Abit AB-BF6 Manual de usuario

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MN-172-2A2-81 Rev. 1.02

BF6 Motherboard User’s Manual

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION OF BF6 FEATURES 1-1

1-1. FEATURES OF THIS MOTHERBOARD 1-1

1-2. SPECIFICATIONS 1-2

1-3. LAYO U T DIAGRAM 1-5

1-4. THE SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM 1-6

CHAPTER 2. INSTALLING THE MOTHERBOARD 2-1

2-1. INSTALLING THE MOTHERBOARD TO THE CHASSIS 2-2

2-2. INSTALLATION OF THE PENTIUMII/III, CELERONTM CPU 2-3

2-3. INSTALLING SYSTEM MEMORY 2-3

2-4. CONNECTORS, HEADERS AND SWITCHES 2-6

2-5. CPU FREQUENCY SETTINGS 2-17

CHAPTER 3. INTRODUCTION OF THE BIOS 3-1

3-1. SOFTMENU III SETUP 3-4

3-2. STANDARD CMOS FEATURES SETUP MENU 3-9

3-3. ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES SETUP MENU 3-14

3-4. ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP MENU 3-20

3-5. INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 3-24

3-6. POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP MENU 3-29

3-7. PNP/PCI CONFIGURATIONS 3-37

3-8. PC HEALTH STATUS 3-42

3-9. LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS 3-43

3-10. LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS 3-43

3-11. SET PASSWORD 3-44

3-12. SAV E & EXIT SETUP 3-45

3-13. EXIT WITHOUT SAV I N G 3-46

APPENDIX A BIOS FLASHING USER INSTRUCTIONS

APPENDIX B INSTALLING THE HIGHPOINT XSTORE PRO

UTILITY

APPENDIX C HARDWARE MONITORING FUNCTION

(INSTALLING THE WINBOND HARDWARE DOCTOR

UTILITY)

APPENDIX D THE THERMAL CABLE

APPENDIX E BX 133 OVERCLOCKING GUIDE

APPENDIX F HOW TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT

APPENDIX G TROUBLESHOOTING (NEED ASSISTANCE?)

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Chapter 1. Introduction of BF6 Features

1-1.Features of This Motherboard

The motherboard is designed for a new generation CPUs. It supports the Intel SLOT1

structure (PentiumII/III and CeleronTM processors), up to 768MB of memory, super I/O,

and Green PC functions. The motherboard provides high performance for server systems

and meets the requirements for desktop system for multimedia in the future.

The BF6 has built-in hardware monitoring functions (you can refer to Appendix C for

detailed information), they can monitor and protect your computer insuring a safe

computing environment. The BF6 also supports the PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, password

and hot key wake up features (you can refer to section 3-5 for detailed information), letting

you easily wake up your system by these devices. The motherboard can provide high

performance for workstations and meets the requirements for desktop systems for

multimedia in the future.

The BF6 uses the ABIT newest BIOS technology – CPU Soft MenuTM III. The ABIT CPU

Soft MenuTM III technology not only lets you configure CPU settings easily but also lets you

have a greater choice of CPU FSB clock settings. It provides 120 different CPU FSB clock

settings. From 84 to200 MHz, the increment for CPU FSB clock settings is 1Mhz by 1MHz

(you can refer to section 3-1 for detailed information).

Sets You Free From the Y2K Threat

The potential threat of Year 2000 (Y2K) problems are making everyone very nervous. The

Y2K issue applies to almost any device, firmware, or software that operates on or with year

based dates. This problem is caused by a design flaw in the Real Time Clock (RTC) unit.

The RTC only changes the last two digits of the year code, but not the century information.

As a result, when it comes to 12:00 AM January 1, 2000 the RTC will switch from

December 31 11:59 PM 1999 to 12:00 AM January 1 1900.

Y2K compliance deals with the date change over from 31 December 1999 to 1 January 2000,

and with recording and reporting of all dates from the RTC including leap year dates. This

motherboard is free from the Y2K problem because its BIOS are Y2K compliant.

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Please Note

If the operating system or application software cannot handle Year 2000 dates, you will

still be facing the Y2K threat because it is not a hardware problem that relates to the

motherboard itself. According to Award BIOS, it is BIOS source code released after 31

May 1995 complies with all known Y2K issues; however, it may still fail the 2000.exe

test. Award has modified its BIOS source code to accommodate the requirements of

2000.exe. Award BIOS source code issued later than 18 November 1996 passes the

NTSL 2000.exe test program.

1-2. Specifications

1. CPU

!Supports IntelPentiumIII 450 ~800 MHz Processor cartridge.

!Supports IntelPentiumII 233 ~ 450 MHz Processor cartridge.

!Supports Intel®Celeron™ 266 ~ 533MHz processors (Based on 66MHz PPGA package)

!Supports 66 and 100MHz CPU external clock speeds

2. Chipset

!Intel®440BX chipset (82443BX and 82371EB)

!Supports Ultra DMA/33 IDE protocol

!Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)

!Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 1x and 2x mode (Sideband) 3.3V

device

3. Memory (System Memory)

!Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support SDRAM modules

!Supports up to 768MB MAX. (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 MB SDRAM)

!Supports ECC

4. System BIOS

!CPU SOFT MENU™ III, can easily set the processor parameters

!AWARD 6.0 Version BIOS

!Supports Plug-and-Play (PnP)

!Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)

!Supports Desktop Management Interface (DMI)

!Year 2000 compliant

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5. Multi I/O Functions

!2x Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33 devices

!PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connectors

!1x Floppy Port ( up to 2.88MB)

!1x Parallel Port (EPP/ECP)

!2x Serial Ports

!2x USB Connectors

6. Miscellaneous

!ATX form factor

!One AGP slot, six PCI slots and one ISA slot

!Supports PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, password and hot key wake-up functions

!Built-in Wake on LAN header

!Built-in IrDA TX/RX header

!Built-in SB-Link™header

!Built-in Wake On Ring header

!Built-in two SMBus headers

!Hardware monitoring：Included fan speed, voltages, CPU and system environment

temperature

!One Thermal Sensor Cable included

!Board size: 305 * 200mm

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"Supports Wake On LAN, Keyboard or Mouse, but your ATX power supply 5V

standby power must be able to provide at least a 720mA current capacity.

Otherwise, the functions may not work normally.

"PCI slot 2 shares IRQ signals with the PCI slot 5

"PCI slot 3 shares IRQ signals with the PCI slot 6

"PCI slot 4 shares IRQ signals with the USB controller

"PCI slot 6 is fully bus slave. Thus you can’t install a PCI card that needs to use bus

master signals into PCI slot 6. But you can install voodoo 1 or 2 that doesn’t need to

use bus aster signals into PCI slot 6.

#Above 66MHz/100MHz bus speeds are supported but not guaranteed due to the PCIand

chipset specifications.

#Sound Blaster™is a registered trademark of Creative Technology Ltd. in the United

States and certain other countries. Sound Blaster - LINK™and SB-LINK™ are

trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd.

#Specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without

notice.

Note

All brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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1-3. Layout Diagram

Figure 1-2. Motherboard component location

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1-4. The System Block Diagram

Figure 1-3. System diagram of the 440BX chipset

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