MK77M-8X Series .............................................................................................................................. 1
What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2
You Must Notice ..............................................................................................................................................................8
Before You Start.............................................................................................................................................................. 9
About “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” and “User Upgrade Optional”…...................................................................... 20
CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................21
CPU Over-current Protection ........................................................................................................................................ 24
ATX Power Connector...................................................................................................................................................31
AC Power Auto Recovery .............................................................................................................................................. 31
IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 32
Serial ATA Supported .................................................................................................................................................... 35
Connecting Serial ATA Disk........................................................................................................................................... 36
Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 39
10/100/1000 Mbps LAN Onboard .................................................................................................................................. 42
CNR (Communication and Network Riser) Expansion Slot............................................................................................43
Support Eight USB 2.0 Port........................................................................................................................................... 44
Color Coded Back Panel ............................................................................................................................................... 45
Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................... 46
Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 47
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector.........................................................................................................48
Case Open Connector................................................................................................................................................... 50
CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 51
JP14 Clear CMOS Data Jumper....................................................................................................................................53
BOOT LED .................................................................................................................................................................... 56
AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED.................................................................................................................... 57
Battery-less and Long Life Design ................................................................................................................................ 58
What are the RAID levels? ............................................................................................................................................ 67
HDD Capacity of RAID Levels ....................................................................................................................................... 71
How To Use Phoenix Award™ BIOS Setup Program ..................................................................................................... 73
How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................. 74
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ................................................................................................................. 75
Driver and Utility ......................................................................................................................... 78
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Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD ..................................................................................................................................... 78
Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver.............................................................................................................................................79
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..................................................................................................... 101
ACR (Advanced Communication Riser)....................................................................................................................... 101
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser).......................................................................................................................................... 102
ATA (AT Attachment) ................................................................................................................................................... 102
EV6 Bus ...................................................................................................................................................................... 105
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ......................................................................................................................... 106
Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................. 106
Parity Bit ..................................................................................................................................................................... 107
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................. 108
PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................. 108
PnP (Plug and Play) .................................................................................................................................................... 108
POST (Power-On Self Test) ........................................................................................................................................ 108
PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock............................................................................................................................ 109
RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory)................................................................................................109
SATA (Serial ATA) ....................................................................................................................................................... 110
SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ..................................................................................................................................... 110
USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................... 110
Wireless LAN – 802.11b...............................................................................................................................................111
ZIP file..........................................................................................................................................................................111
How to Contact Us .................................................................................................................... 120
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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
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.
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This motherboard supports AMD® Athlon Socket 462 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU
socket (with CPU Overheat Protection function implemented, the system will be automatically powered off when the
temperature of CPU reaches to 97 degree, but it works only on AthlonXP CPU).
1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and
up to 90-degree angle.
2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the
CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge, then insert the CPU into
the socket.
CPU socket
Lever
Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
CPU pin 1
and cut edge
Black dot
and cut edge
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3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish
CPU installation.
Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation.
1. Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below.
2. Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely
in place.
3. Repeat step 2 to finish additional DIMM modules installation.
Pin 1
Ta b
Key
52 pins 40 pins
Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot
will close-up to hold the DIMM in
place when the DIMM touches
the slot’s bottom.
Pin 1
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The ATX power supply uses 20-pin connector shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction.
AACC PPoowweerr AAuuttoo RReeccoovveerryy
A traditional ATX system should remain at power off stage when AC power resumes from power failure. This design is
inconvenient for a network server or workstation, without an UPS, that needs to keep power-on. This motherboard implements
an AC Power Auto Recovery function to solve this problem.
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Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDC connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong
orientation may cause system damage.
FDD
Connector
Primary
Master (1st)
IDE1 (Primary)
IDE2 (Secondary)
Secondary
Master (3rd)
Pin 1
Primary
Slave (2nd)
ATA 66/100/133
IDE Connector
Pin 1
Secondary
Slave (4th)
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IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 the secondary and third channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices
that make a total of four devices. In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must be set differently to Master
and Slave mode. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM. The setting as master or slave mode depends on the jumper
on your IDE device, so please refer to your hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly.
Warning: The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum
of 46cm (18 inches); make sure your cable does not exceed
this length.
Tip:
1. 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. Please refer to above diagram
2. To achieve the best performance of Ultra DMA 66/100/133 hard
disks, a special 80-wires IDE cable for Ultra DMA 66/100/133
is required.
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This motherboard supports ATA6 6, ATA100 or ATA133 IDE devices. Following table lists the transfer rate of IDE PIO and DMA
modes. The IDE bus is 16-bit, which means every transfer is two bytes. As the hard drive industry introduces faster and higher
capacity hard drives, the current Ultra ATA/100 interface causes a data bottleneck between the drive and the host computer.
To avoid this problem, hard disk manufacturers have introduced the new Ultra ATA-133 interface technology.
traditional ATA/100, ATA/133 has up to 33 percent increase in interface speed with transfer rate of 133MB/s. ATA/133
performance is ideal for new operating systems, such as Window XP, that demand more storage space and faster data transfer
rates from more responsive computing experiences.
To make good use of this new technology and enjoy its best performance, we recommend you to pair your system with a hard
disk equipped with ATA/133 technology so that your system's need for speeding on this motherboard can be satisfied.
Mode Clock PeriodClock Count Cycle Time Data Transfer Rate
PIO mode 0 30ns 20 600ns (1/600ns) x 2byte = 3.3MB/s
PIO mode 1 30ns 13 383ns (1/383ns) x 2byte = 5.2MB/s
PIO mode 2 30ns 8 240ns (1/240ns) x 2byte = 8.3MB/s
PIO mode 3 30ns 6 180ns (1/180ns) x 2byte = 11.1MB/s
PIO mode 4 30ns 4 120ns (1/120ns) x 2byte = 16.6MB/s
DMA mode 030ns 16 480ns (1/480ns) x 2byte = 4.16MB/s
DMA mode 130ns 5 150ns (1/150ns) x 2byte = 13.3MB/s
DMA mode 230ns 4 120ns (1/120ns) x 2byte = 16.6MB/s
ATA33 30ns 4 120ns (1/120ns) x 2byte x 2 = 33MB/s
ATA66 30ns 2 60ns (1/60ns) x 2byte x 2 = 66MB/s
ATA100 20ns 2 40ns (1/40ns) x 2byte x 2 = 100MB/s
ATA133 15ns 2 30ns (1/30ns) x 2byte x 2 = 133MB/s
Compared to
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VIA south bridge VT8237 integrates two Serial ATA host controllers that provide you an even faster
transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second. The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard
storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was
introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been
developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second. However, while ATA has enjoyed an illustrious track
record, the specification is now showing its age and imposes some serious design issues on today’s developers, including a
5-volt signaling requirement, high pin count, and serious cabling headaches.
The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome these design limitations while enabling the storage interface to scale with
the growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel ATA with the compatibility with existing
operating systems and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It reduces voltage and pins count
requirements and can be implemented with thin and easy to route cables.
SATA port 1
SATA port 2
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To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin Serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the Serial ATA cable to the Serial
ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please
note that it is a jumper free implement; you don’t need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk. When connecting two
Serial ATA disks, the system will automatically take the one connected to “Serial ATA 1” header as a master disk.
Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly be the same with the motherboard you purchase.
Serial ATA Cable
Comparison between Parallel ATA and Serial ATA
Bandwidth
Vol ts
Pins
Length Limitation
Cable
Ventilation
Peer-to-Peer
Parallel ATA Serial ATA
100/133 MB/Secs150/300/600 MB/Secs
5V 250mV
40 7
18 inch (45.72cm) 1 meter (100cm)
Wide Thin
Bad Good
No Yes
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Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard also supports the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find
your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you install them, the problem mainly lies in the BIOS
setting. You can simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly.
After having properly installed your hard disks, you can directly go to the BIOS setting screen for adjustment. Simply choosing
“Integrated Peripherals VIA Onchip IDE Device On-Chip Serial ATA”, you can set your preferable mode. If you have no
intention to change its original setting, the default setting is Auto.
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If you intend to change the default setting, simply press Enter for a list of selection:
1. IDE Mode: If you are using Windows XP or Windows
2000, we suggest you to choose this mode.
2. RAID Mode: Windows ME users are recommended to
choose this mode.
For detailed information about RAID, please refer to RAID
chapter in this manual.
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IDE LED
SPEAKER
Attach the power LED, speaker, power and reset switch connectors to th
corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI
& Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode.
Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing. It is 2-pin female
connector from the housing front panel. Plug this connector to the soft-power
switch connector marked SPWR.
Suspend Type ACPI LED
Power on Suspend (S1) Blinking between green and red
Suspend to RAM (S3) or Suspend to Disk (S4)Blinking between green and red
1
Power Switch
CPI & Power LED
RESET
NC
NC
+5V
IDE LED
IDE LED
+5V
+5V
GND
NC
SPEAKER
SPWR
GND
CPILED-
GND
CPILED+
NC
NC
GND
RESET
GND
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The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module. With this module and application software such as
Laplink or Windows 95 Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers.
This connector supports HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps).
Install the infrared module onto the IrDA connector and enable the infrared function from BIOS Setup, UART2 Mode. Please
make sure you have the correct orientation when you connect IrDA connector.
CNR is a riser card specification to replace the AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) that supports V.90 analog modem, multi-channel
audio, and phone-line based networking. Because the CPU computing power is getting stronger, the digital processing job can
be implemented in main chipset and share CPU power. The analogy conversion (CODEC
separate circuit design, which is put on CNR card. This motherboard implements sound CODEC on board, but reserves CNR
slot for the option of modem function. Note that you can still use PCI modem card. If you want to use CNR audio card on CNR
slot, you must disable the sound output of CODEC from BIOS to prevent the CODEC from making out noises at the same time.
) circuit requires a different and
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This motherboard provides eight USB ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard,
modem, printer, etc. There are six connectors on the back panel. You can use proper cables to
connect the other USB connectors to the USB modules or front panel of chassis. Please note
that USB 2.0, with a 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.
1
+5V
SBD2-
SBD2+
GND
KEY
UUSSBB22 CCoonnnneeccttoorr
Note: If you would like to use USB devices
(Example: keyboard, mouse etc.) under DOS
environment, you must install driver that comes
with the devices to make it work.
+5V
SBD3SBD3+
GND
NC
Pin 1
USB2 Connector
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The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, serial ports COM1, VGA, RJ45 LAN Jack, Printer, USB, AC97 sound.
The view angle of drawing shown here is the back panel of the housing.
PS/2 Keyboard: For standard keyboard, which comes with a PS/2 plug.
PS/2 Mouse: For PC-Mouse, which comes with a PS/2 plug.
USB2.0 Port: Available for connecting USB1.1/2.0 devices.
Parallel Port: To connect with SPP/ECP/EPP printer.
COM1/COM2 Port: To connect with pointing devices, modem or others serial devices.
RJ-45 LAN connector: To connect Ethernet for home or office use.
VGA Connector: To connect with PC monitor.
Speaker Out: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier.
Line-In: Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape player.
MIC-In: From Microphone.
MIDI/Game Port: For 15-pin PC joystick, game pad or MIDI devices.
As the clock of CPU keeps rocketing higher and higher, it inevitably brings higher heat and
system temperature in a relative way. The way we deal with this heat problem, however, is to
spare no effort to add one fan after another to protect our pampered system, expecting these
fans could cool down our machine as much as it could.
But at the same time, we believe that same amount of users are affected terribly while working with their PC by the irritating
noises of these fans. As a matter of fact, we do not have to get our fans running at such a high speed in most cases; on the
contrary, we discovered that having your fans running at appropriate time and speed could not only reduce the noise, but also
consume the least power the system
needed, so as to prevent over-wasting
of energy resource.
Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored
to bring you a new overall solution,
SilentTek, to have your system quiet. To
collocate with hardware circuit, BIOS
and the utility under Windows,
SilentTek combined “Hardware-Status
Monitoring”, “Overheat Warning” and
“Fan Speed Control” with user-friendly
interfaces to provide you a perfect
balance between noises, system
performance and stability.
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The first image you have here is the Voltage Status
page. You can find current status of all voltages and set
your expected margins of warning level.
You may check you
system voltage from the
indicating bar here.
In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the
current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis,
plus checking if fans are running properly.
Of course, you may set you
defaulted lowest margin fo
your fans and the SilentTek
would also pop up a message
box and alarm you when the
fan is rotating slower than this
specified speed.
You may set the highest
margin of your CPU and
system temperature as
default, and SilentTek would
pop up a message box and
alert you with alarm when the
temperature goes beyond the
specified margin.
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The following page is surely the most important part of this utility. You may control the rotation speed of specific fans that you
have got the options inside in this page.
1. Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting o
SilentTek and can be used for any branded compute
housing. With a special algorithm developed by
AOpen, the fan speed is automatically adjusted by
the factors of CPU and ambient temperature.
Ease-of-use and trouble free at your service.
2. Fixed FAN Control: Under this setting, a desired fan
speed is set fixed when operating.
3. Multiple Level Control: This is the most versatile
setting that allows you to set fan speed in relation to
temperature. You may find that this setting fits you
best.
4. AOpen Recommend Setting: This setting is
designed specifically for AOpen housing. A series of
lab tests were conducted under the real world
scenario to determine optimum fan speed to reduce
noise level within CPU working condition and
temperature. Most of the time, the fan would remain
CD-ROM Rotation Speed Control: by enabling the CD-ROM
Rotation Speed Control, you can adjust the rotation speed of
your CD-ROM. When you set the speed to high level, the
CD-ROM will work at its fastest speed and it will run at basic
required speed while you set the value to low speed.
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still when CPU is not fully utilized.
Note: Due to hundreds different brands of fan on the
market, inaccuracy may happen in some cases when
you had your rotation speed adjusted. It is still under
the criterion and please rest assured that it won’t cause
any problem to your system.
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WWhhaatt’’ss RRAAIIDD??
Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer
systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures.
The idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was first introduced by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy
H. Katz at the University California at Berkeley in 1988. RAID is a purpose of storing the same data in different places on
multiple hard disks and improves storage subsystem performance. The advantage of RAID is to provide better throughput
performance and/or data fault tolerance. Better performance is accomplished by sharing the workload in parallel among multiple
physical hard drives. Fault-tolerance is achieved through data redundant operation where if one (or more) drive fails or has a
sector failure, a mirrored copy of the data can be found on another drive(s).
A RAID appears to the operating system to be a single logical hard disk. The RAID controller manages how the data is stored
and accessed across the physical and logical arrays. The RAID controller help users to ensure that the operating system only
sees the logical drives and users do not need to worry about managing the complicated schema.
For optimal performance results, select identical hard drives to install in disk arrays. The drives’ matched performance allows
the array to function better as a single drive.
Warning: The Serial ATA RAID function
can be supported under Windows XP
and Windows .Net environments.
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RAID level 0, which is the fastest drive array you can have, is a performance-oriented disk mapping method. The data in this
array gets written across a stripe or different disks for a faster transfer. This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It
offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. Reads and writes sector of data interleaved between multiple drives. When
any disk member fails, it affects the entire array. Performance is better than a single drive since the workload is balanced
between the array members. This array type is for high performance systems. Identical drives are recommended for
performance as well as data storage efficiency. The disk array data capacity is equal to the number of members times the
smallest member capacity. For example, one 40GB and one 60GB drives will form an 80GB (40GBx2) disk array.
Logical Drive
Block 1
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4
Block 5
Block 6
Block 7
Block 8
Block 1
Block 3
Block 5
Striping
Block 7
Block 2
Block 4
Block 6
Block 8
Physical Disks
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RAID level 1 uses at least two duplicate hard drives and store the exact
same blocks of information between them. This is the slowest form of
fault tolerance because the data has to be replicated onto two disks at
the same time. However, this is the simplest way to provide high
reliability.
If one of the mirrored drives suffers a mechanical failure or does not
respond, the remaining drive will continue to serve and provide correct
data. If one drive has a physical sector error, the mirrored drive will
continue to function.
Due to redundancy, the drive capacity of the array is half the total drive
capacity. For example, two 40GB drives that have a combined capacity
of 80GB would have 40GB of usable storage. With drives of different
capacities, there may be unused capacity on the larger drive. RAID 1
increases cost as it takes twice as much hard drives to build our arrays.
Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, then press <Enter> key to select, and use the
<Page Up> and <Page Down> key to change setting values. You can press <Esc> key to quit Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup
program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program.
Alternatively, it's strongly recommended to install AOpen’s newest WinBIOS Utility to get more detailed description, further
powerful functions and advanced setting of BIOS.
Key Description
Page Up or + Changing setting to next value or increase the value.
Page Down or - Changing setting to previous value or decrease value.
Enter Select the item.
Esc 1. In main menu: Quit and don’t save any change.
2. In sub menu: Exit current menu to main menu.
Up Arrow Highlight previous item.
Down Arrow Highlight next item.
Left Arrow Move the light bar to left side of menu.
Right Arrow Move the light bar to right side of menu.
F6 Load Setup Defaults setting value from CMOS.
F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS.
F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.
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After you finish the setting of jumpers and connect correct cables. Power on and enter the BIOS Setup, press <Del> during
POST (Power-On Self Test). Choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance.
Del
Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless
you are sure your system components (CPU, SDRAM, HDD,
Unlike earlier graphic POST screen which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen
VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during POST. With this innovative
design, VividBios now brings you a beautiful and sleek 256 colors screen without missing any important information shown on
POST screen.
In addition, the limited space of BIOS ROM is another big issue. When all of the traditional BIOS can only show
space-consuming and uncompressed Bitmap, AOpen has considerately tuned the BIOS to next generation, to recognize the
smaller-sized GIF format and even dynamic-showing GIF animation.
Vivid BIOS shares the same fundamental technology with Open JukeBox CD Player, you may use the same EzSkin utility to
change your Vivid BIOS screen or to download your favorite Open JukeBox skin. If you see this little logo
your model name on the BIOS download page, http://download.aopen.com.tw/downloads
supports this innovative feature!
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shown beside
, it is assured that your motherboard
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There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD. You don’t need to install all of them in order to boot
your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows XP)
before you can install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide.
This motherboard comes with RealTek RTL8100C controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN connect device
providing 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. For Windows 98/ME/2000/XP users, you can install the LAN driver
form the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
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For Windows 95 and NT4.0 users, please follow the procedures below to install your driver.
Introduction:
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This document describes the procedure to install Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A, OSR2, Windows NT v4.0 driver for
Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter.
[Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A and OSR2]
Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95 :
1. In the Main group of NT, select the "Control Panel" icon.
2. In the Control Panel window, choose the "Network" icon.
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3. In the Network Settings dialog box, choose the "Add Adapter" button. The Add Network Adapter dialog box appears.
4. In the list of network cards, select "<other> Requires disk from manufacturer", and then press <Enter> button.
5. Enter drive and pathname
[CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\NT (for NT 4.0) which is the path where the setup file OEMSETUP.INF is located,
and then choose the OK button.
6. The screen will appear "Select Line Speed" dialog box which is provided by RTL8139.SYS driver. The default value is "auto"
so that the RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter and its driver RTL8139.SYS will auto-detect the line speed, 10 Mb or 100Mb,
while the RTL8139.SYS is loading. The other values, "10" or "100", are only used when you want to forced RTL8139 PCI Fast
thernet adapter to 10Mb or 100Mb.
7. The screen will appear "Input EthernetID" dialog box which is provided by RTL8139.SYS driver. This option is only required
when you have more than one Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapters on this computer. Select "SKIP" if only one
adapter is installed on this computer.
8. "Bus Location" will display in next screen. Your machine contains more than one hardware bus; please select the Bus Type
and Bus number on which your network adapter card is installed.
9. NT will then perform the binding process. If any additional network software options were installed, you may be prompted for
specific information for these packages.
10. Restarting your system you will acquire network service.
NOTES:
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* Installing Multiple LAN Adapters:
Enter Windows NT and follow above setup procedure step 2 in the "Network Settings" dialog box. Choose "Configure" button.
The "Input Ethernet ID" dialog box will appear and then input adapter's Ethernet ID. Select OK and close NETWORK SETUP.
Select SKIP if only one adapter is installed on this computer.