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- Page 1 K7N420 Pro MS-6373(v1.X) ATX Mainboard Version 1.1 G52-MA00470...
- Page 2 Manual Rev: 1.1 Release Date: Dec. 2001 FCC-B Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equip- ment is operated in a commercial environment.
- Page 3 Edition Dec. 2001 Copyright Notice The material in this document is the intellectual property of MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL. We take every care in the preparation of this document, but no guarantee is given as to the correctness of its con tents. Our products are under co ntinual improvement and we reserve the right to make changes without notice.
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Page 4: Safety Instructions
Safety Instructions Read the safety instructions carefully. Save this User’s Guide for possible use later. Keep this equipment away from humidity. Lay this equipment on a stable and flat surface before setting it up. The openings on the enclosure are used for air convection and to prevent the equipment from overheating. -
Page 5: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS Chapter 1 Getting Started ... 1-1 Specification ... 1-2 Mainboard Layout ... 1-5 MSI Special Features ... 1-6 PC Alert III ... 1-6 D-Bracket (optional) ... 1-8 Live BIOS /Live Driver Chapter 2 Hardware Setup ... 2-1 Central Processing Unit: CPU ... 2-2 CPU Installation Procedure ... - Page 6 Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1&IDE2 ... 2-13 CD1/AUX1/MODEM1/JSP1 ... 2-14 CPUFAN1/PSFAN1/SYSFAN1 ... 2-15 IrDA Infrared Module Header: IR or IR1 ... 2-16 Case/Speaker Connectors: JFP2/MSIFP ... 2-17 D-Bracket Connector: JDLED (optinal) ... 2-18 Front Panel Audio Connector: JAUDIO2 ... 2-19 Jumpers ... 2-20 Clear CMOS Jumper: JBAT1 ...
- Page 7 Power Management Setup ... 3-20 PnP/PCI Configurations ... 3-24 PC Health Status ... 3-26 Frequency/Voltage Control ... 3-28 Load High Performance/BIOS Setup Defaults ... 3-29 Set Supervisor/User Password ... 3-30 Appendix: DDR DIMM Configuration ...A-1 Glossary ...G-1...
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Page 8: Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 1. Getting Started Getting Started Congratulations on purchasing the MSI mainboard. K7N420 Pro (MS-6373) ATX mainboard is an excellent computer mainboard based on the innovative nForce 420D chipset, which supports the latest AMD Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron processor series and provides you with a cost- effective solution. -
Page 9: Specification
Chapter 1 Mainboard Specification Supports Socket A (Socket 462) for AMD Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron processors up to 1800+MHz Chipset nForce 420D chipset - Support 200/266MHz FSB - Twinbank Memory Architecture/128-bit DDR memory controller - Integrated GeForceMX-class advanced Graphics Processing Unit - AGP 4x support - Hyper Transport interface to MCP (800MB/sec max.) MCP-D(Media Communications Processor) - Dual ATA/100 controller... - Page 10 Video 256-bit 2D/3D graphics accelerator Supports the 2nd generation T&L engine, nVIDIA Shading Rasterizer Supports TV-out daughter card (optional) Audio APU (audio processing unit) integrated in MCP - Support up to 256 hardware-processed voices or 64 hardware voice in - S/PDIF out through external bracket - CNR card for 6 channel analog (optional) Network (optional) Chipset integrated10/100 Base-T Ethernet/Fast Ethernet...
- Page 11 Chapter 1 Dimension 30.5cm x 22.5cm Mounting Six mounting holes...
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Page 12: Mainboard Layout
M O D E M 1 AUX1 PCI Slot 1 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 JSP1 COM 2 PCI Slot 4 BIOS PCI Slot 5 K7N420 Pro (MS-6373 v1.X) ATX Mainboard Getting Started CPUFAN1 PSFAN1 nVIDIA CRUSH 12 AGP Slot BATT IDE2 IDE1 nVIDIA... -
Page 13: Msi Special Features
Chapter 1 MSI Special Features PC Alert™ III The PC Alert III is a util ity you can find in the CD-ROM disk . The utility is just like your PC doctor that can detect the following PC hardware status during real time operation: * monitor CPU &... - Page 14 Features: Network Management - Monitoring & remote control Basic System Utilities - Scandisk & Defragment to maintain your HDD 3D Graphics Design - Enables a more friendly user interface Sofware Utilities - SoftCooler Optimized Cooling Getting Started...
- Page 15 Chapter 1 D-Bracket™ (optional) -Bracket™ is an USB bracket integrating four Diagnostic LEDs, which use graphic signal display to help users understand thei r system. The LEDs provide up to 16 combinations of signals to debug the system. The 4 LEDs can debug all problems that fail the system, such as VGA, RAM or other failures.
- Page 16 D-Bracket Description Processor Initialization - This will show information regarding the processor (like brand name, system bus, etc… ) Testing RTC (Real Time Clock) Initializing Video Interface - This will start detecting CPU clock, checking type of video onboard. Then, detect and initialize the video adapter. BIOS Sign On - This will start showing information about logo, processor brand name, etc…...
- Page 17 After installati on, the “M SI Live Up date Series” icon (as the right view) will appear on the screen. Double click the “MSI Live Update Series” icon, and the following screen will appear. Four but tons are placed on the left co lumn of the screen. Click the desired button to start the update process.
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Page 18: Chapter 2 Hardware Setup
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Page 22: Memory
Socket Memory Module DIMM 1 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB DIMM 2 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB DIMM 3 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB Maximum System Memory Supported Volt Hardware Setup Total Memory 64MB ~ 512MB 64MB ~ 512MB 64MB ~ 512MB 64MB ~ 1.5GB notch... - Page 23 Chapter 2...
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Page 24: Vga Connector
Hardware Setup Parallel Port Game Port Mouse LAN Jack Keyboard USB Ports Serial Port VGA Connector Audio Ports ® ® ®... - Page 25 Chapter 2 ® ® ®...
- Page 26 Hardware Setup...
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- Page 28 Hardware Setup Pin Definition 2-11...
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Page 32: Hardware Setup
Hardware Setup SENSOR SENSOR +12V +12V CPUFAN1 PSFAN1 +12V SENSOR SYSFAN1 2-15... - Page 33 Chapter 2 2-16...
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Page 43: Chapter 3 Award Bios Setup
AWARD BIOS Setup This chapter provides information o n the BIOS Setup program and allows you to configure the system for optimum use. You may need to run th e Setup program when: An error message appears on the screen during the system booti ng up, and requests yo u to run SETUP. -
Page 44: Entering Setup
Chapter 3 Entering Setup Turn on the comput er. Wh en the below message appears briefl y at the bottom of the screen during the POST (Power On Self Test), press <Delete> key or simultaneously press <C trl>, <Alt > and <Esc> to enter t he SETUP program. -
Page 45: Getting Help
Getting Help Main Menu The M ain menu lists the setup fu nctions y ou can make changes to. You can use the control keys ( , ) to select the item. The on-line description of the highli ghted setup function is d isplayed at the bottom o f the screen. Sub-Menu If you find a righ t pointer symbol (as shown as belo w) appears to the left of certain fields, which means a sub-menu can be launched from this field. -
Page 46: Setup Menus
Chapter 3 Setup Menus Main Menu ® Once y ou enter Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utilit y, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from twelve setup function s and two exit cho ices. Use arrow k eys to select amon g the items an d press <Enter>... - Page 47 AWARD BIOS Setup PnP/PCI Configurations This entry appears if your system su pports PnP/PCI. PC Health Status This entry shows your PC health st atus. Frequency/Voltage Control Use this menu to specify y our settings of frequency/voltage control. Load BIOS SetupDefaults Use this menu t o load the B IOS default values for t he most stab le system performance.
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Page 48: Standard Cmos Features
Chapter 3 Standard CMOS Features Th e i tems in St andard CMOS Featu res menu are div ided in to 13 categories. Each category includes no ne, one or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value you want in each item. - Page 49 IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave Press PgUp/ <+> or PgDn/ <-> t o select the hard di sk d rive cat egory. The specification of hard disk drive will show on the right hand according to your selection. You can press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu. The sub-menu will appear as the following example: Access Mode The set tings are CHS,LBA, Large, and Auto...
- Page 50 Chapter 3 Halt on This item all ows you to set the type of errors that will cause sy stem halt on. Available options are [All Errors], [No Errors], [All, But Keyboard], [All, But Diskette], and [All, But Disk/Key]. All E rrors The system will halt on and display the error message if any error hap pens.
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Page 51: Advanced Bios Features
AWARD BIOS Setup Advanced BIOS Features Quick Boot The opti on sp eeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on the computer. When setting the item to Enabled, BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST. Settings: Enabled and Disabled. Full Screen Logo Show This item allows you to enable or disable the full screen Logo show capability. - Page 52 Chapter 3 External Cache This item all ows you to enable or disable the level 2 (L2) cach e. Available options are [Disabled] and [Enabled].Quick Power On Self Test This item allows you to speed up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on the computer.
- Page 53 AWARD BIOS Setup Boot Up Num-Lock LED Thi s it em al lows you to set th e Nu mLock status when you boot up y our computer. When you choose from the default of [On], the keypad is numeric keys;...
- Page 54 Chapter 3 APIC Mode This item is used to enable or disable the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller). Due to compliance to PC2001 design guide, the system is able to run in APIC mode. Enabling APIC mode will expand available IRQs resources for the syst em.
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Page 55: Advanced Chipset Features
AWARD BIOS Setup Advanced Chipset Features Note: Change these settings only if you are familiar with the chipset System BIOS Cacheable Selecting [Enabled] allo ws cach ing of the sy stem BIOS ROM at F00 00h- FFFFFh , resultin g in better system p erformance. However, if any p rogram writes to this memory area, a system error may result. - Page 56 Chapter 3 AGP Aperture Size (MB) This setting controls just how much system RAM can be allocated to AGP for video purposes. The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated to graphics memory address space. Ho st cycles that hit the aper- ture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation.
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Page 57: Integrated Peripherals
Integrated Peripherals MCP OnChip IDE Device Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu, which contains the following items for advanced control: OnChip IDE Channel0/1 The in tegrated peripheral co ntroller co ntains an IDE interface with sup port for t wo IDE ch annel s. C hoose [Enabled] to activ ate each channel separately. - Page 58 Chapter 3 add-in IDE interface does not support prefetching. Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO Th e fo ur field s al low you to set a PIO (Programmed Inp ut/Outpu t) mode for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports.
- Page 59 Onboard SuperIO Device Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu, which contains the following items for advanced control: Onboard FDC Controller Select En abled if your system has a floppy disk controller (FDD) in- stalled on the system board and you wish to use it. If you install add- on FDC or the system has no floppy drive, select Disabled in this field.
- Page 60 Chapter 3 UR2 Duplex Mode This item allows you to select the IR half/full duplex function. Avail- able options are [Half] and [Full]. Use IR Pins Consult your IR peripheral documentation to select the correct setting of the TxD and RxD signals. Onboard Parallel Port Select a logical LPT port address and corresponding interrup t for the physical parallel port.
- Page 61 AWARD BIOS Setup OnChi p USB Select [En abled] if your system contains a Uni versal Serial Bus (USB) con- troller and y ou have USB peripherals. Available options are [Enabled] and [Disab led]. USB Keyboard Support Select [En abled] if your system contains a Uni versal Serial Bus (USB) con- troller and y ou have a USB keyboard.
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Page 62: Power Management Setup
Chapter 3 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup allows you to configure you system to most effect ively save energy whi le operating in a mann er consistent with your own style of compu ter use. IPCA Function Th is item allo ws y ou to set AC PI (Ad van ced Co nfi guratio n and Power Management) function. - Page 63 Power Management Option This category allows you to select the type (or degree) of power saving and is directly relat ed to the following i tems: Standby Mode and HDD Power Down. There are three selections for Power Management, two of which have fixed mode settings: Min Power Saving Max Power Saving...
- Page 64 Chapter 3 enough circuitry receiving power to detect power b utton activit y or Wake Up On LAN/ Ring activity. IRQ/Event Activity Detect Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears: USB Resume from S3/S4 Allows the activity of USB device to wake up the system from S3 or S4 power saving modes.
- Page 65 IRQ3 ~ IRQ15 enable or disable the monitoring of the specified IRQ line. If set to [Enabled], the activity of the specified IRQ line will prevent the system from enterin g power savin g modes or awaken it from po wer saving modes. Note: IRQ (Interrup t Request ) lines a re system re- sources allocated to I/O devices.
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Page 66: Pnp/Pci Configurations
Chapter 3 PnP/PCI Configurations This section describes the PCI bus system configuration. PCI (Personal Computer Interconnect) is a system which al lows I/O dev ices to operate at speeds n earing the speed the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components. - Page 67 AWARD BIOS Setup system such as Windows 98. When set to [manual], you can choose specific resources by going into each of the su b menu that fol lows this field (a sub- menu is preceded by a “8”). Available options are [Auto(ESCD)] and [Manual]. (If you choose Auto, the IRQ R esources will not have function.) IRQ Resources This item is adjustable only when Resources Controlled By is set to [Manual].
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Page 68: Pc Health Status
Chapter 3 PC Health Status This secti on hel ps you to get more information about y our sy stem incl uding C PU temp erature, FAN speed and volt ages. It is recommended that you contact with your mainbo ard supplier to g et pro per value ab out your sett ing of the CPU temperature. - Page 69 AWARD BIOS Setup Shutdown Temperature This item allows you to set the shutdown temperature level for the processor. When the processor reach the temp erature you set, this will shut down the system. This fu nction onl y works in ACPI-aware OS (such as Windows 98/ ME/2000).
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Page 70: Frequency/Voltage Control
Chapter 3 Frequency/Voltage Control This section is for setting C PU Frequency/Voltage Control. Clock Spread Spectrum This item is used to enable or disable the clock generator’s Spread Spectrum feature. When overclocking the processor, always set it to Disabled. Setting options: [0.5%], [1.00%], [2.00%] and[Disabled] CPU/MEM/AGP’s Freq This item specifies the clock frequency of CPU host bus, DDR RAM bus, and AGP bus. -
Page 71: Load High Performance/Bios Setup Defaults
Load High Performance/BIOS Setup Defaults The two op tions o n the main menu all ow users to restore all of the BIOS settings to the defau lt High Performance or BIOS Setup values. The High Performance Defaults are the default values set by the mainboard manu- facturer specifically for the optimal performance of the mainboard. -
Page 72: Set Supervisor/User Password
Chapter 3 Set Supervisor/User Password When you select this function, a message as below will appear on the screen. Type the password (up to eight characters in length) and press <Enter>. The p assword typed now will clear any p reviously entered password from CMOS memory. -
Page 73: Appendix: Ddr Dimm Configuration
Appendix : DDR DIMM Configuration Configuration Rules Observe the following rules when configuring DDR DIMMs: 1. Follow correct DIMM installation order. DIMMs must be populated consecutively, in order, starting with the DIMM1 socket. 2. Do not populate DIMM3 socket with any dual load (dual bank) modules (for BIOS ver. - Page 74 Note: Memory loads must be distributed as provided in the Table 1. Not all possible combi- nations are listed in the table. Populate designs only with DIMMs that follow JEDEC standard 184-pin unbuffered non-ECC DDR DIMMs. DDR DIMMS with CAS LA- TENCY of 2.0 (PC2100A) or 2.5 (PC2100B) are supported.
- Page 75 Recommended DDR Devices SEC K4H280838B-TCBO 128MB PC2100 Hyundai HY5DU28822T-H 128MB PC2100 Winbond W942516AH-7 128MB PC2100 Micron MT46V16M8TG-75 128MB PC2100 Toshiba TC59WM807BFT-70 256MB PC2100 Winbond W942508AH-7 256MB PC2100 Micron MT46V16M8TG-75A 256MB PC2100...
- Page 76 Chipset...
- Page 77 Dynamic RAM (DRAM) Memory Technologies Type First Used FPM (60,70ns) 1990 EDO (50,60,70ns) 1994 SDRAM (66MHz) 1996 SDRAM (100MHz) 1998 SDRAM (133MHz) 1999 RDRAM (Direct Rambus) 1999 DDR SDRAM (100MHz) 2000 DDR SDRAM (133MHz) 2000 * Memory channel width (64 bits started with 75MHz Pentium) Source: Computer Desktop Encyclopedia Peak Clock Rate...