User manual FIC AZ31

[. . . ] Static electricity may cause damage to the integrated circuits on the motherboard. Before handling any motherboard outside of its protective packaging, ensure that there is no static electric charge in your body. There is a danger of explosion if the battery is incorrectly replaced. Replace only with the same or an equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer. [. . . ] Push this switch to reboot the system instead of turning the power button off and on. Push this switch allows the system to be turned on and off rather than using the power supply button. Power LED is connected with the system power indicator to indicate whether the system is on/off. Sleep LED is connected with sleep mode indicator. 2 - 14 Installation Procedures PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse Connector: PS2_KB, PS2_MS These two 6-pin female (PS/2 keyboard is purple color and PS/2 mouse is green color) connectors are used for your PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse. Universal Serial Bus Connectors: Rear USBs, Front USBs These two black connectors integrated on the edge of the board are used for linking with USB peripheral devices. This board also provides a connector J5 for linking with the two USB sockets on the front panel of some system cases. Please note your operating system must support USB features, such as MS Windows 98, MS Windows 95 OSR2. 5 with USB Supplement. The figure below is the pin assignment of the J5 connector for two front panel USB connections. 2 - 15 AZ31 Mainboard Manual Printer Connector: LPT This 25-pin D-Sub female burgundy-colored connector is attached to your printer. Serial Port Connector: COM COM allows you to connect with your devices that use serial ports, such as a serial mouse or an external modem. 2 - 16 Installation Procedures Audio I/O Jacks: LINE_OUT, LINE_IN, MIC_IN LINE_OUT (lime) can be connected to headphones or preferably powered speakers. LINE_IN (light blue) allows tape players or other audio sources to be recorded by your computer or played through the LINE_OUT. MIC_IN (pink) allows microphones to be connected for voice input. NOVUS II Module Connector: NOVUS II The connector provides the linkage with optional NOVUS II module for having some more helpful features. 2 - 17 AZ31 Mainboard Manual This Page Left Blank for Note 2 - 18 BIOS Setup Chapter 3 BIOS Setup CMOS Setup Utility A Setup program, built into the system BIOS, is stored in the CMOS RAM. This Setup utility program allows changes to the mainboard configuration settings. It is executed when the user changes system configuration; user changes system backup battery; or the system detects a configuration error and asks the user to run the Setup program. Use the arrow keys to select and press Enter to run the selected program. NOTE: Please disable this BIOS feature about BIOS Guardian before you start to reflash BIOS. (Please read Page 1-7, Page 3-6 for detail information). 3-1 AZ31 Mainboard Manual Standard CMOS Setup The Standard CMOS Setup screen is displayed above. The system BIOS automatically detects memory size, thus no changes are necessary. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use PgUp or PgDn keys to select the value you want in each item. Precomp: The cylinder number at which the disk drive changes the write current. Landing Zone: The cylinder number that the disk drive heads (read/write) are seated when the disk drive is parked. Sector: The sector number of each track defined on the hard disk. 3-2 BIOS Setup Advanced BIOS Features 3-3 AZ31 Mainboard Manual Anti-Virus Protection This feature starts the virus scan tool to detect if boot virus in boot sector of the first hard disk drive when booting up. This feature allows you to disable the cache function when the system performance is unstable to run some software. Quick Power On Self Test When enabled, allows the BIOS to bypass the extensive memory test. First Boot Device This feature allows user to select the boot device priority. The options are: Floppy (Default), LS120, HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3, ZIP100, LAN, Disabled. Second Boot Device This feature allows user to select the boot device priority. [. . . ] If the IRQ activity which is defined as Non Primary takes place, the system remains off until the corresponding IRQ handler finishes. The options of IRQ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 are: Enabled, Disabled. The defaults of rest are Enabled. 3 - 19 AZ31 Mainboard Manual PnP/PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed If your operating system is a Plug-and-Play one, such as Windows NT, Windows 95, select Yes. Reset Configuration Data Enabling it to reset the system Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD) when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add-on card and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system can not boot. [. . . ]