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Declaration of Conformity

According to 47 CFR, Parts 2 and 15 of the FCC Rules

The following designated product:

EQUIPMENT: MAINBOARD

MODEL NO.: 7AIA6/7AIA6E

is a Class B digital device that complies with 47 CFR Parts 2 and 15 of the FCC
Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1. This device may not cause harmful interference.
2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference

that may cause undesired operation.

This declaration is given to the manufacturer:

CHAINTECH-EXCEL COMPUTER INC.

4427 Enterprise St. Fremont, CA 94538, U.S.A.

http://www.chaintech-excel.com

Chaintech President: Simon Ho

Signature:

Summary of Contents for 7AIA6

Page 1: ...d 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This declaration is given to the manufacturer CHAINTECH EXCEL COMPUTER INC 4427 Enterprise St Fremont CA 94538 U S A http www chaintech excel com Chaintech President ...

Page 2: ...ce with FCC regulations Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Canadian Department of Communications Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for audio noise emissions from digital apparatuses set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadia...

Page 3: ...grated Peripherals 29 3 5 Power Management Setup 31 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 34 3 7 PC Health Status 35 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 35 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 36 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 36 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 37 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 37 3 13 Exit Without Saving 37 Chapter 4 Brief Software Driver Guide 39 Appendices Appendix I On Board I O Addresses IRQ Map...

Page 4: ...APM DMI ACPI Multi device booting features i e floppy LS120 CD ROM HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPI etc Includes Anti Virus protection for virus free boot and virus free operating system Embedded Ultra DMA 100 PCI IDE controller Supports two IDE ports up to 4 ATAPI devices Supports up to PIO Mode 4 up to 16 6MBps Multi Word Mode 4 up to 66MBps and Multi Word Mode 5 up to 100MBps with bus mastering Bus Maste...

Page 5: ...I 128 sounds 8 drum kit 32 voice HRTF 3D positional audio CRL 3D supports MS DirectSound3D Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions APIs Supports 24 bit S PDIF in out for digital audio Optional 4 or 6 optional channel speaker audio support Supports MIDI and dual game ports PCI V2 1 compliant and full Legacy DOS software compatible Supports Fiber Optic module for Internet music PC a...

Page 6: ...ement Min Current Requirement Amps 12V 5 5 5 5V 5 20 3 3V 5 15 5V 10 0 5 12V 10 0 5 5VSB 5 0 75 SwitchingPowerSupplyRequirement 3 3Vat 15Amps is necessary to guarantee full loading operation because some AGP cards and memory modules have high current consumption ...

Page 7: ...oot up Embbeded Flash Utility ease the upgrade way and solve the incompatibility between flash type and flash utility Advanced Management Features Power on events WOL Wake on LAN network card Modem ring RTCAlarm Software power off control for Win9x Over ride power button Three states advanced Power failure recovery Always On Always Off Last state Chassis intrusion detection with mnemonics during p...

Page 8: ...re 1 3 One User s Manual One CD ROM that includes Acrobat Reader Award Flash EPROM Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS VIA Service Pack for Win9x ME 2000 XP including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc CMedia audio drivers for Win3 1 Win95 98 ME 2000 XP NT4 0 and Linux CMedia Multimedia Decks Optional Value Pack 2002 software pack including Norton AntiVirus Adobe ActiveShare Acrobat Reader Acrob...

Page 9: ...6 Chapter 1 Memo ...

Page 10: ...ating modes A jumper consists of a row of gold colored pins that protrude from the surface of the mainboard It is important not to confuse jumpers with connectors or headers Puttingjumpercapsonanythingthatisnotajumpermayresultindamaging your mainboard Please refer to Section 1 3 Mainboard Layout for the location of jumpers on your mainboard As indicated in Figure 2 1 below a cap is used to cover t...

Page 11: ...verheating and possible burnout of your CPU 2 3 Plug and Play CPU Configuration This board support plug and play CPU configuration if you install a CPU on this mainboard the board will automatically detect and set the CPU system bus frequency speed It is no longer necessary to make many jumper settings as on conventional mainboards 1 After installing all your hardware into your PC system turn on y...

Page 12: ...9 Hardware Setup PS 2Keyboard USB 0 1 COM1 Line out Line in MIC COM2 PS 2 Mouse Printer Port GamePort JP2 J1 J2 CN4 CN5 CN7 CN8 FAN1 JP3 JPX1 CN11 CN12 FAN2 FAN3 JP5 J3 ...

Page 13: ...eaker Connector 16 CN6 ATX Power Supply Connector 11 CN7 Auxiliary CD ROM Audio in Connector 16 CN8 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 17 CN12 Over ride Power Button Connector 12 Power Indicator LED Connector 12 Green Switch Green LED Connector 13 System Reset Switch Connecto 13 Speaker Connector 13 IDE Activity LED Connector 13 Turbo LED Connector 13 JPX1 CPU Bus Frequency 17 Port PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard ...

Page 14: ... the very last part connected when assembling a system The ATX power supply provides a single 20 pin connector interface which incorporates standard 5V 12V optional 3 3V and Soft power signals The Soft power signal a 5V trickle supply is continuously supplied when AC power is available When the system is in the Soft Off mode this trickle supply maintains the system in it s minimum power state Soft...

Page 15: ...the mouse will bring the system back to Full On Pushing the button while in Full On mode for more than 4 seconds will switch the system completely off See Over ride Power Button Operation diagram B Power Indicator LED Connector The power indicator LED shows the system s power status It is important to pay attention to the correct cables and pin orientation i e not to reverse the order of these two...

Page 16: ...ctivity LED Connector The IDE activity LED lights up whenever the system reads writes to the IDE devices G Turbo LED Connector This mainboard does not have a Turbo De turbo speed modes So the turbo LED will always light Poly fuse Over Current Protection The poly fuse protects the system from dangerous voltages the system might be exposed to via the keyboard or USB connectors In case of such exposu...

Page 17: ... to use this function The OnChip USB and USB Keyboard support must be set to Enable see section 3 4 Clear CMOS Data Jumper JP5 To clear the contents of the CMOS please follow the steps below 1 Disconnect the system power supply from the power source 2 Set the jumper cap at location 2 3 for 5 seconds then set it back to the default position 3 Connect the system s power and then start the system 4 E...

Page 18: ...R mode at the UART 2 Mode in BIOS Integrated Peripherals menu to enable the IR functions on this mainboard See Section 3 4 Chassis Intrusion Detection J3 This board supports the chassis instruction monitoring feature of the management extension hardwarebymeansofamechanicalor photosensor switch attached to the motherboard through this 1x3 pin chassis security header The mechanical switch issettoope...

Page 19: ...or Center Bass speaker output ext Plug in the optional AC3 Surround Center Bass and Rear left right jack extension into this connector The black colored jack is for surround speaker output and the orange colored jack is for center bass speaker output Auxiliary Audio in Connector CN7 Use the auxiliary audio cable enclosed with your CD ROM disk drive to connect the CD ROM to your mainboard This will...

Page 20: ...ame theLANcontrollerwillwakeupthePC This header is used to connect an add in NIC Network Interface Card which gives WOL capability to the mainboard To support this function a switching power supply with a minimum of 750mA 5VSB standby signal is required CPU Bus Frequency JPX1 CPU Bus Frequency JPX1 This switch allows you to select between 100MHz FSB or 133MHz FSB frequency speed You must set the j...

Page 21: ...als or hub devices are able to be connected CPU System Cooling Fan Connectors FAN1 FAN2 These added connectors allow the fan to draw their power from the mainboard instead of the disk drive connector The board s management extension hardware is able to detect the CPU and system fan speed in rpm revolutions per minute These connectors supports 3 pin cooling fans with minimum of 3500 RPM The wiring ...

Page 22: ...V unbuffered registered 64 72 bit SDRAM with SPD Module size Single double side 32 64 128 256 512MBytes Parity Either parity or non parity This mainboard supports 3 3v unbuffered 4 clock SDRAM DIMM only Buffered 5V or 2 clock SDRAM DIMMs should not be used Due to loading anomalies using DIMM with an n x 4 DRAM base on this mainboard is not recommended For example a DIMM that uses sixteen 16Mb x 4 ...

Page 23: ...Chapter 2 20 Memo ...

Page 24: ...rogram TheprimaryscreenasshowninFigure3 1isalistofthemenus andfunctionsavailableinthesetupprogram Selectthedesireditemandpressenter to make changes Operating commands are located at the bottom of this and all otherBIOSscreens Whenafieldishighlighted on linehelpinformationisdisplayed on the right side of the screen S e l e c t I t e m Esc Q u i t F 1 0 S a v e E x i t S e t u p Figure3 1SetupProgra...

Page 25: ...pondswiththatofyourfloppy diskdrive s Video Video Video Video Video Selectthetypeofvideoadapterpresentinyoursystem Youcanignorethissetting ifyouareusingaVGAmonitorsinceVGABIOSautomaticallyconfiguresthissetting Halt On Halt On Halt On Halt On Halt On Whenthesystemispoweredon BIOSperformsaseriesofdiagnotictestscalled POST Power On Self Test This function stops the computer if BIOS detects a hardware...

Page 26: ...Menu Level Figure3 3AdvancedBIOSFeaturesScreen Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Advanced BIOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 Ge...

Page 27: ...fromafterPOST completes BIOSwillsearchthesedrivesforanoperatingsystem SwapFloppyDrive Enabling this function will swap the floppy drive assignment so that drive A will function as drive B and drive B will function as drive A Note that the bootsequenceassignmentmentioneddirectlyabovedoesnotincludebooting from floppy drive B This function is useful if floppy drives B and A are of a different format ...

Page 28: ...heitemvalue Otherwise settheitemvaluetoNon OS 2forallother operatingsystems G G G G G Shadow Memory Shadow Memory Shadow Memory Shadow Memory Shadow Memory SoftwaresuchassystemBIOS videoBIOS SCSIBIOS etcthatresidesinROM ReadOnlyMemory chipsiscalledfirmware Shadowingoffirmwareoccurs whenBIOSiscopiedtoRAMaddressC0000hthroughDFFFFh VideoBIOS loadsintotheC0000 C7FFFmemoryareawhenvideoshadowingisenable...

Page 29: ...luespecifiedbythesystemdesigner Figure3 4 AdvancedChipsetFeaturesSetupScreen I t e m H e l p Menu Level DRAM Timing By SPD X DRAM Clock X SDRAM Cycle Length X Bank Interleave Memory Hole PCI Master Pipeline Req P2C C2P Concurrency Fast R W Turn Around System BIOS Cacheable Video RAM Cacheable AGP Aperture Size AGP Mode AGP Driving Control X AGP Driving Value AGP Fast Write Flash BIOS Protection On...

Page 30: ...lows caching of the video RAM resulting in bettersystemperformance However ifanyprogramswritetothismemory area asystemerrormayoccur E E E E E AGP Aperture Size AGP Aperture Size AGP Aperture Size AGP Aperture Size AGP Aperture Size ThisfunctiondeterminestheamountofsystemmemorythatisgiventotheAGP card Optionsrangefrom4MBto128MB Thisisadynamicmemoryallotment in that the AGP card will only use the am...

Page 31: ...to set JP1 jumper to pin 2 3 as discussed in Section 2 4 of this manual to enable this function J J J J J CPU to PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer When Enabled CPU to the PCI bus are buffered to compensate for the speed differencesbetweentheCPUandthePCIbus K K K K K PCI Delay Transaction PCI Delay Transaction PCI Delay ...

Page 32: ...eralsoptionfromthe CMOSSetupUtilitymenu Figure3 1 the screenbelowisdisplayed Thissamplescreenisforreferrenceuseonly Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Integrated Peripherals Integrated Peripherals Integrated Peripherals Integrated Peripherals Integra...

Page 33: ...FDC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller F Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install an add in FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this field G G G G G UART 2 Mode UART 2 Mode UART 2 Mode UART 2 Mode UART 2 Mode Thisfu...

Page 34: ...B Power Management B Power Management Powermanagementallowsthecomputertosaveelectricitywhenitisnotinuse by entering increasingly deep power saving modes as shown by the diagram below Item Help Menu Level Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Power Manag...

Page 35: ...l be the same as if you had selectedBlank Thisfunctionservesasbothascreensaverandanelectricity saver DPMSSupported SelectthisoptionifyourvideocardsupportstheDisplay PowerManagementSignaling DPMS standard i e youhaveamonitorthat supportsGreenfeatures Usesoftwaresuppliedbyyourvideosubsystemto setvideopowermanagementoptions E E E E E Modem Use IRQ Modem Use IRQ Modem Use IRQ Modem Use IRQ Modem Use I...

Page 36: ...vesasignalwillwakeupthesystem from soft off and green mode You should connect the modem to the COM port and turn on the resume event in green mode Power On By Alarm Whenenabled thissettingallowsthesystemtoturnbackonatadesignated timeofthemonth Usermustdesignatedateofmonthandtimeofday This functionisonlyavailablewhenusinganATXpowersupplyandtheSoftware Power Offfunctiontoturnoffthecomputer SeetheSof...

Page 37: ...cesusedbyadeviceoracardinthesystem ThisincludeslegacyandPCI ISAPnPdevices C C C C C FDD IRQ Can Be Free FDD IRQ Can Be Free FDD IRQ Can Be Free FDD IRQ Can Be Free FDD IRQ Can Be Free This function allows user to choose if the FDD IRQ is able to be freed up The defaultsettingisYesandthisdoesnotallowtheIRQtobefree Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix Awa...

Page 38: ...S Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Frequency Voltage Control Frequency Voltage Control Frequency Voltage Control Frequency Voltage Control Frequency Voltage Control I t e m H e l p C P U H o s t P C I C l o c k D e f a u l t Menu Level Menu Level Figure3 8 Sampleof PCHealthStatusScreen Figure3 9 Sampleof Frequency VoltageControlScreen M o v e ...

Page 39: ...e Exit Setup Figure3 11 Sampleof LoadOptimizedDefaultsScreen Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Freq...

Page 40: ...variablesareuserpasswordandsupervisorpasswordselectedinBIOS Figure3 1 Themainpurposeofseparatinguserandsupervisoristoallowonlythesupervisor tohavecontroloverthesettingsinBIOS Theuser ontheotherhand isonlyallowed toaccessthecomputer soperatingsystemandchangetheuserpasswordinBIOS Notethatwhenthereisnosupervisorpasswordset theuserpasswordcontrolsaccess to all BIOS settings 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 3 ...

Page 41: ...User s Manual 38 M e m o ...

Page 42: ...The Mainboard software guide discusses the following items The following items are discussed in the TXT or PDF files VIA Service Pack for Win9x ME 2000 XP including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD IRQ routing mini port driver and etc ACPI Patch Installation Sound Driver and Utility Installation USB Driver Installation Updating Your System BIOS Installing and Using a Desktop Management Interface DMI...

Page 43: ...40 Chapter 4 Memo ...

Page 44: ...mable INT IRQ2 0020 0021 00A0 00A1 4 COM2 B IRQ3 2F8 2FF 5 COM1 A IRQ4 3F8 3FF 6 Floppy IRQ6 3F0 3F7 7 LPT1 IRQ7 378 37F 8 Real Time Clock IRQ8 070 071 9 PS 2 Mouse IRQ12 060 064 10 Mathcoprocessor IRQ13 0F0 0FF 11 IDE 1 IRQ14 1F0 1F7 12 IDE 2 IRQ15 170 177 IRQ 5 9 10 and 11 are available for interface cards Appendix I ...

Page 45: ...46 User s Manual Memo ...

Page 46: ...e CMOS Setup Utility menu See Chapter 3 Don t turn off or restart your system during programming process Make sure that your floppy diskette have only one BIN file to aviod confussion FLASH MEMORY WRITER V 7 52C C Award Software 1999 All Right Reserved Warning Don t Turn Off Power Or Reset System Write OK No Update Write Fail For XXX XXXXXXX 6A69MC3DC 0 DATE 01 22 2001 Flash Type XXXXX E82802AB 3 ...

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Page 48: ...sing PC RAM Supports HRTF 3D positional audio with MSDS DS3D DirectMusic Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions C3DX APIs 4 or 6 optional channel speaker audio support is easy to build up a Home Theater environment Supports Fiber Optic module for Internet music PC and MD connections Supports MIDI and dual game ports Embedded 32OHM 5w earphone amplifier 6 Speakers System Optional ...

Page 49: ...his option it means the rear speakers are connected to Line in Rear jack When Line in Rear jack is connected to other external Line in sources please DO NOT enable this option in order to avoid hardware conflicts Regarding rear speaker option you can turn ON or turn OFF the output of the back speakers and adjust the volume to have the rear front speakers have the same volume Note You can test your...

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