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SY-6ZB Motherboard Quick Start Guide FC C Tested To Comply With FCC Standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE POST CONSUMER RECYCLED PAPER 100% Hardware Installation Quick BIOS Setup Introduction The SOYO CD[...]
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SOY O ™ 2 SY-6ZB Motherboard Pentiu m ® III, Pentiu m ® II & Celeron TM processors 82440 ZX AGP/PCI Motherboard 66&100MHz Front Side Bus supported AT/ATX Power Connectors Copyright © 1999 by Soyo Computer Inc. Trademarks: Soyo is a registered trademark of Soyo Computer Inc. All trademarks are the property of their owners. Product Right[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 3 Introduction 1 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY-6ZB Motherboard. This Quick Start Guide describes the steps for installing and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide is designed for all users to provide the basic steps of Motherboard setting and operation. For further information, please refe[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 4 Introduction SY-6ZB Motherboard Layout Key Features Ø Supports Intel Pentium ® III processor (450- 600MHz), Pentium ® II processor (233- 450MHz) & Celeron TM processor (266- 433MHz) Ø Auto-detect CPU voltage Ø PC98, ACPI, Ultra DMA/33 Ø Power-on by modem or alarm Ø Supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL)* Ø Supports Power-[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 5 Hardware Installation 2 2 Installation To avoid damage to your Motherboard, follow these simple rules while handling this equipment: l Before handling the Motherboard, ground yourself by grasping an unpainted portion of the system's metal chassis. l Remove the Motherboard from its anti-static packaging. Hold it by th[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 6 Hardware Installation Install the Motherboard Follow the steps below in order to perform the installation of your new SY-6ZB Motherboard. Step 1. Install the CPU Mark your CPU Frequency: Record the working frequency of your CPU that should be clearly marked on the CPU cover. FSB 66MHz 266MHz (66 x 4.0) 333MHz (66 x 5.0) 4[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 7 Hardware Installation Step 2. Make Connections to the Motherboard This section tells how to connect internal peripherals and power supply to the Motherboard. Internal peripherals include IDE devices (HDD, CD-ROM), Floppy Disk Drive, Chassis Fan, Front Panel Devices (Turbo LED, Internal Speaker, Reset Button, IDE LED, and [...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 8 Hardware Installation Step 3. Configure Memory Your board comes with two DIMM sockets, providing support for up to 256MB of main memory using DIMM modules from 8MB to 128MB. For 66MHz front side bus CPUs use 12ns or faster memory; for 100MHz front side bus CPUs use 8ns (100MHz, PC100 compliant) memory. Memory Configuratio[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 9 Hardware Installation Step 5. Set the CPU Frequency You do not need to set any jumper for the CPU frequency. Instead, CPU setting are changed through the BIOS [CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP]. Please refer to Chapter 3 - Quick BIOS Setup for details on how to set the Slot 1 processor frequency. Step 6. Enable/Disable Power-On by [...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 10 Hardware Installation Note on Over-clocking Capability The SY-6ZB Motherboard provides over-clocking capability. Due to the over-clocking setting your system may fail to boot up or hang during run time. If this occurs, please perform the following steps to recover your system from the abnormal situation: 1. Turn off syst[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 11 Quick BIOS Setup 3 3 Quick BIOS Setup This Motherboard does not use any hardware jumpers to set the CPU frequency. Instead, CPU settings are software configurable with the BIOS [CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP]. After the hardware installation is complete, turn the power switch on, then press the <DEL> key during the system[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 12 The SOYO CD 4 4 The S OY O CD The SOYO-CD will NOT autorun if you use it on an Operating System other than Windows 9x or NT. Your SY-6ZB Motherboard comes with a CD-ROM labeled "SOYO CD." The SOYO CD contains (1) the user's manual file for your new Motherboard, (2) the drivers software available for instal[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 13 The SOYO CD Please note that if the Start Up program was unable to determine which SOYO Motherboard you own, the manual selection menu will pop up, as shown below. Then select the user's manual file that corresponds to your Motherboard model name and click OK. (Manual Selection Menu) The user's manual files inc[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 14 The SOYO CD The following drivers are available for Windows 95 (Driver Installation Menu) The following drivers are available for Windows 98 (Driver Installation Menu) However, to display the list of all drivers software available with SOYO Motherboards, click the Display all drivers on the SOYO CD button. Please make su[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 15 The SOYO CD A short description of all available drivers follows: Ø Intel . inf utility for Win 95 Because Windows 95 does not recognize the Southbridge of the newer Intel chipsets (TX, BX, ZX etc) this utility has to be run, it will update the necessary Windows . inf files. (Only for Windows 95) Ø Intel Busmaster Driv[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 16 The SOYO CD Step 5. Enter the SOYO CD Click the Enter SOYO CD button to enter the SOYO HTML database. The Start Up program will activate the default HTML browser installed on your system (for example, Internet Explorer or Netscape) to visualize the contents of the SOYO CD. The SOYO CD contains useful information about yo[...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 17 How to contact us: n If you are interested in our products, please contact the SOYO sales department in the region you live. n If you require Technical Assistance, please contact our Technical Support in the region you live. SOYO prefers Email as communication medium, remember to always add to the email the country that [...]
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SY-6ZB Quick Start Guide 18 E-Mail: support@soyo.co.uk SOYO Deutschland GmbH August-Wilhelm-K u hnholz-Str. 15 D-26135 Oldenburg Region Covered: Germany, Austria and Switzerland . ( Zust a ndig f u r Deutschland , O sterreich , Schweiz ) Web Site: www.saat.de , www.soyo- saat.com , www.soyo-saat.de Vertrieb Mainboards , Notebooks und SoyoCom Produk[...]
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Edition: August 1999 Version 1 .1 6ZB SERIAL[...]