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HARDWARE INSTALLATION

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2.11 Vio Voltage Control (JP2)

Vio Voltage Control

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J P 2

Higher Voltage

Normal Voltage
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The jumper is used to switch Vio Voltage. It can set the default setting (1-2) to standard 3.3V,

or change to higher voltage (3.4V) for overclocking or compatibility .

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Summary of Contents for TS-AKXA

Page 1: ...TS AKXA USER S MANUAL AMD K7 Athlon CPU ...

Page 2: ...cations are subject to change without prior notice Disclaimer Transcend provides this manual as is without any warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Transcend its management employees distributors and agents are in no way liable for any indirect special incidental or con...

Page 3: ...ation 7 2 4 Memory Configuration 9 2 5 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors 10 2 6 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 11 2 7 Fan Power Connectors 11 2 8 Wake on LAN Connector 12 2 9 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 12 2 10 Panel Connectors 13 2 11 V O Voltage Control 15 2 12 Suspend to RAM S3 Function Support 16 2 13 Power Connector 17 2 14 External Back Panel I O Ports 17 2 15 Using JP7 to clear CMO...

Page 4: ...9 3 8 PnP PCI Configurations 44 3 9 Frequency Voltage Control 46 3 10 Load Fail Safe Defaults 47 3 11 Load Optimized Defaults 47 3 12 Supervisor Password 48 3 13 User Password 49 3 14 Save Exit Setup 50 3 15 Exit Without Saving 50 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE 51 4 1 How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version 51 4 2 How to Download the Correct BIOS File from Our Web Site 51 4 3 How to Upgrade Your Moth...

Page 5: ...grounded or anti static surface or a metal fixture such as a pipe or the chassis of your system before touching the motherboard 3 When you have removed the motherboard from its anti static packaging try to hold it only by the edges without touching any components 4 Avoid contacting the components on add on cards motherboards and modules with the golden fingers gold colored connectors which plug in...

Page 6: ...ou unpack your motherboard from its anti static packaging and start building your system Computer case and chassis with appropriate power supply 300W recommandod Monitor Slot A Central Processing Unit CPU DIMM memory module PS 2 or USB Keyboard PS 2 or USB Mouse Hard Disk Drive Floppy Disk Drive CD ROM Drive Optional External Peripherals printer speakers plotter modem Optional Internal Peripherals...

Page 7: ...MM Supports ECC 64 72 data bits structure only PC100 PC133 SDRAM compliant I O BUS Slot 1 x AGP slot 5 x Master Slave PCI slots PCI 2 2 compliant 1 x ISA slot 1 x AMR slot Shared with ISA slot I O Functions Supports PIO Mode 3 4 ATAPI devices and Ultra DMA33 66 Supports 2 high speed UART 16550 COM ports Supports SPP EPP ECP LPT port Supports 1 44 2 88 MB floppy drive Supports PS 2 Mouse and PS 2 K...

Page 8: ...Supports Wake on LAN function Remote Ring Wake Up Time Wake Up PCB Dimensions ATX form factor 4 layer PCB 21 3cm x 30 5cm 8 4 inch x 12 inch Switching Voltage Regulator Intel VRM 8 4 compliant Other Features Year 2000 compliant Anti Virus Boot up For LM782 Hard ware Monitor System voltage monitors for CPU Vcore 2 5 3 3V 5V and 12V ...

Page 9: ...hipset Supports 200MHz FSB VIA 686A Super South Bridge 5 x PCI Slots 1 x AMR Slot 1 x ISA Slot Shared with AMR AGP Connector Supports AGP1X 2X 4X AC97 CODEC External USB Connector 2 x USB Ports Memory 3 x 168 pin DIMM Sockets 8MB 1 5GB SDRAM Switching Reg Switching Reg Bus Master PIO Mode 3 4 DMA Mode 2 Ultra DMA 33 66 WOL Header WOL Header Wake on LAN Flash EEPROM Flash EEPROM Award BIOS PnP DMI ...

Page 10: ...lot5 PCI Slot3 USB2 WOL Transcend Li Battery VIA 8371 Chipset PWR1 Slot A PS 2 T Mouse B Keyboard KB MOUSE USB FLASH ROM AGP CD_IN1 CD_IN2 VIDEO_IN AUX_IN A C 9 7 ISA Slot Panel SYS_FAN1 CPU_FAN1 JP2 JP7 WOM1 JP5 IR1 JP1 G a m e P o r t Line_in MIC in Line_out MODEM FDC IDE1 IDE2 AMR Slot LM782 2 2 Layout of Transcend s TS AKXA Motherboard 6 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...

Page 11: ... for the CPU to prevent overheating If there is no fan on it please purchase one before you turn on your system WARNING Be sure that sufficient air circulation is available across the processor s passive heatsink Without sufficient circulation the processor could overheat and damage both the processor and the motherboard You may install an auxiliary fan if necessary Please follow the steps below t...

Page 12: ...the CPU s fan cable to the CPU FAN connector indicated on the diagram below Ensure that the cable is connected correctly It will be obvious which way it fits 8 HARDWARE INSTALLATION CPU Installation CPU_FAN Transcend ...

Page 13: ...dules You can install memory in any combination as follows 168 pin DIMM SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MBytes SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256 512MBytes 1 5GBytes max DIMM Location DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 Total Memory NOTE Different types of DRAM modules eg PC100 and PC133 DIMMs should not be installed on one motherboard at the same time 168 Pin DIMM Sockets Unbuffered Position 3...

Page 14: ...DD won t be able to reach this speed If you intend to operate two IDE devices from the same channel one device must be set to Master mode the other to Slave mode A Hard Disk CD ROM or other IDE device can have either setting depending on device s jumper Please refer to the device s manual for more information NOTE The connectors must be attached to the IDE channels the right way round Make sure th...

Page 15: ...loppy Disk Drive Connector PIN1 FDC Transcend Floppy Drive Connector Note Orient the red stripe to Pin1 2 7 Fan Power Connectors There are two fan power connectors on the mainboard the CPU FAN and the CASE FAN Each connector provides 12V power Make sure they are in the right orientation or they may cause damage These connectors support cooling fans of 500 mA 6W or less Fan Power Connectors SYS FAN...

Page 16: ... system has an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power Wake On LAN Connector 5 Volt Standby GND PME W O L Transcend 2 9 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 5 pin IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support a wireless infrared module With this module and application software such as Laplink or Win95 Direct Cable Connection the user can transfer files to or from laptops n...

Page 17: ...GND Panel Connectors 1 2 HD_LED RST PW_BN SPEAKER 19 20 PWR_LED SLP Transcend Speaker Lead 4 pin SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker Pin13 5V Pin15 GND Pin17 NC Pin19 SPK Harddisk LED Lead 2 pin HD_LED This 2 pin connector connects to the LED of the hard disk The LED lights up when the HDD is active Pin6 5V Pin8 GND ...

Page 18: ...pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without turning off your power switch Pin14 RESET Pin16 GND Software Power Off Lead 2 pin SOFT_OFF Attach the SOFT_OFF Switch of the panel to this connector Pin18 SOFT OFF Pin20 GND 14 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...

Page 19: ...trol JP2 Vio Voltage Control Transcend 1 JP2 Higher Voltage Normal Voltage Default 1 1 The jumper is used to switch Vio Voltage It can set the default setting 1 2 to standard 3 3V or change to higher voltage 3 4V for overclocking or compatibility ...

Page 20: ... Support JP5 Suspend to RAM S3 Function Transcend 1 JP5 Disable Enable 1 1 16 HARDWARE INSTALLATION The jumper is used to set the Suspend to RAM function If you don t need the function it can be changed to 2 3 to disable the function ...

Page 21: ...e on board connectors with 2x5 Header 4 Parallel Port Burgundy 25 pin PRN The onboard printer port is a 25 pin D type connector marked PRN 5 Serial Ports Turquoise two 9 pin COMA COMB The onboard serial ports are 9 pin D type connectors on the back panel of motherboard The serial port 1 is marked as COMA and the serial port 2 is marked as COMB HARDWARE INSTALLATION 17 2 13 Power Connector 20 pin P...

Page 22: ...computer s power and short pin1 and pin2 of JP7 Clear CMOS Jumper Transcend 1 JP7 CLEAR_CMOS Normal 1 1 1 PS 2 Mouse 2 PS 2 Keyboard 4 Parallel Port Printer 3 USB2 5 COMB COMA 7 Game MIDI Port 8 Line out 9 Line in 3 USB1 10 MIC in External Back Panel I O Ports 18 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...

Page 23: ...r disabled via this jumper Please disable the onboard audio CODEC if you want to use an AMR Sound Card Note If you want to use a PCI Sound Card with audio controller on it please disable the OnChip Sound function in Advanced Chipset Features Please refer to Page 32 CODEC Selection Jumper Disable Enable JP8 1 2 3 Transcend 1 2 3 1 2 3 ...

Page 24: ...atched connector It also allows the sharing of mono_in such as a phone and mono_out such as a speaker between the onboard audio and the voice modem card Internal Audio Connecotrs AUX Green GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel CD2 VIDEO White GND Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel GND Modem In Voice to Modem Modem Out Voice from Modem MODEM GND L...

Page 25: ...please refer to Section 2 14 External Back Panel I O Ports page 17 NOTE Please make sure that the two red stripes on the cable are seated on Pin1 and Pin2 Internal USB Port Connecotr VCC USB3 USB3 GND GND VCC USB4 USB4 GND GND 1 2 9 10 USB3 USB4 Transcend Congratulations you have now completed Hardware Setup This means that you can move on to Chapter 3 the BIOS Setup section and turn on your PC ...

Page 26: ...The Main Menu As you turn on or reboot the system the BIOS is immediately activated It will read the system configuration information and check the system through Power On Self Test POST During the POST process press the Del key and you can enter the Award BIOS configuration system The following screen will appear In the Award BIOS system you can use the arrows to highlight an item and press the E...

Page 27: ...tem Chipset Integrated Peripherals I O subsystems that depend on the integrated peripheral controllers in your system Power Management Setup Advanced Power Management APM and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI options PnP PCI Configurations Plug and Play standard and PCI Local Bus configuration options PC Health Status To display the fan status CPU temperature system temperature etc a...

Page 28: ...ettings in nonvolatile CMOS RAM and exit Setup Exit Without Saving To abandon all changes and exit Setup 3 3 Standard CMOS Features Date mm dd yy Time hh mm ss Highlight the items and use PageUp PageDown to change the value of Date Time IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave Press Enter to enter the sub menu ...

Page 29: ...ers heads and sectors supported are 1024 16 and 63 respectively LBA Logical Block Addressing During drive access the IDE controller transfers the data address described by sector head and cylinder number into a physical block address This will significantly improve data transfer rates for drives with more than 1024 cylinders Large For drives that do not support LBA and have more than 1024 cylinder...

Page 30: ...o type automatically The BIOS supports a secondary video subsystem but do not select it in this Setup EGA VGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter Video Graphics Array For EGA VGA SEGA SVGA or PGA monitor adapters CGA 40 Color Graphics Adapter powers up in 40 column mode CGA 80 Color Graphics Adapter powers up in 80 column mode MONO Monochrome adapter including high resolution Halt On During the Power On Sel...

Page 31: ...essage if a program specifically a virus attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive You should then execute an anti virus program Keep in mind that this feature protects the boot sector only not the entire hard drive NOTE Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning message If you plan to run such a program we...

Page 32: ... Self Test POST The Quick POST skips certain steps We recommend that you normally disable Quick POST It s better to find a problem during POST than to lose data during your work First Second Third Boot Device Boot Other Device The original IBM PCs loaded the DOS operating system from drive A floppy disk Therefore IBM PC compatible systems are designed to search for an operating system first on dri...

Page 33: ... When this function is disabled the following two items Typematic Rate and Typematic Delay are irrelevant Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller in your system When this function is enabled you can select a typematic rate and typematic delay Typematic Rate Chars Sec When the Typematic Rate setting is enabled you can select a typematic rate the rate at which characters re...

Page 34: ...ROM on other expansion cards by setting these fields If you install other expansion cards with ROMs you need to know which address the ROMs use specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K depending on the used amount Delay For HDD Secs Generally you can set this field to 0 However for some old Hard Disk Drives you may need to increase the delay time for BIOS to...

Page 35: ...RAM performance default is 3 clocks If your SDRAM DIMM specification is 2 CAS latency change 3 to 2 for better performance Bank 0 1 2 3 4 5 DRAM Timing The DRAM timing of Bank 0 1 2 3 4 5 is determined by the Memory modules which are plugged on the motherboard DRAM Clock Set the clock frequency of the DRAMs The default value is Host Clock Concurrent PCI Host When Disabled the CPU bus will be occup...

Page 36: ...ws caching of the system BIOS This action can increase system performance Video BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS This action can increase system performance AGP Aperture Size MB Memory mapped graphics data structures can reside in a Graphic Aperture We suggest you leave this field on the default setting AGP 4X Mode Select Enable if you use a AGP 4X VGA card AGP Dri...

Page 37: ...c Bursting When Enabled every write transaction goes to the write buffer Burstable transactions then burst on the PCI bus and nonburstable transactions will write to PCI bus immediately PCI Master 0 WS Write When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select E...

Page 38: ... Memory Parity ECC Check When parity DRAM modules are installed select Enabled to correct 1 bit memory errors in the memory Otherwise select Disabled 34 BIOS SETUP ...

Page 39: ... channels Select Enabled to activate the first and or second IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate this interface if you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface IDE Prefetch Mode The On Board IDE drive interface supports IDE prefetching for faster drive access If your IDE drive has add in IDE interface and doesn t support prefetching please set this field to Disabled ...

Page 40: ...er the PCI Slot or the AGP first IDE HDD Block Mode Block Mode is also called Block Transfer Multiple Commands or Multiple Sector Read Write If your IDE hard drive supports Block Mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of Block Read Writes per sector that the drive can support Onboard FDD Controller You can use this function to enable or disable the onb...

Page 41: ...han EPP mode ECP EPP Allows normal speed operation in two way mode Parallel Port EPP Type Select EPP port type 1 7 or 1 9 ECP Mode Use DMA Assign DMA channel 1 or 3 to the port for ECP mode operation Onboard Legacy Audio This field controls the onboard legacy audio related selection If Disabled all of the following selections will be disabled Select Enable if you want to use onboard audio Sound Bl...

Page 42: ...38 BIOS SETUP MPU 401 I O Address Assign MPU 401 resource Game Port Address Select Enabled to assign Game Port resource ...

Page 43: ...r Management Setup allows you to configure your system to minimize energy consumption according to your own style of computer use ACPI Function This item allows you to enable disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI Power Management ...

Page 44: ...elow Doze Mode 1 Min Suspend Mode 1 Min 3 User Define Allows you to set each mode individually Select the time out period for each mode shown above ACPI Suspend Type Select the ACPI Suspend Type S1 POS or S3 STR If your expansion cards do not support the STR function you must leave this field on S1 POS setting STR Suspend to RAM is an energy saving feature It takes only a few seconds to wake up th...

Page 45: ...supend mode All Modes Monitor blanked when the system enters any power saving mode MODEM Use IRQ You can select one of the following interrupt resources for modem use N A 3 4 5 7 9 10 and 11 Soft Off by PWRBTN When set to Instant off the ATX switch can be used as a normal system Power Off button When set to Delay 4 seconds you need to press the ATX switch down for more than 4 seconds if you want t...

Page 46: ...n PCI Master wakes up the system MODEM Ring WakeUp Select Enabled to Power On your system when the external modem receives a call NOTE This function requires an external modem which supports the Ring Wake Up function RTC Alarm WakeUp Select Enabled if you want to Power On your system at a certain time on the same day every month or at a certain time every day Date Time Set the Date and Time to Pow...

Page 47: ...rrupt Requests When an I O device wants to gain the attention of the Operating System it asserts an IRQ signal When the Operating System is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself and performs the service The IRQs Activity Monitoring function monitors the IRQs you select On any activity from one of them will awaken a system which has been powered down ...

Page 48: ...oots Resources Controlled by The Award Plug and Play BIOS can automatically configure all the boot and Plug and Play PnP compatible devices If you select Auto ESCD all of the Interrupt Requests IRQs and DMA assignment fields will be deactived as the BIOS automatically assigns them PnP OS Installed This field allows you to use a Plug and Play PnP operating system to configure the PCI bus slots inst...

Page 49: ... the following depending on which type of device is using the interrupt PCI ISA PnP devices whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture compliant with the Plug and Play standard Legacy ISA Devices requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial port1 compliant with the original PC AT bus specification DMA Resources ...

Page 50: ...ield at Disabled Assign IRQ For USB When Enabled BIOS will assign an IRQ channel for the USB controller Assign IRQ For VGA Select Enabled only if your VGA card requires an assigned IRQ Most ordinary cards do not but some high end cards with video capture function do Consult your VGA documentation to set this field Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system 3 9 Frequency Voltage Control...

Page 51: ...permanently stored in the BIOS ROM NOTE These default settings are non optimal and disable all high performance features 3 11 Load Optimized Defaults This option allows you to load the default values to the system configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration settings for the system ...

Page 52: ...assword Your password can be up to 8 alpha numeric characters When you type the characters they appear as asterisks on the password screen box 2 After typing the password press the Enter key 3 At the next prompt re type your password and press the Enter key again to confirm the new password After password entry the screen automatically reverts to the main screen To disable the password press the E...

Page 53: ...to page 22 To erase the RTC RAM 1 Unplug your computer 2 Short the JP5 jumper 3 Turn on your computer 4 Hold down Delete key during the POST process and enter BIOS setup to re configure BIOS 3 13 User Password This option allows you to set a password to prevent others from changing the BIOS setting of your system This operation is the same as Supervisor Password ...

Page 54: ...3 15 Exit Without Saving Abort the current change and exit the BIOS utility 50 BIOS SETUP 3 14 Save Exit Setup Save the setting and exit the BIOS utility ...

Page 55: ...urn on your PC first the screen will display as follows TRANSCEND MODULAR BIOS AKXA Ver 1 01 04 17 00 You can see a description shows at the third line Your system could be damaged if a wrong BIOS version is accidently used If you are not sure what version you should choose please contact us at techsupport transcend com tw Warning BIOS Version 1 0 V11 for Version 1 1 BIOS File Name AKXA Ver 1 01 Y...

Page 56: ... Step 2 Make a system Disk Put a clean 3 5 disk in Drive A MS DOS Key in FORMAT A s and press Enter Windows O S Select the icon of My Compute Click 3 5 Floppy A Select File Format from Command Bar Under Format 3 5 Floppy A Menu Select Format type Full item and Other Options Copy system files Click Start button Step 3 Download the updated BIOS EXE file from the website to a floppy disk Ref 4 1 and ...

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