Compaq PC100 Computer Hardware User Manual
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1. 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 Step 2 Insert the processor Ensure proper pin orientation by aligning the FC PGA corner marking with the socket corner closest to the actuation arm tip The pin field is keyed to prevent mis 699 oriented insertion X Don t force processor into socket If it does ss not go in easily check for mis orientation and Figure 3 debris Make sure the processor is fully in serted Into the socket on all sides Page 3 2 Installation Step 3 Close the socket by lowering and locking the actuation lever Note Intels reference design thermal solution is an active heatsink an extruded alumi num heatsink based and a fan attached to the top on the fin array See Figure 5 eee s 72 7 Figure 5 3 3 Installation Section 3 2 J umper Settings2. Page 3 8 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 ATX Power Connector 20 pin power connector COM 2 RS232 COMQ2A Connector CD1 CD Audio IN Connector CD IN Right CD Reference 1 CD IN Left MODEMI Telephony Connector for Modem audio output ght GND CD IN Left CD IN Ri E 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
3. 4 23 IDE HDD Auto Detection 4 24 Saye ERIC SOUP oas Sus s pusu 4 26 Exit Without Saving 4 26 Appendix Appendix A GHOST 5 1 6 03 Quick User s Guide 1 Update Your System BIOS B 1 Introduction Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist v 5 NS lt A 1 1 1 1 1 1 One mainboard One user s manual Floppy ribbon cable ATA 66 IDE ribbon cable COM Port Connector Driver and utility USER S MANUAL Page 1 1 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 MicroATX defines a double height aperture to the rear of the chassis which can be used to host a wide range of onboard I O Only the size and position of this apertu
4. NOTE Either Setup or System must be selected in the Security Option of the BIOS FEATURES SETUP menu l If CMOS is corrupted or the option was not used a default password stored in the ROM will be used The screen will display the following message Enter Password Press the Enter key to continue after the proper password is given If the CMOS is corrupted or the option was used earlier and the user wishes to change the default password the SETUP UTILITY will display a message and ask for a confirmation Confirm Password After pressing the Enter key ROM password if the option was not used or current password user defined password the user can change the password and store new one in CMOS RAM A maximum of 8 characters can be entered Page 4 23 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 don t need the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION utility The BIOS will Auto detect the hard disk size and model on display during POST ROMPCI ISA BIOS 2A5LHPAB CMOSSETUPUTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE Primary Master Select Secondary Slave Option N
5. Non OS2 Select this for all other operating systems and configurations Report No FDD For WIN 95 Whether report no FDD for Win 95 or not Video BIOS Shadow This option allows video BIOS to be copied into RAM Video Shadowing will increase the video performance of your system The default is Enabled Enabled Video shadow is enabled Disabled Video shadow is disabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow CC000 CFFFF Shadow D0000 D3FFF Shadow Page 4 6 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 Page 4 7 BIOS 4 3 Chipset Features Setup Choose the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu to display following menu Bank 0 1 DRAM Timing Bank 2 3 DRAM Timing Bank 4 5 DRAM Timing SDRAM Cycle Length DRAM Page Mode DRAM Fast Decoding DRAM Read Pipeline Sustained 3T Write Cache R CPU W Pipeline Cache Timing Memory Hole Init Display First Frame Buffer Size AGP Aperture Size Cyrix M2 ADS delay SDRAM Nor SDRAM Nor TE OnChip Sound Enabled Disabled Disabled Enabled ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2ASLHPAB CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC OnChip USB Onchip AGP OnChip Modem En
6. 22 JP2 CPU Vcore Voltage Selection 19 18V mm JP2 CPU Vcore 2 0V 19 8 16 4 12 5 13 6 14 7 15 8 16 SW CPU Speed Selection ov ow twe ov on uses CPU Multiplier AMD Cyrix IDTC6 CPU Multiplier IDT WinChip 2 Pow ow 3 Ton ss 26 Page 3 4 Pentium MMX AMD K6 K6 2 KGIII IDT C6 166MHz Cyrix IBM 6x86MX MII IDT Winchip 2 Rise MP6 Installation Multiplier 233MHz PR333 250MHz 200MHz PR266 300MHz 200MHz PR366 PR300 225MHz 250MHz PR333 266Mhz PR400 PR380 300MHz 233 2 433 00 233 2 400 PR333 PR400 333 2 466 433 350MHz 266MHz PR500 PR333 266MHz PR466 ON PR400 ON 333 2 466 ON 380MHz PR533 ON 400MHz PR550 300MHz 450MHz 333MHz ON N ON N 66MHz 4 5X ON N 100MHz 475MHz 500MHz 366MHz 266MHz 550MHz 300MHz ON 66MHz 5 5X ON 100MHz Page 3 5 Installation Secti
7. 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 Secondary Master Slave PIO The default is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Secondary Master Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode 0 4 Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode Primary Master Slave UDMA This allows you to select the mode of operation for the hard drive The default is Auto Auto The computer will select the optimal setting Disabled The hard drive will run in normal mode Secondary Master Slave UDMA This allows you to select the mode of opera tion for the hard drive The default is Auto Auto The computer will select the optimal setting Disabled The hard drive will run in normal mode Onboard FDD Controller This controls the state of the onboard floppy controller The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable the Onboard floppy drive interface controller Disabled Disable the Onboard floppy drive interface controller Onboard Serial Port 1 2 This field allows the user to configure 1st 2nd serial port The default is Auto AUTO Enable Onboard Serial port 1 2 and address is Auto adjusted COMI Enable Onboard Serial port 1 2 and address is 3F8H IRQ4 2 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 2 and address is 2F8H IRQ3 COMS Enable Onboard S
8. 2 dst 2 1 sure Example 4 To dump the second partition of drive one to an image file on a mapped drive g ghost exe clone mode pdump src 1 2 dst g part2 gho Example 5 To load partition 2 from a two partition image file on a mapped drive g onto the second partition of the local disk ghost clone mode pload src g part2 gho 2 dst 1 2 Example 6 To load drive 2 from an image file and resize the destination partitions into a 20 40 allocation ghost exe clone mode load src g 2prtdisk gho dst 2 sze1 60P sze2 40P A 16 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 lt Enter gt Key 2 You will see the following setup on screen 3 Please key in the xxxxx bin BIOS file name 4 If you want to save the previous BIOS data to the diskette please key in Y otherwise please key in N xxxxx bin Do You Want To Save Bios Y N B 1 User Notice No part of this product including the product and software may be reproduced transmitted transcribed stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language in any form without the express writte
9. 4 13 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 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 IRQ s may cause the system to not find certain devices ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2ASLHPAB PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC PNP OS Installed No CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled Resources Controlled By Auto PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled Reset Configuration Data Disabled PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled PCI Delay Transaction Enabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Write Enabled AGP Master 1 WS Read Disabled Assign IRQ For USB Enabled Assign IRQ For UGA Enabled Slot 1 Use IRQ No Auto Slot 2 Use IRQ No Auto Slot 3 Use IRQ No Auto Use IRQ No Auto Quit Tle Select Item Help PU PD Modify Old Values Shift F2 Color Load Setup Defaults Figure 6 PCI Configuration Setup PNP OS Installed Do you have a PNP OS installed on your system The default is No Resources Controlled By Who controlled the system PNP PCI resources The default is Auto Manual PNP Card s resources will be controlled manually You can set which IRQ X and DMA X are
10. Events are occurring Valid range is from 1 minute up to 1 hour HDD Power Down HDD Standby timer can be set from to 15 minute s Soft Off by PWRBTN Use this to select your soft off function The default is Delay 4 sec Instant Off Turns off instantly Delay 4 Second Turns off after a 4 second delay If momentary press of button the system will go into Suspend Mode Press again to take system out of Suspend Mode PWRON After PW Fail The system will stay of or power on after a power interrupte The default is OFF Fomer Status Stay off or power on depend on system safe shut down or power fail ON System always power on after a power interrupte OFF System always stay off after a power interrupte VGA When set to On default any event occurring at a VGA port will awaken a system which has been powered down LPT amp COM When set to On default any event occurring at COM serial LPT printer port will awaken a system which has been powered down HDD amp FDD When set to On default any event occurring at a hard or floppy drive port will awaken a system which has been powered down DMA master When set to On default any event occurring to the DMA control ler will awaken a system which has been powered down RTC Alarm Resume When set to Enable rta alarm resume you could set the date of month and timer hh mm ss any event occurring at will awaken a system which has been powered down Page
11. IDECD001 L Z Ghost exe clone mode load src z original gho dst 1 sure rb 2 Write the backup image file original gho of the entire hard disk or partition into the recover CD Use the Recover CD to boot up the system and restore the backup files automatically For description of relevant parameters refer to Introducing Ghosts Functions Note For more details regarding the creation program and method for creating the recover CD please refer to the legal software and relevant operation manual A 12 Appendix Ghost Command Line Switches Reference Ghost may be run in interactive or in batch mode Batch mode is useful for automat ing 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 This is the most useful of the batch switches and has a series of arguments that define a b MODE COPY LOAD DUMP PCOPY PLOAD PDUMP SRC Mode COPY DUMP LOAD PCOPY PDUMP PLOAD This defines the type of clone command to be used disk to disk copy file to disk load disk to file dump partition to partition copy file to partition load partition to file dump This defines the sourc
12. System Block Diagram Page 1 4 Features Section 2 FEATURES Mainboard Features PROCESSOR Socket 7 CPUs Operating at 166 550MHz AMD K6 2 III Cyrix M II Idt Winchip2 and Rise mP6 series Intel Pentium Pentium Processor with MMX Technology CHIPSET VIA Apollo MVP4 AGPset VT8501 VT82C686A DRAM MODULE 168pin DIMM x 2 for PC100 Memory DRAM Size 32MB to 256MB EXPANSION SLOT PCIx2 AMR Slot x 1 ONBOARD I O On Chip Multi I O integrated with K B mouse FDD Parallel and Serial Fast IR and Power ON controllers ONBOARD PCI IDE PCI Bus IDE Port with PIO Ultra DMA 66 x 2 Up to 4 Devices CONNECTOR PS 2 Mouse and PS 2 style Keyboard Page 2 1 Features aaa USB USB connector x 4 2 for Opt BIOS Award Plug amp Play BIOS Built in AC97 Digital Audio by VT82C686A Dual full duplex Direct Sound channels H W Sound Blaster Pro for DOS legacy compatibility FM synthesis for legacy compatibility Supports game and MIDI port Built in Trident AGP Core EXTENDED FUNCTION Supports exclusive USDM Unified System Diagnostic Manager and Hardware Monitoring Function by VT82C686A Supports exclusive KBPO KeyBoard Power On Supports CPU Clock setting via DIP Switch Supports Wake On LAN Function FORM FACTOR 235mm x 180mm Micro ATX Size Page 2 2 Installation Section 3 INSTALLATION Mainboard Detailed
13. be destroyed Page 4 26 Appendix Appendix A 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 vlulric az ring In which Disk indicates hard disk options Partition indicates partition options Check indicates check options Disk 1 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 When cloning a disk or restoring the backup set the required partition size as shown in the following figure A 2 Appendix 4 Click OK to display the following confirmation screen Select Yes to Start Pos Disk To Image Disk Backup 1 Select the location of the Source drive salur Jugs uurs drive oy eligkiny on tus drive 2 Select the location for storing the backup file Tile Iu Guay dae ru
14. up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector Disabled No warning message will appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector 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 recommend that you first disable the virus warning CPU Internal Cache This controls the status of the processor s internal cache area The default is Enabled Enabled This activates the processor s internal cache thereby increasing performance Disabled This deactivates the processor s internal cache thereby lowering performance Quick Power On Self Test This category speeds up the Power On Self Test POST The default is Enabled Enabled This setting will shorten or skip of the items checked during POST Disabled Normal POST Boot Sequence This category determines which drive is searched first by the O S Operating System The default is A C SCSI The following is your list of options C SCSI C A SCSI C CD ROM A CD ROM C A D A CD ROM E A CD ROM F A CD ROM SCSI A C SCSI C A C Only Swap Floppy Drive This will swap your physical drive letters A amp B if you are using two floppy disks The default is Disabled Enabled Floppy A amp B will be swapped under the O S Disabled Floppy A amp B will be not swapped Page 4 4 BIOS Boo
15. while the complete Office installation requires 360MB The remaining space can be used to store other data After installing Windows use Ghost to create a backup of the source system and store the file Image file in drive D The file is named as Original gho Then create a recover floppy disk containing Bootable files Command com Io sys and MSDOS SYS Config sys configuration setup file Autoexec bat auto execution batch file Ghost exe Ghost execution file There are two ways to set the content of the recover floppy for restoration 1 To load Windows automatically after booting set the Autoexec bat command as Ghost exe clone mode pload src d original gho 2 dst 1 1 fx sure rb Description Runs the restore function automatically using the Image File After execution it exits Ghost and boots the system automatically Refer to the Introducing Ghosts Functions A 10 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 user defined Image file as follows e 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 ce Restore Restore types include General Windows and Windows and Application Programs If you select General W
16. 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 TurboLED indicator ds LED ON when higher speed is selected IDELED indicator LED ON when Onboard PCI IDE Hard disks is activate IR Connector 1 VCC 4 GND 2 NC 5 IRTX I 3 IRRX J2 Power LED Power LED connector 1 LED 4 2 N C 5 GND 3 GND Speaker 4 Connect to the system s speaker for beeping 1 Speaker 3 GND 2 N C 4 GND 1 Reset Closed to restart system Page 3 10 Installation Page Left Blank Page 3 11 BIOS Section 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP BIOS Instructions Award s 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 1s 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 It is possible for the CMOS battery to fail this will cause data loss in the CMOS only If this does happen you will need to reconfigure your BIOS settings To enter the Setup Program Power on the c
17. A 3 Appendix 3 Click OK to display the following confirmation screen Select Yes to Start Disk From Image Restore Backup 1 Select the Restore file Fils Wade Tu ey ru 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 Mapes Partition ring 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 ajas lura guur drive cu ul rne Ariya 2 Select the first partition to be backed up This is usually where the operating system and programs are stored A 6 Appendix 3 Select the path and file name for storing the backup file 1 0 0RIGINAL GHO 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 uuu 5 During confirmation sel
18. Access 1 Retry The Choice Enabled Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Write When Enabled writes to the AGP bus are executed with one wait states The Choice Enabled Disabled Page 4 15 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 Slot 1 to Slot 4 Use IRQ No These settings allow the user to specify what IRQ will be assigned to PCI devices in the chosen slot Options available Auto 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 amp 15 Page 4 16 BIOS 4 6 Integrated Peripherals ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2ASLHPAB INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE INC OnChip IDE ChannelO Enabled Onboard Parallel Mode ECP EPP OnChip IDE Channell Enabled ECP Mode Use DMA 22 IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled Parallel Port EPP Type EPP1 9 IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard Legacy Audio Enabled Primary Master PIO Auto Sound Blaster Disabled Primary Slave PIO Auto SB I 0 Base Address 220H Secondary Master PIO Auto SB IRQ Select IRQ 5 Secondary Slave PIO Auto SB DMA Select DMA 1 Primary Master UDMA Auto MPU 401 Disabled Primary Slave UDMA Auto MPU 401 I 0 Address 33073131 S
19. E CENTERKEY ZONE UNBUFFERED 3 3 V DRAM Figure 7 tT T i amp ee ee ee TEE ISI AME 2 4 2 TR HH z 0 tii HH HU tubbiinivbririehiee 1 _ Figure 8 DIMM Module clip before Installation Pe upi ee ee Oe QP 5 E E iii Hd dd HEET T i i Ei Figure 9 DIMM Module clip after installation To remove the DIMM module simply press down both of the white clips on either side and the module will be released from the socket Page 3 7 Installation Section 3 4 Device Connectors parallel port Joystick Midi PS 2 Mouse PS 2 KEYBOARD J4 J6 CPU Chassis Fan A plug in for the CPU Chassis Fan Power CPU Fan Chassis Fan GND 12V Rotation gl GND 12V Rotation J7 WOL Wake On LAN Connector Reserved for NIC Network Interface Card to wake the system Aqpueys AS aNd Hi
20. Layout Mouse J4 Top nn Keyboard CPU FAN Bottom o o o o US Cv 70 N E BERBER Oo ONNNNNN gt N O Co SO CO lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt Cpe EEE EE o 00 Parallel Port VIA ri gt POWER ON OFF VT8501 Pu J3 J2 m HD LED E m E m Speaker m m IRCONN r Line in S J2 m n MIC H Power LED m m m E m m1 VIA DIMM1DIMM2 m1 VT82C686A RESET 7 7 2 IDE1 A 1 IDE2 MODEM1 PCI Slot 1 1 IT HELELELELILLLLILLLLE 1 TT LELLLLLLLILLLLILLLLL LELLLLLLLILLLHLHLLE i J7WOL polsibigare 1 IT HELELELELILLLLILLLLE ELECTED LELLLLLLLILLLLULLLLL 3 1 Installation _ _ _ 2
21. PM does not control your PM Video Off After Tells you what time frame that the video will be disabled under current power management settings Doze Video powers off after time shown in doze mode timing Suspend Video powers off after time shown in suspend mode timing N A Video power off not controlled by power management Video Off Method This option allows you to select how the video will be disabled by the power management The default is V H Sync Blank V H Sync Blank System turns off vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and writes blanks to the video buffer DPMS Select this option if your monitor supports the Display Power Management Signaling DPMS standard of the Video Electronics Standards Association VESA Use the software supplied for your video subsystem to select video power management values Blank Screen System only writes blanks to the video buffer MODEM Use IRQ Name the interrupt request IRQ line assigned to the modem if any on your system Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system Default is IRQ 3 N A No IRQ is used 3 IRQ 3 4 IRQ4 5 IRQ 5 7 IRQ7 9 IRQO 10 IRQ 10 11 IRQ 11 Page 4 12 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
22. Skip N OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTORMODE 2 Y 4310 524 255 0 14847 63 LBA 1 4310 14848 9 14847 63 NORMAL 3 4310 928 144 14847 63 LARGE Note Some OSes like SCO UNIX must use NORMAL for installation ESC Skip Figure 10 IDE HDD Auto Detection NOTE HDD Modes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes NORMAL LBA amp LARGE NORMAL mode Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make any transformations during accessing The maximum number of cylinders head amp sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024 16 amp 63 no Cylinder 1024 x no Head 16 x no Sector 63 x no per sector 512 528 Megabytes Page 4 24 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 amp sectors shown in setup may not be the number physically contained in the HDD During HDD accessing the IDE controller will transform the logical address described by sector head amp cylinder into its own physical address inside the HDD The maximum HDD size supported by LBA mode is 8 4 GigaBytes which 1s obtained by the following formula no Cylinder 1024 x no Head 255 x no Sector 63 X bytes per sector 512 8 4 GigaBytes LARGE mode Extended HDD acces
23. Users Manual A Socket 370 Processor based mainboard 100 66 MHz Supports PC100 Memory Modules TRADEMARK All products and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders These specifications are subject to change without notice Manual Revision 1 0 May 24 2001 021160009 Table of Contents Page Section I Introduction Components Checklist 1 1 Fotm Fa6tOE nests e i 1 2 VO shield Connector oc eee 1 3 Power On Off Remote 1 3 System Block 1 4 Section 2 Features Mainboard Features 2 1 Section 3 Installation Mainboard Detailed Layout 3 2 Easy Installation Procedure CPU ata 3 3 Juimpet SENOS EN 3 5 System Memory Configuration 3 7 Device Connectors ita 3 9 Section 4 Award BIOS Setup BIOS Instructions old 4 Standard CMOS Setup 4 2 BIOS Features Sep inni 4 3 Chipset Features Setup 4 8 Power Management Setup 4 11 PNP PCI Configuration 4 14 ntesrated P oripherals us aku 4 17 Load Setup Defaults 4 20 Sensor and CPU Speed Setup 4 21 Change Supervisor or User Password
24. abled Fastest Video BIOS Cacheable System BIOS Cacheable Disabled PCI Slot 8M 64M Enabled Enabled Disabled Quit Help Old Values USB Keyboard Support Enabled Disabled Enabled Enabled Disabled Tle Select Item PU PD Modify Shift F2 Color Load Setup Defaults 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 3 Provides better memory compatibility DRAM Page Mode This item will active or inactive chipset page registers Enabled Page Mode Enabled Disabled No page registers update and non Page Mode operation Page 4 8 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 The Choice Enabled Disab
25. assigned to PCI ISA PNP or Legacy ISA Cards Page 4 14 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 CPU to PCI Write Buffer When enabled up to four D words of data can be written to the PCI bus without interruting the CPU When disabled a write buffer is not used and the CPU read cycle will not be completed until the PCI bus signals that it is ready to receive the data The Choice Enabled Disabled PCI Dynamic Bursting When Enabled data transfers on the PCI bus where possible make use of the high performance PCI bust protocol in which graeater amounts of data are transferred at a single command The Choice Enabled Disabled PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are command with zero wait states The Choice Enabled Disabled PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2 1 The Choice Enabled Disabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry This item allows you enabled disable the PCI 2
26. ction SB IRQ Select Legacy audio device IRQ selection SB DMA Select Sound Blaster DMA channel selection Page 4 19 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 This function will be necessary only when the system CMOS data is corrupted ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LHPAB CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SENSOR AND CPU SPEED SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERUISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP PCI CONFIGURA INTEGRATED PERIPH Esc Quit 1194 Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Page 4 20 BIOS 4 8 SENSOR AND CPU SPEED SETUP ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2ASLHPAB CPU FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk Enabled Current CPU Temp Spread Spectrum Disabled Current System Temp CPU Host Clock CPU PCI Default Current CPU FAN Speed CPU Fan In Suspend DFF Current Chassis FAN Speed 50 i 50 Quit Tle Selec
27. e 1 If the destination disk 1s larger than the original source disk then the partition s will be expanded to have the maximum amount of space subject to the free space available and the partition type e g FAT16 partitions will have a maximum size of 2048Mb Rule 2 If the destination disk is smaller than the original source disk but still large enough to accommodate the data from the source disk the free space left over after the A 14 span split x Sure 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 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 However if Ghost is being run as part of a batch file it is sometimes useful to have it just exist back to the DOS prompt after completion so that further batch commands may be processed fx enables this See rb for another option on completing a clone Image All The Image All switch forces Ghost to do a sector by sector copy of all partitions When copying a partition from a disk to an image file or to another disk Ghost examines the source partition and decides whether to copy just the files and directory structure or to do an image sector by sector copy If it understands the internal format of the partition
28. e for the selected item ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2ASLHPAB BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Video BIOS Shadow Virus Warning Enabled CPU Internal Cache Quick Power On Self Test Boot Sequence Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up NumLock Status Gate 20 Option Memory Parity ECC Check Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate Chars Sec Typematic Delay Msec Security Option PCI UGA Palette Snoop OS Select For DRAM gt 64MB Report No FDD For WIN 95 Enabled Enabled A C SCSI Disabled Enabled On Fast Disabled Disabled 6 250 Setup Disabled Non 032 No C8000 CBFFF CCO00 CFFFF DO000 D3FFF D4000 DTFFF D8000 DBFFF DC000 DFFFF Shadow Shadow Shadow Shadow Shadow Shadow Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Cyrix 6x86 MII CPUID Quit Help Old Values Load Setup Defaults Figure 3 BIOS Features Setup 1196 PU PD Shift F2 Disabled Enabled Page 4 3 Select Item 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 Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots
29. e location for the operation Meaning Source drive e g 1 for drive one Disk image filename or device e g g Images system2 1mg Source partition e g 1 2 indicates the second partition on drive one Partition image filename or device and partition number Example g images disk1 1mg 2 indicates the second partition in the Image file A 13 Appendix c DST This defines the destination location for the operation Mode Meaning COPY LOAD Destination drive e g 2 for drive two DUMP Disk image filename or device e g g images system2 1mg PCOPY PLOAD Destination partition e g 2 2 indicates the second partition on drive two PDUMP Partition image filename e g g images part c SZEy Used to set the size of the destination partitions for either a disk load or disk copy operation Available y Options F L n xxxxM n F n Resizes the first partition to maximum size allowed based on file system t type Resizes the last partition to maximum size allowed based on file system type indicates that the n h destination partition is to have a size of xxxx Mb e g SZE2 800M indicates partition two is to have 800 mb n mmP indicates that the n h destination partition is to have a size of mm percent of the target disk indicates that the n h destination partition is to remain fixed in size Indicates that the partition will be resized according to the following rules Rul
30. econdary MasterUDMA Auto FM Port 388 38BH Disabled Secondary Slave UDMA Auto Game Port 200 207H Enabled Onboard FDD Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 Auto Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto Quit Tle Select Item UART 2 Mode Standard Help PU PD Modify Old Values Shift F2 Color Load Setup Defaults Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 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 IDE Prefetch Mode Enable prefetching for IDE drive interfaces that support its faster drive accesses If uou are getting disk drive errors change the setting to omit the drive interface where the errors occur Depending on the configuration of your IDE subsystem this field may not appear and it does not appear when the Internal PCI IDE field above is Disabled The Choice Enabled Disabled Page 4 17 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
31. ect Yes to start performing backup Mes 7 Appendix Partition From Image Restore Partition 1 Select the backup file to be restored Fils ru Fro ORIGINAL GHO 83 071 827 10 02 1999 11 42 44 poof 2 Select the source partition Sede Sue Fru riz HO eius 3 Select the disk to be restored driwzugsliuzunyunruzcdreznumnsmr 8 Appendix 4 Select the partition to be restored We fiuj LF a 3 HO 2102 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 9 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 The second partition is for backing up the operating system and data The size of the partition can be set according to the backup requirements For example the Windows operating system needs 200MB of hard disk space
32. er second 12 12 characters per second 15 15 characters per second 20 20 characters per second 24 24 characters per second 30 30 characters per second Typematic Delay msec This setting controls the time between the first and the second character displayed by typematic auto repeat The default is 250 Page 4 5 BIOS 250 250 msec 500 500 msec 750 750 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 PCI VGA Palette Snoop This field controls the ability of a primary PCI VGA controller to share a common palette When a snoop write cycles with an ISA video card The default is Disabled Enabled Ifan ISA card is connected to a PCI VGA card via the VESA connector and that ISA card connects to a VGA monitor then that ISA card uses the RAMDAC of the PCI card Disabled Disables the VGA card Palette Snoop function OS Select For DRAM gt 64MB Some operating systems require special handling Use this option only if your system has greater than 64MB of memory The default is Non OS2 OS2 Select this if you are running the OS 2 operating system with greater than 64MB of RAM
33. erial port 1 2 and address is 3E8H IRQ4 COMA Enable Onboard Serial port 1 2 and address is 2ESH IRQ3 Disabled Disable Onboard Serial port 1 2 Page 4 18 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 IRQS 3BCH Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 3BCH and IRQ7 Disabled Disable Onboard LPT port Onboard Parallel Mode This field allows the user to select the parallel port mode The default is ECP EPP Normal Standard mode IBM PC AT Compatible bidirectional parallel port EPP Enhanced Parallel Port mode ECP Extended Capabilities Port mode EPP ECP ECP Mode amp EPP Mode ECP Mode USE DMA This field allows the user to select DMAI or DMA3 for the ECP mode The default is DMA3 DMAI This field selects the routing of for the ECP mode DMAS3 This field selects the routing of DMA3 for the ECP mode Parallel Port EPP Type This item allows uou to determine the IR transfer mode of onboard I O chip The Choice EPP1 9 EPP1 7 Onboard Legacy Audio Legacy Audio enabled disabled Sound Blaster Sound Blaster compatible device enabled disabled SB I O Base Address Sound Blaster I O resource sele
34. ghlighted use direction keys to move the cursor and the lt Enter gt key to select the entries in the field can be changed by pressing the lt PgDn gt or the lt PgUp gt key ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LHPAB STANDARD CMOS SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Date mm dd yy Thu May 24 2001 Time hh mm ss 9 50 51 HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR Primary Master AUTO Primary Slave AUTO Secondary Master AUTO Secondary Slave AUTO Drive A None Drive B None Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled Uideo EGA UGA Halt On All Errors ESC Quit 113 lt Select Item PU PD Modifu Fl Help Shift F2 Change Color Figure 2 Standard CMOS Setup Page 4 2 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 auto detected 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 4 2 BIOS Features Setup Selecting the BIOS FEATURES SETUP option in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu allows users to change system related parameters in the displayed menu This menu shows all of the manufacturer s default values for the EP MVP4F Pressing the F1 key will display a help messag
35. he AGP card 64 64MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card 128 128MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card 256 256MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card OnChip USB Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB peripheral USB Keyboard Support This controls the activation status of an optional USB keyboard that may be attached The default is disabled Enabled Enable USB keyboard support Disabled Disable USB keyboard support OnChip AGP This item allows you to enable disable AGP function OnChip Sound Turn on off onchip sound device OnChip Modem Turn on off onchip software modem device Page 4 10 BIOS pin E 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 it s absolutely necessary ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2ASLHPAB POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC ACPI function Enabled Primary INTR ON Power Management User Define IRQ3 C0M2 Primary PM Control by APM Yes IRQ4 COMI Primary Video Off Method U H SYNC Blank IRQS LPT2 Primary Video Off After Suspend IRQ6 FDD Primary MODEM Use IRQ IRQ LPT1 Primary Doze Mode Disable IRQ8 Alarm Disabled Suspend Mode Disable IRQ9 Rsu Secondary HDD Power Down D
36. indows the system 1s restored to the general Windows operation condition The command 15 Ghost exe clone mode pload src d Original gho dst 1 1 fx sure rb If you select Windows and Application Programs the latest backup file Recent gho is restored skipping the installation and setup of application programs For description of relevant parameters refer to Introducing Ghosts Functions For more information about menu design refer to Config sys and Autoexec bat under Menu in the CD You can also create a backup CD containing Ghost exe and these two files A 11 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 com and Io sys and MSDOS SYS Config sys Configuration setup file Autoexec bat Auto execution batch file Mscdex exe CD Rom execution file Ghost exe Ghost execution file Oakcdrom sys ATAPI CD ROM compatible driver The content of Config sys is DEVICE Oakcdrom sys d idecd001 The content of Autoexec bat includes MSCDEX EXE D
37. isable IRQ10 Rsu Secondary Soft Off by PWRBTN Delay 4 Sec IRQ11 Rsv Secondary PWRON After PW Fail Off IRQ12 PS 2 Primary xx PM Events xx IRQ13 CoPro Primary UGA IRQ14 HDD Primary LPT amp COM LPT COM Rsv Disabled HDD amp FDD ON DMA master OFF Quit Tl Select Item RTC Alarm Resume Disabled Help PU PD Modify Old Values Shift F2 Color Load Setup Defaults Modem Ring Resume Disabled 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 You can only change the content of Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode when the Power Management is set to User Define Power Management Use this to select your Power Management selection The default is User define Disabled The system operates in NORMAL conditions Non GREEN and the Power Management function 1s disabled Max saving Maximum power savings Inactivity period is 1 minute in each mode Page 4 11 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 Man agement to be controlled the Advanced Power Management APM The default is Yes Yes APM controls your PM No A
38. it defaults to copying the files and directory structure Generally this is the best option but occasionally if a disk has been set up with special hidden security files that are in specific positions on the partition the only way to reproduce them accurately on the target partition is via an image or sector by sector copy enables spanning across volumes splits image file into x Mb Mb spans Use this to create a forced size volume set For example if you would like to force smaller image files from a 1024 Megabyte drive you could specify 200 megabyte segments For example ghost exe split 200 will divide the image into 200 Megabyte segments use the sure switch in conjunction with clone to avoid being prompted with the final Proceed with disk clone destination drive will be overwritten question This command is useful in batch mode A 15 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 gho nbm Note The slave Ghost can be started with ghost nbs Example 3 To copy drive one second partition on a PC to drive two first parti tion the same PC without final prompt ghost exe clone mode pcopy src 1
39. le 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 The systems power On Off button should be a momentary button that is normally open The board has been designed with Soft Off functions You can turn Off the system from one of two sources The first is the front panel Power On Off button and the other is the Soft Off function coming from the onboard circuit controller that can be controlled by the operating system such asWindows 95 98 SE ME or Windows 2000 u u lt E 2 VES B E ATX POWER SUPPLY Q i n Case chassis Power Figure 4 Simple ATX Power ON OFF button ON OFF Controller Page 1 3 Introduction System Block Diagram _ CRT PCI Slots USB 0 socket 7 Processor 100 66 MHz PAC MA 0 13 PCI Bridge MD 0 63 100 66 MHz and memory MPE 0 7 controller lt lt VT8501 ave Slot AC97 Qd CD Rom VT 82C686A Bridge 2 USB 1 HDD Serial Port 1 Serial Port 2 LPT Port PS 2 Mouse PS 2 Keyboard BIOS Flash Memory Figure 5
40. led Video BIOS Cacheable When enabled The Video BIOS cache will cause access to video BIOS addressed at C0000H to C7FFFH to be cached if the cache controller is also enabled The Choice Enabled Disabled System BIOS Cacheable As with caching the Video BIOS above enabling this selection allows accesses to the system BIOS ROM addressed at F0000H FFFFFH to be cached provided that the cache controller is enabled The Choice Enabled Disabled Memory Hole You can reserve this memory area for the use of ISA adaptor ROMs The default is Disabled Enabled This field enables the main memory 15 16MB to remap to ISA BUS Disabled Normal Setting Note If this feature is enabled you will not be able to cache this memory segment Init Display First If two video cards are used 1 AGP and 1 PCI this specifies which one will be the primary display adapter The default 1s PCT Slot PCI Slots PCI video card will be primary adapter AGP AGP video card will be primary adapter Page 4 9 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 1s allowed to share The default 15 64 4 4MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card 8 SMB 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 t
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43. omputer and press the lt Del gt key immediately this will bring you into the BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2ASLHPAB CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SENSOR AND CPU SPEED SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP PCI CONFIGURATION SQUE amp EXIT SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS Esc Quit Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Figure 1 CMOS Setup Utility Page 4 1 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 o ere Choose Standard CMOS Setup in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY Menu Figure 2 The Standard CMOS Setup allows the user to configure system settings such as the current date and time type of hard disk drive installed floppy drive type and display type Memory size 1s auto detected by the BIOS and displayed for your reference When a field is hi
44. on 3 3 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout The board supports 2 PC100 168 pin DIMMs Dual In line Memory Module The DIMMs 15 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 Bank 0 1 DIMM 1 _ Synchronous DIMM 2 Bank 2 3 DRAM Figure 6 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 Bank 0 1 Bank 2 3 Total Memory SDRAM 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB X 1 256MB Maximum SDRAM SDRAM 32MB 64MB 128MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB X 1 256MB X 1 512MB Maximum Table 1 SDRAM supports 32 64 128 256MB DIMM modules We recommend to use PC100 Memory Module for bus speed between 66MHz and 100MHz Using non compliant memory with higher bus speed over clocking may severely compromise the integrity of the system Page 3 6 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 LEFTKEY ZON
45. re 1s defined allowing PC manufacturers to add new I O features e g TV input TV output joystick modem LAN etc to systems This will help systems integra tors differentiate their products in the marketplace and better meet your needs Smaller size promotes a smaller system size e I O shield does not need be retooled in an ATX 2 01 or later Mainboard could be used in an ATX 2 01 compliant e smaller power supply cam be used High integration on mainboard reduces the system costs Expandable I O single chassis fan for system CPU located near Power Supply PCI slots ATX power connector Floppy IDE connectors 3 1 2 5 1 4 Bay Bay Figure 2 Summary of Micro ATX chassis features Page 1 2 Introduction Shield Connector The board is equipped with an I O back panel Please use the appropriate I O shield figure 3 PS 2 Mouse e T 2 EE KEYBOARD parallel port Joystick Midi 44 USB port 9 mo do Pina HN 1 Speaker 1 Figure 3 Line in MIC Power On Off Remote The board has a sing
46. s mode supported by Award Software Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support in some cases user do not want LBA The Award BIOS provides another alternative to support these kinds of LARGE mode CYLS HEADS SECTOR MODE 1120 16 59 NORMAL 560 32 59 LARGE BIOS tricks DOS or other OS that the number of cylinders is less than 1024 by dividing it by 2 At the same time the number of heads is multiplied by 2 A reverse transformation process will be made inside INT 12h in order to access the right HDD address Maximum HDD size no Cylinder 1024 x no Head 32 X no Sector 63 X bytes per sector 512 1 GigaByte Page 4 25 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 4 11 Save amp Exit Setup The SAVE amp EXIT SETUP option will bring you back to the boot up procedure with all the changes you just recorded in the CMOS RAM 4 12 Exit Without Saving The EXIT WITHOUT SAVING option will bring you back to normal boot up procedure without saving any data into CMOS RAM All old data in the CMOS will not
47. t Item Help PU PD Modify Old Values Shift F2 Color Load Setup Defaults 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 depend ing upon what FSB has been selected Should not be used to clock processor faster than it was designed for The default is Default CPUFAN Off In Suspend This option is used to set if the CPU fans will turn off during suspend mode The default is Enabled Enabled The system will turn off the CPU fans during suspend mode Disabled The system will not turn off the CPU fan during suspend mode Current System Temp This is the Current temperature of the system Page 4 21 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 Page 4 22 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
48. t Up Floppy Seek During Power On Self Test POST BIOS will deter mine 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 1s Enabled Enabled The BIOS will search the floppy disk drive to determine if it 1s 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 44MB drive types as they are all 80 tracks Boot Up NumLock Status This controls the state of the NumLock key when the system boots The default 1s On On The keypad acts as a 10 key pad Off The keypad acts like the cursor keys Gate A20 Option This refers to the way the system addresses memory above extended memory The default is Fast Normal The A20 signal is controlled by the keyboard controller or chipset hardware Fast The A20 signal is controlled by Port 92 or chipset specific method Typematic Rate Setting This determines the keystrokes repeat rate The default is Disabled Enabled Allows typematic rate and typematic delay programming Disabled The typematic rate and typematic delay will be controlled by the keyboard controller in your system Typematic Rate Chars Sec This is the number of characters that will be repeated by a keyboard press The default is 6 6 6 characters per second 8 8 characters per second 10 10 characters p
49. tic discharge Always have the power supply unplugged and powered off when inserting and removing devices within the computer chassis EPoX assumes no responsibility for any damage to the EP MVP4F C mainboard that results from failure to follow instruc tion or failure to observe safety precautions lt E CAUTION A The EP MVP4F C mainboard is subject to damage by static electricity Always observe the handling procedures Technical Support Services If you need additional information help during installation or normal use of this product please contact your retailer Your retailer will have the most current information about your configuration If your retailer cannot help you may visit our online technical support website and or contact our support technicians at the locations listed below Record your serial number before installing your EP MVP4F C mainboard The serial number is located near the PCI slots at the edge of the board EP MVP4AF C serial number Contacting Technical Support EPoX technical support is working hard to answer all of your questions online From our website you can find answers to many common questions drivers BIOS updates tech notes and important technical bulletins If you are still unable to locate the solution you are seeking you always have the option to contact our support technicians directly North American website English language http www epox com sales epox com support epox c
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