VTech i440 User Manual

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Electronic Emission Notices

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement

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 and, if not installed and used in
accordance with instructions contained in this manual, may cause harmful interference
to radio and television communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference
will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful 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 RELOCA TE THE RECEIVING ANTENNA

- INCREASE THE SEP ARATION BETWEEN THE EQUIPMENT AND THE RECEIVER

- CONNECT THE EQUIPMENT INTO AN OUTLET ON A CIRCUIT DIFFERENT FROM
THA T OF THE RECEIVER

- CONSUL T THE DEALER OR AN EXPERIENCED AUDIO/TELEVISION
TECHNICIAN

NOTE: Connecting this device to peripheral devices that do not comply with Class B

requirements, or using an unshielded peripheral data cable, could also result
in harmful interference to radio or television reception.

The user is cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved
by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to
operate this equipment.

To ensure that the use of this product does not contribute to interference, it is
necessary to use shielded I/O cables.

Copyright

This manual is copyrighted with all rights reserved. No portion of this manual may be copied or
reproduced by any means.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this manual, no responsibility for errors
or omissions is assumed. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the
information contained herein.

Trademarks

All brand names, logos and registered trademarks mentioned are property of their respective owners.

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Technical Reference Booklet

T able of Contents

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION .............................................................. 3

Key Features ............................................................................................... 3

Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35893200XX) ............................... 5

Jumper Settings .......................................................................................... 6

CPU Speed Selection ............................................................................ 6

JP1 - Host Bus Speed Select ................................................................ 6

JP4 - CMOS Clear.................................................................................. 6

JP28 - Keyboard Power on Password Clear ........................................ 7

JP29 - Keyboard Power Select .............................................................. 7

Keyboard Password Power on .............................................................. 7

JP8, JP23 - BIOS Program Voltage ....................................................... 7

JP20 - On Board PCI Sound Selection.................................................. 7

Pin List of Special Connectors .................................................................... 8

Memory Configuration ................................................................................. 8

To install DIMMs .......................................................................................... 8

Installing the Processor .............................................................................. 9

BIOS SETUP ............................................................................................... 1 0

Starting Setup .............................................................................................. 1 0

Main Menu ................................................................................................... 10

Standard CMOS Setup ................................................................................ 1 2

BIOS Features Setup................................................................................... 1 4

Chipset Features Setup .............................................................................. 14

Power Management Setup .......................................................................... 14

PNP/PCI Configuration Setup ..................................................................... 14

Integrated Peripherals ................................................................................ 1 4

Supervisor/User Password Setting ............................................................ 14

Flash Update Procedure ............................................................................. 16

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HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

This motherboard is based on the Intel® 82440BX/ZX/VIA®VT82C693 chipset.
The chipset is a highly integrated solution for a cost-effective and compact
motherboard. The motherboard supports SDRAM, Registered SDRAM. Features
on-board include super-I/O, Ultra DMA33/66(DMA66 only for VT82C596B) PCI
bus master IDE, AGP Ver . 1.0, PCI V er 2.1 compliance, USB, VRM 8.4 compliance,
ECC (only for 440BX/VIA®VT82C693), Micro ATX specification 1.0 compliance ,
On-board PCI Sound Sub-system (optional).

Key Features
Processor

• Full support for the Mendocino PPGA processors using PGA370 Socket.

• Supports 66MHz and 100MHz bus speed including 300MHz to 533MHz
Mendocino PPGA processor and future PPGA processor.

CPU Speed Jumperless

• Jumper setting or no jumper is needed to set for various speed of CPU
(Factory optional).

VRM (Voltage Regulator Modules) on Board

• Flexible motherboard design with on-board VRM 8.4, easy to upgrade
with Intel’s® Future Overdrive® processors.

Cache

• Processor built-in L2 cache.

System Memory

• A total of two 168-pin DIMM sockets.

• Up to 256MB (SDRAM) or 512MB (Registered SDRAM).

• Supports SDRAM (only for 66MHz Bus speed).

• Supports PC-100, Registered SDRAM (for 100MHz Bus speed).

Memory Organization

T wo 168-pin DIMM Socket

• Supports single-density DIMMs of 1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB and 16MB depth
(x64 or 72).

• Supports double-density DIMMs of 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB and 32MB
depth (x64 or 72).

• Supports error checking correction (ECC) using parity DRAM modules.
(only for440BX/VIA® VT82C693).

• Banks of different DRAM types depths can be mixed.

Expansion Slots

• 1 AGP slot (ver. 1.0, 1x/2x mode supported).

• 3 PCI bus master slots (ver. 2.1 compliant, with 1 PCI slot sharing with
1 ISA slot).

• 1 ISA slot (1 ISA slot sharing with 1 PCI slot).

On-Board I/O

• Two PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 4 A T A2, Ultra DMA 33/66 (DMA66
only for VT82C596B) IDE HDDs, CD-Roms, ZIP devices and LS-120

Hardware Setup

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Technical Reference Booklet

drivers as boot drive.

• Supports bus master IDE, PIO mode 4 (up to 16M bytes/sec) and Ultra
DMA 33/66 (DMA66 only for VT82C596B)(up to 33/66M bytes/sec) transfer.

• One ECP/EPP parallel port .

• Two 16550-compatible UART serial ports.

• One floppy port supporting two FDDs of 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB
or 2.88MB formated capacity.

• Two USB ports.

• PS/2 keyboard port.

• PS/2 mouse port.

• Infrared (IrDA) support (via a header).

• One Line / Speaker out, one Mic in, one Line in and MIDI / Gameport(optional).

System BIOS

• 2MB flash BIOS supporting PnP , APM, A TAPI, ACPI and DMI.

• Jumper selection for 5V or 12V flash memory voltage.

• Auto detects and supports LBA hard disks with formatted capacities
over 8.4GB.

• Easily upgradable by end-user.

Plug-and-Play

• Supports plug-and-play specification 1.1.

• Plug-and-play for DOS, Windows® 3.X, Windows® 95 as well as
Windows® 98.

• Fully steerable PCI interrupts.

Power Management

• Supports SMM, APM and ACPI.

• Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operation.

• Energy star “Green PC” compliant .

• Supports WAKE-ON-LAN (WOL).

• Supports Wake on Ring for External Modem.

On Board PCI Sound Sub-system (optional)

• Integrated Creative ES1373 PCI Sound Sub-system.

• Including complete audio and play back system.

• 64 Voice Wave Table Synthesizer.

• DOS game compatibility.

• PCI bus master for fast DMA.

• Fully Compliant with AC97 Power Management Specification.

Keyboard Password Turn ON

• Special feature for system security.

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Hardware Setup

Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35893200XX)

The following diagrams show the relative positions of the jumpers, connectors, major
components and memory banks on the motherboard.

W aring:

All connectors on board are labeled Pin “1” at one conner. Ribbon
cables should always be connected with the red stripe on the Pin “1”
side of the connector.

1

111

1

CN31

CN32

CN17-CPU Fan

JP8