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- Page 1 K7VAT/ VAT+ VIA KT/ KE-133(VT8363) Chipset ATX Form Factor Main Board User's Manual (Ver.:2.0/ 3.0)
- Page 2 Copyright Copyright© 2001 by this company. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means without prior written permission. This manual and the information contained herein are protected by copyright.
- Page 3 ® This manual is designed to provide information about the AMD Athlon™ processor main board. Every effort has been made to make this manual as accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. All the information is provided on an 'as is' basis. The author and his corresponding publishing company shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
2-11 IDE1 and IDE2 ………………………………………………………………………33 2-12 FDD1(Floppy Disk) ………………………………………………………………34 2-13 PWR1(ATX Power Supply) ……………………………………………………35 2-14 Front Panel Connectors ………………………………………………………………36 Chapter 3 Software Installation …… ………………………38 ……………… ………… Driver Installation…………………………………………………………………………38 Registry Error When Installing The VIA 4-IN-1 Drivers……………………………….39 K7VAT System Board... - Page 5 NOT fit and do NOT provide adequate cooling. WARNING: Make sure your power supply can deliver the power your system needs. We recommend AT LEAST a 250W power STOP supply. Even better, get a 300W power supply, especially when using many peripherals. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction
This manual is divided into 6 main sections, as described below: Introduction The introduction contains information on the main specifications for the K7VAT (K7VAT+) motherboard, the package contents and cautionary notes. Hardware Installation The Hardware Installation section is the most important in the manual. -
Page 7: Main Specifications
With one 16-bit ISA expansion slot, which can accepts plug-in boards that control the sound, and other peripherals. AGP Slot The K7VAT (K7VAT+) comes with an AGP Slot with Support for AGP cards for high performance. The AGP 133MHz 4X mode is supported as well, further increasing system performance. - Page 8 USB interface With support for up to 4 USB ports, two on the back panel and two on-board, the K7VAT (K7VAT+) provides ample USB expansion room. IDE interface The K7VAT (K7VAT+) comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four ATA66/33 devices on two channels (ATA100 is also supported for K7VAT (K7VAT+) boards that come with the 686B southbridge).
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Page 9: Other Features
BIOS or through the VIA Hardware Monitor Software. System BIOS The K7VAT (K7VAT+) comes with a 2MB BIOS that provides, boot block write protection, and HD/ SCSI/ CD/ Floppy boot selection. DMI is also supported through BIOS, which allows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of compatibility. -
Page 10: Package Contents
1-3 Package Contents The K7VAT (K7VAT+) Motherboard 1 Manual 1 Driver Installation CD-ROM 1 IDE ATA 66/100 Flat-Cable 1 Floppy Disk Drive Flat-Cable Please verify that all items listed above are included in your motherboard package. If one of the items is missing, please contact the dealer where you bought your motherboard. -
Page 11: Hardware Installation
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2-1 Mainboard overview COM2 COM1 MIC_IN/LINE_IN/LINE_OUT USB1 GAME KB & MOUSE BIOS USB2 AMR1 PCI3 PCI2 PCI1 PCI4 PCI5 WOL1 WOM1 FAN3 FAN1 AGP1 SW 2 JBAT1 FAN2 IDE2 FDD1 IDE1 K7VAT System Board... -
Page 12: Short Description Of Main Sockets And Connectors
For expansion PCI Cards (Network, Modem, SCSI, etc). ISA slot For expansion ISA cards(Sound card, etcs) AMR Slot A Modem Riser card can be inserted into this slot. Other components and jumper settings will described in the respective sections that follow. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 13: Cpu Installation
The processor must be positioned so the pins match up properly. When you do that, the corner of processor that is cut off will be positioned next to the release pivot. K7VAT System Board... - Page 14 "Socket A" is molded into the plastic. The heatsink must be mounted with this step above the top of the socket or the heatsink will not be touching the processor properly. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 15 This connector is keyed and can only be installed one way. If you use a heatsink assembly that has two cooling fans, connect one to FAN 1 and the other to FAN z3. For more information on the FAN connectors, refer to the FAN connector section later in this section. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 16: Cpu Frequency Setting
100MHz with a multiplier setting of 8x. Frequency The K7VAT (K7VAT+) motherboard allows for setting of the frequency through the BIOS. To change the CPU frequency, go to the Voltage / Frequency Control page in the BIOS setup, the CPU Host / PCI Clock item will allow you select the CPU frequency. This is explained in more detail in the BIOS section. - Page 17 This potion tells the clock generator what frequency to send to the CPU, DRAM and the PCI bus. This allows the selection of the CPU’s External Frequency(or Bus Clock). The Bus Clock multiplied by the Frequency Multiple equals the CPU’s Intemal frequency (the advertifed cpu speed). K7VAT System Board...
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Page 18: Cpu And System Cooling
FAN2 Fan Headers Your K7VAT (K7VAT+) Allows the use of in all 3 FANS. Of these 3 FANS, 2 can be used by the CPU Heatsink assembly (Some heatsink assembly come with 2 FANs). The other 1 FAN Headers allow connection of a Power Supply FAN respectively. For a the location of... - Page 19 You can go the AMD website (www.amd.com) to find a list of AMD recommended FANs. Note: If your case comes with a case FAN or a possibility to install a case FAN, we recommend you use it. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 20: Memory
Refer to the picture below for the position of the DIMM slots: DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 Memory speed is controlled through the BIOS, on the Advanced Chipset Features Setup page you will find several items related to SDRAM speed. Refer to the BIOS section for more details. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 21: Memory Installation
DIMM modules. WARNING: Make sure that you unplug your power supply when adding or removing STOP memory modules or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards K7VAT System Board... - Page 22 The VCRAM architecture assigns virtual channels to each memory master. Since virtual channels maintain the individual characteristics of each memory master request, bus efficiency is dramatically increased. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 23: Pci And Isa
Set up the BIOS if necessary (This includes interrupts) Install the necessary software drivers for your expansion card. If you run into problems with expansion cards this may be due to interrupt issues. Please refer to the interrupt section later in this chapter. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 24: Wake On Lan Header
Wake On Ring). For the pin lay-out of the WOL header, please refer to the picture below. 5V-Stand by Wake-Up After connecting the WOM cable from your modem to the WOM header, you can set the BIOS to allow the system to wake up when the Modem Card receives a Ring signal. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 25: Agp Slot
Now secure the card in the slot with the screw you removed. Replace the computer case cover. Set up the BIOS to support 4X mode if your AGP card supports it. Install the necessary software drivers for your AGP card (See the Software Installation chapter) K7VAT System Board... - Page 26 VGA local memory to frame buffer. The amount of memory shared is known as the AGP Aperture, the size can be set in the BIOS. Other names for memory sharing are AGP Execute Mode, DME, and DIME. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 27: Interrupts
If the driver does not support interrupt sharing, then other PCI devices cannot share the PCI interrupt used by that device. K7VAT System Board... - Page 28 Legacy ISA instead of PCI / ISA PnP in the BIOS. This will make sure that the interrupt used by the ISA card is not included in the PnP interrupt pool. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 29 The BIOS first assigns the interrupts to the ISA PnP cards from the interrupt pool. The interrupts (if available) are assigned in the following order: 15, 11, 10, 12, 14, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9. As mentioned, if ACPI if enabled, IRQ 9 will not be available. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 30 IRQ that was assigned to PCI by the BIOS. This means concretely that the OS can change BIOS settings, and that settings made in the BIOS are not necessarily correct when using a PnP OS. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 31: On Board Audio
2-7 On board Audio The K7VAT (K7VAT+) southbridge supports AC’97, a standard that allows low cost Audio and Modem Codecs to be added to the motherboard. Your motherboard comes with a VIA VT1611 Audio codec. The AC’97 standard defines primary and secondary codecs, the onboard VIA codec is configured as the primary codec. -
Page 32: Amr (Audio Modem Riser)
4 accordingly, see the following table JP5: Primary Codec Select Onboard Audio Codec is Card codec is primary codec primary codec JP4 Setting 1 2 3 Note: pin 1 can be recognized by the thicker white line around it. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 33: Back Panel Connectors
PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors. If your keyboard does not work, check this first. The keyboard must be inserted into the lower connector. PS/2 Mouse The mouse can be plugged in in only one way. Please do not force the connector in, it may get damaged by use of excessive force. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 34: Usb
Pin 2 SIN (Serial IN or Receive Data) Pin 7 RTS (Request To Send) Pin 3 SOUT (Serial OUT or transmit data) Pin 8 CTS (Clear To Send) Pin 4 DTR (Data Terminal Ready) Pin 9 RI (Ring Indicate) Pin 5 GND K7VAT System Board... -
Page 35: Parallel Port
You will need to buy a separate IR device from your dealer. The motherboard supports both ASKIR and HPSIR specifications, you will need to set the standard you want to use in the BIOS on the integrated peripherals page. The pin lay-out of IR1 is as follows: K7VAT System Board... -
Page 36: Ide1 And Ide2
BIOS the motherboard will use the fastets possible interface to comminucate with your IDE devices. (Note however that windows may not support UDMA 100 yet, see the FAQ chapter) For the location of the IDE connectors, refer to the following picture: IDE2 IDE1 K7VAT System Board... -
Page 37: Fdd1(Floppy Disk)
Interrupt. The BIOS also allows swapping of floppy A and B although this will not be useful to most users. For the floppy disk connector location, refer to the following picture: FDD1 K7VAT System Board... -
Page 38: Pwr1(Atx Power Supply)
5V standby line. Anything LESS is unacceptable. Even better, get a 1A 5V standby power supply. For the lay-out of the AXT connector, please refer to the following picture: ATX Power 5VSB PW-OK PS-ON 3.3V -12V 3.3V 3.3V K7VAT System Board... -
Page 39: Front Panel Connectors
This is very similar to powering to system off and then on again). Note that Windows, Linux and other operating systems do not appreciate the use of the reset switch. When you are working under windows, always use the shutdown feature under the start button (Yes, very logical). K7VAT System Board... - Page 40 ATX case to this connector. Pressing that button will force the system into suspend mode. (The BIOS allows specifying of the suspend state, and of the wake-up events that can wake the system up again). K7VAT System Board...
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Page 41: Chapter 3 Software Installation
Chapter 3 Software Installation It is recommended to do a clean installation of Windows when you first install your K7VAT (K7VAT+) motherboard. Immediately after installing Win98 or Win2000 you should install the latest VIA drivers for the motherboard. The original VIA drivers are included on the driver CD which accompanied this motherboard, but the latest drivers can be found at http://www.via.com.tw/drivers/index.htm... -
Page 42: Registry Error When Installing The Via 4In1 Drivers
Some users have the onboard IDE controllers disabled, because SCSI disks are used. Installation of the VIA 4in1 drivers under Windows98 then gives a "Registry error! Please reboot computer" error message while the setup file unpacks. Enabling the IDE controllers during the installation will solve this issue. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 43: Chapter4 The Bios
BIOS is necessary to support new devices that were not on the market at the time the motherboard was released. For the physical location of the BIOS FLASH ROM IC on your K7VAT (K7VAT+) motherboard, refer to the picture below: BIOS The BIOS IC is inserted in an IC socket, which means that it can be removed and exchanged for another IC if necessary. -
Page 44: Updating The Bios
Go into the Frequency/Voltage Control page to adjust your CPU speed and voltage (please make sure the CPU voltage matches your CPU specs, in case of doubts leave it to ‘default’). Save your settings and you are done. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 45: The Cmos Memory
2-3 this will interrupt the battery electricity flow, and the CMOS memory will be erased, this will however only work if the power supply is not switched on. Now at the next reboot the BIOS will automatically load the CMOS K7VAT System Board... - Page 46 Retain CMOS settings Clear CMOS Settings JBAT1 1 2 3 1 2 3 The following part of this chapter will describe the individual BIOS Setup pages and all the items that can be adjusted to fine tune your system. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 47: The Bios Setup
Use the arrow keys to move between items and select fields. Press [enter] to enter the selected submenu. Submenus All items that start with a are submenus. Pressing [enter] when a submenu is selected will enter that submenu. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 48: Hot Keys
Set User Password Integrated Peripherals xit Setup Power Manag Save to CMOS and Exit (Y/N)? ithout Saving PnP/PCI Conf PC Health Status Pressing [Y] and [enter] will save the changes, pressing [N] and [enter] will keep the old settings. K7VAT System Board... - Page 49 Advanced Chipset Features Set User Password Integrated Peripherals xit Setup Power Manag Quit without Saving (Y/N)? ithout Saving PnP/PCI Conf PC Health Status Pressing [Y] and [enter] will Exit without saving, pressing [N] and [enter] will not Exit. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 50: Standard Cmos Setup
Possible Settings Notes Weekday, month, Type the current date. Using the P-Up / P-Dn keys to Date day ,year (weekday auto changes) toggle is possible hh:mm:ss Type the current time 24-hour clock format. (15:15:00 Time = 3:15:00) K7VAT System Board... - Page 51 BIOS from looking for a device and speed up booting. Access Selects the CHS access mode. Mode Logical Block Addressing, for HDD drives larger than 504MB (All modern HDDs) Large For very large HDDs. Auto The BIOS will automatically detect the best access mode. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 52 The BIOS will stop booting when an error is detected. You can set through this item what errors will stop the system booting. You can select between different error modes by using the Page-Up and Page-Down keys. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 53 Stop booting on all errors, but not on a keyboard error. keyboard Halt On All, but Stop booting on all errors, but a diskette error. diskette All, but Stop booting on all errors, but keyboard and diskette errors. disk/key K7VAT System Board...
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Page 54: Advanced Bios Features
F6:Fail-Safe Default s F7: Optimized Defaults The screen is not as long on your monitor. You can use the arrow keys to scroll down and up the page. The following explains all individual items and their meaning. K7VAT System Board... - Page 55 If you set this item to disabled, the BIOS will not boot if the first to third devices all fail to boot. The list you can choose from for the first to third device is the same, refer to the table below: K7VAT System Board...
- Page 56 If you set the typematic rate setting item to disabled, the system will use the defaults of 6 and 250 for the rate and delay items. If you set it to enabled you can select the values yourself. Refer to the table below: K7VAT System Board...
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Page 57: Security Option
Shadow Options The shadow options allow the BIOS to shadow (write to RAM) certain parts of the BIOS code. This will speed up running the code, since running from RAM is much faster than running from FLASH ROM K7VAT System Board... - Page 58 This will speed up execution and is the default setting. Disabled No shadowing is allowed. xxxxx –xxxxx Enabled This enables shadowing of the selected memory range. Set to Shadow enabled only when you are sure an expansion card uses this memory range. Disabled Default setting. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 59: Advanced Chipset Features
F5 : Previous Values F6:Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults The screen is not as long on your monitor. You can use the arrow keys to scroll down and up the page. The following explains all individual items and their meaning. K7VAT System Board... - Page 60 15M – 16M A memory hole exists between 15 and 16MB. PCI Bus Timing Settings The following settings are all related to PCI timing, there is no need to change them from their default setting unless you are an experienced user. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 61 This will shut down use of the integrated buffer, no delayed transactions are allowed. PCI #2 Access Enabled When #2 (AGP port) tries to access #1 (PCI) and an error #1 retry occurs, the transaction will be tried again. Disabled No retry will occur. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 62 AGP card supports this. Disabled AGP Reads take longer than 1 wait state, default setting. Cache Settings The following settings are related to cacheability of video RAM and the system BIOS, change them only if you are an experienced user. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 63 The BIOS scans for a on board Sound device and enables it. Disabled The BIOS does not enable on board sound devices. Onchip Auto The BIOS scans for a on board Modem and enables it Modem Disabled The BIOS does not enable on board modems. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 64: Integrated Peripherals
330 – 333H Game Port (200 –207) Enabled ↑ ↓ → ← : Move Enter: Select + / -/ PU / PD: value F10: save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5 : Previous Values F6:Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults K7VAT System Board... - Page 65 Values Meaning Inie Display PCI Slot The BIOS will first search for a VGA adapter on the PCI bus, if First one is found it will be used as primary display. The AGP Bus is first scanned. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 66: Floppy Drive
For IR devices that support full duplex. TX, RX No, No Will not invert any signal inverting No, Yes Will invert the RX signal (Default) enable Yes, No Will invert the TX signal Yes, Yes Will invert both signals K7VAT System Board... - Page 67 SB IRQ Select 5,7,9,10 Specify the IRQ for your Sound Blaster card. Default is IRQ 5. SB DMA 0, 1, 2, 3 Specify the DMA Channel for your Sound Blaster card. The Select Default is DMA Channel 1. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 68 300 – 303, 310 – 313, 320 – 323 and 330 – 333. Game Port Values Meaning Game Port Enabled This will allow you to make use of the game port (joy sticks etc) Disabled If you do not need the game port, set this item to disabled. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 69: Power Management Setup
BIOS detects a STR and the system restores itself to where it left off. Start up time is much faster than a normal boot would take. Power Management Pressing [enter] when the power management item is selected will have the following sub menu appear: K7VAT System Board... - Page 70 The system will never enter suspend mode. PM control PM control by Power Management will be done through the APM (Advanced Power Management) interface. Select this setting for Windows OSes. (Not Win NT) The BIOS will control PM directly. K7VAT System Board...
- Page 71 When the system has entered doze or suspend mode, it can wake up through a wake event. These wake up events are triggered by interrupts that are monitored by the BIOS. If you press [Enter] when the Wake Up Events item is selected you will see the following sub menu appear: K7VAT System Board...
- Page 72 IRQ and the system will wake up. Date (of 0 - 31 Set the day of month for the system to wake up on. Month) Resume time xx:xx:xx Set the time (hh:mm:ss) for the system to wake up on. (hh:mm:ss) K7VAT System Board...
- Page 73 IRQ13 (Coprocessor) Enabled IRQ14 (HDD) Enabled IRQ15 (Reserved) Disabled You can select IRQs that will allow the system to wake up if activity is detected on them. Setting to enabled allows an IRQ to wake up the system. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 74: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup
This will not reset the system configuration data (IRQs, DMAs) Configuration on reboot. Data Enabled This will reset the configuration data. Remember to enable this item every time you make a change to your system (such as switching PCI cards etc). K7VAT System Board... - Page 75 (x = 0, 1, 3, 5, Legacy ISA If you need to make sure that a certain DMA channel is 6, 7) assigned to an ISA device, set that channel to legacy ISA. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 76: Pc Health Status
The speed of the CPU FAN connected to FAN 2 is displayed here FAN 2 Speed Voltage X The Voltage for the voltage line (Vcore, 3.3V, 5V, 12V) are displayed here. A small deviation of the ideal value is not a problem because voltages always fluctuate. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 77: Frequency/Voltage Control
125 / 31 130 / 32 133 / 33 135 / 33 137 / 34 139 / 34 140 / 35 143 / 35 145 / 36 148 / 37 150 / 37 155 / 38 166 / 41 K7VAT System Board... -
Page 78: Passwords
Now you can enter your password, after entering the password the menu will pop up again and will ask you to reconfirm the password. After entering and pressing [enter] the password will be stored to CMOS RAM and the password will be enabled. K7VAT System Board... - Page 79 RAM data containing the password information is powered by the onboard button cell battery. Please refer to the CMOS RAM section earlier in this chapter. After clearing the CMOS memory, hold down <Delete> during bootup and enter BIOS setup to re-enter user preferences. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 80: Frequently Asked Questions
The board may fail to start the memory check during the boot sequence, this may be related to a USB device (such as a scanner) attached to the system. Try disconnecting all USB devices from the system. K7VAT System Board... - Page 81 At one end of the cable, seven of the strands should be split and twisted compared with the rest of the ribbon. If not, and your cable is completely flat throughout, then you need to get a ribbon cable with a "twist" in. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 82: System Cooling
Typically, AMD recommended heatsinks that include the thermal compound. If the thermal compound must be purchased separately, a list of suggested compounds can be found in the 'AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide'. Refer to the AMD website. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 83: Suitable Socket A Cpu Coolers
50 degrees C or higher. The maximum temperature is 90 degrees C according to AMD, but your processor is very unlikely to be stable at temperatures near this! Also, processor life is directly related to temperature. K7VAT System Board... - Page 84 The maximum current that the FAN headers on the KTAPRO board can provide is 0.5A. Because Wattage = Voltage x Current ( I ), this means that at 12V the wattage the KTAPRO can support on each header is 6W. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 85: Video Issues
As for how to find out the specific settings recommended for various video cards, the best recommendation would be to contact your video card vendor first (attempting to contact the chipset provider as well may be advisable). Ask them what their recommended manual timing is. K7VAT System Board... -
Page 86: Memory Issues
Advanced Chipset Features DRAM timing by SPD Enabled This will force the system to use the timing as specified in the SPD EPROM on the SDRAM module. If this does not work, use the following conservative settings: K7VAT System Board... - Page 87 The KTAPRO motherboard is unable to support DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM due to limitations of the VIA Apollo KT133A chipset. Support of ECC SDRAM The KTAPRO motherboard is unable to support ECC (Error Correcting) SDRAM due to limitations of the VIA Apollo KT133A chipset. K7VAT System Board...
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Page 88: Chapter 6 Appendix
3F8 – 3FF Serial Port 1 6E2 – 6E3 Data Acquisition Adapter 1 790 – 793 Cluster Adapter 1 AE2 – AE3 Data Acquisition Adapter 2 B90 – B93 Cluster Adapter 2 EE2 – EE3 Data Acquisition Adapter 3 K7VAT System Board...
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