AOpen MK73LE Setup guide

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MK73LE
DOC. NO.: MK73LE-OL-E0104A

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Wh ha at t’ ’s s i in n t th hi is s m ma an nu ua al l
MK73LE......................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual ...........................................................................................................2
You Must Notice...................................................................................................................9
Before You Start.................................................................................................................10
Overview............................................................................................................................11
Feature Highlight................................................................................................................12
Quick Installation Procedure...............................................................................................16
Motherboard Map...............................................................................................................17
Hardware Installation............................................................................18
JP14 Clear CMOS Data......................................................................................................19
CPU Installation .................................................................................................................20
JP21 Adjust FSB/PCI Clock................................................................................................21
CPU Jumper-less Design ...................................................................................................25
Setting CPU Core Voltage..................................................................................................26
CPU and Housing Fan Connector (With H/W Monitoring)...................................................27

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DIMM Socket......................................................................................................................28
Front Panel Connector .......................................................................................................29
ATX Power Connector........................................................................................................31
AC Power Auto Recovery...................................................................................................32
IDE and Floppy Connector .................................................................................................33
IrDA Connector...................................................................................................................36
WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector..............................................................37
WOL (Wake on LAN)..........................................................................................................40
CNR Expansion Slot...........................................................................................................42
PC99 Color Coded Back Panel...........................................................................................43
COM2 Connector................................................................................................................44
Support 2nd USB Port .........................................................................................................45
CD Audio Connector...........................................................................................................46
Modem Audio Connector....................................................................................................47
AUX-IN Connector..............................................................................................................48
Front Audio Connector .......................................................................................................49

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Battery-less and Long Life Design......................................................................................50
Over-current Protection......................................................................................................51
Hardware Monitoring..........................................................................................................53
Resettable Fuse.................................................................................................................54
Year 2000 (Y2K).................................................................................................................55
Low ESR Capacitor............................................................................................................57
Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)......................................................................................59
Driver and Utility....................................................................................60
Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc....................................................................................61
Installing Windows 95.........................................................................................................62
Installing Windows 98.........................................................................................................63
Installing Windows 98 SE, Windows ME & Windows2000 ..................................................64
Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver..................................................................................................65
Installing Onboard Sound Driver.........................................................................................66
Installing Onboard Creative Sound Driver (Optional)..........................................................67
Installing Onboard AGP Driver............................................................................................68

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Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility .................................................................................69
ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive..............................................................................................70
ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR).............................................................................................77
AWARD BIOS ..........................................................................................79
How To Use Award™ BIOS Setup Program........................................................................80
How To Enter BIOS Setup..................................................................................................82
BIOS Upgrade....................................................................................................................83
Overclocking ..........................................................................................85
VGA Card & Hard Disk .......................................................................................................87
Glossary .................................................................................................88
AC97..................................................................................................................................88
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ............................................................88
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port).........................................................................................89
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser).................................................................................................89
AOpen Bonus Pack CD ......................................................................................................89
APM (Advanced Power Management)................................................................................90

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ATA (AT Attachment) ..........................................................................................................90
ATA/66................................................................................................................................90
ATA/100..............................................................................................................................90
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) .....................................................................................91
Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) .............................................................................................91
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser).....................................................................91
CODEC (Coding and Decoding).........................................................................................92
DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module).................................................................................92
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ................................................................................92
EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ...............................................................................93
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM).........................................................93
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)............................................................................93
EV6 Bus .............................................................................................................................94
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ................................................................................94
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).....................................................................................94
Flash ROM.........................................................................................................................95

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FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ...............................................................................................95
I2C Bus...............................................................................................................................95
IEEE 1394..........................................................................................................................96
Parity Bit.............................................................................................................................96
PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)......................................................................................97
PC-100 DIMM.....................................................................................................................97
PC-133 DIMM.....................................................................................................................97
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ........................................................................97
PDF Format........................................................................................................................98
PnP (Plug and Play)...........................................................................................................98
POST (Power-On Self Test)................................................................................................98
RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ..................................................................................................99
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) .............................................................................99
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)...........................................................................................99
Shadow E2PROM .............................................................................................................100
SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module).............................................................................100

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SMBus (System Management Bus)..................................................................................100
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)..........................................................................................101
UltraATA...........................................................................................................................101
USB (Universal Serial Bus) ..............................................................................................102
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)........................................................................................102
ZIP file..............................................................................................................................102
Troubleshooting...................................................................................103
Technical Support................................................................................107
Product Registration............................................................................111

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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,
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