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A P A Pentium entium II or P II or Pentium entium III III
A P A P A Pentium entium entium II or P II or P II or Pentium entium entium III III III
Slot1 Processor based AGP Slot1 Processor based AGP Slot1 Processor based AGP
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EP-6VBA Technical Support Services If you need additional information, help during installation or normal use of this product, please contact your retailer. If your retailer can not help, you may E- Mail us with any questions at the following address tech@epox.com Record your serial number before installing your EP-6VBA mainboard. (the serial number is located near the ISA slots at the edge of the board) EPoX EP-6VBA serial number: __________________________ BIOS Upgrades Please use either our
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EP-6VBA User Notice No part of this product, including the product and software may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form by any means without the express written permission of EPoX Computer Company (here in after referred to as EPoX) except documenta- tion kept by the purchaser for backup purposes. EPoX provides this manual “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to th
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EP-6VBA Table of Contents Section 1 Introduction Components Checklist ....................................... 1-1 Overview ® ® Pentium II or Pentium III Processor ............... 1-2 S.E.C. Cartridge Terminology ........................... 1-3 Accelerated Graphics Port ................................ 1-4 Hardware Monitoring ........................................ 1-4 EP-6VBA Form-factor ...................................... 1-5 I/O Shield Connector ......................................... 1-
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EP-6VBA Power Management Setup ................................. 4-11 PNP/PCI Configuration ..................................... 4-15 Load Setup Defaults .......................................... 4-17 Integrated Peripherals........................................ 4-17 Sensor and CPU Speed Setup ............................ 4-22 Change Supervisor or User Password ............... 4-24 IDE HDD Auto Detection .................................. 4-25 HDD Low Level Format.............................
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EP-6VBA Introduction Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist üüü A. (1) EP-6VBA mainboard üü üüüüü B. (1) EP-6VBA user’s manual üüü C. (1) Floppy ribbon cable üü üüü D. (1) Hard drive ribbon cables üü üüüüü E. (1) Foldable Retention Module F. (1) Heatsink Support Unit (Optional) G. (1) PS/2 to AT keyboard connector adapter (optional) üüüüü H. (1) Driver and utility USER’S C MANUAL EP-6VBA D B A G Top Half or Bottom Half H E F Page 1-1
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EP-6VBA Introduction Overview ® ® Pentium II or Pentium III Processor ® ® ® The Pentium II or Pentium III Processor is the follow-on to the Pentium ® ® ® Processor. The Pentium II or Pentium III Processor, like the Pentium Pro processor, implements a Dynamic Execution micro-architecture -- a unique combination of multiple branch prediction, data flow analysis, and speculative ® execution. This enables the Pentium II Processor to deliver higher performance ® than the Pentium processor, while ma
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EP-6VBA Introduction ® ® The entire enclosed product is called the Pentium II or Pentium III Processor. The packaging technology and each of the physical elements of the product are referred to using accurate technical descriptions. This allows clear reference to the products as just a processor. This is the model used in past packaging tech- nologies like PGA, TCP, PQFP, DIP, etc. S.E.C. Cartridge Terminology ® ® • Pentium II or Pentium III Processor The new enclosed card packaging technology
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EP-6VBA Introduction The L2 cache (TagRAM, PBSRAM) components keep standard industry names. ® ® The Pentium II or Pentium III Processor is the first product to utilize the S.E. C. cartridge technology and Slot 1 connector. Unless otherwise noted, any ® references to “Pentium II Processor,” ® ® ® “Pentium II or Pentium III Processor/Slot 1 processor” or “Pentium III ® Processor” will apply to both the Pentium II Processor desktop processors. Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP or A.G.P.) Typically, 3
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EP-6VBA Introduction EP-6VBA Form-Factor The EP-6VBA is designed with ATX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. 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. ATX defines a double height aperture to the rear of the chassis which can be used to host
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EP-6VBA Introduction I/O Shield Connector The EP-6VBA is equipped with an I/O back panel. Please use the appropriate I/ O shield (figure 3). Joystick/Midi port parallel port PS/2 Mouse USB port PS/2 KEYBOARD COM1 COM2 Speaker Figure 3: I/O back panel layout Line_in MIC Power-On/Off (Remote) The EP-6VBA 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 bu
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EP-6VBA Introduction System Block Diagram Pentium II or Pentium III Processor 100/66MHz PAC 100/66MHz 66MHz PCI Bridge and memory controller VT82C693 AMR Slot AC 97 VT82C686A I/O Bridge USB 0,1 USB 2,3 Figure 5: System Block Diagram Page 1-7
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EP-6VBA Features Section 2 FEATURES EP-6VBA Features: ® • EP-6VBA is based on the Pentium II/III Processor operating at 266 ~ 550MHz on Slot1. The board is configured by an ESSJ (Easy-Setting- Single-Jumper) to match your CPU clock speed. • Designed with VIA Apollo Pro PCIset. • Supports up to 768MB of DRAM (minimum of 8 MB) on board (please see Section 3-2). • EP-6VBA will support Error Checking and Correcting (ECC) when using parity SDRAM memory modules. This will detect multiple bit errors a
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EP-6VBA Features • Supports the (4) Universal Serial Bus (USB) Ports. The onboard VT82C686A chip provides the means for connecting PC peripherals such as; keyboards, joysticks, telephones, and modems. • 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. • Power Loss Recovery
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EP-6VBA Installation Section 3 INSTALLATION Page 3-1
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EP-6VBA Installation EP-6VBA Detailed Layout Figure 1 Page 3-2
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EP-6VBA Installation Easy Installation Procedure Easy Installation Procedure The following must be completed before powering on your new system: 3-1. Configure DIP Switch and Jumper to match your hardware 3-2. System memory Configuration 3-3. Install Pentium II or Pentium III Processor 3-4. Device Connectors 3-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO) Section 3-1 Configure DIP Switch We design this motherboard with a DIP Switch to make your install fast and easy. T
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EP-6VBA Installation Section 3-2 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout The EP-6VBA supports (3) 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs can be either EDO (Enhanced Data Out) or 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 BIOS to read 60ns. • When using Synchronous DRAM we recommend using the 4 clock variety over the 2 clock. Figure 2 and Table 1 show several
