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aged or missing items, contact your retailer.
K7VM400M series mainboard
QDI Utility CD
1HD ribbon cable
1 FDD cable
User's manual
I/O shield(option)
1 10-pin ribbom cable with bracket
for USB3 and USB4(option)
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  • Page 1 Item Checklist This item checklist is only available for retail market. Completely check your package,If you discover dam- aged or missing items, contact your retailer. K7VM400M series mainboard QDI Utility CD 1HD ribbon cable 1 FDD cable User’s manual I/O shield(option)
  • Page 2 Residential, commercial and light industry EN 50082-1 Generic immunity standard Part 1: Residential, commercial and light industry European Representative: QDI COMPUTER ( UK ) LTD QDI COMPUTER ( SCANDINAVIA ) A/S QDI SYSTEM HANDEL GMBH QDI EUROPE B. V. QDI COMPUTER (FRANCE) SARL QDI COMPUTER HANDELS GMBH LEGEND QDI SPAIN S.L...
  • Page 3 Declaration of conformity Trade Name: QDI Computer ( U. S . A. ) Inc. Model Name: K7VM400M Responsible Party: QDI Computer ( U. S. A.) Inc. Address: 41456 Christy Street Fremont, CA 94538 Telephone: (510) 668-4933 Facsimile: (510) 668-4966 Equipment Classification:...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 1 Introduction ..............1 Key Features ..............2 Chapter 2 Installation Instructions............5 External Connectors ............6 PS/2 Keyboard /Mouse Connector ........6 USB0,USB1, USB2,USB3 and LAN Connectors ....6 Parallel Port, Serial Port Connector and VGA port .... 6 Line-in jack, Mic-in jack, Speaker-out jack ......7 6-Channel Audio ..............
  • Page 6 Caution Be sure to unplug the AC power supply before adding or re- moving expansion cards, RAM or other system peripherals, other- wise your mainboard and RAM might be seriously damaged. Caution Be sure to add some Silicone Grease between the CPU and the heatsink to keep them fully contacted to meet the heat sink require- ment.
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  • Page 9: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Introduction K7VM400M series of mainboards utilize VIA KM400+VIA 8235 or 8237 chipset, providing a fully compatible, high per- formance and cost-effective mATX platform. The new inte- grated technologies, together with AC’97 audio(2/6- channel), 6 USB 2.0, 2 SATA(with 8237 only), and ATA133/ 100/66/33, give customers an advanced, multimedia solu- tion at reasonable price.

  • Page 10: Key Features

    Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Key Features Form factor mATX form factor of 244mm x 210mm Microprocessor Supports AMD Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron socket A processors of 200/266/333MHz host bus speed Supports 200/266/333MHz host bus speed System memory Supports DDR200/266/333 SDRAM Supports 64/128/256/512Mb technology up to 2GB Provides two 184-pin DDR SDRAM interfaces Onboard IDE Supports Independent timing of up to 4 drives...
  • Page 11 Supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and ODPM (OS Directed Power Management) Supports ACPI power status: S0 (full-on), S1 (power on suspend), S3 (suspend to RAM), S4(suspend to Disk, depends on OS) and S5 (soft-off) K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 12 Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Main Expansion Slots and Connectors Slot/Port (Quantity) Description PCI(3) PCI slots IDE(2 ) IDE ports FLOPPY(1) Floppy Drive port DDR(2) DIMM socket USB(6) USB connectors AGP(1) AGP slot LAN(1) LAN connector COM(1) COM connectors PARALLEL(1) Parallel connector IrDA(1) IrDA connector...

  • Page 13: Installation Instructions

    Furthermore, this section lists all necessary connector pin assignments for your reference. The particular state of the jumpers, connectors and ports are illustrated in the follow- ing figures. Before setting the jumpers or inserting these connectors, please pay attention to the direction. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...

  • Page 14: External Connectors

    Installation Instr Installation Instr Installation Instruction Installation Instr Installation Instr uction uction uction uction External Connectors PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Connector PS/2 keyboard connector is for the usage of PS/2 keyboard. If using a standard AT size keyboard, an adapter should be used to fit this connector. PS/2 mouse connector is for the usage of PS/ 2 mouse.

  • Page 15: Line-In Jack, Mic-In Jack, Speaker-Out Jack

    Front Left&Right jack, at the same time use the Rear Left&Right jack as Line in jack, and use the Center&Woofer jack as Microphone in jack. Center&Woofer Rear left&right Front left&right IEEE 1394 Port (optional) The IEEE 1394 port is for connecting IEEE 1394 device. IEEE 1394 port K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...

  • Page 16: Atx Power Supply Connectors & Power Switch

    Installation Instr Installation Instr Installation Instruction Installation Instr Installation Instr uction uction uction uction ATX Power Supply Connector & Power Switch (POWER SW) The power switch (POWER SW) should be connected to a momentary switch. When powering up your system, first turn on the mechanical switch of the power supply (if one is provided), then push once the power switch.

  • Page 17: Speaker Connector (Speaker)

    Push once the switch connected to this header, the system enters suspend mode. EMPTY LED- EMPTY LED- LED- LED+ LED- LED+ SLEEP EMPTY EMPTY EMPTY RESET SPKDATA POWER LED+ GREEN(-) ORANGE(-) HD_LED HDD LED(-) HDD LED(+) K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...

  • Page 18: Usb4,5

    USB4,5 Besides USB0,1,2,3 on the back panel, K7VM400M series of mainboards also have one 10-pin headers on board which may connect to front panel USB cable( optional ) to provide additional four USB ports. USB4,5 Infrared Header (IrDA) This connector supports wireless transmitting and receiving device.

  • Page 19: Wake-Up On Lan ( Wol1 )(Optional)

    “Power on by Ring/LAN” as Enabled in the “Power Manage- ment Setup” section of the CMOS SETUP. Save and exit, then boot the operating system once to make sure this function takes effect. WOM1 Signal for waking up(active low) K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...

  • Page 20: Fan Connectors( Cpu_Fan , Sys_Fan)

    Installation Instr Installation Instr Installation Instruction Installation Instr Installation Instr uction uction uction uction Audio Connectors (CD_IN1, MODEM_IN1) CD_IN1 is Sony standard CD audio connector, it can be connected to a CD-ROM drive through a CD audio cable. The MODEM connector allows the onboard audio to interface with a voice modem card with a similar connector.It allows connecting the mono_in (such as a phone) or mono_out (such as a speaker) between the onboard audio and the voice modem card.

  • Page 21: Audio Interface(F_Audio)

    Onboard SATA(CN8,CN9)(with 8237 only) provides two Serial ATA connectors,SATA is a storage interface that is compli- ant with SATA 1.0 Specification.With speed of up to 150Mbps.you can connect Serial ATA cable to Serial ATA hard disk. SATA1/SATA2 K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...

  • Page 22: Game Port

    Installation Instr Installation Instr Installation Instruction Installation Instr Installation Instr uction uction uction uction UART COM2 Besides COM1 on the back panel, the mainboard also supply a COM2 connector which connects with serial mouse, MODEM and other serial device. COM2 GAME Port provides a 16-pin connector for connecting an external game/MIDI port.

  • Page 23: Spdif Connector

    AC3 data to an external Dolby digital decoder. IEEE 1394_1 port(optional) Besides one 1394 port on the back panel, the mainboard also have one 10-pin header on board to provide IEEE 1394 port. IEEE1394_1 Power Power TPB- TPB+ TPA- TPA+ K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...

  • Page 24: Jumper Settings

    Installation Instr Installation Instr Installation Instruction Installation Instr Installation Instr uction uction uction uction Jumper Settings Jumpers are located on the mainboard, the clear CMOS jumper JCC, enable keyboard pass- word power-on function jumper JKB etc. Pin 1 for all jumpers are located on the side with a thick white line (Pin1→...
  • Page 25 For bus ratio unlocked processor, this overclocking feature can be implemented by setting FSB as 100x2/133x2/166x2MHz, meanwhile adjusting the bus ratio (multiplier) in “QDI Innovation features” in AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup and memorry. Warning: Be sure your selection is right. CPU over speeding is dangerous! We will not be responsible for any damages caused.
  • Page 26 Installation Instr Installation Instr Installation Instruction Installation Instr Installation Instr uction uction uction uction Enable/Disable 100MHz VLINK clock (JVLINK (optional) The mainboard provides jumper to set enabling 100MHz VLINK clock with pin1&pin2 closed, set disabling 100MHz VLINK clock with pin1&pin2 opened. JVLINK Disable 100MHz VLINK clock Enable 100MHz VLINK clock...
  • Page 27 However, setting jumper JAV1 as closed makes flashing BIOS and updating DMI information impossible. Therefore, set JAV1 as open when changing the system hardware configuration, or the error message “Unknown Flash Type” will be displayed on the screen, and DMI information may not be updated. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
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  • Page 29 Setup utility for users to modify the basic sys- tem configuration. The information is stored in CMOS RAM so it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off. This chapter provides you with the over- view of the BIOS Setup. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 30 1. Create a bootable system floppy diskette by typing Format A:/s from the DOS prompt under DOS6.xx or Windows 9x environment. 2. Copy AWDFLASH.EXE(version>=8 .24Q) from the directory \Utility located on QDI Driver CD to your new bootable diskette. 3. Download the updated BIOS file from the Website (http://www.qdigrp.com). Please be sure to download the suitable BIOS file for your mainboard.
  • Page 31 <Enter> key to accept or enter the sub-menu. Figure-1 Main Menu Load Optimized Defaults The Optimized Defaults are common and efficient. It is recommended users load the opti- mized defaults first, then modify the needed configuration settings. Standard CMOS Features Setup K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 32 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description Figure-2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu For the items marked, press enter, a window will pop up as shown below. You can view detailed information or make modifications. Figure-2-1 IDE Primary Master Setup Menu Hard Disk Primary Master/Primary Slave/Secondary Master/Secondary Slave These categories identify the HDD types of 2 IDE channels installed in the computer system.
  • Page 33 To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some softwares involved which are located in Award HDD Service Routine(INT13h).It may fail to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under an Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 34 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description Video Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. EGA/ VGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter / Video Graphic Array. For EGA, VGA, SEGA, SVGA or PGA monitor adapters. CGA 40 Color Graphic Adapter, powering up in 40 column mode.
  • Page 35 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 QDI Innovation features Figure-3 QDI Innovation features Menu The following indicates the options for each item and describes their meaning. Item Option Description [SpeedEasy setting] CPU Host/PCI Clock Default Set CPU Host or PCI frequency.
  • Page 36 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description [BootEasy setting] QDI BootEasy Support Enabled PC boot in rapid speed, without any redunant feature waiting for the displaying of starting OS. Disabled PC boot in the legacy BIOS way.
  • Page 37 Enables boot other device. Disabled Disables boot other device. Swap Floppy Drive Enabled If the system has two floppy drives, choose enable to Disabled assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice- versa. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 38 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled Tests floppy drives to determine whether they Disabled have 40 or 80 tracks. Boot Up NumLock Keypad is used as number keys. Status Keypad is used as arrow keys. Gate A20 Option Normal The A20 signal is controlled by the keyboard...
  • Page 39 Video RAM area is not cacheable. Auto detect DIMM/PCI Enabled Auto detect DIMM or PCI clock. Disabled Do not detect DIMM or PCI clock. Spread Spectrum Set Clock Spread Spectrum to reduce EMI. +/-0.25%,-0.5% +/-0.5%,+/-0.75% Disabled Disable Clock Spread Spectrum. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 40 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description DRAM Clock/Drive Control Item Option Description DRAM Timing Auto By SPD DDR Timing is defined by SPD. Manual Sets DDR Timing manually. Turbo Ultra DRAM CAS 1.5T/2T/2.5T/3T Define the latency between the SDRAM read com- Latency mand and the time the data actually becomes available.
  • Page 41 Disables AGP calibration cycle. VGA Share Memory 16/32/64M Enables VGA share memory size. Size Disabled Disables VGA share memory size. Auto CPU Direct Access Enabled Enables CPU direct access FB function. Disabled Disables CPU direct access FB function. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 42 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description CPU & PCI Bus Control Item Option Description PCI Master 0 WS Enabled Enables PCI Master 0 WS Write. Write Disabled Disables PCI Master 0 WS Write. AGP Master 0 WS Enabled Enables AGP Master 0 WS Write.
  • Page 43 Ultra DMA mode will be enabled if an ultra DMA Master/Slave UDMA device is detected. Disabled Disables this function. IDE HDD Block Enabled Allows IDE HDD to read/write several sectors once. Mode Disabled IDE HDD only reads/writes a sector once. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 44 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description VIA OnChip PCI Press Enter Enters to set the following items. Device VIA-3058 AC97 Auto Enables the AC97 Audio.When CT5880 onboard, Audio this item will hide. Disabled Disables the AC97 Audio. VIA-3043 Onchip Enabled Enables the onchip Lan.
  • Page 45 Initialize the PCI VGA first. Initialize the AGP first. Onboard Fast IR Enabled Enables onboard fast IR. Disabled Disables onboard fast IR. Fast IR IRQ 3,4,5,11 Sets fast IRQ. Fast IR DMA Sets fast IR DMA. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 46 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description Power Management Setup Figure-7 Power Management Setup Menu The following indicates the options for each item and describes their meaning. Item Option Description ACPI function Enabled Enable ACPI function. Disabled Disable this function.
  • Page 47 Ctrl + F1~F12 Use PS/2 Keyboard Ctrl + F1~F12 wake up. From S3/S4/S5 Any Key Use PS/2 Keyboard any key wake up. Disable Do not Use PS/2 Keyboard wake up. Power button lock Enabled Enables power button lock. Disabled Disables power button lock. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 48 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description Item Option Description PS2MS Wakeup Enabled Use PS/2 mouse wake up. From S3/S4/S5 Disabled Disables PS/2 mouse wake up. VGA active reloads global timer. VGA active has no influence to global timer. LPT&COM LPT, COM Sets the options of these items to reload global...
  • Page 49 Option Description IRQs Activity Press Enter Reloads global timer. Monitoring Primary INTR Allows wake-up from IRQ. Does not allow wake-up from IRQ. IRQ3~IRQ15 Enabled Enables IRQ3~IRQ15 to wake up. Disabled Disables IRQ3~IRQ15 to wake up. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 50 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description PnP/PCI Configurations Setup Figure-8 PnP/PCI Configurations Setup Menu The following indicates the options for each item and describes their meaning. Item Option Description PNP OS Installed Device resources assigned by PnP OS. Device resources assigned by BIOS.
  • Page 51 C/158 F, 75 C/167 C/149 C/176 F, 85 C/185 F,90 C/194 C/158 C/167 C/176 C/185 C/194 Disabled No alarm beep. Current CPU The temperature of CPU. Temperature Current System The temperature inside the chassis. Temp. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 52 BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description BIOS Description Current CPUFAN RPM (Revolution Per Minute) Speed of fan which is connected Speed to the fan header, CPUFAN, SYSFAN. Fan speed value is Current SYSFAN based on an assumption that tachometer signal is two pulses Speed per revolution.
  • Page 53 If you have made all the changes to CMOS values and the system can not boot with the CMOS values selected in setup, clear CMOS after power-down, then power on again. System will boot with BIOS default settings. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 54 QDI Utility CD A QDI Utility CD is supplied with this mainboard, the contents contained in it are showed as below: 1. Driver Install Using this choice, you can install all the drivers for your mainboard . You should install the drivers in order, and you need to restart your computer until all the drivers are installed.
  • Page 55 1. Insert the companion CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup screen will automati- cally appear. 2. Select the Sound Driver. Attaching speakers To perform multichannel audio operation, connect multiple speakers to the system. Line Out (Center and Subwoofer channels) Line Out (Rear channels) Line Out (Front channels) K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 56 Appendix Appendix Appendix Appendix Appendix Digital Audio Output Coaxial SPDIF jack Description: Connnet the SPDIF speakers to the Coaxial SPDIF jack.
  • Page 57 2. Click the “Options” and then “Advanced controls”. 3. Then click the “Advanced” of front speaker. 4. The following window appears, select the “Smart 5.1 Enable”, then click “Close”. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 58 Appendix Appendix Appendix Appendix Appendix 5. Then click the “Advanced” of rear speaker. 6. The following window appears, select the “Magic 5.1 Enable”, then click “Close”. 7. Open the Control panel of windows 2000, select the Sound, Speech, and Audio Devices, and then Sounds and Audio Devices, the following window appears.
  • Page 59 8. Click the “Advanced”. 9. The following window appears, and select the “5.1 surround sound speakers”. K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M K7VM400M...
  • Page 60 Appendix Appendix Appendix Appendix Appendix CPU Installation Procedures 1. Pull the lever sideways away from the socket. Then, raise the lever up to a 90-degree angle. 2. Look for the cut edge. The cut edge should point towards the lever pivot. The CPU will only fit in the correct orientation.
  • Page 61 Mainboard Layout K7VM400M Note: The layout includes all options. It is for your reference only.
  • Page 62 COM1 Top :Line in Top :LAN Top :1394 Middle:Speaker out Bttm:USB0,1 Bttm:USB2,3 Bttm:Mic. in Top :PS/2 Mouse Bttm:PS/2 Keyboard CD_IN1 SPDIF1 F_AUDIO ATX_ POWER SYSFAN North Bridge Socket 462 CPUFAN1 JAV1 DIMM1 South Bridge DIMM2 JFSB1 JFSB0 JSATA IDE2 IDE1 SATA1 WOL1 WOM1...

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