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SOYO SY-P4VSA manual

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  • Page 1

    SY -P4VSA Motherboard Quick Start Guide Har dwar e Installa tion Quick BIOS Setup Intr oduction T he SO Y O CD[...]

  • Page 2

    SOYO™ 2 SY -P4VSA Motherboard mPGA Socket 478 processors VIA P4X266 AGP/ PCI Mother board 400 MHz Front Side Bus supported AT X F o r m F a c t o r Copyright © 2001 by Soyo Computer Inc. T rademarks: Soyo is the registered trademark of Soyo Comput er Inc. All tradem arks are the properties of their owners. Product Rights: All names of the produc[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 3 Intr oduction 1 1 Intr oduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY -P4VSA Motherboard. This Quick Start Guide illustrates the steps for installing and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide provides all users wi th the basic steps of Moth erboard setting and operation. For further information, please refe[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 4 Intr oduction SY -P4VSA Motherboar d Lay out (Optional) USB 1 USB 2 PS/2 KB Connector PS/2 Mouse Connector 3V Li th ium Batt ery IDE 2 IDE 1 AT X P o w e r PCI# 5 PCI# 4 PCI# 3 PCI#1 PCI# 2 PRT COM A COM B ITE IT870 5 F DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 13 2 1 SMCARDCN 14 SIRC ON USB3 _4 U SB5 _6 1 1 66 10 10 55 FDC WOL Head er JP1 0[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 5 Intr oduction K ey F eatures  Supports Intel ® mPGA Socket 478 processors - Pentium ® 4  Supports 400 MHz Front Side Bus Frequency  PC99, ACPI  Ultra 33/66/100 (A T A 33/66/100)  Supports W ake-On-LAN (WOL)  Supports PC-133 SDRAM  Supports ACPI Suspend Indicator  Power-on by modem, alarm and [...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 6 Har dware Installat ion 2 2 Installa tion T o avoid damage to your Motherboard, please follow these simple rules while handling this equipment:  Before handling the Motherboard, ground your self by touching on to an unpainted portion of the system's metal chassis.  Remove the Motherboard from its anti-stat [...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 7 Har dware Installat ion Install the Mother board Follow the steps below in order to perform the installation of your new SY -P4VSA Motherboard. Step 1. Install the CPU Mark your CPU Fr equency: Record the working frequency of your mPGA CPU that should be clearly marked on the CPU cover . FSB 400MHz 1.5GHz (100 x 15. 0[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 8 Har dware Installat ion Step 2. Connections to the Motherboar d This section tells how to connec t 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 (ACPI LED, Internal Speaker , Reset Button,[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 9 Har dware Installat ion A TX 12V Power Supply: A TX PW Attach the A TX 12V Power cable to th ree connector . ( This motherboard r equires an A TX 12V power supply , an A T and A TX power supply can NOT be used.) When using the Power-On by PS/2 Keyboard function, pl ease make sure the A TX power supply is able to provi[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 10 Har dware Installat ion CMOS Clear (J P5) In some cases the CMOS memory may contain wrong data, follow the steps below to clear the CMOS memory . 1. Clear the CMOS memory by momentarily shorting pin 2-3 on jumper JP5. This jumper can be easily identified by its white colored cap. 2. Then put the jumper back to 1-2 to[...]

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    SY -P4VSA 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 FEA TURE]. The [SOYO COMBO FEA T URE] combines the main parameters that you need to configure, all in one menu, for a quick [...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guid e 12 Th e S O Y O C D 4 4 Th e S O Y O C D The SOYO-CD will NOT autorun if you use it on an Operating S ystem other than Windows 95/98/98SE/ME. Y our SY -P4VSA 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 softwa[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 13 Th e S O Y O C D 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 automat ically detects if the Acrobat Reader utility is already present in yo[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guid e 14 Th e S O Y O C D (Driver Installation Menu) A short description of all available drivers follows:  VIA 4 in 1 Driver Packag e for Wi n 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP VIA 4 In 1 driver includes four system drivers to improve t he performance and maintain the stability of systems using VIA chips ets. These four drivers are: VIA Re[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 15 Th e S O Y O C D  P4VSA ITE hardware doctor fo r Win 9x/ME/2000/NT/XP Y our motherboard comes with a hardware monitoring IC. By installing this utility T emperature, Fan speed and V oltages can be monitored. It is also possible to set alarms when current system values exceed or fall below pre-set values.  P4VSA[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guid e 16 Quick T r ouble shoot tips USB Issues Can I use USB port 3_4 and port 5_6 for keyboard resume function? This M/B has 6 USB ports, but only the 2 at the back panel can be used for USB keyboard resum e function. I cannot ge t my USB workin g, help! Please check if the system performance setti ng in the BIOS is set to [...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 17 • Continuous beeps – One or more of t he memory m odules is not seat ed correctly in its socket. My PCI V GA card work s fine with my sy stem, but when I put in a ne w AGP card, it does not give me any vi deo. Is my AGP sl ot bad? This is a comm on problem with AGP vide o cards. The reason is t hat your AGP card [...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guid e 18 I have installed my mo dem drivers seve ral times and I still cannot get my modem to wo rk. Why? If you are sure that the modem driver has been installed correctly, then you need to install the VIA 4 in 1 driv er from the SOYO CD, this is because Windows does not properly recognize relat ively new chipsets. Audio Is[...]

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    SY -P4VSA Quick S tart Guide 19 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 c[...]

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    Edition : December 2001 V ersion 1.2 SY -P4VS A SERIA L[...]