10 Mainboard User s Manual Jumper settings ...

Page 11: ...User s Manual The mainboard provides a 370 pins Socket 370 The CPU should have a fan attached to prevent overheating If a fan is not present user should purchase a fan prior to turning on the system The recommended heatsinks for the Socket 370 processor are those with three pin fans that can be connected to the fan connectors on the mainboard It provides the 12 Volts D C for your CPU cooling fan C...

Page 12: ...ON Be sure that sufficient air circulation must be available across the processor s heatsink Without sufficient circulation the processor could overheat and damage both the processor and the mainboard You may install an auxiliary fan if necessary Mainboard User s Manual Page 12 ...

Page 13: ...ge 13 Mainboard User s Manual After you have set the DIMM firmly into its socket snap the white chip holders up to lock in the DIMM Installing the Memory Memory is installed in DIMM Sockets 1 2 F in diagram as follows ...

Page 14: ...gh the software control such as the shutdown in Windows 95 Start Menu The BIOS system will turn the system power off when it receives the proper APM command from the OS APM must be enabled in the BIOS and OS systems in order for the soft off feature is to work properly Attaching the power supply ribbon cable IMPORTANT Ribbon cables should always be connected with the red stripe on the Pin 1 side o...

Page 15: ...ter connecting the single end to the mainboard connect the remaining plugs at the other end of your hard disk s If you install hard disks you must configure the drives by setting its jumpers according to the documentation of your hard disk Also you may connect the hard disk drives so that both become Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and the other on the secondary IDE con...

Page 16: ...align the corresponding mounting holes on the mainboard with the holes on you chassis While chassis design varies you may need to refer to the chassis manual for the mainboard mounting area Insert white pins through the chassis and through the mounting holes on the mainboard into the black pin making sure they have snapped fully into place Black mount pin Insert into chassis Insert White mount pin...

Page 17: ...s that may be required to set up your specific card Set any necessary jumpers on your expansion card and remove the cover plate on your computer case at the slot you intend to use Keep the plate for possible future use Carefully align the card s connector s and press firmly Secure the card on the slot with the screw you removed from the cover plate ...

Page 18: ...gs in chassis shown below A C G in mainboard diagram You can now attach the Front Panel Function Connector M in mainboard diagram P 9 wires and Keyboard Mouse and Monitor cables to the appropriate ports Connect the main power cable and boot your system Press the DEL key when prompted and continue BIOS configurations discussed in the next chapter ...

Page 19: ...BIOS Setup ...

Page 20: ...drive Monitor type and if keyboard is installed Sets Typematic Rate and Delay Above 1 MB Memory Test Memory Test Tick Sound Hit Del Message Display System Boot Up Sequence and many others Sets chipset specific options and features Controls I O Controller related options Controls power savings options Sets options related to PCI bus and Plug and Play options Display CPU or System Temperature Fan Sp...

Page 21: ...ting for the system Time Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave Select these options to configure the drive named in the option Select Auto Detect to let BIOS determines the device type A screen with a list of drive parameters appears Floppy Drive A and B Move the cursor to these fields and select the floppy type The settings are 360 KB 5 1 4 inch 1 2 MB 5 1 4 inch 720 KB 3 ...

Page 22: ...be stopped for any error that may be detected All errors When ever the BIOS detects a non fatal error the system will be stopped and you will be prompted All But Keyboard The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error it will stop for all other errors All But Diskette The system boot will not stop for a disk error it will stop for all other errors All But Disk Key The system boot will not stop...

Page 23: ...condary level L2 cache to speed up memory access The default value is Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking This category enables or disables the CPU L2 cache ECC Checking procedure The default value is Disabled Processor Number Feature This category enables or disables the Processor Number Feature Quick Power On Self Test This category speeds up Power On Self Test POST after you power on the computer...

Page 24: ...pematic rate sets the rate at which characters on the screen repeat when a key is pressed and held down You can select 6 30 characters per second The default setting is 6 Typematic Delay M sec When holding down a key the time between the first and second character display this option specifies the numbers of times of character repeat on the screen The default setting is 250 Security Option This op...

Page 25: ...AM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing Do not reset this field from the default value specified by the system designer The Choices 2 3 Bank Interleave Set to Enabled to increase memory performance Default is Disabled for better DRAM compatibility DRAM Drive Strength This item is reserved for technical support personnel only Default is Auto Memory Hole ...

Page 26: ...d Disabled AGP Aperture Size Select the size of Accelerated Graphics Port AGP aperture The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation The Choices 4M 8M 16M 32M 64M 128M 256M AGP 4X Mode This item allows you to enable disable the AGP 4X Mode The Choices Ena...

Page 27: ...nabled Disabled PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states The choices Enabled Disabled PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2 1 The choices Enabled Disabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry When disabled PCI 2 will no...

Page 28: ...ns a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled to activate the secondary IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate this interface The choices Enabled Disabled IDE Prefetch Mode The onboard IDE drive interfaces supports IDE prefetching for faster drive accesses If you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface set this field to Disabled if the interface does ...

Page 29: ... you to decide to active PCI Slot or AGP first The choices PCI Slot AGP IDE HDD Block Mode This allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to and from your hard disk drive HDD Enabled IDE controller uses block mode Disabled IDE controller uses standard mode Onboard FDD Controller This should be enabled if your system has a floppy disk drive FDD installed on the sy...

Page 30: ... you are certain your hardware and software both supports these modes Choices are NORMAL EPP ECP ECP EPP ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA channel for the port Choices are 3 1 Parallel Port EPP Type Select EPP port type 1 7 or 1 9 Choices are EPP1 7 EPP1 9 Onboard Legacy Audio Set this option to Enabled to enable the onboard Legacy Audio The settings are Enabled or Disabled Sound Blaster SB I O Base A...

Page 31: ...onfiguration and Power Management ACPI The choices Enabled Disabled Power Management APM This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 HDD Power Down 2 Doze Mode 3 Suspend Mode Page 31 Mainboard User s Manual BIOS Setup ...

Page 32: ...the Max Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock If Advance Power Management APM is installed on your system selecting Yes gives better power savings If the Max Power Saving is not enabled this will be preset to No Video OFF Option When enabled this feature allows the VGA adapter to operate in a power saving mode Always On Monitor will remain on during power saving modes Suspend Off Monit...

Page 33: ...en the system from such a mode In effect the system remains alert for anything which occurs to a device which is configured as On even when the system is in a power down mode VGA When Enabled you can set the VGA awakens the system LPT COM When On of LPT COM any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices or IRQs wakes up the system HDD FDD When On of HDD FDD any activity from one of ...

Page 34: ...he COM ports and LPT ports above can When an I O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur When the operating system is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself and performs the service When set On activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power management mode nor awaken it IRQ3 COM 2 IRQ4 COM 1 IRQ5 LPT 2 IR...

Page 35: ... caused such a serious conflict that the operating system cannot boot The choices Enabled Disabled Resources Controlled By The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices However this capability means absolutely nothing unless you are using a Plug and Play operating system such as Windows98 The choices Auto Manual PCI VG...

Page 36: ... generated by high speed clock signals Default setting is Disabled CPU Host Clock CPU PCI Select the clock generator s Front Side Bus frequency for CPU over clocking Default setting is Default CPU Ratio Select CPU s core bus frequency ratio This setting has no effect on processors with frequency ratio locked Available settings are between 2x and 8x of the CPU BUS Speed The ratio increases with 0 5...

Page 37: ...Glossary ...

Page 38: ...and 12V 3 3V and soft on off signals With a power supply that supports remote power on off the mainboard can turn off the system power through software control such as the shutdown command in the Windows 95 Start Menu The BIOS system will turn the system power off when it receives the proper APM command from the OS APM must be enabled in the BIOS and OS systems in order to said the soft off featur...

Page 39: ...an operate at up to a 12Mb sec data transfer rate Eventually all external devices connected to your computer will be standardized to USB c Universal Serial Bus USB Header Connect this header to the optional USB extension cable for a USB port E Infra Red IR Header The Mainboard provides a 5 pin header interface IR for connection to a Hewlett Packard HSDSL 1000 compatible infrared IrDA transmitter r...

Page 40: ... BIOS configured into standard SPP mode Enhanced Parallel Port EPP mode and a high speed Extended Capabilities Port ECP mode EPP Mode requires a driver provided by the peripheral manufacturer in order to operate properly H Accelerated Graphics Port AGP Connector The Mainboard provides an AGP slot compatible with the Accelerated Graphics Port specification AGP compliant video cards offer a much hig...

Page 41: ...lt the technical personnel J PCI Add In Board Connectors The Mainboard provides 4 PCI connectors for the PCI cards M Front Panel Function Connector The Mainboard integrates all system front panel functions into a single on board connector These include connections for the following features Function Connector Pin Out Label System Reset RESET Power LED Keylock PW LED Hard Drive Activity LED HD_ LED...

Page 42: ...The system BIOS supports automatic detection of the IDE device data transfer rate and translation between different kinds of device modes such as Logical Block Addressing LBA Extended Cylinder Sector Head ECSH translation modes and ATAPI e g CD ROM devices on both IDE interfaces The two on board IDE connectors support the provided 80 pin IDE hard disk ribbon cables After connecting the single end ...

Page 43: ...o turning the system on T CPU SYSTEM FAN Connector The recommended heatsinks for the processor are those with 12 Volt three conductor fans that can be connected to the fan connector on the mainboard It provides 12 Volts DC to the CPU cooling fan as follows PIN SIGNAL NAME 1 rotation speed signal 2 12V 3 Ground CAUTION Be sure that sufficient air circulation is available across the processor s heat...

Page 44: ...3 Microphone Input X CD Audio Header CD Audio input Right Ground Ground Left Y Auxiliary Connector Auxiliary input 1 Left 2 3 Ground 4 Right y STR Function Select Jumper Set the Jumper JP3 to 2 3 to select STR function Remember If set JP3 to 1 2 it can t use STR function Page 44 Mainboard User s Manual ...

Page 45: ...llation Guide Steps 1 Boot up the Operating System Windows 95 98 NT 2000 2 Put the CD Disc into the CD ROM Drive and wait for Autorun 3 Select A694X and click your Operating System Type 4 Follow the instructions and install suitable Drivers instant on guide ...

Page 46: ... s Manual Norton Anti Virus OEM Version Setup Guide Step 1 Load the Driver CD in CDROM and find the Norton AntiVirus 2001 Install Option Step 2 When CD finishes loading press Install Norton AntiVirus to install the software ...

Page 47: ...Step 3 Follow the installation procedures on screen Step 4 Select Yes and press Finish button to reboot computer Norton Anti Virus Setup Guide Page 47 Mainboard User s Manual ...

Page 48: ...arily the system state and the ability to recognize various wake up triggers or signals respectively INSTANT ON function Installation Please follow the steps to complete the INSTANT ON function installation There are two ways 1 Setup with Windows 98 CD A Insert the Windows 98 CD into your CD ROM drive select Start and then Run B Type without quotes D setup p j in the window provided Hit the enter ...

Page 49: ...ystem item C Select the Device Manager tab and then the System Devices item Double click the Plug and Play BIOS item or select Properties 2 Update from Windows98 Advance Power Management APM mode If your Windows 98 system is in APM mode please follow the steps to update your system to ACPI mode Page 49 Mainboard User s Manual ...

Page 50: ...ice Driver Wizard will appear Press the Next button F In the Update Device Driver Wizard window select the Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location so you can select the driver you want Then press the Next button Mainboard User s Manual Page 50 ...

Page 51: ...ate Driver Warning will show up and ask Are you sure you want to use this driver Select the Yes button I Update Device Driver Wizard will show up again Select the Next button and start copying files to the system J When complete press the Finish button K Restart your computer Your system will start up using the ACPI mode Page 51 Mainboard User s Manual ...

Page 52: ...up Select the item POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP then select Enable in Suspend to RAM option Remember to save the settings by pressing ESC and choose the SAVE EXIT SETUP option The installation of INSTANT ON is completed You can use this function in Windows 98 Mainboard User s Manual Page 52 ...

Page 53: ...your system into Stand by mode There are two ways 1 Choose the Stand by item in the Shut Down Windows area B Choose the Stand by item and Click OK A Press the Start button and then select Shut Down Page 53 Mainboard User s Manual ...

Page 54: ...2 Set the system power on button to initiate sleep mode A Double click My Computer and then Control Panel B Double click the Power Management item Mainboard User s Manual Page 54 ...

Page 55: ... when you want to enter sleep mode just momentarily press the Power on button How to recover from the sleep mode There are four ways to wake up the system 1 Press the Power On button 2 Use the Keyboard Power On function 3 Use the Modem Lan Resume function 4 Use the Resume by Alarm function Page 55 Mainboard User s Manual ...

Page 56: ...otice to INSTANT ON users 1 ATX power supply requirement comply with the ATX 2 01 provide more than 720 mA 5V Stand By current 2 SDRAM requirement PC 100 PC 133 compliant Mainboard User s Manual Page 56 ...

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