AOpen AK77-8XMAX User manual

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Overview
Hardware
Installation
Drivers &
Utilities
AWARD
BIOS Setup
Glossary
Troubleshooting &
Technical Support
AK77-8X Max
DOC. NO.: AK778XM-OL-E0210B

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AK77-8X Max ..................................................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2
You Must Notice .............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Before You Start............................................................................................................................................................ 10
Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Feature Highlight........................................................................................................................................................... 12
Quick Installation Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 17
Motherboard Map .......................................................................................................................................................... 18
Block Diagram............................................................................................................................................................... 19
Hardware Installation................................................................................................................20
About “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” and “User Upgrade Optional”… ...................................................................... 21
JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................................................................................................................................ 22
CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 23
AOpen Overheat Protection (O.H.P.) Technology .......................................................................................................... 25
JP28 KB/Mouse Wake-up Enable/Disable Jumper ........................................................................................................ 26
CPU Jumper-less Design .............................................................................................................................................. 27
CPU and Housing Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) .............................................................................................. 32
JP20 K7 Host Clock Selection....................................................................................................................................... 33

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DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 34
Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 36
ATX Power Connector ................................................................................................................................................... 37
AC Power Auto Recovery .............................................................................................................................................. 37
STBY LED ..................................................................................................................................................................... 38
IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 39
ATA/133 Supported ....................................................................................................................................................... 41
Serial ATA Supported .................................................................................................................................................... 42
Connecting Serial ATA Disk ........................................................................................................................................... 42
Connecting Serial ATA Disk ........................................................................................................................................... 43
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector......................................................................................................... 44
Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................... 45
IrDA Connector ............................................................................................................................................................. 46
WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector......................................................................................................... 47
WOL (Wake on LAN) ..................................................................................................................................................... 50
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot...................................................................................................... 52
AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED .................................................................................................................... 53
CNR (Communication and Network Riser) Expansion Slot............................................................................................ 54
PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................................................................................................................................... 55

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Support Six USB 2.0 Port.............................................................................................................................................. 56
Onboard IEEE 1394 Controller...................................................................................................................................... 57
Support 10/100 Mbps LAN onboard .............................................................................................................................. 58
Chassis Intrusion Sensor .............................................................................................................................................. 59
CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 60
AUX-IN Connector......................................................................................................................................................... 61
Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 62
Die-Hard BIOS (100% Virus Protection, User Upgrade Optional).................................................................................. 63
Dr. LED Connector (User Upgrade Optional)................................................................................................................. 66
Dr. Voice II (Volume adjustable through speaker) ......................................................................................................... 68
JP2 Speaker /Buzzer Select Jumper ............................................................................................................................. 69
Battery-less and Long Life Design................................................................................................................................. 70
CPU Over-current Protection......................................................................................................................................... 71
AOConfig Utility............................................................................................................................................................. 72
Resetable Fuse ............................................................................................................................................................. 74
2200 μ F Low ESR Capacitor......................................................................................................................................... 75
Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ................................................................................................................................. 77
Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ........................................................................................................................................ 78
Vivid BIOS technology................................................................................................................................................... 79

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Driver and Utility .......................................................................................................................80
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ............................................................................................................................. 81
Installing Windows 95 ................................................................................................................................................... 82
Installing Windows 98 ................................................................................................................................................... 83
Installing Windows®98 SE, Windows®ME & Windows®2000/XP................................................................................... 84
Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver............................................................................................................................................. 85
Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................................... 86
The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek .................................................................................................................................. 87
Installing USB2.0 Driver ................................................................................................................................................ 90
Installing LAN Driver ..................................................................................................................................................... 91
Installing Serial ATA Driver ............................................................................................................................................ 93
PHOENIX-AWARD BIOS............................................................................................................ 101
How To Use Phoenix Award™ BIOS Setup Program................................................................................................... 102
How To Enter BIOS Setup ........................................................................................................................................... 104
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ............................................................................................................... 105
Overclocking............................................................................................................................ 107
VGA Card & Hard Disk ................................................................................................................................................ 108
Glossary .................................................................................................................................. 109
AC97 ........................................................................................................................................................................... 109

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ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..................................................................................................... 109
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port).................................................................................................................................. 109
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser).......................................................................................................................................... 110
AOpen Bonus Pack CD ............................................................................................................................................... 110
APM (Advanced Power Management)......................................................................................................................... 110
ATA (AT Attachment) ................................................................................................................................................... 110
ATA/66 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 110
ATA/100 .......................................................................................................................................................................111
ATA/133 .......................................................................................................................................................................111
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ...............................................................................................................................111
Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) .......................................................................................................................................111
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser).............................................................................................................. 112
CODEC (Coding and Decoding) .................................................................................................................................. 112
DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM ............................................................................................................................... 112
DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module) .......................................................................................................................... 112
DMA (Direct Memory Access)...................................................................................................................................... 113
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ......................................................................................................................... 113
EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ........................................................................................................................ 113
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................. 113

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EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)..................................................................................................................... 113
EV6 Bus ...................................................................................................................................................................... 114
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ......................................................................................................................... 114
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).............................................................................................................................. 114
Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................. 114
FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ........................................................................................................................................ 115
I2C Bus........................................................................................................................................................................ 115
IEEE 1394................................................................................................................................................................... 115
Parity Bit ..................................................................................................................................................................... 116
PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)............................................................................................................................... 116
PC-100 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................. 116
PC-133 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................. 116
PC-1600 / PC-2100/ PC-2700 / PC-3200 DDR DRAM................................................................................................. 117
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................. 117
PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................. 117
PnP (Plug and Play) .................................................................................................................................................... 117
POST (Power-On Self Test) ........................................................................................................................................ 118
RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ........................................................................................................................................... 118
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ...................................................................................................................... 118

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SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) .................................................................................................................................... 118
Shadow E2PROM ........................................................................................................................................................ 119
SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ....................................................................................................................... 119
SMBus (System Management Bus) ............................................................................................................................. 119
SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ..................................................................................................................................... 119
Ultra DMA ................................................................................................................................................................... 120
USB (Universal Serial Bus) ......................................................................................................................................... 120
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)................................................................................................................................... 121
ZIP file......................................................................................................................................................................... 121
Troubleshooting....................................................................................................................... 122
Technical Support ................................................................................................................... 126
Product Registration ............................................................................................................... 129
How to Contact Us .................................................................................................................. 130

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Be ef fo or re e Y Yo ou u S St ta ar rt t
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.
Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper
size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer
driver.
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Thank you for choosing AOpen AK77-8X Max. The AK77-8X Max is AMD®Socket 462 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX
form factor featuring the VIA Apollo KT400 chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK77-8X Max comes with
AMD®Socket 462 series Athlon™ & Duron™ and AthlonXP™ processor (with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to Athlon™XP
CPU only) and 200/266/333MHz EV6 system bus. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot and supports AGP 8X/4X/2X
mode and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2.1GB/sec. With high bandwidth 266/533MB/s 8-bit V-Link Host
Controller, DDR333(PC2700) and DDR266(PC2100)DDR RAM can be applied to the AK77-8X Max and the maximum memory
size can be up to 3GB. The on-board IDE controller
supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode and the
transfer rate up to 133MB/s. With a Promise Serial
ATA (PDC20375) controller onboard, it aims to
provide you an even faster transfer rate of 150
Mbytes/second. Beside, the AK77-8X Max has an
AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 chipset onboard for
provides high performance and magic surround
stereo sound to let people enjoy working with it.
More than that, this motherboard supports USB 2.0
function with a fancy speed of up to 480Mbps, and
IEEE 1394 controller to provides data transfer rate
up to 400Mbps. Now, enjoy all features from AOpen
AK77-8X Max.

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Fe ea at tu ur re e H Hi ig gh hl li ig gh ht t
CPU
Supports AMD® Socket 462 series CPU with both 200/266/333 MHz EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology.
Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz
Duron: 600MHz~1.2GHz
AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~2800+(2.25GHz)
Chipset
The VIA Apollo KT400 consists of the KT400 V-Link DDR Host system controller and the VT8235 highly integrated V-Link Client
PCI/LPC controller. The Host system controller provides superior performance between the CPU, SDRAM, AGP bus, and V-Link
interface with pipelined, burst, and concurrent operation. The VT8235 V-Link Client controller is a highly integrated PCI/LPC
controller. Its internal bus structure is based on 66MHz PCI bus that provides 4x bandwidth compare to previous generation
PCI/ISA bridge chips. The VT8235 integrated Client V-Link controller with 266/533MB/s bandwidth between Host/Client V-Link
interface, providing a V-Link-PCI and V-Link-LPC controller.
Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Bus Master IDE
Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with three connectors that supports six IDE devices in three channels,
supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 4, and supports Enhanced IDE devices.

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Serial ATA
This motherboard comes with a Promise Serial ATA (PDC20375) controller, aiming to provide you an even faster transfer rate of
150 Mbytes/second.
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 & Nectworking Riser (CNR) slot provided from AK77-8X Max can support CNR interface for a Modem/Audio
card. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed. The
AGP video cards support data transfer rate up to 2.1GB/s. As AK77-8X Max includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus
mastering AGP graphic card, For AD and SBA signaling, AK77-8X Max can support 133MHz 2X/4X/8X mode. Of six PCI slots
provided, AK77-8X Max supports five master PCI slots for arbitration and decoding functions and one slave PCI slot.
Memory
With VIA Apollo KT400 chipset, the AK77-8X Max can support Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The DDR RAM interface allows
zero wait state bursting between the RAM and the data buffers at 333/266/200 MHz. The six banks of DDR RAM can be
composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512MB x N DDR RAM and maximum up to 3GB. The AK77-8X Max allows
DDR RAM to run at either synchronous or pseudo-synchronous mode with the host CPU bus frequency (333/266/200MHz).

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On-board AC97 Sound
AK77-8X Max 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 three ports, six USB connectors 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 2.0 supports old USB 1.0/1.1 software and peripherals, offering impressive and even better compatibility to customers.
IEEE 1394
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.
1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment
Provides “1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you adjust CPU FSB
frequency from 100~191 by 1MHz stepping, and lets your system can get maximum performance.
Watch Dog Timer
Includes AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail to system overclocking.

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Die-Hard BIOS (User Upgrade Optional)
The Die-Hard BIOS technology is a very effective hardware protection method that doesn’t involve any software or BIOS coding.
Hence, it is 100% virus free.
Dr. LED (User Upgrade Optional)
The Dr. LED has 8 LEDs on AK77-8X Max, which can easily show what kind of problem you may encounter.
Power Management/Plug and Play
The AK77-8X Max 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.
Hardware Monitoring Management
Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor
module and AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility.
Enhanced ACPI
Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows®95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR
(Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4), WOM (Wake On Modem), WOL (Wake On LAN) features.

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Super Multi-I/O
The AK77-8X Max provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities.
UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for the wireless connections.

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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.
10.
Reboot
Installing Operating System (such as Windows 98)
11. Installing Driver and Utility

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Motherboard Map
PC99 Colored Back Panel
Resetable Fuse
A
TX Power Connecto
r
SYSFAN2 Connector
A
GP 8x Expansion Slot
462-pin CPU Socket with
Voltage and Frequency
A
uto-Detection that supports
A
MDTM AthlonTM / DuronTM /
and AthlonTMXP ( with CPU
Overheat Protection circuit to
A
thlonTMXP CPU only)
VIA® Apollo KT400
Chipset and VT8235 SB
CPUFAN1 Connector
with H/W Monitoring
184-pin DIMMx3 supports
DDR333/DDR266/ 200
(Max. to 3GB)
FDD Connector
CD-IN Connecto
r
Die Hard BIOS (BIOS 2)
(User Upgrade Optional)
AC97 CODEC
AUX-IN Connecto
r
CNR Expansion Slot
32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6
(PCI 6 supports slave mode PCI
card only)
WOM (Wake ON Modem)
WOL (Wake ON LAN) Connecto
r
IrDA Connector
SYS
FAN3
C
onnec
t
o
r
Front Audio Connector
Front Panel Connecto
r
JP14 CMOS Data Clear Jumper
STB
Y
LED
Chassis Intrusion Sensor Connecto
r
S/PDIF Connector
2r
d
USB 2.0 Port Connector
Dr. LED Connecto
r
(User Upgrade Optional)
JP15 & 16 Dr. Voice II
Language Select Jumpe
r
JP2 Buzzer/S
p
eaker Select Jum
p
e
r
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup
Enable/Disable Jumper
2200μF Low ESR Capacitors
RealTek RTL8100BL
JP20
K7
H
os
t
Cl
oc
k
Select Jumper
JST-MIDI
A
TTANSIC ATXP1
(Memory/AGP voltage/CPU
ratio Ad
j
ustable Controller
)
Die Hard BIOS
(
BIOS 1
)
IEEE 1394 Connector x 2
Serial ATA Controlle
r
Serial ATA Connectors
IDE Connector x 3
(ATA/66/100/133 supported)
A
GP LED
JP30 Die Hard BIOS
Select Jum
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VIA KT400
Socket 462
AMD
Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP
CPU
100/133/166
MHz System
Bus
DDR SDRAM Socket x3
AGP 8X Slot
VT8235
Serial Port x2
2nd USB Port
1st USB Port
USB connector x6
32-bit PCI Slot x6
Parallel Port
IDE Drive x6
ATA
66/100/133
PC1600/2100/2700 DDR
SDRAM Up to 3GB
Primary
Channel
Secondary
Channel
2MBit Flash EEPROM
Audio CODEC
AC’97 Link
PCI Bus
CNR Slot
AGP Bus
Floppy Disk Drive x2
3rd USB Port
RealTek
RTL8100
BL
LAN connect Component
Third Channel
Promise
PDC20375
Serial ATA
Serial ATA Devices x2
ATA
66/100/133
IEEE 1394 x2
IEEE 1394 connectors x2
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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. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a
component. If a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout
any procedures requiring ESD protection.