EPOX EP-8K5A3 User Manual

An amd socket a processor based mainboard (100/133mhz)

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Page 1 User’ User’ s s s s s User’ User’ User’ Manual Manual Manual Manual Manual AMD Soc AMD Sock k k k k et AMD Soc et et et et A Pr A Pr A Pr ocessor based ocessor based An AMD Soc AMD Soc A Pr...
Page 2 POST Port Frequently Asked Questions P O ST C O D E P r o bl e m So l uti o n FFh o r CFh 1 .B IO S c hip inse rte d 1 . Re inse rt the B IO S inc o rre c tly c hip 2 .
Page 3 Table of Contents Page Section 1 Introduction Overview Section 2 Features Section 3 Installatio Easy Installation Procedure Section 4 Award BIOS Setup...
Page 4 Section 5 Driver Installation Appendix Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E...
Page 5: Components Checklist
Introduction Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist Package Contents Optional Item USER’S MANUAL Page 1-1...
Page 6 Introduction Overview AMD Duron & Athlon Processors !" ! " !" !" !" !" !" !" !" Page 1-2...
Page 7: Hardware Monitoring
Introduction Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP or A.G.P.) Ultra ATA/66/100/133 Hardware Monitoring Page 1-3...
Page 8 Introduction Mainboard Form-Factor Power Supply 3 1/2" 5 1/4" Figure 2: Summary of ATX chassis features Page 1-4...
Page 9: I/O Shield Connector
Introduction I/O Shield Connector Parallel Port RJ45 LAN PS/2 Mouse Line_in Speaker PS/2 Keyboard USB 2.0 USB 2.0 COM1 COM2 port port Figure 3: I/O back panel layout Power-On/Off (Remote) Remote On/Off ® ® POWER SUPPLY Case (chassis) Power ON/OFF button (J 3) Figure 4: Simple ATX Power ON/OFF Controller Page 1-5...
Page 10 Introduction System Block Diagram Socket A Processor 133/100MHz DDR SDRAM 200/266/333MHz 66MHz PCI Bridge )/2*KI and memory controller KT333 AGP Slot (Optional) V_Link 1,-! HPT374 1,-" ATA133 1,-# With RAID 1,-$ Graphic Video PCI Slots AC'97 Audio V 8235 I/O Bridge 1,- 1,- USB 0, 1...
Page 11: Mainboard Features
.A=JKHAI Section 2 FEATURES Mainboard Features: ! ! ! ! ! PROCESSOR ! ! ! ! ! CHIPSET ! ! ! ! ! DRAM MODULE ! ! ! ! ! EXPANSION SLOT ! ! ! ! ! ONBOARD I/O ! ! ! ! ! ONBOARD PCI / IDE ! ! ! ! ! I/O CONNECTOR...
Page 12 .A=JKHAI ! ! ! ! ! Onboard LAN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! BIOS ! ! ! ! ! Built-in AC97 Digital Audio ( By Realtek ALC650) ! ! ! ! ! EXTENDED FUNCTION ! ! ! ! ! FORM FACTOR Page 2-2...
Page 13: Installation
Installation Section 3 INSTALLATION Page 3-1...
Page 14: Mainboard Layout
Installation Mainboard Layout Figure 1 Page 3-2...
Page 15: Easy Installation Procedure
Installation Easy Installation Procedure Section 3-1 CPU Installation Figure 2 Figure 3 Page 3-3...
Page 16 Installation Figure 4 Figure 5 Page 3-4...
Page 17: Section 3-2 Jumper Settings
Installation Section 3-2 Jumper Settings JBAT JCK1 Page 3-5...
Page 18 Installation Section 3-3 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout Bank 0/1 DDR DIMM 1 Bank 2/3 DDR DIMM 2 Synchronous DDR DIMM 3 DRAM Bank 4/5 DDR DIMM 4 Bank 6/7 Figure 6 Table 1 * DDR SDRAM supports 64, 128, 256, 512MB and 1GB DIMM modules. * 1GB module using 512Mb technology.
Page 19: Dimm Module Installation
Installation DIMM Module Installation Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Page 3-7...
Page 20: Section 3-4 Device Connectors
Installation Section 3-4 Device Connectors Parallel Port RJ45 LAN PS/2 Mouse Line_in Speaker PS/2 Keyboard USB 2.0 USB 2.0 COM1 COM2 port port Figure 10 FAN3: FAN1 FAN1: FAN2: POWER Fan CPU Fan CHASSIS Fan FAN3 FAN2 Page 3-8...
Page 21 Installation GAME1 CD_IN_Right CD_Reference CD_IN_Left AUX_IN_Right )7: AUX_IN_Left Page 3-9...
Page 22 Installation -Data +Data +Data -Data SPDIF_IN SPDIF_OUT Page 3-10...
Page 23 Installation ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Page 3-11...
Page 24 Installation LED1 Page 3-12...
Page 25 Installation 3-5 STR (Suspend To RAM) Function ® ® Page 3-13...
Page 26 Installation ACPI Onboard’s LED Status Indicator Table Status Onboard’s Shutdown Plug in the ATX Power ON Green Mode (Soft-OFF) Location Power Core J3(PW-ON) (S1) (S3) (S5) LED2 (Red LED) Blinking Slow Blinking PW_LED Page 3-14...
Page 27: Cpu Overheating Protection
Installation 3-6 CPU Overheating Protection Note: Page 3-15...
Page 28 Installation Page Left Blank Page 3-16...
Page 29: Award Bios Setup
BIOS Section 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP Main Menu Figure 1: CMOS Setup Utility Page 4-1...
Page 30: Standard Cmos Setup
BIOS 4-1 Standard CMOS Setup Figure 2: Standard CMOS Setup Page 4-2...
Page 31: Advanced Bios Features
BIOS NOTE: If the hard disk Primary Master/Slave and Secondary Master/ Slave are set to Auto, then the hard disk size and model will be auto-detected. NOTE: The “Halt On:” field is used to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if an error occurs.
Page 32 BIOS Note: Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning message. If you plan to run such a program, we recommend that you first disable the virus warning Page 4-4...
Page 33 BIOS Note: BIOS can not tell the difference between 720K, 1.2MB and 1.44MB drive types as they are all 80 tracks. Page 4-5...
Page 34 BIOS Page 4-6...
Page 35 BIOS Page 4-7...
Page 36: Advanced Chipset Features
BIOS 4-3 Advanced Chipset Features Figure 4: Chipset Features Setup Page 4-8...
Page 37: Dram Clock/Drive Control
BIOS 100MHz 133MHz DRAM Clock/Drive Control Note: If you select the higher performance, compatibility problem could be occurred. Page 4-9...
Page 38 BIOS Page 4-10...
Page 39 BIOS AGP & P2P Bridge Control Page 4-11...
Page 40 BIOS CPU & PCI Bus Control Page 4-12...
Page 41: Integrated Peripherals
BIOS 4-4 Integrated Peripherals Figure 5: Integrated Peripherals Note: If you do not use the Onboard IDE connector, then you will need to set Onboard Primary PCI IDE: Disabled and Onboard Secondary PCI IDE: Disabled Note: The Onboard PCI IDE cable should be equal to or less than 18 inches (45 cm.).
Page 42 BIOS VIA OnChip IDE Device Enabled Page 4-14...
Page 43 BIOS Onboard PCI Device Page 4-15...
Page 44 BIOS Super IO Device Page 4-16...
Page 45 BIOS Page 4-17...
Page 46: Power Management Setup
BIOS 4-5 Power Management Setup Figure 6: Power Management Setup Page 4-18...
Page 47 BIOS Page 4-19...
Page 48 BIOS IRQ/Event Activity Dectect Enabled Page 4-20...
Page 49: Irqs Activity Monitoring
BIOS Enable rtc alarm resume, IRQs Activity Monitoring Page 4-21...
Page 50: Pnp/Pci Configuration
BIOS 4-6 PNP/PCI Configuration WARNING: Conflicting IRQ’s may cause the system to not find certain devices. Figure 7: PCI Configuration Setup Page 4-22...
Page 51 BIOS Interrupt request are shared as shown the table below: t o l IMPORTANT! If using PCI cards on shared slots, make sure that the drivers support “Shared IRQ” or that the cards don’t need IRQ assignments. Conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups that will make the system unstable or cards inoperable.
Page 52: Pc Health Status
BIOS 4-7 PC Health Status C/87 C/32 6135 RPM 0 RPM 1.62V 1.52V 4.97V 12.16V 3.35V 2.57V 3.02V 4.89V Page 4-24...
Page 53 BIOS Page 4-25...
Page 54: Frequency/Voltage Control
BIOS 4-8 Frequency/Voltage Control 66/33 MHz 1.75 V 1.75 V 2 . 5 0 V Insert Page 4-26...
Page 55 BIOS Page 4-27...
Page 56: Defaults Menu
BIOS 4-9 Defaults Menu Page 4-28...
Page 57: Supervisor/User Password Setting
BIOS 4-10 Supervisor/User Password Setting ENTER PASSWORD: PASSWORD DISABLED. Page 4-29...
Page 58: Exit Selecting
BIOS 4-11 Exit Selecting Save & Exit Setup Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? ; Exit Without Saving Quit without saving (Y/N)? ; Page 4-30...
Page 59: Section 5 Driver Installation
Drivers Installation Section 5 Driver Installation Easy Driver Installation VIA KT 266/333 KM 266 SERIES SERVICE PACK 4IN1 DRIVER AC’97 ALC201A/650 AUDIO DRIVER HPT 374 PLEASE INSTALL THE DRIVER FROM 3.5 FLOPPY (Optional) RAID ADMINISTRATOR VIA 6105/6103 LAN DRIVER IDE BUS MASTER (FOR PERFORMANCE ONLY) USB DRIVER USB 2.0 DRIVER ACROBAT READER...
Page 60 Drivers Installation ALC650 Configuration Setup (6 Channel) To enable ALC650 Function <Figure 1> 1. Right-click Sound Effect button in the tool bar display currently selected Titles. Select Sound Manager. Sound Effect: <Figure 2> 2. Click Sound Effect button and select Environment from the drop-down menu.
Page 61: Drivers Installation
Drivers Installation Equalizer: <Figure 3> 3. Click Equalizer and setup the value of dB. Speak Configutation: <Figure 4> 4. Click Line in and Mic in buttons to enable 6 channel function as this is required for the ALC650. Page 5-3...
Page 62 Drivers Installation Speak Configutation: <Figure 5> 5. The selected screen appears. Speaker Test: <Figure 6> 6. Click Speaker Test button and click on the speakers directly which show on the screen to test it. Page 5-4...
Page 63 Drivers Installation General: <Figure 7> 7. General Information for user reference. Page 5-5...
Page 64 Drivers Installation Page Left Blank Page 5-6...
Page 65 Appendix Appendix A A-1 Avance Media Player User’s Guide ® ® Avance Media Player Platform Functional Descriptions A. Playback Windows Display Playback windows displays the following mode information: 1. Playback Time Display 2. Voice Cancellation Mode Display 3. Pitch Mode Display 4.
Page 66 Appendix 3. Repeat mode Choice of Repeat, All Repeat, Random or No Repeat Mode. 4. Mute Mute On/Off Mode select. 5. Voice cancellation Voice Cancellation On/Off Mode select for Karaoke. 6. Surround mode A total of 26 Surround Sound mode select as shown in the table below.
Page 67 Appendix F. Title/Play List Edit Controls There title/play list controls include “Add”, “Del”, “Clear”, “Load”, & “Store”. 1. Add Add to the Title/Play List. 2. Del Remove form the Title/Play List. 3. Clear Clear the Title/Play Lost. 4. Load Load Title/Play List. 5.
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Page 69: Update Your System Bios
Appendix Appendix B B-1 Update Your System BIOS Download the xxxxx.EXE file corresponding to your model form the our website to an empty directory on your hard disk or floppy. Run the downloaded xxxxx.EXE file and it will self extract. Copy these extracted files to a bootable DOS floppy disk.
Page 70 Appendix 5. Key in File Name to save previous BIOS to file. XXXX XXXXX xxxxx.bin xxxxx.bin 6. Are you sure to program (y/n), please key in [Y] to start the programming. XXXX XXXXX xxxxx.bin xxxxx.bin 7. The programming is finished. XXXX XXXXX xxxxx.bin...
Page 71: Eeprom Bios Remover
Appendix Appendix C C-1 EEPROM BIOS Remover Do not remove the BIOS chip, unless instructed by a technician and only with a PLCC IC extractor tool. The BIOS socket may be damaged if using an improper method to replace the BIOS chip.
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Page 73: Ghost 7 Quick User's Guide (Optional)
Appendix Appendix D D-1 GHOST 7 Quick User’s Guide (Optional) Main Menu Description of Menu...
Page 74 Appendix Disk There are 3 hard disk functions: Important! Disk To Disk (Disk Cloning)
Page 75 Appendix Disk To Image (Disk Backup)
Page 76 Appendix Disk From Image(Restore Backup)
Page 77 Appendix...
Page 78 Appendix Partition Partition To Partition (Partition Cloning) Partition To Image (Partition Backup)
Page 79 Appendix...
Page 80 Appendix Partition From Image (Restore Partition)
Page 81 Appendix Check...
Page 82 Appendix How to Reinstall Windows in 2 Minutes Emergency Recover Floppy !" !" !" !" D-10...
Page 83 Appendix B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p Restore Restore Restore Restore Restore D-11...
Page 84 Appendix Recover CD D-12...
Page 85 Appendix Ghost Command Line Switches Reference D-13...
Page 86 Appendix Available Options: D-14...
Page 87 Appendix D-15...
Page 88 Appendix D-16...
Page 89: Post Codes (Optional)
Appendix Appendix E E-1 POST CODES (Optional) POST (hex) DESCRIPTION...
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