Biostar M6VLR User 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 Part 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.
Copyright© 2001
All Rights Reserved

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 Howto install a DIMM Module...................................................................1-14
1.5 Slots ......................................................................................................1-15
1.5.1 AMR (Audio Modem Riser) Slot.................................................................1-16
1.5.2PCI (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-pinPower Connector: JATXPWR1..............................................1-20

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1.6.3Hard 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 CMOSJumper: 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
Congratulations on the purchase of your new system! This 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:
!" 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.
!" Contains on board IDE facilities for IDE devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM
Drives.
!" Contains on board LAN (optional).
!" Supports the Socket 370.

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1. Motherboard Description
1.1 Features
1.1.1 Hardware
CPU
− Supports the CeleronTM processor (FC-PGA & FC-PGA2) and the
Pentium®
!!! Micro-Processor (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 Memory
− 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 TLB structure.
− Sixteen entry fully associative page table.
− LRU replacement scheme.
− Independent GART lookup control for host /AGP /PCI master accesses.
Sophisticated Power Management 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.
− I2C 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.
− Multiple buffering and page flipping.
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.
− Tri-linear,bi-linear,and point-sampled filtering.
− Mip-mapping with multiple Level-Of-Detail (LOD) calculations 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 onboard
− Support one multi-mode Parallel 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 (Micro ATX form-factor)
− 24.38cm x 20cm (WxL)
Power Management
− 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 Attachments
− 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
ADDR/DATA
CNTL
CNTL
CNTL
ADDR/DATA
ADDR
DATA
CONN.
USB
USB
FLOPPY
CPU
MEMORY
SOCKET 370
ISA BUS
MOUSE
FLASH
CONN.
HOST BUS
CONTROL
CONN.
LPT.
SER.
KEYBOARD
PCI CONN
USB
IAS CONN
BIOS
CLOCK
ADD
PCI BUS
IDE
IDE
HOST BUS
DATA
USB
AMR SLOT
AC' 97
CODEC
W93194BR-39B
LAN
VT8601T
PLE-T
VT82C686B
PCI CONN 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 IDE2
JPANEL1ROM1
ISA1
PCI3
PCI2
PCI1
1
2
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
HIJ
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.
Socket370

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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
VT
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
VT
82C686B
BIOS
LAN CHIP
DIMM1
DIMM2
AMR Slot
PCI Slots
ISA Slot