Shuttle Spacewalker AK32, User Manual

Page 1: ...AK32 SocketA AMD Athlon Duron Processor Based DDR SDR Main Board User s Manual...

Page 2: ...reliability however no guarantee is given as to the correctness of the contents In the interest of continued product improvement this company reserves the right to revise the manual or include change...

Page 3: ...umpers 14 STEP 3 Install SDRAM System Memory 14 STEP 4 Install Internal Peripherals in System Case 15 STEP 5 Mount the Mainboard on the Computer Chassis 16 STEP 6 Connect Front panel Switches LEDs Spe...

Page 4: ...32 Parallel Port Connector 33 Line Out 33 Line In 33 Mic In 33 MIDI GAME Port 33 Front Panel Connectors ATX Power On Off Switch Connector PWR PT 34 EPMI Connector EPMI 34 Green LED Connector GLED 35 H...

Page 5: ...2 Black 42 Audio Connector AUX_In CN3 White 42 Audio Connector TAD_In CN4 Green 42 3 3 SYSTEM MEMORY CONFIGURATION 43 Install Memory 43 Upgrade Memory 43 4 SOFTWARE UTILITY 44 4 1 Mainboard CD Overvie...

Page 6: ...URES 64 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES 68 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 72 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 76 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION 80 PC HEALTH STATUS 82 FREQUENCY VOLTAGE CONTROL 84 LOAD FAIL SAFE DEFAULTS 85 LOAD OPTIM...

Page 7: ...12 Jumper Settings A Closer Look Page 26 Software Utility How to Install Page 44 BIOS Setup How to Configure Page 57 About This Manual For First Time DIY System Builder Page 6 For Experienced DIY Use...

Page 8: ...g your new Shuttle AK32 mainboard is just easy Bundled with an array of onboard functions the highly integrated AK32 mainboard provides you with a total solution to build the most stable and reliable...

Page 9: ...ional Award Flashing Utility K B 1 U S B 1 LA N 1 C O N 1 A G P _F A N S Y S T E M _F A N A U D I O 1 I D E 2 C P U _F A N N B _F A N I D E 1 F D D W OL PC I 1 PC I 2 PC I 3 PC I 4 PC I 5 PC I 6 I R U...

Page 10: ...figurable from 100MHz to 166MHz by 1MHz step in the Frequency Voltage Control of BIOS setup program 10 100 Mb Fast Ethernet optional VT8233 integrated fast Ethernet controller Support 10 100 Mb full a...

Page 11: ...IrDA Adapter for wireless connection 1 DB25 Parallel port supporting Standard Parallel Port SPP Enhanced Parallel Port EPP and Extended Capabilities Port ECP data transmission schemes 1 Line Out port...

Page 12: ...o states one is Suspend mode and the other is Soft Off mode Pushing the power button for less than 4 seconds places the system into Suspend mode When the power button is pressed for longer than 4 seco...

Page 13: ...event CPU from overheating the CPU fan is monitored for RPM and failure CPU Cooling FAN with RPM sensor is required Temperature Monitoring This item allows users to make sure whether the CPU or system...

Page 14: ...1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 J P1 6 J P2 J P5 J P4 J P3 FAN3 F AN2 FAN1 FAN4 F DD 1 IDE 2 IDE 1 G LE D EPM I PW R PT 1 1 1 AWARD PCI PNP686 169332966 1998 C C N1 1 in b on d L 8 0 2 2 5 B T 0 0 3 0 W J C2 9...

Page 15: ...the socket lever all the way down to its horizontal position and lock it to secure the CPU in place 5 The AMD 462 Athlon Duron processor requires a set of heatsink fan to ensure proper cooling of the...

Page 16: ...th mainboard configu ration procedures The factory set default settings are tuned for optimum system performance For the advanced users who wish to customize their system section 3 2 Jumper Settings w...

Page 17: ...evice according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer IDE devices HDD and CD ROM have to set jumpers on Master or Slave mode depending on your willing to install more than one device for ea...

Page 18: ...is and the mainboard The studs are used to fix the mainboard and to keep a certain distance between the system chassis and the mainboard in order to avoid any electrical shortage between the board and...

Page 19: ...set Switch PC Speaker or USB devices etc These cables serve to connect the front panel switches LEDs USB connectors to the mainboard s front panel connectors group JP7 JP4 and JP5 as shown below 1 ATX...

Page 20: ...are Reset Switch RST 7 PC Speaker SPEAK JP7 1 RST P LED SPEAK GLED EPMI PWR PT HLED JP7 1 RST P LED SPEAK GLED EPMI PWR PT HLED JP7 1 RST P LED SPEAK GLED EPMI PWR PT HLED JP7 1 RST P LED SPEAK GLED E...

Page 21: ...USB Connector Header Step 7 Connect IDE Floppy Disk Drives 1 IDE cable connector 2 FDD cable connector IDE2 IDE1 1 1 IDE2 IDE1 FDD 1 FDD1 USB3 USB5 USB4 USB6 JP4 JP5 GND GND USBD3 USBD3 5V 5V USBD2 US...

Page 22: ...20 Step 8 Connect Other Internal Peripherals 1 CD_IN TAD_IN and AUX_IN connectors 2 IR connector Step 9 Connect Power Supply 1 System power connector CN2 CD IN 1 CN3 AUX 1 CN4 TAD IO 1 IR 1 JP2 JP6...

Page 23: ...in Expansion Slots 1 Accelerated Graphics Port AGP Card 2 Communication Network Riser CNR Card The CNR Slot supports the audio modem Lan Home PNA of VIA VT8233 chipset Note The CNR Card is optional at...

Page 24: ...o put the computer case back together and get on to the external peripherals connections to your system s back panel 1 PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard 2 USB Port 3 LAN Port 4 Parallel Port PS 2 keyboard PS 2...

Page 25: ...23 5 COM1 2 Port 6 Audio Line_out Line_in Mic_in Purts 7 MIDI Game Port Line Out Mic_in Line In MIDI GAME Port COM2 COM1...

Page 26: ...ce available in the extended partition The FDISK utility will assign a drive letter i e C D E to each partition which will be shown in the FDISK program After FDISK procedure reboot your system by usi...

Page 27: ...on CD ROM programs 1 Insert the AK32 bundled CD ROM into your CD ROM drive The auto run program will display the drivers main installation window on screen 2 Select the Mainboard related program 3 Ins...

Page 28: ...the bottom Jumpers with two pins are shown as for Close On or for Open Off To Short jumper pins simply place a plastic jumper cap over the desired pair of pins Caution 1 Do not remove the mainboard f...

Page 29: ...g with their assigned functions CPU Memory Expansion Slots Socket 462 CPU Socket for AMD Athlon and Duron processors DIMM1 2 Two DIMM Slots for 16 32 64 128 256 and 512 MB of 3 3V SDR SDRAM DIM1 2 Two...

Page 30: ...y Type Switch EPMI Hardware System Management Interface Momentary Type switch GLED Green LED ON when system stays in power saving mode HLED IDE Drive Active LED PLED System Power LED RST Hardware Rese...

Page 31: ...29 FAN4 North Bridge Fan Power JP2 IR Connector CN1 Wake On LAN Connector CN2 CD in CN3 AUX in CN4 TAD in E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7...

Page 32: ...ettings and the restoration of original factory default system settings Pin 1 2 Default Pin 2 3 Clear CMOS Step 1 Turn off the system power PC Off Step 2 Remove jumper cap from JP16 pins 1 2 Step 3 Pl...

Page 33: ...n pins 2 3 if you need to reflash BIOS To enable reflashing the BIOS Pin 2 3 Default BIOS write protection Pin 1 2 Reflash the BIOS follow these steps Step 1 Turn off the system power PC Off Step 2 Ma...

Page 34: ...e PS 2 Keyboard Plug the PS 2 keyboard and mouse jacks into their corresponding connectors USB1 USB2 Port Connectors This mainboard offers 2 USB ports on back panel Plug each USB device jack into an a...

Page 35: ...source for digital sound re cording a source to be mixed with the output or both Mic In MIC IN is a 1 8 inch jack that provides a mono input It can use a dynamic mono or stereo microphone with a resis...

Page 36: ...Connector EPMI Hardware System Management Interface EPMI header may attach to a 2 pin momentary switch Press the EPMI switch to force the system into power saving mode press again to resume normal op...

Page 37: ...Connector HLED Attach the connector cable from the IDE device LED to the 2 pin HLED header The HDD LED lights up whenever an IDE device is active PWR LED Connector PLED Attach the 3 pin Power LED conn...

Page 38: ...able to the RST header Pressing the reset switch causes the system to restart Speaker Connector SPEAK Attach the PC speaker cable from the case to the 4 pin speaker connector SPEAK C6 C7 JP7 1 RST P L...

Page 39: ...d to USB connectors which are mounted on front panel or back panel But the USB cable is optional at the time of purchase Pins Assignment 1 5V 3 USBD3 5 USBD3 7 GROUND 9 GROUND 2 GROUND 4 GROUND 6 USBD...

Page 40: ...pin floppy disk controller FDC to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive F D D Moreover this mainboard comes with one 80pin ATA100 66 33 ribbon cable to connect to IDE H D D and one 34 pin ribbon cable for...

Page 41: ...ATX power connector is directional and will not go in unless the guides match perfectly making sure that pin 1 is properly positioned Note 2 Make sure the latch of the ATX power connector clicks into...

Page 42: ...round GND header SENSE GND 12V 1 FAN1 FAN2 with rotate sense FAN3 FAN4 without rotate sense CoolingFanConnectorsforCPU FAN1 AGP FAN2 SYSTEM FAN3 andNorthBridge FAN4 Fan The mainboard provides four onb...

Page 43: ...on may do damage to your IR device Step 1 Attach the 5 pin infrared device cable to JP2 connector Refer to the above diagram for IR pin assignment Step 2 Configure the Infrared transfer mode in field...

Page 44: ...audio input from CD ROM TV tuner or MPEG card Pins Assignment 1 AUX_L 2 AGND 3 AGND 4 AUX_R Audio Connector TAD _In CN4 Green Port CN4 can be used to connect a modem audio line to AK32 mainboard Typi...

Page 45: ...ou use both of them at the same time Note You do not need to set any jumper to configure memory since the BIOS utility can detect the system memory automatically You can check the total system memory...

Page 46: ...n does not appear double click or run D Autorun exe assuming that your CD ROM drive is drive D Navigation Bar Description Install Mainboard Software Installing 4 in 1drivers Install Audio Device Softw...

Page 47: ...re Setup screen Select the item using your pointing device e g mouse on the Install Mainboard Software bar Then Mainboard Drivers Utilities windows will appear on your screen Click on the Install VIA...

Page 48: ...ftware Setup screen Select the item using your pointing device e g mouse on the Install Audio Device Software bar Then AC97 Audio Drivers windows will appear on your screen Click on the Install AC97 S...

Page 49: ...ties screen Then PCI Ethernet Controller Properties windows will appear on your screen Click on the Reinstall Driver bar to install driver Select tab Device Manager You will find a yellow mark at PCI...

Page 50: ...l driver and click on Next bar to continue Select Network adapters bar for LAN device and click on Next bar to con tinue Insert the support CD by the mainboard manufacturer and choose Have Disk bar to...

Page 51: ...pter driver and click on Next Then the system will do the setup proce dure automatically Completing the upgrade device driver and click on Finish to restart the system to take all the changes effect A...

Page 52: ...erties screen The Device Manager windows will appear on your screen You will find a yellow mark on Etherent Controller that means the driver is not recog nized Double click on the Etherent Controller...

Page 53: ...a list of the known drivers for this device so that I can choose a specific driver to the manual install driver and click on Next bar to continue Select Network adapter bar for LAN device and click o...

Page 54: ...Select VIA PCI 10 100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter to install and then click on Next Make sure VIA PCI 10 100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter driver and click on Next Then the system will do the setup proce dure a...

Page 55: ...53 After restart you may check Network adapters under the location mentioned at right figure The Network adapters shows correctly...

Page 56: ...tup Wizard screen Select tab Select from list to install driver Insert the support CD by the mainboard manufacturer and choose Have Disk bar to continue next step Key in the driver s location as D lan...

Page 57: ...pter driver and click on Next Then the system will do the setup proce dure automatically Completing the upgrade device driver and click on Yes to restart the system to take all the changes effect Afte...

Page 58: ...ouble click on Autorun icon in My Computer to bring up Shuttle Mainboard Software Setup screen Select the item using your pointing device e g mouse on the Manual bar Then Online Information windows wi...

Page 59: ...e checks Step 2 Press Del key immediately or at the following message Press DEL to enter SETUP or simultaneously press Ctrl Alt Esc keys Note 1 If you miss trains of words mentioned in step2 the messa...

Page 60: ...hat a brief description of each highlighted selection appears at the bottom of the screen Setup Items The main menu includes the following main setup categories Recall that some systems may not includ...

Page 61: ...menu to load the BIOS default values for the minimal stable performance of your system to operate Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default values that are factory set for optimal...

Page 62: ...the value you want in each item Date Month DD YYYY Set the system date Note that the Day automatically changes when you set the date Time HH MM SS The time is converted based on the 24 hour military...

Page 63: ...5 in or 2 88M 3 5 in Video Select the default video device The choice EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 or MONO Halt On Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you The...

Page 64: ...let you select the number of cylinders heads etc Note PRECOMP 65535 means NONE The choice None Auto or Manual Access Mode Choose the access mode for this hard disk The choice CHS LBA Large or Auto Ca...

Page 65: ...63 Precomp Warning Setting a value of 65535 means no hard disk Min 0 Max 65535 Landing zone Set the Landing zone size Min 0 Max 65535 Sector Number of sector per track Min 0 Max 255...

Page 66: ...OS will show a warning message on screen and an alarm beep Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector...

Page 67: ...Boot Other Device Select Your Boot Device Priority The choice Enabled or Disabled Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two floppy drives you can swap the logical drive name assignment The choice Enabl...

Page 68: ...ther the password is required every time the system boots or only when you enter setup System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered promptl...

Page 69: ...67 Video BIOS Shadow Determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM However it is optional depending on chipset design Video Shadow will increase the video speed The choice Enabled or Disabled...

Page 70: ...chosen because they provide the best operating conditions for your system If you discovered that data was being lost while using your system you might consider making any changes DRAM Clock Drive Con...

Page 71: ...d 16Mb type dram chips the bank interleave is fixed at 2 way interleave When the dram timing is selected by SPD it will be set by the value on SPD of the RAM module SDR The Choice Disabled 2 Bank or 4...

Page 72: ...r 1 WS Write When this item enabled writing to the AGP Accelerated Graphics Port is executed with one wait state The Choice Enabled or Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Read When this item enabled reading from...

Page 73: ...bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2 1 The Choice Enabled or Disabled Memory Hole In order to improve perf...

Page 74: ...The choice Enabled or Disabled OnChip IDE Channel1 The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support to two IDE chan nels Select Enabled to activate the secondary IDE interface select Disabled to...

Page 75: ...e support Ultra DMA 100 select Auto to enable BIOS support The choice Auto or Disabled VIA OnChip PCI Device Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options VIA 3058...

Page 76: ...or Tx to Rx mode The choice Enabled or Disabled UR2 Duplex Mode This item allows you to selects the IR half full duplex function The choice Full or Half Use IR Pins This item allows you to select IR I...

Page 77: ...led if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you want to use it Even when on chip USB so equipped if you add a higher performance controller you will need to disable this feature The...

Page 78: ...ower Management ACPI The choice Enabled or Disabled ACPI Suspend Type This item allows you to select sleep state when suspend The choice S1 POS or S3 STR Power Management Option This category allows y...

Page 79: ...0 Min or 1 Hour Video Off Option When enabled this feature allows the VGA adapter to operate in a power saving mode Always On Monitor will remain on during power saving mode Suspend Off Monitor is bla...

Page 80: ...or ON LPT COM When LPT COM stays On any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices or IRQs wakes up the system The choice NONE LPT COM or LPT COM HDD FDD When HDD FDD stays On any activ...

Page 81: ...choice OFF or ON In the following is a list of IRQ s Interrupt ReQuests which can be exempted much as the COM ports and LPT ports above can When an I O device wants to gain the attention of the operat...

Page 82: ...ine PnP OS is installed or not The choice Yes or No Reset Configuration Data Normally you leave this field Disabled Select Enabled to reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD when you exit from S...

Page 83: ...PCI Device or Reserved PCI VGA Palette Snoop It determines whether the MPEG ISA VESA VGA Cards can work with PCI VGA or not If you have MPEG ISA VESA VGA Cards and PCI VGA Card worked Enable this fiel...

Page 84: ...onitoring and overheat alert This item indicate the current Processor tempera ture Current CPUFAN1 2 Speed The mainboard can detect three fans rotation speed for CPU cooler and AGP 3 3VIN 5V 12V 12V 5...

Page 85: ...wer and upper limits for the system shut down temperature if your computer contains an environmental moni toring system If the temperature extends beyond either limit the system shuts down The choice...

Page 86: ...Ratio The choice Default x5 x5 5 x6 x6 5 x7 x7 5 x8 x8 5 x9 x9 5 x10 x10 5 x11 x11 5 x12 or x13 Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk This item allows you to enable disable auto detection DIMM PCI Clock The choic...

Page 87: ...N N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal performance system operations Load Optimized Defaults When you press Enter on this item you will get a confirmation dialog box...

Page 88: ...d access to the options By setting separate Supervisor and User password a system supervisor can limit who can change critical Setup values Enter Password Type the password up to eight characters and...

Page 89: ...on page 30 Save Exit Setup Pressing Enter on this item asks for confirmation Save to CMOS and EXIT Y N Y Pressing Y stores the selections made in the menus of CMOS a special section of memory that sta...