6.14 Save & Exit Setup..........................................................53
6.15 Exit Without Saving......................................................53
ii AI5VG Pentium VP3 Baby AT Motherboard User’s Manual
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This manual is designed to give you information on the AI5VG
Motherboard. It is divided into the following six sections:
••••
Introduction
••••
Specifications
••••
Hardware Description
••••
Hardware Settings
••••
Installation
••••
BIOS Configuration
Checklist
Please check that your package is com plete and contains the items below.
If you discover damaged or missing items, please contact your dealer.
The AI5VG Motherboard
This user’s manual
1 IDE ribbon cable
1 floppy ribbon cable
2 serial ribbon cables*
1 parallel ribbon cable
1 PS/2 cable
1 diskette containing Bus Ma ster IDE drivers and and flash
utility
1 diskette containing VxD drivers
* Use the two serial ribbon cables provided to avoid compatibility
problems.
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Chapter 2 Specificat i ons
Chapter 2 Specifications
Based on VIA’s VP3AT chipset, the AI5VG is a Baby AT Pentium
motherboard that supports all the features to make a Microsoft PC’97
compliant PCI/ISA system. This high performance model comes with
an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot, power management
functionality that is compliant w ith ACPI (Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface) and legacy A PM requirements. In addition to standard
PIO and DMA mode operation , th e AI5VG featu res Ultra DMA/ 33 for
improved disk I/O thro ughput. The main features o f this motherbo ard
are listed as follows:
Four 72-pin SIMM sockets and two 168-pin DIMM sockets
Memory Type
SIMMs
SIMM Size
DIMMs:
DIMM Size
Chipset
VIA’s VP3AT chipset with built-in PCI EIDE
Onboard I/O
Winbond W83877 for two serial, one parallel, one floppy drive
interface and IrDA support
: FPM (Fast Page Mode) or EDO (Extended Data Out)
: 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB
EDO DRAM or SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)
: 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB
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Onboard Bus Mastering EIDE
Two EIDE interfaces for up to four devices, support PIO Mode 3/4
or Ultra DMA/33 IDE Hard Disk and ATAPI CD-ROM.
BIOS
Licensed BIOS with additional features:
•
FLASH EEPROM (128KB) for BIOS update
•
ISA Plug and Play (PnP) extension
•
Power management
CPU Temperature Sensor
The AD22105 IC on the m otherboard is a tem perature sen sor for the
CPU. When the CPU temperature exceeds threshold value, the CPU
slows down automatically to allow it to cool down to a safe level.
Windows 95 Shut-Down
This allows the PC to power off via Windows 95 operating system.
(This feature requires ATX power supply.)
AGP Support (Accelerated Graphics Port)
The AI5VG motherboard comes w ith an A GP slot for an AGP VGA
card that supports 133MHz 2X mode for AD and SBA signaling.
PC97 Compliance
The AI5VG implements BIOS and hardware designs that meet
PC97 standards and is fully compatible with all Windows operating
systems.
Expansion Slots
Four 32-bit PCI slots
Two 16-bit ISA slots
One AGP slot
Form Factor
Baby AT, 9”x8.6” (23cm x 22cm)
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Chapter 3 Hardware Descriptio n
Chapter 3 Hardware Description
This chapter briefly describes each of the major features of the AI5VG
motherboard. The layout of the board is shown in Figure 1 which shows
the locations of the key components. The topics covered in this chapter
are as follows:
3.1 Processor and CPU Voltage.......................................................6
3.11 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Slot..................................11
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Figure 1: Layout of the AI5VG Motherboard
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Chapter 3 Hardware Descriptio n
3.1 Processor and CPU Voltage
The AI5VG is designed to take a Pentium Processor with a bus speed of
60 and 66 MHz. The internal clock of the CPU can be multiples of 1.5, 2,
2.5, 3, 3.5, 4 and 4.5 of the bus clock, the CPU frequency can be 90 to
300MHz.
The onboard CPU voltage regulator provides support for CPUs Vcore
which require voltage other than 3.3V such as 2.8V, and/or power
consumption higher t han 10 watts.
3.2 L2 Cache Memory
The AI5VG su pports 512KB P.B. (Pipel ined Burs t) Sy nchr onous C ache.
The P.B. Synchronous Cache boosts the system’s performance, 10%
higher than regular Asynchronous Cache.
3.3 Main Memory
The AI5VG motherboard supports four 72-pin SIMMs and two 168-pin
DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module) sockets. The DRAMs for the
SIMM sockets can be 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, and 64MB in EDO and
FPM types. DIMM modules can be 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and
128MB in EDO DRAM or SDRAM type.
The following should be noted when populating the SIMM/DIMM
sockets:
1. SIMM1/SIMM2, SIMM3/SIMM4 or DIMM1, DIMM2 bank can be
populated first.
2. Each bank**
3. Each bank should consist of the same type SIMMs. For example,
SIMM1 and SIMM2 are both be EDO or Page Mode
should consist of the same size SIMMs.
.
** Each bank consists of two SIMM slots or one DIMM slot. For
example, SIMM 1 and SIMM 2 are considered as one bank and
DIMM 1 as another one.
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The BIOS on the AI5VG motherboard provides the standard BIOS
functions plus the following additional features:
1. DMI (Desktop Management Interface)
The motherboard supports D MI to en abl e computer system management
in an enterprise.
2. ISA Plug and Play (PnP ) Extension
Unlike PCI cards which are plug and play, ISA cards require setting
jumpers to resolve hardware conflicts. To make a computer system PnP,
an ISA PnP standard is established and supported by new OSes, such as
Windows 95. Un der Window s 95, th e mot herboard BIOS mu st have ISA
PnP extension to support the new ISA PnP cards.
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3. Power Management
The power management feature provides power savings by slowing down
the CPU clock, turning off the monitor screen and stopping the HDD
spindle motor.
3.5 Onboard PCI EIDE
The PCI EIDE controller is part of the VP3AT chipset. It supports PIO
mode 3/4 and bus m asterin g . The peak t ransfer rat e of PIO m ode 3/4 can
be as high as 17MB/sec. Using HDDs that support bus mastering, the
peak transfer rate can reach 22MB/sec. There are two IDE connectors,
primary IDE and secondary IDE. With two devices per connector, up to
four IDE drives are supported. The VP3AT also supports Ultra
DMA/33, a new “synchronous DMA” protocol for faster data transfers.
3.6 Onboard Multi-I/O
The onboard multi-I/O chip, Winbond W83877, supports two 16550
UART-compatible serial ports, one high speed EPP/ECP parallel port
and one floppy controller. The floppy controller supports 2.88MB
format. The I/O port addresses of the serial and parallel ports are
programmable via BIOS set-up.
3.7 Onboard CPU Temperature Sensor
The AD22105 IC on the motherboard is a temperature sensor for the
CPU. When the CPU temperature exceeds threshold value, the CPU
slows down automatically to allow it to cool down to a safe level.
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3.8 I/O Port Address Map
Each peripheral device in the system is assigned a set of I/O port
addresses which also becomes the identity of the device. There are a total
of 1K port address space available. The following table lists the I/O port
addresses used on the motherboard.
Address Device Description
000h - 01Fh DMA Controller #1
020h - 03Fh Interrupt Controller #1
040h - 05Fh Timer
060h - 06Fh Keyboard Controller
070h - 07Fh Real Time Clock, NMI
080h - 09Fh DMA Page Register
0A0h - 0BFh Interrupt Controller #2
0C0h - 0DFh DMA Controller #2
0F0h Clear Math Coprocessor Busy Signal
0F1h Reset Math Coprocessor
1F0h - 1F7h IDE Interface
278 - 27F Parallel Port #2 (LPT2)
2F8h - 2FFh Serial Port #2 (COM2)
2B0 - 2DF Graphics adapter Controller
378h - 3FFh Parallel Port #1(LPT1)
360 - 36F Network Ports
3B0 - 3BF Monochrome & Printer adapter
3C0 - 3CF EGA adapter
3D0 - 3DF CGA adapter
3F0h - 3F7h Floppy Disk Controller
3F8h - 3FFh Serial Port #1 (COM1)
3.9 DMA Channels
There are seven DMA Channels available on the motherboard. Only
DMA2 is used by the fl oppy con troller. In t he case that ECP mode on the
parallel port is used, DMA1 or DMA3 will be used.
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3.10 Interrupt Request Lines (IRQ)
There are a total of 15 IRQ lines available on the m otherboard. Peripheral
devices use interrupt request lines to notify the CPU for the service
required. The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on the
motherboard.
Level Function
IRQ0 System Timer Output
IRQ1 Keyboard
IRQ2 Interrupt Cascade
IRQ3 Serial Port #2
IRQ4 Serial Port #1
IRQ5 Parallel Port #2
IRQ6 Floppy Disk Controller
IRQ7 Parallel Port #1
IRQ8 Real Time Clock
IRQ9 Software Redirected to Int 0Ah
IRQ10 Reserved
IRQ11 Reserved
IRQ12 Reserved
IRQ13 80287
IRQ14 Primary IDE
IRQ15 Secondary IDE
3.11 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Slot
The AI5VG motherboard comes w ith an A GP slot for an AG P VGA card
that supports 133MHz 2X mode for AD and SBA signaling to provide
high-performance 3D graphic display.
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Chapter 4 Hardware Settings
Chapter 4 Hardware Settings
The following sections describe the necessary procedures and proper
jumper settings to configure the AI5VG motherboard.
4.1 SW1(1-8): CPU Frequency Selector.........................................14
4.2 SW2(1-4): CPU Voltage Selector .............................................16