User’s Manual A Soc ket 370 Pr ocessor based Sock Processor mainboard (100/66 MHz) Suppor ts PC100 Memor y Modules TRADEMARK All products and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. These specifications are subject to change without notice. 60002MC10 Manual Revision 1.
Table of Contents Page Section 1 Introduction Components Checklist ........................................ 1-1 Form-Factor ......................................................... 1-2 I/O Shield Connector .......................................... 1-3 Power-On/Off (Remote) ..................................... 1-3 System Block Diagram ........................................ 1-4 Section 2 Features Mainboard Features .............................................
IDE HDD Auto Detection ..................................... 4-24 Save & Exit Setup ................................................ 4-26 Exit Without Saving ............................................. 4-26 Appendix Appendix A GHOST 5.1/6.03 Quick Users Guide ................ A-1 Appendix B Update Your System BIOS ..................................
Introduction Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist 9 A. (1) One mainboard 9 B. (1) One users manual 9 C. (1) Floppy ribbon cable 9 D. (1) ATA-66 IDE ribbon cable 9 E. (1) COM Port Connector 9 F.
Introduction Mainboard Form Factor The board is designed with MicroATX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. The MicroATX form factor is essentially a Baby-AT baseboard rotated 90 degrees within the chassis enclosure and a new mounting configuration for the power supply. With these changes the processor is relocated away from the expansion slots, allowing them all to hold full length add-in cards.
Introduction I/O Shield Connector The board is equipped with an I/O back panel.Please use the appropriate I/O shield (figure 3). parallel port Joystick/Midi PS/2 Mouse USB port PS/2 KEYBOARD COM1 VGA1 Figure 3 Power-On/Off (Remote) Speaker Line_in MIC The board has a single 20-pin connector for ATX power supplies. For ATX power supplies that support the Remote On/Off feature, this should be connected to the systems front panel for system Power On/Off button.
Introduction System Block Diagram socket 7 Processor 100/66 MHz PAC PCI Bridge and memory controller VT8501 CRT 100/66 MHz AMR Slot AC97 CODEC VT82C686A I/O Bridge USB 0 USB 1 Figure 5: System Block Diagram Page 1-4 ~ ~ ~
.A=JKHAI Section 2 FEATURES Mainboard Features: PROCESSOR - Socket 7 CPUs: Operating at 166-550MHz - AMD K6-2/III, Cyrix M II, Idt C6 / Winchip2 and Rise mP6 series ® - Intel Pentium /Pentium ® Processor with MMX TM Technology, CHIPSET - VIA Apollo MVP4 AGPset (VT8501 + VT82C686A) DRAM MODULE - 168pin DIMM x 2 for PC100 Memory - DRAM Size: 32MB to 256MB EXPANSION SLOT - PCI x 2 - AMR Slot x 1 ONBOARD I/O - On-Chip Multi I/O integrated with K/B, mouse, FDD, Parallel and Serial, Fas
.A=JKHAI USB - USB connector x 4 (2 for Opt.
Installation Section 3 INSTALLATION Mainboard Detailed Layout Figure 1 Page 3-1
Installation Easy Installation Procedure The following must be completed before powering on your new system: 3-1. CPU Insertion 3-2. Jumper Settings 3-3. System memory Configuration 3-4. Device Connectors Section 3-1 CPU Insertion CPU Insertion Step 1 Open the socket by raising the actuation lever. Figure 2 Step 2 Insert the processor. Figure 3 Page 3-2 Ensure proper pin 1 orientation by aligning the FC-PGA corner marking with the socket corner closest to the actuation arm tip.
Installation Step 3 Close the socket by lowering and locking the actuation lever. Figure 4 Note: Intels reference design thermal solution is an active heatsink; an extruded aluminum heatsink based and a fan attached to the top on the fin array.
Installation Section 3-2 Jumper Settings JP2: CPU Vcore Voltage Selection 1.8V 2.0V 2.1V 2.2V 2.4V 2.8V 2.9V 3.2V 19 JP2 8 16 CPU Vcore 1-9 1.8V 2-10 2.0V 3-11 2.1V 4-12 2.2V 5-13 2.4V 6-14 2.8V 7-15 2.9V 8-16 3.2V SW1: CPU Speed Selection SW1 1 2 3 Bus Clock 4 ON 66MHz ON ON ON 75MHz ON 83MHz ON 90MHz ON ON 95MHz ON ON ON 100MHz ON ON ON ON 6 7 ON ON 105MHz 115MHz CPU SW1 5 ON ON Multiplier AMD/Cyrix/IDTC6 CPU Multiplier IDT WinChip 2 2X ON 2.
Installation +27 6OFA Pentium/MMX AMD K6/K6-2/K6III IDT-C6 Cyrix /IBM 6x86MX/MII 166MHz PR200 IDT Winchip 2 59 Rise MP6 1 2 3 ON PR233 PR266 233MHz PR300 PR366 300MHz 200MHz PR266 200MHz PR300 225MHz PR333 266Mhz PR400 300MHz *PR433 233MHz PR300 ON *PR333 250MHz 250MHz *PR366 ON 350MHz *PR500 266MHz *PR333 *PR466 380MHz *PR533 400MHz *PR550 *PR400 ON ON 83MHz ON ON 95MHz ON ON ON ON 100MHz ON 66MHz ON 75MHz ON ON 83MHz ON ON ON 95MHz ON ON ON
Installation Section 3-3 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout The board supports (2) PC100 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs is for SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) . DIMM SDRAM may be 83MHz (12ns), 100MHz (10ns), 125MHz (8ns) bus speed. If you use both 50ns and 60ns memory you must configure your BIOS to read 60ns. When using Synchronous DRAM we recommend using the 4 clock variety over the 2 clock. Figure 6 and Table 1 show several possible memory configuration.
Installation DIMM Module Installation Figure 7 displays the notch marks and what they should look like on your DIMM memory module. DIMMs have 168-pins and two notches that will match with the onboard DIMM socket. DIMM modules are installed by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a 90 degree angle and pressing straight down (figure 8) until it fits tightly into the DIMM socket (figure 9). LEFT KEY ZONE (UNBUFFERED) CENTER KEY ZONE (3.
Installation Section 3-4 Device Connectors parallel port PS/2 Mouse Joystick/Midi USB port PS/2 KEYBOARD COM1 VGA1 Speaker Line_in MIC J4 J4/J6: CPU/Chassis Fan A plug-in for the CPU/Chassis Fan Power J6 GND +12V Rotation CPU Fan Chassis Fan GND +12V Rotation J7: WOL (Wake On LAN) Connector Reserved for NIC (Network Interface Card) to wake the system.
Installation FDD1: Floppy Controller Connector (Black color) IDE1: Ultra ATA-66 Primary IDE Connector (White color) IDE2: Ultra ATA-66 Secondary IDE Connector (White color) PW1 PW1: ATX Power Connector 20-pin power connector COM2: RS232 COM2 Connector COM2 CD1: CD Audio_IN Connector CD_IN_Right CD_Reference CD_IN_Left 1 GND CD_IN_Left 1 MODEM1 MODEM1: Telephony Connector for Modem audio output CD_IN_Right CD1 Page 3-9
Installation Power On/Off (This is connected to the power button on the case. Using the Soft-Off by Pwr-BTTN feature, you can choose either Instant Off (turns system off immediately), or 4 sec delay (you need to push the button down for 4 seconds before the system turns off). When the system is in 4 sec delay mode, suspend mode is enabled by pushing the button momentarily.
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BIOS Section 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP BIOS Instructions Awards ROM BIOS provides a built-in Setup program which allows user to modify the basic system configuration and hardware parameters. The modified data will be stored in a battery-backed CMOS, so that data will be retained even when the power is turned off. In general, the information saved in the CMOS RAM will stay unchanged unless there is a configuration change in the system, such as hard drive replacement or a device is added.
BIOS The menu displays all the major selection items. Select the item you need to reconfigure. The selection is made by moving the cursor (press any direction key ) to the item and pressing the Enter key. An on-line help message is displayed at the bottom of the screen as the cursor is moved to various items which provides a better understanding of each function. When a selection is made, the menu of the selected item will appear so that the user can modify associated configuration parameters.
BIOS Note: If the hard disk Primary Master/Slave and Secondary Master/Slave are set to Auto, then the hard disk size and model will be autodetected. Note: The Halt On: field is used to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if an error occurs. Note: Floppy 3 Mode support is a mode used to support a special 3.5 drive used in Japan. This is a 3.5 disk that stores only 1.2 MB, the default setting for this is disabled.
BIOS Virus Warning: During and after the system boots up, any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive will halt the system and an error message will appear. You should then run an anti-virus program to locate the virus. Keep in mind that this feature protects only the boot sector, not the entire hard drive. The default value is Disabled.
BIOS Boot Up Floppy Seek: During Power-On-Self-Test (POST), BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. Only 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K, 1.2MB and 1.44MB are all 80 tracks. The default is Enabled. Enabled: The BIOS will search the floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks. Disabled: The BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note: BIOS can not tell the difference between 720K, 1.2MB and 1.
BIOS 250: 250 msec. 750: 750 msec. 500: 500 msec. 1000: 1000 msec. Security Option: This category allows you to limit access to the System and Setup, or just to Setup. The default is Setup. System: The system will not boot and the access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt. Setup: The system will boot; but the access to Setup will be denied if the incorrect password is not entered at the prompt.
BIOS D4000 - D7FFF Shadow: D8000 - DBFFF Shadow: DC000 - DFFFF Shadow: These categories determine whether ROMs from option cards will be copied into RAM. This will be in 16K byte or 32K byte units, and the size will depend on chipset of the option card. Enabled: Optional shadow is enabled. Disabled: Optional shadow is disabled.
BIOS 4-3 Chipset Features Setup Choose the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu to display following menu. Figure 4: Chipset Features Setup Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 DRAM Timing: This value in this field is set by the system board manufacturer, depending on whether the board has paged DRAMs. The Choice: Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5. SDRAM Cycle length: This setting defines the CAS timing parameter of the SDRAM in terms of clocks. The default is 3. 2: Provides faster memory performance.
BIOS DRAM Fast Decoding: This item will effective DRAM operation sequential. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. DRAM Read Pipeline: You may select Enabled fo this field when PBSRAMs are installed. Pipelining improves system performance. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. Sustained 3T Write: This item allow you to enable or disable direct map write back / write through secondary cache. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. Cache R/CPU W Pipeline: This item allows you to enable/disabled the cache timing.
BIOS Frame Buffer Size: Specify the size of system memory to allocate for video memory, from 1 MB to 8 MB. The Choice: 2MB, 4MB, 8MB. AGP Aperture Size: The amount of system memory that the AGP card is allowed to share. The default is 64. 4: 4MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card. 8: 8MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card. 16: 16MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card. 32: 32MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card. 64: 64MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card.
BIOS 4-4 Power Management Setup Choose the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY to display the following screen. This menu allows the user to modify the power management parameters and IRQ signals. In general, these parameters should not be changed unless its absolutely necessary. Figure 5: Power Management Setup ACPI Function: This option allows you to select ACPI Function. The default is Enabled. Enabled: Support ACPI function for new O.S Disabled: No Support ACPI function.
BIOS Min. saving: Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 hour in each mode. User define: Allows user to define PM Timers parameters to control power saving mode. PM controlled APM: This option shows weather or not you want the Power Management to be controlled the Advanced Power Management (APM). The default is Yes. Yes: APM controls your PM No: APM does not control your PM Video Off After: Tells you what time frame that the video will be disabled under current power management settings.
BIOS Doze Mode: The Doze mode timer starts to count when no PM events have occurred. Suspend Mode: This function works only when the Pentium II Processor is installed. The timer starts to count when System Standby mode timer is timed out and no PM Events are occurring. Valid range is from 1 minute up to 1 hour. HDD Power Down: HDD Standby timer can be set from 1 to 15 minute(s). Soft-Off by PWRBTN: Use this to select your soft-off function. The default is Delay 4 sec.
BIOS Modem Ring Resume: When set to Enabled, any event occurring to the Modem Ring will awaken a system which has been powered down. Primary INTR: When set to On (default), any event occurring at will awaken a system which has been powered down. 4-5 PNP/PCI Configuration The PNP/PCI configuration program is for the user to modify the PCI/ISA IRQ signals when various PCI/ISA cards are inserted in the PCI or ISA slots. WARNING: Conflicting IRQs may cause the system to not find certain devices.
BIOS Auto: If your ISA card and PCI card are all PNP cards, BIOS will assign the interrupt resource automatically. Reset Configuration Data: This setting allows you to clear ESCD data. The default is Disabled Disabled: Normal Setting. Enabled: If you have plugged in some Legacy cards to the system and they were recorded into ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data), you can set this field to Enabled in order to clear ESCD.
BIOS AGP Master 1 WS Read: When Enabled, read to the AGP bus are executed with one wait states. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. Assign IRQ For USB/VGA: This item allows BIOS to assign whether IRQ is with USB/VGA or not. If you have not connect the USB/VGA device. Can release the IRQ for other device. The default is Enabled. Enalbed: Provides IRQ for USB/VGA device. Disabled: Release IRQ for other device.
BIOS 4-6 Integrated Peripherals Figure 8: Integrated Peripherals Note: If you do not use the Onboard IDE connector, then you will need to set Onboard Primary PCI IDE: Disabled and Onboard Secondary PCI IDE: Disabled Note: The Onboard PCI IDE cable should be equal to or less than 18 inches (45 cm.). Onchip IDE Channel0/1: The default value is Enabled. Enabled: Enables Onboard IDE primary/secondary port. Disabled: Disables Onboard IDE primary/secondary port.
BIOS IDE HDD Block Mode: IDE Block Mode allows the controller to access blocks of sectors rather than a single sector at a time. The default is Enabled. Enabled: Enabled IDE HDD Block Mode. Provides higher HDD transfer rates. Disabled: Disable IDE HDD Block Mode. Primary Master/Slave PIO: The default is Auto. Auto: BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Master/Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode. Mode 0~4: Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode.
BIOS UART 2 Mode: This item allows you to determine which Infra Red (IR) function of onboard I/O chip. The Choice: Standard, ASKIR, HPSIR. Onboard Parallel port: This field allows the user to configure the LPT port. The default is 378H / IRQ7. 378H: Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 378H and IRQ7. 278H: Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 278H and IRQ5. 3BCH: Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 3BCH and IRQ7. Disabled: Disable Onboard LPT port.
BIOS MPU-401: MPU-401 function enabled/disabled. MPU-401 I/O Address: Built-in MPU-401 compatible MIDI I/O port selection. The choice: 300-303H, 310-313H, 320-323H, 330-333H (default). FM Port (388-38BH): Frequency modulation port at I/O port 388-38BH enabled/disabled. Game Port (200-207H): Built-in joystick port support disabled/enabled. 4-7 Load Setup Defaults The LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS function loads the system default data directly from ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly.
BIOS 4-8 SENSOR AND CPU SPEED SETUP Figure 9: Sensor And CPU Speed Setup Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk: When enabled the motherboard will automatically disable the clock source for a DIMM socket which does not have a module in it. Same applies for PCI slots. The default is Enabled. Spread Spectrum : The default is Disabled. CPU Host Clock (CPU/PCI): Allows the external clock to be modified depending upon what FSB has been selected. Should not be used to clock processor faster than it was designed for.
BIOS Current CPU Temperature: This is the current temperature of the CPU. Current CPU FAN Speed: The current CPU fan speed in RPMs. Current Chassis FAN Speed: The current chassis fan speed in RPMs. CPU(V): The voltage level of the CPU(Vio/Vcore). +2.5V, +3.3V, +5V, +12V: The voltage level of the switch power supply.
BIOS 4-9 Change Supervisor or User Password To change the password, choose the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD or USER PASSWORD option from the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu and press [Enter]. NOTE: Either Setup or System must be selected in the Security Option of the BIOS FEATURES SETUP menu. 1. If CMOS is corrupted or the option was not used, a default password stored in the ROM will be used.
BIOS 4-10 IDE HDD Auto Detection The IDE HDD auto detection utility is a very useful tool, especially when you do not know which kind of hard disk type you are using. You can use this utility to detect the correct disk type installed in the system automatically. But now you can set HARD DISK TYPE to Auto in the STANDARD CMOS SETUP. You dont need the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION utility. The BIOS will Auto-detect the hard disk size and model on display during POST.
BIOS If user set his HDD to NORMAL mode, the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528 Megabytes even though its physical size may be greater than that! LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode: A new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 Megabyte bottleneck. The number of cylinders, heads & sectors shown in setup may not be the number physically contained in the HDD.
BIOS Note: To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some software involved. All the software is located in the Award HDD Service Routine (INT 13h). It may fail to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under an Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h. UNIX operating systems do not support either LBA or LARGE and must utilize the Standard mode. UNIX can support drives larger than 528MB.
Appendix Appendix A A-1 GHOST 5.1/6.03 Quick User’s Guide Installation is very easy. You only need to copy the Ghost5 folder or Ghost.exe to your hard disk. The current market version is for single Client, so the LPT and NetBios portions will not be explained further. Description of Menus Ghost clones and backs up Disk and Partition.
Appendix There are 3 hard disk functions: 1. Disk To Disk (disk cloning) 2. Disk To Image (disk backup) 3. Disk From Image (restore backup) Important! 1. To use this function, the system must have at least 2 disks. Press the Tab key to move the cursor. 2. When restoring to a destination disk, all data in that disk will be completely destroyed. Disk To Disk (Disk Cloning) 1. Select the location of the Source drive. 2. Select the location of the Destination drive. 3.
Appendix 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Yes to start. Disk To Image (Disk Backup) 1. Select the location of the Source drive. 2. Select the location for storing the backup file.
Appendix 3. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Yes to start. Disk From Image (Restore Backup) 1. Select the Restore file. 2. Select the Destination drive of the disk to be restored.
Appendix 3. When restoring disk backup, set the required partition size as shown in the following figure. 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Yes to start.
Appendix There are 3 partition functions: 1. Partition To Partition (partition cloning) 2. Partition To Image (partition backup) 3. Partition From Image (restore partition) Partition To Partition (Partition Cloning) The basic unit for partition cloning is a partition. Refer to disk cloning for the operation method. Partition To Image (Partition Backup) 1. Select the disk to be backed up. 2. Select the first partition to be backed up. This is usually where the operating system and programs are stored.
Appendix 3. Select the path and file name for storing the backup file. 4. Is the file compressed? There are 3 options: (1) No: do not compress data during backup (2) Fast: Small volume compression (3) High: high ratio compression. File can be compressed to its minimum, but this requires longer execution time. 5. During confirmation, select Yes to start performing backup.
Appendix Partition From Image (Restore Partition) 1. Select the backup file to be restored. 2. Select the source partition. 3. Select the disk to be restored.
Appendix 4. Select the partition to be restored. 5. Select Yes to start restoring. Check This function checks the hard disk or backup file for backup or restoration error due to FAT or track error.
Appendix How to Reinstall Windows in 2 Minutes This chapter teaches you how to set your computer properly and, if necessary, reinstall Windows in 2 minutes. Ghost can use different methods to complete this task. The following two sections explain the creation of the emergency Recover Floppy and Recover CD: Emergency Recover Floppy Divide a hard disk into two partitions. The first partition is for storing the operating system and application programs.
Appendix (2) After booting, the screen displays the Menu. Select Backup or Restore: Since the user may install other applications in the future, he/she may design Autoexec.bat as a Menu to back up or restore the userdefined Image file as follows: ) Backup Back up Windows and application programs as a file (Recent. gho). Command is: Ghost clone,mode=pdump,src=1:1,dst=d:\Recent.gho -fx sure -rb ) Restore Restore types include [General Windows] and [Windows and Application Programs].
Appendix Recover CD In recent years, well-known computer manufacturers (such as IBM, Acer, Compaq, etc.) bundle Recover CDs with their computers to reduce the cost resulting from servicing, while at the same time increasing their market competitiveness. The following is a simple guide to how to create a recover CD: 1. For extremely easy creation of the recover floppy disk, use the copy program for example Easy CD Creator (Note 2). First, create a recover floppy disk containing: Bootable files (Command.
Appendix Ghost Command Line Switches Reference Ghost may be run in interactive or in batch mode. Batch mode is useful for automating installations for backups using Ghost. Most of the Ghost switches are used to assist with batch mode operation. To list switches from Ghost, type ghost.exe -h. -clone The full syntax for this switch is: clone,MODE={copy|load|dump|pcopy|pload|pdump},SRC= {drive|file|drive:partition|,DST={drive|file|drive:partition},SZE{F|L|n= {nnnnM|nnP|F|V}} Clone using arguments.
Appendix c) DST Mode COPY/ LOAD DUMP PCOPY/ PLOAD PDUMP c) SZEy This defines the destination location for the operation: Meaning Destination drive (e.g, 2 for drive two) Disk image filename or device,(e.g, g:\images\system2.img) Destination partition,(e.g, 2:2 indicates the second partition on drive two). Partition image filename (e.g, g:\images\part1.img). Used to set the size of the destination partitions for either a disk load or disk copy operation.
Appendix data space has been satisfied will be distributed between the destination partitions in proportion to the data usage in the source partitions Someexamples follow that will help illustrate: -fx flag Exit. Normally when Ghost has finished copying a new system to a disk, it prompts the user to reboot with a press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot window.
Appendix Example 1: To copy drive one to drive two on a PC, without final prompt if OK to proceed. ghost.exe -clone,mode=copy,src=1,dst=2 sure Example 2: To connect via NetBIOS to another PC running Ghost in slave mode, and dump a disk image of local drive two to the remote file c:\drive2.gho ghost.exe -clone,mode=dump,src=2,dst=C:\drive2.
Appendix Appendix B B-1 Update Your system BIOS Download the xxxxx.EXE file corresponding to your model form the our website to an empty directory on your hard disk or floppy. Run the downloaded xxxxx.EXE file and it will self extract. Copy these extracted files to a bootable DOS floppy disk. Note: The DOS floppy disk should contain NO device drivers or other programs. 1. Type A:\AWDFLASH and press Key. 2. You will see the following setup on screen. 3. Please key in the xxxxx.bin BIOS file name.
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