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AK77-600N Online Manual What’s in this manual AK77-600N ..................................................................................................................................... 1 What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice ...............................................................................................................................
AK77-600N Online Manual Supported CPU Frequency ........................................................................................................................................... 29 AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” .............................................................................................................................................. 30 CPU and Housing Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ..............................................................................................
AK77-600N Online Manual S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector......................................................................................................... 52 Dr. LED Connector (User Upgrade Optional)................................................................................................................. 53 Case Open Connector...................................................................................................................................................
AK77-600N Online Manual Vivid BIOS technology................................................................................................................................................... 75 Driver and Utility ....................................................................................................................... 76 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD .....................................................................................................................................
AK77-600N Online Manual CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)................................................................................................................ 95 DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM ...................................................................................................................................... 95 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ...........................................................................................................................
AK77-600N Online Manual RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ...................................................................................................................... 100 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) .................................................................................................................................... 100 SATA (Serial ATA) ....................................................................................................................................................
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual Ove rv ie w ® Thank you for choosing AOpen AK77-600N. The AK77-600N is AMD Socket 462 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the VIA Apollo KT600 chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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 VT8235-CD highly integrated V-Link Client PCI/LPC controller.
AK77-600N Online Manual LAN Port On the strength of RealTek RTL8100BL controller on board, which is an highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. Expansion Slots Including six 32-bit/33MHz PCI, one CNR and one AGP 8X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Communication & Networking Riser (CNR) slot provided from AK77-600N can support CNR interface for a Modem/Audio card.
AK77-600N Online Manual On-board AC97 Sound AK77-600N uses the AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 chip, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Six USB 2.0 Connectors Provides six USB ports for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual Power Management/Plug and Play AK77-600N supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers Plug-and-Play, which helps saving users from configuration problems, thus making the system much more user-friendly.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Front Audio Connector AC97 CODEC AUX-IN Connector S/PDIF Connector Online Manual Motherboard Map Colored Back Panel CD-IN Connector Case Open Connector Phoenix Award 2Mbit Flash ROM BIOS Game Port Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper RealTek RTL8100BL ATX Power Connector CNR Expansion Slot 2200μF Low ESR Capacitors SYSFAN3 Connector AGP 8x Slot 462-pin CPU Socket with Voltage and Frequency Auto-Detection that supports AMD TM Athlon TM / Duron TM / and Athlon TMXP (with CPU Overheat Pro
AK77-600N Online Manual B l o c k Di a gr a m DDR400 RAM Up to 2GB and DDR333/266 Up to 3GB PCI Bus 32-bit PCI Slot x6 DDR SDRAM Socket x3 ATA 66/100/133 Socket 462 AMD Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP CPU 100/133/166/200 MHz System Bus IDE Drive x4 Primary Channel Secondary Channel VIA KT600 AGP Bus AC’97 Link VT8235-CD AGP 8X Slot Audio CODEC RealTek RTL8100 BL LAN connect Component CNR Slot 1st USB Port 2nd USB Port 3rd USB Port USB connector x6 Floppy Disk Drive x2 17 2MBit Flash EEPROM Parall
AK77-600N Online Manual H a r d w ar e I ns t a l l at i 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual A b o u t “ Ma n u f a c t ur e r U p g ra d e O p ti o n a l” a n d “ U s e r U p g ra d e 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual CPU I nst al la ti on 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual 1 Power Switch IDE LED ACPI & Power LED SPEAKER RESET Black: IDE 2 Connector Note: Colors setting varies on different motherboards, the color setting here applies only to AK77-600N 23 Navy Blue: IDE 1 Connector
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual Setting CPU Fre que ncy 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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 CPUFAN1 connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN2 (FAN2) or SYSFAN3 (FAN3) connector. GND +12V SYSFAN3 Connector GND +12V SENSOR CPUFAN1 Connector GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector 31 Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
AK77-600N 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 2.8V for over clocking purpose.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual IDE and Floppy Connector Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDC connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
AK77-600N Online Manual IDE1 is also known as the primary channel, IDE2 is known 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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).
AK77-600N Online Manual AGP ( Ac ce le rat e d Gra phi c Por t) 8 X Ex pa nsi on Sl ot The AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual W O M b y Ex t e r n a l B o x Mo d e m Traditional Green PC suspend mode does not really turn off the system power supply, it uses external box modem to trigger MB COM port and resume back to active. 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual W O M by I nte r nal Mo de m Car 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual 10 /1 00 Mbps LAN onboa r d The South Bridge VT8235-CD includes a fast Ethernet controller on chip. On the strength of RealTek RTL8100BL LAN controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100M bps Ethernet for office and home use, the Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The orange LED indicates the link mode, it lights when linking to network and blinking when transferring data.
AK77-600N Online Manual C N R ( C o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d N e t w o r k Ri s e r ) Ex p a 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual Supp or t Six USB 2. 0 Por t This motherboard provides six USB ports to connect USB devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are four 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1.
AK77-600N Online Manual J P2 0 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 CPU Adjustment” feature for overclockers to adjust CPU FSB frequency via BIOS setup program.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED W i t h t h e o u ts 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 t ec t yo u r m o t h e rb o a rd f ro m b ei n g d am a g e d b y o v e r-v ol ta gi n g of A GP ca rd .
AK77-600N Online Manual Bat te ry- less a nd Long Lif e Des ign 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual R e s e t a bl 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 Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can resume back to normal function after fuse had done its protection job.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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. Some settings may not come F7 Load turbo setting into effect until you reboot your system.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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: WAK77600N102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WAK77600N102.
AK77-600N 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 PO
AK77-600N 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. A u t o - r u n Me n u f r o m B o n u s C D You can use the auto-run menu of Bonus CD.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual I ns ta ll i n g L A N D ri v e r This motherboard comes with RealTek RTL8100BL controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN connect device providing 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. For Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, you can install the LAN driver form the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AK77-600N Online Manual ************************************************************************* Installing drivers on Windows 95: (Golden version, Win95A and OSR2) ************************************************************************* 1. Ask you to select which driver you want to install, select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". 2.
AK77-600N Online Manual [CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\NT (for NT 4.0) which is the path where the setup file OEMSETUP.INF is located, and then choose the OK button. 6. The screen will appear "Select Line Speed" dialog box which is provided by RTL8139.SYS driver. The default value is "auto" so that the RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter and its driver RTL8139.SYS will auto-detect the line speed, 10 Mb or 100Mb, while the RTL8139.SYS is loading.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual AGP (A c 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N Online Manual E C C (E rr or C he c ki ng a nd C or 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 R OM (E l e c tr oni c E r as a bl e P r ogr a mma bl e R OM) 2 Also known as E PROM.
AK77-600N Online Manual FC C D oC (D e 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. FC-P GA2 (Flip Chip-P in Grid Arr ay) After FC-PGA, FC-PGA2 is the package for 0.
AK77-600N 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. Fire wire interface is capable of supporting various high-end digital A/V applications, such as consumer A/V device control and signal routing, Digital Video (DV) editing, home networking, and more than 32 channels of digital mixing.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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.
AK77-600N 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 106 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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AK77-600N 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: AK77-600N R1.02 Mar. 01.2003 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AK77-600N is model name of motherboard, R1.02 is BIOS version.
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