EPOX EP-MVP4G User manual

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Manual Revision 6.0

September 17, 1999

EP-MVP4GEP-MVP4G

EP-MVP4G

ISA/PCI Mainboard with Onboard AGPISA/PCI Mainboard with Onboard AGP

ISA/PCI Mainboard with Onboard AGP

VGA PCI Audio, PCI IDE and SuperVGA PCI Audio, PCI IDE and Super

VGA PCI Audio, PCI IDE and Super

Multi-I/OMulti-I/O

Multi-I/O

EP-MVP4G

User Notice

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Company (hereinafter referred to as EPoX) except for documentation kept by the

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even if EPoX has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any

defect or error in the manual or product. EPoX may revise this manual from time

to time without notice. For updated BIOS, drivers, or product release information

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Handling Procedures

Static electricity can severely damage your equipment. Handle the EP-MVP4G

and any other device in your system with extreme care and avoid unnecessary

contact with system components on the mainboard. Always work on an antistatic

surface to avoid possible damage to the mainboard from static discharge. Always

have the power supply unplugged and powered off when inserting and removing

devices within the computer chassis. EPoX assumes no responsibility for any

damage to the EP-MVP4G mainboard that results from failure to follow instruc-

tion or failure to observe safety precautions.

CAUTION

The EP-MVP4G mainboard is subject to

damage by static electricity. Always

observe the handling procedures.

EP-MVP4G

Technical Support Services

If you need additional information, help during installation or normal use of this

product, please contact your retailer. Your retailer will have the most current

information about your configuration. If your retailer cannot help, you may visit

our online technical support website and/or contact our support technicians at the

locations listed below.

Record your serial number before installing your EP-MVP4G mainboard. (The

serial number is located near the PCI slots at the edge of the board.)

EP-MVP4G serial number: _________________________________

Contacting Technical Support

EPoX technical support is working hard to answer all of your questions online.

From our website you can find answers to many common questions, drivers, BIOS

updates, tech notes, and important technical bulletins. If you are still unable to

locate the solution you are seeking, you always have the option to contact our

support technicians directly.

North American website (English language)

http://www.epox.com

[email protected]

European website (Multi-language)

http://www.epox.nl

[email protected]

Taiwan website (Chinese language)

http://www.epox.com.tw

[email protected]

Thank you for using EPoX mainboards!

EP-MVP4G

Table of Contents

Section 1 Introduction

Components Checklist ................................... 1-1

Overview

Power-On/Off (Remote) ................................. 1-2

System Block Diagram ................................... 1-3

Section 2 Features

EP-MVP4G Features..................................... 2-1

Section 3 Installation

EP-MVP4G Detailed Layout ......................... 3-2

Easy Installation Procedure

Configure Jumpers......................................... 3-3

System Memory Configuration ...................... 3-5

Device Connectors ........................................ 3-8

External Modem Ring-in Power ON and

Keyboard Power ON Function (KBPO)........ 3-10

Section 4 Award BIOS Setup

BIOS Instructions .......................................... 4-1

Standard CMOS Setup .................................. 4-2

BIOS Features Setup ..................................... 4-3

Chipset Features Setup ................................... 4-8

Power Management Setup .............................. 4-11

PNP/PCI Configuration .................................. 4-14

Load Setup Defaults ....................................... 4-16

Integrated Peripherals ..................................... 4-16

Sensor And CPU Speed Setup ....................... 4-20

Change Supervisor or User Password ............. 4-21

IDE HDD Auto Detection............................... 4-22

Page

EP-MVP4G

HDD Low Level Format ............................... 4-24

Save & Exit Setup .......................................... 4-24

Exit Without Saving......................................... 4-24

Appendix

Appendix A

Memory Map................................................. A-1

I/O Map......................................................... A-1

Timer & DMA Channels Map......................... A-2

Interrupt Map ................................................. A-2

RTC & CMOS RAM Map ............................ A-3

Appendix B

POST Codes ................................................. A-5

Unexpected Errors ......................................... A-8

Appendix C

Load Setup Defaults ...................................... A-9

Appendix D

GHOST 5.1 Quick User’s Guide................... A-11

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IntroductionEP-MVP4G

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Section 1

INTRODUCTION

Components Checklist

üü

ü A. (1) One mainboard

üü

ü B. (1) One user’s manual

üü

ü C. (1) Floppy ribbon cable

üü

ü D. (1) IDE ribbon cables

üü

ü E. (1) COM Port Connector

üü

ü F. (1) Ultra_DMA IDE driver diskette

(1) AGP Drivers

(1) Audio Drivers

USER’S

MANUAL

EP-MVP4G

B

A

C

D

F

or

E

FDD1

J2

1

5

1

5

JP1

1

SOCKET 7

1

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ATX

POWER SUPPLY

EP-MVP4G Board

Power-On/Off (Remote)

The EP-MVP4G has a single 20-pin connector for ATX power supplies. For ATX

power supplies that support the Remote On/Off feature, this should be connected to

the systems front panel for system Power On/Off button. The systems power On/

Off button should be a momentary button that is normally open.

The EP-MVP4G has been designed with “Soft Off" functions. You can turn Off the

system from one of two sources: The first is the front panel Power On/Off button,

and the other is the "Soft Off" function (coming from the NMC-5V4AX’s onboard

circuit controller) that can be controlled by the operating system. Windows 95/98 will

control this when the user clicks that they are ready to Shutdown the system.

Case (chassis) Power

ON/OFF button

Figure 4: Simple ATX Power

ON/OFF Controller

J3

FDD1

J2

1

5

1

5

JP1

1

SOCKET 7

1

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Figure 5: System Block Diagram

System Block Diagram

PAC

PCI Bridge

and memory

controller

VT82C501

VT82C686A

I/O Bridge

socket 7

Processor

100/66 MHz

USB 0, 1 USB 2, 3

AC97

CODEC

~

CRT

Introduction EP-MVP4G

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FeaturesEP-MVP4G

Page 2-1

Section 2

FEATURES

EP-MVP4G Features:

• Intel Pentium

®

Processor, Pentium Processor with MMX technology, AMD

K5/K6, Cyrix 6x86L/6x86MX & idt C6 operating at 133 ~ 450 MHz with

321 ZIF socket 7 provides scalability to accept faster Processors in the

future.

• Designed with VIA MVP4 AGPset.

• Supports up to 768 Mega of DRAM (minimum of 16 MB) on board, You can

use 168-pin DIMM x 3. It will automatically detect Extended Data Output

(EDO) DRAM at 66MHz only or Synchronous DRAM memory (SDRAM) at

66MHz or 100MHz (please see Section 3-2).

• Supports (1) 16 bit ISA slots, (4) 32 bit PCI slots, (1)AMR and provides

(2) independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO

Mode 3/4 and Ultra DMA 33/66 devices. The EP-MVP4G supports (2) PCI

Bus Master slots and a jumperless PCI INT# control scheme which reduces

configuration confusion when plugging in PCI card(s).

• Supports ATAPI (e.g. CD-ROM) devices on both Primary and Secondary IDE

interfaces.

• Designed with lntegrated Multi I/O: (1) floppy port, (1) parallel port (EPP,

ECP), and (2) serial ports (16550 Fast UART).

Note: Japanese “Floppy 3 mode” is also supported

• Features Award Plug & Play BIOS. With Flash Memory you can always

upgrade to the current BIOS as they are released.

• EP-MVP4G utilizes a Lithium battery which provides environmental protection

and longer battery life.

• Software power-down when using Windows

®

95/98.

• Supports ring-in feature (remote power-on through external modem,

allows system to be turned on remotely).

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• Resume by Alarm - Allows your system to turn on at a preselected time.

• Supports CPU Hardware sleep and SMM (System Management Mode).

• Supports Keyboard power ON function (KBPO).

• Supports USDM software to offer motherboard various status.

• Supports the CPU and Chassis fan Auto stop in sleep mode.

• Built-in WOL (Wake On Lan) Connector.

• Built-in Sound Blaster/DirectSound AC97 Audio.

• Built-in AGP 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator.

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Section 3

INSTALLATION

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Page 3-2

Figure 1

EP-MVP4G Detailed Layout

PCI Slot #2

PCI Slot #3

PCI Slot #4

AMR

Battery

VIA

VT8501

VIA

VT82C686A

COM 1

USB

VGA

Parallel Port

USB 1

(Top)

Mouse

(Top)

USB 0

(Bottom)

PS/2

Keyboard

(Bottom)

IDE1

Secondary IDE

FDD1

Flash Memory

for BIOS

J7:WOL

Game Port

SOCKET 7

JP4

1

DIMM 3

Bank 2

DIMM 2

Bank 1

DIMM 1

Bank 0

CPU FAN

J4

ISA Slot #1

PCI Slot #1

JP3

POWER_ON/OFF

SPK

Power LED

RESET

J2

1

J3

IR CONN.

5

1

5

Chassis FAN

J6

JP1

1

COM2

USB CONN.

CD1

AUX1

ON

IDE2

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Easy Installation Procedure

The following must be completed before powering on your new system:

3-1. Configure Jumpers to match your hardware

3-2. Install memory chips

3-3. Device Connectors

3-4. External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON

Functions (KBPO)

Section 3-1

Configure Jumpers

We design this motherboard with the fewest jumpers to make your install fast and

easy.

The following will describe all of the jumpers that you are required to set before

moving on to step 3-2.

Note: The jumpers as depicted as shown (Figure 1) in their correct physi-

cal orientation.

JP4 Keyboard Power-ON function (refer to the section 3-4)

JP4 = 1-2 -

= 2-3 -

Disabled(Default)

Enabled

1

3

J7 WOL (Wake On Lan) Connector

Reserved for NIC (Network Interface Card) to

Wake the System.

JP1 = 1-2 - Run Mode (Default)

= 2-3 - Clear CMOS (momentarily)

JP1 CMOS Clear

1

3

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1

2

34

SW 1 CPU

Vcore

2

3

4

5

ON

1.8V

2.0V

2.1V

ON

ONON

ON

2.2V

2.3V

2.4V

3.2V

2.9V

2.8V

5

1

ON

ONON

ON

SW1: CPU Vcore Selection

JP3: CPU Speed Selection

XMM/muitneP

6K/5KDMA

6C-TDI

3PJ

MBI/xiryC

IIM/XM68x6

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zHM661

X5.2

zHM66002RP

zHM57332RP

zHM38662RP

zHM59003RP

zHM052zHM001663RP

ZHM002

X3

zHM66662RP

zHM57003RP

zHM052zHM38333RP

zHM59004RP*

zHM003zHM001334RP*

zHM332

X5.3

zHM66003RP

zHM57333RP

zHM38004RP*

zHM333zHM59664RP*

zHM053zHM001005RP*

zHM662

X4

zHM66333RP

zHM57004RP

zHM333zHM38664RP*

zHM083zHM59335RP*

zHM004zHM001055RP*

zHM003

X5.4

zHM66

zHM054zHM001

zHM333

X5

zHM66

zHM574zHM59

zHM005zHM001

zHM663X5.5zHM66

* Reserved

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Section 3-2

System Memory Configuration

Memory Layout

The EP-MVP4G supports (3) 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The

DIMMs can be either EDO (Extended Data Out) or SDRAM (Synchronized

DRAM). The DIMMs may be installed using just one chip.

• We recommend using SDRAM DIMM can not mixing

with EDO DIMM modules.

• DIMM SDRAM may be 83MHz (-12ns), 100MHz (-10ns) or

125MHz (-8ns) bus speed.

• No Registered DIMM support.

Figure 2 and Table 1 show several possible memory configurations using

* SDRAM only supports 8, 16, 32, 64, 128MB DIMM modules.

Table 1

DIMM 1

DIMM 2

Bank 0

Bank 1

-Synchronous

-EDO

DIMM 3

Bank 2

yromeMlatoT

1MMID

)0knaB(

2MMID

)1knaB(

3MMID

)2knaB(

BM821=

mumixaM

*MARDS/ODE

,BM23,BM61,BM8

1XBM821,BM46

enoNenoN

BM652=

mumixaM

*MARDS/ODE

,BM23,BM61,BM8

1XBM821,BM46

*MARDS/ODE

,BM23,BM61,BM8

1XBM821,BM46

enoN

BM483=

mumixaM

*MARDS/ODE

,BM23,BM61,BM8

1XBM821,BM46

*MARDS/ODE

,BM23,BM61,BM8

1XBM821,BM46

*MARDS/ODE

,BM23,BM61,BM8

1XBM821,BM46

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DIMM Module Installation

Figure 3 displays the notch marks and what they should look like on your DIMM

memory module.

DIMMs have 168-pins and two notches that will match with the onboard DIMM

socket. DIMM modules are installed by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a

90 degree angle and pressing straight down (figure 6) until it fits tightly into the

DIMM socket (figure 7).

Figure 3

CENTER KEY ZONE

(3.3 V DRAM)

LEFT KEY ZONE

(UNBUFFERED)

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Figure 4

DIMM Module clip before installation

Figure 5

DIMM Module clip after installation

To remove the DIMM module simply press down both of the white clips on either

side and the module will be released from the socket.

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Section 3-3

Device Connectors

Please install the motherboard into the chassis.

Now that your motherboard is installed you are ready to connect all your connections

(figure 6).

J4: CPU Fan Power

• A plug-in for the CPU Fan Power

J6: Chassis Fan Power

• A plug-in for the chassis Fan Power

J7: WOL (Wake On Lan) Connector

PW1: ATX Power Connector

• 20-pin power connector

J2,J3:Chassis Panel Connector

• Power_LED, Speaker, Reset, Sleep, Turbo LED and HDD LED

IDE1:Primary IDE Connector

IDE2:Secondary IDE Connector

FDD1:Floppy Controller Connector

CD1: MITSUMI CD-ROM Audio_in

AUX1: Extra CD Audio Connector

COM2: RS232 COM2 Commector

USB CONN.: The third and fourth USB port (cable optional)

PS/2 Mouse

PS/2

KEYBOARD

COM1 VGA1

parallel port

Speaker

Joystick/Midi port

USB port

Line_in

MIC

Figure 6

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