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AK86-L / AK86-N TU TU TU TU TU How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................. 71 UT BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ................................................................................................................. 72 UT Open JukeBox Player ...........................................................................................................................
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AK86-L / AK86-N 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 .
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Ove rv ie w ® Thank you for choosing AOpen AK86-L / AK86-N. The AK86-L / AK86-N is AMD Socket 754 motherboard (M/B) based on the P P ATX form factor featuring the VIA K8T800 chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK86-L / AK86-N comes ® with AMD Socket 754 Athlon 64 processor and 800MHz Hyper Transport bus. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot and P P supports AGP 8X/4X mode and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2.1GB/sec.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Fea t ure Highlight CPU ® Supports AMD Socket 754 Athlon 64 CPU with 800 MHz Hyper Transport Bus. P P Chipset The K8T800 North Bridge is a high performance and energy efficient solution for the implementation of desktop PC systems with Hyper Transport CPU host interface based on AMD Athlon 64 processors. The K8T800 chipset provides support for AMD Athlon 64 processors via the Hyper Transport Bus and South Bridge VT8237 chipset via the V-Link Host Controller.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual LAN Port For AK86-L, on the strength of RealTek RTL8110S controller on board, which is a highly integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. For AK86-N, with VIA VT6103 network controller on boards, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. Serial ATA This motherboard comes with an integrated SATA controller in VIA VT8237, aiming to provide you an even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Memory With memory controller built in the AMD Athlon 64 processors, which is a brand new design in AMD Athlon 64 CPUs. AK86-L / AK86-N can support Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM . The DDR RAM interface allows zero wait state bursting between the RAM H TU UT H 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, 512,1024MB x N DDR RAM and support DDR400 maximum up to 2GB and DDR333/266 up to 3GB.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Power Management/Plug and Play AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
AK86-L / AK86-N Realtek Gigabit LAN Chip (For AK86-L) VIA 10/100Mbps LAN Chip (For AK86-N) AUX-IN Connector CD-IN Connector AC97 CODEC S/PDIF Connector Online Manual Motherboard Map Colored Back Panel JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector ATX Power Connector Front Audio Connector 32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x5 AGP 8x Slot 3300μF Low ESR Capacitors 754-pin CPU Socket with Voltage and Frequency Auto-Detection that supports AMD TM Athlon TM 64 IrDA Connector P COM2 Connector P P
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual B l o c k Di a gr a m DDR400 RAM Up to 2GB and DDR333/266 RAM to 3GB PCI Bus 32-bit PCI Slot x5 DDR SDRAM Socket x3 ATA 66/100/133 Socket 754 AMD Athlon 64 CPU Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel 800 MHz Hyper Transport Bus VIA K8T800 Serial ATA Devices x2 AGP Bus V-Link Bus Serial ATA VT8237 AGP 8X Slot LAN connect Component Realtek RTC8100C (for AK86-L) VIA VT6103 (for AK86-N) AC’97 Link Audio CODEC 1st USB Port 4MBit Flash EEPROM 2nd USB Port Paral
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 t i 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual CPU I nst al la ti on This motherboard supports AMD® Athlon 64 Socket 754 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). 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge, then insert the CPU into the socket. 1.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Claret: Serial ATA connector 1 Power Switch IDE LED ACPI & Power LED SPEAKER RESET Navy Blue: IDE 1 Connector Note: Colors setting varies on different motherboards, the color setting here applies only to AK86-L / AK86-N.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 Athlon 64 CPU, we, AOpen, have meticulously developed a new technology, named, O.H.P. (Overheat Protection) Technology to protect them.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Supp ort e d CPU Fre que n cy Core Frequency = CPU Bus Clock * CPU Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 HT U PCI Clock = CPU Bus Clock / Clock Ratio UTH CPU Core System Clock Ratio Frequency Athlon 64 3000+ 1.6GHz 200MHz 8x Athlon 64 3200+ 1.8GHz 200MHz 9x Athlon 64 3400+ 2.0GHz 200MHz 10x Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz 200MHz 11x Athlon 64 4000+ 2.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 HTU UTH 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 HTU UTH the system to reboot in five seconds.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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. SYSFAN1 Connector GND +12V SENSOR GND +12V SENSOR CPUFAN Connector GND +12V SENSOR Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 H H H H 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Please follow the table below to install RAM modules: Number of DIMMs 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 Max Speed X8 or X16 single bank empty empty X8 double bank empty empty X8 or X16 single bank X8 or X16 single bank X8 or X16 single bank X8 or X16 single bank X8 double bank X8 double bank X8 double bank empty empty empty empty X8 double bank X8 or X16 single bank X8 or X16 single bank X8 or X16 single bank X8 or X16 single bank X
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual ATX Power Connector This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector. 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 HTU UT H HTU U TH HTU UTH 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Adjusting Your Hard Disk Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard does come with the support for the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you have had installed them on, the problem mainly lies in the BIOS setting. You may simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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).
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual AGP ( Ac ce le rat e d Gra phi c Por t) 8 X Ex pa nsi on Sl ot The AK86-L / AK86-N provides an AGP 8x slot. The AGP 8x is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP H TU UTH 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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. For AK86-L, on the strength of Realtek RTL8110S 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. For AK86-N, the VIA VT6103 LAN controller provides 10/100M bps Ethernet. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Supp or t ei ght USB 2 .0 c o nne ct ors This motherboard provides four 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC655 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 ALC655, 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual S / P D I F ( S o n y / P h il i p s D i g i t a 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual C O M2 C o n n e c t o r This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper left of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this model implements a blend new technology to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over-voltaging of AGP card. When AGP Protection Technology is implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Please note that if you install a AGP card with 3.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 HT U UT H 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Resetable Fuse 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual 330 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 3300μF capacitor, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 or 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual HDD Ca pac it y of RAI D Le vel s Striping / Span (RAID 0) Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 40 GB Mi r ro r in g ( R A ID 1) 67
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 HT U UT H 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 HTU U TH BIOS.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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. UTH 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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: WAK86L102.ZIP) with WinZip ( http://www.winzip.com ) in Windows H H HU UH HU UH environment. 3.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Open Ju keBox Player Here we are pleased to provide you a brand-new powerful interface—Open JukeBox. Without any cost you can have your PC turn into a fashionable CD player! This latest Open JukeBox motherboard aims at helping you directly operate your CD player on the PC without any hassle of entering Windows operation system.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual How Your Open JukeBox Works The operation of Open JukeBox Player is the same as other CD players. By pressing specific keys on the keyboard you will find playing Open JukeBox Player couldn’t be easier than the traditional CD Players. Below is the function description of respective buttons. Power-Off Button Display Screen Boot to Operation System Function Key Power: Pressing O , to directly power off your computer with no hassle of entering Windows Operation System.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Your Open JukeBox Settings in BIOS There are three Open JukeBox settings in BIOS as follows. Auto : The default setting is “Auto” with which the Open JukeBox will automatically check the CD player every time you power U U on. The Open JukeBox will automatically be launched when it detects a music CD in your CD player. Press Insert Key : Choosing this setting will allow a reminder message popped up on the screen during BIOS POST.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Your Open JukeBox EzSkin Except these powerful functions above, Open JukeBox Player is also equipped with another fancy feature for you to change its “skin”. You can download as many skins as you want from AOpen Website, and changing them whenever you want by using this useful utility – EzSkin – which may also be downloaded from our website. Even more, you may design your own skins with innovative idea and sharing them to users around the world by uploading to our website.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 dur
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual I ns t a 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual I ns t a 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 HTU U TH HT U U TH find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual I ns t a 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual I ns t a ll i n g L A N D ri v e r ( f o r A K 8 6 - L) This motherboard comes with RealTek RTL8110S controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN connect device providing 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. Windows 98 installation guide 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " 3. Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller " 4.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual 6. Select "Specify a location", and type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that appears. Press “Next". 7. System will ask you to provide the file path for loading driver, please type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that appears. Press “OK". 8.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual 9. Driver installed. 10. Restart computer. 11.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Windows ME installation guide 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices". 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD” 3. Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller” 4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual 5. Select "Specify the location of the driver (Advanced)" 6. Choose "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now. (Recommended)", then Select "Specify a location", and type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\WinME" in the text box that appears. Press “Next". 7. Driver installed. 8. Restart computer. 9. Confirming Windows ME Installation.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Windows 2000 installation guide 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD” 3. Right click "Ethernet Controller ", and then select "Properties". 4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual 5. Select "Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)" 6. Select "Specify a location", and then click "Next". 7. Type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press “OK". 8. Driver installed. 9. Confirming Windows 2000 Installation.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Windows XP installation guide 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD” 3. Right click "Ethernet Controller ", and then select "Update Driver". 4. Select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)", and then click "Next".
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual 5. Choose "Search for the best driver in these locations", and then select "Include this location in the search:” Type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\WinXP" in the text box that appears. Press " Next ". 6. Driver installed. 7. Confirming Windows XP Installation.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual Windows NT installation guide 1. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab. 2. Click "Add" to install a new adapter. All previously installed drivers are listed under Network Adapters. 3. When the Select Network Adapter window opens, click "Have Disk".... 4. When prompted, insert the BONUS CD, type the path "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Winnt4" to the driver, and click "OK".
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual 5. With "Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC" highlighted in the Select OEM Option window, click "OK". 6. Restart computer. 7. Confirming Windows NT Installation.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual I ns t a ll i n g L A N D ri v e r ( f o r A K 8 6 - N) This motherboard comes with VIA VT6103 controller on board, which is a highly integrated Platform LAN connecting 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual A GP (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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 ). HT U UTH 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N Online Manual E CC (E rr or Che 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 ROM) 2 Also known as E PROM.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 HTU UTH 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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.
AK86-L / AK86-N 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 119 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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