AOpen MK86-L Setup guide

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MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394
DOC. NO.: MK86L-OL-E0310A

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MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394...........................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual......................................................................................................................................................2
You Must Notice..............................................................................................................................................................8
Before You Start..............................................................................................................................................................9
Overview.......................................................................................................................................................................10
MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 Comparison Table....................................................................................................... 11
Feature Highlight...........................................................................................................................................................12
Quick Installation Procedure .........................................................................................................................................16
Motherboard Map..........................................................................................................................................................17
Block Diagram...............................................................................................................................................................18
Hardware Installation................................................................................................................19
About “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” and “User Upgrade Optional”…......................................................................20
CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................21
AOpen Overheat Protection (O.H.P.) Technology..........................................................................................................23
CPU Over-current Protection.........................................................................................................................................24
Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage.......................................................................................................................25
Setting CPU Frequency.................................................................................................................................................26
Supported CPU Frequency ...........................................................................................................................................27

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AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” ..............................................................................................................................................28
CPU and Housing Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ..............................................................................................29
DIMM Sockets...............................................................................................................................................................30
ATX Power Connector...................................................................................................................................................32
AC Power Auto Recovery..............................................................................................................................................32
IDE and Floppy Connector............................................................................................................................................33
ATA/133 Supported .......................................................................................................................................................35
Serial ATA Supported (With RAID Function)..................................................................................................................36
Connecting Serial ATA Disk...........................................................................................................................................37
Front Panel Connector ..................................................................................................................................................39
IrDA Connector .............................................................................................................................................................40
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot......................................................................................................41
10/100/1000 Mbps LAN onboard...................................................................................................................................42
Support eight USB 2.0 connectors ................................................................................................................................43
Color Coded Back Panel...............................................................................................................................................44
Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect ....................................................................................................................................45
Front Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................46
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector.........................................................................................................47
Case Open Connector...................................................................................................................................................48

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CD Audio Connector .....................................................................................................................................................49
AUX-IN Connector.........................................................................................................................................................50
WOL (Wake on LAN).....................................................................................................................................................51
IEEE 1394 Connector (for MK86-1394).........................................................................................................................52
JP14 Clear CMOS Data Jumper....................................................................................................................................53
JP28 KB/Mouse Wake-up Jumper.................................................................................................................................54
STBY LED.....................................................................................................................................................................55
AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED....................................................................................................................56
Battery-less and Long Life Design.................................................................................................................................57
Resetable Fuse.............................................................................................................................................................58
2200 μ F Low ESR Capacitor.........................................................................................................................................59
RAID Introduction......................................................................................................................61
What’s RAID?................................................................................................................................................................61
What are the RAID levels?............................................................................................................................................62
HDD Capacity of RAID Levels.......................................................................................................................................66
PHOENIX-AWARD BIOS..............................................................................................................67
How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program ....................................................................................................68
How To Enter BIOS Setup.............................................................................................................................................69
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment .................................................................................................................70

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Open JukeBox Player....................................................................................................................................................72
Vivid BIOS technology...................................................................................................................................................76
Driver and Utility .......................................................................................................................77
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD .....................................................................................................................................77
Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver.............................................................................................................................................78
Installing Audio Driver ...................................................................................................................................................79
Installing USB2.0 Driver................................................................................................................................................80
Installing LAN Driver (for MK86-L) ................................................................................................................................81
Installing LAN Driver (for MK86-N and MK86-1394)......................................................................................................87
Installing VIA Serial ATA RAID Driver............................................................................................................................93
AOConfig Utility.............................................................................................................................................................94
The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek ..................................................................................................................................96
EzClock.........................................................................................................................................................................99
Glossary ..................................................................................................................................103
AC97 CODEC .............................................................................................................................................................103
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) .....................................................................................................103
ACR (Advanced Communication Riser).......................................................................................................................103
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port)..................................................................................................................................104
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)..........................................................................................................................................104

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ATA (AT Attachment) ...................................................................................................................................................104
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)..............................................................................................................................105
Bluetooth.....................................................................................................................................................................105
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)..............................................................................................................106
DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM....................................................................................................................................106
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) .........................................................................................................................106
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM)..................................................................................................107
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM).....................................................................................................................107
EV6 Bus......................................................................................................................................................................107
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity).........................................................................................................................107
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)..............................................................................................................................108
FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................................................................................................................108
Flash ROM..................................................................................................................................................................108
Hyper Threading .........................................................................................................................................................108
IEEE 1394...................................................................................................................................................................108
Parity Bit .....................................................................................................................................................................109
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus .................................................................................................................109
PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................. 110
PnP (Plug and Play).................................................................................................................................................... 110

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POST (Power-On Self Test) ........................................................................................................................................ 110
PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock............................................................................................................................ 110
RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory).................................................................................................111
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) .......................................................................................................................111
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM).....................................................................................................................................111
SATA (Serial ATA) ........................................................................................................................................................111
SMBus (System Management Bus)............................................................................................................................. 112
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)..................................................................................................................................... 112
USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................... 112
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)................................................................................................................................... 112
Wireless LAN – 802.11b.............................................................................................................................................. 113
ZIP file......................................................................................................................................................................... 113
Troubleshooting.......................................................................................................................114
Technical Support ...................................................................................................................118
Product Registration ...............................................................................................................121
How to Contact Us ..................................................................................................................122

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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 5.0 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 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394. The MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 is AMD
®
Socket 754
motherboard (M/B) based on the micro ATX form factor featuring the VIA K8T800 chipset. As high performance chipset built in
the M/B, the MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 comes with AMD
®
Socket 754 Athlon 64 processor and 200MHz QDR CPU front
side bus. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot and supports AGP 8X/4X mode and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst
transfer up to 2.1GB/sec. With memory controller built in the Athlon 64 processor, DDR400(PC3200), DDR333(PC2700) and
DDR266(PC2100) DDR RAM can be applied to the MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 and DDR400 maximum memory size can be
up to 2GB. The on-board IDE controller supports Ultra
DMA 66/100/133 mode and the transfer rate up to
133MB/s. MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 also has
two Serial ATA connectors and they aim to provide you
an even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second.
Beside, MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 has an AC97
CODEC Realtek ALC655 chipset onboard and
supports 5.1 channels, providing 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 IEEE1394 (for MK86-1394) provided
data transfer rate up to 400Mbps. Now, enjoy all
features from AOpen MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394.

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Following we list different functions in those three models. “V” represents those functions that the model equips with and “X”
represents functions that model doesn’t have. Please always refer to this page to see the functions of your model.
MK86-N MK86-L MK86-1394
IEEE 1394 Function XXV
IEEE 1394 Connector XX V
10/100Mbps LAN V V V
Gigabits LAN XVX

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CPU
Supports AMD
®
Socket 754 Athlon 64 CPU with 800MHz Hyper Transport Bus.
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. The V-Link Host
Controller in the North Bridge connects it to the South Bridge and provides superior performance between the CPU / DRAM
subsystem, V-Link bus and AGP 8X graphics controller bus with pipelined, burst and concurrent operation. The South Bridge
VT8237 integrates PCI controller, networking MAC, IDE controller, two-channel Serial ATA (with RAID function) controller and
four ports USB 2.0 controller.
Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Bus Master IDE
Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two 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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LAN Port
For MK86-L, on the strength of BCM5705 controller on board, which is a highly integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it
provides 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. For MK86-N and MK86-1394, with BCM4401 network controller on
boards, it provides 10/100Mbps 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. The SATA connectors (port 1 and port 2) provided by VIA VT8237 support RAID 0, RIAD 1, RAID 0+1 and
JBOD mode.
Expansion Slots
Including three 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X slots. 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. The AGP video cards support
data transfer rate up to 2.1GB/s. As MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP
graphic card for AD and SBA signaling, MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 can support 133MHz 4X/8X mode. MK86-N / MK86-L /
MK86-1394 also support three master PCI slots for arbitration and decoding functions.
Watch Dog ABS
Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function that can auto-reset system in few seconds when you fail the system overclocking.

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Memory
With memory controller built in the AMD Athlon 64 processors, which is a brand new design in AMD Athlon 64 CPUs, MK86-N /
MK86-L / MK86-1394 can support Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The DDR RAM interface allows zero wait state bursting
between the RAM and the data buffers at 400/333/266/200 MHz. The four banks of DDR RAM can be composed of an arbitrary
mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512,1024MB DDR RAM and support DDR400/DDR333/266 maximum up to 2GB.
On-board AC97 Sound
MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 uses the AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC655 chip, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio
effects. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system.
IEEE 1394 (for MK86-1394)
This motherboard comes with great function of IEEE1394 which has transfer data rate up to 400Mbps.
Eight USB 2.0 Connectors
Provides four USB ports for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. The new 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.

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1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment
Provides “1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you to adjust CPU FSB
frequency from 200~232MHz by 1MHz stepping, and lets your system get maximum performance.
Power Management/Plug and Play
MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 support 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, voltage monitoring and alert through 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.
Super Multi-I/O
MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 provide 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. Reboot
10. Installing Operating System (such as Windows XP)
11. Installing Driver and Utility

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FDD Connector
Motherboard Map
Colored Back Panel
ATX Power Connector
SYSFAN1 Connector
AGP 8x Slot
754-pin CPU Socket with
Voltage and Frequency
Auto-Detection that supports
AMD
TM
Athlon
TM
64
VIA® Apollo K8T800 Chipset
and VT8237 SB
CPUFAN Connector
184-pin DIMMx2 supports
DDR400/DDR333/DDR266
max up to 2GB
CD-IN Connector
AUX-IN Connector
Serial ATA connector x2
32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x3
IrDA Connector
SYSFAN2Connector
Front Audio Connector
Front Panel Connector
JP14 Clear CMOS Jum
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Case Open Connector
S/PDIF Connector
USB 2.0 Connector
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse
Wakeup Jumper
2200μF Low ESR Capacitors
4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector
IEEE 1394 Connector x2
(for MK86-1394)
IDE Connector x 2
(ATA/66/100/133 supported)
WOL Connector

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VIA K8T800
Socket 754
AMD Athlon 64
CPU
800 MHz Hyper
Transport Bus
DDR SDRAM Socket x3
AGP 8X Slot
VT8237
Serial Port x2
2
nd
USB Port
1
st
USB Port
USB connector x8
32-bit PCI Slot x3
Parallel Port
IDE Drive x4
ATA
66/100/133
DDR400/DDR333/266 RAM
to 2GB
Primary
Channel
Secondary
Channel
Audio CODEC
AC’97 Link
PCI Bus
AGP Bus
Floppy Disk Drive x2
3
rd
USB Port
BCM5707 (for MK86-L)
BCM4401 (for MK86-N & MK86-
1394)
LAN connect Component
Serial ATA Devices x2
4MBit Flash EEPROM
Serial ATA
4th USB Port
V-Link Bus
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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.

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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. Hence, we changed
some key features as “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” for you to choose. Some optional functions that can be upgraded by
users, we call them “User Upgrade Optional”. As for those optional functions that can’t be upgraded by ourselves, we call them
“Manufacturer Upgrade Optional”. If needed, you can contact our local distributors or resellers for purchasing “User Upgrade
Optional” components, and again you can visit AOpen official web site: http://english.aopen.com.tw/ for more detail information.