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AP55CS

User’s Guide

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Disclaimer

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This company makes no representations or warranties, either

expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and

specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for

any particular purpose. Any software described in this manual is sold

or licensed "as is". Should the programs prove defective following

their purchase, the buyer (and not this company, its distributor, or its

dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, and

any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in

the software. Further, this company reserves the right to revise this

publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents

hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or

changes.

AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends, Inc.

Pentium is a registered trademark and P54C is a trademark of Intel Corporation.

Other brand and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their

respective holders.

FCC Statement

FCC Class B Radio Frequency

Interference Statement

Note:

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits

for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules.

These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against

harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment

generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not

installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause

harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no

guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or

television reception, which can be determined by turning the

equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the

interference by one or more of the following measures:

1. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

2. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

3. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from

that to which the receiver is connected.

4. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician

for help.

Notice 1:

The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party

responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate

the equipment.

Notice 2:

Shielded interface cables, if any, must be used in order to comply

with emission limits.

About this Manual

Purpose and Scope

This manual tells how to install and configure the system board.

Organization

This manual consists of four chapters and one appendix.

Chapter 1, Features, covers the specifications, layout and components of

the system board.

Chapter 2, Hardware Setup , tells how to set the jumpers, upgrade the CPU

and the system memory, install the system board and add expansion cards.

Chapter 3, VGA, describes the video graphics accelerator on board, and

lists the supported applications and display modes.

Chapter 4, AMI BIOS, explains the system BIOS and tells how to configure

the system by setting the BIOS parameters.

Appendix A,Jumper Summary , gives you a tabular summary of the jumper

settings discussed in Chapter 2.

About this Manual

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

Text entered by user,

default settings,

recommended selections

Represent text input by the user,

default settings and recommended

selections

message displayed Denotes actual messages that appear

on screen

a, e, s, etc Represent the actual keys that you

have to press on the keyboard.

NOTE

Gives bits and pieces of additional

information related to the current topic.

WARNING

Alerts you to any damage that might

result from doing or not doing specific

actions.

CAUTION

Suggests precautionary measures to

avoid potential hardware or software

problems.

IMPORTANT

Reminds you to take specific action

relevant to the accomplishment of the

procedure at hand.

TIP

Tells how to accomplish a procedure

with minimum steps through little

shortcuts.

Table of Contents

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1Features

Specifications.....................................................1-2

Board Layout......................................................1-3

System Board Parts............................................1-4

Microprocessor..........................................1-4

ASICs ........................................................1-4

AMI BIOS...................................................1-5

Expansion Slots.........................................1-5

DRAM Sockets...........................................1-5

SRAMs.......................................................1-5

Super I/O Controller...................................1-6

VGA Controller..........................................1-6

Two-channel PCI Mode 4

Enhanced IDE Interface............................1-6

Keyboard Connector..................................1-6

2Hardware Setup

ESD Precautions................................................2-1

Installing a Microprocessor................................2-2

ZIF Microprocessor Socket........................2-2

Upgrading the Microprocessor...........................2-3

Jumper Settings.................................................2-4

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Changing the CPU Type and Speed.........2-5

Changing the Flash ROM Type.................2-6

Selecting the ECP DMA Channel..............2-6

Enabling the FDC and Super I/O Chip......2-7

Selecting the Cache Mode.........................2-7

Enabling the Onboard VGA.......................2-8

Clearing the CMOS....................................2-9

Memory Configuration......................................2-10

Installing a SIMM.....................................2-12

Removing a SIMM...................................2-13

Connectors.......................................................2-14

Multifunction Connector...........................2-14

Keyboard Connector................................2-16

Power Connector.....................................2-16

Fan Connector.........................................2-17

VGA Connector........................................2-17

Break/Suspend Connector.......................2-18

Voltage Regulator Module (VRM)

Connector (optional)................................2-19

Installation........................................................2-19

Installing the System Board.....................2-19

Installing Expansion Boards....................2-20

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3VGA

Drivers and Utilities............................................3-2

Getting Started..........................................3-2

Supported Applications..............................3-2

Driver Diskettes.........................................3-3

Installing the Drivers..................................3-5

Standard Display Modes....................................3-6

Enhanced Video Modes.....................................3-7

MPEG Function..................................................3-9

4AMI BIOS

AMI BIOS Setup Main Menu..............................4-1

Standard CMOS Setup.......................................4-2

Date/Time..................................................4-2

Floppy Drives A and B...............................4-3

Hard Disk Drives........................................4-4

Advanced CMOS Setup.....................................4-5

Typematic Rate (Chars./Sec.)...................4-7

System Keyboard.......................................4-8

Primary Display..........................................4-8

Above 1 MB Memory Test.........................4-8

Memory Test Tick Sound...........................4-8

Parity Error Check.....................................4-8

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Hit “Del” Message Display.........................4-9

Extended BIOS RAM Area.........................4-9

Wait for F1 If Any Error..............................4-9

System Boot-up Num Lock........................4-9

Floppy Drive Seek at Boot.......................4-10

Floppy Drive Swapping............................4-10

System Boot-up Sequence......................4-10

Password Checking.................................4-10

Cache Memory.........................................4-10

Shadow....................................................4-11

IDE ......................................................4-12

1st Priority IRQ for PCI/PnP....................4-18

2nd IRQ...................................................4-18

3rd IRQ....................................................4-18

ISA Memory Block Base..........................4-18

ISA Memory Block Size...........................4-19

Boot to PnP Operating System................4-19

Chipset Setup Mode................................4-19

Chipset Features Setup...................................4-20

VGA Shared Memory Size.......................4-23

VGA Frequency.......................................4-23

DRAM......................................................4-23

SRAM ......................................................4-23

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