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 Motherboard Description 

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1.2 Motherboard Installation 

1.2.1 Layout of Motherboard 

                 

Model No.M6VLA 

 

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JUSB1

JKB1

JCOM1

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JWOL1

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BAT1

JCMOS1

AMR1

JCDIN1

JCDIN2

JTAD1

PCI1

PCI2

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ISA1

U17

ROM1

JPANEL1

JSFAN1

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PCI BUS SLOT

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PCI BUS SLOT

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VT8601A

VT82C686A
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JMS2

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Содержание M6VLA

Страница 1: ...responsibility of the user to provide and use these accessories properly This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if n...

Страница 2: ...ut first obtaining the Vendor s approval in writing Trademarks and Remarks MS DOS Windows Windows NT and Windows 9x Windows ME and Windows 2000 are products of Microsoft Corp with its ownership of trademark and are distributed by the Vendor under a license agreement All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners Copyright C 2001 All Rights Reserved Canadian D O C St...

Страница 3: ...rd Disk Connectors IDE1 IDE2 1 11 1 3 3 Floppy Disk Connector FDD1 1 11 1 3 4 ATX Power Connector JATXPWR1 1 12 1 3 5 AT Power Connector JATPWR1 1 12 1 4 Serial and Parallel Interface Ports 1 13 1 5 CPU Installation Jumper Setting 1 19 1 5 1 CPU Installation Procedure 1 19 1 6 Jumper Settings 1 20 1 6 1 CMOS Function Selection JCMOS1 1 21 1 6 2 Wake On LAN Header JWOL1 Optional 1 21 1 6 3 CPU Fan ...

Страница 4: ...nnector JTAD1 Optional 1 26 2 BIOS Setup 2 1 2 1 Main Menu 2 3 2 2 Standard CMOS Features 2 6 2 3 Advanced BIOS Features 2 9 2 4 Advanced Chipset Features 2 14 2 5 Integrated Peripherals 2 17 2 6 Power Management Setup 2 22 2 7 PNP PCI Configuration Setup 2 26 2 8 PC Health Status 2 30 2 9 Frequency Control 2 31 3 Software Setup 3 1 3 1 Software List 3 1 3 2 Software Installation 3 2 3 3 Using Sof...

Страница 5: ...ntents to find relevant topics This board incorporates the system board ISA I O and PCI BUS IDE interface into one board that provides a total PC solution The motherboard a processor based PC Baby AT system and ISA Bus and PCI Local Bus to support upgrades to your system performance It is ideal for multi tasking and fully supports MS DOS Windows ME Windows NT Windows 2000 Novell OS 2 Windows9x UNI...

Страница 6: ...lerated Graphics Port AGP Controller AGP v1 0 compliant Pipelined split transaction long burst transfers up to 533 MB sec Eight level read request queue Four level posted write request queue Thirty two level quadwords read data FIFO 128 bytes Sixteen level quadwords write data FIFO 64 bytes Intelligent request reordering for maximum AGP bus utilization Supports Flush Fence commands Graphics Addres...

Страница 7: ...ed Text Modes 80 or 132 columns by 25 30 43 60 rows DirectX 6 and OpenGL ICD API High Performance rCADE3D Accelerator 32 entry command queue 32 entry data queue 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90 hit rates Pipelined Single Cycle Setup Texturing Rendering Engines DirectDraw acceleration Multiple buffering and page flipping Setup Engine 32 bit IEEE floating point input data Slope and vertex calculati...

Страница 8: ...clipping color expansion sprites 32x32 and 64x64 Hardware Cursor DOS graphics and text modes DVD Hardware Assisted MPEG 2 Architecture for DVD with AC 3 Simultaneous motion compensation and front end processing parsing decryption and decode Supports full DVD 1 0 VCD 2 0 and CD Karaoke Microsoft DirectShow 2 x native support backward compatible to MCI No additional frame buffer requirements Dynamic...

Страница 9: ...ingle or cascaded AC97 Codec s from multiple vendors Loopback capability for re directing mixed audio streams into USB and 1394 speakers Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real mode Dos legacy compatibility Plug and play with 4 IRQ 4 DMA and 4 I O space options for SoundBlaster Pro and MIDI hardware Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility Direct two game ports and on...

Страница 10: ...endly BIOS Supports PnP functions Operating Systems Offers the highest performance for MS DOS OS 2 Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 31 95 98 Windows ME Novell UNIX SCO UNIT and others 1 1 3 Attachments HDD Cable FDD Cable COM1 Printer Cable VGA Cable PS2 Mouse AudioGame Port Cable ...

Страница 11: ...1 JCOM1 JATXPWR1 JATPWR1 JWOL1 JAUDJOY1 JPRNT1 JVGA1 U6 BAT1 JCMOS1 AMR1 JCDIN1 JCDIN2 JTAD1 PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 ISA1 U17 ROM1 JPANEL1 JSFAN1 IDE1 IDE2 FDD1 DIMM1 DIMM2 BIOS FLOPPY DISK CONN SECONDARY IDE CONN PRIMARY IDE CONN PCI BUS SLOT PCI BUS SLOT PCI BUS SLOT AMR SLOT ISA SLOT VT8601A VT82C686A 82C686B JMS2 1 2 9 10 1 1 1 1 JUSB2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 ...

Страница 12: ...AN JWOL1 Q System Fan JSFAN1 F Game Audio Port JAUDJOY1 R IDE Connector IDE1 2 G Print Port JPRNT1 S Floppy Disk Connector FDD1 H AMR Connector AMR1 T DIMMs DIMM1 2 I CD Audio In Connector JCDIN1 U CPU Fan JCFAN1 J CD Audio In Connector JCDIN2 V VGA Connector JVGA1 K Telephony Connector JTAD1 W AT Power Connector JATPWR1 L USB Connector JUSB2 X ATX Power Connector JATXPWR1 NOTE The mark represent ...

Страница 13: ...ound 6 NC NC 7 5V Speaker Connector 8 Power LED 9 HDD LED 10 Power LED 11 HDD LED HDD Drive LED 12 Power LED Power LED 13 Ground 14 Power Button 15 Reset Switch Reset Button 16 Ground ATX Power Button 17 VCC 18 Sleep Switch 19 IRRX 20 Ground SLP 21 Ground 22 NC NC 23 IRTX IrDA Connector 24 5V VCC 25 NC NC 26 NC NC 1 2 26 25 SPK HLED RST IR NC V G NC PWR LED PWR SLP NC NC V ...

Страница 14: ...ter is sleeping Hard Drive LED Connector This connector can be connected to an LED to provide a visual indicator that data is being read from or written to a hard drive For the LED to function properly an IDE drive must be connected to the onboard hard drive controller Infrared Connector After the IrDA interface is configured files can be transferred from or to portable devices such as laptops PDA...

Страница 15: ...nectors IDE1 IDE2 The motherboard has a 32 bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO Mode 0 4 Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33 66 functionality It has two HDD connectors IDE1 primary and IDE2 secondary You can connect up to four hard disk drives a CD ROM a 120MB Floppy reserved for future BIOS and other devices to IDE1 and IDE2 These connectors support the IDE hard disk cable provided IDE1 Prim...

Страница 16: ...connector is inserted on the board PIN Assignment PIN Assignment 1 3 3 V 11 3 3 V 2 3 3 V 12 12 V 3 Ground 13 Ground 4 5 V 14 PS_ON 5 Ground 15 Ground 6 5 V 16 Ground 7 Ground 17 Ground 8 PW_OK 18 5 V 9 5V_SB 19 5 V 10 12 V 20 5 V Warning Since the motherboard has the instant power on function make sure that all components are installed properly before inserting the power connector to ensure that ...

Страница 17: ...dems and other peripheral devices can be connected to a serial port The serial port can also be used to connect your computer with another computer system If you wish to transfer the contents of your hard disk to another system it can be accomplished by using each machine s serial port The serial ports on this system have two types of connectors one 9 pin and one 25 pin Some older computer systems...

Страница 18: ...e function of each pin on the 9 pin connector This information can be used when configuring certain software programs to work with the serial port Signal Name DB9 PIN DB25 PIN DCD Data Carrier Detect 1 8 RX Receive Data 2 3 TX Transmit Data 3 2 DTR Data Terminal Ready 4 20 GND Signal Ground 5 7 DSR Data Set Ready 6 6 RTS Request to Send 7 4 CTS Clear to Send 8 5 RI Ring Indicator 9 22 ...

Страница 19: ...E In situations such as this the pins on the serial ports can be connected straight through In instances when there are two DTE devices connected together such as a computer and a printer a special adapter called a Null Modem is needed to make communication between the two devices possible When using the serial port to communicate between devices one problem in particular may arise Some manufactur...

Страница 20: ...f you have installed an internal modem be careful not to assign a COM port number that has already been assigned to another device This error is common When installing a device that is going to require the use of a serial port use a diagnostic program to find out which ports are available It may be necessary to remove expansion cards that have serial ports in order to check their jumper settings T...

Страница 21: ...llel port is almost exclusively used with printers The parallel port on your system has a 25 pin Connector see picture below The pinouts for the parallel port are shown in the table below Signal Pin Strobe 1 Data 0 3 Data 1 5 Data 2 7 Data 3 9 Data 4 11 Data 5 13 Data 6 15 Data 7 17 Ack 19 Busy 21 Paper Empty 23 Select 25 Auto FDXT 2 Error 4 Init 6 SLCTN 8 Ground 10 Ground 12 Ground 14 Ground 16 G...

Страница 22: ...ock Game Port Audio Connector JAUDJOY1 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 5V 2 5V 3 GP6 4 GP4 5 GP2 6 GP0 7 MIDI OUTR 8 Ground 9 GP3 10 Ground 11 GP7 12 GP1 13 MIDI INR 14 GP5 15 NC 16 5V 17 Audio Left In 18 Audio Right In 19 Ground 20 Ground 21 Mono In 22 MIC bias voltage 23 Ground 24 Ground 25 Audio Left Out 26 Audio Right Out ...

Страница 23: ...dure 1 Pull the lever sideways away from the socket then raise the lever up to a 90 degree angle 2 Locate Pin A in the socket and look for the white dot or cut edge in the CPU Match Pin A with the white dot cut edge then insert the CPU 3 Press the lever down to complete the installation S o c k e t 3 7 0 ...

Страница 24: ...Description 1 20 1 6 Jumper Settings A jumper has two or more pins that can be covered by a plastic jumper cap allowing you to select different system options JCFAN1 1 1 2 9 10 JUSB1 JWOL1 1 JCMOS1 1 JUSB2 1 2 9 10 JSFAN1 1 ...

Страница 25: ...d Note Please follow the procedure as below to clear CMOS Data Note Please follow the procedure as below to clear BIOS Password if your password is lost or forgotten 1 6 2 Wake On LAN Header JWOL1 Optional Pin No Assignment 1 5V_SB 2 Ground 3 Wake up Remove AC Power Line JCMOS1 2 3 closed Wait three seconds JCMOS1 1 2 closed AC Power On Reset your desired password or Clear CMOS Data Plug AC Power ...

Страница 26: ...Power Connector JSFAN1 Optional Pin No Assignment 1 Sense 2 12 V 3 Ground 1 6 5 USB Connector JUSB1 JUSB2 Optional JUSB1 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 5V 2 Guound 3 USB0 4 Guound 5 USB0 6 USB1 7 Ground 8 USB1 9 Guound 10 5V JUSB2 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 5V 2 Ground 3 USB2 4 Ground 5 USB2 6 USB3 7 Ground 8 USB3 9 Ground 10 5V ...

Страница 27: ... 168pin Total Bank 0 Bank 1 Memory Size MB DIMM1 DIMM2 8 M 8M x 1 pc 16 M 16M x 1 pc 32 M 32M x 1 pc 64 M 64M x 1 pc 128 M 128M x 1 pc 256 M 256M x 1 pc 16 M 8M x 1 pc 8M x 1 pc 32 M 16M x 1 pc 16M x 1 pc 64 M 32M x 1 pc 32M x 1 pc 128 M 64M x 1 pc 64M x 1 pc 256 M 128M x 1 pc 128M x 1 pc 512 M 256M x 1 pc 256M x 1 pc The list shown above for DRAM configuration is only for reference ...

Страница 28: ...mmetrical notch so the DIMM memory module can only fit in one direction 2 Push the tabs out Insert the DIMM memory modules into the socket at 90 degree angle then push down vertically so that it will fit into place 3 The Mounting Holes and plastic tabs should fit over the edge and hold the DIMM memory modules in place Single Sided DIMM Double Sided DIMM ...

Страница 29: ...Chapter 1 Motherboard Description 1 25 1 8 Audio Subsystem JWOL1 JMS2 1 1 JCDIN1 JCDIN2 JTAD1 1 1 1 ...

Страница 30: ...of JCDIN1 Assignment 1 Left Channel Input 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 Right Channel Input Pin No of JCDIN2 Assignment 1 Right Channel Input 2 CD_Ground 3 Left Channel Input 4 CD_Ground 1 8 2 Telephony Connector JTAD1 Optional Pin No of JTAD1 Assignment 1 MONO_In 2 CD_Ground 3 CD_Ground 4 MONO_Out ...

Страница 31: ...nt has customized the Award BIOS but nonstandard features such as virus and password protection as well as special support for detailed fine tuning of the chipset controlling the entire system The rest of this manual is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using Setup Plug and Play Support These AWARD BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1 0A specification ESCD E...

Страница 32: ...e Function Up arrow Move to previous item Down arrow Move to next item Left arrow Move to the item on the left menu bar Right arrow Move to the item on the right menu bar Esc Main Menu Quit without saving changes Submenus Exit Current page to the next higher level menu Move Enter Move to the item you desired PgUp key Increase the numeric value or make changes PgDn key Decrease the numeric value or...

Страница 33: ... special enhanced features WARNING The information about BIOS defaults on manual Figure 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 is just for reference please refer to the BIOS installed on board for update information Esc Quit F9 Menu in BIOS Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Frequency Control Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password S...

Страница 34: ...IRQ level for PCI device PC Health Status This setup page is the System auto detect Temperature voltage fan speed Frequency Control This submenu allows you to specify your setting for frequency control Load Optimized Defaults These settings are more likely to configure a workable computer when something is wrong If you cannot boot the computer successfully select the BIOS Setup options and try to ...

Страница 35: ...assword option you are prompted for a 1 8 character password Enter the password and then retype the password when prompted Save Exit Setup Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit setup Exit Without Saving Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit setup Enter Password SAVE to CMOS and EXIT Y N Y Quit without Saving Y N N ...

Страница 36: ...ures Item Help Menu Level Change the day month year and century Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Standard CMOS Features Date mm dd yy Wed Mar 1 2000 Time hh mm ss 11 26 10 IDE Primary Master IDE Primary Slave IDE Secondary Master IDE Secondary Slave ...

Страница 37: ...ed options IDE Primary Slave Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Master Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Slave Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options Drive A Drive B None 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in...

Страница 38: ...k Key Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you Base Memory N A Displays the amount of conventional memory de tected during boot up Extended Memory N A Displays the amount of extended memory detected duting boot up Total Memory N A Display the total memory available in the system ...

Страница 39: ...Optimized Defaults Boot Device Select Press Enter Shadow Control Press Enter Virus Warning Disabled CPU Internal Cache Enabled External Cache Enabled CPU L2 Cahe ECC Checking Enabled Processor Number Feature Enabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled Swap Floppy Drive Disabled Bootup Floppy Seek Enabled Boot Up NumLock Status On Gate A20 Option Normal Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Security Option ...

Страница 40: ...w Control label and then press the enter key it will take you a submenu with the following options Video BIOS Shadow Determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM for faster execution Enabled default Optional ROM is shadowed Disabled Optional ROM is not shadowed C8000 CFFFF Shadow D0000 DFFFF Shadow Determines whether the optional ROM will be copied to RAM for faster execution Enabled Option...

Страница 41: ...up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector of hard disk partition table CPU Internal Cache These fields allow you to Enabled or Disable the CPU Internal Cache Caching allow better performance Enabled default Enable cache Disabled Disable cache External Cache These fields allow you to Enable or Disable the CPU s Level 2 secondary cache Caching allows bet...

Страница 42: ...s while 720K 1 2M and 1 44M are all 80 tracks Enabled default BIOS searches for the floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks Note that BIOS cannot tell from 720K 1 2M or 1 44M drive type as they are all 80 tracks Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K Boot Up NumLo...

Страница 43: ...s per second 30 30 characters per second Typematic Delay Msec Choose the length of delay from the time you press a key and the character repeating units are mil sec The Choices 250 default 500 750 1000 Security Option This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup or just to Setup System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not en...

Страница 44: ...et Feature DRAM Clock When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing The Choices Host CLK default HCLK 33M By SPD Memory Hole When enabled you can reserve an area of system memory for ISA adapter ROM When this area is reserved it cannot be cached Refer to the user documentation of the peripheral you are installing for more information The Ch...

Страница 45: ...erture 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 64M default 32M 16M 8M 4M 128M OnChip USB This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you wish to use it Even when so equipped if you add a higher performance contro...

Страница 46: ...s an onboard sound chip for audio output There is no need to buy and insert a sound card If sound card is installed disable this item The Choices Auto default Disabled OnChip Modem This item allows you to control the onboard MC97 Modem controller The Choices Auto default Disabled ...

Страница 47: ...s interface The Choices Enabled default Disabled OnChip IDE Channel 1 The chipset contains 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 default Disabled CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help Menu Level Move Enter Select ...

Страница 48: ... supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Windows 98 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 66 select Auto to enable BIOS support The Choices Auto default Disabled IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports b...

Страница 49: ...d MPU 401 I O Address Change the SoundBlaster Pro MPU 401 I O address The Choices 300 303H 310 313H 320 323H 330 333H default Game Port 200 207H Change the joystick connect port address The Choices Enabled default Disabled Init Display First This item allows you decide to active whether PCI Slot or on chip VGA first The Choices PCI Slot default AGP IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called bloc...

Страница 50: ... IRQ3 Disabled Onboard IR Port Select IR Address The Choices Auto 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Disabled default UART 2 Mode This item allows you to determine which Infrared IR function onboard I O chip The Choices HPSIR default ASKIR IR Function Duplex This item allows you to decide to active IR transmission delay The Choices Half default Full Tx Rx inverting enable This item allows you to ...

Страница 51: ...directional Port Fast buffered port Fast buffered Bidirectional Port Select Normal unless you are certain your hardware and software both support EPP or ECP mode The Choices Normal default EPP ECP ECP EPP ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA Channel for the port The Choices 3 default 1 Parallel Port EPP Type This option allows you to select a DMA Channel for the parallel port The Choices EPP1 9 default E...

Страница 52: ...gure their own power management Min Saving Pre defined timer values are used such that all timers are at their MAX value Max Saving Pre defined timer values are used such that all timers are at their MIN value CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Power Management Setup Item Help Menu Level Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail...

Страница 53: ... Always mode the monitor will be Turn on Video Off Method V H SYNC Blank default In addition to the above BIOS will also turn off the V SYNC H SYNC signals from VGA card to monitor DPMS supported This function is enabled only for a VGA card supporting DPMS Blank Screen The system BIOS will only blank the screen when disabling video MODEM Use IRQ This determines the IRQ which the MODEM can use 3 de...

Страница 54: ...et to On default any event occurring at a hard or floppy drive will awaken a system which has been powered down The Choices On default Off PCI MASTER When set to On any event occurring at PCI will awaken a system which has been powered down The Choices Off default On Wake Up On LAN Ring To use this function you need a LAN add on card which support power on function It should also support the wake ...

Страница 55: ... P 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 services As above the choices are On and Off Off is the default When set On activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power management mode nor awaken it Primary INTR IRQ3 COM2 IR...

Страница 56: ...s will be initialized by the PnP operating systems like WindowsTM 95 When set to No BIOS will initialized all the PnP cards Therefore for non PnP operating system DOS NetwareTM this option must set to No The Choices No default Yes CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software PnP PCI Configurations Item Help Menu Level Select Yes if you are using a Plug and Play capable operating system ...

Страница 57: ...o PCI ISA PnP IRQ 4 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 9 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 10 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 11 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 12 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 14 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 15 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 0 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 1 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 3 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 5 assigned to PCI...

Страница 58: ... controllers which are not VGA compatible take the output from a VGA controller and map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA compatibility However the color information coming from the VGA controller is drawn from the palette table inside the VGA controller to generate the proper colors and the graphic controller needs to know what is in the palette of the VGA controlle...

Страница 59: ...Chapter 2 BIOS Setup 2 29 Assign IRQ For USB Lets the user choose which IRQ to assign for USB Assign IRQ For VGA Lets the user choose which IRQ to assign for the VGA ...

Страница 60: ...rature if your computer contains a monitoring system Vcore 2 5V 3 3V 5V 12V Detect the system s voltage status automatically CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Menu Level Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Current SYS FAN Speed XXXXXXX Vcore 1 59V 2 5V 2 47V 3...

Страница 61: ...to Detect DIMM PCI Clock This Choices Enabled default Disabled CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2000 Award Software Frequency Control Item Help Menu Level Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk Enabled Spread Spectrum Disabled ...

Страница 62: ... for PC Windows 95 98 NT4 ME 2000 Driver Chipset Via Sysdiag Award Flash Utility Used for updating BIOS Please refer to chapter Application Software Need to be run under DOS environment Software Flash VIA AC97 Audio Option Install the driver to enable the VIA AC97 Audio Device Windows 95 98 NT4 ME 2000 Driver Audio Via686 VIA VT8601 Display drivers Install the driver to enable the Trident video On...

Страница 63: ...f Driver CD to let users install some common used drivers conveniently The Wizard can automatically detect OS and switch to the proper page so you don t need to worry about installing the wrong drivers You can simply put Driver CD into CD ROM drive and the Installation Utility will autorun or you can launch the Driver CD Installation Utility manually ...

Страница 64: ... will invoke other applications to complete the rest of installation When the drivers CAN NOT be installed directly from CD by using CD Installation Utility please do the following procedure Please read the README TXT located in the root directory on Driver CD to get the driver s location and then refer to the INSTALL TXT or README TXT files located in each driver s directory on the Driver CD to i...

Страница 65: ...neral you can get more detailed information in the on line help or readme for the softwares Using VIA Hardware Monitor After the utility is installed you can follow the sequence Start Programs VIA HM VIA Hardware Monitor to launch the monitor application ...

Страница 66: ...following figure is the main panel of VIA Hardware Monitor In the panel you can get some real time and important information Voltage Fan speed and temperature for example If there is an abnormal situation you can resolve it immediately ...

Страница 67: ...er cable is unplugged Visually inspect power cable Make sure power cable is securely plugged in Defective power cable Visual inspection try another cable Replace cable Power supply failure Power cable and wall socket are OK but system is still dead Contact technical support Faulty wall outlet circuit Breaker or fuse blown Plug in device known to work in socket and test Use different socket repair ...

Страница 68: ...ure they are securely seated in slots Using even pressure on both ends of the expansion card press down firmly on expansion card Defective floppy disk drive or tape drive Turn system off Disconnect the cables from one of the floppy drives Turn on the floppy drives Turn on the system check to see if the keyboard operates normally Repeat until you have located defective unit Contact Technical Suppor...

Страница 69: ...k or Disk Controller Format hard disk if unable to do so the hard disk may be defective Contact Technical Support Hard Disk directory or FAT is scrambled Run the FDISK program format the hard drive Copy data that was backed up onto Hard Drive Backing up the hard drive is extremely important All Hard Disk are capable of breaking down at any time PROBLEM System only boots from floppy Disk Hard disk ...

Страница 70: ...er to backup the Hard Disk Back up any salvageable data Then low level format partition and high level format the hard drive Re install all saved data when completed PROBLEM Disk formatted on IBM PS 2 will not operate with this system PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION The IBM PS 2 uses a different format than other computers IBM PS 2 disk format will not work in an AT type computer Format disk in ...

Страница 71: ...rupt or RAM address on the new expansion card See the documentation that came with the new card in order to change pin settings Many expansion devices come with proprietary software that will assist you in doing this PROBLEM Screen message says Invalid Configuration or CMOS Failure PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION Incorrect information entered into the configuration setup program Check the config...

Страница 72: ...ed to computer See instructions above Network card I O address conflict See instructions above PROBLEM PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION Memory problem display card jumpers not set correctly Reboot computer Reinstall memory make sure that all memory modules are installed in correct sockets Check jumper and switch settings on display card See display card section for information on settings Compute...

Страница 73: ...ys again if no improvement replace keyboard PROBLEM No color on screen PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION Faulty Monitor If possible connect monitor to another system If no color replace monitor CMOS incorrectly set up Call technical support PROBLEM Floppy drive light stays on PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION Floppy Drive cable not connected correctly Reconnect floppy cable making sure PIN1 on the...

Страница 74: ...ect information Boot from drive A using DOS system disk Input correct information to SETUP program Hard Drive cable not connected properly Check Hard Drive cable PROBLEM Cannot boot system after installing second hard drive PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION Master Slave jumpers not set correctly Set Master Slave jumpers correctly Hard Drives not compatible different manufacturers Run SETUP program...

Страница 75: ... SOLUTION CMOS setup has been changed Run setup and select correct drive type PROBLEM Certain keys do not function PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION Keys jammed or defective Replace keyboard PROBLEM Keyboard is locked no keys function PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION Keyboard is locked Unlock keyboard ...

Страница 76: ...02 16 2001 MADE IN TAIWAN R O C ...

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