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AK73-1394 Online Manual What’s in this manual AK73-1394 .................................................................................................. 1 What’s in this manual ........................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice................................................................................................................. 10 Before You Start ........................................................................
AK73-1394 Online Manual DIMM Socket ..................................................................................................................... 29 3.3V Main Power Adjustable .............................................................................................. 31 3.3V RAM Power LED........................................................................................................ 32 Front Panel Connector ................................................................................
AK73-1394 Online Manual CD Audio Connector .......................................................................................................... 52 Modem Audio Connector.................................................................................................... 53 Video-Audio-IN Connector ................................................................................................. 54 Front Panel Audio (Optional)..............................................................................
AK73-1394 Online Manual Driver and Utility ................................................................................... 74 Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ................................................................................... 75 Installing Windows 95 ........................................................................................................ 76 Installing Windows 98 ........................................................................................................
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals.......................................................................................................118 Power Management Setup ............................................................................................... 133 PNP/PCI Configuration Setup .......................................................................................... 147 PC Health Status ..............................................................................................
AK73-1394 Online Manual AC97................................................................................................................................ 169 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) .......................................................... 169 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ...................................................................................... 170 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ............................................................................................
AK73-1394 Online Manual EV6 Bus ........................................................................................................................... 174 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) .............................................................................. 175 FC-PGA ........................................................................................................................... 175 Flash ROM.......................................................................................
AK73-1394 Online Manual SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)......................................................................................... 180 Shadow E 2PROM ............................................................................................................. 180 SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ............................................................................ 181 SMBus (System Management Bus)..................................................................................
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Online Manual Before You Start 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.
Overview AK73-1394 Online Manual Over vi ew Thank you for choosing AOpen AK73-1394. The AK73-1394 is AMD® Socket 462 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the VIA Apollo KT133 chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK73-1394 can support AMD® Socket 462 series Athlon™ & Duron™ processor and 200MHz (EV6) system bus.
Online Manual Fe a t ur e Hi ghl i ght CPU Supports AMD® Socket 462 Athlon® & Duron® 600MHz~1GHz+ with 200MHz EV6 system bus designed for Socket 462 technology. Chipset The VIA Apollo KT133 chipset incorporated as a north bridge is in charge of the host bus interface and memory bus control. The memory bus control supports two and four way interleaved of PC-100 and PC-133 SDRAM registered* DIMM and VCM up to 1.5GB.
Overview AK73-1394 Online Manual Expansion Slots Including five 32-bit/33MHz, one AMR and one AGP (AGP Pro slot is optional) slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) slot provided from AK73-1394 can support AMR interface for a Modem card. The Intel ® AGP Pro rev. 1.0 specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed. The AGP Pro video cards support data transfer rates up to 1066MB/s.
Online Manual On-board IEEE 1394 Controller Comes with an onboard IEEE 1394 controller that provides two ports for IEEE 1394 devices, such as digital camera or others IEEE 1394 storage devices. On-board AC97 Sound AK73-1394 uses the AD1885 AC97 sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Die-Hard BIOS with external controller (Optional) The Die-Hard BIOS technology is a very effective hardware protection method that doesn’t involve any software or BIOS coding.
Overview AK73-1394 Online Manual Dr. Voice (Optional) The Dr. Voice provides 4 kinds of language version (English, Chinese, Japanese and German) that can easily tell what kind of problem you may encounter. Power Management/Plug and Play The AK73-1394 supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program.
Online Manual Super Multi-I/O The AX34 Pro II 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.
Overview AK73-1394 Online Manual Q ui c k I ns t a l l a t i on P r oc e dur e This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly.
CD-IN Connector Onboard AC’97 CODEC Online Manual Motherboard Map Overview AK73-1394 PC99 Colored Back Panel MODEM-IN Connector VIDEO-AUDIO-IN Connector Front Panel Audio Connector JP12 Onboard Sound Select Jumper AMR Slot Resettable Fuse Low ESR Condenser AGP Pro Slot (Optional) 462-pin CPU socket supports AMD Athlon & Duron 600~1GHz+ CPU Fan Connector with H/W monitoring SW1 CPU Ratio Select Switch WOM Connector WOL Connector 32-bit PCI slot x5 IrDA Connector ATX Power Connector VIA Apollo KT133 c
Overview AK73-1394 Online Manual Bl oc k Di a gr a m Socket A 100MHz DDR 64 BIT CPU Data BUS 66MHz 1x,2x and 4xmode KT133 KT133 SDRAM SDRAM (3 DIMM sockets) (3 DIMM sockets) AGP Slot :1/2/4X 100/133 MHz SDRAM and VCM 100MHz Register SDRAM 33MHz 32BIT PCI Address/Data BUS AC97 Link AD AD1885 1885 Primary IDE VIA686B VIA686B ATA 33/66/100 IDE 1 IDE 2 Secondary IDE AMR Floppy Interface Floppy 5 * PCI Slots USB USB PORT I/O X2 USB Connector X2 1 X Printer port 2 X Com port PS2 KB/Mouse
AK73-1394 Online Manual 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. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation J P 1 4 Cl e a r CMO S You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. 1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power. 2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2. 3. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds. 4. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pins 1 & pin2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2. Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1 1 2 2 1.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This motherboard supports AMD Athlon & Duron Socket 462 CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket. 1. Pull up the CPU socket level 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. 3. Press down the CPU socket level and finish CPU installation.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation FS B/ P CI Cl oc k & Ra t i o This jumper is used to specify the relationship of PCI and FSB clock. Generally speaking, if you are not an overclocker, we recommend you to set at the default setting. - + 1 2 3 4 SW1 CPU Ratio Select Switch 1 FSB=100-120MHz CPU Ratio 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 10.5 11 11.5 12 12.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Tip: If your system hangs or fails to boot Core Frequency = CPU Bus Clock * CPU Ratio EV6 Bus Speed = CPU Bus Clock x 2 Hom PCI Clock = CPU Bus Clock / Clock Ratio because of overclocking, simply use key to restore the default setting (100MHz FSB/200MHz DDR Bus) AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 CPU Athlon 600 Athlon 650 Athlon 700 Athlon 750 Athlon 800 Athlon 850 Athlon 900 Athlon 950 Athlon 1G Duron 600 Duron 650 Duron 700 Duron 750 CPU Core Frequency 600MHz 650MHz 700MHz 750M
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation CP U J um pe r - l e s s De s i gn CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection. Clock Generator AMD Socket A CPU Controlled CPU Freq.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This function is dedicated to overclocker, AOpen works together with Fairchild to develop a special chip FM3540 that supports Adjustable CPU Core Voltage from 1.1V to 1.85V by 0.025 stepping. But this motherboard can also automatically detect CPU VID signal and generates proper CPU core voltage.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation CPU and Housing Fan Connector (With H/W Moni t or i ng) Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have housing fan, you can also plug it on FAN2 connector. CPUFAN GND +12V SENSOR Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring. The Fan1 doesn’t support the H/W monitoring function.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This motherboard has three 168-pin DIMM sockets that allow you to install PC100 or PC133 memory up to 1.5GB. The AK73-1394 supports not only SDRAM but also VCM and PC-100 Registered DRAM. Tip: The driving capability of new generation chipset is limited due to the lack of a memory buffer (to improve performance). This makes DRAM chip count an important factor to take into consideration when you install DIMMs.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation DIMM can be single side or double side; it has 64 bit data and 2 or 4 clock signals. We strongly recommend choosing 4-clock SDRAM for its reliability Tip: To identify 2-clock and 4-clock DIMM, you may check if there are traces connected to the golden finger pins 79 and 163 of the SDRAM. If there are traces, the SDRAM is probably 4-clock; otherwise, it is 2-clock. Tip: To identify single-side or double-side DIMM, check golden finger pin 114 and pin 129.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation 3 . 3 V Ma i n P ow e r Adj us t a bl e The JP9 and JP10 provide the great feature that can let you choose the 3.3V VIO value. This feature let the system get more reliable when you overclocking. JP9 JP10 JP9 JP10 1 1 Warning: Higher voltage may be able to increase system reliability for overclocking, but you may damage/reduce the DIMM module, chipset or others 3.3V device lifecycle. 31 3.3V (Default) 3.2V 3.5V 3.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation 3 . 3 V RAM P ow e r LE D This LED indicates there is power applies to memory. It is useful to check RAM power during Suspend to RAM. Do not unplug memory module when this LED is on.
AK73-1394 Online Manual 1 + IDE LED + + SPWR ACPI & Power LED + + Speaker Reset 1 Attach the power LED, Keylock, speaker, and reset switch connectors to the 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.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Attach the power LED, speaker, and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable Power Management Setup > ACPI Suspend Type in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode. Suspend Type ACPI LED Power on Suspend (S1) Flashing for every second Suspend to RAM (S3 ) or Suspend to Disk (S4) The LED will be turned off Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation ATX Power Connector The ATX power supply uses 20-pin connector shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction. COM +5V COM +3.3V +3.3V +3.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation AC P ow e r Aut o Re c ov e r y 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.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDC and IDE connector. The blue connector is IDE1 for clear identification. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 as the secondary 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.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Mode Clock Period Clock 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 0 30ns 16 480ns (1/480ns) x 2byte = 4.16MB/s DMA mode 1 30ns 5 150ns (1/150ns) x 2byte = 13.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation I r DA Conne c t or 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, the 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).
AK73-1394 Online Manual This motherboard implements special circuit to support Wake On Modem, both Internal modem card and external box modem are supported. Since Internal modem card consumes no power when system power is off, it is recommended to use an internal modem. To use internal modem, connect 4-pin cable from RING connector of modem card to the WOM connector on the motherboard.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation WO M by E x t e r na l BO X Mode m Traditional Green PC suspend mode does not really turn off the system power supply, it uses external box modem to trigger MB COM port and resume back to active. To Tel. Line COM Port Ext.
AK73-1394 Online Manual With the help of the ATX soft power On/Off, it is possible to have a system totally power off, and wakeup to automatically answer a phone call as an answering machine or to send/receive a fax. You may identify whether or not your system is in true power off mode by checking to see if the fan of your power supply is off. Both an external box modem and an internal modem card can be used to support Modem Wake Up, but if you use an external modem, you have to leave your box modem on.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation WOL (Wake on LAN) This feature is very similar as Wake On Modem, but it goes through local area network. To use Wake On LAN function, you must have a network card with chipset that supports this feature, and connect a cable from LAN card to motherboard WOL connector.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Ethernet WOL Connector M/B Ethernet Card 45
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation AG P ( Ac c e l e r a t e d G r a phi c P or t ) The AK73-1394 provides an AGP 4x (AGP Pro is optional) slot. The AGP 4x/Pro is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. Recently, there are more memory modules on the AGP card. Hence, the AGP card needs more power to drive these chips. The AGP Pro interface has more power pins to provide more power for the card.
AK73-1394 Online Manual AMR is a riser card that supports sound or modem function. Because CPU computing power is getting stronger, the digital processing job can be implemented in main chipset and share CPU power. The analogical conversion (CODEC) circuit requires a different and separate circuit design, it is put on AMR card. This motherboard implements sound CODEC on board (can be disabled by JP12), but reserve AMR slot for the option of modem function. Note that you can still use PCI modem card.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation P C9 9 Col or Code d Ba c k P a ne l The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, serial ports COM1 and COM2, Printer, four USB, AC97 sound and Game port. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port PS/2 Mouse Connector Game Port USB Port PS/2 Keyboard COM 1 Port COM 2 Port MIC-In Line-In Speaker Out Speaker Out: Line-In: MIC-In: Game Prot: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier.
AK73-1394 Online Manual nd US B P or t This motherboard supports four USB ports. Two of them are on back panel connector, the other two are on the left-bottom area of this motherboard. With proper cable, you can connect them to front panel.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation O nboa r d I E E E 1 3 9 4 Cont r ol l e r This motherboard has an IEEE 1394 controller onboard. The IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, and USB just has 12Mb/s. Hence, the IEEE 1394 interface can connect with the devices that need high data transferring performance, such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use the proper cable to connect with devices.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This motherboard has AC97 sound onboard. JP12 is used to enable or disable onboard AD1885 CODEC chip. If you don’t want to enable the Onboard Audio, you should set this jumper to 2-3, and disable the “OnChip Sound” from BIOS setting > Advanced Chipset Features, before you install your preferred PCI Sound Card.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation CD Audi o Conne c t or This black connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This connector is used to connect Mono In/Mic Out cable from internal modem card to onboard sound circuit. The pin 1-2 is Mono In, and the pin 3-4 is Mic Out. Please note that there is no standard for this kind of connector yet, only some internal modem cards implement this connector.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Video-Audio-IN Connector This green connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AK73-1394 Online Manual If the housing has been design with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Ba t t e r y - l e s s a nd Long Li f e De s i gn This Motherboard implements Flash ROM and a special circuit that allows you to save your current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations without the need of a battery. The RTC (real time clock) can also keep running as long as the power cord is plugged. If you lose your CMOS data by accident, you can just reload the CMOS configurations from Flash ROM and the system will recover as usual.
AK73-1394 Online Manual The Over Current Protection was very popular implemented on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply. However, the new generation CPU uses different voltage that has regulator to transfer 5V to CPU voltage (for example, 2.0V), and makes 5V over current protection useless. This motherboard is with switching regulator onboard supports CPU over-current protection; in conjunction with 3.3V/5V/12V power supply provide the full line over-current protection.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Note: Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human operating mistake, there is still certain risk that CPU, memory, HDD, add-on cards installed on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason. AOpen cannot guaranty the protection circuit will always work perfectly.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This motherboard implements a hardware monitoring system. As you turn on your system, this smart design will continue to monitor your system’s working voltage, fan status and CPU temperature. If any of these system’s status go wrong, there will be an alarm through the AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility to warn the user.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Re s e t t a bl e Fus e Traditional motherboard has fuse for Keyboard and USB port to prevent over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that when it is broken (did the job to protect motherboard), user still cannot replace it and the motherboard is still malfunction. With expensive Resettable Fuse, the motherboard can back to normal function after fuse did the protection job.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Recently, many viruses have been found that may destroy bios code and data area. This motherboard implements a very effective hardware protection method that does not involve any software or BIOS coding, hence is 100% virus free. There is a BIOS flash ROM mounted on the M/B when you get it. If you want to add extra BIOS flash ROM, please contact the local distributor or reseller. You also can link to AOpen official website: www.aopen.com.tw by Internet to purchase it.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation E x t e r na l Cont r ol l e r f or DI E - HARD BI O S ( O pt i ona l ) External Controller provides you a better and convenience way to switch the BIOS status between “Rescue” and “Normal” without opening the case of your computer. You have to plug the jumper cable to the connector pin (JP30) on the motherboard. Be careful of the orientation when you connect, the red wire should correspond to Pin1.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Note: If you suspect your BIOS is infected by virus, just rescue your bios by following steps: Turn off the system, set the External Controller to “Rescue” to read from rescue ROM. 2. Boot the system and set the switch back to “Normal”. 3. Follow the BIOS upgrade procedure to rehabilitate BIOS. Reboot the system, and you should be able to back to normal.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation G P O ( G e ne r a l P ur pos e O ut put ) Conne c t or GPO (General Purpose Output) is an advanced specification developed by AOpen for power users to define the further function by oneself. For example, you can design a daughter board to provide additional capabilities, such as an alarm, a buzzer, a timekeeper, etc. Pin 1 1 +3.
AK73-1394 Online Manual In conjunction with Dr. LED (Optional), which can easily show what kind of problem you may incur on your system during assembly. It can clearly indicate whether there is a component issue or an installed issue by the 8 LEDs on the front panel of Dr. LED. This helps you quickly self-diagnostic your system status. Pin 1 5 6 GND GPO18 GPO17 +3.3V GPO16 1 2 Dr. LED 65 Hardware Installation Dr.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Dr. LED is a CD disc storage box with 8 LEDs on its front panel, the size of Dr. LED is exactly the same as 5.25 in floppy drive, so that it can be mount into normal 5.25 in drive bay of any housing. 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Boot O.K. KB HDD Audio PCI Video Memory CPU The total 8 LEDs light up alternatively if the system fails in one of eight stages. Once the LED7 (latest LED) is lit, this indicates that the system has completed its boot-up procedure.
AK73-1394 Online Manual The Dr. Voice is a great feature of AX34 Pro II. It can let you easily to know what kind of problem occurred. It can clearly “tell” whether there is a component issue or an installed issue, such as CPU, memory module, VGA, PCI add-on card, FDD, HDD or keyboard by voice. The Dr. Voice provides four kinds of language version, English, German, Japanese and Chinese for choosing. You can select preferred language version by JP15 & JP16.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Year 2000 (Y2K) Y2K is basically a problem of the identification of year code. To save storage space, traditional software uses only two digits for year identification. For example, 98 for 1998 and 99 for 1999, but 00 will be confused with 1900 and 2000. There is an RTC circuit (Real Time Clock) in conjunction with 128 bytes of CMOS RAM data in the chipset of the motherboard. The RTC has only two digits and the CMOS has another 2 digits.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Operating System (such as Windows 98) BIOS (Tick Routine) RTC and CMOS data There is a Tick Routine (that goes live around every 50m sec) in the BIOS to keep record of date/time information. In general the BIOS, this Tick Routine does not update the CMOS every time because the CMOS is a very slow device that degrades system performance.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Low E S R Ca pa c i t or The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for stability of CPU power. The location of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Note: This diagram for example only, it may not be exactly the same as this motherboard. 71 Hardware Installation The power circuit of the CPU core voltage must be checked to ensure system stability for high speed CPUs (such as the new Pentium III, or when overclocking). A typical CPU core voltage is 2.0V, so a good design should control voltage between 1.860V and 2.140V. That is, the transient must be below 280mV.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) For high frequency operation, especially overclocking, layout is the most important factor to make sure chipset and CPU working in stable condition. The layout of this motherboard implements AOpen’s unique design called “ Frequency Isolation Wall”.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Cool down CPU and Chipset is important for system reliability. Aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption especially when you are trying to overclock.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Hardware Installation D r i v e r a n d U ti l i ty There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD disc. 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 98) before you can install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Aut or un Me nu f r om Bonus CD Di s c You can use the autorun menu of Bonus CD disc. Choose the utility and driver and select model name.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Installing Windows 95 1. First, don’t install any add-on card except AGP card. 2. Install Windows 95 OSR2 v2.1, 1212 or 1214 version and later with USB support. Otherwise, you need to install USBSUPP.EXE. 3. Install the VIA 4 in 1 driver, which includes VIA AGP Vxd driver, VIA ATAPI Vendor Drivers & Utilities Support driver and VIA registry (INF) program. 4. Finally, Install other add-on cards and their drivers.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Installing Windows 98 1. First, don’t install any add-on card except AGP card. 2. Enable USB Controller in BIOS Setup > Advanced Chipset Features > USB COntroller, to make BIOS fully capable of controlling IRQ assignment. 3. Install Window 98 into your system. Install the VIA 4 in 1 driver, which includes VIA AGP Vxd driver, IRQ Routing, VIA ATAPI Vendor Support driver and VIA registry (INF) program. 5. Finally, Install other add-on cards and their drivers.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Installing Windows 98 SE, Windows ME & Windows2000 Drivers & Utilities If you are using Windows ® 98 Second Edition, Windows ® Millennium Edition or Windows ® 2000, you do not need to install the 4-in-1 driver as the IRQ Routing Driver and the ACPI Registry are already incorporated into the operating system. Users with Windows ® 98 SE may update the VIA Registry INF and AGP drivers by installing them individually. Please refer to VIA Technologies Inc.
AK73-1394 Online Manual I ns t a l l i ng V I A 4 i n 1 Dr i v e r You can install the VIA 4 in 1 driver (IDE Bus master (For Windows NT use), VIA ATAPI Vendor Support Driver, VIA AGP, IRQ Routing Driver (For Windows 98 use), VIA Registry (INF) Driver) from the Bonus Pack CD disc Autorun menu. Drivers & Utilities Note: Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure. Warning: If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver, please remove the AGP card driver first.
AK73-1394 Online Manual I ns t a l l i ng O nboa r d S ound Dr i v e r This motherboard comes with an AD 1885 AC97 CODEC and the sound controller is in VIA South Bridge chipset. You can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc Autorun menu. Drivers & Utilities Note: If you are using Windows 95 or Windows 98 operation system, please install the VIA audio driver to instead the AD audio driver.
AK73-1394 Online Manual I ns t a l l i ng Ha r dw a r e Moni t or i ng Ut i l i t y You can install Hardware Monitoring Utility to monitor CPU temperature, fans and system voltage. The hardware monitoring function is automatically implemented by the BIOS and utility software. No hardware installation is needed.
AK73-1394 Online Manual ACP I S us pe nd t o Ha r d Dr i v e Drivers & Utilities ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive is basically controlled by Windows operation system. It saves your current work (system status, memory and screen image) into hard disk, and then the system can be totally power off. Next time, when power is on, you can resume your original work directly from hard disk within few seconds without go through the Windows booting process and run your application again.
AK73-1394 Online Manual When go into Suspend: Save into Hard Disk When power-on next time: System Image & Status Hard Disk Restore within seconds 83 Drivers & Utilities System Image & Status
AK73-1394 Online Manual System Requirement 1. AOZVHDD.EXE 1.30b or later. 2. Delete config.sys and autoexec.bat. Drivers & Utilities Fresh installation of Windows 98 on a new system 1. Execute "Setup.exe /p j" to install Windows 98 2. After Windows 98's installation is complete, go to the Control Panel > Power Management. a. Set Power Schemes > System Standby to "Never". b. Click on "Hibernate" and select "Enable Hibernate Support" then "Apply". c.
AK73-1394 Online Manual b. If you assign an individual partition for Win 98, please run "aozvhdd /c /partition". Of course, the system needs to provide unformatted an empty partition. 4. Reboot system. 5. You've already implemented ACPI Suspend to-Hard Drive. Click "Start > Shut Down > 85 Drivers & Utilities Standby" then the screen will go off immediately.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Changing from APM to ACPI (Windows 98 only) 1. Run "Regedit.exe" a. Go through the following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Drivers & Utilities MICROSOFT WINDOWS CURRENT VERSION DETECT b. Select "ADD Binary" and name it as "ACPIOPTION". c. Right click and select Modify, add "01" after "0000" to make it "0000 01". d. Save changes. 2. Select "Add New Hardware" under Control Panel. Allow Windows 98 to detect new hardware.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Changing from ACPI to APM 1. Run "Regedit.exe" a. Go through the following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Drivers & Utilities MICROSOFT WINDOWS CURRENT VERSION DETECT ACPI OPTION b. Right click and select "Modify, change "01" to "02" to make it "0000 02". Tip: "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled. c. Save changes.
AK73-1394 Online Manual 2. Select "Add New Hardware" under Control Panel. Allow Windows 98 to detect new hardware. (It will find "Plug and Play BIOS" and remove "ACPI BIOS") 3. Reboot system. 4. Run "Add New Hardware" again and it will find "Advanced Power Management Resource". 5. Click "OK". Drivers & Utilities Tip: Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend to disk.
AK73-1394 Online Manual ACP I S us pe nd t o RAM ( S TR) When go into Suspend: System Image & Status in the DRAM Other System Devices Power loss Backup by 3.3V Power When power-on next time: System Image & Status in the DRAM Other System Devices Power back to Power back to work work 89 Drivers & Utilities This motherboard supports ACPI Suspend to RAM function.
AK73-1394 Online Manual To implement ACPI Suspend to DRAM, please follow the procedures as below: System Requirement Drivers & Utilities 1. An ACPI OS is required. Currently, Windows 98 is the only choice. Please refer to ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive of how to setup Windows 98 ACPI mode. 2. The VIA 4 in 1 Driver must have been installed properly. Procedures 1. Changed the following BIOS settings.
AK73-1394 Online Manual AW AR D BIOS Note: Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard. 91 Drivers & Utilities System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu, this menu allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset).
AK73-1394 Online Manual E nt e r BI O S S e t up Del After you finish the setting of jumpers and connect correct cables. Power on and enter the BIOS Setup, press during POST (Power-On Self Test). Choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance. AWARD BIOS Setup Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Cha nge La ngua ge F3 You can change language by press . Depends on available BIOS space, the possible languages are English, German, Japanese and Chinese.
AK73-1394 Online Manual S t a nda r d CMO S Fe a t ur e s The "Standard CMOS Features" sets the basic system parameters such as the date, time, and the hard disk type. Use the arrow keys to highlight an item and or to select the value for each item.
AK73-1394 PgUp Online Manual PgDn Standard CMOS Features > Date (mm:dd:yy) To set the date, highlight the Date parameter. Press or to set the current date. The date format is month, date, and year. Standard CMOS Features > Time (hh:mm:ss) 95 AWARD BIOS Setup To set the time, highlight the Time parameter. Press or to set the current time in hour, minute, and second format. The time is based on the 24-hour military clock.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Standard CMOS Setup> IDE HDD Auto-Detection AWARD BIOS Setup IDE HDD Auto Detection This item lets the system to the HDD’s size, head… on this channel.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Standard CMOS Setup > IDE Primary Master/Slave & IDE Secondary Master/Slave IDE Primary & Slave Master/ Slave Auto (Default) Manual None If you select “Manual”, you need to fill in all remaining field, such as Access Mode, Capacity, Cylinder, Head, Precomp, Landing Zone and Sector on this selected item. If the item “Auto” is selected, only “Access Mode” can be set, the others will remain “0”.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Standard CMOS Setup > Drive A/Drive B Drive A/Drive B These items select the floppy drive type. The available None settings and types supported by the motherboard are listed to the left. 360KB 5.25" 1.2MB 5.25" 720KB 3.5" 1.44MB 3.5" (Default) 2.88MB 3.5" Standard CMOS Setup > Video AWARD BIOS Setup Video EGA/VGA (Default) CGA40 CGA80 This item specifies the type of video card in use. The default setting is VGA/EGA.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Standard CMOS Setup > Halt On Halt On This parameter enables you to control the system stops in No Errors case of Power-On Self Test (POST) error.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Adv a nc e d BI O S Fe a t ur e s S e t up This screen appears when you select the option "BIOS Features Setup" from the main menu.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced BIOS Features > Virus Warning Virus Warning Set this parameter to Enabled to activate the warning Enabled message. This feature protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk from virus intrusion. Any attempt during boot up to write to the boot sector of the hard disk drive stops the system and the following warning message appears on the screen. Run an anti-virus program to locate the problem.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced BIOS Features > CPU Internal Cache CPU Internal Cache Enabled (Default) Disabled Enabling this parameter activates the CPU L1 cache. Disabling the parameter slows down the system. Therefore, we recommend that you leave it enabled unless you are troubleshooting a problem. Advanced BIOS Features > External Cache External Cache Enabled (Default) Disabled AWARD BIOS Setup Enabling this parameter activates the CPU L2 cache. Disabling the parameter slows down the system.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced BIOS Features > Quick Power On Self Test Quick Power on Self-test Enable (Default) This parameter speeds up POST by skipping some items that are normally checked. Disabled Advanced BIOS Features > First/Second/Third Boot Device Boot Device C: Primary master AWARD BIOS Setup A (Second Boot Device Default); LS-120; C (Third Boot Device Default); SCSI; CDROM (First Boot Device Default); D; This parameter allows you to specify the system boot up search sequence.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced BIOS Features > Boot other device Boot other device This item allows you to boot up the system from other Enabled (Default) bootable devices. Disabled Advanced BIOS Features > Swap Floppy Drive Swap Floppy Drive Enabled Disabled (Default) This item allows you to swap floppy drives. For example, if you have two floppy drives (A and B), you can assign the first drive as drive B and the second drive as drive A or vice-versa.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced BIOS Features > Boot Up NumLock Status Boot Up NumLock Status On Off (Default) Setting this parameter to On enables the numeric function of the numeric keypad. Set this parameter to Off to disregard the function. Disabling the numeric function allows you to use the numeric keypad for cursor control. Advanced BIOS Feature > Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate Setting Enabled This item lets keystrokes repeat at a rate determine by the keyboard controller.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced BIOS Feature > Typematic Delay (Msec) Typematic Delay This item lets you select the delay timing before keystroke 250 (Default); 500; 750; 1000 begin to repeat. Advanced BIOS Features > Security Option Security Option The System option limits access to both the System boot Setup (Default) and BIOS setup. A prompt asking you to enter your password appears on the screen every time you boot the system.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced BIOS Features > OS Select For DRAM > 64MB OS Select For DRAM > 64MB OS2 This item lets you select “OS/2 only” if you are running OS/2 operation system with greater than 64MB of RAM on the system. Non-OS2 (Default) Advanced BIOS Features > Show Logo On Screen Show Logo On Screen Enabled (Default) This item lets you show or hide AOpen logo on the POST screen.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Adv a nc e d Chi ps e t Fe a t ur e s S e t up The "Chipset Features Setup" includes settings for the chipset dependent features. These features are related to system performance. AWARD BIOS Setup Warning: Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything. You may change the parameter settings to improve system performance. However, it may cause your system to be unstable if the setting is not correct for your system configuration.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This page is the lower half of Advanced Chipset Features submenu.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 DRAM Timing Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 DRAM Timing Normal (Default) This item controls timing point for latching SDRAM data. We recommend you leave on the default setting value. Turbo Advanced Chipset Features > Set DRAM Drive Strength by Set DRAM Drive Strength by Auto (Default) AWARD BIOS Setup Manual This item lets you change the DRAM drive strength by manual or system auto-detection.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > Delay DRAM Read Latch Delay DRAM Read Latch 1.5ns (Default) This item allows you to select the DRAM read latch timing. The shorter latch timing means the data can be transfer to memory earlier. 1.0ns 0.5ns No Delay Advanced Chipset Features > Memory Data Drive This item allows you to select the memory data driving current. Too strong current may cause the data signal reflection.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > DRAM Clock DRAM Clock This item allows you selecting DRAM PCI CLK x 3 (Default) working clock to PCI CLK x 2, PCI CLK x 3 or PCI CLK x 4.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > Memory Hole At 15M-16M Memory Hole At 15M-16M Enabled Disabled (Default) This option lets you reserve system memory area for special ISA cards. The chipset accesses code/data of these areas from the ISA bus directly. Normally, these areas are reserved for memory mapped I/O card. Advanced Chipset Features > P2C/C2P Concurrency P2C/C2P Concurrency Enabled This item can enable or disable the PCI to CPU/CPU to PCI concurrency.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > Video RAM Cacheable Video RAM Cacheable Enabled Disabled (Default) If you set this item to enable, it allows caching of the video BIOS, resulting in better system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > AGP Driving Control AGP Driving Control This option lets you select AGP driving control to “Auto” or Auto “Manual”. Manual Advanced Chipset Features > AGP Driving Value AGP Driving Value This option can be selected when you set the “AGP Driving 00 ~FF, DA is Default setting. Control” to “Auto”. The value can be set from DA to FF. AGP Fast Write Disabled (Default) This option allows you to enable or disable the AGP fast write function.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > K7 Clock Control K7 Clock Control This item allows you to select K7 CPU clock control Default (Default) mode. This option only for AMD Athlon K7 CPU, changing this option to set the CPU timing to turbo mode. Optimal Advanced Chipset Features > CPU To PCI Write Buffer CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled (Default) This item lets you enable or disable CPU to PCI write buffer.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Advanced Chipset Features > PCI Master 0 WS Write PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled (Default) This option allows you to enable PCI master writing the data with no waiting. Disabled Advanced Chipset Features > PCI#2 Access #1 Retry PCI#2 Access #1 Retry Enabled (Default) This item lets you enable or disable the PCI#2 sending a retry signal transferring.
AK73-1394 Online Manual I nt e gr a t e d P e r i phe r a l s The following screen appears if you select the option "Integrated Peripherals" from the main menu. This option allows you to configure the I/O features.
AK73-1394 Online Manual This page is the lower half of Integrated Peripherals submenu.
AK73-1394 Online Manual ntegrated Peripherals > OnChip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE OnChip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE This parameter lets you enable or disable the IDE device connected to the primary/secondary IDE connector. Enabled (Default) Disabled Integrated Peripherals > IDE Prefetch Mode IDE Prefetch Mode AWARD BIOS Setup Enabled This item is used to enable and disable IDE prefetch mode.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > Primary Master/Slave PIO & Secondary Master/Slave PIO Primary Master/Slave & Secondary Master/Slave PIO Auto (Default) Mode 1 Mode 2 Mode 3 Setting this item to Auto activates the HDD speed auto-detect function. The PIO mode specifies the data transfer rate of HDD. For example: mode 0 data transfer rate is 3.3MB/s, mode 1 is 5.2MB/s, mode 2 is 8.3MB/s, mode 3 is 11.1MB/s and mode 4 is 16.6MB/s.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > Init Display First Init Display First If you installed a PCI VGA card and an AGP card at the PCI same time, this item lets you decide which one is the initial display card. AGP (Default) Integrated Peripherals > AC PWR Auto Recovery AC PWR Auto Recovery On Off (Default) AWARD BIOS Setup Former Status A traditional ATX system should remain at power off stage when AC power resume from power failure.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > USB Controller USB Controller This item can let you enable or disable the USB Enabled (Default) controller. Disable Integrated Peripherals > USB Keyboard Support USB Keyboard Support Enabled Disable (Default) Note: You cannot use both USB driver and USB legacy keyboard at the same time. Disable “USB Keyboard Support” if you have USB driver in the operation system. Turn off the system, set the External Controller to “Rescue” to read from rescue ROM.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > IDE HDD Block Mode IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled (Default) Disabled If your IDE hard drive supports “Block Mode”, you can select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read/write per sector the drive can support.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > Onboard Serial Port 1 & Port 2 Onboard Serial Port 1 & Port 2 Auto (Default) This item allows you to assign address and interrupt for the board serial port. 3F8/IRQ4 2F8/IRQ3 3E8/IRQ4 2E8/IRQ3 Note: If you are using network card, make sure that the IRQ do not conflict. Disabled UART Mode Select Standard (Default) HPSIR This item is configurable only if the "Onboard Serial Port 2" is enabled. This allows you to specify the mode of serial port2.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Standard Sets serial port 2 to operate in normal mode. This is the default setting. HPSIR This setting allows infrared serial communication at a maximum baud rate of 115K baud. SASKIR This setting allows infrared serial communication at a maximum baud rate of 19.2K baud. Integrated Peripherals > IR Function Duplex IR Function Duplex AWARD BIOS Setup Half (Default) Full This item is used to select full duplex or half duplex of IR function.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > RxD, TxD Active RxD, TxD Active This item is used to select RxD (Receive Data) and TxD No, Yes (Default) (Transmit Data) mode for UART, for instance, IR device, modem, etc. Normally, we suggest you keep the default setting. Please see the documentation that comes with your device. Yes, No Yes, Yes No, No Integrated Peripherals > Onboard Parallel Port Onboard Parallel Port interrupt.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > Parallel Mode Parallel Mode This item lets you set the parallel port mode. The mode Normal (Default) options are Normal (SPP, Standard and Bi-direction Parallel Port), EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) and ECP (Extended Parallel Port). EPP ECP ECP/EPP SPP (Standard and Bidirection Parallel Port) SPP is the IBM AT and PS/2 compatible mode.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > ECP Mode Use DMA ECP Mode Use DMA This item lets you set the DMA channel of ECP mode. 3 (Default) 1 Integrated Peripherals > Parallel Port EPP Type Parallel Port EPP Type This item lets you select EPP mode protocol. EPP1.7 EPP1.9 (Default) AC 97 Sound Auto (Default) This item can let system auto-detection or disable the on-board AC 97 Audio CODEC.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals >Onboard Legacy Audio Onboard Legacy Audio Enabled (Default) This item lets you enable or disable on-board audio legacy. Disable Integrated Peripherals > SB I/O Base Address SB I/O Base Address 220H (Default) This item lets you select the on-board audio I/O base address.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals > SB IRQ Select SB IRQ Select This item lets you select the on-board audio IRQ IRQ 5 (Default) IRQ 7 IRQ 9 IRQ 10 Integrated Peripherals > SB DMA Select SB DMA Select This item lets you select the on-board audio DMA.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Integrated Peripherals >MPU-401 I/O Address MPU-401 I/O Address This item lets you select the MIDI port I/O address. 330-333H (Default) 300-303H 310-313H 320-323H Integrated Peripherals > AC 97 Modem AWARD BIOS Setup AC 97 Modem This item can let system auto-detection or disable the Auto (Default) AC 97 modem function. If you disable it, the AMR modem card can’t work properly.
AK73-1394 Online Manual P ow e r Ma na ge m e nt S e t up The Power Management Setup screen enables you to control the motherboard green features. See the following screen.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > ACPI Function ACPI Function If your OS is ACPI enabled you have to set this item to Enabled (Default) Enabled, or there may be unexpected errors. If your OS is APM mode, you can remain the Disabled setting. Disabled Power Management Setup > ACPI Suspend Type ACPI Suspend Type S1 S3 This function allows you to select suspend types. S1 is Power On Suspend and S3 is Suspend to RAM.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > PM Timers AWARD BIOS Setup 135
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > PM Timers > Power Management Power Management Mix Saving This function allows you to set the default parameters of power-saving modes. Set to Disable to turn off power management function. Set to User Define to choose User Define (Default) your own parameters.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Power Timers > Doze Mode Doze Mode This item lets you set the period of time after which the Disabled (Default), 1 min, 2 min, 4 min, 8 min, 12 min, 20 min, 30 min, 40 min, 1 hour system enters into Doze mode. The system activity (or event) is detected by monitoring the IRQ signals or other events (such as I/O).
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Video Off Option Video Off Option This item lets you to decide whether the video is off in Suspend → Off (Default) the suspend mode. All Modes → Off Always On Power Management > Video Off Method Video Off Method V/H SYNC + Blank (Default) DPMS Support AWARD BIOS Setup Blank Screen This determines the way that monitor is off. Blank Screen writes blanks to video buffer. V/H SYNC+Blank allows BIOS to control VSYNC and HSYNC signals.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Soft-off By PWR-Button Soft-off By PWR-Button Instant-Off (Default) Delay 4 Sec This is a specification of ACPI and supported by hardware. When Delay 4 sec is selected, the soft power switch on the front panel can be used to control power on, suspend and off. If the switch is pressed for less than 4 seconds during the system power-on, the system will go into suspend mode. If the switch is pressed for longer than 4 seconds, the system will be power-off.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Wake Up Events AWARD BIOS Setup 140
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Wake Up Events > VGA VGA This item can enable or disable the detection of VGA Off (Default) activities for power down state transition. On Power Management > Wake Up Events > LPT & COM LPT & COM This item can enable or disable the detection of LPT/COM (Default) LPT/COM port activities for power down state transition.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Wake Up Events > PCI Master PCI Master This item can enable or disable the detection of PCI Off (Default) Master activities for power down state transition. On Power Management > Wake Up Events > Wake On PCI Card Wake On PCI Card This item lets you specify enable or disable Wake On Disabled (Default) PCI Card function.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Wake Up Events > Wake On Modem Wake On Modem This item lets you specify enable or disable Wake On Disabled (Default) Modem function. Enabled Power Management > Wake Up Events > Wake On RTC Timer Wake On RTC Timer This item lets you specify enable or disable Wake On Disabled (Default) RTC Timer function. Enabled Date (of Month) 0 to 31 This item is displayed when you enable the “Wake On RTC Timer” option.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Wake Up Events > Time (hh:mm:ss) Time (hh:mm:ss) This item is displayed when you enable the RTC Wake hh:mm:ss Up Timer option. Here you can specify what time you want to wake up the system.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Power Management > Wake Up Events > IRQs Activity Monitoring AWARD BIOS Setup 145
AK73-1394 IRQs Activity Monitoring IRQ3 (COM 2) Online Manual These items can enable or disable the detection of devices activities by IRQs for power down state transition.
AK73-1394 Online Manual P NP / P CI Conf i gur a t i on S e t up The PNP/PCI Configuration Setup allows you to configure the PCI devices installed in your system. The following screen appears if you select the option "PNP/PCI Configuration Setup" from the main menu.
AK73-1394 Online Manual PNP/PCI Configuration > PnP OS Installed PnP OS Installed Normally, the PnP resources are allocated by BIOS Yes during POST (Power-On Self Test). If you are using a PnP operating system (such as Windows 95), set this item to Yes to inform BIOS to configure only the No (Default) resources needed for booting (VGA/IDE or SCSI). The rest of system resources will be allocated by PnP operating system.
AK73-1394 Online Manual PNP/PCI Configuration > Resources Controlled By Resources Controlled by Setting this option to Manual allows you to individually Auto (Default) assign the IRQs and DMAs to the ISA and PCI devices. Set this to Auto to enable the auto-configuration Manual function.
AK73-1394 Online Manual PNP/PCI Configuration > IRQ Resource AWARD BIOS Setup PNP/PCI Configuration > IRQ Resource > IRQ 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 assigned to IRQ 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 assigned to PCI Device (Default) When resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt.
AK73-1394 Online Manual PNP/PCI Configuration > PCI/VGA Palette Snoop PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Enabled Disabled (Default) Enabling this item informs the PCI VGA card to keep silent (and to prevent conflict) when palette register is updated (i.e., accepts data without responding any communication signals). This is useful only when two display cards use the same palette address and plugged in the PCI bus at the same time (such as MPEG or Video capture card).
AK73-1394 Online Manual PNP/PCI Configuration > Assign IRQs For USB Assign IRQ For USB In case conflict occurs after you assign the IRQs or after Enabled (Default) you configure your system, you can enable this function, allow your system to automatically reset your configuration and reassign the IRQs, DMAs, and I/O address.
AK73-1394 Online Manual P C He a l t h S t a t us As a hardware monitor chip built-in the VIA VT82C686B Super South Bridge, BIOS will automatically detect system health parameters such as CPU temperature, CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and voltage on the motherboard. Hence, from this data, the healthy status of system will be showed.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Frequency/Voltage Control This option allows you to configure the CPU Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency and ratio.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Voltage Detected CPU Voltage Detected This item provides you current CPU working voltage. Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Voltage Setting CPU Voltage Setting 1.10V to 1.85V This item allows you modify the CPU core voltage (Vcore). Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Speed Detected CPU Speed Detected This item provides you current CPU working frequency. 155 AWARD BIOS Setup Warning: The CPU voltage setting just designed for overclocker.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Frequency/Voltage Control > Clock Spread Spectrum Clock Spread Spectrum Enabled (Default) This item lets you enable or disable the spread spectrum modulate. Disabled Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Speed Setting CPU Speed Setting This item allows you modify the CPU FSB clock and FSB clock: ratio.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Loa d S e t up De f a ul t s The "Load Setup Defaults" option loads optimized settings for optimum system performance. Optimal settings are relatively safer than the Turbo settings. All the product verification, compatibility/reliability test report and manufacture quality control are based on "Load Setup Defaults". We recommend use this settings for normal operation. "Load Setup Defaults" is not the slowest setting for this motherboard.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Load Turbo Defaults The "Load Turbo Defaults" option gives better performance than "Load Setup Defaults". It is provided for the convenience of power user who wants to push the motherboard to get better performance. Turbo setting does not go though all the detail reliability and compatibility test, it is tested only with limited configuration and loading (for example, a system that contains only a VGA card and two DIMMs).
AK73-1394 Online Manual S e t P a s s w or d Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before boot or access to Setup. To set a password: 1. At the prompt, type your password. Your password can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters. When you type the characters, they appear as asterisks on the password screen box. After typing the password, press. 3.
AK73-1394 Online Manual S a v e & E x i t S e t up This function automatically saves all CMOS values before leaving Setup.
AK73-1394 Online Manual E x i t w i t hout S a v i ng Use this function to exit Setup without saving the CMOS value changes. Do not use this option if you want to save the new configuration.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Loa d E E P RO M De f a ul t Except "Load Setup Default" and "Load Turbo Default", you may also use "Save EEPROM Default " to save your own settings into Flash ROM, and reload by using this item.
AK73-1394 Online Manual S a v e E E P RO M De f a ul t You may use this item to save your own settings into Flash ROM. Then, if the data in CMOS is lost or you forget the previous settings, you may use "Load EEPROM Default " to reload.
AK73-1394 Online Manual BI O S Upgr a de By flashing your motherboard, you agree to accept the possibility of BIOS flash failure. If you motherboard is working and is stable, and there are no major bugs that were fixed by a latter BIOS revision, we recommend that you DO NOT try to upgrade your BIOS. By doing so, you are taking a risk of BIOS flash failure. If you indeed intent on upgrading, PLEASE BE SURE to use the right BIOS revision for the right motherboard model.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Below are the steps for easy flashing procedures: (applies for Award BIOS ONLY) 1. Download new BIOS upgrade zip file from AOpen's web site. For example, AX34PII102.ZIP. 2. Run shareware PKUNZIP (http://www.pkware.com/) which supports miscellaneous operation systems to extract the binary BIOS file and the flash utility. Or Winzip (http://www.winzip.com/) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped file into a bootable floppy disk. For example, AX34PII102.BIN & AX34PII102.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Overc loc kin g As a leading manufacturer in motherboard industry, AOpen always listens to what customers want and develop products to fit different user's requirements. Reliability, compatibility, leading technology and friendly features are our basic goals when designing motherboards. Other than above mentioned design criteria, there are power users who are always seeking to push the limitation of the system performance by overclocking which we call them "Overclocker".
AK73-1394 Online Manual Warning: The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your system or important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially CPU, DRAMs, hard disks, and AGP VGA cards. 167 AWARD BIOS Setup Tip: Note that overclocking may also cause thermal problem.
AK73-1394 Online Manual V G A Ca r d & Ha r d Di s k VGA and HDD is key components for overclocking, for your reference, the following list are what have been successful overclocked in our lab. Please note that AOpen can not guaranty they can be successful overclocked again. Please check the Available Vendor List (AVL) by link to our official website. VGA: http://www.aopen.com.tw/tech/report/overclk/mb/vga-oc.htm HDD: http://www.aopen.com.tw/tech/report/overclk/mb/hdd-oc.
AK73-1394 Online Manual G los s ary AC9 7 Basically, AC97 specification separates sound/modem circuit to two parts, digital processor and a CODEC for analogy I/O they are linked by AC97 link bus. Since digital processor can be put into motherboard main chipset, the cost of sound/modem onboard solution can be reduced. ACP I (Adv a nc e d Confi gur a ti on & P ow e r I nte r fa c e ) ACPI is the power management specification of PC97 (1997).
AK73-1394 Online Manual AG P (Ac c e l e r a te d G r a phi c P or t) AGP is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only. AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 2X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 2 = 528MB/s. AGP is now moving to 4X mode, 66MHz x 4byte x 4 = 1056MB/s.
AK73-1394 Online Manual AP M Unlike ACPI, BIOS controls most APM power management functions. AOpen Suspend to Hard Drive is a good example of APM power management. ATA/66 ATA/66 uses both rising edge and falling edge but doubles UDMA/33 transfer rate. The data transfer rate is 4 times of the PIO mode 4 or DMA mode 2, 16.6MB/s x4 = 66MB/s. To use ATA/66, you need special ATA/66 IDE cable. ATA/100 ATA/100 is a new IDE specification under developing.
AK73-1394 Online Manual BI O S (Ba s i c I nput/ O utput S y s te m ) BIOS is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM. BIOS controls Input/output devices and other hardware devices of motherboard. In general, to provide hardware independent portability, operation system and drivers is required to access BIOS without directly access hardware devices.
AK73-1394 Online Manual DI MM (Dua l I n Li ne Me m or y Modul e ) DIMM socket has total 168-pin and supports 64-bit data. It can be single or double side, the golden finger signals on each side of PCB are different, that is why it was called Dual In Line. Almost all DIMMs are made by SDRAM, which operate at 3.3V. Note that some old DIMMs are made by FPM/EDO and only operate at 5V. Do not confuse them with SDRAM DIMM.
AK73-1394 Online Manual E E P RO M (E l e c tr oni c E r a s a bl e P r ogr a m m a bl e RO M) Also known as E 2PROM. Both EEPROM and Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals, but the interface technology is different. Size of EEPROM is much smaller than flash ROM. E P RO M (E r a s a bl e P r ogr a m m a bl e RO M) Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light.
AK73-1394 Online Manual FCC DoC (De c l a r a ti on of Confor m i ty ) The DoC is component certification standard of FCC EMI regulations. This standard allows DIY component (such as motherboard) to apply DoC label separately without a shielding of housing. FC-P G A FC means Flip Chip, FC-PGA is a new package of Intel for Pentium III CPU. It can plug into SKT370 socket, but require motherboard to add some signals on socket 370. That is, the motherboard needs to be redesigned.
AK73-1394 Online Manual FS B (Fr ont S i de Bus ) Cl oc k FSB Clock means CPU external bus clock. CPU internal clock = CPU FSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio I 2C Bus See SMBus.
AK73-1394 Online Manual IEEE 1394 IEEE 1394 is a low-cost digital interface originated by Apple Computer as a desktop LAN and developed by the IEEE 1394 working group. The IEEE 1394 can transport data at 100, 200 or 400 Mbps. One of the solutions to connect digital television devices together at 200 Mbps.
AK73-1394 Online Manual P BS RAM (P i pe l i ne d Bur s t S RAM) For Socket 7 CPU, one burst data read requires four QWord (Quad-word, 4x16 = 64 bits). PBSRAM only needs one address decoding time and automatically sends the remaining QWords to CPU according to a predefined sequence. Normally, it is 3-1-1-1, total 6 clocks, which is faster than asynchronous SRAM. PBSRAM is often used on L2 (level 2) cache of Socket 7 CPU. Slot 1 and Socket 370 CPU do not need PBSRAM.
AK73-1394 Online Manual P nP (P l ug a nd P l a y ) The PnP specification suggests a standard register interface for both BIOS and operating system (such as Windows 95). These registers are used by BIOS and operating system to configure system resource and prevent any conflicts. PnP BIOS or operating system will automatically allocate the IRQ/DMA/Memory. Currently, almost all the PCI cards and most ISA cards are already PnP compliant.
AK73-1394 Online Manual RI MM 184-pin memory module that supports RDRAM memory technology. A RIMM memory module may contain up to maximum of 16 RDRAM devices. S DRAM (S y nc hr onous DRAM) SDRAM is one of the DRAM technologies that allows DRAM to use the same clock as the CPU host bus (EDO and FPM are asynchronous and do not have clock signal). It is similar as PBSRAM to use burst mode transfer. SDRAM comes in 64-bit 168-pin DIMM and operates at 3.3V.
AK73-1394 Online Manual S I MM (S i ngl e I n Li ne Me m or y Modul e ) SIMM socket is only 72-pin, and is only single side. The golden finger signals on each side of PCB are identical. That is why it was called Single In Line. SIMM is made by FPM or EDO DRAM and supports 32-bit data. SIMM had been phased out on current motherboard design. S MBus (S y s te m Ma na ge m e nt Bus ) SMBus is also called I2C bus. It is a two-wire bus developed for component communication (especially for semiconductor IC).
AK73-1394 Online Manual Ul tr a DMA/ 3 3 Unlike traditional PIO/DMA mode, which only uses the rising edge of IDE command signal to transfer data. UDMA/33 uses both rising edge and falling edge, the data transfer rate is double of the PIO mode 4 or DMA mode 2. 16.6MB/s x2 = 33MB/s US B (Uni v e r s a l S e r i a l Bus ) USB is a 4-pin serial peripheral bus that is capable of cascading low/medium speed peripherals (less than 10Mbit/s) such as keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner, printer and modem.
AK73-1394 Online Manual ZI P fi l e A compressed file format to reduce file size. To unzip file, run shareware PKUNZIP for DOS and other (http://www.pkware.com/) (http://www.winzip.com/) for windows environment.
AK73-1394 Online Manual T r o u b l e s h o o ti n g Start Turn off the power and unplug the AC power cable, then remove all of the add-on cards and cables, including VGA, IDE, FDD, COM1, COM2 and i t Make sure if all jumper settings are correct.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power Yes and check if the power supply and CPU fan work properly. No The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure. Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Continue No Check if there is display? Perhaps your VGA card or monitor is defective. Yes Press and key at the same time, hold them and then press to reboot the system. No Check if the system reboots? Yes Next Technical Support Troubleshooting & 186 It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.
AK73-1394 Online Manual Continue During system rebooting, press to enter BIOS setup. Choose “Load Setup Default”. Turn off the system and re-connect IDE cable. Check if the system can No reboot successfully? The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself. Yes Re-install the operating system such as Windows 98.
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