Compaq 370 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 1.0 May 24, 2001 User’ User’ User’ User’ User’ s s s s s Manual Manual Manual Manual Manual A Soc A Soc A Soc A Soc A Soc k k k k k et 370 Pr et 370 Pr et [...]

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T able of Contents Section 1 Introduction Components Checklist ........................................ 1 - 1 Form-Factor ......................................................... 1 - 2 I/O Shield Connector .......................................... 1 - 3 Po w e r- O n /O f f ( Re m o te ) ..................................... 1 - 3 System Block Di[...]

IDE HDD Auto Detection ..................................... 4-24 Save & Exit Setup ................................................ 4-26 Exit W ithout Saving ............................................. 4-26 Appendix Appendix A GHOST 5.1/6.03 Quick User  s Guide ................ A-1 Appendix B Update Y our System BIOS .....................[...]

Introduction Page 1-1 Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist 9 9 9 9 9 A . ( 1 ) One mainboard 9 9 9 9 9 B. ( 1 ) One user s manual 9 9 9 9 9 C. ( 1 ) Floppy ribbon cable 9 9 9 9 9 D. ( 1 ) A T A-66 IDE ribbon cable 9 9 9 9 9 E . ( 1 ) COM Port Connector 9 9 9 9 9 F . ( 1 ) Driver and utility USERS MANUAL B A C D F or E[...]

Introduction Page 1-2 Mainboard For m F actor The board is designed with MicroA TX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. The MicroA TX form factor is essentially a Baby-A T baseboard rotated 90 degrees within the chassis enclosure and a new mounting configuration for the power supply . W ith these changes the processor is relocated aw[...]

Introduction Page 1-3 Case (chassis) Power ON/OFF button AT X POWER SUPPLY Figur e 4: Simple A TX Power ON/OFF Contr oller P ow er-On/Of f (Remote) The board has a single 20-pin connector for A TX power supplies. For A TX power supplies that support the Remote On/Off feature, this should be connected to the systems front panel for system Power On/O[...]

Introduction Page 1-4 Figur e 5: System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PA C PCI Bridge and me m or y cont r oll er VT8501 soc k et 7 Pr oces sor 100/66 MHz 100/ 66 MH z CRT VT82C686A I/O B ri dge USB 0 USB 1 AC97 CODEC ~ ~ ~ AMR Slot[...]

.A=JKHAI Page 2-1 Section 2 FEA TURES Mainboar d F eatur es:      PROCESSOR - Socket 7 CPUs: Operating at 166-550MHz - AMD K6-2/III, Cyrix M II, Idt C6 / W inchip2 and Rise mP6 series - Intel Pentium ® /Pentium ® Processor with MMX TM T echnology ,      CHIPSET - VIA Apollo MVP4 AGPset (VT8501 + VT82C686A)   ?[...]

.A=JKHAI Page 2-2      USB - USB connector x 4 (2 for Opt.)      BIOS - A ward Plug & Play BIOS      Built-in AC97 Digital Audio (by VT82C686A) - Dual full-duplex Direct Sound channels - H/W Sound Blaster Pro for DOS legacy compatibility - FM synthesis for legacy compatibility - Supports game and MID[...]

Installation Page 3-1 Mainboard Detailed Layout Figur e 1 Section 3 INST ALLA TION[...]

Installation Page 3-2 Easy Installation Procedure The following must be completed before powering on your new system: 3-1. CPU Insertion 3-2. Jumper Settings 3-3. System memory Configuration 3-4. Device Connectors Section 3-1 CPU Inser tion CPU Insertion Step 1 Open the socket by raising the actuation lever. Figure 2 Step 2 Insert the processor. En[...]

Installation Page 3-3 Step 3 Close the socket by lowering and locking the actuation lever. Note: Intels reference design thermal solution is an active heatsink; an extruded alumi- num heatsink based and a fan attached to the top on the fin array. (See Figure 5) Figure 4 Figure 5[...]

Installation Page 3-4 Section 3-2 J umper Settings SW1: CPU Speed Selection 1 W S s u B k c o l C 12 3 4 N Oz H M 6 6 N Oz H M 5 7 N ON Oz H M 3 8 N ON Oz H M 0 9 N ON Oz H M 5 9 N ON ON Oz H M 0 0 1 N ON ON Oz H M 5 0 1 N ON ON Oz H M 5 1 1 1 W S U P C r e i l p i t l u M 6 C T D I / x i r y C / D M A U P C r e i l p i t l u M 2 p i h C n i W T D [...]

Installation Page 3-5 +27  6 OFA 59 CP U Bu s Cloc k CPU Multiplier Pentium/M MX AMD K6/K6 - 2/K 6III ID T-C6 C yrix /IBM 6x 86MX/M II IDT W in c h ip 2 Rise MP6 123 45 6 7 166MH z PR 200 ON ON O N 66MH z 2.5X PR233 O N ON O N 75M H z PR266 2 33M H z O N O N O N ON 83M H z PR300 *PR333 O N O N O N ON 95MHz 250MH z PR36 6 300MH z * PR 366 ON O[...]

Installation Page 3-6 Section 3-3 System Memor y Configuration Memor y Layout The board supports (2) PC100 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs is for SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) .  DIMM SDRAM may be 83MHz (12ns), 100MHz (10ns), 125MHz (8ns) bus speed.  If you use both 50ns and 60ns memory you must configure your BIOS to read 60[...]

Installation Page 3-7 DIMM Module Installation Figure 7 displays the notch marks and what they should look like on your DIMM memory module. DIMMs have 168-pins and two notches that will match with the onboard DIMM socket. DIMM modules are installed by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a 90 degree angle and pressing straight down (figure 8)[...]

Installation Page 3-8 Section 3-4 Device Connectors GND PM E +5 V Stan dby J4 J6 J4/J6: CPU/Chassis Fan  A plug-in for the CPU/Chassis Fan Power CPU Fan J7: WOL (W ake On LAN) Connector Reserved for NIC (Network Interface Card) to wake the system. GND +1 2V Ro tation PS/2 Mouse PS/2 KEYBOARD COM1 VGA1 parallel port Speaker Joystick/Midi USB port[...]

Installation Page 3-9 FDD1: Floppy Controller Connector (Black color) IDE1: Ultra A T A-66 Primary IDE Connector (White color) IDE2: Ultra A T A-66 Secondary IDE Connector (White color) PW1: A TX Power Connector  20-pin power connector CD1 : CD Audio_IN Connector CD1 MODEM1 MODEM1 : T elephony Connector for Modem audio output CD_IN_Left 1 CD_IN_[...]

Installation Page 3-10 J3      Power On/Off (This is connected to the power button on the case. Using the Soft-Off by Pwr-BTTN feature, you can choose either Instant Off (turns system off immediately), or 4 sec delay (you need to push the button down for 4 seconds before the system turns off). When the system is in 4 sec delay mode, [...]

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BIOS Page 4-1 Section 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP BIOS Instr uctions A ward s ROM BIOS provides a built-in Setup program which allows user to modify the basic system configuration and hardware parameters. The modified data will be stored in a battery-backed CMOS, so that data will be retained even when the power is turned off. In general, the information[...]

BIOS Page 4-2 The menu displays all the major selection items. Select the item you need to reconfigure. The selection is made by moving the cursor (press any direction key ) to the item and pressing the Enter  key . An on-line help message is displayed at the bottom of the screen as the cursor is moved to various items which provides a better[...]

BIOS Page 4-3 Note: If the hard disk Primary Master/Slave and Secondary Master/Slave are set to Auto, then the hard disk size and model will be auto- detected. Note: The Halt On: field is used to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if an error occurs. Note: Floppy 3 Mode support is a mode used to support a special 3.5 drive used [...]

BIOS Page 4-4 V irus W arning : During and after the system boots up, any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive will halt the system and an error message will appear. Y ou should then run an anti-virus program to locate the virus. Keep in mind that this feature protects only the boot sector, not the entire ha[...]

BIOS Page 4-5 Boot Up Floppy Seek : During Power-On-Self-T est (POST), BIOS will deter- mine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. Only 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K, 1.2MB and 1.44MB are all 80 tracks. The default is Enabled. Enabled : The BIOS will search the floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks. Disabled :[...]

BIOS Page 4-6 250 : 250 msec. 500 : 500 msec. 750 : 750 msec. 1000 : 1000 msec. Security Option : This category allows you to limit access to the System and Setup, or just to Setup. The default is Setup. System : The system will not boot and the access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt. Setup : The system [...]

BIOS Page 4-7 D4000 - D7FFF Shadow : D8000 - DBFFF Shadow : DC000 - DFFFF Shadow : These categories determine whether ROMs from option cards will be copied into RAM. This will be in 16K byte or 32K byte units, and the size will depend on chipset of the option card. Enabled : Optional shadow is enabled. Disabled : Optional shadow is disabled.[...]

BIOS Page 4-8 4-3 Chipset F eatures Setup Choose the CHIPSET FEA TURES SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu to display following menu. Figur e 4: Chipset Featur es Setup Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 DRAM Timing : This value in this field is set by the system board manufacturer, depending on whether the board has paged DRAMs. The Choice: Bank 0/1, 2/3, [...]

BIOS Page 4-9 DRAM Fast Decoding : This item will effective DRAM operation sequential. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. DRAM Read Pipeline : Y ou may select Enabled fo this field when PBSRAMs are installed. Pipelining improves system performance. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. Sustained 3T Write : This item allow you to enable or disable direct map w[...]

BIOS Page 4-10 Frame Buffer Size : Specify the size of system memory to allocate for video memory, from 1 MB to 8 MB. The Choice: 2MB, 4MB, 8MB. AGP Aperture Size : The amount of system memory that the AGP card is allowed to share. The default is 64. 4 : 4MB of systems memory accessable by the AGP card. 8 : 8MB of systems memory accessable by the A[...]

BIOS Page 4-11 4-4 P ow er Management Setup Choose the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY to display the following screen. This menu allows the user to modify the power management parameters and IRQ signals. In general, these parameters should not be changed unless it s absolutely necessary . Figur e 5: Power Management Setup[...]

BIOS Page 4-12 Min. saving : Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 hour in each mode. User define : Allows user to define PM Timers parameters to control power saving mode. PM controlled APM : This option shows weather or not you want the Power Man- agement to be controlled the Advanced Power Management (APM). The default is Y es. Ye s : AP[...]

BIOS Page 4-13 Doze Mode: The Doze mode timer starts to count when no PM events have occurred. Suspend Mode : This function works only when the Pentium II Processor is installed. The timer starts to count when System Standby mode timer is timed out and no PM Events are occurring. V alid range is from 1 minute up to 1 hour . [...]

BIOS Page 4-14 Modem Ring Resume : When set to Enabled , any event occurring to the Modem Ring will awaken a system which has been powered down. Primary INTR : When set to On (default), any event occurring at will awaken a system which has been powered down. 4-5 PNP/PCI Configuration The PNP/PCI configuration program is for the user to modify the P[...]

BIOS Page 4-15 Auto : If your ISA card and PCI card are all PNP cards, BIOS will assign the interrupt resource automatically. Reset Configuration Data : This setting allows you to clear ESCD data. The default is Disabled Disabled : Normal Setting. Enabled : If you have plugged in some Legacy cards to the system and they were recorded into ESCD (Ext[...]

BIOS Page 4-16 AGP Master 1 WS Read : When Enabled, read to the AGP bus are executed with one wait states. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. Assign IRQ For USB/VGA : This item allows BIOS to assign whether IRQ is with USB/VGA or not. If you have not connect the USB/VGA device. Can release the IRQ for other device. The default is Enabled. Enalbed : Pro[...]

BIOS Page 4-17 4-6 Inte gr ated P eripher als Figur e 8: Integrated Peripherals Note: If you do not use the Onboard IDE connector , then you will need to set Onboar d Primary PCI IDE: Disabled and Onboar d Secondary PCI IDE: Disabled Note: The Onboard PCI IDE cable should be equal to or less than 18 inches (45 cm.). Onchip IDE Channel0/1 : The defa[...]

BIOS Page 4-18 IDE HDD Block Mode : IDE Block Mode allows the controller to access blocks of sectors rather than a single sector at a time. The default is Enabled. Enabled : Enabled IDE HDD Block Mode. Provides higher HDD transfer rates. Disabled : Disable IDE HDD Block Mode. Primary Master/Slave PIO: The default is Auto. Auto : BIOS will automatic[...]

BIOS Page 4-19 UAR T 2 Mode : This item allows you to determine which Infra Red (IR) function of onboard I/O chip. The Choice: Standard, ASKIR, HPSIR. Onboard Parallel port : This field allows the user to configure the LPT port. The default is 378H / IRQ7. 378H : Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 378H and IRQ7. 278H : Enable Onboard LPT port a[...]

BIOS Page 4-20 MPU-401: MPU-401 function enabled/disabled. MPU-401 I/O Address: Built-in MPU-401 compatible MIDI I/O port selection. The choice: 300-303H, 310-313H, 320-323H, 330-333H (default). FM Port (388-38BH): Frequency modulation port at I/O port 388-38BH enabled/disabled. Game Port (200-207H): Built-in joystick port support disabled/enabled.[...]

BIOS Page 4-21 4-8 SENSOR AND CPU SPEED SETUP Figur e 9: Sensor And CPU Speed Setup Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk : When enabled the motherboard will automatically disable the clock source for a DIMM socket which does not have a module in it. Same applies for PCI slots. The default is Enabled. Spread Spectrum : The default is Disabled. CPU Host Clock (C[...]

BIOS Page 4-22 Curr ent CPU T emperature : This is the current temperature of the CPU. Curr ent CPU F AN Speed : The current CPU fan speed in RPMs. Curr ent Chassis F AN Speed : The current chassis fan speed in RPMs. CPU(V) : The voltage level of the CPU(V io/Vcore). +2.5V, +3.3V , +5V, +12V : The voltage level of the switch power supply.[...]

BIOS Page 4-23 4-9 Change Super visor or User Pass word T o change the password, choose the SUPER VISOR P ASSWORD or USER P ASSWORD option from the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu and press [Enter]. NOTE: Either Setup or System must be selected in the Security Option of the BIOS FEA TURES SETUP menu. 1. If CMOS is corrupted or the o[...]

BIOS Page 4-24 4-10 IDE HDD Auto Detection The IDE HDD auto detection utility is a very useful tool, especially when you do not know which kind of hard disk type you are using. Y ou can use this utility to detect the correct disk type installed in the system automatically. But now you can set HARD DISK TYPE to Auto in the ST ANDARD CMOS SETUP[...]

BIOS Page 4-25 If user set his HDD to NORMAL mode, the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528 Megabytes even though its physical size may be greater than that! LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode : A new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 Megabyte bottleneck. The number of cylinders, heads & sectors shown in setup may not be the number p[...]

BIOS Page 4-26 Note: T o support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, ther e must be some softwar e involved. All the software is located in the A ward HDD Service Routine (INT 13h). It may fail to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you ar e running under an Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h. UNIX operating systems do not support [...]

Appendix A-1 Appendix A A- 1 GHOST 5.1/6.03 Quick User’s Guide Installation is very easy . Y ou only need to copy the Ghost5 folder or Ghost.exe to your hard disk. The current market version is for single Client , so the LPT and NetBios portions will not be explained further. Description of Menus Ghost clones and backs up Disk and Partition. In w[...]

Appendix A-2 Disk T o Disk (Disk Cloning) 1. Select the location of the Source drive . 2. Select the location of the Destination drive . 3. When cloning a disk or restoring the backup, set the required partition size as shown in the following figure. There are 3 hard disk functions: 1. Disk T o Disk (disk cloning) 2. Disk T o Image (disk backup) 3.[...]

Appendix A-3 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Y es to start. Disk T o Image (Disk Backup) 1. Select the location of the Source drive. 2. Select the location for storing the backup file.[...]

Appendix A-4 Disk From Image  (Restore Backup) 1. Select the Restore file. 2. Select the Destination drive of the disk to be restored. 3. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Y es to start.[...]

Appendix A-5 3. When restoring disk backup, set the required partition size as shown in the following figure. 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Y es to start. Partition[...]

Appendix A-6 2. Select the first partition to be backed up. This is usually where the operating system and programs are stored. There are 3 partition functions: 1 . Partition T o Partition (partition cloning) 2 . Partition T o Image (partition backup) 3 . Partition From Image (restore partition) Partition T o Partition (Partition Cloning) The basic[...]

Appendix A-7 3. Select the path and file name for storing the backup file. 4. Is the file compressed? There are 3 options: (1 ) No: do not compress data during backup (2 ) Fast: Small volume compression (3) High: high ratio compression. File can be compressed to its minimum, but this requires longer execution time. 5. During confirmation, select Y [...]

Appendix A-8 Partition From Image (Restore Partition) 1. Select the backup file to be restored. 2. Select the source partition. 3. Select the disk to be restored.[...]

Appendix A-9 4. Select the partition to be restored. 5. Select Y es to start restoring. Check This function checks the hard disk or backup file for backup or restoration error due to F A T or track error .[...]

Appendix A-10 How to Reinstall Windows in 2 Minutes This chapter teaches you how to set your computer properly and, if necessary, reinstall Windows in 2 minutes. Ghost can use different methods to complete this task. The following two sections explain the creation of the emergency Recover Floppy and Recover CD : Emergency Recover Floppy Divide a ha[...]

Appendix A-11 (2) After booting, the screen displays the Menu. Select Backup or Restore: Since the user may install other applications in the future, he/she may design Autoexec.bat as a Menu to back up or restore the user- defined Image file as follows: ) ) ) ) ) Backup Backup Backup Backup Backup Back up W indows and application programs as a file[...]

Appendix A-12 Recover CD In recent years, well-known computer manufacturers (such as IBM, Acer, Compaq, etc.) bundle Recover CDs with their computers to reduce the cost resulting from servicing, while at the same time increasing their market competitiveness. The following is a simple guide to how to create a recover CD: 1. For extremely easy creati[...]

Appendix A-13 Ghost Command Line Switches Reference Ghost may be run in interactive or in batch mode. Batch mode is useful for automat- ing installations for backups using Ghost. Most of the Ghost switches are used to assist with batch mode operation. T o list switches from Ghost, type ghost.exe -h. -clone The full syntax for this switch is: clone,[...]

Appendix A-14 c) DST This defines the destination location for the operation: Mode Meaning COPY/ LOAD Destination drive (e.g, 2 for drive two) DUMP Disk image filename or device,(e.g, g:imagessystem2.img) PCOPY/ PLOAD Destination partition,(e.g, 2:2 indicates the second partition on drive two). PDUMP Partition image filename (e.g, g:imagespart1[...]

Appendix A-15 data space has been satisfied will be distributed between the destination partitions in proportion to the data usage in the source partitions Someexamples follow that will help illustrate: -fx flag Exit. Normally when Ghost has finished copying a new system to a disk, it prompts the user to reboot with a press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot w[...]

Appendix A-16 Example 1: T o copy drive one to drive two on a PC, without final prompt if OK to proceed. ghost.exe -clone,mode=copy,src=1,dst=2 sure Example 2: T o connect via NetBIOS to another PC running Ghost in slave mode, and dump a disk image of local drive two to the remote file c:drive2.gho ghost.exe -clone,mode=dump,src=2,dst=C:drive2[...]

Appendix B-1 Appendix B B- 1 Update Y our system BIOS Download the xxxxx.EXE file corresponding to your model form the our website to an empty directory on your hard disk or floppy. Run the downloaded xxxxx.EXE file and it will self extract. Copy these extracted files to a bootable DOS floppy disk. Note: The DOS floppy disk should contain NO device[...]

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