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K8M890-M7 PCI-E 

1 

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 

1.1 M

OTHERBOARD 

F

EATURES

 

CPU 

 

Supports Socket 754. 

 

Supports AMD Athlon 64 processor up to 3700+. 

 Supports 

AMD 

Sempron 

processor. 

 

Supports HyperTransport Technology up to 1600MT/s. 

Chipset 

 

North Bridge: VIA K8M890. 

 

South Bridge: VIA VT8237R PLUS. 

Dimensions 

 

Micro ATX Form Factor: 18.99cm (W) x 24.38cm (L) 

Operating System Supporting 

 

Supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP. 

  

Note:

 

Do not support Windows 98SE and Windows ME.

 

Slot 

 

Two 32bit PCI bus master slots. 

 

One PCI-Express x16 slot. 

 

One PCI-Express x1 slot. 

 

One CNR slot. 

On-board IDE 

 

Two on-board connectors support 4 IDE disk drives. 

 

Supports PIO mode 0~4. 

 

Supports Ultra DMA 33/ 66/100/133 Bus Master Mode. 

System Memory 

 

Supports up to 2 DDR devices. 

 Supports 

DDR 

266/333/400. 

 

Maximum memory capacity is up to 2GB. (Following table is 
only for reference.) 

DIMM Socket 

Location 

DDR Module 

Total Memory Size 

DIMM1 128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB 

*1

DIMM2 128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB 

*1

Max is 2 GB. 

Summary of Contents for K8M890-M7 PCI-E

Page 1: ... will not occur in a particular installation The vendor makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents here and specially disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any purpose Further the vendor reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to the contents here without obligation to notify any party beforehand Duplication of this pu...

Page 2: ...2 2 FAN Headers 7 2 3 Installing System Memory 8 2 4 Connectors and Slots 9 Chapter 3 Headers Jumpers Setup 12 3 1 How to Setup Jumpers 12 3 2 Detail Settings 12 Chapter 4 Useful Help 18 4 1 Award BIOS Beep Code 18 4 2 Extra Information 18 4 3 Troubleshooting 20 Chapter 5 WarpSpeeder 21 5 1 Introduction 21 5 2 System Requirement 21 5 3 Installation 22 5 4 WarpSpeeder includes 1 tray icon and 5 pan...

Page 3: ...indows 2000 and Windows XP Note Do not support Windows 98SE and Windows ME Slot Two 32bit PCI bus master slots One PCI Express x16 slot One PCI Express x1 slot One CNR slot On board IDE Two on board connectors support 4 IDE disk drives Supports PIO mode 0 4 Supports Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 Bus Master Mode System Memory Supports up to 2 DDR devices Supports DDR 266 333 400 Maximum memory capacity i...

Page 4: ... CODEC Chip REALTEK ALC655 Support 6 channels Supports SPDIF out function Compliant with AC 97 Version 2 3 specification Onboard Serial ATA Controller integrated in VT8237R PLUS Supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions Supports 2 serial ATA SATA ports Data transfer rates up to 150 MB s Compliant with SATA Version 1 0 specification 10 100 LAN PHY PHY RTL8201CL Supports 10 Mb s and 100 Mb s auto negotia...

Page 5: ...orts 2 Floppy drives with 360K 720K 1 2M 1 44M and 2 88Mbytes 2 IDE connectors support 4 hard disk devices 2 Serial ATA connectors support 2 SATA devices 3 USB headers support 6 USB 2 0 ports at front panel header JUSB1 is optional Back Panel I O Connectors 2 USB 2 0 ports 1 VGA port 1 Serial port 1 Game port 1 Printer port 1 RJ 45 LAN jack 1 PS 2 Mouse port 1 PS 2 Keyboard port 1 Audio port inclu...

Page 6: ...K8M890 M7 PCI E 4 1 2 PACKAGE CHECKLIST FDD Cable X 1 HDD Cable X 1 User s Manual X 1 Fully Setup Driver CD X 1 Rear I O Panel for ATX Case X 1 USB 2 0 Cable X1 optional S PDIF Cable X 1 optional ...

Page 7: ... JUSBV2 JSATA2 JSATA1 JCMOS1 JCI1 JCFAN1 JSFAN1 CODEC JPANEL1 LAN Super I O BIOS BAT1 Socket 754 CPU1 JUSBLAN1 CNR1 PCI1 PCI2 JKBMS1 JFAUDIO1 JSPDIF_OUT1 JATXPWR2 JPRNT1 JCOM1 JVGA1 JUSBV1 JGame Port JAUD_GAME JUSB1 optional IDE2 IDE1 K8M890 PCI EX16 JDJ1 optional PCI EX1_1 Note represents the 1 st pin ...

Page 8: ...UNIT CPU Step 1 Pull the lever toward direction A from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90 degree angle 90 A Step 2 Look for the triangle cut edge on socket and the gold dot on CPU should point forwards this triangle cut edge The CPU will fit only in the correct orientation ...

Page 9: ...ng fans built in the computer The fan cable and connector may be different according to the fan manufacturer Connect the fan cable to the connector while matching the black wire to pin 1 JCFAN1 CPU Fan Header JSFAN1 System Fan Header Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 12V JSFAN1 1 3 JCFAN1 3 1 3 FAN RPM rate sense Note The JCFAN1 and JSFAN1 support 3 pin head connector When connecting with wires onto conne...

Page 10: ...he slot such that the notch on the DIMM matches the break on the Slot 2 Insert the DIMM vertically and firmly into the slot until the retaining chip snap back in place and the DIMM is properly seated Note To remove the DDR modules push the ejector tabs at both sides of the slot outward at the same time and pull the modules out vertically ...

Page 11: ...ive ribbon cables FDD1 34 33 1 2 IDE1 IDE2 Hard Disk Connectors The motherboard has a 32 bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO Mode 0 4 Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 functionality It has two HDD connectors IDE1 primary and IDE2 secondary The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive so you can connect up to four hard disk drives The first hard drive should always b...

Page 12: ...eripheral Component Interconnect and it is a bus standard for expansion cards This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits PCI2 PCI1 PCI EX16 PCI Express x16 Slot PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum bandwidth is up to 4GB s PCI EX1_1 PCI Express x1 Slot PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum bandwidth is up to 250MB s per direction PCI EX16 PCI EX1_1 ...

Page 13: ...890 M7 PCI E 11 CNR1 Communication Network Riser Slot The CNR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture and it defines a hardware scalable riser card interface which supports modem only CNR1 ...

Page 14: ... Headers for USB Ports Pin 1 2 Close JUSBV1 5V for USB ports at JUSBLAN1 JUSBV2 5V for USB ports at front panel JUSB1 JUSB2 JUSB3 Pin 2 3 Close JUSBV1 USB ports at JUSBLAN1 are powered by 5V standby voltage JUSBV2 USB ports at front panel JUSB1 JUSB2 JUSB3 are powered by 5V standby voltage 3 1 1 3 Pin 1 2 Close Default JUSBV1 1 3 JUSBV2 3 1 3 1 1 3 Pin 2 3 Close Note In order to support this funct...

Page 15: ...NC JFAUDIO1 Front Panel Audio Header This header allows user to connect the front audio output cable with the PC front panel It will disable the output on back panel audio connectors Pin Assignment 1 Mic in center 2 Ground 3 Mic power Bass 4 Audio power 5 Right line out Speaker out Right 6 Right line out Speaker out Right 7 Reserved 8 Key 9 Left line out Speaker out Left 10 Left line out Speaker o...

Page 16: ...3V 3 Ground 4 5V 5 Ground 6 5V 7 Ground 8 PW_OK 9 Standby Voltage 5V 10 12V 11 12V 12 2 x 12 Detect 13 3 3V 14 12V 15 Ground 16 PS_ON 17 Ground 18 Ground 19 Ground 20 5V 21 5V 22 5V 23 5V 12 24 1 13 24 Ground JATXPWR2 ATX Power Source Connector By connecting this connector it will provide 12V to CPU power circuit Pin Assignment 1 12V 2 12V 3 Ground 2 3 1 4 4 Ground ...

Page 17: ...r to connect the PC case s front panel switch functions 1 23 24 SLP PWR_LED On Off IR optional RST HLED SPK 2 Pin Assignment Function Pin Assignment Function 1 5V 2 Sleep control 3 N A 4 Ground Sleep button 5 N A 6 N A N A 7 Speaker Speaker Connector 8 Power LED 9 HDD LED 10 Power LED 11 HDD LED Hard drive LED 12 Power LED Power LED 13 Ground 14 Power button 15 Reset control Reset button 16 Ground...

Page 18: ... Pin 2 3 Close Clear CMOS data Clear CMOS Procedures 1 Remove AC power line 2 Set the jumper to Pin 2 3 Close 3 Wait for five seconds 4 Set the jumper to Pin 1 2 Close 5 Power on the AC 6 Reset your desired password or clear the CMOS data JCI1 Chassis Open Header This connector allows system to monitor PC case open status If the signal has been triggered it will record to the CMOS and show the mes...

Page 19: ...d card PCI TV turner card etc Pin Assignment 1 Left Channel Input 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 1 4 Right Channel Input JSATA1 JSATA2 Serial ATA Connectors The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels SATA interface it satisfies the SATA 1 0 spec and with transfer rate of 1 5GB s Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 TX 3 TX 4 Ground 5 RX 6 RX JSATA2 7 1 4 7 Ground ...

Page 20: ...re BIOS If the following message is shown after boot up the system it means the BIOS contents are corrupted In this Case please follow the procedure below to restore the BIOS 1 Make a bootable floppy disk 2 Download the Flash Utility AWDFLASH exe from the Biostar website www biostar com tw 3 Confirm motherboard model and download the respectively BIOS from Biostar website 4 Copy AWDFLASH exe and r...

Page 21: ... again In this case please double check 1 The CPU cooler surface is placed evenly with the CPU surface 2 CPU fan is rotated normally 3 CPU fan speed is fulfilling with the CPU speed After confirmed please follow steps below to relief the CPU protection function 1 Remove the power cord from power supply for seconds 2 Wait for seconds 3 Plug in the power cord and boot up the system Or you can 1 Clea...

Page 22: ...to disk controller board Make sure both ends are securely plugged in check the drive type in the standard CMOS setup 2 Backing up the hard drive is extremely important All hard disks are capable of breaking down at any time System only boots from optical drive Hard disk can be read and applications can be used but booting from hard disk is impossible 1 Back up data and applications files 2 Reforma...

Page 23: ...information Also in the About panel you can get detail descriptions about BIOS model and chipsets In addition the frequency status of CPU memory AGP and PCI along with the CPU speed are synchronically shown on our main panel Moreover to protect users computer systems if the setting is not appropriate when testing and results in system fail or hang WarpSpeeder technology assures the system stabilit...

Page 24: ...the following dialog in setup procedure it means setup is completed If the Launch the WarpSpeeder Tray Utility checkbox is checked the Tray Icon utility and WarpSpeeder utility will be automatically and immediately launched after you click Finish button Usage The following figures are just only for reference the screen printed in this user manual will change according to your motherboard on hand ...

Page 25: ... responsible for conveniently invoking WarpSpeeder Utility You can use the mouse by clicking the left button in order to invoke WarpSpeeder directly from the little tray icon or you can right click the little tray icon to pop up a popup menu as following figure The Launch Utility item in the popup menu has the same function as mouse left click on tray icon and Exit item will close Tray Icon utilit...

Page 26: ...llows a Display the CPU Speed CPU external clock Memory clock AGP clock and PCI clock information b Contains About Voltage Overclock and Hardware Monitor Buttons for invoking respective panels c With a user friendly Status Animation it can represent 3 overclock percentage stages Man walking overclock percentage from 100 110 Panther running overclock percentage from 110 120 Car racing overclock per...

Page 27: ...ll be highlighted and the Voltage Panel will slide out to up as the following figure In this panel you can decide to increase CPU core voltage and Memory voltage or not The default setting is No If you want to get the best performance of overclocking we recommend you click the option Yes ...

Page 28: ...ide user the ability to do real time overclock adjustment Warning Manually overclock is potentially dangerous especially when the overclocking percentage is over 110 We strongly recommend you verify every speed you overclock by click the Verify button Or you can just click Auto overclock button and let WarpSpeeder automatically gets the best result for you b Recovery Dialog button Pop up the follo...

Page 29: ...ry If the testing fail system will do a fail safe rebooting After reboot the WarpSpeeder utility will restore to the hardware default setting or load the verified best and stable frequency according to the Recovery Dialog s setting Note Because the testing programs invoked in Auto overclock and Verify include DirectDraw Direct3D and DirectShow tests the DirectX 8 1 or newer runtime library is requ...

Page 30: ...e highlighted and the About Panel will slide out to up as the following figure In this panel you can get model name and detail information in hints of all the chipset that are related to overclocking You can also get the mainboard s BIOS model and the Version number of WarpSpeeder utility ...

Page 31: ...res are controlled by several separate chipset WarpSpeeder divide these features to separate panels If one chipset is not on board the correlative button in Main panel will be disabled but will not interfere other panels functions This property can make WarpSpeeder utility more robust ...

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