EPoX Computer EP-3VCA2 manual

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EP-3VCA2 T able of Contents Section 1 Introduction Components Checklist ........................................ 1 - 1 Overview EP-3VCA2 Form-Factor ..................................... 1 - 2 I/O Shield Connector .......................................... 1 - 3 Power-On/Off (Remote) ..................................... 1 - 3 System Block Diagram [...]

EP-3VCA2 Save & Exit Setup ................................................ 4-25 Exit W ithout Saving ............................................. 4-25 Appendix Appendix A Memory Map ....................................................... A-1 I/O Map ................................................................ A-1 T imer & DMA Channels[...]

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Introduction EP-3VCA2 Page 1-1 Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist ü ü ü ü ü A . ( 1 ) EP-3VCA2 mainboard ü ü ü ü ü B. ( 1 ) EP-3VCA2 user  s manual ü ü ü ü ü C. ( 1 ) Floppy ribbon cable ü ü ü ü ü D. ( 1 ) A T A-66 Hard drive ribbon cable E . ( 1 ) PS/2 to A T keyboard connector adapter (Optional) F . ( 1 ) USB Cable[...]

Introduction EP-3VCA2 Page 1-2 EP-3V CA2 F or m-Factor The EP-3VCA2 is designed with A TX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. A 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 . With these changes the processor is relocated away [...]

Introduction EP-3VCA2 Page 1-3 P o wer-On/Off (Remote) The EP-3VCA2 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/Off button. The systems power On/Off button should be a momentary button that is normally o[...]

Introduction EP-3VCA2 Page 1-4 Figur e 5: System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PA C PCI Bridge and me mory cont roller VT82C694X 133/ 100/6 6MHz 133/ 100/6 6MHz 66MHz 4X AGP Bu s AGP S lot Sock et 37 0 Pr oc ess or VT82C686A I/O Bridge AC 97 USB 0,1 USB 2,3 AMR Sl ot[...]

Features EP-3VCA2 Page 2-1 Section 2 FEA TURES EP-3V CA2 F ea tures:  EP-3VCA2 is based on the Socket 370 Processors including PPGA & FC- PGA operating at 300 ~ 800MHz.  Designed with VIA Apollo Pro 133A PCIset.  Supports up to 768MB of DRAM (minimum of 8 MB) on board (please see Section 3-2).  EP-3VCA2 will support Error Checking a[...]

Features EP-3VCA2 Page 2-2  4 USB ports are provided, 2 ports are onboard and another 2 USB ports, as option, need USB an cable on USB2 position. The onboard VT82C686A chip provides the means for connecting PC peripherals such as; keyboards, joysticks, telephones, and modems.  Built-in A TX 20-pin power supply connector .  Software power-d[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-1 Section 3 INST ALLA TION[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-2 EP-3VCA2 Detailed Layout Figure 1[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-3 Easy Installa tion Procedur e 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 3-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO) 3-6. STR Function Section 3-1 CPU Inser tion CPU I[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-4 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 EP-3VCA2 Page 3-5 2 W S U P C e r o c V 12 3 4 56 O T U A N ON ON ON O V 6 . 1 N ON ON ON ON O V 5 6 . 1 N ON ON O V 7 . 1 N ON ON ON O V 5 7 . 1 N ON ON ON O V 8 . 1 N ON ON ON ON O V 5 8 . 1 N ON ON ON ON O V 0 . 2 N ON ON ON ON ON O V 5 0 . 2 N ON O V 1 . 2 N ON O V 2 . 2 Section 3-2 J umper Settings The EP-3VCA2 motherboard was des[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-6 JP4 Keyboard Power-ON Function JP4 = 1-2 Disabled (Default) = 2-3 Enabled 1 JP5 Power Loss Recovery JP5 = 1-2 Disabled = 2-3 Enabled 1 JP6 STR Function JP6 = 1-2 Disabled = 2-3 Enabled 1[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-7 Section 3-3 System Memor y Configur ation Memor y Layout The EP-3VCA2 supports (3) PC133 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs is for SDRAM (Synchronized DRAM).  DIMM SDRAM may be 83MHz (12ns), 100MHz (10ns) or 125MHz (8ns) bus speed.  If you use both 50ns and 60ns memory you must configure your [...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-8 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 ([...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-9 Section 3-4 De vice Connector s J2,J3: Chassis Panel Connector  Power LED, Speaker, Reset, Turbo LED, HDD LED, IR Conn., Sleep/ Power_ON J4: CPU Fan Power  A plug-in for the CPU Fan Power J6: Chassis Fan Power  A plug-in for the chassis Fan Power J7: WOL (Wake On Lan) Connector J8: WOM (Wake On Modem) Connect[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-10 MODEM1: Telephony Connector  Pin1(Audio_in), Pin2/Pin3(GND), Pin4(Mic-out to Modem) USB2: USB port header pins for adding two additional USB ports. # N I Pr o l o c e r i We m a N l a n g i St n e m m o C 1d e Rc c Vr e w o P e l b a C 2e t i h Wa t a D -a t a D 3n e e r Ga t a D +a t a D 4k c a l Bd n u o r Gd n [...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-11 De vice Connector s (continued) (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 immediatly), or 4 sec delay (you need to hold the button down for 4 seconds before the system turns off). When the system is in 4 sec delay mo[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-12 Section 3-5 Exter nal Modem Ring-in Po wer ON and K eyboar d Po wer ON Functions (KBPO) On the basis of bounded functions in I/O chipset, the two serial ports are able to support the External Modem Ring-in Power ON function. Once users connect the external modem to COM1 or COM2, the EP-3VCA2 mainboard allows users to[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-13 3-6 STR (Suspend T o RAM) Function The EP-3VCA2 supports the STR power management state by maintaining the appropriate states on the SDRAM interface signals. The power source must be kept alive to the SDRAM during STR (ACPI S3). Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) provides more Energy Saving Features for op[...]

Installation EP-3VCA2 Page 3-14 ACPI Onboards LE D Status Indicator T able Status Onboards LED Location Plug in the A TX Power Core Power ON J3(PW-ON ) Green Mode (S1) STR (S3) Shutdown (So ft-OF F) (S5) LED1 (Red LED) OFF ON ON ON OFF J2 PW_LED OFF ON Bli nking OFF OFF c. It saves and keeps all on-screen data including any executed applicati[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-1 Section 4 BIOS SETUP Main Menu 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 saved[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 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[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 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 d[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 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 [...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-5 Quick Power On Self T est : This category speeds up the Power On Self T est (POST). The default is Enabled. Enabled : This setting will shorten or skip of the items checked during POST. Disabled : Normal POST. First /Second/Third/Other Boot Device : The BIOS attempts to load the operat- ing system from the devices in the sequ[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-6 T ypematic Rate Setting : This determines the keystrokes repeat rate. The default is Disabled. Enabled : Allows typematic rate and typematic delay programming. Disabled : The typematic rate and typematic delay will be controlled by the keyboard controller in your system. T ypematic Rate (Chars/Sec) : This is the number of cha[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-7 Enabled : V ideo shadow is enabled. Disabled : V ideo shadow is disabled. C8000 - CBFFF Shadow : CC000 - CFFFF Shadow : D0000 - D3FFF Shadow : 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 [...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-8 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 or EDO (extended data output) DRAMs. The Choice: Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5. SDRAM Cycle length : This setting defines the CAS timing parameter of the SDRAM in terms of clocks. The default [...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-9 DRAM Page-Mode: The item will active or inactive chipset page registers. Enabled : Page-Mode Enabled. Disabled : No page registers update and non Page-Mode operation. Memory Hole : Y ou can reserve this memory area for the use of ISA adaptor ROMs. The default is Disabled. Enabled : This field enables the main memory (15~16MB)[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-10 AGP-4X Mode : Chipset AGP Mode support. Options: x1 , x2 and x4. USB Keyboard Support : This controls the activation status of an optional USB keyboard that may be attached. The default is disabled. Enabled : Enable USB keyboard support. Disabled : Disable USB keyboard support. OnChip Sound: T urn on/off onchip sound device.[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-11 4-4 Inte gr ated P eripherals Figur e 5: Integrated Peripherals Note: If you do not use the Onboard IDE connector, then you will need to set Onboard Primary PCI IDE: Disabled and Onboard Secondary PCI IDE: Disabled Note: The Onboard PCI IDE cable should be equal to or less than 18 inches (45 cm.). OnChip IDE Channel0 : The d[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-12 of your IDE subsystem, this field may not appear, and it does not appear when the Internal PCI/IDE field, above, is Disabled. The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. Primary Master PIO: The default is Auto. Auto : BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode. Mode 0~4 : Manually set the IDE Pro[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-13 Secondary Slave UDMA : This allows you to select the mode of operation for the hard drive. The default is Auto. Auto : The computer will select the optimal setting. Disabled : The hard drive will run in normal mode. Init Display First: If two video cards are used (1 AGP and 1 PCI) this specifies which one will be the primary[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-14 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. IR Function Duplex : This item allows you to select the IR function when you select the UAR T2 Mode is ASKIR. The Choice: Half, Full. TX, RX inverting enable: This item invert serial port 2 [...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-15 Onboard Legacy Audio: Legacy Audio enabled/disabled. Sound Blaster: Sound Blaster compatible device enabled/disabled. SB I/O Base Address: Sound Blaster I/O resource selection. SB IRQ Select: Legacy audio device IRQ selection. SB DMA Select: Sound Blaster DMA channel selection. MPU-401: MPU-401 function enabled/disabled. MPU[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-16 4-5 P o wer 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 6: Power Managem[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-17 Min. saving : Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 hour in each mode. User define : Allows user to define PM T imers parameters to control power saving mode. ACPI Suspend T ype : This item allows you to select S1(POS) or S3(STR) function. The choice: S1(POS), S3(STR). PM controlled APM : This option shows weather or[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-18 Soft-Off by PWRBTN : Use this to select your soft-off function. The default is Instant Off. Instant Off : T urns off the system instantly . Delay 4 Second : T urns off the system after a 4 second delay . If momentary press of button, the system will go into Suspend Mode. Press the power botton again to take system out of Sus[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-19 4-6 PNP/PCI Configuration The PNP/PCI configuration program is for the user to modify the PCI/ISA IRQ signals when various PCI/ISA cards are inserted in the PCI or ISA slots. W ARNING: Conflicting IRQ s may cause the system to not find certain devices. Figure 7: PCI Configuration Setup PNP OS Installed : Do you have a PNP[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-20 Resources Controlled By : Who controlled the system PNP/PCI resources. The default is Auto. Manual : PNP Card s resources will be controlled manually . Y ou can set which IRQ-X and DMA-X are assigned to PCI/ISA PNP or Legacy ISA Cards. Auto : If your ISA card and PCI card are all PNP cards, BIOS will assign the interrupt [...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-21 4-7 PC Health Status Current CPU T emperature : This is the current temperature of the CPU. Current System T emperature: This is the Current temperature of the system. 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 o[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-22 4-8 F requency/V oltage Contr ol DRAM Clock : The item will synchronize/asynchronize DRAM operation clock. Host Clock: DRAM has same working clock with CPU host bus. 2/3 Host: DRAM running with lower operation clock. Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk : When enabled the motherboard will automatically disable the clock source for a DIM[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-23 4-9 Defaults Menu Selecting Defaults from the main menu shows you two options which are described below Load Fail-Safe Defaults When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to: Load Fail-Safe Defaults (Y/N) ? N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the [...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-24 4-10 Super visor/User Passw ord Setting Y ou can set either supervisor or user password, or both of then. The dif ferences between are: supervisor password : can enter and change the options of the setup menus. user password : just can only enter but do not have the right to change the options of the setup menus. When you se[...]

BIOS EP-3VCA2 Page 4-25 4-11 Exit Selecting Save & Exit Setup Pressing <Enter> on this item asks for confirmation: Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? Y Pressing Y stores the selections made in the menus in CMOS  a special section of memory that stays on after you turn your system off. The next time you boot your computer, the BIOS conf[...]

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Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-1 Appendix A A-1 MEMOR Y MAP Address Range Size Description [00000-7FFFF] 512K Conventional memory [80000-9FBFF] 127K Extended Conventional memory [9FC00-9FFFF] 1 K Extended BIOS data area if PS/2 mouse is installed [A0000-C7FFF] 160K A vailable for Hi DOS memory [C8000-DFFFF] 96 K A vailable for Hi DOS memory and adapter ROMs [[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-2 [2F8-2FF] SERIAL port 2. [360-36F] NETWORK ports. [378-37F] P ARALLEL port 1. [3B0-3BF] MONOCHROME & P ARALLEL port adapter . [3C0-3CF] EGA adapter. [3D0-3DF] CGA adapter. [3F0-3F7] FLOPPY DISK controller. [3F8-3FF] SERIAL port 1. A-3 TIMER & DMA CHANNELS MAP TIMER MAP: TIMER Channel 0 System timer interrupt. TIMER Cha[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-3 6 FLOPPY DISK (SMC CHIP). 7 P ARALLEL port 1. 8 R TC clock. 9 A vailable. 1 0 A vailable. 11 A vailable. 1 2 PS/2 Mouse. 1 3 MA TH coprocessor . 1 4 Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. 1 5 Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. A-5 RT C & CMOS RAM MAP R TC & CMOS: 0 0 Seconds. 0 1 Second alarm. 0 2 Minutes. 0 3 Minutes alarm.[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-4 1 6 Base memory high byte. 1 7 Extension memory low byte. 1 8 Extension memory high byte. 19-2d 2E-2F 3 0 Reserved for extension memory low byte. 3 1 Reserved for extension memory high byte. 3 2 DA TE CENTUR Y byte. 3 3 INFORMA TION FLAG. 34-3F Reserve. 40-7F Reserved for CHIPSET SETTING DA T A.[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-5 Appendix B B- 1 POST CODES ISA POST codes are typically output to I/O port address 80h. POST (hex) DESCRIPTION 01-02 R eserved. C 0 T urn of f OEM specific cache, shadow . 0 3 1. Initialize EISA registers (EISA BIOS only). 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes. - DMA controller (8[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-6 - Create resource map from ESCD. 5. Assign IO & Memory for PCI devices. (PCI BIOS only) 0 C Initialization of the BIOS Data Area. (40:ON - 40:FF) 0 D 1. Program some of the Chipset's value according to Setup. (Early Setup V alue Program) 2. Measure CPU speed for display & decide the system clock speed. 3. V ideo i[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-7 2. Program all onboard super I/O chips (if any) including COM ports, LPT ports, FDD port ... according to setup value. 33-3B R eserved. 3 C Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility. 3 D 1. Initialize Keyboard. 2. Install PS2 mouse. 3 E T ry to turn on Level 2 cache. Note: Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cach[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-8 5. Program parity according to Setup setting. 6. Power Management Initialization. - Enable/Disable global PM. - APM interface initialization. 5 3 1. If it is NOT a PnP BIOS, initialize serial & parallel ports. 2. Initialize time value in BIOS data area by translate the R TC time value into a timer tick value. 6 0 Setup V i[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-9 Appendix C NOTE: The " LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS " function loads the system default data directly from ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly. This function will be necessary when you accept this mainboard, or the system CMOS data is corrupted. CMOS Setup Utility - Co pyright ( C ) 1984-1998 Standard CM OS F[...]

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Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-11 Appendix D D-1 GHOST 5.1 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.[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-12 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 [...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-13 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 EP-3VCA2 A-14 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 EP-3VCA2 A-15 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 EP-3VCA2 A-16 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)[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-17 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,[...]

Appendix EP-3VCA2 A-18 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 EP-3VCA2 A-19 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 .[...]