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The AOpen MK33 II (A) is an exceptional computer motherboard, designed to maximize performance and compatibility. To make the user experience even better, we offer a comprehensive user manual for free download at manualshive.com. Equip yourself with this essential manual to unleash the full potential of your MK33 II (A).

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Summary of Contents for MK33 II (A)

Page 1: ...II I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l Overview Hardware Installation Drivers Utilities AWARD BIOS Setup Glossary Troubleshooting Technical Support hMK33 II MK33 II A DOC NO MK332A OL E0102A ...

Page 2: ...ou Must Notice 8 Before You Start 9 Overview 11 Feature Highlight 12 Quick Installation Procedure 15 Motherboard Map 16 Block Diagram 17 Hardware Installation 19 Clear CMOS Data 20 CPU Installation 21 CPU Jumper less Design 24 Setting CPU Frequency and Core Voltage 25 CPU Thermal Sensor 26 CPU Fan and Housing Fan Connector With H W Monitoring 27 DIMM Socket 28 Front Panel Connector 31 ...

Page 3: ...aphic Port Expansion Slot 39 PC99 Colored Back Panel 40 Support 2nd USB Connector 41 CD Audio Connector 42 AUX IN Connector 43 MODEM CN Connector 44 Battery less and Long Life Design 45 Over current Protection 46 Hardware Monitoring 47 Resettable Fuse 48 Year 2000 Y2K 49 Low ESR Capacitors and Three Phase Power Solution 51 Layout Frequency Isolation Wall 53 Driver and Utility 55 Auto run Menu from...

Page 4: ...n 1 Driver 60 Installing Onboard Sound Driver 61 Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility 62 ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive 63 ACPI Suspend to RAM STR 67 AWARD BIOS 69 How To Use Award BIOS Setup Program 70 How To Enter BIOS Setup 72 BIOS Upgrade 73 Overclocking 75 VGA Card Hard Disk 76 Glossary 77 AC97 77 ACPI Advanced Configuration Power Interface 77 AGP Accelerated Graphic Port 77 AMR Audio Modem Ris...

Page 5: ...DE DMA mode 79 CNR Communication and Networking Riser 79 CODEC Coding and Decoding 80 DDR Double Data Rated SDRAM 80 DIMM Dual In Line Memory Module 80 DMA Direct Memory Access 80 ECC Error Checking and Correction 81 EDO Extended Data Output Memory 81 EEPROM Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM 81 EPROM Erasable Programmable ROM 81 EV6 Bus 82 FCC DoC Declaration of Conformity 82 FC PGA Flip Chip P...

Page 6: ... 84 PC 100 DIMM 84 PC 133 DIMM 84 PC 1600 or PC 2100 DDR DRAM 84 PCI Peripheral Component Interface Bus 84 PDF Format 85 PnP Plug and Play 85 POST Power On Self Test 85 RDRAM Rambus DRAM 85 RIMM Rambus Inline Memory Module 86 SDRAM Synchronous DRAM 86 Shadow E2 PROM 86 SIMM Single In Line Memory Module 86 SMBus System Management Bus 87 SPD Serial Presence Detect 87 Ultra DMA 87 ...

Page 7: ...I I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l USB Universal Serial Bus 88 VCM Virtual Channel Memory 88 ZIP file 88 Troubleshooting 89 Technical Support 93 Product Registration 96 How to Contact Us 97 ...

Page 8: ... on this manual are used for identification purposes only and may be the registered trademarks of their respective owners All of the specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without notice AOpen reserves the right to revise this publication and to make reasonable changes AOpen assumes no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manu...

Page 9: ...or system configuration changes This Online Manual is saved in PDF format we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 0 for online viewing it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing it is still capable for hardcopy printing you can print it by A4 paper size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer T...

Page 10: ...10 M MK K3 33 3 I II I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l This page intentionally left blank for notes ...

Page 11: ...stem bus In the AGP performance it has one AGP slot and supports AGP 1X 2X 4X mode and pipelined spilt transaction long burst transfer up to 1066MB sec According to different customer s requirements SDRAM VCM Virtual Channel Memory and ECC Registered DRAM can be applied to the MK33 II MK33 II A and the maximum memory size can be up to 1GB The on board IDE controller supports ATA 100 mode and the t...

Page 12: ...I and one AGP 4X slots The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB s The Accelerated Graphics Port AGP specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed The AGP video cards support data transfer rate up to 1066MB s As MK33 II MK33 II A includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card For AD and SBA signaling MK33 II MK33 II A can support 133MHz 2X...

Page 13: ...d Play The MK33 II MK33 II A supports the power management function that confirms to the power saving standards of the U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA Energy Star program It also offers Plug and Play which helps save users from configuration problems thus making to system user friendlier Hardware Monitoring Management Supports CPU or system fans status temperature and voltage monitoring an...

Page 14: ... in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l Super Multi I O The MK33 II MK33 II A provides two high speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for the wireless connections ...

Page 15: ...edure on how to install your system Follow each step accordingly 1 Installing CPU and Fan 2 Installing System Memory DIMM 3 Connecting Front Panel Cable 4 Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable 5 Connecting ATX Power Cable 6 Connecting Back Panel Cable 7 Power on and Load BIOS Setup Default 8 Setting CPU Frequency 9 Reboot 10 Installing Operating System such as Windows 98 11 Installing Driver and Utility...

Page 16: ...Sensor AGP 4X Expansion Slot VIA Apollo KT133 KT133 A Chipset PC 100 133 SDRAM Socket x2 Supports Maximum up to 1GB Low ESR Capacitors and Three Phase Power Solution Front Panel Connector IrDA Connector Modem CN Connector CD IN Connector Onboard AC97 CODEC Chip 32 bit PCI Expansion Slot x3 WOL Wake On LAN Connector FDD Connector Supports 2nd USB Connector 2Mbit Flash ROM BIOS JP14 CMOS Clear Jumpe...

Page 17: ...100 133MHz System Bus DIMM Socket x2 AGP 4X Slot South Bridge VIA VT82C686B Serial Port x2 USB Port USB Port USB Port x4 32 bit PCI Slot x3 Parallel Port Monitor IDE Drive x4 ATA 66 100 PC 100 133 SDRAM VCM Up to 1GB Primary Channel Secondary Channel 2MBit Flash EEPROM Audio CODEC Modem CODEC AC 97 Link AC97 CODEC B Bl lo oc ck k D Di ia ag gr ra am m ...

Page 18: ...18 M MK K3 33 3 I II I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l This page left blank intentionally for notes ...

Page 19: ...wire IDE Cable x1 Floppy Disk Drive Cable x1 Bonus Pack CD Disk x1 MK33 II MK33 II A Easy Installation Guide x1 Note Electrostatic discharge ESD can damage your processor disk drives expansion boards and other components Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component 1 Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it 2 Wear a...

Page 20: ...rocedure below 1 Turn off the system and unplug the AC power 2 Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2 3 Locate JP14 and short pins 2 3 for a few seconds 4 Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pins 1 pin2 5 Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2 Tip When should I Clear CMOS 1 Boot fail because of overclocking 2 Forget password 3 Troubleshooting Normal Operation default Clear CM...

Page 21: ...66MHz EV6 bus Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket The following steps will guide you to finish CPU installation 2 Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the CPU upper interface Match Pin 1 and cut edge then insert the CPU into the socket CPU pin 1 and cut edge CPU socket Lever 1 Pull up the CPU socket level and up to 90 degree angle Black dot ...

Page 22: ...in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l Note This picture is for example only it may not be exactly the said motherboard Note If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well it may damage the CPU 3 Press down the CPU socket level and finish CPU installation ...

Page 23: ...00 900MHz 200MHz 9x Athlon 950 950MHz 200MHz 9 5x Athlon 1000 1GHz 200MHz 10x Athlon 1100 1 1GHz 200MHz 11x Athlon 1200 1 2GHz 200MHz 12x Duron 600 600MHz 200MHz 6x Duron 650 650MHz 200MHz 6 5x Duron 700 700MHz 200MHz 7x Duron 750 750MHz 200MHz 7 5x Duron 800 800MHz 200MHz 8x Warning VIA Apollo KT133 KT133 A chipset supports basic 100 133MHz which FSB could reach maximum 200 266MHz EV6 system Bus ...

Page 24: ...detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup therefore no jumpers or switches are used The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper less designs are eliminated There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection AMD Socket 462 Athlon Duron CPU Power Regulator CPU VID signal CPU voltage Automatically generates CPU voltage Clock Generator CPU Freq Ratio BIOS Contr...

Page 25: ...l l S Se et tt ti in ng g C CP PU U F Fr re eq qu ue en nc cy y a an nd d C Co or re e V Vo ol lt ta ag ge e This motherboard supports CPU VID function The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 1 1V to 1 85V It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage ...

Page 26: ... MK33 II MK33 II A provides a thermal sensor that located on the center of CPU socket to monitoring CPU temperature The thermal sensor will detect the CPU temperature and send this temperature signal to hardware monitoring chip Hence you can monitor the CPU temperature by BIOS setup program or hardware monitoring utility CPU Thermal Sensor ...

Page 27: ...n nn ne ec ct to or r W Wi it th h H H W W M Mo on ni it to or ri in ng g Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3 pin CPU FAN connector If you have chassis fan you can also plug it on SYSTEM FAN CONN connector Note Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so that cannot support fan monitoring CPU Fan Connector Chassis Fan Connector GND 12V SENSOR SENSOR 12V GND ...

Page 28: ...33 II MK33 II A motherboard has two 168 pin DIMM sockets that allow you to install PC100 or PC133 memory up to 1GB with CPU running at 100 MHz but if CPU runs at 133MHZ the MK33 II A can supports the PC 133 registered DIMM module only The MK33 II MK33 II A supports not only SDRAM but also VCM and Registered DRAM DIMM1 DIMM2 ...

Page 29: ...A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l DIMM can be single side or double side it has 64 bit data and 2 or 4 clock signals We strongly recommend choosing 4 clock SDRAM for its reliability SDRAM DIMM Module VCM DIMM Module ECC Register DIMM Module ...

Page 30: ...llation 1 Make sure the DIMM module s pin face down and match the socket s size as depicted below 2 Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place 3 Repeat step 2 to finish additional DIMM modules installation 20 pins 60 pins 88 pins Note The tabs of the DIMM slot will close up to hold the DIMM in place when the DIM...

Page 31: ...r LED EMPI speaker power and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins If you enable Suspend Mode item in BIOS Setup the ACPI Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing It is 2 pin female connector from the housing front panel Plug this connector to the soft power switch connector marked SPWR Speaker IDE LED SPWR ACP...

Page 32: ...in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l A AT TX X P Po ow we er r C Co on nn ne ec ct to or r The ATX power supply uses 20 pin connector shown below Make sure you plug in the right direction 5V 5V 5V 5V 3 3V 3 3V 3 3V COM COM COM COM COM COM 5V COM 12V PS ON PW OK 12V 5VSB ...

Page 33: ...o o R Re ec co ov ve er ry y A traditional ATX system should remain at power off stage when AC power resumes from power failure This design is inconvenient for a network server or workstation without an UPS that needs to keep power on This motherboard implements an AC Power Auto Recovery function to solve this problem ...

Page 34: ...oppy cable and 40 pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDC and IDE connector The blue connector is IDE1 for clear identification Be careful of the pin1 orientation Wrong orientation may cause system damage FDD Connector Pin 1 Secondary Slave 4th Secondary Master 3rd ATA 33 66 100 IDE Connector Primary Master 1st Primary Slave 2nd IDE 2 Connector Secondary IDE 1Connector Primary ...

Page 35: ...mode 0 30ns 20 600ns 1 600ns x 2byte 3 3MB s PIO mode 1 30ns 13 383ns 1 383ns x 2byte 5 2MB s PIO mode 2 30ns 8 240ns 1 240ns x 2byte 8 3MB s PIO mode 3 30ns 6 180ns 1 180ns x 2byte 11 1MB s PIO mode 4 30ns 4 120ns 1 120ns x 2byte 16 6MB s DMA mode 0 30ns 16 480ns 1 480ns x 2byte 4 16MB s DMA mode 1 30ns 5 150ns 1 150ns x 2byte 13 3MB s DMA mode 2 30ns 4 120ns 1 120ns x 2byte 16 6MB s UDMA 33 30ns...

Page 36: ...ware such as Laplink or Windows 95 Direct Cable Connection the user can transfer files to or from laptops notebooks PDA devices and printers This connector supports HPSIR 115 2Kbps 2 meters and ASK IR 56Kbps Install the infrared module onto the IrDA connector and enable the infrared function from BIOS Setup UART2 Mode make sure to have the correct orientation when you plug in the IrDA connector Pi...

Page 37: ...th chipset that supports this feature and connect a cable from LAN card to motherboard WOL connector The system identification information probably IP address is stored on network card and because there is a lot of traffic on the Ethernet you need to install network management software such as ADM for the checking of how to wake up the system Note that at least 600mA ATX standby current is require...

Page 38: ...3 I II I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l Note This picture is for example only it may not be exactly the said motherboard WOL Connector Motherboard Side WOL Connector Ethernet Card Side ...

Page 39: ...lo ot t The MK33 II MK33 II A provides an AGP 4x slot The AGP 4x is a bus interface targeted for high performance 3D graphic AGP supports only memory read write operation and single master single slave one to one only AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 2X AGP the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 2 528MB s AGP is now moving to AGP 4x mode 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 1056MB s ...

Page 40: ...ch is using a PS 2 plug PS 2 Mouse For PC Mouse which is using a PS 2 plug USB Port Available for connecting USB devices Parallel Port To connect with SPP ECP EPP printer COM1 Port To connect with pointing devices modem or others serial devices Speaker Out To External Speaker Earphone or Amplifier Line In Comes from the signal sources such as CD Tape player MIC In From Microphone MIDI Game Port Fo...

Page 41: ... rt t 2 2n nd d U US SB B C Co on nn ne ec ct to or r This motherboard supports four USB ports Two of them are on back panel connector the other two are on the left bottom area of this motherboard With proper cable you can connect them to front panel Pin 1 5V SBD2 SBD2 GND 5V SBD3 SBD3 GND NC 1 2 9 10 ...

Page 42: ...I I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l C CD D A Au ud di io o C Co on nn ne ec ct to or r This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound CD IN R L GND ...

Page 43: ...I II I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l A AU UX X I IN N C Co on nn ne ec ct to or r The AUX IN connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound R L GND AUX IN ...

Page 44: ...e ec ct to or r This connector is used to connect Mono In MIC Out cable from internal modem card to onboard sound circuit The pin 1 2 is Mono IN and the pin 3 4 is MIC OUT Please note that there is no standard for this kind of connector yet only some internal modem cards implement this connector MODEM CN Mono IN MIC OUT ...

Page 45: ...ons without the need of a battery The RTC real time clock can also keep running as long as the power cord is plugged If you lose your CMOS data by accident you can just reload the CMOS configurations from Flash ROM and the system will recover as usual Backup by EEPROM Flash ROM CMOS RTC real time clock 00 00 00 Auto Switch Battery ATX standby power Auto switching to ATX standby power as long as AC...

Page 46: ... supports CPU over current protection in conjunction with 3 3V 5V 12V power supply provide the full line over current protection 3 3V Protected by power supply ATX Switching Power Supply 5V Protected by power supply Onboard Power Regulator Over Current Protection Circuit CPU Core Voltage 12V Protected by power supply Note Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human ope...

Page 47: ...itoring system As you turn on your system this smart design will continue to monitor your system s working voltage fan status and CPU temperature If any of these systems status go wrong there will be an alarm through the AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility to warn the user CPU Voltage CPU CPU Temperature System Voltage Power Fan Speed Fan Detection Circuit AOpen H W Monitoring Utility ...

Page 48: ...as fuse for Keyboard and USB port to prevent over current or shortage These fuses are soldered onboard that when it is broken did the job to protect motherboard user still cannot replace it and the motherboard is still malfunction With expensive Resettable Fuse the motherboard can back to normal function after fuse did the protection job Resettable Fuse ...

Page 49: ...998 1999 1900 that means it may have the Y2K problem Below is a diagram of how applications work with the OS BIOS and RTC In order to keep the best compatibility in the PC industry there is a rule that applications must call the OS to get services and OS must call the BIOS and then only BIOS is allowed to access the hardware RTC directly There is a Tick Routine that goes live around every 50m sec ...

Page 50: ...llow the rule to get date time information There will be no Y2K problem such as NSTL s test program But unfortunately again we found some test programs such as Checkit 98 accesses RTC CMOS directly This motherboard has hardware Y2K checking and protection that ensures risk free operation ...

Page 51: ...bility of CPU power The location of where to put these capacitors is another know how that requires experience and detail calculation Based on CPU gets higher and higher working frequency the CPU needs more power to work and this higher electric current will cause higher temperature As we know higher temperature will reduce the components lifecycle Hence we use three phase power solution for this ...

Page 52: ...ntium III or when overclocking A typical CPU core voltage is 2 0V so a good design should control voltage between 1 860V and 2 140V That is the transient must be below 280mV Below is a timing diagram captured by a Digital Storage Scope it shows the voltage transient is only 143mv even when maximum 18A current is applied Note This diagram is for example only it may not be exactly the same as said m...

Page 53: ... unique design called Frequency Isolation Wall Separating each critical portion of motherboard into regions where each region operates in a same or similar frequency range to avoid cross talk and frequency interference between each region s operations and condition The trace length and route must be calculated carefully For example the clock trace must be equal length not necessarily as short as p...

Page 54: ...54 M MK K3 33 3 I II I M MK K3 33 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l This page is intentionally left blank for notes ...

Page 55: ... in AOpen Bonus CD disc You don t need to install all of them in order to boot your system But after you finish the hardware installation you have to install your operation system first such as Windows 98 before you can install any drivers or utilities Please refer to your operation system s installation guide Note Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 and Windows 98 ...

Page 56: ... 3 I II I A A O On nl li in ne e M Ma an nu ua al l A Au ut to o r ru un n M Me en nu u f fr ro om m B Bo on nu us s C CD D D Di is sc c You can use the auto run menu of Bonus CD disc Choose the utility and driver and select model name ...

Page 57: ...st don t install any add on card except AGP card 2 Install Windows 95 OSR2 v2 1 1212 or 1214 version and later with USB support Otherwise you need to install USBSUPP EXE 3 Install the VIA 4 in 1 driver which includes VIA AGP Vxd driver VIA ATAPI Vendor Support driver and VIA registry INF program 4 Finally Install other add on cards and their drivers ...

Page 58: ...rd except AGP card 2 Enable USB Controller in BIOS Setup Advanced Chipset Features OnChip USB to make BIOS fully capable of controlling IRQ assignment 3 Install Window 98 into your system 4 Install the VIA 4 in 1 driver which includes VIA AGP Vxd driver IRQ Routing VIA ATAPI Vendor Support driver and VIA registry INF program 5 Finally Install other add on cards and their drivers ...

Page 59: ...ws 98 Second Edition Windows Millennium Edition or Windows 2000 you do not need to install the 4 in 1 driver as the IRQ Routing Driver and the ACPI Registry are already incorporated into the operating system Users with Windows 98 SE may update the VIA Registry INF and AGP drivers by installing them individually Please refer to VIA Technologies Inc for latest version of 4 in 1 driver http www via c...

Page 60: ... For Windows NT use VIA ATAPI Vendor Support Driver VIA AGP IRQ Routing Driver For Windows 98 use VIA Registry INF Driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc Autorun menu Warning If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver please remove the AGP card driver first Otherwise the screen may go black at rebooting after the un installation Note Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard...

Page 61: ... an nu ua al l I In ns st ta al ll li in ng g O On nb bo oa ar rd d S So ou un nd d D Dr ri iv ve er r This motherboard comes with an AC97 CODEC and the sound controller is in VIA South Bridge chipset You can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc auto run menu ...

Page 62: ...in ng g H Ha ar rd dw wa ar re e M Mo on ni it to or ri in ng g U Ut ti il li it ty y You can install Hardware Monitoring Utility to monitor CPU temperature fans and system voltage The hardware monitoring function is automatically implemented by the BIOS and utility software No hardware installation is needed ...

Page 63: ...een image into hard disk and then the system can be totally power off Next time when power is on you can resume your original work directly from hard disk within few seconds without go through the Windows booting process and run your application again If your memory is 64MB normally you need to reserve at least 64MB HDD space to save your memory image Hard Disk Hard Disk System Image Status Save i...

Page 64: ...own will be shown Select Hibernate and Apply 3 Clean boot into DOS and run AOZVHDD utility a If you assign the whole disk to your Win 98 system FAT 16 or FAT 32 please run aozvhdd c file Please remember sufficient free space has to be reserved in the disk e g if you have 64 MB DRAM and 16 MB VGA card installed the system needs at least 80 MB free space The utility will locate the space automatical...

Page 65: ...ENT VERSION DETECT b Select ADD Binary and name it as ACPIOPTION c Right click and select Modify add 01 after 0000 to make it 0000 01 d Save changes 2 Select Add New Hardware under Control Panel Allow Windows 98 to detect new hardware It will find ACPI BIOS and remove Plug and Play BIOS 3 Reboot system 4 Clean boot into DOS and run AOZVHDD EXE C File Changing from ACPI to APM 1 Run Regedit exe a G...

Page 66: ...ct Add New Hardware under Control Panel Allow Windows 98 to detect new hardware It will find Plug and Play BIOS and remove ACPI BIOS 3 Reboot system 4 Run Add New Hardware again and it will find Advanced Power Management Resource 5 Click OK Tip 02 means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled Tip Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend ...

Page 67: ...t going through the Windows 98 booting process and run your application again Suspend to DRAM saves your current work in the system memory it is faster than Suspend to Hard Drive but requires power supplied to DRAM while Suspend to Hard Drive requires no power When go into Suspend When power on next time Other System Devices System Image Status in the DRAM Backup by 3 3V Power Power loss Other Sys...

Page 68: ... choice Please refer to ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive of how to setup Windows 98 ACPI mode 2 The VIA 4 in 1 Driver must have been installed properly Procedures 1 Changed the following BIOS settings BIOS Setup Power Management Setup ACPI Function Enabled BIOS Setup Power Management Setup ACPI Suspend Type S3 2 Go to Control Panel Power Management Set Power Buttons to Standby 3 Press power button or st...

Page 69: ...l low level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives serial and parallel ports Most BIOS setting of MK33 II MK33 II A had optimized by AOpen s R D engineering team But the default setting of BIOS still can t fine tune the chipset controlling entire system Hence the rest of this chapter is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using setup To enter to BIOS...

Page 70: ...Award BIOS setup program By the way all products of AOpen also provides a special function in the BIOS setup you can press F3 key selecting preferred menu language to display Key Description Page Up or Changing setting to next value or increase the value Page Down or Changing setting to previous value or decrease value Enter Select the item Esc 1 In main menu Quit and don t save any change 2 In su...

Page 71: ...e changed setting and exit setup program Note AOpen always dedicates to give users a more friendly computer system Now we include all function descriptions of BIOS setup program into the BIOS Flash ROM When you select one function of BIOS setup program the function description will appeared at right side of screen Hence you don t need read this manual while you changing the BIOS setting ...

Page 72: ...p After you finish the setting of jumpers and connect correct cables Power on and enter the BIOS Setup press Del during POST Power On Self Test Choose Load Setup Defaults for recommended optimal performance Warning Please avoid of using Load Turbo Defaults unless you are sure your system components CPU DRAM HDD etc are good enough for turbo setting ...

Page 73: ... use the right BIOS revision for the right motherboard model AOpen Easy Flash is a little different than traditional flash method The BIOS binary file and flash routine are linked together and you simply run a single commend to complete the flash process Caution AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are designed to be compatible with the Award BIOS At the date of this note AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs ...

Page 74: ...y disk For example MK33II102 BIN MK33II102 EXE 4 Reboot the system to DOS mode without loading any memory handler such as EMM386 or device driver It needs around 520K free memory spaces 5 Execute A MK33II102 and the program will do the rest of it DO NOT turn off the power during FLASH PROCESS until you are asked to 6 Reboot system and press Del to enter BIOS setup Choose Load Setup Defaults then S...

Page 75: ...when proper setting and qualified components were presented we feel quite comfortable overclocking to 150MHz Not only that this motherboard has full range CPU core voltage settings and an option to adjust CPU core voltage The CPU clock ratio can be up to 8x that supports almost all of Athlon Duron CPUs in the future and provides flexibility for overclockers For your reference the following configu...

Page 76: ...locking for your reference the following list are what have been successful overclocked in our lab Please note that AOpen can not guaranty they can be successful overclocked again Please check the Available Vendor List AVL by link to our official website VGA http www aopen com tw tech report overclk mb vga oc htm HDD http www aopen com tw tech report overclk mb hdd oc htm ...

Page 77: ...r management to operating system and bypass BIOS The chipset or super I O chip needs to provide standard register interface to operating system such as Windows 98 This is a bit similar as the PnP register interface ACPI defines ATX momentary soft power switch to control the power state transition A AG GP P A Ac cc ce el le er ra at te ed d G Gr ra ap ph hi ic c P Po or rt t AGP is a bus interface ...

Page 78: ... an nc ce ed d P Po ow we er r M Ma an na ag ge em me en nt t Unlike ACPI BIOS controls most APM power management functions AOpen Suspend to Hard Drive is a good example of APM power management A AT TA A A AT T A At tt ta ac ch hm me en nt t ATA is the specification of diskette interface In 80 s many software and hardware manufacturers instituted the ATA specification together The AT is meaning In...

Page 79: ...M Ma as st te er r I ID DE E D DM MA A m mo od de e The traditional PIO Programmable I O IDE requires the CPU to involve in all the activities of the IDE access including waiting for the mechanical events To reduce the workload of the CPU the bus master IDE device transfers data from to memory without interrupting CPU and releases CPU to operate concurrently while data is transferring between memo...

Page 80: ...ver and workstation applications DDR low cost and low voltage will ultimately make it an ideal solution for all segments of the PC market high performance desktop and mobile PCs Value PCs and even Internet Appliances and mobile devices D DI IM MM M D Du ua al l I In n L Li in ne e M Me em mo or ry y M Mo od du ul le e DIMM socket has total 168 pin and supports 64 bit data It can be single or doubl...

Page 81: ...raditional FPM that tri states the memory output data to start the pre charge activity EDO DRAM holds the memory data valid until the next memory access cycle that is similar to pipeline effect and reduces one clock state E EE EP PR RO OM M E El le ec ct tr ro on ni ic c E Er ra as sa ab bl le e P Pr ro og gr ra am mm ma ab bl le e R RO OM M Also known as E2 PROM Both EEPROM and Flash ROM can be r...

Page 82: ...arately without a shielding of housing F FC C P PG GA A F Fl li ip p C Ch hi ip p P Pi in n G Gr ri id d A Ar rr ra ay y FC means Flip Chip FC PGA is a new package of Intel for Pentium III CPU It can plug into SKT370 socket but require motherboard to add some signals on socket 370 That is the motherboard needs to be redesigned Intel is going to ship FC PGA 370 CPU and phase out slot1 CPU F Fl la a...

Page 83: ...nous channel ID and notification of errors There are two type of IEEE 1394 data transfer asynchronous and isochronous Asynchronous transport is the traditional computer memory mapped load and store interface Data requests are sent to a specific address and an acknowledgment is returned In addition to an architecture that scales with silicon technology IEEE 1394 features a unique isochronous data c...

Page 84: ...10 00 0 D DI IM MM M SDRAM DIMM that supports 100MHz CPU FSB bus clock P PC C 1 13 33 3 D DI IM MM M SDRAM DIMM that supports 133MHz CPU FSB bus clock P PC C 1 16 60 00 0 o or r P PC C 2 21 10 00 0 D DD DR R D DR RA AM M Based on FSB frequency the DDR DRAM has 200MHz and 266MHz two type of working frequency Because of DDR DRAM data bus is 64 bit it provides data transfer bandwidth up to 200x64 8 1...

Page 85: ...IOS and operating system to configure system resource and prevent any conflicts PnP BIOS or operating system will automatically allocate the IRQ DMA Memory Currently almost all the PCI cards and most ISA cards are already PnP compliant P PO OS ST T P Po ow we er r O On n S Se el lf f T Te es st t The BIOS self test procedure after power on sometimes it is the first or the second screen shown on yo...

Page 86: ... It is similar as PBSRAM to use burst mode transfer SDRAM comes in 64 bit 168 pin DIMM and operates at 3 3V AOpen is the first company to support dual SDRAM DIMMs onboard AP5V from Q1 1996 S Sh ha ad do ow w E E 2 2 P PR RO OM M A memory space in Flash ROM to simulate E2 PROM operation AOpen motherboard uses Shadow E2 PROM for jumper less and battery less design S SI IM MM M S Si in ng gl le e I I...

Page 87: ...RIMM U Ul lt tr ra a D DM MA A Ultra DMA or more accurately Ultra DMA 33 is a protocol for transferring data between a hard disk drive through the computer s data path or bus to the computer s random access memory RAM The Ultra DMA 33 protocol transfers data in burst mode at a rate of 33 3MB s twice as fast as the previous Direct Access Memory DMA interface Ultra DMA was developed as a proposed in...

Page 88: ...a an nn ne el l M Me em mo or ry y NEC s Virtual Channel Memory VCM is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system s ability to service multimedia requirements VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I O pins Using VCM technology results in reduced data access la...

Page 89: ...C power cable then remove all of the add on cards and cables including VGA IDE FDD COM1 COM2 and printer T Tr ro ou ub bl le es sh ho oo ot ti in ng g If you encounter any trouble to boot you system follow the procedures accordingly to resolve the problem Start Make sure if all jumper settings are correct Clear CMOS Next ...

Page 90: ...nstall the VGA card Then connect your monitor and keyboard Continue Turn on the power and check if the power supply and CPU fan work properly The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing Next No Yes ...

Page 91: ... ua al l Continue Press Ctrl and Alt key at the same time hold them and then press Del to reboot the system Check if there is display No Yes Perhaps your VGA card or monitor is defective Check if the system reboots No It is very possible that your keyboard is defective Next Yes ...

Page 92: ...ue During system rebooting press Del to enter BIOS setup Choose Load Setup Default Check if the system can reboot successfully No The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself End Yes Turn off the system and re connect IDE cable Re install the operating system such as Windows 98 ...

Page 93: ...stomers Thanks very much for your understanding AOpen Technical Supporting Team Online Manual Please check the manual carefully and make sure the jumper settings and installation procedure are correct http www aopen com tw tech download manual default htm 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Test Report We recommend choosing board card device from the compatibility test reports for assembling your PC http www aopen co...

Page 94: ...en answered by our support engineer or professional users on the news group http www aopen com tw tech newsgrp default htm Contact Distributors Resellers We sell our products through resellers and integrators They should know your system configuration very well and should be able to solve your problem more efficiently than us After all their attitude of service is an important reference for you if...

Page 95: ...n nd d B BI IO OS S v ve er rs si io on n Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen POST screen For example MK33 II is model name of motherboard R1 00 is BIOS version MK33 II R1 00 Feb 01 2001 AOpen Inc Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1 0A Copyright 1998 Award Software Inc ...

Page 96: ...n technical issues Receive email notification about latest product s announcements Be able to personalize your AOpen web pages Receive e mail notification about latest BIOS Driver Software release information Have opportunities to participate special product promotional programs Enjoy higher service priority to receive technical assistance provided by AOpen specialists worldwide Be able to join th...

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