MSI MS-6721, User Manual

Page 1: ...i Version 1 1 G52 M6721X2 G22 650GLMS Series MS 6721 v1 X Micro ATX Mainboard ...

Page 2: ...e with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense Notice 1 The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party respon sible for compliance could void the user s authority to o...

Page 3: ...on Windows 98 2000 NT XP are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Netware is a registered trademark of Novell Inc Award is a registered trademark of Phoenix Technologies Ltd AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc Revision History Revision Revision History Date V1 0 First release for PCB 1 x Oct 2002 V1 1 BIOS Update for PCB 1 x Nov 2002 TechnicalSupport If a problem ari...

Page 4: ...r module 9 All cautions and warnings on the equipment should be noted 10 Never pour any liquid into the opening that could damage or cause electri cal shock 11 If any of the following situations arises get the equipment checked by a service personnel z The power cord or plug is damaged z Liquid has penetrated into the equipment z The equipment has been exposed to moisture z The equipment has not w...

Page 5: ...Live Monitor 1 8 Chapter2 HardwareSetup 2 1 Quick Components Guide 2 2 Central Processing Unit CPU 2 3 CPU Core Speed Derivation Procedure 2 3 CPU Installation Procedures for Socket 478 2 4 Installing the CPU Fan 2 5 Memory 2 7 Introduction to SDRAM 2 7 Installing DIMM Modules 2 8 DIMM Module Combination 2 8 Power Supply 2 9 ATX 20 Pin Power Connector CONN1 2 9 ATX 12V Power Connector ATX1 2 9 Bac...

Page 6: ...s Intrusion Switch Connector JCASE1 2 18 Front Panel Connectors JFP1 JFP2 2 19 Front Panel Audio Connector JAUD1 2 20 Front USB Connectors JUSB1 2 21 Jumpers 2 22 Clear CMOS Jumper JBAT1 2 22 Slots 2 23 PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots 2 23 PCI Interrupt Request Routing 2 23 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 3 1 Entering Setup 3 2 Control Keys 3 2 Getting Help 3 3 The Main Menu 3 4 Standard CMOS Fea...

Page 7: ...vii PC Health Status 3 24 Frequency Voltage Control 3 25 Load Fail Safe Optimized Defaults 3 26 Set Supervisor User Password 3 27 Troubleshooting T 1 Glossary G 1 ...

Page 8: ... ATX mainboard The 650GLMS is based on SiS 650GLMD L 702pinBGA SiS 962LHyperZipMediaI O 371 BGA chipsets and provides 6 USB 2 0 ports for high speed data transmission With all these special designs the 650GLMS L delivers a high performance and professional desk top platform solution Getting Started ...

Page 9: ...sures concurrency of up down stream data transfer with 1 2GB s bandwidth Integrated HyperZip connect to PCI bridge Dual IDE Master Slave controller Integrated USB 2 0 1 1 host controller and Fast Ethernet MAC controller Integrated audio controller with AC97 interface Advanced power management and PC2001 compliance Integrated RTC and DMA interrupt and keyboard controller Integrated PCI to LPCC brid...

Page 10: ... audio performance requirement LAN Optional hSiS integrated MAC Realtek 8201BL PHY Support 10Mb s and 100Mb s auto negotiation operation Compliance with PCI v2 2 and PC99 standard h Supports Wake On LAN h Supports ACPI power management BIOS h 2MB Award BIOS with Plug and Play BIOS ACPI SMBIOS 2 3 Green and Boot Block hProvides DMI 2 0 WFM 2 0 WOL chassis intrusion and SMBus for system management D...

Page 11: ...USB1 AT X P o w e r S u p p ly SYSFAN1 CPUFAN1 JBAT1 BIOS PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 1 I D E 1 I D E 2 JCASE1 Top Parallel Port Bottom COM A VGA port Top mouse Bottom keyboard Top LAN Jack Bottom USB ports JCD1 Codec Realtek 82801BL Winbond W83697HF ATX1 Top Game port Bottom Line Out Line In Mic F D D 1 D I M M 1 D IM M 2 JSMI1 ...

Page 12: ...e is abnormal the program main screen will be immediately shown on the screen with the abnormal item highlighted in red This will continue to be shown until the condition returns to the normal status Users can use the Adjusting Keys to change the minimum and maximum threshold of each item for the system to send out a warning message Click Temperature to select the temperature modes of either Fahre...

Page 13: ...y depending on your system s status To better protect the CPU from overheating a new feature COOLER XP has been added to decrease the temperature of AMD Athlon XP CPU To do so simply click COOLER XP and the screen will show the Cute skin as shown below with information about the CPU and chipset Right click the mouse to select the skin you want to switch to Cute ...

Page 14: ...d the fol lowing screen will appear Five buttons are placed on the leftmost pane of the screen Click the desired button to start the update process z z z z z Live BIOS Updates the BIOS online z z z z z Live Driver Updates the drivers online z z z z z Live VGA BIOS Updates the VGA BIOS online z z z z z Live VGA Driver Updates the VGA driver online z z z z z Live Utility Updates the utilities online...

Page 15: ... icon at the lower right corner of the taskbar and the following dialog box will appear You can specify how often the system will automatically search for the BIOS drivers version or change the LAN settings right from the dialog box You can right click the MSI Live Monitor icon to perform the functions listed below z z z z z Auto Search Searches for the BIOS drivers version you need immediately z ...

Page 16: ...ules and expansion cards as well as how to setup the jump ers on the mainboard Also it provides the instructions on con necting the peripheral devices such as the mouse keyboard etc While doing the installation be careful in holding the components and follow the installation procedures Hardware Setup ...

Page 17: ...ide DDR DIMMs p 2 7 CPU p 2 3 Back Panel I O p 2 11 FDD1 p 2 15 JFP1 p 2 19 JUSB1 p 2 21 PCI Slots p 2 23 IDE1 IDE2 p 2 16 JFP2 p 2 19 ATX1 p 2 9 JAUD1 p 2 20 CONN1 p 2 9 JBAT1 p 2 22 JCASE1 p 2 18 JCD1 p 2 18 CPUFAN1 p 2 17 SYSFAN1 p 2 15 JSMI1 p 2 15 ...

Page 18: ...CPU make sure the CPU has a heat sink and a cooling fan attached on the top to prevent overheating If you do not find the heat sink and cooling fan contact your dealer to pur chase and install them before turning on the computer MSI Reminds You Overheating Overheating will seriously damage the CPU and system al ways make sure the cooling fan can work properly to protect the CPU from overheating Re...

Page 19: ...ed the pins should be completely embedded into the socket and can not be seen Please note that any violation of the correct installation procedures may cause permanent damages to your mainboard 5 Press the CPU down firmly into the socket and close the lever As the CPU is likely to move while the lever is being closed always close the lever with your fingers pressing tightly on top of the CPU to ma...

Page 20: ...f the CPU Follow the instructions below to install the Heatsink Fan 2 Position the heatsink onto the reten tion mechanism 1 Locate the CPU and its retention mechanism on the motherboard 3 Mount the fan on top of the heatsink Press down the fan until its four clips get wedged in the holes of the reten tion mechanism 4 Press the two levers down to fasten the fan Each lever can be pressed down in onl...

Page 21: ...2 6 650GLMS Micro ATX Mainboard 5 Connect the fan power cable from the mounted fan to the 3 pin fan power connector on the board fan power cable NOTES ...

Page 22: ...chips but have sophisticated features that make them considerably faster First SDRAM chips are fast enough to be synchronized with the CPU s clock which eliminates wait states Second the SDRAM chip is divided into two cell blocks and data is interleaved be tween the two so that while a bit in one block is being accessed the bit in the other is being prepared for access This allows SDRAM to burst t...

Page 23: ...at each side of the DIMM slot will automatically close DIMM Module Combination At least one DIMM module should be installed on the motherboard Memory modules can be installed on the slots in any order The single double sided memory modules that each DIMM slot supports are listed as below S Single Side D Double Side Slot Memory Module Total Memory DIMM 2 Bank 2 3 S D 64MB 1GB Maximum System Memory ...

Page 24: ...nect to the ATX power supply make sure the plug of the power supply is inserted in the proper orientation and the pins are aligned Then push down the power supply firmly into the connector ATX 12V Power Connector ATX1 This 12V power connector is used to provide power to the CPU PIN SIGNAL 1 GND 2 GND 3 12V 4 12V ATX1 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL 11 3 3V 12 12V 13 GND 14 PS_ON 15 GND 16 GND 17 GND 18 ...

Page 25: ...2 mouse You can plug a PS 2 mouse directly into this connector The connector location and pin assignments are as follows PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 Mouse DATA Mouse DATA 2 NC No connection 3 GND Ground 4 VCC 5V 5 Mouse Clock Mouse clock 6 NC No connection Pin Definition PS 2 Mouse 6 pin Female 2 1 3 4 5 6 Mouse Parallel USB Ports Keyboard L in MIC L out LAN Optional COMA VGA Port Midi Joystick ...

Page 26: ...Pin Definition PS 2 Keyboard 6 pin Female 2 1 3 4 5 6 USB Connectors The mainboard provides a UHCI Universal Host Controller Interface Universal Serial Bus root for attaching USB devices such as keyboard mouse or other USB compatible devices You can plug the USB device directly into the connector PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 VCC 5V 2 Data 0 Negative Data Channel 0 3 Data0 Positive Data Channel 0 4 GND...

Page 27: ...tect 2 SIN Serial In or Receive Data 3 SOUT Serial Out or Transmit Data 4 DTR Data Terminal Ready 5 GND Ground 6 DSR Data Set Ready 7 RTS Request To Send 8 CTS Clear To Send 9 RI Ring Indicate Pin Definition 9 Pin Male DIN Connector 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 VGA Connector optional The mainboard provides a DB 15 pin female connector to connect a VGA monitor Pin Signal Description 1 RED 2 GREEN 3 BLUE 4 N C...

Page 28: ...or for microphones 1 8 Stereo Audio Connectors Line Out Line In MIC RJ 45 LAN Jack Optional The mainboard provides one standard RJ 45 jack for connection to Lo cal Area Network LAN You can connect a network cable to the LAN jack Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 TDP Transmit Differential Pair 2 TDN Transmit Differential Pair 3 RDP Receive Differential Pair 4 NC Not Used 5 NC Not Used 6 RDN R...

Page 29: ...rt ECP mode 13 1 14 25 PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 STROBE Strobe 2 DATA0 Data0 3 DATA1 Data1 4 DATA2 Data2 5 DATA3 Data3 6 DATA4 Data4 7 DATA5 Data5 8 DATA6 Data6 9 DATA7 Data7 10 ACK Acknowledge 11 BUSY Busy 12 PE Paper End 13 SELECT Select 14 AUTO FEED Automatic Feed 15 ERR Error 16 INIT Initialize Printer 17 SLIN Select In 18 GND Ground 19 GND Ground 20 GND Ground 21 GND Ground 22 GND Ground 23 GN...

Page 30: ...Connector FDD1 The mainboard provides a standard floppy disk drive connector that supports 360K 720K 1 2M 1 44M and 2 88M floppy disk types Connectors FDD1 Power Saving Switch Connector Connector JSMI1 Attach a power saving switch to this connector Pressing the switch once will have the system enter the sleep suspend state Press any key to wake up the system JSMI1 ...

Page 31: ...IDE1 Primary IDE Connector The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1 IDE1 can connect a Master and a Slave drive You must configure second hard drive to Slave mode by setting the jumper accordingly IDE2 Secondary IDE Connector IDE2 can also connect a Master and a Slave drive MSI Reminds You If you install two hard disks on cable you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by se...

Page 32: ...he 12V the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND If the mainboard has a System Hardware Moni tor chipset on board you must use a specially designed fan with speed sensor to take advantage of the CPU fan control MSI Reminds You 1 Always consult the vendors for proper CPU cooling fan 2 CPUFAN1 supports the fan control You can install the PC Alert utility that will automatically control...

Page 33: ... L R Chassis Intrusion Switch Connector JCASE1 This connector is connected to a 2 pin chassis switch If the chassis is opened the switch will be short The system will record this status and show a warning message on the screen To clear the warning you must enter the BIOS utility and clear the record JCASE1 ...

Page 34: ...SG LED pull up 3 HD_LED_N Hard disk active LED 4 FP PWR SLP MSG LED pull up 5 RST_SW_N Reset Switch low reference pull down to GND 6 PWR_SW_P Power Switch high reference pull up 7 RST_SW_P Reset Switch high reference pull up 8 PWR_SW_N Power Switch low reference pull down to GND 9 RSVD_DNU Reserved Do not use JFP1 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 GND 2 SPK 3 SLED 4 BUZ 5 PLED 6 BUZ 7 NC 8 SP...

Page 35: ...udio circuits 5 AUD_FPOUT_R Right channel audio signal to front panel 6 AUD_RET_R Right channel audio signal return from front panel 7 HP_ON Reserved for future use to control headphone amplifier 8 KEY No pin 9 AUD_FPOUT_L Left channel audio signal to front panel 10 AUD_RET_L Left channel audio signal return from front panel JAUD1 Pin Definition JAUD1 1 2 9 10 MSI Reminds You If you don t want to ...

Page 36: ...eases data transfer rate up to a maximum throughput of 480Mbps which is 40 times faster than USB 1 1 and is ideal for connecting high speed USB inter face peripherals such as USB HDD digital cameras MP3 players printers modems and the like PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 VCC 2 VCC 3 USB0 4 USB1 5 USB0 6 USB1 7 GND 8 GND 9 Key 10 USBOC JUSB1 Pin Definition JUSB1 USB 2 0 Intel spec 1 9 2 10 ...

Page 37: ...l battery to keep the data of system configuration With the CMOS RAM the system can automatically boot OS every time it is turned on If you want to clear the system configuration use the JBAT1 Clear CMOS Jumper to clear data Follow the instructions below to clear the data Jumpers MSI Reminds You You can clear CMOS by shorting 2 3 pin while the system is off Then return to 1 2 pin position Avoid cl...

Page 38: ...s for the expansion card such as jumpers switches or BIOS configuration The motherboard provides three 32 bit PCI bus slots PCI Slots PCI Interrupt Request Routing The IRQ abbreviation of interrupt request line and pronounced I R Q are hardware lines over which devices can send interrupt signals to the microprocessor The PCI IRQ pins are typically connected to the PCI bus INT A INT D pins as follo...

Page 39: ...Setup program and allows you to configure the system for optimum use You may need to run the Setup program when An error message appears on the screen during the system booting up and requests you to run SETUP You want to change the default settings for customized features BIOS Setup ...

Page 40: ...essing Ctrl Alt and Delete keys Control Keys Move to the previous item Move to the next item Move to the item in the left hand Move to the item in the right hand Enter Select the item Esc Jumps to the Exit menu or returns to the main menu from a submenu PU Increase the numeric value or make changes PD Decrease the numeric value or make changes F1 General help only for Status Page Setup Menu and Op...

Page 41: ...nter to call up the sub menu Then you can use the con trol keys to enter values and move from field to field within a sub menu If you want to return to the main menu just press Esc General Help F1 The BIOS setup program provides a General Help screen You can call up this screen from any menu by simply pressing F1 The Help screen lists the appropriate keys to use and the possible selections for the...

Page 42: ...mance Integrated Peripherals Use this menu to specify your settings for integrated peripherals Power Management Setup Use this menu to specify your settings for power management PNP PCI Configurations This entry appears if your system supports PnP PCI PC Health Status This entry shows your PC health status Once you enter Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility the Main Menu Figure 1 will appear on the scree...

Page 43: ...rmance but the system stability may be affected Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load factory default settings into the BIOS for stable system performance operations Set Supervisor Password Use this menu to set Supervisor Password Set User Password Use this menu to set User Password Save Exit Setup Save changes to CMOS and exit setup Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes and exit setup ...

Page 44: ...ad only month The month from Jan through Dec date The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by numeric function keys year The year can be adjusted by users Time The time format is hour minute second IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave Press PgUp or PgDn to select Manual None or Auto type Note that the specifications of your drive must match with the drive table The hard disk will not work properly if you ...

Page 45: ... 2 88M 3 5 in Floppy 3 Mode Support The item allows you to set the Floppy 3 Mode Available options are Disabled Drive A Drive B Both Video The setting controls the type of video adapter used for the primary monitor of the system Available options EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 MONO Halt On The setting determines whether the system will stop if an error is detected at boot Available options are All Errors T...

Page 46: ...en and beep Settings Disabled Enabled CPU L1 L2 Cache The item allows you to turn on or off CPU s internal L1 and external L2 cache Settings Enabled Disabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking This field is used to enable or disable the CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking function Settings Enabled Disabled 1st 2nd 3rd Boot Device The items allow you to set the sequence of boot devices where BIOS attempts to load the...

Page 47: ...led allows the system to try to boot from other device if the system fails to boot from the 1st 2nd 3rd boot device Swap Floppy Setting to Enabled will swap floppy drives A and B Seek Floppy Setting to Enabled will make BIOS seek floppy drive A before booting the system Settings Disabled Enabled Boot Up Num Lock Status This setting is to set the Num Lock status when the system is powered on Settin...

Page 48: ...on This specifies the type of BIOS password protection that is implemented Settings are described below APIC Mode This field is used to enable or disable the APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Due to compliance to PC2001 design guide the system is able to run in APIC mode Enabling APIC mode will expand available IRQs resources for the system Settings Enabled Disabled Option Descriptio...

Page 49: ...e consult the vendor of your operating system Settings 1 4 1 1 HDD S M A R T Capability This allows you to activate the S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology capability for the hard disks S M A R T is a utility that monitors your disk status to predict hard disk failure This gives you an opportunity to move data from a hard disk that is going to fail to a safe place before the ha...

Page 50: ...s MSI Reminds You Change these settings only if you are familiar with the chipset Advanced DRAM Control 1 Press Enter and the following sub menu appears System Performance The field specifies the System Performance Mode Settings Safe Mode Normal Mode Fast Mode Turbo Mode and Ultra Mode ...

Page 51: ...1T T clock cycles rate Selecting MA 1T makes SDRAM signal controller run at 2T rate 1T is faster than 2T Setting options Auto MA2T MA1T AGP Aperture Size MB This setting controls just how much system RAM can be allocated to AGP for video purposes The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated to graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarde...

Page 52: ...ontrollers Settings Disabled Primary Secondary Both IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO The four IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device The settings are Auto...

Page 53: ...etting to Enabled will open DMA bus master and execute DMA action in DOS which will make the data transferring faster Settings Disabled Enabled SiS On Chip PCI Device Press Enter and the following sub menu appears SiS USB Controller Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have USB peripherals Settings Enabled Disabled USB 2 0 Supports These item is used...

Page 54: ...ble disable the 10 100M Ethernet function Settings Enabled Disabled Onboard Lan Boot ROM This item is used to decide wheather to invoke the Boot ROM of the Onboard LAN Chip Settings Enabled Disabled SiS On Chip PCI Device Press Enter and the following sub menu appears Onboard FDC Controller This is used to enable or disable the onboard Floppy controller Onboard Serial Port 1 This item specifies th...

Page 55: ...Normal Standard Parallel Port Bi Directional Mode EPP Mode Select This item selects the EPP mode Settings EPP1 9 EPP1 7 Game Port Address This item is used to specify the address for the onboard game port Settings Disabled 201 209 Midi Port Address The field specifies the base I O port address for the onboard Midi Port Settings Disabled 330 300 290 Midi Port IRQ The item is used to select the IRQ ...

Page 56: ...rdware maintains all system context S3 STR The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where the information of system configuration and open applications files is saved to main memory that remains powered while most other hardware components turn off to save energy The information stored in memory will be used to restore the system when a wake up event occurs Power Management This item is used to se...

Page 57: ...the computer enters the suspend sleep mode but if the button is pressed for more than four seconds the computer is turned off Disabled Disable the Hot Key Function HDD Off After After the selected period of system inactivity the Hard Disk will be shut off Setting options Disabled 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mins Power Button Function This feature allows users to configure the Power Button function Settings are ...

Page 58: ...be awakened from power saving modes when activity or input signal of the specified hardware peripheral or component is detected IRQ and Break Suspend These fields specify whether the system will be awakened from power saving modes when activity or input signal of the specified hardware peripheral or component is detected MACPME Power Up Control These fields specify whether the system will be awake...

Page 59: ...sume By Alarm Settings NA 1 12 Date of Month Alarm When Resume By Alarm is set to Enabled the field specifies the date for Resume By Alarm Settings 0 31 Time hh mm ss Alarm When Resume By Alarm is set to Enabled the field specifies the time for Resume By Alarm Format is hour minute second Reload Global Timer Events Primary Secondary IDE FDD COM LPT Ports PCI PIRQ A D The global timer is the hardwa...

Page 60: ...ata NVRAM Non volatile Random Access Memory is where the BIOS stores resource information for both PNP and non PNP devices in a bit string format When the item is set to Enabled the system will reset ESCD NVRAM right after the system is booted up and then set the setting of the item back to Disabled automatically Settings Disabled Enabled Resources Controlled By The Award Plug and Play BIOS has th...

Page 61: ...evices designed for PCI bus architecture Legacy ISA The IRQ will be reserved for further request PCI VGA Palette Snoop PCI VGA palette is the set of colors currently used by the video device Some special VGA cards may not show colors correctly and need to look into the video device s VGA palette to determine what colors are in use Then you have to turn on the palette snoop permitting the palette r...

Page 62: ... to Enabled later Settings Enabled Reset Disabled CPU Warning Temperature If the CPU temperature reaches the upper limit preset in this setting the warning mechanism will be activated This helps you to prevent the CPU overheating problem System Temperature CPU Temperature CPU Fan Speed System Fan Speed Vcore 3 3 V 5 V 12 V 12 V 5 V VBAT V 5VSB V These items display the current status of all of the...

Page 63: ...e motherboard clock generator pulses the extreme values spikes of the pulses creates EMI Electromagnetic Interference The Spread Spectrum function reduces the EMI generated by modulating the pulses so that the spikes of the pulses are reduced to flatter curves If you do not have any EMI problem leave the setting at Disabled for optimal system stability and performance But if you are plagued by EMI...

Page 64: ...e mainboard manufacturer specifically for optimal performance of the mainboard The Fail Safe Defaults are the default values set by the BIOS vendor for stable system performance When you select Load Fail Safe Defaults a message as below appears Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal system performance When you select Load Optimized Defaults a message as below appears ...

Page 65: ...st press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will show up confirming the password will be disabled Once the password is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup without entering any password When a password has been set you will be prompted to enter it every time you try to enter Setup This prevents an unauthorized person from changing any part of your system c...

Page 66: ... I boot up my system I saw that Award BIOS is being used A Phoenix Award already merged as one company All MSI motherboard using Award BIOS comes with Phoenix logo sticker Q HowdoIknowwhatMSID LEDorD bracketlightmean A Please follow the special tech issue http www msi com tw support techexpress special_tech smartled htm Q I have got MSI Motherboard and when it says detecting drives it detects them...

Page 67: ...g suggestions 1 Dont install zonealarm 2 Disable WebTrap of PC cillion 2000 3 Disable any web based anti virus Software Q Can Live Update Series support WinXP A Live Update Series version 215 can support WinXP Download it from http www msi com tw support liveupdate livedriver htm Q AfterflashingtheBIOS mysystemforunknownreasondontwanttoboot whatshouldIdo A Please refer to the following suggestions...

Page 68: ... Upon boot up the 1st line appearing after the memory count is the BIOS version It is usually in the format 1 For older model number AG76091096where 1stdigitreferstoBIOSmakerasA AMI R W AWARD R P PHOENIX R 2nd digit refers to the internal chipset code 3rd digit refers to the processor class as 5 486 7 586 8 686 4th digit is incremental 091096 refers to the date this BIOS is released 2 For newer mo...

Page 69: ...press and hold Ctrl Home to force update It will read the AMIBOOT ROM file and recover the BIOS from the A drive When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk and restart the computer For Award BIOS Make a bootable floopy disk Copy the Award flash utility BIOS file to the said floppy disk Create an autoexec bat with awdfl535 biosfilename in the content e g awdfl535a619mj21 bin Boot up syst...

Page 70: ...y unused frequency band of 2 45 GHz that is available globally with some variation of bandwidth in different countries In addition to data up to three voice channels are available Each device has a unique 48 bit address from the IEEE 802 standard Connections can be point to point or multipoint The maximum range is 10 meters Data can be exchanged at a rate of 1 megabit per second up to 2 Mbps in th...

Page 71: ...imary circuits for transmitting and receiv ing data a PC chipset provides the electronic interfaces between all subsystems Clock Cycle Clock cycle or tick is the smallest unit of time recognized by a device For personal computers clock cycles generally refer to the main system clock which runs at 66 MHz This means that there are 66 million clock cycles per second Since modern CPUs run much faster ...

Page 72: ... mass storage devices of up to 8 4 gigabytes whereas the old standard was limited to 528 MB Because of its lower cost enhanced EIDE has replaced SCSI in many areas There are four EIDE modes defined The most common is Mode 4 which supports transfer rates of 16 6 MBps There is also a new mode called ATA 3 or Ultra ATA that supports transfer rates of 33 MBps EISA Extended Industry Standard Architectu...

Page 73: ...Interrupt Request Line IRQs are hardware lines over which devices can send interrupt signals to the microprocessor When you add a new device to a PC you sometimes need to set its IRQ number by setting a DIP switch This specifies which interrupt line the device may use IRQ conflicts used to be a common problem when adding expansion boards but the Plug and Play specification has removed this headach...

Page 74: ...ts LPT1 LPT2 and LPT3 It is frequently used by the OS to identify a printer Overclocking Overclocking is resetting your computer so that the microprocessor runs faster than the manufacturer specified speed for example setting an Intel 166 MHz megahertz microprocessor to run at 200 Mhz PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect A local bus standard developed by Intel that first appeared on PCs in late 1...

Page 75: ...l devices to computers SCSI interfaces provide for faster data transmission rates up to 80 megabytes per second than standard serial and parallel ports In addition you can attach many devices to a single SCSI port so that SCSI is really an I O bus rather than simply an interface USB Universal Serial Bus A hardware interface for low speed peripherals such as the keyboard mouse joystick etc USB prov...