MSI Pro266 Master User manual

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Chapter 1.
Introduction 
The Pro266 Master (MS-6366) ATX mainboard is a high-performance
computer mainboard based on Apollo Pro266 chipset and designed for the
ntel® CeleronTM or Pentium !!! (FC-PGA) processor for inexpensive busi-
ness/personal desktop markets.
The Apollo Pro266 chipset consists of the VT8633 V-Link DDR Host
system controller and the VT8233 highly integrated V-Link Client PC /LPC
controller. The VT8633 provides superior performance between the CPU,
DRAM, AGP bus and V-Link interface with pipelined, burst, and concurrent
operation and supports eight banks of SDR/DDR SDRAMs up to 4 GB and
full AGP v2.0 capability including 2x and 4x mode transfers, SBA (SideBand
Addressing), Flush/Fence commands, and pipelined grants.
The V A® VT8233 South Bridge enhances the functionality of the
standard SA peripherals and supports delayed transactions and remote
power management so that slower SA peripherals do not block the traffic of
the PC bus. n addition, the VT8233 includes eight levels (doublewords) of
line buffers from the PC bus to the SA bus to further enhance overall
system performance.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Mainboard Specifications 1-2
Mainboard Layout 1-4
Quick Components Guide 1-5
Key Features 1-6
MS Special Features 1-7

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CPU
!Support Socket 370 for ntel® Celeron(PPGA/FC-PGA)/Coppermine (FC-
PGA) processor or V A Cyrix /Samuel processor
!Support CPU frequency at:
- Celeron 433/500/533/566/600/633/667/700/733MHz and above
- Coppermine 500/550/600/650/700/750/800/850 MHz and above @
100MHz FSB, or 533/600/667/733/800/866/933/1G/1.13GHz and above @
133MHz FSB
- Cyrix 433/466/500/533/566MHz and above @ 133MHz FSB
- Samuel 500/533/550/600/650/700/733MHz and above @ 133MHz FSB
Chipset
!V A® VT8633 chipset (552 BGA)
- support 66/100/133 FSB
- AGP 4x and Vlink plus Advanced ECC Memory Controller
- Support PC100/133 SDRAM and PC200/266 DDR technology
!V A® VT8233 chipset (376 BGA)
- High Bandwidth Vlink Client controller
- ntegrated Faster Ethernet LPC
- ntegrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
- Ultra DMA 33/66/100 master mode PC E DE controller
- ACP
Clock Generator
!Programmable (48-pin clock programmable + 56-pin buffer)
!Support 66/100/133MHz clocks
Main Memory
!Support four memory banks using two 168-pin SDRAMs (maximum size
up to 2GB) and six memory banks using three 184-pin DDR D MMs
(maximum size up to 3GB)
Slots
!One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot
- AGP v2.0 specification compliant
!One CNR (Communication Network Riser) slot
Mainboard Specification

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!Five 32-bit Master PC Bus slots
!Supports 3.3V/5V PC bus nterface
On-Board IDE
!An DE controller on the V A® VT8233 Chipset provides DE HDD/CD-
ROM with P O, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33/66/100 operation modes
!Can connect up to four DE devices
Audio
!Chipset integrated
On-Board Peripherals
!On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and
2.88Mbytes
- 2 serial ports (COMA + COMB)
- 1 parallel port supportting SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 6 USB ports (2 rear connectors and 2 USB front pin headers- 4
ports)
- 1 rDA connector for S R/C R/F R/ASK R/HPS R
- 1 Game/3 Audio ports
- 2 DE Raid connectors
- On board buzzer
BIOS
!The mainboard B OS provides Plug & Play B OS which detects the
peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically
!The mainboard provides a Desktop Management nterface (DM ) func-
tion which records your mainboard specifications
Dimension
! ATX Form Factor
Mountin
!6 mounting holes

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Mainboard Layout
MODEM IN
CD IN
AUX IN
Top: Mouse
Bottom:
Keyboard
USB Ports
Top:
Parallel Port
Bottom:
COMA/COMB
Socket 370
JP5
JVSB1
PFAN
Top: Game
Port
Bottom:
Audio Ports
ATX Power Supply
VIA
VT8633
Diagnosti LED
IR
J4
Winbond
W83627HF-AW
AGP Slot
PCI Slot 1
CNR Slot
PCI Slot 2
PCI Slot 3
PCI Slot 4
PCI Slot 5
FDD1
IDE1
IDE2
SFAN
VIA
VT8233
JP4
JGS1
JFP1
JGL1
J2
USB3 USB5
JBAT1
JMDM1
BATT
+
CFAN
DIMM1
DIMM2
Code
IDE RAID (Optioal)
Promise
PDC20265R
DDR1
DDR2
DDR3
BIOS
Pro266 Master (MS-6366) ATX Mainboard
USB4
IDE RAID (Optioal)
USB PC2PC

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Quick Components Guide
Component Function Reference
DIMM 1~2 Installing memory modules See p. 2-4~2-6
Socket 37 Installing CPU See p. 2-2
CFAN Connecting to CPUFAN See p. 2-23
SFAN Connecting to SYSFAN See p. 2-23
PSFAN Connecting to Power Supply Fan See p. 2-23
ATX Power Supply Installing power supply See p. 2-7
IDE1& IDE2 Connecting to IDE hard disk drive See p.2-13
IDE RAID connectors Connecting to IDE RAID hard drives See p.2-14
FDD1 Connecting to floppy disk drive See p.2-12
USB3/4/5 Connecting to USB interfaces See p. 2-17
USB PC2PC Connecting to USB PC2PC interface See p. 2-17~2-19
PCI Slot 1~5 Installing expansion cards See p. 2-3
AGP Slot Installing AGP cards See p. 2-3
CNR Slot Installing expansion cards See p. 2-3
JFP1 Connecting to the case See p. 2-15
JGS1 Connecting to sleep/suspend switch See p. 2-2
JGL1 Connecting to sleep/suspend LED See p. 2-21
JMDM1 Connecting to a modem card See p. 2-2
J4 Top Tech III: monitor AGP temp. See p. 2-22
IR Connecting to IrDA infrared module See p. 2-22
JBAT1 Clearing CMOS data See p. 2-26
JVBS1 Setting keyboard wake-up function See p. 2-27
J2 Selecting beep device See p. 2-29
JP4 Enabling onboard audio codec See p. 2-29
JP5 Enabling overclocking feature See p. 2-28

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!Microsoft® PC99 compliant
!D-LEDTM - 4 LEDs embedded in the mainboard
!T.O.P TechTM - accurately detect components temperatures
!PC AlertTM system hardware monitor
!CPU: Socket 370 for ntel® CeleronTM/Pentium !!! Processor
!ATX Form Factor
!Clock: 66/100/133MHz
!Soft Audio integrated in chipset
!Memory: 3 DDR D MMs + 2 SDR D MMs
!LAN Wake up Function
!Modem (External/ nternal) Ring Wake up Function
!/O: 2 serial ports. 1 parallel port, 5 USB ports, 1 USB PC to PC Port, 1
floppy port, 1 rDA connector, 3 Audio/1 Game port, 2 DE RA D
connectors (Optional)
!Slot: 1 AGP slot, 1 CNR slot, 5 PC slots
Key Features

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PC Alert III
The PC AlertTM is a utility you can find in the CD-ROM. The utility
is just like your PC doctor that can detect the following PC hardware status
during real time operation:
* monitor CPU & system temperature
* monitor fan speed
* monitor system voltage
* monitor chassis intrusion
f one of the items above is abnormal, the program main screen will be immedi-
ately shown on the screen, with the abnormal item highlighted in red. This will
continue to be shown,until user disables warning.
MSI Special Features

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Features:
!Network Management
- Monitoring & remote control
!Basic System Utilities
- Scandisk & Defragment to maintain your HDD
!3D Graphics Design
- Enables a more friendly user interface
!Sofware Utilities
- SoftCooler Optimized Cooling

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The D-LED uses graphic signal display to help
users understand their system. Four LEDs embedded in
the mainboard provide up to 16 combinations of signals to
debug the system. The 4 LEDs can debug all problems that
fail the system, such as VGA, RAM or other failures. This
special feature is very useful for the overclocking users.
These users can use the feature to detect if there are any
problems or failures.
D-LED
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Di gnostic LED
D-LED Description
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System Power ON
- The D-LED will hang here if the processor is damaged or not installed
properly.
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Early Chipset Initiali ation
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Memory Detection Test
- Testing onboard memory si e. The D-LED will hang if the memory
module is damaged or not installed properly.
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Decompressing BIOS image to RAM for fast booting.
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Initiali ing Keyboard Controller.
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Testing VGA BIOS
- This will start writing VGA sign-on message to the screen.
Red Green
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Processor Initiali ation
- This will show information regarding the processor (like brand name,
system bus, etc)
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Testing RTC (Real Time Clock)
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Initiali ing Video Interface
- This will start detecting CPU clock, checking type of video onboard.
Then, detect and initiali e the video adapter.
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BIOS Sign On
- This will start showing information about logo, processor brand name,
etc.
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Testing Base and Extended Memory
- Testing base memory from 240K to 640K and extended memory
above 1MB using various patterns.
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Assign Resources to all ISA.
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Initiali ing Hard Drive Controller
- This will initiali e IDE drive and controller.
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Initiali ing Floppy Drive Controller
- This will initiali ing Floppy Drive and controller.
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Boot Attempt
- This will set low stack and boot via INT 19h.
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Operating System Booting