The COMPLETE GUIDE TO HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING WITH YOUR PANTERA COMPUTER User's Guide © Copyright 1995 ZEOS International, Ltd. All rights reserved ZEOS International, Ltd. shall not be held liable for technical or editorial omissions or errors made herein; nor for incidental or consequential damages resulting from furnishing, performance, or use of this material. This document contains proprietary information protected by copyright. No part of this document may be photocopied or reproduced by mechanical, electronic, or other means in any form without prior written permission of ZEOS International, Ltd. Trademark Acknowledgments Adaptec is the trademark of Adaptec, Inc. IBM, XT, AT, and OS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Laboratories. Phoenix is the trademark of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Quadtel is the trademark of Quadtel Corp., A Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Co. Intel, 486SX, DX, DX2, DX4, and Pentium are trademarks of Intel Corporation. XENIX, MS-DOS, GW-Basic, Windows, and Microsoft are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Limitation of remedies and liabilities: ZEOS' entire liability and customers' exclusive and sole remedy for damages from any cause whatsoever (including without limitation any nonperformance, misrepresentation, or breach of warranty) shall be limited to returning the products pursuant to the thirty (30) day satisfaction guarantee, or to repair or replace specific products or services that do not comply with the limited warranty given by ZEOS. Any products or services repaired or replaced by ZEOS pursuant to this paragraph shall be warranted as of the date of delivery in accordance with the terms and conditions herein for the duration of the one-year term of Limited Warranty given by ZEOS. In no event will ZEOS be liable for any damages caused, in whole or in part, by customer, or for any economic loss, physical injury, lost revenues, lost profits, lost savings or other indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages incurred by any person, even if ZEOS has been advised of the possibility of such damage for claims. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages for consumer products, and some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state. ZEOS provides no warranties whatsoever on software. 700-0195-01 CMAX 2 ZEOS Computer Systems One Year Limited Warranty All new ZEOS computer systems come with a One Year Limited Warranty which provides that the products ZEOS manufactures or assembles, other than items such as software, disks and related documentation, will remain in good working condition, free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service, for a period of one year from the date of shipment from ZEOS. This warranty is limited to the original purchaser and is not transferable. During this one year period, ZEOS will repair or replace, at its option, any defective product or parts at no additional charge to the customer, provided that the defective product or part is returned, shipment prepaid, to ZEOS. All replaced products and parts become the property of ZEOS. Replacement parts shall be similar new or serviceable used parts. This Limited Warranty does not extend to any products which have been damaged as a result of accident, misuse, abuse (such as incorrect voltages, power surges, improper or insufficient ventilation, failure to follow ZEOS' provided operating instructions, "acts of God" or other situations beyond the control of ZEOS), or as the result of service or modification by anyone other than ZEOS. Non-ZEOS installed parts or components are not covered, nor is damage to ZEOS provided components covered as a result of their installation. This warranty does not cover work performed by others, all warranty work must be performed by ZEOS. 3 Contents 1. The Big Picture .......................................................................... 9 Desktop System At A Glance ................................................... 10 Tower System At A Glance ....................................................... 12 How to Open a Desktop Case .................................................. 14 How to Open a Tower Case ..................................................... 16 Inside a Desktop Computer ...................................................... 18 Inside a Tower Computer.......................................................... 19 2. The Mainboard......................................................................... 20 Mainboard Features ................................................................. 20 PCI Local Bus 32-Bit High Speed Expansion Slots................................ 21 Secondary Cache Subsystem ............................................................... 21 Continuous Full-Speed Processing ........................................................ 21 On-Board Peripherals ............................................................................ 22 Serial Ports ............................................................................................ 22 Parallel Port ........................................................................................... 23 PCI SCSI/ Ethernet Port ........................................................................ 24 Business Audio Ports ............................................................................. 25 Mainboard Diagram .................................................................. 26 Mainboard Connectors ............................................................. 27 Mainboard Jumpers .................................................................. 28 Jumper Settings ....................................................................... 29 Mainboard Jumpers Described ................................................. 30 FLASH1 ................................................................................................. 30 CLR1 ..................................................................................................... 30 CLK1 ...................................................................................................... 31 CACHE1 ................................................................................................ 31 3. Using SETUP ........................................................................... 32 Main Menu ............................................................................... 33 Main Menu Options .................................................................. 34 System Time .......................................................................................... 34 System Date .......................................................................................... 34 Daylight Savings .................................................................................... 34 Diskette Drive A: .................................................................................... 34 Diskette Drive B: .................................................................................... 34 4 IDE Adapters (Four Provided) ............................................................... 34 Video System ........................................................................................ 35 Memory Control ..................................................................................... 36 Memory Shadow .................................................................................... 37 Advanced Menu ....................................................................... 38 Large Disk Access Mode ....................................................................... 38 OS support for more than 64MB ........................................................... 38 Plug & Play O/S ..................................................................................... 38 Integrated Peripherals ........................................................................... 38 PCI Devices ........................................................................................... 41 Security Options ....................................................................... 42 Supervisor Password is ......................................................................... 42 User Password is ................................................................................... 42 Password on boot .................................................................................. 43 Diskette access ..................................................................................... 43 Fixed disk boot sector ........................................................................... 43 System backup reminder ....................................................................... 43 Virus check reminder ............................................................................. 43 Power Options.......................................................................... 44 Power Savings ....................................................................................... 44 Standby Timer Reset Events ................................................................. 44 Standby Break Events ........................................................................... 45 Standby Wakeup Events ....................................................................... 45 Exit Menu Options .................................................................... 45 4. Expanding Your System ......................................................... 46 Adding an Expansion Board ..................................................... 46 How Disk Drives Work.............................................................. 48 How a Floppy Drive Works ....................................................... 49 How an IDE Hard Drive Works ................................................. 50 How a CD-ROM Drive Works ................................................... 51 Adding System RAM ................................................................ 52 Installing SIMMs ....................................................................... 53 Adding System Cache Memory ................................................ 55 Installing a New CPU ............................................................... 57 5 5. Mainboard Specifications....................................................... 59 Mainboard Environmental Specifications .................................. 59 9-Pin Serial Port (J2) Pin Assignment ...................................... 60 25-Pin Serial Port (J3) Pin Assignment .................................... 60 Parallel Port (J4) Pin Assignment ............................................. 62 Handy Cheat Sheet ...................................................................... 64 Glossary ....................................................................................... 66 Index ............................................................................................. 68 6 FCC Compliance Statement For U.S. and Canadian Users Warning! Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15, Subpart B of the FCC Rules. 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 on and off, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures. · Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. · Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. · Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is needed. · Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. The connection of a non-shielded equipment interface cable to this equipment will invalidate the FCC Certification of this device and may cause interference levels which exceed the limits established by the FCC for this equipment. This equipment is a Class B digital apparatus which complies with the ...