VIA Technologies EPIA-EK10000G - VIA Motherboard - Mini ITX User manual

User’s Manual
EPIA-EK
Version 1.32
March 9, 2012

Copyright
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Award BIOS is a registered trademark of Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
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However, VIA Technologies assumes no responsibility for the use or misuse of the information
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document. The information and product specifications within this document are subject to
change at any time, without notice and without obligation to notify any person of such change.

FCC-B Radio Frequency Interference Statement
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital
device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial
environment. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference
to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause
harmful interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his
personal expense.
Notice 1
The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance
could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
Notice 2
Shielded interface cables and A.C. power cord, if any, must be used in order to comply with
the emission limits.
Tested To Comply
With FCC Standards
FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE

Safety Instructions
1. Always read the safety instructions carefully.
2. Keep this User's Manual for future reference.
3. Keep this equipment away from humidity.
4. Lay this equipment on a reliable flat surface before setting it up.
5. The openings on the enclosure are for air convection hence protects the equipment from
overheating. DO NOT COVER THE OPENINGS.
6. Make sure the voltage of the power source and adjust properly 110/220V before
connecting the equipment to the power inlet.
7. Place the power cord in such a way that people cannot step on it. Do not place anything
over the power cord.
8. Always unplug the power cord before inserting any add-on card or module.
9. All cautions and warnings on the equipment should be noted.
10. Never pour any liquid into the opening. Liquid can cause damage or electrical shock.
11. If any of the following situations arises, get the equipment checked by a service personnel:
•The power cord or plug is damaged
•Liquid has penetrated into the equipment
•The equipment has been exposed to moisture
•The equipment has not work well or you cannot get it work according to User's
Manual.
•The equipment has dropped and damaged
•If the equipment has obvious sign of breakage
12. DO NOT LEAVE THIS EQUIPMENT IN AN ENVIRONMENT UNCONDITIONED,
STORAGE TEMPERATURE ABOVE 60 C (140F), IT MAY DAMAGE THE
EQUIPMENT.
Caution:
Only use the appropriate battery specified for this product.
Do not reuse, recharge, or reheat an old battery.
Do not attempt to force open the battery.
Do not discard used batteries with regular trash.
Discard used batteries according to local regulations.

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B OX C ONTENTS
One VIA Mini-ITX mainboard
One Quick Ins alla ion Guide
One ATA-133/100/66 IDE ribbon cable
One driver and u ili ies CD
One IO bracke

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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
Box Con en s............................................................................ i
Table of Con en s .................................................................... ii
Chap er 1 ............................................................................... 1
Specifica ions ....................................................................... 1
Mainboard Specifica ions ....................................................... 2
Mainboard Layou ................................................................. 4
Back Panel Layou ................................................................. 5
Back Panel Por s ................................................................... 6
Slo s.................................................................................... 6
Onboard Connec ors.............................................................. 7
Onboard Jumpers.................................................................. 7
Chap er 2 ............................................................................... 8
Ins alla ion........................................................................... 8
CPU ..................................................................................... 9
Memory Module Ins alla ion ................................................. 11
Connec ing he Power Supply ............................................... 12
Back Panel Por s ................................................................. 13
Connec ors......................................................................... 16
Jumpers ............................................................................. 24
Slo s.................................................................................. 26
Chap er 3 ............................................................................. 27
BIOS Se up ........................................................................ 27
En ering Se up ................................................................... 28
Con rol Keys....................................................................... 29
Naviga ing he BIOS Menus.................................................. 30
Ge ing Help ....................................................................... 31
Main Menu ......................................................................... 32
S andard CMOS Fea ures ..................................................... 34
IDE Drives ......................................................................... 35
Advanced BIOS Fea ures...................................................... 36
Hard Disk Boo Priori y ........................................................ 39
Advanced Chipse Fea ures .................................................. 40
AGP & P2P Bridge Con rol .................................................... 42
CPU & PCI Bus Con rol ........................................................ 43

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In egra ed Peripherals ......................................................... 44
Super IO Device ................................................................. 47
Power Managemen Se up .................................................... 49
Peripheral Ac ivi ies ............................................................ 51
IRQs Ac ivi ies .................................................................... 54
PNP/PCI Configura ions ....................................................... 55
IRQ Resources .................................................................... 57
PC Heal h S a us................................................................. 58
Frequency / Vol age Con rol ................................................. 59
Load Fail-Safe Defaul s ........................................................ 62
Load Op imized Defaul s ...................................................... 63
Se Supervisor / User Password ............................................ 64
Save & Exi Se up ............................................................... 66
Exi Wi hou Saving............................................................. 67
Chap er 4 ............................................................................. 68
Driver Ins alla ion ............................................................... 68
Driver U ili ies .................................................................... 69
CD Con en ........................................................................ 71

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C
HAPTER
1
Specifica ions
The ul ra-compac and highly in egra ed VIA EPIA-EK uses he
Mini-ITX mainboard form-fac or developed by VIA Technologies,
Inc. as par of he company’s open indus ry-wide To al
Connec ivi y ini ia ive. The mainboard enables he crea ion of an
exci ing new genera ion of small, ergonomic, innova ive and
affordable embedded sys ems. Through a high level of
in egra ion, he Mini-ITX occupies 66% of he size of FlexATX
mainboard form fac or. The mainboard comes wi h an embedded
VIA Processor, boas ing of ul ra-low power consump ion, cool and
quie opera ion.

Chap er 1
2
M AINBOARD S PECIFICATIONS
CPU
•VIA Luke CoreFusion™ Processor
Chipset
•VIA VT8237R-series Sou h Bridge
Graphics
•In egra ed UniChrome™ Pro AGP wi h MPEG-2 Accelera ion
Audio
•VIA VT1618 AC'97 Codec wi h 6-channel suppor
Memor
•1 x DDR 400 DIMM slo (up o 1 GB)
Expansion Slot
•1 x PCI slo
IDE
•2 x Ul raDMA 133/100 connec ors
LAN
•VIA VT6103L 10/100 E herne PHY
•VIA VT6107 10/100 Fas E herne (defaul ) or VT6122 Gigabi
E herne Con roller

Specifica ions
3
Back Panel I/O Ports
•1 x PS/2 mouse por and 1 x PS/2 keyboard por
•2 x RJ-45 LAN por s
•1 x Serial por
•1 x Parallel por (LPT)
•1 x VGA por
•4 x USB 2.0 por s
•3 x Audio Jacks: line-ou , line-in and mic-in (Ver ical, Smar 5.1
Suppor )
Onboard I/O Connectors
•2 x USB pin headers for 4 USB 2.0 por s
•1 x SIR pin header
•3 x Serial por pin headers for COM2/3/4 (5V/12V selec able)
•3 x Vol age Selec ion pin headers for serial por s
•1 x Fron Panel audio pin header (Mic-in and Line-ou )
•1 x CD Audio-in pin header
•2 x Serial ATA connec ors
•1 x SM Bus pin header
•1 x KBMS pin header (KB/MS or CIR)
•1 x Digi al I/O pin header
•2 x Fan connec ors (CPU Fan and Sys em Fan)
•1 x LVDS/TTL/DVI (an add-on card is required)
•1 x Fron -Panel pin header
•1 x WP pin header
•1 x LVDS_DVI pin header for 24-bi /Dual 12-bi LVDS in erface
selec ion
•1 x Buzzer
BIOS
•Award BIOS wi h 2/4/8Mbi flash memory capaci y
•ACPI1.0b, SMBIOS2.3 and DMI2.1
Form Factor
•Mini-ITX (6 layers)
•17 cm X 17 cm

Chap er 1
4
M AINBOARD L AYOUT

Specifica ions
5
B ACK P ANEL L AYOUT

Chap er 1
6
B ACK P ANEL P ORTS
Port Description Page
Audio Jacks 3 Audio por s (line-ou , line-in and mic-in) 15
COM1 Serial por 1 13
LPT Parallel por 14
PS/2 Mouse PS/2 mouse por 13
PS/2 Keyboard PS/2 keyboard por 13
RJ45 RJ45 por s 14
USB USB 2.0 por s 14
VGA VGA por 13
S LOTS
Port Description Page
DDR DIMM Memory module slo 11
PCI Expansion card slo 26

Specifica ions
7
O NBOARD C ONNECTORS
Connector Description Page
ATXPWR Power cable connec or 12
COM 2/3/4 COM por 2/3/4 pin headers 20
CPUFAN CPU fan connec or 10
SIR Fas Infrared Radia ion connec or 19
DIO Digi al I/O connec or 20
F_AUDIO Fron Audio connec or 21
F_PANEL Fron panel connec or 17
IDE 1-2 IDE drive connec ors 16
KBMS Keyboard and Mouse connec or 23
LVDS/TTL/DVI LVDS/TTL/DVI connec or 22, 23
SATA 1-2 Serial ATA 1 and 2 connec ors 18
CD-In CD-In connec or 18
SMBus SMBus connec or 18
SYSFAN Sys em fan connec or 10
USB 3-6 Universal Serial Bus 2.0 connec ors 3-6 19
O NBOARD J UMPERS
Jumper Description Page
CLEAR_CMOS Rese CMOS se ings 24
J1-J3 COM2-COM4 vol age selec or 24
WP BIOS wri e pro ec ion se ing 25
LVDS_DVI 24-bi /Dual 12-bi LVDS in erface selec ion 25

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C
HAPTER
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Ins alla ion
This chap er provides you wi h informa ion abou hardware
ins alla ion procedures. I is recommended o use a grounded wris
s rap before handling compu er componen s. Elec ros a ic discharge
(ESD) can damage some componen s.

Ins alla ion
9
CPU
The VIA EPIA-EK Mini-ITX mainboard includes an embedded VIA Luke
CoreFusion™ Processor. The VIA Luke CoreFusion™ Processor provides ul ra-
low power consump ion and advanced hermal dissipa ion proper ies and
fea ures a fanless design. The VIA Luke CoreFusion™ Processor requires only
a hea sink o provide sufficien cooling.

Chap er 2
10
CPU Fan and System Fan: CPUFAN and SYSFAN
The CPUFAN (CPU fan) and SYSFAN (sys em fan) run on +12V and main ain
sys em cooling. When connec ing he wire o he connec ors, always be
aware ha he red wire is he Posi ive and should be connec ed o he +12V.
The black wire is Ground and should always be connec ed o GND.
FAN_MCM is a swi ch ha is used by high-quali y fans o moni or he sys em
empera ure and will au oma ically adjus according o he environmen .
CPUFAN
Pin Signal
1 FAN_MCM
2 +12V
3 GND
SYSFAN
Pin Signal
1 FAN_MCM
2 +12V
3 GND
1
SYSFAN
1
CPUFAN

Ins alla ion
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M EMORY M ODULE I NSTALLATION
The VIA EPIA-EK Mini-ITX mainboard provides one 184-pin DIMM slo for
DDR 400 SDRAM memory modules and suppor s he memory size up o 1GB.
DDR SDRAM Module Installation Procedures
•Loca e he DIMM slo in he mo herboard.
•Unlock a DIMM slo by pressing he re aining clips ou ward.
•Align a DIMM on he socke such ha he no ch on he DIMM
ma ches he break on he slo .
•Firmly inser he DIMM in o he slo un il he re aining clips snap
back in place and he DIMM is properly sea ed.
Available DDR SDRAM Configurations
Refer o he able below for available DDR SDRAM configura ions on he
mainboard.
Slot Module Size Total
DIMM 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB 64MB-1GB
Maximum suppor ed sys em memory 64MB-1GB
DIMM

Chap er 2
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C ONNECTING THE P OWER S UPPLY
The VIA EPIA-EK Mini-ITX mainboard suppor s a conven ional ATX power
supply for he power sys em. Before inser ing he power supply connec or,
always make sure ha all componen s are ins alled correc ly o ensure ha
no damage will be caused.
ATX 20-Pin Power Connector
To connec he ATX power supply, make sure he power plug is inser ed in
he proper orien a ion and he pins are aligned. Then push down he plug
firmly in o he connec or.
Pin Signal
1 +3.3V
2 +3.3V
3 GND
4 +5V
5 GND
6 +5V
7 GND
8 Power Good
9 +5V S andby
10 +12V
11 +3.3V
12 -12V
13 GND
14 Power Supply On
15 GND
16 GND
17 GND
18 -5V
19 +5V
20 +5V
ATXPWR
1
10
11
20