Transcend TS-ABD4 Series, User Manual

Page 1: ...TS ABD4 Family USER S MANUAL Pentium 4 Processor ...

Page 2: ...ect to change without prior notice Disclaimer Transcend provides this manual as is without any warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to implied warranties conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Transcend its management employees distributors and agents are in no way liable for any indirect special incidental or consequential damages i...

Page 3: ...lems No matter what happens during BIOS updating the user s system can still boot from the floppy drive allowing the updating command to be executed again One Click On Line BIOS Updating For users of Windows 95 98 ezBIOS allows you to use Transcend s innovative on line updating technology Just one click can detect the BIOS version of your system download the latest version and execute all the upda...

Page 4: ...ystem Configuration 7 2 4 Using Jumper JP3 to Clear CMOS 7 2 5 RAID Function 8 2 6 HD LED Jumper 8 2 7 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors 9 2 8 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 10 2 9 Fan Power Connectors 11 2 10 Memory Configuration 12 2 11 Panel Connectors 13 2 12 Wake on LAN Connector 15 2 13 Power Connectors 16 2 14 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 17 2 15 Internal Audio Connectors 17 2 16 In...

Page 5: ...ion Setup 38 3 9 PC Health Status 39 3 10 Frequency Voltage Control 40 3 11 Load Fail Safe Defaults 42 3 12 Load Optimized Defaults 42 3 13 Supervisor Password 43 3 14 User Password 44 3 15 Save Exit Setup 44 3 16 Exit Without Saving 45 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE 46 4 1 How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version 46 4 2 Download the Correct BIOS File from Our Web Site 46 4 3 How to Upgrade Your Mothe...

Page 6: ...imple precautions while handling the motherboard and other computer components 1 If possible wear an anti static wrist strap connected to a natural earth ground 2 Touch a grounded or anti static surface or a metal fixture such as a pipe or the chassis of your system before touching the motherboard 3 When you have removed the motherboard from its anti static packaging try to hold it only by the edg...

Page 7: ...e motherboard due to excessive torque avoid setting electric screwdrivers above 7 5 kg cm AGP Card Use If you are using this motherboard as a DIY do it yourself system upgrade and you intend to transfer and use an older AGP card with this motherboard please make sure your AGP card is 1 5V and supports the AGP2 0 standard Intel has designed and manufactured the Intel 845 chipset s north bridge to o...

Page 8: ...Socket 478pin CPU Chipset Intel 845 MCH FSB 400MHz DRAM Memory Supports 133MHz Synchronous DRAM 3 x 168 pin DIMM module sockets onboard 32MB 3GB memory size 64 128 256 512MB 1GB 64 data bits structure only 72 bit with ECC I O Bus Slot 5 x Master Slave PCI Bus slots PCI 2 2 compliant 1 x CNR Communication and Networking Riser slot Award BIOS Supports PC99 Plug and Play Supports ACPI APM DMI Green F...

Page 9: ...s IDE RAID 0 1 Function TS ABD4 R TS ABD4 NR only Switching Voltage Regulator Intel VRM 9 0 compliant Other Features Supports Transcend ezBIOS Power failure resume FWH Firmware Hub supports security manageability PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Wake Up Supports Wake on LAN function Remote Ring Wake Up Time Wake Up Board voltage monitors for CPU core 3 3V 5 0V 12 0V VBAT 5VSB CPU overheat alarm CPU fan aut...

Page 10: ...PCI IDE Connector Floppy Disk Drive Connector FDD Connector FDD Connector Line out Line in MIC in CPU Pentium 4 Socket 478pin CPU 3 x 168 pin SDRAM DIMM Up to 3GB Main Memory Intel 845 MCH FSB 400MHz Intel 845 chipset Wake on LAN WOL Header IrDA Header USB3 4 Connector LPC Super I O SYS FAN Back panel I O ports POWER CONNECTORS Expansion Slots Expansion Slots 5 x PCI Slots 1 x AGP Pro Slot 1 x CNR...

Page 11: ...AM Module DIMM2 64bit 168pin SDRAM Module DIMM3 64bit 168pin SDRAM Module KB MOUSE MCH PW3 Game Audio AUX USB3 4 CNR PWR_FAN WOL AGP Pro CPU FAN FDC IDE2 IDE1 JP5 PCI Slot5 PCI5 PCI Slot4 PCI4 CD1 IDE3 IDE4 JP2 CD2 JP3 JP10 PANEL Transcend R A I D I C H 2 PW2 Socket 478 AC97 IR I O SYS_FAN PW1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 6 Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 12: ... 133MHz configuration When the Jumper is set to Auto the freqency range depends on your CPU type When you set the FSB to 100MHz you can select a system bus frequency from 100MHz to 133MHz 2 4 Using Jumper JP3 to clear CMOS To clear the CMOS data you should turn off your computer s power and put Jumper JP3 in the position as shown below Clear CMOS NORMAL JP3 Clear COMS Jumper Transcend TS ABD4 ...

Page 13: ...D Redundant Array of Independent Disks JP10 is for ATA100 or RAID mode selection 2 6 HD LED Jumper JP2 This jumper is for HDD LED mode selection You can limit the LED signal indicates only inte grated ICH2 ATA controller or both ICH2 and on board IDE RAID controller Both ICH2 and IDE RAID ICH2 IDE only JP2 1 2 3 4 HD LED Jumper Transcend HARDWARE INSTALLATION 8 Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 14: ...end of the cable and connect it to IDE1 or IDE3 if using RAID function see important note below If your HDD supports Ultra DMA 66 100 the 80 wire cable must be use or the HDD won t be able to reach this speed If you intend to operate two IDE devices from the same channel one device must be set to Master mode the other to Slave mode A HDD CD ROM or other IDE device can have either setting depending...

Page 15: ...s up to two floppy disk drives FDDs A FDD ribbon cable is provided in your motherboard package After connecting the single end to the board connect the plug s at the other end to the FDD s Remember the red stripe on the edge of the ribbon cable must be the nearest to PIN1 or your connection won t work Floppy Disk Drive Connector PIN1 FDC Floppy Disk Drive Connector Transcend ...

Page 16: ...rd CPU FAN POWER FAN and SYSTEM FAN Each connector provides 12V power The cables can only be attached the correct way If you try to put them in the wrong way they won t fit These connectors support cooling fans of 500 mA 6W or less CPU FAN POWER FAN SYSTEM FAN Fan Power Connectors Transcend GND FAN Rotation 12V ...

Page 17: ...ny socket but never exceed 3GB total memory capacity Unbuffered Position 3 3V Position 168 pin Unbuffered SDRAM Module DIMM1 168 pin Unbuffered SDRAM Module DIMM2 168 pin Unbuffered SDRAM Module DIMM3 168Pin Memory DIMM Sockets Transcend NOTE Different types of DRAM modules eg PC100 and PC133 DIMMs should not be installed on one motherboard at the same time This motherboard supports memory modules...

Page 18: ... SPEAKER 1 19 20 2 POWER LED Transcend 2 11 Panel Connectors Power LED 3 pin POWER LED This 3 pin connector attaches to the power LED Pin1 5V Pin3 NC Pin5 GND Speaker 4 pin SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker Pin13 5V Pin15 GND Pin17 NC Pin19 SPK ...

Page 19: ...D Reset Switch 2 pin RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without turning on your power switch Pin14 RESET Pin16 GND Soft Power Off 2 pin SOFT_OFF Attach the SOFT_OFF switch of the panel to this connector Use the switch to Power On Off your system Pin18 SOFT_OFF Pin20 GND Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 20: ...system can Power Up when a wake up packet or signal is received from the LAN card Wake on LAN Connector W O L Transcend 5V Standby GND PME NOTE This function requires that the Power On by Ring function in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in BIOS is set to Enabled and that your system has an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power ...

Page 21: ...ctors into PWR1 PWR2 and PWR3 properly The pin definition is shown below Transcend Power Connectors PWR2 PWR3 GND 3 3V 5V GND 12V PWR1 PSON Power Supply on Power Good 3 3V 3 3V G N D 5 0V G N D 5 0V G N D 5 0V Standby 12 0V 3 3V 12 0V G N D P S O N 5 0V 5 0V 5 0V G N D G N D G N D NOTE Make sure that your ATX power supply can support at least 720mA 5V standby power for the Advanced Configuration a...

Page 22: ...CD1 White CD2 Black GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel 2 14 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 5 pin IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support a wireless infrared module With this module and application software such as Laplink or Win95 Direct Cable Connection users can transfer files to or from laptops notebooks PDAs and printers You must also configure the setting throug...

Page 23: ...ing the external onboard USB ports USB1 2 please refer to Section 2 17 External Back Panel I O Ports USB 3 4 Connector GND USBP3 GND USBP3 USB Power USB Power USBP4 USBP4 NC Transcend HARDWARE INSTALLATION 18 NOTE Please make sure that the two red stripes on the cable are seated on pin1 and pin2 at the top as shown below Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 24: ...ouse Port Green 6 pin MOUSE 2 PS 2 Keyboard Port Purple 6 pin KB 3 USB Universal Serial Bus Ports USB1 USB2 Black two 4 pin USBs See Sec tion 2 16 Internal USB Port Connector for information about USB3 and USB4 4 LAN Port Black 8 pin LAN TS ABD4 N TS ABD4 NR only 5 Parallel Port Burgundy 25 pin PRN 6 Serial Port COMA COMB Turquoise 9 pin COMA COMB 7 Game Port MIDI Port Gold 15 pin GAME 8 Line_OUT ...

Page 25: ...on or reboot the system the BIOS is immediately activated It will read the system configuration information and check the system through the Power On Self Test POST Dur ing the POST process pressing the Del key allows you to enter the Award BIOS configuration system The following screen will appear In the Award BIOS system you can use the arrows to highlight an item and then enter its sub menu by ...

Page 26: ... s Chipset Integrated Peripherals I O subsystems that depend on the integrated peripheral controllers in your system Power Management Setup Advanced Power Management APM and Advanced Configuration Power Interface ACPI options PnP PCI Configurations Plug and Play standard and PCI Local Bus configuration options PC Health Status To display the fan status CPU temperature system temperature etc and pr...

Page 27: ...e Exit Setup To save settings in nonvolatile CMOS RAM and exit Setup Exit Without Saving To abandon all changes and exit Setup 3 3 Standard CMOS Features Date mm dd yy Time hh mm ss Highlight the items and use PageUp PageDown to change the value of Date Time Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 28: ...orted are 1024 16 and 63 respectively LBA Logical Block Addressing During drive access the IDE controller transforms the data address described by sector head and cylinder number into a physical block address This will significantly improve data transfer rates for drives with more than 1024 cylinders Large For drives that do not support LBA and have more than 1024 cylinders Auto The BIOS automatic...

Page 29: ...VGA or PGA monitor adapters CGA 40 Color Graphics Adapter powers up in 40 column mode CGA 80 Color Graphics Adapter powers up in 80 column mode MONO Monochrome adapter including high resolution Halt On During POST the computer stops if the BIOS detects a hardware error You can set the BIOS to ignore certain errors during POST and continue the boot up process The following are the available selecti...

Page 30: ...a program specifically a virus attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive You should then execute an anti virus program Keep in mind that this feature protects the boot sector only not the entire hard drive 25 BIOS SETUP NOTE Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning message If you plan to run such a progra...

Page 31: ...DD 0 options include LS120 a SCSI bootable drive CDROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 a ZIP100 drive and a LAN drive If your boot device is not in the list set Boot Other Device to Enabled to let the system detect the drive automatically Swap Floppy Drive This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives Selecting Enabled assigns physical drive B to logical drive A and physical drive A to logical ...

Page 32: ...12 15 20 24 or 30 characters per second Typematic Delay Msec When the Typematic Delay setting is Enabled you can select a typematic delay the delay before key strokes begin to repeat of 250 500 750 or 1000 milliseconds Security Option If you have set a password you can select whether the password is required while the system boots System or only when you enter Setup APIC Mode Options are Enabled o...

Page 33: ... manually CAS Latency Time This allows the CAS Latency to be set to 1 5 2 2 5 or 3 Active to Precharge Delay This controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to SDRAM Leave it on the default setting Options are 7 6 or 5 DRAM RAS to CAS Delay This controls the latency between DRAM active command and the read write command Leave it on the default setting Options are 3 or 2 DRAM RAS Pr...

Page 34: ...es memory address space between 15 and 16MB to ISA expansion cards that specifically require this setting This makes between 15 and 16MB of memory unavailable to the system Expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB The default setting is Disabled Delayed Transaction PCI access speed is faster than ISA If Enabled PCI will release the master bus to the ISA interface for accessing data The ma...

Page 35: ...ce Select Disabled to deactivate this interface when you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO The four IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 5 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 through 5 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically d...

Page 36: ...hich to activate first depending on the location of your video card the PCI Slot or the AGP slot Onboard Audio Select Enabled or Disable depending on whether you wish to use the Onboard Audio function AC97 Audio AC 97 Modem If you select Auto BIOS will detect whether you are using any Audio Modem devices When an Audio Modem device is detected the onboard Audio Modem controller will be enabled If y...

Page 37: ...F1 F12 as a hot key to Power On the system Activated only when Hot Key is selected on the Power On Function Menu See above Onboard FDC Controller You can use this function to enable or disable the onboard FDC controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Port 2 Select an address and the corresponding interrupt for each of the first and second serial ports The choices are Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8...

Page 38: ...This field allows you to set the operation mode of the parallel port SPP Allows normal speed operation but in one direction only EPP Allows bi directional parallel port operation at maximum speed ECP Allows DMA and bi directional operation It is faster than EPP mode ECP EPP Allows normal speed operation in two way mode Normal Allows normal speed operation of the parallel port EPP Mode Select Selec...

Page 39: ... 290 Midi Port IRQ Assigns IRQ 5 or 10 to the Midi Port 3 7 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup allows you to configure your system to minimize energy consumption according to your own style of computer use BIOS SETUP 34 ACPI Function This item allows you to enable disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 40: ...2 HDD Power Down There are three selections for Power Management Two of them have fixed mode settings 1 Min Power Saving Minimum power management mode Inactivity period is defined below Suspend Mode 1 hr HDD Power Down 15 min 2 Max Power Saving Maximum power management mode Inactivity period is defined below Suspend Mode 1 min HDD Power Down 1 min 3 User Define Allows you to set each mode individu...

Page 41: ...M Use IRQ You can select one of the following interrupt resources for modem use N A 3 4 5 7 9 10 and 11 Suspend Mode After the selected period of system inactivity 1 minute to 1 hour all devices except the CPU will be shut down HDD Power Down After the selected period of system inactivity 1 to 15 minutes the HDD powers down while all other devices remain active This feature doesn t effect SCSI har...

Page 42: ...certain time every day Date Time Set the Date and Time to Power On the system Activated only when the Resume by Alarm field is enabled Reload Global Timer Events When Enabled an event occurring on any device listed below restarts the global timer The settings in these fields enable or disable the detection of IDE floppy serial and parallel port activities for powering down state transition Actuall...

Page 43: ...he boot and Plug and Play PnP compatible devices If you select Auto all of the Interrupt Requests IRQs and DMA assignment fields will be activated as the BIOS automatically assigns them The choices are Auto and Manual IRQ Resources IRQ n Assigned to When the resources are controlled manually assign each System Interrupt to one of the following depending on which type of device is using the interru...

Page 44: ...ware monitoring center These features let you know the health status of your PC CPU Warning Temperature This field allows you to set the CPU warning temperature You can choose from 50 C 122 F to 70 C 158 F or even Disabled if you like Current Power CPU System Temperature These three fields display the CPU Power and on board system temperature Current CPU System Chassis Fan Speed These fields displ...

Page 45: ...F and 75 C 167 F 3 10 Frequency Voltage Control CPU Clock Ratio This function allows you to set the CPU internal frequency ratio It determines the CPU internal frequency according to the following formula CPU internal frequency frequency ratio x system bus frequency The choices for CPU Clock Ratio are 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 or 23 System bus frequency is set below in the field C...

Page 46: ...d you may enter a decimal number from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 7 Linear Spread Range If Spread Spectrum is Enabled you may enter a decimal number from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 10 CPU Clock This field allows you to set the CPU Clock Frequency from a minimum of 100 to a maximum of 132 NOTE Because Intel has locked the frequency ratio for new CPU settings this field to adjust the frequenc...

Page 47: ...IOS ROM 3 12 Load Optimized Defaults This option allows you to load the default values to the system configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration settings for the system BIOS SETUP 42 NOTE These default settings are non optimal and disable all high performance features Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 48: ... After the password entry the screen automatically reverts to the main screen To disable the password press Enter key when prompted to enter the password The screen displays a message confirming that the password has been disabled Forget the password If you forget the password you can clear it by erasing the CMOS Real Time Clock RTC RAM with jumper JP3 To erase the RTC RAM 1 Unplug your computer 2...

Page 49: ...ou to set a password to prevent others from changing the BIOS settings of your system This operation is the same as Supervisor Password 3 15 Save Exit Setup Save the settings and exit the BIOS utility BIOS SETUP 44 Transcend Information Inc ...

Page 50: ...TS ABD4 45 BIOS SETUP 3 16 Exit Without Saving Abort current changes and exit the BIOS utility ...

Page 51: ...own on our web site Download the suitable version to your disk or other storage device SOFTWARE SETUP 46 ABD4 Ver 1 01 08 01 01 BIOS File Name Make sure these charactors are exactly the same as your own version if you want to upgrade your BIOS BIOS Version 1 01 V11 for Version 1 1 You can upgrade to a newer version if your BIOS version is older than this version BIOS Generation Date 4 1 How to Che...

Page 52: ...he My Computer icon Click 3 5 Floppy A Select File Format from Command Bar Under Format 3 5 Floppy A Menu select Format type Full item and Other Options Copy system files Click Start button Step 3 Download the updated Bios exe file from the web site to a floppy disk or other storage device Ref 5 1 and 5 2 Step 4 Type Bios exe to decompress it Step 5 Please read the Readme txt file carefully and fo...