User manual ABIT AR5E

[. . . ] Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction of AR5 Features ¬ Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 - Layout diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 ® System block diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Chapter 2 Installing the Mainboard ¬ Standard External Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 - Jumpers and Switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10 ® Presentation and Installation of the CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 ¯ Installing System Memory ¡i DRAM Memory ¡j . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14 Chapter 3 Introduction of BIOS ¬ CPU setup ¡i CPU SOFT MENUTM¡j . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 - Standard CMOS Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9 ® BIOS Features Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11 ¯ Chipset Features Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17 ° Power Management Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19 ± PCI & Onboard I/O Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23 ² Load BIOS Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28 ³ Load Setup Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28 ´ Password Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29 µ IDE HDD Auto Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30 Appendix A Quick Installation Appendix B Intel Pentium CPUs Appendix C AMD-K5 CPUs Appendix D Cyrix 6x86 CPUs Appendix E General Discussion about HDD Installation Part No:MN-086-B21-21 Rev:1. 01 Appendix F Technical Support Introduction of AR5 Features 1-1 Chapter 1 Introduction of AR5 Features The AR5 have been especially designed for File server, Workstation and Professional users. It can support a wide range of processors, including all Intel CPUs (P54C) and Intel CPUs with MMX (P55C), as well as all AMD-K5 and Cyrix 6x86/6x86L CPUs. The AR5 uses SOFT MENUTM technology, which means that all the parameters can be configured without using DIP switches or jumpers. The configuration is entirely achieved through a "Soft Switch" that allows the user to set CPU speed and operating voltage with ease. [. . . ] Typematic Rate Setting: This item allows you to adjust the keystroke repeat rate. When enabled, you can set the two keyboard typematic control that follow (Typematic Rate and Typematic Rate Delay). If this item is disabled, the BIOS will use the default setting. Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec): When you press a key continuously, the keyboard will repeat the keystroke according to the rate you have set. (Unit: characters/second ¡^ Typematic Rate Delay (Msec): When you press a key continuously, if you exceed the delay you have set here, the keyboard will automatically repeat the keystroke according a certain rate. (Unit: milliseconds) 3-14 Chapter 3 Security Option: This option can be set to System or to Setup. After you have created a password through PASSWORD SETTING, this option will deny access to your system (System) or modification of computer setup (BIOS Setup) by unauthorized users. ä SYSTEM: When you choose System, a password is required each time the computer boots up. ä SETUP: When you choose Setup, a password is required only when accessing the BIOS Setup. If you have not set a password in the PASSWORD SETTING option, this option is not available. If you forget the password, you will t have to open the computer case and clear all information in the CMOS before you can start up the system. But doing this, you have to reset all the options you had set up before. PCI /VGA Palette Snoop: This option allows the BIOS to preview VGA Status, and to modify the information delivered from the Feature Connector of the VGA card to the MPEG Card. This option can solve the display inversion to black after you have used the MPEG card. OS Select For DRAM > 64MB: When the system memory is bigger than 64MB, the communication method between the BIOS and the operating system will differ from one operating system to another. If you use OS/2, select OS2; if you choose another operating system, select Non-OS2. Video BIOS Shadow: This option is used to define whether the BIOS on the video card uses shadow feature or not. You should set this option to Enable, otherwise the display performance of the system will greatly decrease. Introduction of BIOS 3-15 Shadowing address ranges (C8000-CBFFF Shadow): This option allows you to decide if the memory block (BIOS) of an interface card at the address C8000-CBFFF uses the shadow feature or not. If you have no interface card using this memory block, don' enable this t option. Shadowing address ranges (CC000-CFFFF Shadow): This option allows you to decide if the memory block (BIOS) of an interface card at the address CC000-CFFFF uses the shadow feature or not. If you have no interface card using this memory block, don' enable this t option. Shadowing address ranges (D0000-D3FFF Shadow): This option allows you to decide if the memory block (BIOS) of an interface card at the address D0000-D3FFF uses the shadow feature or not. If you have no interface card using this memory block, don' enable this t option. Shadowing address ranges (D4000-D7FFF Shadow): This option allows you to decide if the memory block (BIOS) of an interface card at the address D4000-D7FFF uses the shadow feature or not. If you have no interface card using this memory block, don' enable this t option. Shadowing address ranges (D8000-DBFFF Shadow): This option allows you to decide if the memory block (BIOS) of an interface card at the address D8000-DBFFF uses the shadow feature or not. If you have no interface card using this memory block, don' enable this t option. Shadowing address ranges (DC000-DFFFF Shadow): This option allows you to decide if the memory block (BIOS) of an interface card at the address DC000-DFFFF uses the shadow feature or not. If you have no interface card using this memory block, don' enable this t option. 3-16 Chapter 3 Computer knowledge SHADOW What is the SHADOW?The BIOS of standard video or interface cards is stored in ROM, and it is often very slow. With the Shadow feature, the CPU reads the BIOS on the VGA card and copies it into RAM. [. . . ] Keep the VGA card and the t interface card that causes the problem inserted on the mainboard, remove any other card or peripheral, and start again. If you still cannot start, note down the information related to both cards in the Add-On Card space provided, and don' forget to indicate t the mainboard model, version, BIOS identification number, CPU (refer to main instructions), and give a description of the problem. F-2 Appendix F 2 Example 2: With a system including the mainboard (with CPU, DRAM, COAST. . . ) HDD, CD-ROM, FDD, VGA CARD, LAN CARD, MPEG CARD, SCSI CARD, SOUND CARD, after assembly and after having installed the Sound Card Driver, when you restart the system, when it runs the Sound Card Driver, it resets automatically. procedure, press SHIFT (BY-PASS) key, to skip CONFIG. SYS and AUTOEXEC. BAT; edit CONFIG. SYS with a text editor, and in front on the line that loads the Sound Card Driver, add a remark REM, in order to disable the Sound Card Driver. CONFIG. SYS: DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM. SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386. EXE HIGHSCAN DOS=HIGH, UMB FILES=40 BUFFERS=36 REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\PLUGPLAY\DWCFGMG. SYS LASTDRIVE=Z Restart the system. [. . . ]