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AK74-SC
AK74-SU
Rev. A+

System Board

User’s Manual
43810032

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  • Page 1: System Board

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com AK74-SC AK74-SU Rev. A+ System Board User’s Manual 43810032...
  • Page 2 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Copyright Trademarks Caution:...

  • Page 3: Fcc And Doc Statement On Class B

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com FCC and DOC Statement on Class B...
  • Page 4 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Table of Contents Read Me First............Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation Chapter 3 - Award BIOS Setup Utility...
  • Page 5 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Chapter 4 - Supported Softwares Appendix A - Using the Suspend to RAM Function Appendix B - System Error Messages Appendix C - Troubleshooting...

  • Page 6: Read Me First

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction Read Me First CPU Fan Protection Over Voltage CPU Overclocking System Memory...
  • Page 7 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction 5VSB Power ≥ ≥ Drivers...

  • Page 8: Features And Specifications

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1 Features and Specifications 1.1.1 Features Chipset Processor System Memory Note: If you are using more than one DIMM, make sure you insert the same type of DIMMs into the DIMM sockets. Using different types (VCM or PC SDRAM) of DIMMs may cause problems.
  • Page 9 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction DIMMs Memory Size DIMMs Memory Size Expansion Slots Onboard Audio Features (AK74-SC only) Onboard PCI Audio Features - Creative ES1373 (AK74-SU only) ATX Double Deck Ports (PC 99 color-coded connectors)
  • Page 10 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction Connectors PCI Bus Master IDE Controller IrDA Interface USB Ports...

  • Page 11: System Health Monitor Functions

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction BIOS Desktop Management Interface (DMI) 1.1.2 System Health Monitor Functions...
  • Page 12 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction 1.1.3 Intelligence CPU Fan Protection Over Voltage CPU Overclocking...
  • Page 13 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction Automatic Chassis Fan Off Dual Function Power Button Wake-On-Ring Important: If you are using a modem add-in card, the 5VSB power source of your power supply must support a minimum of ≥ 720mA. RTC Timer to Power-on the System Wake-On-LAN Important:...
  • Page 14 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction AC Power Failure Recovery ACPI STR ® Suspend to RAM With the Suspend to RAM function enabled ® Refer to “Using the Suspend to RAM Function” in appendix A for more information. Important: The 5VSB power source of your power supply must support ≥...

  • Page 15: Package Checklist

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Introduction 1.2 Package Checklist þ þ þ þ þ...

  • Page 16: System Board Layout

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation 2.1 System Board Layout AK74-SC...
  • Page 17 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation AK74-SU...

  • Page 18: System Memory

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation Warning: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your system board, processor, disk drives, add-in boards, and other components. Perform the upgrade instruction procedures described at an ESD workstation only. If such a station is not available, you can provide some ESD protection by wearing an antistatic wrist strap and attaching it to a metal part of the system chassis.
  • Page 19 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.2.1 Installing the DIM Module...

  • Page 20: Jumper Settings For Clearing Cmos Data

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.3 Jumper Settings for Clearing CMOS Data Clear CMOS Data - Jumper JP8 a) CMOS data becomes corrupted. b) You forgot the supervisor or user password. c) You are unable to boot-up the computer system because the processor’s bus clock was incorrectly set in the BIOS.

  • Page 21: Jumper Settings For The Onboard Audio Codec

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.4 Jumper Settings for the Onboard Audio Codec (AK74-SC only) Onboard Audio Codec Settings - Jumpers JP4, JP5, JP6 and JP7...
  • Page 22 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.5 Jumper Settings for Selecting the USB Power USB Power Select for USB 1 and USB 2 - Jumper JP3...
  • Page 23 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.6 Jumper Settings for the Onboard PCI Audio - Creative ES1373 (AK74-SU only) Onboard PCI Audio Select - Jumper JP2...

  • Page 24: Ports And Connectors

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation Ports and Connectors 2.7.1 Serial Ports 2.7.2 PS/2 Mouse and PS/2 Keyboard Ports Warning: Make sure to turn off your computer prior to connecting or disconnecting a mouse or keyboard. Failure to do so may damage the system board.
  • Page 25 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.3 Parallel Port Setting Function 2.7.4 Floppy Disk Drive Connector...

  • Page 26: Ide Disk Drive Connector

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation Connecting the Floppy Disk Drive Cable 2.7.5 IDE Disk Drive Connector Connecting the IDE Disk Drive Cable...
  • Page 27 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation Note: Refer to your disk drive user’s manual for information about selecting proper drive switch settings. Adding a Second IDE Disk Drive Important: If you encountered problems while using an ATAPI CD-ROM drive that is set in Master mode, please set the CD-ROM drive to Slave mode.
  • Page 28 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.6 Universal Serial Bus Ports Pin Function Function...

  • Page 29: Irda Connector

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.7 IrDA Connector Function Note: The sequence of the pin functions on some IrDA cable may be reversed from the pin function defined on the system board. Make sure to connect the cable to the IrDA connector according to their pin functions.
  • Page 30 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.8 CPU Fan Connector with CPU Fan Protection Function...
  • Page 31 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation Function...
  • Page 32 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.9 Chassis Fan Connector Function...
  • Page 33 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.10 Second Fan Connector Function 2.7.11 Game/MIDI Port...
  • Page 34 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.12 Audio Jacks Line-out Jack (J6 - Lime) Line-in Jack (J7 - Light Blue) Mic-in Jack (J8 - Pink)

  • Page 35: Internal Audio Connectors

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.13 Internal Audio Connectors AUX-in and CD-in Function Function...
  • Page 36 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.14 Wake-On-LAN Connector Function Important: The 5VSB power source of your power supply must support a minimum of ≥ 720mA.
  • Page 37 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.15 Wake-On-Ring Connector Function Important: If you are using a modem add-in card, the 5VSB power source of your power supply must support a minimum of ≥ 720mA.
  • Page 38 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.16 AGP 4x LED and DIMM/PCI Standby Power LED AGP 4x LED DIMM Standby Power LED PCI Standby Power LED 3.3VSB Standby for PCI (Jumper JP1) Important: Lighted LEDs serve as a reminder that you must power-off the system then turn off the power supply’s switch or unplug the power cord prior to installing any DIM modules or add-in cards.

  • Page 39: Power Connector

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.17 Power Connector Function Pin Function Important: The system board requires a minimum of 300W electric current.
  • Page 40 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation 2.7.18 Front Panel LEDs and Switches HD-LED: Primary/Secondary IDE LED G-LED: Green LED ATX-SW: ATX Power Switch G-SW: Green Switch RESET: Reset Switch SPEAKER: Speaker Connector...
  • Page 41 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hardware Installation PWR-LED: Power/Standby LED Note: If a system did not boot-up and the Power/Standby LED did not light after it was powered-on, it may indicate that the CPU or memory module was not installed properly. Please make sure they are properly inserted into their corresponding socket.
  • Page 42 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Chapter 3 - Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1 The Basic Input/Output System CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Standard CMOS Features Frequency/Voltage Control Advanced BIOS Features Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Advanced Chipset Features...

  • Page 43: Ide Hdd Auto Detection

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Standard CMOS Features Item Help Date (mm:dd:yy) Wed, Jun 21 2000 Time (hh:mm:ss) 4 : 35 : 5 Menu Level IDE Primary Master Press Enter None Change the day, month,...
  • Page 44 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave Capacity Access Mode Drive A and Drive B None 360K, 5.25 in. 1.2M, 5.25 in. 720K, 3.5 in. 1.44M, 3.5 in. 2.88M, 3.5 in. Video EGA/VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 Mono...
  • Page 45 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Halt On No Errors All Errors All, But Keyboard All, But Diskette All, But Disk/Key Base Memory Extended Memory T otal Memory...

  • Page 46: Advanced Bios Features

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.2 Advanced BIOS Features CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features Item Help Disabled Virus Warning Enabled CPU L1 Cache Menu Level Enabled CPU L2 Cache Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Allows you to choose...
  • Page 47 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility CPU L1 Cache and CPU L2 Cache CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Quick Power On Self Test First Boot Device, Second Boot Device, Third Boot Device and Boot Other Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek...
  • Page 48 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Boot Up NumLock Status Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Enabled Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) Security Option System Setup...
  • Page 49 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility OS Select for DRAM > 64MB HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability...

  • Page 50: Advanced Chipset Features

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.3 Advanced Chipset Features CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Advanced Chipset Features Item Help Disabled DRAM Timing By SPD SDRAM Cycle Length Menu Level 100MHz DRAM Clock Disabled System BIOS Cacheable...
  • Page 51 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility SDRAM Cycle Length DRAM Clock System BIOS Cacheable Video RAM Cacheable AGP Aperture Size AGP-4X Mode AGP Driving Control AGP Driving Value...
  • Page 52 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility OnChip USB USB Keyboard Support OnChip Sound OnChip Modem Memory Parity/ECC Check...

  • Page 53: Integrated Peripherals

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.4 Integrated Peripherals CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help On-Chip Primary IDE Enabled On-Chip Secondary IDE Enabled Menu Level IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled IDE Primary Master PIO Auto...
  • Page 54 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Auto Mode 0-4 IDE Primary Master/Slave UDMA and IDE Secondary Master/ Slave UDMA Auto Disabled Init Display First PCI Slot IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Disabled Onboard FDD Controller Enabled Disabled...
  • Page 55 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Onboard Serial Port 1 and Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto 3F8/IRQ4, 2F8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3 Disabled UART2 Mode Select IR Function Duplex Half Full TX,RX Inverting Enable Onboard Parallel Port 378/IRQ7, 3BC/IRQ7, 278/IRQ5 Disabled...
  • Page 56 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Parallel Port Mode Normal “ECP (Extended Capabilities Port)” “EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port)” ECP Mode Use DMA EPP Mode Select Onboard Legacy Audio (AK74-SC only) Sound Blaster SB I/O Base Address SB IRQ Select...
  • Page 57 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility SB DMA Select MPU-401 MPU-401 I/O Address Game Port (200-207H)

  • Page 58: Power Management Setup

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.5 Power Management Setup CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Power Management Setup Item Help ACPI Function Enabled Power Management Press Enter Menu Level ACPI Suspend Type S1(POS) PM Control by APM Video Off Option...
  • Page 59 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Min Saving Max Saving User Define HDD Power Down Doze Mode Suspend Mode ACPI Suspend Type S1(POS) S3(STR) Suspend to RAM Refer to “Using the Suspend to RAM Function” in appendix A for more information.
  • Page 60 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Video Off Option Always On Suspend -> Off All Modes -> Off Video Off Method V/H SYNC + Blank Blank Screen DPMS Support MODEM Use IRQ Soft-Off by PWRBTN Delay 4 Sec Instant-Off...
  • Page 61 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility PWR Lost Resume State Keep Off Turn On Last State Wake Up Events USB Resume from S3 LPT & COM HDD & FDD PCI Master...
  • Page 62 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Resume On LAN/Ring • • Resume By Alarm Enabled Disabled Date (of Month) 1-31 Resume Time (hh:mm:ss) Primary INTR...

  • Page 63: Irqs Activity Monitoring

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility IRQs Activity Monitoring 3.1.6 PnP/PCI Configurations CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software PnP/PCI Configurations Item Help Reset Configuration Data Disabled Menu Level Resources Controlled By Auto(ESCD) IRQ Resources Press Enter Default is Disabled.
  • Page 64 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Resources Controlled By Auto(ESCD) Manual IRQ Resources PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Enabled Disabled Assign IRQ for VGA Note: When Disabled, a “Yellow” mark will appear in Windows 95’s ® Device Manager.
  • Page 65 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Assign IRQ for USB Note: When Disabled, a “Yellow” mark will appear in Windows 95’s ® Device Manager.

  • Page 66: Pc Health Status

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.7 PC Health Status CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software PC Health Status Item Help Current System Temp. 27C/80F Current CPU Temperature 37C/98F Menu Level Current CPU Fan Speed 0 RPM Current Chassis Fan Speed 0 RPM...
  • Page 67 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility CPU Fan Protection...
  • Page 68 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.8 Frequency/Voltage Control CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Frequency/Voltage Control Item Help CPU Vcore Select Default Clock By Slight Adjust Menu Level ↑↓→← Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit...
  • Page 69 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility Clock By Slight Adjust Important: Overclocking may result to the processor’s or system’s instability and are not guaranteed to provide better system performance. 3.1.9 Load Fail-Safe Defaults 3.1.10 Load Optimized Defaults...
  • Page 70 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.11 Set Supervisor Password 3.1.12 Set User Password...
  • Page 71 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Award BIOS Setup Utility 3.1.13 Save & Exit Setup 3.1.14 Exit Without Saving 3.2 Updating the BIOS...
  • Page 72 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Supported Softwares Chapter 4 - Supported Softwares 4.1 Desktop Management Interface (DMI) 4.1.1 Running the DMI Utility...
  • Page 73 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Supported Softwares 4.1.2 Using the DMI Utility Award DMI Configuration Utility Copyright Award Software Inc, 1996 [Edit DMI] [Add DMI] [Load DMI File] [Save DMI File] BIOS *** BIOS Auto Detect *** System Enclosure/Chassis Type : BIOS Information Processor...
  • Page 74 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Supported Softwares Add DMI ← → ↑ ↓ Load DMI File ← → Press [Enter] to select DMI file for load Do you want to execute? (Y/N) Save DMI File ← → Press [Enter] to select DMI file for save...
  • Page 75 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Supported Softwares 4.2 VIA Hardware Monitor Note: Use this utility only in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ® ® ® 98 SE, Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 operating ® ® system. 4.3 VIA Service Pack ®...
  • Page 76 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Supported Softwares Important: The VGA driver that came with some AGP cards is already bundled with the AGP VxD driver. Since the version of the bundled VxD driver may be older than the one provided in the CD, installing the bundled VxD driver may cause problems.

  • Page 77: Drivers And Utilities Installation Notes

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Supported Softwares 4.5 Drivers and Utilities Installation Notes ® ® ® ® ®...
  • Page 78 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Using the Suspend to RAM Function Appendix A - Using the Suspend to RAM Function A.1 Using the Suspend to RAM Function CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Power Management Setup Item Help ACPI Function Enabled...
  • Page 79 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Using the Suspend to RAM Function ® ®...
  • Page 80 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Using the Suspend to RAM Function...
  • Page 81 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Using the Suspend to RAM Function ®...
  • Page 82 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com System Error Message Appendix B - System Error Message B.1 POST Beep B.2 Error Messages CMOS BATTERY HAS FAILED Caution: Danger of explosion if battery incorrectly replaced. Replace only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer.
  • Page 83 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com System Error Message FLOPPY DISK(S) fail (80) FLOPPY DISK(S) fail (40) Hard Disk(s) fail (80) Hard Disk(s) fail (40) Hard Disk(s) fail (20) Hard Disk(s) fail (10) Hard Disk(s) fail (08) Keyboard is locked out - Unlock the key Keyboard error or no keyboard present Manufacturing POST loop BIOS ROM checksum error - System halted...
  • Page 84 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Troubleshooting Appendix C - Troubleshooting C.1 Troubleshooting Checklist CPU Fan Protection After booting up the system, a beeping alarm sounded then the system’s power was turned off:...

  • Page 85: Troubleshooting

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Troubleshooting Monitor/Display If the display screen remains dark after the system is turned on: The picture seems to be constantly moving. The screen seems to be constantly wavering. Power Supply When the computer is turned on, nothing happens.

  • Page 86: Floppy Drive

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Troubleshooting Floppy Drive The computer cannot access the floppy drive. Hard Drive Hard disk failure. Excessively long formatting period. Parallel Port The parallel printer doesn’t respond when you try to print.

  • Page 87: Serial Port

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Troubleshooting Serial Port The serial device (modem, printer) doesn’t output anything or is outputting garbled characters. Keyboard Nothing happens when a key on the keyboard was pressed. System Board...

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