SOYO SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Manual

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SY-6VBA 133 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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SOYO™ 2 SY-6VBA 133 Motherboard Pentium ® III, Pentium ® II & Celeron TM processors Via Apollo Pro133 AGP/PCI Motherboard 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus supported ATX Form Factor Copyright © 1999 by Soyo Computer Inc. Trademarks: Soyo is...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 3 Introduction 1 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the SY-6VBA 133 Motherboard. This Quick Start Guide describes the steps for installing and setting up your new Motherboard. This guide...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 4 Introduction SY-6VBA 133 Motherboard Layout Key Features Ø Supports Intel Pentium ® III processor (450- 600MHz), Pentium ® II processor (233-450MHz) & Celeron TM processor (266-433MHz ) Ø Jumperless a...

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SY-6VBA 133 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 u...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 6 Hardware Installation Install the Motherboard Follow the steps below in order to perform the installation of your new SY-6VBA 133 Motherboard. Step 1. Install the CPU Mark your CPU Frequency: Record the working f...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 7 Hardware Installation Note: Installing a heat sink and cooling fan on top of your CPU is necessary for proper heat dissipation. Failing to install these items may result in overheating and possible burn-out of your...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 8 Hardware Installation Step 3. Configure Memory Your board comes with four DIMM sockets, providing support for up to 1.5GB of main memory using unbuffered and registered DIMM modules from 8MB to 256/512MB. On this mo...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 9 Hardware Installation Refer to the following table: PII, Celeron PII,PIII PIII JP9 133/100# JP8 100/66# tell CPU its FSB Speed 66MHz FSB 100MHz FSB 133MHz FSB Short Short FSB = 66MHz Normal setting * Possible highe...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 10 Hardware Installation Step 6. Set the CPU Frequency You do not need to set any jumper for the CPU frequency. Instead, CPU settings are changed through the BIOS [SOYO COMBO SETUP]. Please refer to Chapter 3 - Quic...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 11 Hardware Installation Step 10. Clear CMOS Data (JP5) Clear the CMOS memory by momentarily shorting pin 2-3 on jumper JP5 for at least 5 seconds, and then by shorting pin 1-2 to retain new settings. This jumper can...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 12 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 [SOYO COMBO SETUP]. The...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 13 Quick BIOS Setup If you set this field to [Manual], you are then required to fill in the next two consecutive fields: (1) the CPU Host/PCI Clock, and (2) the CPU Ratio. (1) CPU Host/PCI Clock CPU Host / PCI Clock ...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 14 Quick BIOS Setup (4) AGP Clock The AGP clock is derived from the CPU FSB frequency. It is divided by 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0 depending on the setting of JP2 and JP7: Please refer to page 9 for the JP2 and JP7 settings. (5)...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 15 The SOYO CD 4 4 The SOYO CD The SOYO-CD will NOT autorun if you use it on an Operating System other than Windows 9x or NT. Your SY-6VBA 133 Motherboard comes with a CD-ROM labeled "SOYO CD." ...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 16 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 corre...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 17 The SOYO CD Ø After installation of windows, you will need to install the VIA drivers. Follow the instructions below. Click the Install drivers button to display the list of drivers that can be installed on your...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 18 The SOYO CD This driver will make the necessary changes to the Windows registry, in order to make sure that Windows has no problems recognizing your VIA chipset.  IRQ remapping utility (This driver is installe...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 19 The SOYO CD Note: If no HTML browser is installed on your system, the Start Up program will prompt you on whether or not you would like to install the Internet Explorer* browser. Click YES to install the HTML bro...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 20 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 yo...

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SY-6VBA 133 Quick Start Guide 21 E-Mail: [email protected] SOYO Deutschland GmbH August-Wilhelm-Kuhnholz-Str. 15 D-26135 Oldenburg Region Covered: Germany, Austria and Switzerland. (Zustandig fur Deutschland, Osterreich, Schweiz) Web Site: www.sa...

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Edition: September 1999 Version 1.2 SY-6VBA 133 SERIAL ...