VIA Technologies P4M266A User manual

TRADEMARK
All products and company names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.
These specifications are subject to change without notice.
Manual Revision 2.1
May 27, 2004
User’User’
User’User’
User’ss
ss
s
ManualManual
ManualManual
Manual
6000002P4MK21
VIAVIA
VIAVIA
VIA P4M266AP4M266A
P4M266AP4M266A
P4M266A mainboardmainboard
mainboardmainboard
mainboard
for Intel Socket 478 processorfor Intel Socket 478 processor
for Intel Socket 478 processorfor Intel Socket 478 processor
for Intel Socket 478 processor

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES:
THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES WHICH EXTEND BEYOND THE
DESCRIPTION ON THE FACE OF THE MANUFACTURER LIMITED
WARRANTY. THE MANUFACTURER EXPRESSLY EXCLUDES ALL
OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING ITS
PRODUCTS; INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR
NONINFRINGEMENT. THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES SHALL
APPLY TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER LOCAL LAWS IN THE
COUNTRY PURCHASED IN WHICH LOCAL LAWS DO NOT ALLOW
OR LIMIT THE EXCLUSION OF THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES.

Table of Contents
Section 1 Introduction
Package Contents ...................................................... 1-1
System Block Diagram ............................................... 1-2
Section 2 Features
Mainboard Features ................................................... 2-1
Section 3 Installation
Mainboard Layout ..................................................... 3-2
Easy Installation Procedure
Jumper Settings .......................................................... 3-3
System Memory Configuration .................................. 3-4
Device Connectors..................................................... 3-5
External Modem Ring-in Power ON and
Keyboard Power ON Function (KBPO) ..................... 3-10
Section 4 BIOS Setup
Main Menu ................................................................ 4-1
Standard CMOS Setup ............................................... 4-2
Advanced BIOS Features .......................................... 4-3
Advanced Chipset Features ...................................... 4-6
Integrated Peripherals ................................................ 4-11
Power Management Setup ......................................... 4-16
PNP/PCI Configuration Setup .................................... 4-19
PC Health Status ........................................................ 4-21
Power BIOS Features ................................................. 4-22
Defaults Menu ........................................................... 4-24
Supervisor/User Password Setting ............................ 4-25
Exit Selecting .............................................................. 4-26
Page

Section 5 Driver Installation
Easy Driver Installation .............................................. 5-1
Appendix Appendix A
Update Your System BIOS ......................................... A-1
Page

Introduction
Page 1-1
B
A
C
D
USER’S
MANUAL
E
F
GH
Section 1
INTRODUCTION
Package Contents
Contents
A. Mainboard
B. User’s manual
C. Floppy drive cable
D. HDD drive cable
E. CD (drivers and utilities)
F. I/O Shield
Optional Items
G. Extra USB2.0 port cable
H. S/PDIF Module
If you need the optional item, please
contact your dealer for assistance.

Introduction
Page 1-2
Figure 2: System Block Diagram
System Block Diagram

Features
Page 2-1
Section 2
FEATURES
Mainboard Features
Processor
Socket 478 Intel®Pentium®4 processor with 533MHz front side bus up to
3.0+GHz
Socket 478 Intel®Celeron processor with 400MHz front side bus up to 2.4 GHz
Chipset
VIA P4M266A AGPset : VIA P4M266A + VT8235
- Built-in VIA ProSavage 8 Graphics core
Main Memory
Two 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets for 64-bit, Unbuffered, Single/Double-
side and Non-ECC DDR-200/266 DIMMs
Supports up to 2GB memory size
BIOS
Flash EEPROM with Award BIOS
- ACPI v2.0 compliant
- S3 (Suspend to DRAM) sleep-state support (Optional)
- SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) v2.2 compliant
- Supports Power failure recovery
- Able to wake the computer from specific states by Power switch, RTC alarm,
USB, PS2 KB&Mouse, Modem ring on COM#1…
Onboard PCI Devices
LAN --> Embedded 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet controller with onboard
VIA 6103 PHY

Features
Page 2-2
IDE--> Embedded IDE controller with 2 ordinary IDE ports up to 4 IDE
devices, supports ATA-133 with up to 133MB/sec bandwidth
Legacy IO Controller
ITE 8705 LPC IO controller for floppy, printer, serial, game and CIR/SIR
interface
Audio
Six channel audio with analog and digital output
- AC’97 v2.3 compliant
- In 2-CH mode, supports Line-In (Light blue), Line-Out (Lime) and Mic-In
(Pink) at rear panel
- In 6-CH mode, supports Rear speaker out (Light blue), Front speaker out
(Lime) and Center&Subwoofer speaker out (Pink) at rear panel
- Supports CD-In and S/PDIF-in/out interface
- Supports Line-out and Mic-In for front panel
Peripheral Interfaces
)At Rear Panel
PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
One Parallel (printer) port
One Serial port
One VGA port
One RJ45 LAN connector
Four USB2.0 ports
Three Audio jacks
)Onboard connector and pin-header
One floppy drive connector
Two IDE connectors
Two extra USB2.0 ports
One CD-IN connector

Features
Page 2-3
One S/PDIF in/out connector
One IR connector
One Front Panel Audio connector
One Game port connector
Two Fan connectors
Front Panel Controller
Supports Reset & Soft-Off switches
Supports HDD & Power LEDs
Supports PC speaker
Expansion Slots
One AGP slot supporting 1.5v 4X AGP cards
- AGP v2.0 compliant
Three PCI slots with Bus Master support
- PCI v2.2 compliant
Other Features
Magic Health – a BIOS H/W monitoring utility for voltage, temperature and
fan-speed sensing displayed during POST
EZ Boot – A simple shortcut to select the boot device, e.g. hard drive, CD-
ROM or floppy without entering CMOS setup
Supports exclusive KBPO (Keyboard Power On) function
Excellent Over clocking capabilities through
- subtle frequency tuning on FSB
- supports complete Asynchronous FSB/Memory for overclocking
Form Factor
210mm x 245 mm Micro ATX size

Features
Page 2-4