American Megatrends Olympus Pentium II PCI ISA User manual

Olympus Pentium II/Pentium III PCI ISA
Motherboard
Guide
MAN-781
6/24/99

Olympus PCI Pentium II/Pentium III ISA Motherboard User’s Guide
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Revision History
5/15/98 Initial release.
6/11/98 Revised AMIBIOS Setup chapter.
8/4/98 Revised motherboard drawing.
10/27/98 Revised the SW1 and Front Panel Connector descriptions.
4/12/99 Removed references to Xeon and external USB header..
6/24/99 Added support for Intel Pentium II/Pentium IIII CPUs.

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Table of Contents
1 Hardware Installation ......................................1
Overview...........................................................................1
Olympus Dimensions......................................................10
Installation Steps.............................................................11
Olympus Motherboard Layout........................................12
Step 1 Unpack the Motherboard.....................................13
Step 2 Set Jumpers..........................................................14
Avoid Static Electricity...................................................15
Step 3 Configure CPU ....................................................16
Step 4 Install CPU...........................................................17
Step 5 Install Memory.....................................................21
Step 6 Install the Motherboard........................................23
Step 7 Attach Cables.......................................................24
Step 8 Connect Onboard I/O...........................................29
Step 9 Attach Floppy Drive ............................................31
Step 10 Attach IDE Drive...............................................33
Step 11 Test and Configure.............................................37
2 AMIBIOS Setup..............................................39
AMIBIOS Setup Menu...................................................40
Section 1 Standard Setup........................................................41
Section 2 Advanced Setup ......................................................46
Section 3 Advanced Chipset Setup ........................................51
Section 4 Power Management Setup .....................................55
Section 5 PCI/PnP Setup.........................................................59
Section 6 Peripheral Setup......................................................63
Section 7 Other Setup Options...............................................66
Auto-Detect Hard Disks..................................................66
AMIBIOS Password Support..........................................66
Change User Password ...................................................67
Change Supervisor Password..........................................67
Change Language Settings..............................................67
Auto Configuration with Optimal Settings.....................68
Auto Configuration with FailSafe Settings.....................68
Save Settings and Exit ....................................................68
Exit Without Saving........................................................68
System Hardware Health Management Setup.................69
3 Programming the Flash ROM.......................71
Bootblock Code Checkpoint Codes................................74
Index..................................................................75

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Preface
To the OEM Thank you for purchasing the high performance American Megatrends Olympus
PCI Pentium II/Pentium III ISA motherboard. This product is a state of the art
motherboard that includes the famous AMIBIOS. It is assumed that you have
also licensed the rights to use the American Megatrends documentation for the
American Megatrends Olympus motherboard
This manual was written for the OEM to assist in the proper installation and
operation of this motherboard. This manual describes the specifications and
features of the Olympus motherboard. It explains how to assemble a system
based on the Olympus motherboard and how to use the AMIBIOS that is
specifically designed for this motherboard.
This manual is not meant to be read by the computer owner who purchases a
computer with this motherboard. It is assumed that you, the computer
manufacturer, will use this manual as a sourcebook of information, and that
parts of this manual will be included in the computer owner's manual.
Disclaimer
AMI certifies only that this product will work correctly when this
product is used with the same jumper settings, the same system
configuration, the same memory module parts, and the same
peripherals that were tested by AMI with this product. The complete
list of tested jumper settings, system configurations, peripheral
devices, and memory modules are documented in the AMI
Compatibility Report for this product. Call your AMI sales
representative for a copy of the Compatibility Report for this product.

Preface v
Technical Support
AMI provides technical support only for AMI products purchased directly from
AMI or from an AMI-authorized reseller.
If… Then…
You purchased this product from AMI or from
a certified AMI reseller, Call AMI technical support at 770-246-8600. Please be prepared to specify the serial
number of the product.
This AMI product was installed as part of a
system manufactured by a company other than
AMI or you purchased an AMI product from
an unauthorized reseller,
Call the technical support department of the
computer manufacturer or the unauthorized
reseller. AMI does not provide direct technical
support in this case.
If you need help installing, configuring, or running this product, call American
Megatrends technical support at 770-246-8645. You can also send questions to
tech support at:
[email protected].
Web Site We invite you to access the American Megatrends world wide web site at:
http://www.ami.com.

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Packing List
You should have received the following:
•an Olympus Pentium II/Pentium III PCI ISA motherboard,
•a diskette containing the American Megatrends AMI_ClientCare utility,
•the American Megatrends AMIClientCare User’s Guide,
•a Warranty Card, and
•the American Megatrends Olympus Pentium II/Pentium III PCI ISA Motherboard
User's Guide.
Warning
The pinout for the optional USB Cable Box is:
Pin 1 Red VCC
Pin 2 Green Data +
Pin 3 White Data -
Pin 4 Black Ground
Please make sure that the USB cable is correctly installed. Incorrect
installation will damage the motherboard.
Static Electricity
The Olympus motherboard can easily be damaged by static electricity. Make
sure you take appropriate precautions against static electric discharge:
•wear a properly-grounded wristband while handling the motherboard or any other
electrical component,
•touch a grounded anti-static surface or a grounded metal fixture before handling the
Olympus motherboard,
•handle system components by the mounting bracket, if possible.
Batteries Make sure you dispose of used batteries according to the battery manufacturer’s
instructions. Improper use of batteries may cause an explosion. Make sure you
follow the battery manufacturer’s instructions about using the battery. Replace
used batteries with the same type of battery or an equivalent recommended by
the battery manufacturer.

Chapter 1 Hardware Installation 1
1 Hardware Installation
Overview
The American Megatrends Olympus PCI Pentium II/Pentium III ISA ATX
motherboard supports intelligent diagnostic and power management, hardware
monitoring, DMI reporting and modification, Ultra DMA/33, USB, the ACPI
(Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) specification, and includes an
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) socket for a super fast AGP video display
card
CPU The CPU socket on the motherboard is a 242-pin slot. A switching voltage
regulator is required. Install a 233, 266, 300, 333, 350, 400, 450 MHz or higher
Intel® Pentium® II, Pentium III, and Celeron CPUs.
MMX Technology This motherboard supports Intel Pentium II/Pentium III CPUs that include
MMX support. MMX technology allows you to experience richer video, audio,
digital imaging and communications when running the latest generation of
multimedia software on your computer.
AGP The Intel Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level
of video display sophistication and speed. The Olympus motherboard includes
an AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphics card. AGP video
cards support data transfer rates up to 528 MB/s.
AMI_ClientCare The Olympus motherboard is shipped with a copy of the American Megatrends
AMI_ClientCare utility. AMI_ClientCare allows you to display system
information, run diagnostic tests, and monitor environmental parameters such as
the CPU temperature, fan speed, and system voltage levels.
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Overview, Continued
Chipset The Olympus motherboard uses an Intel 440BX chipset, including CPU
interface controller, advanced cache controller, integrated SDRAM controller,
synchronous ISA bus controller, concurrent PCI 2.0 and 2.1 local bus interface,
and an integrated power management unit. This chipset supports intelligent
diagnostic and power management through features like:
•hardware monitoring,
•DMI support,
•USB, and
•ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) support.
Expansion Slots The motherboard includes:
•two 16-bit ISA expansion slots and
•five 32-bit PCI expansion slots.
The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132 megabytes per second.
Cache Memory The Intel Pentium II/Pentium III card includes all cache memory. This includes
256 KB or 512 KB of synchronous pipeline burst L2 secondary cache memory.
All of system memory can be cached.
Supported Standards The Olympus motherboard supports:
•SB_Link,
•super multi I/O,
•Remote wakeup LAN support,
•LDCM software support,
•ACPI,
•AGP,
•DMI,
•the Intel DPMA (Dynamic Power Management Architecture,
•Concurrent PCI V2.0 and V2.1, and
•USB (Universal Serial Bus). Cont’d

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Overview, Continued
ACPI This motherboard fully implements the ACPI standard. ACPI is an open PC
hardware, operating system, and peripheral device interface specification. ACPI
allows the computer to come to full power instantly and to complete tasks even
after power is turned off. ACPI is being implemented in Microsoft® Windows
95™, Windows 98™, and new versions of Windows NT™. ACPI:
•provides improved thermal management,
•reduced energy consumption, and
•Plug and Play features that are managed by the operating system.
Olympus ACPI This motherboard provides the following key ACPI features:
Feature Description
soft-off support You can turn off the computer via the Windows 95 operating
system. The computer must have a power supply with a soft-
off controller before this feature can be implemented.
remote ring on Your computer can be turned on from a remote location via a
modem signal when the computer is in Sleep Mode. This
feature is useful if you are expecting a late-night fax. The only
power you leave on is power to the modem. When the phone
rings, the modem wakes up, powers on the entire computer,
answers the phone, and the fax is received. The computer
power is then turned off again to minimize power use. This
feature can only be implemented in a computer that has a
power supply with a soft-off controller. This motherboard
supports the LDCM V3.0 specification.
RTC alarm You can set a timer to turn computer power on at a certain time
to perform a certain task.
Switching Voltage Regulator This motherboard includes a switching voltage regulator that
significantly reduces the CPU and voltage regulator temperature. This voltage
regulator is also fully upgradable to the next generation of Socket 7 CPUs.
These new CPUs will require more electrical current and will generate more
heat.
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Overview, Continued
CPU Thermal Monitor The Olympus motherboard includes a special heat sensor under the CPU
that monitors the CPU temperature. This heat sensor generates an SMI (System
Management Interrupt) when the CPU temperature is too hot. The SMI can be
set to turn on the external cooling fan and/or lower the CPU clock frequency.
You are warned that the CPU is overheating. The CPU is returned to normal
operating conditions when the CPU temperature returns to normal. This feature
can only be implemented if a power supply with a soft-off power controller is
installed in the computer.
High Voltage Protection The Olympus motherboard automatically shuts down the computer if
the system voltage is 5% over the following standard voltage levels:
•+12V, -12V,
•+5V, -5V,
•+3.3V, and
•CPU core voltage.
SDRAM The Olympus motherboard provides four 168-pin DIMM system memory
sockets that support up to 512 MB of SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random
Access Memory). SDRAM increases the CPU-to-memory data transfer rate to
528 MBs. The data transfer rate is 264 MBs if EDO DRAM is installed.
You can install 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, or 128 MB SDRAM DIMM
modules. Cont’d

Chapter 1 Hardware Installation 5
Overview, Continued
PC 97 Compliant The Olympus motherboard is fully compliant with the Microsoft PC 97
specification at both the hardware and the BIOS levels.
PC 97 is a set of hardware, bus, and device design requirements specified by
Microsoft that make computers easier to use. PC 97 supports cooperation
between the operating system, the hardware, and the applications software. Key
PC 97 features include:
•Plug and Play compatibility,
•power management support for configuring and managing all system
components
•32-bit device drivers, and
•standard installation procedures for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows
NT.
The Olympus motherboard provides hardware monitoring and DMI features that
permit continuous monitoring of key system performance parameters, such as
ambient temperature and cooling fan status.
AMIBIOS Features This motherboard has an AMIBIOS system BIOS on a Flash ROM with
built-in AMIBIOS Setup. AMIBIOS features include:
•IDE block mode and 32-bit data transfer support,
•IDE Programmed I/O modes 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 support,
•PS/2 mouse support,
•IDE LBA mode support,
•APM (Advanced Power Management) and Flash BIOS hooks,
•EPA Green PC-compliant,
•PCI and Plug and Play (PnP) support, and
•DIM (Device Initialization Manager) support,
•DMI (Desktop Management Interface) support,
•can boot from a CD-ROM drive,
•automatically detects system memory, cache memory, and hard disk drive
parameters,
•Intel NSP-compliant,
•Fast ATA IDE mode programming and ATAPI support,
•Boot sector virus protection,
•instant-on support,
•automatically configures PnP and PCI devices. Cont’d

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Overview, Continued
BIOS Shadowing The system BIOS is always copied from ROM to RAM for faster execution.
The end user can shadow 16 KB ROM segments from C0000h – DCFFFh.
IDE The Olympus motherboard has two 40-pin IDE connectors onboard that support
up to four IDE drives (hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, or tape drives). The
integrated PCI bus master enhanced IDE controller is on the PCI local bus. The
IDE controller supports the Ultra DMA/33 protocol, which doubles the hard
disk drive data transfer rates specified in the ATA-2 standards to 33 MB/s while
maintaining full backward compatibility with existing PIO mode 3, PIO mode 4,
and DMA mode 2 devices.
Fast ATA The motherboard supports the Fast ATA specification using PIO mode 4 and
multiword DMA mode 2.
Ultra DMA/33 This motherboard includes an integrated enhanced IDE PCI bus master IDE
controller that supports the Ultra DMA/33 protocol. The Ultra DMA/33
protocol permits data transfer rates up to 33 MBs. Ultra DMA/33 also reduces
the CPU workload and permits increased CPU utilization. Ultra DMA/33 is
completely backward-compatible with older DMA standards.
Floppy The Olympus motherboard has an onboard floppy controller that supports up to
two 360 KB, 720 KB, 1.2 MB, 1.44 MB, or 2.88 MB floppy drives.
Parallel Port The Olympus motherboard has an onboard ECP and EPP-capable parallel port
connector.
Serial Ports The Olympus motherboard has two onboard serial port connectors and two
16550 UART serial ports.
Keyboard The Olympus motherboard Includes a standard miniDIN keyboard connector.
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Overview, Continued
Mouse The Olympus motherboard includes a standard miniDIN mouse connector.
USB The Olympus motherboard has two 4-pin USB connectors. USB allows future
generations of USB-compliant peripheral devices to be automatically detected
and configured through a single port. USB uses Plug and Play technology. All
USB peripherals are automatically detected and configured. The AMIBIOS on
this motherboard provides complete USB system BIOS support.
Power Connectors The Olympus motherboard has standard ATX power supply connectors.
RTC/CMOS RAM A real time clock and 128 bytes of CMOS RAM with a battery backup is
provided on the motherboard.
Power Management Power management services include:
•power management signal to Green PC-aware power supplies,
•automatic IDE and video power down,
•monitor blanking,
•SMI (System Management Interrupt) support,
•APM, and
•system stop clock. Cont’d

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Overview, Continued
PCI Slots The motherboard conforms to the PCI Version 2.1 specification. The concurrent
PCI architecture of this motherboard allows faster CPU, PCI, and ISA bus
transactions for faster and smoother multimedia performance. This motherboard
allows you to install either PCI V2.0 or PCI V2.1-comaptible adapter cards
The five PCI slots are automatically configured by the AMIBIOS. The PCI slots
operate synchronously with the CPU clock, as follows:
CPU External Clock Frequency PCI Expansion Slot Frequency
66 MHz 33 MHz
100 MHz 33 MHz
Onboard I/O The Olympus Pentium II/Pentium III ISA motherboard includes:
•two 40-pin IDE connectors on the PCI bus that support up to four IDE
drives,
•a 34-pin floppy drive connector,
•two DB9 serial port connectors (with 16550 UARTs),
•a DB25 parallel port connector with ECP and EPP support,
•an infrared connector,
•two USB connectors that permit high speed USB-compliant external
peripheral devices,
•a PS/2 keyboard connector, and
•a PS/2 mouse connector. Cont’d

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Overview, Continued
DMI In a corporate environment, system manageability is an important consideration.
DMI (Desktop Management Interface) is a specification for a standard method
of storing and reporting system information. This motherboard supports the
DMI specification on the system BIOS level. DMI detects and records system
configuration information, including the CPU type and speed, memory size and
type, and much more information. DMI maintains a local database of system
configuration information that can be accessed and even modified from a remote
location.
The American Megatrends AMI_ClientCare utility is also shipped with this
motherboard. AMI_ClientCare allows you to display system information, run
diagnostic tests, and display system environmental parameters such as the CPU
voltage, fan speed, and system voltage levels. See the American Megatrends
AMI_ClientCare User’s Guide for additional information.
Infrared This motherboard includes a 10-pin serial infrared connector. Infrared allows
bidirectional cordless data transactions with other IrDA-compliant computers
and peripheral devices. Infrared transmissions can occur in half-duplex
(sequential transmission/receiving) or full-duplex (simultaneous transmission)
modes.
A 10-pin infrared connector is provided on the motherboard. The motherboard
and AMIBIOS comply with the IrDA SIR infrared device standards and
specifications.

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Olympus Dimensions
Motherboard Height Restrictions The Altantis II motherboard measures 7 1/8 inches by 12
inches. The areas on the motherboard with the height restrictions are shaded.

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Installation Steps
Step Action Turn to
1 Unpack the motherboard. page 13
2 Set Jumpers. Page 14
3 Configure the CPU. Page 16
Select the CPU voltage. Page 16
Select the CPU speed. Page 16
4 Install the CPU. Page 17
5 Install memory. Page 21
Install system memory. Page 21
6 Install the motherboard. Page 23
7 Attach cables to connectors. Page 24
Connect the power supply. Page 25
Attach the keyboard and
mouse cables. Page 25
Attach cables Page 26
8 Connect onboard I/O. Page 29
Connect the serial ports. Page 29
Connect the parallel port. Page 30
9 Connect floppy drive(s). Page 31
10 Connect the IDE drive(s). Page 32
11 Test and configure. Page 37
Warning
This motherboard contains sensitive electronic components
that can be easily damaged by static electricity. Follow the
instructions carefully to ensure correct installation and to
avoid static damage.

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Olympus Motherboard Layout

Chapter 1 Hardware Installation 13
Step 1 Unpack the Motherboard
Step Action
1 Inspect the cardboard carton for obvious damage. If damaged,
call 770-246-8645. Leave the motherboard in its original
packing.
2 Perform all unpacking and installation procedures on a ground-
connected anti-static mat. Wear an anti-static wristband
grounded at the same point as the anti-static mat. Or use a sheet
of conductive aluminum foil grounded through a 1 megohm
resistor instead of the anti-static mat. Similarly, a strip of
conductive aluminum foil wrapped around the wrist and
grounded through a 1 megohm resistor serves the same purpose
as the wristband.
3 Inside the carton, the motherboard is packed in an anti-static bag,
and sandwiched between sheets of sponge. Remove the sponge
and the anti-static bag. Place the motherboard on a grounded
anti-static surface component side up. Save the original packing
material.
4 Inspect the motherboard for damage. Press down on all ICs
mounted in sockets to verify proper seating. Do not apply power
to the motherboard if it has been damaged.
5 If the motherboard is undamaged, it is ready to be installed.

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Step 2 Set Jumpers
Set all jumpers and install the CPU before placing the motherboard in the
chassis. Set jumpers by placing a shunt (shorting bridge) on the designated pins
of the jumper. A shunt and jumpers are shown below:
Shunt 3-pin Berg 2-pin Berg
In this manual, jumpers are shown in two -dimensions,
as if viewed from directly above, as shown below:
1
3
5
2
4
6
The placement of shunts is
indicated by a solid line
between pins, as shown
between Pins 1-2
to the right:
1
3
5
2
4
6
3-dimensional view o
f
motherboard jumpers and a shunt.
SW1 Clear Password Positions 5 and 6 on SW1 allows you to delete the system BIOS password
should you forget the password. Set switch 5 ON and 6 OFF to clear the
password. The default is switches 5 – 6 ON.
Cont’d