Pentium GA - 586IP User manual

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GA - 586IP
USER'S MANUAL
PCI - ISA SOLUTION
PENTIUM  PCI - ISA BUS MAINBOARD
REV. 2 First Edition

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The author assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions which may appear in this
document nor does it make a commitment to update the information contained herein.
IBM PC/AT, PC/XT are trademarks of International Business Machine Corporation.
PENTIUM is a trademark of Intel Corporation.
AWARD is a trademark of Award Software, Inc.
MS-DOS WINDOWS NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
June 1, 1994 Taipei, Taiwan

Table of Contents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................5
1.1. PREFACE............................................................................................................5
1.2. KEY FEATURES..................................................................................................5
1.3. PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................6
1.4. BLOCK DIAGRAM...............................................................................................7
1.5. INTRODUCE THE PCI - BUS .............................................................................7
1.6. FEATURES..........................................................................................................8
2. SPECIFICATION ............................................................................................................9
2.1. HARDWARE........................................................................................................9
2.2. SOFTWARE ........................................................................................................9
2.3. ENVIRONMENT..................................................................................................10
3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION........................................................................................ 11
3.1. UNPACKING........................................................................................................11
3.2. MAINBOARD LAYOUT........................................................................................12
3.3. QUICK REFERENCE FOR JUMPERS & CONNECTORS ................................12
3.4. DRAM INSTALLATION........................................................................................14
3.5. SRAM INSTALLATION AND JUMPERS SETUP................................................ 16
3.6. CPU INSTALLATION AND JUMPERS SETUP ..................................................16
3.7. CMOS RTC & ISA CFG CMOS SRAM...............................................................17
3.8. SPEAKER CONNECTOR INSTALLATION......................................................... 17
3.9. POWER LED & KEY LOCK CONNECTOR INSTALLATION ............................. 18
3.10. TURBO SWITCH CONNECTOR INSTALLATION.............................................. 18
3.11. TURBO LED CONNECTOR INSTALLATION..................................................... 18
3.12. HARDWARE RESET SWITCH CONNECTOR INSTALLATION........................18
3.13. PERIPHERAL DEVICE INSTALLATION.............................................................18
4. BIOS CONFIGURATION................................................................................................ 20
4.1. ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................20
4.2. CONTROL KEYS.................................................................................................20
4.3. GETTING HELP...................................................................................................21
4.3.1. Main Menu.................................................................................................... 21
4.3.2. Status Page Setup Menu / Option Page Setup Menu .................................21
4.4. THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................21
4.5. STANDARD CMOS SETUP MENU....................................................................23

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4.6. BIOS FEATURES SETUP................................................................................... 28
4.7. CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP............................................................................32
4.8. PCI SLOT CONFIGURATION............................................................................. 34
4.9. LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS..................................................................................35
4.10. PASSWORD SETTING....................................................................................... 36
4.11. IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION............................................................................. 37
4.12. SAVE & EXIT SETUP.......................................................................................... 38
4.13. EXIT WITHOUT SAVING .................................................................................... 38
4.14. KEYBOARD SETTING FUNCTION.....................................................................39
5. AT TECHNICAL INFORMATION ...................................................................................40
5.1. I/O BUS CONNECTOR PIN OUT........................................................................ 40
5.1.1. ISA SLOT PIN OUT...................................................................................... 40
5.1.2. PCI - BUS SLOT PIN OUT........................................................................... 41
5.2. I/O & MEMORY MAP...........................................................................................42
5.3. TIMER & DMA CHANNELS MAP........................................................................42
5.4. INTERRUPT MAP................................................................................................43
5.5. RTC & CMOS RAM MAP....................................................................................43
APPENDIX A: POST MESSAGE..........................................................................................45
APPENDIX B: POST CODES...............................................................................................51
APPENDIX C: BIOS DEFAULT DRIVE TABLE.................................................................... 54
APPENDIX D: PROBLEM SHEET........................................................................................56

Introduction
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. PREFACE
Welcome to use the GA - 586IP motherboard. The motherboard is a 256 / 512 KB CACHE
PENTIUMCPU based PC / AT compatible system with ISA bus and PCI Local Bus, and
has been designed to be the fastest PC / AT system. There are some new features allow you
to operate the system with just the performance you want.
This manual also explains how to install the motherboard for operation, and how to set up
your CMOS CONFIGURATION with BIOS SETUP program.
1.2. KEY FEATURES
qPentiumbased PC / AT compatible mainboard with PCI - ISA Bus.
q4 Master / Slave PCI Bus slots, 4 ISA Bus slots.
qSupports Pentium / P54CT running at 90 / 60 MHz, 100 / 66 MHz.
qSupports true 64 bits CACHE and DRAM access mode.
qSupports 320 Pins (Socket 5) ZIF white socket on board.
qSupports 256 / 512 KB second cache memory.
qSupport Both CPU (L1) / External (L2) Write - Back cache operation.
qSupports 2 - 768 MB DRAM memory on board.
qSupports shadow RAM for BIOS & VIDEO BIOS.
qSupports shadow RAM cacheable function to improve performance.
qLicensed AWARD BIOS / FLASH RAM.
qBENCHMARQ 3287 RTC on board.
qBABY AT size, 6 layers PCB.

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1.3. PERFORMANCE LIST
The following performance data list is the testing results of some popular benchmark testing
programs. These data are just referred by users, and there is no responsibility for different
testing data values gotten by users.( The different Hardware & Software configuration will
result in different benchmark testing results.)
lCPU Pentium100 / 90 MHz
lDRAM 16 MB - 70 ns
lCACHE SIZE 256 KB
lDISPLAY GA-306 PCI VGA
lSTORAGE GA - 410 PCI - Bus SCSI
lO.S. MS DOS V6.2
Testing Program Item Unit 100 / 66 MHz 90 / 60 MHz
LandMark V1.14 CPU MHz 200+ 200+
LandMark V2.0 CPU MHz 577.05 519.51
FPU MHz 1690.40 1521.85
SI V7.0 CPU 316.8 285.2
BenchMark V8.0 Processor Score 111.77 100.51
PM V1.7 MIPS Mips 68.4 61.9
DhryStone K-Dstone/s 87.7 79.3
WhetStone K-Wstone/s 1959.44 17844.9
Byte V2.1 CPU AT Class 31.88 27.17
386 Class 11.99 8.30
CPU AT Class 227.82 202.45
386 Class 31.87 28.33

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1.4. BLOCK DIAGRAM
×Figure 1.1Ø
Pentium
P54CT
CACHE
SRAM
DRAM
Y2 Y3
HOST BUS PCI BUS EISA BUS ISA SLOT
PCI SLOT
Address
Control
Data
Address/Data
Control
Address
Data
Control
#1 #2 #3
#1 #4#2 #3
8042
BIOS
Clock
Clock A
Clock B
Clock D
Clock C
8 MHz Clock
Control Data Address
LBX
LBX
PCMC
SIO
Clock E
82378
82434
82433
60 MHz 14.318 MHz
CPU
#4
1.5. INTRODUCE THE PCI - BUS
Connecting devices to a CPU local bus can dramatically increase the speed of I/O-bound
peripherals with only a slight increase in cost over traditional systems. This
price / performance point has created a vast market potential for local bus products. The
main barrier to this market has been the lack of an accepted standard for local bus
peripherals. Many mainboard and chipset manufactures developed their own local bus
implementations, but they are incompatible with each other. The VL (Video Electronics
Standards Association) local bus and PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus
specification was created to end this confusion.
The PCI - bus standard, under development since Jun. 1992, which is designed to bring
workstation-level performance to standard PC platform. The PCI - bus removes many of the
bottlenecks that have hampered PC for several years. On the PCI - bus, peripherals operate
at the native speed of the computer system, thus enabling data transfer between peripherals
and the system at maximum speed. This performance is critical for bandwidth-constrained
devices such as video, multimedia, mass storage, and networking adapters.

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PCI - bus standard provides end-users with a low-cost, extendible and portable local bus
design, which will allow system and peripherals from different manufactures to work
together.
1.6. FEATURES
q32 bits bus transfer mode.
qBus Master or Slave access.
qMemory burst transfer to 132 MB/sec.
q33 MHz operation speed.
q10 device loading ability.
qCPU independent.

Specification
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2. SPECIFICATION
2.1. HARDWARE
lCPU −Pentium100 / 90 MHz, P54CT.
−320 pins (socket 5) ZIF white socket on board.
lCOPROCESSOR −Included in Pentium.
lSPEED −66 / 60 MHz system and 33 / 30 PCI-Bus speed.
−8 / 7.5 MHz AT bus speed.
−Hardware and Software speed switchable function (cache
or non-cache).
lDRAM MEMORY −3 double banks 72 pins SIMM module socket on board.
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Use 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 / 128 MB 70 ns SIMM module
DRAM.
−2 ~ 512 MB DRAM size.
−Support Fast Page DRAM access mode.
lCACHE MEMORY −16 KB cache memory included in Pentium.
−256 / 512 KB second cache memory on board.
−Support Pentium Burst Read / Write mode on second
cache memory access.
lSHADOW RAM −Main BIOS shadow function.
−Video BIOS shadow function programmable.
−Shadow RAM cacheable function programmable.
lI/O BUS SLOTS −4 Master / Slave PCI-Bus.
−4 16 bits ISA Bus .
lDIMENSION −Baby AT size / 6 layers.
lBIOS −FLASH RAM.
2.2. SOFTWARE
lBIOS −Licensed AWARD BIOS.
−AT CMOS Setup, BIOS / Chipset Setup and Hard Disk
Utility included.
lO.S. −Operation with MS-DOS, WINDOWS NT, OS/2, NOVELL
and SCO UNIX.

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2.3. ENVIRONMENT
lAmbient Temp. −0°C to +50°C (Operating).
lRelative Hum. −0 to +85% (Operating).
lAltitude −0 to 10,000 feet (Operating).
lVibration −0 to 1,000 Hz.
lElectricity −4.9 V to 5.2 V.
−7 A to 10 A current.