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SY-K7VTA PRO
Motherboard
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AMD Athlon/Duron
Processor supported
VIA KT133A AGP/PCI Motherboard
266 MHz Front Side Bus supported
ATX Form Factor
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User's Manual
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SOYO™ SY-K7VTA PRO Copyright © 2002 by Soyo Computer Inc. Trademarks: Soyo is the registered trademark of Soyo Computer Inc. All trademarks are the properties of their owners. Product Rights: All names of the product and corporate mentioned in this publication are used for identification purposes only. The registered trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective companies. Copyright Notice: All rights reserved. This manual has been copyrighted by Soyo Computer Inc. No part o
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Table of Contents SY-K7VTA PRO Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 MOTHERBOARD DESCRIPTION...............................1 1-1 INTRODUCTION..............................................................1 1-2 KEY FEATURES...............................................................1 1-3 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PRECAUTIONS.........5 1-4 SY-K7VTA PRO MOTHERBOARD LAYOUT................6 1-5 SY-K7VTA PRO MOTHERBOARD COMPONENTS ......7 1-6 MICROPROCESSOR..............................................
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Table of Contents SY-K7VTA PRO 3-1 SOYO COMBO SETUP...................................................54 3-2 STANDARD CMOS SETUP............................................57 3-3 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES......................................60 3-4 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES ...............................64 3-5 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS.......................................69 3-6 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP..................................74 3-7 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP.........................
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO Chapter 1 MOTHERBOARD DESCRIPTION 1-1 INTRODUCTION The SY-K7VTA PRO AGP/PCI/ISA Motherboard is a high-performance Socket 462 ATX form-factor system board. The SY-K7VTA PRO uses VIA Chipset technology and supports Socket 462 class processors. This Motherboard is fully compatible with industry standards and adds many technical enhancements. 1-2 KEY FEATURES CPU SUPPORT The SY-K7VTA PRO supports THE FOLLOWING AMD® CPUs: Supports 200MHz Front Side
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO CPU Multiplier EXPANDABILITY The SY-K7VTA PRO provides all the standard expansion slots, and many more additional expansion features: Expansion slots 1 x 32-bit bus master AGP slot 5 x 32-bit bus master PCI slots 1 x 16-bit ISA slots Enhanced IO Floppy disk controller 2x EIDE controllers with support for up to 4 Ultra DMA 33/66/100 devices Standard/EPP/ECP parallel port 2x 16550 compatible serial ports IrDA compatible infrared port
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO ADVANCED FUNCTIONS The SY-K7VTA PRO supports advanced functions such as: Wake-On-LAN Supports Wake-On-LAN (Some advanced network cards can wake the system up over the network, the WOL connector is provided by the SY-K7VTA PRO to support this function). Multiple boot The SY-K7VTA PRO supports booting from devices such as CD-ROM, FLOPPY DRIVE & HDD, LS120, SCSI, ZIP. Power on by modem or alarm If the SY-K7VTA PRO system is in suspend mode, it c
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO USER FRIENDLY SOYO Combo Setup Jumperless design You can set up the following options trough the BIOS setting CPU FSB frequency CPU multiplier by H/W switch CPU Vcore voltage PCI clock AGP Clock SDRAM Clock Voice Doctor If the system does not boot-up properly, the Voice Doctor will inform the user by voice through internal/external speaker at what point in boot-up sequence the problem arises. Below are the possible errors the u
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO HANDLING THE MOTHERBOARD To avoid damage to your Motherboard, follow these simple rules while unpacking: Before handling the Motherboard, ground yourself by grasping an unpainted portion of the system's metal chassis. Remove the Motherboard from its anti-static packaging. Hold the Motherboard by the edges and avoid touching its components. Check the Motherboard for damage. If any chip appears loose, press carefully to seat it firmly in its sock
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO 1-4 SY-K7VTA PRO MOTHERBOARD LAYOUT PS/2 KB PS/2 Mouse 3 Connector Connector 1 J2 USB 1_2 PRT 3 FJ1 1 COM1 RJ1 COM2 3 ATX Power FJ2 1 GAME J3 SDRAM 13 LINE-OUT LINE-IN VT8363A MIC-IN 4 SDRAM 1 CDIN1 AGP Slot 1 FLP IDE 1 IDE 2 Sigmatel 3 STAC9700 JP5 PCI Slot #1 PCI Slot #2 VT82C686B 3V PCI Slot #3 Lithium Battery 1 3 PCI Slot #4 JP7 PCI Slot #5 ISA Slot Flash BIOS Back Panel SY-K7VTA PRO Platform 6 □ □
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO 1-5 SY-K7VTA PRO MOTHERBOARD COMPONENTS ABD C EF G H AB I J SDRAM K SDRAM L AA M Sigmatel Z STAC9700 N O P Y Q X R S T W V U 7 □ □
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO A ATX Power Supply Connector B Via VT8363A North Bridge chip C Chipset Cooling Fan Connector D Socket 462 Connector E Frequency Multiplier setting Jumper F DIMM Banks G CPU Cooling Fan Connector H CPU FSB setting Jumper I Ratio adjustment setting switch J Frequency Multiplier setting Jumper K Bus Mastering E-IDE/ATAPI Ports L Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) Port M CMOS Clear Jumper N 32-bit AGP 1X/2X/4X Slot O Via VT82C686B South Bridge Chip P
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO 1-6 MICROPROCESSOR The motherboard supports a single Socket 462 processor. The processor’s VID pins automatically program the voltage regulator on the motherboard to the required processor voltage. In addition, the front side bus speed (200 MHz ) is automatically selected. The motherboard supports all current Socket 462 processor speeds, voltages, and bus frequencies. 1-6.1 Microprocessor Packaging The CPU is packaged in a 462 pin PGA package. A fan
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO 1-7 MEMORY 1-7.1 Main Memory The motherboard has three DIMM sockets. SDRAM can be installed in one, two, or three sockets. Using the serial presence detect (SPD) data structure, programmed into an E²PROM on the DIMM, the BIOS can determine the SDRAM’s size and speed. Minimum DIMM memory size is 8 MB; maximum DIMM memory size is 256/512 MB. Memory size and speed can vary between sockets. The motherboard supports the following memory features: DRAM
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO Seamless DRAM command scheduling for maximum DRAM bus utilization (e.g., precharge other banks while accessing the current bank) Four cache lines (32quadwords) of CPU to DRAM write buffers Four cache lines 32 quadwords of CPU to DRAM read prefetch buffers Read around write capability for non-stalled CPU read Burst read and write operation BIOS shadow at 16KB increment Decoupled and burst DRAM refresh with staggered RAS timing CAS be
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO 1-8 CHIPSET VT8363A The KT133A chip set consists of the VT8363A system controller (552 pin BGA) and the VT82C686B PCI to ISA bridge (352 pin BGA). The system controller provides superior performance between the CPU, DRAM, AGP bus, and PCI bus with pipelined, burst, and concurrent operation. The VT8363A support six banks of DRAMs up to 1.5GB. The DRAM controller supports standard Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) and Virtual Channel SDRAM (VC SDRAM), in a
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO buffers and sixteen levels (doublewords) of prefetch buffers are included for concurrent PCI bus and DRAM/cache accesses. The chip also supports enhanced PCI bus commands such as Memory-Read-Line, Memory-Read-Multiple and Memory-Write-Invalid commands to minimize snoop overhead. In addition, advanced features are supported such as snoop ahead, snoop filtering, L1/L2 write-back forward to PCI master, and L1/L2 write-back merged with PCI post write buf
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO software can run transparently in non-USB-aware operating system environment. 3) Keyboard controller with PS2 mouse support. 4) Real Time Clock with 256 byte extended CMOS. In addition to the standard ISA RTC functionality, the integrated RTC also includes the date alarm, century field, and other enhancements for compatibility with the ACPI standard. 5) Hardware monitoring subsystem for managing system/ motherboard voltage levels, temperatures, and f
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO level triggered interrupts channel by channel. The integrated DMA controller supports type F DMA in addition to standard ISA DMA modes. Compliant with the PCI2.2 specification, the VT83C686A supports delayed transactions and remote power management so that slower ISA peripherals do not block the traffic of the PCI bus. Special circuitry is built in to allow concurrent operation without causing dead lock even in a PCI-to PCI bridge environment. The chip
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Motherboard Description SY-K7VTA PRO Data rates up to 1Mbps Perpendicular recording driver support Two FDDs with drive swap support Plug and play with 48 base IO address, 12 IRQ and 4 DMA options The Setup program provides configuration option for the I/O controller. 1-9.1 Serial Ports The motherboard has two 9-pin D-Sub serial port connectors located on the back panel. The NS16C5450-compatible UARTs support data transfers at speeds up to 115.2 Kbits/sec with BIOS support. 1-
