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EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Table of Contents Page Section 1 Introduction Components Checklist ..............................................1-1 Overview EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Form-Factor .............................. 1-2 I/O Shield Connector ................................................1-3 Power-On/Off (Remote) .......................................... 1-3 System Block Diagram .............................................1-4 Section 2 Features EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Features ....................................
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Save & Exit Setup .................................................... 4-23 Exit Without Saving ..................................................4-23 Appendix Appendix A Memory Map ...........................................................A-1 I/O Map ....................................................................A-1 Timer & DMA Channels Map ..................................A-2 Interrupt Map ...........................................................A-2 RTC & CMOS RAM Map ...........
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EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Introduction Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist ü A. (1) One mainboard ü B. (1) One user’s manual ü C. (1) Floppy ribbon cable ü D. (1) IDE ribbon cable ATA-66 IDE ribbon cable (EP-MVP3G2/5 only) ü E. (1) PS/2 to AT keyboard connector adapter (optional) ü F.
Introduction EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Form Factor The EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 is designed with ATX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. The ATX form factor is essentially a Baby-AT 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 from the expansion slots, allowing them all to hold full length add-in cards.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Introduction I/O Shield Connector The EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 is equipped with an I/O back panel.Please use the appropriate I/O shield (figure 3). Parallel Port PS/2 Mouse PS/2 Keyboard USB COM1 COM2 Figure 3 Power-On/Off (Remote) The EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 has a single 20-pin connector for ATX power supplies. For ATX power supplies that support the Remote On/Off feature, this should be connected to the systems front panel for system Power On/Off button.
Introduction EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 System Block Diagram Figure 5: System Block Diagram Page 1-4
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Features Section 2 FEATURES EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Features: • Intel Pentium® Processor, Pentium Processor with MMX technology, AMD K6/K6-2/K6 III, Cyrix 6x86MX/MII & idt C6/Winchip operating at 133 ~ 500 MHz with 321 ZIF socket 7 provides scalability to accept faster Processors in the future. • Supports ESDJ (Easy Setting Dual Jumper) function for CPU selection. • Designed with VIA MVP3 AGPset. • Supports up to 384 MB of DRAM (minimum of 16 MB) on board, You can use 168-pin DIMM x 3.
Features EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 • allows use of a PS/2 keyboard. • EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 utilizes a Lithium battery which provides environmental protection and longer battery life. • Built-in ATX 20-pin power supply connector. • Software power-down when using Windows® 95/98. • 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.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Installation Section 3 INSTALLATION Page 3-1
Installation EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Detailed Layout Figure 1 Page 3-2
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Installation Easy Installation Procedure The following must be completed before powering on your new system: 3-1. Configure Jumpers 3-2. System Memory Configuration 3-3. Device Connectors 3-4. External Modem Ring-in Power On and Keyboard Power On Function (KBPO) Section 3-1 Configure Jumpers We design this motherboard with the fewest jumpers to make your install fast and easy. Note: The jumpers as shown below are in their correct physical orientation.
Installation EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 CPU Selection SW1 SW1 1 2 4 ON ON 1.8V ON ON ON 2.0V ON ON 5 ON 2.1V ON ON 2.2V ON 2.3V ON ON ON JP3 28 27 112MHz 100MHz 95MHz 83MHz 75MHz 66MHz 5.5X 5X 4.5X 4X 3.5X 3X 2.5X 2X Pentium/MMX AMD K6/K6-2/K6 III IDT-C6/Winchip 2.4V ON 2.8V ON 2.9V ON 3.2V JP3 Multiplier 166MHz 2.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Installation Section 3-2 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout The EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 supports (3) 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs can be either EDO (Extended Data Out) or SDRAM (Synchronized DRAM). The DIMMs may be installed using just one chip. • 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 BIOS to read 60ns.
Installation EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 DIMM Module Installation Figure 3 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 4) until it fits tightly into the DIMM socket (figure 5). LEFT KEY ZONE (UNBUFFERED) CENTER KEY ZONE (3.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Installation Section 3-3 Device Connectors Please install the motherboard into the chassis. Now that your motherboard is installed you are ready to connect all your connections (figure 6).
Installation EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Device Connectors (continued) (This is connected to the power button on the case. Using the SoftOff 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 mode, there is a special feature to make the system to go into suspend mode when the button is pressed momentarily.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Installation Section 3-4 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power 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-MVP3G-M/2/5 mainboard allows users to turn on their system through the remote and host's dial-up control.
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EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS Section 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP BIOS Instructions Award’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 in the CMOS RAM will stay unchanged unless there is a configuration change in the system, such as hard drive replacement or a device is added.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 The menu displays all major selection items. Select the item you need to reconfigure. The selection is made by moving cursor (press any direction key ) to the item and press the 'Enter' key. An on-line help message is displayed at the bottom of the screen as the cursor is moving to various items which provides a better understanding of each function. When a selection is made, the menu of selected item will appear so the user can modify the associated configuration parameters.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS Note: If the Primary Master/Slave and the Secondary Master/Slave are set as "Auto", the hard disk size and model will be auto-detected. Note: The "Halt On :" field is to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if an error occurrs. 4-2 BIOS FEATURES SETUP By selecting the "BIOS FEATURES SETUP" option in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu, user can change system related parameters in the displayed menu. This menu shows all of the manufacturer's default values of this mainboard.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Enabled : Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when any attempt to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. Disabled :No warning message to appear when any attempt to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. CPU Internal Cache / External Cache: These two categories speed up memory access. However, it depends on CPU/chipset design. The default value is Enabled.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K. Boot Up NumLock Status: The default value is On. On : Keypad is number keys. Off : Keypad is arrow keys. Gate A20 Option: This refers to the way the system addresses memory above 1MB (extended memory). The default value is Fast. Normal: The A20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller or chipset hardware. Fast : The A20 signal is controlled by Port 92 or chipset specific method.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: This filed controls the ability of a primary PCI VGA controller to share a common palette (when a snoop write cycles) with an ISA video card. The default value is Disabled. Enabled: If an ISA card connects to a PCI VGA card via the VESA connector and the ISA card connects to VGA monitor and uses the RAMDAC of PCI card, the PCI/VGA Palette Snoop is enabled. Disabled: Disable the VGA card Palette snoop function.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS These categories determine whether optional ROM will be copied to RAM by 16K byte or 32K byte per unit and the size depends on the chipset. Enabled : Optional shadow is enabled. Disabled: Optional shadow is disabled. 4-3 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP Choose the "CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP" in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu to display the following menu. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5LEPAE) CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 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 is 3. 2: Provides faster memory performance. 3: Provides better memory compatibility. SDRAM Bank Interleave: The default value is Disabled.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk: Allows you to stop DIMM/PCI Clock drive when the DIMM site or PCI Slot are not plug. This item may help reduce EMI. The default is Enabled. Enabled: Provides unused DIMM/PCI to stop. Disabled: Provides the clock generator always driving. Spread Spectrum : Allows you to active the Spread Spectrum Modulation function for reduce EMI. (Note: When Enabled the item that performance will be impacted). The default is Disabled.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 4-4 POWER 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 is absolutely necessary. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5LEPAE) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS 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 Management to be controlled the Advanced Power Management (APM). The default is Yes.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN: Use this to select your soft-off function. The default is Delay 4 sec. Instant Off: Turns off instantly. Delay 4 Second : Turns off after a 4 second delay. If momentary press of button, the system will go into Suspend Mode. Press again to take system out of Suspend Mode. This mainboard supports HDD Power Down, Doze and Standby power saving functions when using the Intel Pentium II Processor.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS 4-5 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. WARNING : Any misplacing IRQ could cause system can't pick out the rescouces. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5LEPAE) PNP/PCICONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Reset Configuration Data: The default value is Disabled. Disabled: Normal Setting Enabled: If you plug some Legacuy cards in the system and record into ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data). You can set this field to be Enabled and to clear ESCD at one time, when some Legacy cards are removed. CPU to PCI Write Buffer: When enabled, up to four D words of data can be written to the PCI bus without interruting the CPU.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS 4-6 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5LEPAE) INTEGRATER PERIPHERALS WARD SOFTWARE, INC.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 The Choice: Enabled, Disabled. IDE HDD Block Mode: The default value is Enabled. Enabled : Enabled IDE HDD Block Mode. The HDD transfer rate is better than Disable. Disabled: Disable IDE HDD Block Mode. IDE Primary Master PIO: The default value is Auto. Auto : BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode. Mode0~4 : Manually set the IDE Accessing mode. IDE Primary Slave PIO: The default value is Auto.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS IDE Secondary Master 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. IDE 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.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 UART 2 Mode:The default value is standard. This field allows the User to select the COM2 port that can support a serial Infrared Interface. Standard: Support a Serial Infrared Interface IrDA. HPSIR: Support a HP Serial Infrared Interface format. ASKIR: Support a Sharp Serial Infrared Interface format. IR Function Duplex: This item allows you to select the IR function when you select the UART2 Mode is ASKIR. The Choice: Half, Full.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS Parallel Port EPP Type: This item allows you to determine the IR transfer mode of onboard I/O chip. The Choice: EPP1.9, EPP1.7. USB Keyboard Support: The controls the activation status of an optional USB Keyboard that may ne attached. The default is disabled. Enabled: Enable USB keyboard support. Disabled: Disabled USB keyboard support.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 4-8 CHANGE SUPERVISOR or USER PASSWORD To change the password, choose the "SUPERVISOR PASSWORD or USER PASSWORD " 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 FEATURES SETUP menu (Refer to Figure 3-3 for the details). 1. If CMOS is corrupted or the option is not used, a default password stored in the ROM will be used.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS 4-9 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. You 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 STANDARD CMOS SETUP. You do not need the "IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION" utility. The BIOS will Auto-detect the hard disk size and model on display during POST.
BIOS EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 If an user sets the 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: This is a new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 Megabyte bottleneck. The number of cylinders, heads and sectors shown in the setup may not be the number physically contained in the HDD.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 BIOS Note: To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some softwares involved. All softwares are located in the Award HDD Service Routine (1NT 13h). It may fail to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under on Operating System which replaces the whole 1NT 13h. UNIX operating systems do not support either LBA or LARGE and must utilize the Standard mode. UNIX can support drives larger than 528MB.
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EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Appendix Appendix A A-1 MEMORY MAP Address Range [00000-7FFFF] [80000-9FBFF] [9FC00-9FFFF] Size 512K 127K 1K [A0000-C7FFF] [C8000-DFFFF] 160K 96K [E0000-EEFFF] [EF000-EFFFF] 60K 4K [F0000-F7FFF] [F8000-FCFFF] [FD000-FDFFF] [FE000-FFFFF] 32K 20K 4K 8K Description Conventional memory Extended Conventional memory Extended BIOS data area if PS/2 mouse is installed Available for Hi DOS memory Available for Hi DOS memory and adapter ROMs Available for UMB Video service routine for Monochr
Appendix [2F8-2FF] [360-36F] [378-37F] [3B0-3BF] [3C0-3CF] [3D0-3DF] [3F0-3F7] [3F8-3FF] EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 SERIAL port 2. NETWORK ports. PARALLEL port 1. MONOCHROME & PARALLEL port adapter. EGA adapter. CGA adapter. FLOPPY DISK controller. SERIAL port 1. A-3 TIMER & DMA CHANNELS MAP TIMER MAP: TIMER Channel 0 TIMER Channel 1 TIMER Channel 2 DMA CHANNELS: DMA Channel 0 DMA Channel 1 DMA Channel 2 DMA Channel 3 DMA Channel 4 DMA Channel 5 DMA Channel 6 DMA Channel 7 System timer interrupt.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Appendix FLOPPY DISK (SMC CHIP). PARALLEL port 1. RTC clock. Available. Available. Available. PS/2 Mouse. MATH coprocessor. Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. A-5 RTC & CMOS RAM MAP RTC & CMOS: 00 Seconds. 01 Second alarm. 02 Minutes. 03 Minutes alarm. 04 Hours. 05 Hours alarm. 06 Day of week. 07 Day of month. 08 Month. 09 Year. 0A Status register A. 0B Status register B. 0C Status register C. 0D Status register D.
Appendix 16 17 18 19-2d 2E-2F 30 31 32 33 34-3F 40-7F A-4 EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Base memory high byte. Extension memory low byte. Extension memory high byte. Reserved for extension memory low byte. Reserved for extension memory high byte. DATE CENTURY byte. INFORMATION FLAG. Reserve. Reserved for CHIPSET SETTING DATA.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 Appendix Appendix B B-1 POST CODES ISA POST codes are typically output to I/O port address 80h. POST (hex) DESCRIPTION 01-02 Reserved. C0 Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow. 03 1. Initialize EISA registers (EISA BIOS only). 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes. - DMA controller (8237). - Programmable Interrupt Controller (8259). - Programmable Interval Timer (8254). - RTC chip. 04 Reserved 05 1. Keyboard Controller Self-Test. 06 2.
Appendix 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12-13 14 15 16 17 19 1A-1D 1E 1F-29 30 31 32 A-6 EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 - Create resource map from ESCD. 5. Assign IO & Memory for PCI devices. (PCI BIOS only) Initialization of the BIOS Data Area. (40:ON - 40:FF) 1. Program some of the Chipset's value according to Setup. (Early Setup Value Program) 2. Measure CPU speed for display & decide the system clock speed. 3. Video initialization including Monochrome, CGA, EGA/ VGA. If no display device found, the speaker will beep. 1.
EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 33-3B 3C 3D 3E 3F-40 BF 41 42 43 45 44 45 46-4D 4E 4F 50 51 52 Appendix 2. Program all onboard super I/O chips (if any) including COM ports, LPT ports, FDD port ... according to setup value. Reserved. Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility. 1. Initialize Keyboard. 2. Install PS2 mouse. Try to turn on Level 2 cache. Note: Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cache in this stage. But usually, the cache is turn on later in POST 61h. Reserved. 1.
Appendix 53 60 61 62 63 FF EP-MVP3G-M/2/5 5. Program parity according to Setup setting. 6. Power Management Initialization. - Enable/Disable global PM. - APM interface initialization. 1. If it is NOT a PnP BIOS, initialize serial & parallel ports. 2. Initialize time value in BIOS data area by translate the RTC time value into a timer tick value. Setup Virus Protection. (Boot Sector Protection) function ality according to Setup setting. 1. Try to turn on Level 2 cache.
