User manual AOPEN AP53-ORG

[. . . ] AP53 Mainboard User Guide Copyright Copyright 1996 by this company. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company. ii Disclaimer This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. [. . . ] 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 the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio 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: 1. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for help. Notice 1: The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. Notice 2: Shielded interface cables, if any, must be used in order to comply with emission limits. iv About This Manual Purpose and Scope This manual tells how to install and configure the system board. Organization This manual consists of three chapters and one appendix: Chapter 1, Overview, covers the specifications, layout, and components of the system board. Chapter 2, Hardware Installation, tells how to install the hardware components, configure the system by resetting the jumpers, install the system board and add expansion cards. Chapter 3, AMI BIOS Utility, explains the system BIOS and tells how to configure the system by setting the BIOS parameters. Appendix A, Jumper and Connector Summary, gives you a tabular summary of the jumper settings and onboard connectors discussed in Chapter 2. v About This Manual Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual: Text entered by user, default settings, recommended selections Represent text input by the user, default settings and recommended selections a, e, s, etc Represent the actual keys that you have to press on the keyboard. [. . . ] IMPORTANT Reminds you to take specific action relevant to the accomplishment of the procedure at hand. TIP Tells how to accomplish a procedure with minimum steps through little shortcuts. vi Table of Contents Chapter 1 Overview 1. 1 1. 2 1. 3 1. 3. 1 1. 3. 2 1. 3. 3 1. 3. 4 1. 3. 5 1. 3. 6 1. 3. 7 1. 3. 8 1. 3. 9 Board Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 System Board Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 ASICs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 BIOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Expansion Slots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 DRAM Sockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Second-level Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Two-channel PCI Mode 4 Enhanced IDE Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Super I/O Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Keyboard Connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Mouse Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Hardware Installation 1. 3. 10 Chapter 2 2. 1 2. 2 2. 3 2. 4 ESD Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Jumper Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Setting the Jumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 Installing a Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 vii Table of Contents 2. 5 2. 6 2. 6. 1 2. 6. 2 2. 7 2. 7. 1 2. 7. 2 2. 7. 3 2. 7. 4 2. 7. 5 2. 7. 6 2. 8 2. 9 2. 9. 1 2. 9. 2 2. 9. 3 2. 9. 4 2. 9. 5 2. 9. 6 2. 9. 7 2. 9. 8 viii Upgrading the Microprocessor. . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7 Configuring the System Memory. . . . . . . . . 2-7 Installing a SIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9 Removing a SIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10 Customizing your Hardware Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 Selecting the Flash ROM Type. . . . . . . 2-11 Disabling the Onboard Super I/O Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 Selecting the ECP DMA Channel . . . 2-12 Clearing the CMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12 Disabling the PS/2 Mouse Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13 Setting the Keyboard Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13 Installing the System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14 Connecting Peripherals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15 Power Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15 Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15 Serial Devices (COM1/COM2). . . . . . . . 2-16 Floppy Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16 Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17 IDE Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17 Front-panel Switches and LEDs . . . . . 2-18 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19 Table of Contents 2. 10 Chapter 3 Installing Expansion Boards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20 AMI BIOS Utility 3. 1 3. 2 3. 2. 1 3. 2. 2 3. 2. 3 3. 2. 4 3. 2. 5 3. 2. 6 3. 3 3. 3. 1 3. 3. 2 3. 3. 3 3. 4 3. 4. 1 3. 4. 2 3. 5 3. 5. 1 3. 5. 2 3. 5. 3 3. 6 Entering the AMI BIOS Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Standard Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 Advanced CMOS Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 Chipset Features Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13 Power Management Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17 PCI/PnP Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20 Peripheral Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24 Security Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26 Supervisor Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27 User Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28 Anti-virus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29 Utility Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29 Color Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30 Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30 Default Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31 Original . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31 Optimal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32 Fail-safe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32 Exiting Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33 ix Table of Contents 3. 7 Appendix A NCR SCSI BIOS and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34 Jumper and Connector Summary x 1-1 [. . . ]