User manual AOPEN AK77400N

Overview AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual AK77-400/AK77-400N/AK77-400 Max Hardware Installation Drivers & Utilities AWARD BIOS Setup Glossary DOC. NO.: AK77400MAX-OL-E0303A Troubleshooting & Technical Support 1 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max W h a t 's i n t h i s m a n u a l Online Manual AK77-400/AK77-400N/AK77-400 Max.................................................................................................... 1 What's in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice .............................................................................................................................................................. 8 Before You Start .............................................................................................................................................................. 9 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Feature Highlight........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Quick Installation Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 16 Motherboard Map .......................................................................................................................................................... 17 Block Diagram............................................................................................................................................................... 18 Hardware Installation ................................................................................................................. 19 About "Manufacturer Upgrade Optional" and "User Upgrade Optional"... ...................................................................... 20 CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 21 AOpen Overheat Protection (O.H.P.) Technology .......................................................................................................... 23 CPU Over-current Protection ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ........................................................................................................................................ 25 CPU and Housing Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) .............................................................................................. 29 DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 30 ATX Power Connector ................................................................................................................................................... 32 2 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual AC Power Auto Recovery .............................................................................................................................................. 32 IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 33 ATA/133 Supported ....................................................................................................................................................... 35 Serial ATA Supported (for AK77-400 Max)..................................................................................................................... 36 Connecting Serial ATA Disk (for AK77-400 Max) ........................................................................................................... 37 Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 38 IrDA Connector ............................................................................................................................................................. 39 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot...................................................................................................... 40 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector......................................................................................................... 41 WOL (Wake on LAN) Connector.................................................................................................................................... 44 10/100 Mbps LAN onboard (for AK77-400N and AK77-400 Max) .................................................................................. 46 CNR (Communication and Network Riser) Expansion Slot............................................................................................ 47 Support Six USB 2.0 Port.............................................................................................................................................. 48 Color Coded Back Panel ............................................................................................................................................... 49 Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................... 50 Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 51 S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector......................................................................................................... 52 Dr. LED Connector (User Upgrade Optional) ................................................................................................................ 53 Onboard IEEE 1394 Controller (for AK77-400 Max) ...................................................................................................... 55 3 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual Case Open Connector................................................................................................................................................... 56 CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 57 AUX-IN Connector ........................................................................................................................................................ 58 Game Port Bracket Supported ...................................................................................................................................... 59 JP2 Speaker / Buzzer Select Jumper ............................................................................................................................ 60 JP14 Clear CMOS Data Jumper.................................................................................................................................... 61 Dr. Voice II & JP15, 16 (for AK77-400 Max) .................................................................................................................. 62 JP20 K7 Host Clock Selection....................................................................................................................................... 63 JP28 KB/Mouse Wake-up Jumper ................................................................................................................................. 64 Die-Hard BIOS and JP30 Select Jumper (for AK77-400 Max) ....................................................................................... 65 STBY LED..................................................................................................................................................................... 68 AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED .................................................................................................................... 69 Battery-less and Long Life Design ................................................................................................................................ 70 Resetable Fuse ............................................................................................................................................................. 71 2200F Low ESR Capacitor......................................................................................................................................... 72 The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek .................................................................................................................................. 75 PHOENIX-AWARD BIOS................................................................................................................ 78 How To Use Phoenix AwardTM BIOS Setup Program..................................................................................................... 79 How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................. 81 4 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ................................................................................................................. 82 Open JukeBox Player (for AK77-400 & AK77-400N) ..................................................................................................... 84 Vivid BIOS technology................................................................................................................................................... 88 Driver and Utility ......................................................................................................................... 89 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD ..................................................................................................................................... 89 Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver............................................................................................................................................. 90 Installing Audio Driver ................................................................................................................................................... 91 Installing USB2.0 Driver ................................................................................................................................................ 92 Installing LAN Driver (for AK77-400N and AK77-400 Max) ............................................................................................ 93 Installing Serial ATA Driver (for AK77-400 Max) ............................................................................................................ 94 AOConfig Utility........................................................................................................................................................... 104 Glossary ..................................................................................................................................... 106 AC97 CODEC ............................................................................................................................................................. 106 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..................................................................................................... 106 ACR (Advanced Communication Riser)....................................................................................................................... 106 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................................................................................................................................. 107 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser).......................................................................................................................................... 107 ATA (AT Attachment) ................................................................................................................................................... 107 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) .............................................................................................................................. 108 5 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual Bluetooth..................................................................................................................................................................... 108 CNR (Communication and Networking Riser).............................................................................................................. 109 DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM .................................................................................................................................... 109 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ......................................................................................................................... 110 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................. 110 EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) .................................................................................................................... 110 EV6 Bus ...................................................................................................................................................................... 110 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ..........................................................................................................................111 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ...............................................................................................................................111 FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).............................................................................................................................111 Flash ROM ...................................................................................................................................................................111 Hyper Threading ..........................................................................................................................................................111 IEEE 1394 ................................................................................................................................................................... 112 Parity Bit ..................................................................................................................................................................... 112 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................. 113 PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................. 113 PnP (Plug and Play) .................................................................................................................................................... 113 POST (Power-On Self Test) ........................................................................................................................................ 113 PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ............................................................................................................................ 114 6 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ................................................................................................ 114 RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ...................................................................................................................... 114 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) .................................................................................................................................... 114 SATA (Serial ATA) ....................................................................................................................................................... 115 SMBus (System Management Bus) ............................................................................................................................. 115 SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ..................................................................................................................................... 115 USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................... 115 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)................................................................................................................................... 116 Wireless LAN ­ 802.11b .............................................................................................................................................. 116 ZIP file......................................................................................................................................................................... 116 Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................... 117 Technical Support ..................................................................................................................... 121 Product Registration ................................................................................................................. 124 How to Contact Us .................................................................................................................... 125 7 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max You Must Notice Online Manual Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD, the AMD logo, Athlon and Duron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All product and brand names used on this manual are used for identification purposes only and may be the registered trademarks of their respective owners. All of the specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without notice. AOpen reserves the right to revise this publication and to make reasonable changes. AOpen assumes no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual, including the products and software described in it. This documentation is protected by copyright law. All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system without prior written permission from AOpen Corporation. Copyright© 1996-2003, AOpen Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Before You Start Online Manual This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved in PDF format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site. Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer driver. Thanks for the help of saving our earth. 9 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Ov er vi e w Online Manual Thank you for choosing AOpen AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max. The AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max is AMD® Socket 462 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the VIA Apollo KT400A chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max comes with AMD® Socket 462 series AthlonTM & DuronTM and AthlonXPTM processor (with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to AthlonTMXP CPU only) and 200/266/333MHz EV6 system bus. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot and supports AGP 8X/4X/2X mode and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2.1GB/sec. With high bandwidth 266/533MB/s 8-bit V-Link Host Controller, DDR400(PC3200), DDR333(PC2700) and DDR266(PC2100) DDR RAM can be applied to the AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max and DDR400 maximum memory size can be up to 2GB and DDR333/266 up to 3GB. The on-board IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode and the transfer rate up to 133MB/s. With a Promise Serial ATA (PDC20375) controller onboard, it aims to provide you an even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second. Beside, the AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max has an AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 chipset onboard for provides high performance and magic surround stereo sound to let people enjoy working with it. More than that, this motherboard supports USB 2.0 function with a fancy speed of up to 480Mbps, and IEEE 1394 controller to provides data transfer rate up to 400Mbps. Now, enjoy all features from AOpen AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max. 10 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max F e a t u r e Hi g h l i g h t CPU Online Manual Supports AMD® Socket 462 series CPU with both 200/266/333 MHz EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology. Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz Duron: 600MHz~1.2GHz AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~3000+(2.167GHz) Chipset The VIA Apollo KT400A consists of the KT400A V-Link DDR Host system controller and the VT8235 highly integrated V-Link Client PCI/LPC controller. The Host system controller provides superior performance between the CPU, SDRAM, AGP bus, and V-Link interface with pipelined, burst, and concurrent operation. The VT8235 V-Link Client controller is a highly integrated PCI/LPC controller. Its internal bus structure is based on 66MHz PCI bus that provides 4x bandwidth compare to previous generation PCI/ISA bridge chips. The VT8235 integrated Client V-Link controller with 266/533MB/s bandwidth between Host/Client V-Link interface, providing a V-Link-PCI and V-Link-LPC controller. Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Bus Master IDE Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with three connectors that supports six IDE devices in three channels, supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 4, and supports Enhanced IDE devices. 11 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Serial ATA (for AK77-400 Max) Online Manual This motherboard comes with a Promise Serial ATA (PDC20375) controller, aiming to provide you an even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second. LAN Port On the strength of RealTek RTL8100BL controller on board, which is an highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. Expansion Slots Including six 32-bit/33MHz PCI, one CNR and one AGP 8X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Communication & Nectworking Riser (CNR) slot provided from AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max can support CNR interface for a Modem/Audio card. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed. The AGP video cards support data transfer rate up to 2.1GB/s. As AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card, For AD and SBA signaling, AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max can support 133MHz 2X/4X/8X mode. Of six PCI slots provided, AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max supports five master PCI slots for arbitration and decoding functions and one slave PCI slot. 12 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Memory Online Manual With VIA Apollo KT400A chipset, the AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max can support Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The DDR RAM interface allows zero wait state bursting between the RAM and the data buffers at 333/266/200 MHz. The six banks of DDR RAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512MB x N DDR RAM and support DDR400 maximum up to 2GB and DDR333/266 up to 3GB. The AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max allows DDR RAM to run at either synchronous or pseudo-synchronous mode with the host CPU bus frequency (333/266/200MHz). On-board AC97 Sound AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max uses the AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 chip, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Six USB 2.0 Connectors Provides three ports, six USB connectors for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. Please note that USB 2.0, with fancy speed up to 480Mbps, is 40 times faster than the traditional ones. Except for the speed increase, USB 2.0 supports old USB 1.0/1.1 software and peripherals, offering impressive and even better compatibility to customers. IEEE 1394 (for AK77-400 Max) This motherboard comes with IEEE 1394a controller TI TSB43AB22 onboard, which provides data transfer rate up to 400Mbps. to connect with the devices that need high data transferring performance, such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. 13 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max 1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment Online Manual Provides "1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment" function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you adjust CPU FSB frequency from 100~191MHz by 1MHz stepping, and lets your system can get maximum performance. Watch Dog ABS Includes AOpen "Watch Dog ABS" function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail the system overclocking. Die-Hard BIOS (User Upgrade Optional) The Die-Hard BIOS technology is a very effective hardware protection method that doesn't involve any software or BIOS coding. Hence, it is 100% virus free. Dr. LED (User Upgrade Optional) Dr. LED has 8 LEDs on AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max, which can easily show what kind of problem you may encounter. Power Management/Plug and Play AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers Plug-and-Play, which helps saving users from configuration problems, thus making the system much more user-friendly. 14 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Hardware Monitoring Management Online Manual Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor module and AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility. Enhanced ACPI Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows ® 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4), WOM (Wake On Modem), WOL (Wake On LAN) features. Super Multi-I/O AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for the wireless connections. 15 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Q ui c k I n s t a l l a t i o n P r o c e d u r e This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. Online Manual 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Installing CPU and Fan Installing System Memory (DIMM) Connecting Front Panel Cable Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable Connecting ATX Power Cable Connecting Back Panel Cable Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default Setting CPU Frequency Reboot 10. Installing Operating System (such as Windows XP) 11. Installing Driver and Utility 16 Front Audio Connector AC97 CODEC AUX-IN Connector CD-IN Connector S/PDIF Connector JP30 Die Hard BIOS Jumper Die Hard BIOS (BIOS 2) (for AK77-400 Max) Case Open Connector Die Hard BIOS (BIOS1) Game Port Connector CNR Expansion Slot 32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6 (PCI 6 supports slave mode PCI card only) IrDA Connector WOM Connector AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Motherboard Map Online Manual Colored Back Panel JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper RealTek RTL8100BL ATX Power Connector 2200F Low ESR Capacitors SYSFAN2 Connector AGP 8x Slot 462-pin CPU Socket with Voltage and Frequency Auto-Detection that supports TM TM TM AMD Athlon / Duron / and Athlon TM XP (with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to TM Athlon XP CPU only) CPUFAN1 Connector VIA® Apollo KT400A Chipset and VT8235 SB 184-pin DIMMx3 supports DDR400 max. up to 2GB and DDR333/DDR266 max up to 3GB JP20 K7 Host Clock Jumper IDE Connector x 3 (ATA/66/100/133 supported) USB 2.0 Connector IEEE 1394 Connector x 2 (for AK77-400 Max) JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper Dr. LED Connector (User Upgrade Optional) WOL Connector Serial ATA Connectors (for AK77-400 Max) JP2 Speaker Jumper Front Panel Connector SYSFAN3 Connector JP15 & 16 Dr. Voice II Language Jumper (for AK77-400 Max) FDD Connector 17 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Bl o c k D i a gr a m DDR400 RAM Up to 2GB and DDR333/266 Up to 3GB PCI Bus 32-bit PCI Slot x6 DDR SDRAM Socket x3 Promise PDC20375 Online Manual Serial ATA Devices x2 Serial ATA Socket 462 AMD Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP CPU 100/133/166 MHz System Bus ATA 66/100/133 VIA KT400A ATA 66/100/133 Third Channel Primary Channel Secondary Channel IDE Drive x6 AGP Bus AC'97 Link VT8235 AGP 8X Slot LAN connect Component 1st RealTek RTL8100 BL Audio CODEC CNR Slot 2MBit Flash EEPROM Parallel Port Serial Port x2 IEEE 1394 x2 IEEE 1394 connectors x2 USB Port 2nd USB Port 3rd USB Port USB connector x6 Floppy Disk Drive x2 18 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual Har dwar e Ins tal l ati o n This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard. Note: 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. 1. 2. 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. If a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout any procedures requiring ESD protection. 19 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual A b o u t " M a n u f a c t ur e r U p gr a d e O p t i o n a l " a n d " U s e r U p g r a d e O p ti o n al " ... When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may find some of functions are called "Manufacturer Upgrade Optional", and some are called "User Upgrade Optional". Though all AOpen motherboards include many amazing and powerful features, in some situations, these powerful features are not used to every user. Hence, we changed some key features as "Manufacturer Upgrade Optional" for you to choose. Some optional functions that can be upgraded by users, we call them "User Upgrade Optional". As for those optional functions that can't be upgraded by ourselves, we call them "Manufacturer Upgrade Optional". If needed, you can contact our local distributors or resellers for purchasing "User Upgrade Optional" components, and again you can visit AOpen official web site: http://english.aopen.com.tw/ for more detail information. 20