Shuttle HOT-569A HOT-569A User Manual

HOT-569A
Pentium™ processor
Based PCI MAIN BOARD

User's Manual

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FCC Notice:

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC
Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy. If not installed and used properly, in strict accor­dance with the manufacturer’s instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no
guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause interference to radio or
television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct
the interference by one or more of the following measures :

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.
Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for help and for additional suggestions.
The user may find the following booklet prepared by the Federal Communications Commission helpful “How to Identify

and Resolve Radio-TV Interference Problems.” This booklet is available from the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Washington, DC 20402, Stock 004-000-00345-4

FCC Warning

The user is cautioned that changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s
authority to operate this equipment.

Note : In order for an installation of this product to maintain compliance with the limits for a Class B device, shielded
cables and power cord must be used.

CE Notice:

Following standards were applied to this product, in order to achieve compliance with the electromagnetic
compatibility :

- Immunity in accordance with EN 50082-1: 1992

- Emissions in accordance with EN 55022: 1987 Class B.

NOTICE

Copyright 1998.
All Right Reserved
Manual Ver 1.0 ( For HOT-569A V1.x )
All information, documentation, and specifications contained in this manual are subject to change without prior

notification by the manufacturer.
The author assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions which may appear in this document nor does

it make a commitment to update the information contained herein.

TRADEMARKS

Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation

Pentium Processor is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation
PC/AT is a registered trademark of International Business Machine Corporation.
PS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation.
All other brand and product names referred to in this manual are trademarks or registered trademarks of their

respective holders.

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PREFACE ...................................................................................................................3

CHAPTER 1 FEATURES.................................................................................................4

CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE CONFIGURATION........................................................................7

Jumper Setting.................................................................................................................................. 7

CPU Clock Configurations .............................................................................................................. 9

CPU Voltage Configuration .......................................................................................................... 13

Flash EEPROM Vpp Jumper - JP19 ............................................................................................. 15

Clear CMOS - JP40........................................................................................................................15

Jumpers For Seagate IDE 5V H.D.D - JP44, JP45 .......................................................................15

Connectors & Sockets.................................................................................................................... 16

CHAPTER 3 MEMORY CONFIGURATION .........................................................................19

CHAPTER 4 FLASH UTILITY ........................................................................................21

CHAPTER 5 BIOS S ETUP ..........................................................................................23

Main Menu ..................................................................................................................................... 24

Standard CMOS Setup................................................................................................................... 26

BIOS Features Setup...................................................................................................................... 28

Chipset Features Setup................................................................................................................... 30

Power Management Setup ............................................................................................................. 33

PCI Configuration Setup................................................................................................................ 36

Integrated Peripherals .................................................................................................................... 38

Password Setting ............................................................................................................................ 40

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PREFACE

HOT-569A mainboard is a highly integrated IBM PC/AT compatible system board. The
design will accept Intel Pentium P54C, Pentium MMX, Cyrix/IBM 6x86, 6x86L,

6x86MX, IDT-C6 and AMD K5, K6 processors and also features high-performance

pipelined burst secondary cache memory support with size of 512KB. The memory
subsystem is designed to support up to 256 MB of EDO RAM, Standard Fast Page
DRAM and SDRAM in standard 72-pin SIMM socket and 168-pin 3.3 V DIMM socket.

HOT-569A provides a new level of I/O integration. Intel's 82430TX PCIset chipset
provides increased integration and improved performance over other chipset designs.
The 82430TX PCIset chipset provides an integrated Bus Mastering IDE controller with
two high performance Ultra 33 DMA IDE interfaces for up to four IDE devices.

The onboard Giga I/O controller provides the standard PC I/O functions: floppy inter­face, two FIFO serial ports, an IrDA device port and a SPP/EPP/ECP capable parallel
port.

Up to four PCI local bus slots provide a high bandwidth data path for data-movement
intensive functions such as graphics, and up to three ISA slots complete the I/O function.

The HOT-569A provides the foundation for cost effective, high performance, highly
expandable platforms, which deliver the latest in Pentium processor and I/O standard.

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The HOT-569A Mainboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants high perfor­mance and many intelligent features in a compact package:

Intel Chipset:

CPU Support:

Secondary Cache:

Versatile Memory Supports:

FEATURES

Features Intel's 430TX PCIset with I/O subsystems.

Intel Pentium 75~200 MHz, Pentium MMX 166~233 MHz,
Cyrix/IBM 6x86 P120+~P166+, 6x86L P166+ and 6x86MX PR166~PR266,
AMD K5 PR75~PR166, K6 166~266 MHz.
IDT-C6 150~200 MHz.

Onboard 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAM.

Equipped with four SIMM sockets to support (4, 8, 16, 32, or 64MB) 72-pin EDO or FP
memory modules and two DIMM sockets to (8, 16, 32, 64, or 128MB) 168-pin SDRAM
memory modules up to 256 MB.

PCI and ISA Expansion Slots:

Provides four 32-bit PCI slots and three 16-bit ISA slots.

Onboard GiGA-I/O:

Provides one Floppy port; one optional PS/2 mouse connector; two high-speed UART
compatible serial ports and one parallel port with ECP and EPP capabilities. Serial Port
2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.

Onboard PCI Bus Master IDE Controller:

Two Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE Ports supports four IDE devices up to 33 MB/sec
IDE transfers and supports Enhanced PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA
Mode 2 devices.

Onboard 12-pin AT and 20-pin ATX Power Supply:

Provides AT and ATX power connector onboard.
ATX power supports soft-on/off function.

System BIOS:

Provides licensed Award V4.51PG BIOS on Flash EEPROM.
Supports Green PC, DMI and Bundled with NCR SCSI BIOS.

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ACPI:

Support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) function. ACPI provide
more Energy Saving Features for the future operating system supporting OS Direct
Power Management (OSPM) functionality.

Board Size:

3/4 baby AT compact size 220mm x 220mm.

Spread Spectrum Modulated:

Spread Spectrum built in - ±1.5% modulation to reduce the EMI.

Intelligences:

CPU voltage Auto-detecting and Setting -- HOT-569A Provides CPU type auto-detect
and auto-setup proper voltage to CPU. HOT-569A can distinguish Intel Pentium P54C,
Pentium P55C (MMX), Cyrix/IBM 6x86, 6x86L, 6x86MX and AMD K5, K6 166/200
MHz, K6 233 and K6 266MHz.

Dual Function Power Button (ATX power only) -- The system can be one of two
states, one is Suspend mode and the other is the Soft-off mode. Pushing the power
button for less than 4 seconds will place the system into Suspend mode. When push the
power button for more than 4 seconds, the system enters the Soft-off mode.

Optional EISCA Cooler Connector :

The EISCA (Enhanced Intelligent System Cooler Architecture) cooler is a off-board
device which serves as a hardware monitor of cooling fans.

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ACCESSORIES OF HOT-569A

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Hardware Configuration

Jumper Setting

Jumper pin headers show on right side are used to configure system clock, CPU
multiplier and CPU voltages.

System Clock - J101

J101 are 6-pins header jumper which
is used to adjust System Clock from
50MHz to 83 MHz.

CPU Multiplier - J108

J108 are 6-pins header jumper which
is used to adjust CPU core multiplier
from 1.5X to 5.5X.

CPU Voltages - J104

J104 is used to adjust onboard voltages output from Switching
type regulators to CPU by inserting or removing mini jumper from
pin headers.

HOT-569A automatically detects and adjusts the voltage to the
proper voltage.
Jumper block J104 is used to set Automatically or Manually adjust
onboard voltages output from Switching type regulators to CPU
by inserting or removing mini jumper from pin headers. (please
also refer to page 13)

Those hardware settings are made through the use of jumper caps to connect jumper
pins on the main board.

The following examples show the conventions used in this chapter.

Rem ove all mini jumpers
from J101

Insert mini jumper s on pin set
1, 2 and 3 of J101

Insert a jumper pack on J104
Row B-C to set CPU voltage
auto-detecting

Remove jumper pack from J104
and insert mini on pin 3, 4, 6 on
Row A-B to set voltage on 3.3V

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Processors Voltages assigned (VCORE/VIO)

AMD K6 166/200 MHz 2.9V / 3.3V
AMD K6 233 MHz 3.2V / 3.3V
AMD K6 266 MHz* 2.2V / 3.3V
AMD K5 PR75~PR166 3.52V / 3.52V
Cyrix/IBM 6x86 P120+~P166+ 3.52V / 3.52V
Cyrix/IBM 6x86(3.3V) P120+~P166+** 3.52V / 3.52V
Cyrix/IBM 6x86L P150+~P166+ 2.8V / 3.3V
Cyrix/IBM 6x86MX PR166~PR266 2.9V / 3.3V
IDT-C6 150~200 MHz 3.52V / 3.52V

* Note: The main board will assign 2.2V Vcore for AMD 266MHz K6 processor

**Note: Since the main board will assign 3.52V for all Cyrix/IBM 6x86 processor

automatically, for 3.2V Vcore K6 266MHz and 2.2V Vcore K6 233MHz
processors, the user have to adjust voltage manually.

automatically, for meeting voltage requirement of 3.3V 6x86 processor, the
user have to adjust voltage manually.

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CPU Clock Configuration

Listed tables show the System Clock and Multiplier for each single processor.

AMD-K6 and AMD-K5 Series CPUs Settings

Processors

AM D-K6 266MHz 66 MHz / x 4

AM D-K6 233MHz 66 MHz / x 3.5

AM D-K6 200MHz 66 MHz / x 3

AM D-K6 166MHz 66 MHz / x 2.5

AM D-K5 PR166 66 MHz / x 2.5

AM D-K5 PR133/PR100 66 MHz / x 1.5

AM D-K5 PR120/PR90 60 MHz / x 1.5

AM D-K5 PR75 50 MHz / x 1.5

System Clock

/ Multiplier

J101 J108

Table 2-1

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Intel Pentium (P54C) & Pentium MMX (P55C) Series CPUs Settings

Table 2-2

Proc essors

Pentium P55C
MM X 233 MHz

Pentium P55C
MM X 200 MHz

Pentium P54C
200 MHz

Pentium P55C
MM X 166 MHz

Pentium P54C
166 MHz

Pentium P54C
150 MHz

Pentium P54C
133 MHz

Pentium P54C
120 MHz

System Clock

/ Multiplier

66 M Hz / x 3.5

66 M Hz / x 3

66 M Hz / x 3

66 M Hz / x 2.5

66 M Hz / x 2.5

60 M Hz / x 2.5

66 M Hz / x 2

60 M Hz / x 2

J101 J108

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Pentium P54C
100 MHz

Pentium P54C
90 MHz

Pentium P54C
75 MHz

66 M Hz / x 1.5

60 M Hz / x 1.5

50 M Hz / x 1.5

Cyrix/IBM 6x86/L/MX Series CPUs Settings

Table 2-3

Pr ocessors

Cyrix/IBM
6x86MX PR266

Cyrix/IBM
6x86MX PR233

Cyrix/IBM
6x86MX PR200

Cyrix/IBM
6x86MX PR166

Cyrix/IBM
6x86L P166+

Cyrix/IBM
6x86 P166+

Cyrix/IBM
6x86 P150+

Cyrix/IBM
6x86 P120+

System Cl ock

/ Multiplier

66 MHz / x 3.5

66 MHz / x 3

66 MHz / x 2.5

60 MHz / x 2.5

66 MHz / x 2

66 MHz / x 2

60 MHz / x 2

50 MHz / x 2

J101 J108

IDT-C6 Series CPUs Settings

Pr ocessors

IDT-C6 150 MHz

Table 2-4

IDT-C6 180 MHz

IDT-C6 200 MHz

System Clock

/ Mul tiplier

60 MHz / x 2.5

60 MHz / x 3

66 MHz / x 3

J101 J108

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For whom like to set up system manually, listed tables show all the System Clock and
CPU Multiplier that HOT-569A can offer.

Table 2-5 shows the System Clock from 50 MHz to 83 MHz.
Table 2-6 shows CPU Multiplier from 1.5X to 5.5X.

Note: 75 & 83 MHz are for over-clock usage, it is not a recommended general practice.

System

Clock

50 MHz

60 MHz

66 MHz

75 MHz

83 MHz

Table 2-5

J1 01

Pin set 1, 2, 3 ON

Pin set 1 ON
Pin set 2, 3 OFF

Pin set
1, 2, 3 OFF

Pin set 2 ON
Pin set 1, 3 OFF

Pin set 1, 3 ON
Pin set 2 OFF

Multiplier J108

1.5 x

2 x

2.5 x

3 x

3.5 x

4 x

4.5 x

5 x

5.5 x

Pin set
1, 2 , 3 OFF

Pin set 1 ON
Pin set 2 , 3 OFF

Pin set 1 , 2 ON
Pin set 3 OFF

Pin set 2 ON
Pin set 1 , 3 OFF

Pin set
1, 2 , 3 OFF

Pin set 1 , 3 ON
Pin set 2 OFF

Pin set
1, 2 , 3 ON

Pin set 2 , 3 ON
Pin set 1 OFF

Pin set 3 ON
Pin set 1 , 2 OFF

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Table 2-6

CPU Voltage Configuration

HOT-569A main board provides
jumper group of J104 to adjust
onboard voltages output from
Switching regulators to CPU.

HOT-569A Mainboard provide
intelligent CPU Voltages detecting
and auto-adjusting function. Enable
this function by inserting a mini
jumper pack on J104 jumper group
row B/C (factory default), none of
other mini jumpers are required on
jumper group. HOT-569A
Mainboard will assign proper volt­ages to CPU automatically.

Voltage Auto-Setting -- Inserting jumper pack on jumper group row B/C of J104.
Setting to AUTO on " CPU Voltage" item in Chipset Setup Feature of BIOS Software.
System will auto-detect CPU type and assign proper voltages.

Adjust Voltage Manually by Hardware -- Removing jumper pack from group row
B/C adjust voltage on 1 to 6 on jumper group row A/B manually. Voltage output
ranging from 2.0V to 3.52V. "CPU Voltage" item in Chipset Setup Feature of BIOS
Software become not available.

Listed diagrams on right side show the sample position on jumper group of J104:

1) Voltage Auto-setting or adjust voltage from BIOS

- jumper pack on row B/C.

2) Adjust voltage manually from hardware

- removing jumper pack on row B/C, voltage set to

2.8V manually.

Table 2-6 on next page shows the voltage setting for the processors and Table 2-7 shows
the total voltage setting that HOT-569A can offer.

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Table 2-6

Processors

Auto-Detecting Auto-Adjusting

Pentium 75~200MHz VRE,
AMD-K5 PR75~PR166,
Cyrix/IBM 6x86 P120+~166+
IDT-C6 150~200MHz

Pentium 75~200MHz STD,
Cyrix/IBM 6x86
P120+~166+ (3.3V)

Voltage

Vcore/Vio

3.52V/3.52V

3.3V/3.3V

J104

Table 2-7

AMD-K6 266MHz

AMD-K6 233MHz

AMD-K6 200/166MHz,
Cyrix/IBM 6x86MX
PR166~PR266

Pentium MMX 166~233MHz,
Cyrix/IBM 6x86L
P150+/P166+

Volt age

Vcore /Vio

J104

2.2V/3.3V

3.2V/3.3V

2.9V/3.3V

2.8V/3.3V

Volt age

Vcore/ Vio

3.52V / 3.52V 2.7V / 3.3 V

3.4V / 3.4V 2.6V / 3.3V

3.3V / 3.3V 2.5V / 3.3V

3.2V / 3.3 V 2.4V / 3.3V

3.1V / 3.1 V 2.3V / 3.3V

J10 4

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3.0V / 3.3V 2.2V / 3.3V

2.9V / 3.3V 2.1V / 3.3V

2.8V / 3.3V 2.0V / 3.3V

Flash EEPROM Vpp Jumper - JP19

HOT-569A mainboard supports two types of Flash EEPROM: 5 volt and 12 volt. By
setting up jumper JP19, the main board can use both 5V or 12V flash EEPROM with new
system BIOS files as they come available.

JP19 Pin 2-3 Close for 5V Flash EEPROM
JP19 Pin 1-2 Close for 12V Flash EEPROM

Clear CMOS - JP40

HOT-569A mainboard supports jumper JP40 for discharging mainboard's CMOS
memory.

This jumper can clear the CMOS data stored in the Intel 371AB chip. To clear the
CMOS data please follow listed steps:

1) Turn off the PC,

2) Remove the jumper cap from JP40 pin 1-2,

3) Insert the jumper cap to JP40 pin 2-3 for a brief while,

4) Remove the jumper cap from JP40 pin 2-3,

5) Reinsert the jumper cap to JP40 pin 1-2,

6) Turn on the PC.

Jumpers for Seagate 5V IDE H.D.D - JP41

HOT-569A mainboard support jumpers JP41 to enhance compatibility with Seagate 5V IDE
hard disk drives in the market.

Wh e n us ing Seagate 5V

IDE H.D.D

(Fa c tory Defa ult)

Wh e n us ing others IDE

H.D.D

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Connectors & Sockets

Connectors & Sockets

ITEM FUNCTION ITEM FUNCTION

J2, 3, 4, 5 On-board SIMM sockets J10, 11 Universal Serial Bus (USB) Connectors

DIM1, 2 On-board 3.3V DIMM sockets JP3 Infra-red C ommunicatio n Port Connector

J23, 17, 18, 19 On-board PCI Slots J109 CPU and System C ooling Fan Connectors

J20, 21, 22 On-board ISA Slots J107 Green LED

J6 On-board PCI Primary IDE Connector J107 EPMI Connector

J7 On-board PCI Secondary IDE Connector J107 On-board Enhanced IDE R/W LED Connector
CN1 On-board Floppy Controller Connector J107 Hardware Reset Switch Connector
CN4 On-board Parallel Port Connector J107 Power LED and Keylock Co nnector
CN2 On-board Serial port-1 Connector J107 PC Speaker Connector
CN3 On-board Serial Port-2 Connector J107 ATX Power Switch

J99 On-board PS/2 Mouse Port C onnector PW1 ATX Power Supply Connector

JP6 EISCA Cooler Connector J15 AT Power Supply Connector

IDE, Floppy, Parallel and Serial port con­nectors

The main board shipped with one 40-pin ribbon cable for IDE
H.D.D , one 34-pin ribbon cable for F.D.D, one 25-pin ribbon
cable for printer and two 9-pin ribbon cable for COM port
devices. Ribbon cables should always be connected with the
red stripe on the Pin 1 side of the connector.

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J99- PS/2 Mouse 5 pins connector

The main board provides a 5 pins PS/2 mouse
connector for an optional PS/2 mouse cable. Dia­gram on the right side indicates the pinout of the
connector.

HOT-569A mainboard supplies two types of optional
PS/2 mouse adapter cable, type 1 have 6­holes plug with hole 2 and hole 6 wire­less; type 2 have 5-holes plug with hole 2
wireless.

Caution : When a PS/2 mouse is used,
make sure connect PS/2 mouse adapter
cable hole 1 to the pin 1 of onboard PS/2
connector (J99). Reversed connecting
may cause damage to your PS/2 mouse.

J10, J11 - USB connectors

The main board provides two sets USB (Universal Serial Bus)
connectors - J10 and J11 for USB devices use.

JP3 - Infrared module connector

The main board provides a 5-pin infrared
connector - JP3 as an optional infrared
module for wireless transmitting and
receiving.

Wake-On-LAN Connectors - J109

Attach a 3-pin connector from the LAN card which supports
the Wake-On-LAN (WOL) function. This
function lets users wake up the connected system
through the LAN card.

JP5 -12V cooling fan power con­nector

The main board provides two onboard 12V cooling fan power
connector which provide maximum 100mAMP(1.2W)
current each for CPU and System cooling fan. Depending on
the fan maker, the wiring and plug may be different. The red
wire should be connected to +12V and black wire should be
connected to ground (GND), and the yellow wire should be
connected to sense signal.

J107 - EPMI connector

The main board provides an EPMI connector, this allows the
user to manually place the system into suspend mode. This 2­pin connector connects to the case-mounted suspend switch. If
you do not have a switch for the connector, you may use the
"Turbo Switch" since it does not have a function.
If you want to use this connector, "Power Management" in the
Power Management Setup of the BIOS section should be
enabled.

J107 - Green LED connector

LED is a 2-pin Green LED connector, the user can connect
LED on GLED pin of J107. The system will turn on LED
during normal operation and turn off LED during suspend
mode.

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J107 - ATX Power Switch Button Connec­tor

(Available when ATX power supply is used).
When "Soft-off by PWR-BTTN" is set to Delay 4 sec. in

Power management setup of BIOS program. The system
power can be controlled by a momentary switch connector.
Pushing the switch button for less than 4 seconds will switch
the system between ON and SUSPEND. Pushing the switch
button for more than 4 seconds will turn off the system.

When "Soft-off by PWR-BTTN" is set to Instant-Off in
Power management setup of BIOS program. Pushing the
switch button will turn the system off directly.

Note:
When a AT Power Supply is used to HOT-569A,
please do not connect any switch to PWR SW.

AT and ATX Power connectors

The main board provides AT and ATX Power connectors on
board. None of hardware jumper settings are required except
the user need to set power supply type from "AT" to "ATX" in
Chipset Setup Feature of BIOS program.

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EISCA cooler connectors

The EISCA (Enhanced Intelligent System Cooler Architecture)
cooler is a off-board device which serves as a hardware
monitor of cooling fans at any microprocessor based system.
Via a 12-pin connector JP6 from mainboard to cooler, the host
can query the cooler at any time to read CPU temperature,
power supply voltages, fan speeds and interrupt status.

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Memory Configuration

The HOT-569A mainboard provides four 72-pin SIMM sockets and two 168-pin
DIMM sockets that make it possible to install up to 256MB of RAM. The SIMM
socket support 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB and 64MB 5V single- or double-side
fast page or EDO DRAM modules, and DIMM socket support 8MB, 16MB,
32MB, 64MB, and 128MB 3.3V single- or double-side SDRAM, fast page, or
EDO modules.

The four SIMM sockets are arranged in two banks of two sockets each, the two
DIMM socket are arranged in two banks of one socket each. Each bank provides a
64/72-bit wide data path.

Note:

Maximum memory size is 256MB total for all SIMM or DIMM sockets.
If using SIMM modules, each bank must be filled with a pair of same
modules.
The user should not populate both 5V SIMM modules & 3.3V DIMM
modules at the same time.

The memory configuration tables on next page list the SIMMs and DIMMs
memory configuration.

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Table 3-1. Memory Configuration Table

SIM 1 SIM 2 SIM 3 SIM 4 DIM 1 DIM 2 TOTAL

4 MB 4 MB —— —— —— —— 8 MB
4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB —— —— 16 MB
8 MB 8 MB —— —— —— —— 16 MB
4 MB 4 MB 8 MB 8 MB —— —— 24 MB
8 MB 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB —— —— 32 MB

16 MB 16 MB —— —— —— —— 32 MB

4 MB 4 MB 16 MB 16 MB —— —— 40 MB

8 MB 8 MB 16 MB 16 MB —— —— 48 MB
16 MB 16 MB 16 MB 16 MB —— —— 64 MB
32 MB 32 MB —— —— —— —— 64 MB

4 MB 4 MB 32 MB 32 MB —— —— 72 MB

8 MB 8 MB 32 MB 32 MB —— —— 80 MB
16 MB 16 MB 32 MB 32 MB —— —— 96 MB
32 MB 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB —— —— 128 MB
64 MB 64 MB —— —— —— —— 128 MB

4 MB 4 MB 64 MB 64 MB —— —— 136 MB

8 MB 8 MB 64 MB 64 MB —— —— 144 MB
16 MB 16 MB 64 MB 64 MB —— —— 160 MB
32 MB 32 MB 64 MB 64 MB —— —— 192 MB
64 MB 64 MB 64 MB 64 MB —— —— 256 MB

—— —— —— —— 8 MB —— 8 MB
—— —— —— —— 8 MB 8 MB 16 MB
—— —— —— —— 16 MB —— 16 MB
—— —— —— —— 16 MB 16 MB 32 MB
—— —— —— —— 32 MB —— 32 MB
—— —— —— —— 32 MB 32 MB 64 MB
—— —— —— —— 64 MB —— 64 MB
—— —— —— —— 64 MB 64 MB 128 MB
—— —— —— —— 128 MB —— 128 MB
—— —— —— —— 128 MB 128 MB 256 MB
—— —— —— —— 8 MB 16 MB 24 MB
—— —— —— —— 8 MB 32 MB 40 MB
—— —— —— —— 8 MB 64 MB 72 MB
—— —— —— —— 8 MB 128 MB 136 MB
—— —— —— —— 16 MB 32 MB 48 MB
—— —— —— —— 16 MB 64 MB 80 MB
—— —— —— —— 16 MB 128 MB 144 MB
—— —— —— —— 32 MB 64 MB 96 MB
—— —— —— —— 32 MB 128 MB 160 MB
—— —— —— —— 64 MB 128 MB 192 MB

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Flash Utility

This chapter briefly discusses Award Flash utility in order to guide you through updating
your old BIOS. The file name we use to program here is test.bin, and the file name to
save old BIOS is 569A.OLD. Please note that those file names are not absolute. They
are only examples to let you have a more clear understanding of the updating process.

How to Begin

1. Please type “awdflash” and press the ENTER key to begin the updating process.

2. Once you enter, you will see a main menu displaying:

3. Move the cursor to “File Name to Program: “

4. Type the program name “test.bin”, and then press the ENTER key.

5. At the bottom of the menu, you will be requested to answer:

“Do You Want to Save BIOS (Y/N)? “

The following manual is intended to guide you through the process of both “No” and
“Yes” cases respectively.

If “No”

If you do not wish to save the old BIOS:

1. Please type “N”, and then press the ENTER key.

2. Then you will be requested to answer:

“Are You Sure to Program? “

3. Answer “N” if you do not want to program, and then it will exit.

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If “Yes”

To save the old BIOS:

1. Please respond “Y”, and then press the ENTER key.

2. Move the cursor to “File Name to Save: “

3. Type file name “569A.OLD”, and then press the ENTER key. (Your old BIOS will
be saved in the file name you create. In this case, the old BIOS is saved in the file
name, 569A.OLD).

4. Then you will be requested to answer:

“Are You Sure to Program (Y/N)? “

5. Type “Y” to begin programming, and press the ENTER key.

6. When the programming is finished, the showing message will appear:

7. Once you see the showing message “Power Off or Reset System”, please restart your

system.

8. When you power on the computer again, you will find your old BIOS has already

been successfully updated.

To view a complete usage of FLASH utility, please type “awdflash /?” and press the
ENTER key.

Notes About Award Flash Utility

Please note that Award Flash Utility cannot run under EMM386 or QEMM. Thus, when
executing the command “awdflash”, an error message will appear:

“Error Message: Failure Due to EMM386 or QEMM !”

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BIOS Setup

HOT-569A BIOS ROM has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the
basic system configuration. This type of information is stored in battery-backed RAM so
that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.

Entering Setup

Power on the computer and press <Del> immediately will allow you to enter Setup. The
other way to enter Setup is to power on the computer, when the below message appear
briefly at the bottom of the screen during the POST (Power On Self Test), press <Del>
key or simultaneously press <Ctrl>,<Alt>, and <Esc> keys.

"TO ENTER SETUP BEFORE BOOT PRESS CTRL-ALT-ESC OR DEL KEY"

If the message disappears before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup, restart the
system to try again by turning it OFF the ON or pressing the "RESET" button on the
system case. You may also restart by simultaneously press <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"

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Main Menu

Standard CMOS setup

This setup page includes all items in a standard compatible BIOS.

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BIOS features setup

This setup page includes all items of Award special enhanced features.

Chipset features setup

This setup page includes all items of chipset features.

Power Management Setup

This setup page includes all items of Power Management features.

PnP/PCI Configuration setup

This item specifies the value (in units of PCI bus blocks) of the latency timer for the
PCI bus master and the IRQ level for PCI device. Power-on with BIOS defaults

Load BIOS Defaults

BIOS defaults loads the values required by the System for the maximum performance.
However, you can change the parameter through each Setup Menu.

Load Setup Defaults

Setup defaults loads the values required by the system for the normal performance.
However, you can change the parameter through each Setup Menu.

Integrated Peripherals

This setup page includes all items of peripheral features.

IDE HDD auto detection

Automatically configure IDE hard disk drive parameters.

Supervisor Password

Change, set, or disable supervisor password. It allows you to limit access to the
system and Setup, or just to Setup.

User Password

Change, set, or disable user password. It allows you to limit access to the system and
Setup, or just to Setup.

Save & Exit setup

Save CMOS value change to CMOS and exit setup

Exit without saving

Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit setup.

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Standard CMOS Setup

Date

The date format is <day>, <month> <date> <year>. Press <F3> to show the calendar.

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Time

The time format is <hour> <minute> <second>. The time is calculated base on the
24-hour military-time clock. For example. 5 p.m. is 17:00:00.

Hard Disks Type

This item identify the types of hard disk drives that has been installed in the computer.
There are 46 predefined types and a user definable type.

Press PgUp or PgDn to select a numbered hard disk type or type the number and press
<Enter>. 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 item.
If your hard disk drive type is not matched or listed, you can use Type User to define
your own drive type manually.

If you select Type User, related information is asked to be entered to the following
items. Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press <Enter>. Those
information should be provided in the documentation from your hard disk vendor or
the system manufacturer.

The user may also set those items to AUTO to auto configure hard disk drives param­eter when system power-on.

If a hard disk drive has not been installed select NONE and press <Enter>.

Drive A type/Drive B type

This item specifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that has been installed in
the system.

Video

This item selects the type of adapter used for the primary system monitor that must
matches your video display card and monitor. Although secondary monitors are
supported, you do not have to select the type in Setup.

Error halt

This item determines if the system will stop, when an error is detected during power
up.

Memory

This item is display-only. It is automatically detected by POST (Power On Self Test)
of the BIOS.

Base Memory

The POST of the BIOS will determine the amount of base (or conventional) memory
installed in the system. The value of the base memory is typically 512K for systems
with 512K memory installed on the mainboard, or 640K for systems with 640K or
more memory installed on the mainboard.

Extended Memory

The BIOS determines how much extended memory is present during the POST. This
is the amount of memory located above 1MB in the CPU's memory address map.

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BIOS Features Setup

Virus Warning

When this item is enabled, the Award BIOS will monitor the boot sector and partition
table of the hard disk drive for any attempt at modification. If an attempt it made, the
BIOS will halt the system and the following error message will appear. Afterwards, if
necessary, you will be able to run an anti-virus program to locate and remove the
problem before any damage is done.

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Disk boot sector is to be modified

!WARNING!

Type "Y" to accept write or "N" to abort write

Award Software, Inc.

CPU Internal/External Cache

This item enables CPU internal cache and external cache to speed up memory access.

Quick Power On Self Test

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

Boot Sequence

This item determines which drive computer searches first for the disk operating
system. Default setting is A, C, SCSI.
BIOS also support system boot from CD-ROM drive or SCSI hard disk drive.

Swap Floppy Drive

When this item enables, the BIOS will swap floppy drive assignments so that Drive A:
will function as Drive B: and Drive B: as Drive A:.

Boot Up Floppy Seek

During POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks.

Boot Up NumLock Status

When this option enables, BIOS turns on Num Lock when system is powered on.

Boot Up System Speed

This option sets the speed of CPU at system boot time. The settings are High or Low.

Typematic Rate Setting/Typematic Rate/Typematic Delay

This determines if the typematic rate and typematic delay are to be used. When the
typematic rate setting is enabled, typematic rate allows you select the rate at which
the keys are accelerated and typematic delay allows you to select the delay between
when the key was first depressed and when the acceleration begins.

Security Option

This item allows you to limit access to the System and Setup, or just to Setup.
When System is selected, the System will not boot and access to Setup will be denied
if the correct password is not entered at the prompt.
When Setup is selected, the System will boot, but access to Setup will be denied if the
correct password is not entered at the prompt.

PCI VGA Palette Snoop

This item must be set to enabled if there is a MPEG ISA card installed in the system,
and disabled if there is no MPEG ISA card installed in the system.

OS Select For DRAM > 64MB

This item allows you to access the memory that over 64 MB in OS/2.

Video BIOS Shadow/XXXXX-XXXXX Shadow

These items determine whether Video BIOS or optional ROM will be copied to RAM.

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Chipset Features Setup

Auto Configuration

This item auto configures the following items: DRAM Leadoff Timing, DRAM Read
Burst, DRAM Write Burst Timing, Fast EDO Lead off and Refresh RAS# Assertion.

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DRAM Timing

This item set the DRAM Read/Write timings that the system uses. When item, "Auto
Configuration", is disabled, this item will not show up.

DRAM Leadoff Timing

This item sets the number of CPU clocks allowed before DRAM Read and Write are
performed.

DRAM Read Burst (EDO/FP)

This item set the EDO/FP DRAM Read Burst Timing. The timing used depends on
the type of DRAM (EDO burst mode or standard fast page mode) on each bank basis.
The options are x222/x333, x333/x444, and x444/x444.

DRAM Write Burst Timing

This item set the DRAM Write Burst Timing. The timing used depends on the type of
DRAM (standard page mode or EDO burst mode) on each bank basis. The options are
x4444, x3333, and x2222.

Fast EDO Lead off

This item is used to defined which fast path is selected for CPU to DRAM read cycles
for the leadoff, the options are "Enable" or "Disable".

Refresh RAS# Assertion

This item is used to set the number of clocks RAS# is asserted for Refresh cycles.

Fast RAS To CAS Delay

When DRAM is refreshed, both rows and columns are address separately. This setup
item allows you to determine the timing of the transition from Row Address Strobe
(RAS) to Column Address Strobe (CAS). The options are 3 and 2 CLKs.

Fast MA to RAS# Delay CLK

This item is used to set Fast MA (Memory Address) to RAS# Delay which control
DRAM Row Miss timings.

DRAM Page Idle Timer

This item determine the amount of time in HCLKs the 430TX DRAM controller will
wait to close a DRAM page after CPU becomes idle.

DRAM Enhanced Paging

If this item set to Enabled, the 430TX DRAM controller will keep the page open until
a page or row miss occurs. If set to Disabled, the DRAM page is kept open when CPU
host bus is non-idle, or PCI interface owns the bus.

SDRAM (CAS Lat/RAS-to-CAS)

This item is used to set CAS# Latency and RAS# to CAS# clock for SDRAM. If
SDRAMs absent, this item will not show up.

SDRAM Speculative Read

This item is used to set the SDRAM speculative read logic is enabled or disabled.
(Leave on default settings of Disabled)

System BIOS Cacheable

This item allows the user to set the system BIOS F000~FFFF areas that are cacheable
or non-cacheable.

Video BIOS Cacheable

This item allows the user to set the video BIOS C000~C7FF areas that are cacheable or
non-cacheable.

8 Bit I/O Recovery Time

The recovery time is the length of time, measured in CPU clocks, that the system will
delay after the completion of an input/output request. This delay takes place because
CPU is operating more than the input/output bus that CPU must be delayed to allow
for the completion of the I/O.

This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 8 bit I/O. Choices are
from NA, 1 to 8 CPU clocks.

16-Bit I/O Recovery Time

This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 16 bit I/O. Choices
are from NA, 1 to 4 CPU clocks.

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Memory Hole At 15M-16M

In order to improve performance, some space in memory can be reserved for ISA
cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16 MB.

PCI 2.1 Compliance

Since the 2.1 revision of the PCI specification requires much tighter controls on target
and master latency. PCI cycles to or from ISA typically take longer. When enabled, the
chipset provides a programmable delayed completion mechanism to meet the required
target latencies.

Power-Supply Type

This item allows the user to set the type of power supply. ATX power supply support
Soft-off function. The options are AT and ATX.

Spread Spectrum Modulated

This item allows the user to enable Spread Spectrum Modulated to reduce the EMI.

CPU Core Voltage

Since the mainboard support CPU voltage auto-detecting and setting, this item allows
the user to enable this function when set to Auto. The user can also set CPU core
voltage manually in BIOS from 2.0V to 3.5V.

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Power Management Setup

Power Management

This item determines the options of the power management function. Max Saving puts
the system into power saving mode after a brief period of system inactivity; Min
Saving is the same as Max Saving except the time of the system inactivity period is
longer; Disabled disables the power saving feature; User Defined allows you to set
power saving options according to your preference.

PM Control by APM

If this item set to No, system BIOS will be ignored and APM calls the power to
manage the system.
If this item setup to Yes, system BIOS will wait for APM's prompt before it enter any
PM mode e.g. DOZE, STANDBY or SUSPEND.

Video Off Method

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 synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer.

Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.
DPMS Allows the BIOS to control the video display card if it supports the DPMS

feature..

Video Off After

This item define when to activate the video off feature for monitor power manage­ment. The settings are N/A, Doze, Standby and Suspend.

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Doze Mode, Standby Mode, Suspend Mode

These items set the period of time after which each of these mode activate, the periods are
from 1 min to 1 hour.

Doze Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, CPU clock will run
at slower speed while all other devices still operate at full speed.
Standby Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the fixed disk
drive and the video would be shut off while all other devices still operate at full speed.
Suspend Mode When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, all devices
except CPU will be shut off.

HDD Power Down

This item defines the continuous HDD idle time before the HDD enters power saving
mode (motor off). The options are from 1 min to 15 min and Disabled.

Throttle Duty Cycle

This item determines the duty cycle for the clock control thermal throttling mode. The
duty cycle indicates the percentage of time while in the thermal throttle mode. The
settings between 12.5% and 87.5%.

ZZ Active in Suspend

When this item enabled, the ZZ signal is active during Suspend mode.
The choices: Enabled, Disabled.

VGA Active Monitor

If this item is set to Enabled, the VGA activity event will be monitored to reload global
timer.

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Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN

(This feature is available for ATX power only)

The setting of Instant-Off allows the ATX switch to function as a normal system power
off button when pressed for less than 4 seconds. The setting of Delay 4 Sec. allows the
button to have a dual function where to press the button for less than 4 seconds will place
the system in suspend mode, and pressing the button for more than 4 seconds will shut
place the system off.

CPU FAN Off In Suspend

This item determine CPU fan status when the system enters suspend mode. The options
Enabled and Disabled.

Resume by Ring

This item determine the system will resume by activating of modem ring.

Resume by Alarm

(This feature is available for ATX power only)

This item determine the system will resume by activity of R.T.C. If enabled this feature
and enter resume date and time. When date and time expire, system will power-on itself
from power off.

Listed two items will shown up when enabled "Resume by Alarm",

Date (of month) Alarm:

This item determine the date when system will resume from power-off.

Time (hh:mm:ss) Alarm:

This item determine the time when system will resume from power-off.

IRQ 8 Clock Event

You can turn On or Off monitoring of IRQ8 (the Real Time Clock) so it does not
awaken the system from Suspend mode.

** Reload Global Timer Events **

If any of these items is set to Disabled, that system activity event will not be monitored
to reload global timer.

If these items is set to Enabled, that system activity event will be monitored to reload
global timer.

These items include IRQ[3-7, 9-15], NMI, Primary IDE0/1, Secondary IDE 0/1,
Floppy Disk, Serial Port and Parallel Port.

Resume by LAN (Wake-ON-LAN)

This item determine the system will resume by activity of LAN. If enabled this feature
system will power-on itself from power off when the activity of LAN.

Note : The mainboard support Wake-ON-LAN function with Intel LAN card only.

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PCI Configuration Setup

PNP OS Installed

When this item is set to Yes, it will allow the PnP OS(Windows 95) to control the
system resources except PCI devices and PnP boot devices.
Default setting is No.

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Resources Controlled By

The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capability 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 as Windows 95.

Reset Configuration Data

This item allows you to determine whether to reset the configuration data or not.

IRQ 3/4/5/7/9/10/11/12/14/15, assigned to

These items allow you to determine the IRQ assigned to the ISA bus and is not
available for PCI slot.

Choices are Legacy ISA and PCI/ISA PnP.

DMA 0/1/3/5/6/7 assigned to

These items allow you to determine the DMA assigned to the ISA bus and is not
available for PCI slot.

Choices are Legacy ISA and PCI/ISA PnP.

PCI IRQ Activated by

This item sets the method by which the PCI bus recognize that an IRQ service is being
requested by a device. You should never change the default configuration unless
advised otherwise by your System's manufacturer. Choices are Level(default) and
Edge.

PCI IDE IRQ Map to

This items allows you to configure your system to the type of IDE disk controller in
use. By default, Setup assumes that your controller is an ISA device rather than a PCI
controller.

If you have equipped your system with a PCI controller, changing this allows you to
specify which slot has the controller and which PCI interrupt (A, B, C or D) is associ­ated with the connected hard drives.

Remember that this setting refers to the hard disk drive itself, rather than individual
partitions. Since each IDE controller supports two separate hard disk drives, you can
select the INT# for each. Again, you will note that the primary has a lower interrupt
than the secondary as described in "Slot x Using INT#" above.

Selecting "PCI Auto" allows the system to automatically determine how your IDE disk
system is configured.

Used MEM base addr

This item is used to select a base address for the memory area used by any peripheral
that requires high memory.
The choices are C800, CC00, D000, D400, D800, DC00 and N/A.

Used MEM Length

This item is used to select a length for the memory area specified in the previous field.
this field does not appear if no base address is specified.
The choices are 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K.

Assign IRQ for USB

This item allows the user to set BIOS IRQ Routing table Enabled or Disabled.

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Integrated Peripherals

IDE HDD Block Mode

This item is used to set IDE HDD Block Mode. If your IDE Hard Disk supports block
mode, then you can enable this function to speed up the HDD access time. If not,
please disable this function to avoid HDD access error.

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IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO

In these items, there are five modes defined in manual mode and one automatic mode.
There are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and AUTO mode. Auto is the default settings for on board
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO timing.

IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA

On this mainboard, Intel 430TX PCIset improves IDE transfer rate using Bus Master
UltraDMA/33 IDE which can handle data transfer up to 33MB/sec. The options are
Disabled, Enabled and Auto, Auto is the default settings for on board Primary/Second­ary Master/Slave UltraDMA33.

Note : Your hard drive must also support UDMA for this feature to work.

On-Chip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE

This item is used to defined on chip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE controller is Enable
or Disable setting.

Onboard FDC Control

This item specifies onboard floppy disk drive controller. This setting allows you to
connect your floppy disk drives to the onboard floppy connector. Choose the "Dis-
abled" settings if you have a separate controller card.

Onboard UART1/2

This item is used to define onboard serial port 1/Port2 to 3F8/IRQ4, 2F8/IRQ3, 3E8/
IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, Auto or Disabled.

UR2 Mode

The main board support IrDA(HPSIR) and Amplitudes Shift Keyed IR(ASKIR)
infrared through COM 2 port. When IR is enable, the onboard COM2 port will be
disabled. This item specifies onboard Infra Red mode to IrDA 1.0, ASKIR, MIR

0.57M, MIR 1.15M, FIR or Standard (Disabled).
Note : FIR is not supported currently.

IR Duplex Mode

This item specifies onboard infrared transfer mode to full-duplex or half-duplex. This
item will not show up when IrDA, ASKIR, or MIR UR2 modes are selected.

Onboard Parallel Port

This item specifies onboard parallel port address to 378H, 278H, 3BCH or Disabled.

Parallel Port Mode

This item specifies onboard parallel port mode. The options are SPP (Standard
Parallel Port), EPP(Enhanced Parallel Port), ECP (Extended Capabilities Port), and

EPP+ECP.

ECP Mode Use DMA

This item specifies DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel when ECP device is in use.
The options are DMA 1 and DMA 3. This item will not show up when SPP and EPP
printer mode is selected.

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Password Setting

This section describes the two access modes that can be set using the options found in the
Supervisor Password and User Password.

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Supervisor Password and User Password

The options on the Password screen menu make it possible to restrict access to the Setup
program by enabling you to set passwords for two different access modes: Supervisor
mode and User mode.

In general, Supervisor mode has full access to the Setup options, whereas User mode has
restricted access to the options. By setting separate Supervisor and User password, a
system supervisor can limit who can change critical Setup values.

Enter Password

Type the password, up to eight characters, and press <Enter>. The password typed now
will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory. You will be asked to
reconfirm 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 password, just press <Enter> when you are prompted to enter password. A
message will confirm the password being disabled. Once the password is disabled, the
system will boot and you can enter Setup freely.

Password Disable

If you select System at Security Option of BIOS Features Setup Menu, you will be prompted for the
password every time the system is rebooted or any time you try to enter Setup. If you select Setup at
Security Option of BIOS Features Setup Menu, you will be prompted only when you try to enter
Setup.

Warning : Retain a record of your password in a safe place. If you forget the password, the only way
to access the system is to clear CMOS memory, please refer to "Clear CMOS" or "Clear Password"
section.

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