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K8Ultra-U series mainboard

IDE Cable/ FDC Cable

USB Bracket (optional)

Game Port Bracket (optional)

SPDIF & FRONT AUDIO Port Bracket (optional)

SATA Power cord/ SATA Cable (optional)

I/O Shield (optional)

Installation and Setup Driver CD

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Page 1: ...document are registered by their respective owner Disclaimer We make no warranty of any kind with regard to the content of this user s manual The content is subject to change without notice and we will not be responsible for any mistakes found in this user s manual All the brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies FCC Compliance Statement This equipment has been tested a...

Page 2: ...chips Use a grounded wrist strap when working with the system 0 Do not touch the IC chips leads connectors or other components 0 Unplug the AC power when you install or remove any device on the mainboard Package Contents K8Ultra U series mainboard IDE Cable FDC Cable USB Bracket optional Game Port Bracket optional SPDIF FRONT AUDIO Port Bracket optional SATA Power cord SATA Cable optional I O Shie...

Page 3: ...ies ULi M1689 Supports Socket 754 AMD AthlonTM 64 SempronTM Processors USER Manual Dimensions ATX form factor z 194mm x 295mm WxL Operating System z Supports most popular operating systems Windows 98 ME 2000 XP etc ...

Page 4: ...Panel Indicator SW LED PWRLED SPEAKER 12 Connectors 13 Headers Jumpers 14 Audio Connectors 15 Slots 17 Power Supply Attachments 17 CHAPTER 2 BIOS SETUP 18 INTRODUCTION 18 MAIN MENU 20 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES 22 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 27 POWER MANAGEMENT 31 HARDWARE MONITOR 34 LOAD DEFAULTS 35 EXIT MENU 36 CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE SETUP 37 SOFTWARE LIST 37 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 37 CHAPTER 4 TROUBLESHOOTIN...

Page 5: ...It also includes built in Serial ATA facilities that support transfer rate to 150 MB s per channel The series also come with an AC 97 codec which supports 6 channel audio 5 1 channel audio effect All of them also support Sony Philips Digital Interface The series also come with 8 USB 2 0 ports The K8Ultra U PRO also includes built in LAN facility that supports a back panel LAN port capable of 10 10...

Page 6: ...nterface that supports 8X data transfer modes Chipset z Single chip ULi M1689 z I O Controller Winbond Super I O W83627HF z AC 97 Codec Realtek ALC655 z LAN PHY Chip Realtek RTL8201CL only for K8Ultra U PRO DRAM Memory z Supports DDR400 PC3200 DDR333 PC2700 DDR266 PC2100 SDRAM z Supports 64 MB 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1 GB unbuffered with or without ECC DIMM modules z Supports up to two memory modules...

Page 7: ...ps Digital interface S PDIF LAN Function only for K8Ulta U PRO z 10 100 Mbps Ethernet support IDE Facilities z Supports Ultra ATA 66 Ultra ATA 100 Ultra ATA 133 z Supports IDE interface with CD ROM z Supports high capacity hard disk drives z Supports installation of up to 4 drives with separate IDE connections for Primary and Secondary connectors Universal Serial Bus z Supports up to 8 USB ports f...

Page 8: ...oard z Supports 360 KB 720 KB 1 2 MB 1 44 MB and 2 88 MB floppy disk drives z MIDI compatible z Supports one game port header BIOS z Phoenix Award BIOS z Supports APM1 2 z Supports ACPI power management Watch Dog Timer z The mainboard contains a special feature called the Watch Dog Timer which is used to detect when the system is unable to handle over clocking configurations during POST stage Once...

Page 9: ...K8Ultra U Series 5 Configuration Layout of K8Ultra U PRO ...

Page 10: ...K8Ultra U Series 6 Layout of K8Ultra U ...

Page 11: ...he socket locate the corner which has the diagonally cut corner on the rectangular shaped pattern of pinholes see diagram below left Match that corner with the gold triangle on the CPU see diagram below right and lower the CPU onto the socket The bottom of the CPU should be flush with the face of the socket 3 Lower the lever until it snaps back into position This will lock down the CPU 4 Smear the...

Page 12: ...em Memory Installation The K8Ultra U series contain 2 sockets which use 184 pin DDR SDRAM with a total memory capacity of up to 2 GB You can install unbuffered with or without ECC DDR400 PC3200 DDR333 PC2700 DDDR266 PC2100 DDR200 PC1600 SDRAM Attention We strongly recommend that you use a CPU fan sink with your CPU You can attach the CPU fan to the CPUFAN header ...

Page 13: ... thumbs until the module snaps into place 4 Repeat steps 1 2 and 3 for the remaining RAM modules Maximum DRAM SPEED Number of DIMMs DIMM 1 DIMM 2 1T 2T 1 x8 or x16 single side X DDR400 DDR400 1 X x8 or x16 single side DDR400 DDR400 1 x8 double side X DDR400 DDR400 1 X x8 double side DDR400 DDR400 2 x8 or x16 single side x8 or x16 single side DDR400 DDR400 2 x8 or x16 single side x8 double side DDR...

Page 14: ...SB connectors are used to attach to USB devices such as keyboards mice and other USB devices You can plug the USB devices directly into this connector The K8Ultra U PRO also provides a LAN port You can plug LAN devices directly into this connector Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 Data 4 5 V fused 2 No connect 5 Clock 3 Ground 6 No connect Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 TX 5 TRD2 2 TX 6 RX 3 RX 7 T...

Page 15: ...be connected to a serial port Audio Port Connectors SOUND The series comes equipped with 3 Audio Ports The three ports Mic in Line in and Front Speaker out are standard audio ports that provides basic audio functionality Front Speaker Out Green Connects to standard audio speakers This port becomes the front speakers when 6 Channel Audio Effects driver is installed and enabled Also note that this p...

Page 16: ... LED connector The LED will illuminate while the computer is powered on PWR SW Power Button Connector orange This connector can be attached to a front panel power switch The switch must pull the Power Button pin to ground for at least 50 ms to signal the power supply to switch on or off the time required is due to internal debounce circuitry on the system board At least two seconds must pass befor...

Page 17: ...ra ATA 100 and Ultra ATA 133 It has two HDD connectors IDE1 and IDE2 IDE1 Primary IDE Connector You can connect up to two hard drives to IDE1 If you attach two drives you must use a ribbon cable with three connectors You must also configure one drive as the master and one drive as the slave using the jumpers located on each drive IDE2 Secondary IDE Connector The IDE2 controller can also support a ...

Page 18: ...oard supports a front game port header To use this header you can install a COM port Game port bracket optional with a Game port wire extending to this header You can then attach gaming devices to the game port on the bracket If you are using a USB 2 0 device with Windows 2000 XP you will need to install the USB 2 0 driver from the Microsoft website If you are using Service pack 1 or later for Win...

Page 19: ... to reset the CMOS configurations and then reconfigure Audio Connectors The following steps explain how to reset your CMOS configurations when you have forgotten your system password 1 Turn off your system and disconnect the AC power cable 2 Set JP1 to OFF 2 3 Closed 3 Wait several seconds 4 Set JP1 to ON 1 2 closed 5 Connect the AC power cable and turn on your system 6 Reset your new password ...

Page 20: ...and receiving audio input through the SPDIF header One way you would use this header is by using an SPDIF FRONT AUDIO bracket optional attached to your computer This bracket will have two wires that you can attach to the SPDIF header and the FRONT_AUDIO header This bracket has RCA connectors similar to that used with most consumer audio products Using the RCA connectors the data can then be output...

Page 21: ...dard PCI slots PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for expansion cards which has for the most part supplanted the older ISA bus standard This PCI slot is designated as 32 bit Power Supply Attachments ATX Power Connector ATX_PWR ATX_12V This mainboard requires two ATX power connectors a 20 pin connector and a 4 pin connector Your power supply must have both connec...

Page 22: ...RD BIOS includes additional features such as virus and password protection as well as special configurations for fine tuning the system chipset The defaults for the BIOS values contained in this document may vary slightly with the version installed in your system When you boot up the computer the BIOS version will appear at up left of the POST screen Plug and Play Support This PHOENIX AWARD BIOS s...

Page 23: ...t arrow Move to the item on the left menu bar Right arrow Move to the item on the right menu bar Esc Main Menu Quit without saving changes Submenus Exit Current page to the next higher level menu Move Enter Move to the item you desire PgUp key Increase the numeric value or enter changes PgDn key Decrease the numeric value or enter changes Key Increase the numeric value or enter changes Key Decreas...

Page 24: ...the Main Menu will appear on the screen The Main menu allows you to select from several configuration options Use the left right arrow keys to select a particular configuration screen from the top menu bar or use the down arrow key to access and configure the information below ...

Page 25: ... in sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu Drive A 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5in 2 88M 3 5 in Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system Video EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 MONO Select the default video device Halt On All Errors No Errors All but Keyboard All but Diskette All but Disk Key Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST PROcess an...

Page 26: ...D ROM boot priority First Second Third Boot Device Select the order in which devices will be searched in order to find a boot device Options Removable default for first boot device CD ROM default for second boot device Hard Disk default for third boot device Boot Other Device Set to Enabled allows the system to try to boot from other devices if the system fails to boot from the 1st 2nd 3rd boot de...

Page 27: ...sable External Cache This option allows you to enable or disable Level 2 secondary cache on the CPU to enhance performance Options Enabled default Disabled Quick Power On Self Test Allow the system to skip certain tests while booting This will speed up the boot process Options Enabled default Disabled Boot Up NumLock Status Selects the power on state for NumLock Options On default Numpad keys are ...

Page 28: ...clock Options Auto default 100 133 166 1T 2T Memory Timing Use this item to select the memory timing that you installed Options Auto default 1T 2T CAS latency Tcl This item determines CAS Latency When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing Do not reset this field from the default value specified by the system designer Options Auto default...

Page 29: ...ssed at F0000H FFFFFH are cached provided that the cache controller is enabled Options Enabled Disabled default PnP PCI Configurations Reset Configuration Data Select Enabled to reset the Extended System Configuration Data ESCD if you have installed a new add on card and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the OS cannot boot Options Disabled default Enabled Resources...

Page 30: ...is item displays the CPU speed information detected by the system CPU Host Frequency MHz This item displays the CPU Host frequency You can set it from 200 to 333 for overclock The default depends on your CPU frequency Default depends on CPU Hammer Fid control This field allows you to set the CPU Ratio If your CPU is locked you will not be able to adjust this field The default depends on your CPU H...

Page 31: ...t new drives do The system will automatically determine the optimal number of blocks to read and write per sector Options Enabled default Disabled On Chip Primary Secondary IDE This item allows you to enable or disabled the Primary Secondary IDE channel Options Enabled default Disabled Master Slave PIO The IDE PIO programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the IDE device...

Page 32: ...vice installed on the system board You will need to disable this feature if you install a USB 1 1 device Options Enabled default Disabled USB Keyboard Support Enables support for USB attached keyboard Options Disabled default Enabled OnChip Audio Device This option allows you to enabled or disabled the onboard audio device Options Enabled default Disabled OnChip LAN Device only for K8Ultra U PRO T...

Page 33: ...nfra Red IR standard to be used Options Normal default ASKIR IrDA RxD TxD Active This item determines the RxD and TxD frequencies This field only configurable if UART Mode is set to ASKIR or IrDA Options Hi Lo default Hi Hi Lo Hi Lo Lo IR Transmission Delay This item allows you to enable disable IR transmission delay This field only configurable if UART Mode is set to ASKIR or IrDA Options Enabled...

Page 34: ...CP EPP ECP EPP mode Normal EPP Mode Select Select EPP port type 1 7 or 1 9 Options EPP 1 7 EPP1 9 default ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA Channel for the port Options 3 default 1 Game Port Address Game Port I O address Options 201 default 209 Disabled Midi Port Address Midi Port Base I O Address Options 330 300 default 290 Disabled Midi Port IRQ This determines the IRQ that Midi Port will use Option...

Page 35: ...d S3 STR Suspend to RAM S1 S3 POS and STR Power Management Option There are three options of Power Management 1 Min Saving Minimum power management Suspend Mode 1hour 2 Max Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CPUs Suspend Mode 1 min 3 User Defined default Allows you to set each mode individually When this option is enabled the suspend mode time is configurable from 1 minute to 1 ...

Page 36: ...rive will power down after a certain configurable period of system inactivity All other devices remain active Options Disabled default 1 Min 2 Min 3 Min 4 Min 5 Min 6 Min 7 Min 8 Min 9 Min 10 Min 11 Min 12 Min 13 Min 14 Min 15Min Suspend Mode This item allows you to select the period of inactivity before the system is suspended or put into suspend mode Options Disabled default 1Min 2Min 4Min 8Min ...

Page 37: ...efault Date of Month Alarm You can choose which month the system will boot up This field is only configurable when RTC Wake Up is set to Enabled Time hh mm ss Alarm You can choose the hour minute and second the system will boot up This field is only configurable when RTC Wake Up is set to Enabled IRQs Activity Monitoring Press Enter to access a sub menu used to configure the different wake up even...

Page 38: ...K8Ultra U Series 34 Hardware Monitor ...

Page 39: ...ault Settings Load System Default Settings Load System Turbo Settings Load System Turbo Settings Load CMOS From BIOS Load defaults from flash ROM for systems without batteries Save CMOS To BIOS Save defaults to flash ROM for systems without batteries ...

Page 40: ...configuration changes to CMOS memory and exit setup A confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup A confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding ...

Page 41: ...hen you insert the driver CD into the CD ROM you ll see the screen as the picture below There are several buttons displayed in the main screen as shown below Category Platform ULi Chipset Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Realtek Audio Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP ULi SATA Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Trend PC Cillin Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Mircosoft DirectX Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Adobe Acrobat Reader Win...

Page 42: ...oftware to install Trend PC Cillin 2004 provides the software of Trend PC Cillin 2004 Anti virus program Microsoft DirectX provides software of Microsoft DirectX Adobe Acrobat Reader install Adobe Acrobat Reader program that you can browse pdf files ATi_8X Patch provides the software to increase the performance of ATi 8X Graphic Card 3 If you click the Browse CD button from the screen you can brow...

Page 43: ... displays press F6 4 Press s when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device Insert the floppy disk which includes the ULi SATA Driver into the floppy drive Press Enter and select the appropriate OS device driver 5 Press Enter again to continue the setup process 6 Follow the setup instructions and select your choice for partition and file system 7 After setup examines your disks it wil...

Page 44: ...ve is active but system seems hung Causes Memory DIMM is partially dislodged from the slot on the mainboard Solutions 1 Power Down 2 Using even pressure on both ends of the DIMM press down firmly until the module snaps into place Problem 3 System does not boot from the hard disk drive but can be booted from the CD ROM drive Causes 1 Connector between hard drive and system board unplugged 2 Damaged...

Page 45: ... Then performs low level format partition and then a high level format the hard drive Re install all saved data when completed Problem 6 Screen message says Invalid Configuration or CMOS Failure Causes Incorrect information entered into the BIOS setup program Solutions Review system s equipment Reconfigure the system Problem 7 The Screen is blank Causes No power to monitor Solutions Check the powe...

Page 46: ...nected properly Solutions Check hard drive cable Problem 13 Cannot boot the system after installing a second hard drive Causes 1 Master slave jumpers not set correctly 2 Hard drives are not compatible different manufacturers Solutions 1 Set master slave jumpers correctly 2 Run SETUP program and select the correct drive types Call drive manufacturers for possible compatibility problems with other d...

Page 47: ...ut connecting to any auxiliary external modules To use this function you have to install the audio driver in the bonus Pack CD as well as an audio application supporting 5 1 Channel audio effects See the audio Port Connectors in the Hardware Installation section for a description of the output connectors Speaker Test Make sure the cable is firmly into the connector 1 Click the audio icon from the ...

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