VIA K8T800 User Manual

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These specifications are subject to change without notice.

Manual Revision 1.0

November 02, 2004

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80 Port Frequently Asked Questions

Below is a list of some basic POST Codes, possible problems and solutions. For

more detailed information about POST Codes, refer to Appendix C in this manual.

POST CODE Problem Solution

FFh or CFh 1.BIOS chip inserted

incorrectly

2. Incorrect BIOS update

version

3. M ainbo ard proble m

4. Add-on card inserted

incorrectly.

C1h - C5h 1. Memory module

inserted incorrectly

2. Memory com patibility

problem

3. Memory module

damaged

2Dh 1. Error occured in VGA

BIOS

2. VGA card inserted

incorrectly

26 h Overclo ck error Clear CMOS or press the insert

1. Reinsert the BIOS

chip

2. Download the correct

BIOS versio n update

from the manufac turer's

Web site.

3. Replace mainboard

4. Rem ove and replace the

add-on card

1. Reinsert memo ry

mo dule

2. Replace memory

with correct type

3. Replace memory

mo dule

1. Replace VGA card

2. Reinsert the VGA

card

key to power on the system

07 h - 12h 1. Init ke yboard

Initial Keyboard

controller error

2. RTC error

1. Ensure that the keybo ard and

mouse are connected

correctly.

2. Replace the RTC battery.

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Table of Contents

Section 1 Introduction

Package Contents ...................................................... 1- 1

Mainboard Features ................................................... 1- 2

System Block Diagram ............................................... 1- 5

Section 2 Specification

Mainboard Specification ............................................ 2-1

Section 3 Installation

Mainboard Layout ..................................................... 3- 1

Easy Installation Procedure ....................................... 3- 2

CPU Insertion ............................................................. 3- 2

Jumper Settings .......................................................... 3- 4

System Memory Configuration .................................. 3- 5

Expansion Slots .......................................................... 3- 6

Device Connectors..................................................... 3- 7

Power-On/Off (Remote) .............................................. 3- 13

External Modem Ring-in Power ON and

Keyboard Power ON Function (KBPO) ..................... 3- 13

STR (Suspend To RAM) Function ............................ 3- 14

CPU Overheating Protection...................................... 3- 15

Page

Section 4 BIOS Setup

Main Menu ................................................................ 4- 1

Standard CMOS Setup ............................................... 4- 2

Advanced BIOS Features .......................................... 4- 3

Advanced Chipset Features ...................................... 4- 6

Integrated Peripherals ................................................ 4- 11

Power Management Setup ......................................... 4- 16

PNP/PCI Configuration .............................................. 4- 19

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PC Health Status ........................................................ 4- 21

Power BIOS Features ................................................. 4- 22

Defaults Menu ........................................................... 4- 25

Supervisor/User Password Setting ............................ 4- 26

Exit Selecting .............................................................. 4- 27

Section 5 S-ATA RAID Configuration

Introduction ............................................................... 5- 1

VIA S-ATA RAID Features........................................ 5- 3

Silicon Image SiI3114 SATA RAID Features (Optional) 5- 4

Enable RAID Function ............................................... 5- 5

Section 6 Driver Installation

Easy Driver Installation .............................................. 6- 1

Realtek Sound Manager Quick Guide ........................ 6- 2

Appendix Appendix A

Update Your System BIOS ......................................... A- 1

Appendix B

VIA RAID BIOS Utility ................................................ B- 1

Silicon Image SiI3114 RAID BIOS Utility (Optional) ..... B- 7

Appendix C

POST Codes ............................................................... C- 1

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1-1 Package Contents

Introduction

Section 1

INTRODUCTION

Contents

A. Mainboard

B. User’s manual

C. Floppy drive cable

D. HDD drive cable

E. CD (drivers and utilities)

F. I/O Shield

G. S-ATA data and power cable

A

USER’S

MANUAL

B

Powerpack items (Optional)

H. Mini heatsink

I. Tool Pen

J. Extra USB2.0 port cable

Optional Items

K. Game & COM bracket cable

L. S/PDIF Module

If you need the optional item, please
contact your dealer for assistance.

E

C

D

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

Page 1-1

Introduction

1-2 Mainboard Features

Brief Introduction

2 Athlon

TM

64 Processor

The AMD AthlonTM 64 processor family is designed to support performance

desktop. It provides a high performance HyperTransportTM link to I/O, as well

as a single 64-bit high-performance DDR memory controller.

For more information about all the new features AthlonTM 64 Processor deliver, check out

the AMD website at http://www.amd.com

2 Chipset

The board is designed with VIA chipset, K8T800 as North Bridge and VT8237 as

South Bridge, providing a feature rich and scalable platform. The K8T800 North

Bridge is designed with an ultra fast HyperTransport link to the AthlonTM 64 and

comes equipped with AGP 8X features for VGA card expansion.

The K8T800 North Bridge connects to the VT8237 South Bridge through the fast

Ultra V-Link connection at 1.06GB/s. With support for two Serial ATA channels

at 150MB/s bandwidth, integrated RAID (0, 1 & JBOD) capability as well as up

to eight USB 2.0 ports, the VT8237 offers the highest possible peripheral

performance for professional users. Additional features include a VIA MAC for

10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet, integrated PCI support.

2 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)

The AGP slot is compliant with the new AGP 3.0 specification. This new specifi-

cation enhances the functionality of the original AGP specification by allowing

8X data transfers ( 8 data samples per clock) resulting in maximum bandwidth of

2.1GB/s. Only 1.5V AGP cards are supported.

2 Ultra ATA100/133

The mainboard provides an Ultra ATA100/133 Bus Master IDE controller. This

controller supports Ultra ATA100/133 protocols which are ideal to support

demanding applications such as real-time video, multimedia, and a high perfor-

mance operating system. A new IDE cable is required for Ultra ATA100/133.

Page 1-2

Introduction

2 Hardware Monitoring

Hardware monitoring enables you to monitor various aspects of the system

operation and status. The features include CPU temperature, voltage and fan

speed in RPMs.

2 10/100 LAN (Optional)

This mainboard is mounted with a ethernet LAN PHY. It allows the mainboard to

connect to a local area network by means of a network hub.

2 GbE LAN (Optional)

This mainboard is optionally mounted with a Gigabit ethernet LAN chipset. The

new Gigabit Ethernet LAN allows data transmission at 1,000 megabits per second

(Mbps), which runs 10 times faster than conventional 10/100BASE-T Ethernet

LANs.

2 Serial ATA

Support Serial ATA, an evolutionary replacement for Parallel ATA IDE storage

interface. Increases the peak data transfer speed up to 150MB/sec and allows

future enhancements to the computing platform.

2 More S-ATA (Optional)

Extra Silicon Image SiI3114 S-ATA controller onboard for 4 additional S-ATA

ports with 150MB/sec supporting RAID 0, 1 , 10, 5.

2 USB2.0

A popular USB standard for plugging in peripherals with up to 480Mbps transfer

speed while maintaining backward compatibility with older USB1.1 device.

2 Audio

Delivers multi-channel audio to bring you the latest in audio realism from DVD

movies and games. Perfect for your home theatre system.

Page 1-3

Introduction

Special Features

Cool ‘n’Quiet Technology

&

AMD Cool’n’QuietTM Technology enables the processor to operate at a lower

speed to reduce system noise and heat dissipation.

80 Port

&

An onboard LED-display trouble-shooting device, facilitating user to detect

boot-up problems.

QuickSPDIF

&

On board SPDIF-out connector for quick connection to multi-channel speakers.

Not only removes cable cluttering but also delivers loss-free digital audio to let

you enjoy DVD movies and games with crystal clear sound.

Magic Health

&

Reports your system hardware status for every boot-up to help detect faults

early. Monitor hardware status including CPU temperature, CPU/Memory/AGP

voltage, fan RPM speed for chassis fan, CPU fan & Power supply fan.

EZ-Boot

&

Simply press “ESC” to select your bootable device. No more hassle to search the

BIOS menu, change and re-start.

PowerBIOS

&

Supporting a full range of overclocking setting via BIOS. Various adjustable

feature include clock and voltage tweaking for FSB/AGP/Memory.

Page 1-4

1-3 System Block Diagram

Introduction

Page 1-5

Introduction

Page 1-6

Mainboard Specification

Processor

Supports 754-pin Socket for AMD Athlon 64 processors with 1.6GTs Hyper



Transport FSB up to 3700+

Chipset

VIA K8T800 AGPset : VIA K8T800 + VT8237



Main Memory

Three 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets for 64-bit, Unbuffered, Single/Double-



side and DDR-266/333/400 DIMMs

Supports up to 3GB memory size



Specification

Section 2

SPECIFICATION

BIOS

Flash EEPROM with Award BIOS



- ACPI v2.0 compliant

- S3 (Suspend to DRAM) sleep-state support

- SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) v2.2 compliant

- Supports Power failure recovery

- Able to wake the computer from specific states by LAN, Power switch,

PME#, RTC alarm, USB, PS2 K/B, PS2 Mouse, Modem Ring-in COM#1…

Onboard PCI Devices

 LAN --> Embedded 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet controller with onboard

VIA 6103 PHY (Optional)

Integrates 1Gbps Ethernet controller with onboard Marvell

88E8001 LAN Chipset (Optional)

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Specification

 S-ATA --> Integrated Serial ATA controller from Silicon Image SiI3114

(Optional)

for 4 ports solution with RAID 0, 1 ,10, 5 and support up to

150MB/sec transfer rate

 For more detailed information about SiI3114, refer to

user’s manual in the bundled CD.

Legacy IO Controller

 Winbond W83687THF LPC IO controller with floppy, printer, game (optional),

serial and SIR interface

 Supports Hardware Monitoring function

 Intelligent CPU fan speed control to lower system noise

Audio

 Six channel audio with analog and digital output using Realtek ALC655

AC’97 CODEC, or

Eight channel audio with analog and digital output using Realtek ALC850

AC’97 CODEC (for high-end model only)

- AC’97 v2.3 compliant

- Supports CD-In, Aux-In and S/PDIF-in/out interface

- Supports Line-out and Mic-In for front panel

- Supports automatic “jack-sensing”

- Rear panel audio jacks configuration, please refer to one of the following

table:

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Specification

Peripheral Interfaces

))

) At Rear Panel

))

 PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
 One Parallel (printer) port

 One S/PDIF-Out Coaxial jack
 One S/PDIF-Out Optical (Optional)
 One Serial port

 One RJ45 LAN connector (Dual LAN optional for high-end level only)
 Four USB2.0 ports
 Three Audio jacks, (or Six Audio jacks for high-end model only)

))

) Onboard connector and pin-header

))

 One floppy drive connector
 Two ATA-133 IDE connectors

 Four extra USB2.0 ports
 One CD-IN and One AUX-IN connector
 One S/PDIF in/out connector

 One IR connector
 One Game port connector (Optional)
 One COM2 connector (Optional)

 Six S-ATA connectors ( 4 optional from Silicon Image SiI3114 chip)
 Three Fan connectors

Front Panel Controller

 Supports Reset & Soft-Off switches

 Supports HDD & Power LEDs

 Supports PC speaker

 Supports Front Panel Audio connector

Expansion Slots

 One AGP slot supporting 1.5v 4X/8X AGP card

- AGP v3.0 compliant

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Specification

 Five PCI slots with Bus Master support

- PCI v2.2 compliant

Other Features

 Magic Health – a H/W monitoring software utility, for voltages, tempera-

tures and fan-speeds sensing

 EZ Boot – Simply press “ESC” to select your bootable device. No more

hassle to search the BIOS menu, change and re-start.

 KBPO – Keyboard power on, turn on the computer from keyboard

 Supports “Cool’n’ Quiet” power saving technology

 Excellent Overclocking capabilities through

- subtle voltage tuning for CPU, Memory, AGP

- subtle frequency tuning on FSB with 1MHz

- Supports complete Asynchronous FSB/Memory and Asynchronous FSB/

AGP, PCI scheme for overclocking

 P80P for system debugging

Form Factor

 305mm x 245 mm ATX size

Page 2-4

Mainboard Layout

Installation

Section 3

INSTALLATION

Note: Depending on the model you purchased, some components

are optional and may not be available.

Page 3-1

Installation

Easy Installation Procedure

The following must be completed before powering on your new system:

3-1. CPU Installation

3-2. Jumper Settings

3-3. System Memory

3-4. Expansion Slots

3-5. Device Connectors

3-1 CPU Installation

<Figure 1> <Figure 2>

Step 1

Place the back plate into the two holes

around the CPU area behind the mainboard.

Step 2

Place the retention mechanism on the

mainboard as shown.

<Figure 3>

Step 3

Screw in the two pan head screws.

Page 3-2

<Figure 4>

Step 4

Open the socket by raising the actuation
lever.

Installation

<Figure 5>

Step 5

Align pin 1 on the CPU with pin 1 on

the CPU socket and gently insert the

CPU. The CPU is keyed to prevent

incorrect insertion. Do not force the

processor into the socket. If it does not

go in easily, check for mis-orientation

and reinsert the CPU.

Make sure the processor is fully

inserted into the socket.

<Figure 7>

Step 7

Insert the heatsink as shown above.
Press the clips in the direction of the
arrows shown in Figure 7 to secure the
assembly to the CPU socket.

<Figure 6>

Step 6

Close the socket by lowering and
locking the actuation lever.
Apply thermal compound to the top of

the CPU.

Note:

Thermal compound and qualified
heatsink recommended by AMD are a
must to avoid CPU overheat damage

.

<Figure 8>

Step 9

Plug the CPU fan power into the
mainboard’s CPU fan connector.

The installation is complete.

Page 3-3

Installation

3-2 Jumper Settings

JCMOS:

Clear CMOS data Jumper

If the CMOS data becomes corrupted or

you forgot the supervisor or user

password, clear the CMOS data to

reconfigure the system back to the

default values stored in the ROM BIOS.

Settings:
1-2: Normal (Default)

1

To CMOS Clear data, please follow the steps below.

1. Turn off the system.

2. Change the jumper from “1-2” to “2-3” position for
a few seconds.

3. Replace the jumper back to the “1-2” position.

4. Turn on the system and hold down the <Del> key
to enter BIOS setup.

2-3: Clear CMOS

Page 3-4

Installation

3-3 System Memory Configuration

Memory Layout

The mainboard accommodates three PC2100/PC2700/PC3200 184-pin DIMMs (Dual

In-line Memory Modules):

• Supports up to 3.0GB of 266/333/400MHz DDR SDRAM.

• Supports unbuffered DIMM configurations defined in JEDEC DDR DIMM

specification.

DDR DIMM 1

<Figure 9>

DDR DIMM 2

DDR DIMM 3

Follow the recommendation below for maximum memory performance :

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2#MMIDSSSDSSSS/SD

3#MMIDSSSDSSSS/SD

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* DS - Double-sided DIMM, * SS - Single-sided DIMM

For 1 DIMM:

- Mount on any slot to obtain DDR400 speed.

For 2 DIMM:

- Mount DS DIMM on Slot 1 and the remaining DIMM on Slot 2 or 3

with SS DIMM.

- Mount SS DIMM on Slot 1 and the remaining DIMM on Slot 2 or 3

with DS DIMM.

For 3 DIMM:

- Use SS DIMM on all 3 three slots for DDR400 speed.

NOTES:

• Using non-compliant memory with higher bus speeds (overclocking)

may severely compromise the integrity of the system.

Page 3-5

Installation

3-4 Expansion Slots

AGP Slot

The mainboard is equipped with an AGP

slot. Make sure you install a card that

supports the 1.5V specification.

AGP Slot

PCI Slots

The mainboard is equipped with 5 PCI

slots.

PCI Slots

AGP Card Installation Caution

When installing the AGP card make sure the AGP card edge

connector is inserted fully into the slot and the slot clicker is locked.

Page 3-6

Installation

3-5 Device Connectors

The I/O back panel for this mainboard is shown below. When installing the mainboard

into the computer case, use the bundled I/O shield to protect this back panel.

RJ45 LAN

Parallel Port

(Optional)

PS/2

Mouse

PS/2

Keyboard

S/PDIF-out
Coaxial Jack

JCPU_FAN

S/PDIF-out
Optical
(Optional))

JPWR_FAN

JSYS_FAN

or

COM1

USB2.0 x 4 ports

5.1 Audio
Channel

7.1 Audio Channel
(for high-end

model only)

Figure 10 - I/O Ports

JCPU_FAN / JPWR_FAN / JSYS_FAN:

CPU/Power/Chassis Fan Power Connectors

JCPU_FAN: The CPU must be kept cool by using a

heatsink with fan assembly.

JPWR_FAN: If you are installing an additional fan

in the unit, connect to this fan

connector.

JSYS_FAN: The chassis fan will provide adequate

airflow throughout the chassis to

prevent overheating the CPU.

JCPU_FAN

Sense

+12V

Ground

JPWR_FAN

Sense

Ground

+12V

JSYS_FAN

Sense

+12V

Ground



 This mainboard is equipped with intelligent fan



speed control. Refer to the PC Health Status
submenu of the BIOS.

Page 3-7

Installation

FDD

IDE2

FDD: Floppy Controller Connector

This connects to the floppy disk drive.

IDE1/IDE2: Ultra DMA-100/133 Primary/Secondary

IDE Connector

IDE1

This mainboard is equipped with 2 IDE connectors

to support up to 4 ATA-100/133 IDE drives.

It supports PIO and DMA mode operations for

maximum data transfer rate of 133MB/sec per channel.

34 33

2

FDD

PW1

PW12

3

1

PW12

40 39



 When using two IDE drives on the same



connector, one must be set to Master mode and

the other to Slave mode. Refer to your disk

drive user’s manual for details.

1

1

2

IDE1/IDE2

PW1: 20-pin ATX Power Connector

PW12: 4-pin ATX12V Power Connector

The mainboard is equipped with a standard 20-pin

ATX main power connector and a 4-pin +12V

power connector for connecting an ATX12V

power supply. The plugs of the power cables are

designed to fit in only one orientation. Insert the

plugs into the connectors until they fit in place.

Caution:

10

20

+5V+12V

+5V5VSB

4

+12V+12V

GroundGround

2

-5VPW-OK

GroundGround

Ground+5V

GroundGround

PS-ON+5V

GroundGround

-12V3.3V

3.3V3.3V

1

11

PW1

The PW1 and PW12 Power Connector must be used simultaneously.



 The board requires a minimum of 300 Watt power



supply to operate. Your system configuration (amount
of memory, add-in cards, peripherals, etc.) may
exceed this minimum power requirement. To ensure
that adequate power, use a 350 Watt or greater power
supply.

Page 3-8

Installation

CFPA: Front Panel Audio Connector

When the jumpers are removed this connector can

be used for front panel audio. The front panel

phone jack should have “normal close” switch.

Without phone plug inserted, the rear panel audio is

enabled. With phone plug inserted, the rear panel

audio will be disabled.

1

MIC_In

Front Line-out-R

Settings

Pins (5-6) & (9-10) Short (default): Only the onboard rear
panel audio jack can be used.

Pins (5-6) & (9-10) Open: Only front panel audio jack can
be used.



 In 2-Channel audio mode, Mic-In is shared for both front panel and rear panel.



NC

Front Line-out-L

9210

In 6-Channel audio mode, the Mic-In is dedicated for front panel use, and rear
panel Mic-In function will switch to Center and Subwoofer support.

GND

+5V

Rear Line-out-FR

Key

Rear Line-out-FL

AUX-IN

CD-IN

CD-IN/AUX-IN: CD Audio_IN Connector

The CD-IN and AUX-IN connectors are used to

receive audio form a CD-ROM drive, TV tuner or

MPEG card.

CD-IN AUX-IN

1

CD_IN_Right

CD_Reference

CD_IN_Left

1

AUX_IN_Right

GND

AUX_IN_Left

Page 3-9

Installation

SPDIF1: Sony/Philips Digital InterFace connector

This connector links digital audio between the

mainboard and your audio devices, such as CD

player, sampler or DAT recorder. It allows the

digital transmission of audio data in S/PDIF format.

VCC

SPDIF_IN

5

6

GND

1

2

NC

SPDIF_OUT

GAME1: Game/MIDI connector (Optional)

This port works well with any application that is

compatible with the standard PC joystick.

J1CX

J1CY

J1B1

J1B2

GND

J2CX

J2B1

MIDI_Out

+5V

+5V

1

2

15

16

+5V

MIDI_In

J2B2

J2CY

Page 3-10

COM2: Serial Port Connector (Optional)

The serial port can be used with modems, serial

printers, remote display terminals, and other serial

device.

RTS

RI

DSR

CTS

TXD

10

9

Ground

DTR

2

1

DCD

RXD

SATA3 SATA4

SATA2

SATA1

SATA5

SATA6

Installation

SATA1 / SATA2: Two Serial ATA Connectors

SATA3 / SATA4 / SATA5 / SATA6 (Optional):

Four Serial ATA Connectors from Silicon Image

SiI3114 chip.

These connectors enable you to connect Serial

ATA devices that conform to the Serial ATA

specification.

GND

B+

GND

1

A+

GND

A-B-

LED1: 80 Port Debug LED

Provides two-digit POST code to show why the

system fail to boot. Allows quick and easy

optimization.

80 Port Debug 7-segment LED display
(Refer to Appendix C for POST codes)

CUSB3/CUSB4: Four USB 2.0 ports

This mainboard includes 2 additional USB2.0 ports,

identified by two 10-pin connector.

If you wish to use the additional USB ports, install

the card-edge bracket to the system chassis then

insert its cables to this 10-pin connector.

CUSB3 CUSB4

Please make sure the USB cable has the same pin assignment. A different pin assignment
may cause damage to the system. If you need the USB cable, please contact our retailer.

CAUTION !

Page 3-11

Installation

CFP

CFP: Front Panel Connector



 HD_LED



This LED will light up whenever the hard drive

is being accessed.



 PWR_LED



This connects to the power button of the

system chassis

CIR&
CSPK



 RST



CFP

This switch allows you to reboot without

having to power off the system thus prolonging

the life of the power supply or system.



 PW_ON



This is connected to the power button on the

case. To use the Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN

feature, refer to the Power Management Setup

in the BIOS setup section of this manual.

CIR

CSPK

Page 3-12

CIR: IR connector

Connect the IrDA cable (if available) to this IR

connector.

CSPK: Speaker

Connect to the system’s speaker for beeping

Installation

3-6 Power-On/Off (Remote)

This board has a 20-pin ATX and a 4-pin ATX12V power supply connector to support

power supplies with Remote On/Off feature. The 4-pin ATX12V connector must be

plugged in for the system to operate safely. The chassis power button should be

connected to the mainboard front panel PW_ON header (Figure 11).

You can turn off the system in two ways: by pressing the front panel power On/Off

button or using the "Soft Off" function that can be controlled by an operating

system such as Windows®XP/ME/2000/98.

Note: For m ai ntain ing the DDR SDRAM power during STR (ACPI S3) function, it is strongly

recommended to use power supplies that have a +5VSB current of (>=) 2A. Please check the
5VSB’s specification printed on the power supply’s outer case.

Note: The board requires a minimum of 300 Watt power supply to operate. Your system configura-

tion (amount of memory, add-in cards, peripherals, etc.) may exceed this minimum power
requirement. To ensure that adequate power, use a 350 Watt (or higher) power supply.

12V 4-pin

20-pin

PW-ON

Case (chassis) Power ON/OFF button (PW-ON)

Figure 11: Simple ATX power ON/OFF controller

3-7 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and
Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO)

Modem-Ring Power ON Function

The mainboard supports External Modem Ring-in Power ON function. Once you connect

an external modem to COM port, you can turn on the system through remote and host

dial-up control.

Keyboard Power ON Function

The mainboard features a keyboard power on function to turn on the power supply

using a keypress. Refer to the Power Management Setup in the BIOS setup section

for details. To enable this feature, the BIOS default setting is Keyboard Hot Key

(<Ctrl> + <F1>). To power off the system, use the Soft-OFF function under Windows

XP/ME/2000/98. (refer to Windows online help).

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3-8 ACPI S3 (Suspend To RAM) Function

This mainboard supports the STR (Suspend To RAM) power management

scheme by maintaining the appropriate power states in the DDR SDRAM

interface signals. The power source to the DDR SDRAM is kept active during

STR (ACPI S3). Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) provides many

Energy Saving Features for operating systems that support Instant ON and

QuickStartTM function.

1. To enable STR functionality to save system power :

a. Install ACPI certified add-on cards (such as AGP, LAN, and modem cards).

b. In BIOS, under Power Management Setup (refer to Section 4), select “ACPI

Suspend Type: S3(STR)”. If you have a USB mouse or keyboard, set “USB

Wake-Up from S3” to “Enabled”.

c. When in Windows, open the Control Panel Power Management application,

and click the Advanced tab. In the Power buttons section, select “Stand By”

from the drop-down lists.

2. To activate the STR function:

a. Click the START button and choose Shut Down.

b. In the Shut Down Windows dialog box, select the Stand By option to enter

STR mode.

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The following are the differences between STR power saving mode and Sus-

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pend (Power On Suspend) mode:

a. STR is the most advanced Power Management mode.

b. STR cuts all the power supplied to peripherals except to memory - max. power

saving.

c. STR saves and keeps all on-screen data including any executed applications

to DDR SDRAM.

d. In STR mode, you must push the power button (connected to the onboard PW-

On of CFP pin), click your USB mouse buttons, or press your USB keyboard

keys to wake up your system to the last display.

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3-9 CPU Overheating Protection

This mainboard is equipped with CPU Overheating Protection. It will automati-

cally remove power to shutdown the system when CPU temperature reaches

approximately 110°C. This is to prevent long term damage to the CPU from

overheating. This protection is designed through hardware and no BIOS setup

is required.

To power on your system again,

Step 1: Unplug the ATX power cord (or turn off the ATX power supply

switch)

Step 2: Wait a few minutes for the CPU to cool.

Step 3: Check that the CPU heatsink and cooling fan assembly is properly

installed. Be careful when touching the heatsink as it may be hot.

Step 4: Plug back the ATX power cord (or turn on the ATX power supply

switch) and power -on the system.

If the beeping sound persists, repeat Step 1 to remove the power source.

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Section 4

BIOS SETUP

Main Menu

The ROM BIOS contains a built-in Setup program which allows user to modify the

basic system configuration and hardware parameters. The modified data is stored in

a battery-backed CMOS, so that data will be retained even when the power is turned

off. In general, the information saved in the CMOS RAM will stay unchanged unless

there is a configuration change in the system, such as hard drive replacement or a

device is added.

It is possible for the CMOS battery to fail causing CMOS data loss. If this happens

you will need install a new CMOS battery and reconfigure your BIOS settings.

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 The BIOS setup screen and description are for reference only, and may

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not exactly match what you see on your screen. The contents of BIOS are

subject to change without notice. Please visit our website for BIOS updates.

To enter the Setup Program :

Power on the computer and press the <Del> key during the POST (Power On Self

Test). The BIOS CMOS SETUP UTILITY opens.

Figure 1: CMOS Setup Utility

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The main menu displays all the major selection items. Select the item you need to

reconfigure. The selection is made by moving the cursor (press any direction (arrow

key ) to the item and pressing the ‘Enter’ key. An on-line help message is displayed

at the bottom of the screen as the cursor is moved to various items which provides a

better understanding of each function. When a selection is made, the menu of the

selected item will appear so that the user can modify associated configuration

parameters.

4-1 Standard CMOS Setup

Choose “STANDARD CMOS FEATURES” in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY Menu

(Figure 2). Standard CMOS Features Setup allows the user to configure system

settings such as the current date and time, type of hard disk drive installed, floppy

drive type, and display type. Memory size is auto-detected by the BIOS and

displayed for your reference. When a field is highlighted (use direction keys to move

the cursor and the <Enter> key to select), the entries in the field can be changed by

pressing the <PgDn> or the <PgUp> key.

Figure 2: Standard CMOS Setup

Notes: • If the hard disk Primary Master/Slave and Secondary Master/Slave are set to Auto,

the hard disk size and model will be auto-detected.

• The “Halt On:” field is used to determine when the BIOS will halt the system if an

error occurs.

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4-2 Advanced BIOS Features

Selecting the “ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES” option in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY

menu allows users to change system related parameters in the displayed menu. This

menu shows all of the manufacturer’s default values for the board.

Pressing the [F1] key displays a help message for the selected item.

Figure 3: BIOS Features Setup

Hard Disk Boot Priority

This item allows you to select the hard disk boot priority.

Virus Warning

During and after system boot up, any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition
table of the hard disk drive halts the system and an error message appears.
You should then run an anti-virus program to locate the virus. Keep in mind that this
feature protects only the boot sector, not the entire hard drive.

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Enabled: Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning

message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector.

Disabled: No warning message appears when anything attempts to access the boot

sector.

Note: Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can

trigger the virus warning message. If you plan to run such a program, we
recommend that you first disable the virus warning.

CPU Internal Cache

This controls the status of the processor’s internal cache area. The default is

Enabled.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

External Cache

This controls the status of the external (L2) cache area. The default is Enabled.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

First /Second/Third/Other Boot Device

The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence

selected in these items.

Options: Floppy, LS120, Hard Disk, CDROM, ZIP100, USB-FDD, USB-CDROM,

Legacy LAN, Disabled.

Boot Other Device

When enabled, the system searches all other possible locations for an operating

system if it fails to find one in the devices specified under the first, second, and third

boot devices. The default is Enabled.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Boot Up Floppy Seek

If this item is enabled, it checks the size of the floppy disk drives at start-up time.

You don’t need to enable this item unless you have a legacy diskette drive with

360K capacity.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Boot Up NumLock Status

This controls the state of the NumLock key when the system boots. The default is On.

On: The keypad acts as a 10-key pad.

Off: The keypad acts like cursor keys.

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Security Option

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

System: The system will not boot and the access to Setup will be denied if the

correct password is not entered at the prompt.

Setup: The system will boot; but the access to Setup will be denied if the

incorrect password is not entered at the prompt.

APIC Mode

This item allows you to enable APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller)

functionality. APIC is a chip that provides symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) for its

Pentium systems.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

MPS Version Control For OS

Specifies the Multiprocessor Specification (MPS). Version 1.4 supports multiple PCI

bus configurations by incorporating extended bus definitions. Enable this for

Windows NT or Linux. For older operating systems, select Version 1.1.

Options: 1.1, 1.4.

Video BIOS Shadow

This option allows video BIOS to be copied into RAM. Video Shadowing will

increase the video performance of your system.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

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4-3 Advanced Chipset Features

Choose the “ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES” option in the CMOS SETUP

UTILITY menu to display following menu.

Figure 4: Chipset Features Setup

VLink Data Rate

This item allows you to select VLink Data Rate.

Options: 4X, 8X.

Init Display First

If two video cards are used (1 AGP and 1 PCI) this specifies which one will be the

primary display adapter. The default is PCI Slot.

Options: PCI Slot, AGP.

System BIOS Cacheable

This item allows the system to be cached in memory for faster execution. The default

is Enabled.

Options: Disabled, Enabled.

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DRAM Configuration

Scroll to DRAM Configuration and press <Enter>. The following screen appears:

Current FSB Frequency

Display the current CPU front side bus frequency information.

Current DRAM Frequency

Display the current DRAM frequency information.

DDR Clock Selecting by

This option sets DRAM clock. Select “Auto” to follow SPD (Serial Presence Detect)

information on DRAM module or set to “Manual” to set by next item selection.

Options: Manual, Auto.

Max Memclock (Mhz)

This item sets the memory clock. By placing an artificial memory clock limit on the
system, memory is prevented from running faster than this frequency. Example,
“200” will set to DDR400 speed.
Options: 100, 133, 166, 200.

1T/2T Memory Timing

For setting DRAM Timing.
Options: Auto, 1T, 2T.

DDR Timing Selecting by

This option sets DRAM access timing parameters. Select “Auto” to follow SPD
(Serial Presence Detect) information on DRAM module or set to “Manual” to set by
next item selection.

Options: Manual, Auto.

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CAS# Latency

Enables you to select the CAS latency time. The value is set at the factory depending

on the DRAM installed. Do not change the values in this field unless you change

specifications of the installed DRAM.

Options: Auto, CL=2.0, CL=2.5, CL=3.

Row cycle time (tRC)

This filed specifies the Row Cycle Time. RAS# active to RAS# active or auto refresh of

the same bank.

Options: Auto, 7 Bus Clocks ~ 22 Bus Clocks in 1 Bus clock increments.

Row refresh cyc time (tRFC)

This filed specifies the Row Refresh Cycle Time. Auto-refresh active to RAS# or RAS#

to auto refresh.

Options: Auto, 9 Bus Clocks ~ 24 Bus Clocks in 1 Bus clock increments.

RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD)

This filed specifies the RAS# to CAS# delay to read/write command to the same bank.

Options: Auto, 2 Bus Clocks ~ 7 Bus Clocks in 1 Bus clock increments.

Row to Row delay (tRRD)

This filed specifies the Row to Row delay of different banks.

Options: Auto, 2 Bus Clocks ~ 7 Bus Clocks in 1 Bus clock increments.

Min RAS# active time (tRAS)

This filed specifies the minimum RAS# active time.

Options: Auto, 5 Bus Clocks ~ 15 Bus Clocks in 1 Bus clock increments.

Row precharge Time (tRP)

This filed specifies the Row Precharge Time. Precharge to active or Auto-refresh of the

same bank.

Options: Auto, 2 Bus Clocks ~ 6 Bus Clocks in 1 Bus clock increments.

Write recovery time (tWR)

This bits specifies the Write Recovery Time. Called Trd1 by Samsung, measures when

the last write datum is safely registered by the DRAM. It measures from the last data

to precharge.

Options: Auto, 2 Bus Clocks, 3 Bus Clocks.

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Write to Read delay (tWTR)

This bits specifies the Write to Read delay. Samsung Calls this Tcd1r (last data in to

read command). It is measured from the rising edge following the last non-masked data

strobe to the rising edge of the next Read Command. (Jedec spec this as exactly one

clock).

Options: Auto, 1 Bus Clock.

Read to Write delay (tRWT)

This filed specifies the Read to write delay. This is not a DRAM specified timing

parameter but must be considered due to routing latencies on the clock forwarded bus.

It is counted from first address but slot which was not associated with part of the read

burst.

Options: Auto, 1 Bus Clock ~ 6 Bus Clocks in 1 Bus clock increments.

Refresh period (tREF)

This filed specifies the number of clock cycles between refresh.

Options: Auto, 1 x 1552 cycles ~ 4 x 4672 cycles.

AGP & P2P Bridge Control

Scroll to AGP & P2P Bridge Control and press <Enter>. The following screen

appears:

AGP Aperture Size (MB)

This item defines the size of the aperture if you use an AGP graphics adapter. It

refers to a section of the PCI memory address range used for graphics memory.

Options: 32M, 64M, 128M, 256M.

AGP Mode

Chipset AGP Mode support.

Options: 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X.

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AGP Driving Control

This item allows you to adjust the AGP driving force. Choose “Manual” to key in a

AGP Driving Value in the next selection. This field is recommended to set in “Auto”

to avoid any error to your system.

Options: Auto, Manual.

AGP Fast Write

Selecting Enabled allows to use Fast Write Protocol for 4X AGP card.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

AGP Master 1 WS Write

When Enabled, Writes to the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) are executed with one

wait states.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

AGP Master 1 WS Read

When Enabled, Reads to the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) are executed with one

wait states.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

LDT & PCI Bus Control

Scroll to LDT & PCI Bus Control and press <Enter>. The following screen appears:

Upstream LDT Bus Width

Options: 8 bit, 16 bit.

Downstream LDT Bus Width

Options: 8 bit, 16 bit.

LDT Bus Frequency

This item sets CPU Hyper Transport front size bus.

Options: Auto, 800MHz, 600MHz, 400MHz, 200MHz.

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PCI1/2 Master 0 WS Write

When Enabled, Writes to the PCI bus are commanded with zero wait states.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

PCI1/2 Post Write

Enables CPU to PCI bus POST write.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

PCI Delay Transaction

The chipset has an embedded 32-bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions

cycles. Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2.2.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

4-4 Integrated Peripherals

Figure 5: Integrated Peripherals

OnChip SATA Boot ROM / Silicon Image Boot ROM (Optional) / OnChip Lan Boot
ROM / Marvell Lan Boot ROM

(Optional)

Enables/disable the onboard SATA/Silicon Image/LAN Boot LAN.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

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VIA OnChip IDE Device

Scroll to VIA Onchip IDE Device and press <Enter>. The following screen appears:

Onchip SATA

Enables the onboard SATA feature.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

SATA Mode

This allows you to set RAID mode for Serial ATA devices. Refer to section 5 for

more RAID information.

Options: RAID, IDE.

IDE DMA transfer access

Automatic data transfer between system memory and IDE device with minimum CPU

intervention. This improves data throughput and frees CPU to perform other tasks.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

OnChip IDE Channel0/1

The mainboard supports two channel of ordinary IDE interface. Select “Enabled” to

activate each channel separately.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Note: If you do not use the onboard IDE connector, set the Onboard Primary PCI

IDE and Onboard Secondary PCI IDE to “Disabled”.

IDE Prefetch Mode

Selecting “Enabled” reduces latency between each drive read/write cycle, but may

cause instability in IDE subsystems that cannot support such fast performance. If

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you are getting disk drive errors, try setting this value to Disabled. This field does

not appear when the Internal PCI/IDE field, above, is Disabled.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO

The four IDE PIO (Programmed Input/Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for

each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 to 4

provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system automatically

determines the best mode for each device.

Options: Auto, Mode 0 ~ 4.

Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA

Select the mode of operation for the IDE drive. Ultra DMA-33/66/100/133 implemen-

tation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environ-

ment includes a DMA driver. If your hard drive and your system software both

support Ultra DMA-33/66/100/133, select Auto to enable UDMA mode by BIOS.

Options: Auto, Disabled.

IDE HDD Block Mode

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

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

VIA Onchip PCI Device

Scroll to VIA Onchip PCI Device and press <Enter>. The following screen appears:

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VIA AC97 Audio

This item allows you to disable the chipset on-chip AC97 Audio.

Options: Auto, Disabled.

Game Port Address (Optional)

Select an address for the Game port.

Options: 201, 209, Disabled.

Midi Port Address (Optional)

Select an address for the Midi port.

Options: 290, 300, 330, Disabled.

Midi Port IRQ (Optional)

Select an interrupt for the Midi port.

Options: 5, 10

VIA Onchip LAN and 80 Port (Optional)

Enables the onboard LAN and 80 port feature.

Options: Auto, Disabled.

VIA-6102 MAC Address Input (Optional)

Allwos you to input MAC address.

Onchip USB Controller

Enables the USB controller.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Onchip EHCI Controller

Enables the EHCI (USB2.0) controller.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

USB Keyboard Support

Enable/disable support for USB keyboard under DOS.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

USB Mouse Support

Enable/disable support for USB mouse under DOS.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

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Super IO Device

Scroll to Super IO Deivce and press <Enter>. The following screen appears:

Onboard FDC Controller

Select “Enabled” if you wish to use onboard floppy disk controller (FDC). If you

install an external FDC or the system has no floppy drive, select “Disabled “in this field.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Onboard Serial Port 1

Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first serial port.

Options: 3F8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2F8/IRQ3, Disabled, Auto.

Onboard Serial Port 2 (Optional)

Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the second serial port.

Options: 3F8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2F8/IRQ3, Disabled, Auto.

UART Mode Select

This field configures the 2nd serial port for IR application. Select the required IR

protocol or select “Normal” to disable IR mode.

Options: Normal, IrDA and ASKIR.

Onboard Parallel Port

This field allows the user to configure the LPT port.

Options: 378/IRQ7, 278/IRQ5, 3BC/IRQ7, Disabled.

Parallel Port Mode

This field allows the user to select the parallel port mode.

Options: SPP, EPP, ECP, ECP+EPP, Normal.

EPP Mode Select

This field allows the user to select the EPP mode for parallel port mode.

Options: EPP1.9, EPP1.7.

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ECP Mode USE DMA

This field allows the user to select DMA1 or DMA3 for the ECP mode.

Options: DMA1, DMA3.

4-5 Power Management Setup

Choose the “Power Management setup” in the CMOS Setup Utility to display the

following screen. This menu allows the user to modify the power management

parameters and IRQ signals. In general, these parameters should not be changed

unless it’s absolutely necessary.

Figure 6: Power Management

ACPI Suspend Type

This item allows you to select S1(Power-On-Suspend) or S3(Suspend-To-RAM)

function.

Options: S1(POS), S3(STR), S1&S3.

Power Management Option

Use this to select your Power Management selection. The default is User define.

Max. saving: Maximum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 minute in each mode.

Min. saving: Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 hour in each mode.

User define: Allows user to define PM Timers parameters to control power saving

mode.

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HDD Power Down

Powers down the hard disk drive after a preset period of system inactivity.

Options: Disabled, 1min ~ 15min.

Suspend Mode

Automatically, shuts off all devices except the CPU after a preset period of system

inactivity.

Options: Disabled, 1 , 2, 4 ,6, 8, 10, 20, 30, 40 min and 1 hour .

Video Off Option

When enabled, this feature allows the VGA adapter to operate in a power saving mode.

Always On: Monitor will remain on during power saving modes.

Suspend->Off: Monitor blanked when the systems enters the suspend mode.

Video Off Method

This option allows you to select how the video will be disabled by the power

management. The default is V/H Sync + Blank

V/H Sync + Blank: System turns off vertical and horizontal synchronization ports

and writes blanks to the video buffer.

DPMS Support: Select this option if your monitor supports the Display Power

Management Signaling (DPMS) standard of the Video Electronics

Standards Association (VESA). Use the software supplied by

your video subsystem to select video power management values.

Blank Screen: System only writes blanks to the video buffer.

MODEM Use IRQ

Select the interrupt request (IRQ) line assigned to the modem (if any) on your

system. Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system. Default is IRQ 3.

Options: N/A, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11

Soft-Off by PWRBTN

Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the

Soft-Off state when the system has “hung.” The default is Instant-off.

Options: Delay 4 Sec, Instant-Off.

Run VGABIOS if S3 Resume

This determines whether or not to enable the system to run the VGA BIOS when

resuming from S3(STR) or S1&S3.

Options: Auto, Yes, No.

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AC Loss Auto Restart

This item enables your computer to automatically restart or return to its last operat-

ing status after power returns from a power failure.

Off: The system stays off after a power failure.

Former-Sts: The system returns to the state it was in just prior to the power

failure.

IRQ/Event Activity Detect

Scroll to IRQ/Event Activity Detect and press <Enter>. The following screen appears:

PS2KB Wakeup Select

This item allows you to select Hot Key or Password to wake-up the system by PS2

Keyboard. If Password is selected, press <Enter> key to change a password with

max 8 numbers.

Options: Hot key, Password.

PS2KB Wakeup form S3/S4/S5

This item allows you to set a Hot Key to wake-up the system by PS2 Keyboard.

Options: Disabled, Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2, Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+F6, Ctrl+F7, Ctrl+F8,

Ctrl+F9, Ctrl+F10, Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+F12, Power, Wake, Any key.

Note: Power and Wake are Windows98 Keyboard button.

PS2MS Wakeup form S3/S4/S5

This item allows you to wake-up the system by PS2 Mouse.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

USB Resume from S3

This item allows a USB device to wake-up the system from S3 suspend state.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

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PowerOn by PCI Card

An input signal from PME on the PCI card awakens the system from soft-off state.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

PowerOn by OnBoard LAN

This item allows you to power on the system by onboard LAN from soft-off state.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Modem Ring Resume

When set to “Enabled”, any event occurring to the Modem Ring will awaken the

system from suspend state.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

RTC Alarm Resume

When set to Enable rtc alarm resume, you can set the date (of month) and time (hh:

mm:ss), that will awaken a system which has been powered down.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

4-6 PNP/PCI Configuration

This page lets the user to modify the PCI IRQ signals when various PCI cards are

inserted.

WARNING: Conflicting IRQ’s may cause system unable to locate certain devices.

Figure 7: PNP/PCI Configuration Setup

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Resources Controlled By

Determines what controls system PNP/PCI resources. The default is Auto (ESCD).

Manual: PNP Card’s resources are controlled manually. The “IRQ Resources” field

becomes available and you can set which IRQ-X and DMA-X are

assigned to PCI and onboard devices.

Auto: BIOS assigns the interrupt resource automatically.

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

This item is designed to overcome problems that may be caused by some nonstandard

VGA cards.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

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that the cards do not need IRQ assignments. IRQ conflicts between the two PCI groups will
make the system unstable or cards inoperable.

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4-7 PC Health Status

Figure 8: PC Health Status

Show PC Health in POST

When this function is enabled the PC Health information is displayed during the

POST (Power On Self Test).

Options: Disabled, Enabled.

BIOS

Shutdown Temperature

This is the temperature that the computer will turn off the power to combat the

effects of an overheating system. (requires ACPI to be enabled in Power Manage-

ment BIOS and ACPI compliant operating system.) The default is Disabled.

Options available are 60oC/140oF to 70oC/158oF in increments of 5oC.

Current System/CPU Temperature

Displays the current system/CPU temperature.

Current CHASSIS/CPU/PWR FAN Speed

Displays the current speed of the CPU, Power and chassis fan speed in RPMs.

Vcore

The voltage level of the CPU(Vcore).

VDIMM

The voltage level of the DRAM.

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VAGP

The voltage level of power supplied to AGP card.

VBAT(V)

The voltage level of the battery.

VCC, Vio, 5VSB(V)

The voltage level of the switching power supply.

Smart Fan for CPU Temperature

This item allows you set CPU fan temperature to smartly adjust the fan speeds for

more efficient system operation.

Options: Disabled, 35oC/95oF, 40oC/104oF, 45oC/113oF.

4-8 Power BIOS Features

This page lets you adjust various parameters to obtain improved performance for

overclocking.

Warning:

Overclocking requires expert knowledge and risks permanent damage to

system components. We recommend you leave these parameters at their

default values for proper operation.

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Figure 9: Frequency/Voltage Control

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AMD K8 Cool’n’Quiet control

Reduce the noise and heat from you PC when AMD’s Cool’n’QuietTM technology is

enabled.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

CPU Ratio Control

This item allows you to enable the CPU clock ratio control. Choose “Enabled” to

key in a CPU clock Ratio in the next selection.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

CPU Clock Ratio

Use this item to select a multiplier to set the CPU frequency. See CPU Clock item

below for explanation.

Key in the DEC (decimal) number for the CPU Clock Ratio.

Auto Detect PCI Clk

When enabled the mainboard automatically disables the clock source for a PCI slot

which does not have a module in it, reducing EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference).

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

Spread Spectrum

If you enable spread spectrum, it can significantly reduce the EMI (ElectroMagnetic

Interference) generated by the system.

Options: Disabled, Enabeld.

CPU Clock

Enables you to increment the CPU’s clock generator at 1MHz step. This works

together with CPU Clock Ratio (above) to set the CPU operating frequency.

CPU Clock Generator x CPU Clock Ratio = CPU Frequency

For example, if you have a processor that is rated at 2.4GHz and the clock generator

is 200MHz, then 200MHz x 12 = 2.4GHz

Press <Enter> to display the following screen:

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Key in the DEC (decimalism) number for the CPU clock.

Note: Overclocking failure will cause no display on the monitor. To overcome

this switch off the power supply and switch on again. Restart the
system, press and hold <Insert> key. This will revert the BIOS to default
or initial setting.



 In the following items, “Default Voltage” indicates the original factory



value, and “New Voltage” indicates the value that you assign.

CPU Vcore Voltage

This item allows you to set the CPU Vcore voltage.

Options: Default, 1.350V to 1.550V in 0.025V increment and 1.550V to 1.700V in 0.050V

increment. We recommend that you leave this at the default value.

DIMM Voltage

This item allows you to adjust the DIMM slot voltage.

Options: +0.00V to +0.30V in 0.10V increments. We recommend that you leave this at

the default value.

AGP Voltage

This item allows you to adjust the AGP slot voltage.

Options: +0.00V to +0.30V in 0.10V increments. We recommend that you leave this at

the default value.

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4-9 Defaults Menu

Selecting “Defaults” from the main menu shows you two options which are de-

scribed below

Load Fail-Safe Defaults

When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box:

Load Fail-Safe Defaults (Y/N) ? N

Pressing ‘Y’ loads the BIOS default values for the most stable, minimal-performance

system operations.

Load Optimized Defaults

When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box:

Load Optimized Defaults (Y/N) ? N

Pressing ‘Y’ loads the default values that are factory settings for optimal perfor-

mance system operations.

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4-10 Supervisor/User Password Setting

This function lets you set either Supervisor or User Password, or both, to prevent

unauthorized changes to BIOS menus.

supervisor password: full rights to enter and change options of the setup menus.

user password: only enter but no rights to change options of the setup

menus.

When you select this function, the following message will appear at the center of

the screen to assist you in creating a password.

ENTER PASSWORD:

Type the password, up to eight characters in length, and press <Enter>. The pass-

word typed now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory. You

will be asked to confirm the password. Type the password again and press <Enter>.

You may also press <Esc> to abort the selection and not enter a password.

To disable a password, just press <Enter> when you are prompted to enter the

password. A message will confirm the password will be disabled. Once the password

is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely.

PASSWORD DISABLED.

When a password has been enabled, you will be prompted to key in each time you

enter Setup. This prevents an unauthorized person from changing any part of your

system configuration.

Additionally, when a password is enabled, you can also require the BIOS to request a

password every time your system is rebooted. This would prevent unauthorized use

of your computer.

You can determine when the password is required within the Advanced BIOS

Features Menu and its Security option. If the Security option is set to “System”,

the password will be required both at boot and at entry to Setup. If set to “Setup”,

prompting only occurs when trying to enter Setup.

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4-11 Exiting BIOS

Save & Exit Setup

Pressing <Enter> on this item asks for confirmation:

Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? Y

Pressing “Y” stores the selections made in the menus in CMOS – a special section

of memory that stays on after you turn your system off. The next time you boot

your computer, the BIOS configures your system according to the Setup selections

stored in CMOS. After saving the values the system is restarted again.

Exit Without Saving

Pressing <Enter> on this item asks for confirmation:

Quit without saving (Y/N)? Y

This allows you to exit Setup without storing in CMOS any change. The previous

selections remain in effect. This exits the Setup utility and restarts your computer.

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S-ATA RAID Configuration

Section 5

S-ATA RAID CONFIGURATION

Introduction

This section gives a brief introduction on RAID-related background knowledge and

a general procedure to setup RAID system on this mainboard.

RAID Basics

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a method of combining two or

more hard disk drives into one logical unit known as a RAID array. The advantage

of RAID is to provide better performance or data fault tolerance. Fault tolerance is

achieved through data redundant operation, where if one drives fails, a mirrored

copy of the data can be found on another drive. This can prevent data loss if the

operating system fails or hangs.

Below is an example of a RAID array with 2 drives.

The individual disk drives in an array are called “members”. All disk members in a

formed disk array are recognized as a single physical drive to the operating system.

Hard disk drives can be combined together through a few different methods. The

different methods are referred to as different RAID levels. Different RAID levels

represent different performance levels, security levels and implementation costs.

The table below briefly introduced these RAID levels.

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RAID 0 (Striping)

RAID 0 reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives. If any

disk member fails, it affects the entire array. The disk array data capacity is equal to the

number of drive members times the capacity of the smallest member. The striping

block size can be set from 4KB to 64KB. RAID 0 does not support fault tolerance.

RAID 1 (Mirroring)

RAID 1 writes duplicate data onto a pair of drives and reads both sets of data in

parallel. If one of the mirrored drives suffers a mechanical failure or does not

respond, the remaining drive will continue to function. Due to redundancy, the

drive capacity of the array is the capacity of the smallest drive. Under a RAID 1

setup, an extra drive called the “spare drive” can be attached. Such a drive will be

activated to replace a failed drive that is part of a mirrored array. Due to the fault

tolerance, if any RAID 1 drive fails, data access will not be affected as long as there

are other working drives in the array.

JBOD (Spanning)

A spanning disk array is equal to the sum of the all drives when the drives used are

having different capacities. Spanning stores data onto a drive until it is full, then

proceeds to store files onto the next drive in the array. When any disk member

fails, the failure affects the entire array. JBOD is not really a RAID and does not

support fault tolerance.

Others

Other RAID derivatives are RAID 10 and RAID 5. These RAID levels require more

than 2 drives to operate, combining the benefits of RAID 0 and RAID 1.

This mainboard is equipped with the following SATA RAID controllers:

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1. VIA SATA from VIA VT8237 south bridge (SATA1/ SATA2)

2. (Optional) Silicon Image SiI3114 controller (SATA3/ SATA4/SATA5/SATA6)

Each of these controllers have their own unique RAID setup BIOS and software.

Note: Before you proceed, identify which SATA controller your HDD drives

are connected to in order to ensure a successful installation.

VIA S-ATA RAID Features

The VIA S-ATA RAID solution uses the VT8237 chip as a RAID controller, which

is a 2-channel S-ATA and 1-channel ATA133 solution. Listed below are the main

features and benefits of VIA S-ATA RAID:

• Support two S-ATA hard disk drives.

• Supports hard disk drive larger than 137 GB (48-bits LBA).

• Supports RAID 0, 1 and JBOD.

• 4 KB to 64 KB striping block size support.

• Bootable disk or disk array support.

• Windows-based RAID configure and management software tool. (Compatible

with BIOS)

• Real-time monitoring of device status and error alarm with popup message box

and beeping.

• Mirroring automatic background rebuilds support.

• ATA SMART function support.

• Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT4.0, 2000, XP operating systems support.

• Event log for easy troubleshooting.

• On-line help for easy operation for RAID software.

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Optional - Silicon Image Sil3114 S-ATA RAID Features

• RAID 0, 1, 5, 10

• Hot Spare and On-line Mirror Rebuilding

• System GUI Monitoring Utility:

- Displays/Logs/Alerts Users to Vital RAID Set Information

- Manages RAID Set Functions (configures, rebuilds, etc.)

• RAID Set Accommodates Multiple Size HDDs

• HDDs function normally when not in RAID Sets

• Adjustable Stripe Size for RAID 0

• Automatically Selects Highest Available Transfer Speed for All ATA and ATAPI

Devices

• Supports:

- UDMA up to 150MB/Sec.

- All UDMA and PIO Modes

- Up to 4 SATA devices

- ACPI and ATA/ATAPI6

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Enable RAID Function

For any RAID controller, the general procedure to enable RAID function are shown

below:

Note: If you are not installing O/S into the RAID

disks, you may skip Step 2 & Step3.



 Step 1: Create RAID Array



RAID arrays are created using the RAID controller’s BIOS utility.

VIA VT8237

Power-on the system and wait for the following screen to appear. Press the

”Tab” key to enter its BIOS configuration utility.

The main interface of the BIOS utility is as below:

Refer to Appendix B-1 for details about creating RAID array using this utility.

After the RAID array is created, press “ESC” to exit.

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(Optional) Silicon Image Sil3114

Wait for the following message to appear during boot-up:

Press <CTRL-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility.

An easy-to-use screen will appear with the following choices in the top left:

 Create RAID Set

 Delete RAID Set

 Rebuild RAID Set

 Resolve Conflicts

 Low Level Format

 Logical Drive Info

Refer to Appendix B-2 for details about creating RAID array using this utility.



 Step 2: Prepare driver floppy



When installing Windows XP/2000/NT4.0 into any RAID disk, the O/S setup will

require a floppy disk containing the RAID driver. This step will show you how to

prepare this driver floppy. There are 2 methods to prepare this floppy:

Method 1

1. Insert the bundled CD into the CD-ROM drive

2. Boot the system from the CD-ROM

3. A menu of driver for various RAID controllers will appear

4. Insert a blank floppy into the A:drive

5. Select the appropriate RAID controller to begin copy into the floppy

Method 2

1. Locate another computer and insert the bundled CD into its CD-ROM drive.

2. A main menu screen will appear (Autorun feature)

3. Select the page “RAID floppy”

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4. Insert a blank floppy into the A:drive

5. Click on the required driver to begin copy into the floppy



 Step 3: Install O/S into RAID disk



Continue to install Windows XP/2000/NT4.0 as normal. When requested by

Windows Setup for RAID driver, insert the floppy created earlier in Step 2.



 Step 4: Install Software utility for Windows



After the O/S has been installed, you may install the RAID driver and software. The

RAID software is a Windows-based utility with graphical user interface that

provides an easy operating tool to configure and manage RAID arrays.

1)Insert the bundled CD into the CD-ROM drive.

2)When the main menu appears, click on the SATA RAID driver corresponding

to the SATA controller you have configured in Step 1. See driver installation in

section 6 for more details.

Note: For information on using the software utility, refer to the user guide in

the bundled CD.

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Drivers Installation

Section 6

DRIVER INSTALLATION

Easy Driver Installation

Once the operating system has been installed, you need to install the drivers for the mainboard.

Method 1

Method 2

Auto Installation

Selective Installation

[VIA K8 Series]

VIA SERVICE PACK 4_IN_1 Driver
AC’97 Audio Driver
VIA LAN Driver
VIA SATA RAID Driver
MARVELL Gigabit LAN Driver
USB 2.0 Driver README
SILICON IMAGE SATA RAID Driver

Before installing SILICON IMAGE SATA GUI please connect to internet and

Run the JAVA 2 RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT installation

JAVA 2 RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT installation
SILICON IMAGE SATA RAID GUI installation

Insert the bundled CD into the CD-ROM and the main menu screen will appear. The

main menu displays links to the supported drivers, utilities and software.

Method 1

This item installs all drivers automatically.

Method 2

This item allows you to install the drivers selectively.

Step 1 : Click “VIA SERVICE 4_IN_1 Driver” to install chipset driver.

Step 2 : Click “AC’97 Audio Driver” to install audio driver.

Step 3 : Click “VIA LAN Driver” to install VIA LAN driver (Optional).

Step 4 : Click “VIA SATA RAID Driver” to install VIA SATA RAID driver.

Step 5 : Click “MARVELL Gigabit LAN Driver” to install Marvell Gigabit LAN

driver (Optional).

Step 6 : Click “USB 2.0 Driver” to install USB 2.0 driver.

Step 7 : Click “SILICON IMAGE SATA RAID Driver” to install Serial ATA

driver. Make sure to follow the instructions to install “JAVA 2 RUNTIME

ENVIRONMENT installation” and “SILICON IMAGE SATA RAID GUI

installation” item for Raid Administrator. (Optional)

Note: Main menu varies depends on model you purchased.

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Realtek Sound Manager Quick Guide for ALC655

 Introduction

To obtain the best performance from your audio system, run the "Sound

Manager" utility to adjust the settings to suit your needs. This section of the

manual is intended to provide a quick user-guide to setup "Sound Manager".

For more detailed information, refer to "Sound Manager manual" in the CD.

<Figure 1>

1. Right-click “Sound Effect” button on the task bar and select “Sound Manager”.

Sound Effect:

<Figure 2>

2. Select "Sound Effect" page to set the desired audio environment from the

pull-down menu. There are in total 23 kinds of sound effect.

a. For Karaoke function, "Voice Cancellation (only for 2 channels mode)"

removes the human voice. "Key" lets you adjusts the key pitch.

b. "Auto Gain Control" avoids saturation when adjusting the equalizer.

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Equalizer:

<Figure 3>

3. There are 10 bands of equalizer control, check "ON" when you want to adjust

the equalizer.

Speaker
Configuration:

<Figure 4>

4. This page displays the mainboards's phone jack function when a corresponding

audio mode (no. of speaker) is selected.

Figure 4 above shows the phone jack setup for 2 channel mode.

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5. For 6 channel mode, the audio combination is shown above.

Speaker
Configuration:

<Figure 5>

Speaker Test:

<Figure 6>

6. To test the speaker , select the “Speaker Test” page and click directly on the

speakers shown on the screen.

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SPDIF-In:

<Figure 7>

7. This page shows S/PDIF IN function on your system.

a. Click "Auto Lock" to detect S/PDIF input and display its information.

b. Check "Real-time S/PDIF-In monitor" to listen to the S/PDIF IN signal

through Line-out connector.

SPDIF-Out:

<Figure 8>

8. This page lets you choose the type of audio source that will appear on the

S/PDIF-out connector.

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This board is equipped with Jack Sensing capability. If an audio device is plugged

into the wrong connector, a warning message will appear to remind users to check

the connection.

Connector
Sensing:

<Figure 9>

9. Push "Start" button to start the sensing. Please remember to terminate all

audio applications before starting the sensing.

Connector
Sensing:

10. EZ-Connection shows the result of the detection.
“Audio Connector” column reflects the settings used in the "Speaker
Configuration" page.
“Current Connection” column shows the type of device detected. If the
results do not match, an exclamation mark will appear on the right side.

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<Figure 10>

Drivers Installation

Connector
Sensing:

<Figure 11>

11. After closing EZ-Connector, this page will show the latest connector status

as above.

General:

<Figure 12>

12. This page displays information regarding the audio hardware and software.

To remove "Sound Manager" icon from Windows Task bar, uncheck "Show

icon in system tray".

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Realtek Sound Manager Quick Guide for ALC850

(high-end model only)

 Introduction

To obtain the best performance from your audio system, run the "Sound

Manager" utility to adjust the settings to suit your needs. This section of the

manual is intended to provide a quick user-guide to setup "Sound Manager".

For more detailed information, refer to "Sound Manager manual" in the CD.

<Figure 13>

1. Right-click “Sound Effect” button on the task bar and select “Sound Manager”.

Sound
Effect :

<Figure 14>

2. Select "Sound Effect" page to set the desired audio environment from the

pull-down menu.

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Speaker
Configuration:

<Figure 15>

3. This page displays the mainboards's phone jack function when a corresponding

audio mode is selected.

Figure 3 above shows the phone jack setup for 8 channel mode.

4. This page lets you test the HRTF 3D Positional Audio features.

HRTF Demo:

<Figure 16>

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General:

<Figure 17>

5. This page displays information regarding the audio hardware and software.

To remove "Sound Manager" icon from Windows Task bar, uncheck "Show

icon in system tray".

SPDIF:

<Figure 18>

6. This page shows S/PDIF-In and S/PDIF-Out function on your system.
S/PDIF-In: a. Click "Auto Lock" to detect S/PDIF input and display its

information.

b.Check "Real-time S/PDIF-In monitor" to listen to the S/PDIF

In signal through Line-out connector.

S/PDIF-Out: Choose the type of audio source that will appear on the S/PDIF-

out connector.

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This board is equipped with Jack Sensing capability. If an audio device is plugged

into the wrong connector, a warning message will appear to remind users to check

the connection.

Connector
Sensing:

<Figure 19>

7. Push "Start" button to start the sensing. Please remember to terminate all

audio applications before starting the sensing.

Connector
Sensing:

<Figure 20>

8. EZ-Connection shows the result of the detection.
“Audio Connector” column reflects the settings used in the "Speaker
Configuration" page.
“Current Connection” column shows the type of device detected. If the
results do not match, an exclamation mark will appear on the right side.

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Connector
Sensing:

<Figure 21>

9. After closing EZ-Connector, this page will show the latest connector status

as above.

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Appendix

Appendix A

A-1 Update Your System BIOS

Download the xxxxx.EXE file corresponding to your model from our website to an

empty directory on your hard disk or floppy. Run the downloaded xxxxx.EXE file and

it will self extract. Copy these extracted files to a bootable floppy disk.

Note: The floppy disk should contain NO device drivers or other programs.

1. Type “A:\AWDFLASH and press <Enter> Key.

2. You will see the following setup screen.

3. Please key in the xxxxx.bin BIOS file name.

XXXX

4. If you want to save the previous BIOS data to the diskette, please key in [Y],

otherwise please key in [N].

XXXX

XXXXX

xxxxx.bin

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5. Key in File Name to save previous BIOS to file.

XXXX

XXXXX

xxxxx.bin

xxxxx.bin

6. To confirm and proceed, please key in [Y] to start the programming.

XXXX

XXXXX

xxxxx.bin

xxxxx.bin

7. The BIOS update is finished.

A-2

F1 : Reset

XXXX

XXXXX

xxxxx.bin

F10 : Exit

Appendix

Appendix B

B-1 VIA RAID BIOS Utility

Power-on the system and wait for the following screen to appear. Press the ”Tab”

key to enter its BIOS configuration utility.

The main interface of the BIOS utility is as below:

Create Disk Array

1. Use the arrow keys to navigate the main menu. Use the up and down arrow

keys to select the Create Array command and press <Enter> to call out the list

of creation steps.

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2. Select Array Mode and press <Enter>, a list of array modes will appear. High-

light the target array mode that you want to create, and press <Enter> to confirm

the selection. If RAID 1 is selected, an option list will popup and enable the

users to select Create only or Create and duplicate. Create only will allow BIOS

to only create an array. The data on the mirroring drive may be different from

the source drive. Create and duplicate lets BIOS copy the data from the source

to the mirroring drive.

3. After array mode is selected, there are two methods to create a disk array. One

method is “Auto Setup” and the other one is “Select Disk Drives”. Auto Setup

allows BIOS to select the disk drives and create arrays automatically, but it does

not duplicate the mirroring drives even if the user selected Create and duplicate

for RAID 1 . It is recommended all disk drives are new ones when wanting to

create an array. Select Disk Drives lets the user select the array drives by their

requirements. When using Select Disk Drives, the channel column will be

activated. Highlight the target drives that you want to use and press <Enter> to

select them. After all drives have been selected, press <Esc> to go back to the

creation steps menu.

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4. If user selects a RAID 0 array in step 2, the block size of the array can also be

selected. Use the arrow key to highlight Block Size and press <Enter>, then

select a block size from the popup menu. The block size can be 4KB to 64KB.

5. Use the arrow key to highlight Start Create Process and press <Enter>.

A warning message will appear, Press Y to finish the creation, or press N to

cancel the creation.

6. Important note: All existing content in the hard drive will be destroyed after

array creation.

Delete Disk Array

A RAID can be deleted after it has been created. To delete a RAID, use the

following steps:

1. Select Delete Array in the main menu and press <Enter>. The channel column

will be activated.

2. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press <Enter>.

A warning message will show up, press Y to delete or press N to cancel.

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Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1

arrays. When a RAID is deleted, the data on these two hard disk drives will be

reserved and become two normal disk drives.

View Serial Number of Hard Drive

Highlight Serial Number View and press <Enter>. Use arrow key to select a drive,
the selected drive’s serial number can be viewed in the last column. The serial
number is assigned by the disk drive manufacturer.

View Array Status

Press the F1 key to show the array status on the lower screen. If there are no disk

arrays then nothing will be displayed on the screen.

Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array

When booting up the system, BIOS will detect if the RAID 1 array has any inconsis-

tencies between user data and backup data. If BIOS detects any inconsistencies, the

status of the disk array will be marked as critical, and BIOS will prompt the user to

duplicate the RAID 1 in order to ensure the backup data consistency with the user

data.

If user selects Continue to boot, it will enable duplicating the array after booting

into OS.

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Rebuild Broken RAID 1 Array

When booting up the system, BIOS will detect if any member disk drives of RAID

has failed or is absent. If BIOS detects any disk drive failures or missing disk

drives, the status of the array will be marked as broken.

If BIOS detects a broken RAID 1 array but there is a spare hard drive available for

rebuilding the broken array, the spare hard drive will automatically become the

mirroring drive. BIOS will show a main interface just like a duplicated RAID 1.

Selecting Continue to boot enables the user to duplicate the array after booting into

operating system.

If BIOS detects a broken RAID 1 array but there is no spare hard drive available for

rebuilding the array, BIOS will provide several operations to solve such problem.

1. Power off and Check the Failed Drive:

This item turns off the computer and replaces the failed hard drive with a good

one. If your computer does not support APM, you must turn off your computer

manually. After replacing the hard drive, boot into BIOS and select Choose

replacement drive and rebuild to rebuild the broken array.

2. Destroy the Mirroring Relationship:

This item cancels the data mirroring relationship of the broken array. For broken

RAID 1 arrays, the data on the surviving disk will remain after the destroy

operation.

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3. Choose Replacement Drive and Rebuild:

This item enables users to select an already-connected hard drive to rebuild the

broken array. After choosing a hard drive, the channel column will be activated.

Highlight the target hard drive and press <Enter>, a warning message will

appear. Press Y to use that hard drive to rebuild, or press N to cancel. Please

note selecting option Y will destroy all the data on the selected hard drive.

4. Continue to boot:

This item enables BIOS to skip the problem and continue booting into OS.

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B-2 Optional - Silicon Image Sil3114 RAID BIOS Utility

To enter this BIOS utility, power on and wait for the following message to appear

during boot-up:

Press <CTRL-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility.

An easy-to-use screen will appear with the following choices in the top left:

 Create RAID Set

 Delete RAID Set

 Rebuild RAID Set

 Resolve Conflicts

 Low Level Format

 Logical Drive Info

Below this will be listed the drives currently installed on the system.

The top right half of the screen displays directions and comments for the user. The

bottom right half lists the command keys:

 Arrows up and down are Select Keys

 ESC takes the user to the previous menu

 Enter selects the user’s choice

 Ctrl-E exits the utility

Creating RAID Sets

This creates RAID Sets.

1. Select “Create RAID Set”

2. Choose either a “Striped” or “Mirrored” RAID Set.

3. Select if you want the utility to Auto Configure the RAID Set or if you want

to manually configure the RAID Set. For Striped Sets, you can change the

chunk size. For Mirrored Sets, you assign which is the Source and Target

drives, as well as if you want Disk Copy.

What is Disk Copy? If the disk assigned as the source disk already has

been partitioned and has data stored on it, and then a second disk is added

for redundancy, the data on the source drive can be copied to the destina-

tion drive, so the disks are identical, and all subsequent data will be written

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to both drives as a Mirrored set. If, however, the source disk does not have

data already stored on it, there is no need for Disk Copy.

4. The utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration.

Rebuild RAID Sets

This is used to initiate the copying of data a from an existing drive to a replacement

drive that has been installed in a RAID set after the failure of the members.

Deleting RAID Sets

1. To remove one or more RAID sets, select “Delete RAID Set.”

2. Select desired set and press Y when asked “Are You Sure?”

Resolving Conflict

When a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the disk includes drive

connection information (Primary Channel, Secondary Channel). If, after a disk

failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another

system), it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive

connection information. If so, this will prohibit the RAID set from being either

created or rebuilt, In order for the RAID set to function properly, this old metadata

must be first overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, select “Resolve

Conflict” and the correct metadata, including the correct drive

connection information, will be written to the replacement disk.

Low Level Format

This selection allows you to do “Low Level Format” for a single disk at a time.

Logical Drive Info

This selection shows the hard disk information of the RAID setup.

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Appendix C

C-1 POST CODES

POST (hex) DESCRIPTION

CFh Test CMOS R/W functionality.
C0h Early chipset initialization:

- Disable shadow RAM

- Disable L2 cache (socket 7 or below)

- Program basic chipset registers

C1h Detect memory

C3h Expand compressed BIOS code to DRAM
C5h Call chipset hook to copy BIOS back to E000 & F000 shadow RAM.
01h Expand the Xgroup codes locating in physical address 1000:0
02h Reserved
03h Initial Superio_Early_Init switch.
04h Reserved
05h 1. Blank out screen

06h Reserved
07h 1. Clear 8042 interface

08h 1. Test special keyboard controller for Winbond 977 series Super I/O

09h Reserved
0Ah 1. Disable PS/2 mouse interface (optional).

0B-0Dh Reserved
0Eh Test F000h segment shadow to see whether it is R/W-able or not. If test

0Fh Reserved
10h Auto detect flash type to load appropriate flash R/W codes into the run

11h Reserved
12h Use walking 1’s algorithm to check out interface in CMOS circuitry.

13h Reserved
14h Program chipset default values into chipset. Chipset default values are

15h Reserved
16h Initial Early_Init_Onboard_Generator switch.
17h Reserved

- Auto-detection of DRAM size, type and ECC.

- Auto-detection of L2 cache (socket 7 or below)

2. Clear CMOS error flag

2. Initialize 8042 self-test

chips.

2. Enable keyboard interface.

2. Auto detect ports for keyboard & mouse followed by a port &
interface swap (optional).

3. Reset keyboard for Winbond 977 series Super I/O chips.

fails, keep beeping the speaker.

time area in F000 for ESCD & DMI support.

Also set real-time clock power status, and then check for override.

MODBINable by OEM customers.

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18h Detect CPU information including brand, SMI type (Cyrix or Intel) and

19-1Ah Reserved
1Bh Initial interrupts vector table. If no special specified, all H/W

1Ch Reserved
1Dh Initial EARLY_PM_INIT switch.
1Eh Reserved
1Fh Load keyboard matrix (notebook platform)
20h Reserved
21h HPM initialization (notebook platform)
22h Reserved
23h 1. Check validity of RTC value:

24-26h Reserved
27h Initialize INT 09 buffer
28h Reserved
29h 1. Program CPU internal MTRR (P6 & PII) for 0-640K memory

2A-2Ch Reserved
2Dh 1. Initialize multi-language

2E-32h Reserved
33h Reset keyboard except Winbond 977 series Super I/O chips.
34-3Bh Reserved
3Ch Test 8254
3Dh Reserved
3Eh Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1.
3Fh Reserved
40h Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 2.
41h Reserved
42h Reserved

CPU level (586 or 686).

interrupts are directed to SPURIOUS_INT_HDLR & S/W
interrupts to SPURIOUS_soft_HDLR.

e.g. a value of 5Ah is an invalid value for RTC minute.

2. Load CMOS settings into BIOS stack. If CMOS checksum fails, use
default value instead.

3. Prepare BIOS resource map for PCI & PnP use. If ESCD is valid,
take into consideration of the ESCD’s legacy information.

4. Onboard clock generator initialization. Disable respective clock
resource to empty PCI & DIMM slots.

5. Early PCI initialization:

-Enumerate PCI bus number

-Assign memory & I/O resource

-Search for a valid VGA device & VGA BIOS, and put it into C000:0.

address.

2. Initialize the APIC for Pentium class CPU.

3. Program early chipset according to CMOS setup.
Example: onboard IDE controller.

4. Measure CPU speed.

5. Invoke video BIOS.

2. Put information on screen display, including Award title, CPU type,
CPU speed ….

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43h Test 8259 functionality.
44h Reserved
45-46h Reserved
47h Initialize EISA slot
48h Reserved
49h 1. Calculate total memory by testing the last double word of each 64K

page.

4A-4Dh Reserved
4Eh 1. Program MTRR of M1 CPU

4Fh Reserved
50h Initialize USB
51h Reserved
52h Test all memory (clear all extended memory to 0)
53-54h Reserved
55h Display number of processors (multi-processor platform)
56h Reserved
57h 1. Display PnP logo

58h Reserved
59h Initialize the combined Trend Anti-Virus code.
5Ah Reserved
5Bh (Optional Feature) Show message for entering AWDFLASH.EXE

5Ch Reserved
5Dh 1. Initialize Init_Onboard_Super_IO switch.

5E-5Fh Reserved
60h Okay to enter Setup utility; i.e. not until this POST stage can users enter

61-64h Reserved
65h Initialize PS/2 Mouse
66h Reserved
67h Prepare memory size information for function call: INT 15h ax=E820h
68h Reserved
69h Turn on L2 cache
6Ah Reserved
6Bh Program chipset registers according to items described in Setup & Auto-

6Ch Reserved
6Dh 1. Assign resources to all ISA PnP devices.

2. Program writes allocation for AMD K5 CPU.

2. Initialize L2 cache for P6 class CPU & program CPU with proper
cacheable range.

3. Initialize the APIC for P6 class CPU.

4. On MP platform, adjust the cacheable range to smaller one in case
the cacheable ranges between each CPU are not identical.

2. Early ISA PnP initialization

-Assign CSN to every ISA PnP device.

from FDD (optional)

2. Initialize Init_Onbaord_AUDIO switch.

the CMOS setup utility.

configuration table.

2. Auto assign ports to onboard COM ports if the corresponding item
in Setup is set to “AUTO”.

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6Eh Reserved
6Fh 1. Initialize floppy controller

70-72h Reserved
73h (Optional Feature) Enter AWDFLASH.EXE if :

74h Reserved
75h Detect & install all IDE devices: HDD, LS120, ZIP, CDROM…..
76h Reserved
77h Detect serial ports & parallel ports.
78h-79h Reserved
7Ah Detect & install co-processor
7B-7Eh Reserved
7Fh 1. Switch back to text mode if full screen logo is supported.

80h-81h Reserved
82h 1. Call chipset power management hook.

83h Save all data in stack back to CMOS
84h Initialize ISA PnP boot devices
85h 1. USB final Initialization

86-92h Reserved
93h Read HDD boot sector information for Trend Anti-Virus code
94h 1. Enable L2 cache

95h 1. Program daylight saving

96h 1. Build MP table

FFh Boot attempt (INT 19h)

2. Set up floppy related fields in 40:hardware.

-AWDFLASH is found in floppy drive.

-ALT+F2 is pressed

-If errors occur, report errors & wait for keys

-If no errors occur or F1 key is pressed to continue:
 Clear EPA or customization logo.

2. Recover the text font used by EPA logo (not for full screen logo)

3. If password is set, ask for password.

2. NET PC: Build SYSID structure

3. Switch screen back to text mode

4. Set up ACPI table at top of memory.

5. Invoke ISA adapter ROMs

6. Assign IRQs to PCI devices

7. Initialize APM

8. Clear noise of IRQs.

2. Program boot up speed

3. Chipset final initialization.

4. Power management final initialization

5. Clear screen & display summary table

6. Program K6 write allocation

7. Program P6 class write combining

2. Update keyboard LED & typematic rate

2. Build & update ESCD

3. Set CMOS century to 20h or 19h

4. Load CMOS time into DOS timer tick

5. Build MSIRQ routing table.

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