Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product A7V266-MX Asus
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Motherboard A7V266-MX User Guide.
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iii Features Contents Contents ..................................................................................................... iii Notices ........................................................................................................ v Safety information .
iv Safeguards Contents 2.5 Advanced Menu ........................................................................... 2-12 2.5.1 Chip Configuration ......................................................... 2-13 2.5.2 I/O Device Configuration ..........
v Canadian Department of Communications Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications. This class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.
vi Safety information Electrical safety • T o prevent electrical shock hazard, disconnect the power cable from the electrical outlet before relocating the system. • When adding or removing devices to or from the system, ensure that the power cables for the devices are unplugged before the signal cables are connected.
vii A7V266-MX specification summar y (continued next page) Socket A for AMD Athlon ™ XP/Athlon ™ /Duron processors VIA KM266 VIA VT8235 CE 266/200 MHz 2 x 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets support up to maximum 2GB unbuffered PC2100/1600 non-ECC DDR SDRAM memory .
viii A7V266-MX specification summar y * Specifications are subject to change without notice. PCI 2.2, USB 2.0 WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL/WOR by PME, chassis intrusion Device drivers ASUS PC Probe ASUS Upda.
Chapter 1 This chapter describes the features of this motherboard. It includes brief descriptions of the motherboard components, and illustrations of the layout, jumper settings, and connectors.
1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction 1 . 1 W elcome! Thank you for buying the ASUS ® A7V266-MX motherboard! The ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard is loaded with the most advanced technologies to deliver maximum performance for Socket A processors. This motherboard is packed with value-added features for guaranteed consumer satisfaction.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-3 SoundMAX Digital Audio System The SoundMax Digital Audio System is the industry ’ s highest performance and most reliable audio solution for business professionals, audiophiles, musicians, and gamers. SoundMAX Digital Audio System can output 5.
1-4 Chapter 1: Product introduction 1 .4 Motherboard com ponents Before you install the motherboard, learn about its major components and available features to facilitate the installation and future upgrades. Refer to the succeeding pages for the component descriptions.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-5 CPU socket. Socket 462 (Socket A) Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket for AMD Athlon XP ™ /Athlon ™ /Duron ™ processor . Northbridge. The VIA KM266 Northbridge controller chipset supports a 64-bit DDR memory controller and up to 2GB of 266/200MHz DDR memory .
1-6 Chapter 1: Product introduction Southbridge. The VIA VT8235 CE Southbridge controller communicates with the north bridge at rates of up to 533MB/s using the VIA 8X VLink T echnology . The Southbridge controller provides ef ficient bandwith requirements for PCI, USB and support for LAN devices.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-7 1 .5 Motherboard layout 24.5cm (9.6in) PCI1 P ANEL A7V266-MX ® CR2032 3V Lithium Cell CMOS Power CD1 AUX1 Super I/O 2Mbit Firmware Hub PS/2KBMS T : Mouse B: Ke yboard Below:Mic In Center:Line Out T op:Line In Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP1) CPU_F AN FP_AUDIO AD1980 CODEC USB2.
1-8 Chapter 1: Product introduction 1 .6 Motherboard ins tallation The A7V266-MX uses the Micro A TX form factor , measuring 24.5 cm (9.6 in.) x 24.5 cm (9.6 in.) - a standard fit for most large chassis. 1.6.1 Placement direction Orient the motherboard with the chassis before installation.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-9 1 .7 Before you proceed T ake note of the following precautions before you install motherboard components or change any motherboard settings. 1. Unplug the power cord from the wall socket before touching any component.
1-10 Chapter 1: Product introduction 1 .8 Central Pr ocessing Unit (CPU) The motherboard provides a Socket A (462) for CPU installation. The A7V266-MX supports Athlon ™ XP processors with “ QuantiSpeed ” data processing, large data caches, 3D enhancements and 266/200MHz bus speeds.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-11 1 .9 System memor y The motherboard has two Double Data Rate (DDR) DIMM sockets that supports up to 2GB non-ECC PC2100/1600 DDR SDRAM DIMMs. Each DIMM socket is two-sided. DIMMs come in combinations of single or double-sided types ranging through 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1 GB.
1-12 Chapter 1: Product introduction IRQ assignments for this motherboard ABCD PCI slot 1 shared ––– PCI slot 2 – shared –– PCI slot 3 –– shared – AGP slot shared ––– 1. 10 Expansion slots The A7V266-MX motherboard has three (3) PCI and one (1) Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP).
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-13 1.10.3 PCI slots Three 32-bit PCI slots are available on this motherboard. The slots support PCI cards such as LAN card, SCSI card, USB card, and other cards that comply with PCI specifications. This figure shows a typical PCI card installed into a slot: 1.
1-14 Chapter 1: Product introduction A7V266-MX ® ON 12345 A7V266-MX DIP Switches DSW ON OFF 1.Frequency Selection 2.Frequency Selection 3.Frequency Selection 4.Frequency Selection 5.Frequency Selection 1 . 1 1 Switch and jumper s The motherboard frequency is adjusted through the DIP switches.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-15 2. USB device wake-up (3-pin USBPWR12, USBPWR34, USBPWR56) Set these jumpers to +5V to wake up the computer from S1 sleep mode (CPU stopped, DRAM refreshed, system running in low power mode) using the connected USB devices.
1-16 Chapter 1: Product introduction 3. Clear RTC RAM (CLRTC) This jumper clears the Real T ime Clock (RTC) RAM of date, time and system setup parameters in CMOS. The RAM data in CMOS is powered by the onboard button cell battery . T o erase the RTC RAM: 1.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-17 1 . 12 Connectors This section describes and illustrates the connectors on the motherboard. 1. IDE connectors (40-1 pin PRI_IDE, SEC_IDE) This connector supports the provided UltraDMA IDE hard disk ribbon cable.
1-18 Chapter 1: Product introduction 4. A TX power connectors (20-pin A TXPWR) These connectors connect to an A TX 12V power supply . The plugs from the power supply are designed to fit these connectors in only one orientation. Find the proper orientation and push down firmly until the connectors completely fit.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-19 5. USB header (10-1 pin USB56) If the USB 2.0 port connectors on the back panel are inadequate, a USB header is available for two additional USB port connectors. Connect a 2-port USB connector set to a USB header and mount the USB bracket to an open slot in the chassis.
1-20 Chapter 1: Product introduction 7. CPU and Chassis Fan Connectors (3-pin CPU_F AN, CHA_F AN) The fan connectors support cooling fans of 350mA~740mA (8.88W max). Connect the fan cables to the fan connectors on the motherboard, making sure that the black wire of each cable matches the ground pin of the connector .
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 1-21 10. Internal audio connectors (4 pin CD, AUX) These connectors allow you to receive stereo audio input from sound sources such as a CD-ROM, TV tuner , MPEG card or modem.
1-22 Chapter 1: Product introduction 1 1. System panel connector (20-pin P ANEL) This connector accommodates several system front panel functions. • System Power LED Lead (3-1 pin PLED) This 3-1 pin connector connects to the system power LED. The LED lights up when you turn on the system power , and blinks when the system is in sleep mode.
Chapter 2 This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. Detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided.
2-2 Chapter 2: BIOS Information 2. 1 Managing and updating your BIOS • The original BIOS file for this motherboard is in the support CD. • Copy the original BIOS to a bootable floppy disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. 2.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk 1.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-3 2.1.2 Updating BIOS using the A wardBIOS Flash Utility The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) can be updated using the built-in Flash Memory Writer utility or using a bootable floppy disk with the executable Flash Memory Writer Utility (A WDFLASH.
2-4 Chapter 2: BIOS Information Updating BIOS via a bootable floppy disk 1. Boot from the floppy disk. 2. At the “ A: ” prompt, type “ C: ” and then press <Enter>. 3. At the “ C: ” prompt, type “ A WDFLASH/ BIOSFILENAME ” and then <Enter>.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-5 2.3 BIOS Setup progr am This motherboard supports a programmable FLASH ROM that you can update using the provided utility described in section “ 2.
2-6 Chapter 2: BIOS Information 2.3.1 BIOS menu bar The top of the screen has a menu bar with the following selections: MAIN Use this menu to make changes to the basic system configuration. ADV ANCED Use this menu to enable and make changes to the advanced features.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-7 General help In addition to the Item Help window , the BIOS setup program also provides a General Help screen. Y ou may launch this screen from any menu by simply pressing <F1>. The General Help screen lists the legend keys and their corresponding functions.
2-8 Chapter 2: BIOS Information Date [mm/dd/yy] Sets the system to the date that you specify (usually the current date). The format is month, day , year . V alid values for month, day , and year are Month: (1 to 12), Day: (1 to 31), Y ear: (1999 to 2099).
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-9 Set Supervisor Password [Clear] / Set User Password [Clear] These fields allow you to set passwords. T o set a password, highlight the appropriate field and press <Enter>. T ype in a password then press <Enter>.
2-10 Chapter 2: BIOS Information 2.4.1 IDE Primary Master/Slave IDE Secondary Master/Slave IDE HDD Auto-Detection [Press Enter] Press enter to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive, if the hard drive is not already detected.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-11 [Manual] & [CHS] Settings Manually enter the number of cylinders, heads and sectors per track for the drive.
2-12 Chapter 2: BIOS Information 2.5 Advanced Menu The Advanced menu displays the CPU type, speed, cache RAM, front side bus frequency and DRAM frequency information. It also contains the following BIOS parameters. DRAM Clock [By SPD] The DRAM clock are set according to the DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect).
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-13 PS/2 Mouse Function Control [Enabled] Setting this option to Enabled allows the operating system to determine whether to enable or disable the mouse. Set to Disabled prevents any installed PS/2 mouse from functioning and frees up IRQ 12.
2-14 Chapter 2: BIOS Information AGP Aperture Size [XXXMB] This field sets the size of mapped memory for AGP graphic data. Configuration options: [4M] [8M] [16M] [32M] [64M] [128M] [256M] [512M] [1G] AGP Mode [4X] AGP 4X transfers video data at 1066MB/s and is backward-compatible to AGP 1X video card.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-15 DRAM Clock/Drive Control DRAM Timing [Safe] DRAM CAS Latency [2.5] Bank Interleave [Disabled] Pre-charge to Active (Trp) [2T] Active to CMD (Trcd) [2T] DRAM Burst Lenght [4] DRAM Command Rate [2T Command] Write Recovery Time [3T] DRAM Clock/Drive Control Press [Enter] to select DRAM Timing Mode.
2-16 Chapter 2: BIOS Information CPU & PCI Bus Control PCI1 Master 0 WS Write [Enabled] PCI2 Master 0 WS Write [Enabled] Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] PCI1 Post Write [Enabled] PCI2 .
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-17 IDE DMA T ransfer Access [Enabled] Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] OnChip IDE Channel 0 [Enabled] OnChip IDE Channel 1 [Enabled] Configuration op.
2-18 Chapter 2: BIOS Information Swap Floppy Drive [Disabled] Enable this option to assign physical drive B to logical drive A, and vice-versa. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Onboard FDC Controller [Enabled] This field allow you to enable the onboard FDC controller .
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-19 EPP Mode Select [EPP1.7] This item allows you to set the EPP mode. The default setting is EPP1.7. This selection is available only if you select [EPP] or [ECP+EPP] in the Parallel Port Mode item. Configuration options: [EPP1.
2-20 Chapter 2: BIOS Information 2.5.3 PCI Configuration Resources Controlled by [Auto (ESCD)] When set to [Auto (ESCD)], BIOS automatically configures all boot Plug and Play devices. Setting to [Manual] enables the IRQ Resources sub-menu for manual assignment of IRQ addresses.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-21 IRQ 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 1 1, 12, 14, 15 assigned to [PCI Device] The IRQ Resources sub-menu is activated when the Resources Controlled by parameter is set to [Manual]. Select [PCI Device] to assign an IRQ address to a Plug and Play device.
2-22 Chapter 2: BIOS Information 2.5.4 Frequency/V oltage Control Spread Spectrum [ Disabled ] CPU Clock [100] Frequency/Voltage Control Spread Spectrum [Disabled] This field enables or disables the clock generator spread spectrum. Configuration options: [Disabled] [-1.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-23 2.6 Power Menu ACPI Function [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable the ACPI 2.0 support. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] ACPI Suspend Mode [S1 (POS)] Allows you to select the ACPI state to used for system suspend.
2-24 Chapter 2: BIOS Information V ideo Off Method [V/H Sync+Blank] This field defines the video off features. The Display Power Management System (DPMS) feature allows the BIOS to control the video display card if it supports the DPMS feature. [Blank Screen] only blanks the screen.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-25 2.6.1 Power Up Control PS2KB W akeup Select [Hot Key] This parameter allows you to use specific keys on the keyboard to turn on the system. This feature requires an A TX power supply that provides at least 1A on the +5VSB lead.
2-26 Chapter 2: BIOS Information CPU Fan Check [Enabled] Setting this option to Enabled allows the onboard hardware monitor to check the CPU fan speed. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] System Fan Check [Enabled] This option allows the onboard hardware monitor to check the system fan rotation.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 2-27 2.7 Boot Menu First, Second, Third, Fourth Boot Device The Boot Menu allows you to select 13 types of boot devices. Promotion or demotion of devices alters the priority which the system uses to boot device on system power up.
2-28 Chapter 2: BIOS Information Save & Exit Setup Once you are finished making your selections, choose this option from the Exit menu to ensure the values you selected are saved to the CMOS RAM. The CMOS RAM is sustained by an onboard backup battery and stays on even when the PC is turned off.
Chapter 3 This chapter describes the contents of the support CD that comes with the motherboard package. Software support.
3-2 Chapter 3: Software support 3. 1 Installing an oper ating system This motherboard supports Windows ® 98SE/ME/2000/XP as well as Linux Red Hat, SuSE, T urboLinux and Caldera operating systems (OS). Always install the latest OS version and corresponding updates so you can maximize the features of your hardware.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 3-3 3.2.2 Drivers menu The drivers menu shows the available device drivers if the system detects installed devices.
3-4 Chapter 3: Software support ASUS PC Probe This utility continuously monitors vital system information such as fan rotations, CPU temperature, and system voltages, and alerts you on any detected problems. This utility helps you keep your computer in a healthy operating condition.
ASUS A7V266-MX motherboard user guide 3-5 3.2.4 ASUS contact information Click the Contact tab to display ASUS contact information..
3-6 Chapter 3: Software support.
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