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MK32N

Socket A
AMD Athlon XP / Duron Processor
Based 

DDR Main Board

User's Manual

Summary of Contents for MK32N

Page 1: ...MK32N Socket A AMD Athlon XP Duron Processor Based DDR Main Board User s Manual...

Page 2: ...e improper fan installation not 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 s...

Page 3: ...ability 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...

Page 4: ...12 STEP 2 Set Jumpers 13 STEP 3 Install DDR SDRAM System Memory 13 STEP 4 Install Internal Peripherals in System Case 14 STEP 5 Mount the Mainboard on the Computer Chassis 15 STEP 6 Connect Front pan...

Page 5: ...30 Parallel Port Connector 30 Line Out 31 Line In 31 Mic In 31 MIDI GAME Port 31 LAN Port Connector 31 USB Port Connector 32 Front Panel Connectors HDD LED Connector HDD LED 33 Power LED Connector Po...

Page 6: ...icrophone and Line Out Header AUDIO1 40 SPDIF out Header SPDIF1 41 Wake On LAN Connector WOL1 41 Wake On Modem Connector WOM1 42 Serial2 Port Connector COM2 42 3 3 SYSTEM MEMORY CONFIGURATION 43 Insta...

Page 7: ...URES 62 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES 66 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 71 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 75 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION 80 PC HEALTH STATUS 82 FREQUENCYVOLTAGE CONTROL 83 LOAD FAIL SAFE DEFAULTS 84 LOAD OPTIMI...

Page 8: ...11 Jumper Settings A Closer Look Page 24 Software Utility How to Install Page 44 BIOS Setup How to Configure Page 55 About This Manual For First Time DIY System Builder Page 6 For Experienced DIY Use...

Page 9: ...huttle MK32N mainboard You will find that installing your new Shuttle MK32N mainboard is just easy Bundled with an array of onboard functions the highly integrated MK32N mainboard provides you with a...

Page 10: ...of Bundled CD ROM with containing MK32N user s manual on PDF format VIA 4 IN 1 driver VIA Audio driver LAN driver Award Flashing Utility KB1 IDE1 IDE2 CNR1 AG P1 PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 ATX1 AUDIO1 VT8233A 021...

Page 11: ...e to 100MHz and 133MHz AC 97 Link for Audio and Telephony CODEC AC 97 2 2 compliant Spread independent PCI functions for Audio and Modem Versatile Memory Support Two 184 pin DIMM slots to support up t...

Page 12: ...r 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 per channel The IDE Bus implements the dat...

Page 13: ...the Soft Off mode Modem Ring Power On The system can be powered on automatically by the activation of modem ring CPU Clock Setting This item allows users to adjust CPU Host Clock in BIOS Intelligent...

Page 14: ...1 PCI1 IT8705F 0208 FXS M1U9F0 950902AF 0149 UA730855 RTL8100B 18034T3 009 B TAIWAN R MC 1 C 231Q 1 206D A LC201A CD1 CD2 PS2 Keyboard PS 2 Mouse Connectors LAN USB Connectors Front oriented microphon...

Page 15: ...p between CPU and socket Then lower the socket lever all the way down to its hori zontal position and lock it to secure the CPU in place 5 The AMD 462 Athlon Duron processor requires a set of cooler t...

Page 16: ...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 Setting...

Page 17: ...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...

Page 18: ...ssis 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...

Page 19: ...anel switches LEDs and USB connectors to the mainboard s front panel connectors group PANEL1 SJ1 J1 as shown below 1 PANEL1 1 HDD_LED HDD LED 2 Power_LED Power LED 3 Hardware Reset Switch Button Reset...

Page 20: ...17 3 Single color LED header SJ1 4 SPEAKER SPEAKER 1 5 EPMI Header J1 1 SJ1 SIGNAL NC NC 5V 1 SPEAKER1 J1...

Page 21: ...Step 7 Connect IDE Floppy Disk Drives 1 IDE cable connector 2 FDD cable connector Step 8 Connect Other Internal Peripherals 1 CD1 CD2 and Front Panel AUDIO1 connectors IDE1 IDE2 FDD1 CD 1 CD 2 1 AUDI...

Page 22: ...19 ATX1 2 IR connector SIR1 3 SPDIF connector SPDIF1 Step 9 Connect Power Supply 1 System power connector SIR1...

Page 23: ...Slots 1 PCI Card 2 AGP Card 3 CNR Card Step 11 Connect External Peripherals to Back Panel You are now ready to put the computer case back together and get on to the external peripherals connections to...

Page 24: ...21 1 PS2 Mouse and Keyboard 2 LAN Port 3 USB Ports 4 Parallel Port 5 COM1 and VGA Ports foxconn USB Port 1 USB Port 0 Parallel Port LAN Port VGA Port COM2 Port PS2 Mouse PS2 keyboard...

Page 25: ...22 6 Audio Line_out Line_in Mic_In 7 MIDI Game Port MIDI GAME Port Line Out Port Mic In Port Line In Port...

Page 26: ...rams 1 Insert the MK32N bundled CD ROM into your CD ROM drive The auto run program will display the drivers main installation window on screen 2 Select the Mainboard related program 3 Install VIA 4 in...

Page 27: ...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 f...

Page 28: ...along with their assigned functions CPUMemoryExpansion Slots Socket 462 CPU Socket for AMD Athlon and Duron processors DIMM1 2 Two DIMM Slots for 64 128 256 512 MB and 1GB of 2 5V DDR SDRAM The total...

Page 29: ...rsal Serial Bus Front Panel Connectors PANEL1 SPEAKER1 HDD LED IDE driver active LED Power LED System power LED RST Hardware Reset Switch Power Switch ATX power on off monentary type switch SJ1 Single...

Page 30: ...FAN1 CPU Fan Power SIR1 IR Header CD1 CD_IN connector CD2 Audio connector Audio 1 Front oriented microphone line out port header SPDIF1 SPDIF out header WOL1 Wake On LAN connector WOM1 Wake On Modem...

Page 31: ...ctory default system settings Pin 1 2 Default Pin 2 3 Clear CMOS BIOS Write Protection JP2 JP2 is used to protect BIOS from abnormal writing You may choose to place jumper cap on pins 1 2 for BIOS wri...

Page 32: ...s set the CPU frequency 100MHz or 133 MHz according to the CPU You may choose to place jumper cap on pins 1 2 for 100MHz however please place jumper cap on pins 2 3 if you need to run 133MHz 100MHz Pi...

Page 33: ...where the PS 2 Mouse connector is located at the right of the PS 2 Keyboard s Plug the PS 2 keyboard and mouse jacks into their corresponding connectors COM Port Connector This mainboard can accommoda...

Page 34: ...mono or stereo microphone with a resistance of not more than 600 Ohms MIDI GAME Port The MIDIGAME port is a 15 pin female connector This port can be connected to any IBM PC compatible game with a 15 p...

Page 35: ...32 USB Port Connectors This mainboard offers 2 USB ports on front panel Plug each USB device jack into an available USB1 USB2 connector B10 USB Port 1 USB Port 0...

Page 36: ...r an IDE device is active Power LED Connentor Power LED Attach the 2 pin Power LED connector cable from the housing front panel to the Power LED header on the mainboard The Power LED stays light while...

Page 37: ...f Switch Connector Power Switch The Power On Off Switch is a momentary type switch used for turning on or off the system s ATX power supply Attach the connector cable from the Power Switch to the 2 pi...

Page 38: ...cable from the case to the 4 pin speaker connector SPKR Pins Assignment 1 SIGNAL 2 NC 3 NC 4 5V External SMI Header J1 Hardware System Management Interface J1 header may attach to 2 pin mo mentary sw...

Page 39: ...connectors which are mounted on front panel or back panel But the USB cable is optional at the time of purchase Pins Assignment 1 USBPWR0 3 USB_FP_P0 5 USB_FP_P0 7 GROUND 9 KEY 2 USBPWR1 4 USB_FP_P1 6...

Page 40: ...is mainboard also includes one 34 pin floppy disk controller FDC to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive F D D Moreover this mainboard comes with one 80pin ATA133 100 66 ribbon cable to connect to IDE H...

Page 41: ...ttachment Note 3 Your ATX power supply must be supplied to ACPI 5V standby power and at least 720mA compatible Note 4 Make sure your power supply have enough power for higher speed processor installed...

Page 42: ...ach IR on board pin allocation is matched with the pin of the IR device Otherwise incorrect IR connection may damage your IR device Step 1 Attach the 6 pin infrared device cable to SIR1 connector Refe...

Page 43: ...TV tuner or MPEG card Front panel Microphone and Line_out Header AUDIO1 This header allows the user to install auxiliary front panel1 microphone and line out ports for easier access When frontpanel M...

Page 44: ...audio RCA jacks to con nect to digital audio devices If you CD ROM DVD drive has digital audio output you can connect it to the input pins of the SPDIF con nector Pins Assignment 1 SPDIF Out 2 VCC 3...

Page 45: ...mode any modem signal automatically resumes the system You must enable this item using the Power Management page of the Setup Utility See Chapter 3 for more information Pins Assignment 1 5VSB 2 Groun...

Page 46: ...umper to configure memory since the BIOS utility can detect the system memory automatically You can check the total system memory value in the BIOS Standard CMOS Setup menu 2 Upgrade Memory You can ea...

Page 47: ...ing that your CD ROM drive is drive D Navigation Bar Description F Install VIA Chipset Driver Installing VIA Chipset driver F Install VGA Device Driver Installing VIA VGA Device driver F Install Audio...

Page 48: ...on Autorun icon in My Computer to bring up Shuttle Mainboard Software Setup screen Select using your pointing device e g mouse on the Install VIA Chipset Driver bar to install VIA Chipset Driver Once...

Page 49: ...ck on Autorun icon in My Computer to bring up Shuttle Mainboard Software Setup screen Select using your pointing device e g mouse on the Install VGA Driver bar to install VIA VGA Driver Once you made...

Page 50: ...utorun icon in My Computer to bring up Shuttle Mainboard Software Setup screen Select using your pointing device e g mouse on the Install Audio De vice Driver bar to install Hardware Audio Driver Once...

Page 51: ...ting 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 auto matically When the copying files is done make sure you r...

Page 52: ...elect tab Device Manager You will find a yellow mark at PCI Ethernet Controller that means the driver is not recognize Double click on the Ethernet Controller Then PCI Ethernet Controller Properties w...

Page 53: ...river and click on Next bar to continue Select Network adapters bar for LAN device and click on Next bar to con tinue Insert the support CD by the mainboard manufacturer and choose Have Disk bar to co...

Page 54: ...st Ethernet NIC driver and click on Next Then the system will do the setup procddure automatically Completing the upgrade device driver and click on Finish to restart the system to take all the change...

Page 55: ...rs and Add bar to install driver Insert the support CD by the mainboard manufacturer and choose Have Disk bar to continue next step Key in the driver s location as D lan WINNT4 In this location CD dis...

Page 56: ...self network Then the system will do the setup procddure automatically Completing the upgrade device driver and click on Yes to restart the system to take all the changes effect After restart you may...

Page 57: ...uble click on Autorun icon in My Computer to bring up Shuttle Mainboard Software Setup screen Select the item using your pointing device e g mouse on the Manual bar Then Online Information windows wil...

Page 58: ...t 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 t...

Page 59: ...hat 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 includ...

Page 60: ...menu to load the BIOS default values for the minimalstable performance of your system to operate Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default values that are factory set for optimal...

Page 61: ...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 Primar...

Page 62: ...board has a built in VGA graphics system you must leave this item at the default value The choice EGAVGA CGA 40 CGA 80 or MONO Halt On Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST...

Page 63: ...ill let you select the number of cylinders heads etc Note PRECOMP 65535 means NONE The choice None Auto or Manual Access Mode Choose the access mode for this hard disk The choice CHS LBA Large or Auto...

Page 64: ...61 Precomp Warning Setting a value of 65535 means no hard disk Min 0 Max 65535 Landing zone Set the Landing zone size Min 0 Max 65535 Sector Number of sector per track Min 0 Max 255...

Page 65: ...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 o...

Page 66: ...abled Quick Power On Self Test This item speeds up Power On Self Test POST after you power on the computer If it is set to enabled BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST The choice Ena...

Page 67: ...the ATA 66 100 IDE Cable Msg This message will appear during reboot when you use 40 pin cable on your 66 100 hard disks The choice Enabled or Disabled Typematic Rate Setting Keystrokes repeat at a ra...

Page 68: ...nce the security is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely OS Select For DRAM 64MB Selects the operating system that is running with greater than 64MB of RAM in the system The ch...

Page 69: ...ng instability into yoursystem 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 shows current CPU Front Side B...

Page 70: ...nks can be set to 2 way 4 way interleave or disabled For VCM and 16Mb type dram chips the bank interleave is fixed at 2 way interleave When the dram timing is selected by SPD it will be set by the val...

Page 71: ...ually selectable by an end user The Choice Auto or Manual AGP Driving Value This item enables an end user to manually select the AGP output buffer drive strength Key in a HEX number Min 0000 Max 00FF...

Page 72: ...tion which means when cpu accessing the PCI data the chipset can queue the instruction when the PCI bus is busy then write the data when AGP bus is available The Choice Enabled or Disabled PCI Delay T...

Page 73: ...RAM resulting in better system performance However if any program is written to this memory area a system error may result The Choice Enabled or Disabled VGA Share Memory Size These items allows you t...

Page 74: ...e 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 t...

Page 75: ...system software support Ultra DMA100 select Auto to enable BIOS support The choice Auto or Disabled VIA OnChip PCI Device Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed opti...

Page 76: ...rallel port controller IO address setting The choice 378IRQ7 278IRQ5 3BCIRQ7 or Disabled Parallel Port Mode Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel printer port Select Normal Compatible or S...

Page 77: ...your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB keyboard The Choice Enabled or Disabled USB Mouse Support Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus US...

Page 78: ...Power Management ACPI The choice Enabled or Disabled ACPI Suspend Type This item allows you to select sleep state when suspend The choice S1 POS or S3 STR Power Management Option This category allows...

Page 79: ...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 b...

Page 80: ...isable or Enabled VGA When this item enabled you can set VGA to awaken the system The choice OFF or ON LPT COM When LPT COM stays On any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices or IR...

Page 81: ...item selects the alarm date Key in a DEC number Min 0 Max 31 Resume Time hh mm ss This item selects the alarm Time hh Key in a DEC number Min 0 Max 23 mmss Key in a DEC number Min 0 Max 59 IRQs Activi...

Page 82: ...M 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 The choice Disabled...

Page 83: ...es 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...

Page 84: ...mpliant with the Plug and Play standard whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture The choice PCI Device or Reserved PCI VGA Palette Snoop It determines whether the MPEG ISA VESA VGA Cards can w...

Page 85: ...The choice Disabled 60 C 140 F 65 C 149 F 70 C 158 F System Component Characteristics These fields provide you with information about the systems current operating status You cannot make changes to t...

Page 86: ...lows you to enable disable auto detection PCI DIMM Clock The choice Enabled or Disabled Spread Spectrum This item allows you to enable disable the spread spectrum modulation The choice Enabled or Disa...

Page 87: ...N N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal performance system operations F Load Optimized Defaults When you press Enter on this item you will get a confirmation dialog bo...

Page 88: ...ed 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...

Page 89: ...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...

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