Biostar iDEQ 330G Supplementary Manual

Important Safety Information

Table of the Contents

S ec ti on 1 I n tr od uc ti on

S ec ti on 2 M ot her bo a r d Se t U p

S ec ti on 3 Pe r ip h er al Co nn e ct io ns

S ec ti on 4 S of t w a re U t il i t y

S ec ti on 5 T ro ubl e S ho oti ng

S ec ti on 6 T a k in g c ar e o f You r C o mp ut er

1.1 Beg in You r Tou r In Th e D IY Wo rld ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .

1.2 Ch ec ki ng t he Eq ui pmen ts . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .

2.1 Mot he rb oard Fea tu res . .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...

2.2 La yo ut & C omp on ents ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. ..

2.3 Installing Central Processing Unit (CPU) ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .

2.4 Fa n He ad er s .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... ..

2.5 Installing System Memory .. .. .. . ... .. . ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

2.6 Co nn ect or s, & S lo ts . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

2.7 Ho w to s etup J umpe rs . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. ..

2.8 De ta il Set ti ng s .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .....

3.1 Ove rv i e w . .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .

3.2 Co nn ect in g Pe ri ph eral D evic es . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. ..

4.1 Ins ta ll ing Dr ives a nd U ti li ties .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

5.1 Sy st em D oe s N ot Sta rt .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. ..

5.2 Key bo ar d a nd Mou se Pro bl ems ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

5.3 US B De vice Pro bl ems . .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .....

5.4 Sof tw ar e Pr ob lem .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .

6.1 Gen er al Ma in te nanc e .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .

6.2 Saf e Use o f t he Sys te m .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .

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Motherboard Features

2.1

Model :
P4TBE

A. Hardware

CPU

Supports LGA 775.

Supports single Intel Pentium 4 processor.

Front Side Bus at the following frequency ranges:

- 533 MT/s (133 MHz Core Clock)

- 800 MT/s (200 MHz Core Clock)

Supports Hyper-Threading Technology.

Chipset

Northbridge: Intel 915G (Grantsdale-G).

Southbridge: Intel ICH6R.

Dimensions

Mini PC Form Factor: 29cm (L) x 20cm (W)

Operating System

Supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Supports SCO UNIX system.

Main Memory

Supports Dual DDR with 2 banks only.

Supports DDR333 and DDR400.

Supports 128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb, and 1G-Mb DDR technologies for x8 and x16

non-ECC DDR devices.

Registered DIMMs are not supported.

Maximum DRAM space is 2GB.

On-board IDE

One connector supports 2 IDE disk drives.

Supports PIO Mode 0~4, Bride Mode and Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Master Mode.

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Serial ATA

Controller integrated in ICH6R.

Supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions.

Supports 2 Serial ATA (SATA) ports:

- Integrated AHCI controller.

- Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification.

- Data transfer rates up to 1.5Gb/s.

On-board AC’97 Sound Codec

Chip: ALC850.

Support 8 channels.

Supports SPDIF-Out and SPDIF-In function.

Compliant with AC’97 Version 2.3 specification.

Supports advanced power management and power saving capabilities.

IEEE 1394 Chip

Chip: VIA VT6307.

Supports two 1394A Firewire ports up to 400Mb/s individually.

Gigabit LAN

Chip: RealTek RTL8110S.

Half/Full duplex capability.

Supports ACPI power management.

Supports 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s, and 1G-Mb/s auto-negotiation.

Slots

One 32bit PCI bus master slots.

One PCI-Express (PCI-E) x 16 slot:

- PCI-Express 1.0a compliant.

- Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 4GB/s simultaneously per

direction, for an aggregate of 8GB/s totally.

One Mini PC slot:

- Supports wireless LAN function.

(Wireless LAN function is optional.)

One U4 slot:

- Supports SATA to IDE interface card (optional).

DIMM Socket

Location

DDRA1

DDRB1

DDR Module

128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB *1

128BM/256MB/512MB/1GB *1

Total Memory

Size

Max is 2 GB

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Internal On-board I/O Connectors and Headers

1 IDE connector supports 2 hard disk devices.

1 CD-in connector supports 1 CD-ROM audio-in device.

1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes

(optional).

1 USB headers support 2 USB 2.0 ports at front panel.

2 serial ATA connectors support 2 SATA devices.

B. BIOS & Software

BIOS

Award legal BIOS.

Supports APM1.2.

Supports ACPI.

Supports USB Function.

Bundled Software

Supports Warpspeeder™, 9th Touch™, WINFLASHER™ and FLASHER™.

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PS/2

Keyboard

PS/2

Mouse

LAN Jack

USB x2

COM

USB x2

1394A

VGA

Line-in

Line-out

MIC-in

Stereo MIC

8 CH Side Speaker
(Surround)

SPDIF Out

Audio-out

Connectors

Super I/O

Chip: ITE IT8712F.

Low Pin Count Interface.

Provides the most commonly used legacy Super I/O functionality.

Environment Control initiatives:

- H/W Monitor.

- Fan Speed Controller.

- ITE's "Smart Guardian" function.

Front Panel I/O Connectors

1 SPDIF-In port.

1 MIC-In port.

1 Line-Out port.

1 1394A Firewire port.

2 USB 2.0 ports.

Back Panel I/O Connectors

4 USB 2.0 ports.

1 VGA port.

1 Serial port.

1 RJ-45 LAN jack.

1 1394A Firewire port.

1 PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard port.

1 vertical audio port including 6 ports to present 8 channel audio-out function.

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Line Out

USB

SPDIF-In

MIC-In