Biostar P4TCA PRO Owner's manual

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FCC Information and Copyright

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a

Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules . T hese 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

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a particular installation.

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ENGLISH .....................................................................1

P4TCA Pro Features...................................................................................1

Package contents.......................................................................................3

Layout of P4TCA Pro..................................................................................4

Component Index.......................................................................................5

How to set up Jumper.................................................................................6

CPU Installation.........................................................................................6

DDR DIMM Modules: DDRA1-2, DDRB1-2......................................................7

Installing DDR Module................................................................................8

Serial Raid................................................................................................8

Installing Wireless LAN Card.......................................................................9

Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots.......................................................10

STUDIOFUN!................................................................16

Introduction.............................................................................................16

Hardware Requirements............................................................................16

Installation Procedure...............................................................................16

Booting to StudioFun!..............................................................................18

Media control..........................................................................................19

Control Panel..........................................................................................20

Software Details.......................................................................................22

Select Region..........................................................................................24

Screensaver............................................................................................25

Display Settings.......................................................................................26

File Manager............................................................................................27

WARPSPEEDER...........................................................29

Introduction.............................................................................................29

System Requirement................................................................................29

Installation..............................................................................................30

Usage.....................................................................................................31

TROUBLE SHOOTING.................................................39

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P4TCA Pro Features

A. Har dware

CPU

Provides Socket-478.

Supports the Intel

®

Pentium

®

4 processor up to 3.06 GHz.

Supports Intel

®

Pentium

®

Prescott CPU.

Supports Hyper-Threading Technology.

Front Side Bus at 400/533/800MHz.

Chipset

North Bridge: Intel 875P

South Bridge: Intel ICH5R.

Main Memory

Supports one or two 64-bit wide DDR data channels with 1 or 2 DIMMs

per-channel.

Available bandwidth up to 3.2GB/s(DDR400) for single-channel mode and 6.4GB/s

(DDR 400) in dual channel mode.

Supports 128-MB, 256-Mb, 512-Mb DDR technologies.

Supports only x8, x16, DDR devices.( Does not support registered DIMMs or

double sided X 16 DIMMs)

Supports four bank devices.

Maximum memory size is 4GB.

Supports Intel PAT(Performance Acceleration Technology): accelerate date

transmission between CPU and memory.

Super I/O

Chip: ITE IT8712F.

Low Pin Count Interface.

Provides the most commonly used legacy Super I/O functionality.

Env ironment Control initiatives

- H/W Monitor

- Fan Speed Controller

- ITE's "Smart Guardian" function

Slots

Five 32-bit PCI bus master slots.

One CNR slot.

One AGP 8X slot.

One Wireless LAN slot.

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On Board IDE

Supports four IDE disk drives.

Supports PIO Mode 4, Bride Mode and Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Master Mode.

Supports 2 Serial ATA (SATA) ports.

- Compliant with SATA 1.0 specification

- Data transfer rates up to 1.5 GB/s

1394AChip

Chip: VIA VT6307.

Support 2 ports with transfer up to 400mbps.

IDE-Raid

Chip: VIA VT6410.

Supports RAID Level 0, RAID Level 1, RAID 0+1 Level and JBOD.

Complies with Scatter/Gather Bus Master DMA Mechanism.

Dual Channel Master Mode PCI supporting four enhanced IDE devices.

Complies with ATA/ATAPI7.

Giga LAN

Chip: Intel 82547EI.

Full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet performance.

Supports Communication Streaming Architecture Interface(CSA).

- Theoretical bandwidth of 266Mbytes/sec

- Direct connect to the MCH of Intel® 865 and 875 chipsets

- CSA is useable to both system and the OS

Wireless LAN – Air Link

TM

Chip: RTL8180.

Full compliance with IEEE802.11 and IEEE802.11b specifications.

Supports Advanced Configuration Power management Interface.(ACPI) and PCI

power management system for modern operating systems.

Supports remote wake-up in both ACPI and APM environments.

Keeps network maintenance costs low and eliminates usage barriers.

Uses one RF card for Wireless LAN.

On Board AC’97 Sound Codec

Chip: CMI9739A/9760.

Com pliant with AC’97 specification.

AC97 2.2/2.3 interface.

Supports 6 channels.

Wireless Audio (optional)

Supports 2 channels.

On Board Peripherals

a. Rear side

Supports 2 serial ports.

Supports 1 parallel port. (SPP/EPP/ECP mode)

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Supports Audio ports in vertical.

Supports 1 RJ-45 LAN jack.

Supports PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard.

Supports 4 USB2.0 ports.

b. Front Side

Supports 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes.

Supports 2 IEEE1394A ports.

Supports 4 USB2.0 ports.

Dimensions

ATX Form Factor: 24.4 X30.4cm. (W X L)

B. BIOS & Software

BIOS

Award legal Bios.

Supports APM1.2.

Supports ACPI.

Supports USB Function.

Software

Supports Warpspeeder™, 9th Touch™, FLASHER™,Watchdog™, WinFlasher™,

StudioFun!™.

Offers the highest performance for Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows Me,

Windows XP, SCO UNIX etc.

Package contents

HDD Round Cable X 2

FDD Round Cable X 1

User’s Manual X1

Fully Setup Driver CD X 1

StudioFun! Application CD X 1

USB 2.0 Cable X 1 (optional)

S/PDIF Cable X 1 (optional)

Rear I/O Panel for ATX Case X 1 (optional)

Serial ATA Cable X2 (optional)

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Layout of P4TCA Pro

※ NOTE: ●represents the first pi n.

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Component Index

A Back Panel Connectors B JAUDIO1: Front Audio Header

C JCDIN1: CD-Rom Audio-In Header D PCI1- 5: Peripheral C omponent Interconnect Slots

E J3: Wireless Audio Channel Selection (optional) F CNR1: C ommunicati on Net work Riser Sl ot

G JW OL 1: W a ke On LAN He ad er H JSPD IF_OU T1: D ig i tal Audio Connector

I JUSB2: Fr ont USB Header J JUSBV3_4: 5V/5VSB Selection for JUSB2/3

K JUSB3: Fr ont USB H eader L J1394A1: Front 1394A H eader

M JGAM E1 : Ga me H e ad er N JSFAN 1 : S yste m Fa n H e ad er

O JPAN EL: Front Panel C onnector P RAID 1-2: Raid Connector

Q SATA1-2: Serial ATA Connector R JCL1: Case Open Connector

S JCMO S: C le ar CMO S Jumper T JAUDI O_DJ1: Audio DJ Connector

U DDRA1-2: D DR DIMM M odul es V DDRB1- 2: D DR DIMM M odul es

W ID E1- 2: Hard Disk C onnector s X FDD1: Fl oppy Dis k C onnector

Y JCFAN 1: C PU Fan C onnector Z AGP1: Accel erated Graphics Port Slot

A1 JATXPWR1-2: ATX Power Connector B1 JUSBV2: 5V/5VSB Selection for USB

C1 JKBV1: 5V/5VSB Selection for Kb/ Ms D1 JUSBV1: 5V/5VSB Selection for USB

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How to set up Jumper

The illustration shows how to set up jumpers. When the Jumper cap is placed on pins, the

jumper is “close”. IF no jumper cap is placed on the pins, the jumper is ”open”. The

illustration shows a 3-pin jumper whose pin1and 2 are “close” when jumper cap is placed

on these 2 pins.

Jumper open Jumper close Pin1-2 close

CPU Installation

Step1: Pull the lever sideways away from the socket and then raise the lever up to a

90-degree angle.

Step2: Look for the white dot/cut edge. The white dot/cut edge should point wards the lever

pivot. The CPU will fit only in the correct orientation.

Step3: Hold the CPU down firmly, and then close the lever to complete the installation.

Step4: Put the CPU Fan on the CPU and buckle it. Connect the CPU fan power cable to the

JCFAN1. This completes the installation.

Step1 Step2 Step3 Step4

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CPU Fan Headers: JCFAN1

Pin Assignment

1

Ground

2

+12V

1

JCFAN1

3

FAN RPM Sense

System Fan Headers: JSFAN1

Pin Assignment

1

Ground

2

+12V

1

JSFAN1

3

FAN RPM Sense

DDR DIMM Modules: DDRA1-2, DDRB1-2

Supports up to four DDR DIMMs(two DIMMs per channel), single-sided and/ or

double-sides.

DIMMs must be populated in identical pairs for dual-channel operation.(For

more dual channel operation information please log on: www.biostar.com.tw

)

Supports DDR 333 or DDR 400 unregistered ECC or non-ECC DDR DIMMS.

DRAM Access Time: 2.5V Unbuffered/ Registered DDR SDRAM PC1600/

PC2100 Type required.

DRAM Type: 128MB/ 256MB/ 512MB/ 1GB DIMM Module (184 pin)

Total Memory Size with Unbuffered/ Registered DIMMs

DIMM Socket

Location

DDR Module Total Memor

y

Size (MB)

DDRA1 64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB

*1

DDRA2 64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB

*1

DDRB1 64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB

*1

DDRB2 64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB

*1

Max is

4GB

***Only for reference***

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Installing DDR Module

1. Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the

retaining clips outward. Align a DIMM on

the slot such that the notch on the DIMM

matches the break on the slot.

.

2. Insert the DIMM vertically and firmly into

the slot until the retaining chip snap back in

place and the DIMM is properly seated.

Serial Raid

Setting Up a RAID 0 System

The following steps lead you to build a RAID 0 system:

1. Enter System BIOS Setup; ensure that Intel RAID Technology is enabled. When

done, exit Setup.

2. Upon re-boot you will see the Intel RAID BIOS status message on the screen –

press CTRL+I to enter the Intel® RAID Option ROM user interface. Within this UI

select option #1 ‘Create RAID Volume’. Enter a volume name, press enter, select

the strip size (128KB is the default), press enter, press enter again, then press ‘Y’

to confirm. Once this is done, exit the Option ROM user interface.

3. Begin Windows XP Setup by booting from the installation CD.

4. At the beginning of Windows XP Setup, press F6 to install a third-party SCSI or

RAID driver. When prompted, insert a floppy disk containing the Intel RAID driver.

After reading the floppy disk, the Intel® 82801ER SATA RAID Controller’ will be

presented — select this driver to install.

5. Finish the Windows XP installation and install all necessary drivers.

6. Install the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.0 software via the CD-ROM

included with your motherboard or after downloading it from the Internet. This will

add the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.0 user interface utility that can

be used to manage the RAID configuration.

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Installing Wireless LAN Card

1. Align the wireless LAN on the slot so that the wireless LAN card matches in

the slot. Be sure to face the wireless LAN card with its components towards

the inner part of the motherboard as it shows on the following picture.

2. Insert the wireless LAN card vertically and firmly into the slot so the wireless

card is properly seated.

3. Screw the brackets.

4. Insert the wireless LAN antenna by turning it clockwise.

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Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots

Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1

The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360K,

720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This connector supports the

provided floppy drive ribbon cables.

Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2

The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO

Mode 0~4, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100/ 133 functionality. It has two

HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2 (secondary).

The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive, so you can connect up

to four hard disk drives. The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1.

Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1-5

This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for Peripheral

Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for expansion cards. This PCI

slot is designated as 32 bits.

Accelerated Graphics Port Slot: AGP1

Your monitor will attach directly to that video card. This motherboard supports video

cards for PCI slots, but it is also equipped with an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP).

An AGP card will take advantage of AGP technology for improved video efficiency

and performance, especially with 3D graphics.

Communication Network Riser Slot: CNR1

The CNR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture, and it defines a

hardware scalable riser card interface, which supports modem only.

Serial ATA Connector: JSATA1/JSATA2

The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels STAT interface, it

satisfy the SATA 1.0 spec and can transf er data with 1.5GHz speed.

IDE-Raid Connector: RAID1/2

This connector supports RAID0 or RAID1 or RAID 0+1 configuration through the

onboard Parallel ATA (VT6410) controller chip. Y ou can use the IDE f eature to

set up a disk array configuration and to support additional IDE devices. However, it

can only support master mode IDE HDD.

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Front Panel Connector: JPANEL1

Front USB Header: JUSB2/3

Pin Assignment Pin Assignment

1

+5V(fused)

2

+5V(f used)

3

USBP4-

4

USBP5-

5

USBP4+

6

USBP5+

7

Ground

8

Ground

2

1

10

9

JUSB2/3

9 KEY 10 NC

Wake On LAN Header: JWOL1

Pin Assignment

1 +5V Standby

2 Ground

1

JWOL1

3 Wake up

SPK

PWR_LED

HLED

SLP

RST

2

24

IR

1

23

IRON/OFF

Pin Assignment Function Pin Assignment Function

1 +5V 2 Sleep Control

3 NA 4 Ground

Sleep

Button

5 NA 6 NA NA

7 Speaker

Speaker

Connector

8 Power LED (+)

9 HDD LED (+) 10 Power LED (+)

11 HDD LED (-)

Hard Drive

LED 12 Power LED (-)

POWER

LED

13 Ground 14 Power Button

15 Reset Control

Reset

Button 16 Ground

Power-on

Button

17 NA 18 KEY

19 NA 20 KEY

21 +5V 22 Ground

23 IRTX

IrDA

Connector

24 IRRX

IrDA

Connector

JPANE

L

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Power Connectors: JATXPWER1/ JATXPWR2

PIN Assignment PIN Assignment

1 +3.3V 11 +3.3V

2 +3.3V 12 -12V

3 Ground 13 Ground

4 +5V 14 PS_ON

5 Ground 15 Ground

6 +5V 16 Ground

7 Ground 17 Ground

8 PW_OK 18 -5V

9 +5V_SB 19 +5V

20

11

10

1

JATXPWR1

10 +12V 20 +5V

PIN Assignment PIN Assignment

1 +12V 3 Ground

1

2

3

JATXPWR2

2 +12V 4 Ground

Front 1394 Header: J1394A

Pin Assignment Pin Assignment

1

A1+

2

A1-

3 Ground 4 Ground

5

B1+

6

B1-

7

+12V

8

+12V

2

1

9

10

J1394A

9

KEY

10

NA

5V / 5VSB Selection for KB: JKBV1

JKBV1 Assignment

Description

1 3

Pin 1-2 close

+5V

5V for keyboard and mouse

1 3

Pin 2-3 close

+5V_SB

5V standby for keyboard and mouse to

power on your system

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5V/ 5VSB Selection for USB: JUSBV1/JUSBV3_4

JUSBV1/JUSBV3_4 Assignment Description

1 3

1-2 close

+5V 5V for JUSB1/2/3

1 3

2-3 close

+5V_SB 5V standby to power on JUSB1/2/

3

Clear CMOS Jumper: JCMOS1

JCMOS1 Assignment

1 3

Pin 1-2 Close

Normal Operation (default)

1 3

Pin 2-3 Close

Clear CMOS Data

※ Clear CMOS Procedures:

1. Remove AC power line.

2. Make JCMOS1 (2-3) closed.

3. Wait for five seconds.

4. Make JCMOS1 (1-2) closed.

5. Let AC power on.

6. Reset your desired password or clear the CMOS data.

Case Open Connector: JCL1

Pi n

Assignment

1

Case Open Signal

12

JCL1

2

Ground

Serial ATA Connector: JSATA1/ JSATA2

Pin Assignment Pin Assignment

1 Ground 2 TX+

4

TX- 4 Ground

5

RX- 6 RX+

1

23

4

56

7

JSATA1/ JSATA2

7

Ground

14

Game Header: JGAME1

1

216

15

JGAME1

Pin Assignment Pin Assignment

1

+5V

2

+5V

3

GP6

4

GP4

5

GP2

6

GP0

7

MIDI-OUTR

8

Ground

9

GP3

10

Ground

11

GP7

12

GP1

13

MIDI-INR

14

GP5

15

NC

16

+5V

CD-ROM Audio-In Header: JCDIN1

Pin Assignment

1 Left Channel Input

2

Ground

3

Ground

1

JCDIN1

4

Right Channel Input

Front Panel Audio Header: JAUDIO1

1

2

13

14

JAUDIO1

Pin Assignment Pin Assignment

1 Mic In 2 Ground

3

Mic Power

4

Audio Power

5

RT Line Out

6

RT Line Out

7

Reserv ed

8

Key

9

LFT Line Out

10

LFT Line Out

11

RT Line In

12

RT Line In

13

LET Line In

14

LET Line In

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Digital Audio Connector: JSPDIF_OUT1

Pin Assignment

1

+5V

2

SPDIF_OUT

1

JSPDIF_OUT1

3

Ground

Wireless Audio Channel Selection : J3 (optional)

J3 Assignment

1 3

Pin1-2 close

Channel 0

1 3

Pin 2-3 close

Channel 1

AUDIO DJ Connector: JAUDIO_DJ1

Pin Assignment Pin Assignment

1 SMBDATA 2 SMBCLK

3

INT_B

4

KEY

15

JAUDIO_DJ1

5 ATX_PWROK

Back Panel Connectors

1 3

1

3

Keyboard

Mouse

COM1

JCOM1JKBMS 1

USB

J1394USB1

USB

JRJ45USB1

S

p

eaker Out

Line In/ Surround

Mic In/ Bass&Center

JAUDIO

LAN

Parallel

COM2

JCOM2

1394

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StudioFun!

Introduction

StudioFun! is a media-player based on optimized GNU/Linux distribution. It plays DVD,

VCD, MP3, Audio CD and various other known file formats. You can take snapshots of

video and customize the saved images as screensavers. You can also store the images on

USB mass storage devices like flash disks and USB floppy disks.

Hardware Requirements

The supported hardware list of StudioFun! grows up every day. So please check the

hwreq.txt located in the root of StudioFun! Installation CD to get the most updated

information.

Installation Procedure

Insert the StudioFun! Installation CD in a CD/DVD ROM drive and let the system boot

through the CD. The disk will boot and bring up the grub boot loader installation menu.

Two options are specified.

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Installation

This option will do the basic installation of the distribution. The installation works on

pre-installed windows or GNU/Linux distribution.

On selecting the ’installation’ option the installer boots and displays a dialog box indicating

the space required and waits for a confirmation. Selecting Ok will continue the installation

while selecting Cancel will terminate the installation and reboot the machine.

If Windows or GNU/Linux is the only OS installed on the hard disk with no free space, it will

resize the partition, either NTFS or FAT32 or ext2, and install StudioFun!. In case the hard

disk has a 128MB of free space available, the installation will use the free space.

After installing the base system you will be prompted to select the resolution from the

following choices

1. 1024x768 (recommended)

2. 800x600

3. 640x480

Select the desired resolution. The default is 1024x768 for high-end graphics.

Next you will be prompted to choose the DVD area/region selection code. Choose this

based on the type of DVDs you will be playing.

The installation procedure will then probe for the type of mouse installed. The distribution

currently supports PS/2, USB and Serial mice. In case of serial mouse you will have to

move the mouse when prompted. The other two are probed and installed automatically.

The installation procedure will now finish, the CD is ejected and a dialog box prompting to

reboot the machine is displayed. Press OK button and enjoy StudioFun!.

3.1.1 Error Messages

1. Media corrupted!! Please check the media! The CD-ROM is corrupted.

2. Extraction of base system failed!! Please try again later!! The CD-ROM is corrupted.

3. Unsupported hardware found, Aborting... If you try to install StudioFun! on an

unsupported and undocumented hardware the above error message is popped.

4. No device found! This error message is given if there is no hard disk in the system.

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Recovery

In case of a MBR corruption, this option should be used. It will automatically probe the hard

disk master boot record and find out the installed operating system(s). On success it will

re-install the boot loader with correct options in the MBR. Any custom boot loader option

specified from other GNU/Linux installations will get over written by the newly probed one.

Booting to StudioFun!

After Installation is over, remove the CD from the CD-ROM and restart the machine. After

the machine reboots, you will get the GRUB boot loader menu screen. Select the

StudioFun option to boot to the StudioFun! partition.

After complete boot up, you get to the main Desktop screen. The following section is

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