ATX KT133BX, User Manual

Page 1: ...KT133TX KT133BX AMD Socket A DuronTM AthlonTM ATX MAINBOARD VER 1 x USER S MANUAL DOC NUMBER UM KT133TX E1 PRINTED IN TAIWAN ...

Page 2: ... ISA SLOT 3 7 3 3 5 BAT1 BATTERY SOCKET 3 7 3 3 6 CN1 CN2 PS 2 MOUSE AND KEYBOARD 3 8 3 3 7 CN3 SERIAL PORT COM 1 CONNECTOR 3 8 3 3 8 CN4 SERIAL PORT COM 2 CONNECTOR 3 8 3 3 9 CN5 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR 3 9 3 3 10 CN6 USB 1 3 9 3 3 11 CN7 USB 2 3 9 3 3 12 CN8 FLOPPY DISK CONNECTOR 3 10 3 3 13 CN9 IDE 1 CONNECTOR 3 10 3 3 14 CN10 IDE 2 CONNECTOR 3 10 3 3 15 CN12 IR CONNECTOR 3 11 3 3 16 CN13 COOLI...

Page 3: ... PERIPHERALS 4 13 4 8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 4 16 4 9 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION 4 21 4 10 PC HEALTH STATUS 4 23 4 11 FREQUENCY VOLTAGE CONTROL 4 24 4 12 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS 4 25 4 13 SET SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 4 26 4 14 SET USER PASSWORD 4 27 4 15 SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING 4 29 5 HOW TO UPDATE THE SYSTEM BIOS 5 1 IMPORTANT AMD Duron and Athlon processors require special care on the CPU cool...

Page 4: ...ways the 5V standby voltage connected to the ATX form factor mainboard Without disconnecting the AC power connector from the PC system the mainboard can be damaged by any improper action WAKE ON LAN In order to support the Wake On LAN feature the system requires a special SPS Switching Power Supply Such power supply must be able to provide at least 700 mA of driving capability on the 5V standby vo...

Page 5: ...nboard It is a high integration power efficient and high compatibility device It supports the PCI bridge functionality to make a complete PC99 compliant PCI ISA system Beside the ISA extension bus functionality there are two channels of PIO and Ultra DMA Bus Master IDE ports to support the most updated Ultra DMA HDD There are one Floppy Disk controller two high speed Serial ports UARTs one multi m...

Page 6: ...can always use the hardware monitoring feature to monitor the system healthy status Basically the hardware monitoring feature will monitor the status of the cooling fan speed CPU voltage and system temperature etc There is also the 3D audio interface designed on the mainboard When the audio interface is installed on the mainboard you need not to invest any on the audio interface card Simply have t...

Page 7: ... Panel Button Chassis Fan AMR CPU Fan ATX Power Connector A COM1 B COM2 C LPT CN16 WOL 1 SPK OUT 2 LINE IN 3 MIC IN 4 MIDI GAME USB3 USB4 SPK PWR LED JP8 Mouse K B USB1 USB2 Sleep LED PCI SLOT PCI SLOT PCI SLOT PCI SLOT CN34 PS 2 Mouse USB2 USB1 COM1 Audio Port Parallel Port K B Game MIDI Port COM 2 Note Audio port CN18 and AMR slot are the optional choices on the mainboard ...

Page 8: ...ET VIA VT8363 and VT82C686A or VT82C686B chipset FRONT SIDE BUS FREQUENCY 200MHz 100MHz DDR Double Data Rate MEMORY Three 168 pin DIMM sockets are designed onboard Supports PC 100 PC 133 and VCM SDRAM Virtual Channel Memory Maximum memory size up to 1 5GB BIOS AWARD System BIOS 2M bit Flash ROM Supports Plug Play ACPI DMI and Green functions EXPANSION SLOTS AGP Slot One 32 bit AGP Slot Supports 1x...

Page 9: ...e on the mainboard HARDWARE MONITORING The hardware monitoring feature is designed on the board to monitor hardware healthy status like system voltage system temperature and cooling fans When the hardware monitoring program is installed in the PC system it will keep monitoring the mainboard status If there is something wrong then you will receive a warning message on the screen display so that you...

Page 10: ... switch Modem ring in RTC alarm or LAN signal 2 Power off soft off by OS or Panel switch 3 Resuming of PC system such as Modem ring in RTC alarm etc 4 Supports Full On Doze Standby Suspend operating modes DIMENSION 1 Width Length 305 mm x 210 mm 2 Height 1 1 2 inches 3 PCB Thickness 4 layers 0 05 inches normal 4 Weight 18 ounces ENVIRONMENT LIMITATION 1 Operating Temperature 10 to 40 50 to 104 2 R...

Page 11: ... most powerful and valuable software tools for your daily work Please refer to the CD for detail function description The color box of the mainboard can protect the mainboard from unexpected damage during the transportation Since this mainboard contains electrostatic sensitive components and it can be easily damaged by static electricity So the mainboard is sealed inside a ESD bag so that the main...

Page 12: ...lease make sure that the chassis is the ATX type so that the mounting hole will match with this mainboard IMPORTANT NOTICE The standby voltage is always active Whenever you are installing any component on the mainboard BE SURE TO DISCONNECT THE POWER CABLE IMPORTANT AMD Duron and Athlon processors require special care on the CPU cooling fan Before you can make sure that the proper cooling fan is i...

Page 13: ...witch and LED to the mainboard refer to Section 3 3 9 Use the ribbon cable to connect the FDD IDE HDD and CD ROM drive 10 Install the VGA card LAN card and FAX Modem card etc 11 Have the power supply connected to the ATX power connector on the mainboard 12 Connect the peripheral devices such as monitor keyboard mouse etc 13 Connect the power cable and power on the PC system 14 When you see the POS...

Page 14: ...he input request for the date and time the RTC Alarm Resume is located in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP please refer to Section 4 8 When you have stored the RTC alarm setting the PC system will be turned on automatically according to the date and time which is recorded in the CMOS memory MODEM RING IN The PC system can be used as a fax machine to send or receive fax messages But most people still use...

Page 15: ...run the BIOS setup utility and enable the Wake Up On LAN Ring option it is located in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP please refer to Section 4 8 for the settings Note This function is not available when using the internal MODEM card WAKE ON LAN WOL There is a WOL connector CN16 on the mainboard which is designed to connect to the signal from a LAN card which supports the Wake On LAN feature When such ...

Page 16: ...the Shut Down from the file menu and the system will be powered off immediately IMPORTANT NOTICE Shut down by O S is always recommended because Shut Down by Power Button under Windows operation may cause data lost of wrong configuration problem Unless your system hangs and you can not use the Shut down by O S to power off the PC system please do not use the power button on the front panel to power...

Page 17: ...ainboard Be sure to remove the power cable from the PC system when installing CPU or any other components onto the mainboard 3 1 INSTALLATION OF CPU The connector on this mainboard where we can install the CPU is the socket A connector as shown in the following picture The front side system bus speed of this mainboard will support up to 200 MHz amazing high speed So you may feel free to install th...

Page 18: ... speed of the cooling fan shall be 6 600 RPM or above The thermal grease must be applied between the heatsink and the CPU to improve the heat dissipation Also please make sure that the heatsink is fastened securely on the CPU to make sure the perfect surface contact so that the heat can be dissipated through the cooling fan Please visit the following site to have more detail of the cooling fan and...

Page 19: ...n the mainboard and you can use the single side or double side DIMM module on the mainboard Please refer to the following picture to see the sockets for DIMM module DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 Picture of Memory sub system Outlook of DIMM module Single Side DIMM module Double Side DIMM Module ...

Page 20: ...uggestion to install the memory Installation of DIMM modules 1 Minimum one DIMM module must be installed on the mainboard 2 Please use 3 3V PC 100 or PC 133 un buffered DIMM module 3 You can use single side or double side DIMM module on this mainboard 4 Please install the DIMM module starting from DIMM1 or DIMM2 first 5 Maximum memory size 1536MB ...

Page 21: ...ipheral devices such as power mouse printer etc Followings are the connectors with its description and the pin assignment which is designed on the mainboard 3 3 1 PCI SLOT There are five PCI slots on the mainboard which you can install PCI add on cards Please refer to the following picture to see the PC slot on the mainboard Five PCI slots on the board DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 ...

Page 22: ...ou can install AGP VGA card AGP slot DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 3 AMR SLOT OPTIONAL There is one AMR slot designed on the mainboard You can install such AMR modem card on the AMR slot Note KT133TXL and KT133BXL do not have AMR slot on the mainboard AMR Slot DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 ...

Page 23: ...slot designed on the mainboard which you can install the ISA interface card ISA Slot DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 5 BAT1 BATTERY SOCKET 3 Volts Lithium battery CR2032 BAT1 Battery Socket Pin Pin name Pin Pin name Battery Positive Ground DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 ...

Page 24: ...PS 2 Mouse Connector PS 2 Keyboard Connector DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 7 CN3 SERIAL PORT COM 1 CONNECTOR 3 3 8 CN4 SERIAL PORT COM 2 CONNECTOR COM 2 COM 1 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 B A C JP8 A COM 1 CN3 B COM 2 CN4 I O address 3F8H 2F8H 3E8H 2E8H IRQ3 IRQ4 selected by CMOS setup ...

Page 25: ...RQ7 or IRQ5 is selectable ECP mode will use either DMA 3 or DMA 1 which can be selected by the BIOS setup program PARALLEL PORT DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 10 CN6 USB 1 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS CONNECTOR 3 3 11 CN7 USB 2 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS CONNECTOR USB 1 USB 2 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 ...

Page 26: ...LOPPY DISK CONNECTOR IRQ6 DMA 2 CN8 FDC Connector DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 13 CN9 IDE 1 CONNECTOR Primary IDE Port 1F0H IRQ 14 3 3 14 CN10 IDE 2 CONNECTOR Secondary IDE Port 170H IRQ 15 CN10 IDE 2 CN9 IDE 1 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 ...

Page 27: ...FAN 1 POWER CONNECTOR CN13 is the cooling fan power connector designed on the mainboard Since it is very close to the Socket A connector so CN13 is recommended to connect to the CPU cooling fan You can see from the BIOS setup program the cooling fan speed When the device driver of the hardware monitoring is installed you can monitor the rotating speed of the CPU cooling fan in the Windows operatio...

Page 28: ...1 2 3 3 3 17 CN15 ATX POWER CONNECTOR ATX Power connector CN15 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 18 CN16 WOL CONNECTOR WAKE ON LAN In order to use the WOL LAN card to trigger the power of the PC system the switching power supply must be able to provide at least 700mA current driving ability on the 5V standby voltage ...

Page 29: ...wer connector designed on the mainboard The location of CN17 is very close to the panel switch connector If you have the chassis cooling fan in your PC system you can have it connected to CN17 to reduce the temperature inside the PC system Ground 12V DC Fan Sense Signal 1 2 3 CN 17 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 20 CN18 AUDIO GAME CONNECTOR OPTIONAL ...

Page 30: ...N18 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 3 21 CN21 CN22 CD IN CONNECTOR CN21 and CN22 are optional The CD IN connectors on the board can be used to connect to the CD ROM audio out There are two different type of connectors designed on the mainboard please check with your CD ROM drive and decide which connector can be used to connect to the CD ROM drive these connectors is absent on KT133TXL and KT133BXL mainboards...

Page 31: ...VIA KT133 ATX MAINBOARD HARDWARE SETUP 3 15 L Left channel audio out R Right channel audio out G Audio Ground ...

Page 32: ... contact your local supplier for the correct USB cable CN30 CN31 USB 3 USB 4 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 3 2 1 4 5 3 4 5 2 1 CN30 CN31 Pin assignment of USB connector CN 31 USB4 CN 30 USB3 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 5 Ground BLACK WIRE 1 5V DC RED WIRE 4 Ground BLACK WIRE 2 DATA WHITE WIRE 3 DATA GREEN WIRE 3 DATA GREEN WIRE 3 DATA WHITE WIRE 4 Ground BLACK WIRE 1 5V DC RED WIRE 5 Ground BLACK WIRE IMPOR...

Page 33: ...p LED connector PW Power On Off Suspend switch PW SL HL RS 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 1 RS Reset Button Connector Pin Signal name Pin1 2 Function 1 Reset Control Open No action 2 Ground Short System Reset 2 HL IDE HDD LED Connector Pin Signal name 1 5V DC Pull up 2 HDD Active Signal 3 SL Sleep LED Connector This LED will be lightened when the AC power is connected and the system is power off darkened when ...

Page 34: ...ON a The system is in Full ON mode a 1 Click on this switch less than 4 seconds the system will be turned into Suspend mode turn into the GREEN mode a 2 Press and hold this switch for more than 4 seconds the system will be powered off b When the system is in Suspend mode b 1 Click on this switch less than 4 seconds the system will return to Full ON mode b 2 Press and hold this switch more than 4 s...

Page 35: ...er LED Connectors SPK 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 PWRLED 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 SPK Speaker connector 1 Pin Signal name 1 5V DC 2 No Connection 3 No Connection 4 Speaker Data Signal 5 PWRLED Front Panel Power LED Connector 1 Pin Signal name 1 Pullup 5V DC for Power LED 2 No Connection 3 Ground 4 No Connection 5 ...

Page 36: ...on by putting the plastic connector plug mini jumper on it The jumper setting is necessary when installing different components onto the mainboard A JP9 CMOS DATA CLEAR BUTTON Basically the BIOS setup program will have all the setting saved in the CMOS memory so that the system BIOS will know how to initialize the core logic of the mainboard In case that you made some wrong setting in the BIOS set...

Page 37: ...m to reconfigure the PC system Note Improper BIOS setting may cause hang up to the PC system Should it be happened you may use JP9 to clear the information which is stored in the CMOS memory and get the PC system back to normal Improper connection may cause permanent damage to the mainboard Please refer to the following steps to clear the CMOS IMPORTANT After you have use JP9 and clear the setting...

Page 38: ...ind from the market this mainboard also has the 133MHz designed onboard to support the CPU which might be using 266MHz or possibly 533MHz system bus frequency in the feature If you find JP8 on the board you can use JP8 to select the front side bus speed between 100MHz and 133 MHz for different CPU Please refer to the following for the setting of JP8 JP8 1 2 3 4 A B C JP8 Setting of JP8 SETTING SYS...

Page 39: ... the 3D sound interface installed on this mainboard Please refer to the following procedure to install the device drivers you don t have to install these device drivers for KT133TXL and KT133BXL mainboards Step1 Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive when Windows requests for the sound card device driver Windows will detects the sound interface Step2 Select D Driver Mainboard VIA Sound directory Step...

Page 40: ...hat there is any error or malfunction detected the BIOS will give a series of beeping sound or display the error message on screen During the power on self test POST the following message appears at the lower left corner of the screen Press DEL to enter SETUP To execute the Award BIOS CMOS Setup program please press the DEL key when you see the above message displayed on the screen and it will tri...

Page 41: ...Management Setup Save Exit Setup PNP PCI Configuration Exit Without Saving PC Health Status ESC Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type From the screen above you will find many different setup screen in the BIOS setup program where you can make the setting of the mainboard configuration In the following sections we are going to give explanation of each s...

Page 42: ...nition of the control keys Arrow Keys Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired item Enter Select the desired item F1 Display the help screen for the selected feature ESC Exit to the previous screen PgUp PgDn Modify or change the content of the highlighted item F5 Retrieves the previous value from CMOS data only the current page setup will be retrieved F7 Loads the SETUP default values ...

Page 43: ...ection fields allow you to select the HDD type which is installed on the primary secondary IDE port Move the selection bar to the appropriate field and then click on the ENTER key and the system BIOS will detect the HDD type automatically Drive A B These two selection fields allow you to select the type of the floppy drive Check the floppy drive installed in the system and then use this field to s...

Page 44: ...o the following for the details to decide whether the PC system will be halted when the system board detects any error during Power On Self Test Base Memory This field shows you the memory installed below the conventional 1MB space Extended Memory This field shows you the memory installed above the 1MB space Total Memory This field shows you the total memory installed in the PC system ...

Page 45: ...Other Device Enabled Protection If this Swap Floppy Drive Disabled Function is enabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled And some attempt to Boot Up NumLock Status On Write data into this Gate A20 Option Fast Area BIOS will show a Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Warning message on Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 Screen and alarm beep Typematic Delay Msec 250 Security Option Setup PS 2 mouse function control ...

Page 46: ... disk partition table CPU Internal Cache External Cache These fields allow you to turn on or turn off the Level 1 and Level 2 cache that built inside the AMD K7 processors CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking This option will enable or disable the ECC checking on the CPU L2 cache The ECC checking will ensure the accuracy of the data stored on the L2 cache Quick Power on Self Test The Quick Power On Self Test...

Page 47: ...mouse port In case that you prefer to connect a serial mouse to the serial port instead of using the PS 2 mouse you may choose Disable in this field so that the IRQ12 can be released for the other devices If you are using the PS 2 mouse please leave this field Enabled OS Select For DRAM 64MB When you are using the OS 2 operating system and the system memory is more than 64MB you will have to selec...

Page 48: ...On Chip USB Enabled USB Keyboard Support Disabled OnChip Sound Auto OnChip Modem Auto CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled PCI Delay Transaction Enabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Enabled AGP Master 1 WS Write Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Read Disabled This section allows you to configure the system based on the features of the VIA KT133 chipset This chi...

Page 49: ...ode to optimize the SDRAM performance Memory Hole In order to improve performance certain space in memory is reserved for ISA cards This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB This field allows you to enable of disable the memory mapping Enabled The memory space between 15 16MB will be remapped for ISA cards Disabled No memory will be remapped PCI Master Pipeline Req This field all...

Page 50: ...just the AGP driving force Choose Manual to key in a AGP Driving Value in the next selection Basically Auto is recommended to avoiding any error in your system AGP Driving Value This item allows you to adjust the AGP driving force AGP Fast Write When Enabled writes to the AGP Accelerated Graphics Port are executed with fast writing mode K7 CLK_CTL Select This field is used to specify the clock con...

Page 51: ... transactions then burst on the PCI bus and non burstable transactions don t PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2 1 PCI 2 Access 1 Retry When disabled PCI 2 will...

Page 52: ...IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard FDD Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 Auto Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto UART 2 Mode Standard IR Function Duplex Half TX RX inverting enable No Yes Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 Onboard Parallel Mode Normal ECP Mode Use DMA 3 Parallel Port EPP Type EPP 1 9 Onboard Legacy Audio Enabled Sound Blaster Disabled SB I O Base Address 220H SB IRQ Select IRQ 5 SB DMA...

Page 53: ...rd party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 66 select Auto to enable BIOS support Init Display First This field allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot of VGA card or AGP first IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports block mode most new d...

Page 54: ...t controller I O address setting Onboard Parallel Port Mode Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel printer port Select Normal Compatible or SPP unless you are certain your hardware and software both support one of the other available modes ECP Mode Use DMA This item allows you to select a DMA channel for the parallel port for use during ECP mode EPP Mode Select This field allows you to ...

Page 55: ...TN Instant off Wake Up Events Press Enter The Power Management Setup allows you to configure you system to most effectively save energy while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use ACPI function This item allows you to enable disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Management ACPI Power Management When click the Enter key on this selection field the following set...

Page 56: ...set time of system inactivity the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active Doze Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the CPU clock will run at slower speed while all other devices still operate at full speed Suspend Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity all devices except the CPU will be shut off PM Control by APM W...

Page 57: ...rts the Display Power Management Signaling DPMS standard of the Video Electronics Standards to select video power management values MODEM Use IRQ This determines the IRQ in which the MODEM can use for power saving purpose This mainboard has the ACPI feature designed on the board and it will wakeup automatically when it detects the incoming modem Ring in signal Before you can use the Ring in signal...

Page 58: ...rimary INTR ON IRQs Activity Monitoring Press Enter VGA When Enabled you can set the VGA awakens the system LPT COM When On of LPT COM any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices or IRQs wakes up the system HDD FDD When On of HDD FDD any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices wakes up the system PCI Master When On of PCI Master any activity from one of the list...

Page 59: ...T ports above can When an I O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur When the operating system is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself and performs the service When set On activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power management mode nor awaken it IRQ3 COM 2 Enabled Item Help IRQ4 COM 1 Enabled Menu L...

Page 60: ...u need the BIOS to configure non boot device PNP OS Installed This item allows you to determine PnP OS is installed or not Reset Configuration Data Normally you leave this field Disabled Select Enabled to reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system ca...

Page 61: ...her designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture DMA Resources When resources are controlled manually assign each system DMA channel as one of the following types depending on the type of device using the interrupt Legacy ISA Devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial port 1 PCI ISA PnP Devices compliant with the Plug and Play sta...

Page 62: ...e above allows you to monitor the PC system healthy status You can check on the related field and monitor the status like voltage Temperature etc Current CPU Temp This field will show you the current CPU temperature Current System Temp This field will show you the current temperature inside the PC system Current CPUFAN1 Speed This field will show you the current CPU Cooling FAN1 speed Current CPUF...

Page 63: ...e presence of devices on DIMM and PCI slots When there is no device presented on some of the PCI or DIMM connector the clock on the related DIMM and PCI slot will be disabled to reduce the Electro Magnetic Interference EMI Spread Spectrum When Spread Spectrum is enabled the EMI radiation on this mainboard will be reduced Clock By Slight Adjust You can use this field to adjust the front side system...

Page 64: ...e the Award BIOS setup program to select the settings you may use this field to load the optimized default which is defined in the system BIOS Basically the optimized default is chosen by the factory and it will give a series of parameters to make sure the best reliability and performance If you lost the CMOS data or you don t know how to complete the setup procedure you may use this option to loa...

Page 65: ...xit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type The SUPERVISOR PASSWORD will be used to check the authority when power on the PC system The Supervisor Password will have different function according to the Security Option setup in Section 4 5 When Setup is selected in Security Option If you want to change the BIOS setting you will have to key in the Supervisor Password so that you can start the BIOS setup prog...

Page 66: ...t different to the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD mentioned in previous section The User Password will have different function according to the Supervisor Password and the Security Option setup in Section 4 5 A When there is the password stored in the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 1 When Setup is selected in Security Option When you use the User Password to log into the BIOS setup program you can only select User Pass...

Page 67: ...ption Users can use the User Password to log into the BIOS setup program and they can make all the change in the BIOS setup program 2 When System is selected in Security Option When turn on the PC system it will request you to enter the Password Without the correct password the PC system will stop and the operation system will not be loaded ...

Page 68: ... Health Status ESC Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type Save Exit Setup This option will save all setup values to CMOS RAM EXIT SETUP routine Move the selection bar to SAVE EXIT SETUP and pressing Enter key then types Y and Enter key the values will be saved and all the information will be stored in the CMOS memory Exit Without Saving This item exit the setup routine witho...

Page 69: ...lease be sure to double check the system BIOS before you can use it to update the system BIOS 3 No interruption is allowed during the BIOS updating When the BIOS updating please do not restart the PC system or turn the power off Otherwise you will have a fragmentary system BIOS in your PC system and it will make you unable to start the PC system If you reset or power off the PC system while the sy...

Page 70: ... Step 2 Prepare for the BIOS updating 1 Windows is the multi task environment and some unexpected interruption can be occurred and stop the BIOS updating Since no interruption is allowed during the BIOS updating so the BIOS updating can not be made under the Windows environment 2 Get a floppy diskette and put it into the floppy disk drive 3 Key in the following command under the DOS prompt C FORMA...

Page 71: ...mply chose N and start to update the system BIO if you want to make a backup copy of the onboard system BIOS then select Y and then give a file name to the backup copy 7 You will see from the screen whether you are going to start the BIOS update If you are sure that the new BIOS is correct and nothing is wrong chose Y to start the BIOS update you can chose N and terminate the BIOS update program 8...