EPOX EP-MVP3G-M User manual
1. The "LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS" function loads the system default data directly
from
ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly. This function is necessary
when you accept this mainboard, or the system CMOS data will corrupt.
LOAD SETUP DEFAULT
Read me first
ROM PCI/ISA BIOS
CMOS SETUP UTILITY
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Load SETUP Default (Y/N)? Y
STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD
BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT
PNP/PCI CONFIGURA ETUP
INTEGRATED PERIPH SAVING
LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS
ESC: QUIT :SELECT ITEM
F10:Save & Exit Setup (Shift)F2 :Change Color
Load Setup Defaults Except Standard COMS SETUP
2. KBPO(KeyBoard Power On) Function : There is a basic requirement that the
" +5V SB" power of the ATX power supply must be > = 0.1A (100mA).
Please refer to chapter 2-5 for detail.
EP-MVP3G-M
ISA/PCI/AGP
MainBoard
with Onboard PCI IDE and Super Multi-I/O.
Apollo MVP3 AGPset
The specification is subject to change without notice.
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Components Checklist
Please check your package which should include all items listed below. If you
find any item damaged or missed, please contact your supplier.
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üB. (1) One user’s manual
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üC. (1) Floppy ribbon cable
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üD. (1) IDE ribbon cables
E. (2) PS/2 to AT keyboard connector adapter (optional)
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üF. (1) Ultra_DMA IDE driver diskette
(1) AGP Drivers
USERS
MANUAL
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Contents
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Chapter 1 - Introduction................................................... 1-1
Chapter 2 - Hardware Design........................................... 2-1
2-1 Mainboard Layout .......................................................... 2-1
2-2 Connectors and Jumpers ................................................. 2-3
2-3 System Memory Configuration....................................... 2-5
2-4 ATX Power ON/OFF Control ......................................... 2-6
2-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power
ON Functions ................................................................. 2-7
2-6 Integrated PCI Bridge ..................................................... 2-8
Chapter 3 - Award BIOS Setup........................................ 3-1
3-1 Standard CMOS Setup.................................................... 3-2
3-3 BIOS Features Setup....................................................... 3-2
3-3 Chipset Features Setup.................................................... 3-6
3-4 Power Management Setup .............................................. 3-8
3-5 PNP/PCI Configuration .................................................. 3-10
3-6 Integrated Peripherals ..................................................... 3-12
3-7 Load Setup Defaults........................................................ 3-14
3-8 Change Supervisor or User Password............................. 3-15
3-9 IDE HDD Auto Detection............................................... 3-16
3-10 HDD Low Level Format ................................................. 3-18
3-11 Save & Exit Setup ........................................................... 3-18
3-11 Exit Without Saving ........................................................ 3-18
Chapter 4 - Onboard Technical Information.................. 4-1
4-1 I/O & Memory Map......................................................... 4-1
4-2 Time & DMA Channels Map .......................................... 4-2
4-3 Interrupt Map ................................................................... 4-2
4-4 RTC & CMOS RAM Map ............................................... 4-3
Appendix A: Post Codes ........................................................ 4-4
Appendix B: Connectors ....................................................... 4-8
Appendix C: AGP Driver for Win95 Installation Guide.... 4-11
Introduction 1-1
Chapter 1
Introduction
This mainboard is a high performance system hardware based on Intel
Pentium processor and is equipped with an AGP slot, four PCI slots, three
standard ISA slots, Super Multi-I/O controller and dual port PCI-IDE
connectors for the future expansion. The hardware dimension is 305mm x
200mm with a four-layer-design technology.
Specification
VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP/PCIset chipset.
Intel Pentium Processor, Pentium Processor with MMX technology, AMD
K5/K6, Cyrix 6x86L/6x86MX & idt C6 operating at 133 ~ 500 MHz with 321
ZIF socket 7 provides scalability to accept faster Processors in the future.
Supports up to 384 MegaBytes of memory (168-Pin DIMM SOCKET x 3)
Supports1024KB(Optional) L2Cache.
Supports two 16 bit ISA slots ,five 32 bit PCI slots and an AGP slot and
provides two independent high performance PCI IDE interfaces capable of
supporting PIO Mode 3/4 and Ultra-DMA33 devices.
Supports ATAPI (e.g. CD-ROM) devices on both IDE interfaces.
Supports a floppy port, a parallel port (EPP,ECP port), two serial ports
(16550 Fast UART compatible), 2 USB Ports, a PS/2 style mouse connecter
and a PS/2 style keyboard connector.
Supports Award Plug & Play BIOS.
Supports CPU Hardware sleep, APM (Advanced Power Management) and
ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface).
Supports an ATX power supply connector for a Remote On/Off , a Phone-
Ring Power On and a Keyboard Power On Function.
Supports Switching Regulator for CPU power supply. and single jumper for
CPU working voltage selection.
Supports ESDJ (Easy Setting Dual Jumper) function for CPU selection.
Support hardware monitor function.
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Hardware Design 2-1
2-1MainboardLayout
This mainboardis designed with VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP/PCIset chipset which is
developed by VIA Corporation to fully support Pentium Processor PCI/ISA system.
By providing a massive increase in the bandwidth available between the video card
and the processor (66MHz), the unique feature of AGP supported by VIA Apollo
MVP3 chipset improves the speed of rendering and texturing for 3D graphics.The
chipset also provides an integrated IDE controller with two high performance IDE
interfaces for up to four IDE devices (hard devices, CD-ROM device, etc). The
Winbond W83877TF Super I/O controller provides the standard PC I/O function:
one floppy interface, two 16 Byte FIFO serial ports and one EPP/ECP capable parallel
port. This mainboard layout is shown in the next page for user's reference.Care must
be taken when inserting memory modules, CPUs or even plugging PCI card into
associated slots to avoid damaging any circuits or sockets on board. A cooling fan is
stronglyrecommendedwheninstallingPentium/PentiumMMX/K5/K6/6x86/6x86L/
6x86MX/C6 processor due to possible overheat.
Thismainboard supports a minimum of 8MB and a maximum of 384MB of System
Memory while Onboard 1024KB cache to increase system performance.
This mainboard supports standard Fast Page, EDO (Extended Data Out or Hyper
Page Mode) or synchronous DRAM. This mainboardprovides two 168-pin DIMM
sites for memory expansion. The sockets support 1M x 64(8MB), 2M x 64(16MB), 4M
x 64(32MB), and 8M x 64(64MB) single-sided or double-sided memory modules. The
memory timing requires 70 ns Fast page devices or 60 ns EDO DRAM. (DRAM
Modules may be parity [x 36] or non-parity [x 32].
Thismainboard supportstwoOnboard PCI IDEconnectors, and automatically
detects IDE harddisk type by BIOS utility automatic.
This mainboard supports Award Plug & Play BIOS for the ISA and PCI cards. The
BIOS can be located in Flash EPROM which can replace BIOS code easily if
necessary.
Chapter 2
Hardware design
2-2 EP-MVP3G-M
Figure2-1
EP-MVP3G-M Layout
PCI Slot #1
AGP SLOT
PCI Slot #2
PCI Slot #3
PCI Slot #4
ISA Slot #1
ISA Slot #2
Battery
ATX Power Input
Winbond
83877TF
I/Oset
COM 1
USB
COM 2
Parallel Port
USB 1
(Top)
Mouse
(Top)
USB 0
(Bottom)
PS/2
Keyboard
(Bottom)
J5
Chassis FAN
DIMM 2
DIMM 3
DIMM 1
Bank 2
Bank 1
Bank 0
IDE2
Secondary IDE
IDE1
FDD1
Flash Memory
for BIOS
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2
J8
SB-Link
J7:WOL
CPU FAN
J4
PWR FAN
J6
J2
RESET
SPK
KEYLOCK
POWER_ON
1
J3
IR CONN.
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PCI Slot #5
3.2V
2.9V
2.8V
2.4V
2.2V
2.1V
JP2
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64K*6464K*64
JP4
1
3
SOCKET 7
JP1
1
3
Multiplier X Bus CLOCK
JP3
100MHz
95MHz
83MHz
75MHz
66MHz
2.5X
5X
4.5X
4X
3.5X
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2X
112MHz
JP5
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5.5X
Hardware Design 2-3
2-2Connectors andJumpers
This section describes the connectors and jumpers equipped in the mainboard.
Please refer to Figure 2-1 for the location of each connector and jumper.
2-4 EP-MVP3G-M
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Please install the motherboard into the chassis.
Now that your motherboard is installed you are ready to connect all your
connections (figure 2-2).
J2: Keylock, Speaker, Reset
J3: IR Conn. TB-LED, HDD-LED, POWER_ON
J4: CPU Fan Power
• A plug-in for the CPU Fan Power
J5: POWER Supply FAN POWER
• A plug-in for Power Supply Fan
J6: Chassis Fan Power
• A Plug-in for the chassis Fan Power
J7: WOL (Wake on Lan) Connector
J8: SB_Link Header
Figure 2-2
USB 1
(Top)
USB 0
PS/2 Mouse
(Top)
PS/2 Keyboard
Parallel Port
(Top)
Com1 Com2
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Hardware Design 2-5
Power On/Off - This is connected to the power button on the
case. Using the Soft-Off 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, this mainboard has added a special feature to
make the system go into suspend mode when the button is
pressed momentarily.
J2
Speaker - Connect to the system's speaker for beeping
1. Speaker 3. GND
2. N/C 4. GND
Reset - Closed to restart system.
Turbo LED indicator - LED ON when higher speed is
selected
IR Connector
1. VCC 4. GND
2. NC 5. IRTX
3. IRRX
IDE LED indicator - LED ON when Onboard PCI IDE
Hard disks is activate
KeyLock - Keyboard lock switch & Power LED connector
1. Power LED(+) 4. Keylock
2. N/C 5. GND
3. GND
J3
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