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FAQ on QDI Mainboards

  • WinneX Series
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WinneX series FAQ

Q1. What’s the requirments needed to support Suspend to RAM?
1. Power Supply: The current 5VSB Line of the Power supply should be more than 0.75A.
2. The BIOS option "ACPI function" should be enabled and the option "ACPI Suspend Type" should be set as S3 in AWARD BIOS CMOS setup.
3. An ACPI-enabled operating system (Windows 98 or Windows 2000) is required.
To install ACPI-enabled Windows 98 operating system, the setup command should be typed as:
                 D:\SETUP /P J
If the operating system is already installed, you can enable ACPI function through the Microsoft HCT(Hardware Compatibility Test) installation process.

Q2. What’s the "S1" and "S3" status for the ACPI?
An ACPI compliant Intel 810 platform can support the following power management status:
S0: Full-on
S1: Stop Grant
S3: Suspend to RAM
S4: Suspend to Disk
S5: Soft-off

Q3. What’s the Red LED function?
When the system enter standby mode, the Red LED is on, at this time memory can’t be took off.

Q4. Can I disable the built-in on-chip VGA or on-board sound on the WinneX series mainboard, and at the same time use another PCI VGA card or PCI Sound card?
Yes, You can.
1. For the PCI sound card, you must firstly set the jumper JSD on the mainboard with pin1 & pin2 closed.
2. Then in the section "Integrated Peripherals" of BIOS, You must set: "Init Display First" as "PCI Slot" in order to use the PCI VGA card, set "AC97 Audio", "Midi port address" and "Game port address" as "Disabled" to disable the AC97 Audio onboard.
3. Now you can install the VGA drivers or the Sound drivers which desired.

Q5. How many drivers should be installed in order to use the WinneX series Mainboard efficiently? How to install ?
There are 6 drivers, all the drivers can be installed from the Legend QDI Mainboard Utility CD-ROM which is supplied with each mainboard. To install them, please refer to the WinneX series mainboard user manual.

Q6. What’s the requirment for the system running in Ultra ATA/66 mode?
1. The mainboard must have a special Ultra ATA/66 detect circuit, such as WinneX MB.
2. The system BIOS supports Ultra ATA/66
3. The OS must be capable of DMA transfers, such as Win95 (OSR2) and Win98.
4. An Ultra ATA/66 capable, 40-pin, 80-conductor cable is needed.
5. Ultra ATA/66 compatible IDE device such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive.

Q7. How can I successfully upgrade BIOS of WinneX-1 mainboard?
1. Set the FWH Protection Jumper (JAV ) on the mainboard as open.
2. In the section "Advanced BIOS Feature Setup" in the BIOS , set the option "Flash Write Protect "as "Disabled".
Note: There is an error in the "WinneX 1 User Manual" concerning this option , however the correct explanation is:

Item    Option Description
Flash Write Protect   Enabled Does not allow flash program
  Disabled Flash program is allowed

3. Follow the steps according to Page 19 of the WinneX-1 User Manual for a successful upgrade.

Q8. How can I avoid or remove the yellow exclamation mark under "system" of Control panel?
If you successfully installed Windows 95/98 and all of drivers, but you still   find a yellow exclamation mark (!) under the "system" of Control panel, That  may be the reason of AMR card. Because there is a AMR slot in the WinneX series mainboard, If you didn't plug an AMR card into it, you have to disable the "AC97 Modem" in "Integrated Peripherals" of BIOS Setup. Then you won't find the yellow exclamation mark again.

Q9. On WinneX series mainboard, if there is no audio CD sound from the CD-Rom, What can I do?
1. You have to successfully installed the AC-97 digital audio driver;
2. After installed all of drivers, enter Control Panel;
3. Enter Multimedia;
4. Then enter CD Music;
5. Finally tick the "Enable digital CD audio for this CD-Rom device";
6. Restart your system.

  

BrillianX FAQ
  1. How to identify whether the Pentium II CPU's L2 cache supports ECC or not on BX mainboard?

    Before, we must specify whether the Pentium II CPU's L2 cache supports ECC or not. Right now, starting from Pentium II 350MHz, all Pentium II L2 cache supports ECC. On QDI BX mainboards, there has an option inside the CMOS that allows users enable or disable the setting of ECC support of L2 cache.

  2. What are some new options in our BX mainboards under "Chipsets Features"?

    There are three new settings under Chipsets Features:

    • Clock Spread Spectrum
    • Close Empty DIMM Clock
    • Close Empty PCI Clock

    All BX boards can run at 100MHz FSB, but higher clock frequency creates higher EMI. EMI stands for "Electro-Magnetic Interference" that is a kind of noise brought about by electronic devices. These settings above are to control EMI.

    Clock Spread Spectrum is used to tune in clock frequency. The BIOS setting "Disable" is to control the clock spread (This setting will make the signal wave spread shorter and the clock frequency should be more correct and a little bit faster), but, this will bring about more EMI. "Enable" setting can reduce EMI.

    Close Empty DIMM Clock and Close Empty PCI Clock are quite similar. When their settings are "Disable", the system will ignore the empty PCI and DIMM slots and will keep free for some time. Even though this status can make the system run a little bit faster, more EMI will occur. Of course, the setting "Enable" will reduce EMI.

  3. What is DMI version our BX boards can be compliant with?

    Our boards use DMI 2.0a currently. We can put DMI 2.1 in but since DMI2.1 has some compatibility problems, we don't use it on our boards. The BIOS updated can make our boards compliant with DMI2.1.
  4. Does our BX board support EDO memory like LX board?

    EDO is not capable of running under 100MHz FSB. If BX boards run under 66MHz FSB, EDO can be used. But even EDO can be used in BX board; the memory module must have SPD.

  5. Why is LM80 used in our BX board? Are there any difference between LM80 and LM75?

    LM80 has the same functions as LM75. "Chassis status" is new to this IC. LM75 can also detect the CPU temperature. However, since the IC is located too far from the CPU in Pentium II mainboard in comparison with Pentium mainboard and the LM75 is located just below the CPU, the information detected by LM75 in Pentium II mainboard is not correct. In order to obtain more accurate CPU temperature data, starting from Pentium II 350 MHz, there has a signal about CPU temperature obtained from CPU. These temperature data are very correct. Hence, we need a special decoding IC to interpret this signal. That's why MAXIM 1617 is used.

  6. Why is there no heat sink on our BX board?

    R&D have tried to measure the heat emission from the BX chip and found its level is acceptable. It was decided that it was not necessary to install a heat sink.
  7. Does QDI BX board support 256MB SDRam?

    Yes. QDI BX board can support 256MB DIMM with 16 pieces chip (128Mbit SDRam), but it cannot support 256MB DIMM with 8 pieces chip (256Mbit SDRam).

  8. If BrillianX I mainboard isn't compatible with P II-233, 266 MHz CPU, what can I do?

    Please upgrade your system with the latest BrillianX I BIOS version.
  9. Does the BrillianX I mainboard have the IrDA SIR function or IrDA FIR function?

    QDI BrillianX I mainboard can support IrDA SIR protocol with maximum baud rate up to 115.2k bps. Because only the I/O chip Winbond 83977TF-AW supports IrDA FIR, and QDI BrillianX I doesn't support Winbond 83977TF-AW I/O chip.

  10. Toms-hardware says 'ISA network card & SCSI card can not use on BI mainboard at the same time!' Is that TRUE?
    NO. It is not true. According to the compatibility list of "Tom's Hardware Guide" at http://www.tomshardware.com/moth-bx-comp.html. It says that ISA network card & SCSI card can not use on QDI BrillianX I mainboard at the same time. However we tested the NE2000 ISA PnP LAN card and Tekram PCI SCSI card on BrillianX I mainboard. It works well. The IRQ of LAN card can be 5 or the other. But you have to set the IRQ in the 'PnP/PCI Configuration' of BIOS SETUP as same as the IRQ setting of Win95. You can check out in the Configuration Table of Start up screen to make it matching.

  11. If BrillianX IV Mainboard can't support Quantum Viking 2 Ultra wide SCSI Hard Disk, What can I do?
    If you are using Viking2 Ultra wide SCSI Hard Disk (model: BX04L011C35065 4.5G) with the BrillianX IV Mainboard. During the installation of Win95/98/NT, an error message pops up "can not write to C drive". Therefore you are unable to complete the installation.
    Now, you can change the jumper JP17 on the Mainboard and everything will be fine. Normally, the JP17 is set as the default 1-2 CLOSE, change 2-3 Close to avoid the problem.

  12. If you find a problem to flash P-III 550 Bios into BrillianX I and BrillianX IS Mainboard, What can you do?
    If you flash P-III 550 Bios into BrillianX I or BrillianX IS mainboard,  it will cause some problems. The system may can't boot up or some DIMM slot will not work after the new Bios was flashed.  This is because the CMOS value hasn't been cleared. The solution are: 1. please manually clear CMOS after Bios updated, and then go to Bios setup to 'load setup default'.
    2. we suggest you to use 'flash/cc' to flash the Bios.
    We will update our Bios to avoid the problem in later P-III 550 Bios. 

  13. Does the BX mainboard support ATA66 Hard Disk ?
    No, because the BX chipset can't support ATA66 Hard Disk.
    Although our BX mainboard can recoginise the ATA66 hard disk, but it will work as ATA33 hard disk.