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SOYO DRAGON 2 Motherboard 2 manual

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  • Page 1

    SY -P4I865PE Lite DRAGON 2 Motherboard Quick Start Guide Har dware Insta lla tion Quic k BI OS Setup Introduction T he SO Y O CD Inte l USB2 .0 Driv er Inst alla t ion[...]

  • Page 2

    SOYO™ 1. Please read the users guid e before proceeding with your installation s. Serious damage m ay occur if the procedure is not followed prop erly. 2. This motherboard does not support CPUs with a Vcore higher than 1.6 volts. Please make s ure the CPU you are using 1.6 volts or below. Check the CPU specification before you insert it in the CP[...]

  • Page 3

    SOYO™ SY -P4I865PE Lite DRAGON 2 Motherboard mPGA Socket 478 processors Intel 865PE AGP/PCI Motherboard 400/533/800 MHz Front S ide Bus supported A TX Form Factor Copyright © 2003 by SOYO Computer Inc. T rademarks: SOYO is a regist ered tradem ar k of SOYO Computer Inc. All trad emarks are properties of their owners. Produc t Rights: All names o[...]

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    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 4 Intr oduction 1 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of th e SY -P4I865PE Lite DRAGO N 2 Motherboard. This Qui ck Star t Guide ill ustrates th e steps for inst alling and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide provides all users with the b asic steps of Moth erboard setting and operat[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 5 Intr oduction SY -P4I865PE Lite DRA GON 2 Motherboar d Lay out (Opti onal) PS/2 K B Connector PS/2 Mouse PS/2 Mouse Connecto r PRT COM A COM B 13 2 1 SMCARD 14 15 16 2 1 GAME PORT Aud io out / Fr ont ou t Aud io i n / Rear out MIC IN / Cent er & Bas s ou t USB20_1 6 11 10 44 USB20_2 61 0 USBLAN [...]

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    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 6 Intr oduction Ke y Fe a t u r e s CPU Supports Intel® mPGA So cket 47 8 processors :  Pentium® 4 with and without Hyperthreadin g, Northwood, Prescott (400/533/80 0MHz FSB)  Pentium® 4 Celeron  SOYO COMBO Setup CMOS setup menu for complete and easy ch anging of yo ur CPU settings in CMOS [...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 7 Intr oduction Storage  ICH5 integrated Serial A T A controller supporting up to 2x UDMA 150 hard disks  ICH5 Integrated Parallel A T A controller supporting up to 4x UDMA 33/66/100 Parallel A T A devices. USB 2.0 8x USB 2.0 compliant ports (4 on rear IO panel, 4x motherboard connectors. Sound [...]

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    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 8 Har dwar e Installatio n 2 2 Installation T o avoi d damage to yo ur Motherboard, please follow these sim ple rules while handling this equipment:  Before handling the Motherbo ard, ground yourself by to uching on to an u npainted portion of the system's metal chassis.  Check the m ainboar[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 9 Har dwar e Installatio n Install the Motherboar d We w ill now begin the installation process. Pl ease fo llow the following procedure to lead you to a comp lete and correct installation. Step 1 - Install the Central Proce ssing Unit (CPU) Step 2 - Install memory modules Step 3 - Connect cables, cas[...]

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    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 10 Har dwar e Installatio n Configur e Memor y This motherboard supp orts one Dual Channel to your memor y . Note that you can use normal DDR memory for Dual Channel t o work. Also note that for Dual Channel to work 2 modules of equal size and specif ications have t o be installed. The largest memory c[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 11 Har dwar e Installatio n Step 2. Connect cables, case wires, and pow er supply This section tells ho w to conne ct internal perip herals and the power supply to the Motherboard. The internal peripherals consi st of IDE device s (HDD, CD- ROM, etc), F loppy Disk Drive, Chassis Fan, Front Pa nel Devi[...]

  • Page 12

    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 12 Har dwar e Installatio n Connectors and Plug -ins CPU Cooling Fan: CPUF AN1 Chassis Fan: CHAF AN1 Pin1 Pin2 Pin3 Pin1 Pin2 Pin3 GND +12V Sensor GND +12V Sensor Chassis Fan: CHA F AN2 Stand ard IrDA (Infra red Device Header): S IRCON Pin1 Pin2 Pin3 Pin1 Pin2 Pin3 Pin4 Pin5 GND +12V NC VCC NC IRRX GND[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 13 Har dwar e Installatio n Power On/Off: PWRBT Connect your pow er switch to this header ( momentary switch type). T o turn off the system, press this switch and hold down for longer than 4 seconds. A TX 12V Power Supply: A TX PW Attach the A TX 12V Power c able to three connector . (This motherboard[...]

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    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 14 Har dwar e Installatio n Please install the A T X power accor ding to the follo wing pin assignment:  Pay speci al care to the dir ectionality . Step 3. Install e xpansion ca r ds The motherboard has 1 AGP slot and 5 PCI slots. 1. Read the instru ction document of t he re lated expansion card bef[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 15 Har dwar e Installatio n This motherboard only support 1.5V AGP card (4X/8X card). If 3.3V AGP card is used, the system will not boot-u p and the AGPDET LED will lit. CMOS Clear (JP5) In some cases t he CMOS me mory may co ntai n wrong data, follow the steps below to clea r th e CMOS me mory . 1. C[...]

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    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 16 Har dwar e Installatio n Audio Speak er s connections When using 2-channel spea ker , connect the sp eaker cable to line-out. If you’re using 4 chan nel speaker , connect the front L/R speakers to line-out and rear L/R speakers to Lin e-in . make sure to s et the Audio Rack software for 4 c hannel[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 17 Har dwar e Installatio n Onboar d LAN LED Definition When this LED is lit, this means the LAN is runnin g at 100 mbps, if it is not lit, the Onboard LAN is working at 10 mbps. This is the LAN activit y & lin k LED. It will blink when it is active.[...]

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    SY -P4I865PE Li te DRAGON 2 Quick Start Gui de 18 Quic k BIOS Setup 3 3 Quic k BIOS Setup This Motherboard does not use any hardware j umpers to set the C PU frequency . Instead, CPU settings are software configurable with the BIOS [SOYO COM BO FEA TURE]. The [SOYO CO MBO FEA TUR E] combines th e main parameters that you need to configure, all in o[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 19 Th e S O Y O C D 4 4 T he SO Y O CD The SOYO-CD w ill Auto Run onl y in Windo ws Based Operating Systems. Y our SY - P4I865PE Lite DRAGON 2 mot herboar d comes with a CD-ROM labeled “SOYO CD”. The SOYO CD contain s a. The user ’s manual for your new motherboard in PDF format, b. The driver s [...]

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    SY -P4I86 5PE Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S tart Guide 20 Th e S O Y O C D The user's manual files incl uded on the SOYO CD are in PDF (Postscript Document Format). In order to read a PDF file, th e ap propriate Acrobat Reader softw are must be installed in your system. Note: The Start Up progra m automatically detects if the Acrobat Reader utility is[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 21 Th e S O Y O C D (Driver Installat ion Menu) A short description of all available dri vers follows:  Intel Chipse t Software Installation U tility for W in 98/98SE/ME/20 00/XP Windows 95 and 98 will not reco gnize the new I NTEL 865PE ch ipset prop erly . T o update the necessary .inf file s tha[...]

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    SY -P4I86 5PE Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S tart Guide 22 Th e S O Y O C D to begin the driver installation pro gram. When the installati on is com plete, most drivers require a restart of your system before they become active. Step 3. Check the Latest R eleases Click the 'Connect to SOYO website' butto n to go the SOYO Website to find the late s[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 23 Th e S O Y O C D After Windows XP installation, your de vice manager sh ould look like this:[...]

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    SY -P4I86 5PE Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S tart Guide 24 Th e S O Y O C D After driver installation, your Windows XP device manager should look like this: Note: T o ins tall the US B 2.0 driv er , please upd ate to Windows XP servic e pack 1.[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 25 Th e S O Y O C D Drivers directory list in the C D driver[...]

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    SY -P4I86 5PE Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S tart Guide 26 Intel US B2.0 Driv er Installa tion 5 5 Intel USB2.0 Driv er Installation For Windows XP USB 2.0 drivers are av ailable for download usin g Windows Update fo r both Windows XP and W indows 2000. For add itional info rmatio n regardin g USB 2. 0 support in W indows XP and Windows 2000, please visi t [...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 27 Quick T r ouble shoot tips Boot-up Issues The system does not power-u p, no beeping sound heard and the CPU fan does not turn on. 1. Check if the pow er cord is plugged in th e power sour ce. 2. Check if the pow er is c onnected to the M/B . (both th e A T X 12V and the A T X connector) 3. Check if[...]

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    SY -P4I86 5PE Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S tart Guide 28 The system turns on for some se conds then shut down by itself . 1. Check if the C PU fan is conn ected to the C PUF AN1 connector . 2. The CPU might be ov erheating. Check the CP U F AN if it is de fectiv e or see if the CPU fan is in contact with the CPU. 3. Clear the CMOS ram. (JP5 c onnector , s[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 29 the BIOS setup is set to T urbo/Ma ximum. Set it to normal if so. 5. Check the w ebsite fo r latest BIOS update. 6. Check the website for F AQ’ s regarding instability iss ues. 7. Change the memory module or CPU, they might be defect ive. 8. The power supply might not have eno ugh watt age to sup[...]

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    SY -P4I86 5PE Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S tart Guide 30 After flashing the BIOS , my system will not boot- up. 1. T ry clearing the C MOS ram. 2. The B IOS chip is defectiv e due to an un successf ul flash, contact your nearest SOYO branch for re-flashing. Is there a way to repr ogr am my BIOS after an unsuccessful flash? No other way , you need to send [...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 31 The sound is working in my system, but when I play CD music from the CD-ROM, I do not get any sound. What i s wrong? This is because the 4- wire audio cable from t he CD- ROM to the on-board CDIN1 connec tor on the M/B is not connected. See m anual for location of CDIN1. The sound and everything el[...]

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    SY -P4I86 5PE Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S tart Guide 32 LAN Issues During LAN driver installation, the system hangs on 75%, why? Enable the onboard LAN in the BIOS s etup. I have problem installing Novell NetWare v .50 Disable the APIC op tion in the BIOS. For updated FAQs, please check http://www.soyo.com.tw /faq.htm or http://www.soyo usa.com/faq s.htm[...]

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    SY -P4I865P E Lite DRAGON 2 Quick S t art Guide 33 How to contact us:  If you are interested in our pr oduc ts, please contact t he SOYO sales department in the region you live.  If you require T echnical Assistance, please contact our T echnical Support in the region you live. SOYO prefers Email as communi cation medium, re member to always [...]

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    Edition : April 20 0 3 V ersion P1. 0 SY -P4I865P E Lite DR AGON 2 SERIA L[...]