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Summary of Contents for AOpen MK77

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  • Page 2: Hardware Installation

    ..............................1 What’s in this manual ..............................2 You Must Notice ................................8 Before You Start................................9 Overview ..................................10 Feature Highlight................................11 Quick Installation Procedure ............................14 Motherboard Map ................................15 Block Diagram................................16 Hardware Installation........................17 Clear CMOS Data ................................. 18 CPU Installation ................................
  • Page 3 Front Panel Connector ..............................30 ATX Power Connector ..............................31 AC Power Auto Recovery.............................. 31 Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable ..........................32 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) Expansion Slot ......................37 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ............................. 38 Support 2 USB Port ..............................39 Chassis Intrusion Sensor ..............................
  • Page 4 Installing Windows 95 ..............................54 Installing Windows 98 ..............................55 ® ® ® Installing Windows 98 SE, Windows ME & Windows 2000 ..................56 Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver............................. 57 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ........................... 58 Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ..........................59 ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive............................
  • Page 5 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ..............................75 APM (Advanced Power Management)........................... 75 ATA (AT Attachment) ..............................75 ATA/66 ..................................75 ATA/100 ..................................76 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ..........................76 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) ............................76 CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)........................ 76 CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ............................
  • Page 6 FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ............................80 C Bus ..................................80 IEEE 1394 ..................................80 Parity Bit ..................................80 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)..........................81 PC-100 DIMM ................................81 PC-133 DIMM ................................81 PC-1600 or PC-2100 DDR SDRAM..........................81 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ........................81 PDF Format ..................................
  • Page 7 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ............................85 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)............................. 85 ZIP file ..................................85 Troubleshooting..........................86 Technical Support ...........................90 Product Registration ........................93...
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  • Page 17  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 18  When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
  • Page 20  If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it may damage the CPU.
  • Page 23        ®  VIA Apollo KT266 chipset supports 133MHz FSB (with performance reaches maximum 266MHz EV6 system bus) and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
  • Page 24        !"# $% &" '"#  This motherboard support auto-detection function. Hence, you don’t need to setup the CPU frequency manually.  EV6 Bus is the technology using both rising and falling clock edge to transfer data, similar as DDR SDRAM or ATA/66 IDE bus.
  • Page 25  Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
  • Page 26  This motherboard implements special technology to support Wake On LAN. To take advantage of this function, you will need to insert an add-on PCI LAN card.
  • Page 27  The MK77 support SDRAM, please do not install the SDRAM on the DDR SDRAM sockets. Otherwise, it will cause serious damage on memory sockets or SDRAM module.
  • Page 28 The tabs of the DIMM slot will close-up to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom.
  • Page 29  Do not install or remove the DIMM module or others devices when the LED is lighting.
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  • Page 33  For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device master mode follow suggested sequence to install your new device. Please refer to above diagram achieve best performance Ultra DMA 66/100 hard disks, a special    ! Ultra 66/100 is required.
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  • Page 45  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.
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  • Page 52 Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows...
  • Page 57 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.
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  • Page 63  "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled.  Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend to disk. Please refer to AOpen web site for latest update...
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  • Page 66  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 68 AOpen always dedicates to give users a much 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.
  • Page 69  Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, SDRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
  • Page 70 *$  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 71  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 72 "  The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your system or important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure  Note that overclocking may also your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially cause thermal problem.
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  • Page 93  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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