CHAINTECH 6OIA3T, User Manual

Page 1: ... the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This declaration is given to the manufacturer CHAINTECH EXCEL COMPUTER U S INC 4427 Enterprise ST Fremont CA 94538 U S A hattp www chaintech excel com Chaintech President Si...

Page 2: ...es or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Canadian Department of Communications Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for audio noise emissions from digital apparatuses set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communication...

Page 3: ...tures 18 3 4 Integrated Peripherals 19 3 5 Power Management Setup 21 3 6 PnP PCI Configuration 24 3 7 PC Health Status 25 3 8 SeePU Setup 25 3 9 Load Fail Safe Defaults 26 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 26 3 11 Supervisor Password User Password Setting 27 3 12 Save and Exit Setup 27 3 13 Exit Without Saving 27 Appendix Embedded Flash Utility 28 Feature Explanations Feature Explanations Feature Expla...

Page 4: ...oting features i e floppy LS120 CD DVD ROM HDD IDE SCSI ZIP ATAPI etc Embedded Ultra DMA 100 PCI IDE controller Supports two IDE ports up to 4 ATAPI devices Supports up to PIO Mode 4 up to 16 6MBps Multi Mode 4 up to 66MBps and Multi Word Mode 5 up to 100MBps with bus mastering Bus Mastering software drivers for common multi task operating systems Onboard Ultra I O ITE 8712 LPC with system monitor...

Page 5: ...ull duplex operation for simultaneous recording and playback Supports HRTF 3D positional audio with MSDS DS3D DirectMusic Aureal A3D and Creative EAX Environment Audio Extensions C3DX APIs 6 Channel speaker audio support Network Controller optional ICH2EmbeddedFastEthernetcontrollerwithIntel562EM 10 100Mbit sec Ethernet support Embedded SystemMonitorHardware 8 external voltage inputs 2 temperature...

Page 6: ...bat Reader Award Flash Utility Award DMI Utility for DOS Audio driver and utility Intel LAN driver for Win9x Win2000 WinNT optional Intel Service Pack for Win9x Win2000 WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers AGP VxD and etc OptionalValuePack2001softwaregroupincludingNortonAntiVirus AutoSave ADOBE ActiveShare Acrobat Reader Imagemore X stop Appio and Ewalla See the Readme txt file in the CD ROM s r...

Page 7: ...4 Chapter 1 1 3 Mainboard Layout Line in MIC CN2 CN3 CN4A CN4B CN7 JP8 IR2 JP5 JP6 FAN1 PS 2 Mouse Printer Port GamePort RJ45 Optional PS 2Keyboard USB 1 2 Line out COM1 CN1 CN5 CN6 CN10 JP1 COM2 FAN2 ...

Page 8: ...nector 8 Speaker Connector 8 Green switch Connector 8 IDE activity LED Connector 8 CN2 CD ROM Audio in Connector 9 CN3 Auxiliary Audio in Connector 9 CN4A Front Panel Audio Connector 10 CN4B Bass Center Speaker Connector 10 CN5 WOL Wake on LAN Connector 10 USB1 CN6 USB 1 2 Ports and USB 3 4 Connector 10 CN7 Smart Card Reader Connector 10 IR1 IR CIR Connector 10 FAN1 FAN2 CPU System Cooling Fan Con...

Page 9: ... not apply extra pressure as doing so may result in damaging your CPU Snap the lever back into place Installingaheatsinkwithcoolingfanisnecessaryforproperheatdissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burn out of your CPU TheuseofaHeatsinkandFandesignedfortheFC PGAonaFC PGA2cancause damagetothesocketormotherboardandwillvoidanywarranty Theextra t...

Page 10: ...START button on the Windows 95 task bar Select Shut Down The Computer and the system turns off The message It is now safe to turn off your computer will not be shown when using this function Power On By Modem While in Soft off state if an external modem ring up signal occurs the system wakes up and can be remotely accessed You may enable this function in BIOS s Power Management Setup menu See sect...

Page 11: ...ator LED Connector The power indicator LED shows the system s power status It is important to pay attention to the correct cables and pin orientation i e not to reverse the order of these two connectors C Green Switch Connector Some ATX cases provide a Green switch which is used to put the system in Suspend mode In Suspend mode the power supply to the system is reduced to a trickle the CPU clock i...

Page 12: ... this function Power On By USB JP6 ThisboardisabletobeturnedonbyaUSBkeyboardhotkey or a USB mouse click To use this function select a hot key of your choice at the USB Resume From S3 S4 S5 option under Wake Up Events in the BIOS s Power On Management screen You must also set this jumper s cap to pins 2 3 to use this function Onboard Audio JP8 This function allows you to enable and disable the on b...

Page 13: ...is for center bass speaker output WOL Wake on LAN Connector CN5 Enable the Wake Up On LAN selection in BIOS s Power Management Menu to use this function This header is used to connect an add in NIC Network Interface Card which gives WOL capability to the mainboard USB 1 2 Ports and USB 3 4Connector USB1 CN6 If you want to use a USB Keyboard you must enable the USB keyboard support function in BIOS...

Page 14: ...y system consists two banks and the memory size ranges from 32 512MBytes If you only use one bank it does not matter which one you use and if you use two or more banks it does not matter which bank you install first DRAM Specifications DIMM type 3 3V 64 72 bit Synchronous DRAM Module size Single double sided 32 64 128 256 512MBytes DRAM speed 7 5 10ns for Synchronous DRAM Parity Either parity or n...

Page 15: ... to enter the Award BIOS setup program The primary screen as shown in Figure 3 1 is a list of the menus and functions available in the setup program Select the desired item and press enter to make changes Operating commands are located at the bottom of this and all other BIOS screens When a field is highlighted on line help information is displayed on the left bottom edge of the screen Select Item...

Page 16: ... timed events such as power management saving files etc are based on this timer HardDiskSetup Primary Secondary Master Slave This category identifies up to four IDE hard disk drives that have been installed in the computer This section does not show information on other IDE devices such as CD ROM drives or other hard drive types such as SCSI drives CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award So...

Page 17: ... your system You can ignore this setting if you are using a VGA monitor since VGA BIOS automatically configures this setting Halt When the system is powered on BIOS performs a series of diagnotic tests called POST Power On Self Test This function stops the computer if BIOS detects a hardware error You can tell BIOS to halt on all errors no errors or not to halt on specific errors ...

Page 18: ...ading of the partition table or boot sector ChipAway Virus loads with BIOS and is able to detect boot up viruses before they have a chance to infect the hard drive ChipAway Virus employs rule based logic that doesn t look for specific viruses but rather detects patterns found in every virus eliminating the need to perform periodical version updates after new viruses have been found Anti Virus Prot...

Page 19: ...nd Third BootOtherDevice This option sets the sequence of drives BIOS attempts to boot from after POST completes BIOS will search these drives for an operating system SwapFloppyDrive Enabling this function will swap the floppy drive assignment so that drive A will function as drive B and drive B will function as drive A Note that the boot sequence assignment mentioned directly above does not inlcu...

Page 20: ...s a key that a character begins repeating G Security Option The Supervisor and or User Password functions shown in Figure 3 1 must be set to take advantage of this function See Section 3 11 for password setting information When the Security Option is set to System a password must be entered to boot the system or enter the BIOS setup program When the Security Option is set to Setup a password is re...

Page 21: ... manual Below are abbreviated descriptions of the functions in this setup menu You can look on the world wide web for helpful chipset and RAM configuration information including AWARD s web site at http www award com A Memory Hole at 15M 16M Enabling this function will reserve the memory address space between 15MB and 16MB for ISA expansion cards The default setting is Disabled is enabled B AGP Ap...

Page 22: ...keyboard will no longer work 3 4 Integrated Peripherals This section provides information on setting peripheral devices By choosing the Integrated Peripherals option from the Standard CMOS Features menu Figure 3 1 the screen below is displayed This sample screen contains the manufacturer s default values for the mainboard CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Integrated Periphera...

Page 23: ... the computer by touching any key on the keyboard Set this function to Mouse Click to turn on the computer by clicking on the mouse If you set this function to Hot Key or Password you must designate the keystrokes that will turn on the computer Note that the power button is always able to turn on the computer regardless of how this function is set J Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your sy...

Page 24: ...ing increasingly deep power saving modes C Video Off Method This function serves as both a screen saver and power saver for monitors See the next function Video Off After for setting the video timer Item Help Menu Level CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Power Management Setup Figure 3 6 Power Management Setup Screen ACPI Function ACPI Suspend Type Power Management Video Off M...

Page 25: ...termines when the monitor enters power saving mode If set to Yes the monitor enters the power saving mode after the chosen event expires The Power Management function must be enabled to use this function E Modem Use IRQ If your computer has an modem use this function to tell BIOS which IRQ is being occupied by the modem card When the system is in Green mode the modem requires an IRQ assignment to ...

Page 26: ...the system from soft off and green mode J Power On By Modem When enabled a modem that receives a ring signal will wake up the system from soft off and green mode You should connect the modem to the COM port and turn on the resume event in green mode L USB Port Wake Up From S3 When enabled all USB devices will resume event from suspend S3 mode M Resume By Alarm When enabled this setting allows the ...

Page 27: ... refer to the ESCD for IRQ DMA information Instead it will refer to the items in the setup menu for assigning IRQ DMA When set to Auto the system BIOS will refer to the ESCD for all legacy information ESCD Extended System Configuration Data provides a detailed format of the configuration data structures stored in flash memory Each data structure defines the resources used by a device or a card in ...

Page 28: ...cations Figure3 8 PCHealthStatusScreen CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software PC Health Status Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Item Help Menu Level ShutdownTemperature CPUVCore 1 5V 3 3V 5 V 12V 12V 5 V 5VSB V Voltage Battery CurrentCPUTemp Current CPU FAN Speed Current SYSTEM FAN Speed ...

Page 29: ...Password Set User Password Setup Saving Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP PCI Configur PC Health Status CMOS Setup Utility Copyright C 1984 2001 Award Software Esc Quit F10 Save Exit Setup Select Item Load Fail Safe Defaults Figure3 10 LoadFail SafeDefaultsScreen Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N Frequency Voltage ...

Page 30: ...serpasswordandsupervisorpasswordselected inBIOS Figure3 1 Themainpurposeofseparatinguserandsupervisoristoallow onlythesupervisortohavecontroloverthesettingsinBIOS Theuser ontheother hand isonlyallowedtoaccessthecomputer soperatingsystemandchangetheuser passwordinBIOS Notethatwhenthereisnosupervisorpasswordset theuser passwordcontrolsaccesstoallBIOSsettings 3 12 Save and Exit Setup If you select th...

Page 31: ...Chapter 3 Don tturnofforrestartyoursystemduringprogrammingprocess Make sure that your floppy diskette have only one BIN file to avoid confusion FLASH MEMORY WRITER V 7 52C C Award Software 1999 All Right Reserved Warning Don t Turn Off Power Or Reset System Write OK No Update Write Fail For XXX W83627HF 6A69MC3DC 0 DATE 07 20 2001 Flash Type INTEL E82802AB 3 3V 2Mb File Name to Program Programming...

Page 32: ...iption Speed CPU ____GHz MHz Memory Bank1 Bank2 Bank3 ____GB MB VGA AGP AGP PCI Onboard 1x 2x 4x Sound ACR CNR PCI Onboard 2 4 6Channel LAN ACR CNR PCI Onboard Modem ACR CNR PCI External 56K Other_____ CD ROM ____X DVD ROM ____X CD RW R___x W___x RW___x Pri Hard Drive ___GBytes ________RPM Sec Hard Drive ___GBytes ________RPM Floppy Drive ____MB ZIP Drive ____MB LS120 ____MB Power Supply 200W 250W...

Page 33: ... 5 and 10 were corrected as IR Connector 14 V 1 Oct 18 01 P N 9410930011 Code 6CTOIA3T V 1_E Amend 1 6CTOIA3T V 1_E MANUAL AMENDMENT Please note the following changes made to the user s manual that is included with your mainboard Due typographical error the IR Connector 14 that was written on pages 5 and 10 were corrected as IR Connector 14 V 1 Oct 18 01 P N 9410930011 Code 6CTOIA3T V 1_E Amend 1 ...