DVAX2+ 6VAX2+ Pentium II/III Celeron Twin Processor
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1. Pin assignment of parallel port 1 14 Pin Signal name Pin Signal name e e 1 STROBE 14 AUTO FEED ele 2 Data Bit 0 15 ERROR ele 3 Data Bit 1 16 INIT ele 4 _ Data Bit 2 17 SLCTIN ele 5 Data Bit 3 18 Ground ele 6 Data Bit 4 19 Ground ele 7 Data Bits 20 Ground o o 8 Data Bit 6 21 Ground ele 9 Data Bit 7 22 Ground ele 10 ACK 23 Ground ele 11 BUSY 24 Ground ele 12 PE 25 Ground 13 SLCT ale O 3 5 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP F CN6 USB Port 1 Universal Serial Bus Connector G CN7 USB Port 2 Universal Serial Bus Connector CN6 USB 1 7 USB 2 Pin assignment of USB connector Pin2 DATA Pin3 DATA Pin4 Ground E Pin5 Ground Pin6 Ground H CN8 Floppy Disk Control Port Connector Use IRQ6 DMA channel 22. CN8 FDC Connector VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP OD CN9 IDE 1 Connectors Primary ATA 66 IDE Port 1FOH IRQ 14 J CN10 IDE 2 Connectors Secondary ATA 66 IDE Port 170H IRQ 15 These two IDE ports are the standard IDE interface on the mainboard and they are ATA 66 and backward compatible CN10 IDE 2 CN9 IDE1 K CN12 IR FIR Infrared Rays Connector Consumer IR Connector Consumer IR connector is active only when W83977CTF AW I O Chip is installed on position U9 IR FIR INFRARED RAYS CONNECTOR 5VDC 1A NO CONNECTION 2A IRRECEIVE 3A GROUND 4A IR TRANSMIT 5A CONSUMER IR CONNECTOR
3. OPEN Vcore 1 3V 2 05V SHORT Vcore 1 3V 3 5V 3 15 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP E JP100 amp JP133 FSB Clock Selection JP100 and JP133 are designed on the board to select the Front Side Bus FSB clock speed for some special purpose Please do not attempt to change this setting unless you are the technician Please refer to the following for functional description BIOS JP100 JP133 FSB JP100 JP133 CLOCK Pin 1 amp Pin2 Pin3 amp Pin 4 Pin 1 amp Pin2 Pin 3 amp Pin 4 Auto Short Open Short Open 66MHz Open Short Open Short 100MHz Open Open Open Short 133MHz Open Open Open Open Note 1 JP100 and JP133 will have no function unless Default is selected in the CPU Host PCVClock in the BIOS setup program refer to Section 4 6 Please do not to make jumper setting on JP100 and JP133 unless you are the professional technician
4. 1B NC 2B CONSUMER IR RECEIVE 3B 5VDC 4B NC CN 12 IR CONNECTOR Consumer IR is optional VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP L CN13 CPU Cooling Fan Power Connector GND 12V Fan Signal M CN15 ATX Power Connector VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP N CN16 WOL Wake On LAN Connector In order to use the WOL LAN card to trigger the power of the PC system the switching power supply must be able to provide at least 700mA current driving ability on the SV standby voltage
5. L rae q OPEN Normal Default Setting SHORT CPU Voltage 0 05V increased JP11 D JP12 CPU Voltage Range Selection Optional 3 14 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP JP12 is a special design on the mainboard which allows you to select the CPU voltage range Vcore to protect the processor from damage by accident The voltage regulator on the mainboard will generate 1 3V 3 5V DC to support different processors Basically Most Pentium II mainboards will use the VID signal VIDO VID4 from the processor to decide the proper CPU voltage Vcore In case that there is the poor connection between Slot 1 connector and CPU or uninstall the CPU from the mainboard while the system power is ON Under such circumstance mainboard may recetve wrong VID signal and send wrong Vcore to the CPU Unfortunately wrong Vcore may destroy the CPU JP12 is designed to control the Vcore within the safe range so that it won t make any damage to the CPU because of wrong VID signal Since most Pentium II II processors require the Vcore below 2 05V except few Pentium II processors So the default setting of JP12 will limit the Vcore at 1 3V 2 05V Please do not change the setting on JP12 unless your CPU needs the voltage higher than 2 05V
6. Modify Shift F2 Change Color VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP MODE The BIOS on the mainboard is the updated one and which provides three different modes to support both normal IDE HDD and the one which is above 528MB gt NORMAL For IDE hard disk drives which is smaller than 528MB gt LBA For IDE hard disk drive which is above 528MB ideally it can be as big as 8 4GB that use Logic Block Addressing LBA mode gt Large For IDE HDD which is above 528MB and does not support LBA mode gt Auto This mode will auto detect your IDE driver during boot up Floppy 3 Mode Support Default setting disabled This mode is for the Japanese 3 5 inch high capacity floppy disk drive If you do not have such drive installed in your PC system please use the default setting 4 5 BIOS FEATURES SETUP ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Virus Warning Disabled OS Select For DRAM gt 64MB Non OS2 CPU Internal Cache Enabled HDD S M A R T capability Disabled External Cache Enabled Video BIOS Shadow Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Enabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow Disabled Processor Number Feature Disabled CC000 CFFFF Shadow Disabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled D0000 D3FFF Shadow Disabled D4000 D7FFF Shadow Disabled Boot Sequence A C SCSI D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled Swap Floppy Drive Disabled DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled
7. 2 When Default is selected you may use JP100 and JP133 to select different speed of CPU FSB clock and force your CPU to use that clock speed instead of letting the system BIOS to select the CPU clock automatically 3 16 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP F SWITCH SETTINGS There is one toggle switch designed on the mainboard to select the CPU clock ratio Basically you have to check the specification of your CPU carefully because some of the CPU does not allow you to change its default clock ratio setting In another word The switch setting on the mainboard will have no function when you are using the processor whose clock ratio is locked inside the CPU SW toggle switch Note SW setting will have no function when the clock ratio is locked in the CPU a Settings of the toggle switch CPU MHz Clock Ratio SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 233 350 3 5X OFF OFF ON ON 266 400 4 0X ON ON OFF ON 300 450 4 5X OFF ON OFF ON 333 500 5 0X ON OFF OFF ON 366 550 5 5X OFF OFF OFF ON 400 600 6 0X ON ON ON OFF
8. Disable When you select Enabled the special feature designed in the system chipset will be triggered and reduce the EMI as mentioned above CPU Host Clock CPU PCD default setting Default This selection field is used to decide the CPU FSB clock Basically this mainboard is designed by using VIA 693A chipset and it supports 66MHz 100MHz and 133MHz FSB frequency When you select default setting the system BIOS will detect the CPU type and decide the FSB clock automatically You may also use this field to select different FSB clock and force your CPU to run at higher speed be sure to make sure your system devices are fast enough before you can change to such setting When you have decided the FSB clock you will have to use toggle switch SW setting to select the CPU clock ratio and decide the CPU speed please refer to page 3 16 and page 3 17 for details of the switch settings Beside the Default FSB selection this mainboard also provides the manual option for your choice You may use the Page Up and Page Down to select different FSB clock Note 1 The higher FSB frequency will surely give you the higher system performance However it is not recommended because it may cause the system unstable especially the component like DRAM HDD Add on card is not fast enough 2 Wrong selection of FSB clock may cause the PC system hang up and the system can not boot In case that it should be hap
9. Two Ultra DMA IDE interface are designed on the mainboard 1 3 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD INTRODUCTION SUPER I O PORTS 1 Two high speed NS16C550 compatible serial ports UARTS 2 One parallel port supports SPP EPP ECP mode 3 One Floppy Disk Control port IR PORT One HPSIR and ASKIR compatible IR transmission connector 5 pin One Consumer IR transmission connector 4 pin optional MOUSE AND KEYBOARD One PS 2 mouse connector One PS 2 keyboard connector HARDWARE MONITORING optional Winbond W83783S is designed on the board refer to U2 on page 1 2 to monitor hardware healthy status like system voltage system temperature and cooling fans When the hardware monitoring program is installed in the PC system it will keep monitoring the mainboard status If there is something which is not working normally then you will receive a warning message on the screen display so that you can take proper action to prevent your system from damage There is the hardware monitoring program in the CD which comes with this mainboard When you feel like to use the hardware monitoring feature to monitor the mainboard healthy status please refer section 3 5 for the installation procedure ACPI 1 On Now power on the system by panel switch Keyboard PS 2 Mouse Modem ring in RTC alarm or LAN signal 2 Power off soft off by OS or Panel switch 3 Resuming of PC system such as Modem ring in RTC alarm etc 4 Supports Full
10. 4 Always install DIMM module starting from DIMM 1 socket first and then DIMM 2 and DIMM 3 5 If you are installing the CPU with 133MHZ front side bus speed PC 133 DIMM module is recommended 6 Maximum memory size for this mainboard 384MB The VIA693A chipset supports the ECC feature and it can be used to check the memory sub system and make sure there is no error during memory read and memory write Before you can enable the ECC feature in the BIOS setup program please check the memory module and make sure there is the parity bit 3 3 CONNECTORS The connectors on the mainboard are either the pin header type or D type connectors they are used to connect the accessories or peripheral devices such as power mouse printer etc Followings are the connectors with its description and the pin assignment which is designed on the mainboard A BAT1 Battery Socket Use the 3 Volts Lithium battery CR2032 DIMMI DIMM2 DIMM3 b i BATI Battery Socket Pin Pin name Pin Pin name T Battery Positive Ground VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP B CNICN2 PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Connector CN2 PS 2 Mouse Connector CNI1 PS 2 Key
11. AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 8 PNP OS Installed Resources Controlled By Reset Configuration Data IRQ 3 IRQ 4 IRQ 5 IRQ 7 IRQ 9 IRQ 10 IRQ 11 IRQ 12 IRQ 14 IRQ 15 DMA 0 DMA 1 DMA 3 DMA S DMA 6 DMA 7 WARNING assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to assigned to PNP PCI CONFIGURATION ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGXXX PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC Manual Disabled PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP PCVISA PnP CPU to PCI Write Buffer PCI Dynamic Bursting PCI Master 0 WS Write PCI Delay Transaction PCI 2 Access 1 Retry AGP Master 1 WS Write AGP Master 1 WS Read Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Assign IRQ for USB Assign IRQ for VGA Enabled Disabled ESC Quit fl gt Select Item Fl Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement If you do not have the related technical background do not attempt to make any change PNP OS Installed
12. Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled Boot Up NumLock Status On Gate A20 Option Fast Memory Parity ECC Check Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 ESC Quit tlo lt Select Item Typematic Delay Msec 250 F1 Help PU PD Modify Security Option Setup F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color PS 2 mouse function control Enable F7 Load Setup Defaults PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP Virus Warning Basically The default setting of this feature is Disabled In order to avoid virus intruding happens on your PC system This mainboard provides the virus warning features in the BIOS During and after the operation system is loaded any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition table on the IDE hard disk drive will trigger this feature and give you some warning messages on the screen and then halt the system When you find the message on your screen please run the anti virus program to see whether your system is infected by a virus or not Enabled A warning message will be displayed on the screen when something attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table Disabled No warning message will appear on the screen when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table CPU Internal Cache External Cache default setting Enabled These fields allow you to turn on or turn off the Level 1 and Level 2 cache that built in Pe
13. Default setting Disabled ACPI is optional on the board The ACPI Advanced Configuration Power Interface is the special feature provided on the board When enabled it will provide you several way save the system power energy Power Management Default setting User Define This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 HDD Power Down 2 Doze Mode 3 Suspend Mode 4 9 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP There are three selections for Power Management please refer to the following for the feature description Disable default No power management Disables all four modes Min Power Saving Minimum power management Doze Mode 1 hr Standby Mode 1 hr Suspend Mode 1 hr and HDD Power Down 15 min Max Power Saving Maximum power management ONLY AVAILABLE FOR SL CPU S Doze Mode 1 min Standby Mode 1 min Suspend Mode 1 min and HDD Power Down 1 min User Defined Allows you to set each mode individually When not disabled each of the ranges are from 1 min to 1 hr except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1 min to 15 min and disable PM control by APM Default setting Yes When enabled an Advanced Power Management device will be activated to enhance the Max Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock If the Max Power Saving is not enabled this will be preset to No Video Off after De
14. F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 3 CONTROL KEYS Listed below is the explanation of the keys displayed at the bottom of the screens which will be used in the CMOS SETUP program Arrow Keys Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired item Enter Select the desired item F1 Display the help screen for the selected feature Shift F2 To change the screen color total 16 colors ESC Exit to the previous screen PgUp PgDn To modify or change the content of the highlighted item F5 Retrieves the previous value from CMOS data only the current page setup will be retrieved F7 Loads the SETUP default values from BIOS default table only the current page setup will be loaded F10 Save all changes to CMOS RAM from the MAIN MENU 4 4 STANDARD CMOS SETUP ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX STANDARD CMOS SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Date mm dd yy Mon 20 2000 Time hh mm ss 16 03 33 HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE rimary Master Auto 0M 0 0 0 0 0 Auto rimary Slave None 0M 0 0 0 0 0 se Secondary Master Auto OM 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Secondary Slave None OM 0 0 0 0 O Drive A 144M 3 5 in Drive B None Base Memory 640K Floppy 3 Mode Support Disable Extended Memory xxxxxx K Video EGA VGA Other Memory xxxxxx K Halt On All Errors Total Memory xxxxxx K fl gt Select Item PU PD
15. IRQ on the related IRQ will be released and becomes available for other devices 4 15 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGXXX INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE INC OnChip IDE Channel0 Enabled UART Mode Select Normal OnChip IDE Channel Enabled IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 Primary Master PIO Auto Parallel Port Mode SPP Primary Slave PIO Auto Secondary Master PIO Auto Secondary Slave PIO Auto Primary Master UDMA Auto Primary Slave UDMA Auto Secondary Master UDMA Auto Secondary Slave UDMA Auto Init Display First PCI Slot POWER ON Function Button Only KBC input Clock 8MHz ESC Quit t lt Select Item Onboard FDC Controller Enabled F1 Help PU PD Modify Onboard serial Port 1 3F8 IRQ4 F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Onboard serial Port 2 2F8 IRQ3 F7 Load Setup Defaults OnChip IDE Channel0 1 Default setting Disabled The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled to activate the first and or second IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate an interface if you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO Default setting Auto The four IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interf
16. JP9 Clear CMOS Data Button 3 13 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP 2 3 Oo 1 2 Short 2 3 Short Normal Setting Clear CMOS Note JP9 is designed to clear the information which is stored in the CMOS memory Improper connection on JP9 will cause mainboard failed to work Please refer to the following steps to clear the CMOS 1 Unplug the AC power cable from the PC system 2 Put the mini jumper on pin 2 3 of JP9 around 3 to 5 seconds and then return it to the original position pin 1 2 3 Re connect the AC power cable C JP11 CPU Voltage Adjustment Optional This mainboard will detect the CPU type and choose the proper CPU voltage Incase that you feel like to adjust the CPU voltage higher then what is detected by the mainboard You may use JP11 to adjust the CPU voltage When SHORT is selected the CPU voltage will be 0 05V higher than normal voltage
17. PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE amp EXIT SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC Quit tl lt _ Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type There are so many different types of Hard Disk Drive HDD in the market and your PC system will not know the HDD type unless you tell it the HDD type In order to make your PC system know the IDE HDD type you have to tell the system what kind of HDD is connected to the mainboard by giving a set of HDD parameters Sometimes it is not easy for users to find the proper parameters for their IDE HDD In order to help users to find the parameters the system BIOS provides a convent way the auto detection of IDE HDD To run the auto detection program is extremely easy Move the selection bar to IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION and then press Enter the system BIOS take over the job and try to detect the type of IDE HDD If it succeeds you will see a list of hard disk with its related parameters displayed on the screen You may press on the Y key to confirm the HDD type or select one of the hard disk type listed on the screen The system BIOS will read the parameters into the CMOS memory and you have completed the IDE HDD
18. Pin assignment of WOL Connector l 2 3 Pin Signal name Pin Signal name Pin Signal name elele 1 5V standby 2 Ground 3 WOL Signal O CN17 Chassis Fan Power Connector 1 Ground 2 12V DC 3 Fan Sense Signal VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP R Push buttons and LED connectors A series of connectors are designed on the mainboard to connect the push buttons and LED indicators on the front panel Followings are the details _ RS Reset Button connector i HL HDD LED connector I OO SL Sleep LED connector PW Power On Off Suspend switch PW SL HL RS PUSH BUTTONS AND LED CONNECTORS 1 RS Reset Button Connector Pin Signal name Pinl amp 2 Function 1 Reset Control Open No action 2 Ground Short System Reset
19. Setup and System Before you can apply the security option to your PC system you have to select your own Supervisor Password or User Password in the BIOS setup program When Setup is selected you will have to input your Passwords before you can start the BIOS setup program When you select System you will be unable to load the operation system if you don t key in your personal password PS 2 mouse function control default setting Enabled This mainboard built in a PS 2 mouse port In case that you prefer to connect your mouse to the serial port instead of using the PS 2 mouse you may choose Disable in this field so that the IRO12 can be released for the other devices If you are using the PS 2 mouse leave this field Enabled PCI VGA Palette Snoop default setting Disabled Some display cards are non standard VGA card such as graphics accelerator or MPEG Card which may not display color properly on your screen Enable the setting in this field may correct this problem Please leave it Disabled as the default setting shown above if you are using the normal display card OS Select For DRAM gt 64MB default setting Non OS 2 When you are using the OS 2 operating system and the system memory is more than 64MB you will have to select the setting to OS2 otherwise leave this on the default setting Non OS2 for all other operating systems HDD S M A R T Capabili
20. the chassis is the ATX type so that the mounting hole will match with this mainboard VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD INSTALLATION 2 2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM When the mainboard has been installed successfully there are several ways to power on the system Please read the following description for all the details O POWER BUTTON The power button can be programmed by COMS setup program and it has different features Please refer to page 3 11 for detail function description O KEYBOARD PASSWORD OR HOT KEY This mainboard allows you to use your personal password or a combination of hot key to power on your PC system Before you can use this feature the jumper setting on JP1 must be Enabled When you have used the BIOS setup program and selected the Password to power on the PC system the keyboard OnNow function will be activated and this mainboard will keeps scanning the keyboard status waiting for the correct password or hot key input even when the system power is OFF Under this circumstance the only way to power on the PC system will be the correct password or a combination of hot key you can not use the power button on the front panel to power on the PC system Please refer to the Power On Function setup in Section 4 9 Integrated Peripherals for setup details In case that you forget the Password or Hot Key disconnect the AC power for 30 60 seconds then re connect the AC power to t
21. 3 10 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP 2 HL IDE HDD LED Connector Pin Signal name 1 5V DC Pull up 2 HDD Active Signal 3 SL Sleep LED Connector This LED will be lightened when the AC power is connected and the system is power off darkened when the AC power is disconnected or the system is powered on Pin Signal name 1 Signal Pin 2 Ground 4 PW Power On Off and External Suspend Switch Connector According to the setup in CMOS the PW connector has two functions It can be the Power Switch or Suspend Switch of your PC system please refer to Section 4 7 and section 4 9 for BIOS setup If the setup in CMOS is Delay 4 Sec the function of PW will be A When system power is OFF Press this switch the system will power on when password is selected in the CMOS setup program you will be unable to use the PW button to turn on the power of the PC system please see Section 2 2 and Section 4 9 for more details B When system power is ON a The system is in Full ON mode a 1 Click on this switch less than 4 seconds the system will be turned into Suspend mode turn into the GREEN mode a 2 Press and hold this switch for more than 4 seconds the system will be powered off b When the system is in Suspend mode b 1 Click on this switch less than 4 seconds the system will return to Full ON mode b 2 Press and hold this switch more than 4 seconds the system will b
22. 433 650 6 5X OFF ON ON OFF 466 700 7 0X ON OFF ON OFF 500 750 7 5X OFF OFF ON OFF 533 800 8 0X ON ON OFF OFF Note In most case you don t have to use the switch setting to select the CPU clock ratio because it can be detected by the E mainboard automatically 3 17 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP 3 5 INSTALLATION OF DEVICE DRIVERS There is a CD which comes with the mainboard The CD contains the device drivers which is necessary when installing the mainboard Please refer to the following procedures to install the device drivers A Install the device drivers for this mainboard Before you can start to use this mainboard in your PC system you will have to install some device driver so that it will work with operation system properly Please refer to the following procedure to install the device drivers of the mainboard Step1 Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive Step2 Select D Driver Mainboard VIA Pentium_II directory Note D is the device name of your CD ROM drive Step3 Run SETUP EXE in this directory and follow the screen display to install the mainboard device driver B Install the device driver for the Hardware Monitoring optional Please note that the Hardware Monitoring is optional on the board Step 1 Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive Step 2 Select directory Driver mainboard Hardware Monitoring W83783S Step 3 Run SETUP EXE to install the hardware monito
23. CPU voltage automatically So you don t have to make any jumper setting to select the CPU voltage 3 2 INSTALLING THE DRAM MODULES This mainboard has three DIMM sockets designed on the mainboard all the DIMM sockets on the mainboard support the single side and double side DIMM modules In order to have a better performance only the Synchronous SDRAM memory is recommended Both Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing are supported When installing SDRAM modules you don t have to start from DIMM1 you can choose one of the DIMM sockets to install the DIMM module However install the SDRAM module from DIMM 1 is still recommended In order to increase of the system performance and the reliability please refer to the following suggestions when you are installing the DIMM modules Installation of DIMM modules 1 Outlook of DIMM modules a EE EE EE Single Side DIMM Module 3 2 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP SS EE EE EE Double Side DIMM Module 2 Minimum one DIMM module must be installed on the mainboard 3 You can use single side or double side DIMM module on this mainboard
24. Change Color POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE amp EXIT SETUP Time Date Hard Disk Type If you lost the CMOS data or you don t know how to complete the setup procedure you may use this option to load the SETUP default values from the BIOS default table It is easy to load the default value simply highlight the LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS field and then press the Enter key when you see the LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS Y N displayed on the screen response to it with Y and then press the Enter key the SETUP default values will be loaded Basically the SETUP default settings are the best case values that will optimize system stability In case that the CMOS data is corrupted the SETUP DEFAULTS settings will be loaded automatically when you press the Del key and enter the main setup screen So you may select SAVE amp EXIT SETUP to leave setup program and the system is loaded with the default settings 4 18 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 11 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD l CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE amp EXIT SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULT ESC Quit tl lt Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD Tim
25. DVAX2 6VAX2 Pentium I II Celeron Twin Processor VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD VER Lx USER S MANUAL OC NO UM DVAX2 E2 oes se sesse sesse se seed se ee se see Ge Ge ee ee ee GR Ge ee Ee Gee es ee sees ee see ses ee sesse ee PRINTED IN TATWA N VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER amp SECTION PAGE 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 11 OVERVIE Wes oes ees see ee ed ede ee ee be es Ne oe ede sd be se eg 1 1 1 2 MAINBOARD LAYOUT iese ies sesideie des ie bedes dee de ge oe eed de 1 2 13 OSPEGIFIGCATIONS sesse S ee es Gee ede OE Ge NG de Ge ee GN Ee SE de 1 3 2 INSTALLATION 2 1 ZL UNPACKING ede ee Gees eN De ee GE ee Ge eds 2 1 2 2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM 000 2 2 2 3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM vvcscssssscsccsisscassesisocscecsccssseosedsecseassenss 2 3 3 HARDWARE SETUP 3 1 31 INSTALLATION OE CRU cscscsissessicsscdatecacdatehstestssecsdeesesssevdstonasserdscees 3 1 32 INSTALLING THE DRAM MODULES ccscssssssesssessesseees 3 2 3 3 CONNECTORS ee Ee GE Ge ee Re Dee ee Dee De Ges 3 3 3 4 JUMPERS ste ev ses Poe eek ee dass eN ged Ge vd Eed ee in eed 3 13 3 5 INSTALLATION OF DEVICE DRIVERS eee esse esse esse ese ee sees see esse es 3 18 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 1 Al GETTING STARTED eed sees ee ed des ge de ie ve dee ee ee 4 1 4 2 MAIN MENU as oes tese sissies ses vie sede ee sede keen eie doe dee ee see ede ed 4 1 4 3 CONTROL KEY Se sedes nee ses ed ee se ene N ves ed Re Ee as es
26. Default setting is No The setting in this field tells the system BIOS whether your operating system OS is a PnP OS such as Windows 95 and Windows 98 or not The PnP OS will use the system resources record stored in the ESCD segment to arrange the system environment Resources Controlled by Default setting Manual Manual The system BIOS will not refer to the ESCD data to assign IRQ amp DMA Instead it will refer to the information recorded in this field when Assigning the IRQ amp DMA resource the system BIOS will always refer to the ESCE data to assign the I O and memory space resources Auto The system BIOS will refer to the ESCD segment for all legacy information 4 13 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP Reset Configuration Data Disabled The system BIOS will do nothing Enabled The system BIOS will clear reset the ESCD data during POST After clearing the ESCD data the system BIOS will then change this item s value back to Disabled otherwise the ESCD data will become useless IRQ DMA assigned to There are only 15 IRQs and 8 DMAs available on the mainboard and most of them are assigned for some specific purposes Sometimes user may feel like to have some more IRQ and DMA in order to install the new add on cards In this case you may use this field to assign some of the IRQ and DMA to PCI ISA PnP so that the new add on card will find the free IRQ or DMA available
27. ETUP Before you can start to install this mainboard some hardware settings is required to make sure it will work perfectly with the devices which you are going to install in your PC system To configure the mainboard is a simple task only a few jumpers connectors cables and sockets needs to be selected and configured please refer to page 1 2 to see the mainboard layout 3 1 INSTALLATION OF CPU There are two CPU sockets on the mainboard designed for Pentium II Pentium III and Celeron processors The CPU sockets on the mainboard are the Slot 1 and Socket 370 as shown in the following picture Slot 1 CPU Socket 370 CPU Note 1 You can only one CPU on this mainboard 2 If you are installing the socket 370 type CPU onto the mainboard please have the Socket 370 CPU coupling board installed onto the slot 1 collector and it will improve the compatibility of the PC system refer to the following picture Outlook of the socket 370 CPU coupling board 3 1 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP When you have installed the processor onto the mainboard it will detect the CPU type and decide the
28. On Doze Standby Suspend operating modes DIMENSION 1 Width amp Length 305 mmx 210 mm 2 Height 2 1 2 inches with CPU Retention Mechanism 3 PCB Thickness 4 layers 0 05 inches normal 4 Weight 18 ounces VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD INSTALLATION 2 INSTALLATION 2 1 UNPACKING The mainboard contains the following components Please inspect the following contents and confirm that everything is there in the package If anything is missing or damaged call your supplier for instructions before proceeding This mainboard One USER S MANUAL One Cable set for IDE and Floppy devices One Pentium II Processor Retention Mechanism RM One socket 370 coupling board One CD diskette for device driver and utility programs plus the Virtual Drive This mainboard contains electrostatic sensitive components and it can be easily damaged by static electricity So please leave it sealed in the original packing until when installing A grounded anti static mat is recommended when unpacking and installation Please also attached an anti static wristband to your wrist and have it grounded to the same point as the anti static mat After the opening of the mainboard carton please observe the mainboard carefully to make sure there is no shipping and handling damage before you can start to install the PC system Having finished all the procedures above you are now ready to install the mainboard to the chassis Please make sure that
29. Parallel Port i iem ep IMPORTANT NOTICE There are two CPU sockets on the mainboard the Slot 1 for Pentium IVIII and slot type Celeron Processors The Socket 370 is designed for socket type Pentium III and Celeron Processors 1 2 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD INTRODUCTION 1 3 SPECIFICATIONS CPU Intel Pentium II Pentium III or Celeron for Slot and Socket type 233 266 300 333 350 366 400 433 450 466 SOOMHz and higher speed processors 6VAX2 supports only the socket 370 CPU CPU VCC Switching Voltage Regulator circuits on board supports 1 30V DC through 3 5V DC CPU Core Voltage PC SYSTEM CHIPSET VIA 693A and VIA 596B SUPER I O CHIPSET Winbond W83977EF AW FRONT SIDE BUS FREQUENCY 66 MHz 100MHz and 133MHz selectable MEMORY Three 168 pin DIMM sockets Maximum 384 MB with ECC BIOS Award Plug amp Play System BIOS 256KB x 8 Flash ROM EXPANSION SLOTS AGP Slots One 32 bit AGP Slot Supports 1x or 2x AGP graphics cards ISA Slots One 16 bit ISA slot PCI Slots Four or Five 32bit PCI slots When High Point HPT366 is designed on the board there will be four PCI slots because one of the IRQ will be used by the ATA 66 interface WOL PORTS One WOL connector supports Wake On LAN WOL up designed USB PORTS Two Universal Serial Bus USB ports IDE PORTS
30. ace supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Default setting Auto Ultra DMA 33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 33 select Auto to enable BIOS support 4 16 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP Init Display First Default setting Disabled When you have both the AGP and PCI VGA card installed in the system you can use this field to decide the display priority AGP Slot The display will be active on the AGP adapter PCI Slot The display will be active on the PCI VGA adapter POWER ON Function Default setting BUTTON ONLY This mainboard provides several flexible and convenient ways to power on the PC system They are the BUTTON ONLY Password Hot KEY Mouse Left and Mouse Right please refer to Section 2 2 for details of each feature To change the way to power on your PC system move the selection bar to POWER ON Function and use the arrow keys to select the option which you prefer When you want to use the password to power on your PC system you may enter up to four alphanumeric characters in this field When you have
31. ant Off and Delay 4 sec Please refer to Chapter 3 for detail function description HDD Power Down Default setting Disable When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active i Doze Mode Default setting Disable When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the CPU clock will run at slower speed while all other devices still operate at full speed a Suspend Mode Default setting Disable When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity all devices except the CPU will be shut off The Choice Instant Off Delay 4 Sec PM Events PM events are I O events whose occurrence can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from such a mode In effect the system remains alert for anything which occurs to a device which is configured as On even when the system is in a power down mode i VGA Default setting OFF When set to On default any event occurring at a VGA port will awaken a system which has been powered down LPT amp COM Default setting LPT COM When set to On default any event occurring at a COM serial LPT printer i port will awaken a system which has been powered down HDD amp FDD Default setting ON When set to On default any event occurring at a hard or floppy drive port will awaken a system which has been
32. board Connector t C CN3 Serial Port COM 1 Connector D CN4 Serial Port COM 2 Connector COM ports viewed from the real panel Ping assignment of serial port connector 1 6 Pin __ Signal name Pin Signal name 1l DCD Data Carrier Detect 6 DSR Data Set Ready ele 2 RD Received Data 7 RTS Request To Send ele 3 TD Transmit Data 8 CTS Clear To Send ele 4 DTR Data Terminal Ready 9 RI Ring Indicator je 5 Ground 5 9 I O address 3F8H 2F8H 3E8H 2E8H IRQ3 IRQ4 selected by CMOS setup 3 4 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP CN5 Parallel Port Connector The parallel port on the mainboard supports SPP EPP ECP modes IRQ7 or IRQS is selectable ECP mode will use either DMA channel 3 or channel 1 which can be selected by the CMOS setup program
33. cessors with RISC technology which offers several key features such as built in 512K 256K 128K L2 cache 12 stage super pipeline architecture out of order execution etc In order to optimize of its capabilities and performances the 32 bit Operating System such as Windows NT and OS 2 and 32 bit applications are recommended VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD INTRODUCTION 1 2 MAINBOARD LAYOUT CNS Parallel Eo CN12 B 1 BE Mouse JP100 JP133 ei GE IR Port CN3 CNA USB 2 BE K B COM 1 COM2 EER y ss JP1 CEN KB Mouse BIOS aie oN 5 Power On Pa ee e eel ee E i iar y T 1 e CN16 WOL tL gt oo CN13 zZ Q CPU Fan PW Power SW 2 a Socket 370 SL Sleep LED 5 Q HL HDD LED BE CPU JP11 JP12 RS Reset Button JP100 EE Vcore Range PSHR WLLS DIMM1 JP11 uoan DIMM2 Veore Adj EE sw Gan DIMM3 EE E ag Saal CN17 CN29 IDE 4 CN15 m JP9 CN10 IDE 2 N CN28 IDE3 Power Connector DDOD SPK OOO PWR LED JP9 Clear CMOS CNI7 1 2 Normal Setting U2 SW optional Chassis Fan 2 3 Clear CMOS Select CPU clock ratio PS 2 Mouse
34. e Date Hard Disk Type The password entry in this field is different to the Power On Function mentioned in Section 2 2 and Section 4 9 Those password settings are used to power on your PC system However the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD will be used to check the authority when power on the PC system The Supervisor Password will have different function according to the Security Option setup in Section 4 5 When Setup is selected in Security Option If you want to change the BIOS setting you will have to key in the Supervisor Password so that you can start the BIOS setup program and change the system setting When System is selected in Security Option When turn on the PC system it will request you to enter the Password Without the correct password the PC system will stop and the operation system will not be loaded 4 19 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 12 USER PASSWORD ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP SER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULT ESC Quit tl lt Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE amp EXIT SETUP The User Password can be used to check the user s authority However t
35. e VIA 693A and Winbond I O chipset are chosen as the core logic of the mainboard to support 66MHz 100MHz and 133MHz FSB clock For the wide Varity of CPU It is designed for 233 266 300 333 350 366 400 433 450 466 500 550 600MHz and higher speed Pentium II Pentium III and Celeron processors There are two IDE ports on the DVAX2 and 6VAX2 mainboards Each IDE interface supports the master slave connection mode and they support the IDE EIDE and Ultra DMA Ultra ATA standards The IDE ports support the ATA 66 protocol and it makes the data transfer rate of the connected IDE device amazingly fast There are TWO different models which you will find from this mainboard Please refer to the following table for the difference MODEL NAME IDE INTERFACE CPU INTERFACE DVAX2 IDE1 IDE2 SLOT 1 amp SOCKET 370 6VAX2 IDE1 IDE2 SLOT 1 In order to support the popular devices which will be installed in the PC system there are one Floppy Disk control port two high speed Serial ports UARTs one multi mode Parallel port one PS 2 mouse port one IR port and two USB ports designed on the mainboard When you are connecting the devices like PS 2 mouse external modem printer floppy disk drive USB devices etc You don t have to purchase another interface card Simply have the related devices connected to the appropriate interface Pentium II PentiumTM III and Celeron are the 32 bit pro
36. e dos Die 4 2 4 4 STANDARD CMOS SETUDP scccscccsscsscsssssscsssscssscsssssssscsssssoess 4 2 4 5 BIOS FEATURES ETUP iste Verses died Gee iese see dee id ie 4 3 4 6 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUD cccsssssssscssssssssscssscescssssscssscosses 4 6 4 7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP sessseesseesseessees sees sees sees sees see 4 9 4 8 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION sie sede ds sesde sessie dese sede deed de sies 4 13 49 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS seessseessse esse esse esse ese ese ee sees ees esse es 4 16 4 10 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ssesese saved isdse see psess dee Pe ee ese doek sees ee seed 4 18 4 11 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD ccsccscsssscssccsscccssscesscesscsscsssessscsees 4 19 4 12 USER PASSWORD nsss es vee dd ve dd ee ee Se ed gene 4 20 413 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION eessssessseesseessee sees sees sees sees sege see ese 4 22 4 14 SAVE amp EXIT SETUP we osscssscccdcnccssusssssdsnndsnsceasectocsstestceanvecenvtssoossesies 4 23 415 EXIT WITHOUT SA VING ies dese ss See ese ges ese de gees e dee Oe see 4 24 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD SOMETHING IMPORTANT x TRADEMARKS All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners Xx LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS is the function which will have the BIOS default settings loaded into the CMOS memory these default settings are the best case values which will optimize system performance and increase system stability This function will be necessitated when
37. e powered off The setup in CMOS is Instant off A When system power is off Click on this switch the system will be powered on when password is selected in the CMOS setup program you will be 3 11 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP unable to use the PW button to power on the PC system please see Section 2 2 and Section 4 9 for more details B When system power is on Click on this switch the system will be powered off instantly S Speaker and Key Lock connector ik DOO srk de OOODE PWRLED amp KBLOCK SPKR amp KBLOCK CONNECTORS SPK Speaker connector 1 Pin Signal name 1 5VDC No Connection No Connection Speaker Data Signal No Connection aeee PWR LED amp KBLOCK Front Panel Power LED and Key Lock Connector 1 Pin Signal name 1 Pullup 5V DC for Power LED No Connection Ground Keyboard Lock Ground ole ajs A BW ND 3 12 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP 3 4 JUMPERS This section will discuss the jumper setting on the mainboard In order to let you have better idea of the jumper setting please see below for the explanation of jumper settings b
38. efore you start this section sven c gt 00 000 show gt 1 l 1 2 em n 1 1 The following jumpers which labeled with optional means they are the optional choice for customers and the related components are normally not populated on the mainboard In order to make the mainboard works properly in your PC system please make sure all jumper settings are at correct before installing this mainboard A jumper is a set of two three or more jumper pins which allows users to make different system configuration by putting the plastic connector plug mini jumper on it The jumper setting is necessary when installing different components onto the mainboard A JP1 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse OnNow function selection The Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse OnNow function is designed on the mainboard and you can use keyboard and mouse key clicks to power on the PC system However there may have some keyboard and mouse are not compatible with the OnNow function In this case please use JP1 to disable the OnNow function JP1 Pinl amp Pin 2 Short OnNow Disabled Pin 2 amp Pin 3 Short OnNow Enabled B
39. entered the password and press the Enter key reconfirm the password one more time to complete password setup KBC input clock Default setting 8MHz This selection field allows you to select the clock frequency to the keyboard controller on the mainboard Onboard FDC Controller Default setting Enabled This should be enabled if your system has a floppy disk drive FDD installed on the system board and you wish to use it However if you add a higher performance controller you will need to disable this feature Onboard serial Port 1 2 Default setting 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 This item allows you to determine access onboard serial port 1 port 2 controller with which I O address UART Mode Select Default setting Normal This item allows you to determine the Infra Red IR function of onboard I O chip Onboard Parallel Port Default setting 378 IRQ7 Select a logical LPT port name and matching address for the physical parallel port 4 17 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 10 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD l BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC Quit tl lt Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2
40. epending on whether the board has paged DRAMs or EDO extended data output DRAMs SDRAM Cycle Length When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing Do not reset this field from the default value specified by the system designer DRAM Clock This selecting option allows you to control the DRAM speed VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP Memory Hole In order to improve performance certain space in memory is reserved for ISA cards This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB This field allows you to decide the memory mapping Read Around Write default setting Disabled DRAM optimization feature If a memory read is addressed to a location whose latest write is being held in a buffer before being written to memory the read is satisfied through the buffer contents and the read is not sent to the DRAM Concurrent PCI Host default setting Disabled When disable CPU bus will be occupied during the entire PCI operation period System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at FOOOOh FFFFFh resulting in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result Video RAM Cacheable default setting Disabled Select Enabled allows caching of the video RAM resulting in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a sys
41. etting Enabled When Enabled every write transaction goes to the write buffer Burstable transactions then burst on the PCI bus and non burstable transactions don t 4 14 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP PCI Master OWS Write Default setting Enabled When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states PCI Delay Transaction Default setting Enabled 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 PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Default setting Disabled This item allows you enable disable the PCI 2 Access 1 Retry AGP Master 1 WS Write Default setting Enabled This implements a single delay when writing to the AGP Bus By default two wait states are used by the system allowing for greater stability AGP Master 1 WS Read Default setting Disabled This implements a single delay when reading to the AGP Bus By default two wait states are used by the system allowing for greater stability Assign IRQ For VGA USB Default setting Enabled The system s IRQ signals are limited and sometimes you may feel like to some more IRQ signals for your add on cards The system BIOS on this mainboard allows you to disable the IRQ which is supposed to be connected to VGA and USB ports When you have choose to disable the IRQ on VGA or USB port the
42. fault setting Suspend There are three different modes selectable in this field to decide how to blank the video Suspend Then video display will be off when suspend mode Always ON The video display is always on despite of the power saving modes All Mode off The video display is will be off when power saving mode is active Video Off Method Default setting Blank screen When you are using the Green Monitor with your PC system there are three modes selectable in this field to save the power energy V H SYNC Blank This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video buffer DPMS Initial display power management signaling 4 10 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP Modem Use IRQ Default setting 3 This mainboard has the ACPI feature designed on the board and it will wakeup automatically when it detects the incoming modem Ring in signal Before you can use the Ring in signal to wakeup your PC system you have to install the External modem to your PC system and tell the PC system which serial port connects to the modem by selecting the IRQ in this field officially COM A uses IRQ4 and COMB uses IRQ3 i Soft Off by PWRBTN Default Instant off This selection field allows you to define the power button on your font panel There are to selections Inst
43. for it Legacy The system BIOS will skip and never assign the specified IRQ DMA ISA resource to PCI or ISA PnP devices and the IRQ and DMA can only be sued by their specified Legacy ISA cards PCI ISA When PCI ISA PnP is selected the related IRQ and DMA will be PnP released and they can be used by other PCI or ISA devices Whenever there is the new PCI or ISA devices plugged onto the mainboard system BIOS will detect it and assign a free IRQ or DMA for the new devices Note Most IRQ and DMA have its own purpose and they can not be assigned to PCVISA PnP For example IRQ14 and IRQ1IS5 is used by the onboard IDE device If you change the setting on IRQ14 and IRQI5 you will be unable to connect the hard disk drive or CD ROM drive to the IDE interface on the mainboard So please make sure to check the IRQ and DMA arrangement in your system before you proceed to do the setting For instance if you do not have the printer IRQ7 or PS 2 mouse IRO12 connected to your PC system you may assign IRQ7 and IRQ12 to PCI ISA PnP so that you can have more IRQs available for new add on cards CPU to PCI Write Buffer Default setting Enabled When enabled up to four Dwords of data can be written to the PCI bus without interrupting the CPU When disabled no write buffer is used and the CPU read cycle will not be completed until the PCI bus signals that it is ready to receive the data PCI Dynamic Bursting Default s
44. he PC system the power button will be activated again and you can use the power button to turn on the system Input your personal password again in the BIOS setup program and then you may use the new password to power on the PC system afterward O PS 2 MOUSE LEFT OR RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON If you have a PS 2 mouse connected to the system you may change the setup in the BIOS and use the mouse click to turn on the PC system power Please refer to section 4 9 Power On Function for the BIOS setting To use the mouse key to turn on the PC system power the mouse click must be done quickly and continually Basically 2 5 quick clicks on the mouse key left key or right key will turn the power immediately Note 1 This feature is not available on the COM port mouse serial mouse 2 To use the PS 2 mouse power on the PC system JPI must me Enabled VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD INSTALLATION Oh RTC ALARM PC system can be waked up by the RTC setting in the CMOS You can set the alarming date and time in the BIOS setup program When RTC alarms the PC system will be triggered and wakes up automatically Enable the RTC Alarm Resume selection in the BIOS setup utility and then you will see the input request for the date and time you can find the RTC Alarm Resume in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in Section 4 7 When you have stored the RTC alarm setting the PC system will be turned on automatically according to the date and t
45. his password entry is somewhat different to the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD mentioned in previous page The User Password will have different function according to the Supervisor Password and the Security Option setup in Section 4 5 A When there is the password stored in the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 1 When Setup is selected in Security Option Users can use the User Password to log into the BIOS setup program but they can only select User Password SAVE amp EXIT SETUP and EXIT WITHOUT SAVING Use the Supervisor Password to log into the PC system you will have the complete right to change all settings in the BIOS setup program 2 When System is selected in Security Option When turn on the PC system it will request you to enter the Password Without the correct password the PC system will stop and the operation system will not be loaded 4 20 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP B When there is no password stored in the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 1 When Setup is selected in Security Option Users can use the User Password to log into the BIOS setup program and they can make all the change in the BIOS setup program 2 When System is selected in Security Option When turn on the PC system it will request you to enter the Password Without the correct password the PC system will stop and the operation system will not be loaded 4 21 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 13 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION ROM
46. ime which is recorded in the CMOS memory O MODEM RING IN This mainboard supports the Modem Ring In power on feature In order to use the ring in signal to wake up your PC system you will have to use the EXTERNAL MODEM and have it connected to one of the SERIAL PORTS COM1 or COM2 on the mainboard When the mainboard detects the ring in signal from the serial port the system power will be turned on instantly To enable the Modem Ring In feature you have to run the BIOS setup utility and enable the Modem or LAN Resume option refer to Section 4 7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP O WAKE ON LAN WOL There is a WOL connector CN16 on the mainboard which is designed to connect to the signal from a LAN card which supports the Wake On LAN feature When such LAN card is installed you may turn on the PC system from the remote server and monitor the PC status To enable this feature you will have to use the BIOS setup utility to enable the Modem or LAN Resume in the BIOS setup program Note This function will be disabled if you turn off the power before the system can verify the DMI pool data 2 3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM There are two ways to power off the system They are Shut Down by Power Button and Shut Down by OS such as Windows 95 and Windows 98 you can choose the Shut Down from the file menu and the system will be powered off immediately 2 3 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP 3 HARDWARE S
47. ntium IT or Celeron processors CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking default setting Enabled This option will enable or disable the ECC checking on the CPU L2 cache The ECC checking will ensure the accuracy of the data stored on the L2 cache Processor Number Feature default setting Disabled You can not see this selection option unless you have the Pentium III processor installed on the mainboard There is the serial code inside every Pentium III processor and it will be accessed by application to show your personal ID If you don t feel like to give your serial code to other people select the Disabled setting Quick Power on Self Test default setting Enabled The Quick Power On Self Test will skip some test and speed up the boot process If you find the system is working normally you can always enable this feature so that you don t have to wait too long on the POST Boot Sequence default setting A C SCSI This field allows you to use some other device to load the operating system which is connected to the IDE interfaces Swap Floppy Drive default setting Disabled When enable this option the device name of the floppy drives will be swapped For example drive A will be treated as drive B and drive B as Drive A VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP Security Option default setting Setup This selection field allows you to select how to secure the PC system for you There are two choice selectable
48. pened use to clear the CMOS and reset the setting VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A6LGXXX POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC ACPI function Disabled Primary INTR ON Power Management User Define IRQ3 COM 2 Primary PM Control by APM Yes IRO4 COM 1 Primary Video Off After Suspend IRQ5 COM 2 Primary Video Off Method Blank Screen IRQ6 Floppy Disk Primary MODEM Use IRQ 3 IRQ7 LPT 1 Primary Soft off by PWRBTN Instant off IRQ8 RTC Alarm Disabled HDD Power Down Disable Doze Mode Disable IRQ9 IRO2 Redir Secondary IRQIO Reserved Secondary Suspend Mode Disable IRQI1 Reserved Secondary PM Events IRO12 PS 2 Mouse Primary VGA OFF IRQ13 Coprocessor Primary LPT amp COM LPT COM IRQ14 Hard Disk Primary HDD amp FDD ON IRQI5 Reserved Disabled DMA Master OFF Modem or LAN Resume Disabled ESC Quit le Select Item RTC Alarm Resume Disabled Fl Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults WARNING The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement If you do not have the related technical background do not attempt to make any change except the following items ACPI function
49. powered down 4 11 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP DMA master Default setting OFF When set to On default any event occurring at will awaken a system which has been powered down Modem Ring Resume Default setting Disabled When set to Enabled any event occurring to the Modem Ring will awaken a ia which has been powered down RTC Alarm Resume Default setting Disabled When Enabled your can set the date and time at which the RTC real time clock alarm awakens the system from powered down mode Primary INTR Default setting ON When select the On setting default any event occurring at will awaken a system which is in Suspend mode The following is a list of IRQ s Interrupt ReQuests which can be exempted much as the COM ports and LPT ports above can When an I O 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 service When set On activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power management mode nor awaken it e IRQ3 COM 2 e IRQ4 COM 1 e IROS LPT 2 e IRQ6 Floppy Disk e IRQ7 LPT 1 e IRQ8 RTC Alarm IRQ9 IRQ Redir e IRQ1O0 Reserved e IRQI11 Reserved e IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse e IRQ13 Coprocessor e IRQ14 Reserved e IRQI5 Reserved 4 12 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD
50. ring program IMPORTANT NOTICE This mainboard is supported by the Windows 2000 operation system So you need not to install the device drivers mention above in Step A Some fatal error may occur to the operation system if you install the device driver Please do not install the mainboard device driver when using Windows 2000 3 18 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 1 GETTING STARTED When the system is first time powered on or reset by user the system BIOS will enter the POST routines Power On Self Test which will execute a diagnostics and initialize the computer In case that there is any error or malfunction detected the BIOS will give a series of beeping sound or display the error message on screen During the power on self testing POST the following message appears at the lower left corner of the screen Press DEL to enter SETUP To start the BIOS Setup program please press the DEL key The STANDARD CMOS SETUP screen as shown in figure Fig 4 1 will be triggered 4 2 MAIN MENU ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE amp EXIT SETUP PNP PCI CONFIGURATION EXIT WITHOUT SAVING INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC Quit tl lt Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift
51. setup 4 22 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 14 SAVE amp EXIT SETUP ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARDCMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC Quit tl lt _ Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type This option will save all setup values to CMOS RAM amp EXIT SETUP routine by moving the selection bar to SAVE amp EXIT SETUP and pressing Enter key then types Y and Enter key the values will be saved and all the information will be stored in the CMOS memory and then the setup program will be terminated and the system will start to reboot 4 23 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 15 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC Quit 1 Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD l BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE amp EXIT SETUP PNP PCI CONFIGURATION Time Date Hard Disk Type This item exi
52. t the setup routine without saving any changed values to CMOS RAM When you do not want to save your change to the CMOS memory you may choose to run this option and the setting what you made in the BIOS setup routine will be given away Move the selection bar to EXIT WITHOUT SAVING and click on the Enter key then you will be asked to confirm the action to exit press the Y and Enter key the setup program will be terminated and the system will start to reboot 4 24
53. tem error may result Enabled Video RAM access cached Disabled Video RAM access not cached AGP Aperture Size MB default setting 64MB 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 AGP 2X Default setting Enabled Enable this field will make the board support 2X AGP card If you select Disable then onle 1X AGP card will be supported by this mainboard OnChip USB Default setting Enabled There are two USB port on the mainboard If you want to install another USB interface card on the mainboard and connect the USB devices to it Then you will have to Disable this field and make the onboard USB port inactive 4 7 VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP USB Keyboard Support Default setting Disabled If you are going to use the USB keyboard in the PC system please Enable the selection field otherwise leave it Disabled Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk default setting Enable When Enabled is selected the mainboard will detect the presence of devices on DIMM and PCI slots When there is no device presented the clock on the related DIMM and PCI slot will be disabled to reduce the electro magnetic interference EMI Spread Spectrum default setting
54. ty default setting Disabled There is the HDD which support the S M A R T technology Self Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology If your HDD support the SMART feature you may enable this item and it will monitor and report the HDD healthy status to you VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 6 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A69LGXXX CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Bank 0 1 DRAM Timing SDRAM 8 10ns_ Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk Enabled l Bank 2 3 DRAM Timing SDRAM 8 10ns Spread Spectrum Disabled Bank 4 5 DRAM Timing SDRAM 8 10ns_ CPU Host PCI Clock Default EDO RASx Wait State z2 SDRAM Cycle Length 25 DRAM Clock Host CLK Memory Hole Disabled Read Around Write Disabled Concurrent PCI Host Disabled System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Disabled AGP Aperture Size MB 64 AGP 2X Mode Time Enabled ESC Quit fl gt Select Item OnChip USB Enabled Fl Help PU PD Modify USB Keyboard Support Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults WARNING The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement If you do not have the related technical background do not attempt to make any change except the following items BANKO 1 2 3 4 5 DRAM Timing This item allows you to select the value in this field d
55. you receive this mainboard or when the system CMOS data is corrupted Please refer to the Section 4 11 for the procedures Xx DISCHARAGE CMOS DATA Whenever you want to discharge the CMOS data or open the system chassis Make sure to disconnect the AC power first because there is always the 5V standby voltage connected to the ATX form factor mainboard Without disconnecting the AC power connector from the PC system the mainboard can be damaged by any improper action Xx WAKE ON LAN In order to support the Wake On LAN feature the system requires a special SPS Switching Power Supply Such power supply must be able to provide at least 700 mA of driving capability on the 5V standby voltage Please refer to the Section 3 3 for pin assignment Xx WARNING The Static Electricity may cause damage to the components on the mainboard In order to avoid the damage to the mainboard accidentally please discharge all static electricity from your body before touching this mainboard r NOTICE Information presented in this manual has been carefully checked for reliability however no responsibility is assumed for inaccuracies The information contained in this manual is subject to change without notice VIA 693A ATX MAINBOARD INTRODUCTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 OVERVIEW This Mainboard is a high performance personal computer mainboard It is the ATX form factor mainboard with both Slot 1 and Socket 370 on the board for various purposes Th
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