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Chapter 2 

KR7A-133/KR7A-133R 

2-12 

(6).  TCPU1 & TSYS1: Temperature Thermistor 

The TCPU1 is used to detect the CPU temperature. 
The TSYS1 is used to detect the system environment 
temperature. You can see the readings in the BIOS or 
in the hardware monitoring application main screen. 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

(7).  USB2 Header: Additional USB Plugs Header 

This header is for connecting the additional USB port 
plugs. You can use the special USB port expansion 
cable. It provides four additional USB plugs. These 
USB plugs can be fixed on the back panel. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pin number 

Name or significance of signal 

1 VCC0 
2 VCC1 
3 Data0 

- 

4 Data1 

- 

5 Data0 

+ 

6 Data1 

+ 

7 Ground 
8 Ground 
9 NC 

10 NC 

 

Summary of Contents for KR7A-133R

Page 1: ...idental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names...

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Page 3: ...CMOS FEATURES SETUP MENU 3 6 3 3 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES SETUP MENU 3 9 3 4 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP MENU 3 13 3 5 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 3 20 3 6 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP MENU 3 24 3 7 PNP PCI CO...

Page 4: ...KR7A 133 KR7A 133R APPENDIX B INSTALLING THE HARDWARE MONITOR SYSTEM B 2 APPENDIX C BIOS UPDATE GUIDE C 2 APPENDIX D TROUBLESHOOTING NEED ASSISTANCE D 2 APPENDIX E HOW TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT E 2...

Page 5: ...tion This means that it provides speedier HDD throughput boosting overall system performance Ultra DMA 133 is the newest standard for IDE devices It enhances existing Ultra DMA 33 technology by increa...

Page 6: ...ec data transfer rate Supports RAID0 Stripping mode for boosting performance mode Supports RAID1 Mirroring mode for data security mode Supports RAID 0 1 Stripping and Mirroring mode 3 Memory System Me...

Page 7: ...ther devices into PCI slot 5 you may encounter some problems Furthermore if your Operating System doesn t allow peripheral devices to share IRQ signals with each other such as Windows NT for example y...

Page 8: ...ra DMA 133 Ultra DMA 100 Ultra DMA 66 or Ultra DMA 33 IDE devices KR7A 133 Only Two 80 wire 40 pin ribbon cable for master and slave Ultra DMA 133 Ultra DMA 100 Ultra DMA 66 or Ultra DMA 33 IDE device...

Page 9: ...Introduction of KR7A 133 KR7A 133R Features User s Manual 1 5 1 4 Layout Diagram for KR7A 133 KR7A 133R Figure 1 1 KR7A 133 KR7A 133R motherboard component location...

Page 10: ...Chapter 1 KR7A 133 KR7A 133R 1 6...

Page 11: ...cards please remember to turn the ATX power supply switch off fully turn the 5V standby power off or take the power cord off Otherwise you may cause the motherboard components or add on cards to malf...

Page 12: ...cket you can easily fix the processor firmly into position Figure 2 1 shows you what the socket A looks like and how to open the lever The socket A has more pins than the socket 7 Therefore a Pentium...

Page 13: ...and cause circuit damage break socket hooks or damage the die on the top of processor Please follow the sequence metioned below Do Not inverse the sequence Otherwise you may have a situation like the...

Page 14: ...e motherboard back into the chassis When all above procedures done you can connect the ATX power cable to the motherboard If you have different types of heatsink kit please refer to the manual that ca...

Page 15: ...up and there are only slots this means you can only attach the motherboard with spacers Take the tip of the spacers and insert them into the slots After doing this to all the slots you can slide the m...

Page 16: ...4 64 MB 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1024 MB 64 MB 1 GB Total System Memory for Unbuffered DDR DIMM 64 MB 3 GB Total System Memory for Registered DDR DIMM 64 MB 3 5 GB Generally installing DDR SDRAM modules t...

Page 17: ...es the KR7A 133 KR7A 133R motherboard support ECC memory Yes the KR7A 133 KR7A 133R does support ECC memory modules It supports up to 3 GB of non registered memory or 4 GB of registered memory The max...

Page 18: ...nnector In the explanations that follow we will describe the significance of the first pin We will show you all of the connectors headers and switches here and tell you how to connect them Please pay...

Page 19: ...functions are We will show you all the connectors and headers 1 ATX1 ATX Power Input Connector Attach the connector from the power supply to the ATX1 connector here Remember you have to push the conn...

Page 20: ...ife of computer equipment or cause an electric shock when you touch the computer chassis We suggest that you plug the computer AC plug to a three hole wall outlet for better safety and to avoid electr...

Page 21: ...pin position and the orientation 5 WOL1 Wake on LAN Header If you have a network adapter that supports this feature then you can connect the specific cable from the network adapter to this header This...

Page 22: ...BIOS or in the hardware monitoring application main screen 7 USB2 Header Additional USB Plugs Header This header is for connecting the additional USB port plugs You can use the special USB port expan...

Page 23: ...system may work abnormally After updating your BIOS and before boot up please clear the CMOS first Then put the jumper to its default position After that you can reboot your system and ensure that you...

Page 24: ...nt panel power switch to this header PN1 Pin 10 11 Hardware Suspend Switch SMI Switch Header Attach the cable from the case s front panel suspend switch if there is one to this header Use this switch...

Page 25: ...end signal PN2 PIN 11 No connection 10 FDC1 Connector This 34 pin connector is called the floppy disk drive connector You can connect a 360K 5 25 1 2M 5 25 720K 3 5 1 44M 3 5 or 2 88M 3 5 floppy disk...

Page 26: ...apter 4 for detailed information about RAID settings If you want to connect two hard drives together through one IDE channel you must configure the second drive to Slave mode after the first Master dr...

Page 27: ...t button this indicator will turn off Figure 2 11 KR7A 133 KR7A 133R back panel connectors Figure 2 11 shows the KR7A 133 KR7A 133R back panel connectors these connectors are for connection to outside...

Page 28: ...Connectors This motherboard provides two COM ports you can connect an external modem mouse or other devices that support this communication protocol to these connectors You can decide which external...

Page 29: ...sometimes you will even not be able to boot the computer after it has crashed We recommend that you do not change the parameters inside the BIOS unless you are very familiar with them If you are not...

Page 30: ...S version may change periodically However most of the functions covered in this manual will work We suggest that you go to our WEB site often to see if there are new manual releases Then you can check...

Page 31: ...3 2 CPU SOFT MENU III CPU Name Is AMD Athlon tm XP AMD Athlon tm AMD Duron tm CPU Operating Speed This option sets the CPU speed In this field the CPU speed is indicated like this CPU speed External c...

Page 32: ...ranteed due to the CPUspecs Ratio FSB AGP PCI Two options are available 3 2 1 4 2 1 The default setting is 3 2 1 This item lets you set the processor Front Side Bus AGP and PCI clock It correlates wit...

Page 33: ...the Reset button or turn off the power supply Otherwise the BIOS will not read correctly the parameters will fail and you must enter SOFT MENU III again to set up the parameters all over again CPU Po...

Page 34: ...andard CMOS Setup Screen Shot Date mm dd yy You can set the date in this item month mm date dd and year yy Time hh mm ss You can set the time in this item hour hh minute mm and second ss IDE Primary M...

Page 35: ...capacities no bigger than 528MB any hard disk with more than 528MB was unusable AWARD BIOS features a solution to this problem you can according to your operating system choose four operating modes NO...

Page 36: ...u can enter is 65536 Warning Setting a value of 65536 means no hard disk exists Landing Zone This is a non data area on the disk s inner cylinder where the heads can rest when the power is turned off...

Page 37: ...see your system memory list in the lower right box it shows the Base Memory Extended Memory and total Memory size configurations in your system It is detected by the system during boot up procedure 3...

Page 38: ...C SCSI hard disk drive or CD ROM There are ten options for the boot sequence that you can choose The default setting is Floppy Floppy LS120 HDD 0 SCSI CDROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 ZIP100 LAN Disabled Back...

Page 39: ...is 250 Security Option This option can be set to System or Setup The default setting is Setup After you have created a password through PASSWORD SETTING this option will deny access to your system Sy...

Page 40: ...ld set this option to Enabled otherwise the display performance of the system will greatly decrease Computer Knowledge SHADOW What is the SHADOW The BIOS of standard video or interface cards is stored...

Page 41: ...boot up If you don t know the hardware very well use default values i e use the Load Fail Safe Defaults or Load Optimized Defaults option Figure 3 5A Advanced Chipset Features Setup Screen You can us...

Page 42: ...n Current FSB Frequency This item will show you the current system front side bus speed Current DRAM Frequency This item will show you the current DRAM bus speed DRAM Clock Three options are available...

Page 43: ...en set to Auto the BIOS will read the DRAM module SPD data and automatically set to the values stored in it If you set to Manual the following five items will be available to let you make adjustments...

Page 44: ...and sent to DDR SDRAM This will depend on your DDR SDRAM specification and numbers to set More DDR SDRAM DIMM installed you may set it to Hi DRAM Queue Depth Three options are available 2 Level 3 Leve...

Page 45: ...range dedicated for graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation See www agpforum org for AGP information AGP Mode Two option...

Page 46: ...it to Enabled two wait states are used by the system allowing for greater stability AGP Master 1 WS Read Two options are available Disabled or Enabled The default setting is Disabled This implements...

Page 47: ...o options are available Disabled or Enabled The default setting is Disabled The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select Enabled to support compli...

Page 48: ...change the onboard I O device I O port address and other hardware settings Figure 3 6A Integrated Peripherals Menu Default Screen VIA OnChip IDE Device This item can let you sets several items concern...

Page 49: ...MA is a DMA data transfer protocol that utilizes ATA commands and the ATA bus to allow DMA commands to transfer data at a maximum burst rate of 100 MB sec Disabled If you encounter the problem of usin...

Page 50: ...oard serial port 1 controller will access Six options are available Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Auto Back to Disabled The default setting is 3F8 IRQ4 Onboard Serial Port 2 This item a...

Page 51: ...i Lo If your motherboard BIOS uses No and Yes to represent this item you should set it to the same setting as the KR7A 133 KR7A 133R This means that you should set it to No Yes in order to match the t...

Page 52: ...setting is Enabled If your motherboard is the KR7A 133R it has the built in HighPoint 372 chipset that can support Ultra ATA 133 specifications If you set this controller to Enabled you can use IDE RA...

Page 53: ...s your operating system must support ACPI as of now only Microsoft Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000 supports these functions The second thing is that all devices and add on cards in your system must ful...

Page 54: ...from specific states Table 3 6 1 Wake Up Device and Events These device events can wake up the computer from this state Power switch Sleeping mode or power off mode RTC alarm Sleeping mode or power of...

Page 55: ...ther cases the device is in the D3 off state Devices that are enabled to wake the system and that can do so from their current device state can initiate a hardware event which transitions the system s...

Page 56: ...e screen select Blank Screen If your monitor and video card support DMPS standard select DPMS Support Modem Use IRQ Eight items available NA 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 Back to NA The default setting is NA You ca...

Page 57: ...own LPT COM Four items are available NONE LPT COM LPT COM The default setting is LPT COM When set to LPT COM any event occurring at a LPT printer or COM serial port will awaken a system that has power...

Page 58: ...an I O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system it causes an IRQ to occur When the operating system is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself and performs the service W...

Page 59: ...ir The default setting is Disabled IRQ10 Reserved The default setting is Disabled IRQ11 Reserved The default setting is Disabled IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse The default setting is Enabled IRQ13 Coprocessor The d...

Page 60: ...errupt as one of the following types depending on the type of device using the interrupt Legacy ISA devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification require a specific interrupt such as IRQ...

Page 61: ...efault setting is Auto This item allows the system to automatically specify the IRQ number for the device installed on PCI slots This means that the system can specify the fixed IRQ number for the dev...

Page 62: ...roblems Furthermore if your Operating System doesn t allow peripheral devices to share IRQ signals with each other such as Windows NT for example you can t install a PCI card into PCI slot 5 KR7A 133R...

Page 63: ...eeds the settings value system will force to shutdown to protect the processor not overheat Shutdown when CPUFAN Fail Two options are available Disabled or Enabled The default setting is Disabled If y...

Page 64: ...changing any part of your system configuration Additionally when a password is enabled you can also require the BIOS to request a password every time your system is rebooted This would prevent unautho...

Page 65: ...oring RAID 0 1 operation For the striping operation the identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance The Mirroring operation creates a complete backup of your files Str...

Page 66: ...Enter to confirm the selection Press Esc to return to top menu NOTE If you want to create a RAID 0 striping array or RAID 0 1 array all data in your hard disk will first be erased Please backup the ha...

Page 67: ...d and same model when defining a RAID array Striping RAID 0 for Performance This item is recommended for high performance usage Requires at least 2 disks Mirror RAID 1 for Data Security This item is r...

Page 68: ...ptions 4K 8K 16K 32K and 64K Start Creation Process After you have made your selection choose this item and press Enter to start creation 4 3 2 OPTION 2 Delete RAID This item allows you to remove a RA...

Page 69: ...In the menu zone of the pop up subinterface select 2 Select Spare Drive None and press Enter to confirm 5 In the validated channel status zone select the spare disk to be added and press Enter to conf...

Page 70: ...s Note This item will appear when necessary not always appear Use the up down arrow to select the menu option to Set Boot Disk and press Enter In the Channel Status select the channel you would like...

Page 71: ...Panel System Properties Device Manager You can see the driver is not yet installed and there is a device named PCI Mass Storage Controller under Other devices Step 2 Insert the KR7A 133 KR7A 133R CD...

Page 72: ...installed Step 7 Windows has completed installing the driver Click Finish to end the installation Step 8 Choose Yes I want to restart my computer now in the check box and click Finish restart your com...

Page 73: ...ter it has been executed you will see the screen below Step 2 Move the cursor to HPT 37X Driver and click on it You will go to the next screen Step 3 The InstallShield Wizard shows up and it will go t...

Page 74: ...uring a fresh Windows 2000 installation Note Follow the standard procedures for installing Windows 2000 1 During the first part of the setup procedure Windows 2000 will prompt you to press F6 key to s...

Page 75: ...n a Windows environment making it easier and more user friendly than creating the RAID function in BIOS mode Please insert the KR7A 133 KR7A 133R CD into your CD ROM drive It should execute the progra...

Page 76: ...tem will start copying files You can see the percentage bar on the screen Step 8 When the installation is completed choose Yes I want to restart my computer now in the check box and click Finish to en...

Page 77: ...t each HDD The screen below shows you how to get more detailed information about RAID You can choose the Help folder and then choose the Index to read more information about RAID operation settings et...

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Page 79: ...2 SP2 or latest service pack to get the best system performance You can download SP2 at Microsoft WEB site Note Details of the Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000 operating system will not be mentioned in...

Page 80: ...who are upgrading VIA Drivers we recommend installing the 4 in 1 using the Quickly Install mode as it will automatically detect and update the necessary drivers The following step we will describe the...

Page 81: ...utton to go on Windows 2000 Step 8 Choose Click to enable DMA Mode then click Next button Windows 98 SE Step 9 Choose Install VIA AGP VxD in Turbo mode and then click the Next button Windows 98 SE Not...

Page 82: ...the driver updates Windows 98 SE Step 10 When the installation is complete the installer will ask you to restart your computer We suggest that you choose Yes I want to restart my computer now Then cl...

Page 83: ...SE Windows 2000 A 5 User s Manual Step 13 You can then check the System Properties see that the devices are properly installed Windows 98 SE Step 11 You can then check the Device Manager to see that t...

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Page 85: ...t in permanent damage to the PC Once any item is out of its normal range a warning message will pop up and remind the user to take proper measures The following description will tell you how to instal...

Page 86: ...pendix B KR7A 133 KR7A 133R Then wizard will extract the files need to install You will see the install shell wizard active The welcome screen and its dialogue box will appear Click the Next button to...

Page 87: ...the default folder as the destination location After checking the folder click Next button You can choose the name of the program folder We suggest you use the default program folder name After checki...

Page 88: ...to restart your computer We suggest that you choose Yes I want to restart my computer now then click the Finish button to restart your computer to finish the driver update You can select the program...

Page 89: ...Manual B 5 This screen shows the hardware monitor system screen It shows information about system temperature voltages and fan speed Some items can let you set the warning range you can optimize valu...

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Page 91: ...ou can find it on one slot or at the back of the motherboard Each motherboard always has the label at the same place as shown in the photo below You will find the model name and version on the white s...

Page 92: ...e Go to our Web site and choose the correct BIOS file and download it 4 Double click the download file it will self extract to bin file 5 Make a bootable floppy disk and copy the necessary files onto...

Page 93: ...3 User s Manual After formatting and transferring the system to the floppy disk copy two files into it One is the BIOS flash utility awdflash exe and the other is the decompressed BIOS binary file 6 B...

Page 94: ...erboard don t flash with the wrong BIOS file Otherwise you may cause system malfunctions Note Please do not use the Award flash memory writer version that earlier than Version 7 52C to flash your KR7A...

Page 95: ...form Fax this form to your dealer or to the company where you bought the hardware in order to benefit from our technical support You can refer to the examples given below Example 1 With a system inclu...

Page 96: ...GH C PLUGPLAY DWCFGMG SYS LASTDRIVE Z Restart the system If the system starts and does not reset you can be sure that the problem is due to the Sound Card Driver Write down the Sound Card model mother...

Page 97: ...he Brand space write Pioneer in the Specifications space write DVD 16 9 System Memory DDR SDRAM Indicate the brand and specifications DDR DIMM of your system memory Examples Density Description Module...

Page 98: ...able build a striping array Then create a mirror array by these two striping arrays See Chapter 4 for detailed information 1 Press Ctrl H to setup configuration 2 Choose item 1 to Create RAID 3 Choose...

Page 99: ...haracteristic thus may somewhat decrease the RAID performance 2 If you have two drives do connect them on two different channels as master drive please 3 When attach drives to the RAID card do make su...

Page 100: ...Contact Person Fax Number 4 E mail Address Model Name BIOS ID Part Number Motherboard PCB Version Driver Version OS Applications Hardware Name Brand Specifications Processor Type Hard Disk Drive IDE1...

Page 101: ...ritten and thorough manual It is full of information that doesn t only pertain to motherboards The CD ROM included with your board will have the manual as well as drivers If you don t have either one...

Page 102: ...s and don t have the resources to serve every end user However we will try to do our best to help every customer Please also remember that for many of our technical support team English is a second la...

Page 103: ...patibility Problems to ABIT Because of tremendous number of email messages we receive every day we are forced to give greater weight to certain types of messages than to others For this reason any com...

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