CHAINTECH 6AJA4T, User Manual

Page 1: ...ct to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This declaration is given to the manufacturer CHAINTECH EXCEL COMPUTER INC 4427 Enterprise St Fremont CA 94538 U S A http www chaintech excel com Chaintech President Simon Ho Signature EQUIPMENT MAINBOARD M...

Page 2: ...odifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Canadian Department of Communications Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for audio noise emissions from digital apparatusses set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications Manu...

Page 3: ...r Management Setup 21 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 24 3 7 PC Health Status 25 3 8 Frequency Voltage Control 25 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 26 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 26 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 27 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 27 3 13 Exit Without Saving 27 Feature Explanations Feature Explanations Feature Explanations Feature Explanations Feature Explanations Software Power off...

Page 4: ...oting features i e floppy LS120 CD ROM HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPIetc Includes Trend ChipAway Virus protection for virus free boot and virus free operating system Embedded Ultra DMA 66 100 PCI IDE controller Supports two IDE ports up to 4 ATAPI devices Supports up to PIO Mode 4 up to 16 6MBps Multi Mode 4 up to 66MBps and Multi Word Mode 5 up to 100MBps with bus mastering Onboard Ultra I O Two UARTs su...

Page 5: ...CIv1 0compliant Optional USB riser with additional 2 USB ports 1 2 Package Contents This product comes with the following components One mainboard One 40 pin 80 wire UDMA 66 100 IDE connector ribbon cable Figure 1 1 Color coded connection for UDMA 66 100 cable Blue to mainboard Gray to Master and Black to slave One 34 pin floppy disk drive ribbon cable Figure 1 2 One User s Manual One CD ROM that ...

Page 6: ...troduction 1 3 Mainboard Layout PS 2Keyboard USB 1 2 COM1 Line out Line in COM2 JP6A JP8 CN4B CN20 IR1 CN2 CN3 CN4 CN22 FAN1 JP6 JP2A 2B JP4 FAN3 CN1A CN5 CN17 FAN2 JP1 PS 2 Mouse Printer Port GamePort Mic ...

Page 7: ...LED Connector Green Switch GreenLED Connector System Reset Switch Connector Speaker Connector IDE Activity LED Connector CN2 CD ROM Audio in Connector 9 CN3 Auxilliary Audio in Connector 9 CN4 Audio Mono in out Connector CODEC 9 CN4B Optional Bass Center Speaker Connector 9 CN5 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 9 CN17 Blue LED Connector 9 USB1 CN20 USB 1 2 Ports and USB 3 4 Connectors 9 CN22 Front Panel A...

Page 8: ... the same corner of Socket 370 that contains the end of the lever Allow the weight of the CPU to push itself into place Do not apply extra pressure as doing so may result in damaging your CPU Snap the lever back into place Installingaheatsinkwithcoolingfanisnecessaryforproperheatdissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burn out of your CPU The...

Page 9: ...RT button on the Windows 95 task bar Select Shut Down The Computer and the system turns off The message It is now safe to turn off your computer will not be shown when using this function Power On By Modem While in Soft off state if an external modem ring up signal occurs the system wakes up and can be remotely accessed You may enable this function in BIOS s Power Management Setup menu See section...

Page 10: ...r LED Connector The power indicator LED shows the system s power status It is important to pay attention to the correct cables and pin orientation i e not to reverse the order of these two connectors C Green Switch Green LED Connector Some ATX cases provide a Green switch which is used to put the system in Suspend mode In Suspend mode the power supply to the system is reduced to a trickle the CPU ...

Page 11: ...t run at that ratio depending on the quality of your CPU and the extent to which the ratio has been overset Power On By USB 1 2 and 3 4 JP6 JP6A ThisboardisabletobeturnedonbyaUSBkeyboardhotkey or a USB mouse click To use this function select a hot key of your choice at the USB Resume From S3 option under Wake Up Events in the BIOS s Power On Management screen You must also set both jumper s cap to...

Page 12: ...e this function This header is used to connect an add in NIC Network Interface Card which gives WOL capability to the mainboard Blue LED Connector CN17 This feature work entirely the same as the power indicator LED both shows the system s power status The only difference is that this one is blue while the other is red LED USB 1 2 Ports and USB 3 4 Connector USB1 CN20 If you want to use a USB Keybo...

Page 13: ...12 to the PS 2 mouse 2 4 Main Memory Configuration The DRAM memory system consists three banks and the memory size ranges from 32 512MBytes If you only use one bank it does not matter which one you use and if you use two or more banks it does not matter which bank you install first DRAM Specifications DIMM type 3 3V 64 72 bit Synchronous DRAM Module size Single double sided 32 64 128 256 512MBytes...

Page 14: ...e key to enter the Award BIOS setup program The primary screen as shown in Figure 3 1 is a list of the menus and functions available in the setup program Select the desired item and press enter to make changes Operating commands are located at the bottom of this and all other BIOS screens When a field is highlighted on line help information is displayed on the right side of the screen Select Item ...

Page 15: ...r timed events such as power management saving files etc are based on this timer HardDiskSetup Primary Secondary Master Slave This category identifies up to four IDE hard disk drives that have been installed in the computer This section does not show information on other IDE devices such as CD ROM drives or other hard drive types such as SCSI drives CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award S...

Page 16: ...nt in your system You can ignore this setting if you are using a VGA monitor since VGA BIOS automatically configures this setting Halt When the system is powered on BIOS performs a series of diagnosis tests called POST Power On Self Test This function stops the computer if BIOS detects a hardware error You can tell BIOS to halt on all errors no errors or not to halt on specific errors ...

Page 17: ... employs rule based logic that doesn t look for specific viruses but rather detects patterns found in every virus eliminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found Item Help Menu Level Figure3 3AdvancedBIOSFeaturesScreen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 Genera...

Page 18: ...boot up is better than loosing data during your work First Second Third Boot Other Device This option sets the sequence of drives BIOS attempts to boot from after POST completes BIOS will search these drives for an operating system Swap Floppy Drive Enabling this function will swap the floppy drive assignment so that drive A will function as drive B and drive B will function as drive A Note that t...

Page 19: ... set the item value to Non OS 2 for all other operating systems I Shadow Memory Software such as system BIOS video BIOS SCSI BIOS etc that resides in ROM ReadOnlyMemory chipsiscalledfirmware Shadowingoffirmwareoccurswhen BIOS is copied to RAM address C0000h through DFFFFh Video BIOS loads into the C0000 C7FFF memory area when video shadowing is enabled If an expansion peripheral in your system con...

Page 20: ...s in this setup menu You can look on the world wide web for helpful chipset and RAM configuration information including AWARD s web site at http www award com A DRAM Timing By SPD The function allows you to enable or disable the DRAM timing by SPD When Disabled you can select the DRAM Clock SDRAM Cycle Length and Bank Interleave configuration B SDRAM Cycle Length When synchronous DRAM is installed...

Page 21: ...t Caching the system BIOS results in better performance than shadowing the system BIOS as discussed in Section 3 2 F Video RAM Cacheable Enabling this function will allows caching of the video RAM resulting in better system performance However if any programs write to this memory area a system error may occur G AGP Aperture Size This function determines the amount of system memory that is given to...

Page 22: ...rminate this function set it to disabled J PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states K 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 ...

Page 23: ... By choosing the Integrated Peripherals option from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Figure 3 1 the screen below is displayed This sample screen contains the manufacturer s default values for the mainboard CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help Menu Level OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Primary Slave PIO Seco...

Page 24: ...ur IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read writes per sector the drive can support F Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install an add in FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this ...

Page 25: ...er Management Power management allows the computer to save electricity when it is not in use by entering increasingly deep power saving modes as shown by the diagram below C Video Off Option This setting allow you to selects the power saving modes during which the monitor goes blank Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure3 6 PowerM...

Page 26: ...ions E Modem Use IRQ If your computer has an modem use this function to tell BIOS which IRQ is being occupied by the modem card When the system is in Green mode the modem requires an IRQ assignment to wake up the system and perform tasks This assignment is compliant with the APM 1 2 specification and is to be used in coordination with APM 1 2 compliant operating systems F Soft Off by PWR BTN When ...

Page 27: ... Resources Controlled By When set to Manual the system BIOS will not refer to the ESCD for IRQ DMA information Instead it will refer to the items in the setup menu for assigning IRQ DMA When set to Auto the system BIOS will refer to the ESCD for all legacy information ESCD Extended System Configuration Data provides a detailed format of the configuration data structures stored in flash memory Each...

Page 28: ...B CPU Host PCI Clock ThiefeatureallowyourtoselectatimingcombinationfortheCPUandthePCI bus Figure3 8 PCHealthStatusScreen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software PC Health Status Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Item Help Menu Level Current CPU Temp Current System Temp Current CPU FAN Speed...

Page 29: ...ized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Setup Saving Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configur PC Health Status CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Esc Quit F10 Save Exit Setup Select Item Load Fail Safe Defaults Figure3 10 LoadFail SafeDefaultsScreen Load Fail Safe Defa...

Page 30: ...password and supervisor password selected in BIOS Figure 3 1 The main purpose of separating user and supervisor is to allow only the supervisor to have control over the settings in BIOS The user on the other hand is only allowed to access the computer s operating system and change the user password in BIOS Note that when there is no supervisor password set the user password controls access to all ...

Page 31: ...y menu See Chapter 3 Don t turn off or restart your system during programming process Make sure that your floppy diskette have only one BIN file to aviod confussion FLASH MEMORY WRITER V 7 52C C Award Software 2000 All Right Reserved Warning Don t Turn Off Power Or Reset System Write OK No Update Write Fail For XXX XXXXXXX 6A69MC3DC 0 DATE 01 20 2001 Flash Type XXXXX E82802AB 3 xV 1Mb File Name to...

Page 32: ...or Equivalent Backup depends on your O S type Smart Backup FAT16 32 format i e Win 95 98 O S Backup space is the actual system space used Equivalent Backup NTFS format i e Windows 2000 NT Backup space equivalent to the drive space where the O S located Utility Installation 1 Enable the HDD Instant Recovery in the BIOS Features setup from the CMOS Setup Utility menu Save and exit to reboot 2 Upon s...

Page 33: ...1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Selet Defragmenter by pressing Alt F3 key 2 You will be prompt to confirmed defragment your drive Type Y and press Enter key 3 Wait for the defrgmentation process to finish and the system will automatically reboot H Hard Disk Copy 1 Upon system boot up the HDD Instant Recovery Utility will be shown on the screen Sel...

Page 34: ...samplesusingPCRAM SupportsHRTF3DpositionalaudiowithMSDS DS3D DirectMusic AurealA3D andCreativeEAX EnvironmentAudioExtensions C3DXAPIs 6 ChannelspeakeraudiosupportforHomeTheaterenvironment SupportsFiberOpticmoduleforInternetmusic PC andMDconnections SupportsMIDIanddualgameports Embedded32OHM 5wearphoneamplifier Multi Speakers System The CMedia 8738 Audio subsystem provides 3 wave channels front rea...

Page 35: ... mixer and when youenablethisoption itmeanstherearspeakersareconnectedtoLine in Rear jack When Line in Rear jack is connected to other external Line in sources pleaseDONOTenablethisoptioninordertoavoidhardwareconflicts Regarding rearspeakeroption youcanturnONorturnOFFtheoutputofthebackspeakers andadjustthevolume tohavetherear frontspeakershavethesamevolume Note Youcantestyourmulti channelsystem by...