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AX3S Pro
DOC. NO: AX3SP-OL-E0010C
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  • Page 1 AX3S Pro DOC. NO: AX3SP-OL-E0010C...
  • Page 2 AX3S Pro ....................1 What’s in this manual........................2 Before You Start ........................10 Quick Installation Procedure ...................... 11 Motherboard Map ........................12 Block Diagram ........................... 13 Hardware....................14 JP14 Clear CMOS ........................15 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup....................16 CPU Socket and Fan Connector ....................18 CPU Jumper-less Design......................
  • Page 3 Front Panel Connector....................... 28 ATX Power Connector........................ 30 AC Power Auto Recovery ......................31 IDE and Floppy Connector......................32 IrDA Connector .......................... 35 GPIO-Connector (General Purpose I/O) (Optional) ..............36 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) ..................37 WOL (Wake on LAN) ......................... 40 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ...................
  • Page 4 Front Panel Audio (Optional) ....................... 51 Battery-less and Long Life Design ..................... 52 Over-current Protection......................54 Hardware Monitoring........................56 Resettable Fuse......................... 57 JP30 Die-Hard BIOS (100% Virus Protection) (Optional) ..............58 BIOS Write Protection........................ 61 Year 2000 (Y2K) ........................62 2200uF Low ESR Capacitor.......................

  • Page 5: Award Bios

    Installing Ultra ATA/100 IDE Driver..................... 73 Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ..................74 ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive ..................... 76 ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR) ....................83 AWARD BIOS ................... 85 Enter BIOS Setup ........................86 Change Language ........................87 Standard CMOS Features......................88 Advanced BIOS Features ......................
  • Page 6 Overclocking ..................154 VGA and HDD ......................... 156 Glossary Glossary Glossary Glossary ....................157 AC97 ............................157 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..............157 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ....................158 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ...................... 158 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ......................158...
  • Page 7 APM............................158 ATA/66 ............................. 159 ATA/100 ........................... 159 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)................... 159 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode)....................160 CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ....................160 DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)..................160 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ..................160 EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ..................161 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ..............

  • Page 8: Troubleshooting

    PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM) ................... 163 PC100 DIMM ........................... 163 PC133 DIMM ........................... 163 PDF Format ..........................163 PnP (Plug and Play)......................... 164 POST (Power-On Self Test) ..................... 164 RDRAM (Rambus DRAM)......................164 RIMM............................164 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ....................165 SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ..................
  • Page 9 Technical Support................. 171 Part Number and Serial Number ................173 Model name and BIOS version ................174...
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  • Page 14 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. 1.Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2.Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component.
  • Page 15 When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
  • Page 16 You have to wait for system to successfully boot from operation system (such as Windows or DOS) before the Wake-On-Keyboard/Mouse can take effect. This is because the information of how to support this function must be stored into Super I/O Controller and then you can use it for next power on.
  • Page 18 Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
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  • Page 20         High CPU core voltage may be able to increase CPU speed for overclocking, but you may damage the CPU or reduce the CPU lifecycle.
  • Page 21           INTEL i815E chipset supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage. If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use JP14 to clear CMOS and restore to the default setting.
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  • Page 24 The driving capability of new generation chipset is limited due to the lack of a memory buffer (to improve performance). This makes DRAM chip count an important factor to take into consideration when you install DIMMs. Unfortunately, there is no way that the BIOS can identify the correct chip count;...
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  • Page 27 During POST (power on self test) procedure, the Debug LED will light on sequentially from LED0 to LED7 until the system boot O.K.
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  • Page 30 For ATX system, there is always a standby current on the motherboard. Please make sure that you have unplugged the ATX power cable from the connector before you insert or pull out any CPU, DIMM, PCI and AGP cards. Otherwise, a serious component damage may occur.
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  • Page 33 The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum of 46cm (18 inches), make sure your cable does not exceed this length. For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device to master mode and follow the suggested sequence to install your new device.
  • Page 34 To achieve the best performance of Ultra DMA/100 hard disks, a special is required.
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  • Page 52 For your convenience, this motherboard is still shipped with one Lithium (CR-2032) battery in the battery socket. If you prefer to use battery, you can keep it in the socket. The RTC will still keep running even power cord is removed.
  • Page 55 Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human operating mistake, there is still certain risk that CPU, memory, HDD, add-on cards that install on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason.
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  • Page 60 : If you suspect your BIOS is infected by virus, just rescue your bios by following steps: Turn off the system, set the External Controller to “ ” to read from rescue ROM. Boot the system and set the switch back to “ ”.
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  • Page 64 The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for stability of CPU power. The location of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, this motherboard implements 2200uF capacitors, which is much larger than normal (1000 or 1500uF) and provide better stability for CPU power.
  • Page 71 If you are using Windows95, you should install DCOM95 patch from the Bonus Pack Autorun menu first, before you install AGP driver.
  • Page 73 Installing this ATA/100 IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure.
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  • Page 81 ## $% $% "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled.
  • Page 82 Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend to disk. Please refer to AOpen web site for latest update.
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  • Page 85 Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard.
  • Page 86 Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
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  • Page 95 ! WARNING ! Disk Boot Sector is to be modified Type "Y" to accept write, or "N" to abort write Award Software, Inc.
  • Page 103 Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything. You may change the parameter settings to improve system performance. However, it may cause your system to be unstable if the setting is not correct for your system configuration.
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  • Page 113 You cannot use both USB driver and USB legacy keyboard at the same time. Disable "USB Keyboard Support" if you have USB driver in the operating system.
  • Page 116 Whenever you change this item, it will only take effect after you "# restart the system and successfully boot the Windows or DOS. "# To implement Wake on Keyboard/Mouse function, you must set JP28 to Enabled. "# Wake on Mouse function applies to PS/2 mouse only. "# If you set a password but forget it, please clear CMOS.
  • Page 118 If you are using network card, make sure that the IRQ do not conflict.
  • Page 121 If you are using an I/O card with a parallel port, make sure that the addresses and IRQ do not conflict.
  • Page 134 Setting this item to 0 will wake up the system on the specified time (which can be set in the Wake On RTC Timer ) every day.
  • Page 146 High CPU core voltage may be able to increase CPU speed for overclocking, but you may damage the CPU or reduce the CPU lifecycle.
  • Page 152  Don’t forget to set JP30 Die-Hard BIOS at pin 1-2, after you upgrade the BIOS.
  • Page 153 The upgrade of new BIOS will permanently replace your original BIOS content after flashing. The original BIOS setting and Win95/Win98 PnP information will be refreshed and you probably need to re-configure your system. If you prefer to use EPROM writer, you can find BIOS BIN file after unzip.
  • Page 155 The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your system or important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially CPU, memory, hard disks, and AGP VGA cards.
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