K8S8X User Manual Version 1.02 Published May 2004 Copyright©2004 ASRock INC. All rights reserved.
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Contents 1 Introduction ................................................... 5 1.1 Package Contents ..................................................................... 5 1.2 Specifications ............................................................................ 6 1.3 Motherboard Layout ................................................................... 8 1.4 ASRock I/O PlusTM ..................................................................... 9 2 Installation ........................................
Software Support ........................................... 37 4.1 Install Operating System ........................................................... 37 4.2 Support CD Information ............................................................. 37 4.2.1 Running Support CD ....................................................... 37 4.2.2 Drivers Menu ................................................................... 37 4.2.3 Utilities Menu ...................................................................
Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing ASRock K8S8X motherboard, a reliable motherboard produced under ASRock’s consistently stringent quality control. It delivers excellent performance with robust design conforming to ASRock’s commitment to quality and endurance. In this manual, chapter 1 and 2 contain introduction of the motherboard and step-bystep guide to the hardware installation. Chapter 3 and 4 contain the configuration guide to BIOS setup and information of the Support CD.
1.2 Specifications Platform: CPU: ATX Form Factor (12.0-in x 8.5-in, 30.5 cm x 21.6 cm) 754-Pin Socket supporting AMD AthlonTM 64 processor Chipsets: North Bridge: SiS 755 chipset, FSB @ 800 MHz / 1.6 GT/s South Bridge: SiS 964 chipset, supports USB 2.0, ATA 133, SATA 1.5Gb/s Memory: 2 DDR DIMM slots: DDR1 and DDR2 supports PC3200 (DDR400) / PC2700 (DDR333) / PC2100 (DDR266) / PC1600 (DDR200), Max.
BIOS: AMI legal BIOS; Supports “Plug and Play”; ACPI 1.1 compliance wake up events; Supports “Plug and Play”; Supports jumperfree; SMBIOS 2.3.1 support; CPU frequency stepless control (only for advanced users’ reference, see CAUTION 4) Microsoft® Windows® 98 SE / ME / 2000 / XP compliant OS: (see CAUTION 5) CAUTION! 1. While CPU overheat is detected, the system will automatically shutdown. Please check if the CPU fan on the motherboard functions properly before you resume the system.
1.3 Motherboard Layout 1 3 2 21.6cm (8.5 in) 1 PS2 Mouse 30.5cm (12.0 in) PS2_USB_PW1 DDR2 (64/72 bit, 184-pin module) PARALLEL PORT PS2 Keyboard COM1 DDR1 (64/72 bit, 184-pin module) CPU_FAN1 4 USB 2.0 T: USB2 B: USB3 U74 USB 2.0 T: USB0 Top: RJ-45 B: USB1 Top: Line In AUX1 JR1 JL1 SiS 755 Chipset 1 AUDIO1 PCI LAN AUDIO CODEC 8 1.5V_AGP1 CMOS Battery 23 PCI 1 22 PCI 3 DDR400 AGP8X ATA133 5.1 CH GAME1 USB 2.
1.4 ASRock I/O Plus TM 1 2 3 4 5 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 9 8 Parallel Port RJ-45 Port Line In (Light Blue) Line Out (Lime) Microphone In (Pink) Shared USB 2.0 Ports (USB45) 7 7 8 9 10 11 9 6 USB 2.0 Ports (USB01) USB 2.
Chapter 2 Installation K8S8X is an ATX form factor (12.0-in x 8.5-in, 30.5 cm x 21.6 cm) motherboard. Before you install the motherboard, study the configuration of your chassis to ensure that the motherboard fits into it. Pre-installation Precautions Take note of the following precautions before you install motherboard components or change any motherboard settings. 1. Unplug the power cord from the wall socket before touching any component. 2.
2.1 CPU Installation Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. o Unlock the socket by lifting the lever up to a 90 angle. Position the CPU directly above the socket such that the CPU corner with the golden triangle matches the socket corner with a small triangle. Carefully insert the CPU into the socket until it fits in place. The CPU fits only in one correct orientation. DO NOT force the CPU into the socket to avoid bending of the pins. Step 4.
2.3 Installation of Memory Modules (DIMM) K8S8X motherboard provides two 184-pin DDR (Double Data Rate) DIMM slots. Please make sure to disconnect power supply before adding or removing DIMMs or the system components. Step 1. Step 2. Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the retaining clips outward. Align a DIMM on the slot such that the notch on the DIMM matches the break on the slot. notch break notch break The DIMM only fits in one correct orientation.
2.4 Expansion Slots (PCI and AGP Slots) There are 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot on K8S8X motherboard. PCI slots: PCI slots are used to install expansion cards that have the 32-bit PCI interface. AGP slot: The AGP slot is used to install an AGP card. Please do NOT use a 3.3V AGP card on the AGP slot of this motherboard! It may cause permanent damage! For the voltage information of your AGP card, please check with the AGP card vendors. Installing an expansion card Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5.
2.5 Jumpers Setup The illustration shows how jumpers are setup. When the jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Short”. If no jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Open”. The illustration shows a 3-pin jumper whose pin1 and pin2 are “Short” when jumper cap is placed on these 2 pins. Jumper PS2_USB_PWR1 Setting 1_2 2_3 (see p.8, No. 2) +5V +5VSB Short pin2, pin3 to enable +5VSB (standby) for PS/2 or USB wake up events.
2.6 Onboard Headers and Connectors Onboard headers and connectors are NOT jumpers. Do NOT place jumper caps over these headers and connectors. Placing jumper caps over the headers and connectors will cause permanent damage of the motherboard! FDD Connector (33-pin FLOPPY1) Pin1 (see p.8, No. 13) FLOPPY1 the red-striped side to Pin1 Note: Make sure the red-striped side of the cable is plugged into Pin1 side of the connector.
Serial ATA (SATA) Power Cable (Optional) connect to the SATA HDD power connector connect to the power supply USB 2.0 Header USB_PWR P-6 P+6 GND DUMMY (9-pin USB67) (see p.8, No. 19) 1 GND P+7 P-7 USB_PWR Shared USB 2.0 Header (9-pin USB45H) (see p.8, No. 29) 1 USB_PWR USB_PWR P-4 P+4 GND P-5 P+5 GND DUMMY IRTX +5V DUMMY Infrared Module Header 1 GND IRRX Internal Audio Connectors (4-pin CD1, 4-pin AUX1) CD-L GND GND CD-R CD1 AUX-L GND GND AUX-R AUX1 (CD1: see p.8, No. 28) (AUX1: see p.
PLED+ PLEDPWRBTN# GND System Panel Header (9-pin PANEL1) (see p.8, No. 15) This header accommodates several system front panel functions. 1 DUMMY RESET# GND HDLEDHDLED+ Chassis Speaker Header 1 SPEAKER DUMMY DUMMY +5V (4-pin SPEAKER 1) (see p.8, No. 17) Chassis Fan Connector GND +12V CHA_FAN_SPEED (3-pin CHA_FAN1) (see p.8, No. 14) CPU Fan Connector GND +12V CPU_FAN_SPEED (3-pin CPU_FAN1) (see p.8, No. 1) +5V JBB1 JBX MIDI_OUT JBY JBB2 MIDI_IN Game Connector (15-pin GAME1) (see p.8, No.
2.7 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts SiS 964 southbridge chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks and RAID functions. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks. STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis. STEP 2: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard’s primary SATA connector (SATA1).
2.9 Making An SATA Driver Diskette If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your SATA HDDs, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation. STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at this moment!) STEP 2: During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device.
Chapter 3 BIOS SETUP UTILITY 3.1 Introduction This section explains how to use the BIOS SETUP UTILITY to configure your system. The Flash Memory on the motherboard stores the BIOS SETUP UTILITY. You may run the BIOS SETUP UTILITY when you start up the computer. Please press during the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) to enter the BIOS SETUP UTILITY, otherwise, POST will continue with its test routines.
3.1.2 Navigation Keys Please check the following table for the function description of each navigation key. Navigation Key(s) / / + / Function Description Moves cursor left or right to select Screens Moves cursor up or down to select items To change option for the selected items To bring up the selected screen To display the General Help Screen To save changes and exit the BIOS SETUP UTILITY To jump to the Exit Screen or exit the current screen 3.
3.3 Advanced Screen In this section, you may set the configurations for the following items: CPU Configuration, IDE Configuration, Floppy Configuration, SuperIO Configuration, Hardware Health Configuration, ACPI Configuration, and USB Configuration. Main Advanced BIOS SETUP UTILITY PCI PnP Boot Security Chipset Exit Options for CPU Advanced Settings WARNING : Setting wrong values in below sections may cause system to malfunction.
3.3.2 IDE Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced IDE Configuration OnBoard IDE Controller OnBoard SATA Controller Primary IDE Master Primary IDE Slave Secondary IDE Master Secondary IDE Slave [Both] [Enabled] [Not Detected] [Not Detected] [ATAPI CDROM] [Not Detected] DISABLED: disables the integrated IDE Controller. PRIMARY: enables only the Primary IDE Controller. SECONDARY: enables only the Secondary IDE Controller. BOTH: enables both IDE Controllers.
TYPE Use this item to configure the type of the IDE device that you specify. Configuration options: [Not Installed], [Auto], [CD/DVD], and [ARMD]. [Not Installed]: Select [Not Installed] to disable the use of IDE device. [Auto]: Select [Auto] to automatically detect the hard disk drive. After selecting the hard disk information into BIOS, use a disk utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format the new IDE hard disk drives. This is necessary so that you can write or read data from the hard disk.
3.3.3 Floppy Configuration In this section, you may configure the type of your floppy drive. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Floppy Configuration [1.44 MB 3 2"] [Disabled] 1 Floppy A Floppy B Select the type of floppy drive connected to the system. +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. 3.3.
Parallel Port Address Use this item to set the address for the onboard parallel port or disable it. Configuration options: [Disabled], [378], and [278]. Parallel Port Mode Use this item to set the operation mode of the parallel port. The default value is [ECP+EPP]. If this option is set to [ECP+EPP], it will show the EPP version in the following item, “EPP Version”. Configuration options: [Normal], [Bi-Directional], and [ECP+EPP]. EPP Version Use this item to set the EPP version. Configuration options: [1.
3.3.6 ACPI Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced ACPI Settings Suspend To RAM [Disabled] Restore on AC / Power Loss Ring-In Power On PCI Devices Power On PS / 2 Keyboard Power On RTC Alarm Power On [Power Off] [Disabled] [Disabled] [Disabled] [Disabled] Select auto-detect or disable the STR feature. +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc.
3.3.7 USB Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced USB Configuration To enable or disable the onboard USB controllers. USB Devices Enabled : None USB Controller USB 2.0 Support Legacy USB Support [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. USB Controller Use this item to enable or disable the use of USB controller. USB 2.
3.4 PCIPnP Screen In this section, you may configure the PCI Latency Timer and the PCI IDE Bus Master. Main Advanced BIOS SETUP UTILITY PCIPnP Boot Security Advanced PCI / PnP Settings WARNING : Setting wrong values in below sections may cause system to malfunction. Chipset Exit Value in units of PCI clocks for PCI device latency timer register.
3.5.1 Boot Settings Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Boot Boot Settings Configuration Boot From Network Bootup Num-Lock To enable or disable the boot from network feature. [Disabled] [On] +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. Boot From Network Use this item to enable or disable the Boot From Network feature.
3.6 Security Screen In this section, you may set or change the supervisor/user password for the system in this section. For the user password, you may also clear it. Main Advanced BIOS SETUP UTILITY Security PCIPnP Boot Security Settings Supervisor Password User Password Chipset Exit Install or Change the password.
3.7.1 Memory Controller Configuration In this section, it will display the status of memory clock, CAS Latency, TRCD, TRAS, and TRP. You may also set the memory configuration in the sub-screen under this section. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Chipset Memory Controller Configuration Memory Configuration Memory CLK CAS Latency TRCD TRAS TRP : 166 MHz : 3.0 : 4 CLK : 7 CLK : 4 CLK Select Screen Select Item Go to Sub Screen General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit Enter F1 F9 F10 ESC v02.
Node Interleaving Interleaving allows memory accesses to be spread out over banks on the same node, or accross nodes, decreasing access contention. Burst Length Burst length can be set to 8 or 4 beats. 64 Bit Dq must use the 4 beats. CAS Latency (CL) Use this item to adjust the means of memory accessing. Configuration options: [Auto], [2.0], [3.0], and [2.5]. TRCD Use this to adjust TRCD values. Configuration options: [Auto], [2CLK], [3CLK], [4CLK], [5CLK], and [6CLK]. TRAS Use this to adjust TRAS values.
3.7.3 AGP Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Chipset AGP Chipset Configuration AGP Aperture Size AGP Data Rate AGP Fast Write Primary Graphics Adapter Aperture size defines a Window into system memory for the AGP video controller. It does not consume real system memory. [64 MB] [8X] [Disabled] [PCI] +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc.
3.7.4 HyperTransport Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Chipset HyperTransport Configuration HT Width HT Speed HT Tristate Enable CRC Flood Enable Options 8 BIT [Auto] [800 Mhz] [Disabled] [Disabled] 16 BIT Auto +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. HT Width Use this item to set the HT width as [8 BIT], [16 BIT], or [Auto].
3.8 Exit Screen Main Advanced BIOS SETUP UTILITY PCIPnP Boot Security Exit Options Chipset Exit Exit system setup after saving the changes. Save Changes and Exit Discard Changes and Exit Discard Changes F10 key can be used for this operation. Load Optimal Defaults Enter F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Go to Sub Screen General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc.
Chapter 4 Software Support 4.1 Install Operating System This motherboard supports various Microsoft® Windows® operating systems: 98 SE / ME / 2000 / XP. Because motherboard settings and hardware options vary, use the setup procedures in this chapter for general reference only. Refer to your OS documentation for more information. 4.2 Support CD Information The Support CD that came with the motherboard contains necessary drivers and useful utilities that enhance the motherboard features. 4.2.
