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Table of Contents ................................................................................... 1
1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start ...........................................................3
1.2 Features of This Manual.................................................................................4
1.3 Safety Information........................................................................................4
Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................... 5
2.1 How does your motherboard look like? ............................................................5
2.2 Specification ................................................................................................6
2.3 Block Diagram..............................................................................................7
3.1 Quick Installation Procedure...........................................................................8
3.2 Installation You Have to Know ........................................................................9
Installing CPU ............................................................................................... 9
Installing CPU and System Fans .....................................................................10
Installing Memory Modules ............................................................................11
Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables .................................................................12
Connecting ATX Power Cables........................................................................13
Connecting Front Panel Cable ........................................................................14
3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference............................................................. 15
Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency................................................................15
Connecting Serial ATA ..................................................................................16
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting ...................................................................17
Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot .................................................................18
Connecting IrDA ..........................................................................................19
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported..................................................................20
Connecting USB2.0 ......................................................................................21
Connecting 1394..........................................................................................22
Connecting S/PDIF .......................................................................................23
Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effects ....................................................................24
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents ................... 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start ............3 1.2 Features of This Manual.................4 1.3 Safety Information..................4 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ..........5 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? ............5 2.2 Specification ....................6 2.3 Block Diagram....................7 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure................8... - Page 2 Connecting Front Audio.................25 Connecting Game Port ..................26 Connecting CD_IN..................27 Connecting Case Open..................28 Colored Coded Back Panel ................29 LED Indication .....................30 3.4 Jumper Settings ..................31 RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)............. 33 Other Useful Features ..................34 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS................. 35 Introduction ....................35 How To Use Phoenix-Award™...
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Page 3: A Thank-You Note Before You Get Start
We regret not informing about any changes in usage standards and other related information. AOpen reserves the right of altering or modifying the content of this manual. In case of any mistakes or incorrect descriptions, which include those on the products, AOpen makes no guarantee or commitments. -
Page 4: Features Of This Manual
1.2 Features of This Manual To help you grab the useful information of this motherboard and aware of certain conditions that you might need to know, you will see the icons below frequently: Note This contains knowledge you should know in process of assembling, or some helpful tips. -
Page 5: Chapter 2 Introduction To This Motherboard
Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? 1. CD-IN Connector 16. Onboard AC’97 CODEC 2. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 17. Front Audio Connector 3. AGP 8X Expansion Slot 18. -
Page 6: Specification
2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models vK8T800a-LF AMD Athlon 64 CPU Socket 754 Chipset VIA K8T800 + VIA 8237 DDR 266/333/400MHz DDR DIMM x 3 Main Memory DIMM Type : 64/128/256/512MB & 1GB Max Memory : 3GB... -
Page 7: Block Diagram
2.3 Block Diagram AMD Athlon 64 CPU Socket 754 PCI Bus 32-bit PCI Slot x 4 AGP bus AGP 8X K8T800 ATA 66/100/133 AGP 8X Slot IDE Drives x 4 Chipset DIMM Sockets x3 150MB/s Serial ATA Ports x 2 DDR400/333/266 Up to 3GB Realtek... -
Page 8: Quick Installation Procedure
Chapter 3 Hardware Installation Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure 12. Installing Drivers & 1. Installing CPU Utilities 11. Installing Operating System 2. Installing CPU (such as, Windows Fan & System Fan 10. Loading Default BIOS, Setting CPU 3. -
Page 9: Installation You Have To Know
3.2 Installation You Have to Know Installing CPU ® This motherboard supports AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket (with CPU Overheat Protection function implemented, the system will be automatically power off when the temperature of CPU reached 97 degree). -
Page 10: Installing Cpu And System Fans
Installing CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. +12V SENSOR SYSFAN1 Connector SENSOR +12V CPUFAN Connector +12V SENSOR +12V PWRFAN Connector SENSOR... -
Page 11: Installing Memory Modules
Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in Navy Blue or Electronic Blue which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place. Pin 1 Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will clip to hold the... -
Page 12: Connecting Ide And Floppy Cables
Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables Connect the 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage. Primary Primary Master (3st) Slave (4nd) Pin 1 FDD Connector IDE 1 (Primary) Pin 1... -
Page 13: Connecting Atx Power Cables
Connecting ATX Power Cables This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector as shown below. Make sure you plug them in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to insert the 4-pin connector before connecting the 20-pin connector. Ground +12V +12V... -
Page 14: Connecting Front Panel Cable
Connecting Front Panel Cable Attach the power LED, speaker and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode. Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing, which is a 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. -
Page 15: Other Installation For Your Reference
If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use <Home> key to restore the default setting or you can wait the AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” reset the system in five seconds and system will auto-detct hardware again . -
Page 16: Connecting Serial Ata
Connecting Serial ATA To connect a serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please be noted that it is a jumper free implement;... -
Page 17: Adjusting Your Hard Disk Setting
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard supports the latest serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after having them installed, the problem may lie in the BIOS setting. -
Page 18: Connecting Agp 8X Expansion Slot
Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot vK8T800a-LF provide an AGP 8X slot, a sky blue slot having the latest AGP specification on motherboard. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 4X AGP, and the data transfer rate could achieve 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. -
Page 19: Connecting Irda
Connecting IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports both HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps). -
Page 20: 10/100/1000Mbps Lan Supported
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller on board, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on the top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link mode; it lights in orange when linking to network. The left hand side LED indicates the transfer mode and will light in green when data is transferring at 100Mbps (never lights while at 10Mbps), but will light in orange when transferring in Gigabit’s mode. -
Page 21: Connecting Usb2.0
Connecting USB2.0 This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are four ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel. -
Page 22: Connecting 1394
Connecting 1394 This motherboard comes with VIA 1394 Control Chip onboard, the IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, this interface can connect to devices that require high data transferring performance such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices. -
Page 23: Connecting S/Pdif
Connecting S/PDIF S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through a specific audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital output. -
Page 24: Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effects
Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effects This motherboard comes with an AC’97 (Realtek ALC850) CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high quality of audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. This motherboard provides 7.1 Channel ports shown as below. Picture represents the standard location of all speakers in 7.1 Channel sound tracks. -
Page 25: Connecting Front Audio
Connecting Front Audio If the housing is designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. By the way, please remove the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. -
Page 26: Connecting Game Port
Connecting Game Port This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard. Pin1 (User Upgrade Optional) -
Page 27: Connecting Cd_In
Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. -
Page 28: Connecting Case Open
Connecting Case Open The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or by the opening of the chassis, the system will beep to inform you. -
Page 29: Colored Coded Back Panel
Colored Coded Back Panel The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, Printer, USB, AC’97 sound. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. Rear SUR RJ45 PS/2 Mouse SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port Connector Line-In... -
Page 30: Led Indication
LED Indication LED indication including Standby LED and AGP LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard, giving you a convenient indication check the system power status in circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode. -
Page 31: Jumper Settings
3.4 Jumper Settings JP14 Clear CMOS Data You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. 1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power. 2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2. 3. - Page 32 JP28 Keyboard / Mouse This motherboard provides keyboard mouse Wakeup Jumper wake-up function. You can use JP28 to enable or disable this function, which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse. The factory default setting is “Disable” (1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3.
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Page 33: Raid (Redundant Array Of Independent Disks)
Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) Serial ATA RAID for VIA VT8237 With the latest chipsets implemented, VIA VT8237 provides RAID 0 and RAID 1 function for the Serial ATA hard disks. You may use RAID BIOS Setting Utility provided by VIA to setup your disk array. -
Page 34: Other Useful Features
Other Useful Features With excellent design ability of R&D team, AOpen boasts for its various powerful and handy features that come with our product like follows. You are welcomed visit technical website learn more about those features. http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside... -
Page 35: Chapter 5 Setting Bios
AOpen’s R&D engineering team had optimized most BIOS settings of this motherboard. However, some default settings of BIOS cannot fine-tune those sections that controlled by chipset. Therefore, this chapter is intended to guide you and help you to configure some other settings. -
Page 36: How To Use Phoenix-Award™ Bios Setup Program
How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, press <Enter> key to select, and use <Page Up> and <Page Down> keys to change setting values. You can press <Esc> key to quit Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program. -
Page 37: Bios Upgrade Under Windows Environment
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinFlash. With an eye to convenience for users, EzWinFlash combines the BIOS binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on the utility you downloaded from web and let it help you complete the flash process automatically. - Page 38 STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all applications before you start the upgrades. Download the latest version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (Ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw/) Unzip the downloaded BIOS package (ex: vK8T800aLF102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment.
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Page 39: Vivid Bios Technology
Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful... -
Page 40: Chapter 6 Installing Drivers
Click and done. Yes. EzInstall makes installation easy and even foolproof! After putting in the CD, you will be prompted with AOpen welcome page and our branches information. First, click on the install driver ICON at left side for necessary drivers. -
Page 41: Installing Drivers
6.1 Installing Drivers As you may see from the Installing driver page, EzInstall had picked up necessary for your motherboard. All you have to do is just click on the “GO”, and no more steps afterward, of all listed drivers, grey checks indicate necessary drivers; you cannot click them off. -
Page 42: Installing Utilities
6.2 Installing Utilities Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilities to manage your system. You may find lots of fabulous utilities listed there, and all you have to do is to click on the “GO”, then it will install the utilities to your system right away without complicated steps. -
Page 44: Chapter 7 Troubleshooting
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting... -
Page 45: Chapter 8 Technical Support
Gold Member of Club AOpen so as to ensure quality service in the future. In order to maintain the best service to every customer of us, we recommend you to follow the procedures below and seek help from our branches according to the region you buy the product. -
Page 46: Model Name And Bios Version
Gold member of Club AOpen, and to ensure high service quality and priority from AOpen. You will also have a chance to play slot machine game to win prize from AOpen. Please prepare the following information before you start: Model Name, Part Number (P/N), Serial Number (S/N) and Purchase Date.