Soyo dragon kt400 manual

Have an opinion on this product that you would like to share? If, so please take a few moments to write your rating and review. Great mother board easy to set up.

It took four phone calls to convince Soyo my motherboard came with a week battery. Every time I turned on the computer, the date and time was the same as when I turned it off last. They kept telling me I was not saving my bios setting properly. Once I received my new battery, my clock now keeps proper time. Motherboard great, support very poor. The USB 2. However, while the Sigma Box end of the cable is keyed, the other end is four separate wires, as you can see here. Then, you have to look at the diagram for the USB header to figure out which pins on the motherboard correspond to each wire.

Finally, you plug each wire onto its corresponding pin on the USB header. I can see what Soyo is doing here. Imagine plugging in your front panel connections speaker, power and reset switch, etc. In that case, be aware that the additional backplate will keep you from utilizing the media reader. Before we do, however, there are a couple of things you should know. We were especially curious to see if the trends revealed in our MHz bus article continued, with the Athlon XP benefitting more from a faster bus as clock speeds rose.

Unfortunately, it was not meant to be. A one-two punch of bugs one from AMD, one from Soyo prevented this test configuration in a way that brought tears to our eyes, and not tears of disappointment.

As soon as the lever was lowered on the processor socket, the buzzer on the motherboard would emit an ear-piercing shriek which persisted until power was removed from the board.

I can barely imagine how a dime-sized component could be so loud. Readings with a sound level meter held a few inches from the buzzer measured approximately dB, and the sound was somewhere between highly annoying and slightly painful for anyone within ten feet or so of the motherboard.

We did so, but unfortunately the setting had no effect; the board would still blast out the audible warning, and refused to power up. AMD is aware of the thermal diode issue, and they say it will definitely be corrected on production processors. Caveat emptor. Given that fact, it seems likely that DDR would make even less of a difference.

One of the reasons for the performance boost, however, is that the memory bus and front-side bus are synchronous, which minimizes latency and helps the processor take full advantage of the extra bandwidth. Bumping the memory clock up to MHz will almost certainly increase latency along with bandwidth, so the question is: does the added bandwidth offset the added latency? Thanks to Corsair for providing us with DDR memory for our testing. Vertical refresh sync vsync was disabled for all tests.

All the tests and methods we employed are publicly available and reproducible. If you have questions about our methods, hit our forums to talk with us about them. The MHz bus helps things considerably in this area, but the Pentium 4 still wins handily.

Once again, the KT seems to offer a marginal improvement over the KT The MHz bus gives a healthy boost in both categories. Bus speed being equal, the KT and KT tie this one. These accessories include a Sigma Box fits in a 5. All in all, we got to hand to Soyo, they put together some quality accessories in addition to good software.

Bus Speeds. Core Voltages Supported. Memory Slots. Expansion Slots. Onboard RAID. Highpoint HPT After you fill out all options in this window, you can click Test to send a testing mail to the relevant people.

If the pop-up message reports success, click Save to save the settings. After the Welcome window, the main window appears. The View window is the active screen by default. And the System View window is the default screen in it. Page Double-click one of the array icons will pop up the Logical Device Information window, listing the following items with their corresponding descriptions and the structure information for that array. The structure displays the member disks of the array with their Model Number and Location information.

Page 2 Viewing Physical Device Information Double-click one of the physical device icons will invoke the Physical Device Information window, listing the following items with their relevant descriptions. Click OK to return to the System View window. Page Double-click on one of the controller icons will bring up the Controller Information window, listing the Controller Information and Channel Information items.

Choose the Rename item on the menu. The Rename message will appear. Enter the new array name, and then click OK. Note: If the array is broken or disabled or being duplicated, it can not be renamed. All events are logged in this window. The filter divides them into three types: Information, Warning and Error. Select the Information check box to view common events. Select the Warning check box to view warning events.

Select the Error check box to view critical events. Page The filtered events will be displayed in the lower pane, including Date, Time and the corresponding Description. You can drag the slider up and down in the scrolling bar to view the contents in the event window. After selection of the events, click Save to save the filtered event logs to a test file or Clear to clear all events logs in the system.

A spare disk exists in the spare pool. When a source disk in a RAID 1 array fails, a mirror disk will replace it automatically and the spare disk will become the mirror disk. Right-click My Computer icon on desktop, and then select Property item from the popup menu. Page Verify Installation on Windows When the driver has been successfully installed and the computer restarted: 1.

Right-click My Computer icon, select Property item in the popup menu. In the popup window, select Hardware item and then click Device Manager button. Right-click My Computer icon, then select Property item from the popup menu 2.

In the popup window, select Hardware tab and then click Device Manager button. Page their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged. For other virtues, C-Media XeaR technology helps to eliminate installation works for Page User can choose favorite language This dialog box was reminded you some information about agreement. Page Select folder to set up program. Recommend select as default setting Page Proceeding install procedure Include components copy and device search… Setup program will extract Microsoft DirectX and Direct media components.

Page After copy and extracting, set up program will install device driver and this step will take some time, please be patient. When finished set up the program will pop up a dialog picture to show multi-channel speaker environment.

User should select which speaker mode he or she wants. Page After whole installation procedure has finish, you will need to restart your computer for enable driver and application functions. Page The uninstall program will confirm your step. Restart the system when being asked.

Page Volume: This is the master control over all outputs. The power of an outputRe signal is determined by both of the volume slider and the slider for the individual output. To modify all the outputs, adjust the volume slider. To change individual output s , adjust its their slider s. SPDIF-in is mutually exclusive with other input signals. Advanced: Regulates the advanced settings.

You can use these settings to connect your computer to other pieces of audio device, such as: Mini Disc players, amplifiers…etc. Page Advanced —Speakers General Mode Speakers dialog box provides an interface allowing you to set your speaker mode. CMIch supports earphone, 2ch, 4ch, and 5. Users can use general open-style earphones to replace rear speakers so that users will hear rear-out sounds from the earphone.

Without rear speakers, users will need less setup-up effort, cost and space using XeaR technology. You can adjust the volume of sounds from your respective speakers in this dialog. It will be also useful in XeaR mode to optimize the best 3D sound effects. Page Advanced - Sound effects Sound effects dialog allows you to modify the special environment sound effects of the song and game being played.

Currently, these effectors can only be used for the player or the game which utilizes DirectSound 2D and 3D to playback their music. Virtual 5. Page 1. It provides EAX and equalizer to improve the sound effects when you playback the audio files.

The title of CD and the name of tracks can be modified as well. Playlist dialog will save and show them automatically when you want to play the same CD.