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Table of Contents

1: Motherboard Features.................................... 1

Package Contents & Options ............................. 2

Main Features................................................... 3

Layout & Port Positions ..................................... 8

2: Configuration & Installation...........................10

Hardware Configuration ....................................10

Configuring The Jumpers ..............................10

Installing A CPU ...........................................12

Installing System Memory .............................15

Installing Options ..........................................17

Installing The Motherboard ...............................18

Installing in a System Housing .......................18

System Housing Connections ........................20

Disk Drive Connections .................................21

Other Connections ........................................23

Checking The Installation ..............................25

Support Software .............................................26

Installing the Support Software......................26

Installing Bundled Software...........................31

3: The System BIOS & CMOS Setup Utility ........32

The System BIOS ............................................32

The CMOS Setup Utility....................................33

Using the CMOS Setup Utility ........................33

4: Troubleshooting ............................................43

General Troubleshooting ..................................43

Support Software Problems ..............................45

Battery Replacement ........................................45

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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: The System BIOS & CMOS Setup Utility

Explains how to use the CMOS Setup Utility and
notes important points on changing the default
configuration.

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4: Troubleshooting

Has a brief section on troubleshooting mother­board problems and replacing the battery.

The manual is designed to provide useful explana­tions where needed while making it easy to find
basic information without a lot of searching.

What’s In This

Package Contents

Chapter:

& Product Options
Main Features
Board Layout &

Port Positions

Motherboard Features 1

Motherboard Features

This chapter lists what you should find in the
packing box, introduces your motherboard’s fea­tures and indicates the position of components
you may need to know about. Please review this
chapter to familiarize yourself with the basic in­formation about your motherboard.

The BIS2M series motherboard uses the Intel
815E chipset. The 815E chipset has 'video display,
audio and LAN functions integrated into the chip­set, so separate expansion cards are not required.
The board also uses Intel's ICH2 I/O Control Hub
which supports a full complement of I/O ports.

The LAN function is an optional feature which is
available with an integrated RJ-45 network inter­face connector on the extended version of the
motherboard.

The motherboard also comes with full software
driver support for the 815E chipset on a conven­ient CD-ROM Support Disk. The Support Disk
has a user-friendly installation interface and also
includes some us eful 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

• This User’s Manual

• Support Disk software on CD-ROM disc

• Rear panel for I/O ports

Optional Items:

• COM 2 port bracket

• CNR card (separate purchase)

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Main Features

This motherboard a full set of system features
built onto the board.

Micro ATX Form Factor

This motherboard has a Micro ATX circuit board
that integrates system I/O ports onto the board
and uses any standard or Micro ATX system
housing. All I/O ports except the second serial
port are on the motherboard. The optional LAN
network interface connector is available on top of
USB connector on the extended model and an
optional serial port bracket with attached ribbon
cables attaches to the port connector on the
motherboard.

Intel 815E Chipset

The Intel 815E chipset supports many system fe a­tures onboard including video display and audio
circuitry. It also supports UDMA/66 and 100
EIDE data transfer mode and Front Side Bus
(FSB) speeds of 66MHz, 100MHz or 133MHz.
The 815E supports the shared memory display
buffer for the onboard 2X AGP video display and
in addition supports the 4X AGP expansion slot
on the motherboard. System memory support for
PC66 PC100 or PC133 SDRAM allows installa­tion of up to 512MB total memory.

CPU Support

The motherboard has a Socket 370 ZIF socket for
PPGA Celeron and FCPGA Pentium III CPUs
running at speeds up to 933Mhz.

The CPU operating speed is set in the BIOS firm­ware 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 mounted on the board. They include PS/2
keyboard and mouse ports, two USB ports, a par­allel port, a serial port, a VGA port, a
game/MIDI port and Line Out, Line In and Mic
audio jacks.

There is also a pin connector on the board for the
optional serial port bracket and a separately­purchased IrDA device. If you install an infrared
port, the second serial port is disabled.

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
ATA 33, 66 and 100 modes for a maximum data
transfer rate of 100MB per second. The mothe r­board comes with one floppy and one ATA 66
IDE cable. The IDE cable supports all IDE modes
and devices even Ultra ATA 100.

System Memory

The motherboard has three sockets for 168-pin

3.3V non-buffered SDRAM DIMM memory
modules. You can use PC66 PC100 or PC133
memory. (Remark: 815E can’t supports PC133
double side 256Mb or 128Mb for 2 modules at
same time), You can install any combination of
DIMMs with a capacity from 16MB to 256MB for
a maximum total system memory of 512MB.

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Embedded 2D/3D Video Display

The Intel 815E chipset has an embedded 128-bit
AGP video display. The chipset supports resolu­tions up to 1920 x 1200 and up to 24-bit color
depths at various refresh rates.

The embedded display supports both 2D and 3D
display graphics. It is AGP 2.0 compliant and runs
at 100MHz. The display circuitry uses a shared
memory architecture that allows it shard system
memory to act as a frame buffer.

Display drivers are supplied on the Support Disk
that comes with the motherboard.

Onboard Audio

The onboard audio uses an AC’97 audio CODEC,
the CODEC reduces noise to improve audio qual­ity and voice synthesis and recognition.

The CODEC comes with audio drivers that are
supplied on the Support Disk. The audio subsys­tem uses the Line-In, Mic-In and Line-Out jacks
on the audio port to connect to external devices
and also uses either of the onboard CD-ROM au­dio-in connectors to process audio from a CD­ROM drive.

Expansion Slots

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 CNR slot supports the Com­munication and Networking Riser card specifica­tion for CNR expansion cards with audio, modem
and/or networking features. Such cards are avail­able as a separate purchase. The CNR shares ex­ternal access with the PCI3 slot so you can only
use one of the two.

The board also has a 4X AGP slot that allows in­stalling a substitute display card in order to lets
you have more choice to use your favorite display
card

ACPI Ready

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Inter­face) support provides energy saving functions for
operating systems that support ACPI such as
Windows 98.

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 moth­erboard with the components you might need to
locate labeled.

Component Description

1: Onboard Ports See illustration key
2: CPU FAN CPU cooling fan power connector

3: Socket 370 Socket 370 CPU socket
4: DIMM1, 2,3 168-pin memory module slots
5: ATX Power ATX power supply connector
6: CD,AUX,VIDEO Audio-in connectors
7: IDE IDE channel 1 & 2 connectors
8: FDD Floppy disk drive connector
9: SYS FAN System cooling fan power connector
10: AGP 4X AGP Slot
11: Battery Onboard battery and housing
12: IR(2) 2nd connector for optional infrared port
13: PCI 1,2,3 32-bit PCI expansion slots (1 at top)

14: F.S. USB
15: JP7 Clear CMOS jumper

16: CNR CNR card slot (shared with PCI3)
17: WOL,WOR WOL (L) & WOR (R) connectors

18: COM2 Com2 2nd serial port bracket connector
19: J36,37,38 J36:Case open alert, 37:PWRLED(2), 38:SPKR
20: Case Panel Connector for case panel features

#3,#4 USB port connector for Front Side
(Optional)

J37

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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12

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PS/2 Mouse

Parallel

Game/MIDI

Audio:

LAN

LAN Version

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PS/2 Keybd

Serial VGA

USB

USB

Audio 1,2,3
1: Line In

2: Line Out
3: Mic

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Installing Support

Chapter:

Hardware Config
ration

Installing the
Motherboard

Software

Configuration & Installation 2

Configuration & Installation

This chapter explains how to configure the moth­erboard, install a CPU and system memory and
has basic information on installing the mother­board 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 chap­ter which covers some post-installation topics.

Hardware Configuration

There are three steps to configure the mother­board hardware before installing it in a system
housing: configuring the jumper switches, install­ing a CPU and installing system memory.

Configuring The Jumpers

This motherboard has one jumper switch. The
jumper is preset to a default setting. 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 disconnect the
power cord before changing any jumper settings.
In all cases, you should always take precautions
against static electric damage to sensitive compo­nents. The settings are listed in the following table.

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Default setting is

1

3

Jumper Setting Summary

JP7 – Clear CMOS

Setting Function

1-2 Clear CMOS

2-3 Normal

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in bold

JP7

Jumper Functions

This is sections explains the functions performed
by the jumper switches.

JP7: Clear CMOS

This jumper is a trouble shooting jumper that al­lows 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
this if the system has become unbootable due to
incorrect settings or a corrupted configuration re­cord and you can’t access the CMOS Setup Utility.
The default setting for this jumper is

Normal

.

To clear the CMOS memory, turn off the com­puter, switch the jumper cap to the Clear setting,
wait a minute and then return the cap to the Nor­mal position.

JP7

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CPU

370 Socket

Installing A CPU

You can install an Intel PPGA or FC -PGA CPU
in the motherboard’s Socket 370. If you purchased
a CPU packaged by Intel, follow the in stallation
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 mot h­erboard 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 90º 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.

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Pin 1

Pin 1 side

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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5. Lower the socket lever and press it back into
place to lock the CPU in the socket.

You will also need to install a heatsink/fan de­vices on top of the CPU. If you purchased an Intel
CPU in retail packaging use the fan that comes in
the package. If you a purchased a CPU that
doesn’t come with a fan, you will need to purchase
one separately. Follow the installation instructions
and plug the fan power connector onto the CPU
FAN power connector near the PGA370 socket.

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Installing System Memory

There are three system memory sockets on the
motherboard. They use 3.3Volt, non-buffered
SDRAM DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module).
This motherboard uses either PC66, PC100 or
PC133 DIMMs. The motherboard will aut omati­cally detect and configure the installed memory.
This means you can use PC100 memory even if
the external clock frequency used by the CPU is
66MHz. (Remark: 815E can’t supports PC133
double side 256Mb or 128Mb for 2 modules at
same time), You can install any other size DIMM
from 16MB to 256MB in any socket for a total of
512MB.

Installing DIMMs

The DIMM sockets have three edge connector
sections divided by spacers with a crossbar. The
crossbars match cut-outs in the DIMMs so that
only the correct type of module can be installed.
The cutouts vary by module type. Make sure you
use the correct module type as noted above. When
installing memory, you should take precautions
against static electric damage to sensitive compo­nents on the modules and the moth erboard. To
install a module does as follows:

1. Press the socket retaining latches down to cre­ate full access to the socket.

2. Align the DIMM to the socket so that its edge
connector matches the socket’s connectors.
The three sections are of different lengths to
make the correct orientation obvious.

3. Lightly press the DIMM into the socket at a
90º to the motherboard. Make sure the mod­ule and the socket are lined up correctly.

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4. Press the DIMM fully into the socket. The
retaining latches will rotate upwards and
should fit into the corresponding notches on
the DIMM. Press the latches into place if nec­essary. If the latches won’t insert properly into
the module notches push them back and try
inserting the DIMM again. When the latches
are fully in place the DIMM is properly in­stalled.

Depending on the module size and the total ca­pacity you want to install, you may install mem­ory in only one or both sockets. For example, to
install 128MB of system memory you can install
either one 128MB DIMM in one socket or two
64MB modules using both sockets. We recom­mend that you use the largest module that fits
your installation plans so that you can leave the
second socket open for later upgrades.

If you want to upgrade system memory after the
motherboard is installed you can install addi tional
memory in the empty socket. If there is no empty
socket, you will need to remove at least one mod­ule and replace it with the upgrade module. In
some cases, you may need to remove both mod­ules to allow installing your intended configura­tion. To remove a DIMM do as follows.

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1. Make sure the computer is turned off and un­plugged.

2. Press down on the retaining latches to release
the module and push it partially out of the
socket.

3. Carefully remove the module from the socket,
preferably grasping it by the top corners of the
circuit board.

Installing Options

To install any optional hardware such as the Mo­dem Riser card or optional Infrared port you must
first install the motherboard in a system housing.
Please refer to the Other Connections portion of
the next section.

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Installing The Motherboard

This section is a brief generic explanation of how
to install the motherboard in a system housing
(“case” or “chassis”) and connect other internal
system components to it. If you are not experi­enced at installing and assembling computer
hardware we recommend you consider having a
qualified service technician install and assemble
your system for you. If you will do the work your­self, make sure to take precautions against damage
from static electric discharge while installing and
connecting components.

Installing in a System Housing

Since housing designs vary considerably the sec­tion provides general guidelines and notes the ba­sic requirements. This motherboard is a Micro
ATX board that requires either a Micro ATX or
ATX case (chassis) and power supply. The case
should come with mounting hardware for the
motherboard and at least basic instructions on
how to install a motherboard in it. It is advisable
to check the case before you by it and confirm that
it has adequate hardware and instructions. If you
are upgrading the motherboard in a system you
already own, you will need to make sure your sys­tem case can accommodate this motherboard.

This is the basic procedure to install the mother­board:

1. Check over the hardware and instructions that
came with the system housing and make sure
everything is there and that you understand
the instructions.

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2. Attach whatever mounting hardware is needed
to the case. Some cases support more than one
motherboard form factor, for example Baby
AT, Micro ATX and ATX. Identify the mount­ing points that match as many of the mount­ing holes on the mother board as possible and
install hardware at those points. Some cases
use both metal nut -headed screws and plastic
spacers with a pointed end that inserts in a
mounting hole on the motherboard. The spac­ers fit into slots in the motherboard mounting
plate.

3. Install a port cover panel if necessary. Fo llow
the instructions that came with the case.

4. Line the motherboard mounting holes up with
the appropriate attachment points on the
motherboard mounting plate. If you had to in­stall plastic spacers in some holes, make sure
they fit into their slots as you align the board.

5. Use the mounting screws and washers that
came with the system case to attach the moth­erboard to the mounting plate. Seat the screws
firmly but not to tightly.

With the motherboard installed, you can now at­tach internal system components including wire
leads from the system case and disk drive or other
cables and port brackets.

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System Housing Connections

You will need to connect several wires from the
system housing to the motherboard. These include
leads for functions on the housing’s front panel
and the power connector from an ATX power
supply and any system cooling fans.

Connecting Front Panel Leads

System housings usually have several system con­trols and indicators mounted on the front panel.
This motherboard supports several of these stan­dard features via the J39 Switch & Indicator panel
connector. The supported features and the J39
pins they connect to are shown in the following
table and figures.

Pin Name Description

1 & 3 HDD LED HDD LED
2 & 4 YEL/GRN Power/Suspend LED
5 & 7 RST Reset
6 & 8 PWR SW Power Button

10 & 12

9 – 17 IrDA

SMI Suspend Button

Infrared (9 VCC, 11 IRRX, 13
GND, 15 IRTX, 17 NC)

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POWER LED/SLEEP

POWER BUTTON

2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17

HDD LED

RESET

SLEEP BUTTON

Fan Out

+5V

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Connecting ATX Power

The power connector from the ATX power supply
is a rectangular plastic connector with multiple
wires running back to the power supply. It plugs
onto the ATX power connector on the mother­board. The connector will only plug on one way,
so if it won’t plug on easily, turn it around and try
again. Make sure the power supply is unplugged
when you connect the power lead.

Connecting Cooling Fans

There are two connectors on the motherboard for
connecting power leads from system cooling fans
mounted in the system housing. The system hous­ing may already have such a fan installed. If so,
you should connect it to the nearest connector on
the motherboard. Many cases have a space to in­stall a standard cooling fan. The fan power leads
will only plug on one way so you can’t connect
them incorrectly.

GND

Disk Drive Connections

This motherboard has three connectors for disk
drives, one for up to two floppy disk drives and
two EIDE connectors which can connect to two
IDE devices each for a total of four. The mot her­board comes with two ribbon connector cables,
one floppy cable and one IDE cable.

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Connecting Floppy Disk Drives

The motherboard floppy disk drive controller con­nector uses the narrower (34 -pin) of the two sup­plied cables. There are three connectors on the

Board end

Pin 1 side

Drive B:

Drive A:

cable, one at each end and one in the middle,
more towards one end. The end with two connec­tors closer together goes to the disk drives. The
other end connects to the motherboard.

Always connect the Pin 1 side of the ribbon cable
(the colored edge) to the Pin 1 side of the cable
connector on the motherboard or device. The Pin
1 corner is marked on the motherboard and drives
usually have it marked in some way. The rule of
thumb for drives is that the Pin 1 side of the con­nector is on the drive power connector side.

The end drive connector on the ribbon cable is for
floppy disk drive Drive A: and the middle connec­tor is for Drive B:. The supplied cable only sup­ports 1.44MB floppy disk drives.

Board end

Pin 1 side

Slave

Master

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Connecting IDE Devices

The motherboard EIDE device controller connec­tor uses the wider (40-pin) of the two supplied ca­bles. There are three connectors on the cable, one
at each end and one in the middle, more towards
one end. The end with two connectors closer to­gether goes to the IDE devices. The other end
connects to the motherboard. (Remark: ATA 66
cable can support ATA 100 device too)

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Always connect the Pin 1 side of the ribbon cable
(the colored edge) to the Pin 1 side of the cable
connector on the motherboard or device. The Pin
1 corner is marked on the motherboard and IDE
devices usually have it marked in some way. The
rule of thumb for IDE devices is that the Pin 1
side of the connector is on the drive power con­nector side.

The end drive connector on the ribbon cable is for
the Master IDE device and the middle connector
is for the Slave device. The supplied cable supports
IDE devices in all modes.

If you want to install devices on the second IDE
channel, you will need to purchase an additional
IDE ribbon cable. If you want to use IDE devices
that use the UDMA66 or UDMA100 data transfer
mode, you will need to get an IDE cable that spe­cifically supports UDMA66 like the supplied cable.

Other Connections

There are several other connection points on the
motherboard which you will or may need to use.
These include the port bracket connectors, the
connectors for CD-ROM drive audio input and
the IR port connector.

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Optional Serial Port Bracket Conne ctor

An optional serial port bracket plugs onto the
COM2 connector on the motherboard. Mount the
port bracket in an expansion slot opening that
doesn’t block an expansion slot and plug the rib­bon cable connectors onto the connectors on the
motherboard. The connectors will only plug on in
one orientation so you can’t get it wrong.

CD-ROM Audio Input Connectors

There are two audio input connectors for a CD­ROM. Plug the audio cable from a CD-ROM
drive into the connector that matches the connec­tor on the end of the cable. If there is more than
one CD-ROM drive installed in the system you
can connect an additional drive to the unused
connector. Only one audio source at a time will
play through the onboard audio subsystem.

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The Second IR Port Connector

This a second connector is for an infrared wireless
communications port. You can also use the con­nector that is part of the front panel connector.
Connect a separately purchased port to the IR(2)
connector. Make sure to orient the Pin 1 side of
the port connector to Pin 1 of the onboard con­nector. The Pin 1 position is marked on the moth­erboard (the top pin). You will also need to con­figure the port in the CMOS Setup Utility’s Inte­grated Peripherals section to the appropriate set­tings for your port. Follow the directions that
come with the IR port to install it.

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WOL & WOR Connectors

These are Wake On LAN and Wake On Ring
connectors. They are for lead connectors from
LAN or modem cards that support these functions
where the system will wake up from Suspend
mode when there is act ivity on the LAN or an in­coming call to a modem. Some CNR cards may
support these features.

Checking The Installation

Once you have installed and connected internal
peripherals -- most likely at least a hard disk drive,
a floppy disk drive and a CD -ROM drive – check
and make sure everything is correctly and firmly
connected or installed. After that, assemble the
system housing and connect a monitor, keyboard
and mouse or other pointing device. Plug the
power cord into the power supply and plug it into
a surge-protected power outlet.

Turn on the computer. The POST (Power On Self
Test) will run and should display the correct
memory total. The default BIOS settings should
automatically detect and configure any floppy disk
drives and IDE devices as well as assign resources
for any expansion cards you may have installed. If
you encounter a problem, reboot and run the
CMOS Setup Utility by pressing the delete key. If
you need help using the utility, see Chapter 4. The
system should now be ready to install an Operat­ing System on the hard disk drive and the neces­sary support software from the Support Disk.

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Support Software

All versions of this motherboard come with a
software Support Disk that has both support soft­ware and bundled software on it. The Support
Disk is for an entire range of motherboards. There
is more software on the Support Disk than is used
by this motherboard, so don’t be con fused by the
software that doesn’t apply. An Operating System
must be installed on the primary system hard disk
drive before you can install support software. Most
of the support software is for various versions of
Microsoft Windows as it is the Operating System
most likely to be used with this motherboard.

Installing the Support Software

The Support Disk is set to run automatically. The
disk has an installation interface that will appear
when you load the disk in the CD-ROM drive.
You can then make selections from the menu that
appears by clicking on an item with the mouse.
You can also use the arrow keys on the keyboard
to make a selection and then press the Enter key.

The installation interface has a number of nested
levels. The top level, which you see when the disk
loads looks like the following figure. You can exit
the level you are in either by clicking on the Exit
bar, selecting it and pressing the Enter key or by
pressing the Esc key. The top level Exit bar closes
the installation program.

If you are using a version of Microsoft Windows,
you will need to install the Intel 815E support
software under the Intel Series heading. Installing
the other bundled software is optional.

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Main screen

Main menu

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ntel series

Intel Support Software

There are seven items in the Intel Series menu. To
install software, click on or select an item and
press the Enter key. Follow the installation instruc­tions that appear.

You will need to install items 1, 4 and 7. You will
also need to install drivers from item 6, 815E
Driver. Click on the item 6 bar and the 815E
Driver menu will appear.

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815E Driver

menu

VGA Display Drivers

The 815E Driver section has display drivers for
various versions o f Windows including 9x, NT 4.0
and 2000. Choose the driver for the OS you are
using and install the driver.

815E LAN Driver

The 815E Driver section also has a driver for the
optional LAN feature.

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Audio Driver

Intel ICH2

Audio Driver Software

To install the audio software, click on the Audio
Driver bar in the main menu or select it and press
the Enter key. Click on item 4 for the Intel ICH2
and then install the Audio Driver for the version
of Windows you are using.

menu

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Installing Bundled Software

The Support Disk also has some utility software
on it. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is supplied
for viewing files in the Acrobat PDF for mat, in­cluding online manuals. The PC-cillin 98 anti­virus software is bundled with this mother board to
enhance your system’s protection from computer
virus infection. To install either software utility,
click on or select the appropriate item and press
the Enter key. Follow the installation instructions
that appear.

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The System BIOS &

What’s In This
Chapter:

System BIOS
CMOS Setup Utility

CMOS Setup Utility

This section explains what the system BIOS does
and has a summary of the CMOS Setup Utility.

The System BIOS

This motherboard uses the Award system BIOS.
The system BIOS (Basic Input Output System) is
firmware -- software stored on a chip -- that is
permanently stored on the motherboard’s Flash
ROM chip.

The BIOS is a set of routines which function as an
interface between the Operating System and the
system hardware. It supports the installed periph­erals and provides internal services such as the
realtime clock produces time and date data.

When the sy stem is starting up, the BIOS tests the
system and prepares the computer for operation
by checking the CMOS memory where the system
configuration information is stored and retrieving
information on the configuration settings. When it
is finished it loads the operating system and passes
control of the system to it.

The system configuration information that the
BIOS retrieves from CMOS memory is recorded
there by the CMOS Setup Utility.

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The CMOS Setup Utility

This section explains the CMOS Setup Utility
program. The utility is permanently stored in the
Flash ROM chip on the motherboard. It creates a
record of the motherboard and some system con­figuration information and stores it in battery­supported CMOS memory. This configuration
record must be intact and accurate in order for the
motherboard to operate correctly.

After an explanation of how to operate the utility
there is a summary of the various sections of the
utility. Normally, once your system is set up, you
should have little or no need to use the utility.

Using the CMOS Setup Utility

This section explains how to access and use the
CMOS Setup Utility interface.

Accessing The CMOS Setup Utility

When you turn on your computer, a message ap­pears on the screen indicating you can run the
Setup program by pressing the Del key -- it’s on
the keypad and the Delete key performs the same
function. The message appears at the end of the
POST (Power On Self Test).

If you want to run Setup but you don’t respond in
time before the message disappears, you can reset
the system by pressing the Ctrl + Alt + Delete
keys at the same time, or by pushing the system
Reset button. The message will then reappear.

After you press the Del or Delete key the program
menu screen will appear, displaying the Setup util­ity section names and some command instructions.

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Menu Commands

If you look at the lower portion of the screen illus­tration, you’ll see a section that lists the control
commands for this level of the program. You exe­cute a command by pressing the key for that
command. The program commands are :

• Quit: This command will close the Setup pro­gram when you press the ESC key.

• Save & Exit Setup: This will save the current
settings and close the Setup program when
you press the F10 key.

• Select Item: You can use the arrow keys on
your keyboard to move around the screen and
select a menu item. An item is highlighted
when it is selected.

The section at the bottom of the screen displays a
brief explanation of a highlighted menu item’s
function.

There are fourteen items on the main screen:

• Standard CMOS Setup: Date, time, disk drive
setup, video display and error handling.

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• Advanced BIOS Features: Boot-up and drive
options and system feature customization in­cluding password Security Option and OS/2
memory option

• Advanced Chipset Features: Advanced cache,
system memory and display cache settings.

• Integrated Peripherals: Settings for the IDE
channels, onboard ports, audio, infrared port
settings and Power On hot key

• Power Management Setup: Sets up the power
management features or enables ACPI.

• PNP/PCI Configurations: PCI bus, system
IRQ resource settings.

• PC Health Status: CPU and cooling fan and
voltage status monitor readouts and system
Shutdown temperature threshold setting.

• Frequency/Voltage Control: Autodetect and
manual settings for CPU, memory and PCI
clock settings and the CPU mult iplier.

• Load Fail-Safe Defaults: Loads minimum set­tings from the BIOS ROM.

• Load Optimized Settings: Loads optimized
settings from the BIOS ROM.

• Set Supervisor & User Password: Sets a sys­tem password which is configured by the Se­curity Option item in Advanced BIOS Fea­tures Setup.

• Save & Exit Setup: Saves the current settings
and exits the program.

• Exit Without Saving: Discards any changes
made and exits the program.

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To enter a section of the Setup program, highlight
a menu item by moving to it with the arrow keys
and press the Enter key to load that item. The
submenu screen for the selected section will ap­pear. All the main screen items that have sub­menus are marked with an arrowhead at their left.

Submenu Commands

The CMOS Setup Utility has an additional set of
interface commands for the submenus.

There is a self-explanatory list of interface com­mands listed at the bottom of each submenu
screen. There are also commands for he help sys­tem and the default setting options.

General Help

Pressing the F1 key brings up context-sensitive
help where available to explain many menu items.

Default Settings

There are two types of default settings, Fail-Safe
and Optimized. The system loads the Optimized
Defaults the first time the motherboard starts up
after it is installed in a system and autodetects sys­tem devices to create a system configuration re­cord which it stores in CMOS memory. You can
then customize the settings further. The optimized
settings are designed to provide better system pe r­formance.

The Fail-Safe Defaults are minimum settings that
will get the board up and running if you are trying
to troubleshoot a problem and suspect that the
BIOS may be involved.

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Interface Conventions

There are several interface conventions that im­prove the program’s ease-of-use. There are also
some features of the CMOS Setup Utility’s inter­face that are important to be aware of.

Scrollable Menus

In several submenus, there are more menu entries
than can appear on the screen at the same time.
These submenus have a scroll bar in the center of
the screen to indicate this. You can scroll down
the list by using the down arrow key.

Menu Options Pop-up

The second convention is that pressing the Enter
key when a submenu item is highlighted will
cause a window with a list of all available options
for that item to appear. This convenience feature
adds considerably to the program’s ease-of-use.

Item-Dependent Settings

You will note that some menu items are grayed­out. Many of these are dependent on a previous
item in the submenu. The appropriate setting in
the governing item will activate the grayed-out
items below to configure the governing item’s se­lected option. There are also some submenu items
that lead to subsections of the submenu.

Menu Subsections

The Standard CMOS Features and PnP/PCI Con­figurations both have submenu items with manual
configuration subsections. They are marked by
“Press Enter” in the option field. Highlighting
them and pressing the Enter key brings up the
subsection. Set resource control to Manual to ac­cess the one in PnP/PCI Configurations.

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Main Menu Item Pointers

These are a few pointers on the main menu items.

Standard CMOS Features

Set the system Date and Time here. You can
manually configure IDE devices in submenu sec­tions by device position. The floppy Drive A: is set
to 1.44MB by default.

Advanced BIOS Features

Set BIOS-level anti-virus feature. Set the POST to
run quickly. Change the boot order and device
here. You can set the first, second and third device
the system will try to boot from among a selection
of nine boot device options. Set the Security Op­tion based on passwords you have entered. OS/2
memory setting if you are running OS/2.

Advanced Chipset Features

We recommend not changing the defaults. You
can adjust the AGP Graphics aperture size.

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Integrated Peripherals

Change I/O port configurations here. If you need
more IRQs, disable unused ports here.

You can disable the integrated PCI devices includ­ing the onboard audio and soft modem support
from here. You can also disable the USB control­ler if you’re not using it. Enable USB Keyboard
Support to use one.

Set Game and MIDI port addresses here.

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Power Management Setup

Enable ACPI and or customize settings here. You
set power management options for any OS that
doesn’t support OS power management here. You
can also configure Power Management Wake Up
events and set the system to wake-up at a specific
time and/or date.

The item options for setting up power manage­ment for non-ACPI compliant Operating Sy stems
are explained below.

ACPI function

Default: Enabled
When Enabled, an ACPI OS controls power man-

agement. Disabled allows manual settings.

ACPI Suspend Type

Default: S1(POS)
This sets the Suspend mode. S1 mode is Power On

Suspend. S3 is Suspend To RAM.

Video Off Method

Default: DPMS
This determines the manner in which the monitor

is blanked.
V/H SYNC+ Blank: This selection will cause the

system to turn off the vertical and horizontal sync.
ports and write blanks to the video buffer.

Blank: This option only writes blanks to the
screen video buffer.
DPMS: Initial display power management signal-

ing so that OS can control the display.

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MODEM Use IRQ

Default: 3
This item tells the system which IRQ the modem

is using.
The choices are: 3,4,5,7,9, 10,11,N/A.

HDD Power Down

Default: Disable
You can set any IDE hard disk drive to turn off

after a set period of system inactivity, measured
in minutes, up to 15 minutes. All other devices
remain active.

Soft-Off by Power Button

Default: Instant -off
Under ACPI, the system can be turned off me-

chanically (by the power button) or it can use a
software power off.

This item allows you to define a software power
off using the power button. If the value is set to
Instant-Off, the power button will automatically
cause a software power off. If the value is set to
Delay 4 Sec the power button must be held down
for a full four seconds to cause a software power
off. If the system has been turned off by sof tware,
the system can be resumed by a LAN, Modem or
Alarm wake up signal.

Ring, LAN & USB Power Up Controls

Default: Enabled
In Suspend mode, the system will wake up if an

installed modem receives a ring signal from the
telephone line, or if there is activity on a con­nected LAN or from a USB keyboard in S3 mode.
You shouldn’t need to change these settings.

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Resume by Alarm

Default: Disabled
When this is Enabled, the two lines below it will

become active. Date (of Month) Alarm and Time
(hh:mm:ss) Alarm allow you to set the date
and/or time when the system will wake up.

PnP/PCI Configurations

We recommend not changing the defaults. USB
IRQ item auto-assigns an IRQ for the onboard
USB feature.

PC Health Status

You can set the CPU warning and shutdown tem­peratures here or use the defaults.

Frequency/Voltage Control

Normal use requires no changes to the defaults.
You set some options manually, but we don’t rec­ommend changing these settings unless you know
what you are doing. Some settings could result in
shortening the life of or damaging the CPU and
could lead to CPU failure.

Setting a Password

You can install a Supervisor or User Password.
The password prevents access to the CMOS Se tup
Utility or the entire system.

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To install a Password, follow these steps:

1. Highlight the Set Password item in the main
menu and press Enter.

2. The password dialog box will appear.

3. If you are entering a new password, carefully
type in the password. You cannot use more than
eight characters or numbers. Passwords are case­sensitive. Press Enter after you have typed in the
password. If you are deleting a password that is
already installed just press Enter when the pass­word dialog box appears.

4. The system will ask you to confirm the new
password by asking you to type it in a second time.
Carefully type the password again and press Enter,
or just press Enter if you are deleting a password
that is already installed.

5. If you have used the correct format, the pas s­word will be installed.

If you decide not to set a password after bringing
up the password entry window, press the Enter key,
not Esc to exit the password entry window.

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Chapter:

Troubleshooting
Technical

Summary

Troubleshooting & Technical Summary 4

Troubleshooting

This troubleshooting chapter covers some basic
things you can do in the event that you encounter
problems using the motherboard in your system.

This section has three parts, General Trouble­shooting, Support Software Problems and Battery
Replacement.

General Troubl eshooting

Once the motherboard is properly configured and
installed in a system, it should work without trou­ble. If the board does operate properly when you
first try to use it in the system, it is likely that it is
either incorrectly configured or there are connec­tion problems. You always check the most basic
possibilities first to troubleshoot a problem. Check
the following:

• Make sure the computer and monitor are
plugged in and turned on.

• Check all external connections including
monitor, keyboard and mouse and ensure they
a properly connected.

If there is still a problem check the following:

• Run the CMOS Setup Utility, load the Opti­mized Defaults, save and exit to restart the
computer. If there’s still a problem:

• Turn off and unplug the computer.

• Press the installed DIMMs into the sockets to

make sure they’re fully seated.

• Make sure the CPU is correctly installed.

• Check all hardware configuration settings on

the mot herboard and ensure they are correct.

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• Make sure you use the right cables to connect
internal peripherals and that the peripherals
are correctly connected. Pay particular atten­tion to the Master/Slave positions on IDE ca­bles. If you have installed a UDMA/66 or 100
device, make sure you have connected it to the
mother board with a UDMA/66 or 100­compliant cable to ensure maximum perform­ance.

• Make sure any expansion cards are correctly
installed and fully seated in the PCI slots.

• Reassemble the system and try again.

If the problem persists after you have done all of
the things above, consult your vendor.

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Support Software Problems

There is a variety of software on the Support Disk.
If you install the wrong software, the motherboard
and the system may not operate properly.

Make sure you check the following:

• VGA driver: You must install the correct
driver for the version of the Operating System
you are using.

• Audio driver: Check that you have installed
the correct driver from the Intel ICH2 section.

• LAN Support: You must install the LAN
software if you want to use the onboard LAN
on the extended model.

Battery Replacement

This motherboard uses a CR2032 Lithium coin
battery to maintain the system configuration re­cord created by the BIOS CMOS Setup Utility.
The battery should last for several tears. If the bat­tery fails, the system will not be able to retain the
system settings and will not operate properly. If
this happens, do as follows:

• Turn off and unplug the system.

• Open the system and locate the battery on the

motherboard.

• Remove the old battery and dispose of it
properly.

• Install the replacement battery with the pos i­tive side (marked with a + sign) face up.

• Reassemble the system and reload the Opti­mized Defaults in the CMOS Setup Utility.

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