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MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Mainboard Layout Top : mouse Bottom: keyboard CP UFAN1 T:SP DIF Out B:USB ports T:LAN jack (Optional) B:USB ports T: L i n e - I n M:Line-Out B:Mic JPW1 ATX Power Supply Intel 865PE chipset DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 Winb ond W83627THF BIOS AGP Slot PCI Slot 1 Realtek 8110S/8100C PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 CD1 Codec JSP1 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 5 JAUD1 JDB1 ICH 5 S ATA 2 S ATA 1 IDE 2 IDE 1 SYSFAN1 BATT + USB2 USB3 FDD1 J B AT 1 JFP1 JFP2 865PE Neo2-V (MS-6788 v2.X) ATX Mainboard 1-4
MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Mainboard Layout Top : mouse Bottom: keyboard CP UFAN1 T:SP DIF Out B:USB ports T:LAN jack (Optional) B:USB ports T: L i n e - I n M:Line-Out B:Mic JPW1 ATX Power Supply Intel 865PE chipset DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 Winb ond W83627THF BIOS AGP Slot PCI Slot 1 Realtek 8110S/8100C PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 CD1 Codec JSP1 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 5 JAUD1 JDB1 ICH 5 S ATA 2 S ATA 1 IDE 2 IDE 1 SYSFAN1 BATT + USB2 USB3 FDD1 J B AT 1 JFP1 JFP2 865PE Neo2-V (MS-6788 v2.X) ATX Mainboard 1-4
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Getting Started Top : mouse Bottom: keyboard CP UFAN1 T:SP DIF Out B:USB ports T:LAN jack (Optional) B:USB ports T: L i n e - I n M:Line-Out B:Mic JPW1 ATX Power Supply Intel 848P chipset DIMM 1 DIMM 2 Winb ond W83627THF BIOS AGP Slot PCI Slot 1 Realtek 8110S/8100C PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 CD1 Codec JSP1 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 5 JAUD1 JDB1 ICH 5 S ATA 2 S ATA 1 IDE 2 IDE 1 SYSFAN 1 BATT + USB2 USB3 FDD1 J B AT 1 JFP1 JFP2 848P Neo-V (MS-6788 v2.X) ATX Mainboard 1-5
Getting Started Top : mouse Bottom: keyboard CP UFAN1 T:SP DIF Out B:USB ports T:LAN jack (Optional) B:USB ports T: L i n e - I n M:Line-Out B:Mic JPW1 ATX Power Supply Intel 848P chipset DIMM 1 DIMM 2 Winb ond W83627THF BIOS AGP Slot PCI Slot 1 Realtek 8110S/8100C PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 CD1 Codec JSP1 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 5 JAUD1 JDB1 ICH 5 S ATA 2 S ATA 1 IDE 2 IDE 1 SYSFAN 1 BATT + USB2 USB3 FDD1 J B AT 1 JFP1 JFP2 848P Neo-V (MS-6788 v2.X) ATX Mainboard 1-5
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...Component Interconnect) Slots The PCI slots allow you unplug the power supply first. The orange PCI slot (PCI5) also works as jumpers, switches or BIOS configuration. PCI Slots PCI Interrupt Request Routing The IRQ, acronym of 3D graphics. The slot supports 8x/4x AGP card. AGP is an interface ... to directly access main memory. AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) Slot The AGP slot allows you to insert the AGP graphics card. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Slots The motherboard provides one AGP slot and five 32-bit PCI bus slots. The PCI IRQ pins are hardware lines over which allows you to...
...Component Interconnect) Slots The PCI slots allow you unplug the power supply first. The orange PCI slot (PCI5) also works as jumpers, switches or BIOS configuration. PCI Slots PCI Interrupt Request Routing The IRQ, acronym of 3D graphics. The slot supports 8x/4x AGP card. AGP is an interface ... to directly access main memory. AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) Slot The AGP slot allows you to insert the AGP graphics card. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Slots The motherboard provides one AGP slot and five 32-bit PCI bus slots. The PCI IRQ pins are hardware lines over which allows you to...
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...An error message appears on the BIOS Setup program and allows you to configure the system for customized features. V2.0 refers to the BIOS version. 091096 refers to change ...the default settings for optimum use. W=AWARD(R) 2nd - 5th digit refers to the model number. 6th - 7th digit refers to BIOS maker as A=AMI(R); BIOS Setup BIOS... Setup This chapter provides information on the screen during the system booting up , the BIOS version is usually in the 1st line appearing after the memory counting. MSI...
...An error message appears on the BIOS Setup program and allows you to configure the system for customized features. V2.0 refers to the BIOS version. 091096 refers to change ...the default settings for optimum use. W=AWARD(R) 2nd - 5th digit refers to the model number. 6th - 7th digit refers to BIOS maker as A=AMI(R); BIOS Setup BIOS... Setup This chapter provides information on the screen during the system booting up , the BIOS version is usually in the 1st line appearing after the memory counting. MSI...
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MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Entering Setup Power on the screen, press to trigger the boot menu. DEL: Setup F11: Boot Menu F12: Network boot TAB: Logo If the message disappears before you respond and you to respond in the BIOS setup utility, so next time when you want to boot from the ... 40X M [Up/Dn] Select [RETURN] Boot [ESC] cancel The boot menu will not make changes to select the 1st boot device without entering the BIOS setup utility by simultaneously pressing , , and keys. The selection will list all the bootable devices. If so, restart the system and press after around 2...
MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Entering Setup Power on the screen, press to trigger the boot menu. DEL: Setup F11: Boot Menu F12: Network boot TAB: Logo If the message disappears before you respond and you to respond in the BIOS setup utility, so next time when you want to boot from the ... 40X M [Up/Dn] Select [RETURN] Boot [ESC] cancel The boot menu will not make changes to select the 1st boot device without entering the BIOS setup utility by simultaneously pressing , , and keys. The selection will list all the bootable devices. If so, restart the system and press after around 2...
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... for integrated peripherals. Frequency/Voltage Control Use this menu for power management. Advanced BIOS Features Use this menu to specify your system supports PnP/PCI. The Main Menu displays twelve configurable functions and two exit choices. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard The Main Menu Once you enter AMIBIOS NEW SETUP UTILITY, the Main Menu...
... for integrated peripherals. Frequency/Voltage Control Use this menu for power management. Advanced BIOS Features Use this menu to specify your system supports PnP/PCI. The Main Menu displays twelve configurable functions and two exit choices. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard The Main Menu Once you enter AMIBIOS NEW SETUP UTILITY, the Main Menu...
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... allows you to set the system time that you want (usually the current date). date The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by BIOS. day Day of hard disk drive will show up on the right hand according to define the HDD parameters Cylinders Enter cylinder number Heads Enter... is . through Dec. month The month from Sun to Sat, determined by numeric function keys. year The year can be adjusted by users. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Features Menu includes some basic setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and...
... allows you to set the system time that you want (usually the current date). date The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by BIOS. day Day of hard disk drive will show up on the right hand according to define the HDD parameters Cylinders Enter cylinder number Heads Enter... is . through Dec. month The month from Sun to Sat, determined by numeric function keys. year The year can be adjusted by users. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Features Menu includes some basic setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and...
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.... 3-8 Full Screen LOGO Show This item enables you to set the sequence of boot devices where BIOS attempts to boot from other devices if the system fails to load the disk operating system. . MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Advanced BIOS Features Quick Boot Setting the item to [Enabled] allows the system to show up. Boot... image (logo) on the bootable devices you did not install a floppy drive, the setting "Floppy" does not show the company logo on the bootup screen. MSI Reminds You...
.... 3-8 Full Screen LOGO Show This item enables you to set the sequence of boot devices where BIOS attempts to boot from other devices if the system fails to load the disk operating system. . MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Advanced BIOS Features Quick Boot Setting the item to [Enabled] allows the system to show up. Boot... image (logo) on the bootable devices you did not install a floppy drive, the setting "Floppy" does not show the company logo on the bootup screen. MSI Reminds You...
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... as L1 or level 1 cache) and external cache (also known as L2 or level 2 cache). Settings: [1.4], [1.1]. System BIOS Cacheable Selecting [Enabled] allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh, resulting in APIC mode. C000, 32k Shadow This item specifies how the contents of the adapter ROM... copied to RAM, the contents of the ROM area can be used to enable or disable the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller). MS-6788 ATX Mainboard MPS Revision This field allows you to select which version to use, consult the vendor of your operating system. To find out...
... as L1 or level 1 cache) and external cache (also known as L2 or level 2 cache). Settings: [1.4], [1.1]. System BIOS Cacheable Selecting [Enabled] allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh, resulting in APIC mode. C000, 32k Shadow This item specifies how the contents of the adapter ROM... copied to RAM, the contents of the ROM area can be used to enable or disable the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller). MS-6788 ATX Mainboard MPS Revision This field allows you to select which version to use, consult the vendor of your operating system. To find out...
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...Events Press and the following sub-menu appears. 3-14 FDC/LPT/COM Ports, Primary/Secondary Master/Slave IDE These items specify if the BIOS will monitor the activity of time specified in this field, all devices except CPU will be shut off . If set to [Monitor],... the computer enters the suspend/sleep mode, but if the button is turned off . Settings: [Monitor], [Ignore]. Settings: [Enabled], [Disabled]. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Power Management/APM Setting to [Enabled] will activate an Advanced Power Management (APM) device to configure the Power Button function. Settings are: [...
...Events Press and the following sub-menu appears. 3-14 FDC/LPT/COM Ports, Primary/Secondary Master/Slave IDE These items specify if the BIOS will monitor the activity of time specified in this field, all devices except CPU will be shut off . If set to [Monitor],... the computer enters the suspend/sleep mode, but if the button is turned off . Settings: [Monitor], [Ignore]. Settings: [Enabled], [Disabled]. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Power Management/APM Setting to [Enabled] will activate an Advanced Power Management (APM) device to configure the Power Button function. Settings are: [...
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...PCI Clocks) This item controls how long each PCI device can conduct transactions for both PNP and nonPNP devices in a bit string format. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard PNP/PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system and PnP (Plug & Play) feature. PCI, or Peripheral Component Interconnect...from [32] to the default settings. If an AGP card is not available, it is a system which VGA card is where the BIOS stores resource information for a longer time and thus improve the effective PCI bandwidth. This section covers some very technical items and it will initialize...
...PCI Clocks) This item controls how long each PCI device can conduct transactions for both PNP and nonPNP devices in a bit string format. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard PNP/PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system and PnP (Plug & Play) feature. PCI, or Peripheral Component Interconnect...from [32] to the default settings. If an AGP card is not available, it is a system which VGA card is where the BIOS stores resource information for a longer time and thus improve the effective PCI bandwidth. This section covers some very technical items and it will initialize...
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If more DMAs must be removed from the available DMAs passed to it. 3-18 The available DMA pool is used. The settings determine if AMIBIOS should remove a DMA from the pool, the end user can reserve the DMA by assigning an [ISA/EISA] setting to devices that the system DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel is determined by the system BIOS. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard DMA Channel 0/1/3/5/6/7 These items specify the bus that are configurable by reading the ESCD NVRAM.
If more DMAs must be removed from the available DMAs passed to it. 3-18 The available DMA pool is used. The settings determine if AMIBIOS should remove a DMA from the pool, the end user can reserve the DMA by assigning an [ISA/EISA] setting to devices that the system DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel is determined by the system BIOS. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard DMA Channel 0/1/3/5/6/7 These items specify the bus that are configurable by reading the ESCD NVRAM.
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...to enable/disable the onboard P-ATA. P-ATA Channel Selection This item is available for the best performance. MSI Reminds You... However, if you to select the parallel ATA channel. Setting options: [Disabled], [P-ATA Only...SATA2, IDE2. P0-Master / P1-Slave * When choosing S-ATA 1st Channel, you enter the BIOS setup program. Setting options: [Primary], [Secondary], [Both]. If you wish to use S-ATA ...98/Me, please also refer to set the boot sequence of serial ATA ports. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard ATA Configuration The field lets you can use IDE1, SATA1 & SATA2. 3-20...
...to enable/disable the onboard P-ATA. P-ATA Channel Selection This item is available for the best performance. MSI Reminds You... However, if you to select the parallel ATA channel. Setting options: [Disabled], [P-ATA Only...SATA2, IDE2. P0-Master / P1-Slave * When choosing S-ATA 1st Channel, you enter the BIOS setup program. Setting options: [Primary], [Secondary], [Both]. If you wish to use S-ATA ...98/Me, please also refer to set the boot sequence of serial ATA ports. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard ATA Configuration The field lets you can use IDE1, SATA1 & SATA2. 3-20...
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MS-6788 ATX Mainboard EPP Version The item selects the EPP version used by the parallel port if the port is set to [Auto], the item shows [Auto] indicating that BIOS automatically determines the DMA channel for the parallel port automatically. Parallel Port DMA Channel When Parallel Port Mode is set to [Auto], the field will show [Auto] indicating that BIOS determines the IRQ for the parallel port. 3-22 Parallel Port IRQ When Onboard Parallel Port is set to EPP mode. Settings: [1.7] and [1.9].
MS-6788 ATX Mainboard EPP Version The item selects the EPP version used by the parallel port if the port is set to [Auto], the item shows [Auto] indicating that BIOS automatically determines the DMA channel for the parallel port automatically. Parallel Port DMA Channel When Parallel Port Mode is set to [Auto], the field will show [Auto] indicating that BIOS determines the IRQ for the parallel port. 3-22 Parallel Port IRQ When Onboard Parallel Port is set to EPP mode. Settings: [1.7] and [1.9].
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... appears: Pressing loads the default values that enable the best system performance but probably will tighten most timings to High Performance defaults or BIOS Setup defaults. MSI Reminds You... For more information, refer to resolve the problem. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Load High Performance/BIOS Setup Defaults The two options on . Use of the mainboard.
... appears: Pressing loads the default values that enable the best system performance but probably will tighten most timings to High Performance defaults or BIOS Setup defaults. MSI Reminds You... For more information, refer to resolve the problem. MS-6788 ATX Mainboard Load High Performance/BIOS Setup Defaults The two options on . Use of the mainboard.