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    SY-7ISA Motherboard Quick Start Guide Hardware Installation Quick BIOS Setup Introduction The SOYO CD Sigmatel Audio Driver Installation Intel 815 VGA Drivers Installation[...]

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    SOY O ™ 2 SY-7ISA Motherboard Pentiu m ® III processors Intel FW82815 AGP/PCI/CNR Motherboard 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus supported ATX Form Factor Copyright © 2000 by Soyo Computer Inc. Trademarks: Soyo is the registered trademark of Soyo Computer Inc. All trademarks are the properties of their owners. Product Rights: All names of the produc[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 3 Introduction 1 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY-7ISA Motherboard. This Quick Start Guide illustrates the steps for installing and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide provides all users with the basic steps of Motherboard setting and operation. For further information, please refer to the [...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 4 Introduction SY-7ISA Motherboard Layout (Optional) USB 1 USB 2 PS/2 K B Connecto r PS/2 Mous e PS/2 Mous e Connecto r 3 V Lithiu m Battery IDE 1 IDE 2 ATX Powe r LINE-OU T LINE-I N MIC JAC K JOYSTIC K VG A PCI# 6 PCI# 5 PCI# 4 PCI# 3 PCI# 1 PCI# 2 Inte l 1 3 CPUFA N 2 1 3 1 4 PR T COM A AGP Slo t JP 8 1 3 JP 1 1 2 JP 6 1[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 5 Introduction Key Features Ø Supports Intel® FC-PGA processors - FSB 66MHz: Celeron  (533A- 700MHz) - FSB 100MHz: Pentium® III (500E- 850MHz) - FSB 133MHz: Pentium® III (533- 933MHz) Ø Supports 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus Frequency Ø Auto-detect CPU voltage Ø PC99, ACPI Ø Ultra DMA33/66100 ( AT A 33/66/100) ?[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 6 Hardware Installation 2 2 Installation T o avoid damage to your Motherboard, please follow these simple rules while handling this equipment: l Before handling the Motherboard, ground yourself by touching on to an unpainted portion of the system's metal chassis. l Remove the Motherboard from its anti-static packaging[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 7 Hardware Installation Install the Motherboard Follow the steps below in order to perform the installation of your new SY-7ISA Motherboard. Step 1. Install the CPU Mark your CPU Frequency: Record the working frequency of your FC- PGA CPU that should be clearly marked on the CPU cove r . FSB 66MHz 400MHz (66 x 6.0) 466MHz [...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 8 Hardware Installation Step 2. Connections to the Motherboard This section tells how to connect internal peripherals and the power supply to the Motherboard. The internal peripherals consist of IDE devices (HDD, CD-ROM), Floppy Disk Drive, Chassis Fan, Front Panel Devices (STR LED, Internal Speake r , Reset Button, IDE LE[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 9 Hardware Installation Step 3. 5V Stand-by indicator LED (LED 5) This LED is lit whenever the 5V Standby voltage coming from the ATX powersupply is available. If you have connected your ATX powersupply to the mains, LED 5 should be lit. Step 4. Configure Memory Your board comes with two DIMM sockets, providing support for[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 10 Hardware Installation Step 6. CNR MR Card-CODEC OPTION (JP8) CNR MR Card-CODEC OPTION Primary Secondary JP8 Setting open JP8 short JP8 Step 7. Set JP9 for FWH Boot Block Write-Protect Setting this jumper to open will prevent the boot block area of the FWH ( FirmWare Hub) chip from being written data into such that it is[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 11 Hardware Installation Step 9. CPU Frequency Settings: JP6, JP7, CJ1 and CJ2 For certain Intel CPUs, the multiplier is not locked such that setting a multiplier higher than specified on the CPU is possible. For technical details read the following: Your FC-PGA 133/100/66 MHz FSB CPU has a pin JP6, JP7 to tell it what FSB[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 12 Hardware Installation Debug LEDs The Debug LEDs give an indication of the status of the system during boot-up. If the system does not boot-up properl y , use the table below to find out at what point in boot-up sequence the problem arises. A x means the LED is off, a L means the LED is lit. Code Explanation X X X L LED4[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 13 Quick BIOS Setup 3 3 Quick BIOS Setup This Motherboard does not require any hardware jumpers to set the CPU frequenc y . Instead, CPU settings are software configurable through the BIOS [Frequency/Voltage Control]. The [Frequency/Voltage Control] menu combines the main parameters that you need to configure your system. [...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 14 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-7ISA 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 inst[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 15 The SOYO CD The user's manual files included on the SOYO CD are in PDF (Postscript Document) format. In order to read a PDF file , the appropriate Acrobat Reader software must be installed in your system. Note: The Start Up program automatically detects if the Acrobat Reader utility is already present in your syste[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 16 The SOYO CD (Driver Installation Menu) A short description of all available drivers follows: Ø Intel . inf utility for Win 9x Windows 95 and 98 will not recognize the new INTEL 815 chipset properl y . To update the necessary . inf files that will help Windows recognize the 815 chipset, please run this utilit y . Ø Int[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 17 The SOYO CD Ø 7ISA ITE hardware doctor for Win 9X/2000/NT Your motherboard comes with a hardware monitoring IC. By installing this utility T emperature, Fan speed and Voltages can be monitored. It is also possible to set alarms when current system values exceed or fall below pre-set values. Select which driver you want[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 18 Sigmatel Audio Driver Installation 5 5 Sigmatel Audio Driver Installation Installing the Sigmatel Audio Drivers under windows 9 5/98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000 and Windows NT You have to install the drivers before installing any application for the AC97 codec. Uninstalling/Re-Installing Sigmatel Audio Driv[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 19 Sigmatel Audio Driver Installation SynthCore Lite Application for Windows NT 4.0 The CD contains a SynthCore Lite application program, that the Quick Start Guide does not describe. It can be installed by running StacGold.exe in the D:drive-allsigmatelStacGold director y . ( Were D is your CD-ROM drive letter). Note t[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 20 ntel 815 VGA Drivers Installation 6 6 Intel 815 VGA Drivers Installation (For Windows 2000) INS TALLING THE SOFTWARE General Installation Notes: 1. The operating system must be installed on the system prior to installation. 2. This installation procedure is specific only to the version of driver and installation file in[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 21 Intel 815 VGA Drivers Installation 13. The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard window should now open. 14. Click the Next button. 15. Select the following option: "Display a list of the known drivers for this device so that I can choose a specific driver". 16. Click the Have Disk button. 17. Click on "Browse&quo[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 22 Quick Trouble shoot tips Video (no display) related issues I built a new computer system using a Soyo board and nothing happens when turning it on, no video and no beeps from the PC speaker. What is happening and how can it be fixed ? No screen and no beeps mean that your CPU and motherboard do not work at all. It could[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 23 I get distorted video my AGP card right after I save my bios. Why is that? The cause is likely that your AGP card is not running at the correct bus speed. To fix this, please clear the CMOS via JP5 and if it still does not work, please upgrade your motherboard bios to the latest version. BIOS Issues Where can I find the[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 24 In Device Manager, I keep getting yellow exclamation signs on my sound port even though I have installed my sound driver several times and I could not get my sound card to work. What is wrong? It is likely that you did not have the correct driver installed. If you are sure that the correct sound driver has been installe[...]

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    SY-7ISA Quick Start Guide 25 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-7ISA Quick Start Guide 26 SOYO Deutschland GmbH August-Wilhelm-K u hnholz-Str. 15 D-26135 Oldenburg Region Covered: German y , Web Site: ww w .saat.de , ww w .soyo- saat.com , ww w .soyo-saat.de Vertrieb Mainboards , Notebooks und SoyoCom Produkte: E-Mail: sales@soyo.de Fon: +49-(0 )441/20910-31/33 Fax: +49-(0 )441/203422 Technischer Support: E-[...]

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    Edition: September 2000 Version 1.0 SY-7ISA SERIAL[...]