1. sy-5stm.zip Driver
2. SOYOHELP.TXT File Contents

SOYOHELP.TXT Driver File Contents (sy-5stm.zip)

THE SOYO CD STRUCTURE

  The SOYO CD is divided into two major parts. The first part is the 
start up menu, and you will enter this menu when you insert the SOYO CD
into your CD ROM drive. The second part is a HTML format database with
information on SOYO motherboards and other products. You can enter that
part by selecting Enter the SOYO CD from the start-up menu. The SOYO CD
will autorun, and the SOYO CD start up menu will be displayed. The SOYO
CD start up program will automatically detect what SOYO motherboard you
own, and accordingly to your board type you will be able to read your
manual or install the appropriate drivers for your motherboard.
  The menu you will give you the following choices:

Read manual
Install drivers
Help
Enter the SOYO CD
Exit 

Click Help to enter the online Help program, Exit to return to Windows.


READ MANUAL

  Clicking this button will load and display the manual for your 
motherboard. The Start-Up menu program has automatically detected what 
SOYO board you own and it will display your manual accordingly. The 
manual files included on the SOYO CD are all in PDF format. To read a 
PDF file, Acrobat Reader will have to be installed on your system. If 
the Start-Up menu program finds that you have not installed Acrobat 
Reader to your system it will ask you whether or not you want to 
install it. You have to install Acrobat Reader if you want to read 
the manual files. After installation of Acrobat Reader you will have 
to restart your system. Re-run the SOYO CD and you will be able to 
read your manual.
  If the start-up menu program was unable to determine what SOYO board 
you own, the manual selection menu will pop up. Select the manual that 
you want to read and click OK.
  The manuals can all be found in the following directory:
Soyo_cd\rev-10\Manpdf\


INSTALL DRIVERS

  Clicking this button will display the drivers that you can install 
on your motherboard. The Start-Up menu program has automatically 
detected what SOYO board you own and it will display the appropriate 
drivers accordingly. You are advised to only install those drivers. 
If you click the button Display all drivers on the SOYO CD all the 
available drivers will be displayed. Please take care only to install 
the proper drivers to your system. Failing to do so can lead to 
problems.
 If the start-up menu program was unable to determine what SOYO board 
you own, all the drivers available on the SOYO CD will be displayed 
by default. Click the button of the driver that you wish to install.
  After the installation progam of any of the drivers has started, the 
SOYO CD will exit. For most of the drivers you will need to restart 
your system before the driver becomes active.

The following drivers are available on this CD:

INTEL southbridge issue
INTEL Busmaster Drivers for Windows 95
INTEL Busmaster Drivers for Windows NT
INTEL Busmaster Drivers for OS/2
ETEQ southbridge issue / ACPI
ETEQ Busmaster Drivers for Windows 95 and NT
ETEQ AGP Card driver (VXD)

The drivers are all available through the following directory: 
Soyo_cd\rev-10\utility\
for more information on what these drivers are for see below.


ENTER THE SOYO CD

  The SOYO CD contains a lot of information on your and other SOYO 
products. This information is in HTML format, the same format the 
Internet uses to transfer all kinds of information. Using this format 
ensures that as many users as possible can read the contents of the 
SOYO CD. 
  If you click the Enter the SOYO CD button, the Start-Up program will 
look if you have a HTML browser (like Internet Explorer or Netscape) 
installed to your system. Using your default browser the contents of 
the SOYO CD will be displayed.
  If no HTML browser is installed to your system the Start-Up program 
will ask you whether or not you want to install Internet Explorer*. 
Click YES if you want to read the CD contents. After installation of 
Internet Explorer you will have to restart your system. Re-run the 
SOYO CD and you can now read it's HTML content.
  If you want to to read the SOYO-CD contents directly, enter the
following URL to your browser: 
<your CD ROM drive>:\Soyo_cd\rev-10\Start.htm

*Internet Explorer is a Microsoft Trademark


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DRIVERS:
1 - SOUTHBRIDGE ISSUE

Question marks under Windows 95 ?

There is a problem when your motherboard comes with a chipset that 
older revisions of windows 95 will not recognize. Among the chipsets 
that are too new are the TX, LX, BX and ETEQ chipsets. Windows will 
not recognize the PIIX 4/5/6 (also known as the 'south bridge') used 
in these chipsets because of the fact that these chipsets were released
after windows, so windows misses the appropriate drivers for those 
chipsets. You can check whether or not your version of windows has 
this problem by clicking: 'Settings (click start first) - Control Panel
- System'. If you find two question marks on 'USB device' and 'PCI 
bridge' then your version of windows will need to be updated. In order 
to solve this problem you will need to upgrade the Windows 95 inf file 
that keeps information on chipset properties for windows. 

ETEQ chipset boards:
Click the ETEQ Southbridge button to solve this problem. This will 
install the ACPI drivers to your ETEQ board, and it will in the mean 
while update the necessary Windows Inf files as well.

INTEL Chipset boards:
Click the ETEQ Southbridge button to solve this problem. The program 
will update the necessary Windows Inf files.


2 - BUSMASTER DRIVERS

  The advantage of installing the Bus Master Drivers is that they allow
the CPU to work on a different task while data is transferred between 
the HDD and the system Memory (Also known as DMA or Direct Memory 
Access). For single-tasking operating systems, Bus Master DMA is not 
of much use, therefore there is no need to install these drivers on 
DOS, Windows 3.1, and other single-tasking operating systems.

  As a reminder, the new Windows95 service release 2 (OSR2) and later 
versions (Windows 98) come with a DMA capable driver (ESDI_506.pdr). 
The DMA mode can be switched on or off in the drive property screen 
under the system manager, so in the next version of windows we will 
not need to install any Bus Master Drivers anymore.
  It is important that the bus master drivers are not installed twice, 
because otherwise your OS may become unstable. Always uninstall the 
bus master drivers before you install them again.

  Not all chipsets support Bus-mastering. Most new chipsets do: 
Intel 430 FX / HX / VX / TX, 440 FX / LX / BX, and ETEQ chipsets.
Boards that have one of these chipsets are capable of transferring 
data directly from the HDD to main memory. Installation of the 
Busmaster Drivers on boards with older chipsets will be useless.

  The SOYO CD provided four kinds of Bus Master Drivers. Click the 
proper button from the Install Drivers menu to install them.

-For INTEL chipset boards that use Windows 95
-For INTEL chipset boards that use Windows NT
-For INTEL chipset boards that use OS/2
-For ETEQ chipset boards that use windows 95 or NT


3 - ETEQ AGP CARD DRIVER

(You are advised to print this description for convenience during 
installation)

Because AGP is a very new technology, enabling the use of AGP on your 
ETEQ chipset motherboard requires you to go through a lot of 
complicated steps. All the necessary steps are described below, step 
through them one by one, then installing all the necessary drivers 
should not be a problem.

 Enter the BIOS setup by pressing the <Delete> during boot-up. Go to 
the 'Chipset Features Setup' section of the BIOS setup and make sure 
that the 'AGP' item there is set to 'enabled'.

(note: there may be a different installation order in the manual that 
came with your AGP card. We advise you to follow that order)

Part I : Windows 95
1. For Windows 95 users, it is impossible to make use AGP with a 
version of windows lower than OSR2. Users of an older version of 
windows should upgrade to OSR2. You can check what version of windows 
you have installed by taking the following steps: click 'start', 
'settings', 'control panel' and select 'system'. Under the 'General' 
tab you will find what version of windows you have installed. If there 
is a B or a C at the end of the system description then you have 
installed OSR2. Users of Windows 98 (Memphis) can use AGP as well. 
2. You will need to install "USBSUPP.EXE" from Microsoft, which 
includes the USB supplement and a new memory manager (VMM32.VxD) 
needed for the AGP DIME feature. You can find this file on the OSR2 CD 
in the directory \OSR2\USBSUPP. For different languages of Windows 95, 
there are different kind of USBSUPP.EXE files.
3. Now install the ETEQ AGP Driver by clicking the button in the 
Drivers Installation menu of the SOYO CD.
4. Install Direct X5 to your system. This is a set of drivers provided 
by Microsoft for free, but you will have to download them from their 
Internet Site. Go to the following address to download the drivers: 
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/default.asp and download 
'DirectX 5.0 for end users'. Restart your system after downloading 
and installation. If your card came with Dirext X, please install it 
from your card's CD or discs.
5. Install the drivers that came with your AGP card, and after 
restarting your system you should be ready to make full use of your 
system's AGP port.

Part II : Windows NT
1. For Windows NT users, it is impossible to make full use of the AGP 
function with a version of windows lower than V4.0. Users of an older 
version of windows should upgrade to V4.0.
2. In addition to installing the ETEQ AGP Driver, you have to install 
Microsoft Service Pack 3 for NT4.0.
3. Install the AGP drivers that came with your AGP card, and after 
restarting your system you should be ready to make full use of your 
system's AGP port.

As for the next releases of the Microsoft Operating Systems, they will 
include support for AGP hardware with the windows version code-named 
Memphis (windows '98) and Windows NT version 5.0.


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HOW TO CONTACT SOYO

SOYO is always ready to help you. If you have any questions or comment,
please contact the nearest SOYO branch office:

The Netherlands / West Europe
Email: support@soyo.nl
Tel : 31-79-3637500, Fax : 31-79-3637575 

Germany / East Europe 
Email: str@soyo.com
Tel : 49-38828-37-0, Fax : 49-38828-37-10 

USA 
Email: KChang5988@aol.com
Tel : 818-3301712, Fax : 886-2-7533277 

Taiwan 
Email: support@mail.soyo.com.tw
Tel : 886-2-6533000, Fax : 886-2-6533277 

Korea 
Email: soyokor@hitel.kol.co.kr
Tel : 82-2-7170857-8, Fax : 82-2-7042619 

Japan 
Email: Soyo@po.iijnet.or.jp
Tel : 81-3-33682188, Fax : 81-3-33682199 

Hong Kong 
Email: rshu@hkstar.com
Tel : 852-27109810, Fax : 852-2710-9078