Hardware Setup

SY-5EHM/5EH5 V1.3

CMOS Clearing (JP5)

After you have turned off your computer, clear the CMOS memory by momentarily shorting pins 2-3 on jumper JP5, for a few seconds. Then restore JP5 to the initial 1-2 jumper setting in order to recover and retain the default settings.

 

CMOS Clearing

Clear CMOS Data

 

Retain CMOS Data

 

JP5 Setting

Short pin 2-3 for

 

 

 

 

 

Short pin 1-2

 

 

 

 

 

 

a few seconds

 

 

 

 

 

to retain new

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 2 3

 

1 2 3

 

 

 

to clear the

 

settings

 

 

 

CMOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: You must unplug the ATX power cable from the ATX power connector when performing the CMOS Clear operation.

Step 17. MULTI I/O ADDRESSES

Default settings for multi-I/O addresses are as follows:

Port

I/O Address

IRQ

Status

 

 

 

 

LPT1

378H

7

ECP + EPP

COM1

3F8H

4

 

COM2

2F8H

3

 

Warning: If a default I/O address conflicts with other I/O cards such as sound card, you must change one of the I/O addresses to remedy to this address conflict. (I/O addresses can be adjusted from the BIOS Setup Utility)

Step 18. CACHE CONFIGURATION

This Motherboard has a built-in 512KB/1MB Level 2 Pipelined Burst cache onboard to improve the system performance.

The cache size and RAM locations are specified as follows:

Cache Size

Cache RAM

TAG RAM

Cacheable

 

 

 

Range

1 MB

64K x 64

32K x 8

WT: 256 MB

 

on U23,U16

on U18

WB: 128MB

512 KB

64K x 64

32K x 8

WT: 128 MB

 

on U23

on U18

WB: 64 MB

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SOYO SY-5EH5, SY-5EHM, ETEQ82C663 PCI, ETEQ82C663 AGP manual Irq, Tag Ram

ETEQ82C663 PCI, ETEQ82C663 AGP, SY-5EHM, SY-5EH5 specifications

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