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Contents

CHAPTER 1. GETTING STARTED .....................................................1

NTRODUCTION

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PECIFICATION

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ONFIGURATION

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Layout of KM333 PRO-1394 ............................................................................... 5

Layout of KM333 PRO ........................................................................................ 6

Layout of KM333 ................................................................................................. 7

ARDWARE

NSTALLATION

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CPU Processor Installation ................................................................................... 8

Back Panel Configuration................................................................................... 11

Connectors .......................................................................................................... 13

Front Panel Indicator: SW/LED

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PWRLED

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SPEAKER ............................... 14

Headers & Jumpers............................................................................................. 15

Audio Connectors ............................................................................................... 19

Slots .................................................................................................................... 20

Power Supply Attachments................................................................................. 20

CHAPTER 2. BIOS SETUP..............................................................21

NTRODUCTION

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AIN

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DVANCED

BIOS F

EATURES

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NTEGRATED

ERIPHERALS

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OWER

ANAGEMENT

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ARDWARE

ONITOR

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OAD

EFAULTS

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XIT

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CHAPTER 3: SOFTWARE SETUP....................................................42

OFTWARE

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OFTWARE

NSTALLATION

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CHAPTER 4: TROUBLESHOOTING..................................................43

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Summary of Contents for KM333 PRO

Page 1: ...cument 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 and...

Page 2: ...s mainboard contains very delicate IC chips Use a grounded wrist strap when working with the system Do not touch the IC chips leads connectors or other components Unplug the AC power when you install or remove any device on the mainboard Package Contents KM333 Series mainboard IDE ATA Cable FDC Cable USB Bracket optional Game Port Bracket optional IEEE 1394 Bracket optional Installation and Setup ...

Page 3: ...6 PRO VT8235 Supports Socket 462 AMD AthlonTM XP AthlonTM DuronTM BartonTM Processors User Manual Dimensions ATX form factor 244mm x 244mm W x L Operating System Supports most popular operating systems Windows 98 ME 2000 XP ...

Page 4: ...ors 13 Front Panel Indicator SW LED PWRLED SPEAKER 14 Headers Jumpers 15 Audio Connectors 19 Slots 20 Power Supply Attachments 20 CHAPTER 2 BIOS SETUP 21 INTRODUCTION 21 MAIN MENU 23 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES 25 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 31 POWER MANAGEMENT 35 HARDWARE MONITOR 39 LOAD DEFAULTS 40 EXIT MENU 41 CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE SETUP 42 SOFTWARE LIST 42 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 42 CHAPTER 4 TROUBLESHOOTING...

Page 5: ...uilt in IDE facility Ultra ATA 33 66 100 133 that supports DMA and PIO modes The series also come with an AC 97 sound codec VT1616 which supports high quality 6 channel audio super 5 1 channel audio effect It also supports Sony Philips Digital Interfaces S PDIF The series support up to 6 USB2 0 ports and also provide an infrared header for wireless infrared transmissions The KM333 PRO 1394 also pr...

Page 6: ...d memory module increments are 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1 GB Supports install up to 2 GB memory size Supports x8 x16 DRAMs DDR DIMMs more details in memory installation section PCI BUS Slots Provides 3 PCI slots Contains 33MHz 32bit PCI interface PCI 2 2 is compliant Infrared Supports IrDA Version 1 0 SIR Protocol with a maximum baud rate of up to 115 2 Kbps Universal Serial Bus Supports up to 6 USB p...

Page 7: ... available AC 97 Audio Sound Codec AC LINK protocol compliance Compliant with AC 97 2 1 specification 6 channel playback capability super 5 1 channel audio effect Supports Sony Philips Digital Interface S PDIF for output only Onboard IDE Facilities Supports Ultra ATA 33 66 100 133 DMA and PIO modes Supports IDE interface with CD ROM Supports high capacity hard disk drives IDE slot can support 2 ID...

Page 8: ...ins two serial port 16550 UART one on back panel and one on front panel Supports 1 VGA port Supports Infrared Data Transmissions using IrDA Supports PS 2 mice and PS 2 keyboards Supports 360 KB 720 KB 1 2 MB 1 44 MB 2 88 MB floppy disk drives Game port compatible Sophisticated OTP Over Temperature Protection Special design for CPU Over Temperature Protection OTP is functional when using an AthlonT...

Page 9: ...KM333 Series 5 Configuration Layout of KM333 PRO 1394 ...

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Page 12: ...e angle 2 On the socket locate the corner that has the pin 1 receptor This corner will have a cut corner on the rectangular shaped pattern of pin holes on the socket Match the corner on the CPU with the pin 1 receptor on the socket 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 d...

Page 13: ...l unbuffered non ECC DDR SDRAM DIMMs with either 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB or 1 GB of memory These modules must be DDR333 or DDR266 SDRAM Attention This system has a BIOS configuration feature that issues a warning during POST when the CPU fan is not plugged in or is not functioning In order to make use of this feature You must make sure that the CPU power cable is attached specifically to the CPUFAN h...

Page 14: ...otch on the RAM module with the corresponding pattern in the DIMM slot This will ensure that the module will be inserted with the proper orientation 3 Lower the RAM module into the DIMM Slot and press firmly using both thumbs until the module snaps into place 4 Repeat steps 1 2 3 for the remaining RAM modules The pictures above are for reference only Your actual installation may vary slightly from...

Page 15: ...t on your system has a 25 pin DB25 connector that is used to interface with parallel printers and other devices using a parallel interface The Serial Interface COM1 The serial interface port is sometimes referred to as an RS 232 port or an asynchronous communication port Mice modems and other peripheral serial devices can be connected to this port Video Graphics Accelerator Port VGA The KM333 seri...

Page 16: ...speakers when 5 1 Channel Audio Effects driver is installed and enabled Line In Connects to an external audio device such as a CD player tape player or other audio devices that provide audio input This port becomes the rear speakers when 5 1 Channel Audio Effects driver is installed and enabled Mic In Connects to a microphone This port becomes the subwoofer center out when 5 1 Channel Audio Effect...

Page 17: ...nced PCI IDE Controller that supports Ultra ATA 33 Ultra ATA 66 Ultra 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 I...

Page 18: ... powered on PWR ON Power Button 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 before the power supply will recognize another on off signal PWR LED 3 Pin ...

Page 19: ...game port header on these mainboards To use this header you must attach a game port bracket cable so that you can interface to gaming devices game port bracket is optional COM Port Header COM2 This mainboard supports a front serial header To use this header you can install a back panel bracket optaional with a wire extending to this header You can then attach your serial device to serial port on t...

Page 20: ...To use this function your computer case must be equipped with a case open cable OTP Over Temperature Protection Jumper JP4 The mainboard supports a special design for CPU Over Temperature Protection If this function is Enabled and the CPU temperature rises above the normal range the system will automatically shut down and you have to unplug the ATX_PWR connector Remove and reinstall the CPU heat s...

Page 21: ...rovide a USB header on the board allowing for 2 additional USB ports To make use of the header you must attach a USB bracket cable with USB ports The optionally packaged bracket will have two connectors that you can connect to the header USB1 The other end bracket containing the USB ports is attached to the computer casing If you are using a USB 2 0 device with Windows 2000 XP you will need to ins...

Page 22: ...ou to reset your CMOS configurations This is particularly useful when you have forgotten your system password and cannot boot to the operating system 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 Co...

Page 23: ... connect to the earphone If you do not intend to use the FRONT_AUDIO panel do not remove the jumper caps The front panel audio effect and the back panel audio effect cannot simultaneous function S PDIF Header Red SPDIF S PDIF Sony Philips Digital Interface is an audio transfer file format which provides high quality audio using optical fiber and digital signals This mainboard is capable of deliver...

Page 24: ...I 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 The mainboard requires two ATX power connections a 20 pin connector and a 4 pin connector your power supply must have both connectors Attach the 4...

Page 25: ... 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 Plug and Play Support This PHOENIX AWARD BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1 0A specification as well as ESCD Extended System Configuration Data write EPA Green PC Support This PHOENIX AWARD BI...

Page 26: ...e 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 Decrease the numeric value or enter changes Esc key Main Menu Quit and do not save chan...

Page 27: ...e 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 28: ...u Press Enter to enter the sub menu Driver A Driver B None 360k 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 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 proce...

Page 29: ...ns Enabled default Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek When Enabled the BIOS tests seeks floppy drives to determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks Only 360 KB floppy drives have 40 tracks Drives with 720KB 1 2MB and 1 44MB capacity all have 80 tracks Because very few modern PCs have 40 track floppy drives we recommend that you set this field to Disabled Options Enabled Disabled default Advanced BIOS F...

Page 30: ...wo floppy drives choose Enabled to assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice versa Options Disabled default Enabled Boot Up NumLock Status Selects the power on state for NumLock Options On default Numpad keys are number keys Off Numpad keys are arrow keys Typematic Rate Setting When Enabled the typematic rate and typematic delay can be configured Typematic Rate determines the keystroke r...

Page 31: ...show or hide the small LOGO EPA Options Disabled default Enabled Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Clock Drive Control Press Enter to enter next page for DRAM Clock Drive Control settings DRAM Timing This item determines DRAM clock timing using the manual configuration Options Manual Auto default DRAM CAS Latency This item determines CAS Latency When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock ...

Page 32: ...AGP output buffer drive strength By choosing Manual it allows user to set the AGP output buffer driver strength AGP Driving Value While the AGP Driving Control option is set to Manual it allows the user to set AGP Driving Value Options DA default 00 FF AGP Fast Write The AGP Fast Write technology allows the CPU to write directly to the graphics card bypassing the system AGP 4X speed Choose Enable ...

Page 33: ...he video RAM which may improve performance If any other program writes to this memory area a system error may result Options Enabled Disabled default PnP PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed When set to YES BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for the boot sequence VGA IDE SCSI The rest of the cards will be initialized by the PnP operating system like Windows 95 When set to NO BIOS will ini...

Page 34: ...l CPU Speed Detected This item displays the CPU speed information detected by the system Spread Spectrum The Spread Spectrum function can reduce the EMI Electromagnetic Interference generated Options Disabled 1 50 1 00 0 70 0 50 0 75 0 50 0 35 0 25 CPU Host Frequency MHz This item displays the CPU Host Clock You can set it from xxx to 233 The default depends on your CPU frequency Default By CPU sp...

Page 35: ...ctivate an interface if you are going to install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface Options Enabled default Disabled IDE Prefetch Mode The onboard IDE drive interfaces supports IDE prefetching for faster drive access If you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface set this option to Disabled if the interface does not support prefetching Options Enabled default Disabled ...

Page 36: ...abel and then press the enter key it will take you a submenu with the following options AC 97 Audio This option allows you to control the onboard AC 97 audio Options Enabled default Disabled Onboard 1394 Device only for KM333 PRO 1394 This option allows you to control the onboard 1394 device Options Enabled default Disabled Onboard LAN Device This option allows you to control the onboard LAN devic...

Page 37: ...d serial port Options Disabled 2F8 IRQ3 default 3F8 IRQ4 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Auto UART Mode Select This item allows you to select the Infra Red IR standard to be used Option Normal default IrDA ASKIR RxD TxD Active This item determines the RxD and TxD frequencies This field only configurable if UART Mode Select is set to ASKIR or IrDA Options Hi Lo default Hi Hi Lo Hi Lo Lo IR Transmission Delay Thi...

Page 38: ...t ECP 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 default 300 290 Disabled Midi Port IRQ This determines the IRQ that Midi Port will use Opt...

Page 39: ...nd type using the ACPI operating system Options S1 POS default Power on Suspend 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 HDD Power Down 30 minutes 2 Max Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CPUs Suspend Mode 1 min HDD Power Down 6 min 3 User Defined default A...

Page 40: ...n 10Min 20Min 30Min 40Min 1Hour Video Off Option This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power management Options Suspend Off default Always On Video Off Method This option determines the manner in which the monitor goes blank Options V H SYNC Blank default This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write ...

Page 41: ...from S3 S5 to configure the hotkey PS2KB Wake Up from S3 S4 S5 This option is used when PS2KB Wake Up Select is configured as HOT KEY Options Disable default Ctrl F1 to F12 Power Wake Anykey Power Button Lock This item allows you to lock the power button Options Enabled Disabled default USB Wake Up This item allows you to awaken the system upon receiving an incoming call to a USB device Options Di...

Page 42: ...ptions Enabled Disabled default Date of Month You can choose which month the system will boot up This field is only configurable when RTC Wake Up is set to Enabled Resume Time hh mm ss 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 di...

Page 43: ...rning If this function is set to Enabled and the case had been previously opened the system will automatically display alert messages on the screen when you power on your computer If this function is set to Disabled the system will not show alert messages when you power on your computer even if the case is opened by others Options Disabled default Enabled CPU Warning Temperature When the CPU tempe...

Page 44: ...KM333 Series 40 Load Defaults Load System Default Settings Load System Default Settings Load System turbo Settings Load System Turbo Settings ...

Page 45: ...nfiguration 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 46: ...e first screen Main Screen will display several buttons Click the model button that you need Category Platform VIA 4 IN 1 Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP VIA LAN Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP VIA Audio Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP VIA VGA Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP VIA USB2 0 Driver Windows 98 ME Trend PC Cillin 2004 Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Microsoft DirectX Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Adobe Acrobat Reader ...

Page 47: ...0 Driver from the screen in step 2 it will display the screen as left 4 Back to the main screen click the Tool Page button you can choose the software to install 5 If you click the Browse CD button from the screen in step 1 you can browse all the files in the Driver CD 6 Click Exit button to exit the program ...

Page 48: ... 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 h...

Page 49: ...hen 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 power ...

Page 50: ...cted 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 dri...

Page 51: ...ds and Audio Devices The screen below will display First check the Place volume icon in the taskbar in the Device volume block Then press the Advanced button to configure the speaker settings 2 At the Advanced Audio Properties screen use the drop down box to select the 5 1 surround sound speakers Click Apply to enable the 5 1 channel audio effect 3 On your desktop double click the volume icon that...

Page 52: ...r screen select Options Advanced Controls 6 Next click the Advanced button of the Front Speaker then check the Smart5 1 Enable 7 Finally click the Advanced button of the Rear Speaker then check the Magic5 1 Enable This is the final step in configuring Super 5 1 Channel Audio Effect If you broadcast a DVD with a DVD ROM please skip this step ...

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