User manual AOPEN AK77400N

[. . . ] Overview AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual AK77-400/AK77-400N/AK77-400 Max Hardware Installation Drivers & Utilities AWARD BIOS Setup Glossary DOC. NO. : AK77400MAX-OL-E0303A Troubleshooting & Technical Support 1 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max W h a t 's i n t h i s m a n u a l Online Manual AK77-400/AK77-400N/AK77-400 Max. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What's in this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 You Must Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The way we deal with this heat problem, however, is to spare no effort to add one fan after another to protect our pampered system, expecting these fans could cool down our machine as much as it could. But at the same time, we believe that same amount of users are affected terribly while working with their PC by the irritating noises of these fans. As a matter of fact, we do not have to get our fans running at such a high speed in most cases; on the contrary, we discovered that having your fans running at appropriate time and speed could not only reduce the noise, but also consume the least power the system needed, so as to prevent over-wasting of energy resource. Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored to bring you a new overall solution, SilentTek, to have your system quiet. To collocate with hardware circuit, BIOS and the utility under Windows, SilentTek combined "Hardware-Status Monitoring", "Overheat Warning" and "Fan Speed Control" with user-friendly interfaces to provide you a perfect balance between noises, system performance and stability. 75 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max The first image you have here is the Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages and set your expected margins of warning level. Online Manual In "Temp/Fan/Case" page, you may get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis, plus checking if fans are running properly. You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here. Of course, you may set your defaulted lowest margin for your fans and the SilentTek would also pop up a message box and alarm you when the fan is rotating slower than this specified speed. You may set the highest margin of your CPU and system temperature as default, and SilentTek would pop up a message box and alert you with alarm when the temperature goes beyond the specified margin. 76 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max have got the options inside in this page. 1. Online Manual Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting of SilentTek and can be used for any branded computer housing. With a special algorithm developed by AOpen, the fan speed is automatically adjusted by the factors of CPU and ambient temperature. Ease-of-use and trouble free at your service. The following page is surely the most important part of this utility. You may control the rotation speed of specific fans that you 2. 3. Fixed FAN Control: Under this setting, a desired fan speed is set fixed when operating. Multiple Level Control: This is the most versatile setting that allows you to set fan speed in relation to temperature. You may find that this setting fits you best. 4. AOpen Recommend Setting: This setting is CD-ROM Rotation Speed Control: by enabling the CD-ROM Rotation Speed Control, you can adjust the rotation speed of your CD-ROM. When you set the speed to high level, the CD-ROM will work at its fastest speed and it will run at basic required speed while you set the value to low speed. 77 designed specifically for AOpen housing. A series of lab tests were conducted under the real world scenario to determine optimum fan speed to reduce noise level within CPU working condition and temperature. Most of the time, the fan would remain still when CPU is not fully utilized. Note: Due to hundreds different brands of fan on the market, inaccuracy may happen in some cases when you had your rotation speed adjusted. It is still under the criterion and please rest assured that it won't cause any problem to your system. AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual P H O E N I X - A W AR D B I O S System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu, this menu allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset). The Phoenix-Award BIOSTM that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports. Most BIOS setting of this motherboard had been optimized by AOpen's R&D engineering team. [. . . ] You can find this bar code label on the outside packing, or on component side of PCB. For example: Part No. Serial No. Part No. Serial No. P/N: 91. 88110. 201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number. 122 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Mo d e l n a m e a n d B I O S v e r s i o n Online Manual Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). 01. 2003 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1. 0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AK77-400 Max is model name of motherboard, R1. 02 is BIOS version. 123 AK77-400 / AK77-400N / AK77-400 Max Online Manual Produ c t R egis tration Thank you for choosing AOpen product. AOpen encourages you to spend few minutes in completing the following product registration. [. . . ]