EPOX EP-8KTA manual

TRADEMARK All products and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. These specifications are subject to change without notice. Manual Revision 1.0 June 21, 2000 EP-8KT EP-8KT EP-8KT EP-8KT EP-8KT A A A A A An An An An An AMD Soc AMD Soc AMD Soc AMD Soc AMD Soc k k k k k et et et et et A Pr A Pr A Pr A Pr A [...]

EP-8KT A T a ble of Contents Section 1 Introduction Components Checklist ........................................ 1 - 1 Overview AMD Duron TM & Athlon TM Processors ............. 1 - 2 Accelerated Graphics Port .................................. 1 - 3 Hardware Monitoring .......................................... 1 - 3 EP-8KT A Form-Factor ....[...]

EP-8KT A Defaults Menu ..................................................... 4-22 Supervisor/User Password Setting ..................... 4-23 Exit Selecting ...................................................... 4-24 Appendix Appendix A Memory Map ....................................................... A-1 I/O Map ..................................[...]

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Introduction EP-8KT A Page 1-1 Section 1 INTRODUCTION Components Checklist ü ü ü ü ü A . ( 1 ) EP-8KT A mainboard ü ü ü ü ü B . ( 1 ) EP-8KT A user  s manual ü ü ü ü ü C . ( 1 ) Floppy ribbon cable ü ü ü ü ü D. ( 1 ) A T A-66 Hard drive ribbon cable E . ( 1 ) USB Cable (Optional) ü ü ü ü ü F . ( 1 ) Driver and utility A [...]

Introduction EP-8KT A Page 1-2 Ov er view AMD Duron TM & Athlon TM Processors The AMD Athlon is a seventh-generation micro architecture with an integrated L2 cache, which is powerful enough to support the bandwidth requirements of a large range of applications, hardware, graphics, and memory technologies. These processors implement advanced des[...]

Introduction EP-8KT A Page 1-3 The AMD Duron processor is derived from the AMD Athlon processor core. It features full-speed, on-chip cache memory, a 200MHz front side system bus, and enhanced 3DNow! technology. Although both processors are related, there are key differences. The AMD Athlon processor is targeted at the performance segment, and a[...]

Introduction EP-8KT A Page 1-4 EP-8KT A F or m-F actor The EP-8KT A is designed with A TX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. A TX form factor is essentially a Baby-A T baseboard rotated 90 degrees within the chassis enclosure and a new mounting configuration for the power supply . W ith these changes the processor is relocated away[...]

Introduction EP-8KT A Page 1-5 P o wer-On/Of f (R emote) The EP-8KT A has a single 20-pin connector for A TX power supplies. For A TX power supplies that support the Remote On/Off feature, this should be connected to the systems front panel for system Power On/Off button. The systems power On/Off button should be a momentary button that is normally[...]

Introduction EP-8KT A Page 1-6 Figur e 5: System Block Diagram System Block Diagram PA C PCI Bridge and memo r y cont roll er VT8 363 13 3/ 100M Hz 13 3/ 100M Hz 66 MHz 4X AMD Soc k et A Processo r s VT82C686A I/ O B r i dge AC 97 USB 0,1 USB 2,3[...]

Features EP-8KT A Page 2-1 Section 2 FEA TURES EP-8KT A F eatures:  EP-8KT A is based on the AMD Socket A Processors operating at 600 ~ 1GHz on Socket A.  Designed with VIA KT133 AGPset.  Supports up to 768MB of DRAM (minimum of 32 MB) on board (please see Section 3-2).  EP-8KT A will support Error Checking and Correcting (ECC) when usi[...]

Features EP-8KT A Page 2-2  4 USB ports provided, 2 ports are onboard and another 2 USB ports as optional.  Built-in A TX 20-pin power supply connector .  Software power-down when using W indows ® 95/98 or W indows ® 2000.  Supports ring-in feature (remote power-on through external modem, allows system to be turned on remotely).  R[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-1 Section 3 INST ALLA TION[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-2 Figure 1 EP-8KTA Detailed Layout[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-3 Easy Installa tion Pr ocedure The following must be completed before powering on your new system: 3-1. CPU Insertion 3-2. Jumper Settings 3-3. System memory Configuration 3-4. Device Connectors 3-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO) 3-6. STR Function Section 3-1 CPU Inser tion CPU In[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-4 Step 3 Close the socket by lowering and locking the actuation lever. Figure 4 Figure 5 Step 4 Thermal conductive and qualified heatsink recommended by AMD are must a to avoid CPU overheat and burned.[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-5 Section 3-2 J umper Settings The EP-8KTA motherboard was designed with very few jumpers to make your installation faster and easier. 12 345 ON 6 SW1: CPU Vcore Voltage Selection 1 W S e r o c V U P C ) V ( 123 4 5 F F OF F OF F OF F ON O0 3 . 1 N OF F OF F OF F ON O5 3 . 1 F F ON OF F OF F ON O0 4 . 1 N ON OF F OF F ON[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-6 JP13 Keyboard Power-ON Function JP13 = 1-2 Disabled (Default) = 2-3 Enabled 1 1 JP3 Power Loss Recovery JP3 = 1-2 Disabled = 2-3 Enabled 1 JP14 CPU Host Clock Select JP14 = 1-2 100MHz = 2-3 133MHz[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-7 Section 3-3 System Memor y Configur ation Memor y Layout The EP-8KTA supports (3) PC133 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs is for SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) only.  DIMM SDRAM may be 83MHz (12ns), 100MHz (10ns) or 125MHz (8ns) bus speed.  If you use both 50ns and 60ns memory you must configure you[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-8 DIMM Module Installa tion Figure 3 displays the notch marks and what they should look like on your DIMM memory module. DIMMs have 168-pins and two notches that will match with the onboard DIMM socket. DIMM modules are installed by placing the chip firmly into the socket at a 90 degree angle and pressing straight down ([...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-9 Section 3-4 De vice Connector s Figure 7 J2,J3 : Chassis Panel Connector  Power_LED, Speaker, Reset, Sleep, Turbo LED and HDD LED J4: CPU Fan Power  A plug-in for the CPU Fan Power J5: SYS Fan Power  A plug-in for the Power Supply Fan Power J6: Chassis Fan Power  A plug-in for the chassis Fan Power J7: WOL [...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-10 AUX1 : Auxiliary Line_IN Connector  Pin1(Left Line_IN), Pin2/Pin3(GND), Pin4(Right Line-IN) MODEM1 : Telephony Connector  Pin1(Audio_in), Pin2/Pin3(GND), Pin4(Mic-out to Modem) USB2: USB port header pins for adding two additional USB ports. # N I Pr o l o c e r i We m a N l a n g i St n e m m o C 1d e Rc c Vr e [...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-11 De vice Connector s (continued) (This is connected to the power button on the case. Using the Soft-Off by Pwr-BTTN feature, you can choose either Instant Off (turns system off immediatly), or 4 sec delay (you need to hold the button down for 4 seconds before the system turns off). When the system is in 4 sec delay mod[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-12 Section 3-5 Exter nal Modem Ring-in Po wer ON and K eyboar d P o w er ON Functions (KBPO) On the basis of bounded functions in I/O chipset, the two serial ports are able to support the External Modem Ring-in Power ON function. Once users connect the external modem to COM1 or COM2, the EP-8KTA mainboard allows users to[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-13 3-6 STR (Suspend T o RAM) Function The EP-8KTA supports the STR power management state by maintaining the appropriate states on the SDRAM interface signals. The power source must be kept alive to the SDRAM during STR (ACPI S3). Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) provides more Energy Saving Features for oper[...]

Installation EP-8KTA Page 3-14 ACPI Onboards LED Statu s Indicator Table Status Onbo ards LED Location Plug in th e AT X Power Core Power ON J3(P W-ON) Green Mod e (S1) STR (S3) Shutdown (So ft-OF F) (S5) LED1 (Red LED) OFF ON ON ON OFF J2 PW_LED O FF ON Blinking Blink ing O FF d. You must push the Power button connected with onboard J3 pin t[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-1 Section 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP Main Menu A ward s ROM BIOS provides a built-in Setup program which allows user to modify the basic system configuration and hardware parameters. The modified data will be stored in a battery-backed CMOS, so that data will be retained even when the power is turned off. In general, the information[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-2 The menu displays all the major selection items. Select the item you need to reconfigure. The selection is made by moving the cursor (press any direction key ) to the item and pressing the Enter  key . An on-line help message is displayed at the bottom of the screen as the cursor is moved to various items which provides[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-3 NOTE: I f the hard disk Primary Master/Slave and Secondary Master/ Slave are set to Auto, then the hard disk size and model will be auto-detected. NOTE: The Halt On: field is used to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if an error occurs. NOTE: Floppy 3 Mode support is a mode used to support a special 3.5 d[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-4 V irus W arning : During and after the system boots up, any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive will halt the system and an error message will appear. Y ou should then run an anti-virus program to locate the virus. Keep in mind that this feature protects only the boot sector, not the [...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-5 First /Second/Third/Other Boot Device : The BIOS attempts to load the operat- ing system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items. The choice: Floppy, LS120, HDD, SCSI, CDROM, Disabled. Swap Floppy Drive : This will swap your physical drive letters A & B if you are using two floppy disks. The default is Di[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-6 T ypematic Rate (Chars/Sec) : This is the number of characters that will be repeated by a keyboard press. The default is 6. 6 : 6 characters per second. 8 : 8 characters per second. 10 : 10 characters per second. 12 : 12 characters per second. 15 : 15 characters per second. 20 : 20 characters per second. 24 : 24 characters pe[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-7 D8000 - DBFFF Shadow : DC000 - DFFFF Shadow : These categories determine whether ROMs from option cards will be copied into RAM. This will be in 16K byte or 32K byte units, and the size will depend on chipset of the option card. Enabled : Optional shadow is enabled. Disabled : Optional shadow is disabled.[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-8 Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 DRAM Timing : This value in this field is set by the system board manufacturer, depending on whether the board has paged DRAMs or EDO (extended data output) DRAMs. The Choice: Bank 0/1, 2/3, 4/5. SDRAM Cycle length : This setting defines the CAS timing parameter of the SDRAM in terms of clocks. The default [...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-9 Memory Hole : Y ou can reserve this memory area for the use of ISA adaptor ROMs. The default is Disabled. Enabled : This field enables the main memory (15~16MB) to r emap to ISA BUS. Disabled : Normal Setting. Note: If this feature is enabled you will not be able to cache this memory segment. System BIOS Cacheable : This allo[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-10 K7 CLK_CTL Select : Use this item to specify the clock control for ramp rate. Select default for a defaulted time value, and optimal for optimum time value which depends on different CPU ratio. The choice: Default, Optimal OnChip USB/USB2 : USB Connector (Port 0-1)/(Port 2-3). The choice: Enabled, Disabled. USB Keyboard Supp[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-11 4-4 Inte gr ated P eripherals Figur e 5: Integrated Peripherals Note: If you do not use the Onboard IDE connector, then you will need to set Onboard Primary PCI IDE: Disabled and Onboard Secondary PCI IDE: Disabled Note: The Onboard PCI IDE cable should be equal to or less than 18 inches (45 cm.). OnChip IDE Channel0 : The d[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-12 Primary Master PIO: The default is Auto. Auto : BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Master PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode. Mode 0~4 : Manually set the IDE Programmed interrupt mode. Primary Slave PIO: The default is Auto. Auto : BIOS will automatically detect the Onboard Primary Slave PCI IDE HDD Accessing mode. M[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-13 Init Display First: If two video cards are used (1 AGP and 1 PCI) this specifies which one will be the primary display adapter. The default is PCI Slot. PCI Slots : PCI video card will be primary adapter. AGP: AGP video card will be primary adapter. IDE HDD Block Mode : IDE Block Mode allows the controller to access blocks o[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-14 Onboard Parallel port : This field allows the user to configure the LPT port. The default is 378H / IRQ7. 378H : Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 378H and IRQ7. 278H : Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 278H and IRQ5. 3BCH : Enable Onboard LPT port and address is 3BCH and IRQ7. Disabled : Disable Onboard W inbond C[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-15 4-5 P o wer Management Setup Choose the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY to display the following screen. This menu allows the user to modify the power management parameters and IRQ signals. In general, these parameters should not be changed unless it s absolutely necessary . Figur e 6: Power Managem[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-16 User define : Allows user to define PM T imers parameters to control power saving mode. ACPI Suspend T ype : This item allows you to select S1(POS) or S3(STR) function. The choice: S1(POS), S3(STR). PM controlled by APM : This option shows weather or not you want the Power Management to be controlled the Advanced Power Manag[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-17 Soft-Off by PWRBTN : Use this to select your soft-off function. The default is Delay 4 sec. Instant Off : T urns off the system instantly . Delay 4 Second : T urns of f the system after a 4 second delay . If momentary press of button, the system will go into Suspend Mode. Press the power botton again to take system out of Su[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-18 4-6 PNP/PCI Configuration The PNP/PCI configuration program is for the user to modify the PCI/ISA IRQ signals when various PCI/ISA cards are inserted in the PCI or ISA slots. W ARNING: Conflicting IRQ s may cause the system to not find certain devices. Figur e 7: PCI Configuration Setup PNP OS Installed : Do you have a PN[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-19 Reset Configuration Data : This setting allows you to clear ESCD data. The default is Disabled Disabled : Normal Setting. Enabled : If you have plugged in some Legacy cards to the system and they were recorded into ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data), you can set this field to Enabled in order to clear ESCD. PCI/VGA Pa[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-20 4-7 PC Health Status Current CPU T emperature : This is the current temperature of the CPU. Current System T emperature: This is the Current temperature of the system. Curr ent CPU F AN Speed : The current CPU fan speed in RPMs. Curr ent Chassis F AN Speed : The current chassis fan speed in RPMs. CPU(V) : The voltage level o[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-21 4-8 F requency/V olta ge Contr ol DRAM Clock : The item will synchronize/asynchronize DRAM operation clock. Host Clock: DRAM has same working clock with CPU host bus. 2/3 Host: DRAM running with lower operation clock. Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk : When enabled the motherboard will automatically disable the clock source for a DI[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-22 4-9 Defaults Menu Selecting Defaults from the main menu shows you two options which are described below Load Fail-Safe Defaults When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to: Load Fail-Safe Defaults (Y/N) ? N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the [...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-23 4-10 Super visor/User Pass w or d Setting Y ou can set either supervisor or user password, or both of then. The dif ferences between are: supervisor password : can enter and change the options of the setup menus. user password : just can only enter but do not have the right to change th e options of the setup menus. When you[...]

BIOS EP-8KT A Page 4-24 4-11 Exit Selecting Save & Exit Setup Pressing <Enter> on this item asks for confirmation: Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? Y Pressing Y stores the selections made in the menus in CMOS  a special section of memory that stays on after you turn your system off. The next time you boot your computer, the BIOS conf[...]

Appendix A-1 EP-8KT A Appendix A A-1 MEMOR Y MAP Address Range Size Description [00000-7FFFF] 512K Conventional memory [80000-9FBFF] 127K Extended Conventional memory [9FC00-9FFFF] 1 K Extended BIOS data area if PS/2 mouse is installed [A0000-C7FFF] 160K A vailable for Hi DOS memory [C8000-DFFFF] 9 6 K A vailable for Hi DOS memory and adapter ROMs [...]

Appendix EP-8KT A A-2 [2F8-2FF] SERIAL port 2. [360-36F] NETWORK ports. [378-37F] P ARALLEL port 1. [3B0-3BF] MONOCHROME & P ARALLEL port adapter . [3C0-3CF] EGA adapter. [3D0-3DF] CGA adapter. [3F0-3F7] FLOPPY DISK controller. [3F8-3FF] SERIAL port 1. A-3 TIMER & DMA CHANNELS MAP TIMER MAP: TIMER Channel 0 System timer interrupt. TIMER Cha[...]

Appendix A-3 EP-8KT A 6 FLOPPY DISK (SMC CHIP). 7 P ARALLEL port 1. 8 R TC clock. 9 A vailable. 1 0 A vailable. 1 1 A vailable. 1 2 PS/2 Mouse. 1 3 MA TH coprocessor . 1 4 Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. 1 5 Onboard HARD DISK (IDE1) channel. A-5 RT C & CMOS RAM MAP R TC & CMOS: 0 0 Seconds. 0 1 Second alarm. 0 2 Minutes. 0 3 Minutes alarm[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A A-4 1 6 Base memory high byte. 1 7 Extension memory low byte. 1 8 Extension memory high byte. 19-2d 2E-2F 3 0 Reserved for extension memory low byte. 3 1 Reserved for extension memory high byte. 3 2 DA TE CENTUR Y byte. 3 3 INFORMA TION FLAG. 34-3F Reserve. 40-7F Reserved for CHIPSET SETTING DA T A.[...]

Appendix B-1 EP-8KT A Appendix B B- 1 POST CODES For BIOS 6.0 Code POST (hex) DESCRIPTION C F h T est CMOS R/W functionality . C 0h Early chipset initialization: - Disable shadow RAM - Disable L2 cache (socket 7 or below) - Program basic chipset registers C1 h Detect memory - Auto-detection of DRAM size, type and ECC. - Auto-detection of L2 cache ([...]

Appendix EP-8KT A B-2 3. Reset keyboard for W inbond 977 series Super I/O chips. 0Ch Reserved 0 D h Reserved 0E h T est F000h segment shadow to see whether it is R/W- able or not. If test fails, keep beeping the speaker. 0Fh Reserved 10 h Auto detect flash type to load appropriate flash R/W codes into the run time area in F000 for ESCD & DMI su[...]

Appendix B-3 EP-8KT A checksum fails, use default value instead. 3. Prepare BIOS resource map for PCI & PnP use. If ESCD is valid, take into consideration of the ESCD s legacy information. 4. Onboard clock generator initialization. Disable respective clock resource to empty PCI & DIMM slots. 5 . Early PCI initialization: - Enumerate PCI [...]

Appendix EP-8KT A B-4 3 4h Reserved 3 5h Reserved 3 6h Reserved 3 7h Reserved 3 8h Reserved 3 9h Reserved 3 A h Reserved 3 B h Reserved 3Ch T est 8254 3 D h Reserved 3E h T est 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1. 3Fh Reserved 40 h T est 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 2. 4 1h Reserved 4 2h Reserved 43 h T est 8259 functionality . 4 4h Rese[...]

Appendix B-5 EP-8KT A 5 1h Reserved 52 h T est all memory (clear all extended memory to 0) 5 3h Reserved 5 4h Reserved 5 5h Display number of processors (multi-processor platform) 5 6h Reserved 57 h 1. Display PnP logo 2 . Early ISA PnP initialization - Assign CSN to every ISA PnP device. 5 8h Reserved 59 h Initialize the combined T rend Anti-V iru[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A B-6 6 Dh 1. Assign resources to all ISA PnP devices. 2. Auto assign ports to onboard COM ports if the corresponding item in Setup is set to AUTO. 6 Eh Reserved 6 Fh 1 . Initialize floppy controller 2. Set up floppy related fields in 40:hardware. 7 0h Reserved 7 1h Reserved 7 2h Reserved 73 h (Optional Feature) Enter A WDFLAS[...]

Appendix B-7 EP-8KT A 84 h Initialize ISA PnP boot devices 85h 1 . USB final Initialization 2. NET PC: Build SYSID structure 3. Switch screen back to text mode 4. Set up ACPI table at top of memory. 5. Invoke ISA adapter ROMs 6. Assign IRQs to PCI devices 7 . Initialize APM 8. Clear noise of IRQs. 8 6h Reserved 8 7h Reserved 8 8h Reserved 8 9h Rese[...]

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Appendix C-1 EP-8KT A Appendix C NOTE: The " LOAD Optimized DEFAULTS " function loads the system default data directly from ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly. This function will be necessary when you accept this mainboard, or the system CMOS data is corrupted. LOAD Optimized DEF AUL TS CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright ( C[...]

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Appendix EP-8KT A D-1 Appendix D D- 1 GHOST 5.1 Quick User’ s Guide Installation is very easy . Y ou only need to copy the Ghost5 folder or Ghost.exe to your hard disk. The current market version is for single Client , so the LPT and NetBios portions will not be explained further. Description of Menus Ghost clones and backs up Disk and Partition.[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-2 Disk T o Disk (Disk Cloning) 1. Select the location of the Source drive . 2. Select the location of the Destination drive . 3. When cloning a disk or restoring the backup, set the required partition size as shown in the following figure. There are 3 hard disk functions: 1. Disk T o Disk (disk cloning) 2. Disk T o Image (disk b[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-3 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Y es to start. Disk T o Image (Disk Backup) 1. Select the location of the Source drive. 2. Select the location for storing the backup file.[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-4 Disk From Image (Restore Backup) 1. Select the Restore file. 2. Select the Destination drive of the disk to be restored. 3. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Y es to start.[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-5 3. When restoring disk backup, set the required partition size as shown in the following figure. 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Y es to start. Partition[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-6 2. Select the first partition to be backed up. This is usually where the operating system and programs are stored. There are 3 partition functions: 1 . Partition T o Partition (partition cloning) 2 . Partition T o Image (partition backup) 3 . Partition From Image (restore partition) Partition T o Partition (Partition Cloning) [...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-7 3. Select the path and file name for storing the backup file. 4. Is the file compressed? There are 3 options: ( 1) No: do not compress data during backup (2 ) Fast: Small volume compression (3) High: high ratio compression. File can be compressed to its minimum, but this requires longer execution time. 5. During confirmation, [...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-8 Partition From Image (Restore Partition) 1. Select the backup file to be restored. 2. Select the source partition. 3. Select the disk to be restored.[...]

Appendix EP-8KT A D-9 4. Select the partition to be restored. 5. Select Y es to start restoring. Check This function checks the hard disk or backup file for backup or restoration error due to F A T or track error .[...]