PC Partner 35891900 Series User manual

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Electronic Emission Notices
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of 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 instructions
contained in this manual, may cause harmful interference to radio and
television communications. However, 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, the
user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the
following measures:
- REORIENTORRELOCATETHERECEIVINGANTENNA
- INCREASETHESEPARATIONBETWEENTHEEQUIPMENTANDTHERECEIVER
- CONNECTTHEEQUIPMENTINTOANOUTLETONACIRCUITDIFFERENTFROM
THATOFTHERECEIVER
- CONSULTTHEDEALERORANEXPERIENCEDAUDIO/TELEVISIONTECHNICIAN
NOTE: Connecting this device to peripheral devices that do not comply with
Class B requirements, or using an unshielded peripheral data cable,
could also result in harmful interference to radio or television reception.
The user is cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly
approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s
authority to operate this equipment.
To ensure that the use of this product does not contribute to interference,
it is necessary to use shielded I/O cables.
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copied or reproduced by any means.
While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this manual, no responsibility
for errors or omissions is assumed. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting
from the use of the information contained herein.
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Technical Reference Booklet
Table of Contents
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION................................................................3
Key Features ............................................................................................... 3
Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35891900XX) ............................... 5
Jumper Settings .......................................................................................... 6
CPU Speed Selection............................................................................ 6
JP1, JP2 - System Bus Frequency ....................................................... 6
JP7 - Ratio of Processor Core to System Bus Frequency .................... 7
JP3 - CMOS Clear.................................................................................. 7
JP8 - BIOS Voltage Selection................................................................. 7
JP45 - On Board AC97 Selection .......................................................... 7
CN41 - PC Speaker Beep to Outer Speaker Setting............................. 8
Pin List of Special Connectors .............................................................. 8
Memory Configuration ................................................................................. 9
Installing the Retention Mechanism for Intel® Pentium® II &
Intel®Pentium®IIIorIntel®Celeron®Processor......................................... 9
Installing the Processor .............................................................................. 9
To install DIMMs .......................................................................................... 10
Setting the Processor Speed ...................................................................... 10
BIOS SETUP..................................................................................................1 1
Starting Setup .............................................................................................. 11
Main Menu ................................................................................................... 11
Standard CMOS Features ........................................................................... 13
Advanced BIOS Features ............................................................................ 14
Advanced Chipset Features........................................................................ 15
Integrated Peripherals ................................................................................ 15
Power Management Setup.......................................................................... 15
PNP/PCI Configurations ............................................................................. 15
Set Supervisor/User Password .................................................................. 15
Flash Update Procedure ............................................................................. 16

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HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
The motherboard is based on the VIA® Apollo Pro 133 Chipset. The chipset is
a highly integrated solution enabling a high performance motherboard and
desktop design for the Pentium® II/III processor. The main board supports
standard DIMM module, 66/100/133MHz DIMM module or Registered DIMM
module. The features on board include Super-I/O, Ultra DMA33/66(optional)
for PCI bus master IDE, AGP 2.0 compliance, PCI 2.1 compliance, USB, VRM
8.4 compliance, ECC, on-board sound system (optional).
Key Features
Motherboard PCB
4 Layer Micro ATX size PCB with surface mounted devices(SMD) for all
components except a small amount discrete components. PCB board size is
244 x 173mm.
Processor
• Full support for Intel®Pentium®II & Pentium®III and Deschutes®processors
using Slot 1 connector.
• Support bus speed of 66/100/133MHz, this includes all Pentium®II &
Pentium®IIIprocessorsfrom 233MHzto 600MHz and future processors.
CPU Speed Setting
• Jumper setting or no jumper is needed to set for various speed of CPU
(Factory optional).
VRM 8.4 (Voltage Regulator Modules) on Board
• Flexible motherboard design with on-board VRM 8.4, easy to upgrade
with Intel’s®Future Overdrive®processors.
Cache
• Pentium®II and Pentium®III Processor built-in L2 cache (The TAGRAM
and two or four BSRAMS for 256KB or 512KB).
System Memory
• A total of three 168-pin DIMM sockets.
• Supports Synchronous DRAM at 66/100/133MHZ.
• Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing.
• Memory size up to 768Mbytes.
• SupportssingledensityDIMMsof1M,2M,4M,8Mand16Mdepth(x64orx72).
• SupportsdoubledensityDIMMsof2M,4M,8M,16Mand32Mdepth(x64
or 72).
• Supports single & double sided DIMMs.
• Supports Error Checking and Correction(ECC) using parity DRAM modules.
On-Board I/O
• Two PCI IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA, ATA2 and Ultra DMA33
(Optional DMA66 & DMA66 Cable) IDE HDDs, CD-ROMs, ZIP drives
and LS-120 drives as boot devices.
Hardware Setup

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Technical Reference Booklet
• Transfer rate up to 33MB/sec or 66MB/sec to cover PIO mode 4, Multi-word
DMA mode 2 drives and UltraDMA33/66 interface.
• One ECP/EPP parallel port.
• Two 16550 Compatible UART serial ports.
• One floppy port, supports two FDD of 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB , 1.44MB
and 2.88MB capacity.
• Four USB ports.
• PS/2 Keyboard port.
• One PS/2 mouse port.
• Infrared (IrDA) is supported via a header.
• Oneline/speakerout,oneMic in,oneline inandMIDI/Gameport (optional).
System BIOS
• 2M Flash BIOS supporting PnP, APM, ATAPI , ACPI and DMI.
• Jumper selection for 5V or 12V Flash memory voltage.
• Auto detects and supports LBA hard disks with capacities over 8.4GB.
• Easy to upgrade BIOS by end-user.
Plug-and-Play
• Supports plug-and-play specification 1.1.
• Plug-and-play for DOS, Windows® 3.X, as well as Windows® 95/98.
• Fully steerable PCI interrupts.
Power Management
• SupportsSMM,APMandACPI.
• Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operations.
• Energy star “Green PC” compliant .
• Hardwaremonitoring circuitry issupported,provides voltage,temperature,
fan speed, etc. monitoring (optional).
• Supports WAKE-ON-LAN (WOL).
• Supports Wake on Ring for External Modem.
AC97 sound controller (optional)
•Integrated AC97 controller with standard AC97 CODEC.
• PnP and APM 1.2 support.
• Direct sound and sound Blaster Compatible.
• Direct one MIDI/Game port interface.
• Complete software driver support for Windows® 95/98 and Windows® NT.
Expansion Slots
•1 AGP slot - ver. 2.0 compliant, 1x / 2x mode supported.
•2 PCI bus master slots - ver 2.1 compliant(1PCI slot shares with 1ISA slot)
•1 ISA slots (1ISA slot shares with 1 PCI slot ).
• 1 Audio Modem Riser (AMR).

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Hardware Setup
Motherboard Layout (Model Code No. - 35891900XX)
The following diagrams show the relative positions of the jumpers, connectors,
major components and memory banks on the motherboard.
Warning:
All connectors on board are labeled Pin “1” at one conner. Ribbon
cables should always be connected with the red stripe on the Pin
“1” side of the connector.