TYAN S2468, Manual

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Page 2: ...rs and Heatsink 2 17 Attaching Drive Cables 2 18 Installing Add in Cards 2 19 Connecting External Devices 2 20 Installing the Power Supply 2 21 Finishing Up Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 3 0 Main BIOS Setup 3 1 Advanced Setup 3 2 Chipset Configuration 3 3 Keyboard Configuration screen 3 4 I O Configuration 3 5 PCI Configuration 3 6 Security Setup 3 7 Power Setup 3 8 Boot Setup 3 9 Exit Chapter 4 Diagnostic...

Page 3: ...able if optional SCSI included 1x Ultra DMA 100 66 IDE cable 1x Cable set 9 pin Serial 1x Thunder K7X user s manual 1x Thunder K7X Quick Reference guide 1x TYAN driver CD 1x Adaptec SCSI driver diskette if optional SCSI included 1x I O shield with 2 LAN ports If any of these items are missing please contact your vendor dealer for replacement before continuing with the installation process ...

Page 4: ...D 760 MPX chipset AMD 762 system controller north bridge and AMD 768 peripheral bus controller south bridge Winbond 83627HF Super I O ASIC Memory Four 184 pin 2 5v DDR DIMM sockets 25 degree angled sockets enable rackmount installation Supports up to 4GB of Registered PC2100 1600 DDR memory Also supports ECC 72 bit memory modules The AMD 760 MPX requires a portion of memory to be reserved for PCI ...

Page 5: ...rts front side USB TYAN does not provide these cables Hardware Monitoring Winbond W83782D hardware monitoring ASIC CPU temperature voltage monitoring 3 pin fan monitoring headers BIOS PhoenixBIOS on 4Mbit Flash ROM Supports ACPI v1 0 Auto configuration of IDE hard drive types Multiple boot options DMI 2 0 compliant Regulatory FCC DoC Declaration of Conformity European CE Declaration of Conformity ...

Page 6: ...talling your motherboard 1 Ground yourself properly before removing your motherboard from the antistatic bag Unplug the power from your computer power supply and then touch the power supply For the safest conditions TYAN recommends wearing a static safety wrist strap 2 Hold the motherboard by its edges and do not touch the bottom of the board 3 Avoid touching the motherboard components IC chips co...

Page 7: ...ph is only a representation of the actual board Because boards may be updated and go through different revisions certain components may change and or be repositioned The picture above may or may not look exactly like the board you received The following page will detail vital components of this board ...

Page 8: ...jumper schematic diagram is representative of the latest board revision available at the time of this manual s publishing The board you have received may or may not be like the above schematic Jumper Legend Jumper OFF disconnected Jumper ON connected ...

Page 9: ...from motherboard Set jumper J21 to Clear CMOS Wait about 5 seconds Set jumper J21 to Normal 2 4 Front side Bus Select 133MHz DEFAULT 1 J49 J48 J53 J52 Depending on the processor you have you may need to adjust the processor front side bus speed in order have the processors operate correctly The S2468 Thunder K7X supports processors that run at 100MHz 200DDR and 133MHz 266DDR front side bus speeds ...

Page 10: ... operate at 66MHz default CLOSE the jumper to force the primary PCI bus to operate at 33MHz 2 10 Chassis Intrusion Header J15 Certain chasses have a switch that detects whether or not they are being opened This switch connects to the Chassis Intrusion Header to sound an alarm when the chassis is being opened without authorization Simply connect the two pin switch to the J15 header to enable 2 11 P...

Page 11: ... screw holes of the motherboard to the studs inside the case If there are any studs missing you ll know right away since the motherboard will not be able to be securely installed Some chasses include plastic studs instead of metal ones These ones are also usable but TYAN recommends using metal studs with screws to make sure the motherboard does not get jarred during shipping or lots of movement Be...

Page 12: ...rrent board you have For this information please check TYAN s website at www tyan com The following diagram shows the types of RAM modules you may encounter depending on your board Here are a few key points to note before installing memory into your Thunder K7X At least ONE Registered DDR SDRAM module must be installed for the system to turn on and POST power on self test 128MB 256MB 512MB and 1GB...

Page 13: ...ed in the socket two clamps on either side will close and secure the module into the socket Sometimes you may need to close the clamps yourself To remove the memory module simply push the clamps outwards until the memory module pops up Then remove the module TIP When you re installing memory it may require a considerable amount of force although this is rare to push the modules into their socket T...

Page 14: ...he processor just like on memory modules to ensure that they insert the correct way 3 Seat the processor firmly into the socket by gently pressing down until the processor sits flush with the socket 4 Place the socket lever back down until it snaps into place 5 Your processor is installed 6 Repeat these steps for the second processor if you are using two processors Take care when installing proces...

Page 15: ...socket is raised and usually has SOCKET imprinted into it heatsinks have an indent on one side to secure flush with the raised side of the socket Then clip one side of the heatsink onto the socket and then lay the heatsink flat onto the processor Then clip the other end of the heatsink down either with your finger or by using a flathead screw driver Be sure to carefully observe which side your hea...

Page 16: ...s hard drives CD ROM drives etc to your motherboard 2 17 Attaching Drive Cables Attaching IDE cables to your drives is simple because they only go in one way The motherboard IDE connectors are colored coded The Black connector is Primary and the White connector is Secondary Attaching IDE cables is simple because most are keyed to only go in one way Make sure to attach the blue end of the cable to ...

Page 17: ...re unsure about how to attach the floppy drive s Remember you can only have 2 floppy drives connected at any given time Below are some symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives Symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives Drive is not automatically detected Usually caused by faulty cables cables put in backwards or a bad floppy drive or motherboard Try another floppy drive to verify the p...

Page 18: ...efuse to go in It s better to try another slot or return the faulty card rather than damaging both the motherboard and the card TIP It s good practice to spread out cards as far apart from each other as possible if you can This gives more breathing room and sensitive electronics will cool better and perform more reliably NOTE YOU MUST unplug the power connector to the motherboard before performing...

Page 19: ...K7X By default the Thunder K7X requires that you have an ATXGES Dual AMD certified power supply that has a 24 pin and an 8 pin power connector Please be aware that ATX 2 x ATX12V and EPS12V 24 8 pin power supplies are not compatible with the board nor would they supply the correct power 1 Disconnect power supply from electrical outlet 2 Connect ATXGES dual AMD 8 pin power connector 3 Connect ATXGE...

Page 20: ...cially IDE cables and most importantly jumpers Setting up your computer on a hardware level will probably be one of the easiest things to do if you carefully followed these instructions In the rare circumstance that you experienced difficulty even though the instructions herein were followed you can find help by asking your vendor for assistance If they are not available for assistance please chec...

Page 21: ...omputers It supports the AMD Athlon family of processors and other compatible processors The BIOS provides critical low level support for the system central processing component memory and I O subsystems The BIOS has been customized by adding important but non standard features such as virus and password protection power management and detailed fine tuning of the chipset controlling the system The...

Page 22: ...e p 9 The best advice is to alter only settings that you thoroughly understand In particular do not change settings in the Chipset section unless you are absolutely sure you need to The Chipset defaults were carefully chosen by TYAN or your system manufacturer for the best performance and reliability Even a seemingly small change to the Chipset setup options may cause the system to become unstable...

Page 23: ...this screen Large Disk Access Mode DOS Other This option denotes that a hard drive with more than 1024 cylinders more than 16 heads and or more than 64 tracks per sector is present Choose Other when using OSes such as UNIX Reset Configuration Data Erases all configuration data in a section of memory for ESCD Extended System Configuration Data which stores the configuration settings for non PnP plu...

Page 24: ...eyboard setup can be altered in this section Boot up Num Lock Auto On Off Toggles the Num lock keyboard function to be turned on at startup or be disabled at startup Keyboard auto repeat rate 30 sec 26 7 sec 21 8 sec 18 5 sec 13 3 sec 10 sec 6 sec 2 sec Defines the rate at which characters are repeated on screen when holding down keys on the keyboard Keyboard auto repeat delay 1 4 sec 1 2 sec 3 4 ...

Page 25: ...on first PCI Device Slot 1 2 3 4 5 Option ROM Scan Enables or disables device expansion ROM PCI Device Slot 1 2 3 4 5 Enable Master Enables or disables PCI bus mastering Not every device can operate as a PCI master However PCI bus mastering allows devices that can to access other devices on the PCI bus directly for increased performance PCI Device Slot 1 2 3 4 5 Latency Timer Defines the PCI respo...

Page 26: ...ings Maximum Performance Disabled Defines power saving features Standby Timeout Off 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 16 min Toggles and defines the amount of time given before the system will go into Standby power saving mode Auto Suspend Timeout Off 5 10 15 20 30 40 60 min Toggles and defines the amount of time given before the system goes into Suspend mode after going into Standby mode This option can saves the ...

Page 27: ...n devices are not bootable Each item detected as a removable device will be listed in this section As the key is pressed the item highlighted will move up in priority and down with the key The item at the top will take first boot priority and the second one will boot if the first device fails and so on Press the D key to remove the device from the order 3 12 Exit Options related exiting and saving...

Page 28: ...ur memory configuration order type and check for faulty modules Please check our website for memory compatibility Before calling your vendor or calling TYAN Tech Support be sure that you know how many beeps your board made and how long the beeps were Also have other information such as your attached add in cards drives and OS to help speed up the support process and come to a possible solution fas...

Page 29: ...rogram Load IPL devices and then stores that list in NVRAM IPL devices have the ability to load and execute an OS as well as provide the ability to return to the BIOS if the OS load process fails for some reason At that point the next IPL device is called upon to attempt loading of the OS BIOS Basic Input Output System the program that resides in the ROM chip and provides the basic instructions fo...

Page 30: ...metimes called DIMM sockets because the physical slot and the logical unit are the same That is one DIMM module fits into one DIMM socket which is capable of acting as a memory bank DMA Direct Memory Access channels that are similar to IRQs DMA channels allow hardware devices like soundcards or keyboards to access the main memory without involving the CPU This frees up CPU resources for other task...

Page 31: ...lt into BBS compliant devices describing those devices as capable of loading and executing an OS as well as being able to provide control back to the BIOS if the loading attempt fails IPL see Initial Program Load IRQ Interrupt Request an electronic request that runs from a hardware device to the CPU The interrupt controller assigns priorities to incoming requests and delivers them to the CPU It is...

Page 32: ...four components that together make up the Wired for Management 2 0 baseline specification PXE was designed to define a standard set of preboot protocol services within a client towards the goal of allowing networked based booting to boot using industry standard protocols RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks a way for the same data to be stored in different places on many hard drives By using ...

Page 33: ...te normally Striping see RAID UltraDMA 33 66 100 a fast version of the old DMA channel UltraDMA is also called UltraATA Without proper UltraDMA controller your system cannot take advantage of higher data transfer rates of the new UltraDMA UltraATA hard drives USB Universal Serial Bus a versatile port This one port type can function as a serial parallel mouse keyboard or joystick port It is fast en...

Page 34: ...on http www TYAN com 3 Contact your dealer for help BEFORE calling TYAN 4 Check the TYAN user group alt comp periphs mainboard TYAN Returning Merchandise for Service During the warranty period contact your distributor or system vendor FIRST for any product problems This warranty only covers normal customer use and does not cover damages incurred during shipping or failure due to the alteration mis...

Page 35: ...on a circuit different from that of the receiver Consult the dealer on an experienced radio television technician for help Notice for Canada This apparatus complies with the Class B limits for radio interference as specified in the Canadian Department of Communications Radio Interference Regulations Cet appareil est conforme aux norms de Classe B d interference radio tel que specifie par le Minist...