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  • Page 1 Copyright All rights reserved. No part of this publication 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, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the company.
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. GETTING STARTED................1 1.1 I ..............1 NTRODUCTION TO OTHERBOARD 1.2 KM266 S :..................1 ERIES EATURES CHAPTER 2. MOTHERBOARD SPECIFICATIONS ..........2 2.1 H .......................2 ARDWARE 2.2 BIOS.........................5 2.3 S ........................5 OFTWARE 2.4 P ....................5 ACKAGE ONTENTS CHAPTER 3. MOTHERBOARD CONFIGURATION ..........6 3.1 CPU C ....................8 ONFIGURATION...
  • Page 3 6.4 G : SOUND................23 ONNECTOR 6.5 A ..................23 UDIO ONNECTORS CHAPTER 7: RAM MODULE CONFIGURATION..........24 7.1 DDR DIMM ......................24 7.2 DIMM M ................24 ODULE ONFIGURATION CHAPTER 8: BIOS SETUP..................25 Introduction......................25 8.1 M ......................28 Main Menu Setup Selections ..................29 8.2 A BIOS F ..................30 DVANCED...
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  • Page 5: Chapter 1. Getting Started

    1.2 KM266 Series Features: 1. Contains on board I/O facilities which include a serial port, a VGA port, a parallel port, a PS/2 mouse port, a PS/2 keyboard port, audio ports, USB ports and a game port.
  • Page 6: Chapter 2. Motherboard Specifications

    Chapter 2. Motherboard Specifications 2.1 Hardware CPU: Provides Slot A (Socket 462) socket. Supports Athlon , Athlon XP, Duron processor. Speed: Running at 200/266 MHz Front Side Bus frequency. DDR 200/266 supported. Supports 66 MHz V-Link client interface with peak bandwidth of 266 MB/sec (for KM266) and 533 MB/sec (for KM266 PRO) 66MHz AGP 2.0 compliant interface supports 1x, 2x and 4x...
  • Page 7 Graphics Contorller Optimized Shared Memory Architecture (SMA) Equivalent 8x AGP internal performance. 8/ 16/ 32 MB frame buffer using system memory. 2D/3D resolutions up to 1920x1440. Green Functionality: Supports PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS power management functionality. Has a power down timer from 1 to 15 minutes. Wakes from power saving sleep mode with any keyboard or mouse activity.
  • Page 8 Hardware Monitor Function: Monitors CPU Temperature. Monitors CPU Fan Speed. Monitors Chasis Fan Speed. Monitors System Voltage. Monitors Case Open. Infrared: Support IrDA Version 1.0 SIR Protocol with Max. baud rate up to 115.2K bps. Support SHARP ASK-IR Protocol with Max. baud rate up to 57600 bps.
  • Page 9: Bios

    Universal Serial Bus: Supports two back panel Universal Serial Bus Ports and two front panel Universal Serial Bus 1.1 Ports for KM266. Supports two back panel Universal Serial Bus Ports and four front panel Universal Serial Bus 2.0 Ports for KM266 PRO.
  • Page 10: Chapter 3. Motherboard Configuration

    Chapter 3. Motherboard Configuration Layout of KM266 KB/MS DIMM1 DIMM2 CPUFAN Socket 462 PRT/COM/VGA BAT1 ATX_PWR IDE1 IDE2 FDC1 V 8375 SOUND COM2 AUXFAN Winbond W83697HF CD-IN CASE OPEN SPDIF1 PCI1 ALC201A VT8233A PCI2 CHASFAN BIOS USB2 PCI3 SW/LED FRONT AUDIO IrDA SPEAKER...
  • Page 11 Layout of KM266 PRO KB/MS DIMM1 DIMM2 CPUFAN Socket 462 PRT/COM/VGA BAT1 ATX_PWR IDE1 IDE2 FDC1 V 8375 SOUND COM2 AUXFAN Winbond W83697HF CD-IN CASE OPEN SPDIF1 PCI1 ALC650 V 8235 PCI2 CHASFAN BIOS USB3 USB2 PCI3 SW/LED FRONT AUDIO IrDA SPEAKER...
  • Page 12: Cpu Configuration

    3.1 CPU Configuration CPU Socket-A Configuration Steps: Please find the CPU socket on your motherboard and pull the lever sideways away from the socket, then raise the lever up to a 90-degree angle. Find Pin-1 in the socket and look for the white dot or cut edge in the CPU. Match Pin-1 with the white dot/cut edge then insert the CPU.
  • Page 13: Cpu Headers Installation

    CPU Headers Installation These three headers introduced here are most related to your CPU installation. They are the power headers to all the cooling fans on your motherboard. These fans play an important role on decreasing the temperature of your system. We strongly recommend you to install CPU fan on CPU FAN connector.
  • Page 14 CPU Fan Header: CPUFAN Pin No. Assignment Ground +12V Sense System Fan Header: CHASFAN Pin No. Assignment Ground +12V Sense North Bridge Chipset Fan Header: AUXFAN Pin No. Assignment Ground +12V...
  • Page 15: Chapter 4. Introduction To Jumpers, Headers, Connectors And Slots

    Chapter 4. Introduction to Jumpers, Headers, Connectors and Slots 4.4 ATX_PWR 4.11 Floppy Disk Conn. (FDC) KB/MS DIMM1 DIMM2 CPUFAN Socket 462 4.8 CPU Frequency select (J 2) PRT/COM/VGA 4.12 Hard Disk Conn. BAT1 (IDE1/ IDE2) ATX_PWR IDE1 IDE2 FDC1 4.7 Front serial interface (COM2) V 8375...
  • Page 16: Speaker (Speaker Connector)

    HD LED (Hard Drive LED Connector) This connector can be attached to an LED on the front panel of a computer case. The LED will flicker during disk activity. This disk activity only applies to those IDE drives directly attached to the system board.
  • Page 17: Irda (Infrared Connector)

    4.3 IrDA (Infrared Connector) Assignment Assignment IR_RX IR_TX This IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, it is used to attach to an infrared sensing device. After the IrDA interface is configured, connectionless data transfer to and from portable devices such as laptops, PDAs is possible.
  • Page 18: Wake On Lan Header: Wol

    4.5 Wake On LAN Header: WOL This motherboard supports Wake On LAN function. To use this function, a network card with chipset that supports this feature is needed. Meanwhile, you have to connect a cable from LAN card to your motherboard WOL connector. Pin No.
  • Page 19: Cpu Frequency Selection: Jp2

    4.8 CPU Frequency Selection: JP2 CPU Frequency 100.0MHz 133.0MHz 4.9 Clear CMOS Jumper: JP1 Assignment Normal (default) Clear CMOS Data The following procedures are for resetting the BIOS password. It is important to follow these instructions closely. 1. Turn off your system and remove AC power line. 2.
  • Page 20: Case Open Warning Function: Case Open

    4.10 Case Open Warning function: CASE OPEN If this function is set to “Enabled” in BIOS and the case is opened by others, the system will automatically show alert messages on the screen display when you power on your computer. On the contrary, if this function is set to “Disabled” in BIOS, the system will not show alert messages when you power on your computer even if the case is opened by others.
  • Page 21: Slots

    IDE2 (Secondary IDE Connector) The IDE2 controller can also support a Master and a Slave drive. The configuration is similar to IDE1. The second drive on this controller must be set to slave mode. 4.13 Slots The slots in this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect them to the system bus.
  • Page 22: Chapter 5: Audio Function

    Chapter 5: Audio Function KB/MS DIMM1 DIMM2 CPUFAN Socket 462 PRT/COM/VGA BAT1 ATX_PWR IDE1 IDE2 FDC1 V 8375 SOUND COM2 AUXFAN 5.2 CD-ROM Audio IN (CD-IN) Winbond W83697HF CD-IN CASE OPEN SPDIF1 PCI1 Codec V 8235 PCI2 CHASFAN 5.1 S/PDIF (SPDIF1) BIOS USB3 USB2...
  • Page 23: S/Pdif (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector: Spdif

    5.1 S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector: SPDIF S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Normally there are S/PDIF outputs as shown, one for RCA connector and one for optical fiber connector, the most common one used for consumer audio products.
  • Page 24: Cd-Rom Audio-In Header: Cd-In

    5.2 CD-ROM Audio-In Header: CD-IN Pin No. Assignment Left Channel Input Right Channel Input 5.3 Front Panel Audio Header: FRONT AUDIO If your housing has been designed with an Audio port on the front panel. You have to remove the jumper caps before connecting the front panel Audio port;...
  • Page 25: Chapter 6: Back Panel Features

    Chapter 6: Back Panel Features Game Port Printer Port PS/2 Mouse PS/2 Keyboard Mic In/Subwoofer Speaker Out/ /Center out Front Speaker Line In/Rear speaker 6.1 PS/2 Mouse / Keyboard Connector: KB/MS The motherboard provides a standard PS/2 mouse / Keyboard mini DIN connector for attaching a PS/2 mouse.
  • Page 26: Usb Connectors: Usb

    6.2 USB Connectors: USB The motherboard provides a OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface) Universal Serial Bus Roots for attaching USB devices such as: keyboard, mouse and other USB devices. You can plug the USB devices directly into this connector. USB Connector (the below one) Assignment +5 V (fused) USBP0-...
  • Page 27: Serial And Parallel Interface Ports

    6.3 Serial and Parallel Interface Ports This system comes equipped with two serial port (one in back panel and one in front panel), one VGA port and one parallel port. all types of interface ports will be explained in this chapter. The Serial Interface: COM/ COM2 The serial interface port is sometimes referred to as an RS-232 port or an asynchronous communication port.
  • Page 28: Chapter 7: Ram Module Configuration

    Chapter 7: RAM Module Configuration 7.1 DDR DIMM DDR SDRAM Access Time: 2.5V PC 2100/1600 Unbuffered/ Registered without ECC DDR SDRAM required. DDR SDRAM Type: 64MB/ 128MB/ 256MB/ 512MB/ 1GB DIMM Module (184 pin). 7.2 DIMM Module Configuration 1. The DIMM socket has a “Plastic Safety Tab”...
  • Page 29: Chapter 8: Bios Setup

    Chapter 8: BIOS Setup Introduction This manual discussed PHOENIX-AWARD™ Setup program built into the ROM BIOS. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration. This special information is then stored in battery-backed RAM so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.
  • Page 30 APM Support These PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS supports Version 1.1&1.2 of the Advanced Power Management (APM) specification. Power management features are implemented via the System Management Interrupt (SMI). Sleep and Suspend power management modes are supported. Power to the hard disk drives and video monitors can be managed by this PHOENIX- AWARD™...
  • Page 31 Key Function In general, you use the arrow keys to highlight items, press <Enter> to select, use the <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys to change entries, press <F1> for help and press <Esc> to quit. The following table provides more detail about how to navigate in the Setup program by using the keyboard.
  • Page 32: Main Menu

    8.1 Main Menu When you enter PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from several setup functions. Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept and enter the sub-menu.
  • Page 33: Main Menu Setup Selections

    Main Menu Setup Selections The table shown below are the selections which you can make on this Main Menu setup. Item Options Description Set the system date. Note that the ‘Day’ Date mm dd yyyy automatically changes when you set the date. Hh: mm: ss Set the current time of the system.
  • Page 34: Advanced Bios Features

    8.2 Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Features First /Second/Third/ Boot Other Device Select your Boot Device Priority. The Choices: Floppy, LS120, HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3, ZIP100, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB- HDD, LAN, Disabled. Boot Up Floppy Seek Setting to enabled allows the system to try to boot from other devices if the system fails to boot from the 1st/2nd/3rd boot devices..
  • Page 35: Advanced Bios Features

    Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning Allows you to choose the VIRUS warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection. If this function is enabled and someone attempt to write data into this area, BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep. The Choices: Disabled (default) Virus protection is disabled.
  • Page 36 Boot Up NumLock Status Selects power on state for NumLock. The Choices: On (default) Numpad is number keys. Numpad is arrow keys. Gate A20 Option Fast – let chipset control GateA20 and Normal – a pin in the keyboard controller controls GateA20. The Choices: Normal (default) A pin in the keyboard controller...
  • Page 37: Advanced Chipset Features

    OS Select For DRAM > 64MB Select OS2 only if you are running OS/2 operating system with greater than 64MB of RAM on the system. The Choices: Non-OS2 (default), OS2. HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a technology that enabled a PC to in some cases predict the future failure of storage drives..
  • Page 38 Active to CMD (Trcd) The Choices: 3T (default), 2T. DRAM Burst Length This item determines DRAM Burst Length. The Choices: 4 (default), 8. DRAM Queue Depth This item determines DRAM Queue Depth. The Choices: 4 level(default), 2 level, 3 level. DRAM Command Rate This item determines DRAM Command Rate.
  • Page 39 AGP Driving Value While AGP driving control item set to “Manual”, it allows user to set AGP driving. The Choices: DA (default). AGP Fast Write The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. AGP Master 1 WS Write When Enabled, writes to the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) are executed with one wait states.
  • Page 40: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    System BIOS Cacheable When enabled, accesses to system BIOS ROM addressed at F0000H-FFFFFH are cached, provided that the cache controller is enabled. The Choices: Enabled, Disabled (default). Video RAM Cacheable Select Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS, resulting in better system performance.
  • Page 41: Frequency/Voltage Control

    IRQ Resources When resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. This is only configurable when “Resources Controlled By” is set to “Manual”. IRQ-3 assigned to: PCI device IRQ-4 assigned to: PCI device IRQ-5 assigned to: PCI device...
  • Page 42: Integrated Peripherals

    CPU Clock This item shows the CPU Host Clock. DDR: CPU Ratio This item allows you to adjust your DRAM: CPU Clock Ratio. The Choices: Auto (default), 2.00, 2.66. DDR Speed (strobe/sec) This item shows the DDR Speed. (CPU Clock * CPU Ratio) 8.3 Integrated Peripherals Init Display First With systems that have multiple video cards, this option...
  • Page 43 If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “VIA Onchip IDE Device” label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: IDE Channel 0/1 The motherboard chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels.
  • Page 44: Via Onchip Pci Device

    IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is otherwise known as block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read/write. Select the “Enabled” option if your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do). The system will automatically determine the optimal number of blocks to read and write per sector.
  • Page 45: Super Io Device

    Super IO Device If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “Super IO Device” label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller (FDC) installed on the system board and you wish to use it.
  • Page 46 UR2 Duplex Mode Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port. Full-duplex mode permits simultaneous two-direction transmission. Half-duplex mode permits transmission in one direction only at a time. The Choices: Half (default), Full. Onboard Parallel Port This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which I/O Address.
  • Page 47: Power Management

    8.4 Power Management The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and power up/power down features. ACPI Suspend Type The item allows you to select the suspend type under the ACPI operating system. The Choices: S1 (POS) (default) Power on Suspend...
  • Page 48 Max. Power Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CPU’s. Suspend Mode = 1 min. HDD Power Down = 6 min. User Defined (default) Allows you to set each mode individually. When not disabled, each of the ranges are from 1 min. to 1 hr. except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1 min.
  • Page 49: Wake Up Control

    DPMS Support Initial display power management signaling. Modem Use IRQ This determines the IRQ, which can be applied in MODEM use. The Choices: 3 (default), 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, NA. Soft-Off by PWRBTN Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft-Off state when the system has “hung.”...
  • Page 50 USB Wake Up This item allows you to select USB devices to awaken the system from suspend mode. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. When set to On, any event occurring at a VGA Port will awaken a system which has been powered down. The Choices: OFF (default), On.
  • Page 51 RTC Wake Up When “Enabled”, you can set the date and time at which the RTC (real-time clock) alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode. The Choices: Enabled, Disabled (default). Date (of Month) You can choose which month the system will boot up. This field is only configurable when “RTC Resume”...
  • Page 52: Hardware Monitoring

    8.5 Hardware Monitoring CPU FAN Warning This item is used to monitor CPU FAN status or not. If you use other method to cool your CPU instead of using on board’s CPUFAN header, you should disable this function. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Case Open Warning If this function is set to “Enabled”...
  • Page 53: Load Defaults

    8.6 Load Defaults Load System Default Settings Load System Default Settings. Load System turbo Settings Load System Turbo Settings. Load CMOS From BIOS Load defaults from flesh ROM for batteryless. Save CMOS To BIOS Save defaults to flesh ROM for batteryless.
  • Page 54: Exit Menu

    8.7 Exit Menu Save & Exit Setup Save all configuration changes to CMOS(memory) and exit setup. Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding. Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup. Confirmation message will displayed before proceeding.
  • Page 55: Chapter 9: Software Setup

    Chapter 9: Software Setup 9.1 Software List Category Platform Location in CD VIA Service Pack \VIA\Driver\4 in 1 (4 In 1) Onboard VGA Driver \VIA\Driver\ProSavage Onboard Audio \VIA\Driver\Relatek Driver Audio Windows 9X/ ME/ WinXP USB Wake \VIA\Driver\WinXP 2000/ XP from S3 Driver USB Wake from S3 BIOS files \VIA\Driver\BIOS\...
  • Page 56: Software Installation

    9.2 Software Installation You can simply put Driver CD into CD-ROM drive and the Installation Utility will auto-run or you can launch the Driver CD Installation Utility manually. The steps shown below are for reference: 1. Once the Driver CD auto-runs, you will see the screen at first, there are three buttons optional.
  • Page 57 2. Click on the first picture, and then you can see the screen like the picture below. 3. Click on the second picture, you can choose to install the drivers of VIA 4in1 Service PACK, VGA and AUDIO. Click the driver you need to install.
  • Page 58 4. By clicking on the second picture, you will have two programs to choose and install. Follow the description after clicking the button. 5. If you click the button on the first page, you will see this screen. To repair bios, if you need to, the files are in this folder.
  • Page 59 6. Clicking the third button , we can browse all the files in the Drive CD. 7. You can click to finish using the Drive CD.
  • Page 60: Chapter 10: Troubleshooting

    Chapter 10: Troubleshooting Problem 1: No power to the system at all. Power light does not illuminate, fan inside power supply does not turn on. Indicator light on keyboard does not turn on. Causes: 1. Power cable is unplugged. 2. Defective power cable. 3.
  • Page 61: Problem 4

    2. Contact technical support. 3. Backing up the hard drive is extremely important. All hard disks are capable of breaking down at any time. Problem 4: System only boots from CD-ROM. Hard disk can be read and applications can be used but booting from hard disk is impossible.
  • Page 62: Problem 8

    Solutions: Check the power connectors to monitor and to system. Problem 8: No screen. Causes: 1. Memory problem. 2. Computer virus. Solutions: 1. Reboot computer. Reinstall memory, make sure that all memory modules are installed in correct sockets. 2. Use anti-virus programs to detect and clean viruses. Problem 9: Screen goes blank periodically.
  • Page 63 Problem 12: The screen shows “C: drive failure.” Causes: Hard drive cable not connected properly. Solutions: Check hard drive cable. Problem 13: Cannot boot system after installing second hard drive. Causes: 1. Master/slave jumpers not set correctly. 2. Hard drives not compatible / different manufacturers. Solutions: 1.

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