586 GXM-AV Main Board MMX Enhanced
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1. PROCESSOR 586 GXM AV Main Board Trademarks and or Registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners User s Manual The Information presented in this publication has been carefully reviewed for reliability Version 1 1 However no responsibility is assumed for inaccuracies Specifications are subjected to change without notice IBM PC AT and PC XT are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Pentium and MMX are the trademarks of Intel Corporation M M X AWARD is a registered trademark of Award Software Inc E n h anced MS DOS and Windows 95 NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Features Chapter 2 Layout and Position Jumper Setting Front Panel Header Assignment Port Header Location Audio and Video Cable Configuration Chapter 3 Starting BIOS Setup Main Menu Standard CMOS Setup Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup Chapter 4 Display and Sound Driver Installation Index Page 1 Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 12 Page 15 Page 17 Page 18 Page 1 Chapter 1 Introduction This Cyrix Media GXM AV all in one system board offers the latest full integrated interface and supports the high performance Cyrix MMX Enhanced Media GX processor operating from 166 to 233 MHz The Cyrix MMX Enhanced Media GX processor is the latest member of Cyri2. J4 J5 J J7 Reset Switch 1 GND 2 RSTSW Power LED and Keyboard Lock Power LED N C GND Key Lock GND nb WN HDD LED 1 LED 2 LED Front Panel Fan 1 12V Fan Supply 2 GND CPU Fan 1 12V Fan Supply 2 GND Suspend Switch 1 GND 2 SUSPEND SW CD Audio Switch 1 CD Right 2 GND 3 CD Left 4 NC Page 7 Port Header Location P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 8 P10 P11 COM 1 Port Header COM 2 Port Header LPT Port Header Game Port Header PS 2 Mouse Header Video Header USB Header Audio Header Baby AT Power Header Page 8 Audio and Video Cable Configuration LINE IN GAME PORT LINE OUT MIC IN GAME CONNECTOR SOUND CONNECTOR TO SYSTEM BOARD T SYSTEM BOARD S VIDEO OUT VIDEO OUT VGA OUT VIDEO CONNECTOR TO SYSTEM BOARD 586 GXm AV Audio and Video board port assignment Page 9 Saree clare Starting BIOS Setup The Award BIOS is immediately activated when you first power on the computer The BIOS reads the system information contained in the CMOS and begin the process of checking out the system and configuring it When it finishes the BIOS will seek an operating system on one of the disks and then launch and turn control over to the operating system While the BIOS is in control the Setup program can be activated in one the two ways I By pressing lt DEL gt immediately after switching the system on OR II By pressing the lt DEL gt key when the
3. bug in Windows as the installation process gets underway a Windows requestor will come up asking for a disk labeled Cyrix XpressGRAPHICS TM Windows 95 Display Simply click OK on this requestor Page 19 9 Another Windows requestor will now appear Pull down the menu on the bottom of this requestor and select your install directory which will appear there then click OK The installation will then complete lt lt NOTE gt gt If the install directory name is longer than 8 characters in procedure 5 it will be truncated to 8 characters in this procedure For example if the directory you selected in procedure 5 is C Program Files Cyrix Corporation It will appear as C PROGRA 1 CYRIXC 1 10 Windows will probably then ask for the Windows 95 CD ROM and prompt you for specific files from the CD Insert your Windows 95 CD and click OK The number and type of files requested at this point will vary from system to system just continue to point the requestor to the Windows 95 CD for any files it is looking for 11 Click Finish to reboot your computer This will complete the install process
4. following message appears briefly at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self Test Press DEL to enter SETUP If the message disappears before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup restart the system to try again by turning it OFF and ON or pressing the RESET button on the system case You may also restart by simultaneously pressing lt CTRL gt lt ALT gt lt DEL gt keys If you do not press the keys at the correct time and the system does not boot an error message will be displayed and you will again to be asked PRESS FI TO CONTINUE DEL TO ENTER SETUP 10 Once you enter the Award BIOS setup utility the Main Menu will appear on the screen The Main Menu allows you to select from several setup functions and two exit choices Use the ARROW keys to select among the items and press lt ENTER gt to accept and enter the sub menu Standard CMOS Setup This setup page includes all the items in a standard AT Compatible BIOS BIOS Features Setup This setup page includes all the items of Award special enhanced features Chipset Features Setup This setup page includes all the items of chipset special features Power Management Setup This page includes all the items of Power Management PNP PCI Configuration Setup This page includes all the items of PCI and PnP functions Load BIOS Defaults The BIOS defaults provide the minimum requirement for your system to operate Load Setup Defau
5. his RAM area since this is where it shadows RAM IDE PIO IDE hard drive controllers can support up to two separate hard drives These drives have a master slave relationship which are determined by the cabling configuration used to attach them to the controller Your system supports two IDE controllers 1 primary and 1 secondary so you are able to install up to four IDE devices PIO means Programmed Input Output Rather than have the BIOS issue a s series of commands to effect a transfer to or from the disk drive PIO allows the BIOS to tell the controller what it wants and then let the controller and the CPU performs the complete task by themselves This simpler and more efficient Your system supports five modes numbered from 0 to 4 which primarily differ in timing When Auto is selected the BIOS will select the best available mode Page 16 Primary IDE As stated above your system includes two built in IDE controllers both of which operate on the PCI bus This setup item allows you either to enable or disable the primary controller You might choose to disable the controller if you were add a higher performance or enhanced controller Secondary IDE As above for Primary controller this setup item allows you to enable or disable the secondary controller You might choose to disable the controller if you were to add a higher performance or enhanced controller On board FDD Controller This setting allows you to connect your f
6. loppy disk drives to the on board floppy controller Choose Disabled if you want to use a separated controller Serial Port The On board UART 1 2 lines control the assignment for the motherboard s two on board serial connectors Parallel Port The default option for On board Parallel Port is 378 IRQ7 This item controls the on board parallel port connector If you are using an I O card with a parallel port make sure the address IRQ does not conflict Parallel Port Mode The default option for Parallel Port Mode is Normal mode you can select EPP ECP or SPP just change the setting If you have a parallel interface peripheral device use one of the parallel port enhancement and set this option for the enhanced mode that your peripheral support Page 17 KALVETE OINI Power Management This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to following modes 1 Doze Mode 2 Standby Mode 3 Suspend Mode 4 HDD Power Mode There are four selections for Power Management three of which have fixed mode setting Disabled No Power Management Disables all modes Min Power Saving Minimum power management Doze mode 1 hr Standby Mode 1 hr Suspend Mode 1 hr and HDD Power Down 15 Min Max Power Saving Maximum power management Doze mode 1 min Standby Mode 1 min Suspend Mode 1 min and HDD Power Down 1 min User Defined All
7. lt The Chipset defaults are setting which provide for maximum system performance Page 11 Integrated Peripherals This section page includes all the items of IDE hard drive and Programmed input output features Supervisor User Password Change set or disable password It allows you to limit the access to the system and setup or just to setup IDE HDD Auto Detection Automatically detect and configure hard disk parameters The Award BIOS includes this ability in the event you are uncertain of your hard disk s parameter HDD Low Level Format This provides a hard disk low level format utility Save amp Exit Setup Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit setup Exit Without Saving Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit setup Page 12 Standard CMOS Setup The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories Each category includes some setup items Use the ARROW key to highlight the item and then use the lt PgUP gt or lt PgDn gt keys to select the value you want in each Page 13 If you select type AUTO BIOS will auto detect the HDD amp CD ROM drive at the POST stage and following the IDE for HDD amp CD ROM drive Type Drive Type CYLS Number of cylinders HEADS Number of heads PRECOMP Write PRECOM LANDZONE Landing Zone SECTORS Number of sectors MODE Mode type item Date The date format is lt day gt lt month gt lt da
8. ows you to set each mode individually When not Disabled each of the ranges are from 1 min to 1 hr except for HDD Power Down which range from 1 min to 15 min and disabled Page 18 Chapter 4 Display and Sound Driver Installation Tf you are installing the driver from a diskette you need to decompress the file to your local hard disk by double clicking the program file inside the diskette first 1 Double click on the file Cyrix MediaGX Windows 95 Drivers exe 2 Click the Finish button on the title screen that appears This signals InstallShield to unpack the necessary files and to begin the installation process 3 The InstallShield intro screen will appear Click Next to proceed 4 The Cyrix License agreement for this software will appear Click Next to proceed 5 The Install Directory requestor will appear Accept the default directory or browse for another location Click Next to proceed 6 The Setup Type requestor will appear Select Typical Compact or Custom Typical and Compact are identical Custom allows you to select the components you would like to install Click Next to proceed 7 If you selected Typical or Compact the installation process will begin now If you selected Custom you will be able to select which drivers you want to install Audio Video and or Joystick Click on the drivers you want installed and click Next to proceed 8 Due to a
9. t Memory 2 x 168 pin DIMM sockets Support 16 32 64 128 256 MB DIMM modules Expansion Slots Two 16 bit ISA slots Two 64 bit PCI version 2 1 master slots System BIOS function Award Deep Green BIOS Plug and Play PnP Function Auto configuration for PCI add on cards I O Device s power saving APM SMI Supports Flash memory for ESCD function Enhanced PCI IDE amp ISA I O Page 3 Build in Enhanced PCI Local Bus IDE controller Support 4 PCI IDE devices PIO Mode 4 DMA Mode 2 CD ROM Drive BIOS Auto detect HDD PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Two USB ports optional Two Fast Serial ports with 16550 One Multi mode Parallel port ECP EPP One Game port IrDA port optional Software Bundled Complete driver set for MS DOS OS 2 Windows 3 1 Windows NT Windows95 Novell UNIX SCO XENIX Attachments HDD and FDD Cable Serial Port Cable and Bracket Printer Port Cable and Bracket Sound Port Board with Cable and Bracket Video and TV Board with cable and Bracket PS 2 Mouse Cable and Bracket xl xl xl xl xl x1 optional Page 4 Page 5 Chapter 2 umper Setting Layout and Position JP3 CMOS clear Status Jumper Setting Normal 1 2 CMOS Clear 2 3 JP1 and JP2 are factory default Secondary IDE Primary IDE JP4 J2 J Ji J3 a a 586 GXM AV Main Board Layout and Jumpers Location Page 6 Front Panel Header Assignment Ji J2 J3
10. t they type in setup Error Halt This category determines the computer will stop if an error is detected during power up Page 14 Page 15 Integrated Peripherals Memory Base Memory IDE HDD Block Mode The POST will determine the amount of base or conventional memory This allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer installed in the system The value of the base memory is typically 512K for data to and from your hard disk drive HDD systems with 512K memory installed on the motherboard or 640K for systems with 640K or more memory installed on the motherboard Enabled IDE controller uses block mode Extend Memory Disabled IDE controller uses standard mode The BIOS determines how much extended memory is presented during the POST This is the amount of memory located above 1 MB in the CPU s PCI Slot IDE Second Channel memory address map This item allows you designate an IDE controller board inserted into one of Other Memory the physical PCI slots as your secondary IDE controller This refers to the memory located in the 640K to 1024K address space This is memory that can be used for different applications DOS uses this area to load Enabled External IDE controller designed as the secondary controller device drivers in an effort to keep as much base memory free for application Disabled No IDE controller occupying a PCI slot programs The BIOS is the most frequent users of t
11. te gt lt year gt Press lt F1 gt to show the calendar Day From Sun to Sat determined by BIOS and is display only Date From 1 to 31 or the maximum allowed in the month Month Jan through Dec Year From 1900 through 2099 Time The time format is lt hour gt lt minute gt lt second gt The time is calculated based on the 24 hour military time clock For examples 1p m is 13 00 00 Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave These categories identify the 2 channels that have been installed in the computer There are 45 predefined types and 4 user definable types are for Enhanced IDE BIOS Type 1 to 45 are predefined Type user is user definable Press lt PgUp gt or lt PgDn gt to select a numbered hard disk type or type the number and press lt ENTER gt Note that the specification of your drive must match with the drive table The hard disk will not work properly if you enter improper information for this category If you hard disk drive type is not matched or listed you can use User to define your own drive type If a hard disk has not been installed select NONE and press lt ENTER gt Drive A Type Drive B Type This category identifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that have been installed in the computer Video This category selects the type of video adapter used for the primary system monitor Although secondary monitors are supported you do not have to selec
12. x Media GX family offering high performance fully accelerated 2D graphics a synchronous memory interface and a PCI bus controller all on a single chip The Media GX processor includes Cyrix s Virtual System Architecture VSA enabling XpressGRAPHICS and XpressAUDIO as well as generic emulation capabilities On board VGA supports 1280 x 1024 with 256 color and 1024 x 768 with 16 bit color The audio controller is compatible with Sound Blaster 16 Pro Enhanced I O functions provide support up to PIO mode 4 for four Hard Disk Drives and PCI IDE devices and CD ROM Drive Connectors for fast serial ports 16550 and one bi directional multi mode parallel port with enhanced parallel and extended capability functions EPP ECP compliment the extensive specification The Award BIOS with deep green power management functions plug and play auto configuration and supports up to 128 MB of memory This solution will maximize the latest operating software applications Page 2 Features CPU System Sound and Video Chipset Support Cyrix MMX Enhanced Media GX 166 200 233 MHz Processor AKM CODEC Sound Blaster 16 compatible On board VGA support 1024x768 with 16 bit colors or 1280x1024 with 256 colors Enhanced I O Chipset Supports 2 88 MB FDD Enhanced I O 16550 Fast serial ECP EPP bi direction Game interface IrDA interface P S 2 interface VGA to TV Chipset Chrontel CH7003 optional Memory Supports 64 bi
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