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F. Video RAM Cacheable

Enabling this function will allows caching of the video RAM, resulting in
better system performance. However, if any programs write to this memory
area, a system error may occur.

G. Flash BIOS Protection

The mainboard manufacturer developed BIOS protection technology that protects
the System BIOS from accidental corruption by unauthorized users or computer
viruses.  When enabled, the BIOS data cannot be changed when attempting to
update BIOS with the FLASH utility.  When disabled, the BIOS data can be
updated by using the FLASH utility.

H. Memory Parity/ ECC Check

This mainboard support the Parity / ECC checking function.  If  you select"Enabled"

in this field, it will detect the memory parity and Error Checking & Correcting.

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Страница 1: ...ject 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 EQUIPMENT MAINBOARD...

Страница 2: ...nce 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 apparatusses set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canad...

Страница 3: ...egrated Peripherals 31 3 5 Power Management Setup 34 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 37 3 7 PC Health Status 38 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 39 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 40 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 41 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 42 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 43 3 13 Exit Without Saving 43 Chapter 4 Brief Software Driver Guide 45 Feature Explanations Software Power off Control 10 ...

Страница 4: ...s protection for virus free boot and virus free operating system H 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 Mode 4 up to 66MBps and Multi Word Mode 5 up to 100MBps with bus mastering Bus Mastering software drivers for common multi task operating systems H Onboard Ultra I O Two UARTs support serial port and...

Страница 5: ...rmistor for CPU 2 Fan speed CPU and System monitoring with CPU Fan ON OFF control in suspend H EmbeddedUSB Controller UHCI compliant USB host controller with Root Hub FourUSBports UHCIv1 0compliant Optional USB riser with additional 2 USB ports H Board Dimensions Flex ATX form factor 230mm x 190mm 4 Layers H Advanced Management Features Poly fuse protection for USB and keyboard circuitry Complete ...

Страница 6: ... DMI Utility for DOS Trident Blade3D VGA AGP drivers for Win9x ME NT4 0 Win2000 Audio driver and utility for Win9x ME NT and Win2000 VIA Service Pack for Win9x WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc OptionalValuePack2001softwaregroupincludingNortonAntiVirus AutoSave ADOBE ActiveShare Acrobat Reader Imagemore X stop Appio and Ewalla Optional Items H LTI 2 Panel link adapter for LCD ...

Страница 7: ...hapter 1 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2 Mouse PS 2Keyboard Printer Port GamePort USB 0 1 COM1 VGA Line out Line in MIC CN1 IR4 JP4 JP5 JP2A JP2B FAN2 CN4 CN6 CN14 CN29 JP1 JP9B JP8 JP9A FAN1 CN2 CN3 CN19A CN19B ...

Страница 8: ...er Indicator LED connector 11 System Reset Switch connector 12 Speaker connector 12 Green Switch connector 12 IDE Activity LED connector 12 CN2 CD ROM Audio in connector 15 CN3 Auxilliary Audio in connector 15 CN4 Audio Mono in out Connector 16 CN6 WOL Wake on LAN connector 16 USB1 CN14 USB 0 1Ports and USB 2 3 Connector 17 CN19A CN19B Optional TV Out DFP Connectors 17 CN29 Front Panel Audio Conne...

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Страница 10: ...o select between various operating 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 yourmainboard PleaserefertoSection1 3 MainboardLayout forthelocation ofjumpersonyourmainboard As indicated in Figure 2 1 below a cap i...

Страница 11: ...eat sink with cooling fan is necessary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burn out of your CPU 2 3 CPU Jumper Configuration Frequency Configuration If you install a CPU on this mainboard you must set JP2A JP2B for External Clock Frequency You can also manually select the Frequency Ratio JP4 optional if your CPU is not fre...

Страница 12: ... system failure etc Many processors are frequency locked processors and are not able to perform overclocking Regardless of whether the processor is a frequency locked overclocking may cause some processors to hang when turning on the system When the processor hangs the screen remains blank and the system does not boot To solve this problem do the following 1 Turn off the computer and then press th...

Страница 13: ...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 Software Power Off Control This mainboard can be powered down using theWindows 95 Software Power Off function To po...

Страница 14: ... a key on the keyboardormovingthemousewillbringthesystem back to Full On Pushing the button while in Full On mode for more than 4 seconds will switch the systemcompletelyoff SeeOver ridePowerButton Operationdiagram 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...

Страница 15: ...ning the power off E Speaker Connector F IDE Activity LED Connector The IDE activity LED lights up whenever the system reads writes to the IDE devices 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 exposure the poly fuse will immediately be disconnected from the circuit ju...

Страница 16: ...em bus frequency speed Set both JP2A JP2B pins to 2 3 for 66MHz FSB set only JP2B pins to 2 3for100MHzFSBandleaveboth JP2A JP2Bpins openfor133MHzFSB Optional Frequency Ratio Setting JP4 This feature allows you to set a CPU at a higher frequency clock ratio than it s specification allows it may or may not run at that ratio depending on the quality of your CPU and the extent to which the ratio has b...

Страница 17: ...CD type and resolution setting See the table below for your LCD type and resolution setting Power On By Keyboard JP8 This board is able to be turned on by the PS 2 keyboard hot key To use this function select a hot key of your choice at the PS2KB Wakeup option under Wake Up Events in the BIOS s Power On Management screen You must also set this jumper s cap to pins 2 3 to use this function Power On...

Страница 18: ...der Wake Up Events in the BIOS s Power On Managementscreen Youmustalsosetthisjumper s cap to pins 2 3 to use this function CD ROM Audio in CN2 Use the audio cable enclosed with your CD ROM disk drive to connect the CD ROM to your mainboard ThiswillenableyourCD ROM saudio function Auxiliary Audio in CN3 This connector is for use with a secondary CD ROM DVD ROM or CDR CDRW disk drive Enable 1 1 Disa...

Страница 19: ...ive and ownership costs Magic Packet technology is designed to give WOL Wake on LAN capability to the LAN controller When a PC capable of receiving wake up command goes to sleep theMagicPacketmodeintheLANcontroller is enabled When the LAN controller receives a Magic Packet frame the LAN controller will wake up the PC This header is used to connect an add inNIC NetworkInterfaceCard whichgivesWOL ca...

Страница 20: ...es are able to be connected Optional TV Out DFP Connectors CN19A CN19B The connectors are to be connected to an optional TV Out DFP adapter card Front Panel Audio Connector CN29 This connector give you the option to choose between standard audio jack rear panel or use a an optional front panel audio jack cable ext to be plug into a special custom designed system case To use the standard audio jack...

Страница 21: ...ith minimum of 3500 RPM The wiring and plug may vary depending on the manufacturer On standard fans the red is positive 12V the black is ground and the yellow wire is the rotation signal IR FIR Connector IR4 IfyouenabletheUARTModeinBIOS sIntegrated Peripherals menu the UART port will support IR FIR functions See section 3 4 PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Ports PT1 If a PS 2 mouse is used BIOS will automa...

Страница 22: ...d32 64 128 256 512MBytes DRAM speed 7 5 10ns for Synchronous DRAM 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 devices should not be used 1 256 DIMM1...

Страница 23: ...Chapter 2 20 Memo ...

Страница 24: ...elete key to enter the Award BIOS setup program The primary screen as shown in Figure 3 1 is a list of the menus and functions available in the setup program Select the desired item and press enter to make changes Operating commands are located at the bottom of this and all other BIOS screens When a field is highlighted on line help information is displayed on the right side of the screen Select I...

Страница 25: ... all of your timed events such as power management saving files etc are based on this timer Hard Disk Setup Primary Secondary Master Slave This category identifies up to four IDE hard disk drives that have been installed in the computer This section does not show information on other IDE devices such as CD ROM drives or other hard drive types such as SCSI drives CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984...

Страница 26: ...s have the same number of sectors per track at the innermost tracks as at the outermost tracks Thus the data density at the innermost tracks is higher and the bits are lying closer together Even though the physical size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track diameter diminishes each sector must still hold 512 bytes Write precompensation circuitry compensates for the difference in sect...

Страница 27: ...ere are no IDE HDD devices in your system You can use the IDE HDD Auto Detection function to auto detect your hard drive parameters Using this function will automatically insert the parameters discussed under Hard Disk Setup and will indicate User for the Field value Please see Section 3 9 for more information Floppy Disk Drives Choose the memory capacity and disk size that corresponds with that o...

Страница 28: ...very virus eliminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 3 Advanced BIOS Features Screen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Anti Virus Protection CPU In...

Страница 29: ... will search these drives for an operating system Swap Floppy Drive 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 boot sequence assignment mentioned directly above does not include booting from floppy drive B This function is useful if floppy drives B and A are of a different format and you w...

Страница 30: ...our hard drive literature for more information H Shadow Memory Software such as system BIOS video BIOS SCSI BIOS etc that resides in ROM Read Only Memory chips is called firmware Shadowing of firmware occurs when BIOS is copied to RAM address C0000h through DFFFFh Video BIOS loads into the C0000 C7FFF memory area when video shadowing is enabled If an expansion peripheral in your system contains RO...

Страница 31: ...A DRAM Clock Drive Control DRAM Timing By SPD The function allows you to enable or disable the DRAM timing by SPD When Disabled you can select the DRAM Clock SDRAM Cycle Length and Bank Interleave configuration SDRAM Cycle Length When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of the clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing Do not reset this setting from the default value specified by ...

Страница 32: ...nabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states 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 D Memory Hole at 15M 16M Enabling this function will reserve the memory address space between 15MB and 16MB for ISA expansion cards However enabling t...

Страница 33: ...BIOS protection technology that protects the System BIOS from accidental corruption by unauthorized users or computer viruses When enabled the BIOS data cannot be changed when attempting to update BIOS with the FLASH utility When disabled the BIOS data can be updated by using the FLASH utility H Memory Parity ECC Check This mainboard support the Parity ECC checking function If you select Enabled i...

Страница 34: ...e 3 4 Integrated Peripherals This section provides information on setting peripheral devices By choosing the Integrated Peripherals option from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Figure 3 1 the screen below is displayed This sample screen contains the manufacturer s default values for the mainboard CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help Menu Level VIA OnC...

Страница 35: ...ding interrupt for the physical serial port Onboard Parallel Port Select a logical LPT port address and corresponding interrupt for the physical parallel port Parallel Port Mode Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel printer port Select SPP unless you are certain your hardware and software support one of the other available modes On Board FIR Select This function allows you to select an...

Страница 36: ...board If your system has no USB keyboard select Disabled in this field G IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports block mode select Enabled to auto detect the optimal number of block read writes per sector the drive can support ...

Страница 37: ...when it is not in use by entering increasingly deep power saving modes as shown by the diagram below HDD Power Down When the HDD idle time has elapsed BIOS sends a command to the hard disk to turn off the motor Set a time between 1 and 15 to indicate time required to wait before the hard drive enters a power saving mode Some old hard drives may not support this function Item Help Menu Level CMOS S...

Страница 38: ...ing function If you enable this function and do not have a Green monitor the result will be the same as if you had selected Blank This function serves as both a screen saver and an electricity saver DPMS Supported Select this option if your video card supports the Display Power Management Signaling DPMS standard i e you have a monitor that supports Green features Use software supplied by your vide...

Страница 39: ...en mode You should connect the modem to the COM port and turn on the resume event in green mode Power On By Alarm When enabled this setting allows the system to turn back on at a designated time of the month User must designate date of month and time of day This function is only available when using an ATX power supply and the Software Power Off function to turn off the computer See the Software P...

Страница 40: ...d format of the configuration data structures stored in flash memory Each data structure defines the resources used by a device or a card in the system This includes legacy and PCI ISA PnP devices C FDD IRQ Can Be Free This function allows user to choose if the FDD IRQ is able to be freed up The default setting is Yes and this does not allow the IRQ to be free CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2...

Страница 41: ...rent system temperature external voltages input and the current CPU FAN and System FAN operating speed CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Menu Level Figure 3 8 PC Health Status Screen CPUFanSpeed SYS Fan Speed 12V 5V 2 5V Vcore Internal Vcc Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Opt...

Страница 42: ...m frequency spectrum When the system clock generator pulses the extreme values of the pulse generate excess EMI Enabling pulse spectrum spread modulation changes the extreme values from spikes to flat curves thus reducing EMI This benefit may in some cases be outweighed by problems with timing critical devices such as a clock sensitive SCSI device BX C Clock By Slight Adjust This field allows you ...

Страница 43: ... turn on the computer Frequency Voltage Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setup Saving Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configur PC Health Status CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Esc Quit F10 Save Exit Setup Select Item ...

Страница 44: ...hen you turn on the computer Figure 3 11 Load Optimized Defaults Screen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configur PC Health Status Frequency Voltage Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setu...

Страница 45: ... example Windows 98 found on the boot drive This is shown in Figures 3 12 and 3 13 The third and fourth variables are user password and supervisor password selected in BIOS Figure 3 1 The main purpose of separating user and supervisor is to allow only the supervisor to have control over the settings in BIOS The user on the other hand is only allowed to access the computer s operating system and ch...

Страница 46: ...Exit Setup If you select this and type Y for yes followed by the Enter key the values entered in the setup utilities will be recorded in the CMOS memory of the BIOS chip 3 13 Exit Without Saving Selecting this option and pressing Y followed by the Enter key lets you exit the Setup program without recording any new values or changing old ones ...

Страница 47: ...User s Manual 44 Memo ...

Страница 48: ...der The Mainboard software guide discusses the following items The following items are discussed in the TXT or PDF files Bus Master PIO IDE Driver Installation USBDriverInstallation Removing the Exclamation and or Question Marks From the Windows 95 Device Manager Menu Updating Your System BIOS Installing and Using a Desktop Management Interface DMI Utility for DOS Sound Driver and Utility Installa...

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Страница 50: ...mmable 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 IDE1 IRQ14 1F0 1F7 12 IDE2 IRQ15 170 177 IRQ 5 9 10 and 11 are available for interface cards Appendix I ...

Страница 51: ...48 User s Manual M e m o M e m o M e m o M e m o M e m o ...

Страница 52: ...u 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 2000 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 20 2001 Flash Type XXXXX E82802AB 3 xV 1Mb File Name to Prog...

Страница 53: ...50 User s Manual M e m o M e m o M e m o M e m o M e m o ...

Страница 54: ...or Equivalent Backup depends on your O S type Smart Backup FAT16 32 format i e Win 95 98 O S Backup space is the actual system space used Equivalent Backup NTFS format i e Windows 2000 NT Backup space equivalent to the drive space where the O S located Utility Installation 1 Enable the HDD Instant Recovery in the BIOS Features setup from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Save and exit to reboot 2 Upon s...

Страница 55: ...1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Selet Defragmenter by pressing Alt F4 key 2 You will be prompt to confirmed defragment your drive Type Y and press Enter key 3 Wait for the defrgmentation process to finish and the system will automatically reboot H Hard Disk Copy 1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Sel...

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