Table of Contents i Pentium Pro Mainboard USER’S MANUAL Table of Contents Chapter 1 System Board Overview Specifications .....................................................................1-1 Component Placement ........................................................1-2 The system block diagram ..................................................1-3 Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Precautions.........................................................................2-1 Connectors..................................
ii Chapter 4 Table of Contents Bus Master IDE Driver
System Board Overview 1-1 Chapter 1 System Board Overview The mainboard is designed for the new generation CPU. It supports the Intel CPU SLOT1(Pentium Pro, PentiumII ..), memory up to 1GB, super I/O, and Green PC functions. The mainboard provide high performance for the server system and meet the necessary of the desktop system for Multi-Media in the future. Specifications 1. CPU: 2. Chipset: 3. Memory(DRAM): 4. On board IDE: 5. On board FDC: 6. On board Fast I/O: 7. I/O slots: 8. BIOS: 9.
1-2 Chapter 1 Component Placement Figure 1-1 Component Locations
System Board Overview 1-3 The System block diagram VRM 8.
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Hardware Setup 2-1 Chapter 2 Hardware Setup This chapter describes the mainboard’s connectors and how to set the mainboard’s jumpers. Precautions You should take the following precautions before you begin working with the motherboard and its components: l Turn off the mainboard’s power, and unplug the power cord. l Unplug all cables connect the mainboard to any external devices. Caution: Make sure you first turn off all power to the system before attaching components to the mainboard.
2-2 Chapter 2 PN2(Pin 1-2) - Hardware Reset Connector Attach the cable from the case’s Reset switch to this connector. Press and hold the reset button for at least one second to reset the system. Pin 1 2 Assignment Reset input Ground PN1(Pin 13-14) - Hardware Suspend Switch (SMI Switch) Attach the cable from the case’s suspend switch (if exist) to this switch. Use this switch to enable/disable the power management function by hardware.
Hardware Setup 2-3 MOUSE - PS/2 Mouse Connector Attach a PS/2 mouse to this 6-pins Din-connector. Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 Assignment Mouse data No connection Ground +5VDC Mouse clock No connection KB - PS/2 Keyboard Connector Attach a keyboard to this 6-pins Din-connector.
2-4 Chapter 2 ATX PWR - ATX Power input Connector Caution: If power supply connectors are not properly attached to ATX PWR, the power supply or add-on cards may be damaged. Attach the connectors from the power supply to ATX PWR. Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Assignment +3.3V +3.
Hardware Setup 2-5 I/O port connectors Name No. of pins IDE1 40 IDE channel 1 connector IDE2 40 IDE channel 2 connector FDC 34 Floppy disk connector LPT 25 Parallel port connector COM1 9 Serial port COM1 connector COM2 9 Serial port COM2 connector USB 8 Universal serial Bus Notes: Description *IDE1, IDE2 are high performance PCI IDE connectors. Up to four IDE interface devices are supported.
2-6 Chapter 2 Jumper Switches You set jumper switches on the mainboard to configure various hardware options. See Figure 1-1 for jumper locations. Throughout this section the following symbols are used to indicate jumper settings. For 3-pin jumpers, the symbols below are used: Short Pins 1 and 2 with a jumper cap. Short Pins 2 and 3 with a jumper cap. For 2-pins jumpers, the following symbols are used: Place the jumper cap over the two pins of the jumper to Short the jumper.
Hardware Setup 2-7 CCMOS - CMOS Discharge Jumper Jumper CCMOS discharge CMOS memory. When you install the mainboard, make sure this jumper is set for Normal Operation(1-2). See the jumper as below.
2-8 Chapter 2 JD1 - DIMM Power Select Setting JD1 5V 3.3V (Default) Installation of CPU The mainboard is equipped with a CPU-SLOT1 slot to accommodate the KP6 CPU card and Intel PentiumII CPU or above. The default clock rate setting for KP6 CPU card is 150MHz and PentiumII CPU is 233MHz depend on autodetect from BIOS. But there is an advantage way for setup menu. The details please refer the chapter 3 “Award BIOS Setup”.
Hardware Setup 2-9 Installation of Memory The mainboard provides four 72-pin SIMM and two 168-pin DIMM sites for memory expansion. The SIMM socket supports 1Mx32(4MB), 2Mx32(8MB), 4Mx32(16MB), 8Mx32(32MB), 16Mx32(64MB), and 32Mx32(128MB) single side or double side SIMM modules. The DIMM socket supports 1Mx64(8MB), 2Mx64(16MB), 4Mx64(32MB), 8Mx64(64MB), 16Mx64(128MB), and 32Mx64(256MB) or double side DIMM modules. Minimum memory size is 8MB and Maximum memory size will be 1GB.
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Award BIOS Setup 3-1 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup All personal computer use a BIOS, or Basic Input / Output system, to provide control for the hardware functions. When system is powered on or reset, the CPU is reset and BIOS will do the following: l l l l l l l l Self-test on CPU. Verify ROM BIOS checksum. Verify CMOS configuration chip. Initialize timer. Initialize DMA controller. Verify system memory and cache memory. Install all BIOS function call utilities.
3-2 Chapter 3 is display. If the [Del] key or Ctrl-Alt-Esc is pressed, the screen will be cleared and then the following message will be shown: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Award BIOS Setup 3-3 CPU SOFT MENU The CPU SOFT MENU is for setting CPU parameter. User can change CPU setting by software easily. In each item press the key, which will display the available option. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) !! CPU SOFT MENU !! AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
3-4 Chapter 3 Standard CMOS Setup Menu The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into several categories. Each category includes none, one, or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the or keys to select the value you want in each item.
Award BIOS Setup 3-5 LBA mode: Logical Block Addressing mode is a new HDD accessing method designed to overcome the 528Megabytes limitation. The number of cylinders, heads, and 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 cylinder, head, and sector number into its own physical address inside the HDD. The maximum HDD size supported by the LBA mode is 8.4Gigabytes.
3-6 Chapter 3 BIOS Features Setup Menu The BIOS Features setup program is equipped with a series of help screens accessed by the key, which will display the available options for a particular configuration feature and special help for some of the options. If you don’t really understand the meanings of each item, please don’t change the following default values. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Award BIOS Setup 3-7 Swap Floppy Drive Enabled changes the sequence of the A: and B: drives. (The Default setting is Disabled.) Boot Up Floppy Seek Enable this item and the BIOS searches for installed floppy disk drives to determine if they are 40 tracks (360K drive) or 80 tracks (720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, or 2.88M drives). Disable this item and the BIOS does not search for floppy drive type by track number. IDE HDD Block Mode This option enables/disables the IDE HDD Block Mode function.
3-8 Chapter 3 Chipset Features Setup Menu The Chipset Features Setup Menu are used to change the parameter of the chipset internal registers. All of these parameters are hardware dependent. A wrong parameters may be caused the mainboard out of order. Run the Chipset Features Setup as follows. 1. Choose “CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP” from the Main Menu and following screen appears. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Award BIOS Setup 3-9 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup option lets you set the system’s power saving functions. 1. Choose “POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP” from the Main Menu. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
3-10 Chapter 3 PM Control by APM Choose No or Yes (Default). APM stands for Advanced Power Management. “Yes” makes your power management more flexible. Video Off Method Choose DPMS, Blank screen, or V/H Sync + Blank (Default). With this item V/H SYNC is controlled by software. If you have a VGA card that is not compatible with the default option, switch to “Blank screen”, even though it consumes more power than “V/H SYNC + Blank”.
Award BIOS Setup 3-11 If the idle time for all PM events is greater than the Standby time you set the system will enter Standby mode, and the CPU speed slows down. If the screen will shut off. Suspend Mode The default setting is Disabled. When the Power Management item is switched to “User Define” you can select a time interval from 1 minute to 1 hour. When the set time elapses without activity the system enters Suspend mode.
3-12 Chapter 3 PCI & Onboard I/O Setup The PCI & Onboard I/O Setup option lets you assign INT#s, IRQs, I/O ports, and other hardware settings to the mainboard’s PCI slots and onboard I/O. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Award BIOS Setup 3-13 PCI IDE Card 2nd Choose Disable or Enable (Default). If the 2nd channel Channel is not used on the PCI IDE card, switch the option to “Disable”. Or IRQ15 can not work on the ISA slots. PCI IDE Card IRQ Map to PCI-Auto: If the BIOS can detect PCI IDE on one of the PCI slots, then the appropriate INT# will be auto-assigned to IRQ14.
3-14 Chapter 3 IR Duplex Mode IR duplex mode Half(Default) or Full selection. Onboard Parallel Port Choose Disable, 3BCh/IRQ7, 278h/IRQ5, or 378h/IRQ7 (Default) to set the on-board parallel port. Parallel Port Mode Choose EPP1.7, EPP1.9, ECP, ECP + EPP1.7, ECP + EPP1.9, PS/2, or Normal (Default) mode. ECP Mode Use DMA Choose DMA channel 1 or channel 3 to set the ECP mode. Onboard IDE Controller This option enables or disables the one board PCI IDE controller.
Award BIOS Setup 3-15 Setting Password This Main Menu item lets you configure the system so that a password is required every time the system boots or an attempt is made to enter the Setup program. Change the password as follows: 1. Choose “PASSWORD SETTING” in the Main Menu and press . The following message appears: “Enter Password:” 2. Enter a password and press . (If you do not wish to use the password function, you can just press and a “Password disabled” message appears.) 3.
3-16 Chapter 3 Standard types of hard disks Type Size Cylinders Heads W-Pcomp L-Zone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 10MB 20MB 30MB 62MB 49MB 21MB 32MB 31MB 117MB 20MB 35MB 49MB 20MB 42MB 20MB 40MB 56MB 59MB 30MB 42MB 30MB 10MB 53MB 69MB 43MB 68MB 40MB 68MB 53MB 93MB 127MB 42MB 10MB 76MB 68MB 40MB 24MB 57MB 40MB 40MB 40MB 48MB 68MB 114MB 152MB 306 615 615 940 940 615 462 733 900 820 855 855 306 733 612 97
Bus Master IDE Driver 4-1 Chapter 4 Bus Master IDE Driver The Intel PIIX3 Bus Master IDE is now include in the mainboard. OS Support: Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5/3.51/4.0, OS/2 V2.x & Warp 3.0 Installation: Each OS has different install procedure, please check README.TXT file under each OS’s directory.
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