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MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual W h a t ’s i n t h i s m a n u a l MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 ................................................................................................................... 1 What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice ..............................................................................................................
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual STBY LED..................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 32 ATX Power Connector ..........................................................................................................
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual AUX-IN Connector......................................................................................................................................................... 51 Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 52 Battery-less and Long Life Design.................................................................................................
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ................................................................................................................. 80 Glossary .................................................................................................................................... 82 AC97 CODEC ...............................................................................................................................................................
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................... 87 Hyper Threading ........................................................................................................................................................... 87 IEEE 1394 ................................................................................................................
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................... 93 Technical Support ..................................................................................................................... 97 Product Registration ............................................................................................................... 100 How to Contact Us .........................................
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Before You Start This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved in PDF format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Ove rv ie w Thank you for choosing AOpen MK79G-N / MK79G-1394. The MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 is based on AMD ® Socket 462 motherboard with micro ATX form factor featuring the NVIDIA nForce2-G/GT. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the ® MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 supports AMD Socket 462 series Athlon™ & Duron™ and AthlonXP™ processor (with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to Athlon™XP CPU only) and 333/266/200MHz EV6 system bus.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual F e a t ur e H i g h li g h t CPU ® Supports AMD Socket 462 series CPU with 200MHz, 266MHz and 333MHz, EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology. Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz Duron: 600MHz~1.2GHz AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~2800+(2.25GHz) Chipset The motherboard comes with NVIDIA nForce2-G/GT chipsets, which possesses HyperTransport with high speed of 6.4Gb/sec.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Expansion Slots Including three 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X slots or DVO / TV-OUT function which supports DVO or TV-Out card. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed with data transfer rate up to 2.1GB/s. MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual LAN Port On the strength of RealTek RTL8201BL LAN controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. IEEE 1394 (MK79G-1394 only) This motherboard comes with IEEE 1394a controller TI TSB43AB22 onboard, which provides data transfer rate up to 400Mbps. to connect with the devices that need high data transferring performance, such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Power Management/Plug and Play The MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Q u i c k I n s t a ll a t i o n P r oc e d u re 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Motherboard Map Front Audio Connector 4Mb Phoenix Award BIOS S/PDIF Connector (MK79G-1394 only) Onboard AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 PC99 Colored Back Panel Resetable Fuse RealTek RTL8201BL JP28 USBKeyboard/Mouse Wakeup Black: CD-IN Connector IrDA Connector Green: AUX-IN Connector CPUFAN1 Connector JP27 USBKeyboard/Mouse Wakeup 4-pin 12V.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual B l oc k Di a gr a m 128-bit DDR Dual Channel DDR400/333/266/200 DDR RAM Up to 2GB DDR SDRAM Socket x2 32-bit PCI Slot x3 100/133/166MHz System Bus Socket 462 AMD Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP CPU NVIDIA nForce2-G (MK79G-N) nForce2-GT (MK79G-1394) PCI Bus ATA 66/100/133 AGP 8X Slot LAN connect Component IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel AGP Bus VGA onboard Primary Channel RealTek RTL8201BL 1st USB Port 2nd USB Port NVIDIA MCP (MK79G-N) MCP-T (MK79G-1394) AC’97 Link
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual H a rd 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK 79G-N / MK79G-1394 K7 Online Manual J P 1 4 C l e a r C MO S D a t a You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedures below. 1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power. 2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2. 3. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds. 4. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin 1 & pin 2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2. Pin 1 1 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual CPU I nst al lat i on ® This motherboard supports AMD 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual CPU Jumper-less Design CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection. Clock Generator AMD BIOS Socket 462 CPU Controlled CPU VID signal CPU Freq.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 1.1V to 1.85V. It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage. Set ting 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 5.5x to 16x step 0.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Support e d CPU Fre que ncy Core Frequency = CPU Bus Clock * CPU Ratio EV6 Bus Speed = CPU external bus clock x 2 PCI Clock = CPU Bus Clock / Clock Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 CPU CPU Core Frequency EV6 Bus Clock Ratio Athlon 1G 1GHz 200MHz 10.0x Athlon 1.1G 1.1GHz 200MHz 11.0x Athlon 1.2G 1.2GHz 200MHz 12.0x Athlon 1.3G 1.3GHz 200MHz 13.0x Athlon 1G 1GHz 266MHz 7.5x Athlon 1.13G 1.13GHz 266MHz 8.5x Athlon 1.2G 1.2GHz 266MHz 9.0x Athlon 1.33G 1.33GHz 266MHz 10.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual CPU and Housin g Fan C onnector Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN1 connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN2 or SYSFAN3 connector. CPUFAN1 Connector SENSOR +12V GND GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have SENSOR sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual JP27/28 USB Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper This motherboard provides USB and PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function. You can use JP27 / JP28 to enable or disable this function, which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse installed. JP28 controls 1 st nd USB channel, and JP27 controls 2 USB channel. The factory default setting is set to “Disable”(1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual DI MM So cke ts ( 1 28- Bit DDR Dual Cha nnel ) In the past, we used to have 64-bit memory bandwidth for memory access. No matter how many memory modules have been installed, though capacity added, the speed of access remains the same. With 128-bit dual channel introduced, it doubles the memory bandwidth up to 5.4GB in advanced 128-bit mode.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual H o w t o I n s t a l l Me 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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 connected 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. STBY LED Warning: Do not install or remove the DIMM module or others devices when the STBY LED lights on.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual F r o n t P a n e l C o n n e c t or 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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. We strongly recommend you to connect the 4-pin 12V ATX connector before connecting the 20-pin ATX power connector and use standard power supply specially designed for Pentium 4 system. 4-pin 12V.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 as the secondary channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of four devices. In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must be set differently to Master and Slave mode. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM. The setting as master or slave mode depends on the jumper on your IDE device, so please refer to your hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual S / P DI F ( S ony / P hi l i ps Di gi t a l I nt e r f a c e ) Conne c t or ( MK7 9 G - 1 3 9 4 onl y ) 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual TV Output Conn ector This motherboard comes with Crush18G chipset, which allows you to accept digital graphic input signal, and encodes, and transmit data through DVI or TV Output. Both NTSC and PAL TV formats are supported for this function. You may just install a Video Port bracket (as shown) to your back panel, connecting S-Terminal or AV-terminal to your TV, then using it as your another monitor.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Ir DA Co nnec t 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).
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual A G P ( A c c e l e r a t e d G ra p h i c P o r t) 8 X E x pa n s i o n S l o t Integrated GeForce4 MX Graphics, which could provide the fastest integrated graphics performance and the most comprehensive set of features. The MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 provides an AGP 8x slot targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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 ts 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 t s 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 .
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual S uppor t 1 0 / 1 0 0 Mbps LAN onboa r d On the strength of nVIDIA nForce2 LAN controller on chip (with RealTek RTL8201BL PHY), 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 green LED indicates the link mode, it lights when linking to network. The orange LED indicates the transfer mode, and it lights when data is transferring.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual P C 9 9 C o l or C o d e d Ba c k P a ne l The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, serial ports COM1 and VGA, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game port. The view angle of drawing shown here is the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port PS/2 Mouse Connector RJ45 10/100 LAN Jack Line-In USB2.0 Speaker Ports Out MIC-In PS/2 Keyboard COM 1 Port VGA Port USB2.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual C N R ( C o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d Ne 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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 middle of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Suppor t 2nd USB Por t This motherboard provides six USB connectors 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. Pin 1 USB 2 Connector SBD3+ SB D3GND +5V 2 1 NC KEY +5V GND SBD2SBD2+ Note: Please note that if you would like to use USB devices (Example: keyboard, mouse etc.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual I EEE 13 9 4 Conne ct ors n ( MK7 9 G- 139 4 onl y) With IEEE1394 MAC Embedded in nVIDIA nForce2-GT (with AGERE FW802A), the IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, and USB just has 12Mbps. 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual C h a s s i s I nt r us i o n S e ns o r C o n n e c t o r The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function works, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or the opening of the chassis, the system will send out beep sound to inform you.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual CD Audi o Connector This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CD-ROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. R GND GND L Note: Though some of the latest version of Windows support “Digital Audio” through IDE bus. However, in C D -I N Co n n ec t o r order to use Open Jukebox player, which is driven under BIOS, it is a MUST to insert audio cable to CD-IN connector on the motherboard.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual F r o n t A u d i o C o n n e c t or 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Ba t t e r y - l e s s a nd Long Li f e De s i gn 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual CP U O v e r - c ur r e nt P r ot e c t i on 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 5V 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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 simultaneous
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual D r iv e r a n d Ut i li t y There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD disc. You don’t need to install all of them in order to boot your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows 2000/XP) before you can install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual N V I D I A n F o r c e Wi n d o w s d r i v e r This nForce driver is an all in one package, which contains the below components: Audio driver, Audio utilities, Network driver, GART driver, SMBus driver, Memory controller driver 66
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual N V I D I A Wi n d o w s 9 8 / M E / 2 0 0 0 D i s p l a y d r i v e r For Display Driver of 98/ME/2000, please use this driver for installation.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual N V I D I A Wi n d o w s X P D i s p l a y d r i v e r For Display Driver of Window XP, please read the given steps for installation. nVidia VGA Driver Installation Guide for WinXP: 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Video Controller(VGA Compatible)" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " 3. Click "Video Controller "Æ " Driver "Æ "Update Driver"and Select "Install the siftware automatically(ReCommended)" And then Click "Next".
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 4. System will look for the VGA driver from the Bonus CD. 5. Finish the VGA driver installation.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 6. Online Manual The of "Video Controller" of Device Management will become to "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU".
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual U S B 2 . 0 I n s t a l l a t i o n D r i v e r f o r Wi n 9 8 S E / M E / 2 0 0 0 For USB 2.0 driver for Win98SE/ME/2000, please use this driver for installation.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual U S B 2 . 0 I n s t a l l a t i o n D r i v e r f o r Wi n d o w s X P For USB 2.0 driver for Windows XP, please follow the steps below for installation. * Windows XP Installation Guide *********************************************** Installing Driver in Existing Windows XP System *********************************************** Please follow these directions for a smooth installation of the USB 2.0 package. After enabling the USB 2.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual The following page is sure to be the most important part of this utility, you may control the rotation speed of specific fans you got with options inside in this page. Respectively illustrate as follow: 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual P H O E N I X A w ar d B I O S System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu, this menu allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset). The Phoenix AwardBIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Key Description F6 Load Setup Defaults setting value from CMOS. F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS. F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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: WMK79GN102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual E C C (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 R OM) 2 Also known as E PROM.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual FCC D oC (De cl ar a ti on of Conf 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Tr oubl es hooti ng 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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.
MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 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 96 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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MK79G-N / MK79G-1394 Online Manual Mo de l na me a n d B IO S v ers i on Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: MK79G-N R1.02 Jan.01.2003 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 1998, Award Software, Inc. MK79G-N is model name of motherboard, R1.02 is BIOS version.
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