AOpen AP5TC User manual
AP5TC
User's Guide
Printed in Taiwan
PART NO.: 49.87907.001
DOC. NO. : AP5TC-1-E9801A
AP5TC
Mainboard
User's Guide
Document Number : AP5TC-1-E9801A
Model and Revision : For AP5TC revision 1.xx
Manual Version : English, revision A
Release Date : Jan 9, 1998
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Copyright
Copyright 1998 by this company. All rights reserved. No part of this
publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval
system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or
by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, manual or otherwise,
without the prior written permission of this company.
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Disclaimer
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.
Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.
XT/AT is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc.
AWARD is a registered trademark of Award Software Inc.
Other brand and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective holders.
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Organization
Chapter 1, Overview, covers the introduction and specifications of the system
board.
Chapter 2, Hardware Installation, describes hardware jumpers, connectors and
memory configuration. There are user friendly drawings to locate jumper and
connector.
Chapter 3, AWARD BIOS, explains the system BIOS and tells how to configure
the system by setting the BIOS parameters.
Appendix A, Frequently Asked Question, collects most frequently asked
question of this product.
Appendix B, Troubleshooting Guide, includes first aid information you need if
you meet trouble, the WWW address and worldwide service telephone/fax are
also included.
Appendix C, Jumper Table Summary, gives you a tabular summary of the
jumper settings discussed in Chapter 2.
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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
<Enter>, <Tab>,<Ctl>, <Alt>,
<Ins>, <Del>, 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.
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Contents
CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW
1.1 SPECIFICATIONS.................................................................................3
1.2 SUSPEND TO HARD DRIVE ..................................................................5
1.3 CPU THERMAL PROTECTION ..............................................................8
1.4 PCI SOUND CARD CONNECTOR...........................................................9
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2.1 JUMPERS AND CONNECTOR LOCATIONS..............................................2
2.2 JUMPERS...........................................................................................4
2.2.1 Setting the CPU Voltage ............................................................5
2.2.2 Selecting the CPU Frequency....................................................8
2.2.3 Clearing the CMOS..................................................................12
2.3 CONNECTORS ..................................................................................13
2.3.1 Power Cable.............................................................................13
2.3.2 CPU Fan...................................................................................14
2.3.3 PS/2 Mouse..............................................................................14
2.3.4 Serial Devices (COM1/COM2).................................................15
2.3.5 USB Device (optional)..............................................................15
2.3.6 Floppy Drive.............................................................................16
2.3.7 Printer.......................................................................................16
2.3.8 IDE Hard Disk and CD ROM....................................................17
2.3.9 Hard Disk LED .........................................................................18
2.3.10 Panel Connector.....................................................................19
2.3.11 Keyboard................................................................................20
2.3.12 IrDA Connector ......................................................................21
2.3.13 SB-LINK .................................................................................22
2.4 INSTALLING THE SYSTEM MEMORY....................................................23
CHAPTER 3 AWARD BIOS
3.1 ENTERING THE AWARD BIOS SETUP MENU ........................................2
3.2 STANDARD CMOS SETUP ..................................................................3
3.3 BIOS FEATURES SETUP.....................................................................6
3.4 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP...............................................................11
3.5 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP...........................................................17
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3.6 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP ....................................................22
3.7 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ...................................................................26
3.8 LOAD TURBO DEFAULTS...................................................................26
3.9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...............................................................27
3.10 PASSWORD SETTING ......................................................................32
3.11 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION ...........................................................32
3.12 SAVE & EXIT SETUP.......................................................................32
3.13 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING....................................................................33
3.14 NCR SCSI BIOS AND DRIVERS .....................................................33
3.15 BIOS FLASH UTILITY......................................................................34
APPENDIX A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
APPENDIX B TROUBLESHOOTING
APPENDIX C JUMPER TABLE SUMMARY
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Chapter 1
Overview
The AP5TC is a high-performance Pentium-based system board that utilizes
the PCI/ISA architecture and Baby AT form factor. It integrates the Intel
82430TX PCIset, a Super I/O controller, and a PCI mode 4 enhanced IDE
controller with bus master and Ultra DMA/33 to enhance system performance.
It has 512KB pipelined-burst second-level cache onboard and support four
single in-line memory module (SIMM) plus two Dual in-line memory module
(DIMM) that allow to mix EDO and SDRAM memory and expansion up to a
maximum of 256MB. For the memory and IDE performance, the Intel 430TX
chipset is currently the fastest Pentium chipset in the market.
In addition, AP5TC also implements many special features as following.
Switching Power Regulator Although Linear Regulator is good enough for
AMD K6, AP5TC uses switching requlator to reserve the upgrade capability for
new generation CPU.
Over-current Protection AP5TC implements CPU core voltage 15A over-
current protection to prevent any accident short circuit and prevent system
damage.
CPU Thermal Protection When CPU temperature is higher than a predefined
value, the CPU speed will automatically slow down and there will be warning
from BIOS and also ADM (AOpen Desktop Manager, similar as Intel LDCM), if
ADM is installed.
Full-range CPU core voltage This motherboard supports the CPU core
voltage from 1.3V to 3.5V, that can be applied to various CPU type in future.
Resetable Fuse AP5TC implements resetable fuses to prevent any accidental
short circuit caused by keyboard or USB devices hot plug.
PCI Sound Card connector The SB-LINK connector can be used to link
Creative-compatible PCI sound card. If you have a Creative PCI sound card
installed, it is necessary to link the card to this connector for compatibility issue
under DOS environment.
Overview
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FCC DoC certificate The AP5TC has also passed FCC DoC test, this means
you can use any kind of housing with very low EMI radiation.
Powerful utility softwares supported AOpen Bonus Pack bundled CD
contains many useful utilities, such as ADM (Advanced Desktop Manager),
AOchip, Hardware Monitor utility, AcePhone, EasyAxess, Suspend to Hard
Drive utility, and BIOS flash utility.
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