The Fic KA-11 motherboard
VIA Apollo Pro133A

Monday, January 24, 2000


The features (continued)

Additional features of the Fic KA-11 motherboard, include: Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem Ring, PS/2 connectors, USB connectors, RX/TX infrared connectors, start-up from the keyboard/mouse/at a pre-set time, and Power Failure Resume. Hardware monitoring of fan speed, CPU temperature and voltages are available only as options. The KA-11 also includes an integrated sound card that makes use of the Creative Labs CT5880 chipset. This motherboard meets the PC99 standard.

The KA-11 also includes a few peculiarities, in the form of 3 hot keys that permit the system to boot and jump into the BIOS. These include:

CTRL+C = to enter the clock frequency adjustment menu
CTRL+p = to change from the default settings to the "Performance" settings, and restart
CTRL+f = to change from the default settings to the "Fail Safe" settings, and restart

Speaking of peculiarities, the KA-11 also includes the ability to sound-off 3 different audible alerts, such as:

No Cpu = indicates that no CPU has been detected
No Memory = indicates that no memory has been detected
No Graphics = indicates that no graphics card has been detected

These alerts are also accompanied by the flashing of a red LED, that indicates abnormal operations.

Below, a photo of the KA-11 provides a fine view of the motherboard, and its components.


Note: Click here for detailed specifications.


Installation

Having positioned the DIP switches, in order to set the clock multiplier, there is no other work left to speak of. That said, its a sound idea to check jumpers A to E to make sure that the voltage selected corresponds with that of the CPU, or else all set at 2-3 to allow the system to select CPU voltage automatic.



The software bundle

The software bundle that accompanies the Fic KA-11 is composed of 2 CDs that include: VIA patches, Highpoint Xstore Pro bus-master drivers, the LogoGenie utility, the 1stAid hardware monitoring program, Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton Ghost, and Norton VirtualDrive.

Next: The test results.


KA11 ......... Slot 1
  • FSB @ 66~150 MHz 
  • Voltage 1.5x-3.5V @0.05V step
  • Clock Ratio 3.5x-7.5x select by DIP Switch
  • Select FSB frequencies from BIOS
  • UDMA 66 support
  • AGP 4X mode support
Processor
  • Intel® Pentium® III 450-733** MHz @ 100/133MHz FSB
  • Intel® Pentium® II 233-450 @ 66/100MHz FSB
  • Intel® CeleronTM 266-433+MHz @ 66MHz FSB
  • Intel® CeleronTM PPGA 300-533+MHz @ 66/100MHz FSB (via CPU converter card)
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Chipset
  • North : VIA Apollo Pro 133A
  • South : VIA 596B
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Memory
  • 4 DIMM
  • up to 1GB SDRAM
  • ECC memory support
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Onboard Audio
  • Creative CT5880 + Sigmatel 9708 (mfg. option)
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Bus Frequency
  • 66/75*/83*/100/103*/112*/124*/133/140*/150 *
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Onboard I/O Connectors
  • 2 USB
  • 1 parallrel port with ECP/EPP
  • 1 PS/2 mouse and keyboard connector
  • 1 media connector (MIDI/game port, Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in)
  • 2 serial port with UART 16550
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Onboard PCI IDE
  • 2 dual-channeled enhanced PCI Bus Master IDE connectors
  • Ultra DMA 33/66 ; DMA Mode 2/4 support
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Expansion Slots
  • 1 AGP 4Xmode
  • 5 PCI
  • 2 ISA
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BIOS
  • 2Mb flash ram
  • ACPI 1.0
  • APM 1.2 / PnP 1.0a / SMBIOS 2.1 / DMI 2.0 / WfM 1.1a
  • Select Ratio and FSB frequencies from BIOS
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Protection & Management
  • Hardware Monitoring
  • Wake on Lan/ Wake on Ring/ Power fail
  • On board temperature, fan failure monitoring
  • Remote control management
  • S.M.A.R.T. support
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Form Factor
  • ATX
  • 8.2" x 12 " (208.2mm x 304.8mm)
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Package Contents
  • 1 motherboard
  • 1 manual
  • 1 CD-PRO
  • 1 CD-PLUS
  • 1 ATA66 Cable, 1 ATA33 IDE Cable and 1 FDD Cable
  • 1 update driver floppy disk
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Additional info.
  • * supported but not warrantied by FIC
  • ** not yet tested
  • specifica tion subject to change without notice
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