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Page 2: Hardware Installation
....................1 What’s in this manual ......................2 You Must Notice......................... 10 Before You Start .........................11 Overview..........................12 AK73 Series Comparison Table ..................13 Quick Installation Procedure ....................21 Motherboard Map....................... 22 Block Diagram ........................23 Block Diagram ........................24 Hardware Installation................ - Page 3 Supported CPU Frequency ....................30 CPU Overheat Protection....................33 CPU and Housing Fan Connector (With H/W Monitoring) ..........35 Fansink on North Bridge ....................36 DIMM Socket ........................37 3.3V Main Power Adjustable ....................39 3.3V RAM Power LED......................40 Front Panel Connector .......................
- Page 4 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................56 Support 2 USB Port ......................57 Onboard IEEE 1394 Controller................... 58 JP12 Enable/Disable Onboard Sound ................59 CD Audio Connector ......................60 Modem Audio Connector....................61 Video-Audio-IN Connector ....................62 Front Panel Audio ......................63 Battery-less and Long Life Design ..................
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Low ESR Capacitor......................78 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)..................80 Driver and Utility ................... 81 Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ................... 82 Installing Windows 95 ......................83 Installing Windows 98 ......................84 Installing Windows 98 SE, Windows ME & Windows2000 ..........85 Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver .................... - Page 6 Glossary ....................108 AC97..........................108 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ............108 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ..................109 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ....................109 AOpen Bonus Pack CD....................109 APM (Advanced Power Management)................110 ATA (AT Attachment)......................110 ATA/66 ..........................110 ATA/100 ..........................110 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ..................
- Page 7 CODEC (Coding and Decoding)..................112 DDR (Double Data Rated) SDRAM ...................112 DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)................112 DMA (Direct Memory Access) ...................113 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ................113 EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ................113 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ............114 EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) ................114 EV6 Bus ..........................114 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ................115 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ...................115...
- Page 8 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)..................118 PC-100 DIMM ........................118 PC-133 DIMM ........................118 PC-1600 or PC-2100 DDR DRAM ..................118 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ...............119 PDF Format ........................119 PnP (Plug and Play)......................119 POST (Power-On Self Test) ..................... 120 RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ....................120 RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ................
- Page 9 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ....................123 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)..................124 ZIP file ..........................124 Troubleshooting ................... 125 Technical Support ................129 Product Registration ................133...
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- Page 25 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component.
- Page 26 When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
- Page 27 If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you may damage the CPU.
- Page 28 " ".- & &.- ) * & & & & The CPU ratio adjustable function based on the CPU type. Please refer to the technical document for more detail information of overclocking.
- Page 29 VIA Apollo KT133 chipset supports maximum 100MHz(200MHz EV6 Bus) and Apollo KT133A chipset supports up to maximum 133MHz(266MHz EV6 Bus). Besides, both chipsets support 66MHz AGP clock; higher clock setting may cause serious system If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use <...
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- Page 32 High CPU core voltage may be able to increase CPU speed for overclocking, but you may damage the CPU or reduce the CPU lifecycle.
- Page 34 You must using 3-pin CPU cooler fan with this motherboard. Only 3-pin cooler support hardware monitoring function. Powering system without CPU heatsink and cooling fan will permanently damage the CPU in just a few seconds.
- Page 35 Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring. The Fan1 doesn’t support the H/W monitoring function.
- Page 38 The tabs DIMM slot will close-up to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom.
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- Page 46 The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum of 46cm (18 inches), make sure your cable does not exceed this length. For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device to master mode and follow the suggested sequence to install your new device.
- Page 47 To achieve the best performance of Ultra DMA 66/100 hard disks, a special for Ultra DMA 66/100 is required.
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- Page 66 Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human operating mistake, there is still certain risk that CPU, memory, HDD, add-on cards installed on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason.
- Page 71 : If you suspect your BIOS is infected by virus, just rescue your bios by following steps: Turn off the system, set the External Controller to “ ” to read from rescue ROM. Boot the system and set the switch back to “ ”.
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- Page 75 During POST (power on self test), the Debug LED will light on sequentially from LED0 to LED7 until the system boots O.K...
- Page 81 Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows...
- Page 86 Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure. If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver, please remove the AGP card driver first. Otherwise, the screen may go black at rebooting after the un-installation.
- Page 87 If you are using Windows 95 or Windows 98 operation system, please install the VIA audio driver to instead the AD audio driver.
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- Page 94 "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled.
- Page 95 Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card could support ACPI suspend to disk. Please refer to AOpen web site for latest update.
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- Page 98 Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard.
- Page 102 AOpen always dedicates to give users a more friendly computer system. Now, we include all function descriptions of BIOS setup program into the BIOS Flash ROM. When you select one function of BIOS setup program, the function description will appeared at right side of screen. Hence, you don’t need read this manual while you changing the BIOS setting.
- Page 103 Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
- Page 104 AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are designed to be compatible with the Award BIOS. At the date of this note, AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are not available for AMI BIOS. AMI BIOS appears mostly only on old 486 boards and some early Pentium boards.
- Page 105 The new BIOS upgrade will permanently replace your original BIOS's settings and PnP information when flashing. You may need to reconfigure your BIOS setting and re-install Win95/Win98 as well as your add-on cards, so that your system can go back to work as normal.
- Page 106 The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's Note that overclocking may also design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification cause thermal problem. Please make are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage sure that the cooling fan and the your system or important data.
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- Page 134 If registering products purchased from different dealers/retails and/or purchased on different dates, please submit a separate form for each product.
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