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N2PA-400/N2PAP-400

USER'S MANUAL

M/B For Socket-A Athlon/Duron Processor

NO. G03-N2PA4001A

Release date: June 2003

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* Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only , and are

subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer.

USER’S NOTICE ............................................................................................................ii

MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ...........................................................................ii

COOLING SOLUTIONS................................................................................................ii

CHAPTER 1

1-1 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD..........................................................................1

1-2 SPECIFICATION .....................................................................................................2

1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST............................................................................................3

1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING.......................................................4

CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION

2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS ................................................................6

2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING......................................6

2-3 INSTALL CPU ..........................................................................................................8

2-3-1 GLOSSARY....................................................................................................8

2-3-2 ABOUT AMD ATHLON & DURON 462-PIN CPU ..................................8

2-4 INSTALL MEMORY................................................................................................9

2-5 EXPANSION CARD.................................................................................................10

2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ..................10

2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD ............................................10

2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD..........11

2-5-4 AGP SLOT .....................................................................................................11

2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS....................................................................................12

2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................12

2-6-2 HEADERS......................................................................................................14

2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER.....................................................................18

CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS

3-1 ENTERING SETUP..................................................................................................19

3-2 GETTING HELP.......................................................................................................19

3-3 THE MAIN MENU...................................................................................................20

3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES............................................................................21

3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES..............................................................................22

3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES......................................................................24

3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS.............................................................................25

3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION...........................................................................26

3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION ..................................................................27

3-7-3 ONCHIP SUPER IO FUNCTION...............................................................27

3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP.........................................................................28

3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP....................................................................29

3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES........................................................................................30

3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS............................................................................................31

3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL............................................................................32

3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS...................................................33

3-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ..............................................................33

CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION

MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/NT/2K/XP .........................................34

4-1 NFORCE 4-2 SOUND 4-3 USB 2.0 4-4 PC-CILLIN 4-5 PC-HEALTH 4-6 MAGIC BIOS

4-7 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ........................................................................................42

INTRODUCTION OF N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 MOTHERBOARD

TABLE OF CONTENT

INSTALL NVIDIA NFORCE PACK DRIVER INSTALL ALC AC97 AUDIO CODEC DRIVER INSTALL NVIDIA USB 2.0 DRIVER INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM INSTALL NFORCE2 HARDWARE DOCTOR UTILITY INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY

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Manual Revision Information

Reversion Revision History Date

1.0 First Release June 2003

Item Checklist

N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 Motherboard

Cable for IDE/Floppy

CD for motherboard utilities

□

Cable for USB2 Port (Option)

N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 User’s Manual

AMD Athlon™ / Duron™ Processor Family

Cooling Solutions

As processor technology pushes to faster speeds and higher performance, thermal management becomes increasingly crucial when building computer systems. Maintaining the proper thermal environment is key to reliable, long-term system operation. The overall goal in providing the proper thermal environment is keeping the processor below its specified maximum case temperature. Heats inks induce improved processor heat dissipation through increased surface area an d conce ntrated airflow from attached fans. In addition, interface materials allow effective transfers of heat from the processor to the heatsink. For optimum heat transfer, AMD recommends the use of thermal grease and mounting clips to attach the heatsink to the processor. When selecting a thermal solution for your system, please refer to the website below for collection of heatsinks evaluated and recommended by AMD for use with AMD processors. Note, those heatsinks are recommended for maintaining the specified Maximum T case requirement. In addition, this collection is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all heatsinks that support AMD processors. For vendor list of heatsink and fan, please visit：

http://www1.amd.com/products/duron/thermals http://www1.amd.com/products/athlon/thermals

Chapter 1

Introduction of N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 Motherboard 1-1 Feature of motherboard

The N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 motherboard is design for use AMD Athlon/ Duron/Athlon XP 200MHz/266MHz/333MHz/400MHz (Double Data Rate) Front Side Bus Frequency CPU, which utilize the Socket-A design.

N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 motherboard use the newest nVIDIA nForce2 400 north bridge chipset, whose 200MHz/266MHz/333MHz/400MHz) (Double Data Rate) Front Side Bus frequency delivers a clear upgrade path to the future generation of 266MHz/333MHz /400MHz processors and memory interface DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 DDR SDRAM. The motherboard provided three 184-pin DDR DIMMs support PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 DDR SDRAMs maximum size up to 3GB. Supports 64-bit DDR SDRAM. For those wanting even greater graphic performance, an AGP 4X/8X slot is included on the board. Compliant with AGP 3.0 8x interface at 533MHz. These motherboards use nVIDIA nForce2 MCP2 south bridge offers ULTRA ATA 66/100/

The N2PAP-400 motherboard including LAN MAC Controller chip support 10/100 Mb/sec Base transfer rate for network. With USB control as well as capability of expanding to 6 USB function ports support USB2.0/USB1.1 Devices, meet future USB demand.

A special design in hardware for protecting Athlon XP CPU from burned, the system will auto shutdown power supply when CPU is overheat, or the CPU FAN is stop. The motherboard has built-in hardware monitor function. This will monitor and protect your computer.

In we design in CPU Vcore Voltage, DDR memory 2.5V Voltage, AGP 1.5V Voltage those can minor adjustable in BIOS setup. This design can let users approach over clock demand and also can make system more stable

Setup to setting CPU Host clock let users to approach over clocking, and special design in hardware to protect BIOS from virus crash BIOS data. N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 provides high performance & meets future specification demand. It is really wise choice for your computer.

to provide speedier HDD throughout that boosts overall system performance.

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. The motherboard provides special function in BIOS

1-2 Specification

Spec Description

Design Chipset

CPU Socket

Memory Socket

Expansion Slot & Headers

Integrate IDE

6 channel Audio

BIOS On board LAN

(Only for N2PAP-400)

Multi I/O

∗ ATX form factor 4 layers PCB size: 30.5x22.0cm ∗ nVIDIA nForce2 System Platform Processor (400) north bridge

for N2PA-400/N2PAP-400

∗ nVIDIA nForce2 Media and Communications Processor

(MCP2) south bridge

∗ Support AMD Athlon 1.1GHz∼1.4GHz processor ∗ Support AMD Duron 900MHz∼1.3GHz processor ∗ Support AMD Athlon XP1500+~XP3200+ processor ∗ Support 200MHz/266MHz/333MHz/400MHz (Double Data Rate)

Front Side Bus frequency processors

∗ Reserves support for future AMD Athlon XP processors ∗ 184-pin DDR module socket x3 ∗ Support DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 DDR SDRAM ∗ Expandable to 3.0GB ∗ AGP slot x1 support AGP 3.0 & 4X/8X mode ∗ 32-bit PCI slot x5 ∗ CNR slot x1 support Communication Network Riser card ∗ Two PCI IDE controllers support PCI Bus Mastering, ATA

PIO/DMA and the ULTRA DMA 33/66/100/133 functions that deliver the data transfer rate up to 133 MB/s

∗ Realtek ALC 6-channel AC97’ Codec integrated support

Front/Rear/Center-Base 6 channel Speaker

∗ Audio driver and utility included ∗ Award 2MBit Flash ROM

∗ nVIDIA LAN MAC controller chip including ∗ Support 10/100 Mb/sec data transfer rate

∗ PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors ∗ Floppy disk drive connector x1 ∗ Parallel port x1, Serial port x2 ∗ USB2.0 connector x4, headers x2 (connecting cable option) ∗ Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC & Game Port headers)

1-3 Performance List

The following performance data list is the testing result 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 (the different Hardware & Software configuration will result in different benchmark testing results.)

Performance Test Report

CPU: DRAM:

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (FSB 166MHz) 512MB DDR400 X1 (Winbond DDR W942508BH-5)

256MB DDR400 X1 (Winbond DDR W942508BH-5)

VGA Expansion Card: Hard Disk Driver: BIOS:

Win XP Professional

OS:

166/166 166/200

3D Mark 2001SE 12477 12291 3D Mark 2003 4562 4541 3D Winbench 2000 (32/32bit) 393 394 PC Mark 2002 CPU/Memory/HDD 6311 / 5162 / 965 6373 / 5120 / 969 Content Creation Winstone 2002 44.6 43.2 Content Creation Winstone 2003 Business Winstone 2002 36.6 34.6 Winbench 99 V1.2 : Business Disk Winmark99 10300 10300 Hi-end Disk Winmark99 33800 33200 Business Graphic Winmark 752 751 Hi-end Graphic Winmark 1830 1820 SYS Mark 2001/2002 : SISMark 2001/2002 Rating ( Internet Content Creation / Office Productivity ) SISMark 2001 245 (246 / 245) 243 (244 / 243) SISMark 2002 SISOFT Sandra 2003 : Dhrystone ALU MIPS 7800 7797 Whetstone FPU MFLOPS 3137 3132 RAM Int Buffered iSSE2 MB/S 2251 2148 RAM Float Buffered iSSE2 MB/S 2100 2045 Integer SSE2 IT/S 11543 11534 Floating-Point SSE2 IT/S 12296 12282 QUAKE3 DEMO1 FPS 239.4 228.3 DEMO2 FPS 233.7 228.5 Return to Castle Wolfenstein FPS 124.7 121.7 WCPUID System / CPU Clock 167.05 / 2171.60 167.05 / 2171.60

Award Optimal default

ATI 9700 PRO (1024x768x32bit color)

IBM IC35L040AVVN07-0 (ATA-100 7200RPM)

1-4 Layout Diagram & Jumper Setting

PS/2 Mouse

(for N2PAP-400)

LAN

MIC LINE-IN

PS/2 Keyboard

K/B Power ON Jumper (JP2)

PS2 KB/Mouse Port

PC99 Back Panel

USB Wake-Up Jumper

ATX Power Connector

LAN Connector

Audio Connector (CN1)

Front Panel Audio

(JP1)

USB Port

USB Port/

CD Audio

COM1 COM2A USB1

LINE-OUT

USB

CPU Socket

CPU FAN

DDR DIMM X3

nVIDIA nForce2 400 Chip

(JP8)

CPU F.S.B. Frequency Selector

SFAN1

AC97’ Audio Codec

PCI Slot

Winbond 83627HF Chip

GAME Port Connector

PCI Slot

IR Connector

Wake On LAN

AGP 4X/8X Slot

ATA 133 IDE Conn.

nVIDIA nForce2 MCP2 Chip

Floppy Connector Clear CMOS (JP6)

2MBit Flash ROM BIOS USB Wake-Up Jumper (JP4)

Front Panel Connector Speak Connector USB Port (USB2) SFAN2

Jumpers

Jumper Name Description Page

JP2 Keyboard Power On Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block P.6 JP1,JP4 USB Wake-Up Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block P.6 JP8 CPU Front Side Bus Frequency 2-pin Block P.6 JP6 CMOS RAM Clear jumper 3-pin Block P.7

Connectors

Connector Name Description Page

PWR ATX Power Connector 20-pin Block P.12 KYB PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard

Connector USB1 USB Port Connector 2 x 4-pin Connector P.12 UL1 USB/LAN Port Connector 2 x 4-pin/RJ45 Connector P.12 LPT Parallel Port Connector 25-pin Female P.12 CN1

Audio Connector 3 phone jack Connector P.12 (Line-OUT/Line-IN/MIC) COM1/COM2A

Serial Port COM1/2

Connector FDD Floppy Driver Connector 34-pin Block P.13 IDE1/IDE2 Primary/Secondary IDE

Connector

6-pin Female P.12

9-pin Connector P.13

40-pin Block P.13

Headers

Header Name Description Page

AUDIO Line-Out, MIC Header 9-pin Block P.14 GAME Game Port Header 15-pin Block P.14 USB2 USB Port Headers 9-pin Block P.15 HD LED IDE activity LED 2-pin Block P.15 RESET Reset switch lead 2-pin Block P.15 SPEAK Speaker connector 4-pin Block P.15 PWR LED Power LED 2-pin Block P.15 PWR BTN Power switch 2-pin Block P.15 WOL Wake On-LAN Headers 3-pin Block P.16 SFAN1, SFAN2, CPUFAN FAN Headers 3-pin Block P.16 IR IR infrared module Headers 5-pin Block P.16 CDIN CD Audio-In Headers 4-pin Block P.17

Expansion Sockets

Socket/Slot Name Description Page

ZIF Socket 462 CPU Socket 462-pin PPGA CPU Socket P.8 DIMM1, DIMM2, DIMM3 PCI1, PCI2, PCI3, PCI4, PCI5 CNR CNR Slot Communication Network Riser Slot AGP AGP 4X/8X Mode Slot AGP Expansion Slot P.11

DDR SDRAM Module Socket

184-pin DDR SDRAM Module Expansion Socket

PCI Slot 32-bit PCI Local Bus Expansion slots P.10

P.9

Chapter 2

Hardware installation

2-1 Hardware installation Steps

Before using your computer, you had better complete the following steps:

1. Check motherboard setting

2. Install CPU

3. Install Memory

4. Install Expansion cards

5. Connect Ribbon cables, Panel wires, and power supply

6. Setup BIOS

7. Install software driver & utility

2-2 Checking Motherboard’s Jumper Setting

(1) Keyboard Power On function Enabled/Disabled: JP2

USB Wake-Up function Enabled/Disabled :JP1, JP4

When setting Enabled you can using keyboard by key in password or use USB device to power on system.

JP1

JP2 1-2 closed K/B Power ON Disabled (Default)

JP1, JP4 1-2 closed USB Wake-Up Disabled (Default)

JP2 2-3 closed K/B Power ON Enabled

JP1, JP4 2-3 closed USB Wake-Up Enabled

JP2 JP4

1 3

JP2 JP4

1 3

(2) CPU Front Side Bus Frequency Setting (2-pin) : JP8

JP8

ON : (AUTO)

CPU Front Side Bus Frequency

JP8

OFF : 100MHz

Note: CPU Front Side Bus Frequency also can change setting in BIOS SETUP, please

refer page 32 Miscellaneous Control in Host Clock at Next.

Note: When overclocking cause system can not boot up, users have to keeping press the

“INS” key and push the power on button to switch on the system until the screen have display to recovery the standard Default. Otherwise the CMOS will keep the faulty data and M/B will not function.

(3) CMOS RAM Clear (3-pin) : JP6

A battery must be used to retain the motherboard configuration in CMOS RAM short 1-2 pins of JP6 to store the CMOS data.

To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below:

1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power

2. Remove ATX power cable from ATX power connector

3. Locate JP6 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds

4. Return JP6 to its normal setting by shorting pins 1-2

5. Connect ATX power cable back to ATX power connector

Note: When should clear CMOS

1. Troubleshooting

2. Forget password

3. After over clocking system boot fail

JP6

1-2 closed Normal

CMOS RAM Clear Setting

JP6

2-3 closed Clear CMOS

2-3 Install CPU

2-3-1 Glossary

Chipset (or core logic) - two or more integrated circuits which control the interfaces between the system processor, RAM, I/O devises, and adapter cards.

Processor slot/socket - the slot or socket used to mount the system processor on the motherboard. Slot (AGP, PCI, ISA, RAM) - the slots used to mount adapter cards and system RAM. AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port - a high speed interface for video cards; runs at 1X (66MHz), 2X

(133MHz), or 4X (266MHz). PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect - a high speed interface for video cards, sound cards, network interface cards, and modems; runs at 33MHz. ISA - Industry Standard Architecture - a relatively low speed interface primarily used for sound cards and modems; runs at approx. 8MHz.

Serial Port - a low speed interface typically used for mouse and external modems. Parallel Port - a low speed interface typically used for printers. PS/2 - a low speed interface used for mouse and keyboards. USB - Universal Serial Bus - a medium speed interface typically used for mouse, keyboards, scanners,

and some digital cameras. Sound (interface) - the interface between the sound card or integrated sound connectors and speakers, MIC, game controllers, and MIDI sound devices.

LAN (interface) - Local Area Network - the interface to your local area network. BIOS (Basic Input/Output Sy stem) - the program logic used to boot up a computer and establish the

relationship between the various components. Driver - software, which defines the characteristics of a device for use by another device or other software. Processor - the "central processing unit" (CPU); the principal integrated circuit used for doing the "computing" in "personal computer" Front Side Bus Frequency - the working frequency of the motherboard, which is generated by the clock generator for CPU, DRAM and PCI BUS. CPU L2 Cache - the flash memory inside the CPU, normally Athlon CPU has 256K or above, while Duron will have 64K.

2-3-2 About AMD Athlon & Duron 462-pin CPU

This motherboard supports Socket-A (Socket-462) AMD Athlon/Duron processors. This motherboard Provides a ZIF Socket-A. The CPU that comes with the motherboard

should have a cooling FAN attached to prevent overheating. If this is not the case, then purchase a correct cooling FAN before you turn on your system.

WARNING! Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor’s heatsink and

CPU cooling FAN is working correctly, otherwise it may cause the processor and motherboard overheat and damage, you may install an auxiliary cooling FAN, if necessary.

WARNING! Due to this motherboard provides new function of protecting CPU；you must

connect the CPU FAN connector on CPUFAN location in order to obtain this feature. Without connection on CPUFAN (or you have connect CPU FAN on SFAN1), the system will shut down immediately to protect both your CPU and motherboard.

Over heat Protect: Only for Athlon XP serial CPU, when the CPU overheat, system will auto shut

down power supply. You can hear a continue beep sound, the power button will

be locked up. Users must turn off and turn on the AC power to reset the system otherwise the power button will no function, the other way is keeping press the push button few seconds till the beep sound stop, then release the power button and press the power button again to turn on the power supply.

To install a CPU, first turn off your system and remove its cover. Locate the ZIF socket and open it by first pulling the level sideways away from the socket then upward to a 90-degree angle. Insert the CPU with the correct orientation as shown below. The notched corner should point toward the end of the level. Because the CPU has a corner pin for two of the four corners, the CPU will only fit in the orientation as shown.

Socket 462

Colden Arrow

CPU ZIF Socket-A

When you put the CPU into the ZIF socket. No force require to insert of the CPU, then press the level to Locate position slightly without any extra force.

2-4 Install Memory

This motherboard provides three 184-pin DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULES (DIMM) sites for memory expansion available from minimum memory size of 64MB to maximum memory size of 3.0GB DDR SDRAM.

Valid Memory Configurations

Bank 184-Pin DIMM PCS Total Memory

Bank 0, 1 (DIMM1) DDR 266/333/400 DDR SDRAM X1 Bank 2, 3 (DIMM2) DDR 266/333/400 DDR SDRAM X1

Bank 4, 5 (DIMM3) DDR 266/333/400 DDR SDRAM X1

Total System Memory (Max. 3.0GB) 3

64MB∼1.0GB 64MB∼1.0GB

64MB∼1.0GB 64MB∼3.0GB

NOTE!

Make sure the total installed memory does not exceeds 3.0GB, otherwise the system may hang during startup.

Generally, installing DDR SDRAM modules to your motherboard is very easy, you can refer to figure 2-4 to see what a 184-Pin

DDR 266/333/400

DDR SDRAM module looks like.

DIMM2 (BANK2+ BANK3)

DIMM1 (BANK0+ BANK1)

DIMM3 (BANK4+ BANK5)

Figure 2-4

NOTE!

When you install DIMM module fully into the DIMM socket the eject tab should be locked into the DIMM module very firmly and fit into its indention on both sides.

WARNING! For the DDR SDRAM CLOCK is set at 166MHz, use only DDR333 compliant DDR

Modules. When this motherboard operate at 133Mhz, most system will not even boot if non-compliant modules are used because of the strict timing issues, if your DDR Modules are not DDR266-compliant, set the DDR SDRAM clock to 100MHz to ensure system stability.

2-5 Expansion Cards

WARNING! Turn off your power when adding or removing expansion cards or other system

components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards.

2-5-1 Procedure For Expansion Card Installation

1. Read the documentation for your expansion card and make any necessary hardware or

software setting for your expansion card such as jumpers.

2. Remove your computer’s cover and the bracket plate on the slot you intend to use.

3. Align the card’s connectors and press firmly.

4. Secure the card on the slot with the screen you remove above.

5. Replace the computer system’s cover.

6. Set up the BIOS if necessary.

7. Install the necessary software driver for your expansion card.

2-5-2 Assigning IRQs For Expansion Card

Some expansion cards need an IRQ to operate. Generally, an IRQ must exclusively assign to one use. In a standard design, there are 16 IRQs available but most of them are already in use.

Standard Interrupt Assignments

IRQ Priority Standard function

0 N/A System Timer 1 N/A Keyboard Controller 2 N/A Programmable Interrupt 3 * 8 Communications Port (COM2) 4 * 9 Communications Port (COM1) 5 * 6 Sound Card (sometimes LPT2) 6 * 11 Floppy Disk Controller 7 * 7 Printer Port (LPT1) 8 N/A System CMOS/Real Time Clock

9 * 10 ACPI Mode when enabled 10 * 3 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 11 * 2 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 12 * 4 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port 13 N/A Numeric Data Processor 14 * 5 Primary IDE Channel 15 * 1 Secondary IDE Channel

* These IRQs are usually available for ISA or PCI devices.

2-5-3 Interrupt Request Table For This Motherboard

Interrupt request are shared as shown the table below:

INT A INT B INT C INT D

PCI slot 1 Shared PCI slot 2 PCI slot 3 PCI slot 4 PCI slot 5 Shared AGP slot Shared AC97/MC97 Onboard USB Onboard USB 1 Onboard USB 2

Shared ⎯

⎯ ⎯ ⎯

⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯

⎯

Shared ⎯

⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯

Shared ⎯

⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯

⎯

Shared

⎯ ⎯ ⎯

Shared

⎯

Shared

⎯

Shared

⎯

⎯ ⎯

IMPORTANT! If using PCI cards on shared slots, make sure that the drivers support “Shared

IRQ” or that the cards don’t need IRQ assignments. Conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups that will make the system unstable or cards inoperable.

2-5-4 AGP Slot

This motherboard provides an AGP Slot, support the 4X/8X AGP VGA card.

AGP SLOT

2-6 Connectors, Headers

2-6-1 Connectors

(1) Power Connector (20-pin block) : PWR

ATX Power Supply connector. This is a new defined 20-pins connector that usually

comes with ATX case. The ATX Power Supply allows to use soft power on momentary switch that connect from the front panel switch to 2-pins Power On jumper pole on the motherboard. When the power switch on the back of the ATX power supply turned on, the full power will not come into the system board until the front panel switch is momentarily pressed. Press this switch again will turn off the power to the system board.

PIN ROW2 ROW1 1 3.3V 3.3V 2 -12V 3.3V 3 GND GND 4 Soft Power On 5V 5 GND GND 6 GND 5V 7 GND GND 8 -5V Power OK 9 +5V +5V (for Soft Logic) 10 +5V +12V

Pin 1

(2) PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard Connector: KYB

The connectors for PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 Mouse.

(3) USB Port connector: USB/USB1

The connectors are 4-pin connector that connect USB devices to the system board.

(4) LAN Port connector: LAN (for N2PAP-400 only)

The connector is standard RJ45 connector for network connection

(5) Parallel Port Connector (25-pin female): LPT

Parallel Port connector is a 25-pin D-Subminiature Receptacle connector. The Onboard Parallel Port can be disabled through the BIOS SETUP. Please refer to Chapter 3 “INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SETUP” section for more detail information.

(6) Audio Connector : LINE-OUT/LINE-IN/MIC

This Connector are 3 phone Jack for LINE-OUT, LINE-IN, MIC

LINE_O : LINE_I :

Audio input to sound chip(Rear Speaker on 6-channel)

MIC :

Audio output to speaker(Front Speaker on 6-channel)

Microphone Connector (Center-Base Speaker on 6-channel)

(7) Serial Port COM1,COM2A : COM1, COM2A

COM1, COM2A are the 9-pin D-Subminiature mail connector. The On-board serial port can be disabled through BIOS SETUP. Please refer to Chapter 3 “INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SETUP” section for more detail information.

PS/2 Mouse PRINT LAN

PS/2 Keyboard USB

COM1

COM2A

USB1

MIC LINE-IN

LINE-OUT

(8) Floppy drive Connector (34-pin block): FDD

This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting the single plug end to motherboard, connect the two plugs at other end to the floppy drives.

Pin 1

Floppy Drive Connector

(9) Primary IDE Connector (40-pin block): IDE1

This connector supports the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. After connecting the

single plug end to motherboard, connect the two plugs at other end to your hard disk(s). If you install two hard disks, you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by setting its jumpers accordingly. Please refer to the documentation of your hard disk for the jumper settings.

(10) Secondary IDE Connector (40-pin block): IDE2

This connector connects to the next set of Master and Slave hard disks. Follow the

same procedure described for the primary IDE connector. You may also configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector.

IDE1

Pin 1

IDE2

• Two hard disks can be connected to each connector. The first HDD is referred to as the

“Master” and the second HDD is referred to as the “Slave”.

• For performance issues, we strongly suggest you don’t install a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

drive on the same IDE channel as a hard disk. Otherwise, the syste m performance on this channel may drop.

2-6-2 Headers

(1) Line-Out, MIC Header (9-pin): AUDIO

This header connect to Front Panel Line-out, MIC connector with cable.

VCC

GND

RET

AUD

MIC AUD

_ _

BIAS MIC AUD

AUD

FPOUT AUD

AUD

FPOUT

AUD

AUDIO

Pin 1

Line-Out, MIC Headers

(2) GAME Port Header (15-pin) : GAME

This 15-pin header can through a cable with a 15-pin D-Subminiature Receptacle Connector for joystick/MIDI Device.(Cable option)

Pin 1

GAME Port Header

(3) USB Port Header (9-pin) : USB2

The header are used for connecting the additional USB port plug. By attaching an

option USB cable, your can be provided with two additional USB plugs affixed to the

back panel.

USB2

Pin 1

USB Port Headers

VCC

GND

DAT

+ DATA

VCC

GND

DAT

+ DATA

(4) IDE Activity LED: HD LED

This connector connects to the hard disk activity indicator light on the case.

(5) Reset switch lead: RESET

This 2-pin connector connects to the case-mounted reset switch for rebooting your

computer without having to turn off your power switch. This is a preferred method of

rebooting in order to prolong the lift of the system’s power supply. See the figure

below.

(6) Speaker connector: SPEAK

This 4-pin connector connects to the case-mounted speaker. See the figure below.

(7) Power LED: PWR LED

The Power LED is light on while the system power is on. Connect the Power LED

from the system case to this pin.

(8) Power switch: PWR BTN

This 2-pin connector connects to the case-mounted power switch to power ON/OFF the

system.

Pin 1

PWR LE D

VCC5

FPSPEAK

SPK

System Case Connections

Pin 1

GND

VCC5

PWRBTN

GND

PWRL ED

PWRB TN

GND

RSTSW

HDDLED

RESET

HDLED

(9) Wake On-LAN Headers (3-pin) : WOL

This connector connects to a LAN card with a WAKE ON-LAN output. This

connector power up the system when a wake up signal is received through the LAN

card.

NOTE:

This feature requires that Wake On LAN or Ring In Wake up is enabled.

5VS B

GND

WOL

Wake-On-LAN Hea ders

(10) FAN Speed Headers (3-pin) : SFAN1, SFAN2, CPUFAN

These connectors support cooling fans of 350mA (4.2 Watts) or less, depending on the fan manufacturer, the wire and plug may be different. The red wire should be positive, while the black should be ground. Connect the fan’s plug to the board taking into consideration the polarity of connector.

CPUFAN

SFAN1

SFAN2

(11) IR infrared module Headers (5-pin) : IR

This connector supports the optional wireless transmitting and receiving infrared

module. You must configure the setting through the BIOS setup to use the IR function.

Pin 1

GND

IRRX

6 5

VCC

IRTX

IR infrared module Headers

(12) CD Audio-In Headers (4-pin) : CDIN

CDIN is the connector for CD-Audio Input signal. Please connect it to CD-ROM CD-

Audio output connector.

CDI N

4 1

CD Audio-In Headers

2-7 Starting Up Your Computer

1. After all connection are made, close your computer case cover.

2. Be sure all the switch are off, and check that the power supply input voltage is set to

proper position, usually in-put voltage is 220V∼240V or 110V∼120V depending on your country’s voltage used.

3. Connect the power supply cord into the power supply located on the back of your system

case according to your system user’s manual.

4. Turn on your peripheral as following order: a. Your monitor.

b. Other external peripheral (Printer, Scanner, External Modem etc…) c. Your system power. For ATX power supplies, you need to turn on the power supply

and press the ATX power switch on the front side of the case.

5. The power LED on the front panel of the system case will light. The LED on the monitor may light up or switch between orange and green after the system is on. If it complies with green standards or if it is has a power standby feature. The system will then run power-on test. While the test are running, the BIOS will alarm beeps or additional message will appear on the screen.

If you do not see any thing within 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power. The system may have failed on power-on test. Recheck your jumper settings and connections or call your retailer for assistance.

Beep Meaning

One short beep when displaying logo No error during POST Long beeps in an endless loop No DRAM install or detected One long beep followed by three short

beeps High frequency beeps when system is

working

Video card not found or video card memory bad

CPU overheated System running at a lower frequency

6. During power-on, press <Delete> key to enter BIOS setup. Follow the instructions in BIOS SETUP.

Power off your computer:

You must first exit or shut down your operating system before switch off the power switch. For ATX power supply, you can press ATX power switching after exiting or shutting down your operating system. If you use Windows 9X, click

“Start”

button, click

“Shut down”

and then click

“Shut down the computer?”

The power supply should turn off after windows shut down.

Chapter 3

Introducing BIOS

The BIOS is a program located on a Flash Memory on the motherboard. This program is a bridge between motherboard and operating system. When you start the computer, the BIOS program gain control. The BIOS first operates an auto-diagnostic test called POST (power on self test) for all the necessary hardware, it detects the entire hardware device and configures the parameters of the hardware synchronization. Only when these tasks are completed done it gives up control of the computer to operating system (OS). Since the BIOS is the only channel for hardware and software to communicate, it is the key factor for system stability, and in ensuring that your system performance as its best.

In the BIOS Setup main menu of Figure 3-1, you can see several options. We will explain these options step by step in the following pages of this chapter, but let us first see a short description of the function keys you may use here:

•

Press <Esc> to quit the BIOS Setup.

•

Press ↑↓←→ (up, down, left, right) to choose, in the main menu, the option you want

to confirm or to modify.

•

Press <F10> when you have completed the setup of BIOS parameters to save these

parameters and to exit the BIOS Setup menu.

•

Press Page Up/Page Down or +/– keys when you want to modify the BIOS parameters

for the active option.

3-1 Entering Setup

Power on the computer and by pressing <Del> immediately allows you to enter Setup. If the message disappears before your respond and you still wish to enter Setup, restart the system to try again by turning it OFF then ON or pressing the “RESET” button on the system case. You may also restart by simultaneously pressing <Ctrl>, <Alt> and <Delete> keys. If you do not press the keys at the correct time and the system does not boot, an error message will be displayed and you will again be asked to

Press <F1> to continue, <Ctrl-Alt-Esc> or <Del> to enter Setup

3-2 Getting Help

Main Menu

The on-line description of the highlighted setup function is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Status Page Setup Menu/Option Page Setup Menu

Press F1 to pop up a small help window that describes the appropriate keys to use and the possible selections for the highlighted item. To exit the Help Window, press <Esc>.

3-3 The Main Menu

Once you enter Award® BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu (Figure 3-1) will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from fourteen setup functions and two exit choices. Use arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept or enter the sub-menu.

Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP/PCI Configurations PC Health Status Esc : Quit

F10 : Save & Exit Setup

Time, Date, Hard Disk Type...

Figure 3-1

Miscellaneous Control Load optimized Defaults Load Standard Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Saving

↑↓→←

: Select Item

Standard CMOS Features

Use this Menu for basic system configurations.

Advanced BIOS Features

Use this menu to set the Advanced Features available on your system.

Advanced Chipset Features

Use this menu to change the values in the chipset registers and optimize your system’s performance.

Integrated Peripherals

Use this menu to specify your settings for integrated peripherals.

Power Management Setup

Use this menu to specify your settings for power management.

PnP/PCI configurations

This entry appears if your system supports PnP/PCI.

PC Health Status

This entry shows your PC health status.

Miscellaneous Control

Use this menu to specify your settings for Miscellaneous control.

Load Optimized Defaults

Use this menu to load the BIOS default values that are factory settings for optimal performances system operations.

Load Standard Defaults

Use this menu to load the BIOS default values for the minimal/stable performance system operation.

Set Supervisor/User Password

Use this menu to set User and Supervisor Passwords.

Save & Exit Setup

Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit setup.

Exit Without Saving

Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit setup.

3-4 Standard CMOS Features

The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into several categories. Each category

includes no, one or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value you want in each item.

Standard CMOS Features

Date (mm:dd:yy) Thu, May, 29 2003 Time (hh:mm:ss) 16 : 45 : 35

> IDE Primary Master Press Enter None > IDE Primary Slave Press Enter None > IDE Secondary Master Press Enter None > IDE Secondary Slave Press Enter None

Drive A 1.44M, 3.5 in. Drive B None

Video EGA/VGA Halt On All,But Keyboard

Base Memory 640K Extended Memory 56320K Total Memory 57344K

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Item Help

Menu Level >

Change the day, month, year and century

Date

The date format is <day><month><date><year>.

Day of the week, from Sun to Sat, determined by BIOS. Read-only.

Day Month Date

The month from Jan. through Dec.

The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by numeric function keys.

The year depends on the year of the BIOS.

Year

Time

The time format is <hour><minute><second>.

Primary Master/Primary Slave Secondary Master/Secondary Slave

Press PgUp/<+> or PgDn/<–> to select Manual, None, Auto type. Note that the specifications of your drive must match with the drive table. The hard disk will not work properly if you enter improper information for this category. If your hard disk drive type is not matched or listed, you can use Manual to define your own drive type manually.

If you select Manual, related information is asked to be entered to the following items. Enter the information directly from the keyboard. This information should be provided in the documentation from your hard disk vendor or the system manufacturer. If the controller of HDD interface is SCSI, the selection shall be “None”. If the controller of HDD interface is CD-ROM, the selection shall be “None”

Access Mode Cylinder Head Precomp Landing Zone Sector

number of sectors

The settings are Auto Normal, Large, and LBA.

number of cylinders

number of heads

write precomp

landing zone

3-5 Advanced BIOS Features

Advanced BIOS Features

Anti-Virus Protection Disabled CPU L1 Cache Enabled CPU L2 Cache Enabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled SATA & SCSI Boot Order ATA, SCSI HDD Boot Sprite Disabled

First Boot Device Floppy

Second Boot Device HDD-0 Third Boot Device CDROM Boot other Device Enabled Swap Floppy Drive Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled Boot Up NumLock Status On Gate A20 Option Normal Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) 6 Typematic Delay (Msec) 250 Security Option Setup OS Select For DRAM > 64MB Non-OS2 HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability Disabled Video BIOS Shadow Enabled

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Item Help

Menu Level >

Anti-Virus Protection

Allows you to choose the VIRUS Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection. If this function is enabled and someone attempt to write data into this area, BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep.

Disabled

(default) No warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the

boot sector or hard disk partition table.

Enabled

Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector of hard disk partition table.

CPU L1 Cache

The default value is Enabled.

Enabled Disabled

(default) Enable cache

Disable cache

Note: The internal cache is built in the processor.

CPU L2 Cache

Choose Enabled or Disabled. This option enables the Level 2 cache memory.

Quick Power On Self-Test

This category speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on the computer. If this is set to Enabled. BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST.

Enabled Disabled

(default) Enable quick POST

Normal POST

First/Second/Third/Fourth Boot Device

The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items. The settings are Floppy, LS/ZIP, HDD-0/HDD-1/HDD-3, SCSI, CDROM, LAD and Disabled.

Swap Floppy Drive

Switches the floppy disk drives between being designated as A and B. Default is Disabled.

Boot Up Floppy Seek

During POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K, 1.2M and 1.44M are all 80 tracks.

Boot Up NumLock Status

The default value is On.

(default)

On Off

Keypad is numeric keys. Keypad is arrow keys.

Gate A20 Option

Normal

(default) The A20 signal is controlled by port 92 or chipset specific method.

Fast

The A20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller or chipset hardware.

Typematic Rate Setting

Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller. When enabled, the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected. The settings are: Enabled/Disabled.

Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)

Sets the number of times a second to repeat a keystroke when you hold the key down. The settings are: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, and 30.

Typematic Delay (Msec)

Sets the delay time after the key is held down before is begins to repeat the keystroke. The settings are 250, 500, 750, and 1000.

Security Option

This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup, or just to Setup.

System

The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt.

Setup

(default) The system will boot, but access to Setup will be denied if the correct

password is not entered prompt.

OS Select For DRAM > 64MB

Allows OS2® to be used with >64MB or DRAM. Settings are Non-OS/2 (default) and OS2. Set to OS/2 if using more than 64MB and running OS/2®.

3-6 Advanced Chipset Features

The Advanced Chipset Features Setup option is used to change the values of the chipset registers. These registers control most of the system options in the computer.

Advanced Chipset Features

System Performance Standard X CPU Interface Optimal X T(RAS) 6 X T(RCD) 3 X T(RP) 3 X CAS Latency 2.5 AGP Aperture Size 64M AGP 8X Support Enabled AGP Fast Write Capability Enabled System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Disabled

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

↑↓→←

F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Item Help

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CAS Latency

When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing. The settings are: 2T and 2.5T.

System BIOS Cacheable

Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh, resulting in better system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result. The settings are: Enabled and Disabled.

Video RAM Cacheable

Select Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS, resulting in better system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result. The settings are: Enabled and Disabled.

Frame Buffer Size

You can choose the On board VGA memory size share from system memory. The settings are: 8M, 16M, 32M, 64M, Disabled.

3-7 Integrated Peripherals

Integrated Peripherals

> Onboard IDE Function Press Enter > Onboard Device Function Press Enter > Onboard Super IO Function Press Enter Init Display First PCI Slot Power On Function Button Only X KB Power On Password Enter X Hot Key Power On Ctrl+F1 Power Loss Function Always off

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Onboard IDE Function

Please refer to section 3-7-1

Onboard Device Function

Please refer to section 3-7-2

Onboard Super IO Function

Please refer to section 3-7-3

Item Help

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Init Display First

This item allows you to decide to activate whether PCI Slot or AGP VGA first. The settings are: PCI Slot, AGP Slot.

Power Loss Function

This item allows the system power ON/OFF automatic when power loss and recovery again, you

can choose Auto for recovery pre-state, or always ON/OFF after power recovery.

3-7-1 Onboard IDE Function

OnChip IDE Function

OnChip IDE Channel0 Enabled OnChip IDE Channel1 Enabled Primary Master PIO Auto Primary Slave PIO Auto Secondary Master PIO Auto Secondary Slave PIO Auto Primary Master UDMA Auto Primary Slave UDMA Auto Secondary Master UDMA Auto Secondary Slave UDMA Auto IDE 32-bit Transfer Mode Enabled IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled Delay For HDD (Secs) 0

Item Help

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Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

OnChip IDE Channal0/Channel1

The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate each channel separately. The settings are: Enabled and Disabled.

Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO

The four IDE PIO (Programmed Input/Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each device. The settings are: Auto, Mode 0, Mode 1, Mode 2, Mode 3, Mode

Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA

Ultra DMA/33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2 or a third-party IDE bus master driver). If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA/33 and Ultra DMA/66, select Auto to enable BIOS support. The settings are: Auto, Disabled.

IDE HDD Block Mode

Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read/write. If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read/writes per sector the drive can support. The settings are: Enabled, Disabled.

3-7-2 Onboard Device Function

OnChip Device Function

AC97 Sound Device Auto

Game Port Address 201 Midi Port Address Disabled X Midi Port IRQ 10

nVIDIA LAN Function Auto

USB Host Controller Enabled USB 2.0 Support Enabled

USB Keyboard Legacy Support Disabled

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

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Game Port Address/Midi Port Address

This will determine which Address the Game Port/Midi Port will use.

USB Host Controller

Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller and you have a USB peripherals. The settings are: Enabled, Disabled.

USB Keyboard Support

Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller and you have a USB keyboard. The settings are: Enabled, Disabled.

3-7-3 Onboard Super IO Function

Onboard Super IO Function

Onboard FDD Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8/IRQ4 Onboard Serial Port 2 2F8/IRQ3 UART2 Mode Normal X RxD, TxD Active Hi, Lo

X IR Transmission Delay Enabled

X IR Duplex Mode Half X IR Pins IRRX/IRTX Onboard Parallel Port 378/IRQ7 Parallel Mode SPP X EPP Mode Select EPP1.9 X ECP Mode Use DMA 3

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

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Onboard FDD Controller

Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller (FDD) installed on the system board and you wish to use it. If you install add-on FDC or the system has no floppy drive, select Disabled in this field. The settings are: Enabled and Disabled.

Onboard Serial Port 1/Port 2

Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and the second serial ports. The settings are: 3F8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2F8/IRQ3, Disabled, Auto.

UART2 Mode

This item allows you to determine which InfraRed(IR) function of the onboard I/O chip, this functions uses.

Onboard Parallel Port

There is a built-in parallel port on the on-board Super I/O chipset that Provides Standard, ECP, and EPP features. It has the following option:

Disabled (3BCH/IRQ7)/ Line Printer port 0 (278H/IRQ5)/ Line Printer port 2 (378H/IRQ7) Line Printer port 1

Parallel Port Mode

SPP : Standard Parallel Port EPP : Enhanced Parallel Port ECP : Extended Capability Port

SPP/EPP/ECP/ECP+EPP

To operate the onboard parallel port as Standard Parallel Port only, choose “SPP.” To operate the onboard parallel port in the EPP modes simultaneously, choose “EPP.” By choosing “ECP”, the onboard parallel port will operate in ECP mode only. Choosing “ECP+EPP” will allow the onboard parallel port to support both the ECP and EPP modes simultaneously. The ECP mode has to use the DMA channel, so choose the onboard parallel port with the ECP feature. After selecting it, the following message will appear: “ECP Mode Use DMA” at this time, the user can choose between DMA channels 3 to 1. The onboard parallel port is EPP Spec. compliant, so after the user chooses the onboard parallel port with the EPP function, the following message will be displayed on the screen: “EPP Mode Select.” At this time either EPP 1.7 spec. or EPP 1.9 spec. can be chosen.

3-8 Power Management Setup

The Power Management Setup allows you to configure your system to most effectively save energy saving while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use.

Power Management Setup

ACPI Function Enabled ACPI Suspend Type S1(POS) Video off Method V/H SYNC+Blank Power Button Function Instant-Off Wake-Up on PCI PME Disabled Wake-Up on Ring/LAN Disabled USB Resume from S3/S4 Disabled Wake Up on RTC Alarm Disabled

X Time(dd:hh:mm) of Alarm 0: 0: 0

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Item Help

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ACPI Function

This item allows you to Enabled/Disabled the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI). The settings are Enabled and Disabled.

Video Off Method

This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.

DPMS Blank Screen V/H SYNC+Blank

(default) Initial display power management signaling.

This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.

This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and

horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer.

Power Button Function

Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft-Off state. The settings are: Delay 4 Sec, Instant-Off.

Wake Up On Ring/PME/LAN

During Disabled, the system will ignore any incoming call from the modem/LAN. During Enabled, the system will boot up if there’s an incoming call from the modem.

Wake Up on RTC Alarm

This function is for setting date and time for your computer to boot up. During Disabled, you cannot use this function. During Enabled, choose the Date and Time Alarm:

Time(dd:hh:mm) of Alarm

You can choose which day of month , what hour, minute the system will boot up.

Note: If you have change the setting, you must let the system boot up until it goes to the

operating system, before this function will work.

3-9 PnP/PCI Configuration Setup

This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed the

CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components. This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings.

PnP/PCI Configurations

Reset Configuration Data Disabled

Resources Controlled By Manual x IRQ Resources Press Enter

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Disabled Assign IRQ For VGA Enabled Assign IRQ For USB Enabled

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

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Reset Configuration Data

Nor ma ll y, you leave this field Disabled. Select Enabled to reset Extended Sy st em Co nf ig ur at io n Data (ESCD) when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add-on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system can not boot. The settings are: Enabled and Disabled.

Resource Controlled By

The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices. However, this capability means absolutely nothing unless you are using a Plug and Play operating system such as Windows®95/98. If you set this field to “manual” choose specific resources by going into each of the sub menu that follows this field (a sub menu is preceded by a “>”). The settings are: Auto(ESCD), Manual.

IRQ Resources

When resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. Please refer to section 3-9-1

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

Leave this field at Disabled. The settings are Enabled, Disabled.

3-9-1 IRQ Resources

IRQ Resources

IRQ3 assigned to PCI Device IRQ4 assigned to PCI Device IRQ5 assigned to PCI Device IRQ7 assigned to PCI Device IRQ9 assigned to PCI Device IRQ10 assigned to PCI Device IRQ11 assigned to PCI Device IRQ12 assigned to PCI Device IRQ14 assigned to PCI Device IRQ15 assigned to PCI Device

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Menu Level >>

Item Help

3-10 PC Health Status

This section shows the Status of you CPU, Fan, Warning for overall system status. This is only available if there is Hardware Monitor onboard.

PC Health Status

Shutdown Temperature Disabled Show PC Health in Post Enabled Current System Temperature 25°C Current CPU Temperature 38°C Current CPUFAN Speed 5000 rpm Current SYSFAN1 Speed 5000 rpm Current SYSFAN2 Speed 5000 rpm

Vcore 1.78V Vcc3.3 3.31V + 5V 4.98V +12V 12.22V

-12V -12.36V VBAT(V) 3.21V 5VSB(V)

5.02V

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Item Help

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Shutdown Temperature

This item can let users setting the Shutdown temperature, when CPU temperature over this setting the system will auto shutdown to protect CPU.

Show PC Health in Post

During Enabled, it displays information list below. The choice is either Enabled or Disabled

Current CPU Temperature/Current System Temp/Current FAN1, FAN2 Speed/Vcore/ Vdd/3.3V/+5V/+12V/-12V/VBAT(V)/5VSB(V)

This will show the CPU/FAN/System voltage chart and FAN Speed.

Detect CPUFAN in Post

During Enabled, system will warn the user if CPU Fan is not functioning.

3-11 Miscellaneous Control

This section is for setting CPU Frequency/Voltage Control.

Miscellaneous Control

** Current Host Clock is Host Clock at Next Boot is 100MHz ** Current DRAM Clock is DRAM Clock at next Boot is 133MHz CPU Vcore Select Default CPU Ratio Select Default Core_VDD Select 1.7V(Default) VDD_AUXC Select 1.6V(Default) VAGP Output 1.5V(Default) VRAM Output 2.6V(Default) VAUX Output Default VTT Voltage 1.25V VAGP LUV Protect Enabled VRAM LUV Protect Enabled Dual3.3V LUV Protect Disabled Flash Parts Write Protect Enabled

Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

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F5:Previous Values F6:Optimized Defaults F7:Standard Defaults

Item Help

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Host Clock at next Boot is

This item allows you to select CPU frequency step by step increasing The choice are: 100MHz, 133MHz, 166MHz, 200MHz, 236MHz, 240MHz, 242MHz, 244MHz, 245MHz, 250MHz

DRAM Clock at next Boot is

This field displays the capability of the memory modules that you can use The choice is either 100MHz, 110MHz, 125MHz, 133MHz, 138MHz, 166MHz, 200MHz, 208MHz, 221MHz, 249MHz

CPU Vcore Select

This item allows you to select Vcore of the CPU. The choice are: +1.100V∼+1.850V.

CPU Ratio Select This item allows you to select Ratio of the CPU. The choice are:X5~X24

VDD AUXC Select This item allows you to select Chip Voltage. The choice are 1.6V(Default), 1.7V

VAGP Output

This item allows you to select 1.5V of the AGP 4X VGA card. The choice are: 1.5V, 1.6V,1.7V

VRAM Output

This item allows you to select 2.5V of the DDR Module. The choice are: 2.5V~ 3.0V.

VAUX Output

This item allows you to select AUX voltage. The choice are: Default, 2%, 4%, 8%,12%, 16%.

VTT Voltage

This item allows you to select VTT voltage. The choice are: 1.25V, VDIMM/2.

VAGP/VRAM LUV Protect

This item allows you enabled the protect function on motherboard when over current. The choice are: Enabled(Default), Disabled

Flash Part Write Protect

This item allows you protect BIOS prevent the data destroy by virus. The choice are: Enabled, Disabled. Before flash BIOS you have to change the setting to Disabled otherwise it can not flash BIOS.

3-12 Load Standard/Optimized Defaults

Load Standard Defaults

When you press <Enter> on this item, you get confirmation dialog box with a message similar to:

Load Standard Defaults (Y/N)? N Pressing <Y> loads the BIOS default values for the most stable, minimal-performance system operations.

Load Optimized Defaults

When you press <Enter> on this item, you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to:

Load Optimized Defaults (Y/N)? N Pressing <Y> loads the default values that are factory settings for optimal performance system operations.

3-13 Set Supervisor/User Password

You can set either supervisor or user password, or both of them. The differences are:

Supervisor password: Can enter and change the options of the setup menus. User password: Can only enter but do not have the right to change the options of

the setup menus. When you select this function, the following message will appear at the center of the screen to assist you in creating a password.

ENTER PASSWORD:

Type the password, up to eight characters in length, and press <Enter>. The password typed now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory. You will be asked to confirm the password. Type the password again and press <Enter>. You may also press <Esc> to abort the selection and not enter a password.

To disable a password, just press <Enter> when you are prompted to enter the password. A message will confirm that the password will be disabled. Once the password is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely.

PASSWORD DISABLED.

When a password has been enabled, you will be prompted to enter it every time you try to enter Setup. This prevents an unauthorized person from changing any part of your system configuration.

Additionally, when a password is enabled, you can also require the BIOS to request a password every time your system is rebooted. This would prevent unauthorized use of your computer.

You determine when the password is required within the BIOS Features Setup Menu and its Security option. If the Security option is set to “System”, the password will be required both at boot and at entry to Setup. If set to “Setup”, prompting only occurs when trying to enter Setup.

Chapter 4

DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION

Check your package and there is A MAGIC INSTALL CD included. This CD consists of all DRIVERS you need and some free application programs and utility programs. In addition, this CD also include an auto detect software which can tell you which hardware is installed, and which DRIVERS needed so that your system can function properly. We call this auto detect software MAGIC INSTALL.

MAGIC INSTALL Supports WINDOWS 98SE/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP

Insert CD into your CD-ROM drive and the MAGIC INSTALL Menu should appear as below. If the menu does not appear, double-click MY COMPUTER / double-click CD-ROM drive or click START / click RUN / type X:\SETUP.EXE (assuming X is your CD-ROM drive).

From MAGIC INSTALL MENU you may make 10 selections:

1. nFORCE install NVIDIA nForce chipset system driver

2. SOUND install ALC AC97’ Audio Codec driver

3. USB2.0 install USB 2.0 driver

4. DirectX8 install Microsoft DirectX 8.1 driver

5. PC-CILLIN install PC-CILLIN2002 anti-virus program

6. PC-HEALTH install PC-HEALTH monitor Utility

7. MAGIC BIOS install BIOS Live Update Utility

8. Audio Hotfix install Audio Patch File (Only for WIN98SE OS)

9. BROWSE CD to browse the contents of the CD

10. EXIT to exit from MAGIC INSTALL menu

4-1 nFORCE install NVIDIA nFORCE Pack driver

* The path of the file is X:\DRIVER\SETUP.EXE IDE : VIDIA ATAPI VENDOR SUPPORT DRIVER IS USED TO FIXED

COMPATIBILITY ISSUE FOR IDE DEVICES

AGP : NVIDIA AGP DRIVER IS TO BE INSTALLED, IF YOU ARE USING AN AGP

VGA CARD, NVIDIA GART WILL PROVIDE SERVICE ROUTINES TO YOUR VGA DRIVER AND INTERFACE DIRECTLY TO HARDWARE, PROVIDING FAST GRAPHIC ACCESS

MEMCTL : NVIDIA Memory Controller driver SMBUS : NVIDIA SMBUS Controller driver ETHERNET : NVIDIA nFORCE MCP networking

1. Click nFORCE when MAGIC INSTALL

MENU appears

3. Click Finish to restart computer

2. Click NEXT when NVIDIA Windows98/

ME/2000/XP nForce Drivers Wizard appears

4-2 Sound Install AC97 Audio Codec Driver

1. Click SOUND when MAGIC INSTALL

MENU appears

2. Then auto detect operation system language

edition, click OK, start to install DRIVER

3. Click Finish and Restart Windows

5. Sound Effect select and KaraOK Mode

Function

Note: The path of the file

For WIN98/NT4.0/WIN2K/XP is X:\CODEC\ALC\SETUP.EXE

4. Click Start→Program→Avance Sound Manager→AvRack. Then AVRACK Windows appears

6. Manual Sound Effect Setting

4-3 USB2.0 Install NVIDIA USB 2.0 Driver

Windows 98SE/ME/2000 USB 2.O Driver installation

1. Click USB2.0 when MAGIC INSTALL

MENU appears

2. Click CLOSE and Restart Computer

Windows XP USB 2.O Driver installation

1. Install Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later

2. Select My Computer, Press Right Button, Select Properties,

Go to Hardware \ Device Manager, Remove Other Device \ Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller Restart Your Computer, It Will Find “NVIDIA USB2.0 Enhanced Host Controller” And “USB2.0 Root Hub Device”

4-4 PC-CILLIN Install PC-CILLIN 2002 Anti-virus program

1. Click PC-CILLIN when MAGIC INSTALL

MENU appear

2. (1) Click "Install PC-CILLIN" when PC-

CILLIN 2002 main menu appears, and Click NEXT when "Install Shield Wizard For PCCILLIN 2002"

(2) Click Open Manual. you can learn PCCILLIN 2002 how to use

3. This is license agreement, select "I Accept

the terms" and Click NEXT

4. Click NEXT and Enter your Customer

Information, Click NEXT or choose Change to change the path for the file to be stored

5. Click INSTALL, Start to install the software 6. Setup Complete and click FINISH

7. After PC-CILLIN 2002 complete, Please

8. finish register process, we recommend select

update item to download newest engine code and virus code

Note : Please install ACROBAT READER, Before you read PC-CILLIN 2002 User

Manual, the path at X:\acrobat\ar500eng.exe

4-5 PC-HEALTH Install NFORCE2 Hardware Doctor Utility

The path of the fil e is X:\83627HD\SETUP.EXE (support WINDOWS 98SE /ME/2000/XP)

1. Click PC-Health when Magic Install Menu

appears

2. Click Next when Winbond Hardware Doctor

Setup Window appears

3. Click Next to continue installation 4. Select Program Group name or enter a new

group name, click Next, and click Finish after setup complete

4-5-1 How To Utilize PC-HEALTH

1. Click Program → Winbond Hardware Doctor

→ Hardware Doctor the Winbond Hardware

Doctor will appears You can remove the Utility in Control Panel → Add/Remove Program icon

2. After executing Winbond Hardware Doctor it

supports system voltage, Fan speed and CPU/SYSTEM Temperature. Because this is a On-time Monitoring program therefore the value will change after it detected, if the value is over default setting the system will have warning picture and beeps. This is a System Voltage status

3. This is a CPU/System Fan Speed and

Temperature status information

4-6 MAGIC BIOS Install BIOS Live Update Utility

1. Click Magic BIOS when Magic Install MENU

appears

3. After finish Setup you will have a Magic

BIOS icon in your screen

2. Click Next to install the Magic BIOS in

Destination Folder

4. Double click the Magic BIOS icon you will

have this picture, choose from internet you can upgrade BIOS On-line

5. When On-line update BIOS the program will

auto-check your BIOS version

7. Click Yes if you want to update the BIOS

otherwise choose No to exit

6. Click Next if you need update BIOS, after

upgrade BIOS, the system will clear CMOS and automatically restart

8. When System programming BIOS don’t turn

off power, after finish update BIOS, the system will clear CMOS and automatically Restart

9. When choose From Local Driver to update

BIOS, you must have the correct BIOS file in your Local Driver

10. Choose the correct BIOS file to update BIOS

4-7 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS

Before update BIOS please choose Disabled in “Flash Part Write Protect” item on “Miscellaneous Control” in BIOS Setup, please refer page 32

Method 1. Use “Magic BIOS” update BIOS in Windows 98 (refer page 40) Method 2. In DOS Mode

STEP 1. Prepare a boot disc. (you may make one by click START click RUN type SYS A:

click OK)

STEP 2. Copy utility program to your boot disc. You may copy from DRIVER CD

X:\FLASH\AWDFLASH.EXE or download from our web site.

STEP 3. Copy latest BIOS for N2PA-400/N2PAP-400 from our web site to your boot disc. STEP 4. Insert your boot disc into A:,

start the computer, type “Awdflash A:\N2PAxxx.BIN /SN/PY/CC/R” N2PAxxx.BIN is the file name of latest BIOS it can be N2PAA3.BIN or N2PAB2.BIN SN means don’t save existing BIOS data PY means renew existing BIOS data CC means clear existing CMOS data R means restart computer

STEP 5. Push ENTER and the BIOS will be updated, computer will be restarted

automatically.

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