EPOX LX370Y User manual

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Manual Revision 1.1
June 12, 2003
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Table of Contents
Section 1 Introduction
Package Contents ................................................ 1-1
Overview
AthlonTM Processors ............................................ 1- 2
Chipset Overview ................................................. 1-3
Accelerated raphics Port .................................. 1-4
Ultra ATA66/100/133 ............................................ 1- 4
LAN (Optional)..................................................... 1- 4
Hardware Monitoring ........................................... 1- 4
Serial ATA (Optional) ........................................... 1- 5
Mainboard Form-Factor ....................................... 1- 6
I/O Shield Connector .......................................... 1-7
Power-On/Off (Remote) ..................................... 1-7
System Block Diagram ........................................ 1-8
Section 2 Features
Mainboard Features ............................................. 2-1
Section 3 Installation
Mainboard Layout ............................................... 3- 2
Easy Installation Procedure
CPU Insertion ...................................................... 3-3
Jumper Settings ................................................... 3-5
System Memory Configuration ............................ 3- 6
Expansion Slots .................................................... 3- 8
Device Connectors ............................................... 3- 10
STR (Suspend To RAM) Function....................... 3- 16
CPU Overheating Protection ................................ 3- 17
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Section 4 Award BIOS Setup
BIOS Instructions................................................. 4-1
Standard CMOS Setup ......................................... 4-2
Advanced BIOS Features ..................................... 4-3
Advanced Chipset Features ................................ 4-7
Integrated Peripherals .......................................... 4-11
Power Management Setup ................................... 4-16
PNP/PCI Configuration Setup .............................. 4-19
PC Health Status .................................................. 4-21
Power BIOS Features............................................ 4-23
Defaults Menu ..................................................... 4-24
Supervisor/User Password Setting ...................... 4-25
Exit Selecting ........................................................ 4-26
Section 5 Driver Installation
Easy Driver Installation ........................................ 5-1
C-Media Audio Configuration Brief uide........... 5-2
eForce4MX Integrated PU .............................. 5-9
Appendi Appendi A
Update Your System BIOS ................................... A-1
Appendi B
EEPROM BIOS Remover ...................................... B-1
Appendi C
HOST 7 Quick Users uide (Optional) ................. C-1

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Section 1
INTRODUCTION
Package Contents
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A. Mainboard
B. Users manual
C. Floppy disk drive cable
D. HDD drive cable
E. CD and diskette (drivers and
utilities
F. I/O Shield
G. COM port cable
Deluxe Pack Items
H. S-ATA data and power cable
Other Optional Items
I. Extra USB2.0 port cable
J. S/PDIF Module
If you need the other optional item,
please contact your dealer for
assistance.

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AthlonTM Processors
The AMD AthlonTM is a seventh-generation micro architecture with an integrated
L2 cache, which is powerful enough to support the bandwidth requirements of a
large range of applications, hardware, graphics, and memory technologies. These
processors implement advanced design techniques such as:
Socket A (PGA 462
266/333MHz system interface based on the Alpha EV6 bus protocol.
Three out-of-order, superscalar, pipelined Multimedia Units.
Three out-of-order, superscaler, pipelined Integer Units.
Fixed-sized internal instruction formats (MacroOPs .
72-entry Instruction Control Units.
AMD enhanced 3DNow! technology
L1 and L2 caches.
Dynamic branch prediction.
Socket A is the name for AMDs new socketed interface designed to support AMD
AthlonTM processors. This innovation is made possible by integrating the L2 cache
memory on chip with the processor. Socket A will help enable smaller enclosures,
and ultimately result in a wider variety of solutions in the market.
The AthlonTM processors in the Socket A format continue to deliver the ultimate
performance for cutting-edge applications. Both bring to desktop systems running
industry-standard x86 software superscalar RISC performance. Being provided in
the Socket A format they are the worlds most powerful x86 processors. They easily
deliver the highest integer, floating-point, and 3D multimedia performance for
applications running on x86 platforms around.
It features full-speed, on-chip cache memory, a 266/333MHz front side system bus,
and enhanced 3DNow! technology. The AMD AthlonTM processor is targeted at
the performance segment, and as such will have more cache memory and higher
clock speeds.

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Chipset Overview
This board is designed with nVidia chipset, nForce2TM IGP-128 as North Bridge and
nForce2TM MCP as South Bridge. NVIDIA® provide the highest-performance,
fullest-featured system architecture for the AMD Athlon XP Processor. The
second generation System Platform Processor works together with the second
generation of the NVIDIA Media Communication Processor, the MCP.
The nForce2 was architected specifically for the AMD AthlonXP Processor.
NVIDIAs patent-pending DASP (Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Pre-Processor
technology intelligently predicts and prefetches requests from the AMD Athlon XP
Processor to boost system performance beyond its nominal speed grade.
The nForce2 IGP-128 delivers twice the bandwidth by implementing the new
NVIDIA DualDDR Memory Architecture speed to DDR 400 memories. This
generation System Platform Processor also implements the AGP 8× interface,
HyperTransport Link, and is fully compliant with industry standard power manage-
ment specifications such as ACPI 2.0 and PCI Power Management Interface (PMI
Spec 1.1.
The NVIDIA® nForce MCP Media and Communications Processor (MCP
provides a highly integrated, high-performance, low-cost PC2001-compliant
peripheral controller that supports NVIDIA processor bridge functionality for
next-generation PCs. No other single-device controller provides all the functionality
of NVIDIAs MCP.

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Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
The AGP slot on the board is compliant with the new AGP 3.0 specification. This
new specification enhances the functionality of the original AGP specification by
allowing 8X data transfers ( 8 data samples per clock resulting in maximum band-
width of 2.1GB/s. In addition, it defines 1.5 volt power supply operation. Complying
with this specification, this board supports external AGP-8X/4X cards with Fast
Write Transactions. Only 1.5V AGP cards are supported.
Ultra ATA/66/100/133
The MCP provides two independent ATA133 IDE controllers, supporting standard
programmable input/output (PIO and Direct Memory Access (DMA mode
operations, as well as UltraDMA-133/100/66/33 standards for a maximum data
transfer rate of 133MB/sec per channel.
LAN (Optional)
The motherboard mounts the LAN chipset. It allows the mainboard to connect to a
local area network by means of a network hub.
Hardware Monitoring
Hardware monitoring allows you to monitor various aspects of your system
operations and status. The features include CPU temperature, voltage and RPM of
fan.
Serial ATA (Optional)
The evolutionary serial ATA interface replaces the standard parallel ATA physical
storage interface. The serial ATA specification provides scalability and allows
future enhancements to the computing platform. Serial technology overcomes
performance limits of parallel interface architecture, meeting the escalating need for
faster data throughput in servers and storage devices.

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Serial ATA is completely software compatible with parallel ATA, requiring no
modification to your operating system. The serial ATA interface cable requires lower
voltages and uses smaller cable connectors, providing ease of installation. You can
easily upgrade storage devices that are compatible with the serial ATA interface
specification. Serial ATA supports all ATA and ATAPI devices, including high
capacity removable devices, optical devices, tape storage devices, and zip drives.

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Mainboard Form-Factor
This board is designed with Micro-ATX form factor - the latest industry standard
for chassis design. The Micro-ATX form factor is essentially a Baby-AT
baseboard rotated 90 degrees within the chassis enclosure and a new mounting
configuration for the power supply. With these changes the processor is
relocated away from the expansion slots, allowing them all to hold full length add-
in cards. Micro-ATX defines a double height aperture to the rear of the chassis
which can be used to host a wide range of onboard I/O. Only the size and
position of this aperture is defined, allowing PC manufacturers to add new I/O
features (e.g.; TV input, TV output, joystick, modem, LAN, audio, etc. to
systems. This will help systems integrators differentiate their products in the
marketplace, and better meet your needs.
 By integrating more I/O down onto the board and better positioning the hard
drive and floppy connectors material cost of cables and add-in cards is
reduced.
 By reducing the number of cables and components in the system, manufac-
turing time and inventory holding costs are reduced and reliability will
increase.
 By using an optimized power supply, it's possible to reduce cooling costs
and lower acoustical noise. An ATX power supply, which has a side-
mounted fan, allows direct cooling of the processor and add-in cards making
a secondary fan or active heatsink unnecessary in most system applications.
Expandable I/O
Figure 2: Summary of ATX chassis features
CPU Socket
Sin le chassis fan
for system
Floppy
connector 5 1/4"
Bay
3 1/2"
Bay
ATX
Power
Supply
PCI slots
AGP slot
ATX 12V power
connector
ATX power
connector
IDE connectors

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I/O Shield Connector
The board is equipped with an I/O back panel. Please use the appropriate I/O shield
(figure 3 .
Power-On/Off (Remote)
This board has a 20-pin ATX and a 4-pin ATX12V power supply connector (Figure
4 . For power supplies that support the Remote On/Off feature, this should be
connected to the mainboard front panel PW_ON connector for the computer power
On/Off button.
The board has been designed with Soft Off" function. You can turn off the system
in two ways: by pressing the front panel power On/Off button, or using the "Soft
Off" function (incorporated in the mainboards onboard circuit controller that can
be controlled by an operating system such as Windows®ME/2000/98SE/XP.
Note: For maintaining the DDR SDRAM power during STR (ACPI S3) fun tion, it is
strongly re ommended to use ATX power supplies that have a +5VSB urrent
of (>=) 1A (1000mA). Please he k the 5VSBs spe ifi ation that has been
printed on the ATX power supplys outer ase.
Note: The board requires a minimum of 250 Watt ATX power supply to operate. Your
system onfiguration (amount of memory, add-in ards, peripherals, et .) may
ex eed the minimum power requirement but to ensure that adequate power is
provided, use a 300 Watt (or greater) ATX power supply.
Figure 3: I/O back panel layout
PW-ON
ase (chassis) Power ON/OFF button (PW-ON)
Figure 4: Simple ATX power ON/OFF controller
USB2.0
ports
Parallel Port
PS/2
Mouse
RJ45 LAN
(Optional)
Mic-in/Center Subwoofer (Pink)
Line-out/Front out (Green)
Line-in/Rear out (Blue)
VGA2 VGA1 USB2.0
ports
PS/2
Keyboard
POWER SUPPLY
12V 4-pin
20-pin

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Figure 5: System Block Diagram
System Block Diagram

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Section 2
FEATURES
Mainboard Features
Processor
Supports 462-pin SocketA for AMD Athlon XP and Barton processors
with 266/333M z Front Side Bus
- Athlon XP (1500+ to 2800+) with 266/333M z Front Side Bus,
- Barton (2500+ to 3000+) with 333M z Front Side Bus
Chipset
nVidia AGPset : nForce2-128 IGP + MCP
- Integrated GeForce4MX graphics controller
Main Memory
Two 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets for 64-bit, Unbuffered, Single/Double-
side and Non-ECC DDR-200/266/333/400 DIMMs
Supports 128-bit dual channel memory architecture
Supports up to 2GB memory size
BIOS
Flash EEPROM with Award BIOS
- ACPI v2.0 compliant
- S3 (Suspend to DRAM) sleep-state support
- SMBIOS (System Management BIOS)v2.2 compliant
- Supports Power failure recovery
- Able to wake the computer from specific states by LAN, Power switch,
PME#, RTC alarm, USB, PS2 KB&Mouse, Modem ring on COM#1
Onboard PCI Devices
LAN --> Embedded 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet controller with
RTL8201BL P Y
(Optional)

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S-ATA --> Embedded Serial ATA controller with VIA VT6420 for 2 ports
solution, up to 150MB/sec transfer rate
IDE --> Embedded IDE controller supports 2 IDE ports for up to 4
IDE devices
- Supports ATA-133 with up to 133MB/sec bandwidth
Legacy IO Controller
Winbond W83627 F LPC IO controller with floppy, printer, game,
serial and CIR/SIR interface
udio
Six channel audio with analog and digital output using CMI9739A AC97
CODEC
- AC97 v2.2 compliant
- In 2-C mode, supports Line-In (Blue), Line-Out (Green) and Mic-In
(Pink) at rear panel
- In 6-C mode, supports Rear speaker out (Blue), Front speaker out
(Green) and Center&Subwoofer speaker out (Pink) at rear panel
- Supports CD-In, Aux-In and S/PDIF-in/out interface
- Supports Line-out and Mic-In for front panel
Peripheral Interfaces
PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports (at rear panel)
One Parallel (printer) port (at rear panel)
Two VGA ports (at rear panel)
One RJ45 LAN connector (at rear panel)(Optional)
Six USB2.0 ports (4 at rear panel)
One Serial port
One floppy drive interface
Two IDE interface
Two S-ATA interface (Optional)
Two Fan connectors
(Optional)

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Front Panel Controller
Supports Reset & Soft-Off switches
Supports DD & Power LEDs
Supports PC speaker
Expansion Slots
One AGP slot supporting 1.5v 4X/8X AGP cards
- AGP v3.0 compliant
Two PCI slotswith Bus Master support
- PCI v2.3 compliant
Other Features
Magic ealth  a /W monitoring software utility, for voltages, tempera-
tures and fan-speeds sensing
EZ Boot  An easy way let end-user can choose to boot from hard drive,
CD-ROM, floppy, 
Supports exclusive KBPO (Keyboard Power On) function
Excellent Overclocking capabilities through
- subtle voltage tuning for CPU, Memory, AGP
- subtle frequency tuning on FSB
Supports complete Asynchronous FSB/Memory and FSB/AGP
Asynchronous scheme for over-clocking
CPU Overheating Protection
Form Factor
245mm x 245 mm Micro ATX size

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Installation
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Section 3
INSTALLATION

Installation
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Mainboard Layout
Figure 1

Installation
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Easy Installation Procedure
The following must be completed before powering on your new system:
3-1. CPU Installation
3-2. Jumper Settings
3-3. System Memory Configuration
3-4. Expansion Slots
3- . Device Connectors
3-1 CPU Installation
CPU Insertion: (use AMD AthlonTM as reference
Step 1
Open the socket by raising the actuation
lever.
Step 2
Insert the processor.
Ensure proper pin 1 orientation by aligning
the FC-PGA corner marking with the
socket corner closest to the actuation arm
tip. The pin field is keyed to prevent mis-
oriented insertion.
Dont force processor into socket. If it does
not go in easily, check for mis-orientation
and debris.
Make sure the processor is fully inserted
into the socket on all sides.
Figure 2
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Step 3
Close the socket by lowering and
locking the actuation lever.
Figure 4
Figure 5
Step 4
Thermal compound and qualified heatsink recommended by AMD are a must to
avoid CPU overheat damage. For more information about installing your CPU,
please refer to the AMD website article Socket A AMD processor and Heatsink
Installation Guide http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/pdf/23986.pdf.