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Step 2:

Connect the CPU’s fan cable to the CPU-FAN connector indicated on the diagram below.

Ensure that the cable is connected correctly! It will be obvious which way it fits.

             

    HARDWARE INSTALLATION

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 CPU Installation

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Содержание TS-ALR4

Страница 1: ...TS ALR4 USER S MANUAL AMD Duron Athlon Socket A CPU ...

Страница 2: ...tions are subject to change without prior notice Disclaimer Transcend provides this manual as is without any warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Transcend its management employees distributors and agents are in no way liable for any indirect special incidental or conse...

Страница 3: ...d these prob lems No matter what happens during BIOS updating the user s system can still boot from the floppy drive allowing the updating command to be executed again One Click On Line BIOS Updating For users of Windows 95 98 ezBIOS allows you to use Transcend s innovative on line updating technology Just one click can detect the BIOS version of your system download the latest version and execute...

Страница 4: ... 2 4 100 133MHz System Configuration 9 2 5 CPU Internal Frequency Ratio Setting 10 2 6 Memory Configuration 11 2 7 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors 12 2 8 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 13 2 9 Fan Power Connectors 13 2 10 Wake on LAN Connector 14 2 11 Wake on Modem Connector 14 2 12 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 15 2 13 Panel Connectors 15 2 14 Power Connector 17 2 15 External Rear Panel I...

Страница 5: ... 7 3 8 PnP PCI Configuration Setup 4 2 3 9 PC Health Status 4 4 3 10 Frequency Voltage Control 4 5 3 11 Load Fail Safe Defaults 4 6 3 12 Load Optimized Defaults 4 6 3 13 Set Password 4 7 3 14 Save Exit Setup 4 9 3 15 Exit Without Saving 4 9 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE 50 4 1 How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version 5 0 4 2 How to Download the Correct BIOS File from the Web 5 0 4 3 How to Update You...

Страница 6: ...Touch a grounded or anti static surface or a metal fixture such as a pipe or the chassis of your system before touching the motherboard 3 When you have removed the motherboard from its anti static packaging try to hold it only by the edges without touching any components 4 Avoid contacting the components on add on cards motherboards and modules with the golden fingers gold colored connectors which...

Страница 7: ...your motherboard from its anti static packaging and start building your system Computer case and chassis with appropriate power supply 300W recommended Monitor Socket A Central Processing Unit CPU DDR DIMM memory module PS 2 or USB Keyboard PS 2 or USB Mouse Hard Disk Drive Floppy Disk Drive CD ROM Drive Optional External Peripherals printer speakers plotter modem Optional Internal Peripherals mod...

Страница 8: ...6 512 1024 MB DDR Supports ECC Extenision Slot 1 x AGP 2X 4X slot 6 x Master Slave PCI slots PCI 2 2 compliant I O Port Supports PIO Mode 3 4 ATAPI devices and Ultra DMA33 66 100 Supports 2 high speed UART 16550 COM ports Supports SPP EPP ECP LPT port Supports 1 44 2 88 MB floppy drive Supports PS 2 Mouse and PS 2 Keyboard Supports IrDA port Supports 4 USB ports 2 by Cable Supports Line out Line i...

Страница 9: ... BIOS Wake Up Features Supports Wake on LAN function Remote Ring Wake Up Time Wake Up PCB Dimensions ATX form factor 4 layer PCB 21 3cm x 30 5cm 8 4 inch x 12 inch Switching Voltage Regulator VRM 9 0 compliant Other Features Year 2000 compliant Anti Virus Boot up System voltage monitors for CPU Vcore VDDQ 3 3V 5V 12V 12V 5V VBAT 5VSB ...

Страница 10: ...CI Slots 1 x AGP Slot Expansion Slots Power Connector ALi1535D South Bridge ALi 1647 North Bridge Memory 3 x 184 pin DDR Module Support up to 3GBytes WOL Header Wake on LAN WOM Header Wake on Modem AMD Duron Athlon Socket A CPU FSB 200 266MHz CPU 2 x USB Ports I O Port 2 x COM Ports 1 x Parallel Port PS 2 KB Port PS 2 Mouse Port General MIDI Port Audio Jack Line In Line Out MIC In USB3 4 5 HARDWAR...

Страница 11: ... R N DIMM1 184pin DDR Module DIMM2 184pin DDR Module DIMM3 184pin DDR Module FDC IDE1 IDE2 Power Connector AGP USB1 2 Battery COMB SYS FAN South Bridge ALi1535D Nouth Bridge ALi1647 Audio Transcend PCI Slot6 PCI6 W O L W O M JP4 SW1 SW2 JP5 JP1 CPU FAN Panel Connector 2 2 Layout of Transcends TS ALR4 Motherboard HARDWARE INSTALLATION 6 ...

Страница 12: ...there is no fan on it please purchase one before you turn on your system Caution This kind of CPU will generate tremendous heat while opearting make sure install the CPU fan and enough heat dissipation grease before power up the computer Never run the processor without the heatsink properly and firmly attached PERMANENT DAMAGE WILL RESULT Please follow the steps below to install the CPU Step 1 To ...

Страница 13: ...the CPU s fan cable to the CPU FAN connector indicated on the diagram below Ensure that the cable is connected correctly It will be obvious which way it fits HARDWARE INSTALLATION 8 CPU Installation CPU FAN Transcend ...

Страница 14: ...figuration Jumper Transcend SW1 O ON X OFF CPU 1 2 3 4 100 133 O O O X X X X X 2 4 100 133 MHz System Configuration 9 HARDWARE INSTALLATION The SW1 allows you to set the FSB Front Side Bus for 100 or 133 MHz Configuration ...

Страница 15: ...frequency System bus frequency is set in CPU Host PCI Clock of Frequency in BIOS SETUP MENU Please refer to page 45 NOTE Because AMD has locked the frequency ratio for new CPUs setting SW2 to adjust the frequency ratio is useless However it is effective for older version CPUs 2 5 CPU Internal Frequency Ratio Setting CPU Internal Frequency Ratio Setting SW2 8 5 8 0 5 0 5 5 6 0 6 5 7 0 7 5 O O O O O...

Страница 16: ...DR DRAM modules You can install memory in any combination as follows 184 pin DIMM DDR 4 16 64 128 256 512 1024MBytes DDR 4 16 64 128 256 512 1024MBytes DDR 4 16 64 128 256 512 1024MBytes 3GBytes max DIMM Location DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 Total Memory Transcend 184 Pin DDR DIMM Sockets 184 Pin DDR Module DIMM1 184 Pin DDR Module DIMM2 184 Pin DDR Module DIMM3 ...

Страница 17: ... HDD won t be able to reach this speed If you intend to operate two IDE devices from the same channel one device must be set to Master mode the other to Slave mode A Hard Disk CD ROM or other IDE device can have either setting depending on device s jumper Please refer to the device s manual for more information NOTE The connectors must be attached to the IDE channels the right way round Make sure ...

Страница 18: ...rives FDD Connector Transcend PIN1 FDD Connector Note Orient the red stripe to Pin1 FDC 2 9 Fan Power Connectors There are two fan power connectors on the mainboard the CPU FAN and the CASE FAN Each connector provides 12V power Make sure they are in the right orientation or they may cause damage These connectors support cooling fans of 500 mA 6W or less Fan Power Connectors CPU FAN SYS FAN Transce...

Страница 19: ...an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power Wake On LAN Connector Transcend 5 Volt Standby GND PME WOL CN13 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 14 2 11 Wake on Modem Connector 3 pin WOM Wake On Modem Connector Transcend 5 Volt Standby GND PME WOM CN13 This connector allows the system to be powered up upon receipt of a call via the modem NOTE This function requires a modem which supports the Ring Wa...

Страница 20: ...6 pin IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support a wireless infrared module With this module and application software such as Laplink or Win95 Direct Cable Connection the user can transfer data to from laptops notebooks PDAs and printers IrDA Connector Transcend IrDA CN6 5V NC IRRX GND IRTX 1 6 VOCR OFF 15 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...

Страница 21: ...K Harddisk LED Lead 2 pin HD_LED This 2 pin connector connects to the LED of the hard disk The LED lights up when the HDD is active Pin6 5V Pin8 GND Reset Switch Lead 2 pin RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without turning off your power switch Pin14 RESET Pin16 GND Software Power Off Lead 2 pin SOFT_OFF Attach the SOFT_OFF Switch of t...

Страница 22: ...SB port The motherboard contains two USB ports which are marked as USB USB Ports 3 4 are on board connectors with 2x5 Header See page21 for the location and details 4 Parallel Port Burgundy 25 pin PRN The onboard printer port is a 25 pin D type connector marked PRN 2 14 Power Connector 20 pin PWR CONN Make sure to plug the ATX power supply connector in the right direction The pin definition is sho...

Страница 23: ... 9 pin D type connector marked as COMA COMB 6 Game Port MIDI Port Gold 15 pin GAME The onboard Game port MIDI Port is a 15 pin D type connector marked GAME 7 Line_out Lime Green 1 8 LINE_OUT The onboard Line_out connector is a 1 8 stereo audio jack marked LINE_OUT 8 Line_in Light blue 1 8 LINE_IN The onboard Line_in connector is a 1 8 stereo audio jack marked LINE_IN 9 MIC_IN Pink 1 8 MIC_IN The o...

Страница 24: ...16 Using Jumper JP4 to Clear CMOS To clear the CMOS data you should turn off your computer s power and short pin2 and pin3 in JP4 Clear CMOS Jumper Transcend CLEAR CMOS NORMAL JP4 19 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...

Страница 25: ...t Audio Channel VIDEO GND Right Audio Channel Left Audio Channel Green AUX White GND Right Audio Channel These connectors allow you to receive stereo audio input from sound sources such as a CD ROM TV tuner or MPEG card The MODEM connector allows the onboard audio to interface a voice modem card with a matched connector It also allows the sharing of mono_in such as a phone and mono_out such as a s...

Страница 26: ...lease refer to Section 2 15 External Rear Panel I O Ports page 17 NOTE Please make sure that the two red stripes on the cable are seated on Pin1 and Pin2 Internal USB Port Connecotr VCC USB3 USB3 GND GND VCC USB4 USB4 GND GND 1 2 9 10 USB3 USB4 Transcend Congratulations you have now completed Hardware Setup This means that you can move on to Chapter 3 the BIOS Setup section and turn on your PC ...

Страница 27: ...The Main Menu As you turn on or reboot the system the BIOS is immediately activated It will read the system configuration information and check the system through Power On Self Test POST During the POST process press the Del key and you can enter the Award BIOS configuration system The following screen will appear In the Award BIOS system you can use the arrows to highlight an item and press the E...

Страница 28: ...atures Available options specific to your system Chipset Integrated Peripherals I O subsystems that depend on the integrated peripheral controllers in your system Power Management Setup Advanced Power Management APM and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI options PnP PCI Configurations Plug and Play standard and PCI Local Bus configuration options Frequency Control To control the frequ...

Страница 29: ...and exit Setup Exit Without Saving To abandon all changes and exit Setup 3 3 Standard CMOS Features Date mm dd yy Time hh mm ss Highlight the items and use PageUp PageDown to change the value of Date Time IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave Press Enter to enter the sub menu ...

Страница 30: ...lock address This will significantly improve data transfer rates for drives with more than 1024 cylinders Large For drives that do not support LBA and have more than 1024 cylinders Auto The BIOS automatically determines the optimal access mode Capacity Disk drive capacity Note that this size is slighty greater than the size of formatted disk given by the disk checking program Cylinder Number of cy...

Страница 31: ...ics Adapter powers up in 40 column mode CGA 80 Color Graphics Adapter powers up in 80 column mode MONO Monochrome adapter including high resolution Halt On During the Power On Self Test POST the computer stops if the BIOS detects a hardware error You can set the BIOS to ignore certain errors during POST and continue the boot up process The followings are the selections All Errors If the BIOS detec...

Страница 32: ... message if a program specifically a virus attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk You should then execute an anti virus program Keep in mind that this feature protects the boot sector only not the entire hard drive NOTE Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning message If you plan to run such a program we rec...

Страница 33: ...re IBM PC compatible systems are designed to search for an operating system first on drive A and then on drive C hard disk However the BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these fields In addition to the traditional drives A Floppy and C HDD 0 options include HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 and CD ROM a SCSI bootable device a LS ZIP drive and a LAN drive If you...

Страница 34: ... delay Typematic Rate Chars Sec When the Typematic Rate setting is enabled you can select a typematic rate the rate at which characters repeat to 6 8 10 12 15 20 24 or 30 characters per second Typematic Delay Msec When the Typematic Delay setting is enabled you can select a typematic delay the delay before key strokes begin to repeat of 250 500 750 or 1000 milliseconds Security Option If you have ...

Страница 35: ...ROM on other expansion cards by setting these fields If you install other expansion cards with ROMs you need to know which address the ROMs use specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K depending on the used amount ...

Страница 36: ...SPD System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS This action can increase system performance AGP Aperture Size Memory mapped graphics data structures can reside in a Graphic Aperture We suggest you leave this field on the default setting Memory Hole AT 15M 16M Enabling this feature reserves memory address space between 15 and 16MB to ISA expansion cards that specifical...

Страница 37: ...BIOS SETUP 32 ALI Onchip Audio Select Enable to enable the Onchip Audio Controller which lets you Onboard CODEC If you use an add on Audio Card please set this field to Disable ...

Страница 38: ...O Programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Mode 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device Primary Secondary Master Slave Ultra DMA Ultra DMA 33 66 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive can support it a...

Страница 39: ...u key in correct password Hot Key You can use the hot key to Power On the system Mouse Left Power On with the Mouse Left Button Mouse Right Power On with the Mouse Right Button Any Key Press any key to Power On the system Button only Power On only by pushing the button on the case Default Keyboard 98 You can Power On system by pushing the Power On key of Keyboard 98 KB Power On Password Enter the ...

Страница 40: ...al Allows normal speed operation but in one direction only EPP Allows bidirectional parallel port operation at maximum speed ECP Allows DMA and bidirectional operation It is faster than EPP mode ECP EPP Allows normal speed operation in two way mode ECP Mode Use DMA Assign DMA channel 1 or 3 to the port for ECP mode operation Parallel Port EPP Type Select EPP port type 1 7 or 1 9 IR Function Duplex...

Страница 41: ...t Enabled to assign Game Port resource Onboard Legacy Audio This field controls the onboard legacy audio related selection If Disabled all of the following selections will be disabled Select Enable if you want to use onboard audio Sound Blaster Select Enable to use Sound Blaster SB I O Base Address Assign Sound Blaster resources We recommend you leave this field on default SB IRQ Select Assign Sou...

Страница 42: ... 3 7 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup allows you to configure your system to minimize energy consumption according to your own style of computer use ACPI Function This item allows you to enable disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI ...

Страница 43: ...iod for each mode shown above Power Management This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 Suspend Mode 2 HDD Power Down 3 Doze Mode There are three selections for Power Management Two of them have fixed mode settings 1 Min Power Saving Minimum power management mode Inactivity period is defined below Doze Mode 1 Hour Suspen...

Страница 44: ... 11 Suspend Mode After the selected period of system inactivity 1 minute to 1 hour all devices except the CPU will be shut down HDD Power Down After the selected period of system inactivity 1 to 15 minutes the hard disk drive powers down while all other devices remain active This feature doesn t effect SCSI hard drives Soft Off by PWR BTTN When set to Instant off the ATX switch can be used as a no...

Страница 45: ... 25 0 and 12 5 Resume by Alarm Select Enabled if you want to power up your system at a certain time on the same day every month or at a certain time every day Date Time Set the Date and Time to Power On the system Activated only when the Resume by Alarm field is enabled Reload Global Timer Events When Enabled an event occurring on any device listed below restarts the global timer from Standby Mode...

Страница 46: ...to gain the attention of the Operating System it asserts an IRQ signal When the Operating System is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself and performs the service The IRQs Activity Monitoring function monitors the IRQs you select On any activity from one of them will awaken a system which has been powered down ...

Страница 47: ...figuration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system cannot boot The setting will automatically be set back to Disabled when the system reboots Resources Controlled By The Award Plug and Play BIOS can automatically configure all the boot and Plug and Play PnP compatible devices If you select Auto ESCD all of the Interrupt Requests IRQs and DMA assignment fields will be deactived...

Страница 48: ... the following depending on which type of device is using the interrupt PCI ISA PnP devices whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture compliant with the Plug and Play standard Legacy ISA Devices requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial port1 compliant with the original PC AT bus specification DMA Resources ...

Страница 49: ...ect Enabled to correct this problem If you don t have such problems leave this field at Disabled Assign IRQ For VGA Select Enabled only if your VGA card requires an assigned IRQ Most ordinary cards do not but some high end cards with video capture function do Consult your VGA documentation to set this field Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system Assign IRQ For USB When Enabled BIOS...

Страница 50: ...CI CIK Enable can stop the frequency output for unused DIMM PCI slots Spread Spectrum Enable provides spread Spectrum for better EMI solution CPU Host SDRAM PCI Clock This function allows you to set the FSB frequency of the CPU and the speed of the PCI bus ...

Страница 51: ...permanently stored in the BIOS ROM NOTE These default settings are non optimal and disable all high performance features 3 12 Load Optimized Defaults This option allows you to load the default values to the system configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration settings for the system ...

Страница 52: ...ord Your password can be up to 8 alpha numeric characters When you type the characters they appear as asterisks on the password screen box 2 After typing the password press the Enter key 3 At the next prompt re type your password and press the Enter key again to confirm the new password After password entry the screen automatically reverts to the main screen To disable the password press the Enter...

Страница 53: ...it by erasing the CMOS Real Time Clock RTC RAM with jumper 4 JP4 CMOS_CLR Please refer to page 19 To erase the RTC RAM 1 Unplug your computer 2 Short the JP4 jumper 3 Turn on your computer 4 Hold down Delete key during the POST process and enter BIOS setup to re configure BIOS ...

Страница 54: ...3 15 Exit Without Saving Abort the current change and exit the BIOS utility 49 BIOS SETUP 3 14 Save Exit Setup Save the setting and exit the BIOS utility ...

Страница 55: ...turn on your PC first the screen will display as follows TRANSCEND MODULAR BIOS ALR4 Ver 1 0 12 01 00 You can see a description shows at the third line Your system could be damaged if a wrong BIOS version is accidently used If you are not sure what version you should choose please contact us at techsupport transcend com tw Warning BIOS Version 1 0 V11 for Version 1 1 BIOS File Name ALR4 Ver 1 0 Yo...

Страница 56: ... Step 2 Make a system Disk Put a clean 3 5 disk in Drive A MS DOS Key in FORMAT A s and press Enter Windows O S Select the icon of My Compute Click 3 5 Floppy A Select File Format from Command Bar Under Format 3 5 Floppy A Menu Select Format type Full item and Other Options Copy system files Click Start button Step 3 Download the updated BIOS EXE file from the website to a floppy disk Ref 4 1 and ...

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