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AK77-600 Max Online Manual What’s in this manual AK77-600 Max................................................................................................................................. 1 What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice ..............................................................................................................................
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Supported CPU Frequency ........................................................................................................................................... 31 AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” .............................................................................................................................................. 32 CPU and Housing Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ..............................................................................................
AK77-600 Max Online Manual S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector......................................................................................................... 52 Dr. LED Connector (User Upgrade Optional) ................................................................................................................ 53 IEEE 1394 Connector....................................................................................................................................................
AK77-600 Max Online Manual What are the RAID levels? ............................................................................................................................................ 72 HDD Capacity of RAID Levels ....................................................................................................................................... 75 Serial ATA RAID for VIA VT8237 ...................................................................................................................
AK77-600 Max Online Manual The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek ................................................................................................................................ 112 EzClock....................................................................................................................................................................... 115 Glossary ..............................................................................................................................
AK77-600 Max Online Manual FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................................................................................................................ 124 Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................. 124 Hyper Threading ...............................................................................................................................
AK77-600 Max Online Manual ZIP file......................................................................................................................................................................... 129 Troubleshooting....................................................................................................................... 130 Technical Support ................................................................................................................... 134 Product Registration ..
AK77-600 Max 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, Pentium 4 are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
AK77-600 Max 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 5.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Ove rv ie w ® Thank you for choosing AOpen AK77-600 Max. The AK77-600 Max is AMD Socket 462 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form featuring the VIA Apollo KT600 chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK77-600 Max comes with AMD ® Socket 462 series Athlon™ & Duron™ and AthlonXP™ processor (with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to Athlon™XP CPU only) and 200/266/333/400 MHz EV6 system bus.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Fea t ure Highlight CPU ® Supports AMD Socket 462 series CPU with both 200/266/333/400 MHz EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology. Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz Duron: 600MHz~1.2GHz AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~3200+(2.2GHz) Chipset The VIA Apollo KT600 consists of the KT600 V-Link DDR Host system controller and the VT8237 highly integrated V-Link Client PCI/LPC controller.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Serial ATA This motherboard comes with an integrated SATA controller in VIA VT8237 and a Promise Serial ATA controller, aiming to provide you an even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second. The SATA connectors (port 1 and port2) provided by Promise SATA controller support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1, and The SATA connectors (port 3 and port 4) provided by VIA VT8237 support RAID 0 and RIAD 1.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Memory With VIA Apollo KT600 chipset, AK77-600 Max can support Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The DDR RAM interface allows zero wait state bursting between the RAM and the data buffers at 400/333/266/200 MHz. The six banks of DDR RAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512MB, 1GB x N DDR RAM and DDR400 maximum up to 2GB and DDR333/266 up to 3GB.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment Provides “1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you adjust CPU FSB frequency from 100~248MHz by 1MHz stepping, and lets your system can get maximum performance. Watch Dog ABS Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail the system overclocking.
AK77-600 Max 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/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4), WOM (Wake On Modem), WOL (Wake On LAN) features.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Qui ck I n sta l la ti on Pr oce dur 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. Installing Operating System (such as Windows XP) 11.
AK77-600 Max AC97 CODEC AUX-IN Connector CD-IN Connector Die Hard BIOS (BIOS 2) Die Hard BIOS (BIOS1) Online Manual Motherboard Map SmartEAR Connector JP24 Die Hard BIOS Jumper S/PDIF Connector Front Audio Connector Case Open Connector Game Port Connector IrDA Connector WOL Connector Dr. LED Connector 32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6 (PCI 1 supports slave mode PCI card only) JP2 Dr. Voice II Speaker/ buzzer Output Jumper JP15 & JP16 Dr.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual B l o c k Di a gr a m DDR400 RAM Up to 3GB and DDR333/266 RAM to 2GB PCI Bus 32-bit PCI Slot x6 Serial ATA Devices x2 DDR SDRAM Socket x3 Promise Serial ATA PDC20378 Socket 462 AMD Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP CPU 100/133/166/200 MHz System Bus ATA 66/100/133 VIA KT600 ATA 66/100/133 Third Channel Primary Channel IDE Drive x6 Secondary Channel AGP Bus Serial ATA VT8237 AGP 8X Slot LAN connect Component Broardcom BCM5705 1st USB Port AC’97 Link Audio CODEC 4MBit Flash EEP
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Hardware Installation 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual About “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” and “User Upgrade Optional”… When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may find some of functions are called “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional”, and some are called “User Upgrade Optional”. Though all AOpen motherboards include many amazing and powerful features, in some situations, these powerful features are not used to every user.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual CPU Installation This motherboard supports AMD Athlon XP, Athlon and Duron Socket 462 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket (with CPU Overheat Protection function implemented, the system will be automatically power off when the temperature of CPU reached 97 degree, but works on AthlonXP CPU only). 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the CPU upper interface.
AK77-600 Max 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual EzColor Breaking through traditional outlook of motherboard, AOpen now brings you a new fresh look of motherboard! – EzColor! Fancy? You may think so, but actually it is a practical and useful feature for amateur or even power-users. Coming in specific color for specific connector and module, components on motherboard are now born with their respective colors.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Claret: Serial ATA connector 1 Power Switch IDE LED ACPI & Power LED SPEAKER RESET Light Yellow: IDE 3 Connector Navy Blue: IDE 1 Connector Black: IDE 2 Connector Note: Colors setting varies on different motherboards, the color setting here applies only to AK77-600 Max 25
AK77-600 Max Online Manual AOpen Overheat Protection (O.H.P.) Technology With AMD platform substantially keeps increasing the speed of its CPU, it inevitably led to the annoying problem of high CPU operation temperature at the same time. In order to prevent accidental failure of CPU fan, which could cause the burning down of the AthlonXP CPU, we, AOpen, have meticulously developed a new technology, named, O.H.P. (Overheat Protection) Technology to protect them.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual CPU Ov er- c urre nt Prote ct ion Over Current Protection has been popularly implemented on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply for a while. However, new generation CPU is able to use regulator of different voltages to transfer 12V to CPU voltage (for example, to 2.0V). This motherboard is with switching regulator onboard that supports CPU over-current protection, and it applies to 3.3V/5V/12V power supply for providing full line over-current protection.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink Cool down CPU and Chipset is important for system reliability. Enlarged aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption especially when you are trying to over clocking the CPU.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage This function is dedicated to overclockers. The CPU core voltage of this motherboard is adjustable 1.10V to 1.85V by 0.05V stepping. But this motherboard can also automatically detect CPU VID signal and generates proper CPU core voltage. BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Voltage Setting Warning: Higher CPU core voltage may be able to increase CPU speed for overclocking, but you may damage the CPU or reduce the CPU lifecycle.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Setting CPU Frequency 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 5x to 18x step 0.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Supp ort e d CPU Fre que n cy Core Frequency = CPU Bus Clock * CPU Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 PCI Clock = CPU Bus Clock / Clock Ratio EV6 Bus Speed = CPU external bus clock x 2 CPU Core EV6 Bus Ratio Frequency Clock Athlon 1.33G 1.33GHz 266MHz 10.0x Athlon 1.4G 1.4GHz 266MHz 10.5x AthlonXP 1500+ 1.3GHz 266MHz 10.0x AthlonXP 1600+ 1.4GHz 266MHz 10.5x AthlonXP 1700+ 1.46GHz 266MHz 11.0x AthlonXP 1800+ 1.53GHz 266MHz 11.5x AthlonXP 1900+ 1.6GHz 266MHz 12.0x AthlonXP 2000+ 1.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” 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 ABS” 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 ABS” will reset the system to reboot in five seconds.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual C P U a n d H o u s i n g F a n C o n n e ct o r ( wi t h H / W Mo n i t o ri n g) Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN1 Connector GND +12V SENSOR CPUFAN Connector GND +12V SENSOR Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual DI MM So cke ts This motherboard has three 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install DDR266/333 memory up to 3 GB and DDR400 memory up to 2GB. Non-ECC DDR RAM is supported. Otherwise, it will cause serious damage on memory sockets or RAM module. Newly implemented function, the Voltage of memory on this motherboard is adjustable from 2.5V to 2.7V for over clocking purpose.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual H o w t o I n s t a l l M e m o r y Mo 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual ATX Power Connector The ATX power supply uses 20-pin connector shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction. AC Pow er Auto Recovery 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual IDE and Floppy Connector Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDD connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual IDE1 is also known as the primary channel, IDE2 and IDE3 are known as the secondary and third channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of six 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual ATA/133 Supported This motherboard supports ATA66, ATA100 or ATA133 IDE devices. Following table lists the transfer rate of IDE PIO and DMA modes. The IDE bus is 16-bit, which means every transfer is two bytes. As the hard drive industry introduces faster and higher capacity hard drives, the current Ultra ATA/100 interface causes a data bottleneck between the drive and the host computer.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Serial ATA Supported(With RAID Function) The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Connecting Serial ATA Disk To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin Serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the Serial ATA cable to the Serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please note that it is a jumper free implement; you don’t need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Front Panel Con nector Attach the power LED, 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Ir DA Co nne ct 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).
AK77-600 Max Online Manual AGP ( Ac ce le rat e d Gra phi c Por t) 8 X Ex pa nsi on Sl ot The AK77-600 Max provides an AGP 8x slot. The AGP 8x 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 4X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. AGP is now moving to AGP 8x mode, which is 66MHz x 4bytes x 8 =2.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual W O L ( Wa k e o n L A N ) C o n n e c t o r 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.
AK77-600 Max 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 1 0 / 1 0 0 / 1 0 0 0 Mb p s L A N o n b o a r d The South Bridge VT8237 includes a fast Ethernet controller on chip. On the strength of Broadcom BCM5705 LAN controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100/1000M bps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The right-hand side LED indicates the link mode, it blinks in orange whenever linking to network.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Supp or t Ei ght USB 2 .0 Po rt This motherboard provides eight USB ports to connect USB devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are six connectors on the PC99 back panel. You can use proper cables to connect the other USB connectors to the USB modules or front panel of chassis. Please note that USB 2.0, with fancy speed up to 480Mbps, is 40 times faster than the traditional ones. Except for the speed increase, USB 2.0 supports old USB 1.0/1.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual C o l o r C o d e d Ba c k Pa n el The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, serial ports COM1 and COM2, RJ45 LAN Jack, Printer, USB, AC97 sound. The view angle of drawing shown here is the back panel of the housing. PS/2 Mouse Connector SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port RJ45 LAN Jack Line-In Speaker Out MIC-In PS/2 Keyboard USB Port Connector (2.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC650 CODEC, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC650, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any external module. To apply this function, you have to install the audio driver in the Bonus Pack CD as well as an audio application supporting 5.1 Channel.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Front Audio Con nector 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 5-6 and 9-10 jumper caps from the Front Audio Connector before connecting the cable. Please do not remove these 5-6 and 9-10 yellow jumper caps if there’s no audio port on the front panel.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual S / P D I F ( S o n y / P h il i p s D i g i ta l I nt e r f a c e ) C o n n e c t o r S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through a specific audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital output.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Dr. LED Connector (User Upgrade Optional) In conjunction with Dr. LED (User 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-diagnose your system status. Pin 1 1 2 3.
AK77-600 Max 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. Once the LED7 (latest LED) is lit, this indicates that the system has completed its boot-up procedure.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual IEEE 1394 Conne ctor This motherboard comes with IEEE 1394 controller Agere FW323 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Case Op en Con n ector The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is being triggered by light or opening of the chassis, the system will send out beep sound to inform you.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual CD Audi o Conne ctor This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CD-ROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual G a me Port B ra c ket Supp ort e d This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual J P2 S p e a k e r / B u z z e r S e l e c t J u m p e r This motherboard comes with another considerate function, which allows you to select the voice coming out from buzzer or speaker when Dr. Voice detects any errors occurred in the operating system. If you want to enable buzzer, you may set JP2 to pin 1-2, or pin 2-3 to enable speaker.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual J P 1 4 C l e a r C MO S D a t a J u m p e r 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 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1 1.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Dr. Voice II & JP15, 16 Dr. Voice II is a great feature of this motherboard, which can identifies what kind of problems had occurred in the operating system. It can even clearly “tell” you 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. Dr. Voice provides four language versions, English, German, Japanese and Chinese for your choice.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual J P2 1 K 7 H o s t C l o c k Se le c t i o n This jumper is used to specify the relationship of PCI and FSB clock. Generally speaking, if you are not an over-clocker, 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. If you fix the CPU FSB frequency by JP21, the “1MHz Stepping Adjustment” range will be changed to 100MHz~248MHz.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual JP28 KB/Mouse Wake-up Jumper This motherboard provides keyboard / mouse wake-up function. You can use JP28 to enable or disable this function, which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse installed. The factory default setting is set to “Disable”(1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to pin2-3.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual D ie - Ha r d BI O S a n d J P2 4 Sele ct J u m p er Many viruses which destroy bios code and data area have been increasingly found these days. This motherboard implements a very effective hardware protection method without any software or BIOS coding involved, therefore it is 100% virus free. Once your BIOS is crashed, it is easy to save it back. First step is to set JP24 to Pin2-3 to boot up the system with BIOS 2.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual STBY LED STBY LED is AOpen’s considerate design that aims at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard. This is a convenient indication for you to check the system power status in many circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and 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 STBY LED lights on.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED W i t h t h e o u t s t a n d i n g R & D a b i l i t y o f A O p e n a n d i t s s p e c i a l l y d e v e l o p e d c i r c u i t , t h i s m o d e l i m p l e m e n ts a b l e n d n e w t e c h n o l o g y t o p ro te c t yo u r m o t h e rb oa rd f ro m b ei n g d a m a g e d b y o v e r-v ol ta gi n g of A GP ca rd .
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Battery-less and Long Life Design 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 220 0 μ F L o w ES R Ca p a c it o r 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. Not only that, this motherboard implements 2200μF capacitor, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 or 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 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. Below is a timing diagram captured by a Digital Storage Scope, it shows the voltage transient is only 143mv even when maximum 60 current is applied.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual R A ID I nt r o d uc ti o n W h a t ’s R A I D ? Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures. The idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was first introduced by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy H. Katz at the University California at Berkeley in 1988.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual What a re t he RAID lev els ? Striping / Span (RAID 0) RAID level 0, which is the fastest drive array you can have, is a performance-oriented disk mapping method. The data in this array gets written across a stripe or different disks for a faster transfer. This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. Reads and writes sector of data interleaved between multiple drives.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Mi r ro r in g ( R A ID 1) Block 1 RAID level 1 uses at least two duplicate hard drives and store the exact same blocks of information between them. This is the slowest form of Block 2 fault tolerance because the data has to be replicated onto two disks at Block 3 the same time. However, this is the simplest way to provide high reliability.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0+1) As the name would suggest, RAID 0+1 is striping and mirroring combined. This RAID combines the best of both RAID 0 and RAID 1. It takes a Disk stripe using two disks, and mirrors it to another set of disks for fault tolerance. Data is stripped across several disks, each disk has partner with exactly the same data on it. You get the benefits of fast data access as in RAID 0, with the fault tolerance of RAID 1.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual HDD Ca pac it y of RAI D Le vel s Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0 +1) Striping / Span (RAID 0) Striping Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Mirroring Mi r ro r in g ( R A ID 1) Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 40 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Striping 75
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Serial ATA RAID for VIA VT8237 With the latest chipsets implemented, VIA VT8237 provides RAID 0 and RAID 1 function for the Serial ATA hard disks. You may use RAID BIOS Setting Utility provided by VIA to setup your disk array. R A I D BI O S S e t t i n g Ut i l i t y In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID BIOS Setting Utility to do some configuration.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Serial ATA RAID for Promise PDC20378 Integrated in VIA VT8237, this motherboard comes with the function of additional RAID 0 and RAID 1 function. Beside RAID 0 and RAID 1, this motherboard is designed with Promise Serial ATA (PDC20378) controller onboard, which is capable of providing you additional RAID 0, 1, 0+1 functioned by ATA133 IDE Connector. R A I D C o n f i g ur at i o n Ut i l i t y Promise PDC20378 is capable of creating RAID function of 0, 1, 0+1 (by IDE3).
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 2. To create the disk array for RAID 1 with 2 hard disks: 3. To create the disk array for RAID 0, 1, 0 + 1 with 4 hard disks: If this is the first time booting and drives installed, the Promise onboard BIOS will display the following screen.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual FastBuild™ Utility Main Menu Press “1” to display the Auto Setup Menu below. This is the fastest and easiest method to creating your first array. For viewing Drive Assignment, Define Array, Delete Array, or Rebuild Array, please select the respective item for settings.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual P H O E N I X- AW A RD 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 Phoenix-Award BIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual How To Use Phoenix-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 Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Phoenix-Award BIOS setup program.
AK77-600 Max 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Wi n B I O S U t i l i t y In the past, users have to keep punching the DEL key at a good timing during POST (Power-On-Self-Test) screen to get into the BIOS, which is inconvenient and clumsy. From now on, AOpen provides an easier way to configure your BIOS. WinBIOS is a customized utility for running exclusively on AOpen motherboards, which allows you to setup your BIOS under Windows environment.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Function keys: Hotkey Function Description It’s definitely easy to handle WinBIOS as if you’re using F1 Get help description. traditional BIOS setting. Users can use the arrow keys such F2 Item Help F3 Changing menu language. F5 Load previous setting previous screen. Furthermore, the hotkeys shown in the table F6 Load setup default setting may help you and save your time.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual B I O S U p g r a d e u n d e r Wi n d o w s e n v i r o n m e n t With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinFlash. With an eye to users convenience, EzWinFlash combines the BIOS binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on the utility you downloaded from web and let it helps you complete the flash process automatically.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual You may accomplish BIOS upgrade procedure with EzWinFlash by the following steps, and it’s STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all the applications before you start the upgrading. 1. Download the new version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw/) 2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WAK77600MAX102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Vivid BIOS technology Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful POST screen! Unlike earlier graphic POST screen which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during
AK77-600 Max Online Manual D r i v e r a n d Ut i li t y There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD. You don’t need to install all of them in order to boot your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows XP) before you can install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual I ns ta l li n g V I A 4 i n 1 D ri 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 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.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual I ns ta ll i n g A u d i o D ri v e r This motherboard comes with RealTek ALC650 AC97 CODEC and the sound controller is in VIA South Bridge chipset. You can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual I ns ta ll i n g U S B 2 . 0 D ri v e r This motherboard comes with USB2.0 function. You can install USB2.0 Driver under Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu. Note: After installing USB 2.0 driver under WinME, there would be a "green question mark" on "VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller" item. Please rest assured that it is not an error message. You may just ignore it.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual I ns ta ll i n g L A N D ri v e r This motherboard comes with BroadCom BCM5705 controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN connect device providing 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. In Windows XP, you can install the LAN driver form the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual ************************************* Installing Driver under Win98SE/ME *************************************** 1. 2. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " 3. Click "PCI Ethernet Controller " -> "Driver " -> "Update Driver" and Select "Install the software automatically (Recommended) " And then Click "Next". 4.
AK77-600 Max 1. Online Manual Verify that the Windows NT system is upgraded with Service Pack 4 or later. 2. Start your Windows NT system and log in. You must have System Administrator privileges to install the driver software. 3. Open the Control Panel. 4. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. 5. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab. 6. Click "Add" to install a new adapter. All previously installed drivers are listed under Network Adapters. 7.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Installing VIA Serial ATA RAID Driver This Motherboard has two SATA ports which is provided by the south bridge VIA VT8237. The two ports support RAID 0 and RAID 1. You can install the SATA RAID driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual **************************************************** Install Operating System into SATA HDD of VT8237 Guide **************************************************** 1. When you want to install Windows 98SE or Me by using one or more SATA HDD * Make sure VT6420 RAID BIOS Setting Utility is executed by the system BIOS. * Make sure the SATA HDD for installing the OS in the first hard disk drive (C:\). * Install OS. * Run setup.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Installing Promise PDC20378 Serial ATA RAID Driver Promise FastTrak 378 Windows XP Installation Guide *************************** New Windows XP Installation *************************** The following details the installation of the FastTrak 378 drivers while installing Windows XP. 1. Start the installation: * Floppy Install: Boot the computer with the Windows XP installation diskettes. * CD-ROM Install: Boot from the CD-ROM.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual ******************************** Existing Windows XP Installation ******************************** After installing the FastTrak 378 and rebooting your system, Under Windows XP, "Mass Storage Controller" will be displayed. 1. In the A: drive, insert the FastTrak 378 driver diskette. 2. Click on "Next," and from the generated list box, choose "Install from a list or special location (Advanced)".
AK77-600 Max Online Manual ********************************** Confirming Windows XP Installation ********************************** 1. From Windows XP, open the Control Panel from "My Computer" followed by the System icon. 2. Choose the "Hardware" tab, then click the "Device Manager" tab. 3. Click the "+" in front of "SCSI & RAID Controllers" hardware type. The driver "WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller" should appear.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 2. When the "Windows 2000 Setup" window is generated, press "S" to Specify an Additional Device(s) 3. Insert the Promise TechnologyO driver diskette into drive A: and press "Enter" key. 4. Choose "Win2000 Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller" from the list that appears on screen, then press the "Enter" key. 5. Press Enter to continue with installation or if you need to specify any additional devices to be installed, do so at this time.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 4. The Windows 2000 Setup screen will appear again saying "Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices Win2000 Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) controller". The FastTrak 378 driver will now be copied on to the system and entered into the Windows 2000 driver database. 5. When the "System Settings Change" dialog box appears, remove the floppy diskette and click on "Yes" to restart the system. Windows 2000 will then restart for the driver installation to take effect. 6.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 1. After installing the FastTrak 378 controller and configuring the hard drive(s), partition and format your hard drive(s), if necessary. 2. Install Windows 98 normally. 3. After installation, go the "Start" menu and choose "Settings." 4. From the "Settings" menu, choose "Control Panel." 5. In the "Control Panel" window, double-click on the "System" icon. 6. In the "System" window, choose the "Device Manager" tab. 7.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual ******************************** Existing Windows 98 Installation ******************************** 1. After installing the FastTrak 378 controller and configuring the hard drives, power up the system and boot Windows. 2. The "Add New Hardware Wizard" will appear, informing you that it has found a "PCI RAID Controller." 3. Check the "Search for the best driver for your device" box and click the Next button. 4. Check the "Specify a Location" box and click Next button. 5.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual To confirm that the driver has been properly loaded in Win98, perform the following steps: 1. Choose "Settings" from the "Start" menu. 2. Choose "Control Panel," and then double-click on the "System" icon. 3. Choose the "Device Manager" tab, and then click the "+" in front of "SCSI & RAID controllers.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 8. Choose the "Driver" tab in the "Properties" window, choose "Update Driver," and then press "Next." 9. Choose "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now (recommended)," then press "Next." 10. Choose "Specify Location," and then type "A:\98-me" in the text box. 11. Insert the "FastTrak 378 Driver" diskette into the A: drive. 10a. Choose "Specify a Location," and then type "[CD-ROM]:\Driver\Promise\PDC20378\Driver\98-me" in the text box. 11a.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 6. Insert the "FastTrak 378 Driver" diskette in drive A:. 5a. Choose "Specify a Location," and then type "[CD-ROM]:\Driver\Promise\PDC20378\Driver\98-me" in the text box. 6a. Insert the "Bonus CD" in CD-ROM. 7. Click on "Next." The Add New Hardware wizard will say it has found "Win98-ME Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) controller". 8. Click on "Next," and then on "Finish." 9. Choose "Yes" when asked if you want to restart your computer. Be sure to eject the diskette from drive A:.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Promise FastTrak 378 Windows NT 4.0 Installation Guide ******************************* New Windows NT 4.0 Installation ******************************* 1. Start the system installation by booting from the Windows NT disk: a) Floppy install: boot the system with the Windows NT installation diskettes. b) Floppyless install: boot from floppy and type "WINNT /B". After files have been copied, the system will reboot.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual continue to step 7. 7. From the Windows NT Setup screen, press the Enter key. Setup will now load all device files and then continue the Windows NT installation. 8. After a successful installation, the "SCSI Adapter Setup" box will show that the "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller" driver has been installed. ************************************ Existing Windows NT 4.0 Installation ************************************ 1. Choose "Settings" from the "Start" menu. 2.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 9. When the "Select SCSI Adapter Option" dialog box appears, press "Install." 10. After a successful installation, the "SCSI Adapter Setup" box will show that the "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller" has been installed. 11. Power off your system. 12. If moving the boot drive to the FastTrak 378, now attach the hard drives otherwise reboot. *************************************** Removing the Driver from Windows NT 4.x *************************************** 1.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual A O C o n f i g Ut i li ty AOpen always dedicated to provide users a much friendlier computer environment. We now bring you a comprehensive system detective utility. AOconfig is a Windows based utility with user-friendly interface that allows users to obtain information of the operation system and hardware such as motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI devices and IDE devices. The powerful utility also displays the version of BIOS and firmware for your convenience of maintenance.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual 3. This page presents the IDE devices information, such as the serial number, the manufacturer, the firmware version, and capacity. 4. From this page, users may obtain the technical support information of AOpen. Moreover, detailed information could be saved in .bmp or .txt format. NOTE: AOconfig can be used in Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or even the latest Windows XP. Please be informed that AOconfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek As the clock of CPU keeps rocketing higher and higher, it inevitably brings higher heat and system temperature in a relative way. The way we deal with this heat problem, however, is to spare no effort to add one fan after another to protect our pampered system, expecting these fans could cool down our machine as much as it could.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis, plus checking if fans are running properly. The first image you have here is the Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages and set your expected margins of warning level. You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual The following page is surely the most important part of this utility. You may control the rotation speed of specific fans that you have got the options inside in this page. 1. Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting of SilentTek and can be used for any branded computer housing. With a special algorithm developed by AOpen, the fan speed is automatically adjusted by the factors of CPU and ambient temperature. Ease-of-use and trouble free at your service. 2.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual EzClock Have you ever thought how great it would be if you can adjust the frequency setting on your motherboard under Windows environment and be a real master of your system? Everybody knows that the ratio and frequency setting are key factors to influence the system performance, however, it’s absolutely not an easy task for an amateur to adjust the setting value.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual How You Adjust the Settings in EzClock Utility In EzClock utility, you can adjust CPU Front Side Bus (FSB), the voltage and frequency of VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM. Besides, the CPU related information such as CPU voltage, temperature and CPUFAN rotation speed will also be displayed on this utility. CPU Color Bars: The color bar will light on and show different colors as values change. On default values, it will show green.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual On the bottom rectangular panel represents CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature. The three color bars on the right hand side will light on according to operation temperature. Please refer to the picture shown above. CPU Color Bars: CPU Fan, Voltage and Temperature: The color bars will light on representing CPU fan speed, CPU according to CPU operation voltage and CPU temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees. temperature.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual How Your Boot Screen Looks Like After you finish setting BIOS, these setting values will be displayed on the boot screen like the shown picture here. Every time you boot your system, both default and current settings will pop up on the screen. Your personal settings that had been adjusted earlier will be highlighted; thus, you can have clear idea how your system functions and monitor your system more easily.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual G l os s a r y AC97 CODEC Basically, AC97 CODEC is the standard structure of PCI sound card. As we know, computer is digital-based, but music is based on analog-based. Therefore, there must be a process to turn digital into analog during the last stage processing of sound in computer. Hence, the component on sound card that play this important task is what we called CODEC.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual AGP (Ac c el e r a te d Gr a phi c P or t) The main function of AGP simply put is to tell monitor what screen information had to be shown, a visual transmission device actually. With the rapid developing of AGP card, we can see that it had been developed from single colorful AGP card to 2D and 3D graphic. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual and integrated drive controller and the computer's motherboard. Two drives (master and slave) are supported. The ATA specification allows the drive to connect directly to the ISA bus on the computer. ATA transfer rate then had been developed to 133MHz/Sec and would come out with fastest rate later (please refer to Serial ATA). DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz/s. Ultra DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 2 = 33MB/s. ATA/66, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 4 = 66MB/s.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual high transfer rate of 1MB/s, it also could be encrypted with pin code. With hopping rate of 1600 hops per second, it’s difficult to be intercepted and are less interrupted by electromagnetic wave.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual E CC (E rr or C he c ki ng a nd Cor re c ti on) 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. EE P ROM (E l e c tr oni c E r as a bl e P r ogr a mma bl e ROM) 2 Also known as E PROM.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual FC C DoC (De cl ar a ti on of C onf or mi 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 GA (Flip Chip-P in Grid Ar ray) FC means Flip Chip, FC-PGA is a package of Intel for Pentium III for 0.18µm process CPU, which can be plugged into SKT370 socket.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual IE E E 1 3 9 4 IEEE 1394, which also called Firewire, is a serial data transfer protocol and interconnection system. The main feature of the Firewire that assures its adoption for the digital video and audio (A/V) consumer application is its low cost.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual P CI (P er i phe r a l C ompone nt I n te r fac e ) B us Developed by Intel, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local bus standard. A bus is a channel used to transfer data to (input) and from (output) a computer and to or from a peripheral device. Most PCs have a PCI bus usually implemented at 32-bits providing a 33 MHz clock speed with a throughput rate of 133 MBps. PDF Format With PDF file, it is easy to do universal document exchange.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual PS B (Processor S ystem Bus) Clock PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU. CPU internal clock = CPU PSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio RDRAM (Ramb us Dynamic Random Access Memor y) A DRAM technology developed by Rambus Corporation*, to achieve high speed of memory through the use of multiple channels in parallel by 16-bits. Basically, RDRAM uses new structure of Multibank, which is quite different from FPM, EDO, SDRAM.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual S ATA (S er i a l ATA) The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome speed limitations while enabling the storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel ATA with the compatibility with existing operating systems and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It is developed with data transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second, and 300M/bs, 600M/bs to come.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual system automatically recognize the change. USB 2.0, which supports data transfer rates of 480 Mbps, has been widely used in motherboard these days. V CM (Vir tua l Cha nne l Me mor y ) NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Tr oubl es hoot ing 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. Clear CMOS, then plug the ATX power cord correctly.
AK77-600 Max Online Manual Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power Yes No and check if the power supply and CPU fan work properly. The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure. Next Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing.
AK77-600 Max 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 It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.
AK77-600 Max 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 133 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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AK77-600 Max Online Manual Mo de l na m e a n d B IO S v ers i o n Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AK77-600 Max R1.02 Mar. 01.2003 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AK77-600 Max is model name of motherboard, R1.02 is BIOS version.
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