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AK37GT/AK37GTR

SocketA
AMD Athlon/Duron Processor
Based

DDR Main Board

User's Manual

Summary of Contents for AK37GT

Page 1: ...AK37GT AK37GTR SocketA AMD Athlon Duron Processor Based DDR Main Board User s Manual ...

Page 2: ...ility however no guarantee is given as to the correctness of the contents In the interest of continued product improvement this company reserves the right to revise the manual or include changes in the specifications of the product described within it at any time without notice and without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes The information contained in this manual is provi...

Page 3: ...Meanwhile please make sure CPU and fan are securely fastened well Otherwise improper fan installation not only gets system unstable but also could damage both CPU and motherboard because insufficient thermal dissipation If you would like to know more about thermal topic please see AMD website for detailed thermal requirement through the address http www amd com WARNING ...

Page 4: ... 3 Install DDR SDRAM System Memory 14 STEP 4 Install Internal Peripherals in System Case 15 STEP 5 Mount the Mainboard on the Computer Chassis 16 STEP 6 Connect Front panel Switches LEDs Speaker USB 17 STEP 7 Connect IDE IDE RAID AK37GTR only and Floppy Disk Drives 18 STEP 8 Connect Other Internal Peripherals 19 STEP 9 Connect Power Supply 20 STEP 10 Install Add on Cards in Expansion Slots 20 STEP...

Page 5: ...nector 31 Line Out Port Connector 31 Line In Port Connector 31 Mic In Port Connector 31 MIDI GAME Port Connector 32 Front Panel Connectors ATX Power On Off Switch Connector Power ON 33 EPMI Connector EPMI 33 Green LED Power LED Connector GLED PLED 34 HDD LED Connector HLED 34 Power LED Connector PLED 35 Hardware Reset Connector RESET 35 Speaker Connector SPEAKER 35 Internal Peripherals Connectors ...

Page 6: ...r Bass Connector J6 41 Front Panel Microphone and Line_out Header J7 41 SPDIF Ext Header J8 42 Extended one USB Connector Header USB2 USB3 42 3 3 SYSTEM MEMORY CONFIGURATION 43 Install Memory 43 Upgrade Memory 43 4 SOFTWARE UTILITY 44 4 1 Mainboard CD Overview 44 4 2 Install Mainboard Software 45 4 3 Install VIA 4 in 1 Driver 46 4 4 Install Audio Driver 47 4 5 Install LAN Driver 48 4 6 Install IDE...

Page 7: ...TURES 59 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES 63 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 68 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 72 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION 77 PC HEALTH STATUS 79 FREQUENCY VOLTAGE CONTROL 80 LOAD FAIL SAFE DEFAULTS 82 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS 82 SET SUPERVISOR PASSWORD 83 SET USER PASSWORD 83 SAVE EXIT SETUP 84 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING 84 ...

Page 8: ... 11 Jumper Settings A Closer Look Page 24 Software Utility How to Install Page 44 BIOS Setup How to Configure Page 52 About This Manual For First Time DIY System Builder Page 6 For Experienced DIY User s Page 6 For System Integrator Page 6 WHAT s IN THE MANUAL ...

Page 9: ...otal solution to build the most stable and reliable system Refer to sections 3 2 Jumper Settings and Chapter 4 Software Utility to find out how to get the best out of your new mainboard Chapter 5 BIOS Setupalso contains the relevant information on how to tune up your system to achieve higher performance System Integrator You have wisely chosen AK37GT AK37GTR to construct your system AK37GT AK37GTR...

Page 10: ...e package should include One piece of AK37GT AK37GTR V1 3 Mainboard One piece of Audio Cable Central Bass Channel One piece of ATA 133 100 66 Ribbon Cable One piece of Floppy Ribbon Cable One piece of twin ports USB Cable optional One piece of Serial ATA Cable AK37GTR Only AK37GT AK37GTR User s Manual SERIAL ATA VSO ...

Page 11: ...OM with containing Ø AK37GT AK37GTR user s manual saved in PDF format Ø IDE RAID user s manual saved in PDF format AK37GTR only Ø VIA 4 IN 1 driver Ø AC97 driver Ø IDE RAID driver and Utility AK37GTR only Ø Award Flashing Utility ...

Page 12: ...tion FSB The FSB speed is software configurable from 100MHz to 200MHz by 1MHz step in the Frequency Voltage Control of BIOS setup program On Board Multi Channel Hardware Audio Controller Support 5 1 speakers C3DX positional audio in 6 CH speaker mode HRTF 3D positional audio supporting Direct Sound 3D and A3D interface Legacy SBPRO compatible On Board IDE RAID Controller AK37GTR only Support RAID ...

Page 13: ...1 x Line In port shared with rear speaker output when multi channel audio is enabled Ø 1 x Mic In port Ø 1 x MIDI GAME port 6 USB Ports Onboard Ø 4 x USB connectors on back panel and one sets of dual USB ports header on mid board PCI Bus Master IDE Controller Onboard Two UltraDMA 133 100 66 Bus Master Dual channel IDE ports provide sup port to a maximum of four IDE devices one Master and one Slave...

Page 14: ...ft Off mode Ø Wake on LAN WOL The onboard WOL connector can be attached to a network card that supports this function to wake up the system via LAN Ø Modem Ring Power On The system can be powered on automatically by the activation of modem ring Ø CPU Vcore Setting This item allows users to adjust CPU Vcore in BIOS Ø CPU Clock Setting This item allows users to adjust CPU Host Clock in BIOS Ø CPU Ra...

Page 15: ...013 4 937 18C F Panasonic CR 2032 3V JAPA N1 A TX1 ATXPWR C HighPoint HPT372 0115 A914ES 1 1 RA ID1 IDE3 RA ID2 IDE4 R E SE THL ED GLE D SP E A K E R E P MI P W ON P LE D 1 JP 7 I 2 C WOL JP4 JP 4 1 J8 SP DIFExt 1 USB 3 USB 5 6 1 USB 2 USB 3 4 IT8705 F 0115 B XA M3Q040 1 J2 J5 J6 J3 J4 CD_IN CD_IN AUX_IN TAD_IO BASS 1 1 1 1 1 HE MX2021 K D N 435 0H C 25 0 00MHz 01 36JP 2 88i 8030 TB C T630 7 7 52 ...

Page 16: ...lower the socket lever all the way down to its horizontal position and lock it to secure the CPU in place 5 The AMD 462 Athlon Duron processor requires a set of heatsink fan to ensure proper cooling of the processor If heatsink fan have not been already mounted on your CPU you must purchase the heatsink fan sepa rately and have it installed Plug the cable throught the heatsink fan in the CPU fan p...

Page 17: ...iliar with mainboard configu ration procedures The factory set default settings are tuned for optimum system performance For the advanced users who wish to customize their system section 3 2 Jumper Settingswill provide detailed information on how to configure your mainboard manually Step 3 Install DDR SDRAM System Memory To install memory insert DDR SDRAM memory module s in DIMM slot s Note that D...

Page 18: ...ch device according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer IDE devices HDD and CD ROM have to set jumpers on Master or Slave mode depending on your willing to install more than one device for each kind 2 Connect IDE cable and FDD cable on the back panel of the internal peripheral devices to the corresponding headers on board Note that the cable should be oriented with its colored stripe ...

Page 19: ...assis and the mainboard The studs are used to fix the mainboard and to keep a certain distance between the system chassis and the mainboard in order to avoid any electrical short between the board and the metal frame of chassis If your computer case is already equipped with mounting studs you will need to tighten screws to attach the mainboard Note In most computer housings you will be able to fin...

Page 20: ...ont panel switches LEDs and USB connectors to the mainboard s front panel connectors group JP7 and USB2 as shown below 1 HDD_LED HLED 2 Green_LED GLED 3 Hardware Reset Switch RESET 4 ATX Soft Power On Off PWON 5 EPMI Hardware System Management Interface 6 Power_LED PLED 7 PC Speaker SPEAKER 8 I2C 9 Extended two USB Connector Header USB 3 4 USB 5 6 USB2 USB3 1 1 RESET HLED GLED SPEAKER EPMI PWON PL...

Page 21: ... Connect IDE IDE RAID AK37GTR only and Floppy Disk Drives 1 IDE cable connector 2 FDD cable connector 3 IDE RAID cable Serial ATA connector AK37GTR only 1 IDE2 1 IDE1 1 FDC 1 RAID2 IDE4 RAID1 IDE3 1 1 Serial ATA ...

Page 22: ... 19 Step 8 Connect Other Internal Peripherals 1 CD_IN AUX_IN TAD_IO and Bass Center_Out connectors 2 IR connector J2 J5 J6 J3 J4 CD_IN CD_IN AUX_IN TAD_IO BASS 1 1 1 1 1 JP 3 IR 1 ...

Page 23: ... 20 Step 9 Connect Power Supply 1 System power connector Step 10 Install Add on Cards in Expansion Slots 1 Accelerated Graphics Port AGP Card 2 PCI Card ATX1 ATXPWR ...

Page 24: ...e computer case back together and get on to the external peripherals connections to your system s back panel 1 PS 2 Mouse and PS 2 Keyboard 2 LAN Port 3 USB1 2 Ports 4 Parallel Port 5 COM1 Port 6 COM2 Port 7 Audio Line Out Line In Mic In Ports 8 MIDI GAME Port foxconn 2 3 6 5 1 7 4 8 ...

Page 25: ...ace available in the extended partition The FDISK utility will assign a drive letter i e C D E to each partition which will be shown in the FDISK program After FDISK procedure reboot your system by using the same system floppy disk Note DOS 6 2x and Windows 95A can only support up to 2 1GB of HDD partition If you use the FDISK utility with one of the operating systems mentioned above you can only ...

Page 26: ...he Install Mainboard Software bar to run into sub menu 3 Choose Install VIA Chipset Driver and complete it 4 Choose Install Audio Driver and complete it 5 Choose Install LAN Driver and complete it 6 Choose Install RAID Driver bar to run readme windows if you need install drivers AK37GTR only 7 Choose Install RAID Utility bar to install RAID utility drivers AK37GTR only 8 Choose Install USB 2 0 Dri...

Page 27: ...n the bottom Jumpers with two pins are shown as for Close On or for Open Off To Short jumper pins simply place a plastic jumper cap over the desired pair of pins Caution 1 Do not remove the mainboard from its antistatic protective packaging until you are ready to install it 2 Carefully hold the mainboard by its edges and avoid touching its components When putting the mainboard down place it on the...

Page 28: ...you identify jumpers slots and connectors along with their assigned functions CPU Memory Expansion Slots Socket 462 CPU Socket for AMD Athlon and Duron processors DIMM1 2 3 4 Four DIMM Slots for 64 128 256 512 MB and 1GB of 2 5V DDR SDRAM AGP One AGP Accelerated Graphics Port Slot PCI Five 32 bit PCI Expansion Slots B4 B6 B2 B3 B7 B9 C1 C7 E1 E9 E2 E2 E3 D1 D1 D1 E8 B1 E2 A2 E4 A1 E7 E5 E6 E10 E11...

Page 29: ...ardware System Management Interface Momentary Type switch GLED PLED Green LED ON when system stays in power saving mode System Power LED HLED IDE Drive Active LED PLED System Power LED RESET Hardware Reset Switch SPEAKER Housing Internal Speaker Internal Peripherals Connectors FDD1 Floppy Disk Drive Interface IDE1 IDE Primary Interface Dual channel IDE2 IDE Secondary Interface Dual channel RAID1 R...

Page 30: ...ower FAN3 System Fan Power JP3 IR Connector JP4 Wake On LAN Connector J2 J3 CD_IN connector J4 Auxiliary_IN Connector J5 TAD_IN Connector J6 Bass Center_Out Connector J7 Front Panel Audio Connector J8 SPDIF Ext Header USB2 3 Extended USB Header E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E2 E2 E1 E2 E9 E10 E11 ...

Page 31: ...ult system settings Pin 1 2 Default Pin 2 3 Clear CMOS Step 1 Turn off the system power PC Off Step 2 Remove ATX Power cable from ATX Power connector Step 3 Remove jumper cap from JP2 pins 1 2 Step 4 Place the jumper cap on JP2 pin 2 3 for a few seconds Step 5 Return the jumper cap to pin 1 2 Step 6 Plug ATX Power cable into ATX Power connector Step 7 Turn on the system power PC On A1 1 1 JP1 1 ...

Page 32: ...pins 2 3 if you need to reflash BIOS To enable reflashing the BIOS Pin 1 2 Default BIOS write protection Pin 2 3 Reflash the BIOS follow these steps Step 1 Turn off the system power PC Off Step 2 Make sure of place jumper cap on JP5 pin 2 3 Step 3 Insert a bootable system floppy disk with AK37GT AK37GTR BIOS and flashutility and then turn on your system to execute flash utility A2 JP 2 1 1 1 ...

Page 33: ...ard s Plug the PS 2 keyboard and mouse jacks into their corresponding con nectors LAN Port Connectors This mainboard can accommodate one device on LAN Attach a 10 100 baseT cable to the RJ45 at the back panel of your computer USB1 USB2 Port Connectors This mainboard offers 2 USB ports on back panel Plug each USB device jack into an available USB1 USB2 connector Parallel Port Connector One DB25 fem...

Page 34: ...board is output It can be connected to 1 8 inch TRS stereo headphones or to amplified speakers Line In Port Connector Line In is a stereo line level input port that accepts a 1 8 inch TRS stereo plug It can be used as a source for digital sound recording a source to be mixed with the output or both Mic In Port Connector Mic In is a 1 8 inch jack that provides a mono input It can use a dynamic mono...

Page 35: ...ble game with a 15 pin D sub connector MIDI Instrument Connection You will need a MIDI adapter to connect a MIDI compatible instrument to the sound card The MIDI adapter can in turn be connected to the Joystick MIDI port You will also need the MIDI sequencing software to run MIDI instruments with your computer etc into this connector B9 ...

Page 36: ...nnector EPMI Hardware System Management Interface EPMI header may attach to 2 pin momentary switch Press the switch to force system into power saving mode press it again to resume back the normal operation situation Note Please notice all the LED connectors are directional If your chassis s LED does not light up during running please simply change to the opposite direction C1 C2 RESET HLED GLED SP...

Page 37: ...uspend When the system resumes to normal opera tion mode the Green LED will go off Power LED on This Power LED will go off during Power saving mode Attach a 2 pin Green LED Power LED cable to GLED PLED header HDD LED Connector HLED Attach the connector cable from the IDE device LED to the 2 pin HLED header The HDD LED lights up whenever an IDE device is active GLED PLED 2 4 2 4 C4 C3 RESET HLED GL...

Page 38: ...et Connector RESET Attach the 2 pin hardware reset switch cable to the RESET header Pressing the reset switch causes the system to restart Speaker Connector SPEAKER Attach the PC speaker cable from the case to the 4 pin speaker connector SPEAKER C5 C6 C7 RESET HLED GLED SPEAKER EPMI PWON PLED 1 JP 7 I2C RESET HLED GLED SPEAKER EPMI PWON PLED 1 JP 7 I2C RESET HLED GLED SPEAKER EPMI PWON PLED 1 JP 7...

Page 39: ...rt for up to four IDE devices such as Hard Disk Drives H D D This mainboard also includes one 34 pin floppy disk controller FDD1 to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive FDD Moreover this mainboard comes with one 80 pin ATA 133 100 66 ribbon cable to connect to IDE RAID H D D and one 34 pin ribbon cable for F D D connection Note If you used RAID connector please refer to IDE RAID Manual to setup RAID ...

Page 40: ...r a network server or workstation However this motherboard implements an AC Power Auto Recovery function to solve this problem You may enable the function PWRON After PWR Fail that is under sub menu of Power Mangement Setup through BIOS setup program Note 1 The ATX power connector is directional and will not go in unless the guides match perfectly making sure that pin 1 is properly positioned Note...

Page 41: ... on the fan maker Keep in mind that the red wire should always be connected to the 12V header and the black wire to the ground GND header IR Header JP3 If you have an Infrared device this mainboard can implement IR transfer function To enable the IR transfer function follow these steps E3 GND 12V 1 FAN1 FAN2 FAN3with rotate sense Pins Assignment 1 NC 2 KEY 3 5V 4 GND 5 IRTX 6 IRRX FAN2 FAN1 1 FAN1...

Page 42: ... I O Device of Integrated Peripherals sub menu in BIOS setup program This mainboard supports IrDA and Normal transfer modes Wake On LAN Connector WOL1 Attach a 3 pin connector through the LAN card which supports the Wake On LAN WOL1 function This function lets users wake up the connected system through the LAN card Pins Assignment 1 5VSB 2 GND 3 RING Audio CD_IN Connector J2 Write CD_IN J3 Black P...

Page 43: ...card Pin Assignments 1 AUXL 2 AGND 3 AGND 4 AUXR E7 Audio TAD_IO Connector J5 Port J5 can be used to connect a modem audio line to AK37GT AK37GTR mainboard Typically you would use this connector when running the voice mail software on your system for audio input and output Pin Assignments 1 PHONE_IN 2 AGND 3 AGND 4 MONO_OUT 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 E6 4 3 2 1 J4 AUX_IN 1 J5 TAD_IO 1 ...

Page 44: ...rophone and line out ports for easier access Either the Mic and Line_out connector on back panel or J7 header are available at the same time If you would like to use this J7 header on front panel please remove all jumpers from JP6 and install your spe cial Extra Mic Line_out cable instead Pins Assignment 1 AUD_MIC 2 AUD_GND 3 AUD_MIC_BIAS 4 AUD_VCC 5 AUD_FRONT_R 6 AUD_RET_R 7 HP_ON 8 KEY 9 AUD_FRO...

Page 45: ...10 8 6 4 2 Extended one USB Connector Header USB2 USB3 The headers are used to connect the cable attached to USB connectors which are mounted on front panel or back panel But the USB cable is optional at the time of purchase Pins Assignment 1 5V 2 5V 3 USBD0 4 USBD1 5 USBD0 6 USBD1 7 GND 8 GND 9 KEY 10 N A 5V USBD1 USBD1 GND N A 5V USBD0 USBD0 GND KEY 1 USB port 4 6 USB port 3 5 USB 3 4 USB 5 6 1 ...

Page 46: ...emory You can easily upgrade the system memory by inserting additional DDR SDRAM modules in available DIMM slots The total system memory is calculated by simply adding up the memory in all DIMM slots After up grade the new system memory value will automatically be computed and displayed in the field Standard CMOS Setup of BIOS setup program DIMM Slot Memory Modules Module Quantity DIMM 1 64MB 128M...

Page 47: ... drive and the CD AutoRun screen should appear If the AutoRun screen does not appear double click or run D Autorun exe assuming that your CD ROM drive is drive D Navigation Bar Description F Install Mainboard Driver Installing F Manual mainboard and IDE RAID F Link to Shuttle Homepage Link to shuttle website homepage F Browse this CD Allows you to see contents of this CD F Quit Close this CD ...

Page 48: ...orun icon in My Computer to bring up Mainboard Software Setup screen Select using your pointing device e g mouse on the Install Mainboard Software bar to run into sub menu The Mainboard Software include 4 3 Install VIA Driver 4 4 Install Audio Device Driver 4 5 Install LAN Driver 4 6 Install RAID Driver AK37GTR 4 7 Install RAID Utility Driver AK37GTR 4 8 Install USB 2 0 Driver ...

Page 49: ...pointing device e g mouse on the Install VIA Driver bar to install 4 in 1driver Once you made your selection a Setup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sure you reboot the system to take the installation effect ...

Page 50: ...ting device e g mouse on the Install Realtek Driver bar to install audio driver Once you made your selection a Setup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sure you reboot the system to take the installation effect ...

Page 51: ...inting device e g mouse on the Install LAN Driver bar to install LAN driver Once you made your selection a Setup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sure you reboot the system to take the installation effect ...

Page 52: ...E RAID driver can t be setup automatically please follow below instructions to complete the installation Then click on Install RAID Utility bar to install IDE RAID Utility Once you made your selection a Setup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sure you reboot the system to take the installation effect ...

Page 53: ...ting device e g mouse on the Install USB 2 0 Driver bar to install USB 2 0 driver Once you made your selection a Setup window run the installation automatically When the copying files is done make sure you reboot the system to take the installation effect ...

Page 54: ...in My Computer to bring up Mainboard Software Setup screen Select using your pointing device e g mouse on the Manual bar Then Online Informationwindows will appear on your screen Click on the Install Acrobat Reader bar if you need to install acrobat reader Then click on AK37GT_R Manual bar to view user s manual and click on Raid Manual bar to view IDE RAID user s manual AK37GTR only ...

Page 55: ...lf Test routine checks Step 2 Press Del key immediately or at the following message Press DEL to enter SETUP or simultaneously press Ctrl Alt Esc keys Note 1 If you miss trains of words mentioned in step2 the message disappears before you can respond and you still wish to enter BIOS Setup restart the system and try again by turning the computer OFF and ON again or by pressing the RESET switch loca...

Page 56: ...that a brief description of each highlighted selection appears at the bottom of the screen Setup Items The main menu includes the following main setup categories Recall that some systems may not include all entries Standard CMOS Features Use this menu for basic system configuration Advanced BIOS Features Use this menu to set the Advanced Features available on your system Advanced Chipset Features ...

Page 57: ... menu to load the BIOS default values for the minimal stable performance of your system to operate Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default values that are factory set for optimal performance system operation While Award has designed the custom BIOS to maximize performance the factory has the right to change these defaults to meet users needs Supervisor User Password Use this...

Page 58: ...ct the value you want in each item Date Month DD YYYY Set the system date Note that the Day automatically changes when you set the date Time HH MM SS The time is converted based on the 24 hour military time clock For example 5 p m is 17 00 00 IDE Primary Master Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Primary Slave Options are in its sub menu Press Ente...

Page 59: ...in or 2 88M 3 5 in Video Select the default video device Ø The choice EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 or MONO Halt On Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you Ø The choice All Errors No Errors All But Keyboard All But Diskette or All But Disk Key Base Memory Displays the amount of conventional memory detected during boot up Ø The choice N A Extended Memory Disp...

Page 60: ...you select the number of cylinders heads etc Note PRECOMP 65535 means NONE Ø The choice None Auto or Manual Access Mode Choose the access mode for this hard disk Ø The choice Normal LBA Large or Auto Capacity Disk drive capacity Approximated Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk check ing program Ø Auto Display your disk drive size The fo...

Page 61: ... 58 Precomp Warning Setting a value of 65535 means no hard disk Ø Min 0 Max 65535 Landing zone Set the Landing zone size Ø Min 0 Max 65535 Sector Number of sector per track Ø Min 0 Max 255 ...

Page 62: ...will show a warning message on screen and an alarm beep Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk parti tion table Disabled No warning message will appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk parti tion table Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled CPU Internal Cache A...

Page 63: ...is set to enabled BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled RAID SCSI Boot Order Select RAID SCSI Boot Device Priority Ø The choice RAID SCSI or SCSI RAID First Second Third Boot Device The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items Ø The Choice Floppy LS120 HDD 0 SCSI CDROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 ZIP...

Page 64: ...ntroller enabled the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec This item sets how many times the keystroke will be repented in a second when you hold the key down Ø The choice 6 8 10 12 15 20 24 or 30 Typematic Delay Msec Sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the keystroke Ø The choice 250 500 75...

Page 65: ...Version Control For OS Selects the operating system multiprocessor support version Ø The choice 1 1 or 1 4 OS Select For DRAM 64MB Selects the operating system that is running with greater than 64MB of RAM in the system Ø The choice Non OS2 or OS2 Video BIOS Shadow Determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM However it is optional depending on chipset design Video Shadow will increase the ...

Page 66: ...d to be altered The default settings have been chosen because they provide the best operating conditions for your system If you discovered that data was being lost while using your system you might consider making any changes DRAM Clock Drive Control Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options Current FSB Frequence This item show Current CPU Front Side Bus spe...

Page 67: ...fixed at 2 way interleave When the dram timing is selected by SPD it will be set by the value on SPD of the RAM module SDR Ø The Choice Disabled 2 Bank or 4 Bank Precharge to Active Trp This item allows you to Precharge Command to Active Command Period Ø The Choice 2T or 3T Active to Precharge Tras This item allows you to Active Command to Precharge Command Period Ø The Choice 5T or 6T Active to C...

Page 68: ...slation Ø The Choice 4M 8M 16M 32M 64M 128M or 256M AGP Mode This item allows you to select the AGP Mode Ø The Choice 1x 2x or 4x AGP Driving Control This item enables the system to automatically select its output buffer drive strength or make it manually selectable by an end user Ø The Choice Auto or Manual AGP Driving Value This item enables an end user to manually select the AGP output buffer d...

Page 69: ... When this item enabled writing to the AGP bus is executed with zero wait state Ø The Choice Enabled or Disabled PCI1 Post Write This Item enable disable AGP post write function which means when cpu accessing the AGP data the chipset can queue the instruction when the AGP bus is busy then write the data when AGP bus is avail able Ø The Choice Enabled or Disabled PCI2 Post Write This Item enable di...

Page 70: ...SA cards Ø The Choice Disabled or 15M 16M System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting in better system performance However if any pro gram is written to this memory area a system error may result Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video RAM resulting in better system performance H...

Page 71: ...Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled OnChip IDE Channel1 The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support to two IDE chan nels Select Enabled to activate the secondary IDE interface select Disabled to deactivate this interface Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled IDE Prefetch Mode The onboard IDE drive interfaces support IDE prefetching for faster drive access If you install a primary and or secondar...

Page 72: ...ard drive and your system software support Ultra DMA 100 select Auto to enable BIOS support Ø The choice Auto or Disabled VIA OnChip PCI Device Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options VIA 3058 AC97 Audio Enables and disables the onboard audio chip Disable this item if you are going to install a PCI audio add on card Ø The choice Auto or Disabled HighPoint ...

Page 73: ...ART Mode Select This item allows you to select which mode for the Onboard Serial Port 2 Ø The choice Normal IrDA ASKIR or SCR UR2 Duplex Mode This item allows you to selects the IR half full duplex function Ø The choice Full or Half Onboard Parallel Port This item allows you to determine onboard parallel port controller I O address setting Ø The choice 378 IRQ7 278 IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 or Disabled Parall...

Page 74: ...chip USB so equipped if you add a higher performance controller you will need to disable this feature Ø The Choice All Disabled All Enabled 1 2 USB Port 2 3 USB Port 1 3 USB Port 1 USB Port 2 USB Port or 3 USB Port USB Keyboard Mouse Support Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB keyboard mouse Ø The Choice Enabled or Disabled IDE HDD Block ...

Page 75: ...r Management ACPI Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled ACPI Suspend Type This item allows you to select sleep state when suspend Ø The choice S1 POS S3 STR or S1 S3 Power Management Option This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving mode settings Min Saving Minimum power management HDD Power Down Allows you to set each mode individually Suspend Mode 1 hr Max Saving Maximum po...

Page 76: ...40 Min or 1 Hour Video Off Option When enabled this feature allows the VGA adapter to operate in a power saving mode Always On Monitor will remain on during power saving mode Suspend Off Monitor is blanked when the system enters the Suspend mode Ø The choice Always On or Suspend off Video Off Method This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked Blank Screen This option only writes bla...

Page 77: ...r Password PS2KB Wakeup from S3 S4 S5 This item let you set the Hot Key to awaken the system from S3 S4 S5 Ø The choice Disabled Ctrl F1 Ctrl F2 Ctrl F3 Ctrl F4 Ctrl F5 Ctrl F6 Ctrl F7 Ctrl F8 Ctrl F9 Ctrl F10 Ctrl F11 Ctrl F12 Power Wake or Any Key PS2MS Wakeup from S3 S4 S5 Enable this item let you to awaken the system from S3 S4 S5 by PS2MS Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled USB Resume from S3 Th...

Page 78: ...hoice Disabled or Enabled RTC Alarm Resume When this item enabled your can set the date and time at which the RTC real time clock alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode Ø The choice Disabled or Enabled Data of Month This item selects the alarm date Ø Key in a DEC number Min 0 Max 31 Resume Time hh mm ss This item selects the alarm Time hh Ø Key in a DEC number Min 0 Max 23 mm ss Ø Key in a DEC...

Page 79: ... service When On mode exist activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power management mode nor awaken it IRQ3 COM 2 IRQ4 COM 1 IRQ5 LPT 2 IRQ6 Floppy Disk IRQ7 LPT 1 IRQ8 RTC Alarm IRQ9 IRQ2 Redir IRQ10 Reserved IRQ11 Reserved IRQ12 PS 2 Mouse IRQ13 Coprocessor IRQ14 Hard Disk IRQ15 Reserved Ø The choice Disabled or Enabled ...

Page 80: ...ine PnP OS is installed or not Ø The choice Yes or No Reset Configuration Data Normally you leave this field Disabled Select Enabled to reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD when you exit from Setup if you have installed a new device or software and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system can not boot Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled Resource...

Page 81: ...CI Device or Reserved PCI VGA Palette Snoop It determines whether the MPEG ISA VESA VGA Cards can work with PCI VGA or not If you have MPEG ISA VESA VGA Cards and PCI VGA Card worked Enable this field Otherwise please Disable it Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled Assign IRQ For VGA This item allows the user to set VGA IRQ Routing table Enabled or Disabled Ø The choice Enabled or Disabled Assign IRQ ...

Page 82: ...mit the system shuts down Ø The choice Disabled 60 C 140 F 65 C 149 F 70 C 158 F 75 C 167 F System Component Characteristics These fields provide you with information about the systems current operating status You cannot make changes to these fields The fields include CPU Voltage CPU Temperature DDR Voltage FAN1 Speed AGP Voltage FAN2 Speed Chipset Voltage FAN3 Speed 3 3V VIN 5V VIN 5VSB VIN 12V V...

Page 83: ...t CPU Host Clock from 100MHz to 200MHz by 1MHz step Min BIOS auto detection CPU Host Clock Max BIOS auto detection CPU Host Clock Ø Key in a DEC number Between Min and Max FSB Divider The screen shot is shown below Ø The choice Auto Divider 4 or Divider 5 CPU PCI AGP clock divider ratio can be configured FSB 100 132 FSB 133 165 CPU PCI CPU AGP CPU PCI CPU AGP AUTO 3 1 3 2 4 1 4 2 Divider 4 4 1 4 2...

Page 84: ...5V Note CPU VCore above 1 85V item need to be selected save and quit BIOS before you adjust CPU Vcore over 1 85V CPU Vcore Above 1 85V This item allows you to select CPU Vcore above 1 85V Ø The choice 1 850V 2 400V DDR Voltage Control This item allows you to control DDR Voltage Ø The choice Auto or Manual DDR Voltage Select This item allows you to select DDR Voltage Ø The choice Default 2 55V 2 60...

Page 85: ... N N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal performance system operations F LoadOptimizedDefaults When you press Enter on this item you will get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Pressing Y loads the default values that are factory set for optimal performance system operation ...

Page 86: ...ted access to the options By setting separate Supervisor and User password a system supervisor can limit who can change critical Setup values Enter Password Type the password up to eight characters and press Enter The password typed now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory You will be asked to confirm the password Type the password again and press Enter You may also press Es...

Page 87: ...on page 28 F Save Exit Setup Pressing Enter on this item asks for confirmation Save to CMOS and EXIT Y N Y Pressing Y stores the selections made in the menus of CMOS a special section of memory that stays on after you turn your system off The next time you boot your computer the BIOS configures your system according to the Setup selections stored in CMOS After saving the values the system is resta...

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