EPoX Computer EP-3VWM manual

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

EP-3VWM Appendix Appendix A Memory Map ....................................................... A-1 I/O Map ................................................................ A-1 T imer & DMA Channels Map ............................. A-2 Interrupt Map ....................................................... A-2 R TC & CMOS RAM Map ............[...]

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Introduction EP-3VWM Page 1-1 Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist ü ü ü ü ü A . ( 1 ) EP-3VWM mainboard ü ü ü ü ü B. ( 1 ) EP-3VWM 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 ) USB Cable (Optional) ü ü ü ü ü F . ( 1 ) Driver and utility A B USE[...]

Introduction EP-3VWM Page 1-2 EP-3VWM F or m-F actor The EP-3VWM is designed with MicroA TX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. 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 relocat[...]

Introduction EP-3VWM Page 1-3 P o wer-On/Off (R emote) The EP-3VWM 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 op[...]

Introduction EP-3VWM Page 1-4 Figur e 5: System Block Diagram System Block Diagram[...]

Features EP-3VWM Page 2-1 Section 2 FEA TURES EP-3VWM F ea tur es:  EP-3VWM is based on the Socket 370 Processors including PPGA & FC- PGA operating at 300 ~ 800MHz.  Designed with VIA VT8601 AGPset.  Supports up to 512MB of DRAM (minimum of 32 MB) on board (please see Section 3-2).  Supports (3) 32 bit PCI slots, (1) 16 bit ISA slo[...]

Features EP-3VWM Page 2-2  Built-in A TX 20-pin power supply connector .  Software power-down when using W indows ® 95/98 or W indows ® 2000.  Supports ring-in feature (remote power-on through external modem, allows system to be turned on remotely).  Resume by Alarm - Allows your system to turn on at a preselected time.  Power Loss[...]

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

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

Installation EP-3VWM Page 3-3 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 pr[...]

Installation EP-3VWM 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-3VWM Page 3-5 Section 3-2 J umper Settings The EP-3VWM motherboard was designed with very few jumpers to make your installation faster and easier. CMOS Clear JP 1 = 1-2 Normal (Default) = 2-3 Clear CMOS JP1 1 JP22 On Board Codec Audio JP22 = 1-2 : Enable (Default) = 2-3 : Disable 1 JP23 JP24 1 1 CPU Host Clock Select 4 2 P J3 2 P Jz[...]

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

Installation EP-3VWM 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 (f[...]

Installation EP-3VWM Page 3-8 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  A plug-in for the CPU Fan Power J5: Chassis Fan  A plug-in for the chassis Fan Power J6: Power Fan  A plug-in for the Power Supply Fan Power J7: WOL (W ake On[...]

Installation EP-3VWM Page 3-9 # 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 u o r G e l b a C 5k c a l Bd n u o r Gd n u o r G e s a C 6k c a l Bd n u o r Gd n u o r G e s a C 7k c a l Bd n u o r Gd n u o r G e l b a C 8n e e r G[...]

Installation EP-3VWM Page 3-10 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 mod[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-1 Section 4 AWARD 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 [...]

BIOS EP-3VWM 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-3VWM 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 dri[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM 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 e[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM 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 seque[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM 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 char[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM 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 b[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-8 Bank 0/1, 2/3 DRAM Timing : This value in this field is set by the system board manufacturer. The default is SDRAM Fast. The Choice: SDRAM Fast, SDRAM Normal. SDRAM Cycle length : This setting defines the CAS timing parameter of the SDRAM in terms of clocks. The default is 3. 2 : Pr ovides faster memory performance. 3 : Pr ovi[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-9 Enabled : This field enables the main memory (15~16MB) to r emap to ISA BUS. Disabled : Normal Setting. Note: If this feature is enabled you will not be able to cache this memory segment. System BIOS Cacheable : This allows you to copy your BIOS code from slow ROM to fast RAM. The default is Disabled. Enabled : The option will[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-10 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. OnChip Modem: T urn on/off onchip software modem device. CPU to P[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM 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 de[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-12 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 Programmed interrupt mode. Primary Slave PIO: The default is Auto. Auto : BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode. Mo[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-13 Init Display First: If two video cards are used (1 AGP and 1 PCI) this specifies which one will be the primary display adapter. The default is PCI Slot. PCI Slots : PCI video card will be primary adapter. AGP: AGP video card will be primary adapter. IDE HDD Block Mode : IDE Block Mode allows the controller to access blocks of[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-14 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 and address is 278H and IRQ5. 3BCH : Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 3BCH and IRQ7. Disabled : Disable Onboard W inbond Ch[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-15 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 Manageme[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-16 User define : Allows user to define PM T imers parameters to control power saving mode. PM controlled APM : This option shows weather or not you want the Power Management to be controlled the Advanced Power Management (APM). The default is Y es. Ye s : APM controls your PM No : APM does not control your PM V ideo Off Option :[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-17 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 Suspend Mode. VGA: When set to On (default), any event occurring at a VGA port will awaken a system which has been powered down. LPT & COM: [...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-18 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. Figur e 7: PCI Configuration Setup PNP OS Installed : Do you have a PNP[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-19 Disabled : Normal Setting. Enabled : If you have plugged in some Legacy cards to the system and they were recorded into ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data), you can set this field to Enabled in order to clear ESCD. PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: Leave this field at Disabled. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. Assign IRQ For USB : T[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-20 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 of[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-21 4-8 F requency/V oltage Contr ol 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. Enabled : Enables this option. Disabled : Disables this option. Spread Spectrum : The de[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-22 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 m[...]

BIOS EP-3VWM Page 4-23 4-10 Super visor/User Pass w or d Setting Y ou can set either supervisor or user password, or both of then. The differences 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-3VWM Page 4-24 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 confi[...]

Appendix A-1 EP-3VWM Appendix A A-1 MEMOR Y MAP Address Range Size Description [00000-7FFFF] 512K Conventional memory [80000-9FBFF] 127K Extended Conventional memory [9FC00-9FFFF] 1K 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 [E0[...]

Appendix EP-3VWM 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 Chan[...]

Appendix A-3 EP-3VWM 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-3VWM 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 B-1 EP-3VWM Appendix B B- 1 POST CODES For BIOS 6.0 Code POST (hex) DESCRIPTION C Fh T est CMOS R/W functionality . C 0h Early chipset initialization: - Disable shadow RAM - Disable L2 cache (socket 7 or below) - Program basic chipset registers C1h Detect memory - Auto-detection of DRAM size, type and ECC. - Auto-detection of L2 cache (soc[...]

Appendix EP-3VWM B-2 3. Reset keyboard for W inbond 977 series Super I/O chips. 0Ch Reserved 0 D h Reserved 0E h T est F000h segment shadow to see whether it is R/W- able or not. If test fails, keep beeping the speaker. 0Fh Reserved 10 h Auto detect flash type to load appropriate flash R/W codes into the run time area in F000 for ESCD & DMI sup[...]

Appendix B-3 EP-3VWM checksum fails, use default value instead. 3. Prepare BIOS resource map for PCI & PnP use. If ESCD is valid, take into consideration of the ESCD s legacy information. 4. Onboard clock generator initialization. Disable respective clock resource to empty PCI & DIMM slots. 5 . Early PCI initialization: - Enumerate PCI b[...]

Appendix EP-3VWM B-4 3 4h Reserved 3 5h Reserved 3 6h Reserved 3 7h Reserved 3 8h Reserved 3 9h Reserved 3 A h Reserved 3 B h Reserved 3Ch T est 8254 3 D h Reserved 3E h T est 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1. 3Fh Reserved 40 h T est 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 2. 4 1h Reserved 4 2h Reserved 43 h T est 8259 functionality . 4 4h Reser[...]

Appendix B-5 EP-3VWM 5 1h Reserved 52h T est all memory (clear all extended memory to 0) 5 3h Reserved 5 4h Reserved 55 h Display number of processors (multi-processor platform) 5 6h Reserved 57 h 1. Display PnP logo 2. Early ISA PnP initialization - Assign CSN to every ISA PnP device. 5 8h Reserved 59h Initialize the combined T rend Anti-V irus co[...]

Appendix EP-3VWM B-6 6D h 1. Assign resources to all ISA PnP devices. 2. Auto assign ports to onboard COM ports if the corresponding item in Setup is set to AUTO. 6E h Reserved 6F h 1. Initialize floppy controller 2. Set up floppy related fields in 40:hardware. 7 0h Reserved 7 1h Reserved 7 2h Reserved 73h (Optional Feature) Enter A WDFLASH.E[...]

Appendix B-7 EP-3VWM 84 h Initialize ISA PnP boot devices 85h 1 . USB final Initialization 2. NET PC: Build SYSID structure 3. Switch screen back to text mode 4. Set up ACPI table at top of memory. 5. Invoke ISA adapter ROMs 6. Assign IRQs to PCI devices 7 . Initialize APM 8. Clear noise of IRQs. 8 6h Reserved 8 7h Reserved 8 8h Reserved 8 9h Reser[...]

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Appendix C-1 EP-3VWM Appendix C NOTE: The " LOAD Optimized 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. LOAD Optimized DEF AUL TS CMOS Setup Utility - Co p yright ( [...]

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Appendix EP-3VWM D-1 Appendix D D-1 GHOST 5.1 Quic k 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-3VWM D-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 ba[...]

Appendix EP-3VWM D-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 EP-3VWM D-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 EP-3VWM D-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 EP-3VWM D-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) T[...]

Appendix EP-3VWM D-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, s[...]

Appendix EP-3VWM D-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 EP-3VWM D-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 .[...]