Introduction The SOYO CD Quick BIOS Setup Hardware Installation SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard SCSI Utilities Quick Start Guide Tested To Comply With FCC Standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE C FC 100% POST CONSUMER RECYCLED PAPER
SOYO ™ SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard Single or Dual Pentium ® III & Pentium ® II processors supported 82440 BX AGP/PCI Motherboard 66&100MHz Front Side Bus supported ATX Form Factor Copyright © 1999 bySoyo Computer Inc. Trademarks: Soyo is a registered trademark of Soyo Computer Inc. All trademarks are the property of their owners.
1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard. This Quick Start Guide describes the steps for installing and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide is designed for all users to provide the basic steps of Motherboard setting and operation. For further information, please refer to SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard User's Guide and Technical Reference online manual included on the CD-ROM packed with your Motherboard.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Introduction SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard Layout PS/2 KB PS/2 Mouse Connector Connector JP1 1 USB 1 1 1 FAN1 CPUFAN 3 FAN2 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM 4 CPUFAN USB 2 Slot 1 #2 Slot 1 #1 PRT Hardware Monitoring COM 1 W83781D 828AC Winbond W83781D COM 2 Intel ATX Power 82443 BX 1 AGP Slot 1 1 IR1 5 1 IDE 2 FDC IDE 1 PCI Slot #4 Ultra I/O Chipset Winbond 83977EF-AW PCI Slot #3 JP7 (Optional) Intel SB-LINK (PC-PCI) PCI Slot #2 82371 EB adaptec AIC - 7
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 2 Installation l Before handling the Motherboard, ground yourself by grasping an unpainted portion of the system's metal chassis. l Remove the Motherboard from its anti-static packaging. Hold it by the edges and avoid touching its components. l Check the Motherboard for damage. If any chip appears loose, press carefully to seat it firmly in its socket.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Install the Motherboard Follow the steps below in order to perform the installation of your new SY-D6IBA Motherboard. Step 1. Install the CPU : Record the working frequency of your CPU that should be clearly marked on the CPU cover. FSB 66MHz 266MHz (66 x 4.0) 300MHz (66 x 4.5) 333MHz (66 x 5.0) 366MHz (66 x 5.5) 400MHz (66 x 6.0) 433MHz (66 x 6.5) 450MHz (100 x 4.5) 500MHz (100 x 5.0) 550MHz (100 x 5.5) 600MHz (100 x 6.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Note: Installing a heat sink and cooling fan on top of your CPU is necessary for proper heat dissipation. Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burn-out of your CPU. Make Connections to the Motherboard Step 2. For more details on how to connect internal and external peripherals to your new SYD6IBA2 Motherboard, please refer to SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard User's Guide and Technical Reference online manual on CD-ROM.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Step 3. Configure Memory Your board comes with four DIMM sockets, providing support for up to 1GB of main memory using DIMM modules from 8MB to 256MB. For 66MHz front side bus CPUs use 12ns or faster memory; for 100MHz front side bus CPUs use 8ns (100MHz, PC100 compliant) memory.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Step 6. Power Button Enable (JP7) Your system can be power on by either pressing a power button or typing in a password, which can be set in the BIOS SOYO COMBO Setup. To avoid being unable to power up the system due to of forgetting the password, you can place a jumper cap to short JP7. This will always enable the Power Button. JP7 Setting Step 7. Power Button always enabled Short pin to always enable the Power Button.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Note on Over-clocking Capability Hardware Installation The SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard provides over-clocking capability. Due to the over-clocking setting your system may fail to boot up or hang during run time. If this occurs, please perform the following steps to recover your system from the abnormal situation: 1. Turn off system power.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 3 Quick BIOS Setup This Motherboard does not use any hardware jumpers to set the CPU frequency. Instead, CPU settings are software configurable with the BIOS [SOYO COMBO SETUP]. The [SOYO COMBO SETUP] menu combines the main CPU parameters that you need to configure, all in one menu, for a quick setup in BIOS. After the hardware installation is complete, turn the power switch on, then press the key during the system diagnostic checks to enter the Award BIOS Setup program.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 4 The SOYO CD Your SY-D6IBA2 Motherboard comes with a CD-ROM labeled "SOYO CD." The SOYO CD contains the user's manual file for your new Motherboard, the drivers software available for installation, and a database in HTML format with information on SOYO Motherboards and other products. Step 1. Insert the SOYO CD into the CD-ROM drive The SOYO CD The SOYO CD will auto-run, and the SOYO CD Start Up Menu will display as shown below.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Please note that if the Start Up program was unable to determine which SOYO Motherboard you own, the manual selection menu will pop up, as shown below. Then select the user's manual file that corresponds to your Motherboard model name and click OK. SOYO CD Manuals Please select your manual in the box below and click OK.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide The following drivers are available for Windows 95 Driver Installation Please select the driver you want to install and click OK, You will have to restart your system after installation. Only the drivers that are relevant to your board are displayed initially.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide A short description of all available drivers follows: Ø Intel Southbridge Drivers Because Windows 95 does not recognize the Southbridge of the newer Intel chipsets (TX, BX, ZX etc) this utility has to be run, it will update the necessary Windows files. (Only for Windows 95) Ø SOYO SpeedPro Busmaster Driver for Win 95/98 Without the busmaster drivers the CPU will need to be involved every time data is read from or written to the Harddisk.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Note 2: EZ-SCSI Utility: The SCSI utility for use with the onboard Adaptec® SCSI chip is located in the \drivers\EZ-SCSI directory. EZ-SCSI is suitable for DOS or Windows 3.1 environment only. The manual file in PDF format can be found at the following location: \Manual\EZ-SCSI.pdf. Step 4. Check the Latest Releases Click the 'Check the latest Releases' button to go the SOYO Website to automatically find the latest BIOS, manual and driver releases for your motherboard.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 5 SCSI Utilities Ultra2 SCSI I/O Subsystem Your new SYD6IBA2 high-performance Motherboard is equipped with the onboard Adaptec® AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter for your high bandwidth applications, providing data transfer rates of up to 80 Mbytes per second. The Ultra2 SCSI is an input/output bus interface that provides a powerful multitasking interface between your computer’s PCI bus and your SCSI devices.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 68-pin Ultra-Wide SCSI Connector 68-pin Ultra-Wide SCSI internal connector Ultra-Wide SCSI allows you to connect up to 15 devices (7 Narrow internal and 8 Wide internal or external SCSI devices, or 15 Wide internal or external SCSI devices) to the 68-pin Ultra-Wide SCSI connector on the Motherboard. Devices that connect to the 16-bit Wide SCSI bus can transfer data at the maximum rate of 40 Mbytes/sec.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide SCSI Driver Installation Windows® 95 Users This chapter explains how to install the Adaptec 7800 Family Manager Set aic78xx.mpd and aic78u2.mpd drivers for Windows 95. The aic78xx.mpd driver supports all Adaptec7800 Family Ultra2 SCSI (and earlier) host adapters, and the aic78u2.mpd driver supports all Ultra2 SCSI adapters. Refer to the list.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Note: All Adaptec 7800 Family Ultra2 SCSI (and earlier) host adapters use the aic78xx.mpd driver. Ultra2 SCSI adapters use the aic78u2.mpd driver. Once the correct driver is updated, it is not necessary to update it again for each 7800 Family host adapter installed in your system. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Start Windows 95. Click the [Start] button on the Windows 95 task bar, and then point to Settings. Click [Control Panel]. Double-click the [System] icon.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Updating the Driver for Windows 95 (Version OSR2) This section covers the remaining steps for updating the drives. 1. Follow steps 1 through 7 in the Previous section, Installing the Driver When Windows 95 is Already Installed. 2. Click [Update Drivers]. 3. In the Update Device Driver Wizard, select [Yes], then click [Next]. 4. Under Location type a:\win95, then click [OK]. 5. Click [Finish]. 6. The message Please insert the disk labeled ‘7800 Family Manager Set v.3.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Windows® NT Users This chapter explains how to install the Adaptec 7800 Family Manager Set and aic78u2.sys driver for Windows NT. The aic78xx.sys driver supports all Adaptec 7800 Family Ultra2 SCSI (and earlier) host adapters, and the aic78u2.sys driver supports all Ultra2 SCSI adapters. If you are performing a first time Windows NT installation, see Installing the Driver When installing Windows NT.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Note: If you are installing an Ultra2 SCSI host adapter such as the AHA-2940U2W, you cannot select Express setup, because the aic78u2.sys driver is not embedded. Selecting Express setup loads the embedded driver aic78xx.sys included with Windows NT which is for Ultra SCSI adapters only. 6 7 8 9 10 11 Press [S] to skip mass storage device detection. This allows you to manually select the driver for your host adapter.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 7 8 9 Highlight a driver and press [Enter]. To add other host adapters that are not part of the 7800 Family, press [S] and repeat from Step4 for each additional adapter and insert the appropriate driver disk. The Adaptec 7800 Family host adapters use the same driver; it is not necessary to install the driver again. Press [Enter] to continue with the Windows NT operating system setup.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 10 11 12 13 that the new device driver loads when Window s NT reboots. When the installation is complete, Windows NT Setup again displays a list of currently installed host adapter types. Verify that the new host adapter appears on the list. The text string should look similar to: Adaptec AHA-290x/291x/294/4944/AIC-78xx PCI SCSI Controller (NT 3.5x) or Adaptec AHA-290xu/AIC-7890/91 PCI Ultra2 SCSI Controller (NT 3.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Do not edit your registry unless it is absolutely necessary. If there is an error in your registry, your computer may become nonfunctional. Using Windows NT SCSI Parameters Follow the instructions below to enter the registry values that affect how the Windows NT SCSI manager interprets the generic configuration information of SCSI device drivers. All SCSI host adapters installed in your system are affected by the values you enter here. A list of valid values follows.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide 4 5 6 7 8 9 Click on the aic78xx or aic78u2 key. Select [Add] Key from the Edit menu; Type device in the Key Name edit box. Leave the Class edit box blank. Click on the Parameters key. Select [Add] Key from the Edit menu; Type Device in the Key Name edit box. Leave the Class edit box blank. To specify a certain host adapter, append device with the number of the host adapter. For example, type Device0 for the first host adapter, jDevice1 for the second, etc.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide To enter driver-specific parameters, follow these steps: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 SCSI Utilities 10 Select [Run] from the File menu (Windows NT 3.5x), or Run form the Start button (Windows NT 4.0). Type regedt32 and press [Enter].
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Using Windows NT and the Host Adapter This section contains useful information on using Windows NT and your host adapter. Removing a Host Adapter Removing a host adapter can be as simple as physically removing it from the slot when your computer is shut down. Windows NT boots and functions properly in this configuration, but a warning message is generated every time you boot Windows NT.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide Note: Windows NT Setup does not delete the device driver from your system disk; it only updates Windows NT software configuration information so that the device driver is no longer loaded during system bootup. Removing a Host Adapter in Windows NT 4.0 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. From the Control Panel, double-click the [SCSI Adapters] icon. Click the [Drivers] tab. Select the driver you are planning to remove.
SY-D6IBA2 Quick Start Guide To swap adapters, follow these steps: 2. 3. Install the driver for the 7800 Family host adapter by following the steps in Installing the Driver When Windows NT is Already Installed. It is not essential to remove the device driver for the host adapter you are replacing. Windows NT dynamically detects the absence or presence of host adapter hardware, and no problems should arise if you leave the existing device driver installed.
Edition: April 1999 Version 1.0 SY-D6IBA2 SERIAL International Headquarters Soyo Computer Inc., (Taiwan) Tel: 886-2-2290-3300 Fax: 886-2-2298-3322 Web Site: http://www.soyo.com.tw E-mail: info@mail.soyo.com.tw USA Branch Office Soyo Tek Inc., (USA) Tel: (408) 452-7696 Fax: (408) 573-7696 Web Site: http://www.soyousa.com E-mail: sales@soyousa.com SOYO Europe Soyo Europe B.V., (Holland) Tel: 31-79-3637500 Fax: 31-79-3637575 Web Site: http://www.soyo-europe.com http://www.soyo.nl E-mail: Sales@soyo.