Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product EP-6VBA EPoX Computer
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EP-6VBA T able of Contents Section 1 Introduction Components Checklist ....................................... 1-1 Overview Pentium ® II or Pentium ® III Processor ............... 1-2 S.E.C. Cartridge T erminology ........................... 1-3 Accelerated Graphics Port .
EP-6VBA Power Management Setup ................................. 4-1 1 PNP/PCI Configuration ..................................... 4-15 Load Setup Defaults .......................................... 4-17 Integrated Peripherals ........................
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Introduction EP-6VBA Page 1-1 Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist ü ü ü ü ü A . (1) EP-6VBA mainboard ü ü ü ü ü B. (1) EP-6VBA user’ s manual ü ü ü ü ü C. (1) Floppy ribbon cable ü ü ü ü ü D. (1) Hard drive ribbon cables ü ü ü ü ü E.
Introduction EP-6VBA Page 1-2 Ov er view Pentium ® II or P entium ® III Processor The Pentium ® II or Pentium ® III Processor is the follow-on to the Pentium ® Processor.
Introduction EP-6VBA Page 1-3 The entire enclosed product is called the Pentium ® II or Pentium ® III Processor. The packaging technology and each of the physical elements of the product are referred to using accurate technical descriptions. This allows clear reference to the products as just a processor.
Introduction EP-6VBA Page 1-4 The L2 cache (T agRAM, PBSRAM) components keep standard industry names. The Pentium ® II or Pentium ® III Processor is the first product to utilize the S.
Introduction EP-6VBA Page 1-5 EP-6VBA F or m-Factor The EP-6VBA is designed with A TX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. A TX form factor is essentially a Baby-A T baseboard rotated 90 degrees within the chassis enclosure and a new mounting configuration for the power supply .
Introduction EP-6VBA Page 1-6 EP-6VBA Board P ower-On/Off (Remote) The EP-6VBA has a single 20-pin connector for A TX power supplies. For A TX power supplies that support the Remote On/Off feature, this should be connected to the systems front panel for system Power On/Off button.
Introduction EP-6VBA Page 1-7 Figure 5: System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PA C PCI Br idge and memor y contr oller VT82C693 100/66MHz 100/66MHz 66MHz P entium II or Pro c e ss or P entium III .
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Features EP-6VBA Page 2-1 Section 2 FEA TURES EP-6VBA F eatur es: • EP-6VBA is based on the Pentium ® II/III Processor operating at 266 ~ 550MHz on Slot1. The board is configured by an ESSJ (Easy-Setting- Single-Jumper) to match your CPU clock speed.
Features EP-6VBA Page 2-2 • Supports the (4) Universal Serial Bus (USB) Ports. The onboard VT82C686A chip provides the means for connecting PC peripherals such as; keyboards, joysticks, telephones, and modems. • Built-in A TX 20-pin power supply connector .
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-1 Section 3 INST ALLA TION.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-2 Figure 1 EP-6VBA Detailed Layout.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-3 Easy Installation Procedur e Easy Installation Procedur e The following must be completed before powering on your new system: 3-1. Configure DIP Switch and Jumper to match your hardware 3-2. System memory Configuration 3-3.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-4 Section 3-2 System Memor y Configur a tion Memor y Layout The EP-6VBA supports (3) 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs can be either EDO (Enhanced Data Out) or SDRAM (Synchronized DRAM). • DIMM SDRAM may be 83MHz (12ns), 100MHz (10ns) or 125MHz (8ns) bus speed.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-5 DIMM Module Installation Figure 3 displays the notch marks and what they should look like on your DIMM memory module. DIMMs have 168-pins and two notches that will match with the onboard DIMM socket.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-6 Figure 5 DIMM Module clip after installation To remove the DIMM module simply press down both of the white clips on either side and the module will be released from the socket.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-7 Section 3-3 Installing a P entium II or Pentium III Pr ocessor The EP-6VBA uses the Single Edge Contact (SEC) slot for a Pentium ® II processor packaged in an SEC cartridge. The SEC slot is not compatible with other non-Pentium II processors.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-8 Now we need to secure the heatsink with the top half of the support (figure 9). Take the top piece of the support and slide it into the bottom fin (figure 9) on the heatsink and then push forward until it clips into the bottom base (figure 7) that is already there (figure 9).
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-9 Section 3-4 De vice Connector s Please install the motherboard into the chassis. Now that your motherboard is installed you are ready to connect all your connections (figure 10). J2: Chassis Panel Connector • Power LED, Speaker, Reset J3: Turbo LED, HDD LED, IR Conn.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-10 De vice Connector s (continued) J2 Speaker - Connect to the system's speaker for beeping 1. Speaker 3. GND 2. N/C 4. GND Reset - Closed to restart system. Power LED - Power LED connector 1. Power LED(+) 4. NC 2. N/C 5.
Installation EP-6VBA Page 3-11 Section 3-5 Exter nal Modem Ring-in Po wer ON and K eyboar d P ow er ON Functions (KBPO) On the basis of bounded functions in I/O chipset, the two serial ports are able to support the External Modem Ring-in Power ON function.
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BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-1 Section 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP BIOS Instr uctions A ward’ s ROM BIOS provides a built-in Setup program which allows user to modify the basic system configuration and hardware parameters. The modified data will be stored in a battery-backed CMOS, so that data will be retained even when the power is turned off.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-2 The 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 key ) to the item and pressing the ‘Enter ’ key .
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-3 Virus Warning : Disabled CPU Internal Cache : Enabled External Cache : Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking : Disabled Quick Power On Self Test : Enabled Boot Sequence : A, C, SCSI .
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-4 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 will appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-5 Boot Sequence : This category determines which drive is searched first by the O/S (Operating System). The default is A,C,SCSI. The following is your list of options: [A, C, SCSI].
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-6 IDE HDD Block Mode : IDE Block Mode allows the controller to access blocks of sectors rather than a single sector at a time. The default is Enabled. Enabled : Enabled IDE HDD Block Mode. Pr ovides higher HDD transfer rates. Disabled : Disable IDE HDD Block Mode.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-7 The default is 250. 250 : 250 msec. 500 : 500 msec. 750 : 750 msec. 1000 : 1000 msec. Security Option : This category allows you to limit access to the System and Setup, or just to Setup.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-8 C8000 - CBFFF Shadow : CC000 - CFFFF Shadow : D0000 - D3FFF Shadow : D4000 - D7FFF Shadow : D8000 - DBFFF Shadow : DC000 - DFFFF Shadow : These categories determine whether ROMs from option cards will be copied into RAM. This will be in 16K byte or 32K byte units, and the size will depend on chipset of the option card.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-9 Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 DRAM Timing : This value in this field is set by the system board manufacturer, depending on whether the board has paged DRAMs or EDO (extended data output) DRAMs. The Choice: Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5. SDRAM Cycle length : This setting defines the CAS timing parameter of the SDRAM in terms of clocks.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-10 Read Around write: DRAM optimization feature: If a memory read is addressed to a location whose latest write is being held in a buffer contents, and the read is not sent to the DRAM. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled Concurrent PCI/Host: When disabled, CPU bus will be occupied during the entire PCI operation period.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-11 OnChip USB : Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus(USB) controller and you have a USB peripheral. USB Keyboard Support : This controls the activation status of an optional USB keyboard that may be attached.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-12 Y ou can only change the content of Doze Mode, Standby Mode, and Suspend Mode when the Power Management is set to ‘User Define’. Power Management : Use this to select your Power Management selection. The default is User define.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-13 MODEM Use IRQ : Name the interrupt request (IRQ) line assigned to the modem (if any) on your system. Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-14 VGA: When set to On (default), any event occurring at a VGA port will awaken a system which has been powered down. LPT & COM: When set to On (default), any event occurring at a COM(serial)/LPT (printer) port will awaken a system which has been powered down.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-15 4-5 PNP/PCI Configuration The PNP/PCI configuration program is for the user to modify the PCI/ISA IRQ signals when various PCI/ISA cards are inserted in the PCI or ISA slots. W ARNING: Conflicting IRQ’ s may cause the system to not find certain devices.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-16 Reset Configuration Data : This setting allows you to clear ESCD data.. The default is Disabled. Disabled : Normal Setting. Enabled : If you have plugged in some Legacy car ds to the system and they wer e r ecorded into ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data), you can set this field to Enabled in or der to clear ESCD.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-17 4-6 Load Setup Defaults The “LOAD SETUP DEF AUL TS” function loads the system default data directly from ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly. This function will be necessary only when the system CMOS data is corrupted.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-18 Onchip IDE Channel : The default value is Enabled. Enabled : Enables Onboar d IDE primary port. Disabled : Disables Onboar d IDE primary port. Onchip IDE Channel : The default is Enabled. Enabled : Enables Onboar d IDE secondary port.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-19 Primary Slave UDMA : This allows you to select the mode of operation for the hard drive. The default is Auto. Auto : The computer will select the optimal setting. Disabled : The har d drive will run in normal mode. Secondary Master UDMA : This allows you to select the mode of operation for the hard drive.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-20 COM4 : Enable Onboar d Serial port 1 and address is 2E8H/IRQ3. Disabled : Disable Onboar d Serial port 1. Onboard Serial Port 2 : This field allows the user to configure the 2nd serial port.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-21 Onboard Parallel Mode : This field allows the user to select the parallel port mode. The default is ECP+EPP. Normal : Standar d mode. IBM PC/A T Compatible bidir ectional parallel port. EPP : Enhanced Parallel Port mode. ECP : Extended Capabilities Port mode.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-22 FM Port (388-38BH): Frequency modulation port at I/O port 388-38BH enabled/disabled. Game Port (200-207H): Built-in joystick port support disabled/enabled(default).
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-23 CPU Host Clock (CPU/PCI): Allows the external clock to be modified depending upon what FSB has been selected. Should not be used to clock processor faster than it was designed for. (See page A-1 1). The default is Default. 66MHz FSB options: Default, 66.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-24 4-9 Change Super visor or User Pass wor d T o change the password, choose the “SUPER VISOR P ASSWORD or USER P ASSWORD” option from the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu and press [Enter]. NOTE: Either “Setup” or “System” must be selected in the “Security Option” of the BIOS FEA TURES SETUP menu.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-25 4-10 IDE HDD Auto Detection The “IDE HDD auto detection” utility is a very useful tool, especially when you do not know which kind of hard disk type you are using. Y ou can use this utility to detect the correct disk type installed in the system automatically.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-26 If user set his HDD to NORMAL mode, the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528 Megabytes even though its physical size may be greater than that! LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode : A new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 Megabyte bottleneck.
BIOS EP-6VBA Page 4-27 Note: T o support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some software involved. All the software is located in the A ward HDD Service Routine (INT 13h). It may fail to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under an Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h.
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Appendix EP-6VBA A-1 Appendix A A-1 MEMOR Y MAP Address Range Size Description [00000-7FFFF] 512K Conventional memory [80000-9FBFF] 127K Extended Conventional memory [9FC00-9FFFF] 1 K Extended BIOS da.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-2 [3B0-3BF] MONOCHROME & P ARALLEL port adapter . [3C0-3CF] EGA adapter. [3D0-3DF] CGA adapter. [3F0-3F7] FLOPPY DISK controller. [3F8-3FF] SERIAL port 1. A-3 TIMER & DMA CHANNELS MAP TIMER MAP: TIMER C hannel 0 System timer interrupt.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-3 1 2 PS/2 Mouse. 1 3 MA TH coprocessor . 1 4 Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. 1 5 Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. A-5 RT C & CMOS RAM MAP R TC & CMOS: 0 0 Seconds. 0 1 Second alarm. 0 2 Minutes. 0 3 Minutes alarm. 0 4 Hours.
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Appendix EP-6VBA A-5 Appendix B B- 1 POST CODES ISA POST codes are typically output to I/O port address 80h. POST (hex) DESC R IPTION 01-02 Reserved. C0 T urn off OEM specific cache, shadow . 0 3 1. Initialize EISA registers (EISA BIOS only). 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-6 0C Initialization of the BIOS Data Area. (40:ON - 40:FF) 0 D 1. Program some of the Chipset's value according to Setup. (Early Setup V alue Program) 2. Measure CPU speed for display & decide the system clock speed. 3. V ideo initialization including Monochrome, CGA, EGA/VGA.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-7 3E T ry to turn on Level 2 cache. Note: Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cache in this stage. But usually, the cache is turn on later in POST 61h. 3F-40 Reserved. B F 1. Program the rest of the Chipset's value according to Setup.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-8 6 1 1. T ry to turn on Level 2 cache. Note: If L2 cache is already turned on in POST 3D, this part will be skipped. 2. Set the boot up speed according to Setup setting. 3. Last chance for Chipset initialization. 4. Last chance for Power Management initialization.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-9 Appendix C NOTE: The " LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS " function loads the system default data directly from ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly. This function will be necessary when you accept this mainboard, or the system CMOS data is corrupted.
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Appendix EP-6VBA A-11 Appendix D D-1 Sound Driver Quic k Installation Guide Install windows 95/98 Sound Driver **Installation Notes: Y ou must already have W indows 95/98 install on your computer . 1. Login windows 95/98, then click “My Computer” icon, “Control Panel” icon, and “System” icon.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-12 3. Please remove the yellow question mark then click "refresh", windows will detect it's presence and display the following dialog. 4. Click "Next" button, it will find Floppy A: 5. Click "Other Locations¡K"button 6.
Appendix EP-6VBA A-13 D-2 A GP Dri v er Quick Installation Guide Install windows 95/98/NT V4.0 Driver **Installation Notes: 1. Before installing W indows 95 Driver , please do install W indows 95 OSR2.0 "USB SUPP .EXE" first (upgrades OS up to OSR2.
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