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Table of Contents
1: Motherboard Features ...................................................1
Package Contents & Options ........................................2
Main Features................................................................3
Layout & Port Positions ................................................ 7
2: Configuration & Installation .........................................9
Hardware Configuration................................................9
Configuring The Jumpers..........................................9
Installing A CPU.....................................................12
Installing System Memory......................................18
Installing Options....................................................20
Installing The Motherboard ........................................21
Installing in a System Housing................................21
System Housing Connections .................................23
Disk Drive Connections .......................................... 24
Other Connections...................................................26
Checking The Installation .......................................30
Support Software.........................................................30
3: Using The Motherboard..............................................36
System Controls ..........................................................36
Front Panel Features................................................36
Connecting External Peripherals.................................38
Connecting Peripherals to Conventional Ports....... 38
Connecting USB Peripherals...................................40
Installing Expansion Cards .........................................41
Installing PCI Cards................................................41
Installing A Modem Riser Card ..............................44
Upgrading System Memory ........................................45
4: The System BIOS & CMOS Setup Utility.................. 46
The System BIOS........................................................46
The CMOS Setup Utility.............................................47
5: Troubleshooting & Technical Summary.....................58
Troubleshooting ..........................................................58
General Troubleshooting.........................................58
Support Software Problems.....................................60
Battery Replacement ...............................................60
Technical Summary ....................................................61
Jumper Settings.......................................................61
CPU Options ...........................................................62
System Memory Specification ................................62
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How This Manual
Is Organized
This manual is divided in to five sections with the
following topics:
1: Motherboard Features
Describes the main features of the motherboard
and the location of important components on the
motherboard.
2: Configuration & Installation
Information on changing the motherboard’s default hardware configuration, installing a CPU
and system memory and installing the motherboard in a system housing.
3: Using The Motherboard
Contains pointers and useful information on using
the motherboard’s features once it is installed.
4: The System BIOS & CMOS Setup Utility
Explains how to use the CMOS Setup Utility and
notes important points on changing the default
configuration.
5: Troubleshooting & Technical Summary
Has a brief section on troubleshooting motherboard problems and has a summary of the board
setup information for the experienced user.
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The manual is designed to provide useful explanations where needed while making it easy to find
basic information without a lot of searching.
Motherboard Features
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Motherboard Features
This chapter lists what you should find in the
packing box, introduces your motherboard’ s fea-
tures and indicates the position of components
What’s In This
Chapter:
Package Contents
& Product Options
Main Features
Board Layout &
Port Positions
you may need to know about. Please review this
chapter to familiarize yourself with the basic in-
formation about your motherboard.
The motherboard uses the SiS 630 chipset and the
SiS 950 Super I/O chip. The 630 chipset has video
display, audio and LAN functions integrated into
the chipset, so separate cards or onboard chips are
not required. The motherboard is also available
with an 8MB SDRAM video display memory ca-
che that enhances display performance. The 950
I/O chip provides a full set of I/O ports on the
board which connect to port brackets that mount
in the system case.
The motherboard also has a two flexible configu-
ration features – there are two CPU sockets, a Slot
1 and a Socket 370 to allow flexible CPU selection
and upgrading. There are also two power supply
connectors on the board to allow the use of either
AT or ATX power supplies.
The motherboard also comes with full software
driver support for the 630 chipset on a convenient
CD-ROM Support Disk. The Support Disk has a
user-friendly installation interface and also in-
cludes some useful utility software.
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Package Contents & Options
Your motherboard package should include the
items listed here. If any thing is missing or damaged, please contact the vendor you bought it from
to resolve the problem. If you purchased a board
with optional features or equipment, please check
the options list. You should find:
• The motherboard
• IDE connector cable (supports UDMA/66)
• Floppy disk drive connector cable
• Serial port bracket (2 ports: COM1/COM2)
• VGA & Printer port bracket
• Audio & Game port bracket
• PS/2 mouse port bracket
• This User’s Manual
• Support software CD-ROM disk
• PC-Cillin User’s Manual
Optional Items:
• LAN port bracket (requires optional LAN fea-
ture onboard)
• Modem Riser card (separate purchase)
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Main Features
This motherboard a full set of system features
built onto the board.
AT Form Factor
This motherboard has a Baby AT circuit board
that integrates system I/O ports onto the board
and uses any standard Baby AT or AT system
housing. All I/O ports except the AT keyboard
connector are on port brackets that connect to the
motherboard with attached ribbon cables.
SiS 630 Chipset
The SiS 630 chipset supports many system fea-
tures onboard including video display and audio
circuitry. It also supports UDMA66 EIDE data
transfer mode. The chipset supports FrontSide Bus
(FSB) speeds of 66 100 or 133MHz. The board
also has an optional display cache for the onboard
video display and supports up to PC133 SDRAM
memory modules.
CPU Support
This motherboard has a Slot 1 CPU socket that
supports any Intel Slot 1 CPU running at speeds
from 233MHz to 667MHz including SECC Cele-
ron, Pentium II and Pentium III processors.
The motherboard also has a Socket 370 ZIF sock-
et for PPGA Celeron and FCPGA Pentium III
CPUs running at speeds up to 733Mhz.
The CPU operating speed is set in the BIOS firm-
ware based on the autodetected external clock
speed.
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Integrated I/O
This motherboard has a full set of integrated I/O
ports. The external ports are mounted on port
brackets that connect to the board. They include a
parallel port, two serial ports, a VGA port, a
game/MIDI port and three audio jacks.
There are also pin connectors on the board for
optional port brackets for PS/2 keyboard and
mouse ports and two USB ports as well as for a
separately-purchased IrDA port module. If you
install an infrared port, the second serial port is
disabled.
A 10/100 BaseT network interface with an RJ-45
interface on a port bracket is available as an onboard factory-installed option. You must purchase
the correct board model to get this option.
Onboard Peripheral Interfaces
There are connectors for two IDE channels and a
floppy disk drive interface on the motherboard.
The board supports two floppy disk drives. The
two IDE channels support two devices each for a
total of four devices. All IDE data transfer modes
are supported including all PIO modes and Ultra
DMA33 and 66 modes for a maximum data transfer rate of 66MB per second. The motherboard
comes with one floppy and one IDE cable. The
IDE cable supports all IDE modes and devices.
System Memory
The motherboard has two sockets for 168-pin 3.3V
non-buffered SDRAM DIMM memory modules.
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You can use PC100 or PC133 memory. PC66
memory is not supported. You can install any
combination of DIMMs from 16MB to 256MB
for a maximum system memory of 512MB.
Motherboard Features
Embedded 2D/3D Video Display
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The SiS 630 chipset has embedded video display
and optional display cache.
The embedded 128-bit video display supports both
2D and 3D display graphics. It is AGP 2.0 com-
pliant and runs at 100MHz. The display circuitry
uses a shared memory architecture that allows a
maximum of 32MB of main memory to act as a
frame buffer. The embedded controller supports
resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 at 16M colors with
up to 2048 x 2048 Texture size and a virtual desk-
top up to 4096 x 4096. The video controller also
supports hardware DVD acceleration and direct
DVD to TV playback.
Display drivers are supplied on the Support Disk
that comes with the motherboard.
Onboard 32-bit Audio
The SiS 630 chipset onboard audio comes with
audio drivers that are supplied on the Support
Disk. The audio subsystem uses the Line-In, Mic
and Line-Out jacks on the audio port bracket to
connect to external devices and also uses either of
the onboard CD-ROM audio-in connectors to
process audio from a CD-ROM drive.
The onboard audio uses an AC’97 audio CODEC.
This reduces noise to improve audio quality and
performance and also improves voice synthesis
and recognition.
Expansion Options
This motherboard has three 32-bit Revision 2.2
PCI expansion slots for PCI expansion cards. All
slots are Bus Master capable.
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The motherboard’s MR slot supports a Modem
Riser card that has data/fax modem and other
telephony features. Such cards are available as a
separate purchase. Ask your motherboard vendor
for details.
ACPI Ready
ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) support provides energy saving functions for
operating systems that support ACPI such as
Windows 98. An ACPI-capable system can use
the ACPI OnNow feature to turn off system
peripherals and wake the system up from Suspend
mode via several means including pointing device
movement and key commands.
Award BIOS
This motherboard uses the Award PnP BIOS and
the CMOS Setup Utility which allows setting of
various system hardware parameters. The CMOS
Setup Utility has an easy-to use interface and supports software clock frequency control.
Virus Protection
This motherboard comes with two forms of computer virus protection. When enabled, the antivirus feature in the Award BIOS protects the primary hard disk drive’ s boot sector and partition
table. The motherboard also comes with PC-cillin,
an anti-virus software utility for Microsoft Windows 9x and 2000. The software is located on the
Support Disk that comes with the motherboard.
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Layout & Port Positions
The figure at right shows the layout of the moth-
erboard with the components you might need to
locate labeled.
Component Description
1: MR Riser Modem Riser slot
2: PCI 1,2,3 32-bit PCI expansion slots
3: Slot 1 Slot 1 CPU socket
4: Socket 370 Socket 370 CPU socket
5: DIMM1, DIMM2 168-pin memory module slots
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6: FDC Floppy disk drives connector
7: IDE1, IDE2 Primary and Secondary IDE channel connectors
8: ATX Power ATX power supply connector
9: AT Power AT power supply connector
10: AT Keyboard AT Keyboard connector
11: PS/2 KB PS/2 keyboard port bracket connector
12: PS/2 MS PS/2 mouse port bracket connector
13: Audio Audio port bracket connector
14: LAN LAN port bracket connector
15: VGA VGA port bracket connector
16: USB USB port bracket connector (bracket optional)
17: CD-ROM CD-ROM audio-in connectors
18: IrDA Connector for optional infrared port
19: SYS, CPU FAN CPU and System cooling fans power connectors
20: COM 1 & 2 Connectors for serial port bracket
21: Print Parallel port bracket connector
22: JP1 CPU Type
23: JP6 Thermal Monitor selector
24: JP9 Clear CMOS
25: JP27 Power supply selector
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Configuration & Installation
This chapter explains how to configure the moth-
erboard, install a CPU and system memory and
has basic information on installing the mother-
What’s In This
Chapter:
Hardware Configuration
Installing the
Motherboard
Installing Support
Software
board in a system housing or “chassis”. We then
explain how to install the support software that
comes on the Support Disk. If the board is already
installed in a system, you may want to review this
chapter or you can skip it and go to the next chap-
ter which covers some post-installation topics.
Hardware Configuration
There are three steps to configure the mother-
board hardware before installing it in a system
housing: configuring the jumper switches, in-
stalling a CPU and installing system memory.
Configuring The Jumpers
This motherboard has four jumper switches. All
the jumpers come preset to default settings. You
may not need to change any of the settings. Please
note that once the motherboard is installed, you
should always turn your computer off and disco n-
nect the power cord before changing any jumper
settings. In all cases, you should always take pre-
cautions against static electric damage to sensitive
components. The default settings are listed in the
following table.
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Jumper Setting Summary
Default settings
are in bold
JP1 CPU Type
1-2 Slot1
5-6 Socket370
JP6 Thermal Monitor
1-2 Socket 370
2-3 Slot1
JP9 Clear CMOS
1-2 Clear CMOS
2-3 Normal
JP27 Power Supply
Open AT power supply
Short ATX power supply
JP9
JP1
JP27
JP6
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Jumper Functions
This is sections explains the functions performed
by the jumper switches.
JP6
JP9
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2
4
2
JP1
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JP1: CPU Type Selector
This jumper selects the CPU type. Set it according
to which kind of CPU you will install, a Socket
370 PPGA or FCPGA or any Slot 1 CPU. The
default setting is Slot370.
JP6: Thermal Monitor Selector
This jumper selects which thermal monitor will be
active, the one for the Socket 370 or the one for
the Slot 1 socket. Set it according to which socket
will be used. The setting should match the JP1
and JP10 settings. The default setting is Slot370.
JP9: Clear CMOS
This jumper is a trouble shooting jumper that al-
lows you to clear the system configuration record
that is created by the Award BIOS CMOS Setup
Utility and stored in CMOS memory. You only do
JP27
this if the system has become unbootable due to
incorrect settings or a corrupted configuration re-
cord and you can’t access the CMOS Setup Utility.
Please refer to the section on Troubleshooting in
Chapter 5 for information on how to do this. The
default setting for this jumper is Normal.
JP27: Power Supply Selector
JP27 selects between the AT and ATX power sup-
ply connectors on the motherboard. The default
setting Short for an ATX power supply.
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Installing A CPU
This motherboard has an Intel Slot 1 CPU socket.
If you purchased a CPU packaged by Intel, follow
the installation instructions that come with it. In
any case, please review the following generic instructions. You must install the CPU Retention
Module that comes with the motherboard first.
Please Note:
The pictures in
this section are
generic and are
not of the motherboard this
manual is about.
Make sure you take precautions against static electric damage.
1. Install the CPU Retention Module.
Place the module over the Slot 1 socket and
press it into the mounting holes. It will only fit
in one orientation.
Insert the module retaining pins into the four
corner receptacles on the module and press
them into the holes until they are secured.
Caution:
Once you get a pair
of Retention Module,
which has a pair of
copper plate on it,
the copper plate has
to attach to the hole
with grounding pad
(Silver) on the
motherboard.
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2. Insert the CPU in the Slot 1.
Note that the Slot 1 socket has two sections of
different lengths. Orient the CPU to the socket.
Slide the CPU into the Retention Module
guide rails and press the CPU into the socket
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3. Install the retaining caps.
Press a retaining cap onto the top of each Re-
tention Module guide rail to secure the CPU
in the Slot 1 socket. The caps will snap in
place.
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4. Attach the heatsink/fan assembly.
Assemblies vary, follow the instructions that
come with the heatsink/fan.
5. Connect the power lead from the fan to the
CPU FAN connector on the motherboard.
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You can install an Intel PPGA or FCPGA CPU in
the motherboard’s Socket 370. If you purchased a
CPU packaged by Intel, follow the installation
instructions that come with it. In any case please
review the following generic instructions which
are the same for both CPU types. Make sure you
Please Note:
The pictures in
this section are
generic and are
not of the motherboard this
manual is about.
take precautions against static electric damage to
the CPU.
1. The CPU will only fit into the socket in one
orientation. Look at the top of the CPU with
and note the two angled corners where some
pins are missing. On the other two corners the
pins form a 90
º angle.
2. Locate the PGA370 socket on the motherboard and identify the socket’s Pin 1 position
at the end of the socket actuating lever (or
“handle”). Note the angled corners of the pin
receptacles on that side of the socket.
CPU
Pin 1 side
370 Socket
Pin 1
Pin 1
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3. Raise the socket lever to a 90º angle.
4. Insert the CPU in the socket so that the angled
pin corners match the angled pin receptacle
corners. The CPU will only insert in the correct orientation. Don’t force it. If it doesn’t go
in easily, check and make sure you’ve got the
CPU correctly oriented.
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