Biostar M6VLR Owner's manual

M6VLR

Federal Communications Commission

(F.C.C.) Statement

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation of this device 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.

Accessories: This device has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a

Class B digital device; the accessories associated with this equipment are as

follows :

1. Shielded serial cable. (Can be obtained from multiple retail outlets)

2. Shielded printer cable. (Can be obtained from multiple retail outlets)

3. Shielded video cable. (Can be obtained from multiple retail outlets)

4. Shielded power cord. (Provided by manufacturer)

These accessories are required to ensure compliance with FCC Rules. It is the

responsibility of the user to provide and use these accessories properly.

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

digital device, pursuant to P art 15 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. 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, you are encouraged to try to correct the

interference by one or more of the following measures:

1. Reorient / 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/TV technician for help.

Caution: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer

could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.

Disclaimer

The vendor makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents

here of and specially disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or

fitness for any purpose. Further the vendor reserves the right to revise this

publication and to make changes to the contents here of without obligation to

notify any party beforehand.

Duplication of this publication, in part or in whole, is not allowed without first

obtaining the vendor’s approval in writing.

Trademarks and Remarks

MS-DOS, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows XP

and Windows 2000 are products of Microsoft Corp, with its ownership of

trademark, and are distributed by the vendor under a license agreement.

All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners.

Contents

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Introduction .................................................................................. 1-1

1. Motherboard Description ........................................................ 1-2

1.1 Features ....................................................................................................1-2

1.1.1 Hardware ....................................................................................................................1-2

1.1.2 Software......................................................................................................................1-7

1.1.3 Attachments ...............................................................................................................1-7

1.2 Motherboard Installation..........................................................................1-8

1.2.1 System Block Diagram ...........................................................................................1-8

1.2.2 Layout of Motherboard ...........................................................................................1-9

1.2.3 Quick Reference .....................................................................................................1-10

1.3 CPU Installation.....................................................................................1-11

1.3.1 CPU Installation Procedure: Socket 370............................................................... 11

1.3.2 CPU Fan Header: JCFAN1 ..................................................................................1-12

1.4 RAM Module Installation ......................................................................1-13

1.4.1 DIMM.......................................................................................................................1-13

1.4.2 How to install a DIMM Module..........................................................................1-14

1.5 Slots........................................................................................................1-15

1.5.1 AMR (Audio Modem Riser) Slot .......................................................................1-16

1.5.2 PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Slots ..............................................1-16

1.5.3 ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) Slot ........................................................1-16

1.6 Connectors, Headers & Jumpers............................................................1-17

1.6.1 Front Panel Connector: JPANEL1......................................................................1-18

1.6.2 ATX 20-pin Power Connector: JATXPWR1 ..................................................1-20

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1.6.3 Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/IDE2....................................................................1-20

1.6.4 Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1 ...........................................................................1-21

1.6.5 Wake On LAN Header: JWOL1 ........................................................................1-21

1.6.6 Clear CMOS Jumper: JCMOS1..........................................................................1-21

1.7 Peripheral Port .......................................................................................1-22

1.7.1 PS/2 Mouse / Keyboard Connector: JKBMS1.................................................1-22

1.7.2 USB & LAN Connector: JUSBLAN1 ..............................................................1-23

1.7.2.1 Stacked USB Connectors................................................................1-23

1.7.2.2 Stacked LAN Connector (Optional).................................................1-23

1.7.3 Monitor Connector: JVGA1 ................................................................................1-24

1.7.4 Serial and Parallel Interface Ports........................................................................1-25

1.7.4.1 The Serial Interface: JCOM1 ..........................................................1-25

1.7.4.2 Parallel Interface Port: JPRNT1 ......................................................1-27

1.7.5 Game (Joystick/MIDI) Port Connector: JGAME1..........................................1-28

1.7.6 Audio Port Connectors: JSPKR1/JLIN1/JMIC1 .............................................1-28

1.7.7 Audio Subsystem....................................................................................................1-29

1.7.7.1 CD-ROM Audio-In Header: JCDIN1...............................................1-29

2. BIOS Setup................................................................................ 2-1

2.1 Main Menu...............................................................................................2-3

2.2 Standard CMOS Features ........................................................................2-6

2.3 Advanced BIOS Features.........................................................................2-9

2.4 Advanced Chipset Features....................................................................2-13

2.5 Integrated Peripherals ............................................................................2-16

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2.6 Power Management Setup .....................................................................2-21

2.7 PnP/PCI Configurations.........................................................................2-26

2.8 PC Health Status ....................................................................................2-29

2.9 Frequency Control .................................................................................2-30

3. Trouble Shooting ...................................................................... 3-1

Chapter 1 Motherboard Description

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Introduction

System Overview

Congratulat ions on the purchase of your new system! T his motherboard is designed

to take advantage of the latest industry technology to provide you with the ultimate

solution in data processing. In the tradition of its predecessors, this motherboard

continues a commitment to reliability and performance and strives for full compliance

and compatibility with industry software and hardware standards.

M6VLR Highlights:

8 Contains on board I/O facilities, which include one serial port, a parallel port, a

monitor port, a PS/2 mouse port, a PS/2 keyboard port, audio ports, USB ports and a

game port.

8 Contains on board IDE facilities for IDE devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM

Drives.

8 Contains on board LAN (optional).

8 Supports the Socket 370.

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1. Motherboard Description

1.1 Features

1.1.1 Hardw are

CPU

− Supports the Celeron

TM

processor (FC-PGA & FC-P GA2) and the

P entium

®

!!!

Micro-P rocessor (FC-PGA & FC-PGA2) and VIA C3

Samuel 2 for high-end workstations and servers.

− CPU Socket 370.

Speed

− Runing at 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus frequency.

− Supports up to 1.2 GHz CPU core speeds.

− The 33 MHz 32 bit PCI 2.2 compliant.

Chipset

− Chipset-VIA 8601T/82C686B

− LAN Chip RTL8100B (optional).

DRAM Me mory

− Supports two 64/128/256/512 MB DIMM module sockets.

− Supports Synchronous DRAM (3.3V).

− Supports a maximum memory size of 512 MB with SDRAM.

− 100/ 133Mhz Bus frequency.

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Internal Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Controller

− AGP 4X.

− Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 533 MB/sec.

− Eight level read request queue.

− Four level posted-write request queue.

− Thirty-two level (quadwords) read data FIFO (128 bytes).

− Sixteen level (quadwords) write data FIFO( 64 bytes).

− Intelligent request reordering for maximum AGP bus utilization.

− Supports Flush /Fence commands.

− Graphics Address Relocation Table (GART).

− One level T LB structure.

− Sixteen entry fully associative page table.

− LRU replacement scheme.

− Independent GART lookup control for host /AGP /PCI master accesses.

Sophisticate d Power Manage ment Features

− Independent clock stop controls for CPU / SDRAM,Internal AGP and

PCI bus.

− PCI and AGP bus clock run and clock generator control.

− Low-leakage I/O pads.

General Graphic Capabilities

− 64-bit Single Cycle 2D/3D Graphics Engine.

− Supports 2 to 8 Mbytes of Frame Buffer located in System Memory.

− Real Time DVD MPEG-2 and AC-3 Playback.

− Video Processor.

− I

2

C Serial Interface.

− Integrated 24-bit 230MHz True Color DAC.

− Extended Screen Resolutions up to 1600x1200.

− Extended Text Modes 80 or 132 columns by 25/30/43/60 rows.

− DirectX 6 and OpenGL ICD API.

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High Performance rCADE3D™ Accelerator

− 32 entry command queue,32 entry data queue.

− 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90% hit rates.

− Pipelined Single Cycle Setup / Texturing /Rendering Engines.

− DirectDraw™ acceleration.

− Multip le bufferin g and page flipp ing.

Setup Engine

− 32-bit IEEE floating point input data.

− Slope and vertex calculations.

− Back facing triangle culling.

− 1/16 sub-pixel positioning.

Rendering Engine

− High performance single pass execution.

− Diffused and specula lighting.

− Gouraud and flat shading.

− Anti-aliasing including edge,scene,and super-sampling.

− OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth-cueing.

− 16-bit Z-buffer.

− 8/16/32 bit per pixel color formats.

Texturing Engine

− 1/2/4/8-bits per pixel quality non—palletized textures.

− 16/32-bits per pixel quality non-palletized textures.

− Pallet formats in ARGB 565,1555,or 444.

− T ri-linear,bi- linear,and point-sampled f ilter ing.

− Mip-mappin g with mu lt ip le Level-Of-Detail (LOD) calcu lat ions and

prespective correction.

− Color keying for translucency.

2D GUI Engine

− 8/15/16/24/32-bits per pixel color formats.

− 256 Raster Operations (ROPs).

− Accelerated drawing: BitBLTs,lines,polygons,fills,patterns,clipping,bit

masking.

− Panning,scrolling,clipping,color expansion,sprites.

− 32x32 and 64x64 Hardware Cursor.

− DOS graphics and text modes.

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DVD

− Hardware-Assisted MPEG-2 Architecture for DVD with AC-3.

− Simultaneous motion compensation and front-end processing

(parsing,decryption and decode).

− Supports full DVD 1.0,VCD 2.0 and CD-Karaoke.

− Microsoft DirectShow 2.x native support,backward compatible to MCI.

− No additional frame buffer requirements.

− Dynamic frame and field de-interlace filtering for high quality playback

on VGA monitors(Bob and Weave).

− Tamper-proof software CSS implementation.

− Freeze,Fast-Forward, Slow Motion, Reverse.

− Pan-and-Scan support for 16:9 Sequence.

Super I/O Built-in onboa rd

− Support one multi-mode P aralle l Port.

(1) Standard & Bidirection Parallel Port (SPP).

(2) Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP).

(3) Extended Capabilities Port (ECP).

− Supports one serial port, 16550 UART with 16 byte FIFO.

− UART data rates up to 1.5 Mbaud.

− Supports one Infrared transmission (IR) port.

− Supports PS/2 Mouse.

− Supports 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB floppy disk

drives.

Direct Sound Ready AC97 Digital Audio Controller

− Dual full-duplex Direct Sound channels between system memory and

AC97 link.

− PCI master interface with scatter / gather and bursting capability.

− 32 byte FIFO of each direct sound channel.

− Host based sample rate converter and mixer.

− Standard v2.1 AC97 Codec interface for single or cascaded AC97

Codec's from multiple vendors.

− Loopback capability for re-directing mixed audio streams into USB

speakers.

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− Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real-mode Dos

legacy compatibility.

− Plug and play with 4 IRQ, 4 DMA, and 4 I/O space options for

SoundBlaster Pro and MIDI hardware.

− Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility.

− Direct two game ports and one MIDI port interface.

− Complete software driver support for Windows 98, Windows NT,

Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows ME.

Dimensions (Mic ro AT X form-facto r)

− 24.38cm x 20cm (WxL)

Power Ma nage ment

− Supports both ACPI (Advanced and Configuration and Power Interface)

and legacy ( APM) power management.

− ACPI v1.0 Compliant.

− APM v1.2 Compliant.

− STR Function (Available at pcB Ver: 2.0)

USB

− OHCI compliant.

− USB V1.1.

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1.1.2 Software

BIOS

− Phoenix legal & user-friendly BIOS.

− Supports PnP functions.

Operating Systems

− Offers the highest performance for MS-DOS, Windows 98, Windows

NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Novell, LINUX (Red

hat 7.0), SCO UNIT.

1.1.3 Attach ments

− HDD Cable.

− FDD Cable.

− USB2 Cable (Optional).

− Rear I/O Panel for Micro ATX Case (Optional).

− CD for sound, VGA, IDE drivers utilities.

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1.2 Motherboard Installation

1.2.1 System Block Diagram

A

DDR /DATA

CNTL

CN TL

A DDR/ DATA

AD DR

DATA

CONN.

USB

FLOPPY

CPU

MEMORY

SOCKET 370

ISA BUS

MOUSE

FLA SH

CONN.

HOST BUS

CONTROL

CO NN.

LPT.

SER.

KEYBOARD

PCI CONN

US B

IAS CON N

BIO S

CLOCK

ADD

PCI BUS

ID E

HOST BUS

DATA

USB

AM R SL OT

AC' 97

COD EC

W93194BR-39B

LAN

VT8601T

PLE-T

VT82C686B

PCI CONN

M6VLR

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1.2.2 Layout of Motherboard

Model No.M6VLR

VT

8601T

VT

82C686B

BIOS

LAN CHIP

JCDIN1

JWOL1

AMR1

BAT1

JCMOS1

JATXPWR1

JPRNT1

JCOM1

JVGA1

JKBMS1

JUSBLAN1

JCFAN1

CPU1

DIMM1

DIMM2

FDD1

IDE1 IDE 2

JPANEL1ROM1

ISA1

PCI3

PCI2

PCI1

12

JGAME1

JSPKR1

SP-OUT

JMIC1

MIC -IN

JLIN1

LINE-IN

JMIC1

GAME Port

FLOPPY DISK CONN.PRIMARY IDE CONN.

SECONDARY IDE CONN.

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1.2.3 Quick Reference

A. Back Panel I/O Connectors H. Secondary IDE Connector (IDE2)

B. AMR Slot (AMR1) I. Primary IDE Connector (IDE1)

C. Wake-On-LAN Header (JWOL1) J. FDD Connector (FDD1)

D. PCI Slots (PCI1-3) K. DIMM Sockets (DIMM1-2)

E. CD-ROM Audio Header (JCDIN1) L. Clear CMOS Header (JCMOS1)

F. ISA Slot (ISA1) M. CPU FAN Header (JCFAN1)

G. Front Panel Connector (JPANEL1) N. ATX Power Connector (JATXPWR1)

VT

8601T

VT

82C686B

BIOS

LAN CHIP

DIMM1

DIMM2

ABCDE

F

G

HI J

K

L

M

N

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1.3 CPU Installation

1.3.1 CPU Installation Procedure: Socket 370

1. Pull the lever sideways away from the socket then raise the lever up to a

90-degree angle.

2. Locate Pin A in the socket and look for the white dot or cut edge in the CPU.

Match Pin A with the white dot/cut edge then insert the CPU.

3. Press the lever down.

4. Put the fan on the CPU and buckle it and put the fan’s power-port into the

JCFAN1, then to complete the installation.

S

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c

k

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t

3

7

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CPU Installation Layout

1.3.2 CPU Fan Header: JCFAN1

Pin No. Assignment

1

Ground

2 +12V

3

Sense

VT

8601T

V

T

82C686B

BIOS

LAN CHIP

DIMM1

DIMM2

JCFAN1

1

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1.4 RAM Module Installation

1.4.1 DIMM

DRAM Access Time: 3.3V Unbuffered SDRAM PC100/133 Type required.

DRAM Type: 64MB/ 128MB/ 256MB/512MB DIMM Module (168 pin)

Total Bank 0 Bank 1

Memory Size (MB) DIMM1 DIMM2

64 M 64M x 1 pc ----

128 M 128M x 1 pc ----

256 M 256M x 1 pc ----

512 M 512M x 1 pc ----

128 M 64M x 1 pc 64M x 1 pc

192 M 128M x 1 pc 64M x 1 pc

320 M 256M x 1 pc 64M x 1 pc

576 M 512M x 1 pc 64M x 1 pc

192 M 64M x 1 pc 128M x 1 pc

256 M 128M x 1 pc 128M x 1 pc

384 M 256M x 1 pc 128M x 1 pc

640 M 512M x 1 pc 128M x 1 pc

320 M 64M x 1 pc 256M x 1 pc

384 M 128M x 1 pc 256M x 1 pc

512 M 256M x 1 pc 256M x 1 pc

768 M 512M x 1 pc 256M x 1 pc

576 M 64M x 1 pc 512M x 1 pc

640 M 128M x 1 pc 512M x 1 pc

768 M 256M x 1 pc 512M x 1 pc

1024 M 512M x 1 pc 512M x 1 pc

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1.4.2 How to install a DIMM Module

1. The DIMM socket has a “ Plastic

Safety Tab” and the DIMM memory

module has an asymmetrical notch”,

so the DIMM memory module can

only fit into the slot in one direction.

2. Push the tabs out. Insert the DIMM

memory modules into the socket at a

90-degree angle then push down

vertically so that it will fit into place.

3. The Mounting Holes and plastic

tabs should fit over the edge and hold

the DIMM memory modules in place.

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1.5 Slots

The slots in this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect them to

the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the motherboard's

features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can increase the

motherboard's capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that are not part of

the basic system.

VT

8601T

V

T

82C686B

BIOS

LAN CHIP

DIMM1

DIMM2

AMR Slot

PCI Slots

ISA Slot

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