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  • Page 1 Item Checklist Completely check your package. If you discover damaged or missing items, contact your retailer. KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C mainboard QDI Driver CD 2000 I/O shield(optional) 1 IDE ribbon cable 1 floppy ribbon cable 1 10-pin ribbon cable with bracket for USB3 and USB4(optional) User’s manual...
  • Page 2 þ 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: KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C Responsible Party: QDI Computer ( U. S. A.) Inc. Address: 41456 Christy Street Fremont, CA 94538 Telephone: (510) 668-4933 Facsimile:...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    C O N T E N T S BootEasy....................S.1 Facilité de vitesse Initialisation(Francais) .......... S.5 1. Introduction ..............Overview .................... 1 Key Features ..................1 Introduction to New Features .............. 4 2. Installation Instructions ..........External Connectors ..............7 PS/2 Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse Connector ..........7 USB1 &...
  • Page 5 PnP/PCI Configurations Setup .............. 31 Integrated Peripherals ................32 PC Health Status ..................34 Set Supervisor/User Password ............. 35 Boot with BIOS defaults ..............35 Appendix A QDI Driver CD 2000 ..........36 Appendix B ............Boot Logo RecoveryEasy..............38 Introduction ................... 38 Operation Process ................
  • Page 6 Note: This manual is suitable for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C mainboard. Each mainboard is carefully designed for the PC user who wants different features. KinetiZ 7E-A mainboard: The model with AC’97 Codec KinetiZ 7E-C mainboard: The model with CT5880 PCI Hardware Audio KinetiZ 7Emainboard: The model without Audio.

  • Page 7: Booteasy

    BootEasy QDI BootEasy BootEasy is a new member of legend QDI Easy series, which is the latest innovation comes from legend QDI. BootEasy Setup Menu BootEasy technology enormously improves the long BOOT process time of computers. Reducing the wait time every user has to suffer when starting their computer. BIOS without BootEasy has to perform many routines every time when the system starts, such as checking system core of the computer and initializing system peripherals.
  • Page 8 BootEasy QDI BootEasy BootEasy ist eine Neuentwicklung von Legend QDI, die neue Innovation der QDI Easy – Technologien. BootEasy Setup Menu Mit der BootEasy- Technologie Technik wird der Bootvorgang nur noch vier bis fünf Sekunden in Anspruch nehmen, bis das Betriebssystem geladen wird. Der Grund für die lange Warterei liegt in den Routine-Abfragen, die das BIOS bei jedem Start...
  • Page 9 BootEasy QDI BootEasy Boot Easy e il nuovo software membro della famiglia legend QDI Easy, quale innovazione da LEGEND- QDI. BootEasy Setup Menu La tecnologia Boot Easy abbrevia gli enormi tempi del computer in fase di BOOT. Riduce le attese d’ogni utente che accede al suo computer. Il BIOS senza Boot Easy deve eseguire molte routines ogni qualvolta il sistema parte, come controllo della sezione centrale del computer oltre che inizializare le varie periferiche esterne.
  • Page 10 BootEasy QDI BootEasy BootEasy es el nuevo miembro de la familia de “Easies” de Legend QDI , que se acaba de incorporar a los últimos modelos de placas base.  Menu de configuración de BootEasy La tecnología BootEasy disminuye enormemente el tiempo dedicado al proceso de arranque del ordenador, reduciendo considerablemente el tiempo de espera que tiene que sufrir el usuario al arrancar su PC.
  • Page 11 KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C Installation de la carte mère KinetiZ 7E/7E-A/7E-C Assurez-vous que votre ensemble est complet: carte mère, câbles IDE et FLOPPY, notice d’utilisation et CD-ROM d’installation. Vérifiez que l’alimentation est débranchée et reliez-vous à la terre par une courroie à...
  • Page 12 être renforcé. Aujourd’hui il est possible de surveiller et contrôler votre matériel sous Windows 9x ou NT. QDI ManageEasy est un outil système, comme un pont entre l’OS et le matériel, utilisé pour accéder au statut du matériel et exécuter des fonctions de contrôle.
  • Page 13 KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C des données clés sur la santé du PC en temps réel. QDI ManageEasy vous aide également à contrôler à distance des machines sous réseau local. Avec QDI ManageEasy, vous améliorez votre niveau de gestion. QDI BootEasy BootEasy est la dernière née des technologies Legend QDI.
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  • Page 15: Introduction

    Minimum memory size is 8MB, maximum memory size is 1.5GB On-board IDE Supports two PCI PIO and Bus Master IDE ports Two fast IDE interfaces supporting four IDE devices including IDE hard disks and Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 16 On-chip Audio (Available for KinetiZ 7E-A mainboard only) 82C686B Build in VT Direct Sound AC97 Audio AC97 2.1 Compliant Creative CT5880 PCI Hardware Sound (Available for KinetiZ 7E-C mainboard only) ® PCI 2.2 compliant 3D audio effects 32-voice XG wavetable synthesizer Direct Sound/Music Hardware Accelerator...
  • Page 17 Supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and ODPM (OS Directed Power Management) Supports ACPI power status: S0, S1, S3(STR), S4, S5(Soft-off) Expansion slots 1 ISA slot 5 PCI slots 1 AGP slot 1 AMR slot Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 18: Introduction To New Features

    ATA/100 will provide an inexpen- sive, simple, non-proprietary, high-speed method of host to storage access. The 80-conductor, 40-pin cable standard in ATA/66 has enhanced reliability and bee carried forward to ATA/100. of course, backwards compatible with ATA/33. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 19 The same ways used to power up the system can be used to wake up the system from Suspend-to-RAM status. For example, pushing the power button, through the Wake-on- LAN, Wake-on-Modem function or RTC Alarm. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 20 Introduction Creative CT5880 chipset (Available for KinetiZ 7E-C mainboard only) The CT5880 provides high-quality audio performance and low CPU utilization for you. Featuring 128-voice wave-table synthesis with very high sample rate converters. In addition, CT5880 supports localized three-dimensional sound immersion in headphone and four-speaker environments.

  • Page 21: Installation Instructions

    KinetiZ 7E USB1 mainboard USB2 USB3, USB4 Two USB ports are not available on the back panel. Therefore, we provide a 10-pin ribbon cable with bracket to connect Built-in on-board USB header. ( optional) Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 22: Parallel Port Connector And Serial Port Connector

    The Speaker-out jack allows you to connect speakers or headphones for audio output from the internal amplifier. Note: For the KinetiZ 7E-C mainboard, the Rear out jack replaces Line-in jack to connect powered speakers for audio output. The MIDI/Joystick connector allows you to connect a game joystick or a MIDI device.

  • Page 23: Atx Power Supply Connector & Power Switch(Power Sw)

    GREEN LED Connector (GREEN_LED) When the system is in power up, ACPI suspend, soft-off, the LED is off. When the system is in suspend to RAM status and APM(advanced power management) suspend, the LED is Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 24: Hardware Green Connector (Sleep)

    Besides speed of the FAN3, The speeds of the CPU fan and chassis fan can be detected and viewed in “PC Health Status” section of the BIOS. FAN3 FAN GND +12V CPUFAN FAN GND +12V SENSE SENSE FAN GND +12V CHSFAN Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 25: Internal Audio Connectors(Aux,Cdlin, Modem)

    “Advance Chipset Feature Setup” in AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup. AMR Interface Connector Note: For KinetiZ 7E-C mainboard, the first PCI only accept the slave card and the AMR slot only accept Primary AMR card. For KinetiZ 7E mainboard, the AMR slot only accept Primary AMR card.

  • Page 26: Wake-Up On Lan (Wol)

    Infrared Header (IrDA) This connector supports wireless transmitting and receiving. If using this function, set “UART 2 Mode” to HPSIR or ASKIR and configure the settings from the “INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS” section of the BIOS. IRRX IRTX Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 27: Expansion Slots & I/O Ports Description

    “Power Management Setup” section of the BIOS, the blank screen will come out, in this case when system enter S3 status., just clear CMOS and boot up the system once again. Disable STR Enable STR Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 28: Enable/Disable Onboard Audio(Jsd)

    DMI information impossible. Therefore, set JAV as closed when changing the system hardware configuration, or the error message “Unkown Flash Type” will be dis- played on the screen, and DMI information update will be fail. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 29: Overclocking Jumper Setting (Jfsb)

    When using this function, set JUSB1&JUSB2 with pin1 & pin2 closed. Otherwise, set JUSB1&JUSB2 with pin2 & pin3 closed for disabling. JUSB1 Disable: 1 2 3 1 2 3 JUSB1 JUSB2 Enable: 1 2 3 1 2 3 JUSB1 JUSB2 JUSB2 Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 30: Cpu Bus Ratio Selection(J19&Jp9)

    Note: The Most of Socket A processors have locked bus ratio. In this case, it’s not necessary to setup the bus ratio by Jumper setting. So only unlocked Socket A processpors can adjust specified bus ratio through hardware jumper setting . Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 31: Cpu Core Voltage Setting(Jp2)

    Disabled the onoard hardware sound (CT5880) if you are using a PCI or ISA sound card. Set JP8 with pin1&pin2 closed for enabling onboard sound, otherwise, set JP8 with pin2&pin3 closed for disabling onboard sound. Enable on-board Sound: Disable on-board Sound: Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 32: Clear Cmos(Jcc)

    If you want to clear CMOS, unplug the AC power supply first, close JCC (pin1 & pin2) once, set JCC back to the normal status with pin2 & pin3 connected, then power on the system. Normal status: Clear CMOS: (Unplug the AC power supply) Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 33: Bios Description

    1. Create a bootable system floppy diskette by typing Format A:/s from the DOS prompt under DOS6.xx or Windows 9x environment. 2. Click “Browse CD” option under QDI Driver CD 2000, copy Awdflash.exe (version 7.73) from the directory \Utility onto your new bootable diskette.

  • Page 34: Award Bios Description

    The basic CMOS settings included in “Standard CMOS Features” are Date, Time, Hard Disk Drive Types, Floppy Disk Drive Types, and VGA etc. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item, then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value desired in each item. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 35 Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press < Enter>: CYLS number of cylinders HEAD number of heads PRECOMP write pre-compensation LANDZ landing zone SECTOR number of sectors MODE HDD access mode Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 36 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. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 37 (or conventional) memory installed in the system. Extended Memory The BIOS determines how much extended memory is presented during the POST. Total Memory Total memory of the system equals the sum of the above memory. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 38: Frequency/Voltage Control

    0.25% 100/33Mhz/ 0.5% 0.5%, 0.25%,-0.5% means enable 102/34Mhz/off clock Spread Spectrum 0.5%, 0.25%, ..-0.5% to reduce EMI. 133/33Mhz/-0.5% Off means disable clock spread specturm 133/33Mhz/ 0.25% to reduce EMI. 133/33Mhz/ 0.5% 136/34MHz/off ..Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 39: Advance Bios Features Setup

    Disabled Normal POST. First (Second, Disabled Selects your Boot Device Priority. It could be Floppy Third) Boot Device Disabled, Floppy, LS/ZIP, HDD-0, HDD-1, HDD-2, Boot other Device HDD-3, SCSI, CDROM, LAN. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 40 BIOS from being attacked by severe virus such as CIH. Therefore disable this item item only when wanting to flash BIOS, afterwards set this item as Enabled (default). Disabled Disabling this item allows you to upgrade the BIOS. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 41: Advance Chipset Features Setup

    Besides conventioal memory, system BIOS area Cacheable is also cacheable. Disabled System BIOS area is not cacheable. Video RAM Enabled Besides conventional memory, video RAM is also Cacheable also cacheable. Disabled Video RAM area is not cacheable. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 42 Disabled Legacy USB keyboard support is disabled. Onchip Sound Auto Enables AC97 function. Disabled Disables AC97 function. Note: This item is available for KinetiZ 7E-A mainboard only. Onchip Modem Auto Enables MC97 function. Disabled Disables MC97 function. CPU to PCI Write Enabled Enables CPU to PCI Write Buffer.

  • Page 43: Power Management Setup

    V-SYNC & H - SYNC signals from VGA cards to monitor. DPMS This function is enabled only for the VGA card supporting DPMS. 3,5,7,9,10,11 Special Wake-up event for Modem. Modem Use IRQ Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 44 You can set any date or any time to power up the system. Disabled RTC has no alarm function. Primary INTR Allows wake up from IRQ. Does not Allows wake up from IRQ. Press Enter Reloads global timer. IRQs Activity Monitoring Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 45: Pnp/Pci Configurations Setup

    Does not assign an IRQ for the VGA card, in order to release the IRQ. Assign IRQ For Enabled Assigns an IRQ for USB. If an USB device is used enables this item. Disabled Does not assign an IRQ for USB. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 46: Integrated Peripherals

    Onboard Serial Defines the onboard serial port address and required Port 1/2 2F8/IRQ3, interrupt number. 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, Auto Onboard serial port address and IRQ are auto- matically assigned Disabled Onboard serial port is disabled. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 47 ECP mode use 1. 3 EPP1.9 Parallel Port EPP Selects parallel port EPP type. Type EPP1.7 Note: For KinetiZ 7E-C or KinetiZ 7E mainboard, the following item will not appear. Onboard Legacy Enabled Enables onboard legacy audio. Audio Disabled Disables onboard legacy audio.

  • Page 48: Pc Health Status

    Voltage is the CPU core voltage from the 4.83V on board switching power supply. Vsram 11.79V is the Northbridge voltage from the onboard switching power supply. 3.3V, 5V and 12V are voltages from the ATX power supply. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 49: Set Supervisor/User Password

    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. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 50: Appendix Aqdi Driver Cd 2000

    QDI Driver CD 2000 QDI Driver CD 2000 A QDI Driver CD 2000 is supplied with this mainboard. Insert CD 2000 that came with your mainboard into your CD-ROM drive to bring up the screen, click the options to install. The...

  • Page 51: Appendix B Boot Logo

    When you power on or reset your system, the picture shown below will be displayed on the screen. You can use “CBLOGO.EXE” (included on the QDI Mainboard Utility CD) to replace it by any other logo which you prefer. Please you follow these steps to use CBLOGO.EXE Utility: 1.

  • Page 52: Recoveryeasy

    Introduction: RecoveryEasy , the latest QDI innovation, is able to protect the system from being de- stroyed, by creating a so-called “mirror partition” for a current hard disk partition and backuping all the data to the mirror area. This ideal utility provides disk partition, disk data backup/recovery, CMOS settings backup/recovery and multi-boot functions.
  • Page 53 : After choosing this function, only the final partition can be deleted in order to keep the continuous disk space. If the warning message is confirmed, the partition will be deleted. By pressing “N” or “ESC” key, the system quits. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 54 ESC : Exits from the Partition User Interface. If users made some mistakes, for example, wrongly delete a partition, do not press the “ESC” key, press the reset button on your system at once, in this way users can save their system. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 55 The time when the latest backup was done will be displayed in the status line. After confirming the warning message, the system performs the content recovery. By pressing “N” or “ESC” key, the system quits. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 56 : After choosing this function, the latest backup of the CMOS settings will be recovered. The system needs reboot in order to validate the new CMOS settings. Note : If users have never backuped the CMOS settings, a wrong message will be shown after choosing this function. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...

  • Page 57: Faq

    RecoveryEasy build-in BIOS means all functions of RecoveryEasy including creating partition, backuping and restoring partition are built in BIOS. Users just need to down load the latest BIOS from our Website (http://www.qdigrp.com) when wanting to upgrade (It’s free!). Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 58 Why does the converting of FAT16->FAT32 in PQ Magic go wrong? MBR will be accessed when converting FAT16 to FAT32 with PQ Magic, which is protected by RecoveryEasy, therefore the conversion will be invalidate. Enabling the “ ATTRIB PAR” switch from Recovery User Interface Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 59 Recovery User Interface. Remember to create a mirror partition and backup before virus attacks the system. Manual for KinetiZ 7E/KinetiZ 7E-A/KinetiZ 7E-C...
  • Page 60 Mainboard Layout Mainboard Layout P/N:430-01024-602-00...

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