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- Page 1 K7MKLE © VT8361+686B (KLE-133) Chipset m-ATX Form Factor ® ® (For AMD Athlon/ Duron CPU) Main Board User's Manual (Ver.:1.0)
- Page 2 Copyright Copyright© 2001 by this company. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means without prior written permission. This manual and the information contained herein are protected by copyright.
- Page 3 Warning and Disclaimer ® This manual is designed to provide information about the AMD Athlon™ processor main board. Every effort has been made to make this manual as accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. All the information is provided on an 'as is' basis. The author and his corresponding publishing company shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
IrDA(Infrared Remote Link) ……………………………………………………………30 2-13 IDE1 and IDE2 ………………………………………………………………………31 2-14 FDD1(Floppy Disk) ………………………………………………………………32 2-15 PWR1(ATX Power Supply) ……………………………………………………33 2-16 Front Panel Connectors ………………………………………………………………34 Chapter 3 Software Installation……………………………………………………36 Driver Installation…………………………………………………………………………36 Registry Error When Installing The VIA 4-IN-1 Drivers……………………………….37 K7MKLE System Board... - Page 5 NOT try to use Pentium Heatsinks, these will NOT fit and do NOT provide adequate cooling. WARNING: Make sure your power supply can deliver the power your STOP system needs. We recommend AT LEAST a 250W power supply. Even better, get a 300W power supply, especially when using many peripherals. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction
In the case you run into trouble using your motherboard, this section will provide you with much information and practical tips to help you solve your problem. Some of the tips are also given in the Hardware and Software Installation Sections where relevant. Appendix Provides useful information K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 7: Main Specifications
The VIA™ VT8361 (VIA KLE-133) system controller supports a 200/266 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB); up to 1GB of PC133/PC100 SDRAM / VC 133 Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) SDRAM; The K7MKLE implements with TRIDENT enhanced 3D T9880 core logic (VGA-ON-DIE) which saves at leas + $50 for user. - Page 8 Infrared (IrDA) Connector This functionality is also integrated into the southbridge of the chipset. The IrDA connector supports an optional IR remote control device for wireless interfacing with external peripherals, personal gadgets, or an optional remote controller. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 9: Other Features
Master – “ISM”). When your CPU cooler dies in the future, main board will shutdown power supply by itself automatically. This is to protect your CPU & main board. For more information of ISM functions, please refer to page 12. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 10: Package Contents
1 Floppy Disk Drive Flat-Cable 1 Serial Port Cable Please verify that all items listed above are included in your motherboard package. If one of the items is missing, please contact the dealer where you bought your motherboard. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 11: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation
10 BIOS 11 FAN2 12 BATTERY 13 USB2 14 WOM1 15 WOL1 16 PCI Slot 17 CD_IN 18 COM2 19 GAME Port LINE-OUT LINE-IN 13 12 MIC-IN 20 LPT Port VGA1 COM1 21 LAN USB1 22 PS/2 Mouse K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 12: Mainboard Overview
COM1 FDD1 VGA1 ATX POWER LINE-OUT VT8361 LINE-IN CD-IN1 FAN1 MIC-IN IDE1 IDE2 COM2 CD-IN2 PCI1 PW-LED IR 1 PW-BN 686B SOUND SPEAK PCI2 CODEC RESET HD-LED PCI3 TB-LED JBAT1 WOL1 WOM1 EXTSMI USB2 JP 1 FAN2 K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 13: Short Description Of Main Sockets And Connectors
DIMM 1,2 These are the memory module slots. Please refer to the Memory Installation section. IDE 1,2 Insert the IDE cable from your HDD/CD-ROM devices to these connectors. PCI Slots For expansion PCI Cards (Network, Modem, SCSI, etc). K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 14: Jumputer Setting
2-3-1 JKM1: Keyboard Walk Up Select Keybaord Walk Up Set "2-3"--- Normal (default) Set "1-2"--- Keyboard Walk Up 2-3-2 JUSB1: USB Mode Wake Up USB Mode Wake Up Set "2-3"--- Normal (default) Set "1-2"--- USB Wake Up K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 15: Cpu Fan Delect Control
Our powerful ISM (Intelligent Shutdown Master) function will smartly cut off the power supply once the cooling fan fails and safely secure your CPU and main board against possible damages. JP1: CPU DETECT CONTROL Set "ON "(default)-- CPU FAN TO PROTECT Set "OFF "-- NORMAL K7MKLE System Board... - Page 16 4. The default ISM function (JP1) is ‘ON. To disable ISM function, please set JP1 Jumper to ‘OFF’. 5. If the computer system automatically shut down right after being booted up, check whether the CPU cooler Assembly is connected to CPU FAN or the CPU fan already failed. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 17: Cpu Installation
The processor must be positioned so the pins match up properly. When you do that, the corner of processor that is cut off will be positioned next to the release pivot. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 18 Please do not remove the plastic film until you have practiced installing the heatsink and mounting the clips on the socket. It can take a few tries to get used to doing this. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 19 FAN connectors, refer to the FAN connector section later in this section. WARNING: This main board supports ISM functions (please refer to STOP page 12 for more information), make sure you connect CPU heatsink assembly to CPU FAN header. Otherwise, the main board will malfunction. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 20: Cpu Clock Setting
100MHz Athlon 850MHz 8.5x 100MHz Athlon 800MHz 8.0x 100MHz Athlon 750MHz 7.5x 100MHz Athlon 700MHz 7.0x 100MHz Athlon 650MHz 6.5x 100MHz Athlon 600MHz 6.0x 100MHz Duron 700MHz 7.0x 100MHz Duron 650MHz 6.5x 100MHz Duron 600MHz 6.0x 100MHz K7MKLE System Board... - Page 21 100 percent more peak bandwidth than any x86 system bus. Floating Point Engine: The AMD Athlon processor includes the first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point engine for x86 platforms. The resulting floating point capability is the most powerful ever delivered in an x86 processor. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 22 5 DSP extensions for soft modem, soft ADSL, Dolby Digital, and MP3 applications. Cache Architecture: The AMD Athlon processor boasts a 384K total full-speed on-chip system cache including 128K L1 cache--four times that of Intel's Pentium® III processor--and 256K on-chip full-speed L2 cache. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 23: Cpu And System Cooling
Headers allow connection of a Chassis Fan and a Power Supply FAN respectively. For a the location of the FAN connectors, refer to the following picture: +12V FAN1 SENSE FAN2 CPUFAN CPU FAN: CPU Main FAN FAN1: Chassis FAN FAN2: POWER Supply FAN K7MKLE System Board... - Page 24 You can go the AMD website (www.amd.com) to find a list of AMD recommended FANs. Note: If your case comes with a case FAN or a possibility to install a case FAN, we recommend you use it. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 25: Memory
DIMM modules that have more than 18 chips are not supported on this STOP motherboard. (Due to signal integrity) If the system CPU bus operates at 100MHz/133MHz, use only PC100-/PC133-compliant DIMMs. (System won’t boot otherwise) DO NOT attempt to mix PC133 SDRAMs with VCM SDRAMs. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 26: Memory Installation
EEPROM (memory IC) on the module that allows the BIOS to read the specifications for the DIMM module. The BIOS shows the amount and type of SDRAM memory on the bootup screen. Single-sided DIMMs come in 16, 32, 64,128, 256MB; double-sided come in 32, 64, 128, 256, 512MB. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 27 The VCRAM architecture assigns virtual channels to each memory master. Since virtual channels maintain the individual characteristics of each memory master request, bus efficiency is dramatically increased. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 28: Pci Slot
Replace the computer case cover. Set up the BIOS if necessary (This includes interrupts) Install the necessary software drivers for your expansion card. If you run into problems with expansion cards this may be due to interrupt issues. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 29: Wake On Lan Header
Wake On Ring). For the pin lay-out of the WOL header, please refer to the picture below. 5V-Stand by Wake-Up After connecting the WOM cable from your modem to the WOM header, you can set the BIOS to allow the system to wake up when the Modem Card receives a Ring signal. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 30: On Board Audio
The Line-IN and Mic-IN are inputs that can be used for recording. 2-9-2 Onboard audio connectors The onboard connectors can be used with additional devices, refer to the picture below: K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 31: Back Panel Connectors
PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors. If your keyboard does not work, check this first. The keyboard must be inserted into the lower connector. PS/2 Mouse The mouse can be plugged in in only one way. Please do not force the connector in, it may get damaged by use of excessive force. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 32: Usb
Pin 2 SIN (Serial IN or Receive Data) Pin 7 RTS (Request To Send) Pin 3 SOUT (Serial OUT or transmit data) Pin 8 CTS (Clear To Send) Pin 4 DTR (Data Terminal Ready) Pin 9 RI (Ring Indicate) Pin 5 GND K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 33: Parallel Port
You will need to buy a separate IR device from your dealer. The motherboard supports both ASKIR and HPSIR specifications, you will need to set the standard you want to use in the BIOS on the integrated peripherals page. The pin lay-out of IR1 is as follows: K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 34: Ide1 And Ide2
BIOS the motherboard will use the fastets possible interface to comminucate with your IDE devices. (Note however that windows may not support UDMA 100 yet, see the FAQ chapter) For the location of the IDE connectors, refer to the following picture: K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 35: Fdd1(Floppy Disk)
Interrupt. The BIOS also allows swapping of floppy A and B although this will not be useful to most users. For the floppy disk connector location, refer to the following picture: K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 36: Pwr1(Atx Power Supply)
5V standby line. Anything LESS is unacceptable. Even better, get a 1A 5V standby power supply. For the lay-out of the AXT connector, please refer to the following picture: ATX Power 5VSB PW-OK PS-ON 3.3V -12V 3.3V 3.3V K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 37: Front Panel Connectors
This is very similar to powering to system off and then on again). Note that Windows, Linux and other operating systems do not appreciate the use of the reset switch. When you are working under windows, always use the shutdown feature under the start button (Yes, very logical). K7MKLE System Board... - Page 38 ATX case to this connector. Pressing that button will force the system into suspend mode. (The BIOS allows specifying of the suspend state, and of the wake-up events that can wake the system up again). K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 39: Chapter 3 Software Installation
1. Main boards: 6va693a, 6va693am, 6va694, 6vapm, 6vmple1_2, 6vple1, I810, I815e, I845, Intv, K7mkle, K7vat, Ktapro, Kx133, Net2100, P4sad, P4smd, P4vas, Tv2100, Vap266a (please select k7mkle directory for this main board) 2. -
Page 40: Registry Error When Installing The Via 4-In-1 Drivers
2. Install sound drive: Select “Viaac97” from attached CD, the chick “setup” to complete the installation. This driver provides AC-97 Sound driver for O.S. Like windows 9X, for windows-ME & win-2000 can detect by themselves. Path root: \VIAAC97\ Setup.exe K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 41: Chapter4 The Bios
Finding the latest official BIOS revision For the latest official BIOS revision, please go to our website at www.lucky-star.com.tw. On the support page you can find the latest BIOS files for our motherboards. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 42: Updating The Bios
Go into the Frequency/Voltage Control page to adjust your CPU speed and voltage (please make sure the CPU voltage matches your CPU specs, in case of doubts leave it to ‘default’). Save your settings and you are done. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 43: The Cmos Memory
2-3 this will interrupt the battery electricity flow, and the CMOS memory will be erased, this will however only work if the power supply is not switched on. Now at the next reboot the BIOS will automatically load the CMOS default values. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 44 Retain CMOS settings Clear CMOS Settings JBAT1 1 2 3 1 2 3 The following part of this chapter will describe the individual BIOS Setup pages and all the items that can be adjusted to fine tune your system. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 45: The Bios Setup
Use the arrow keys to move between items and select fields. Press [enter] to enter the selected submenu. Submenus All items that start with a are submenus. Pressing [enter] when a submenu is selected will enter that submenu. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 46: Hot Keys
Advanced Chipset Features Set User Password Integrated Peripherals Power Manageme Save to CMOS and Exit (Y/N)? aving PnP/PCI Configu PC Health Status Pressing [Y] and [enter] will save the changes, pressing [N] and [enter] will keep the old settings. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 47 Set Supervisor Password Advanced Chipset Features Set User Password Integrated Peripherals Power Manag Quit without Saving (Y/N)? aving PnP/PCI Conf PC Health Status Pressing [Y] and [enter] will Exit without saving, pressing [N] and [enter] will not Exit. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 48: Standard Cmos Setup
Possible Settings Notes Date Weekday, month, Type the current date. Using the P-Up / P-Dn keys to day ,year (weekday auto changes) toggle is possible hh:mm:ss Type the current time 24-hour clock format. (15:15:00 Time = 3:15:00) K7MKLE System Board... - Page 49 BIOS from looking for a device and speed up booting. Access Selects the CHS access mode. Mode Logical Block Addressing, for HDD drives larger than 504MB (All modern HDDs) Large For very large HDDs. Auto The BIOS will automatically detect the best access mode. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 50 The BIOS will stop booting when an error is detected. You can set through this item what errors will stop the system booting. You can select between different error modes by using the Page-Up and Page-Down keys. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 51 Stop booting on all errors, but not on a keyboard error. keyboard Halt On All, but Stop booting on all errors, but a diskette error. diskette All, but Stop booting on all errors, but keyboard and diskette errors. disk/key K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 52: Advanced Bios Features
F6:Fail-Safe Default s F7: Optimized Defaults The screen is not as long on your monitor. You can use the arrow keys to scroll down and up the page. The following explains all individual items and their meaning. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 53 If you set this item to disabled, the BIOS will not boot if the first to third devices all fail to boot. The list you can choose from for the first to third device is the same, refer to the table below: K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 54 The BIOS will test whether the floppy has 40 or 80 tracks Floppy Seek during boot up. All new floppy drives are 80 tracks. Disabled The BIOS will not test the amount of tracks. Gate A20 Option Values Meaning Gate A20 Normal Option Fast K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 55: Security Option
FLASH ROM The individual memory ranges refer to BIOS code that may be present on expansion cards. Normally you will not need to enable shadowing for these ranges. Refer to the table below for details: K7MKLE System Board... - Page 56 This will speed up execution and is the default setting. Disabled No shadowing is allowed. xxxxx –xxxxx Enabled This enables shadowing of the selected memory range. Set to Shadow enabled only when you are sure an expansion card uses this memory range. Disabled Default setting. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 57: Advanced Chipset Features
F5 : Previous Values F6:Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults The screen is not as long on your monitor. You can use the arrow keys to scroll down and up the page. The following explains all individual items and their meaning. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 58 Normally you can disable this setting, but if one of your devices needs it set it to enabled. Values Meaning Memory Hole Disabled There is no memory hole. 15M – 16M A memory hole exists between 15 and 16MB. Frame Buffer Size Values Meaning Frame Buffer Size K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 59 This will shut down use of the integrated buffer, no delayed transactions are allowed. PCI #2 Access Enabled When #2 (AGP port) tries to access #1 (PCI) and an error #1 retry occurs, the transaction will be tried again. Disabled No retry will occur. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 60 AGP Writes take longer than 1 wait state, default setting. AGP Master 1 Enabled AGP Reads are executed with 1 wait state, enable only if your WS Read AGP card supports this. Disabled AGP Reads take longer than 1 wait state, default setting. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 61 If you do not use a USB Mouse, use this setting. Support On Chip Devices Values Meaning Onchip Sound Auto The BIOS scans for a on board Sound device and enables it. Disabled The BIOS does not enable on board sound devices. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 62: Integrated Peripherals
330 – 333H Game Port (200 –207) Enabled ↑ ↓ → ← : Move Enter: Select + / -/ PU / PD: value F10: save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5 : Previous Values F6:Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults K7MKLE System Board... - Page 63 Values Meaning Inie Display PCI Slot The BIOS will first search for a VGA adapter on the PCI bus, if First one is found it will be used as primary display. The AGP Bus is first scanned. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 64: Floppy Drive
For IR devices that support full duplex. TX, RX No, No Will not invert any signal inverting No, Yes Will invert the RX signal (Default) enable Yes, No Will invert the TX signal Yes, Yes Will invert both signals K7MKLE System Board... - Page 65 SB IRQ Select 5,7,9,10 Specify the IRQ for your Sound Blaster card. Default is IRQ 5. SB DMA 0, 1, 2, 3 Specify the DMA Channel for your Sound Blaster card. The Select Default is DMA Channel 1. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 66 300 – 303, 310 – 313, 320 – 323 and 330 – 333. Game Port Values Meaning Game Port Enabled This will allow you to make use of the game port (joy sticks etc) Disabled If you do not need the game port, set this item to disabled. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 67: Power Management Setup
ACPI can be either enabled or disabled on this BIOS Setup page. For the ACPI Suspend type there are two options: S1 (POS) Power Management Pressing [enter] when the power management item is selected will have the following sub menu appear: K7MKLE System Board... - Page 68 The system will never enter suspend mode. PM control PM control by Power Management will be done through the APM (Advanced Power Management) interface. Select this setting for Windows OSes. (Not Win NT) The BIOS will control PM directly. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 69 When the system has entered doze or suspend mode, it can wake up through a wake event. These wake up events are triggered by interrupts that are monitored by the BIOS. If you press [Enter] when the Wake Up Events item is selected you will see the following sub menu appear: K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 70 IRQ and the system will wake up. Date (of 0 - 31 Set the day of month for the system to wake up on. Month) Resume time xx:xx:xx Set the time (hh:mm:ss) for the system to wake up on. K7MKLE System Board...
- Page 71 IRQ13 (Coprocessor) Enabled IRQ14 (HDD) Enabled IRQ15 (Reserved) Disabled You can select IRQs that will allow the system to wake up if activity is detected on them. Setting to enabled allows an IRQ to wake up the system. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 72: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup
This will not reset the system configuration data (IRQs, DMAs) Configuration on reboot. Data Enabled This will reset the configuration data. Remember to enable this item every time you make a change to your system (such as switching PCI cards etc). K7MKLE System Board... - Page 73 (x = 0, 1, 3, 5, Legacy ISA If you need to make sure that a certain DMA channel is 6, 7) assigned to an ISA device, set that channel to legacy ISA. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 74: Pc Health Status
The speed of the CPU FAN connected to FAN 2 is displayed here FAN 2 Speed Voltage X The Voltage for the voltage line (Vcore, 3.3V, 5V, 12V) are displayed here. A small deviation of the ideal value is not a problem because voltages always fluctuate. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 75: Frequency/Voltage Control
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Page 76: Passwords
Now you can enter your password, after entering the password the menu will pop up again and will ask you to reconfirm the password. After entering and pressing [enter] the password will be stored to CMOS RAM and the password will be enabled. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 77 RAM data containing the password information is powered by the onboard button cell battery. Please refer to the CMOS RAM section earlier in this chapter. After clearing the CMOS memory, hold down <Delete> during bootup and enter BIOS setup to re-enter user preferences. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 78: Frequently Asked Questions
The board may fail to start the memory check during the boot sequence, this may be related to a USB device (such as a scanner) attached to the system. Try disconnecting all USB devices from the system. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 79 At one end of the cable, seven of the strands should be split and twisted compared with the rest of the ribbon. If not, and your cable is completely flat throughout, then you need to get a ribbon cable with a "twist" in. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 80: System Cooling
If the thermal compound must be purchased separately, a list of suggested compounds can be found in the 'AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide'. Refer to the AMD website. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 81: Suitable Socket A Cpu Coolers
50 degrees C or higher. The maximum temperature is 90 degrees C according to AMD, but your processor is very unlikely to be stable at temperatures near this! Also, processor life is directly related to temperature. K7MKLE System Board... - Page 82 Maximum FAN Current and Wattage The maximum current that the FAN headers on this board can provide is 0.5A. Because Wattage = Voltage x Current ( I ), this means that at 12V the wattage the K7MKLE can support on each header is 6W.
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Page 83: Video Issues
As for how to find out the specific settings recommended for various video cards, the best recommendation would be to contact your video card vendor first (attempting to contact the chipset provider as well may be advisable). Ask them what their recommended manual timing is. K7MKLE System Board... -
Page 84: Memory Issues
Advanced Chipset Features DRAM timing by SPD Enabled This will force the system to use the timing as specified in the SPD EPROM on the SDRAM module. If this does not work, use the following conservative settings: K7MKLE System Board... - Page 85 This motherboard is unable to support DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM due to limitations of the VIA Apollo KT133A chipset. Support of ECC SDRAM This motherboard is unable to support ECC (Error Correcting) SDRAM due to limitations of the VIA Apollo KT133A chipset. K7MKLE System Board...
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Page 86: Chapter 6 Appendix
3F8 – 3FF Serial Port 1 6E2 – 6E3 Data Acquisition Adapter 1 790 – 793 Cluster Adapter 1 AE2 – AE3 Data Acquisition Adapter 2 B90 – B93 Cluster Adapter 2 EE2 – EE3 Data Acquisition Adapter 3 K7MKLE System Board...
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