Aristo AM-646ZXS, AM-628BX, AM-639BX Manual

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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:

-REORIENTORRELOCATETHERECEIVINGANTENNA

-INCREASE THE SEPARATION BETWEEN THE EQUIPMENT AND THE RECEIVER

-CONNECT THE EQUIPMENT INTO AN OUTLET ON A CIRCUIT DIFFERENT FROM THATOFTHERECEIVER

-CONSULTTHEDEALERORANEXPERIENCEDAUDIO/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.

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

This manual is copyrighted with all rights reserved. No portion of this manual may be copied or 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 .............................................................

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Key Features ..............................................................................................

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Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35883901) ..................................

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Jumper Settings .........................................................................................

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CPU Speed Selection ...........................................................................

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JP4 - CMOS Clear .................................................................................

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JP28 - Keyboard Power on Password Clear .......................................

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Keyboard Password Power on .............................................................

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JP8, JP23 -- BIOS Program Voltage .....................................................

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JP20, JP21, JP22 -- Sound Chip Enable Setting .................................

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Memory Configuration ................................................................................

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Installing the Retention Mechanism for Intel® Pentium® II

 

or Intel® Celeron® Processor ...................................................................

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Installing the Processor .............................................................................

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Setting the Processor Speed .....................................................................

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BIOS SETUP ...............................................................................................

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Starting Setup ..............................................................................................

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Main Menu ...................................................................................................

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

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

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

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

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

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Integrated Peripherals ................................................................................

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

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

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Technical Reference Booklet

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HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

This motherboard is based on the Intel® 82440BX/ZX chipset. The chipset is a highly integrated solution for a cost-effective and compact motherboard. The motherboard supports SDRAM, Registered SDRAM. Features on-board include super-I/O, Ultra DMA33, PCI bus master IDE, AGP Ver 1.0, PCI Ver 2.1 compliance, USB, VRM 8.2 compliance, ECC, Micro ATX specification 1.0 compliance, hardware monitoring (optional), On-board Sound Sub-system (optional).

Key Features

Processor

Full support for the Intel® Pentium® II, Intel® Celeron® and Deschutes® processors using Slot 1 connector.

SLOT 1 connector for Intel® Pentium® II microprocessors.

Supports 66MHz and 100MHz bus speed including all Pentium® II processors operating from 233MHz to 450MHz.

CPU Speed Jumperless

No jumper is needed to set for various speed of CPU.

VRM (Voltage Regulator Modules) on Board

Flexible motherboard design with on-board VRM 8.2, easy to upgrade with Intel’s® Future Overdrive® processors.

Cache

Pentium® II Processor built-in L2 cache.

System Memory

Up to 256MB (SDRAM) or 512MB (Registered SDRAM) - for 440ZX only.

Up to 384MB (SDRAM) or 768MB (Registered SDRAM) - for 440BX only.

A total of two 168-pin DIMM sockets for 440ZX.

A total of three 168-pin DIMM sockets for 440BX.

Supports SDRAM (Only for 66MHz Bus speed).

Supports PC-100, Registered SDRAM (for 100MHz Bus speed).

Memory Organization

Supports single-density DIMMs of 1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB and 16MB depth (x64 or 72).

Supports double-density DIMMs of 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB and 32MB depth (x64 or 72).

Supports error checking correction (ECC) using parity DRAM modules (440BX only).

Banks of different DRAM types depths can be mixed.

PC97/98

PC97/98 ready.

Expansion Slots

Supports SB-LINK Port for creative Sound PCI Card.

1 AGP slot (ver. 1.0, 1x/2x mode supported).

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).

Hardware Setup

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On-Board I/O

Two PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA2, Ultra DMA 33 IDE HDDs, CD-Roms, ZIP devices and LS-120 drivers as boot drive.

Supports bus master IDE, PIO mode 4 (up to 16M bytes/sec) and Ultra DMA 33 (up to 33M bytes/sec) transfer.

One ECP/EPP parallel port .

Two 16550-compatible UART serial ports.

One floppy port supporting two FDDs of 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB or 2.88MB formated capacity.

Two USB ports.

PS/2 keyboard port.

PS/2 mouse port.

Infrared (IrDA) support (via a header).

One Line / Speaker out, one Mic in, one Line in and MIDI / Gameport(optional).

System BIOS

2MB flash BIOS supporting PnP, APM, ATAPI, ACPI and DMI; 1MB flash with feature cut (e.g. ACPI/DMI) is available upon customer’s request.

Jumper selection for 5V or 12V flash memory voltage.

Auto detects and supports LBA hard disks with formatted capacities over 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, Windows® 95 as well as Windows® 98.

Fully steerable PCI interrupts.

Power Management

Supports SMM, APM and ACPI.

Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operation.

Energy star “Green PC” compliant .

Supports WAKE-ON-LAN (WOL).

Supports Wake on Ring for External Modem.

Supports Micro ATX specification 1.0.

On board Sound Sub-system (optional)

Creative Vibra 16XV sound chip is used.

Sound Blaster 16 compatible.

Full-Duplex 16-bit record & playback.

Roland MPU 401 UART mode compatible.

Integrated CQM and FM synthesizer.

PnP and APM 1.2 Support.

Keyboard Password Turn ON

Special feature for system security.

System monitoring (optional)

Hardware monitoring circuitry is supported, provides voltages, temperature, fan speeds etc. monitoring.

Technical Reference Booklet

Aristo AM-646ZXS, AM-628BX, AM-639BX Manual

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Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35883901)

The following diagrams show the relative positions of the jumpers, connectors, major components and memory banks on the motherboard.

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