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T t a a b b l l e e o o f f c c o o n n t t e e n n t t s s preface i features and packing list translations 錯誤! 尚未定義書籤。 chapter 1 1 introducing the mainboard 1 introduction ................................................................................................ 1 checklist ....................
Advanced chipset setup................................................................................ 34 integrated peripherals .................................................................................... 36 power management setup option ........................................................
C c h h a a p p t t e e r r 1 1 introducing the mainboard i i n n t t r r o o d d u u c c t t i i o o n n thank you for choosing the l4s8m mainboard. The l4s8m mainboard is a high–performance, enhanced function mainboard that supports socket 478 pentium 4 processors with system speeds up to 533mhz f...
F f e e a a t t u u r r e e s s processor the l4s8m mainboard uses a micro pga 478-pin socket that has the following features: • supports 400/533 mhz system bus • supports “hyper-threading” technology cpu • accommodates pentium 4 processors at 1.5g/1.6g/1.7g… 3.06g and above “hyper-threading” techno...
Expansion options the mainboard comes with the following expansion options: • three 32-bit pci slots • one agp slot (supports 1.5v agp card only) • two ide connectors which support four ide channels and a floppy disk drive interface the l4s8m supports ultra dma bus mastering with transfer rates of 3...
Bios firmware this mainboard uses award bios that enables users to con- figure many system features including the following: • power management • wake-up alarms • cpu parameters • cpu and memory timing the firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock speeds. C c h h o o ...
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Table of mainboard components label component 1394a_j2 ieee 1394a header agp1 accelerated graphics port atx1 standard 20-pin atx power connector atx2 cpu vcore power connector audio1 front audio connector bt1 three volt realtime clock battery casfan1 case fan connector cdin1 primary cd-in connector ...
C c h h a a p p t t e e r r 2 2 installing the mainboard s s a a f f e e t t y y p p r r e e c c a a u u t t i i o o n n s s follow these safety precautions when installing the mainboard: • wear a grounding strap attached to a grounded device to avoid damage from static electricity. • discharge stat...
I i n n s s t t a a l l l l i i n n g g t t h h e e m m a a i i n n b b o o a a r r d d i i n n a a c c a a s s e e refer to the following illustration and instructions for installing the mainboard in a case: this illustration shows an ex- ample of a mainboard being installed in a tower-type case: n...
Checking jumper settings the following illustration shows the location of the mainboard jumpers. Pin 1 is labeled. Jumper settings jumper type description setting (default) jp1 3-pin clear cmos 1-2: normal 2-3: clear cmos jp1 1 jp1 – use this jumper to clear the contents of the cmos memory. You may ...
Connecting case components after you have installed the mainboard into a case, you can begin connecting the mainboard components. Refer to the following: 1. Connect the pentium 4 processor auxiliary case power supply connector to atx1. 2. Connect the standard power supply connec- tor to atx2. 3. Con...
Cpufan1/pwrfan1/casfan1: fan power connectors pin signal name function 1 gnd system ground 2 +12v power +12v 3 sense sensor speaker1: internal speaker pin signal name 1 signal 2 key 3 ground 4 vcc sj1: single color led header pin signal name function 1 acpi led msg led (-) green 2 acpi led msg led (...
Front panel connector the front panel connector (panel1) provides a standard set of switch and led connectors commonly found on atx or micro-atx cases. Refer to the table below for information: panel1 pin signal function pin signal function 1 hd_led_p hard disk led (positive) 2 fp pwr/slp msg led [d...
I i n n s s t t a a l l l l i i n n g g h h a a r r d d w w a a r r e e installing the processor caution: when installing a cpu heatsink and cooling fan make sure that you do not scratch the mainboard or any of the surface-mount resistors with the clip of the cooling fan. If the clip of the cooling ...
Cpu installation procedure the following illustration shows cpu installation components: note: the pin-1 corner is marked with an arrow follow these instructions to install the retention module and cpu: 1. Remove the existing retention module (if applicable). 2. Position the backplate against the un...
4. Locate the cpu cut edge (the corner with the pinhole noticeably miss- ing). Align and insert the cpu correctly. 5. Press the lever down. 6. Apply thermal grease on top of the cpu. 7. Put the cpu fan down on the retention module and snap the four reten- tion legs of the cooling fan into place. 8. ...
Installing memory modules this mainboard accommodates two 184-pin 2.5v unbuffered double data rate (ddr) sdram memory modules. The memory chips must be standard or registered sdram (synchronous dynamic random access memory). The memory bus can run up to 166 mhz. When you installed ddr333 memory modu...
5. Install the dimm module into the slot and press it firmly down until it seats correctly. The slot latches are levered upwards and latch on to the edges of the dimm. 6. Install any remaining dimm modules. Installing a hard disk drive/cd-rom this section describes how to install ide devices such as...
3. Plug an ide cable connector into the hard disk drive ide connector (b). It doesn't matter which connector on the cable you use. 4. Plug a power cable from the case power supply into the power connector on the hard disk drive (c). When you first start up your system, the bios should automatically ...
Installing a floppy diskette drive the mainboard has a floppy diskette drive (fdd1) interface and ships with a diskette drive ribbon cable that supports one or two floppy diskette drives. You can install a 5.25-inch drive and a 3.5-inch drive with various capacities. The floppy diskette drive cable ...
Installing add-on cards the slots in this mainboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the mainboard’s features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can increase the mainboard’s capabilities by...
Follow these instructions to install an add-on card: 1. Remove a blanking plate from the system case corresponding to the slot you are going to use. 2. Install the edge connector of the add-on card into the expansion slot. Ensure that the edge con- nector is correctly seated in the slot. 3. Secure t...
Connecting optional devices refer to the following for information on connecting the mainboard’s optional devices: audio1: front panel audio header this header allows the user to install auxiliary front-oriented microphone and line-out ports for easier access. Pin signal name function 1 aud_mic fron...
Usb3: front panel usb connectors the mainboard has four usb ports installed on the rear edge i/o port array. Additionally, some computer cases have usb ports at the front of the case. If you have this kind of case, use auxiliary usb connectors usb3 to connect the front-mounted ports to the mainboard...
1394a_j2: ieee 1394a header use this header to connect to any ieee 1394a interface. Pin signal name pin signal name 1 cable-power 5 tpa- 2 gnd 6 tpa+ 3 tpb- 7 chassis gnd 4 tpb+ 8 nc c c o o n n n n e e c c t t i i n n g g i i / / o o d d e e v v i i c c e e s s the backplane of the mainboard has th...
External connector color coding many connectors now use standard colors as shown in the table below. Connector color audio line-in light blue audio line-out lime digital monitor/flat panel white ieee 1394 grey microphone pink midi/game gold parallel burgundy ps/2-compatible keyboard purple ps/2-comp...
C c h h a a p p t t e e r r 3 3 using bios a a b b o o u u t t t t h h e e s s e e t t u u p p u u t t i i l l i i t t y y the computer uses the latest award bios with support for windows plug and play. The cmos chip on the mainboard contains the rom setup instructions for configuring the mainboard ...
Starting setup the bios is immediately activated when you first turn on the computer. The bios reads system configuration in cmos ram and begins the process of checking out the system and configuring it through the power-on self test (post). When these preliminaries are finished, the bios seeks an o...
Bios navigation keys the bios navigation keys are listed below: key function esc exits the current menu ←↑↓→ scrolls through the items on a menu +/–/pu/pd modifies the selected field's values f10 saves the current configuration and exits setup f1 displays a screen that describes all key functions f5...
8. When the installation is complete, remove the floppy diskette from the diskette drive and restart your computer. If your mainboard has a flash bios jumper, reset the jumper to protect the newly installed bios from being overwritten. U u s s i i n n g g b b i i o o s s when you start the setup uti...
Ever you make changes to the windows date and time properties utility. Ide devices (none) your computer has two ide channels (primary and secondary) and each channel can be installed with one or two devices (master and slave). Use these items to configure each device on the ide channel. Press to dis...
Drive a/drive b (1.44m, 3.5 in./none) these items define the characteristics of any diskette drive attached to the system. You can connect one or two diskette drives. Floppy 3 mode support (disabled) floppy 3 mode refers to a 3.5-inch diskette with a capacity of 1.2 mb. Floppy 3 mode is sometimes us...
Anti-virus protection (disabled) when enabled, this item provides protection against viruses that try to write to the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk drive. You need to disable this item when installing an operating system. We recommend that you enable this item as soon as you have...
Or computer viruses. When set to disabled, the bios’ data cannot be changed when attempting to update the bios with a flash utility. If you want to update the bios, you need to set this item to enable. Ata 66/100 ide cable msg. (disabled) this item enables or disables the display of the ata 66/100 c...
Small logo (epa) show (disabled) enables or disables the display of the epa logo during boot. Advanced chipset setup the parameters in this screen are for system designers, service personnel, and technically competent users only. Do not reset these values unless you understand the consequences of yo...
Dram cas latency (2.5t) this item controls the timing delay (in clock cycles) before the dram starts a read command after receiving it. Ras active time (tras) (6t) this item allows you to set the amount of time a ras can be kept open for multiple accesses. High figures will improve performance. Ras ...
Dedicated to graphics memory address space. Host cycles that hit the aper- ture range are forwarded to the agp without any translation. Graphic window wr combin this item determines whether the graphic windows base address is valid or not. Prefetch caching (disabled) enables pci slave prefetch cachi...
Sis onchip ide device scroll to this item and press to view the following screen: phoenix – awardbios cmos setup utility sis onchip ide device item help internal pci/ide [both] ide primary master pio [auto] ide primary slave pio [auto] ide secondary master pio [auto] ide secondary slave pio [auto] p...
Should only disable it for troubleshooting purposes. Note: setting this to auto does not enable the ultradma or any of the slower dma mode for ide devices that do not support ultradma. Also, in order for any of those dma modes to work (including ultradma modes), you will have to enable dma transfer ...
Sis ac97 audio (enabled) this option allows you to control the onboard ac97 audio. Disable this item if you are going to install a pci audio add-on card. Sis s/w modem (enabled) this option allows you to control the onboard s/w modem. Disable this item if you are going to install an external modem. ...
Ur2 duplex mode (half) this field is available when uart 2 mode is set to either askir or irda. This item enables you to determine the infrared function of the onboard infrared chip. The options are full and half (default). Full-duplex means that you can transmit and send information simultaneously....
Mac access interface (edb bus) this option determines whether the mac access interface is the embedded bus or a pci bus. Audio access interface (edb bus) this option determines whether the audio access interface is the embedded bus or a pci bus. Power management setup option the power management set...
Peripherals on and off for improved power management. It also allows the pc to be turned on and off by external devices, so that mouse or keyboard activity wakes up the computer. Acpi suspend type (s1(pos)) use this item to define how your system suspends. In the default, s1(pos), the suspend mode i...
Pm wake up events scroll to this item and press to view the following screen: phoenix – awardbios cmos setup utility pm wake up events item help irq [3-7, 9-15], nmi [enabled] irq 8 break suspend [disabled] ring/wol/wom powerup contl [disabled] pcipme power up control [enabled] usb s3 wakeup functio...
When set to 0 (zero) for the day of the month, the alarm will power on your system every day at the specified time. Press to return to the power management setup screen. Pnp/pci configurations this section describes configuring the pci bus system. Pci (peripheral com- ponent interconnect) is a syste...
Require palette snooping so you must leave this item disabled. Int pin 1-8 assignment (auto) identifies the interrupt request (irq) line assigned to a device connected to the pci interface of your system. Pc health status on mainboards that support hardware monitoring, this item lets you monitor the...
Frequency/voltage control this bios menu enables you to set the clock speed and system bus for your system. The clock speed and system bus are determined by the kind of proc- essor you have installed in your system. Cmos setup utility – copyright (c) 1984 – 2001 award software frequency/voltage cont...
Over clock function scroll to this item and press to view the following screen: phoenix – awardbios cmos setup utility over clock function item help cpu frequency [100] over cpu vcore function [normal] over ddr vcc function [normal] cpu: dram frequency ratio [spd] dram frequency menu level ↑↓→← : mo...
Load fail-safe defaults option this option opens a dialog box that lets you install fail-safe defaults for all ap- propriate items in the setup utility: press and then to install the defaults. Press and then ter> to not install the defaults. The fail-safe defaults place no great demands on the syste...
Save & exit setup option highlight this item and press to save the changes that you have made in the setup utility and exit the setup utility. When the save and exit dialog box appears, press to save and exit, or press to return to the main menu: exit without saving highlight this item and press to ...
C c h h a a p p t t e e r r 4 4 using the mainboard software a a b b o o u u t t t t h h e e s s o o f f t t w w a a r r e e c c d d - - r r o o m m the support software cd-rom that is included in the mainboard package contains all the drivers and utility programs needed to properly run the bun- dle...
Setup tab setup click the setup button to run the software installation program. Select from the menu which software you want to install. Browse cd the browse cd button is the standard windows command that allows you to open windows explorer and show the contents of the support cd. Before installing...
Note: the following screens are examples only. The screens and driver lists will be different according to the mainboard you are installing. The mainboard identification is located in the upper left-hand corner. 2. Click next. The following screen appears: 3. Check the box next to the items you want...
M m a a n n u u a a l l i i n n s s t t a a l l l l a a t t i i o o n n insert the cd in the cd-rom drive and locate the path.Doc file in the root directory. This file contains the information needed to locate the drivers for your mainboard. Look for the chipset and mainboard model; then browse to t...
54 we strongly recommend users to install this free anti-virus software to help protect your system against viruses. Mediaring talk – telephony software to install the mediaring talk voice modem software for the built-in modem, go to the directory \utility\mediaring talk, then run mrtalk- setup72.Ex...
