Aristo AM-535P User Manual

Electronic Emission Notices

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment
generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in
accordance with instructions contained in this manual, may cause harmful interference
to radio and television communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference
will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which
can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to
correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

- REORIENT OR RELOCATE THE RECEIVING ANTENNA

- INCREASE THE SEPARA TION BETWEEN THE EQUIPMENT AND THE RECEIVER

- CONNECT THE EQUIPMENT INTO AN OUTLET ON A CIRCUIT DIFFERENT FROM
THAT OF THE RECEIVER

- CONSULT THE DEALER OR AN EXPERIENCED AUDIO/TELEVISION TECHNICIAN

NOTE: Connecting this device to peripheral devices that do not comply with Class B

requirements, or using an unshielded peripheral data cable, could also result
in harmful interference to radio or television reception.

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The user is cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved
by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate
this equipment.

To ensure that the use of this product does not contribute to interference, it is
necessary to use shielded I/O cables.

Copyright

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reproduced by any means.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this manual, no responsibility for errors
or omissions is assumed. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the
information contained herein.

Trademarks

All brand names, logos and registered trademarks mentioned are property of their respective owners.

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Table of Contents

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION ............................................................................ 3

Key Features .............................................................................................................. 3

Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35880401) .................................................. 5

Jumper Settings .......................................................................................................... 6

JP1, JP2, JP3, JP4, JP5, JP6 - CPU Type Selection ............................................. 6

JP11, JP12, JP13, JP14, JP16 - Power Selection for the CPU Core-Voltage,

Bus Section and Bus-Voltage.............................................................................. 7

JP25, JP26, JP27, JP28 - DIMM Voltage Selection............................................... 8

JP31 - CMOS Clear............................................................................................... 8

JP36, JP37 - Reserved Jumpers ......................................................................... 8

Memory Configuration ................................................................................................ 8

Installation ................................................................................................................ 10

Installing a DRAM Module..................................................................................... 10

Installing the Processor (CPU) ............................................................................. 10

BIOS SETUP ............................................................................................... 1 1

Starting Setup .............................................................................................................. 11

Main Menu.................................................................................................................... 11

Standard CMOS Setup ................................................................................................ 13

BIOS Features Setup................................................................................................... 14

Chipset Features Setup............................................................................................... 15

Integrated Peripherals ................................................................................................. 15

Supervisor/User Password Setting ............................................................................ 15

Power Management Setup.......................................................................................... 16

PNP/PCI Configuration Setup ....................................................................................... 16

Flash Update Procedure ............................................................................................. 16

Technical Reference Booklet

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

The Pentium® motherboard is based on the VIA® VPX Chipset. The chipset is a highly
integrated solution for a cost-effective and compact motherboard. Features on-board
include super-I/O, PCI bus master IDE, PCI Ver 2.1 compliance, and support of Pentium
CPUs running at 75, 90, 100, 120, 133, 150, 166, 180, 200 and 233MHz, Cyrix 6x86/
6x86L/6x86MX CPUs, AMD K5/K6 processors. DIMM and SIMM sockets are provided
onboard, allowing flexible installation of main memory. The onboard pipelined burst cache
further boosts the system performance.

Key Features

Processor

• ZIF Socket 7.

• Full support for the Intel® Pentium processors with MMX technology processors
using socket 7.

• Supports 50MHz, 55MHz, 60MHz, 66MHz and 75MHz bus speed including all
Pentium® processors operating from 75MHz to 233MHz.

• Supports Cyrix® 6x86/6x86L/6x86MX processors.

• Supports AMD® K5/K6 processors.

Cache

• Direct-mapped, write-back external cache.

• Supports 256KB or 512KB or 1024KB synchronous pipelined burst cache.

System Memory

• 8MB to 256MB

• Two 72-pin SIMM Sockets and two 168-pin DIMM sockets.

• Supports 5V Fast Page Mode (FPM) and Extended Data Output (EDO) DRAM on
SIMM sockets.

• Supports 5V Fast Page Mode (FPM), Extended Data Output (EDO) and Burst
Extended Data Output (BEDO) DRAM on DIMM sockets.

• Supports 3.3V Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), Extended Data Output (EDO) or
Burst Extended Data Output (BEDO) DRAM on DIMM sockets.

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Memory Organization

T wo 72-pin SIMM Sockets

• Supports Fast Page Mode (FPM) and Extended Data Out (EDO) at 60 and
70ns speeds.

• Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing.

• Memory size from 4MB up to 128MB.

• Supports single-density SIMMs of 512KB, 1MB, 2MB 4MB and 8MB depth
(x32 or x36).

• Supports double-density SIMMs of 1MB, 2MB, 4MB 8MB and 16MB depth
(x32 or 36).

• Supports banks of different DRAM types and depth.

Hardware Setup

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T wo 168-pin DIMM Sockets

• Fast Page Mode (FPM), Extended Data Output (EDO) and Burst Extended Data

Output (BEDO) DRAM

• Supports Fast Page Mode (FPM), Extended Data Out (EDO) at 60 and 70ns
speeds.

• Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing.

• Memory size from 8MB up to 256MB.

• Supports single-density DIMMs of 1MB, 2MB, 4MB and 8MB depth (x64).

• Supports double-density DIMMs of 2MB, 4MB, 8MB and 16MB depth (X64).

• Supports banks of different DRAM types and depth.

Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM)

• Supports Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) at 66MHz.

• Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing.

• Memory size from 8MB up to 64MB.

• Supports single-density Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) of 1MB and 2MB depth
(x64).

• Supports double-density Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) of 2MB and 4MB depth
(x64).

• Supports 3.3V Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM).

On-Board I/O

• Two PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA2 IDE devices.

• Supports Bus Master IDE and PIO Mode 4 (up to 22MB/sec) transfer.

• One ECP/EPP parallel port (via a header).

• Two 16550-compatible UART serial ports (via a header).

• One floppy port supporting two FDDs of 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB or 1.44MB formatted
capacity.

• Keyboard port (factory option for PS/2 Type).

• PS/2 mouse port (via a header ).

• Infrared (IrDA) support (via a header).

• Two USB ports (via a header) and Ultra DMA/33 IDE .

System BIOS

• 1MB or 2MB flash BIOS supporting PnP, APM, ATAPI and Windows® 95.

• Auto detects and supports LBA hard disks with formatted capacities up to 8.4GB.

• Easily upgradable by end-user.

Plug-and-Play

• Supports plug-and-play specification 1.1.

• Plug-and-play for DOS, Windows® 3.X as well as Windows® 95.

• Fully steerable PCI interrupts.

Power Management

• Supports SMM and APM.

• Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operation.

• Energy star “Green PC” compliant.

Expansion Slots

• 4 PCI bus master slots (rev. 2.1 compliant, with 1 PCI slot sharing with 1 ISA slot).

• 3 ISA slots (1 ISA slot sharing with 1 PCI slot).

Technical Reference Booklet

Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35880401)

The following diagram shows the relative positions of the jumpers, connectors, major
components and banks on the motherboard.

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Hardware Setup