Zida GX3D-CM, User Manual

Page 1: ...e functional and more competitive Excellent quality and faster response Supporting Intel PENTIUM III PENTIUM II or Celeron Processors Bus Master IDE UDMA66 PC100 66 SDRAM Integrated VGA Display Controller Quality Performance Mainboards ...

Page 2: ...appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners benefit without intent to infringe Intel Pentium Pentium II Pentium III are registered trademark of Intel Corporation SIS is a registered trademark of SIS Silicon Integrated Systems Corp IBM IBM PC IBM PC AT PC DOS OS 2 a...

Page 3: ...ns The two IDE channels are fully independent with dedicated 16 double word FIFO built in The integrated 3D graphics accelerator is composed of the triangle setup engine and the rendering engine The hardware acceleration features can be enabled by SiS driver under Direct 3D and OpenGL The supported 3D quality acceleration includes Gouroud Shading Zbuffer Alpha buffer Perspective Correction MipMapi...

Page 4: ...ng due to sharp pins on connector s and printed circuit assemblies rough edges and corners and hot components Adhere to warnings regarding accessibility into ares designated only for authorized Technicians Your Location Requirements Are A sturdy level surface for placement Space allowance around mainboard A stable environment with no abrupt temperature or humidity changes No exposure to chemicals ...

Page 5: ...e Quick Step portion of this manual The letters below describes the key Mainboard components Page number in the right hand column will direct you to a detailed description of the component CreateGX MX PCI Sound Onboard GX98 MX Without Sound Onboard COMPONENT PAGE A PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Connector 40 B ATX Power Supply 40 C Universal Serial Bus USB Connector 41 E Infra Red IR connector 41 F Memory Mo...

Page 6: ...1 Serial COM2 and Parallel Port Connector 42 I 3V Lithium Battery 42 J PCI Add in Board Connector 43 K ISA Add in Board Connector 43 M Front Panel Function Connector 43 N Flash BIOS 44 O Floppy Drive Connector 44 P IDE Device Connector 44 Q WAKEUP LINK Header 45 s Socket 370 CPU Socket 47 T CPU FAN Connector 45 U Audio Connectors 46 X CD Audio Connector 46 Y Auxiliary Connector 46 Z Telephony Conn...

Page 7: ... If a fan is not present user should purchase a fan prior to turning on the system The recommended heatsinks for the Socket 370 processor are those with three pin fans that can be connected to the fan connectors on the motherboard provides the 12 Volts D C for your CPU cooling fan Installing the Central Processing Unit CPU Mainboard User s Manual Page 13 6 quick steps Please follow these steps in ...

Page 8: ...MPORTANT Make sure your main power switch is OFF or remove the power cord Ribbon cables should always be connected with the red stripe on the Pin 1 side of the con nector The four corners of the connector s are labeled on the motherboard Pin 1 is the side closest to the power connector on hard drives and floppy drives ATX Power Connector Page 14 Mainboard User s Manual After you have set the memor...

Page 9: ... ribbon cable After connecting the single end to the on board FLOPPY connector O in diagram connect the remaining plugs on the other end to the corresponding floppy drives IDE Connector The on board IDE connector s P in diagram support the provided 40 pin IDE hard disk ribbon cable After connecting the single end to the mainboard connect the remaining plugs at the other end of your hard disk s If ...

Page 10: ...ey when prompted and continue BIOS configurations discussed in the next chapter Page 18 Mainboard User s Manual PCI Board Installation Installing PCI Add in Boards First read your expansion card documentation for hardware and software settings that may be required to set up your specific card Set any necessary jumpers on your expansion card and remove the opening cover plate on your computer case ...

Page 11: ...elay Above 1 MB Memory Test Memory Test Tick Sound Hit Del Message Display System Boot Up Sequence and many others Sets chipset specific options and features Controls power conservation options Sets options related to PCI bus and Plug and Play options Controls I O Controller related options This function is for user to load the BIOS default set tings This function is for user to load the SETUP def...

Page 12: ...a sector gets progressively smaller as the track diameter diminishes Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes Write precompensation circuitry on the hard disk compensates for the physical difference in sector size by boosting the write current for sec tors on inner tracks This parameter is the track number on the disk surface where write precompensation begins This number is the cylinder location...

Page 13: ... value is Enabled External Cache This category enables or disables the secondary L2 cache to speed up memory access The default value is Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking This category enables or disables the CPU L2 cache ECC Checking procedure The default value is Enabled Page 24 Mainboard User s Manual CPU SPEED Setting The system BIOS is capable to detect the CPU type say Pentium III or Pentium...

Page 14: ...after you power on the computer If it is set to Enabled BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST The default value is Disabled Boot Sequence This category determines which drive computer searches first for the disk operating system i e DOS The default setting is A C SCSI means that the system will determine the drive A before drive C Swap Floppy Drive This feature allows you to enabl...

Page 15: ...able Video RAM Cacheable Select Enabled allows caching of the video RAM resulting in better system per formance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result Enabled Video RAM access cached DisabledVideo RAM access not cached Memory Hole At 15M 16M In order to improve performance certain space in memory can be reserved for ISA cards This memory must be mapped into the...

Page 16: ... PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation The choice 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 Concurrent Function MEM When disable CPU bus will be occupied during the memory operation period The choice Enabled Disabled Concurrent Function PCI When disable CPU bus will be occupied during the entire PCI ...

Page 17: ... or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 HDD Power Down 2 Doze Mode 3 Suspend Mode 4 Standby Mode Mainboard User s Manual Page 32 IRQ n Assigned to When resources are controlled manually assign each system interrupt as one of the following types depending on the type of device using the interrupt Legacy ISA Devices compliant with the original PC AT bus speci fica...

Page 18: ...Week Alarm Set the option on off for SUN SAT Time hh mm ss Alarm Set the time for Alarm Mainboard User s Manual Page 35 There are three selections for Power Management three of which have fixed mode settings Disable default No power management Disables all four modes Min Power Saving Minimum power management Doze Mode 1 hr Standby Mode 1 hr Suspend Mode 1 hr and HDD Power Down 15 min Max Power Sav...

Page 19: ...drive FDD installed on the system board and you wish to use it Even when so equipped if you add a higher performance controller you will need to disable this feature The Choice Enabled Disabled USB Controller The Choice Enabled Disabled USB Key board Support The Choice Enabled Disabled VGA Shared Memory Size Set the VGA Shared Memory Size option The Choice None 2 4 8 MB Onboard 3D Sound Set the On...

Page 20: ... for the onboard parallel printer port Normal EPP Extended Parallel Port ECP Extended Capabilities Port CEP EPP PC AT paral lel port Bidirectional port Fast buffered port Fast buffered bidirectional port Select Normal unless you are certain your hardware and software both sup Onboard Parallel Port Select a logical LPT port name and matching address for the physical parallel printer port The choice...

Page 21: ...printers using application software such as LapLink The IrDA specification provides for data transfers at 115 kbps from a distance of 1 meter Support for Consumer infrared ASK IR is also included Please refer to your IR equipment for more detailed information The header pin out is as follows Pin Signal Name 1 VCC power source 2 No Connection 3 IRRX infra red receive 4 No Connection 5 IRTX infra re...

Page 22: ...pin parallel port are now built on the mainboard back panel This design makes your mainboardts installation easier The parallel port can be BIOS configured into standard SPP mode Enhanced Parallel Port EPP mode and a high speed Extended capabilities Port ECP mode EPP Mode requires a driver provided by the peripheral manufacturer in order to operate properly The AT Mainboard provides two 10 pin ser...

Page 23: ...nnector The Mainboard provides a 34 pin connector that supports the included floppy drive ribbon cable After connecting the single end to the on board FLOPPY connector connect the remain ing plugs on the other end of the cable to the corresponding floppy drives NOTE Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting the connector in the wrong orientation P IDE Device Connector The Mainboard provides 2 independ...

Page 24: ... Ultra ATA 33 CD Rom Ultra ATA Specification Ultra ATA 66 cycle time 30ns maximum transfer rate 66MB sec Ultra ATA 33 cycle time 60ns maximum transfer rate 33MB sec For Software Installation please refer to the CD ROM U Audio Connectors The Mainboard provides Audio headers Audio Connectors S1 Line Output S2 Line Input S3 Microphone Input W SIS Hardware Monitor The Mainboard provides sophisticated ...