EPOX EP-58MVP3C-M, P55-VP 2 User Manual

1. The "LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS" function loads the system default data directly
from
ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly. This function is necessary
when you accept this mainboard, or the system CMOS data will corrupt.

LOAD SETUP DEFAULT

Read me first

ROM PCI/ISA BIOS

CMOS SETUP UTILITY

AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.

Load SETUP Default (Y/N)? Y

STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD
BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT
PNP/PCI CONFIGURA ETUP
INTEGRATED PERIPH SAVING

LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS

ESC: QUIT :SELECT ITEM
F10:Save & Exit Setup (Shift)F2 :Change Color

Load Setup Defaults Except Standard COMS SETUP

2. KBPO(KeyBoard Power On) Function : There is a basic requirement that the
" +5V SB" power of the ATX power supply must be > = 0.1A (100mA).

Please refer to chapter 2-5 for detail.

EP-58MVP3C-M

ISA/PCI/AGP

MainBoard

with Onboard PCI IDE and Super Multi-I/O.

Apollo MVP3 AGPset

The specification is subject to change without notice.

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Package Checklist

Please check your package which should include all items listed
below. If you find any item damaged or missed, please contact your
supplier.

One PS/2 mouse cable(Optional)

One IDE ribbon cable

One floppy ribbon cable

One manual

One mainboard

One Parallel port ribbon cable
One Serial port ribbon cable(COM1,COM2)

One AGP driver diskette

One Ultra_DMA IDE driver diskette

Contents

page

Chapter 1 - Introduction....................................................... 1-1

Chapter 2 - Hardware Design............................................ 2-1

2-1 Mainboard Layout................................................................ 2-1

2-2 Connectors and Jumpers........................................................... 2-3

2-3 System Memory Configuration................................................ 2-5

2-4 ATX Power ON/OFF Control.................................................... 2-6

2-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power

ON Functions........................................................................... 2-7

2-6 Integrated PCI Bridge................................................................. 2-8

Chapter 3 - Award BIOS Setup ........................................ 3-1

3-1 Standard CMOS Setup............................................................... 3-2

3-3 BIOS Features Setup.................................................................. 3-2

3-3 Chipset Features Setup.............................................................. 3-6

3-4 Power Management Setup........................................................ 3-8

3-5 PNP/PCI Configuration.............................................................. 3-10

3-6 Integrated Peripherals................................................................ 3-12

3-7 Load Setup Defaults................................................................... 3-14

3-8 Change Supervisor or User Password .................................... 3-15

3-9 IDE HDD Auto Detection.......................................................... 3-16

3-10 HDD Low Level Format............................................................. 3-18

3-11 Save & Exit Setup....................................................................... 3-18

3-11 Exit Without Saving.................................................................... 3-18

Chapter 4 - Onboard Technical Information ................. 4-1

4-1 I/O & Memory Map.................................................................... 4-1

4-2 Time & DMA Channels Map.................................................... 4-2

4-3 Interrupt Map.............................................................................. 4-2

4-4 RTC & CMOS RAM Map.......................................................... 4-3

Appendix A: Post Codes.................................................................... 4-4

Appendix B: I/O Connector............................................................... 4-8

Appendix C: AGP Driver for Win95 Installation Guide............. 4-9

Introduction 1-1

Chapter 1

Introduction

This mainboard is a high performance system hardware based on Intel

Pentium processor and is equipped with an AGP slot, four PCI slots, three
standard ISA slots, Super Multi-I/O controller and dual port PCI-IDE
connectors for the future expansion. The hardware dimension is 220mm x
260mm with a four-layer-design technology.

Specification

VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP/PCIset chipset.
Intel Pentium Processor, Pentium Processor with MMX technology, AMD

K5/K6, Cyrix 6x86L/6x86MX & idt C6 operating at 120 ~ 500 MHz with 321

ZIF socket 7 provides scalability to accept faster Processors in the future.

Supports up to 384 MegaBytes of memory (168-Pin DIMM SOCKET x 3 ).
Supports 512KB (Pipelined Burst SRAM) L2 Cache.
Supports three 16 bit ISA slots ,four 32 bit PCI slots and an AGP slot and

provides two independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of
supporting PIO Mode 3/4 and Ultra-DMA33 devices.

Supports ATAPI (e.g. CD-ROM) devices on both IDE interfaces.

Supports a floppy port, a parallel port (EPP,ECP port), two serial ports
(16550 Fast UART compatible), 1 USB Connector, a PS/2 style mouse
connecter and an AT style keyboard connector.

Supports Award Plug & Play BIOS.

Supports CPU Hardware sleep, APM (Advanced Power Management) and
ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface).

Supports an ATX power supply connector for a Remote On/Off , a Phone-

Ring Power On and a Keyboard Power On Function.

Supports Switching Regulator for CPU power supply. and single jumper for

CPU working voltage selection.

Supports ESDJ (Easy Setting Dual Jumper) function for CPU selection.
Support hardware monitor function.

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Hardware Design 2-1

2-1 Mainboard Layout
This mainboard is designed with VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP/PCIset chipset

which is developed by VIA Corporation to fully support Pentium Processor PCI/
ISA system. By providing a massive increase in the bandwidth available between
the video card and the processor (66MHz), the unique feature of AGP supported by
VIA Apollo MVP3 chipset improves the speed of rendering and texturing for 3D
graphics.The chipset also provides an integrated IDE controller with two high
performance IDE interfaces for up to four IDE devices (hard devices, CD-ROM
device, etc). The Winbond W83877TF Super I/O controller provides the standard
PC I/O function: one floppy interface, two 16 Byte FIFO serial ports and one EPP/
ECP capable parallel port. This mainboard layout is shown in the next page for
user's reference. Care must be taken when inserting memory modules, CPUs or
even plugging PCI card into associated slots to avoid damaging any circuits or
sockets on board. A cooling fan is strongly recommended when installing Pentium/
Pentium MMX/K5/K6/6x86/6x86L/6x86MX/C6 processor due to possible
overheat.

This mainboard supports a minimum of 8MB and a maximum of 384MB of
System Memory while Onboard 512KB cache to increase system performance.

This mainboard supports standard Fast Page, EDO (Extended Data Out or Hyper
Page Mode) or synchronous DRAM. This mainboard provides three 168-pin
DIMM sites for memory expansion. The sockets support 1M x 64(8MB), 2M x 64
(16MB), 4M x 64(32MB), and 8M x 64(64MB) single-sided or double-sided
memory modules. The memory timing requires 70 ns Fast page devices or 60 ns
EDO DRAM. (DRAM Modules may be parity [x 36] or non-parity [x 32].

This mainboard supports two Onboard PCI IDE connectors, and automatically
detects IDE harddisk type by BIOS utility automatic.

This mainboard supports Award Plug & Play BIOS for the ISA and PCI cards.
The BIOS can be located in Flash EPROM which can replace BIOS code easily if
necessary.

Chapter 2

Hardware design

2-2 EP-58MVP3C-M

Figure 2-1

EP-58MVP3C-M Layout

BIOS

PCI#1

BIOS

W83877TF

5

1

K/B
CONN.

AT Power Conn. ATX Power

Conn.

COM2
COM1

J1

PCI#3

PCI#2

CACHE

HDD/TB­LED

IR CONN.

SPEAKER KEYLOCK

J4

J2

POWER - ON

RESET

Socket 7

PRINTER

FDD CONN.

Primary IDE

Secondary IDE

DIMM3

DIMM2

DIMM1

J3

VT82C598AT

JP2

1 6

5 10

Bank 0

Bank 1

CN1

USB CONN.

AGP

2.1V

2.2V

2.8V

2.9V

3.2V

+ +

1
5

1
5

CPU FAN

PCI#4

Bank 2

JP3

Multiplier Bus Clock

J6

CHASSIS FAN

J4 :
J6 :

JP4

1

<==>

JP5

1

82C586B

EP- 58MVP3C- M

J7

Hardware Design 2-3

JP2 : CPU Vcore voltage selection : For Pentium Processor with MMX technology,
AMD K6 and Cyrix 6x86L/6x86MX

1-6 : 2.1V Reserved
2-7 : 2.2V Reserved for AMD K6 3D CPUs in the future
3-8 : 2.8V for Pentium MMX and Cyrix 6x86L
4-9 : 2.9V for AMD K6-PR2-166/200MHz and Cyrix 6x86MX
5-10 : 3.2V for AMD K6-PR2-233MHz

5 10

1 6

JP3

Pentium / MMX JP3 Cyrix / IBM
AMD K5 / K6 6x86L

idt - C6 Multiplier Bus CLOCK 6x86MX

1 2

133MHz 66MHz 6x86L/MX-PR166
150MHz 75MHz 6x86L/MX-PR200
150MHz 60MHz 6x86MX-PR166
166MHz 66MHz 6x86MX-PR200
188MHz 75MHz 6x86MX-PR233
210MHz 83MHz 6x86MX-PR266
250MHz 100MHz
180MHz 60MHz

200MHz 66MHz 6x86MX-PR233
225MHz 75MHz 6x86MX-PR266
250MHz 83MHz
300MHz 100MHz
233MHz 66MHz 6x86MX-PR266

262MHz 75MHz
290MHz 83MHz
350MHz 100MHz
240MHz 60MHz
266MHz 66MHz
300MHz 75MHz
333MHz 83MHz
400MHz 100MHz

2-2 Connectors and Jumpers

This section describes the connectors and jumpers equipped in the mainboard.
Please refer to Figure 2-1 for the location of each connector and jumper.

25 26

2 X

2.5 X
3 X

3.5 X
4 X

4.5 X
5 X

60MHz
66MHz
75MHz
83MHz
100MHz

Multiplier

Bus CLOCK

2 x

2.5 x

3 x

3.5 x

4 x

2-4 EP-58MVP3C-M

1

J3

IrDA/ASK IR CONNECTOR

5

1. Power LED(+)

2. N/C

3. GND

4. Key-Lock

1

5

4

1. Speaker

2. N/C

3. GND

4. VCC

J2

1

Reset Switch - Closed to restart system.

Speaker - connect to the system's speaker for beeping.

KeyLock - Keyboard lock switch & Power LED connector.

Turbo LED indicator - LED ON when higher speed is selected.

IDE LED indicator - LED ON when harddisks activate.

# There is no deturbo function so that the turbo LED is always ON.

5. GND

+

1. VCC

2. NC

3. IRRX

4. GND

5. IRTX

+

Power-ON - Push the button to turn on the system.

- Pressing less than 4 seconds to enter the suspend mode

- Pressing more than 4 seconds to turn off the system

J4

J6

CPU FAN Connector

CHASSIS FAN Connector

J7

WOL(Wake-up On Lan) Connector

Hardware Design 2-5

2-3 System Memory Configuration

This mainboard supports different type of settings for the system memory. The

following figures and table provides all possible memory combinations.

>

12

>

DIMM2

32MB x

1

16MB

MAX.=

384MB

8MB

BANK 2

BANK 0

128MB

>

12

DIMM1

BANK 1

12

12

DIMM3

64MB

32MB x

1

16MB

8MB

128MB

64MB

32MB x

1

16MB

8MB

128MB

64MB

DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 TOTAL
BANK 0 BAMK 1 BANK 2 MEMORY

This mainboard supports 2 kinds of powerful and flexible SDRAM frequency

selections. These can be synchronous with CPU bus clock or fixed as 66MHz. By
implementing the VCS (Virtual Clock Synchronization) technology, this
mainboard refers to the use of delay-lock-loop (DLL) to enable synchronous and
pseudo-synchronous operation of the processor and DRAM, AGP and PCI buses.
The JP5 allows user to set the SDRAM Frequency between 66/100MHz.

1

JP5 SDRAM Clock Selection

1-2 : Fixed as 66MHz
2-3 : SDRAM Clock = CPU Bus Clcok

Jumper's position:

1-2 : Pseudo-synchronous Status(Fixed as 66MHz)

A more stable and compatible operation condition for non-100MHz based SDRAM
when you are using 100MHz based CPU. This setting is suitable for those users
who are like to remain the usage of current SDRAM module.

2-3 : Synchronous Status(SDRAM Clock= CPU Bus Clock)

Increasing the bus speeds from the traditional 66MHz to 100MHz greatly improves
system performance because the speed at which data traveling between the CPU
and memory is increased by 50%. However, there is one thing you should bear in
mind. Please make sure you are using 125MHz(-8) based or above SDRAM

module.

2-6 EP-58MVP3C-M

EP-58MVP3C-M
BOARD

ATX
POWER
SUPPLY

Figure 2-2: Simple ATX Power ON/OFF Controller

System Power ON/OFF Button

>

This mainboard equips an ATX power connector which is a single 20-PIN input
device for an ATX power supply (see Figure 2-2). An ATX power supply provides
a build-in Remote Power ON/OFF function. To implement the function, a momen­tary switch which is normally open should be connected to the position J3(PIN 12,

13) as the system's power ON/OFF button. Note that an AT power supply does not
offer this function.

Based on the ATX power connector, this mainboard has been designed to support
both ACPI and Soft-OFF functions. According to the definition of ACPI, a

Suspend mode will be enabled while you push the J3(system power ON/OFF)
button less than 4 seconds. Nevertheless, the system will be turned off by pressing
for more than 4 seconds. Regarding the Soft-OFF(coming from this mainboard

onboard circuit controller), it is another way to turn off your system. Your system
can be shut down automatically by an operation system such as Windows 95.

J3

2-4 ATX Power ON/OFF Control

Hardware Design 2-7

2-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power
ON Functions

On the basis of bounded functions in I/O chipset, the two serial ports are able to
support the External Modem Ring-in Power ON function. Once users connect the
external modem to COM1 or COM2, this mainboard mainboard allows users to
turn on their system through the remote and host's dial-up control.

Exclusive Keyboard Power ON Function

To innovate a unique feature to benefit users, we devoted ourselves to create the
easiest and most convenient way to turn on your system based on the the ATX
power supply. This function is available only under system being connected to
ATX power supply.

How to work with it

Step 1: Please place JP4 at the position 2-3 after you finished the system
installation.

Step 2 : Push the momentary switch to turn on your system and then push again to
hold for more than 4 seconds to turn it off as soon as you turn it on.

Step 3: You can enjoy the Keyboard Power ON function by pressing any 1 or 2
keys on you keyboard at the same time for 1-2 seconds. Your system will

be
turned on automatically, after releasing the keys. To power off you
system,
you can use the Soft-OFF function under Windows 95.

Notes:

1. The number of keys needed to turn on a system depends on the model of
keyboard you are appplying due to different loadings on different keyboards.
Here, we would like to suggest you push 2 keys at the same time..

2.Intel ATX version 2.0 specification has recommended you use the power
supply with 0.72A(720mA). With our EP-58MVP3C-M

mainboard, the 5.0VSB
standby power only has to be > = 0.1A (100mA) then you can enjoy this
unique benefit. However, the ATX power supply which is < 0.1 (100mA) is
still
applicable to your system by placed JP4 at the position 1-2 to disable this
feature.

3

1

JP4 Keyboard Power-ON Function Selection

1-2 : Disabled
2-3 : Enabled

2-8 EP-58MVP3C-M

2-6 Integrated PCI Bridge

This mainboard utilizes VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP/PCIset chipset to support Intel
Pentium Processor PCI/ISA system. The VIA Apollo MVP3 PCIset chipset
consists of the 82C598AT system controller (TSC), and one 82C586B PCI ISA/
IDE Accelerator bridge chip. It provides an interface which translates CPU cycle
into PCI bus cycle, and PCI burst read/write capability. In addition, it provides high
performance PCI arbitor to support four PCI Masters, Rotating Priority
Mechanism, and Hidden Arbitration Scheme Minimizes Arbitration Overhead.

There are four interrupts in each PCI slot : INTA#, INTB#, INTC#, and INTD#.
Since this mainboard adapts the PCI auto-configuration with the system BIOS
Setup utility. When the system is turned on after adding a PCI add-in card, the
BIOS automatically configure interrupts, DMA channels, I/O space, and other
paramaters. You do not have to configure jumpers or worry about potential resource
conflicts. Because PCI cards use the same interrupt resource as ISA cards, you must
specify the interrupt used by ISA add-in cards in the BIOS Setup utility.

However, if a "Legacy card" (such as plugging a paddle card and cable into an ISA
slot) is plugged in the system, modification in the ROM SETUP UTILITY
becomes necessary. First of all, you must enter PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP
utility from the ROM SETUP UTILITY main menu to set "ISA" for the "PCI

IDE IRQ MAP TO
Secondly, you must enter the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP UTILITY from the

ROM SETUP UTILITY main menu and set "Disabled" for the "Onboard
Primary PCI IDE and the Onboard Secondary PCI IDE. When you plug PCI/
ISA IDE cards into the system, You should select "Disabled" for the Onboard
Primary and Secondary PCI IDE from the CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP
UTILITY too.

You can set the system interrupt request (IRQ) on some "Legacy cards" which have
on paddle card and cable. (refer to user's manual of the card) to a proper system
IRQ level (In general, card's Primary is assigned to INTA and Secondary is
assigned to INTB). If the card is plugged into slot 1(marked PCI#1), you cannot
use second slot (marked PCI#2) because the Secondary INT signal takes INTB from
the slot (refer to Page 3-12 for circuit diagram). The user then enters the PCI
CONFIGURATION SETUP utility from the ROM SETUP UTILITY main
menu and set "PCI-Slot 1" for the "PCI IDE IRQ MAP TO (This depends on the
slot # where the Legacy card is plugged).

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AWARD BIOS 3-1

CHAPTER 3

AWARD BIOS SETUP

Award's ROM BIOS provides a built-in setup program which allows user to modify the
basic system configurations and hardware parameters. The modified data will be stored
in a battery-backed CMOS RAM so that data will be retained even when the power is
turned off. In general, the information saved in the CMOS RAM stays unchanged unless
there is a configuration change in the system, such as a hard drive replacement or a new
device installation.

If this does happen, you will need to reconfigure your configuration parameter.

To Enter Setup Propgram

Power on the computer and press <Del> key immediately. This will bring you into BIOS
CMOS SETUP UTILITY.

ROM PCI/ISA BIOS(2A5LEPA9)

CMOS SETUP UTILITY

AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.

STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD
BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT
PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE & EXIT SETUP
INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS

ESC : QUIT : SELECT ITEM
F10 : Save & Exit Setup (Shift)F2 : Change Color

Time, Date, Hard Disk Type...

Figure 3-1 CMOS SETUP UTILITY

The menu displays all major selection items. Select the item you need to
reconfigure. The selection is made by moving cursor (press any direction key ) to
the item and press the 'Enter' key. An on-line help message is displayed at the
bottom of the screen as the cursor is moving to various items which provides a
better understanding of each function. When a selection is made, the menu of
selected item will appear so the user can modify the associated configuration
parameters.