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    SY-7VMA-B Motherboard Quick Start Guide Hardware Installation Quick BIOS Setup Introduction The SOYO CD SOYO Wizard[...]

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    SOYO ™ 2 SY-7VMA-B Motherboard Socket 370 for Intel PIII & Celeron processors VIA PM133 AGP/PCI Motherboard 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus supported ATX Form Factor Copyright © 2001 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 na[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 3 Introduction 1 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY-7VMA-B 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 [...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 4 Introduction SY-7VMA-B Motherboard Layout (Optional) Speake r Power LED HDD LED _ + _ + _ + Rese t PWRB T PCI Slot # 1 PCI Slot # 3 PCI Slot # 4 PCI Slot # 5 CPUFA N 1 3 IDE 1 IDE 2 1 1 1 FDC 1 ATX Powe r So cke t 370 DIMM 2 DIMM 1 DIMM 3 PCI Slot # 2 CHAFAN 1 CHAFAN 2 SDRA M SDRA M ® VT860 5 AGP Slo t 3 V Lithiu m Ba[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 5 Introduction Key Features Ø Supports Inte l ® processors - FSB 66MHz: Celeron  (400-700MHz) - FSB 100MHz: Pentiu m ® III (500- 850MHz) - FSB 133MHz: Pentiu m ® III (533MHz- 1.13GHz) Ø Supports 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus Frequency Ø Auto-detect CPU voltage Ø Easy CPU settings in BIOS with the “ SOYO COMBO[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 6 Hardware Installation 2 2 Installation To 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 packagin[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 7 Hardware Installation Install the Motherboard To perform the installation of your new SY-7VMA-B Motherboard, follow the steps below: Step 1. CPU Installation Mark your CPU Frequency: Record the working frequency of your CPU that should be clearly marked on the CPU cover. FSB 66MHz 400MHz (66 x 6.0) 466MHz (66 x7.0) 533[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B 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 (Internal Speaker, Reset Button and IDE LED Swit[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 9 Hardware Installation ¡ ° N ote: The Power LED is connected to the Voltage that feeds the DIMM sockets. Therefore the following table applies: Suspend to RAM Normal Operation Power Off Power LED Blinking ON OFF Step 3. Configure Memory Your board comes with three DIMM sockets, providing support for up to 1.5GB of mai[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 10 Quick BIOS Setup 3 3 Quick BIOS Setup This Motherboard does not require any hardware jumpers to set the CPU operating frequency. Instead, CPU settings are software configurable through the BIOS [SOYO COMBO Feature]. The [SOYO COMBO Feature] menu combines the main parameters that you need to configure your system. They[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 11 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 98/98SE/ME. Your SY-7VMA-B 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 fo[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 12 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 sys[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 13 The SOYO CD (Driver Installation Menu) A short description of all available drivers follows: Ø VIA 4in1 Driver Package VIA 4 In 1 driver includes four system drivers to improve the performance and maintain the stability of systems using VIA chipsets. These four drivers are: VIA Registry (INF) Driver, VIA AGP VxD driv[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 14 The SOYO CD Ø VIA S3 Savage Display Driver for Win 2000 In order to be able to make use of the integrated VGA function in your VIA S3 chipset, you will need to install this driver first. For Win 2000 only. Ø VIA S3 Savage Display Driver for Win NT In order to be able to make use of the integrated VGA function in you[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 15 SOYO Wizard on Hand Utility 5 5 SOYO Wizard on Hand Utility With SOYO ’ s Wizard on Hand using the Clock Racer utility, now user can overclock the CPU without entering the CMOS setup. The Clock Racer Utility also provides a user friendly interface for first time overclockers. Note: The CPU Host/PCI Clock settings on[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 16 SOYO Wizard on Hand Utility Ø Auto determine max. frequency of the system The utility will help you determine the maximum allowable speed of the system, it will increment in 0.4MHz (depending on the setting you have set) until your system reaches the maximum allowable speed, then the system will freeze and after 10se[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 17 SOYO Wizard on Hand Utility Ø Step This sets the value (in Mhz) to increment when using “ Auto determine max. frequency of the system ” , the value of 1 is 0.4 MHz, so if you have set the step to to 3, the system will increment 1.2 MHz at a time. Ø Direct Jump If enabled, the system will increment 4 MHz at a tim[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 18 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 cou[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 19 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 t[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 20 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 instal[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 21 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 th[...]

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    SY-7VMA-B Quick Start Guide 22 Hong Kong Soyo (H.K.) Ltd. 5C, Big Star Centre, 8 Wang Kwong Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, HK TEL: 852-2710-9810 FAX: 852-2710-9078 http://www.soyo.com.hk/ Email: soyo@hkstar.com[...]

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    Edition: July 2001 Version 1.1 SY-7VMA-B SERIAL[...]