VIA Technologies PT-6VAX, User Manual

Page 1: ...PT 6VAX 6VAX2 Pentium II ATX MAINBOARD VER 2 x USER S MANUAL DOC NO UM 6VAX E1 PRINTED IN TAIWAN ...

Page 2: ...2 INSTALLING THE DRAM MODULES 3 2 3 3 CONNECTORS 3 3 3 4 JUMPERS 3 13 3 5 INSTALLATION OF DEVICE DRIVERS 3 22 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 1 4 1 GETTING STARTED 4 1 4 2 MAIN MENU 4 2 4 3 CONTROL KEYS 4 2 4 4 STANDARD CMOS SETUP 4 3 4 5 BIOS FEATURES SETUP 4 4 4 6 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP 4 7 4 7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 4 11 4 8 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION 4 15 4 9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 4 19 4 10 LOAD SETUP DEFAUL...

Page 3: ...e is always the 5V standby voltage connected to the ATX form factor mainboard Without disconnecting the AC power connector from the PC system the mainboard can be damaged by any improper action WAKE ON LAN In order to support the Wake On LAN feature the system requires a special SPS Switching Power Supply Such power supply must be able to provide at least 700 mA of driving capability on the 5V sta...

Page 4: ...s UARTs one multi mode Parallel port one PS 2 mouse port one IR interface and two USB ports is designed on the board for wide variety of peripheral connection The ALS300 PCI sound chip is designed on board sound interface is optional on the board The ALS300 has built in 2D 3D Sound Effect Processor Enhanced normal digital Game port MPU 401 MIDI controller ALSFM Synthesizer When you find the ALS300...

Page 5: ...DE1 DIMM2 DIMM1 BAT 1 1 2 3 CN8 FDC 4 CN4 CN3 CN5 JP9 CN17 JP2 CN16 WOL SW JP11 JP100 5 5 Parallel Port U1 W83783S JP2 opt ional Sense Tem p From Open Socket 370 Short Slot 1 JP12 COM 2 COM 1 IMPORTANT NOTICE 1 The standby voltage is always active even when system power is off Whenever you want to install or remove any component from the mainboard please make sure to remove the power cable from th...

Page 6: ...lug in the CPU and start immediately WORD SIZE Data Path 8 bit 16 bit 32 bit 64 bit Address Path 32 bit PC SYSTEM CHIPSET VIA693A and 596B chipset SUPER I O CHIPSET Winbond W83977TF EF AW FRONT SIDE BUS FREQUENCY 66 MHz 100MHz and 133MHzselectable MEMORY Three 168 pin DIMM sockets Maximum 384 MB with ECC CACHE 512KB pipelined burst SRAM in Pentium II Pentium processor 0KB 128KB or 256KB SRAM in Ce...

Page 7: ...ltra DMA33 66 to support the modern IDE devices SUPER I O PORTS 1 Two high speed NS16C550 compatible serial ports UARTs 2 One parallel port supports SPP EPP ECP mode 3 One Floppy Disk Control port IR PORT One HPSIR and ASKIR compatible IR transmission connector 5 pin One Consumer IR transmission connector 4 pin optional MOUSE AND KEYBOARD One PS 2 mouse connector One PS 2 keyboard connector 3D SOU...

Page 8: ...d on U1 you can run the hardware monitoring program and then it will monitor the system healthy status all the time ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI function is strongly recommended by PC 98 because it will let you have many additional features and that will make your PC system becomes very friendly and convenient Followings are the ACPI features designed on the board 1 On Now ...

Page 9: ...atic sensitive components and it can be easily damaged by static electricity So please leave it sealed in the original packing until when installing A grounded anti static mat is recommended when unpacking and installation Please also attached an anti static wristband to your wrist and have it grounded to the same point as the anti static mat After the opening of the mainboard carton please observ...

Page 10: ...rect password or hot key input even when the system power is off the stand by 5V is still working and the power LED on the keyboard is still active If you have selected the Password to power on the PC system in the BIOS setup program the only way to power on the PC system will be the correct password you can not use the power button on the front panel to power on the PC system When you have select...

Page 11: ...n the PC system JP1 must me Enabled RTC ALARM PC system can be waked up by the RTC setting in the CMOS You can set the alarming date and time in the RTC memory When RTC alarms the PC system will be triggered and wakes up automatically on the date and time which you selected in the BIOS setup program Enable the Resume by Alarm selection in the BIOS setup utility and then you will see the input requ...

Page 12: ... To enable the Modem Ring In feature you have to run the BIOS setup utility and enable the Power On by Ring LAN option it is located in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP please refer to Section 4 7 for the settings Note This function is not available when using the internal MODEM card WAKE ON LAN WOL There is a WOL connector CN16 on the mainboard which is designed to connect to the signal from a LAN card...

Page 13: ... is the SLOT 1 CPU socket on the mainboard designed for slot type Pentium II Pentium or Celeron processors Please refer to the following picture for the SLOT 1 socket 1 2 3 4 A B C Slot 1 CPU When you have installed the CPU onto the mainboard it will detect the CPU type and decide the CPU voltage clock ratio and FSB clock automatically Most of the time you do not have to make any jumper setting fo...

Page 14: ...erformance only the Synchronous SDRAM memory is recommended Please refer to the following suggestion to install the memory Installation of DIMM modules 1 Outlook of DIMM modules Single Side DIMM module Double Side DIMM Module 2 Minimum one DIMM module must be installed on the mainboard 3 For PC133 M B VIA693A chipset please use 3 3V PC 133 DIMM module 4 For PC100 M B VIA693 chipset please use 3 3V...

Page 15: ...mainboard are either the pin header type or D type connectors they are used to connect the accessories or peripheral devices such as power mouse printer etc Followings are the connectors with its description and the pin assignment which is designed on the mainboard A BAT1 Battery Socket Use the 3 Volts Lithium battery CR2032 1 2 3 4 A B C BAT1 Battery Socket Pin Pin name Pin Pin name Battery Posit...

Page 16: ... PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard Connector PS 2 Mouse Connector PS 2 Keyboard Connector 1 2 3 4 A B C C CN3 Serial Port COM 1 Connector D CN4 Serial Port COM 2 Connector COM 1 COM 2 1 2 3 4 CN4 CN3 CN4 CN3 I O address 3F8H 2F8H 3E8H 2E8H IRQ3 IRQ4 selected by CMOS setup ...

Page 17: ...P EPP ECP modes IRQ7 or IRQ5 is selectable ECP mode will use either DMA channel 3 or channel 1 which can be selected by the CMOS setup probram 1 2 3 4 CN5 Parallel Port F CN6 USB Port 1 Universal Serial Bus Connector G CN7 USB Port 2 Universal Serial Bus Connector CN6 USB 1 CN7 USB 2 1 2 3 4 A B C ...

Page 18: ...NSTALLATION 3 6 H CN8 Floppy Disk Control Port Connector Use IRQ6 DMA channel 2 CN8 FDC Connector 1 2 3 4 I CN9 IDE 1 Connectors Primary IDE Port 1F0H IRQ 14 J CN10 IDE 2 Connectors Secondary IDE Port 170H IRQ 15 1 2 3 4 CN9 IDE 1 CN10 IDE 2 ...

Page 19: ...hen W83977CTF AW I O Chip is installed on position U13 1A 2A 3A 4A 5A 1B 2B 3B 4B 5VDC NO CONNECTION IR RECEIVE GROUND IR TRANSMIT 5VDC IR TRANSMIT CONSUMER IR RECEIVE GROUND CONSUMER IR CONNECTOR IR FIR INFRARED RAYS CONNECTOR 1 2 3 4 CN 12 IR CONNECTOR Consumer IR is optional L CN13 CPU Cooling Fan Power Connector 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 CN13 GND 12V Fan Signal ...

Page 20: ...ATX Power connector 1 2 3 4 CN4 CN3 CN15 N CN16 WOL Wake On LAN Connector In order to use the WOL LAN card to trigger the power of the PC system the switching power supply must be able to provide at least 700mA current driving ability on the 5V standby voltage 1 2 3 4 CN 16 WOL 1 2 3 ...

Page 21: ...or Mainboard INSTALLATION 3 9 O CN17 Chassis Fan Power Connector Ground 12V DC Fan Sense Signal 1 2 3 CN 17 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 P CN18 Audio Game Connector Optional 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 SPK_OUT 2 LINE_IN 3 MIC _IN 4 GAME MIDI PORT CN18 ...

Page 22: ...tor will be used to connect to the CD ROM drive CN22 CN21 1 2 3 4 L G G R 1 2 3 4 L G R G 1 2 3 4 Note L Left channel audio out R Right channel audio out G Audio Ground R Push buttons and LED connectors A series of connectors are designed on the board to connect the push buttons and LED indicators Followings are the details PUSH BUTTONS AND LED CONNECTORS RS Reset Button connector HL HDD LED conne...

Page 23: ...p in CMOS the PW connector has two functions It can be the Power Switch or Suspend Switch of your PC system please refer to Section 4 7 and section 4 8 for BIOS setup Q If the setup in CMOS is Delay 4 Sec the function of PW will be A When the system power is OFF Press this switch the system will power on when password is selected in the CMOS setup program you will be unable to use the PW button to...

Page 24: ...on this switch the system will be powered on when password is selected in the CMOS setup program you will be unable to use the PW button to power on the PC system please see Section 2 2 and Section 4 8 for more details B When system power is on Click on this switch the system will be powered off instantly S Speaker and Key Lock connector SPKR KBLOCK CONNECTORS SPK 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 PWR LED KBLOC...

Page 25: ... 2 3 1 1 1 1 short The following jumpers which labeled with optional means they are the optional choice for customers and the related components are normally not populated on the mainboard In order to make the mainboard works properly in your PC system please make sure all jumper settings are at correct before installing this mainboard A jumper is a set of two three or more jumper pins which allow...

Page 26: ...lease use JP1 to disable the OnNow function 1 2 3 4 Pin1 Pin 2 Short OnNow Disabled Pin 2 Pin 3 Short OnNow Enabled 1 2 3 JP1 B JP8 Onboard Sound interface Enable Disable Optional The ALS300 Sound card interface is optional on the mainboard When you find the ALS300 chip mounted on U11 it means that the sound interface is installed on the mainboard JP8 allows you to Enable Disable the sound card in...

Page 27: ...VIA 693 693A Twin Processor Mainboard INSTALLATION 3 15 ...

Page 28: ...nformation which is stored in the CMOS memory and get the PC system back to normal Improper connection may cause permanent damage to the mainboard Please refer to the following steps to clear the CMOS 1 Unplug the AC power cable from the PC system 2 Put the mini jumper on pin 2 3 of JP9 around 3 to 5 seconds and then return it to the original position pin 1 2 3 Re connect the AC power cable 4 5 6 ...

Page 29: ...password 1 Unplug the AC power cable from the PC system 2 Put the mini jumper on pin 5 6 of JP9 around 3 to 5 seconds and then return it to the original position pin 4 5 3 Re connect the AC power cable F JP11 CPU Voltage Adjustment Optional JP11 is designed for some special purpose Sometimes you may feel that the CPU voltage detected by the mainboard can not meet your requirement and you want your...

Page 30: ...from the mainboard while the system power is ON Under such circumstance mainboard may receive wrong VID signal and send wrong Vcore to the CPU Unfortunately wrong Vcore may destroy the CPU and the mainboard JP12 is designed to control the Vcore within the safe range so that it won t make any damage to the CPU or mainbord because of wrong VID signal Since most Pentium II processors require the Vcor...

Page 31: ...r CPU to use the selected FSB clock Please do not attempt to change this setting unless you are the technician Please refer to the following for functional description 1 2 3 4 JP100 1 2 3 4 JP133 1 2 3 4 This mainboard is designed by using either VIA 693 or 693A chipset When VIA693 is installed on the mainboard you will see only JP100 on the board and you can use it to tell the mainboard to use th...

Page 32: ...rofessional technician 2 When Default is selected you may use JP100 JP133 to select different speed of CPU clock and force your CPU to use that clock speed instead of letting the system BIOS to select the CPU clock automatically I SWITCH SETTINGS There is one toggle switch designed on the mainboard to select the CPU clock ratio Basically you have to check your CPU carefully because some of the CPU...

Page 33: ...6 5X OFF ON ON OFF 466 700 7 0X ON OFF ON OFF 500 750 7 5X OFF OFF ON OFF 533 800 8 0X ON ON OFF OFF Note SW setting is inactive when the CPU clock ratio is specified and locked by the CPU The following pictures will show you how to make the setting on the toggle switches 1 2 3 4 ON Picture of toggle switch Toggle Switch OFF Setting 1 2 3 4 ON OFF Push the switch downward to select OFF Toggle Swit...

Page 34: ...ted in the directory D Driver mainboard VIA D is the device name of your CD ROM drive B Install the Hardware Monitoring Program optional Please note that the Hardware Monitoring is optional on the board Step 1 Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive Step 2 Select directory Driver mainboard Hardware Monitoring W83783S Step 3 Run SETUP EXE to install the hardware monitoring program C Install the Sound c...

Page 35: ...error or malfunction detected the BIOS will give a series of beeping sound or display the error message on screen When the system is normal the screen display similar to figure Fig 4 1 will be displayed on the screen when the system is powered on Fig 4 1 Initial Power On screen During the power on self testing POST the following message appears at the lower left corner of the screen Press DEL to e...

Page 36: ... screen 4 3 CONTROL KEYS Listed below is the explanation of the keys displayed at the bottom of the screens which will be used in the CMOS SETUP program Arrow Keys Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired item Enter Select the desired item F1 Display the help screen for the selected feature Shift F2 To change the screen color total 16 colors ESC Exit to the previous screen PgUp PgDn To...

Page 37: ...ated one and which provides three different modes to support both normal IDE HDD and the one which is above 528MB Ø NORMAL For IDE hard disk drives which is smaller than 528MB Ø LBA For IDE hard disk drive which is above 528MB ideally it can be as big as 8 4GB that use Logic Block Addressing LBA mode Ø Large For IDE HDD which is above 528MB and does not support LBA mode Ø Auto This mode will auto ...

Page 38: ...fy PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color OS Select For DRAM 64MB Non OS2 F7 Load Setup Defaults HDD S M A R T capability Disabled Fig 4 4 BIOS FEATURES SETUP screen Virus Warning Basically The default setting of this feature is Disabled In order to avoid virus infection happens on your PC system This mainboard provides the virus warning features in the BIOS During and after t...

Page 39: ...lt setting Enabled The Quick Power On Self Test will skip some test and speed up the boot process If you find the system is working normally you can always enable this feature so that you don t have to wait too long on the POST Boot Sequence default setting A C SCSI This field allows you to use some other device to load the operating system The options available are A C SCSI C A SCSI C CDROM A CDR...

Page 40: ...stem you will be unable to load the operation system if you don t key in your personal password PCI VGA Palette Snoop default setting Disabled Some display cards are non standard VGA card such as graphics accelerator or MPEG Card which may not display color properly on your screen Enable the setting in this field may correct this problem Please leave it Disabled as the default setting shown above ...

Page 41: ... Size 64M AGP 2X Mode Enabled OnChip USB Enabled USB Keyboard Support Disabled ESC Quit Select Item F1 Help PU PD Modify F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 4 5 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP screen WARNING The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement If you do not have the related...

Page 42: ... the read is not sent to the DRAM Concurrent PCI Host default Setting Disabled When disable CPU bus will be occupied during the entire PCI operation period System BIOS Cacheable default setting Disabled Select Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F000h FFFFFh resulting in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result Enabled BIOS ...

Page 43: ...an select the memory for the AGP Aperture size OnChip USB default setting Enalbed This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you wish to use it However if you have another USB controller on one of the add on card you will have to disable this feature USB Keyboard Support default setting Disabled Select Enabled in this field will allow operation system to use ...

Page 44: ...the FSB clock you will have to use toggle switch SW setting to select the CPU clock ratio and decide the CPU speed please refer to page 3 23 for details of the switch settings Beside the Default FSB selection this mainboard also provides the manual option for your choice You may use th Page Up and Page Down to select different FSB clock the FSB selectable in the BIOS are 66 75 83 100 103 112 124 1...

Page 45: ...FDD ON IRQ15 Reserved Disabled DMA master OFF ESC Quit Select Item Modem or LAN Resume Disabled F1 Help PU PD Modify RTC Alarm Resume Disabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color F7 Load Setup Defaults Fig 4 6 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP screen WARNING The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement If you d...

Page 46: ... so that it will be back to full on mode For more detail of ACPI function please refer to Windows 98 user s manual for more detail information Power Management Default setting User Define This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 Doze Mode 2 Standby Mode 3 Suspend Mode 4 HDD Power Down There are four selections for Power ...

Page 47: ... this field to save the power energy V H SYNC Blank This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video buffer DPMS Initial display power management signaling Modem Use IRQ Default setting 3 This mainboard has the ACPI feature designed on the board and it wil...

Page 48: ...vent occurring at a VGA port will awaken a system which has been powered down LPT COM When set to On any event occurring at a COM serial LPT printer port will awaken a system which has been powered down HDD FDD Default setting ON When set to On any event occurring at a hard or floppy drive port will awaken a system which has been powered down DMA master Default setting OFF When set to On any event...

Page 49: ...Q 14 assigned to PCI ISA PnP IRQ 15 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 0 assigned to PCI ISA PnP DMA 1 assigned to PCI ISA PnP ESC Quit Select Item DMA 3 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F1 Help PU PD Modify DMA 5 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color DMA 6 assigned to PCI ISA PnP F7 Load Setup Defaults DMA 7 assigned to PCI ISA PnP Fig 4 7 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION setup screen WARNING The selection f...

Page 50: ...e IRQ and DMA to PCI ISA PnP so that the new add on card will find the free IRQ or DMA available for it Legacy The system BIOS will skip and never assign the specified IRQ DMA ISA resource to PCI or ISA PnP devices and the IRQ and DMA can only be sued by their specified Legacy ISA cards PCI ISA When PCI ISA PnP is selected the related IRQ and DMA will be PnP released and they can be used by other ...

Page 51: ...actions cycles Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2 1 PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Default Setting Disabled This item allows you enable disable the PCI 2 Access 1 Retry AGP Master 1WS Write Read This implements a single delay when writing reading to the AGP Bus By default two wait states are used by the system allowing for greater stability Assign IRQ For VGA USB The syste...

Page 52: ...eed to have the IRQ signal 2 If you can not find the feature connector on your VGA card than it is quite possible that your VGA card does not need the IRQ signal 3 If your VGA card has the feature connector on the VGA card but it has nothing connected to it In this case you still may have the IRQ disabled 4 If you have another add on card like video capture card which is connected to the feature c...

Page 53: ...p PU PD Modify Onboard FDC Controller Enabled F5 Old Values Shift F2 Color Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8 IRQ4 F7 Load Setup Defaults Onboard Serial Port 2 2F8 IRQ3 Fig 4 8 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS setup screen WARNING The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement If you do not have the related techni...

Page 54: ... 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Default setting Auto Ultra DMA 33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and your sys...

Page 55: ... 1 port 2 controller with which I O address The Choice 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Disabled Auto UART Mode Select Default setting Normal This item allows you to determine which Infra Red IR function of onboard I O chip The Choice Normal ASKIR HPSIR Onboard Parallel Port Default setting 378 IRQ7 Select a logical LPT port name and matching address for the physical parallel printer port The c...

Page 56: ...ete the setup procedure you may use this option to load the SETUP default values from the BIOS default table It is easy to load the default value simply highlight the LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS field and then press the Enter key when you see the LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS Y N displayed on the screen response to it with Y and then press the Enter key the SETUP default values will be loaded Basically the SETUP de...

Page 57: ...Power On Function mentioned in Section 2 2 and Section 4 8 Those password settings are used to power on your PC system However the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD will be used to check the authority when power on the PC system The Supervisor Password will have different function according to the Security Option setup in Section 4 5 When Setup is selected in Security Option If you want to change the BIOS setti...

Page 58: ...t to the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD mentioned in previous page The User Password will have different function according to the Supervisor Password and the Security Option setup in Section 4 5 A When there is the password stored in the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 1 When Setup is selected in Security Option Users can use the User Password to log into the BIOS setup program but they can only select User Password SA...

Page 59: ...Security Option Users can use the User Password to log into the BIOS setup program and they can make all the change in the BIOS setup program 2 When System is selected in Security Option When turn on the PC system it will request you to enter the Password Without the correct password the PC system will stop and the operation system will not be loaded ...

Page 60: ...ystem know the IDE HDD type you have to tell the system what kind of HDD is connected to the mainboard by giving a set of HDD parameters Sometimes it is not easy for users to find the proper parameters for their IDE HDD In order to help users to find the parameters the system BIOS provides a convent way the auto detection of IDE HDD To run the auto detection program is extremely easy Move the sele...

Page 61: ...IT WITHOUT SAVING INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ESC Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type This option will save all setup value to CMOS RAM EXIT SETUP routine Move the selection bar to SAVE EXIT SETUP and pressing Enter key and then confirm with Y and click on the Enter key again The setup value will be saved and all the information will b...

Page 62: ...ESC Quit Select Item F10 Save Exit Setup Shift F2 Change Color Time Date Hard Disk Type This item exit the setup routine without saving any changed values to CMOS RAM When you do not want to save your change to the CMOS memory you may choose to run this option and the setting what you made in the BIOS setup routine will be given away Move the selection bar to EXIT WITHOUT SAVING and click on the E...

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