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Edition:  

July 1997

Version 1.1
5BT5 SERIAL

Summary of Contents for 82430 TX P54C

Page 1: ...Pentium 82430 TX P54C P55C PCI Mainboard User s Guide Technical Reference 5BT5...

Page 2: ...es in the specifications of the product described within it at any time without notice and without obligation to notify any person of such revision or change The information contained in this manual i...

Page 3: ...200 CPU Settings 3 0 x clock 9 Pentium 233 CPU Settings 3 5 x clock 10 AMD K6 PR266 CPU Setting 4 0 x clock 10 Step 2 CPU Single Dual Voltage Setting 11 Single Voltage CPU Setting 11 Dual Voltage CPU...

Page 4: ...Setup 24 Power Management Setup 26 PNP PCI Configuration Setup 29 Load Setup Defaults 31 Load BIOS Defaults 31 Integrated Peripherals 32 Supervisor Password 35 User Password 36 IDE HDD Auto Detection...

Page 5: ...Burst SRAMs Cache DRAM Controller Supports Fast Page Mode EDO and SDRAM both symmetrical and asymmetrical addressing Supports 2 strips of 8MB 16MB 32MB Unbuffered DIMMs On board memory configurations...

Page 6: ...mage to the board contact your dealer immediately Electrostatic Discharge Precautions Make sure you ground yourself before handling the mainboard or other system components Electrostatic discharge can...

Page 7: ...ppy Connector 2 82430 TX Chipset 12 IDE1 IDE2 Connector 3 Pipelined Burst SRAM 13 Parallel Port Connector 4 Ultra I O Chip 14 COM1 COM2 Connector 5 PnP FLASH BIOS 15 AT Power Supply Connector 6 TAG SR...

Page 8: ...DIMM2 SIMM BANK 1 SIMM BANK 0 IDE1 IDE2 FDC PRT COM1 COM2 AT PW ATX PW W83977TF KB Conn PS 2 Mouse Conn 82371AB Lithium Battery 3V Flash BIOS 586 CPU Family P B SRAM 64K x 32 P B SRAM 64K x 32 82439T...

Page 9: ...ION Turn off power to the mainboard system chassis and peripheral devices before performing any work on the mainboard or system Jumpers JP5 CMOS Clear Jumper Clear the CMOS memory by momentarily short...

Page 10: ...Cooling Fan Connector Pin Assignment 1 GND 2 12V 3 GND Note Make sure the pin assignment of our CPU Cooling Fan is matched with this connector before connecting it otherwise you may damage either the...

Page 11: ...to meet the standard of these CPUs i e high quality DRAM and VGA card Step 1 Frequency Setting Pentium 90 100 CPU Settings 1 5 x clock AMD K5 PR90 PR100 PR120 PR133 1 5 x clock 82371AB 586 CPU Family...

Page 12: ...SRAM 64K x 32 P B SRAM 64K x 32 5 4 3 2 1 SW1 ON 12345 12345 12345 SW1 ON SW1 ON ON Cyrix 6x86 6x86L PR133 55 MHz 12345 SW1 ON Cyrix 6x86 6x86L PR200 75 MHz Pentium 120 60 MHz Cyrix 6x86 6x86L PR150...

Page 13: ...0 MHz Pentium 166 66 MHz AMD K5 K6 PR166 Figure 2 1 3 CPU Jumper Settings Pentium 180 200 CPU Settings 3 0 x clock AMD K6 PR200 CPU Setting 82371AB 586 CPU Family P B SRAM 64K x 32 P B SRAM 64K x 32 5...

Page 14: ...RAM 64K x 32 P B SRAM 64K x 32 5 4 3 2 1 SW1 ON Figure 2 1 5 CPU Jumper Settings Note You must equip the CPU with a fan and heat sink for system stability AMD K6 PR266 CPU Setting 4 0 x clock 82371AB...

Page 15: ...ction Single Voltage CPU Setting Signal voltage CPUs use the same voltage for VIO and VCore and has been used traditionally The CPUs which fall into this category are Intel P54C series AMD K5 PRxxxBx...

Page 16: ...to various design please ask your CPU dealer for the exact VIO and VCORE voltage before you install it Memory Configuration The mainboard supports two banks of 72 pin SIMM modules and two strips of 16...

Page 17: ...to the RAS line share architecture of TX chipset the possible combination of DIMM SIMM in this mainboard are as one of the followings 1 In Bank 0 2 In Bank 1 3 In Bank 0 Bank 1 4 In DIMM 1 5 In DIMM...

Page 18: ...g for IRQ7 which may conflict with printing functions If this occurs do not use sound card functions at the same time you print Connectors Attach the mainboard to case devices via connectors on the ma...

Page 19: ...s from the power directly onto the board connector while making sure the black leads are in the center ATX PW ATX Power Supply Connectors The motherboard provides an ATX power supply connector It is a...

Page 20: ...ng the infrared transfer function This mainboard meets the specification of ASKIAR and HPSIR IR1 Connector Pin Assignment 1 2 3 4 5 VCC FIRRX IRRX GND IRTX J17 Keylock Power LED Connector J17 is a con...

Page 21: ...e function PS 2 Mouse Connector Pin Assignment GND DATA N A VCC CLOCK N A PRT Parallel Port Connector Attach parallel port cable to this connector J18 Speaker Connector Attach a 4 pin case mounted spe...

Page 22: ...ONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SUPERVISOR PASSWORD USER PASSWORD IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION SAVE EXIT SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING Time Date Hard Disk Type Esc Qui...

Page 23: ...11 Help Shift F2 Change Color F3 Toggle Calendar Base Memory 640K Extended Memory 3328K Other Memory 128K Total Memory 4096K 2 Use arrow keys to move between items and select values Modify selected fi...

Page 24: ...us user for details Drive A B Choose 360KB 5 1 4 in 1 2MB 5 1 4 in 720KB 3 1 2 in 1 44M 3 1 2 in default 2 88 MB 3 1 2 in or Not installed Video Choose Monochrome Color 40x25 VGA EGA default Color 80x...

Page 25: ...BIOS Shadow Enabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow Disabled CC000 CFFFF Shadow Disabled D0000 D3FFF Shadow Disabled D4000 D7FFF Shadow Disabled D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled 2 Use the ar...

Page 26: ...Status Choose On or Off On puts numeric keypad in Num Lock mode at boot up Off puts this keypad in arrow key mode at boot up Typematic Rate Setting Enable this option to adjust the keystroke repeat r...

Page 27: ...n system Non OS 2 Choosing this when you are using no OS 2 operation system Video Adapter BIOS Shadow BIOS shadow copies BIOS code from slower ROM to faster RAM BIOS can then execute from RAM These 16...

Page 28: ...x222 x333 DRAM Write Burts Timing x222 Fast EDO Lead Off Disabled Refresh RAS Assertion 4 CLKS Fast RAS To CAS Delay 3 DRAM Page Idle Timer 2 Clks DRAM Enhanced Paging Enabled Fast MA to RAS Delay 2 C...

Page 29: ...t MA to RAS Delay Use the default setting SDRAM CAS Lat RAS to CAS Use the default setting SDRAM Speculative Read Use the default setting System BIOS Cacheable Disabled The ROM area F0000H FFFFFH is n...

Page 30: ...UP Power Management User Define PM Control by APM Yes Video Off Method V H SYNC Blank Video Off After Standby Doze Mode Disabled Standby Mode Disabled Suspend Mode Disabled HDD Power Down Disabled VGA...

Page 31: ...nagement To use APM you must run power exe under DOS v6 0 or later version Video Off Method Choose V H Sync Blank default Blank screen or DPMS for the selected PM mode Video Off After Choose Standby d...

Page 32: ...tem runs into the suspend mode refer to Power Management Setup Resume by Ring Choose Enabled or Disabled default This function only works when the computer is powered on Enabled The system will resume...

Page 33: ...es Controlled By Manual Reset Configuration Data Disabled IRQ 3 assigned to Legacy ISA IRQ 4 assigned to Legacy ISA IRQ 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 9 assigned to PCI IS...

Page 34: ...st match the PCI card PCI IDE IRQ Map To Select PCI AUTO ISA or assign a PCI SLOT number depending on which slot the PCI IDE is inserted The default setting is PCI AUTO If PCI AUTO does not work then...

Page 35: ...mmended if you need to reset the system setup Note The SETUP Defaults are optimized for the most stabilized performance Load BIOS Defaults Choose this item and the following message appears Load BIOS...

Page 36: ...PIO Auto IDE Secondary Slave PIO Auto IDE Primary Master UDMA Auto IDE Primary Slave UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Master UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Slave UDMA Auto On Chip Primary PCI IDE Enabled On Chip Seco...

Page 37: ...unction before using the USB keyboard Onboard FDC Controller Enabled Use the on board floppy controller default Disabled Turn off the on board floppy controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Serial Po...

Page 38: ...ion work Onboard Parallel Port Choose the parallel port I O address 378H IRQ7 default 3BCH IRQ7 278H IRQ5 or Disabled to disable this port Parallel Port Mode Choose ECP EPP default SPP EPP or ECP The...

Page 39: ...owing message appears Enter Password 2 Enter a password and press Enter If you do not wish to use the password function you can just press Enter and a Password disabled message appears 3 After you ent...

Page 40: ...d and press Enter If you do not wish to use the password function you can just press Enter and a Password disabled message appears 3 After you enter your password the following message appears prompti...

Page 41: ...dingly Note This function is only valid for IDE hard disks ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC Do you accept this drive C Y N N ESC Skip HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ...

Page 42: ...ter Option dialog will appear select Other Requires a disk from a hardware manufacturer from the Adapter list box 5 Next the Insert Diskette dialog box will appear insert the Triones PIIX3 PIIX4 Bus M...

Page 43: ...DSK Enter or load TRIN312 DSK Enter You can also include the above command line into the start up file STARTUP NCF to load the driver automatically SCO UNIX 1 Install SCO UNIX 3 2 x or SCO Open Deskto...

Page 44: ...the guided steps When prompted Do you want to set the device configuration y n answer n 7 Reboot your SCO UNIX system SCO UNIX 5 0 1 Install SCO UNIX 5 0 using the default SCO IDE driver 2 Reboot your...

Page 45: ...diskette to your hard disk under the OS2 directory i e C OS2 2 Edit C CONFIG SYS to replace BASEDEV IBM1S506 ADD with BASEDEV TRIOS2 ADD 3 Reboot the system Note For more information like parameter se...

Page 46: ...2X on off on off off AMD K5 PR166 66Mh 2 5X on on off off off AMD K6 PR166 66Mhz 2 5X on on off off off AMD K6 PR200 66Mhz 3X off on off off off AMD K6 PR233 66Mhz 3 5X off off off off off AMD K6 PR2...

Page 47: ...f P54C P120 60Mhz 2 0X on off on off off P54C P133 66Mhz 2 0X on off off off off P54C P55C P150 60Mhz 2 5X on on on off off P54C P55C P166 66Mhz 2 5X on on off off off P54C P55C P180 60Mhz 3X off on o...

Page 48: ...celerate your system by reducing the I O load on the CPU 2 Also included on the disk are update files for the TX chipset To windows 95 the TX chipset that your board comes with is a new device and the...

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