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Micronics C400 System Board Manual

Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility

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AGP Aperture Size (MB)

Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
aperture. The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory
address range dedicated for graphics memory address space.
Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the
AGP without any translation.

Power-Up State

Specifies how the computer responds following a power
failure. 

Stay Off

 keeps power off until the power button is

pressed. 

Last State

 restores previous power state before a

power failure. 

Power On

 restores power without restoring

previous power state.

Current System Temperature

Displays the current system temperature if your computer
contains a monitoring system.

Current CPUFAN 1/2 Speed

Displays the current speed of up to three CPU fans if your
computer contains a monitoring system.

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Страница 1: ...Micronics C400 Pentium II System Board Manual Document Number 06 00351 01 Rev B01 August 1998 2880 Junction Avenue San Jose CA 95134 19228...

Страница 2: ...nd or product at any time and without notice All Rights Reserved No part of this document may be photocopied reproduced translated or reduced to any medium or machine form without prior written consen...

Страница 3: ...icity 11 EnvironmentConsiderations 11 MicronicsC400SystemBoard 12 Jumper and Connector Settings 13 Chapter 3 Installing the Micronics C400 17 Introduction 17 SystemMemorySupport 17 InstallingtheMicron...

Страница 4: ...up 34 BIOS Features Setup 36 Chipset Features Setup 40 PowerManagementSetup 43 PnP PCIConfigurationSetup 47 LoadBIOSDefaults 49 Load Setup Defaults 49 IntegratedPeripherals 50 SupervisorPassword 53 Us...

Страница 5: ...emperatureRange 63 RelativeHumidity 63 BatteryDisposal 64 SupportandInformationServices 65 TechnicalSupport 65 Appendix B POST Codes 67 Appendix C POST Messages 71 Appendix D Updating the System BIOS...

Страница 6: ...CMOS Setup Screen 33 Figure 4 3 Standard CMOS Setup Screen 34 Figure 4 4 BIOS Features Setup Screen 36 Figure 4 5 Chipset Features Setup Screen 40 Figure 4 6 Power Management Screen 43 Figure 4 7 PnP...

Страница 7: ...lity and the highest level of performance It features support for 100MHz Front Side Bus FSB speeds and accepts PCI ISA and AGP expansion cards Richwithfeatures MicronicsC400providesUltraDMA 33 IDE har...

Страница 8: ...40BXAGPset IntelPIIX4e OneAGPslot Four32 bitPCIslots One shared PCI ISA slot One16 bitISAslot Bus Speed 66 and 100MHz Three3 3Vunbuffered64 72 bit168 pinDIMMsockets Maximum memory 768MB for SDRAM PC 1...

Страница 9: ...T 4 0 IBM OS 2 Warp 4 0 SCO UNIXWare 2 1 1 OpenServer5 04 Novell NetWare 3 12 NetWare 4 11 IntranetWare Contents Listing The standard package should contain the following items Check to make sure that...

Страница 10: ...agnifying Glass it refers to something you should take a closer look at before proceeding further When you see the Exclamation Mark it gives important information on avoiding damage Common Names AGP A...

Страница 11: ...object 3 Remove the Micronics C400 from its packaging 4 Configure and verify the system board s jumper set tings refer to Jumper Settings in Chapter 2 5 Install the CPU and the system memory Be sure...

Страница 12: ...match your configuration If installing an IDE drive select the IDE device you wish to configure Press ENTER with Autotype Fixed Disk selected and the BIOS will automatically configure the drive for y...

Страница 13: ...ng a special anti static wrist or ankle strap If you do not have an anti static strap available touch both of your hands to a safely grounded object such as the power supply or chassis of a computer t...

Страница 14: ...oard Back Panel Connections Chapter 2 Configuring the Micronics C400 12 Figure 2 1 Micronics C400 System Board Diagram Figure 2 2 Back Panel Connections Intel Venus I O Shield Compatible Parallel Port...

Страница 15: ...he Front Panel connectors Table 2 1 CPU Speed Selection 2 P J r e p m u J m e t s y S d e e p S s u B d e e p S 2 1 4 3 6 5 8 7 3 3 2 z H M z H M 6 6 n e p O e s o l C n e p O e s o l C 6 6 2 z H M z...

Страница 16: ...l e l l a r a P l e v e L r e p p U 0 1 J 6 J s t o l S n o i s n a p x E s u B I C P 1 1 J r o t c e n n o C N A L n O e k a W 2 t u p t u O r e w o P y b d n a t S V 5 1 t u p n I l a n g i S p u e...

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Страница 18: ...Micronics C400 System Board Manual Chapter 2 Configuring the Micronics C400 16...

Страница 19: ...act the computer dealerwhereyoupurchasedtheperipheralorDiamond sTech nicalSupportDepartment System Memory Support The flexibility of the Micronics C400 is augmented by its support for EDO and SDRAM me...

Страница 20: ...your dealer s technical support department ToolsRequired Diamondrecommendsusingthefollowingtoolstoinstallthe MicronicsC400 SmallPhillipsscrewdriver Tweezers or a pair of needle nose pliers Tray to hol...

Страница 21: ...The following is a list of rules to follow when installing DIMMs If you follow these rules your upgrade should be trouble free Use8nsorfasterPC 100SDRAMDIMMswhenusing a 100MHz bus speed processor Use...

Страница 22: ...I D 2 M M I D 3 M M I D B M 8 4 6 x M 1 B M 6 1 4 6 x M 2 B M 6 1 4 6 x M 1 4 6 x M 1 B M 4 2 4 6 x M 2 4 6 x M 1 B M 4 2 4 6 x M 1 4 6 x M 1 4 6 x M 1 B M 2 3 4 6 x M 2 4 6 x M 2 B M 2 3 4 6 x M 4 B...

Страница 23: ...8 2 1 4 6 x M 8 4 6 x M 8 B M 0 6 1 4 6 x M 6 1 4 6 x M 4 B M 0 6 1 4 6 x M 6 1 4 6 x M 2 4 6 x M 2 B M 2 9 1 4 6 x M 8 4 6 x M 8 4 6 x M 8 B M 2 9 1 4 6 x M 6 1 4 6 x M 4 4 6 x M 4 B M 2 9 1 4 6 x M...

Страница 24: ...ard AttachtheRetentionMecha nism before inserting the processor Installing the CPU Retention Mechanism Before you begin verify that your Retention Mechanism Kit contains the following items Retention...

Страница 25: ...Base 3 Using a screwdriver tighten all four sides of the Retention Base Installing a CPU FollowthestepsbelowtoinstallthePentiumIIprocessor 1 Locate the Slot 1 connector refer to Figure 2 1 2 If you ar...

Страница 26: ...age 6 Push the processor cartridge down until it snaps into place 7 Lock the processor cartridge into place by pushing outward on the tabs located on both sides of the processorcartridge Theprocessorc...

Страница 27: ...ion Mechanism for the CPU 2 Mount the optional heatsink support base ontothesystemboard 3 SlidetheCPUintothe Retention Mecha nism 4 LocktheCPUintothe Retention mechanism using the tabs 5 Slide in the...

Страница 28: ...oard CPU Installation Boxed version A boxed version of the CPU is offered through Intel This packaging uses an active cooling fan The mounting hardware is described below For detailed instructions ple...

Страница 29: ...ed with the notch on the DIMM socket Figure 3 1 2 Insert the DIMM at a 90 degree angle 3 Gently push the DIMM straight down until it locks into place past the release tabs Figure 3 3 Installing a 168...

Страница 30: ...ter system off and remove its cover 2 ChooseanunusedPCIslotandremovetheslotcover 3 Insert the card with the bottom edge level to the slot Never insert the card at an angle 4 Carefully push the card st...

Страница 31: ...theslotcover 3 Insert the card with the bottom edge level to the slot Never insert the card at an angle 4 Carefully push the card straight down making sure the card is fully inserted 5 Replace the scr...

Страница 32: ...em off and remove its cover 2 LocatetheAGPslot J12 andremovetheslotcover 3 Insert the card with the bottom edge level to the slot Never insert the card at an angle 4 Carefully push the card straight d...

Страница 33: ...all your cables and peripherals for bad connections You may also get POST codes or error messages If this occurs consult Appendix B and C for a guidetopossiblesolutions After the system properly boots...

Страница 34: ...splayed on your monitor as shown in Figure 4 1 Figure 4 1 Power Up Screen When Press DEL to enter Setup appears at the bottom of the screen press the DEL key to start the Setup program The main CMOS S...

Страница 35: ...ning options that do not have to be set unless you want to the Power Management Setup screen the Supervisor Password the User Password and the IDE HDD Auto Detection screen Themainmenuscreenalsocontai...

Страница 36: ...TER Figure 4 3 Standard CMOS Setup Screen Date and Time To set the date use arrow keys to highlight the date and follow the same procedure to set the time Hard Disks Setup The BIOS supports up to four...

Страница 37: ...he BIOS supports 2 88MB 1 44MB 1 2MB 720KB and 360KB floppy drives Video Select the type of video card installed into your system The default setting is EGA VGA Halt On During the Power On Self Test P...

Страница 38: ...4 4 BIOS Features Setup Screen Virus Warning When enabled the system BIOS will report a warning message if a program attempts to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive CPU...

Страница 39: ...loppy Drive Thisselectioncanbesettoremapthefloppydrives When set to Enabled drive A becomes drive B and drive B becomes drive A Boot Up Floppy Seek When set to Enabled default the BIOS tests seeks flo...

Страница 40: ...pematic Delay Typematic Rate selects the typematic rate at which characters repeat when a key is held down The default setting is 6 Chars Sec Typematic Delay controls the gap between key compression a...

Страница 41: ...lt setting is Non OS2 Select OS2 only when running OS 2 operat ing systems with greater than 64MB of system memory Video BIOS Shadow Enabling this selection allows you to shadow the BIOS on the video...

Страница 42: ...en and press ENTER Figure 4 5 Chipset Features Setup Screen SDRAM CAS Latency Time When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clockcyclesofCASlatencydependsontheDRAMtiming Do not reset this fiel...

Страница 43: ...cebecausethePCIbusissomuchfasterthanthe ISAbus Thesetwofieldsletyouaddrecoverytime inbus clock cycles for 16 bit and 8 bit I O Video RAM Cacheable Enable or disable the caching of the video RAM The de...

Страница 44: ...outanytranslation Power Up State Specifies how the computer responds following a power failure Stay Off keeps power off until the power button is pressed Last State restores previous power state befor...

Страница 45: ...ightthis option on the main menu screen and press ENTER Figure 4 6 Power Management Screen ACPI Aware O S Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI enables your PC to automatically turn on and o...

Страница 46: ...endmodes The options are Maximum Power Savings User Defined and MinimumPowerSavings PM Control By APM When enabled power management is controlled by the Advanced Power Management APM feature which giv...

Страница 47: ...oshutoffwhileall other devices still operate at full speed Suspend Mode After the selected period of system inactivity 1 minute to 1 hour all devices except the CPU shut off HDD Power Down After the s...

Страница 48: ...ke up when an incoming call is detected on your modem You must set up the Mode Use IRQ selection Wake On LAN Thisselectionspecifieswhetherthecomputerrespondsto an incoming call or not Wake On LAN requ...

Страница 49: ...enu screen and press EN TER Figure 4 7 PnP PCI Configuration Screen PnP OS Installed When set to Yes this selection allows the system to work with a Plug and Play PnP operating system such as Windows...

Страница 50: ...s depending on the type of device using the interrupt Legacy ISA Devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for COM 1 or older ISA cards th...

Страница 51: ...on memory loss To select LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS highlightthisoptiononthemainmenuscreen and press ENTER Press Y or N when the program prompts you with the Load BIOS Defaults ques tion Load Setup Defaults T...

Страница 52: ...s ENTER Figure 4 8 Integrated Peripherals Configuration Screen IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple com mands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive suppo...

Страница 53: ...cond NOTE Your hard drive and operating environment must both support the UDMA mode On Chip Primary Secondary PCI IDE TheintegratedperipheralcontrollercontainsanIDEinter face with support for two IDE...

Страница 54: ...andard mode is the default Onboard Parallel Port Select an address and interrupt for the physical parallel printer port Onboard Parallel Mode Selectanoperatingmodefortheonboardparallel printer port Se...

Страница 55: ...wpassword before exiting and enabling the utility To disable the password press ENTER when the program prompts you to enter the new password WARNING IfyouforgettheSupervisorPassword itcannotbe disable...

Страница 56: ...o Detection Screen The IDE HDD Auto Detection option provides auto configuration of the hard drive installed in your system It supportsLBA LargeandNormalmodes If your hard disk drive s capacity is und...

Страница 57: ...k drive To select the HDD LOW LEVELFORMAToption highlightthisoptiononthemain menu screen and press ENTER Figure 4 10 HDD Low Level Format Screen The selections available are Low Level Format Utility S...

Страница 58: ...ITSETUP option and press ENTER Press Y to confirm the changesmadeand N or ESC ifadditionalmodifi cations are needed before exiting the setup program Exit Without Saving This selection abandons all pre...

Страница 59: ...long with PC 100 memory and Intel s newversionsofthePentiumIIprocessor family the 440BX AGPset adds a new datahighwaythatshouldpostasubstan tial increase in bus and memory access The flexibility of th...

Страница 60: ...ckwards compatible torunat66MHz however anonPC 100SDRAMmaynot be used on a 100MHz FSB system Wake On LAN Thisfeatureoffersyouawaytoaccessalocal areaorwide areanetworkormodemtoturnondesktopPCsremotely...

Страница 61: ...16 6MB per second This new protocol is supportedbyIntel s440LX and440BXAGPsets Universal Serial Bus USB The simple and flexible way to connect devices to your desktopornotebookPC USBallowsvirtuallyunl...

Страница 62: ...Micronics C400 System Board Manual Chapter 5 Special Features 60...

Страница 63: ...s Chipset Intel 440BX AGPset Intel PIIX4e Form Factor Mini ATX footprint 7 5 x 12 20 pin ATX power connector Expansion One AGP slot Four 32 bit PCI slots One shared PCI ISA slot One 16 bit ISA slot BI...

Страница 64: ...o high speed serial ports 16550 compatible One 25 pin Parallel Port ECP and EPP IrDA compliant IR header Two USB connectors SB LINK header to support legacy Sound Blaster compatible PCI audio card Flo...

Страница 65: ...cated is critical Diamondrecommendsthefollowingenvironmentalspeci fications Temperature Range Operating 50 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit 10 to 40 degrees Cel sius Non Operating 50 to 140 degrees Fahrenhei...

Страница 66: ...l Appendix A Technical Information 64 Battery Disposal WARNING Please do not open battery dispose of in fire recharge put in backwards or mix with used or other battery types The battery may explode o...

Страница 67: ...services Technical Support If you need technical assistance our Technical Support Engineers will be glad to help you You can contact us via telephone fax or BBS Before calling Technical Support pleas...

Страница 68: ...S I o r u E s p b K 6 5 4 3 3 6 6 2 1 5 1 8 9 4 x e l f 6 5 K s p b K 6 5 6 5 3 6 6 2 1 5 1 8 9 4 d r a d n a t s n o i t a z i r o h t u A s l a i r e t a M n r u t e R A M R r i a p e r r o f s t c...

Страница 69: ...ory refresh function is working properly 5 Blank video Initialize keyboard Keyboard controller initialization 6 Reserved 7 Test CMOS Interface and Battery Status Verifies CMOS is working correctly BE...

Страница 70: ...ization If not execute ISA tests an clear EISA mode flag Test EISA Configuration Memory Integrity checksum communication interface 20 Enable Slot 0 Initialize slot 0 System Board 21 2F Enable Slots In...

Страница 71: ...ected during POST and enter Setup 4F Security Check Ask password security optional 50 Write CMOS Write all CMOS values back to RAM and clear screen 51 Pre boot Enable Enable parity checker Enable NMI...

Страница 72: ...Micronics C400 System Board Manual Appendix B POST Codes 70...

Страница 73: ...configuration A checksum error may indicate that CMOS has become corrupt A weak battery may have caused this error Check the battery and replace if necessary CPU at nnnn Displays the running speed of...

Страница 74: ...bout the type and location of the memory error Override enabled Defaults loaded If the system cannot boot using the current CMOS configuration the BIOS can override the current configuration is a set...

Страница 75: ...r the system has rebooted the cursor will appear at the A prompt 3 NowyoucanruntheFLASHutilityfromthebootable floppy disk Refer to the README TXT file in cluded with the BIOS update for detailed instr...

Страница 76: ...Micronics C400 System Board Manual Appendix D Updating the System BIOS 74...

Страница 77: ...ssive or inad equate heating or air conditioning or electrical power failures surges or other irregularities 4 any statement about the product other than those set forth in this warranty or 5 nonconfo...

Страница 78: ...mondwillnotbeliableforanylostprofitsoranyindirect specialincidentalorconsequentialdamagesinconnection with the product even if Diamond has been advised of the possibilityofsuchdamages Diamond makes no...

Страница 79: ...terference to radio communications Interference to radio or television reception can be determined by turning the equipment off and on You are encouraged to try to correct the interfer ence by one or...

Страница 80: ...es use buffer logic chips on their control lines to reduce loading on the system board This buff ering action increases the maximum Glossary Glossary 78 number of modules on the same system board The...

Страница 81: ...data bits present ECP An acronym for Expanded Capabilities Port A standard set by Hewlett Packard and Microsoft Corpo ration to expand the capabilities of the parallel port EDO Memory An acronym for E...

Страница 82: ...l Corporation PCI is designed to be independent of the hard ware architecture to ensure compatibil ity with future computer systems See VESA Local Bus and ISA Pentium A high performance 64 bit CISC pr...

Страница 83: ...e access per cycle Improves performance by 5 10 Unbuffered DIMMs The unbuffered DIMM modules do not use any buffer logic chips thus achieving faster opera tion due to the elimination of the propagatio...

Страница 84: ...d System BBS 65 C ConfiguringtheMicronicsC400 11 CPU BoxVersion 26 Installation 22 Overview 25 Retention Mechanism 22 D Diagram MicronicsC400 12 E Extended Data Out EDO Memory 17 19 EnvironmentalSpeci...

Страница 85: ...A Peripheral Card 29 PCI Peripheral Card 28 Quick Installation 9 J Jumper Settings 13 M Micronics C400 System Board Diagram 12 Memory Configurations 20 Installing 27 Removing 27 Supported 17 19 O Onli...

Страница 86: ...36 Chipset Features Setup 40 Exit Without Saving 56 HDD Low Level Format 55 IDE HDD Auto Detection 54 Integrated Peripherals 50 Load BIOS Defaults 49 Load Setup Defaults 49 PnP PCI Configuration Setu...

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