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  • Page 1

    SY -7IZB+N Motherboard Quick Start Guide FC C Te s t e d To C o m p l y With F CC Standard s FOR HOM E OR OFFICE USE POST CON SUMER RECYCLED P APER 100% Har dware Installa tion Quic k BIOS Setup Intr oduction T he SO Y O CD[...]

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    SOYO™ 2 SY -7IZB+N Motherboard Celeron TM processor 82440 ZX AGP/PCI Motherboard 66 & 100MHz Front Side Bus supported Baby A T Form Factor Copyright © 2001 by Soyo Computer Inc. T rademarks: Soyo is a registered trademark of Soyo Computer Inc. All trademarks are the property of their owners. Product Rights: Product and corporate names mentio[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 3 Intr oduction 1 1 Intr oduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY -7IZB+N Motherboard. This Quick Start Guide describes the steps for installing and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide is designed for all us ers to provide the basic steps of Motherboard setting and operation. For further information,[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S t art Guide 4 Intr oduction SY -7IZB+N Mot herboar d Layout K ey F ea tur es  Supports Intel Celeron TM processors (300A-MHz)  Auto-detect CPU voltage  PC98, ACPI, Ultra DMA/33  Supports system memory up to 256 Mbytes  SOYO COMBO Setup  Power-on by modem or alarm  Supports W ake-On-LAN (WOL)  Supports onbo[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 5 Hard ware Installa tion 2 2 Installa tion T o avoid damage to your Motherboar d, follow these simple rules while handling this equipment:  Before handling the Motherboard, ground yourself by grasping an unpainted portion of the system's metal chassis.  Remove the Motherboard from its anti- static packaging[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S t art Guide 6 Hard ware Installa tion Install the Mother boar d Follow the steps below in order to pe rform the installation of your new SY -7IZB+N Motherboard. Step 1. Install the CPU Mark your CPU Fr equency: Record the working frequency of your CPU that should be clearly marked on the CPU cover . 300MHz (66 x 4.5) 333MHz (66 x[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 7 Hard ware Installa tion Step 2. Mak e Connections to the Motherboar d This section tells how to connect internal per ipherals and power supply to the Motherboard. Internal peripherals include IDE de vices (HDD, CD-ROM), Floppy Disk Drive, Chassis Fan, Front Panel Devices (ACPI LED, Internal Speak er , Reset Button, I[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S t art Guide 8 Hard ware Installa tion Step 3. Configure Memor y Y our board comes with three DIMM sockets, providing support for up to 256MB of main memory using DIMM modules from 8MB to 128MB. Memory Configuration T able Number of Memory Modules DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 1 Double-sided/Single-sided Double-sided 2 Double-sided/Single-[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 9 Hard ware Installa tion Step 6. Enable/Disa ble the K eyboar d Po wer-O n (JP10) Y ou can choose to enable the Wake-Up by Keyboa rd or Mouse function by shorting pin 1-2 on jumper JP1, otherwise, short pin 2-3 to disable this function. Support Power-On by Keyboard Enable Disable JP10 Setting Enable Power-On by Keyboa[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S t art Guide 10 Hard ware Installa tion Note on Over -clocking Capability The SY -7IZB+N Motherboard provides over-c locking 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[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 11 Quic k BIOS Setup 3 3 Quic k BIOS Setup This Motherboard does not us e any hardware jumpers to set the CPU frequency . Instead, CPU settings are software c onfigurable with the BIOS [SOYO COMBO SETUP]. The [SOYO COMBO S ETUP] menu combines the m ain CPU parameters that you need to configure, all in one menu, for a q[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 12 T he SO Y O CD 4 4 Th e S O Y O C D The SOYO-CD will NOT autorun if you u se it on an Operating System other than Windows 2000 or NT . Y our SY -7IZB+N 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 [...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 13 T he SO Y O 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[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 14 T he SO Y O CD (Driver Installation Menu) A short description of all available drive rs follows:  Intel Southbri dge Drivers Because Windows 95 does not recognize the S outhbridge of the newer Intel chipsets (TX, BX, ZX etc) this utility has to be run, it will update the necessary Windows files. (Only for Windows[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 15 Quick T rouble shoot tips Video (no display) related issues I built a new computer sy stem using a Soyo board and nothing happens when turning i t on, no video and no beeps fr om 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. I[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S t art Guide 16 I get distorted video my AGP card righ t after I save my bios. Why is that? The cause is likely that your AGP card is not running at the c orrect bus speed. To fix this, please cl ear 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 [...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 17 In Device Manager, I keep getting yel l ow exclamation signs on my sound port even th ough I have instal led my sound driver several ti mes and I could not get my sound ca rd to wo rk. What is wrong? It is likely t hat you did not have the correct driver installed. If you ar e sure that the correct sound driver has [...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S t art Guide 18 How to contact us:  If you are interested in our products, please contact the SOYO sales department in the region you live.  If you require T echnical Assistance, pl ease contact our T echnical Support in the region you live. SOYO prefers Email as communication medium, remember t o always add to the email the[...]

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    SY -7IZB+N Quick S tart Guide 19 Hong Kong Soyo (H.K.) Ltd. 5C, Big S tar Centre, 8 W ang Kwong Road, Kowloon Bay , Kowloon, HK TEL: 852-2710-9810 F A X: 852-2710-9078 http://www .soyo.com.hk/ Email: soyo@hkstar .com[...]

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    Edition: June 2001 V ersion 1.2 SY -7IZ B+N SERIA L[...]