SOYO SY-6BA+ III, User'S Manual & Technical Reference

Page 1: ...SY 6BA III Motherboard Pentium III Pentium II Celeron Processor supported 82440 BX AGP PCI Motherboard 66 100MHz Front Side Bus supported ATX Form Factor User s Guide Technical Reference...

Page 2: ...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 is provided for general us...

Page 3: ...IONS 6 2 2 UNPACKING THE MOTHERBOARD 7 2 3 INSTALLATION GUIDE 8 CHAPTER 3 BIOS SETUP UTILITY 30 3 1 SOYO COMBO SETUP 32 3 2 STANDARD CMOS SETUP 38 3 3 BIOS FEATURES SETUP 41 3 4 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP...

Page 4: ...3 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 5 ISA Slot 1 ISA Slot 2 JP5 JP1 JP8 LED1 3V Lithium Battery JP44 SB LINK PC PCI IR1 1 5 1 1 CPUFAN PWRFAN ITE 8671 I O Chipset CHAFAN 1 IDE 1 IDE 2 1 1 1 1 FDC 1 3 AGP Slot ATX P...

Page 5: ...EATURES Supports Intel Pentium III processor 450 550MHz Pentium II processor 233 450MHz CeleronTM processor 266 433MHz Jumperless and CPU core voltage Adjustable PC98 ACPI Ultra DMA 33 Power on by mod...

Page 6: ...n clip Features Auto detection of CPU voltage Chipset 82440 BX AGP Set ATX Power 20 pin Male Connector CPUFAN 3 pin CPU Cooling Fan Connector Memory DIMM Bank DIMM1 4 Four strips of 168 pin Unbuffered...

Page 7: ...ice LED Header PWRBT ATX Power On Off Switch 2 pin Header JP1 External Suspend Button JP5 CMOS Clear Jumper JP8 CPU multiplier release Jumper JP10 Power On by Keyboard Jumper JP44 WOL Wake On LAN 3 pi...

Page 8: ...ately 1 3 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PRECAUTIONS Make sure to ground yourself before handling the Motherboard or other system components Electrostatic discharge can easily damage the components Note that...

Page 9: ...dware equipment to complete the installation successfully 1 Slot 1 processor with built in CPU cooling fan boxed type Note This Motherboard supports non boxed type CPUs The heavier CPU cooling fan req...

Page 10: ...Do not unpack the Motherboard from its anti static packaging until you are ready to install it Like most electronic equipment your Motherboard may be damaged by electrostatic discharge To avoid perma...

Page 11: ...BEGIN THE INSTALLATION Step 1 CPU Installation Your SY 6BA III motherboard comes with a CPU retention set kit The retention set is used to hold the processor attached to the Slot 1 CPU connector on t...

Page 12: ...Hardware Setup SY 6BA III 9 Follow these instructions to install your Slot 1 processor correctly Retention Module 1 Open the two sides by folding them up 2 Push the locks on top of the CPU inward...

Page 13: ...slot in only ONE way do not try to force it in 4 After completely inserting the CPU push the two locks on top of the CPU outward Now your CPU is ready for use To remove the CPU press the two notches o...

Page 14: ...ossible burn out of your CPU Step 2 CPU Fan Installation Your Slot 1 processor kit comes with a cooling fan Mount the fan on the processor according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer Th...

Page 15: ...t side bus CPUs use 8ns 100MHz PC100 compliant memory Number of Memory Modules DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM 4 1 1st 2 1st 2nd 3 1st 2nd 3rd 4 1st 2nd 3rd 4th RAM Type SDRAM Memory Module Size MB 8 16 32...

Page 16: ...nnector on the Motherboard This Motherboard can support up to four HDDs Step 5 Floppy Drive Installation The system supports 5 possible floppy drive types 720 KB 1 2 MB 1 44 MB 2 88 MB and LS 120 In a...

Page 17: ...sh button cable into the 2 pin Reset header on the Motherboard Pushing the Reset button on the front panel will cause the system to restart the boot up sequence 3 Speaker Attach the 4 pin PC speaker c...

Page 18: ...keyboard PS 2 mouse printer modem USB can be plugged directly onto the Motherboard back panel Only after you have fixed and locked the Motherboard to the computer case can you start connecting the ext...

Page 19: ...l device cable into the 25 pin female connector located at the rear panel of the Motherboard 3 PS 2 Keyboard Plug the keyboard jack directly into the 6 pin female PS 2 keyboard connector located at th...

Page 20: ...owing pin assignment 2 Infrared IR1 Plug the 5 pin infrared device cable to the IR1 header This will enable the infrared transfer function This Motherboard meets both the ASKIR and HPSIR specification...

Page 21: ...ding to the following pin assignment 2 Chassis Cooling Fan Power Cooling Fan Some chassis also feature a cooling fan This Motherboard features a CHAFAN connector to provide 12V power to the chassis fa...

Page 22: ...t other types of VGA cards into the PCI or ISA expansion slots according to card specifications Step 11 PCI Audio Card Some PCI soundcards require a PC PCI DMA channel Attach the 5 pin cable from your...

Page 23: ...power supply before connecting to ATX PW connector The Motherboard requires a power supply with at least 200 Watts and a power good signal Make sure the ATX power supply can take at least 720 mA load...

Page 24: ...er Management is APM Windows 98 can be installed with ACPI Power Management default is APM in this case suspend mode will not function either Step 15 CMOS Clearing JP5 After you have turned off your c...

Page 25: ...and higher telling the CPU that it is running at 66MHz though JP8 while setting a different higher FSB Frequency in the BIOS may allow the user to set a higher multiplier value Doing so will however f...

Page 26: ...ng the Power On by Keyboard function please make sure the ATX power supply can take at least 720mA load on the 5V Standby lead 5VSB to meet the standard ATX specification Step 18 Power On You have now...

Page 27: ...ic checks to enter the Award BIOS Setup program The CMOS SETUP UTILITY will display on screen Follow these steps to configure the CPU settings SETUP UTILITY will display on screen Then follow these st...

Page 28: ...are detailed in the following table CPU Frequency MHz Manual 466MHz 66 x 3 5 233MHz 66 x 3 5 350MHz 100 x 3 5 266MHz 66 x 4 400MHz 100 x 4 300MHz 66 x 4 5 450MHz 100 x 4 5 333MHz 66 x 5 500MHz 100 x...

Page 29: ...fter you have selected the CPU Host PCI Clock choose the right multiplier for the CPU CPU Ratio options are o x 2 o x 2 5 o x 3 o x 3 5 o x 4 o x 4 5 o x 5 o x 5 5 o x 6 o x 6 5 o x 7 o x 7 5 o x 8 Th...

Page 30: ...equencies beyond the CPU specifications note that SOYO does not guarantee system stability if this item is not set to normal Don t forget to raise the upper limit of the CPU Vcore monitoring voltage i...

Page 31: ...ower If you use an ATX power supply and depending on your system you may have to press the power button for more than 4 seconds to shut down the system 2 Set the JP8 to short if you use a FSB 66MHz CP...

Page 32: ...Hardware Setup SY 6BA III 29 You are now ready to configure your system with the BIOS setup program Go to Chapter 3 BIOS SETUP...

Page 33: ...m the Main Menu press arrow keys to enter the selected submenu Modifying selected items l Use the Up Down keys to modify values within the selected fields Some fields let you enter values directly ROM...

Page 34: ...C M O S S E T U P U T I L I T Y A W A R D S O F T W A R E I N C S T A N D A R D C M O S S E T U P B I O S F E A T U R E S S E T U P C H I P S E T F E A T U R E S S E T U P P O W E R M A N A G E M E N...

Page 35: ...Current System Temp 26 C 78 F CPU Host PCI Clock 100 33 MHz Current CPU Temperature 28 C 82 F CPU Ratio X 3 5 350MHz Current CPUFAN Speed 5433 RPM AGP Clock 66MHz Current PWRFAN Speed 0 RPM Vcore Volt...

Page 36: ...essor among these preset values Note Setting this field to Manual requires you to fill in the next two consecutive fields 1 the CPU Host PCI Clock and 2 the CPU Ratio If CPU Frequency field is set to...

Page 37: ...ion of the CPU host clock For example With a CPU front side bus of 66MHz 1 sets AGP Clock 66MHz 1 5 sets AGP Clock 44MHz Normal Default 2 5 5 0 7 5 Vcore voltage Adjust 10 0 The CPU notifies the board...

Page 38: ...P C Choose the boot sequence adapted to your needs for example l A C SCSI means the BIOS will look for an operating system first in drive A then in drive C and eventually in SCSI device Disabled Quick...

Page 39: ...hing the power button Disabled Default Power On by Ring LAN Enabled The system will self power on me when the modem is ringing Disabled The system ignores the alarm Default Resume by Alarm Enabled Set...

Page 40: ...C F Show the current status of the Power Fan Current CHAFAN Speed C F Show the current status of the chassis Fan Vcore VTT 3 3V 12V 5V 5V 12V VBAT 5VSB V Show the current voltage status Disabled Disa...

Page 41: ...t time 24 hour clock format 3 15 PM is displayed as 15 15 00 ROM PCI ISA BIOS STANDARD CMOS SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE INC Date mm dd yy Time hh mm ss Fri July 31 1998 11 30 33 HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEA...

Page 42: ...IDE hard disk 528MB LBA Enhanced IDE hard disk 528MB Mode Large Large IDE hard disk for certain hard disk Note If you have any questions on your hard disk type or mode ask your hard disk provider or p...

Page 43: ...EGA VGA Default CGA 40 CGA 80 Mono Monochrome 3 2 5 Halt On When the BIOS detects system errors this function will stop the system Select which type of error will cause the system halt All Errors Def...

Page 44: ...isabled Report No FDD For WIN 95 Yes CC000 CFFF Shadow Disabled D000 D3FFF Shadow Disabled Boot Up NumLock Status On D4000 D7FFF Shadow Disabled Security Option Setup D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled PCI V...

Page 45: ...Disabled CPU Internal Cache Enabled Enables the CPU s internal cache Default Disabled External Cache Enabled Enables the external memory Default 3 3 3 Floppy Driver Settings Floppy Driver Settings Set...

Page 46: ...ettings Setting Description System Each time the system is booted the password prompt appears Security Option Setup If a password is set the password prompt only appears when you attempt to enter the...

Page 47: ...Char sec 15 Char sec 20 Char sec 24 Char sec 30 Char sec Choose the rate at which a character is repeated when holding down a key Default Typematic Delay 250 msec 500 msec 750 msec 1000 msec Choose h...

Page 48: ...ription Note Disabled Enabled Video or Adapter BIOS Shadow The BIOS is shadowed in a 16K segment if it is enabled and if it has BIOS present These 16 segments can be shadowed from ROM to RAM BIOS shad...

Page 49: ...AS Precharge Time 3 SDRAM CAS latency Time 3 AGP Aperture Size 64 SDRAM Precharge Control Disabled DRAM Data Integrity Mode Non ECC System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video R...

Page 50: ...RAS Precharge Time 3 2 Use the default setting Default SDRAM Cache Latency Time 3 Use the default setting Default SDRAM Precharge Control Disabled Enabled Use the default setting Default Non ECC Defa...

Page 51: ...heir ROM address to this area If this occurs select Enabled in this field Passive Release Enabled Use the default setting Default Delayed Transaction Enabled Use the default setting Default AGP Apertu...

Page 52: ...andby Primary IDE 0 Disabled MODEM Use IRQ 3 Primary IDE1 Disabled Secondary IDE 0 Disabled Power Management User Define Secondary IDE1 Disabled Doze Mode Disable Floppy Disk Disabled Standby Mode Dis...

Page 53: ...use Advanced Power Management APM you must run power exe under DOS V6 0 or later version Default PM Control by APM No V H Sync Blank Default Blank screen Video Off Method DPMS Supported Selects the m...

Page 54: ...to enter Doze Mode System clock drops to 33MHz The following Standby Mode field may be configured only if Power Management is set to User Define Disable Default Standby Mode 1Min 1Hour When the set ti...

Page 55: ...s active 3 5 4 Reload Global Timer Events Power Down Resume Events Setting Description Note Disabled IRQ 3 7 9 15 NMI Enabled The system monitors these elements for activity The system will resume if...

Page 56: ...igned to PCI ISA PnP Assign IRQ For USB Enabled IRQ 11 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 12 assigned to PCI ISA PnP PNP OS Installed No IRQ 14 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 15 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 0 as...

Page 57: ...configuration data in BIOS 3 6 2 PNP PCI Configuration Setup PNP PCI Setup Setting Description Note If Resources Controlled By is set to Manual PCI ISA PnP Choose IRQ and DMA assigned to PCI ISA PnP c...

Page 58: ...ort 2 disabled 4 Your OS may reassign another interrupt to a PCI slot after BIOS passes control to the OS especially if you use Windows 95 98 or NT Auto Default Slot 1 2 3 4 Use IRQ NO Select one of t...

Page 59: ...ues Warning If you run into any problem after changing the BIOS configuration please load the SETUP DEFAULTS for stable performance ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC SOYO COMBO SE...

Page 60: ...O Auto Onboard Serial Port 2 2F8 IRQ3 IDE Secondary Master PIO Auto IDE Secondary Slave PIO Auto UR2 Mode Standard IDE Primary Master UDMA Auto IDE Primary Slave UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Master UNMA Au...

Page 61: ...tability we suggest you use the Auto setting to set the HDD control timing Default Disabled IDE Primary Master UDMA Primary Slave UDMA Secondary Master UDMA Secondary Slave UDMA Auto Select Auto to en...

Page 62: ...2 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Onboard UART 1 Onboard UART 2 Auto Choose serial port 1 2 s I O address Do not set port 1 2 to the same address except for Disabled or Auto Standard Supports a Standard serial infr...

Page 63: ...ECP mode 3 Choose DMA3 Default ECP Mode use DMA 1 Choose DMA1 If Parallel Port Mode is set to EPP mode EPP 1 9 Select EPP port type 1 9 EPP Mode Select EPP 1 7 Select EPP port type 1 7 Default On The...

Page 64: ...e as follows Port I O Address IRQ Status LPT1 378H 7 ECP EPP COM1 3F8H 4 COM2 2F8H 3 Warning If a default I O address conflicts with other I O cards such as sound card you must change one of the I O a...

Page 65: ...sword is required every time the system is booted This means only a person who knows the password can use this computer b Setup The password is required only when you attempt to enter the BIOS Setup p...

Page 66: ...tion 3 9 ROM PCI ISA BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC STANDARD CMOS SETUP BIOS FEATURES SETUP CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP PNP PCI CONFIGURATION LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS LOAD BIO...

Page 67: ...D SOFTWARE INC HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE Primary Master Select Primary Master Option N Skip N OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE 2 Y 1707 827 64 0 3308 63...

Page 68: ...ard the drivers software available for installation and a database in HTML format with information on SOYO Motherboards and other products The SOYO CD Start Up Program automatically detects which SOYO...

Page 69: ...an be read in PDF Postscript Document format In order to read a PDF file the appropriate Acrobat Reader software must be installed in your system Note The Start Up program automatically detects if the...

Page 70: ...rs are available for Windows 95 Driver Installation Menu Please select the driver you want to install and click OK You will have to restart your system after installation Only the drivers that are rel...

Page 71: ...s make use of DMA Direct Memory Access to relieve the CPU of this burden thus speeding up the system The SOYO SpeedPro driver makes use of an advanced caching algorithm which gives it an advantage ove...

Page 72: ...otherboard comes with a hardware monitoring IC By installing this utility Temperature Fan speed and Voltages can be monitored It is also possible to set alarms when current system values exceed or fal...

Page 73: ...atically find the latest BIOS manual and driver releases for your motherboard This button will only work if your computer is connected to the internet through a network or modem connection Make sure t...

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