User manual AOPEN MX3L

MX3L User's Guide Printed in Taiwan PART NO.: 49.88101.081 DOC. NO.: MX3L-1-E9901A MX3L Motherboard User's Guide Document Number Model and revision Manual version Release Date : MX3L-1-E9901A : For MX3L rev 1.xx : English, rev A : Jan 18, 1999 More help for latest information: Taiwan USA Europe http://www.aopen.com.tw http://www.aopenusa.com http://www.aopen.nl Copyright Copyright 1999 by this company. All rights reserved. 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. Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer (and not this company, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the software. Further, this company reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. XT/AT is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc. AWARD is a registered trademark of Award Software Inc. Other brand and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders. iii FCC Class B Radio Frequency Declaration of Conformity This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B Subassembly -CPU Board device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and 2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Equipment Classification Type of Product Chipset(s) : FCC Class B Subassembly - CPU Board : Intel Celeron PPGA Micro ATX Motherboard : Intel 82440LX MX3L Test To Comply With FCC Standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE The limits of FCC Part 15 Class B 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. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. 2. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. 3. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. 4. 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 Organization Chapter 1, Overview, covers the introduction and specifications of the system board and special features. Chapter 2, Hardware Installation, describes hardware jumpers, connectors and memory configuration. There are user friendly drawings to locate jumper and connector. Chapter 3, AWARD BIOS, explains the system BIOS and tells how to configure the system by setting the BIOS parameters. v Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual: Text entered by user, default settings, recommended selections , ,, , , etc , Represent text input by the user, default settings and recommended selections Represent the actual keys that you have to press on the keyboard. Note: Gives bits and pieces of additional information related to the current topic. Warning: Alerts you to any damage that might result from doing or not doing specific actions. Caution: Suggests precautionary measures to avoid potential hardware or software problems. 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 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW 1.1 SPECIFICATIONS .......................................................................................4 1.2 APM SUSPEND TO HARD DRIVE ..............................................................5 1.3 ZERO VOLTAGE WAKE ON MODEM.........................................................8 1.4 SYSTEM VOLTAGE MONITORING............................................................10 1.5 FAN MONITORING ..................................................................................10 1.6 CPU THERMAL PROTECTION .................................................................11 1.7 BATTERY-LESS DESIGN..........................................................................11 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...........................................1 2.1 JUMPER AND CONNECTOR LOCATIONS ....................................................2 2.2 JUMPERS ..................................................................................................4 2.2.1 Selecting the CPU Frequency ..........................................................4 2.2.2 Setting the CPU Voltage ..................................................................5 2.2.3 Clearing the CMOS..........................................................................5 2.2.4 Onboard Audio.................................................................................6 2.2.5 KB/MS Wakeup ................................................................................6 2.3 CONNECTORS...........................................................................................7 2.3.1 Power Cable.....................................................................................7 2.3.3 Fan......... ........................................................................................7 2.3.4 PS/2 Mouse ......................................................................................8 2.3.5 Keyboard..........................................................................................8 2.3.6 Serial Devices (COM1/COM2) ........................................................8 2.3.7 Printer..............................................................................................9 2.3.8 USB Device ......................................................................................9 2.3.9 Floppy Drive ..................................................................................10 2.3.10 IDE Hard Disk and CD ROM .....................................................10 2.3.11 Panel Connector ..........................................................................11 2.3.12 IrDA Connector............................................................................12 2.3.13 Wake On Modem Connector ........................................................13 2.3.14 Wake On LAN Connector.............................................................13 2.3.15 CD Audio Connector....................................................................14 2.3.16 Mono In/Mic Out Connector........................................................14 2.4 CONFIGURING THE SYSTEM MEMORY....................................................15 2.5 ONBOARD AUDIO...................................................................................18 vii 2.5.1 Setting Up in Windows 95/98 .........................................................20 2.5.2 Setting Up in NT4.0........................................................................21 CHAPTER 3 AWARD BIOS ........................................................................1 3.1 ENTERING THE AWARD BIOS SETUP MENU ............................................2 3.2 STANDARD CMOS SETUP ........................................................................3 3.3 BIOS FEATURES SETUP ...........................................................................6 3.4 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP .....................................................................10 3.5 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP................................................................18 3.6 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP..........................................................25 3.7 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS .........................................................................30 3.8 LOAD TURBO DEFAULTS........................................................................30 3.9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ....................................................................31 3.10 PASSWORD SETTING.............................................................................38 3.11 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION ...............................................................38 3.12 SAVE & EXIT SETUP.............................................................................38 3.13 LOAD EEPROM DEFAULT...................................................................39 3.14 SAVE EEPROM DEFAULT ...................................................................39 3.15 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ........................................................................39 3.16 NCR SCSI BIOS AND DRIVERS...........................................................39 3.17 BIOS FLASH UTILITY...........................................................................40 viii Chapter 1 Overview MX3L is a new generation Socket 370 based system board that utilizes Intel 82440LX AGPset on Micro ATX PCI/ISA platform. This AGPset is designed for Celeron PPGA CPU, and supports new architectures such as high speed AGP graphic port, SDRAM, Ultra DMA/33, Bus master IDE and USB port. It has three Dual in-line Memory Module (DIMM) that allow to install EDO and SDRAM and expand up to a maximum of 768MB. Also, MX3L uses 2M bit Flash ROM BIOS to reserve for future new functions. Not only above features, MX3L also implements a lot of special features as the following. Jumper-less Design VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows user to set CPU frequency through CMOS setup, no jumper or switch is needed. The correct CPU information is saved into EEPROM, with these technologies, the disadvantages of Pentium base jumper-less design are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection and no need to re-open the housing if CMOS battery loss. The only jumper left is to clear CMOS, which is a safety hook if you forget the password. Battery-less MX3L implements EEPROM and special circuit (patent applied) that allows you to save your current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations without the need of battery. The RTC (real time clock) can also keep running as long as power cord is plugged. If you lose your CMOS data by accident, you can just reload the CMOS configurations from EEPROM and the system will recover as usual. APM Suspend To Hard Drive "Immediately" turns on system and goes back to the original screen before power down. You can resume your original work directly from hard disk without go through the Win95 booting process and run your application again. Suspend to Hard Drive saves your current work (system status, memory image) into hard disk. Note that you have to use VESA compatible PCI VGA, Sound Blaster compatible sound card with APM driver, for Suspend to Hard Drive to work properly. 1-1 Overview Zero Voltage Wake on Modem In conjunction with ATX soft power On/Off, it is possible to have system totally power off and wakeup to automatically answer a phone call such as answering machine or to send/receive fax. The most important break through is not only external box modem but also internal modem card can be used to support Wake On Modem. The MX3L and MP56 internal modem card implement special circuit (patent applied) to make sure the modem card work properly without any power. Wake on LAN This feature is very similar as Wake On Modem, but it is through local area network. To use Wake On LAN function, you must have a network card that supports this feature and also need to install a network management software. Wake on RTC Timer The Wake Up Timer is more like an alarm, which wakes up and power on your system at a pre-defined time for specific application. It can be set to wake up everyday or on specific date within a month. The date/time accuracy is second. Wake on Keyboard This feature allows you power on your system by clicking the hot key that you specified. Besides, you also may disable the function of power button and let the system can only be powered on through the preset keys (like a password). Wake on Mouse This function allows you wake up the system by clicking mouse button twice successively. AC Power Auto Recovery A traditional ATX system should remain at power off stage when AC power resumes from power failure. This design is inconvenient for a network server or workstation, without an UPS, that needs to keep power-on. This motherboard implements an AC Power Auto Recovery function to solve this problem. In BIOS Setup setting the item to Enabled lets the system can automatically power-on after AC power resumes. High Efficient Synchronous Switching Regulator Most of the current switching designs are Asynchronous mode, which from the technical point of view, still consumes very high power as well as heat. MX3L implements high efficient synchronous switching design that the temperature of MOS FET is far less than Schottky diode of asynchronous design. Over Current Protection The Over Current Protection was very popular implemented on the Baby AT or ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply. However, the new generation Celeron PPGA CPU uses different voltage that have regulator to transfer 5V to CPU voltage (for example, 2.0V), and make 5V over current protection useless. MX3L with switching regulator onboard support CPU over current protection, in conjunction with 3.3V/5V/12V power supply provide the full line over current protection. CPU and Housing Fan Monitoring MX3L has one more "fan monitoring" function to prevent system overheat. There are two fan connectors, one is for CPU and the other can be an extra housing fan. The system will report and 1-2 Overview alarm fan malfunction though utility software such as Hardware Monitor utility (Small Icon for Hardware Monitoring). CPU Thermal Protection MX3L has a special thermal detection circuit to have warning through application software when the temperature is higher than a predefined value. System Voltage Monitoring Further more, MX3L implements a voltage monitoring system, As you turn on your system, this smart design will continue to monitor your system working voltage. If any of the system voltage is over the component's standard. There will be alarm though utility software such as Hardware Monitor utility (Small Icon for Hardware Monitoring) for a warning to user. Full-range CPU core voltage This motherboard supports the CPU core voltage from 1.3V to 2.05V, that can be applied to various CPU type in future. Resetable Fuse This motherboard implements resetable fuses to prevent any accidental short circuit caused by keyboard or USB devices hot plug. FCC DoC certificate MX3L has passed FCC DoC test. The radiation is very low, you can use any kind of housing. Powerful Utility Software AOpen Bonus Pack bundled CD contains many useful utilities, such as Norton Antivirus, AOchip, Hardware Monitoring utility, and Suspend to Hard Drive utility. Note: This motherboard is battery-less, that means the RTC (real time clock) can keep running without battery as long as the power cord is plugged. But in case of power failure or the power cord unplugged, you need to reset date and time from "Standard CMOS Setup" section of BIOS Setup. For more information, please see "Chapter 3 BIOS Setup". 1-3 Overview 1.1 Specifications Micro ATX 244 mm x 220 mm Celeron PPGA 168-pin DIMM x3, maximum 768MB EDO or 384 SDRAM. Intel 82440LX AGPset ISA x1, PCI x3 and AGP x1 Two serial ports UART 16C550 compatible, and the 3rd UART for IR function. One parallel port supports standard parallel port (SPP), enhanced parallel port (EPP) or extended capabilities port (ECP). Floppy interface supports 3.5 inches drives with 720KB, 1.44MB or 2.88MB format or 5.25 inches drives with 360KB, 1.2MB format Dual-channel IDE interface support maximum 4 IDE hard disks or CDROM, mode 4 , bus master hard disk drives and Ultra DMA/33 mode hard drives are also supported. Two USB ports supported by USB bracket, the BIOS also supports USB driver to simulate legacy keyboard. Mini-Din PS/2 mouse connector onboard. Mini-Din PS/2 keyboard connector onboard. RTC within Intel PIIX4E chipset. Lithium (CR-2032) battery is an option, no battery is needed if power cord is plugged. AWARD Plug-and-Play, 2M bit Flash ROM BIOS. Form Factor Board Size CPU System Memory Chipset Expansion Slots Serial Port Parallel Port Floppy Interface IDE Interface USB Interface PS/2 Mouse Keyboard RTC and Battery BIOS 1-4 Overview 1.2 APM Suspend to Hard Drive Suspend to Hard Drive saves your current work (system status, memory and screen image) into hard disk, and then the system can be totally power off. Next time, when power is on, you can resume your original work directly from hard disk within few second without go through the Win95 booting process and run your application again. If your memory is 16MB, normally, you need to reserve at least 16MB HDD space to save your memory image. Note that you have to use VESA compatible PCI VGA (AOpen PV70/PT70), Sound Blaster compatible sound card and sound driver that supports APM (AOpen AW32/AW35) for Suspend to Hard Drive to work properly. Of course, we recommend to use AOpen products for best compatibility. To use Suspend to Hard Drive: 1. Go into BIOS setup, Power Management "Suspend to Disk". Suspend Mode Option, select 2. Go into BIOS setup, PNP/PCI Configuration PnP OS Installed, select "No". This can give BIOS the capability to allocate system resources for Suspend to Hard Drive. 3. Boot up your system into DOS command prompt. If you are Win'95 user, Please restart your Windows 95 under "Command Prompt" by pressing "F8" while system shows "Windows 95 Starting ...". Choose "Safe Mode Command Prompt Only" from selection so that system will start in DOS command prompt. 4. Copy AOZVHDD.EXE to the root directory of your C: drive. 5. Option 1: Use /file switch (applied to FAT16 file system): Please use following command to create a hidden file in the root directory of your hard disk for Suspend to Hard Drive to save the system status and memory image. C:>AOZVHDD /c /file Please make sure that you have enough continuous HDD space for creating this hidden file. For example, if you have 32MB of system memory and 4MB of VGA memory, you need at least 36MB (32MB + 4MB) of continuous HDD space. If AOZVHDD failed to allocate the HDD space, you may run "DEFRAG" Utility or "Disk Defragmenter" which come with MSDOS or Win'95 to free HDD space. 1-5 Overview Option2: Use /partition switch (applied to FAT16/FAT32 file system): To create a separate partition for Suspend to Hard Drive, please make sure you have reserved a free partition. We suggest you reserve the free partition which space is appropriate for your future memory expansion. For example, if you have 32MB of system memory and 4MB of VGA memory currently, but you plan to upgrade system memory to 64MB in the near future, then you may reserve a 68MB (64MB+4MB) space by using a disk utility (such as fdisk). Next, use following command to create a suspend partition: C:>AOZVHDD /c /partition If there is no extra free partition and you don't want your data lost, please do not use this partition method. 6. After creating above partition or hidden file, please reboot your system. 7. Push suspend switch (momentary mode) or use Win95 Suspend icon to force system goes into Suspend to Hard Drive mode and then turn system power off by power switch of your power supply. 8. Next time when you turn on your system, it will resume to your original work automatically. Warning: Note that Intel Bus Master and Ultra DMA/33 IDE driver are not fully compatible with Suspend to Hard Drive function, installing these drivers may cause the system unstable. Under this situation, please uninstall the drivers. Warning: This function does not support SCSI hard disks. 1-6 Overview Tip: The following VGA cards have been tested & recognized as VESA compatible VGA device. AOpen PV90 (Trident 9680) AOpen PT60 (S3 Virge/BIOS R1.00-01) AOpen PV60 (S3 Tiro64V+) AOpen PT70 (S3 Virge/DX) ProLink Trident GD-5440 ProLink Cirrus GD-5430 ProLink Cirrus GD-5446 ATI Mach 64 GX ATI 3D RAGE II Diamond Stealth64D (S3 868) Diamond Stealth64V (S3 968) KuoWei ET-6000 ATI 3D RAGE PRO 2x (AGP) PLOTECH 3D IMAGE 9850 (AGP) CARDEX S3 Virge/GX (AGP) Tip: The following sound cards have been tested OK for Suspend to Hard Drive. Creative Sound Blaster PCI 64 Creative Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 Videologic Sonic Storm If your sound card can not work after resume from Suspend to Hard Drive, check your sound card vendor see if there is driver to support APM, and install it again. Note: The USB function has not been tested for Suspend to Hard Drive. If you find any unstable problem, please go into BIOS, Integrated Peripherals USB Legacy Support. Disable the USB Legacy function. 1-7 Overview 1.3 Zero Voltage Wake On Modem The Wake On Modem discussed here is to wakeup from true power off (identified by fan of power supply is off), This motherboard still supports traditional green PC suspend mode but it is not discussed here. With the help ATX soft power On/Off, it is possible to have system totally power off (The traditional suspend mode of power management function does not really turn off the system power supply), and wakeup to automatically answer a phone call such as answering machine or to send/receive fax. You may identify the true power off by checking fan of your power supply. Both external box modem and internal modem card can be used to support Modem Wake Up, but if you use external modem, you have to keep the box modem always power-on. AOpen MX3L and internal modem card implement special circuit (patent applied) and make sure the modem card works properly without any power. We recommend you choose AOpen modem card (MP56) for Wake On Modem applications. TEL Line COM port External Box Modem External Modem Wake Up TEL Line Internal Modem Card Wake Up (such as MP56) 1-8 Overview For Internal Modem Card (AOpen MP56): 1. Go into BIOS setup , Power Management Enable. 0V Wake On Modem, select 2. Setup your application, put into Windows 95 StartUp or use Suspend to Hard Drive function. 3. Turn system power off by soft power switch. 4. Connect 4-pin Modem Ring-On cable from MP56 RING connector to MX3L WOM connector. 5. Connect telephone line to MP56. You are now ready to use Modem RingOn. For External Box Modem: 1. Go into BIOS setup , Power Management Enable. Modem Wake Up, select 2. Setup your application, put into Windows 95 StartUp or use Suspend to Hard Drive function. 3. Turn system power off by soft power switch. 4. Connect RS232 cable of external box Modem to COM1 or COM2. 5. Connect telephone line to external box Modem. Turn on Modem power (you must keep Modem power always on). You are now ready to use Modem Ring Tip: External modem wake up signal is detected through COM1 or COM2. Internal modem card wake up signal is detected through cable from connector RING (on modem card) to WOM (on mainboard). Tip: You can combine Suspend to Hard Drive, 0V Wake On Modem and the software Acephone for the best solution of answering machine or to send/receive fax. Note: If you use external modem, the power of external modem must be kept on to receive signal from telephone line. Internal modem card has no such limitation. 1-9 Overview 1.4 System Voltage Monitoring This motherboard implements a voltage monitoring system. As you turn on your system, this smart design will continue to monitor your system working voltage. If any of the system voltage is over the component's standard. There will be alarm through application software such as Hardware Monitor utility for a warning to user. System voltage monitoring function monitors CPU core voltage. It is automatically implemented by BIOS and Hardware Monitor utility (the file name is like aohw100.exe, where 100 means the version number), no hardware installation is needed. 1.5 Fan Monitoring There are three fan connectors, two is for CPU, the other can be connected to a housing fan. The fan monitoring function is implemented by connecting fan to 3-pin fan connector CPUFAN1 or FAN and installing Hardware Monitor utility. Note: You need a 3-pin fan that supports SENSE signal for fan monitoring function to work properly. 1-10