AP5TC
User's Guide
Printed in Taiwan
PART NO.: 49.87907.001
DOC. NO. : AP5TC-1-E9801A
Страница 1: ...AP5TC User s Guide Printed in Taiwan PART NO 49 87907 001 DOC NO AP5TC 1 E9801A...
Страница 2: ...1 E9801A Model and Revision For AP5TC revision 1 xx Manual Version English revision A Release Date Jan 9 1998 More help for latest information Taiwan http www aopen com tw USA http www aopen usa com...
Страница 3: ...s publication may be reproduced transmitted transcribed stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means electronic mechanical magnetic opt...
Страница 4: ...ervicing repair and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the software Further this company reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time t...
Страница 5: ...AWARD BIOS explains the system BIOS and tells how to configure the system by setting the BIOS parameters Appendix A Frequently Asked Question collects most frequently asked question of this product Ap...
Страница 6: ...o press on the keyboard Note Gives bits and pieces of additional information related to the current topic Warning Alerts you to any damage that might result from doing or not doing specific actions Ca...
Страница 7: ...NECTORS 13 2 3 1 Power Cable 13 2 3 2 CPU Fan 14 2 3 3 PS 2 Mouse 14 2 3 4 Serial Devices COM1 COM2 15 2 3 5 USB Device optional 15 2 3 6 Floppy Drive 16 2 3 7 Printer 16 2 3 8 IDE Hard Disk and CD RO...
Страница 8: ...9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 27 3 10 PASSWORD SETTING 32 3 11 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION 32 3 12 SAVE EXIT SETUP 32 3 13 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING 33 3 14 NCR SCSI BIOS AND DRIVERS 33 3 15 BIOS FLASH UTILITY 34 AP...
Страница 9: ...K6 AP5TC uses switching requlator to reserve the upgrade capability for new generation CPU Over current Protection AP5TC implements CPU core voltage 15A over current protection to prevent any accident...
Страница 10: ...use any kind of housing with very low EMI radiation Powerful utility softwares supported AOpen Bonus Pack bundled CD contains many useful utilities such as ADM Advanced Desktop Manager AOchip Hardwar...
Страница 11: ...PP enhanced parallel port EPP or extended capabilities port ECP Floppy Interface Floppy interface supports 3 5 inches drives with 720KB 1 44MB or 2 88MB format or 5 25 inches drives with 360KB 1 2MB f...
Страница 12: ...card required Switching Regulator High efficient switching regulator for future CPU Over current Protection CPU core voltage 15A over current protection to prevent any accident short circuit CPU Therm...
Страница 13: ...Power Management Suspend Mode Option select Suspend to Disk 2 Go into BIOS setup PNP PCI Configuration PnP OS Installed select No This can give BIOS the capability to allocate system resources for Su...
Страница 14: ...C AOZVHDD c partition If there is no extra free partition and you don t want your data lost please do not use this partition method 6 After creating above partition or hidden file please reboot your...
Страница 15: ...S3 968 KuoWei ET 6000 Tip Following Sound card have been tested OK for Suspend to Hard Drive AOpen AW32 AOpen AW35 AOpen MP56 Creative SB 16 Value PnP Creative SB AWE32 PnP ESS 1868 PnP If your sound...
Страница 16: ...similar as Intel LDCM or Hardware Monitor utility software ADM is a very powerful network and hardware monitor software If you do not need network monitor function you may also use Hardware Monitor u...
Страница 17: ...AP5TC implements a SB LINK connector to support Creative compatible PCI sound card If you have a Creative compatible PCI sound card installed it is necessary to link the card to SB LINK connector for...
Страница 18: ...n boards and other components Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component 1 Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it...
Страница 19: ...ations of the jumpers and connectors on the system board KB1 P C I 1 P C I 2 P C I 3 P C I 4 I S A 1 I S A 2 I S A 3 JP12 IrDA HDD LED PANEL FAN PWR1 COM2 COM1 PS2 MS USB FDC PRINTER IDE1 IDE2 BIOS JP...
Страница 20: ...r PWR1 AT PS 2 power connector PS2 MS PS 2 mouse connector USB USB connector COM1 COM1 connector COM2 COM2 connector FDC Floppy drive connector PRINTER Printer connector IDE1 IDE1 primary channel IDE2...
Страница 21: ...s before you change any setting The onboard jumpers are normally set to their default with optimized settings On the mainboard normally there is a bold line marked beside pin 1 of the jumper sometimes...
Страница 22: ...select CPU core voltage Vcore and ratio there are totally eight switches on the DIP After installing a CPU remember to set the switch 4 8 to specify a proper Vcore ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3 52V Cyrix 6x86...
Страница 23: ...nd must be set to Vio PBSRAM and Chipset Voltage The single or dual voltage CPU is automatically detected by hardware circuit Tip For supporting more different CPUs in future this motherboard uses fiv...
Страница 24: ...4V 3 5V S4 OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON S5 OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF ON ON OFF...
Страница 25: ...the CPU Frequency Intel Pentium Cyrix 6x86 AMD K5 K6 and IDT C6 CPU are designed to have different Internal Core and External Bus frequency Core frequency Ratio External bus clock S1 OFF ON ON OFF ON...
Страница 26: ...r 3 5x frequency ratio and AMD PR166 is using 2 5x setting for 1 75x frequency ratio JP4 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 JP5 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 JP6 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 CPU External Clock 60MHz 66MHz 75MHz 83 3MHz JP4 JP5 an...
Страница 27: ...z OFF OFF OFF 1 2 2 3 1 2 P54C 100 100MHz 1 5x 66MHz OFF OFF OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 P54C 120 120MHz 2x 60MHz ON OFF OFF 1 2 2 3 1 2 P54C 133 133MHz 2x 66MHz ON OFF OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 P54C 150 150MHz 2 5x 60MHz...
Страница 28: ...MHz 75MHz ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 MX PR233 200MHz 166MHz 3x 2x 66MHz 83 3MHz OFF ON ON OFF OFF OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 MX PR266 233MHz 3 5x 66MHz OFF OFF OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 IDT C...
Страница 29: ...he CMOS follow the procedures listed below JP14 1 2 3 Normal Operation default JP14 1 2 3 Clear CMOS The procedure to clear CMOS 1 Turn off the system power 2 Locate JP14 and short pins 2 3 for a few...
Страница 30: ...six wires on each Plug in these cables to the onboard power connector in such a way that all the black wires are in the center The power connector is marked as PWR1 on the system board Caution Make s...
Страница 31: ...heatsink and fan to the CPU Check its orientation make sure the air flow go through the heatsink 12V GND CPUFAN 2 3 3 PS 2 Mouse To connect a PS 2 mouse insert the PS 2 mouse bracket connector to PS2...
Страница 32: ...port 1 connector is marked as COM1 and the serial port 2 connector is marked as COM2 on the system board 2 1 10 9 COM2 2 1 10 9 COM1 2 3 5 USB Device optional You need a USB bracket to have your syste...
Страница 33: ...nnect the 34 pin floppy drive cable to the floppy drive connector marked as FDC on the system board 1 34 2 33 FDC 2 3 7 Printer Plug in the 26 pin printer flat cable to the onboard parallel connector...
Страница 34: ...DE device please refer to your hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly Connect your first IDE hard disk to master mode of the primary channel If you have second IDE device to install in your system con...
Страница 35: ...esigned for different type of housing actually only two pins are necessary for the LED If your housing has four pin connector simply plug it in If you have only two pin connector please connect to pin...
Страница 36: ...the keylock and power LED Since power LED and keylock are aligned together you can still use this kind of connector 1 5V GND GREEN LED GND SUSPEND SW SUSPEND SW GND NC RESET GND 11 10 20 GND KEYLOCK G...
Страница 37: ...Power Management function in the BIOS Setup menu is enabled Warning If you use toggle mode Turbo switch as Suspend switch be sure to push it twice to simulate momentary mode Otherwise the system may...
Страница 38: ...s notebooks PDA and printers This mainboard supports IrDA 115Kbps 1 meter as well as ASK IR 19 2Kbps Install infrared module onto IrDA connector and enable infrared function from BIOS setup make sure...
Страница 39: ...nnect Creative compatible PCI sound card If you have a Creative compatible PCI sound card installed it is necessary to link the card to the connector for compatibility issue under DOS environment Pin...
Страница 40: ...Mx32x2 128MB II Speed 60ns or 70ns access time III Type FPM Fast page mode or EDO Extended data output IV Parity without parity 32 bit wide or with parity 36 bit wide The DIMM supported by this mother...
Страница 41: ...hoose 4 clock SDRAM in consideration of reliability Tip To identify 2 clock and 4 clock SDRAM you may check if there are traces connected to golden finger pin 79 and pin 163 of the SDRAM If there are...
Страница 42: ...MB 64MB 32MB 32MB 64MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 128MB 128MB 256MB 128MB 128MB 256MB DIMM1 Size of DIMM1 DIMM2 Size of DIMM2 None 0MB None 0MB 8MB 8MB 8MB 8MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 16MB 32MB 32MB 32MB...
Страница 43: ...ide RAS0 X X RAS1 X X RAS2 X X RAS3 X X Caution Make sure that you install the same SIMM type and size for each bank Caution There are some old DIMMs made by EDO or FPM memory chip they can only accep...
Страница 44: ...important factor to be taking into consideration when you install SIMM DIMM Unfortunately there is no way that BIOS can identified the correct chip count you need to calculate the chip count by yourse...
Страница 45: ...x2 4 8MB Yes 1M by 16 1M by 4 1Mx36 x1 3 4MB Yes 1M by 16 1M by 4 1Mx36 x2 6 8MB Yes 4M by 4 None 4Mx32 x1 8 16MB Yes 4M by 4 None 4Mx32 x2 16 32MB Yes 4M by 4 4M by 1 4Mx36 x1 12 16MB Yes 4M by 4 4M...
Страница 46: ...bit technology are not available in the market and are not formally tested by AOpen quality test department yet However they are supported by design specification from Intel and they will be tested as...
Страница 47: ...size per side Single Double side Chip count DIMM size Recommended 4M by 4 4Mx64 x1 16 32MB No 4M by 4 4Mx64 x2 32 64MB No 16M by 4 16Mx64 x1 16 128MB No 16M by 4 16Mx64 x2 32 256MB No Memory error ch...
Страница 48: ...te your BIOS via AWARD Flash Utility Important Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the mainboard design the BIOS information contained in this chapter especially the Chipset Setup...
Страница 49: ...Self Test The BIOS Setup Main Menu appears as follows Tip Choose Load Setup Defaults for recommended optimal performance Choose Load Turbo Defaults for best performance with light system loading Refe...
Страница 50: ...ight an item and or to select the value for each item Standard CMOS Date To set the date highlight the Date parameter Press or to set the current date The date format is month date and year Standard C...
Страница 51: ...e if no HDD is connected to the system The IDE CDROM is always automatically detected Tip For an IDE hard disk we recommend that you use the IDE HDD Auto Detection to enter the drive specifications au...
Страница 52: ...he left Standard CMOS Video Video EGA VGA CGA40 CGA80 Mono This item specifies the type of video card in use The default setting is VGA EGA Since current PCs use VGA only this function is almost usele...
Страница 53: ...te the warning message This feature protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk from virus intrusion Any attempt during boot up to write to the boot sector of the hard disk drive st...
Страница 54: ...at are normally checked BIOS Features Boot Sequence Boot Sequence A C SCSI C A SCSI C CDROM A CDROM C A D A SCSI E A SCSI F A SCSI SCSI A C SCSI C A C only LS ZIP C This parameter allows you to specif...
Страница 55: ...tting Typematic Rate Setting Enabled Disabled Set this parameter to Enable Disable the keyboard repeat function When enabled continually holding down a key on the keyboard will generate repeatedly key...
Страница 56: ...o prevent conflict when palette register is updated i e accepts data without responding any communication signals This is useful only when two display cards use the same palette address and plugged in...
Страница 57: ...atures DC00 DFFF Shadow C8000 CBFFF Shadow Enabled Disabled These six items are for shadowing ROM code on other expansion cards Before you set these parameters you need to know the specific addresses...
Страница 58: ...These features are related to system performance Caution Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything You may change the parameter settings to imp...
Страница 59: ...tion of INTEL TX chipset 70ns SIMM can only be used with CPU external clock 60MHz To use 70ns SIMM with 66MHz CPU external clock may result in unstable system behavior Chipset Features DRAM Leadoff Ti...
Страница 60: ...AM Write Burst Timing x444 x333 x222 Write Burst means to write four continuous memory cycles on four predefined addresses to the DRAM This item sets the DRAM write timing of the 2nd 3rd and 4th memor...
Страница 61: ...SDRAM CAS Latency and RAS to CAS Delay calculated by clocks They are important parameters affects SDRAM performance default is 2 clocks If your SDRAM has unstable problem change 2 2 to 3 3 Chipset Fe...
Страница 62: ...ery time of old I O devices This item lets you specify the delay of 8 bit I O command by count of ISA bus clock If you find any unstable 8 bit I O card you may try to extend the I O recovery time via...
Страница 63: ...ency of ISA bus master Try to enable or disable it if you have ISA card compatibility problem Chipset Features PCI Delayed Transaction PCI Delayed Transaction Enabled Disabled This item lets you contr...
Страница 64: ...Power Management Power Management Max Saving Mix Saving User Defined Disabled This function allows you to set the default parameters of power saving modes Set to Disable to turn off power management f...
Страница 65: ...ch Pressing the Turbo switch changes nothings for a Pentium system so we usually use this switch to act as a Suspend switch The default value of this item is Disabled Warning If you use toggle mode Tu...
Страница 66: ...s detected by monitoring the IRQ signals Power Management Suspend Mode Suspend Mode Disabled 1 Min 2 Min 4 Min 8 Min 12 Min 20 Min 30 Min 40 Min 1 Hour This item lets you set the period of time after...
Страница 67: ...o Hard Drive for more information Power Management Throttle Duty Cycle Throttle Duty Cycle 12 5 25 0 37 5 50 0 62 5 75 0 87 5 Clock Throttling means at the Doze Standby state the CPU clock count in a...
Страница 68: ...Disabled To enable or disable the detection of IRQ3 7 IRQ9 15 or NMI interrupt events for power down state transition Power Management Primary IDE 0 Power Management Primary IDE 1 Power Management Se...
Страница 69: ...Configuration Setup from the main menu PNP PCI Configuration PnP OS Installed PnP OS Installed Yes No Normally the PnP resources are allocated by BIOS during POST Power On Self Test If you are using a...
Страница 70: ...Qs PNP PCI Configuration IRQ3 COM2 PNP PCI Configuration IRQ4 COM1 PNP PCI Configuration IRQ5 Network Sound or Others PNP PCI Configuration IRQ7 Printer or Others PNP PCI Configuration IRQ9 Video or O...
Страница 71: ...not fully PnP compatible These cards require you to specify the slot in use to enable BIOS to properly configure the PnP resources This function allows you to select the PCI slot for any PCI IDE add o...
Страница 72: ...ength lets you set a memory space for non PnP compatible ISA card This item specifies the memory base start address of the reserved memory space The memory size is specified in the Used MEM Length PNP...
Страница 73: ...t Features Setup to get slowest and safer setting 3 8 Load Turbo Defaults The Load Turbo Defaults option gives better performance than Optimal values However Turbo values may not be the best setting o...
Страница 74: ...nu This option allows you to configure the I O features Integrated Peripherals IDE HDD Block Mode IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Disabled This feature enhances disk performance by allowing multisector dat...
Страница 75: ...mode Caution It is recommended that you connect the first IDE device of each channel to the endmost connector of the IDE cable Refer to section 2 3 Connectors for details on how to connect IDE device...
Страница 76: ...iver in the operating system Integrated Peripherals USB IRQ Released USB IRQ Released Yes No USB device is default to use PCI INTD the same as PCI slot4 If you installed PCI card on slot4 and require...
Страница 77: ...is item is configurable only if the Onboard UART 2 is enabled This allows you to specify the mode of serial port2 The available mode selections are Standard Sets serial port 2 to operate in normal mod...
Страница 78: ...the IBM AT and PS 2 compatible mode EPP enhances the parallel port throughput by directly writing reading data to from parallel port without latch ECP supports DMA and RLE Run Length Encoded compress...
Страница 79: ...nfirming that the password has been disabled 3 11 IDE HDD Auto Detection If your system has an IDE hard drive you can use this function to detect its parameters and enter them into the Standard CMOS S...
Страница 80: ...3C810 SCSI BIOS resides in the same flash memory chip as the system BIOS The onboard NCR SCSI BIOS is used to support NCR 53C810 SCSI control card without BIOS code The NCR SCSI BIOS directly supports...
Страница 81: ...e file name of the BIOS code 2 The utility will show Checksum is ssss 3 Compare the ssss with original checksum posted on Web or BBS If they are different please do not proceed any further and try to...
Страница 82: ...ng POST 8 Reload the BIOS SETUP DEFAULT and reconfigure other items as previous set 9 Save Exit Done Warning DO NOT turn off the power during FLASHING If the BIOS programming is not successfully finis...
Страница 83: ...version A The AOpen mainboard BIOS version appears on the upper left corner of the POST Power On Self Test screen Normally it starts with R and is found in between the model name and the date For exam...
Страница 84: ...This new standard allows DIY component such as mainboard to apply DoC label separately without a shielding of housing The rule to test mainboard for DoC is to remove housing and test it with regulati...
Страница 85: ...e IDE device connection For more details refer to section 2 3 Connectors Q What is 3 3V Over current Protection A The Over current Protection was very popular implemented on the Baby AT or ATX 5V 12V...
Страница 86: ...MA mode 2 16 6MB s x2 33MB s The following table lists the transfer rate of IDE PIO and DMA modes The IDE bus is 16 bit which means every transfer is two bytes Mode Clock per 33MHz PCI Clock count Cyc...
Страница 87: ...ntum Fireball ST1 6A following are the test result MB AOpen AP5T CPU P54C 200 Mhz DRAM 16MB 2 FP 7 VGA AOpen PV60 CDROM AOpen CD 920E 20X OS Win95 OSR2 Model OS Driver Mode Winbench97 Disk Winmark Bus...
Страница 88: ...del DRAM Timing Winstone9 6 Intel 430VX AP5VM EDO 6 2 2 2 86 1 Intel 430HX AP53 AP5K EDO 5 2 2 2 86 8 Intel 430TX AP5T AX5T EDO 5 2 2 2 87 3 Intel 430VX AP5VM AP5V SDRAM 6 1 1 1 86 6 Intel 430TX AP5T...
Страница 89: ...it AOpen software team spends few weeks to develop an utility AOchip exe for convenience of Win95 users It is very user friendly and can be used on any TX or LX motherboard not limited to Aopen s prod...
Страница 90: ...may determine the version of Windows 95 by following steps 1 Double click System in Control Panel 2 Click General 3 Look for System heading refer to following 4 00 950 Windows 95 4 00 950A Windows 95...
Страница 91: ...mal and system voltage monitoring Features ADM 2 0 LDCM 3 0 VGA card No limitation Only ATI Network card No limitation Only Intel Support DMI BIOS 2 0 Yes Yes Support Win95 Yes Yes Support Win NT No w...
Страница 92: ...w USA http www aopen usa com http www aopenamerica com Europe http www aopen nl No display 1 Check all jumper settings according to section 2 2 Jumpers Make sure that you have set the proper jumpers e...
Страница 93: ...s 60ns for better performance If you are using an old SIMM or a remarked SIMM you may need to manually slow down the DRAM timing and disable the chipset features Refer to chapter 3 Chipset Features Se...
Страница 94: ...CMOS jumper and follow the procedures on how to clear the CMOS Load the BIOS optimal settings AMI or load BIOS default settings Award 2 If your mainboard comes with a battery simply change it If your...
Страница 95: ...atest BIOS try again with the latest BIOS Important If problem still exist after you have done all the corrective actions listed in this appendix fill out the attached problem report form Write down y...
Страница 96: ...Modem q SCSI CDROM q Ethernet q USB q Win95 q Window NT q UNIX q COM1 COM2 serial mouse q Parallel Tape q Floppy Tape q IDE CDROM q VGA q SCSI HDD q SCSI Tape q Tokenring q DOS q Windows 3 1 q OS 2 q...
Страница 97: ...ure that you have installed CPU fan properly if Intel PP MT 233 or AMD K6 200 233 is being selected to use It may cause your system unstable if you can not meet the heat dissipation requirement from a...
Страница 98: ...1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 JP5 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 JP6 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 CPU External Clock 60MHz 66MHz 75MHz 83 3MHz Note Intel PP MT MMX 233MHz is using 1 5x jumper setting for 3 5x frequency ratio and AMD PR166 is...
Страница 99: ...3x 66MHz OFF ON OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 PP MT 233 233MHz 3 5x 66MHz OFF OFF OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 Cyrix 6x86 6x86L CPU Core Frequency Ratio External Bus Clock S1 S2 S3 JP4 JP5 JP6 P150 120MHz 2x 60MHz ON OFF OFF 1...
Страница 100: ...1 S2 S3 JP4 JP5 JP6 PR2 166 166MHz 2 5x 66MHz ON ON OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 PR2 200 200MHz 3x 66MHz OFF ON OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 PR2 233 233MHz 3 5x 66MHz OFF OFF OFF 2 3 1 2 1 2 PR2 266 266MHz 4x 66MHz ON OFF ON 2...
