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1. Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name Ground 1 2 FDHDIN Ground 3 4 Reserved Ground 5 6 FDEDIN Ground 7 8 Index Ground 9 10 Motor Enable Ground 11 12 Drive Select B Ground 13 14 Drive Select A Ground 15 16 Motor Enable Ground 17 18 DIR Ground 19 20 STEP Ground 21 22 Write Data Ground 23 24 Write Gate Ground 25 26 Track 00 Ground 27 28 Write Protect Ground 29 30 Read Data Ground 31 32 SIDE 1 SELECT Ground 33 34 Diskette Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name Reset IDE 1 2 Ground Host Data 7 3 4 Host Data 8 Host Data 6 5 6 Host Data 9 Host Data 5 7 8 Host Data 10 Host Data 4 9 10 Host Data 11 Host Data 3 11 12 Host Data 12 Host Data 2 13 14 Host Data 13 Host Data 1 15 16 Host Data 14 Host Data 0 17 18 Host Data 15 Ground 19 20 Key DRQ3 21 22 Ground Write 23 24 Ground T O Read 25 26 Ground IOCHRDY 27 28 BALE DACK3 29 30 Ground IRQ14 31 32 IOCS16 Addr 1 33 34 Ground Addr 0 35 32 Addr 2 Chip Select 0 37 38 Chip Select 1 Activity 39 40 Ground 4 10 CHAPTER 4 Appendix AGP Driver for Windows 95 Installation Guide This section provides the information for installation of Apollo VP3 VxD Driver which supports Accelerated Graphics Port AGP functionalities SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1 Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2 1 OSR2 0 with USB upgrade 2 VIA Apollo VP3 AGP Driver Vgart V XD 3 AGP VGA Card with Driver 4 Direct X5 DDk or SDK INSTALLATION
2. eese 3 18 3 1 Save amp Exit Setup ehe tto eroe edes 3 18 3 11 Exit Without 3 18 Chapter 4 Onboard Technical Information 4 1 4 1 amp Memory Map nennt 41 4 2 Time amp DMA Channels Map 42 4 3 Interrupt Map eoe net eee aree 4 2 4 4 RTC amp CMOS RAM Map 43 Appendix A Post Codes 4 4 Appendix B I O Connector 4 8 Appendix C AGP Driver for Win95 Installation Guide 4 9 Introduction 1 1 Chapter 1 Introduction This mainboard is a high performance system hardware based on Intel Pentium processor and is equipped with an AGP slot four PCI slots three standard ISA slots Super Multi I O controller and dual port PCI IDE connectors for the future expansion The hardware dimension is 220mm x 260mm with a four layer design technology Specification VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP PCIset chipset Intel Pentium Processor Pentium Processor with MMX technology AMD K5 K6 Cyrix 6x86L 6x86MX amp idt C6 operating at 120 500 MHz with 321 ZIF socket 7 provides scalability to accept faster Processors in the future only version 1 0 or above does support processor of 400 450MHz AMD K6 2 3 Supports up to 384 MegaBytes of memory 168 Pin DIMM SOCKET x 3 e Supports 512K
3. DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 TOTAL BANK 0 BAMK 1 BANK 2 MEMORY 8MB 8MB 8MB This mainboard supports 2 kinds of powerful and flexible SDRAM frequency selections These can be synchronous with CPU bus clock or fixed as 66MHz By implementing the VCS Virtual Clock Synchronization technology this mainboard refers to the use of delay lock loop DLL to enable synchronous and pseudo synchronous operation of the processor and DRAM AGP and PCI buses The JP5 allows user to set the SDRAM Frequency between 66 100MHz JP5 1 SDRAM Clock Selection 1 2 Fixed as 66MHz 2 3 SDRAM Clock CPU Bus Clcok Jumper s position 1 2 Pseudo synchronous Status Fixed as 66MHz A more stable and compatible operation condition for non 100MHz based SDRAM when you are using 100MHz based CPU This setting is suitable for those users who are like to remain the usage of current SDRAM module 2 3 Synchronous Status SDRAM Clock CPU Bus Clock Increasing the bus speeds from the traditional 66MHz to 100MHz greatly improves system performance because the speed at which data traveling between the CPU and memory is increased by 5096 However there is one thing you should bear in mind Please make sure you are using 125MHz 8 based or above SDRAM module 2 6 58 aa d 2 4 ATX Power ON OFF Control This mainboard equips an ATX power connector which is a single 20 PIN i
4. Read me first 1 The LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS function loads the system default data directly from ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly This function is necessary when you accept this mainboard or the system CMOS data will corrupt BIOS CMOSSETUPUTILITY AWARDSOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT PNP PCI NFIGURA TUP f CONFIGU Load SETUP Default Y N Y u INTEGRATED PERIP AVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC QUIT SELECT ITEM F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Load Setup Defaults Except Standard COMS SETUP LOADSETUPDEFAULT 2 KBPO KeyBoard Power On Function There is a basic requirement that the 5V SB power of ATX power supply must gt 0 1A 100mA Please refer to chapter 2 5 for detail Apollo MVP3 AGPset EP SSMVP3C M ISA P CI AGP MainBoard with Onboard PCI IDE and Super Multi I O TRADEMARK All products and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders The specification is subject to change without notice VI21 Package Checklist Please check your package which should include all items listed below If you find any item damaged or missed please contact your supplier One mainboard
5. Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode0 4 Manually set the IDE Accessing mode IDE Primary Slave PIO The default value is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode0 4 Manually set the IDE Accessing mode IDE Secondary Master PIO The default value is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Secondary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode Mode0 4 Manually set the IDE Accessing mode IDE Secondary Slave PIO The default value is Auto Auto BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Secondary Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode 0 4 Manually set the IDE Accessing mode Onboard FDC Controller The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable the Onboard floppy drive interface controller Disabled Disable the Onboard floppy drive interface controller When using On card ISA FDC s controller Onboard UART 1 This field allows the user to sellect the serial port The default value is 3F8H IRQ4 COMI Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 3F8H IRQ4 COM2 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 2F8H IRQ3 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 3E8H IRQ4 Enable Onboard Serial port 1 and address is 2E8H IRQ3 Disabled Disable Onboard Serial port 1 Onboard UART 2 This field allows the user to sellect the serial port The default value is 2F8H IRQ3
6. COMI Enable Onboard Serial port 2 and address is 3F8H IRQ4 COM2 Enable Onboard Serial port 2 and address is 2F8H IRQ3 COM3 Enable Onboard Serial port 2 and address is 3E8H IRQ4 COM4 Enable Onboard Serial port 2 and address is 2EBH IRQ3 Disabled Disable Onboard Serial port 2 3 16 CHAPTER 3 Onboard UART 2 default value is standard This field allows the User to select the 2 port that can support a serial Infrared Interface Standard Support a Serial Infrared Interface IrDA HPSIR Support a HP Serial Infrared Interface format ASKIR Support a Sharp Serial Infrared Interface format Onboard Parallel port This field allows the user to sellect the LPT port The default value 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 NOTE Parallel Port address is 378H 3BCH that selects the rounting of IRQ7 for LPT1 Parallel Port address is 278H that selects the rounting of IRQ5 for LPT1 Parallel port Mode This field allows the user to sellect the parallel port mode The default value is ECP EPP Normal Standard mode IBM PC AT Compatible bidirectional parallel port EPP Enhanced Parallel Port mode ECP Extended Capability Port mode EPP ECP ECP Mode amp EPP Mode ECP Mode USE DMA This field allows the us
7. One manual One IDE ribbon cable One floppy ribbon cable One Parallel port ribbon cable One Serial port ribbon cable COM1 COM2 One PS 2 mouse cable Optional One AGP driver diskette One Ultra_DMA IDE driver diskette Contents page Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 Chapter 2 Hardware Design 2 1 2 Mainboard Layout eese 2 1 2 2 Connectors and Jumpers eee 23 2 3 System Memory Configuration sese 2 5 2 4 ATX Power ON OFF Control esee 2 6 2 5 External Modem Ring in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON FUNCIONS ee eee t Me ae ees Dese epe 2 7 2 6 Integrated PCI Bridge essent 2 8 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 3 1 3 1 Standard CMOS Setup 32 3 3 BIOS Features Setup ee sss 32 3 3 Chipset Features Setup essent 3 6 3 4 Power Management Setup esee 3 8 3 5 PNP PCI Configuration essent 3 10 3 6 Integrated Peripherals eee 3 12 3 7 Load Setup Defaults sce 5 etre eet 3 14 3 8 Change Supervisor or User Password 3 15 3 9 IDE HDD Auto Detection as 3 16 3 10 HDD Low Level Format
8. 08 Month 09 Year 0A Status register A OB Status register B 0C Status register C 0 Status register D OE Diagnostic status byte OF Shutdown byte 10 FLOPPY DISK drive type byte 11 Reserve 12 HARD DISK type byte 13 Reserve 14 Equipment type 15 Base memory low byte 16 Base memory high byte 17 Extension memory low byte 18 Extension memory high byte 19 2d 2E 2F 30 Reserved for ectension memory low bytw 31 Reserved for extension memory high byte 32 DATECENTURY byte 33 INFORMATIONFLAG 34 3F Reserve 40 7F Reserved for CHIPSET SETTING DATA 4 4 CHAPTER 4 APPENDIX A POST CODES ISA POST codes are typically output to port address 80h POST hex DESCRIPTION 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 C1 C5 08 09 0A 0B Reserved Turn off OEM specific cache shadow 1 Initialize EISA registers EISA BIOS only 2 Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes DMA controller 8237 Programmable Interrupt Controller 8259 Programmable Interval Timer 8254 RTC chip Reserved 1 Keyboard Controller Self Test 2 Enable Keyboard Interface Reserved Verifies CMOS s basic R W functionality Auto detection of onboard DRAM amp Cache Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000 FFFFF shadow RAM so that POST will go faster Test the first 256K DRAM OEM specific cache initialization if needed 1 Initialize the first 32 interrupt vectors with c
9. Channel Enabled Onboard FDD Controller Enabled ESC Quit 4 lt Select Item Onboard Serial Port 1 Auto Fl Help PU PD Modify Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto F5 No Change Shift F2 Color UART 2 Mode Standard F7 Load Setup Defaults Note If you don t use the Onboard IDE connector but use On card PCI or ISA card IDE connector You have to set Onboard Primary PCIIDE Disabled and Onboard Secondary PCIIDE Disabled fromCHIPSETFEATURESSETUPUTILITY The Onboard PCI IDE cable should be equal to or less than 18 inches 45 cm DE HDD Block Mode The default value is Enabled Enabled Enabled IDE HDD Block Mode The HDD transfer rate is better than Disable Disabled Disable IDE HDD Block Mode e PCI Slot IDE 2nd Channel The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable secondary IDE port and BIOS will assign IRQ15 for this port Disabled Disable secondary IDE port and IRQ15 is available for other device e Onboard Primary PCI IDE The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable Onboard 1st channel IDE port Disabled Disable Onboard 1st channel IDE port When use On card PCI or ISA card IDE connector e Onboard Secondary PCI IDE The default value is Enabled Enabled Enable Onboard 2nd channel IDE port Disabled Disable Onboard 2nd channel IDE port When use On card PCI or ISA card IDE connector AWARD BIOS 3 15 nis IDE Primary Master PIO The default value is Auto
10. Data You can set this field to be Enabled and to clear ESCD at one time when some Legacy cards are removed e PCIIDE IRQ Map To The default value is PCI AUTO When you have true PCI card s plugged into the system you will not need to change any thing here in the SETUP program However if you do not know whether you are using a true PCI card please refer to your PCI card user s manual for the details When you have a Legacy card described in section 2 5 to plug into the system a proper setting is extremely important or it may cause the system hung up The diagram shown below tells you how the Rotating Priority Mechanism is designed PCI 4 PCH3 PCH 2 INTB INTA INTB INTC INTD Figure 3 7 The Combination of PCI INT lines 3 14 CHAPTER 3 3 6 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ROM BIOS 2ASLEPA9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS WARD SOFTWARE INC Onboard Primary PCI IDE Enabled Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 Onboard Secondary PCI IDE Enabled Onboard Parallel Mode ECP EPP IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled ECH Mode Use DMA 3 IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Parallel Port EPP Type EPP1 9 IDE primary Master PIO Auto OnChip USB Disabled IDE Primary Slave PIO Auto IDE Secondary Master Auto IDE Secondary Slave PIO Auto IDE Primary Master UDMA Auto IDE Primary Slave UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Master UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Slave UDMA Auto PCIIDE Secondary
11. IRQ 3 assigned to Legacy ISA PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Disabled IRQ 4 assigned to Legacy ISA AGP Master 1 WS Write Enabled IRQ 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP AGP Master 1 WS Read Disabled IRQ 7 assigned to Legacy ISA IRQ 9 assigned to PCI ISA PnP PCI IRQ Actived By Level IRQ 10 assigned to PnP Assign IRQ For USB Enabled IRQ 11 assigned to PnP Assign IRQ For VGA Enabled IRQ 12 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 14 assigned to Legacy ISA IRQ 15 assigned to Legacy ISA DMA 0 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA l assigned to PnP ESC Quit d select Item DMA 3 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Fl Help PU PD 4 Modify DMA 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F5 No Change Shift F2 Color DMA 6 assigned to PnP F7 Load Setup Defaults DMA 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Figure3 6 PCICONFIGURATIONSETUP AWARD BIOS 3 13 Resource Controlled By The default value is Manual Manual The field defines that the PNP Card s resource is controlled by manual Auto You can setup whether IRQ X or DMA X is assigned to PCI ISA PNP or Legacy ISA Cards If your ISA card and PCI card are all PNP cards Set this field to Auto The BIOS will assign the interrupt resource automatically Reset Configuration Data The default value is Disabled Disabled Normal Setting Enabled If you plug some Legacuy cards in the system and record into ESCD Extended System Configuration
12. PROCEDURE Step 1 Install Windows 95 4 00 950 B or later version Step 2 Install USBSUPP USB upgrade Step 3 Install Apollo VP3 AGP Driver run the program SETUP EXE which can be found in the VIA VxD driver disk and this process will then automatically install the VIA VxD driver onto your windows 95 system Step 4 Install VGA driver for Windows 95 Step 5 Install Microsoft Direct X5 DDK or SDK NOTES 1 This driver should be installed on a system with the VIA Apollo VP3 AGP chipset while other chipsets is not be supported The VIA VxD Driver is only supported by Windows 95 OSR 2 0 4 00 950 B ro later versions 2 For Win95 users you will need to a Get USBSUPP EXE from Microsoft www microsoft com which includes the USB supplement and a new memory manager VMM32 VxD needed for the AGP DIME Direct Memory Execute feature b Get DirectX 5 0 from Microsoft www microsoft com DirectX 5 0 is the first DirectX version that supports AGP s DIME Get VIAGART VXD a virtual device manager which is usually installed during the installation procedure of the Windows 95 card driver 3 To make sure if the Apollo VP3 AGP driver is properly installed one must boot the Windows 95 system up and run Regedit and check whether the file VIAGART exists in the following path HKEY LOCAL MACHINHENSystemXCurrentControlSet Services VxD 4 To check whether the AGP driver is able to activate one must do the following a Activate the Control P
13. 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 Cyclinder 1024 x no Head 32 X no Sector 63 X bytes per sector 512 1 Gigabytes 3 20 CHAPTER 3 Note To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs there must be some softwares involved All softwares are 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 on 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 3 10 HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT Interleave Select the interleave number of the hard disk drive that you wish to perform a low level format on You may select from 1 to 8 Check the documentation that came with the drive for the correct interleave number or select 0 for automatic detection Auto scan bad track This allows the utility to scan first then format by each track Start Press lt Y gt to start low level format 3 11 SAVE amp EXIT SETUP The SAVE amp EXIT SETUP option will bring you back to
14. will display the following message Enter Password Press the Enter key to continue after proper password is given 2 If CMOS is corrupted or the option was used earlier and the user wish to change default password the SETUP UTILITY will display a message and ask for a confirmation Confirm Password 3 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 3 18 CHAPTER 3 3 9 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 donot need the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION utility The BIOS will Auto detect the hard disk size and model on display during POST 8 2 9 CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE Primary Master 343 665 16 65535 664 63 NORMAL Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave Select Secondary Slave Option N Skip N OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE 1 Y 0 0 NORMAL ESC Skip Figure 3 9 ID
15. 259 functionality Reserved If EISA NVM checksum is good exccute EISA initialization EISA BIOS only Reserved Detect Base Memory amp Extended Memory Size 1 Test Base Memory from 256K to 640K 2 Test Extended Memory from 1M to the top of memory 4 6 CHAPTER 4 mam POST hex DESCRIPTION 32 33 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F 40 BF 41 42 43 44 45 46 4D 4E 4F 50 51 1 Display the Award Plug amp Play BIOS Extension message PnP BIOS only 2 Program all onboard super I O chips if any including COM ports LPT ports FDD port according to setup value Reserved Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility Initialize Keyboard 2 Install PS2 mouse Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cache in this stage But usually the cache is turn on later in POST 61h Reserved 1 Program the rest of the Chipset s value according to Setup Later Setup Value Program 2 If auto configuration is enabled programmed the chipset with pre defined Values Initialize floppy disk drive controller Initialize Hard drive controller If it is a PnP BIOS initialize serial amp parallel ports Reserved Initialize math coprocessor Reserved If there is any error detected such as video kb show all the error messages on the screen amp wait for user to press lt F1 gt key 1 If password is needed ask for password 2 Clear the Energy
16. B Pipelined Burst SRAM L2 Cache Supports three 16 bit ISA slots four 32 bit PCI slots and an AGP slot and provides two independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 4 and Ultra DMA33 devices Supports ATAPI e g CD ROM devices on both IDE interfaces Supports a floppy port a parallel port EPP ECP port two serial ports 16550 Fast UART compatible 1 USB Connector a PS 2 style mouse connecter and an AT style keyboard connector Supports Award Plug amp Play BIOS Supports CPU Hardware sleep APM Advanced Power Management and ACPI Advanced Configuration Power Interface Supports an ATX power supply connector for a Remote On Off a Phone Ring Power On and a Keyboard Power On Function Supports Switching Regulator for CPU power supply and single jumper for CPU working voltage selection Supports ESDJ Easy Setting Dual Jumper function for CPU selection e Support hardware monitor function Hardware Design 2 1 Chapter 2 Hardware design 2 1 Mainboard Layout This mainboard is designed with VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP PClset chipset which is developed by VIA Corporation to fully support Pentium Processor PCI ISA system By providing a massive increase in the bandwidth available between the video card and the processor 66MHz the unique feature of AGP supported by VIA Apollo MVP3 chipset improves the speed of rendering and texturing for 3D graphics The c
17. E HDD AUTO DETECTION NOTE HDD Modes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes NORMAL LBA and LARGE NORMAL mode Generic access mode that is neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make transformations during accessing The maximum nunbers of cylinders head amp sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024 16 and 63 no Cyclinder 1024 x no Head 16 X no Sector 63 X no per sector 512 528 Megabytes If an user sets HDD to NORMAL mode the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528 Megabytes even though its physical size may be greater than that AWARD BIOS 3 19 ______________ _ ___ __ ____ ____ __ LBA Logical Block Addressing mode This is anew HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 Megabyte bottleneck The number of cylinders heads and sectors shown in the setup may not be the number physically contained in the HDD During the HDD accessing the IDE controller will transform the logical address described by sector head and cylinder into its own physical address inside the HDD The maximum HDD size supported by LBA mode is 8 4 Gigabytes which is obtained by the following formula no Cyclinder 1024 x no Head 255 x no Sector 63 X bytes per secttor 512 8 4 Gigabytes LARGE mode This is an extended HDD access mode supported by Award Software Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinders without LBA support in some cases user does not want LBA The Award BIOS provides another
18. IOS can be located in Flash EPROM which can replace BIOS code easily if necessary 2 2 EP 58MVP3C M 58 Layout W83877TF SecondaryIDE Q NNOO 9817 2 0009 LV 0009 XLV Wed AINE lt 3 82C586B VT82C598A 17 21V 22 1 2 CACHE 61 1 J4 CPU FAN POWER ON JPSE 1 PRIX ere J6 CHASSIS FAN RB Multiplier Bus Clock 5 1 ras ee p SS J6 RESET SPEAKER KEYLOCK IRCONN HDD IB LED Figure 2 1 Hardware Design 2 3 2 2 Connectors and Jumpers This section describes the connectors and jumpers equipped in the mainboard Please refer to Figure 2 1 for the location of each connector and jumper PR466 PR500 66MHz 75MHz PR400 95MHz 100MHz MI ISIS a ai JP3 1 2 2X E E 2 5X mH T 266 1X EE PR300 PR333 E 400 lt 3 mm PR433 66 m NI Mis 7SMH M M press S3MHz s 25 26 83MHz PR466 95MHz PR533 100MHz PR550 MH 4 5X SON 100MHz 66MHz 95MHz 100MHz 66MHz These CPUs are not available in the marketing for testing yet when this manual is written JP2 CPU Veore voltage selection For Pentium Processor with MMX t
19. OS FEATURES SETUP By selecting the BIOS FEATURES SETUP optionin the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu user can change system related parameters in the displayed menu This menu shows all of the manufacturer s default values of this mainboard Again user can move the cursor by pressing direction keys and lt PgDn gt or lt PgUp gt keys to modify the parameters Pressing F1 key to display help message of the selected item AWARD BIOS 3 3 i EEE BIOS 2A5LEPA9 BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Virus Warning Disabled Video BIOS Shadow Enabled CPU Internal Cache Enabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow Disabled External Cache Enabled CC000 CFFFF Shadow Disabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled D0000 D3FFF Shadow Disabled Boot Sequence SCSI D4000 D7FFF Shadow Disabled Swap Floppy Drive Disabled D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled Boot Up NumLock Status On Diskette Access For All Boot Up System Speed High Gate A20 Option Fast Memory Parity ECC Check Disabled Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 Type matic Delay Msec 250 Esc Quit 4 lt Select Item Security Option Setup Fl Help PU PD Modify PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color OS Select For DRAM gt 64MB Non OS2 F7 Load Setup Defaults Figure 3 3 BIOS FEATURES SETUP Note The Se
20. QII Reserved Primary VGA OFF IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse Primary LPT amp COM LPT COM IRQ13 Coprocessor Primary HDD amp FDD OFF IRQ14 Hard Disk Primary DMA master OFF IRQ15 Reserved Disabled Modem Ring Resume Disabled MODEM Use IRQ Enabled Esc Quit 4 lt Select Item RTC Alarm Resume Disabled Fl Help PU PD 4 Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Figure3 5 POWERMANAGEMENTSETUP Again users can move the cursor by pressing direction keys to the field needed to be modified and press lt PgDn gt or lt PgUp gt to alter item selection You can only change the content of Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode when the Power Management is set to User Define 3 3 1 The Description of the Power Management A Power Management mode selection Disabled The system operates in NORMAL conditions Non GREEN and the Power Management function is disabled Max saving This mode will maximize the power saving capability Min saving This mode will minimize the power saving capability User define Allow user to define time out parameters to control power saving mode Refer to item B shown below 3 10 CHAPTER 3 Time out parameters HDD Standby HDD Standby timer can be set from 1 to 15 minute s System Doze The System Doze mode timer starts to count when there is no PM events occurred The valid time out setting is from 1 minute up to 1 hour Sy
21. S assert System CPU Warning Temp The default value is 66C 151F Disabled Normal Setting Enabled The options available is 50C 122F 70C 158F Current System Temp This is the current temperature of the system Current CPU Temp This is the current temperature of the CPU Current CPU Fan Speed The current CPU fan speed in RPMs e Current ChassisFan Speed The current chassis fan speed in RPMs e CPU V The voltage level of the CPU Vio Vcore e 5V 12V 12V 5V The voltage level of the power supply AWARD BIOS 3 9 H AD 3 4 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP Choose the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY to display the following screen This menu allows the user to modify the power management parameters and IRQ signals In general these parameters should not be changed unless it is absolutely necessary b O A B O A PO R A A p AWARD AR Power Management User Define Primary INTR ON PM Control by APM Yes IRQ3 COM 2 Primary Video off Option Suspend gt Off IRQ4 COM 1 Primary Video off Method V H SYNC Blank IRQ5 LPT 2 Primary Soft off by PWRBTN Delay 4 Sec IRQ6 Floppy Disk Disabled RM Timers IRQ7 LPT 1 Primary HDD Power Down Disable IRQ8 RTC Alarm Disabled Doze Mode Disable IRQ9 IRQ2 Redir Primary Suspend Mode Disable IRQ10 Reserved Primary RM Events IR
22. Star Logo Green BIOS only Write all CMOS values currently in the BIOS stack area back into the CMOS Reserved TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4 7 E asr sss POST hex DESCRIPTION 52 1 Initialize all ISA ROMs 2 Later PCI initializations PCI BIOS only assign IRQ to PCI devices initialize all PCI ROMs 3 PnP Initialzations PnP BIOS only assign IO Memory IRQ amp DMA to PnP ISA devices initialize all PnP ISA ROMs 4 Program shadows RAM according to Setup settings 5 Program parity according to Setup setting 6 Power Management Initialization Enable Disable global PM APM interface initialization 53 1 If itis NOT a PnP BIOS initialize serial amp paralled ports 2 Initialize time value in BIOS data area by translate the RTC time value into a timer tick value 60 Setup Virus Protection Boot Sector Protection functionality according to Setup setting 61 Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note if L2 cache is already turned on in POST 3D this part will be skipped 2 Set the boot up speed according to Setup setting 3 Last chance for Chipset initialization 4 Last chance for Power Management initialization Green BIOS only 5 Show the system configuration table 62 1 Setup daylight saving according to Setup value 2 Program the NUM Lock typematic rate amp typematic speed according to Setup setting 63 1 If there is any changes in the hardware configuration update the ESCD information PnP BIOS only 2 Clear m
23. anel TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4 11 ss s b Click on Direct X then c Click on Direct Draw and d Check if there are some values existing in the Bit and overlays if there is that means the AGP can be activated properly REPLACING AN EXISTING VGA CARD WITH THE AGP VGA CARD 1 Shut down the computer and then turn off the power 2 Replace the VGA card boot up the system once again 3 Now Update Device Driver Wizard Window will appear This wizard will complete the installation of the Standard PCI Graphics Adapter VGA Click Next gt to let Windows search for an updated driver WARING Only click Next gt The system will hang if you click Cancel 4 Click Finish to install the VGA driver You will then be asked for your Windows 95 CD in order to complete the VGA driver installation If you do not have your CD handy direct the installation path to your windows system directory Windows will prompt you to restart your windows Chose NO and install the appropriate AGP VGA Driver
24. ay Memory Hole At 15Mb Addr 60 ns 60 ns 60 ns 2 2 Bank Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Fastest Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled 64M Ix Enabled System CPU Warning Temp Current System Temp Curent CPU Temp Current CPU Fan Speed Current Chasiss Fan Speed CPU Vcore V 3 16V CPU Vio V 3 53V 5V 4 89V 12V 11 73V 12V 12 26V 5V 5 07V 66C 151C 28C 82C 30C 86C 0 RPM 0 RPM Esc Quit Fl Help F5 Old Values F7 Load Setup Defaults 4 Select Item PU PD Modify Shift F2 Color Figure3 4 CHIPSETFEATURESSETUP Note when you insert slower memery modules in the system and set a faster timing maybe the system will hang up AWARD BIOS 3 7 n M DRAM Timing The default value is 60ns 60ns 2 faster Burst Wait State for 60 70ns Fast Page Mode EDO DRAM 70ns 3 slower Burst Wait State for 70ns Fast Page Mode EDO DRAM e SDRAM Cycle length The default value is 2 2 2HCLKS 3 3HCLKS e SDRAM Bank Interleave The default value is 2 Bank Disabled Normal Setting 2 Bank 4 Bank SDRAM 2 or 4 Bank Interleave DRAM Read Pipeline The default value is Enabled Disabled Normal Setting Enabled This field enableds the pipelining of DRAM read cycly e Sustained 3T Write The default value is Ena
25. bled Disabled Write Back mode L2 Cache Enabled Write Through mode L2 Cache Cache RD CPU Wt Pipeline The default value is Enabled Disabled Normal Setting Enabled This field enableds the pipelining of Cache reads and CPU writes cycle Read Around Write The default value is Enabled Disabled Normal Setting Enabled This field enableds the memory read around write cycle Cache Timing The default value is Fastest Fast Cache burst mode timing 3 1112111 Fastest Cache burst mode timing 3 1111111 e Video BIOS Cacheable The default value is Enabled Enabled Enabled the Video BIOS Cacheable to speed up the VGA Performance Disabled Disabled the Video BIOS Cacheable function e System BIOS Cacheable The default value is Disabled Enabled Allow caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh Disabled Normal Setting e Memory Hole at 15M 16M The default value is Disabled Disabled Normal Setting Enabled This field enableds the main memory 15 16MB remap to ISA BUS 3 8 CHAPTER 3 e AGP Aperture Size The amount of the system memory that AGP card is allowed to share The options available are 4M 8M 16M 32M 64M 128M 256M The default value is 64M AGP Transfer Mode The default value is 1X 1X 66MHz AGP transfer mode 2X 133MHz AGP transfer mode e Cyrix M2 ADS Delay The default value is Enabled Disabled Normal Setting Enabled Delay 1 HCLK for Cyrix 6x86MX when the AD
26. boot up procedure with all the changes you just recorded in the CMOS RAM 3 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 old data in the CMOS will not be destroyed MEMORYMAP Address Range 00000 7FF FF 80000 9F BFF 9FC00 9F FFF A0000 C7FFF C8000 DFFFF E0000 EEFFF EF000 EFFFF F0000 F7FFF F8000 FCFFF FD000 FDFFF FE000 FFFFF 000 01F 020 021 022 023 040 05 F 060 06F 070 07F 080 09F 0A0 0BF 0C0 0DF 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 278 27 2B0 2DF 2F8 2FF 360 36F 378 37F 3B0 3BF 3C0 3CF 3D0 3DF 3F0 3F7 3F8 3FF TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4 1 Chapter 4 Technical Information 4 1 amp MEMORY MAP Size 512K 127K IK 160K 96K 60K AK 3K 20K 4K 8K Description Conventional memory Extended Conventional memory Extended BIOS data area if PS 2 mouse is installed Available for Hi DOS memory Available for Hi DOS memory and adapter ROMs Available for UMB Video service routine for Monochrome amp CGA adaptor BIOS CMOS setup utility BIOS runtime service routine 2 Plug and Play ESCD data area BIOS runtime service routine 1 DMA controller Master INTERRUPT CONTROLLER CHIPSET control registers I O ports TIMER control registers KEYBOARD interface controller 8042 RTC ports amp CMOS I O ports DMA r
27. curity Option contians setup and system The setup indicates that the password setting is for CMOS only while the system indicates the pass word setting is for both CMOS and system boot up Virus Warning This category flashes on the screen 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 Default value is Disabled Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when any attempt to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table Disabled No warning message to appear when any attempt to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table CPU Internal Cache External Cache These two categories speed up memory access However it depends on CPU chipset design The default value is Enabled If your CPU is without Internal Cache then this item CPU Internal Cache will not be shown Enabled Enable cache Disabled Disable cache 3 4 CHAPTER 3 sas e Quick Power On Self Test This category speeds up Power On Self Test POST after you power on the computer If it is set to Enable BIOS will shorten or skip some checking items during POST Enabled Enable quick POST Disabled Normal POST e Boot Seq
28. echnology 1 7 AMD and 6x86L 6x86MX M II 1 7 2 1V Reserved 2 8 2 2V for AMD K6 2 CPUs 3 0 24V for AMD K6 2 3 CPUs 4 10 2 8V for Pentium MMX and Cyrix 6x86L 5 11 2 9V for AMD K6 PR2 166 200MHz and Cyrix 6x86MX M II 6 12 3 2V for AMD K6 PR2 233MHz EE M 2 4 EP 58MVP3C M J2 aun inal 1 Reset Switch Closed to restart system Speaker connect to the system s speaker for beeping 1 Speaker 2 N C 3 GND 4 VCC KeyLock Keyboard lock switch amp Power LED connector 1 Power LED 2 N C 3 GND 4 Key Lock 5 GND IrDA ASK IR CONNECTOR 1 VCC 2 NC 3 IRRX 4 GND 5 IRTX IDELED indicator LED ON when harddisks activate Turbo LED indicator LED ON when higher speed is selected There is no deturbo function so that the turbo LED is always ON Power ON Push the button to turn on the system Pressing less than 4 seconds to enter the suspend mode Pressing more than 4 seconds to turn off the system CPU FAN Connector CHASSIS FAN Connector WOL Wake up On Lan Connector Hardware Design 2 5 2 3 System Memory Configuration This mainboard supports different type of settings for the system memory The following figures and table provides all possible memory combinations LO I I DIMM3 I gt BANK 2 LO I I DIMM2 gt BANK 1 LO I DIMMI1 m gt BANK 0
29. egister INTERRUPT controller Slave DMA controller Slave MATHCOPROCESSOR HARD DISK controller PARALLEL port 2 GRAPHICS adapter controller SERIAL port 2 NETWORK ports PARALLEL port 1 MONOCHROME amp PARALLEL port adapter EGA adapter CGA adapter FLOPPY DISK controller SERIAL port 1 4 2 CHAPTER 4 4 2 TIME amp DMA CHANNELS TIMEMAP TIMER Channel OSystem timer interrupt TIMER Channel 1 DRAM REFRESH request TIMER Channel 2SPEAKER tone generator DMA CHANNELS DMA Channel 0 Available DMA Channel 1 Onboard ECP Option DMA Channel 2 FLOPPY DISK SMC CHIP DMA Channel 3 Onboard ECP default DMA Channel 4 Cascade for DMA controller 1 DMA Channel 5 Available DMA Channel 6 Available DMA Channel 7 Available 4 3 INTERRUPT MAP NMI Parity check error IRQ 0 System TIMER interrupt from TIMER 0 1 KEYBOARD output buffer full 2 CascadeforIRQ 8 15 3 SERIAL port2 4 SERIAL port 1 5 PARALLEL port2 FLOPPY DISK SMC CHIP 7 PARALLEL port 1 8 RTCclock 9 Available 10 Available 11 Available 12 PS 2 Mouse 13 MATH coprocessor 14 Onboard HARD DISK IDE1 channel 15 Onboard HARD DISK IDE2 channel TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4 3 4 4 RTC amp CMOS RAM MAP RTC amp CMOS 00 Seconds 01 Second alarm 02 Minutes 03 Minutes alarm 04 Hours 05 Hours alarm 06 Day of week 07 Day of month
30. emory that have been used 3 Boot system via INT 19H FF System Booting This means that the BIOS already pass the control right to the operating system Unexpected Errors POST hex DESCRIPTION B0 If interrupt occurs in protected mode Unclaimed NMI occurs 4 8 CHAPTER 4 APPENDIX B I O CONNECTORS J1 PS 2 MOUSE CONNECTOR 1 1 DATA 2 CLK 3 GND 4 NC 5 CN1 USB CONNECTOR 1 9 Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name USB VCC 1 9 Ground USB data0 2 10 Ground USB data04 3 11 Ground Ground 4 12 Ground USB_VCC 5 13 Ground USB_datal 6 14 Ground 8 16 USB_datal 7 25 Ground Ground 8 26 Ground 1 2 Serial Ports Connector Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name 1 6 DCD 1 6 DSR SIN 2 vi RTS SOUT 3 8 CTS DTR 4 9 RI 5 10 GND 5 10 N C LPT1 Parallel Port Connector Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name 1 14 STROBE 1 14 AUTO FEED Data Bit 0 2 15 ERROR Data Bit 1 3 16 INIT Data Bit 2 4 17 SLCT IN Data Bit 3 5 18 Ground Data Bit 4 6 19 Ground Data Bit 5 7 20 Ground Data Bit 6 8 21 Ground Data Bit 7 9 22 Ground ACJ 10 23 Ground BUSY 11 24 Ground PE 12 25 Ground 13 26 SLCT 13 26 N C FDD1 Floppy Disk Connector 33 IDELIDE2 Primary Secondray IDE Connector 39 2 34 2 40 TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4 9 a
31. er to sellect DMA1 or DMA3 for the ECP mode The default value is DMA3 DMAI The filed selects the rounting of for the ECP mode DMA3 The filed selects the rounting of DMA3 for the ECP mode 3 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 AWARD BIOS 3 17 ROMPCY ISA 2 51 CMOSSETUPUTILITY AWARDSOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT PNP PCI CONFIGURA TUP Load SETUP Default Y N Y INTEGRATED PERIP AVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC QUIT 4 ITEM F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Load Setup Defaults Except Standard COMS SETUP Figure3 SLOADSETUPDEFAULT 3 8 CHANGE SUPERVISOR or USER PASSWORD To change the password choose the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD or USER PASS WORD option from the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu and press Enter NOTE Either Setup or System must be selected in the Security Option of the BIOS FEATURES SETUP menu Refer to Figure 3 3 for the details 1 If CMOS is corrupted or the option is not used a default password stored in the ROM will be used The screen
32. g 3 1 The STANDARD CMOS SETUP allows user to configure system setting such as the current date and time type of hard disk installed floppy type and display type Memory size is auto detected by the BIOS and displayed for your reference When a field is highlighted use direction keys to move cursor and lt Enter gt key to select the entries in the field will be changed by pressing lt PgDn gt or lt PgUp gt keys or user can enter new data directly from the keyboard ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEPA9 STANDARD CMOS SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Date mm dd yy Wed Jan 15 1998 Time hh mm ss 14 30 50 HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE _ CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE Primary Master Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Primary Slave Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Secondary Master Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Secondary Slave Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto Drive A 1 44M 3 5 in Drive B None Base Memory 640K Floppy 3 mode Support Disable Extended Memory 15360K Video EGA VGA Other Memory gt 384K Halt On All Errors Total Memory 16384K ESC Quit 4 Y Select Item PU PD Modify Fl Help Shift 2 Change Color Figure3 2 STANDARD CMOS SETUP NOTE If the Primary Master Slave and the Secondary Master Slave are set as Auto the hard disk size and model will be auto detected NOTE The Halt On field is to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if an error Occurrs 3 2 BI
33. ge in the system such as a hard drive replacement or a new device installation If this does happen you will need to reconfigure your configuration parameter To Enter Setup Propgram Power on the computer and press lt Del gt key immediately This will bring you into BIOS CMOSSETUPUTILITY CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP PNP PCI CONFIGURATION INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS RO A BIO A YN 9 p AWARDSO AR STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT SAVE amp EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC QUIT SELECT ITEM t F10 Save amp Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type Figure 3 1 CMOS SETUP UTILITY The menu displays all major selection items Select the item you need to reconfigure The selection is made by moving cursor press any direction key to the item and press the Enter key An on line help message is displayed at the bottom of the screen as the cursor is moving to various items which provides a better understand ing of each function When a selection is made the menu of selected item will appear so the user can modify the associated configuration parameters 3 2 CHAPTER 3 ______ _ __ ____________________________________________ 3 1 STANDARD CMOS SETUP Choose STANDARD CMOS SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY Menu Fi
34. hipset also provides an integrated IDE controller with two high performance IDE interfaces for up to four IDE devices hard devices CD ROM device etc The Winbond W83877TF Super I O controller provides the standard PC I O function one floppy interface two 16 Byte FIFO serial ports and one EPP ECP capable parallel port This mainboard layout is shown in the next page for user s reference Care must be taken when inserting memory modules CPUs or even plugging PCI card into associated slots to avoid damaging any circuits or sockets on board A cooling fan is strongly recommended when installing Pentium Pentium MMX K5 K6 6x86 6x86L 6x86MX C6 processor due to possible overheat This mainboard supports a minimum of 8MB and a maximum of 384MB of System Memory while Onboard 512KB cache to increase system performance This mainboard supports standard Fast Page EDO Extended Data Out or Hyper Page Mode or synchronous DRAM This mainboard provides three 168 pin DIMM sites for memory expansion The sockets support 1M x 64 8MB 2M x 64 16MB 4M x 64 32MB and 8M x 64 64MB single sided or double sided memory modules The memory timing requires 70 ns Fast page devices or 60 ns EDO DRAM DRAM Modules may be parity x 36 or non parity x 32 This mainboard supports two Onboard PCI IDE connectors and automatically detects IDE harddisk type by BIOS utility automatic This mainboard supports Award Plug amp Play BIOS for the ISA and PCI cards The B
35. main menu to set ISA for the PCI IDE IRQ MAP TO Secondly you mustenter the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP UTILITY from the ROM SETUP UTILITY main menu and set Disabled for the Onboard Primary PCI IDE and the Onboard Secondary PCI IDE When you plug PCI ISA IDE cards into the system You should select Disabled for the Onboard Primary and Secondary PCI IDE from the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUPUTILITY too You can set the system interrupt request IRQ on some Legacy cards which have on paddle card and cable refer to user s manual of the card to a proper system IRQ level In general card s Primary is assigned to INTA and Secondary is assigned to INTB If the card is plugged into slot 1 marked PCI 1 you cannot use second slot marked PCI 2 because the Secondary INT signal takes from the slot refer to Page 3 12 for circuit diagram The user then enters the PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP utility from the ROM SETUP UTILITY main menu and set PCI Slot 1 for the PCI IDE IRQ MAP TO This depends on the slot where the Legacy card is plugged AWARD BIOS 3 1 CHAPTER 3 AWARD BIOS SETUP Award s ROM BIOS provides a built in setup program which allows user to modify the basic system configurations and hardware parameters The modified data will be stored in a battery backed CMOS RAM so that data will be retained even when the power is turned off In general the information saved in the CMOS RAM stays unchanged unless there is a configuration chan
36. mote and host s dial up control Exclusive Keyboard Power ON Function To innovate a unique feature to benefit users we devoted ourselves to create the easiest and most convenient way to turn on your system based on the the ATX power supply This function is available only under system being connected to ATX power supply How to work with it Step 1 Please place JP4 at the position 2 3 after you finished the system installation JP4 1 Keyboard Power ON Function Selection 1 2 Disabled 3 2 3 Enabled Step 2 Push the momentary switch to turn on your system and then push again to hold for more than 4 seconds to turn it off as soon as you turn it on Step 3 You can enjoy the Keyboard Power ON function by pressing any I or 2 keys on you keyboard at the same time for 1 2 seconds Your system will be turned on automatically after releasing the keys To power off you system you can use the Soft OFF function under Windows 95 Notes 1 The number of keys needed to turn on a system depends on the model of keyboard you are appplying due to different loadings on different keyboards Here we would like to suggest you push 2 keys at the same time 2 Intel ATX version 2 0 specification has recommended you use the power supply with 0 72A 720mA With our EP 58MVP3C M mainboard the 5 0VSB standby power only has to be gt 0 1A 100mA then you can enjoy this unique benefit However the ATX power supply which is lt 0 1 100mA is still a
37. nput device for an ATX power supply see Figure 2 2 An ATX power supply provides a build in Remote Power ON OFF function To implement the function a momentary switch which is normally open should be connected to the position J3 PIN 12 13 as the system s power ON OFF button Note that an AT power supply does not offer this function Based on the ATX power connector this mainboard has been designed to support both ACPI and Soft OFF functions According to the definition of ACPI a Suspend mode will be enabled while you push the J3 system power ON OFF button less than 4 seconds Nevertheless the system will be turned off by pressing for more than 4 seconds Regarding the Soft OFF coming from this mainboard onboard circuit controller it is another way to turn off your system Your system can be shut down automatically by an operation system such as Windows 95 EP 58MVP3C MBOARD P ome Q s if S System Power ON OFF Button Figure 2 2 Simple ATX Power ON OFF Controller Hardware Design 2 7 2 5 External Modem Ring in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions On the basis of bounded functions in I O chipset the two serial ports are able to support the External Modem Ring in Power ON function Once users connect the external modem to COM1 or COM2 this mainboard mainboard allows users to turn on their system through the re
38. orresponding Interrupt handlers Initialize INT no from 33 120 with Dummy Suprious Interrupt Handler 2 Issue CPUID instruction to identify CPU type 3 Early Power Management initialization OEM specific 1 Verify the RTC time is valid or not 2 Detect bad battery 3 Read CMOS data into BIOS stack area 4 PnP initializations including PnP BIOS only Assign CSN to PnP ISA card Create resource map from ESCD 5 Assign IO amp Memory for PCI devices PCI BIOS only TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4 5 POST hex DESCRIPTION 0C 0D 0E OF 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 1A 1D 1F 29 30 31 Initialization of the BIOS Data Area 40 ON 40 FF 1 Program some of the Chipset s value according to Setup Early Setup Value Program 2 Measure CPU speed for display amp decide the system clock speed 3 Video initialization including Monochromc CGA EGA VGA If no display device found the speaker will beep 1 Test video RAM If Monochrome display device found 2 Show messages including Award Logo Copyright string BIOS Data code amp Part No OEM specific sign on messages Energy Star Logo Green BIOS ONLY CPU brand type amp speed Test system BIOS checksum Non Compress Version only DMA channel 0 test DMA channel test DMA page registers test Reserved Test 8254 Timer 0 Counter 2 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 2 Reserved Test 8
39. ory The default value is Fast Normal The A20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller or chipset hardware Fast The A20 signal is controlled by Port 92 or chipset specific method AWARD BIOS 3 5 a N Typematic Rate Setting This determines the typematic rate Enabled Enable typematic rate and typematic delay programming Disabled Disable typematic rate and typematic delay programming The system BIOS will use default value of 2 items and the default is controlled by the keyboard Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 6 characters per second 8 8 characters per second 10 10 characters per 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 determines the time between the first and second character displayed when holding a key 250 250msec 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 value 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 correct password is not entered at the prompt PCI VGA Palette Snoop This filed controls the ability of a primary PCI VGA controller to share a common palette when a snoop
40. pend Mode When the system suspend timer times out the system will enter the suspend mode and the chipset will stop CPU clock immediately The power consumption in Suspend Mode is lower than in standby mode The screen is also blanked out 3 12 CHAPTER 3 PMEvents AWARD BIOS defines 7 PM Events in the power management mode Doze amp suspend The user can initialize any PM Events to be Enable or Disable When the system detects all of the enabled events do not have any activity it will start the system Doze timer first if the Power Management is not Disabled Once the system Doze timer is timed out it will process doze power saving procedure by starting the system suspend timer When the suspend timer times out all of the CPU clock will stop by dropping system clock down to zero and remains this way until any one of the Enabled event occurrs 3 5 PNP PCICONFIGURATION 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 Any misplacing IRQ could cause system can t pick out the rescouces ROM PCI ISA BIOS 2A5LEPA9 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE INC PNP OS Installed No PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled Resources Controlled By Manual PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled Reset Configuration Data Disabled PCI Delay Transaction Enabled ACPI function Enabled PCI Master Read Prefetch Enabled
41. pplicable to your system by placed JP4 at the position 1 2 to disable this feature 2 8 EP 58MVP3C M 2 6 Integrated PCI Bridge This mainboard utilizes VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP PCIset chipset to support Intel Pentium Processor PCI ISA system The VIA Apollo MVP3 PCIset chipset consists of the 82C598AT system controller TSC and one 82C586B PCI ISA IDE Accelerator bridge chip It provides an interface which translates CPU cycle into PCI bus cycle and PCI burst read write capability In addition it provides high performance PCI arbitor to support four PCI Masters Rotating Priority Mechanism and Hidden Arbitration Scheme Minimizes Arbitration Overhead There are four interrupts in each PCI slot INTA INTB INTC and INTD Since this mainboard adapts the PCI auto configuration with the system BIOS Setup utility When the system is turned on after adding a PCI add in card the BIOS automatically configure interrupts DMA channels I O space and other paramaters You do not have to configure jumpers or worry about potential resource conflicts Because PCI cards use the same interrupt resource as ISA cards you must specify the interrupt used by ISA add in cards in the BIOS Setup utility However if a Legacy card such as plugging a paddle card and cable into an ISA slot is plugged in the system modification in the ROM SETUP UTILITY becomes necessary First of all you mustenter PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP utility from the ROM SETUP UTILITY
42. pply two types of settings are offered Delay 4 Sec and instant off When the setting is Delay 4 Sec users can power off the system bypressing POWER ON button J3 for 4 seconds However if users press POWER ON button for less than 4 seconds thesystem will enter the Suspend Mode When the setting is instant off users first press on POWER ON button will power off the system but the second press will power on the system AWARD BIOS 3 11 ________ __ _____ ____ ______ e RTC Alarm Resume This option allows you to have the system turn on at a preset time each day or on a certain day This option is only available when used an ATX power supply Enabled The system will turn on at the preset time Disabled Normal Setting e Date ofmonth This field is to set the date that the system will turn on The default value is 0 0 Turn on the system on everyday at the preset time 1 31 Represets the date of the month that you need the system to turn on e Time hh mm ss This field is to set the time that you need the system to turn on The default value is08 00 00 HDDStandby Mode When system stops reading or wiriting HDD the timer starts to count The system will cut off the HDD power when timer runs out of time The system will not resume operation until either a read from or a wirte to HDD command is executed again DozeMode The system hardware will drop down CPU clock from nomal working speed when Doze mode time out occurs Sus
43. stem Suspend This function works only when the Pentium Procssor is installed The timer starts to count when System Standby mode timer is timed out and no PM Events occurred Valid range is from 1 minute up to 1 hour 3 3 2 Description of the Green Functions This mainboard supports HDD Power Down Doze and Suspend power saving functions In addition the hardware suspend function is supported when the J3 12 13 Refer to Figure2 1 is closed to enter the Suspend function The detailed description of these functions is provided in the next page e Controlby APM If Advanced Power Management APM is installed on your system selecting Yes gives better power savings e VideoOff Method Determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked V HSYNC Blank System turns off vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and writes blanks to the video buffer DPMSSupport 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 Videooff Option Determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power management The settings are Video off after Suspend standby Doze N A Soft offby PWRBTN This field is for the soft off function setting When the board utilizes an ATX power su
44. uence This category determines which drive is searched first for the O S Operating System The default value is A C A C The system will search for floppy disk drive first then hard disk drive C A The system will search for hard disk drive first then floppy disk drive e Swap Floppy Drive This will swap your physical drive letters A amp B if you are using two floppy disks The default value is Disabled Enabled Floppy A amp B will be swapped under the O S Disabled Floppy A amp B will be not swapped Boot Up Floppy Seek During Power On Self Test POST BIOS will determine if the installed floppy drive is 40 or 80 tracks Only 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K 1 2M and 1 44M are all 80 tracks The default value is Enabled Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks Note that BIOS cannot tell from 720K 1 2M or 1 44M drive type as they are all 80 tracks Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K Boot Up NumLock Status The default value is On On Keypad is number keys Off Keypad is arrow keys Boot UP System Speed Select default system speed The system will run at the selected speed after the system boots High Set the speed to high Low Set the speed to low Gate A20 Option This refers to the way the system addresses memory above IMB extended mem
45. write cycles with an ISA video card The default value is Disabled Enabled lf an ISA card connects to a PCI VGA card via connector and the ISA card connects to VGA monitor and uses the RAMDAC of PCI card the PCI VGA Palette Snoop is enabled Disabled Disable the VGA card Palette snoop function Video BIOS Shadow It determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM However it is optional from chipset design Video Shadow will increase the video speed Enabled Video shadow is enabled Disabled Video shadow is disabled 3 6 CHAPTER 3 e C8000 CBFFF Shadow CC000 CFFFF Shadow D0000 D3FFF Shadow D4000 D7FFF Shadow D8000 DBFFF Shadow DC000 DFFFF Shadow These categories determine whether optional ROM will be copied to RAM by 16K byte or 32K byte per unit and the size depends on the chipset Enabled Optional shadow is enabled Disabled Optional shadow is disabled 3 3 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP Choose the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP inthe CMOS SETUP UTILITY menuto display the following menu ROM BIOS 2A5LEPA9 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Bank 0 1 DRAM Timing Bank 2 3 DRAM Timing Bank 4 5 DRAM Timing SDRAM Cycle Length SDRAM Bank Interleave DRAM Read Pipeline Sustained 3T Write Cache Rd CPU Wt Pipeline Read Around write Cache Timing Linear Burst Video BIOS Cacheable System BIOS Cacheable AGP Aperture Size AGP Transfer Mode Cyrix M2 ADS del

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