QDI PlatiniX 1 User manual

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Item Checklist
Completely check your package. If you discover damaged or missing items, contact your
retailer.
PlatiniX 1 mainboard
QDI Driver Utility CD
I/O shield(optional)
1 HD IDE cable
1 FDD cable
QDI Serial Product R.M.A. Warranty Card(optional)
Users manual

Declaration of conformity
QUANTUM DESIGNS(HK) LTD.
20th loor, Devon House, Taikoo Place, 979 Kings Road,
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
declares that the product
Mainboard
PlatiniX 1
is in conformity with
(reference to the specification under which conformity is declared in
accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive
!"EN 55022 Limits and methods of measurements of radio disturbance
characteristics of information technology equipment
!"EN 50081-1 Generic emission standard Part 1
Residential, commercial and light industry
!"EN 50082-1 Generic immunity standard Part 1
Residential, commercial and light industry
European Representative
QDI COMPUTER ( UK ) LTD QDI COMPUTER ( SCANDINAVIA ) A/S
QDI SYSTEM HANDEL GMBH QDI EUROPE B. V.
QDI COMPUTER (FRANCE) SARL QDI COMPUTER HANDELS GMBH
LEGEND QDI SPAIN S.L . QDI COMPUTER (SWEDEN) AB
Signature Place / Date HONG KONG/2001
Printed Name Xu Wenge Position/ Title Assistant President

Declaration of conformity
Trade Name: QDI Computer ( U. S . A. Inc.
Model Name: PlatiniX 1
Responsible Party: QDI Computer ( U. S. A. Inc.
Address: 41456 Christy Street
Fremont, CA 94538
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: (510 668-4966
Equipment Classification: FCC Class B Subassembly
Type of Product: Mainboard
Manufacturer:Quantum Designs (HK) Inc.
Address: 20th Floor, Devon House, Taikoo Place
979 Kings Road, Quarry Bay, HONG
KONG
Supplementary Information:
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. peration is subject to
the following two conditions : (1) this device may not cause harmful interfer-
ence, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including
interference that may cause undesired operation.
Tested to comply with FCC standards.
Signature : Date : 2001

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CONTENTS
1. Introduction.....................................................1
Overview.........................................................................1
Key Features...................................................................1
C- edia 6 chennels Audio(new feature)........................3
2. Installation Instructions...................................4
External Connectors..................................................4
PS/2 Keyboard/ ouse Connector....................................4
USB1, USB2 and LAN connectors...................................4
Line-in, icrophone-in, Speaker-out jacks
and IDI/Joystick connector(optional)..............................5
6-Channel Audio(optional)................................................5
Parallel Port, Serial Port Connectors................................5
ATX12V Power Supply Connector & Power
Switch(POWER_SW).......................................................6
Hard Disk LED Connector (HD_LED)................................6
Reset Switch (RESET).................................................... 6
Speaker Connector (SPEAKER).......................................7
Power LED Connector (PWR_LED)..................................7
GREEN LED Connector (GREEN_LED)..............................7
ACPI LED Connector (ACPI_LED)....................................7
Hardware Green Connector (SLEEP SW).......................7
Key Lock Connector (KEY LK)........................................7
Infrared Header (IrDA).................................................... 8
Audio Connectors (CD_IN, CD_IN2, ODE )....................8
USB3,USB4 Connectors..................................................9
Fan Connectors (PWRFAN, CPUFAN, CHSFAN)..............9
Wake-Up On LAN (WOL)...............................................10
Wake-Up On Internal odem (WO )..............................10
Sound Connector (PC-PCI).............................................11
Chassis Security Switch (CHSSEC)...............................11
4 Pin S Bus Connector(S BUS)...................................12
Communication and Networking Riser Interface
Connector(CNR).............................................................12
Audio Interface(optional)................................................13
Intruder Detect Switch (JINTR).......................................14
ain Expansion Slots and Connectors..........................14

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Jumper Settings.........................................................15
Enable/Disable on-board Audio (JSD).............................15
Enable keyboard password power-on function(JKB)....16
Clear C OS(JCC)............................................................17
Overclocking Jumper Setting (JFS0, JFS1) ....................17
Enable Front/Back Panel USB Device Wake-up Function
(JFUSB/JUSB).................................................................18
BIOS Protection Jumper (JAV)........................................18
Enable/Disable on_board LAN (JLAN)............................19
Wake-up On LAN (JP5)...................................................19
3. BIOS Description................................................20
Utility Support..............................................................20
AWDFLASH.EXE.............................................................20
AWAR (Phoenix) BIOS escription.......................21
Entering Setup.................................................................21
Load Optimized Defaults.................................................21
Standard C OS Features Setup.....................................21
CPU SpeedEasy Setup....................................................25
Advanced BIOS Features Setup.....................................26
Advanced Chipset Features Setup.................................28
Power anagement Setup..............................................31
PNP/PCI Configuration Setup...........................................34
Integrated Peripherals.....................................................35
PC Health Status..............................................................38
Password Setting............................................................40
Boot with BIOS defaults.............................................. ...40
Appendix....................................................................41
QDI Driver Utility CD ....................................................... 41
LogoEasy........................................................................42
RecoveryEasy.................................................................43
BIOS-ProtectEasy............................................................51
Norton AntiVirus..............................................................51
anageEasy...................................................................52
SpeedEasy .....................................................................53
BootEasy..........................................................................55
StepEasy(optional).................................... ......................59
PlatiniX 1(Francais)..................................................... .....61
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Caution
Note:
This manual is suitable for mainboards of PlatiniX 1 series.
Each mainboard is carefully designed for the PC user who
wants diverse features.
P1: without onboard Audio and onboard AN
P1-A: with two channels onboard Audio
P1- : with onboard AN
P1-C: with C-Media six channels onboard Audio
P1-A : with two channels onboard Audio and onboard AN
P1-C :with C-Media six channels onboard Audio and
onboard AN
Be sure to add some Silicone Grease between the CPU and the heatsink
of AN to keep them fully contact , meanwhile to meet the heat sink
requirement.

Manual for PlatiniX 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
PlatiniX 1 green mainboard utilizes Intel® 845 chipset, 845 consists of two components:
the 82845 emory Controller Hub( CH) and the 82801BA I/O Controller Hub2(ICH2),
providing a fully compatible, high performance and cost-effective mATX platform. The
new integrated technologies, together with AGP 4X support, AC97 2CH Audio or C- edia
8738 PCI 6CH real 3D Audio(optional ), 4 USB ports, and Ultra D A100/66/33, give cus-
tomers an advanced, multimedia solution at an reasonable price. It provides 400 Hz
system bus to support Intel®
Pentium 4 socket 478 processors and the largest memory
capacity is up to 2GB. It also provides advanced features such as Wake up by USB
devices, Wake-on-LAN, Wake-on- odem and ACPI functions. Suspend to RA , the opti-
mal implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specifica-
tion, makes the PCs power consumption drop to the lowest possible level and enable
quick wakeup. anageEasy, our system management application is also supplied to en-
able remote monitoring and configuration of the system.BootEasy, lets the PC boot freely
and rapidly.
Key Features
Form factor
#"mATX form factor of 244mm x 224mm
Microprocessor
#"Supports Intel® Pentium 4(Willamette) socket 478 processors at 1.4/1.5/1.7/1.8GHz
and above
#"Supports Intel® Pentium 4(Northwood) socket 478 processors at 2GHz and above
#"Supports 400 Hz host bus speed
System memory
#"Provides two 168-pin DI sockets
#"Supports PC-133 SDRA
#"Supports 64/128/256/512 b SDRA technology
#"The largest total memory is up to 2GB
Onboard I E
"# "Supports Independent timing of up to 4 drives
"# "Supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33, PIO mode
"# "Two fast IDE interfaces supporting four IDE devices including IDE hard disks and CD
RO drivers

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Introduction
USB Ports
#"2 USB Host Controllers with total of 4 ports
"#"USB 1.1 compliant
"# Supports wake-up from S1 (power on suspend), S3 (Suspend to RA ) (depend on
device)
Onboard I/O
"# "Winbond W83627HF-AW I/O controller
"# "One floppy port supporting up to two 3.5″ or 5.25″ floppy drives with 360K/720K/1.2 /
1.44 /2.88 format
"# "Two high speed 16550 compatible UARTs (CO 1/CO 2/CO 3/CO 4 selective) with
16 byte send/receive FIFO
#"One parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
"#"Infrared interface
"# "All I/O ports can be enabled/disabled in the BIOS setup
Onboard LAN (Optional)
#"10/100 bit/sec Ethernet support
#"10/100 LAN interface built-in on board
Onboard Audio(Optional)
AC97 Audio(available on P1-A,P1-AL)
"# " AC97 2.1 Specification Compliant
"# "Provides onboard Line-in Jack, icrophone-in Jack, Speaker-out Jack with onboard
amplifier and IDI/Joystick Connector
C- edia hardware Audio (available on P1-C,P1-CL)
"# "Provides C- edia 8738 PCI hardware Audio
#"Provides Front L&R Jack,Back L&R Jack and Center&WooferJack
AGP Interface
"# "AGP Connector supports AGP 2.0 including AGP 4x data transfers
BIOS
"# "Licensed advanced AWARD(phoenix) BIOS
#"supports Flash RA with 2 b memory size, plug and play ready
"# " Supports IDE CD-RO or SCSI boot up

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Advanced features
"# " PCI 2.2 Specification Compliant
"#"Provides Trend ChipAwayVirus On Guard
"#"Supports Windows 98/2000/ E soft-off
"# " Supports Wake-on-LAN and Wake-on- odem
"#"Supports Keyboard Password Power-on function
"# " Supports system monitoring(monitors CPU and system temperatures, system voltages,
fan speed)
"# " Providing QDI innovations such as SpeedEasy, RecoveryEasy, BIOS-ProtectEasy(to
protect the system BIOS from being attacked by severe virus such as CIH ), LogoEasy,
anageEasy, BootEasy,StepEasy(optional)
Green function
#"Supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and ODP (OS
Directed Power anagement)
#"Supports ACPI power status: S0 (full-on), S1 (power on suspend), S3 (Suspend to
RA ), S4(Suspend to Disk under Windows e, Windows 2000 OS) and S5 (soft-off)
Expansion slots
#"1 AGP slot
#"3 PCI slots
#"1 CNR slot
C-Media 6 channels Audio(new feature)
C- edia 6 channels Audio is the most salient feature of P1-C,P1-CL,which supporting
DirectSoundTM
3D and A3DTM interface through the new type chip C I8738. C I8738 uses
HRTF 3D extension technology to enhance traditional HRTF 3D positional audio by substitut-
ing two-speaker system by four or six-speaker system (It supports additional 2 ch 16-bit
DAC to provide rear side audio and another 2 ch for subwoofer/Center). It greatly improves
HRTF 3D positional audio quality and successfully removes the sweet spot limitations:
users can enjoy genuine 3D audio gaming effects,and do not have to worry about the
environmental confinement any more.
"# "Provides 6CH DAC for AC3 5.1CH purpose
"# "Supports HRTF-based 3D positional audio
"# "16-bit full duplex CODEC
"# "32-bit PCI bus master
"# "Built-in 32ohm Earphone buffer
"# " icrophone echo and karaoke aascending/descending key effects

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