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CHAINTECH MK8T890 User Manual

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Declaration of Conformity
According to 47 CFR, Parts 2 and 15 of the FCC Rules
The following designated product:
EQUIPMENT: MAINBOARD
is a Class B digital device that complies with 47 CFR Parts 2 and 15 of the FCC
Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
1. This device may not cause harmful interference.
2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that
may cause undesired operation.
This declaration is given to the manufacturer:
CHAINTECH AMERICA CORP.
4427 Enterprise St. Fremont, CA 94538, U.S.A.
http://www.chaintech.com.tw
Chaintech President: Simon Ho
Signature:

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  • Page 1 1. This device may not cause harmful interference. 2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This declaration is given to the manufacturer: CHAINTECH AMERICA CORP. 4427 Enterprise St. Fremont, CA 94538, U.S.A. http://www.chaintech.com.tw Chaintech President: Simon Ho Signature:...
  • Page 2 VIA K8T890 + VT8237R u-ATX Motherboard User’s Guide...

  • Page 3: Federal Communications Commission Statement

    Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: * This device may not cause harmful interference. * This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. 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.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Content Table Chapter 1 Introduction....................1 1-1 Specifications....................1 1-2 Package Contents.....................2 1-3 Motherboard Layout ..................3 1-4 Rear Panel I/O ports Layout ................5 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation ................7 2-1 PC D.I.Y. Assembly Instructions ..............7 2-2 Connector and Jumper Settings ...............9 Chapter 3 Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility...........15 3-1 Entering Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility ........15 3-2 Standard CMOS Features ................15 3-3 Advanced BIOS Features................16...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction MK8T890 motherboard, supporting the latest AMD Socket-754 Athlon 64 / Sempron processor, is based on the VIA K8T890 chipset. MK8T890 is a state-of-the-art design with competitive price on heightening the performance for the computer. It is an ideal motherboard solution for home, office and SOHO users.

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    Introduction 1-2 Package Contents This product comes with the following components: 1. MK8T890 Motherboard 2. 40-Pin IDE Cable (Blue to motherboard, Gray to Master and Black to Slave) 3. 34-Pin floppy Disk Drive Cable 4. SATA Cable 5. User’s Manual 6.

  • Page 7: Motherboard Layout

    Introduction 1-3 Motherboard Layout...
  • Page 8 Introduction Item Function Description These two connectors are used to connect ATX.Power Supply Connector PW1/3 the power by power cables. (PW1: 20 Pin, PW3: 4 pin) Floppy Disk Drive Connector The floppy disk drive can be hooked up FDD1 here via the FDD signal cable. (34-1 pin) IDE1 and IDE2 connectors are used to IDE1...

  • Page 9: Rear Panel I/O Ports Layout

    Introduction 1-4 Rear Panel I/O ports Layout Name Function Green PS/2 mouse port The PS/2 mouse can be hooked up here Purple PS/2 keyboard port The PS/2 keyboard can be hooked up here The Twisted-Pair Wire can be hooked up here to LAN (RJ-45) port form the so-called Local Area Network (LAN) The USB 2.0 devices, such as the digital cameras,...

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    Hardware Installation Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2-1 PC D.I.Y. Assembly Instructions 1. Installing FDD and IDE devices: Aligned the red colored edge of the cable with the pin 1 of the drive connector on the motherboard and gently attached it. Attach the other end of the cable by aligning the colored edge to the pin 1 of the device connector.
  • Page 12 Hardware Installation 5. Adding an expansion card: Gently fasten the card to the proper slot. 6. Connecting I/O ports and device connectors: Simply plug the cable into the respective device port or connector as shown in the manual or silkscreen printed on the motherboard. 7.

  • Page 13: Connector And Jumper Settings

    Hardware Installation 2-2 Connector and Jumper Settings Connectors are used to link the system board with other parts of the system, including power supply, keyboard, and the various controllers on the front panel of the system case. The power supply connector is the last connection to be made while installing a motherboard.
  • Page 14 Hardware Installation poly-fuse will not need to be replaced, relieving users from such inconveniences. 2. Internal connectors FD1: Floppy Disk Drive Connector (34-1 pin) To install the FDD, please connect one end of the FDD signal cable to the connector and the other end to the rear of the FDD.
  • Page 15 Hardware Installation CN24: (Front Audio Connector 10-1 pin) This connector gives you option of a front-panel audio-jack cable ext. to be plugged into a special custom-designed system case. Simply remove the two jumper caps at pins [5-6] and [9-10] then plug it into the (optional) cable ext.
  • Page 16 Hardware Installation JP6: Enable/Disable USB 0/1 Device Wake-Up Jumper: An USB keyboard hot key or an USB mouse-click can activate this board. To use this function, select a hot key of your choice at the USB Resume from S3 option under Wake Up Events in the BIOS's Power On Management screen.
  • Page 17 Hardware Installation HD-LED (IDE - Activity LED Connector): The IDE- activity LED lights up whenever the system reads/writes to the IDE devices. Front Audio Connector (10-1 pin CN24 Front Audio) This connector give you the option of a front panel audio jack cable ext. to be plug into a special custom designed system case.

  • Page 19: Chapter 3 Phoenix-Award Bios Cmos Setup Utility

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Chapter 3 Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility 3-1 Entering Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility The Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility can be entered by pressing {Delete} during the booting process; accurately speaking, it is during the POST ( Power-On Self Test), one of major tasks performed by the BIOS when the system is turned on to make certain every hardware of the system is present and works properly.

  • Page 20: Advanced Bios Features

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility hardware during the POST. If No Errors is selected, the boot process will not halt even though the system detects an error on hardware during the POST. If All, But Keyboard is selected, the booting process will halt when the system detects any errors on hardware except for the keyboard.

  • Page 21: First Boot Device

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility processor's L2 cache actually supports ECC checking. Many processors do not ship with ECC-capable L2 cache. In such cases, you can still enable this feature in the BIOS but it will have no effect. Quick Power On Self Test This feature allows you to reduce the time it takes to boot up the system.

  • Page 22: Boot Up Numlock Status

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility When this BIOS feature is disabled, the floppy drive mapping will remain as that set by the drive connector arrangement. Although this appears to be nothing more than a feature of convenience, it can be quite important if you are using two floppy drives of different form factors (3.5"...

  • Page 23: Security Option

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility starts repeating the keystroke. Generally, using a short delay is useful for people who type quickly and don't like to wait long for a keystroke to be repeated. On the other hand, a long delay is useful for users who tend to press the keys longer while typing.

  • Page 24: Advanced Chipset Features

    Upstream LDT Bus Width This function determines the upstream width of the LDT bus of which connects CPU and MK8T890 chip. Please leave the default setting [16 bit] for a stable system operation. Downstream LDT Bus Width This function determines the downstream width of the LDT bus of which connects CPU and MK8T890 chip.

  • Page 25: Vlink Mode Selection

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility exclusively for the ISA cards. Thus the total amount of memory the operating system uses will decrease. If disabled, the 15th MB of RAM will not be reserved for the ISA cards and there will be a full range of memory available to the operating system. Since the ISA cards are a thing of the past, it is highly recommended that you disable this feature.

  • Page 26: Integrated Peripherals

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility when you intend to update the BIOS. After updating the BIOS, you should immediately re-enable it to protect the BIOS against viruses. 3-5 Integrated Peripherals VIA OnChip IDE Device OnChip SATA Allows you to enable or disable the SATA device(s). SATA Mode Allows you to select the SATA mode.

  • Page 27: Via Onchip Pci Device

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Secondary Slave UDMA This feature allows users to set the Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) mode for the IDE Secondary Slave drive attached to the IDE2 connector. Auto is recommended. IDE HDD Block Mode This feature enables users to speed up the hard disk access by transferring the data in the block mode.

  • Page 28: Power Management Setup

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility for other devices Onboard Serial Port 2 This feature allows users to select the I/O address and IRQ for the second serial port. Auto is recommended. Nevertheless, you can manually choose another I/O port or IRQ if a certain I/O port or IRQ is needed.
  • Page 29 Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Power Management Option To select the type (or degree) of power saving for Doze, Standby, and Suspend modes. HDD Power Down Allows automatic power down of IDE drives after a specified period of inactivity, but 15 minutes is a suggested minimum, to avoid undue wear and tear on the drive.

  • Page 30: Irq/Event Activity Detect

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Run VGABIOS if S3 Resume Available options: Auto, Yes, No. Ac Loss Auto Restart Available options: [Former-Sts], [On], [Off]. Please leave the default setting [Off] for a stable system operation. AMD K8 Cool n Quiet Control When set to “Auto”, the system will auto control the CPU voltage and frequency depends the loading of system.

  • Page 31: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility RTC Alarm Resume Enabled allows the user to set the time the system will be turned on from the system power-off status Date (of Month) This feature allows the user to set the day of the alarm starts when the RTC Alarm Resume From Soft Off is set to be Enabled.

  • Page 32: Pci/Vga Palette Snoop

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Resources Controlled By When set to Manual the system BIOS will not refer to the ESCD for IQR & DMA information. Instead, it will refer to the items in the setup menu for assigning IRQ & DMA. When set to Auto the system BIOS will refer to the ESCD for all legacy information.

  • Page 33: Spread Spectrum

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility the thing mentioned above. It is recommended that users enable this feature to save power and reduce EMI. Spread Spectrum This BIOS feature allows you to reduce the EMI of your motherboard by modulating the signals it generates so that the spikes are reduced to flatter curves.

  • Page 34: Load Fail-Safe Defaults

    Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility is [95 ℃ / 203 ℉ ] . Available options are [95 ℃ / 203 ℉ ] , [85 ℃ / 185 ℉ ] and [75 ℃ / 167 ℉ LM90 Temp CPU temperature can be detected and shown by the LM90. 3-9 Load Fail-Safe Defaults If you made changes to the BIOS and your system becomes unstable as a result, you can change it back to default.

  • Page 35: Chapter 4 Driver Setup

    Driver Setup Chapter 4 Driver Setup Insert the support CD that come with your motherboard into your CD-ROM driver or double-click the CD drive icon in [My computer] to enter the setup screen. 4-1 VIA Service Pack 1. Click [VIA Service Pack]. 2.

  • Page 36: Via Codec Audio Driver

    Driver Setup 1. Please select [I accept the agreement]. 2. Please select [Next]. 3. Please select [Next]. 4. Please select [Finish] to complete. 4-3 VIA Codec Audio Driver 1. Select [Audio driver] to begin the software installation 2. Click [Next] 3.

  • Page 37: Appendix

    Appendix Appendix For Windows 2000/XP Server SATA setup instruction After you unpack driver, please copy files & subdirectories under directory D:\Raid\Via\DriverDisk (assuming your optical drive is D) to the root directory of floppy diskette (called driver diskette). Therefore, in root directory of floppy diskette you will see: (1) Files "txtsetup.oem", (2) Directory "RAID", “PIDE"and related driver files in each directory.

  • Page 38: Note

    Note NOTE All rights are reserved for the products and corporate names/logos that appear in this manual to their original owners. WE reserve all rights to change this manual. All information is subject to change without notice.

  • Page 39: How To Contact Chaintech

    How To Contact CHAINTECH Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any problem about our products. Any opinion will be appreciated. <Headquarters> For France, Europe: For Asia, Africa, Australia and Pacific AELT COMPUTER Island: 5 rue de Rome 93561 Rosny Sous Bois CHAINTECH COMPUTER CO., LTD...

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