Aristo AM-909, AM-941 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 SEP ARATION BETWEEN THE EQUIPMENT AND THE RECEIVER

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

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 .............................................................................. 3

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

Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35C93000XX).............................................. 5

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

CPU Speed Selection ............................................................................................ 6

JP1, JP5 - System Bus Frequency ....................................................................... 6

JP7- Ratio of Processor Core to System Bus Frequency ................................... 6

JP3 - CMOS Clear.................................................................................................. 7

JP20 - On Board PCI Sound Selection .................................................................. 7

JP8, JP15 - BIOS Program Voltage / BIOS Select................................................. 7

JP9 - Keyboard Power Select .............................................................................. 7

JP28 - Keyboard Power On Password Clear ...................................................... 7

Keyboard Password Power On ........................................................................... 7

Pin Assignment ..................................................................................................... 8

HARDWARE SETUP .................................................................................................... 8

T o Install DIMMs ........................................................................................................... 8

Installing a New Processor ......................................................................................... 9

To Install a Processor to ZIF Socket ........................................................................... 9

Connect the processor Fan Connector ...................................................................... 9

Setting the Processor Speed ...................................................................................... 9

BIOS SETUP ................................................................................................................. 1 0

Starting Setup .............................................................................................................. 1 0

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

Standard CMOS Setup ................................................................................................ 12

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

Chipset Features Setup............................................................................................... 14

Power Management Setup.......................................................................................... 14

PNP/PCI Configuration Setup ....................................................................................... 14

Integrated Peripherals ................................................................................................. 14

Supervisor/User Password Setting ............................................................................ 14

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

Technical Reference Booklet

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

Key Features :
Chipset

• Intel® 440BX / Intel® 440ZX / VIA® Apollo Pro(Plus) / VIA® Apollo Pro133 chipset.

Processor

• Full support for the all PPGA processors using PGA370 socket.

• Support Coppermine processors using PGA370 socket.

• Support 66MHz and 100MHz bus speed including all PGA370
processors operating from 300MHz to 500MHz and future processors.

• Support 133MHz bus speed (VIA® Apollo Pro133 chipset version only).

VRM 8.4 (Voltage Regulator Modules) on Board

• Flexible motherboard design with on-board VRM 8.4, easy to upgrade
with future processors.

System Memory

• A total of two 168-pin DIMM sockets (3.3V SDRAM types).

• Memory size up to 256M Byte (SDRAM) or 512M Byte (Registered DIMM).

• Supports SDRAM at 66/100(PC100) MHz.

• Supports PC133 SDRAM at 133MHz (VIA® Apollo Pro133 chipset version only).

• Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing.

• Banks of different DRAM types and depths can be mixed.

System BIOS

• 2MB flash BIOS supporting PnP , APM, A TAPI, ACPI and DMI.

• Auto detects and supports LBA hard disks with formatted capacities over

8.4GB.

• Easily upgradable by end-user.

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Keyboard Password Turn ON

• Special feature for system security.

On-Board I/O

• Support two PCI enhanced IDEs PIO mode 3, mode 4 and ultra DMA 33
channels (Optional ultra DMA 66 & ultra DMA 66 cable for VIA® VT82C596B
chipset version only). Twin headers for four IDE devices Including IDE HDDs
and CDROMs.

• One ECP/EPP parallel port .

• Two 16550A UART serial ports.

• One floppy port support two FDDs of 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB
or 2.88MB.

• Two USB ports.

• PS/2 mouse port.

• PS/2 keyboard port.

• Infrared (IrDA) support.

Hardware Configuration

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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.

On board Creative PCI Sound (optional)

• Creative ES1373 PCI sound chip.

• PnP, creative 3D enhancement.

• Full-duplex, Sound Blaster 16 compatible.

• 64 voice wave table synthesizer.

• DOS game compatibility.

• PCI bus master for fast DMA.

• Fully compliant with AC97 power management specification.

• Win® 95, 98, NT drivers ready.

• Line-in, line-out, mic-in and MIDI/game port.

Power Management

• Supports SMM, APM and ACPI.

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

• Energy star “Green PC” compliant .

• Supports WAKE-ON-LAN (WOL).

• Supports Wake On Ring for external modem.

Expansion Slots

• 3 PCI slots - ver. 2.1 compliant (1 ISA shared slot).

• 2 ISA slot (1 PCI shared slot).

• 1 AGP slot (Ver. 1.0, 1X/2X model support).

CAUTION

Static electricity can harm delicate components of the motherboard. To prevent
damage caused by static electricity, discharge the static electricity from your
body before you touch any of the computers electronic components.

Technical Reference Booklet

Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35C93000XX)

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

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NOTE

1) Be sure to check the cable orientation in order to match the colored strip to
the pin 1 end of the connector.

Hardware Configuration