Gigabyte GA-6ZXC User Manual

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. PREFACE ......................................................................................................1-1

1.2. KEY FEATHERS............................................................................................1-1

1.3. PERFORMANCE LIST..................................................................................1-2

1.4. BLOCK DIAGRAM.........................................................................................1-3

1.5. INTRODUCE THE PENTIUM II/ III PROCESSORS .................................1-4

1.6. WHAT IS AGP?..............................................................................................1-5

2. SPECIFICATION

2.1. HARDWARE..................................................................................................2-1

2.2. SOFTWARE...................................................................................................2-2

2.3. ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................2-2

3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION

3.1. UNPACKING.................................................................................................. 3-1

3.2. MAINBOARD LAYOUT .................................................................................3-2

3.3. QUICK REFERENCE FOR JUMPERS & CONNECTORS..........................3-2

3.4. DRAM INSTALLATION .................................................................................3-6

3.5. CPU SPEED SETUP.....................................................................................3-7

3.6. CMOS RTC & ISA CFG CMOS RAM ...........................................................3-7

3.7. SPEAKER CONNECTOR INSTALLATION..................................................3-7

3.8. HARDWARE RESET SWITCH CONNECTOR INSTALLATION.................3-7

3.9. POWER LED CONNECTOR INSTALLATION.............................................3-7

3.10. IDE & ATAPI DEVICE INSTALLATION...................................................... 3-8

6ZXC

3.11. PERIPHERAL DEVICE INSTALLATION....................................................3-8

3.12. KEYBOARD & PS/2 MOUSE INSTALLATION...........................................3-8

4. BIOS CONFIGURATION

4.1. ENTERING SETUP.......................................................................................4-1

4.2. CONTROL KEYS........................................................................................... 4-1

4.3. GETTING HELP.............................................................................................4-2

4.3.1. Main Menu .....................................................................................4-2

4.3.2. Status Page Setup Menu / Option Page Setup Menu.......................4-2

4.4. THE MAIN MENU..........................................................................................4-2

4.5. STANDARD CMOS SETUP MENU..............................................................4-4

4.6. BIOS FEATURES SETUP............................................................................. 4-8

4.7. CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP......................................................................4-13

4.8. POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP................................................................. 4-15

4.9. PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION........................................................................4-20

4.10. LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS .............................................................................4-22

4.11. LOAD PERFORMANCE DEFAULTS .........................................................4-23

4.12. INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ................................................................... 4-24

4.13. SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ...........................................................4-29

4.14. IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION.....................................................................4-30

4.15. SAVE & EXIT SETUP..................................................................................4-31

4.16. EXIT WITHOUT SAVING............................................................................ 4-32

Introduction

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. PREFACE

Welcome to use the 6ZXC motherboard. It is a Pentium II / III / Celeron Processor based PC / AT compatible system with AGP / PCI / ISA Bus, and has been designed to be the fastest PC / AT system. There are some new features allow you to operate the system with just the performance you want.

This manual also explains how to install the motherboard for operation, and how to set up your CMOS CONFIGURATION with BIOS SETUP program.

1.2. KEY FEATURES

q Intel Pentium

board.



II / III / Celeron Processor based PC / AT compatible main

q Slot 1 supports Pentium



II / III / Celeron processor running at 333-650

MHz.

q Intel 440ZX chipset, Supports AGP / SDRAM / Ultra DMA/33 IDE /

Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Power On / ACPI features.

q Supports 2xDIMMs using 3.3V SDRAM DIMM module. q Supports 8 MB – 256 MB SDRAM memory on board. q Supports Non-ECC type DRAM module. q 1xAGP slot, 4xPCI Bus slots, 3xISA Bus slots. q Supports 2 channels Ultra DMA/33 IDE ports for 4 IDE Devices. q Supports 2xCOM (16550), 1xLPT (EPP / ECP), 1x Floppy port. q Supports 2xUSB ports, 1xPS/2 Mouse & 1xPS/2 Keyboard. q Licensed AWARD BIOS, 2M bits FLASH ROM. q 30.5 cm x 18 cm ATX SIZE form factor, 4 layers PCB.

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6ZXC

1.3. PERFORMANCE LIST

The following performance data list is the testing results of some popular benchmark testing programs.

These data are just referred by users, and there is no responsibility for different testing data values gotten by users. (Different Hardware & Software configuration will result in different benchmark testing results.)

• CPU

• DRAM 128 MB SDRAM (TOSHIBA TC59S6408BFT-80)

• CACHE SIZE 512 KB included in CPU

• DISPLAY GA-630 Voodoo banshee (16MB SGRAM)

• STORAGE

• O.S. Windows NT™ 4.0 SPK4

• DRIVER Display Driver at 1024 x 768 x 64K colors x 75Hz.

Processor

Pentium III / Celeron Processor

Onboard IDE (Seagate ST34520A)

TRIONES Bus Master IDE Driver 3.60

Celeron

PentiumIII

366MHz( 66x5.5 ) 550MHz(100x5.5)

Winbench99

CPU mark32

FPU Winmark

Business Disk 4180 4590

Hi-End Disk 10200 10600

Business Graphics 177 248

Hi-End Graphics 335 440

731 1970

1380 2800

Winstone99

Business 27.1 34.7

Hi-End 24.4 32.9

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1.4. BLOCK DIAGRAM

PIIX4

66 /

AGP Bus

AGP

66MHz

SLOT 1

Host Bus

INTEL

82443ZX

CHIPSET

66 /

100 MHz

33MHz

Introduction

14.318MHz

3.3V SDRAM

DIMM Sockets

100 MHz

Ultra DMA/33

IDE Ports

IDE Bus

ISA Bus

PCI Bus

82371EB

CHIPSET

1-3

33 MHz

48MHz

14.318MHz

USB Bus

14.318MHz

CHIPSET

ITE 8671

ICS 9148-26

I/O

24 MHz

COM Ports

LPT Port

Floppy Port

Keyboard

PS/2 Mouse

6ZXC

1.5. INTRODUCE THE Pentium II / III Processors

Figure 1: Universal Retention Mechanism & attach Mount

Figure 2:OEM Pentium II Processor

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