American Megatrends Apollo III PCI Pentium, User Manual

Page 1: ...Apollo III PCI Pentium ISA Motherboard User s Guide MAN 752 12 6 96 ...

Page 2: ...product or the support materials provided with the product Trademarks Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation MS DOS Microsoft Word and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation SMC is a registered trademark of Standard Microsystems Corporation IBM AT VGA PS 2 OS 2 and EGA are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation XT and CG...

Page 3: ...he OEM to assist in the proper installation and operation of this motherboard This manual describes the specifications and features of the Apollo III motherboard It explains how to assemble a system based on the Apollo III motherboard and how to use the AMIBIOS that is specifically designed for this motherboard This manual is not meant to be read by the computer owner who purchases a computer with...

Page 4: ...discharge wear a properly grounded wristband while handling the Apollo III motherboard or any other electrical component touch a grounded anti static surface or a grounded metal fixture before handling the Apollo III motherboard handle system components by the mounting bracket if possible Batteries Make sure you dispose of used batteries according to the battery manufacturer s instructions Imprope...

Page 5: ...ntium ISA motherboard uses an Intel 82430HX including CPU interface controller advanced cache controller integrated DRAM controller synchronous ISA bus controller PCI local bus interface and integrated power management unit Expansion slots The motherboard includes three 16 bit ISA expansion slots and four 32 bit PCI expansion slots The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132 megabytes per second...

Page 6: ...ted on the motherboard in two banks of 72 pin 4 MB 8 MB or 16 MB SIMMs Use Fast Page Mode or Extended Data Out EDO SIMMs operating at 60 ns Fast ATA The motherboard supports the Fast ATA specification using PIO mode 4 and multiword DMA mode 2 System BIOS This motherboard has a 128 KB AMIBIOS system BIOS on a Flash ROM with built in WINBIOS Setup BIOS Shadowing The system BIOS is always copied from...

Page 7: ...tel NSP compliant Fast ATA IDE mode programming Boot sector virus protection instant on support automatically configures PnP and PCI devices IDE The Apollo III motherboard has two 40 pin IDE connectors onboard that support up to four IDE drives The IDE controller is on the PCI local bus Floppy The Apollo III motherboard has an onboard floppy controller that supports up to two 360 KB 720 KB 1 2 MB ...

Page 8: ...OS support Infrared A 10 pin infrared connector is provided on the motherboard The motherboard and AMIBIOS comply with the IrDA SIR infrared device standards and specifications Power Connectors The Apollo III motherboard has three power supply connectors RTC CMOS RAM A real time clock and 128 bytes of CMOS RAM with a battery backup is provided on the motherboard Power Management Power management s...

Page 9: ... MHz 50 MHz 25 MHz Onboard I O The Apollo III Pentium ISA motherboard includes two 40 pin IDE connectors on the PCI bus that support up to four IDE drives a 34 pin floppy drive connector two 10 pin serial port connectors with 16550 UARTs a 26 pin parallel port connector with ECP and EPP support an infrared connectors two USB connectors a keyboard connector and a PS 2 mouse connector Apollo III Dim...

Page 10: ...h cables to connectors Connect the power supply Attach the keyboard cable Connect the mouse cable Attach cables 6 Connect onboard I O Connect the serial ports Connect the parallel port 7 Connect floppy drive s 8 Connect the IDE drive s 9 Test and configure Warning This motherboard contains sensitive electronic components that can be easily damaged by static electricity Follow the instructions care...

Page 11: ...T 2 PCI SLOT 3 PS 2 Mouse PCI SLOT 4 COM1 LPT1 Floppy IDE1 IDE2 Fan Bank0 Bank1 Power Supply VR1 EP1 COM2 M6 AMIBIOS EP2 USB1 USB2 RPW_CON IR CLK2 CLK1 CPS M5 Tag RAM VR2 FREQ1 FREQ2 M4 M3 M1 M2 The connectors in this Block Header are detailed below EP3 Speaker IDE LED PWR LED Kbd Lock Reset Susp Mode Switch Turbo LED Susp LED Remote Power Switch ...

Page 12: ...r instead of the anti static mat Similarly a strip of conductive aluminum foil wrapped around the wrist and grounded through a 1 megohm resistor serves the same purpose as the wristband 3 Inside the carton the motherboard is packed in an anti static bag and sandwiched between sheets of sponge Remove the sponge and the anti static bag Place the motherboard on a grounded anti static surface componen...

Page 13: ...indicated by a solid line between pins as shown between Pins 1 2 to the right 1 3 5 2 4 6 3 dimensional view of motherboard jumpers and a shunt Avoid Static Electricity Static electricity can damage the motherboard and other computer components Keep the motherboard in the anti static bag until it is to be installed Wear an anti static wrist grounding strap before handling the motherboard Make sure...

Page 14: ...hort Pins 2 3 Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 2 3 66 MHz 133 MHz Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 1 2 60 MHz 120 MHz Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 1 2 66 MHz 100 MHz Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 1 2 60 MHz 90 MHz Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 1 2 50 MHz 75 MHz Short Pins 2 3 Short Pins 2 ...

Page 15: ...the CPU socket VR2 is next to the CPU near the edge of the motherboard Standard and VRE Voltage This is the factory setting Pins 7 5 3 1 Pins 8 6 4 2 VR1 VR2 3 49V Standard and VRE for Intel P54C CPUs Pins 8 6 4 2 Pins 7 5 3 1 Standard Voltage VR1 VR2 3 3V Standard for Intel P54C CPUs Pins 7 5 3 1 Pins 8 6 4 2 Pins 7 5 3 1 Pins 8 6 4 2 Mixed Voltage VR1 VR2 2 8V and 3 3V for Intel P55C CPUs Pins 7...

Page 16: ...ing the wrong voltage may damage the CPU Install CPU Install the CPU in the ZIF zero insertion force socket by performing the following steps The CPU socket is near one edge of the motherboard Warning Improper CPU installation can damage the CPU and the motherboard You must follow the procedures in this section exactly as documented Make sure you wear an antistatic wristband while installing the C...

Page 17: ... bent pins with pliers Place the CPU in the middle of the socket as shown below Make sure that pin 1 of the CPU is aligned with pin 1 of the socket Make sure you are properly grounded while handling the CPU 3 Complete installation by lifting the ZIF lever to the other side of the socket as shown below ...

Page 18: ... pin SIMM You can use 1 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 or 16 MB x 36 SIMMs The motherboard supports banks of fast page mode and EDO Extended Data Out memory together operating at 60 ns RAS access time Memory Display System memory is reported by AMIBIOS as it boots and again when the AMIBIOS System Configuration Screen is displayed just before the operating system boots The memory displayed by AMIBIOS...

Page 19: ... 4 MB 4 MB 32 MB 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB 40 MB 16 MB 16 MB 4 MB 4 MB 48 MB 16 MB 16 MB 8 MB 8 MB 64 MB 16 MB 16 MB 16 MB 16 MB 64 MB 32 MB 32 MB None None 72 MB 32 MB 32 MB 4 MB 4 MB 80 MB 32 MB 32 MB 8 MB 8 MB 96 MB 32 MB 32 MB 16 MB 16 MB 128 MB 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB 136 MB 64 MB 64 MB 4 MB 4 MB 144 MB 64 MB 64 MB 8 MB 8 MB 160 MB 64 MB 64 MB 16 MB 16 MB 192 MB 64 MB 64 MB 32 MB 32 MB 256 MB 64 MB...

Page 20: ... can be filled with either 1 MB x 36 4 MB x 36 8 MB x 36 or 16 MB x 36 SIMMs Place the motherboard on an anti static mat With the component side of the SIMM facing you firmly push the SIMM into the socket at an angle then push it up When properly inserted the SIMM clicks into place as the latching pins engage The SIMM installation process is shown below Cont d ...

Page 21: ...P Type Tag RAM Type 256 KB 32 KB x 32 M2 and M4 8 KB x 8 M5 512 KB 32 KB x 32 M1 M2 M3 and M4 16 KB x 8 M5 M6 Flash ROM Type You must specify the type of flash EPROM installed on the motherboard as follows EP1 EP2 and EP3 are next to the BIOS ROM between the ISA and PCI expansion slots Flash ROM Type EP1 EP2 EP3 Intel 28F010 Short Pins 1 2 Short Pins 2 3 OPEN Intel 28F001BX T Short Pins 1 2 Short ...

Page 22: ...board is mounted The power supply is mounted at the far end of the chassis 3 Hold the motherboard component side up with the edge with the SIMM sockets toward you and the edge with the power supply connector away from you The keyboard mouse and video connectors should be to the left 4 Carefully slide the motherboard into the chassis Make certain the edge connectors fit the ports in the rear of the...

Page 23: ...Chapter 1 Hardware Installation 19 Step 4 Install Motherboard Continued ...

Page 24: ...bed in this section follows Connector CPS Clear password Power supply connector Keyboard connector Mouse connector CPU Fan Infrared Remote Power connector USB connectors Speaker IDE LED Remote Power Switch Hardware Reset Switch Power LED lit when power is on Keyboard Lock Turbo LED lit when high speed is active Suspend Mode Switch Suspend LED lit when system in suspend mode Serial Port Parallel po...

Page 25: ...all motherboard components by a white line Pin 1 is always nearest to the white line 3 2 1 CPS Clear Password If you forget the computer password the only course of action is to erase the system configuration information stored in the NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory The computer password is stored in the system configuration data Short the CPS pins together for two seconds CPS is located n...

Page 26: ...er voltage has been selected Power supplies often can run on a wide range of voltages and must be set usually via a switch to the proper range Use at least a 200 watt power supply which should have built in filters to suppress radiated emissions Power Cables Attach the power supply cables to the power connector on the motherboard AT compatible power supplies have one twelve pin connector as shown ...

Page 27: ... Power Good Orange wire Not used 2 VCC Red wire 3 12 Volts Yellow wire 4 12 Volts Blue wire 5 Ground Black wire 6 Ground Black wire 7 Ground Black wire 8 Ground Black wire 9 5 Volts White wire 10 VCC Red wire 11 VCC Red wire 12 VCC Red wire Keyboard CableThe keyboard attaches via a PS 2 keyboard connector labeled KB_CONN Pin Assignments 1 Keyboard data 2 N C 3 Ground 4 VCC 5 Keyboard clock 6 N C C...

Page 28: ... the five pin mouse berg connector on the motherboard labeled MS_COM as shown below Attach the standard 9 pin mouse connector at the other end of the mouse cable to the mouse connector port on the computer case Incorrect mouse installation can cause the system to hang Error Not a valid filename Pin Description 1 Mouse Clock 2 N C 3 N C 4 Mouse Data 5 Ground Cont d ...

Page 29: ... the color of the wires leaving the switch or LED to the same pin on the connector end There may be more than one connector with the same color coded wires If so follow the wire to the switch or LED Pin 1 is always indicated on the motherboard as shown below CPU Fan A three pin berg labeled FAN attaches to the CPU fan The FAN connector is next to the CPU socket Pin Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Gro...

Page 30: ... a 2 pin berg next to the infrared connector that connects to the power supply for enabling system power when the remote power switch is turned on Connect a 2 wire power cable to RPW_COM and attach the other end to the peripheral device USB Connectors The Apollo III motherboard has two 4 pin headers USB1 and USB2 that attach to a USB connector on the computer chassis The USB port allows you to att...

Page 31: ...s Speaker Pin 12 VCC Pin 15 Speaker Data IDE LED Pin 16 LED Power Pin 17 IDE Active Remote Power Switch Power when low Pin 18 Remote Power Pin 19 Ground Hardware Reset Switch Pin 20 Hard Reset Pin 21 Ground Power LED lit when power is on Pin 1 Power Pin 2 Ground Keyboard Lock Pin 4 Keyboard Lock Pin 5 Ground Turbo LED lit when low speed is active Pin 6 TURBO_LIT Pin 7 TURBO_LEDPWR Suspend Mode Swi...

Page 32: ...installed in the expansion slots on the Apollo III motherboard for a hard disk or floppy controller and serial or parallel ports Serial Ports COM1 and COM2 are 10 pin connectors that provide an AT compatible serial port interface Connect the cables supplied with the motherboard to the 10 pin serial connectors The serial port base I O port address and other serial port settings can be selected in P...

Page 33: ...le provided with the motherboard to LPT All parallel port settings can be configured through Peripheral Setup in WINBIOS Setup Pin Signal Description Pin Signal Description 1 STROBE 2 PD0 3 PD1 4 PD2 5 PD3 6 PD4 7 PD5 8 PD6 9 PD7 10 ACK 11 BUSY 12 PE 13 SLCT 14 AUTOFD 15 ERROR 16 INIT 17 SLCTIN 18 Ground 19 Ground 20 Ground 21 Ground 22 Ground 23 Ground 24 Ground 25 Ground 26 Ground ...

Page 34: ... controller is installed Choose Standard Setup and Peripheral Setup to configure the floppy controller The motherboard supports up to two 720 KB 1 44 MB or 2 88 MB 3 drives and 360 KB and 1 2 MB 5 drives The connecting cable is a 34 pin ribbon connector with two 34 pin edge connectors for attaching the floppy disk drives There is a small twist in the cable between the floppy connectors The last en...

Page 35: ...GND 8 INDEX 9 GND 10 MOTOR0 11 GND 12 FDSEL1 13 GND 14 FDSEL0 15 GND 16 MOTOR1 17 GND 18 DIR 19 GND 20 21 GND 22 WDATA 23 GND 24 WGATE 25 GND 26 TRK0 27 GND 28 WRPROT 29 GND 30 RDATA 31 GND 32 HDSEL 33 GND 34 DSKCHNG Twist in Floppy Cable Floppy B to A Floppy B to A Floppy B to A Floppy B to A 10 to 16 12 to 14 14 to 12 16 to 10 11 to 15 13 to 13 15 to 11 ...

Page 36: ...I PCI Pentium ISA Motherboard User s Guide 32 Step 8 Attach IDE Drive IDE Drives Attach the IDE drives in the following manner Choose Peripheral Setup in WINBIOS Setup to enable the onboard IDE controller Cont d ...

Page 37: ...IDE1 is a 40 pin dual inline berg that connects an IDE drive to the primary onboard IDE connector This motherboard supports IDE Modes 0 1 2 3 and 4 IDE prefetch LBA Logical Block Address mode high capacity drives over 528 MB 32 bit data transfer and fast IDE transfer These IDE features are configured in Peripheral Setup in the WINBIOS Setup utility Disable the onboard IDE interface in Peripheral S...

Page 38: ...4 17 DATA0 18 DATA15 19 GND 20 KEY N C 21 N C 22 GND 23 IOW 24 GND 25 IOR 26 GND 27 IDERDY 28 ALE 29 N C 30 GND 31 INT14 32 IOCS16 33 HA1 34 N C 35 HA0 36 HA2 37 CS0 38 CS1 39 IDEACT 40 GND IDE2 Secondary IDE Controller IDE2 the secondary IDE connector is a 40 pin dual inline berg that connects the secondary primary and slave IDE drives to the secondary onboard IDE controller Attach the secondary ...

Page 39: ...RESET 2 GND 3 DATA7 4 DATA8 5 DATA6 6 DATA9 7 DATA5 8 DATA10 9 DATA4 10 DATA11 11 DATA3 12 DATA12 13 DATA2 14 DATA13 15 DATA1 16 DATA14 17 DATA0 18 DATA15 19 GND 20 KEY N C 21 N C 22 GND 23 IOW 24 GND 25 IOR 26 GND 27 IDERDY 28 ALE 29 N C 30 GND 31 INT15 32 IOCS16 33 HA1 34 N C 35 HA0 36 HA2 37 CS2 38 CS3 39 N C 40 GND ...

Page 40: ...ical Support if there are problems BIOS Errors If the system operates normally a display should appear on the monitor The BIOS Power On Self Test POST should execute If POST does not run successfully it will beep or display error messages Beeps indicate a serious problem with the system configuration or hardware The Beep Code indicates the problem AMIBIOS Beep Codes are defined in the AMIBIOS Tech...

Page 41: ...n the computer is powered on The system parameters are configured by a system BIOS Setup utility Historically BIOS Setup utilities have been character based required keyboard input and have had user interfaces that were not very intuitive Graphical Interface American Megatrends has a new type of system BIOS Setup utility WINBIOS Setup has a graphical user interface the end user can access using a ...

Page 42: ...ble click to perform an operation in the selected field Using the Keyboard with WINBIOS Setup WINBIOS has a built in keyboard driver that uses simple keystroke combinations Keystroke Action Tab Change or select a global field Change or select the current field Enter Perform an operation in the current field Increment a value Decrement a value Esc Abort any window function PgUp Return to the previo...

Page 43: ...described below Main Windows The WINBIOS Setup main windows are Setup described in Section 1 has icons that permit you to set system configuration options such as date time hard disk type floppy type and many others Security described in Section 2 has three icons that control AMIBIOS security features and Utilities described in Section 3 sets the screen color and allows language changes Default de...

Page 44: ...l Standard Setup options are described in this section Date Time Select the Standard option Select the Date and Time icon The current values for each category are displayed Enter new values through the keyboard Floppy Drive A and B Move the cursor to these fields via and and select the floppy type The settings are 360 KB 5 inch 1 2 MB 5 inch 720 KB 3 inch 1 44 MB 3 inch or 2 88 MB 3 inch ...

Page 45: ...ive parameters Select LBA Large Mode Select On if the drive has a capacity greater than 540 MB Select Block Mode Select On to allow block mode data transfers Select 32 Bit Transfer Select On to allow 32 bit data transfers Select the PIO Mode It is best to select Auto to allow AMIBIOS to determine the PIO mode If you select a PIO mode that is not supported by the IDE drive the drive will not work p...

Page 46: ...pensation circuitry on the hard disk compensates for the physical difference in sector size by boosting the write current for sectors on inner tracks This parameter is the track number on the disk surface where write precompensation begins Landing Zone This number is the cylinder location where the heads normally park when the system is shut down Sectors The number of sectors per track MFM drives ...

Page 47: ...2 17 43 MB 22 733 5 300 733 17 30 MB 23 306 4 0 336 17 10 MB 24 925 7 0 925 17 54 MB 25 925 9 65535 925 17 69 MB 26 754 7 754 754 17 44 MB 27 754 11 65535 754 17 69 MB 28 699 7 256 699 17 41 MB 29 823 10 65535 823 17 68 MB 30 918 7 918 918 17 53 MB 31 1024 11 65535 1024 17 94 MB 32 1024 15 65535 1024 17 128 MB 33 1024 5 1024 1024 17 43 MB 34 612 2 128 612 17 10 MB 35 1024 9 65535 1024 17 77 MB 36 ...

Page 48: ... or Present The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Present Primary Display This option configures the type of monitor attached to the computer The settings are Mono CGA40x25 CGA80x25 VGA EGA or Absent The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are VGA EGA PS 2Mouse Support Set this option to Enabled to enable AMIBIOS support for a PS 2 type mouse The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Op...

Page 49: ...re Setup Boot To OS 2 Set this option to Yes if running OS 2 operating system and using more than 64 MB of system memory on the motherboard The settings are Yes or No The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are No Floppy Drive Swap Set this option to Enabled to permit drives A and B to be swapped The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Boot U...

Page 50: ...eset Present Soft resets still behave like soft resets when Yes is selected Select this option if a caching controller is installed in the computer Soft resets must not generate a hard reset if a caching controller is used If a hard reset is generated a PCI caching controller card cannot flush data from cache memory to a hard disk drive before the reset Video Shadow C000 32K This option controls t...

Page 51: ...n title Setting Description Shadow The contents of the ROM area are written to the corresponding address in RAM for faster execution Cached The contents of the ROM area are written to the corresponding RAM address and can be read from or written to cache memory Disabled The ROM is not copied to RAM The contents of the video ROM cannot be read from or written to cache memory The Optimal and Fail Sa...

Page 52: ...abled Choose this setting if a keyboard controller mouse interrupt is used for the mouse DRAM Data Integrity Mode This option sets the system memory integrity mode The settings are Parity system memory parity is checked or ECC an Error Checking and Correction routine is used The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Parity USB Function Set this option to Enabled to enable the system BIOS USB ...

Page 53: ...te but the computer can return to full power instantly when any system activity occurs This option is only available if supported by the computer hardware The settings are Disabled and 1 Min through 15 Min in 1 minute intervals The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Green PC Monitor Power State This option specifies the power state that the green PC compliant video monitor enters ...

Page 54: ... the previous screen The settings are Disabled and 1 Min through 15 Min in 1 minute intervals The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Standby Timeout Minute This option specifies the length of a period of system inactivity while in Full power on state When this length of time expires the computer enters Standby power state The settings are Disabled and 1 Min through 15 Min in 1 min...

Page 55: ...ving state The settings are 1 1 1 2 1 4 1 8 1 16 1 32 1 64 and 1 128 The Optimal and Fail Safe defaults are 1 8 Display Activity This option specifies if AMIBIOS is to monitor display activity for power conservation purposes When this option is set to Monitor and there is no display activity for the length of time specified in the Standby Timeout Minutes option the computer enters a power savings ...

Page 56: ...tivity on the specified IRQ line The computer enters the full on power state if any activity occurs AMIBIOS reloads the Standby and Suspend timeout timers if activity occurs on the specified IRQ line The settings for each of these options are Ignore or Monitor The defaults are Option Optimal Fail Safe IRQ3 Ignore Ignore IRQ4 Ignore Ignore IRQ5 Ignore Ignore IRQ7 Ignore Ignore IRQ9 Ignore Ignore IR...

Page 57: ...I Slot 2 Latency Timer PCI Slot 3 Latency Timer PCI Slot 4 Latency Timer These options specify the latency timings in PCI clocks for PCI devices installed in the four PCI expansion slots The settings are 32 64 96 128 160 192 224 or 248 The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are 64 USB Device Latency Timer This option specifies the latency timings in PCI clocks for USB devices installed in the ...

Page 58: ...erence PCI Slot 4 IRQ Preference These options specify the IRQ priority for PCI devices installed in the four PCI expansion slots The settings are Auto IRQ5 IRQ9 IRQ10 IRQ11 IRQ 14 and IRQ15 in priority order If Auto is selected AMIBIOS automatically determines the optimal IRQ priority order The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Auto Cont d ...

Page 59: ...IRQ by assigning an ISA setting to it Onboard I O is configured by AMIBIOS All IRQs used by onboard I O are configured as PCI PnP or PCI PnP IRQ14 and 15 will not be available if the onboard Triton 2 PCI IDE is enabled If all IRQs are set to ISA and IRQ14 and 15 are allocated to the onboard PCI IDE IRQ9 will still be available for PCI and PnP devices because at least one IRQ must be available for ...

Page 60: ...ved ISA Card Memory Size This option specifies the size of the memory area reserved for legacy ISA adapter cards The settings are Disabled 16K 32K or 64K The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Reserved ISA Card Memory Address This option specifies the beginning address in hex of the reserved memory area The specified ROM memory area is reserved for use by legacy ISA adapter cards ...

Page 61: ...ould be enabled Enabled or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Enabled Onboard Primary Secondary IDE This option specifies the IDE channels on the onboard IDE controller that will be used The settings are Disabled Primary Secondary or Both The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Onboard IDE Bus Master Set this option to Enabled to specify that the IDE controller...

Page 62: ...n the PCI Local bus This is necessary to support non compliant ISA IDE controller adapter cards If an offboard PCI IDE controller adapter card is installed in the computer you must also set the Offboard PCI IDE Primary IRQ and Offboard PCI IDE Secondary IRQ options Offboard Primary Secondary This option specifies the IDE controller channels used by the offboard IDE adapter card The settings are Di...

Page 63: ...address Disabled 2F8h or 2E8h The Optimal default setting is 3F8h The Fail Safe default setting is Disabled Serial Port2 Mode This option specifies the serial port 2 mode The settings are Normal or IR Infrared The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Normal IR Duplex Mode This option selects the infrared transmission method The settings are Full or Half The Optimal and Fail Safe default sett...

Page 64: ...als to provide asymmetric bidirectional data transfer driven by the host device ECP The parallel port can be used with devices that adhere to the Extended Capabilities Port ECP specification ECP uses the DMA protocol to achieve data transfer rates up to 2 5 Megabits per second ECP provides symmetric bidirectional communication EPP Version This option specifies the Enhanced Parallel Port specificat...

Page 65: ...be set first The system can be configured so that all users must enter a password every time the system boots or when WINBIOS Setup is executed using either or both the Supervisor password or User password AMIBIOS Password Support The Supervisor and User icons activate two different levels of password security If WINBIOS Setup has an optional password feature The system can be configured so that a...

Page 66: ...s only when WINBIOS is run The password is encrypted and stored in NVRAM As shown on the above screen you are prompted for a 1 6 character password You can either type the password on the keyboard or select each letter of the password one at a time using the mouse The password does not appear on the screen when typed Make sure you write it down If you forget it you must drain NVRAM and reconfigure...

Page 67: ...ord of the new password when the password is changed If you forget the password you must erase the system configuration information in NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory Anti Virus When this icon is selected from the Security section of the WINBIOS Setup main menu AMIBIOS issues a warning when any program or virus issues a Disk Format command or attempts to write to the boot sector of the har...

Page 68: ...m is having configuration related problems Original Choose the Original icon to return to the system configuration values present in WINBIOS Setup when you first began this WINBIOS Setup session Optimal You can load the optimal default settings for the WINBIOS by selecting the Optimal icon The Optimal default settings are best case values that should optimize system performance If NVRAM is corrupt...

Page 69: ...he Flash EPROM based AMIBIOS The bootblock code immediately reads the A drive looking for the new BIOS information 4 When the flash ROM has successfully been programmed the computer will reboot Bootblock BIOS Actions When you reprogram from system boot the bootblock BIOS code Reads S752P ROM from the root directory of the floppy disk in drive A Erases the Flash EPROM Programs the Flash EPROM with ...

Page 70: ...ttempts to read from floppy drive A 2 Look for S752P ROM on the floppy disk S752P ROM must be in the root directory of the floppy disk in drive A There is no beep if successful 3 Read the floppy disk The floppy disk is read There is no beep if this step is successful 4 Check for BIOS file size The BIOS file size is checked There is no beep if this step is successful 5 Check for Flash EPROM The BIO...

Page 71: ...beep codes and when they can occur are Number of Beeps Description 1 Insert diskette in floppy drive A 2 The AMIBOOT ROM file was not found in the root directory of the diskette in floppy drive A 3 Base memory error 4 Flash program successful 5 Floppy read error 6 Keyboard controller BAT command failed 7 No Flash EPROM detected 8 Floppy controller failure 9 Boot Block BIOS checksum error 10 Flash ...

Page 72: ... bootblock BIOS in the 0000h segment EDh Initialize the floppy drive EEh Look for a diskette in drive A Read the first sector of the diskette EFh Floppy read error F0h Search for AMIBOOT ROM in the root directory of the floppy diskette in drive A F1h The AMIBOOT ROM file is not in the root directory F2h Read the FAT Analyze the FAT to find the clusters occupied by the AMIBOOT ROM F3h Start reading...

Page 73: ...t IDE Programmed I O mode 0 1 2 3 and 4 support IDE LBA mode support APM Advanced Power Management and Flash BIOS hooks EPA Green PC compliant PCI and Plug and Play PnP support and DIM Device Initialization Manager support DMI Desktop Management Interface support ATAPI support can boot from a CD ROM drive automatically detects system memory cache memory and IDE drive parameters Intel NSP compliant...

Page 74: ... management Power management services include Green PC LED power management signal to Green PC aware power supplies automatic IDE and video power down monitor blanking SMI System Management Interrupt support APM and system stop clock Speaker Standard four pin speaker connection ...