Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product SY-7IWM SOYO
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SY-7IWM Motherboard Quick Start Guide Hardware Installation Quick BIOS Setup Introduction The SOYO CD.
SOY O ™ 2 SY-7IWM Motherboard Socket 370 for Intel Pentiu m ® & Celeron TM processors Intel FW82810E AGP/PCI/AMR Motherboard 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus supported Micro ATX Form Factor Copyright © 2000 by Soyo Computer Inc. Trademarks: Soyo is the registered trademark of Soyo Computer Inc.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 3 Introduction 1 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY-7IWM Motherboard. This Quick Start Guide illustrates the steps for installing and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide provides all users with the basic steps of Motherboard setting and operation.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 4 Introduction SY-7IWM Motherboard Layout (Optional) VG A PR T PS/2 K B Connecto r PS/2 Mous e Connector PCI Slot # 1 PCI Slot # 3 AM R 3 V Lithiu m Battery CPUFA N 1 Winbon .
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 5 Introduction Key Features Ø Supports Inte l ® processors - FSB 66MHz: Celeron (400-700MHz) - FSB 100MHz: Pentiu m ® III (500- 850MHz) - FSB 133MHz: Pentiu m ® III (533MHz- 1.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 6 Hardware Installation 2 2 Installation To avoid damage to your Motherboard, please follow these simple rules while handling this equipment: l Before handling the Motherboard, ground yourself by touching on to an unpainted portion of the system's metal chassis.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 7 Hardware Installation Install the Motherboard To perform the installation of your new SY-7IWM Motherboard, follow the steps below: Step 1. CPU Installation Mark your CPU Frequency: Record the working frequency of your CPU that should be clearly marked on the CPU cover.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 8 Hardware Installation Step 2. Connections to the Motherboard This section tells how to connect internal peripherals and the power supply to the Motherboard.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 9 Hardware Installation Step 3. Configure Memory Your board comes with three DIMM sockets, and provides support up to 512MB main memory using DIMM modules from 8MB to 256MB.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 10 Quick BIOS Setup 3 3 Quick BIOS Setup This Motherboard does not require any hardware jumpers to set the CPU operating frequency. Instead, CPU settings are software configurable through the BIOS [Soyo Combo Feature]. The [Soyo Combo Feature] menu combines the main parameters that you need to configure your system.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 11 The SOYO CD 4 4 The S OY O CD The SOYO-CD will NOT autorun if you use it on an Operating System other than Windows 9x or NT.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 12 The SOYO CD The user's manual files included on the SOYO CD are in PDF (Postscript Document) format. In order to read a PDF file , the appropriate Acrobat Reader software must be installed in your system.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 13 The SOYO CD (Driver Installation Menu) A short description of all available drivers follows: Ø Intel Whitney VGA Drivers for Win 9x In order to be able to make use of the integrated VGA function in your Whitney chipset, you will need to install this driver first.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 14 The SOYO CD Ø Sigmatel Staggato Gold Application for Win 95/98/NT This application contains the wavetable that is necessary to play MIDI files. Make sure to install it after installing the Sigmatel drivers for your OS. Ø Whitney Winbond hardware doctor for win95/98 Your motherboard comes with a hardware monitoring IC.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 15 Quick Trouble shoot tips Video (no display) related issues I built a new computer system using a Soyo board and nothing happens when turning it on, no video and no beeps from the PC speaker. What is happening and how can it be fixed ? No screen and no beeps mean that your CPU and motherboard do not work at all.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 16 I get distorted video my AGP card right after I save my bios. Why is that? The cause is likely that your AGP card is not running at the correct bus speed. To fix this, please clear the CMOS via JP5 and if it still does not work, please upgrade your motherboard bios to the latest version.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 17 In Device Manager, I keep getting yellow exclamation signs on my sound port even though I have installed my sound driver several times and I could not get my sound card to work. What is wrong? It is likely that you did not have the correct driver installed.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 18 How to contact us: n If you are interested in our products, please contact the SOYO sales department in the region you live. n If you require Technical Assistance, please contact our Technical Support in the region you live.
SY-7IWM Quick Start Guide 19 SOYO Deutschland GmbH August-Wilhelm-K u hnholz-Str. 15 D-26135 Oldenburg Region Covered: Germany, Web Site: www.saat.de , www.soyo- saat.com , www.soyo-saat.de Vertrieb Mainboards , Notebooks und SoyoCom Produkte: E-Mail: sales@soyo.
Edition: December 2000 Version 1.1 SY-7IWM SERIAL.
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If you have not bought SOYO SY-7IWM yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data SOYO SY-7IWM - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, SOYO SY-7IWM you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get SOYO SY-7IWM will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
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However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with SOYO SY-7IWM. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device SOYO SY-7IWM along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
