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AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual W h a t ’s i n t h i s m a n u a l AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 ....................................................................................................1 What’s in this manual ......................................................................................................................................................2 You Must Notice ...................................................................................................
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual ATX Power Connector ...................................................................................................................................................35 AC Power Auto Recovery ..............................................................................................................................................36 JP28 Keyboard Wake-up .....................................................................................................
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Battery-less and Long Life Design .................................................................................................................................60 Over-current Protection .................................................................................................................................................61 Hardware Monitoring .......................................................................................................
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual AWARD BIOS ................................................................................................................................83 How To Use Award™ BIOS Setup Program ...................................................................................................................84 How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ....................................................................................................................................94 DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM..................................................................................................................................94 DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module) .......................................................................................................
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual PC-1600 or PC-2100 DDR SDRAM ...............................................................................................................................99 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus....................................................................................................................99 PDF Format ....................................................................................................................................
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual How to Contact Us.....................................................................................................................
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual You Must Notice 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 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Ov er vi e w Thank you for choosing AOpen AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133. The AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 is AMD® Socket 462 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the VIA Apollo KT266A chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 AMD® Socket 462 series Athlon™ & Duron™ processor and 266MHz EV6 system bus.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual F e a t u r e Hi g h l i g h t CPU Supports AMD® Socket 462 series CPU with both 200MHz and 266MHz EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology. Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz Duron: 600MHz~1.2GHz AthlonXP: 1500+(1.3GHz)~1900+(1.6GHz) Chipset The VIA Apollo KT266A consists of the VT8366A V-Link DDR Host system controller and the VT8233A highly integrated V-Link Client PCI/LPC controller.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Bus Mater IDE Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 4, and supports Enhanced IDE devices. Expansion Slots Including five 32-bit/33MHz PCI, one CNR and one AGP 4X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual On-board ATA/100 IDE RAID (AK77 Plus(A)-133 Only) 1. Supports data striping (RAID 0) and mirroring (RAID 1). Provides dramatic increase in drive performance and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS menu. Mirroring supports automatic background rebuilds. Fault tolerance can be restored automatically without rebooting. 2. Supports up to four IDE drives which capacities are more than 8.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment Provides “1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you adjust CPU FSB frequency from 100~248 by 1MHz stepping, and lets your system can get maximum performance. Watch Dog Timer Includes AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail to system overclocking.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Hardware Monitoring Management Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor module and Aopen Hardware Monitoring Utility. Enhanced ACPI Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2000 series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4), WOM (Wake On Modem), WOL (Wake On LAN) features.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Q ui c k I n s t a l l a t i o n P r o c e d ur e This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. 1. Installing CPU and Fan 2. Installing System Memory (DIMM) 3. Connecting Front Panel Cable 4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable 5. Connecting ATX Power Cable 6. Connecting Back Panel Cable 7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default 8. Setting CPU Frequency 9. Reboot 10.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 CD-IN Connector Onboard AC97 CODEC Die Hard BIOS with 100% Virus Protection (UpgradeOptional) Online Manual Motherboard Map PC99 Colored Back Panel JP30 Die Hard BIOS Select Jumper Resettable Fuse JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Select Jumper Green: AUX-IN Connector Red: Modem-CN Connector CPU Fan Connector with H/W Monitoring CNR Expansion Slot 32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x5 (PCI 5 supports slave mode PCI card only) 2 nd FAN3 Connector AGP 4x Expansion Slot 462-pin CPU
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Bl o c k D i a g r a m PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM Up to 3GB 32-bit PCI Slot x5 DDR SDRAM Socket x3 Promise FastTrak 100 IDE RAID Controller Socket 462 AMD Athlon/Duron CPU 66/100/133MHz System Bus VT8366V DDR V-Link Host North 552 BGA Supports ATA100 IDE RAID 0 and RAID 1 Solution (AK77 Plus Only) Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel PCI Bus ATA 66/100/133 Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel AGP Bus 1st USB Port VT8233V V-Link
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Har dwar e Ins tal l ati o n This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard. Note: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. 1. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Cl e a r C M O S D a t a You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedures 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 pin 1 & pin 2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2. Pin 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1 1 1.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual C P U I n s t al l a ti o n This motherboard supports AMD® Athlon and Duron Socket 462 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket. 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. 1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90-degree angle.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation. CPU cut edge Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it may damage the CPU. Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual J P 2 1 F S B/ P CI Cl o c k R a t i o This jumper is used to specify the relationship of PCI and FSB clock. Generally speaking, if you are not overclockers, we recommend you to set it to the default setting. Additionally, this motherboard also provides “1MHz Stepping Adjustment” feature for overclockers to adjust CPU FSB frequency via BIOS setup program.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual C P U J u m p er - l e s s D e si g n 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage This function is dedicated to overclockers, AOpen works together with Fairchild to develop a special chip FM3540 that supports Adjustable CPU Core Voltage from 1.1V to 1.85V by 0.05V stepping. But this motherboard can also automatically detect CPU VID signal and generates proper CPU core voltage.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual S e t t i n g C P U Fr e q u e n c y This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, and no jumpers or switches are needed. BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Speed Setting CPU Ratio From 5.5x to 12.5x step 0.5x CPU FSB (By BIOS Table) 100, 102, 105, 108, 110, 113, 115, 117, 120, 122, 124, 133, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 147, 152, 154, and 156MHz.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual S upport e d CP U Fre que nc y Core Frequency = CPU Bus Clock * CPU Ratio PCI Clock = CPU Bus Clock / Clock Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 EV6 Bus Speed = CPU external bus clock x 2 CPU Athlon 1G Athlon 1.1G Athlon 1.2G Athlon 1.3G Athlon 1.4G Athlon 1G Athlon 1.13G Athlon 1.2G Athlon 1.33G Athlon 1.4G AthlonXP 1500+ AthlonXP 1600+ AthlonXP 1700+ AthlonXP 1800+ AthlonXP 1900+ Duron 800 Duron 850 Duron 900 Duron 950 Duron 1G Duron 1.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” With this motherboard, AOpen provides a very special, useful feature for overclockers. When you power-on the system, the BIOS will check last system POST status. If it succeeded, the BIOS will enable “Watch Dog Timer” function immediately, and set the CPU FSB frequency by user’s setting that stored in the BIOS. If system failed in BIOS POST, the “Watch Dog Timer” will reset the system to reboot in five seconds.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual C P U a n d H o u s i n g F a n C o n n e c t o r ( w i t h H/ W M o ni t o r i n g ) Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPU FAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on System Fan (FAN2) or AUX Fan (FAN3) (without H/W monitoring) connector. FAN3 Connector GND +12V SENSOR CPU Fan Connector SENSOR +12V GND GND Note: Some CPU fans do not have +12V SENSOR sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual DI M M The DDR SDRAM interface allows zero wait state bursting between the DDR SDRAM and the data buffers at 100 or 133MHz. The three 184-pin sockets, six banks of DDR SDRAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 1M/2M/4M/8M/16M/32M/64MxN DDR SDRAM with maximum up to 3GB. Warning: The AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 support DDR SDRAM, please do not install the SDRAM on the DDR SDRAM sockets.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual H o w t o I ns t a l l Me m o r y M o d u l e s 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. Pin 1 52 pins 2. 40 pins Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual S y s t e m a n d R A M P ow e r I n d i c a t e L E D This LED indicates there is power applies to motherboard and memory. If you connect power to the motherboard, this LED will be lighting. It is useful to check the system power status when power on/off and stand-by mode or RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode. System Power LED Warning: Do not install or remove the DIMM module or others devices when the LED is lighting.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Fr o n t P a n e l C o n n e c t o r Attach the power LED, EMPI, speaker, power 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual A C P o w er A u t o R ec o v er 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. JP28 Keyboard Wake-up This motherboard provides keyboard / mouse wake-up function.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual I D E , Fl o p p y a n d I D E R A I D ( A K 7 7 P l u s ( A ) - 1 3 3 O n l y ) C o n n e c t or Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDC and IDE/IDE RAID (AK77 Plus(A)-133 Only) connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual I D E R A I D C o n t r ol l e r ( A K 7 7 P l u s ( A ) - 1 3 3 O n l y ) The AK77 Plus(A)-133 motherboard has added an onboard PROMISE ® FastTrak 100 Lite IDE RAID controller. If you want to enable or disable this controller, you may directly adjust them through the bios setup without adjusting any jumper.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual I r DA C o n n e c t o r 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).
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual W O M b y E xt er n al B OX M o d em 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. Serial Port (Modem Side) Pin 1 Pin 1 Serial Port (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual W O M b y I n t er n al M o d e m C ar d 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual WOL Connector (Ethernet Card Side) WOL Connector (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual A G P ( A c c e l e r a t e d G r a p hi c P o r t ) E x p a n s i o n S l ot The AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 provides an AGP 4x slot. The AGP 4x 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 4bytes x 2 = 528MB/s.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual C N R ( C o m m u ni c a t i o n a n d N e t w or k Ri s e r ) E x pa n s i o n S l o t 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. Owing to CPU computing power getting stronger, the digital processing job can be implemented in main chipset and share CPU power.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual P C 9 9 C ol or C o d e d B a c k P a n e 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 the back panel of the housing.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual S u p p o r t 2 n d U S B P or t This motherboard supports two USB ports and provides four USB connectors. Two USB connectors are on the PC99 colored back panel, and 2nd USB port is behind PCI2 slot. You can use proper cable to connect others USB connectors to the back panel or front panel of chassis.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual C h a s s i s I n t r u s i o n S e n s or The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function works, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or the opening of the chassis, the system will send out beep sound to inform you.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 C D A u d i o C o n n e c t or This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CD-ROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual M o d e m A u di o C o n n e c t o r 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 A U X -I N C o n n e c t o r This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Fr o n t A u d i o C o n n e c t o r If the housing has been designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. By the way, please remove the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if housing without an audio port on the front panel.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Die-Hard BIOS (100% Virus Protection, Upgrade Optional) Recently, many viruses have been found that they may destroy bios code and data area. Therefore, this motherboard implements a very effective hardware protection method that does not involve any software or BIOS coding, hence it is 100% virus free. You may restore the originally mounted BIOS with 2 nd BIOS ROM by setting JP30 to pin 2-3 if it fails to act normally.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual E x t e r n a l C o n t r ol l e r f or DI E - H A R D BI O S ( U p gr a d e O p t i o n a 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Note: If you suspect your BIOS is infected by virus, just rescue your bios by following steps: 1. 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 go back to normal mode.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Dr. LED Connector (Upgrade Optional) In conjunction with Dr. LED (Upgrade 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 1 2 3.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 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 Boot O.K. KB HDD 4 Floppy 3 2 1 0 PCI Video Memory CPU The total 8 LEDs light up alternatively if the system fails in one of eight stages.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual B a t t e r y - l e s s a n d L o n g Li f e D e s i g n This Motherboard implements Flash ROM and a special circuit that allows you to save your current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations without using the 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual O v e r - c ur r e n t P r o t e c t i o n It is very popular that the Over Current Protection was implemented on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply. However, the new generation CPU uses different voltages that has regulator to transfer 5V to CPU voltage (for example, 2.0V), and thus makes 5V over current protection useless. This motherboard is equipped with switching regulator onboard which supports CPU over-current protection; in conjunction with 3.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual H a r d w a r e M o ni t o r i n g 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 systems’ status goes wrong, there will be an alarm through the AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility to warn the user.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual R e se t ta b l e F u s e Traditional motherboard has fuse for Keyboard and USB port to prevent over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that user cannot replace it when it is damaged (did the job to protect motherboard), and the motherboard remains malfunction. With expensive Resettable Fuse, the motherboard can resume back to normal function after fuse had done its protection job.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 2 2 0 0 μ F L o w E S R C a p a c i t or The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for the stability of CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 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”.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual F a n s i n k o n N or t h Br i d g e In order to provide a better effect of cooling and make the chipset work more stable, we especially design a fansink on the north bridge. After locating the fansink on the north bridge, plug the connector to the header marked FAN3 (AUX Fan) on the motherboard.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual D ri v e r a n d U t i l i t y 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual A u t o - r u n Me n u f r o m B o n u s C D Di s c You can use the auto-run menu of Bonus CD disc. Choose the utility and driver and select model name.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Installing Windows 95 1. 2. First, don’t install any add-on card except AGP card. 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 Support driver and VIA registry (INF) program. 4. Finally, Install other add-on cards and their drivers.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Installing Windows 98 1. 2. First, don’t install any add-on card except AGP card. Enable USB Controller in BIOS Setup > Advanced Chipset Features > OnChip USB, to make BIOS fully capable of controlling IRQ assignment. 3. Install Window 98 into your system. 4. 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Installing Windows® 98 SE, Windows® ME & Windows®2000 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual I n s t al l i n g VI A 4 i n 1 D r i ve 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 auto-run menu. Warning:To take advantage of ATA133, it is a must to install the latest version of VIA 4in1 driver in the Bonus CD.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual I n s t a l l i n g O n b o a r d S o u n d 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 auto-run menu.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual I n s t a l l O n b o a r d I D E R A I D Dr i v e r ( A K 7 7 P l u s ( A ) - 1 3 3 O nl y ) The onboard PROMISE ® FastTrak 100 Lite chipset provides DOS, Widows 3.1/95/98/98 SE/ME/NT/2000 driver for install. Please refer to the “ATA/100 IDE RAID Manual” for more detail information.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual I n s t a l l i n g H a r d w a r e M o n i t or i n g U t 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual A C P I S u s p e n d t o H a r d Dr i v e 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual System Requirement 1. AOZVHDD.EXE 1.30b or later. 2. Delete config.sys and autoexec.bat. 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 memory size the longer this process will take.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Changing from APM to ACPI (Windows 98 only) 1. Run "Regedit.exe" a. Go through the following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE 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. 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual A C PI S u s p e n d t o R A M ( S T R ) This motherboard supports ACPI Suspend to RAM function. With this function, you can resume your original work directly from SDRAM without going through the Windows 98 booting process and run your application again. Suspend to SDRAM saves your current work in the system memory, it is faster than Suspend to Hard Drive but requires power supplied to SDRAM, while Suspend to Hard Drive requires no power.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual To implement ACPI Suspend to DRAM, please follow the procedures as below: System Requirement 1. An ACPI OS is required. Currently, except Windows 95 and Windows NT, all other Windows Systems support ACPI. 2. The VIA 4 in 1 Driver must have been installed properly. Procedures 1. Changed the following BIOS settings. BIOS Setup > Power Management Setup > ACPI Function: Enabled BIOS Setup > Power Management Setup > ACPI Suspend Type: S3. 2.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual A W AR D B I O S 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). The AwardBIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual How To Use Award™ BIOS Setup Program Generally, you can use the arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, then press key to select, and use the and key to change setting value. You also can press key for help and press key to quit Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Award™ BIOS setup program.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Key Description F6 Load fail-save setting value from CMOS. F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS. F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program. Note: AOpen always dedicates to give users a much more friendly computer system. Now, we include all function descriptions of BIOS setup program into the BIOS Flash ROM. When you select one function of BIOS setup program, the function description will appeared at right side of screen.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual How To Enter BIOS Setup 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. Del Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, SDRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual BI O S U p g r a d e 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 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, AK77PA102.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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual O v e r cl o c k i n 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual VG A C ar d & H ar d D i 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual G l os s a r y AC97 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. A C P I ( A d v a n c e d C o n f i g ur a t i o n & P ow e r I n te r f a c e ) ACPI is the power management specification of PC97 (1997).
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual A M R ( A u d i o/ M o d e m R i s e r ) The CODEC circuit of AC97 sound/modem solution can be put on motherboard or put on a riser card (AMR card) that connects to motherboard through AMR connector. A O pe n B o n us P a c k C D A disc bundled with AOpen motherboard product, there are motherboard drivers, Acrobat Reader for PDF online manual and other useful utilities.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual ATA/100 ATA/100 is a new IDE specification under developing. ATA/100 uses both rising edge and falling edge as ATA/66 but clock cycle time is reduced to 40ns. The data transfer rate is (1/40ns) x 2 bytes x 2 = 100MB/s. To use ATA/100, you need special 80-wire IDE cable, the same as ATA/66. B I O S ( Ba s i c I n p u t / O u t p u t S y s t e m ) BIOS is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual C O DE C ( C o d i n g a n d De c o di n g ) Normally, CODEC means a circuit that can do digital to analog conversion and also the analog to digital conversion. It is part of AC97 sound/modem solution. D D R ( D o u b l e Da t a R a te ) S D R A M DDR SDRAM utilizes the existing SDRAM infrastructure and technology while doubling the nominal bandwidth available to systems in an easy to design and simple to adopt way.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual E C C ( E r r or C he c k i n g a n d C or r e c t i o n ) The ECC mode needs 8 ECC bits for 64-bit data. Each time memory is accessed; ECC bits are updated and checked by a special algorithm. The ECC algorithm has the ability to detect double-bit error and automatically correct single-bit error while parity mode can only detect single-bit error.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual EV 6 B u s EV6 Bus is the technology of Alpha processor from Digital Equipment Corporation. EV6 bus uses both rising and falling clock edge to transfer data, similar as DDR SDRAM or ATA/66 IDE bus. EV6 Bus Speed = CPU external bus clock x 2. For example, 200 MHz EV6 bus is actually using 100 MHz external bus clock, but the equivalent speed is 200 MHz.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual F S B ( F r o n t S i d e B u s ) C l oc k FSB Clock means CPU external bus clock. CPU internal clock = CPU FSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio I2C Bus See SMBus. IE EE 1 39 4 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual P a r i t y Bi t The parity mode uses 1 parity bit for each byte, normally it is even parity mode, that is, each time the memory data is updated, parity bit will be adjusted to have even count "1" for each byte. When next time, if memory is read with odd number of "1", the parity error is occurred and this is called single bit error detection.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual P C -1 6 0 0 o r P C - 2 1 0 0 D D R S D R A M Based on FSB frequency, the DDR SDRAM has 200MHz and 266MHz two type of working frequency. Because of DDR SDRAM data bus is 64-bit, it provides data transfer bandwidth up to 200x64/8=1600MB/s, and 266x64/8=2100MB/s. Hence, the PC-1600 DDR SDRAM is working with 100MHz and PC-2100 DDR SDRAM is working with 133MHz FSB frequency.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual POST (Power-On Self Test) The BIOS self-test procedure after power-on, sometimes, it is the first or the second screen shown on your monitor during system boot. R D R A M ( R a mb u s D R A M ) Rambus is a memory technology that uses large burst mode data transfer. Theoretically, the data transfer should be high than SDRAM. RDRAM is cascaded in channel operation.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual 2 S ha d o w E P R O M A memory space in Flash-ROM to simulate E 2PROM operation, AOpen motherboard uses Shadow E 2PROM for jumper-less and battery-less design S I M M ( S i n gl e I n Li n e Me m o r y M o d u l 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual U l t ra D M A Ultra DMA (or, more accurately, Ultra DMA/33) is a protocol for transferring data between a hard disk drive through the computer’s data path (or bus) to the computer’s random access memory (RAM). The Ultra DMA/33 protocol transfers data in burst mode at a rate of 33.3MB/s, twice as fast as the previous Direct Access Memory (DMA) interface.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements. VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I/O pins. Using VCM technology results in reduced data access latency and reduced power consumption.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual T r ou b l e s h o o t i n g If you encounter any trouble to boot you system, follow the procedures accordingly to resolve the problem. 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 printer. Make sure if all jumper settings are correct.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 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.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 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 106 It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.
AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 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? Yes Re-install the operating system such as Windows 98. End 107 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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AK77 Pro(A)-133 / AK77 Plus(A)-133 Online Manual Mo d e l n a m e a n d B I O S v e r s i o n Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AK77 Plus(A)-133 R1.00 FEb.01.2001 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 1998, Award Software, Inc. AK77 Plus(A)-133 is model name of motherboard, R1.00 is BIOS version.
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