bagaki...Here are fasteddie's instructions for setting up the k7master. Read and follow them, eddie is the master of the k7master...Good luck!
<< The 1.0 revision shipping bios of the K7 Master does not allow for the retention of CPU settings after either switching off of the power supply or with the unplugging of the power supply from the ac current source. Flashing to the 1.1 bios update will correct this problem. There is, however, no native EV266 processor recognition with either of the posted bios updates, or with the 1.22 beta Palomino bios rom. To remedy these two problems, first shut down and remove the JP3 jumper cap, then restart and flash to either the 1.1 or the 1.22 revision bios updates. After successfully flashing the bios, and saving the new bios image, shut down and replace the JP3 jumper cap across the two pin header at the JP3 location. Also make sure to set the Onboard Audio at the JP1 jumper to either the 1-2 position to Enable, (for the use of the AC97 Onboard Audio), or to the 2-3 position to Disable, (for the use of an add on sound card). Now you are ready to restart and configure your cmos settings for optimal use.
Restart and enter the CMOS Setup utility. Set your date and time on the Standard CMOS Features page. If running a standard IDE drive configuration, then leaving Primary & Secondary IDE settings to Auto will allow for the recognition of any ide devices you have installed.
Next, go to the Advanced BIOS Features page and configure your boot sequence. For an all IDE configuration, use First Boot Device=Floppy, Second Boot Device=CDROM, and Third Boot Device=HDD-0. Set Boot Other Device to Disabled, and also Disable the Video BIOS Shadow setting. Leave the Anti-Virus Protection Disabled until after you have your operating system installed.
Now to the Advanced Chipset Features page and make sure the both System BIOS Cacheable and Video RAM Cacheable are Disabled. Set your AGP Aperture Size to 128 if you have 256mb of ram installed, of to 64 if you are running 128mb or ram. AGP ISA Aliasing and AGP Fast Writes should be set to Enabled for nvidia GF/GF2/GF3 video cards, but I?ve found that Disabling both of these settings works best for any of the Raedon based video cards. Set AGP Data Transfer Mode to 4X and the K7 CLK_CTL Select to Optimal for either of the above mentioned graphic accelerators. Enable Super Bypase Mode. Now, if you are using Crucial PC2100 memory modules, then setting SDRAM Timing by SPD to Disable, then changing xSDRAM Trp Timing Value and xSDRAM Trcd Timing Value both to 2 will give you optimal performance. You can further tweak the rest of the SDRAM Timing Values for additional overclocking of your memory settings after you have the operating system installed; but I?ve found that the above settings will work stably all the way to 150fsb.
Now onto the Integrated Peripherals page. Set Init Display First to AGP for all AGP cards and PCI when using a PCI video card. If your flashed the bios, then you no longer have the option of Disabling SCSI Terminator on the plain MS-6341 boards. You do want to Enable OnChip USB for the sake of installing your operating system, where the feature can be Disabled later if you won?t be using any USB devices. Disable AC97 Audio if you are using an add on sound card. Also Disable the MC97 Modem if not using a CNR Modem. Special note for W98(x) setup: [OSF]MDK over at Amdmb.com discovered that you need to keep both the AC97 and MC97 bios entries set to Auto if installing the operating system with ACPI Disabled. If these entries are set to Disabled, and ACPI is also Disabled, then the os will try to load, but fail to initialize, these devices in Device Manager.
The next few settings correspond to the use of an add on sound card, where you need to Disable the remainder of the Onboard Audio settings. First Enable both Onboard Legacy Audio and Sound Blaster. Now scroll below these two settings to the very bottom of the page and Disable the Game Port & MPU-401 settings. Now Disable the Sound Blaster setting, then Disable the Onboard Legacy Audio setting. The installation of your operating system will now be free of any Onboard Audio ghosts showing up in Device Manager.
In Power Management Setup, you want to Enable ACPI Function. Also select your ACPI Suspend Type---S1(POS) is a low wake-up latency sleep state, where your system will go into Suspend Mode will all context with the device states alive. S3(STR) suspends all device context to ram, then shuts your system off. To wake from S3, you merely push the power button to find your system brought back to the exact state it held prior to entering S3 sleep mode. If using a USB keyboard or mouse, then you can set USB KB/MS Wake-up from S3 to Enabled. If using a PS2 keyboard, then Disable this USB setting and set the JKBV1 jumper to the 2-3 position for keyboard wake-up from the S3 sleep state. The remainder of the Power Management settings dictate how and when you want your devices to enter Suspend Mode, and with the various Wake-up settings. Also, if using an Analog Modem, then you can set the Modem to use a specific IRQ resource.
Now to the PNP/PCI Configurations page, where to use the Initialization Table found on page 2-23 of the manual, you?ll want to set PNP OS Installed to NO. This will allow your bios to dictate the system IRQ resources as set forth in the Initialization Table to the operating system. You?ll also want to Disable PCI/VGA Palette Snoop on this page.
The last settings regard the Default and Overclocked Processor and Ram configuration. Where you want to setup the Default processor values until after you have your operating system installed. On the Frequency/Voltage Control page, you?ll want to Disable both Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk and Spread Spectrum Modulate. Now set CPU Host/PCI Clock to 133/33 for an EV266 processor and 100/33 for EV200 processors. Leave both the CPU Vcore Select and CPU Ratio to the Default settings until your operating system is up and running; after which, you can manipulate CPU Host/PCI Clock, CPU Vcore Select, and CPU Ratio for purposes of overclocking. Note that a failed overclock will prevent a video signal on the next reboot upon exiting the CMOS Setup Utility. To correct this, shutdown, Remove the JP3 jumper, reboot, manually shutdown at the POST Screen, replace the JP3 jumper, and reboot. Go back into the CMOS Setup Utility, where you?ll find that only the Frequency/Voltage Control settings have been cleared, where all other bios settings are still intact. >>
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