Dallas Odin K8F8 User manual

Odin K8F8/K8F8P/K8F8G
USER'S MANUAL
M/B For Socket 754 64-bit AMD Athlon64 Processor
Rev:1.0
Release date: October 2005
Trademark:
* Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are
subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer.

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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................ii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF MOTHERBOARD
1-1 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD...................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD ...................................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.................................................................................................................. 3
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................................ 4
1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING................................................................... 5
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS ............................................................................ 7
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING.................................................. 7
2-3 INSTALL CPU....................................................................................................................... 8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY................................................................................................................ 8
2-3-2 About AMD Athlon64 754-pin CPU.................................................................. 9
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY............................................................................................................ 10
2-5 EXPANSION CARD ............................................................................................................. 11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION .............................. 11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD...................................................... 11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD ...................... 12
2-5-4 PCI-Express SLOT .................................................................................................... 12
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS................................................................................................ 13
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ......................................................................................................... 13
2-6-2 HEADERS .................................................................................................................. 17
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER................................................................................. 19
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP.............................................................................................................. 20
3-2 GETTING HELP................................................................................................................... 20
3-3 THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 21
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES........................................................................................ 22
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 23
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.................................................................................. 25
3-6-1 DRAM TIMING SETTINGS.................................................................................... 26
3-6-2 LDT & PCI TIMING SETTINGS............................................................................ 27
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS......................................................................................... 27
3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION....................................................................................... 28
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION............................................................................... 29
3-7-3 ONCHIP SUPER IO FUNCTION ........................................................................... 30
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 31
3-8-1 WAKE UP EVENTS................................................................................................. 32
3-8-1.1 IRQS ACTIVITIES........................................................................................ 33
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL........................................................................................ 33
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES..................................................................................................... 34
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS........................................................................................................ 34
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATIONS..................................................................... 35
3-11 THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS............................................................................ 36
3-12 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS..................................................................... 37
3-13 PASSWORD SETTINGS .................................................................................................... 40
3-14 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS............................................................... 40
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/NT/2000/XP ................................................... 41
4-1 NFOCE INSTALL NFORCE INTEGRATED DRIVER.................................... 42
4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC850 8-CHANNEL AUDIO DRIVER........................... 44
4-3 LAN MARVELL YUKON GIGABITETNEMET NIC DRIVER................ 45
4-4 USB2.0 INSTALL USB2.0 DRIVER ................................................................... 45
4-5 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2005 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ..................... 46
4-6 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY ........... 47
4-7 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS .................................................................................................... 48
APPENDIX: Debug Port Post Code.......................................................................................i1
TABLE OF CONTENT

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USER’S NOTICE
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MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT MAY BE
REPRODUCED, TRANSMITTED OR TRANSLATED INTO ANY LANGUAGE IN ANY FORM OR
BY ANY MEANS WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE MANUFACTURER.
THIS MANUAL CONTAINS ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED TO USE 939TURBO MOTHER-
BOARD AND WE DO ASSURE THIS MANUAL MEETS USER’S REQUIREMENT BUT WILL
CHANGE, CORRECT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. MANUFACTURER PROVIDES THIS
MANUAL “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY
INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING
DAMANGES FOR LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OF DATA,
INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND THE LIKE).
PRODUCTS AND CORPORATE NAMES APPEARING IN THIS MANUAL MAY OR MAY NOT BE
REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OR COPYRIGHTS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPANIES, AND
THEY ARE USED ONLY FOR IDENTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION AND TO THE OWNER’S
BENEFIT, WITHOUT INTENT TO INFRINGE.
Manual Revision Information
Reversion Revision History Date
1.0 First Edition October 2005
Item Checklist
5Motherboard
5Cable for IDE/Floppy
5CD for motherboard utilities
□Cable for USB Port 3/4 (Option)
5Cable for Serial ATA IDE Port
□SPDIF-IN/SPDIF-OUT Adaptor
5User’s Manual
AMD K8 Processor Family
Cooling Solutions
As processor technology pushes to faster speeds and higher performance with increasing operation
clock, thermal management becomes increasingly crucial while building computer systems. Maintaining
the proper computing environment without thermal increasing is the key to reliable, stable, and 24
hours system operation. The overall goal is keeping the processor below its specified maximum case
temperature. Heatsinks induce improved processor heat dissipation through increasing surface area
and concentrated airflow from attached active cooling fans. In addition, interface materials allow
effective transfers of heat from the processor to the heatsink. For optimum heat transfer, AMD
recommends the use of thermal grease and mounting clips to attach the heatsink to the processor.
Please refer to the website below for collection of heatsinks evaluated and recommended for Socket-
939 processors by AMD. In addition, this collection is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of
all heatsinks that support Socket-939 processors.
For vendor list of heatsinks and Active cooling fans, please visit：
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_869_9460^9515,00.html

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Chapter 1
Introduction of Motherboards
1-1 Features of motherboard
Odin K8F8 /K8F8P /K8F8G motherboard is based on NVIDIA nForce4 SLI single chip
technology which supports the innovative 64-bit AMD Athlon64 FX with HyperTransport
Technology. These motherboards series deliver the leading-edge performance with NVIDIA
Scalable Link Interface Technology with the latest Dual PCI Express for NVIDIA Dual
Graphic Processing Unit ready platform. Utilize the 64-bit socket 754 solution and PC3200
DDR memory size expandable to 3.0GB, These motherboards series meet the demanding usage
of computing in the future.
Odin K8F8 /K8F8P /K8F8G motherboards carry the advanced dual GPU supported NVIDIA
nForce4 SLI single chip with 1000 MHz HyperTransport system bus of data transferring and
provided with 133MHz / 166MHz / 200MHz memory clock frequency for
DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 DDR Module. NVIDIA nForce4 single chipset offers ULTRA
ATA 133 and Serial ATA RAID 0, 1, 0+1 functions to accelerate hard disk drives and
guarantee the data security without failed in advanced computing performance.
Odin K8F8G motherboard provides Marvell 88E1111 controller which supports 10M / 100M
/ 1Gbps data transfer rate for software bandwidth Load-balance and full duplex, half duplex
packages transportation. Embedded 8-channel AC’97 CODEC is fully compatible with Sound
Blaster Pro®standards that offers you with the home cinema quality and absolutely software
compatibility.
Colorful and Intuitional SLI placement design offers three PCI-Express x16 graphics slots (Two
symmetrical PCI-Express x16 graphics slots in light green deliver up to 2Gbyte/sec data
transfer rate at each relative direction which is fully compatible with the latest NVIDIA SLI
Technology. One PCI-Express x16 graphics slot offers 4Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each
relative direction which get 3.5 times of bandwidth more than AGP8X and up to 8Gbyte/sec
concurrent bandwidth at full speed.) to guarantee the fully operational multi-GPUs graphics
power and avoid the possible SLI hardware installation error. One PCI Express x1 I/O slot
offers 512Mbyte/sec concurrently, over 3.5 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133Mbye/sec,
tackling the most demanding multimedia tasks nowadays.
Embedded USB controller as well as capability of expanding to 10 of USB2.0 functional
ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth and rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the
future USB demands which are also equipped with hardware monitor function on system to
monitor and protect your system and maintain your non-stop business computing.

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Some special features---CPU Thermal Throttling/ CPU Vcore 7-shift/ CPU Smart Fan/
Debug Port(Option) in this motherboard are designed for power user to use the over-clocking
function in more flexible ways. But please be caution that the over-clocking maybe cause the
fails in system reliabilities. This motherboard provides the guaranteed performance and meets
the demands of the next generation computing. But if you insist to gain more system
performance with variety possibilities of the components you choose, please be careful and
make sure to read the detailed descriptions of these value added product features, please get
them in the coming section.
1-1.1 Special Features of motherboard
CPU Thermal Throttling Technology---(The CPU Overheat Protection Technology)
To prevent the increasing heat from damage of CPU or accidental shutdown while at high
workload, the CPU Thermal Throttling Technology will force CPU to enter partially idle
mode from 87.5% to 12.5% according to preset CPU operating temperature in BIOS (from 40
℃to 90℃). When the system senses the CPU operating temperature reaching the preset value,
the CPU operating bandwidth will be decreased to the preset idle percentage to cool down the
processor. When at throttling mode the beeper sound can be optionally selected to indicate it
is in working.
Debug Port (Option)--- ( The Professional Hardware Diagnosis System )
Being bugged of abnormal system failure through the tossed and turned nights no more, the
embedded Hardware Debug Port offers you the real-time visual system healthy for the
demanding usage of computing. No more bugging by unknown system failure and no more
time wasted in the first moment of 24-hour nonstop ping business computing, the embedded
Debug Port will turn you into a well training hardware professional with the seeing system
situation. (The Post Code please refer Appendix)
CPU Smart Fan---( The Noise Management System )
It’s never been a good idea to gain the performance of your system by sacrificing its acoustics.
CPU Smart Fan Noise Management System is the answer to control the noise level needed for
now-a-day’s high performance computing system. The system will automatically increase the
fan speed when CPU operating loading is high, after the CPU is in normal operating condition,
the system will low down the fan speed for the silent operating environment. The system can
provide the much longer life cycle for both CPU and the system fans for game use and
business requirements.
CPU Vcore 7-Shift--- ( Shift to Higher Performance )
The CPU voltage can be adjusted up by 7 steps for the precisely over-clocking of extra
demanding computing performance.

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1-2 Specification
Spec Description
Design ∗ATX form factor 4 layers PCB size: 30.5x24.4cm
Chipset ∗NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Single Chip Technology
CPU Socket 939
∗Support 64bit AMD Athlon64 754-Pin package utilizes Flip-
Chip Pin Grid Array package processor
∗Support CPU Frequency 1G/800MHz
∗Support up to 4000+ processor
∗Reserves support for future AMD Athlon64 754-pin processors
Memory Socket ∗184-pin DDR Module socket x 3
∗Support 3pcs DDR266/DDR33/DDR400 DDR Modules
Expandable to 3.0GB
Expansion Slot ∗PCI-Express x16 slot 3pcs deliver up to 8GB/s concurrent
bandwidth in Non-SLI mode and 4GB/s concurrent bandwidth
while SLI mode being activated
∗PCI-Express x1 slot 1pcs delivers up to 512MB/s concurrent
bandwidth
∗32-bit PCI slot x 3pcs
Integrate IDE and
Serial ATA RAID
∗Two PCI IDE controllers support PCI Bus Mastering, ATA
PIO/DMA and the ULTRA DMA 33/66/100/133 functions that
deliver the data transfer rate up to 133 MB/s; Four Serial ATA
ports provide 150 MB/sec data transfer rate for Four Serial
ATA Devices and offer RAID 0, 1, 0+1 functions
LAN ∗Odin K8F8G Supports Fast Ethernet LAN function provide
10Mb/100Mb/ 1Gb /s data transfer rate
8CH-Audio ∗AC’97 Digital Audio controller integrated
∗8-channel AC’97 Audio CODEC on board
∗Audio driver and utility included
BIOS ∗Award 4MB Flash ROM
Multi I/O ∗PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
∗Floppy disk drive connector x1
∗Parallel port x1
∗Serial port x2
∗USB2.0 port x 4 and headers x 4 (connecting cable option)
∗Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC/ 8CH Audio)

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1-3 Performance List
The following performance data list is the testing result of some popular benchmark testing
programs. These data are just referred by users, and there is no responsibility for different
testing data values gotten by users (the different Hardware & Software configuration will
result in different benchmark testing results.)
Performance Test Report
CPU: AMD K8 Athlon64 3200+ Support (Socket754, 512k L2 cache)
DRAM: KingMax MPTC220D-38HT 512MB DDR500 X 2 (1Gbyte) Memory
VGA Card : GeForce6600GT 128M PCI-E VGA CARD X 2 (1024X768X32BIT Color)
Hard Disk Driver: Seagate Barracude 7200.7 SATA150
BIOS: Award Optimal default
OS: Windows XP Professional (SERVICE PACK 2)
SLI / 200/200 Ultra / 200/200 STD / 200/200
3D Mark 2001SE 18975 18286 18280
3D Mark 2003 13642 8101 8137
3D Mark 2005 6184 3532 3545
AQUAMRK3 63572
(
9999 / 8727
)
53014
(
7545 / 8912
)
53336
(
7569 / 9021
)
PCMark2004
System / CPU / Memory 3810 / 3829 / 4386 4072 / 3846 / 4401 4089 / 3854 / 4427
Graph / HDD 5096 / 4676 4436 / 4663 4391 / 4619
Content Creation Winstone 2004 31.1 31.5 31.7
Business Winstone 2004 23 22.8 23
Winbench 99 V2.0:
Business/Hi-end Disk Winmark99 20100 / 42800 18700 / 41000 20300 / 41900
Business/Hi-end Graphic Winmark 1120 / 1930 1240 / 1930 1170 / 1990
SISMark 2004: SISMark Rating(Internet Content Creation / Office Productivity )
SISMark 2004 171
(
182 / 161
)
175
(
184 / 167
)
178
(
184 / 172
)
3D Creation / 2D Creation 168 / 222 169 / 255 170 / 228
/ Web publication 161 163 161
Communication / Document Creation 181 / 156 179 / 175 191 / 175
/ Data Analysis 149 150 153
SISOFT Sandra 2004 : 1.CPU Arithmetic Benchmark 2.Memor
y
bandwidth Benchmark 3.CPU
Multi-Media Benchmar
k
1.Dhrystone ALU MIPS 10366 8576 8574
Whetstone FPU iSSE2 FLOPS 8531 3293 / 4275 3279 / 4256
2.Int/Float Buffered iSSE2 MB/S 3278 / 4237 4828 / 4828 4640 / 4643
3.Integer/Floating-Point SSE2 IT/S 4810 / 4800 19137 / 20650 19117 / 20669
UT2003 Benchmark (flyby/botmatch) 297.82 / 94.94 247.92 / 83.34 253.46 / 85.33
Quake3 DEMO1 / DEMO2 FPS 234.04 / 81.74 N / A N / A
Return to Castle Wolfenstein FPS 85.4 75.0 75.4
Super Pi (1M) Second 44s 44s 43s
CPUZ System / CPU Clock 200 / 200 / 2000.9 200.9 / 200.9 / 2009.3 200.9 / 200.9 / 2009.3

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1-4 Layout Diagram & Jumper Setting
SPDIF OUT COM2
USB1
PS/2 Mouse
PS/2 Keyboard
USB
Line-IN
MIC-IN
Line-OUT
CEN/LFE
Surround
PRINTER Giga LAN Surrback
USB Port
(USB1, USB2, USB3)
4MBit Flash ROM BIOS
Floppy Connector
Front Panel Connector
ATA 133 IDE Connector
(IDE1, IDE2)
Clear CMOS (JBAT)
N
VIDIA nForce4 SLI Chip
Speaker/Power LED Connector
De-Bug Port
CPU Socket
DDR Socket X3
ATX Power Connector
Serial-ATA Connector
(SATA1, 2, 3, 4)
USB Power
On Jumper (JP3)
PCI EXPRESSx16
SFAN2
Front Panel Audio
CD Audio In
OptionalMarvel 88E1111 1G LAN Chip
PCI Slot
8-CH AC’97 Audio Codec
2n
d
PCI EXPRESS x8 for SLI
VIA 6103L LAN PHY Chip
PC99 Back Panel
PS2 KB/Mouse Port
CPU FAN
Audio Connector
KBMS/USB Power On Jumper (JP1)
FINTEK F71805F I/O chip
ATX 12V Power Connector
USB Port/ Giga LAN Connecto
r
SFAN1
CHAFAN
USB Port/ 10/100M LAN Connecto
r
1st PCI EXPRESS x8 for SLI
PCI EXPRESS x1

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Jumpers
Jumper Name Description
JBAT CMOS RAM Clear 3-pin Block
JP1 Keyboard Power On
Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block
JP2 USB Power On Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block
Connectors
Connector Name Description
ATXPWR24P ATX Power Connector 24-pin Block
ATX12V ATX 12V Power Connector 4-pin Block
PS2KBMS PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard
Connector 6-pin Female
USB/USB1 USB Port Connector 4-pin Connector
UL1 10/100M LAN Port Connector RJ-45 Connector
USBLAN Giga-LAN Port Connector RJ-45 Connector
PARALLEL Parallel Port Connector 25-pin Female
J1 8-CH Audio Connector 6 phone jack Connector
COM1/COM2 Serial Port COM1/COM2 Connector 9-pin Connector
FDD Floppy Driver Connector 34-pin Block
IDE1/IDE2 Primary/Secondary IDE Connector 40-pin Block
SATA1~4 Serial ATA IDE Connector 7-pin Connector
Headers
Header Name Description
AUDIO SPEAKER, MIC header 9-pin Block
USB2, USB3 USB Port Headers 9-pin Block
SPEAK PC Speaker connector 4-pin Block
PWR LED Power LED 3-pin Block
JW_FP
(Power LED/Reset/
IDE LED/Power
Button)
Front Panel Header
(including Power LED/ IDE activity
LED/Reset switch / Power On Button
lead)
9-pin Block
SFAN1, SFAN2
CPUFAN FAN Headers 3-pin Block
CDIN CD Audio-In Header 4-pin Block
Expansion Sockets
Socket/Slot Name Description
ZIF Socket 754 CPU Socket 754-pin mPGAB Athlon64 CPU
Socket
DIMM1~3 DDR Module Socket 184-pin DDR Module Socket
PCI1∼PCI3 PCI Slot 32-bit PCI Local Bus Expansion slots
PE1 PCI-Express x1 Slot PCI-Express x1 Expansion Slot
PE3 PCI-Express x16 Slot PCI-Express x16 Expansion Slot
PE2,PE4 PCI-Express x16 Slot PCI-E x 8 Bandwidth for SLI Tech.

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Chapter 2
Hardware Installation
2-1 Hardware installation Steps
Before using your computer, you had better complete the following steps:
1. Check motherboard jumper setting
2. Install CPU and Fan
3. Install System Memory (DIMM)
4. Install Expansion cards
5. Connect IDE and Floppy cables, Front Panel /Back Panel cable
6. Connect ATX Power cable
7. Power-On and Load Standard Default
8. Reboot
9. Install Operating System
10. Install Driver and Utility
2-2 Checking Motherboard’s Jumper Setting
(1) CMOS RAM Clear (3-pin) : JBAT
A battery must be used to retain the motherboard configuration in CMOS RAM short 1-2
pins of JBAT to store the CMOS data.
To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below:
1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power
2. Remove ATX power cable from ATX power connector
3. Locate JBAT and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds
4. Return JBAT to its normal setting by shorting pins 1-2
5. Connect ATX power cable back to ATX power connector
Note: When should clear CMOS
1. Troubleshooting
2. Forget password
3. After over clocking system boot fail
CMOS RAM Clear Setting
2-3 closed Clear CMOS
JBAT 13
JBAT 13
1-2 closed Normal

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(2) Keyboard function Enabled/Disabled: JP1
Keyboard/Mouse & USB Power On Setting
2-3 closed
KB/USB Power ON Enabled
JP1 1
3
JP1 1
3
1-2 closed
KB/USB Power ON Disable (Default)
(3) USB Power On function Enabled/Disabled: JP3
USB2/USB3 Power On Setting
2-3 closed USB Power On Enabled
JP3
1 3
JP3
13
1-2 closed USB Power On Disable
(Default)
2-3 Install CPU
2-3-1 Glossary
Chipset (or core logic) - two or more integrated circuits which control the interfaces between
the system processor, RAM, I/O devises, and adapter cards.
Processor slot/socket - the slot or socket used to mount the system processor on the
motherboard.
Slot (PCI-E, PCI, RAM) - the slots used to mount adapter cards and system RAM.
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port - a high speed interface for video cards; runs at 1X
(66MHz), 2X (133MHz), or 4X (266MHz), or 8X (533MHz).
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect - a high speed interface for video cards, sound
cards, network interface cards, and modems; runs at 33MHz.
PCI Express- Peripheral Component Interconnect Express- a high speed interface for video
cards, sound cards, network interface cards, and modems.
Serial Port - a low speed interface typically used for mouse and external modems.
Parallel Port - a low speed interface typically used for printers.
PS/2 - a low speed interface used for mouse and keyboards.
USB - Universal Serial Bus - a medium speed interface typically used for mouse, keyboards,
scanners, and some digital cameras.

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Sound (interface) - the interface between the sound card or integrated sound connectors and
speakers, MIC, game controllers, and MIDI sound devices.
LAN (interface) - Local Area Network - the interface to your local area network.
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) - the program logic used to boot up a computer and
establish the relationship between the various components.
Driver - software, which defines the characteristics of a device for use by another device or
other software.
Processor - the "central processing unit" (CPU); the principal integrated circuit used for
doing the "computing" in "personal computer"
Front Side Bus Frequency - the working frequency of the motherboard, which is generated
by the clock generator for CPU, DRAM and PCI BUS.
CPU L2 Cache - the flash memory inside the CPU, normal it depend on CPU type.
2-3-2 About AMD Athlon64 754-pin CPU
This motherboard provides a 754-pin surface mount, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket,
referred to as the mPGA754 socket supports AMD Athlon64 processor in the 754 Pin
package utilizes Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array package technology.
The CPU that comes with the motherboard should have a cooling FAN attached to prevent
overheating. If this is not the case, then purchase a correct cooling FAN before you turn on
your system.
WARNING! Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor’s
heatsink and CPU cooling FAN is working correctly, otherwise it may
cause the processor and motherboard overheat and damage, you may install
an auxiliary cooling FAN, if necessary.
To install a CPU, first turn off your system and remove its cover. Locate the ZIF socket and
open it by first pulling the level sideways away from the socket then upward to a 90-degree
angle. Insert the CPU with the correct orientation as shown below. The notched corner
should point toward the end of the level. Because the CPU has a corner pin for two of the
four corners, the CPU will only fit in the orientation as shown.
CPU ZIF mPGAB Socket
Colden Arrow
Socket 754
When you put the CPU into the ZIF socket. No force require to insert of the CPU, then press
the level to Locate position slightly without any extra force.

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2-4 Install Memory
This motherboard provides four 184-pin DDR DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULES
(DIMM) sites for DDR memory expansion available from minimum memory size of 64MB to
maximum memory size of 3.0GB DDR SDRAM.
Valid Memory Configurations
Bank 184-Pin DIMM PCS Total Memory
Bank 0, 1 (DIMM1) DDRDDR266/DDR333/DDR400
DDR SDRAM Module X1 128MB∼1.0GB
Bank 2, 3 (DIMM2) DDRDDR266/DDR333/DDR400
DDR SDRAM Module X1 128MB∼1.0GB
Bank 4, 5 (DIMM3) DDRDDR266/DDR333/DDR400
DDR SDRAM Module X1 128MB∼1.0GB
Total System Memory (Max. 3.0GB) 3 128MB∼3.0GB
Generally, installing DDR SDRAM modules to your motherboard is very easy, you can refer
to figure 2-4 to see what a 184-Pin DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 DDR SDRAM module looks
like.
DIMM2 (BANK2+BANK3) DIMM1 (BANK0+BANK1)
DIMM3 (BANK4+BANK5)
NOTE! When you install DIMM module fully into the DIMM socket the eject tab
should be locked into the DIMM module very firmly and fit into its
indention on both sides.
WARNING! For the DDR SDRAM CLOCK is set at 200MHz, use only DDR400- compliant
DDR Modules. When this motherboard operate at 200Mhz, most system will
not even boot if non-compliant modules are used because of the strict
timing issues, if your DDR Modules are not DDR400-compliant, set the
SDRAM clock to 133MHz to ensure system stability.
Figure 2-4

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2-5 Expansion Cards
WARNING! Turn off your power when adding or removing expansion cards or other
system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both
your motherboard and expansion cards.
2-5-1 Procedure For Expansion Card Installation
1. Read the documentation for your expansion card and make any necessary hardware or
software setting for your expansion card such as jumpers.
2. Remove your computer’s cover and the bracket plate on the slot you intend to use.
3. Align the card’s connectors and press firmly.
4. Secure the card on the slot with the screen you remove above.
5. Replace the computer system’s cover.
6. Set up the BIOS if necessary.
7. Install the necessary software driver for your expansion card.
2-5-2 Assigning IRQs For Expansion Card
Some expansion cards need an IRQ to operate. Generally, an IRQ must exclusively assign to
one use. In a standard design, there are 16 IRQs available but most of them are already in use.
Standard Interrupt Assignments
IRQ Priority Standard function
0 N/A System Timer
1 N/A Keyboard Controller
2 N/A Programmable Interrupt
3 * 8 Communications Port (COM2)
4 * 9 Communications Port (COM1)
5 * 6 Sound Card (sometimes LPT2)
6 * 11 Floppy Disk Controller
7 * 7 Printer Port (LPT1)
8 N/A System CMOS/Real Time Clock
9 * 10 ACPI Mode when enabled
10 * 3 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
11 * 2 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
12 * 4 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port
13 N/A Numeric Data Processor
14 * 5 Primary IDE Channel
15 * 1 Secondary IDE Channel
* These IRQs are usually available for ISA or PCI devices.

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2-5-3 Interrupt Request Table For This Motherboard
Interrupt request are shared as shown the table below:
INT A INT B INT C INT D INT E INT F INT G INT H
Slot 1 √
Slot 2 √
Slot 3
√
Onboard USB 1 √
Onboard USB 2 √
AC97/MC97
√
IMPORTANT! If using PCI cards on shared slots, make sure that the drivers support
“Shared IRQ” or that the cards don’t need IRQ assignments. Conflicts will
arise between the two PCI groups that will make the system unstable or
cards inoperable.
2-5-4 PCI Express Slot
This motherboard provides three 16-lane PCI Express slot intended for Graphics Attach(Two
symmetrical PCI-Express x16 graphics slots in light green deliver up to 2Gbyte/sec data
transfer rate at each relative direction which is fully compatible with the latest NVIDIA SLI
Technology. One PCI-Express x16 graphics slot offers 4Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each
relative direction.), and one x1 PCI Express Slot. Fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 1.0a , support PCI Express VGA card, and other PCI Express device.
IMPORTANT! Please make sure the major display output is out from the NVIDIA SLI
Supported VGA Card installed in the 2nd PCI EXPRESS x8 for SLI slot
in light green while activating the SLI technology with one pair NVIDIA
SLI Supported VGA Cards . And install the single PCI EXPRESS x16
interface supported VGA card to get the full speed of x16 bandwidth in
the PCI EXPRESS x16 slot in light yellow as being marked above.
1st PCI-E x8 for SLI
2nd PCI-E x8 for SLI
PCI-E x16 for full bandwidth
SLI VGA Signal Output
PCI-E x1 Slot

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2-6 Connectors, Headers
2-6-1 Connectors
(1) Power Connector (24-pin block) : ATXPWR24P
ATX Power Supply connector. This is a new defined 24-pins connector that usually
comes with ATX case. The ATX Power Supply allows to use soft power on momentary
switch that connect from the front panel switch to 2-pins Power On jumper pole on the
motherboard. When the power switch on the back of the ATX power supply turned on,
the full power will not come into the system board until the front panel switch is
momentarily pressed. Press this switch again will turn off the power to the system
board.
** We recommend that you use an ATX 12V Specification 2.0-compliant power supply
unit (PSU) with a minimum of 350W power rating. This type has 24-pin and 4-pin
power plugs.
** If you intend to use a PSU with 20-pin and 4-pin power plugs, make sure that the 20-pin
power plug can provide at least 15A on +12V and the power supply unit has a minimum
power rating of 350W. The system may become unstable or may not boot up if the
power is inadequate.
(2) ATX 12V Power Connector (4-pin block) : ATX12V
This is a new defined 4-pins connector that usually comes with ATX Power Supply. The
ATX Power Supply which fully support Pentium 4 processor must including this
connector for support extra 12V voltage to maintain system power consumption.
Without this connector might cause system unstable because the power supply can not
provide sufficient current for system.
Pin 1
ROW1 ROW2
24-Pin
ROW1 ROW2
Pin 1
20-Pin
PIN ROW1 ROW2
1 3.3V 3.3V
2 3.3V -12V
3 GND GND
4 5V Soft Power On
5 GND GND
6 5V GND
7 GND GND
8 Power OK -5V
9 +5V (for Soft Logic) +5V
10 +12V +5V
11 +12V +5V
12 +3V GND

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(3) PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard Connector: PS2KBMS
The connectors for PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 Mouse.
(4) USB Port connector: USB0/USB1
The connectors are 4-pin connector that connect USB devices to the system board.
(5) LAN Port connector: UL1/USBLAN
This connector is standard RJ45 connector for Network
The UL1 support 10M/100Mb/s data transfer rate (only for Odin K8F8P)
The USBLAN support 10M/100M/1G b/s data transfer rate (only for K8F8G)
(6) Parallel Port Connector (25-pin female): PARALLEL
Parallel Port connector is a 25-pin D-Subminiature Receptacle connector. The On-
board Parallel Port can be disabled through the BIOS SETUP. Please refer to Chapter 3
“INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SETUP” section for more detail information.
(7) Audio Line-In,
Lin-Out, MIC, Surrback, Surround, CEN/LEF Connector : J1
This Connector are 6 phone Jack for LINE-OUT, LINE-IN, MIC, Surrback, Surround,
CEN/LEF
Line-in : (BLUE) Audio input to sound chip
Line-out : (GREEN) Audio output to speaker
MIC : (PINK) Microphone Connector
Surrback : (ORANGE) Audio output to speaker-Rear speaker out
CEN/LEF : (BLACKNESS) Audio output to speaker-Center/Subwoofer speaker out
Surround: (GRAY) Audio output to speaker-Side speaker out
(8) Serial Port COM1/COM2 : COM1/COM2
COM1 is the 9-pin D-Subminiature male connector. The On-board serial port can be
disabled through BIOS SETUP. Please refer to Chapter 3 “INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS
SETUP” section for more detail information.
Pin 1

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(9) Floppy drive Connector (34-pin block): FDD
This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting the
single plug end to motherboard, connect the two plugs at other end to the floppy drives.
Floppy Drive Connector
Pin 1
FDD
(10) Primary IDE Connector (40-pin block): IDE1
This connector supports the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. After connecting the
single plug end to motherboard, connect the two plugs at other end to your hard disk(s).
If you install two hard disks, you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by
setting its jumpers accordingly. Please refer to the documentation of your hard disk for
the jumper settings.
Primary IDE Connector
Pin 1
IDE1
USB
MIC-IN
PS/2
Mouse
SPDIF OUT COM2 USB1
PRINTER Line-IN
Line-OUT
Surrback
Gi
g
a LAN
PS/2
Keyboard
Surround
CEN/LFE

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(11) Secondary IDE Connector (40-pin block): IDE2
This connector connects to the next set of Master and Slave hard disks. Follow the
same procedure described for the primary IDE connector. You may also configure two
hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and
another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector.
Secondary IDE Connector
Pin 1
IDE2
•Two hard disks can be connected to each connector. The first HDD is referred to as the
“Master” and the second HDD is referred to as the “Slave”.
•For performance issues, we strongly suggest you don’t install a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
drive on the same IDE channel as a hard disk. Otherwise, the system performance on this
channel may drop.
(12) Serial-ATA Port connector: SATA1/SATA2
This connector support the provided Serial ATA IDE hard disk cable to connecting the
motherboard and serial ATA hard disk.
Serial-ATA Port Connector
SATA1
SATA2
SATA3
SATA4

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2-6-2 Headers
(1) Line-Out/MIC Header for Front Panel (9-pin): AUDIO
This header connect to Front Panel Line-out, MIC connector with cable.
Without install the cable, this header default setting is 5-6 short, 9-10 short. When you
install the cable you have take off these jumpers.
Line-Out, MIC Headers
AUDIO
Pin 1
AUD
_
MIC
AUD
_
FPOUT
_
L
AUD
_
MIC
_
BIAS
AUD
_
FPOUT
_
R
HP
_
ON
AUD
_
GND
AUD
_
RET
_
L
AUD
_
RET
_
R
AUD
_
VCC
2
9
10
(2) USB Port Headers (9-pin) : USB1/USB2/USB3
These headers are used for connecting the additional USB port plug. By attaching an
option USB cable, your can be provided with two additional USB plugs affixed to the
back panel.
USB Port Headers
Pin 1
USB1
VCC
-DATA
GND
+DATA
VCC
OC
-DATA
GND
+DATA
Pin 1
USB2
VCC
-DATA
GND
+DATA
VCC
OC
-DATA
GND
+DATA
Pin 1
USB3
VCC
-DATA
GND
+DATA
VCC
OC
-DATA
GND
+DATA
(3) Speaker connector: SPEAK
This 4-pin connector connects to the case-mounted speaker. See the figure below.
(4) Power LED: PWR LED
The Power LED is light on while the system power is on. Connect the Power LED
from the system case to this pin.
(5) IDE Activity LED: HD LED
This connector connects to the hard disk activity indicator light on the case.
(6) Reset switch lead: RESET
This 2-pin connector connects to the case-mounted reset switch for rebooting your
computer without having to turn off your power switch. This is a preferred method of
rebooting in order to prolong the lift of the system’s power supply. See the figure
below.