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K8T890-A9 

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Note:  

Because the overclock, overvoltage, and hardware monitor features 
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. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

07/06, 2005 

Summary of Contents for K8T890-A9

Page 1: ...ll 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 publi...

Page 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 19 4 1 Award BIOS Beep Code 19 4 2 Extra Information 19 4 3 Troubleshooting 21 Chapter 5 WarpSpeeder 22 5 1 Introduction 22 5 2 System Requirement 22 5 3 Installation 23 5 4 WarpSpeeder includes 1 tray icon and 5 panels...

Page 3: ... Bridge VIA VT8237R Dimension ATX Form Factor 29 31cm W x 24 38cm L Operating System Supporting Supports Windows 98SE Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows ME Windows XP Fedora and UNIX series Slot Three PCI bus master slots Two PCI EX1 slots One PCI EX16 slot One XGP slot Xtreme Graphic Port See p 10 for detail information Onboard Serial ATA Integrated in VT8237R Two serial ATA connectors support 2 SAT...

Page 4: ...B 1GB 1 Max is 4 GB Super I O Chip ITE IT8705AF GX Low Pin Count Interface Integrate hardware monitor functions Onboard IDE Two IDE connectors support 4 hard disk drives Supports PIO mode 0 4 Block Mode and Ultra DMA 66 100 133 bus master mode 10 100 LAN Chip VT6103L RTL8100C optional Supports 10 Mb s 100 Mb s operation Half Full duplex capability Supports ACPI PCI power management Onboard AC 97 S...

Page 5: ...n 1 FDD connector supports 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 2 USB headers support 4 USB 2 0 ports at front panel 1 Wake up on LAN header optional Back Panel I O Connectors 4 USB 2 0 ports 1 Serial port 1 Printer port 1 RJ 45 LAN jack 1 PS 2 Mouse port 1 PS 2 Keyboard port 1 Vertical ...

Page 6: ...rts USB Function Software Supports 9th TouchTM FlasherTM WinFlasherTM and WarpspeederTM 1 2 PACKAGE LIST FDD cable x1 HDD cable x1 User s Manual x1 Fully Setup Driver CD x1 Rear I O panel for ATX case x1 USB 2 0 cable x1 optional Serial ATA cable x2 optional S PDIF out cable x1 optional ...

Page 7: ...JATXPWR2 JUSBV2 JUSB2 JUSB1 JCFAN1 VT8237R JSATA2 JSATA1 BAT1 JCMOS1 JCI1 JSFAN1 JPANEL1 JWOL1 optional JATXPWR1 PCI EX16 PCI EX1_2 PCI EX1_1 XGP1 JSPDIF_IN1 optional JDJ1 optional J1 optional JPRNT1 JCOM1 JCOM2 optional LAN optional Super I O Socket 939 DIMM1 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM4 FDD1 IDE1 IDE2 BIOS LAN 10 100 Note represents the 1st pin ...

Page 8: ... the socket protection cap Step 2 Pull the lever toward direction A from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90 degree angle A 90 Step 3 Look for the white triangle on socket and the gold triangle on CPU should point forwards this white triangle The CPU will fit only in the correct orientation ...

Page 9: ...er 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 connectors please note that the ...

Page 10: ... retaining chip snap back in place and the DIMM is properly seated 2 4 DDR Installation Notice 1 Please follow the table below to install DDR memory module or the system may not boot up or may not function properly 2 SS represents Single Side DDR memory module 3 DS represents Double Side DDR memory module 4 Star sign represents leave the DIMM socket empty 64bit 128bit setup1 setup2 setup3 setup1 s...

Page 11: ...rive ribbon cables 34 33 1 2 IDE1 IDE2 Hard Disk Connector The motherboard has a 32 bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO Mode 0 4 Bus Master and Ultra DMA 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 be connec...

Page 12: ...PCI2 PCI1 PCI EX16 PCI Express x16 Slot PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 4GB s simultaneously per direction for an aggregate of 8GB s totally PCI EX1_1 PCI Ex1_2 PCI Express x1 slot PCI Express 1 0a compliant Data transfer bandwidth up to 250MB s per direction 500MB s in total PCI Express supports a raw bit rate of 2 5Gb s on the data pins 2X bandwidth over the ...

Page 13: ...the add on AGP VGA card the system will automatically set the onboard VGA as the primary graphics adapter For the onboard VGA driver can t be removed completely and to solve this problem please follow the steps below 1 Disable onboard VGA utility under the operating system and reboot PC After PC restarts the system will automatically set the AGP VGA card as the graphics adapter 2 Or re install you...

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

Page 15: ...n Power on system via keyboard and mouse JKBV1 jumper cap should be placed on Pin 2 3 JATXPWR1 ATX Power Source Connector This connector allows user to connect 24 pin power connector on the ATX power supply Pin Assignment 1 3 3V 2 3 3V 3 Ground 4 5V 5 Ground 6 5V 7 Ground 8 PW_OK 9 Standby Voltage 5V 10 12V 11 12V 12 DETECT 13 3 3V 14 12V 15 Ground 16 PS_ON 17 Ground 18 Ground 19 Ground 20 5V 21 5...

Page 16: ...l USB cable on the PC front panel and also can be connected with internal USB devices like USB card reader Pin Assignment 1 5V fused 2 5V fused 3 USB 4 USB 5 USB 6 USB 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Key 1 2 9 10 JUSB2 JUSB1 10 NC 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 ...

Page 17: ...tton 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 Power on button 17 N A 18 Key 19 N A 20 Key 21 5V 22 Ground 23 IRTX IrDA Connector 24 IRRX IrDA Connector JCDIN1 CD ROM Audio in Connector This connector allows user to connect the audio source from th...

Page 18: ...1 optional Digital Audio in Connector This connector allows user to connect the PCI bracket SPDIF input header Pin Assignment 1 5V 2 SPDIF_IN 1 3 3 Ground 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 message on next boot up Pin Assignment 1 Case open signal 1 2 2 Ground ...

Page 19: ...eft line out Speaker out Left 10 Left line out Speaker out Left 11 Right line in Rear speaker Right 12 Right line in Rear speaker Right 13 Left line in Rear speaker Left 14 2 13 1 14 Left line in Rear speaker Left J WOL1 optional Wake on LAN Header The connector powers up the system when a wakeup packet or signal is received from the network This feature requires the Wake up on LAN function in BIO...

Page 20: ...ging the motherboard 3 1 Pin 1 2 Close Normal Operation default 1 3 3 1 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 JDJ1 optional Pin Assignment 1 SMBDATA 2 SMBCLK 3 INT_B 4 Key 1 3 5 5 AXT_PWROK ...

Page 21: ...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 resp...

Page 22: ...ain 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 Clear t...

Page 23: ... 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 Reformat ...

Page 24: ...ormation 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 stability b...

Page 25: ... 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 26: ...sponsible 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 utility i...

Page 27: ...ws 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 percen...

Page 28: ...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 29: ... 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 followin...

Page 30: ...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 require...

Page 31: ...ighlighted 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 32: ...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 07 06 2005 ...

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