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Page 1: Ax4Sg Wlan
AX4SG WLAN DOC. NO.: AX4SGWLAN-OL-E0306A... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ................... 21 JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................22 CPU Installation................................... 23 CPU Over-current Protection ..............................26 AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” ................................28 Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage ............................ 29 EzColor......................................31 Connecting CPU, System, Power Supply Fan Connectors......................33... - Page 3 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper............................ 34 DIMM Sockets ..................................... 35 AC Power Auto Recovery................................38 IDE and Floppy Connector ................................39 Serial ATA Supported .................................. 41 Connecting Serial ATA Disk................................. 42 Front Panel Connector ................................45 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot ........................46 AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED ..........................
- Page 4 Front Audio Connector ................................63 FM Radio Card (User Upgrade Optional)............................ 64 DieHard BIOS II................................... 66 JP15/JP16 Dr. Voice Language Select Jumpers......................... 67 JP2 Dr.Voice Speaker/Buzzer Output Jumper ..........................68 CD Audio Connector..................................69 AUX-IN Connector..................................70 Case Open Connector................................. 71 STBY LED and BOOT LED .................................
- Page 5 What are the RAID levels? ................................90 HDD Capacity of RAID Levels..............................93 Serial ATA RAID for Intel ICH5R..............................94 Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ..........................96 How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program ......................... 97 How To Enter BIOS Setup................................98 WinBIOS Utility.................................... 99 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ..........................
- Page 6 Glossary ...............................121 AC97 CODEC ................................... 121 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)........................121 ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) ............................ 121 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ............................... 122 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ............................... 122 ATA (AT Attachment) ................................. 122 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)............................123 Bluetooth ....................................
- Page 7 Hyper Threading..................................126 IEEE 1394 ....................................126 Parity Bit ....................................127 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus..........................127 PDF Format ....................................127 PnP (Plug and Play) .................................. 127 POST (Power-On Self Test) ..............................128 PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ............................128 RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ......................
- Page 8 Technical Support..........................135 Product Registration..........................139 How to Contact Us..........................140...
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Page 9: You Must Notice
All of the specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without notice. AOpen reserves the right to revise this publication and to make reasonable changes. AOpen assumes no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual, including the products and software described in it. -
Page 10: Before You Start
This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved in format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD or you can get free download from Adobe web... -
Page 11: Overview
SoftAP utility invented by AOpen as well. Besides, AX4SG WLAN has S/PDIF connector and an AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 chipset onboard, providing high performance and magic surround stereo sound to let people enjoy working with it. Now, let’s enjoy all features from AOpen AX4SG WLAN motherboard. -
Page 12: Feature Highlight
® ® Supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.06GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset Intel 865G is a Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) designed for use with the Pentium 4 processor with 512-KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron processor. -
Page 13: Expansion Slots
Hyper-Threading technology, an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. Watch Dog ABS Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail the system overclocking. - Page 14 1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment Provides “1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you to adjust CPU FSB frequency from 100~250MHz by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and helps your system get maximum performance. LAN Port Broadcom Gigabit PCI LAN Chip, which is an highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides Gigabits per second Ethernet for office and home use.
- Page 15 On-board AC’97 Sound AX4SG WLAN uses RealTek AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Eight USB 2.0 Ports Provides six ports on the back panel and one USB 2.0 connector (2 ports) on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.
- Page 16 S/PDIF Connector S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is the newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Power Management/Plug and Play Supports the power management function which confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program.
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Page 17: Quick Installation Procedure
This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. Installing CPU and Fan Installing System Memory (DIMM) Connecting Front Panel Cable Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable Connecting ATX Power Cable Connecting Back Panel Cable Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default Setting CPU Frequency Installing Driver and Utility... -
Page 18: Motherboard Map
Motherboard Map IrDA Connector Front Audio Connector AC’97 CODEC Colored Back Panel Smart Ear Connector S/PDIF Connector Resetable Fuse CD-IN Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse AUX-IN Connector Wakeup Jumper SYSFAN2 Connector AGP LED Game Port Connector V4 Power Engine 32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6 Low ESR Capacitors (Slot 6: Hercules PCI card that supports 4-pin 12V. -
Page 19: Block Diagram
Hercules PCI DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel PCI Bus RAM Up to 4GB 32-bit PCI Slot x6 DIMM Socket x4 MINI-PCI Slot x1 MINI-PCI 400/533/800MH 2 Serial ATA Ports SATA 1 z System Bus Socket 478 150MB/s Intel Pentium 4 SATA 2 Intel AGP bus 865G... -
Page 20: Hardware Installation
This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard. Note: 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. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component. -
Page 21: About "User Upgrade Optional" And "Manufacture Upgrade Optional
When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may notice that some of the functions are marked as “User Upgrade Optional” or “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. Although all of AOpen’s motherboards have included many amazing and powerful features, sometimes not every user is familiar with these powerful features. -
Page 22: Jp14 Clear Cmos Data
You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin1 &... -
Page 23: Cpu Installation
® This motherboard supports Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 series CPU (Northwood). Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket. 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for mark on the CPU upper interface. 1. - Page 24 3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation. CPU cut edge Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you may damage the CPU. Note: This socket supports Micro-FC-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel.
- Page 25 CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection.
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Page 26: Cpu Over-Current Protection
Note: 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 installed on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason. AOpen cannot guaranty the protection circuit will always work perfectly. - Page 27 This Motherboard implements a Flash ROM and a special circuit that provide you no batter power consumption of current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations. The RTC (real time clock) can also keep running as long as the power cord is plugged. If you lose your CMOS data by accident, you can just reload the CMOS configurations from Flash ROM and the system will recover as usual.
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Page 28: Aopen "Watch Dog Abs
“ ” “ ” AOpen provides a special and useful feature on this motherboard for overclockers. When you power-on the system, the BIOS will check last system POST status. If it succeeded, the BIOS will enable “Watch Dog ABS” function immediately, and set the CPU FSB frequency according to user’s settings stored in the BIOS. -
Page 29: Full-Range Adjustable Cpu Core Voltage
This function is dedicated to overclockers and supports Adjustable CPU Core Voltage from 1.10V to 1.85V. However, this motherboard can also automatically detect CPU VID signal and generates proper CPU core voltage. BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Bus Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency in BIOS;... - Page 30 Northwood CPU Core System Ratio Frequency Clock Pentium 4 1.8G 1800MHz 100MHz 400MHz Pentium 4 2.0G 2000MHz 100MHz 400MHz Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 100MHz 400MHz Note: Intel 865G chipset don’t support Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 133MHz 533MHz Willamette or Celeron (0.18u) processors. Pentium 4 2.26G 2260MHz 133MHz...
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Page 31: Ezcolor
Breaking through traditional outlook of motherboard, AOpen now brings you a new fresh look of motherboard! – EzColor! Fancy? You may think so, but actually it is a practical and useful feature for amateur or even power-users. Coming in specific color for specific connector and module, components on motherboard are now born with their respective colors. - Page 32 Claret: Serial ATA connector ACPILED ACPILED- RESET SPWR SPEAKER Navy Blue: IDE 1 Connector Note: Colors setting varies on different motherboards, the color setting here applies only to AX4SG WLAN.
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Page 33: Connecting Cpu, System, Power Supply Fan Connectors
This motherboard comes CPUFAN1, SYSFAN2 and SYSFAN3 connectors, you may connect fans to them if necessary. In addition, this motherboard allows you to control Power Supply Fan with SilentTek II utility. Please remember to connect necessary power supply connectors to your power supply. +12V SENSOR CPUFAN1... -
Page 34: Jp28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-Up Jumper
This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function. You can use JP28 to enable or disable this function, which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse. The factory default setting is set to “Disable” (1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3. -
Page 35: Dimm Sockets
This motherboard has four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel DDR400, DDR333 DDR266 memory up to 4GB. Only non-ECC DDR RAM is supported. Please install suitable modules; otherwise serious damage may occur on memory sockets or you RAM modules. - Page 36 Dual Channel memory configuration provides higher performance than single channel configuration. To get the highest performance of Dual Channel, the DIMM modules you’re using must meet the following conditions: Same DRAM technology (128Mb, 256Mb, or 512Mb) ● Same Density (128MB, 256MB, 512MB, etc.) Same DRAM bus width (x8 or x16) ●...
- Page 37 Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation. Note: Please pay attention to the Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below. Blue slots. To run dual channel speed, you should insert the RAM in the slot of DIMM A1 and DIMM B1 or DIMM A2 and DIMM B2.
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Page 38: Ac Power Auto Recovery
This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector. Make sure you plug in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to connect the 4-pin 12V ATX connector before connecting the 20-pin ATX power connector and use standard power supply specially designed for Pentium 4 system. -
Page 39: Ide And Floppy Connector
Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDD and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage. Secondary Secondary Slave (4th) Master (3rd) Pin 1 IDE 2 (Secondary) IDE 1 (Primary) Pin 1 Primary Primary... - Page 40 IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 as the secondary channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of four devices. In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must be set differently to Master and Slave mode. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM.
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Page 41: Serial Ata Supported
The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second. -
Page 42: Connecting Serial Ata Disk
To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please be noted that it is a jumper free implement;... - Page 43 Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard does come with the support for the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you have had installed them on, the problem mainly lies in the BIOS setting.
- Page 44 If you intend to change the default setting, simply press Enter for a list of selection: Disabled: You may choose this item if you’re sure that only traditional IDE hard disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item may also cancel the detection to Serial ATA hard disk during POST, which theoretically, could speed up your boot-up timing for a little bit;...
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Page 45: Front Panel Connector
Designed with different colors of pin headers aligning together, front panel is one of the most important components on your motherboard. With SPWR, ACPI & PWR LED, IDE LED, ACPI LED, Reset and Speaker pins included, it is very easy to mess up the right cables to the correct headers. -
Page 46: Agp (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot
AX4SG WLAN provides an 8x slot. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 4X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. AGP is now moving to AGP 8x mode, which is 66MHz x 4bytes x 8 =2.1GB/s. -
Page 47: Agp Protection Technology And Agp Led
With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this motherboard implements a blend new technology to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over-voltaging of AGP card. When AGP Protection Technology is implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Please note that if you install a AGP card with 3.3V, which is not supported by Intel 865G chipset, the AGP LED on the motherboard will light up to warn you the possible... -
Page 48: Irda Connector
The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows 98 Direct Cable Connection, the user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps). -
Page 49: Hercules Pci Slot
Spotted easily among other PCI slots onboard, this Hercules PCI slot comes in a special BLUE color to illustrate its uniqueness and usefulness. As independent as Hercules is, it comes in a separate set of 3.3 volt power circuitry which supplies needed current and making it virtually free from the “loading issue”... -
Page 50: Support Gigabits Lan Onboard
On the strength of Broadcom Gigabit LAN controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides Gigabits Ethernet for office and home use, the Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The right-hand side LED indicates the link mode, it blinks in orange whenever linking to network. -
Page 51: Mini-Pci
AOpen Mini-PCI Wireless LAN Card with its light weight, small size and low power consumption is ideal fitted in your PC system. With 802.11b compliant, the data rate of AOpen-made WLAN card is able to support 11Mbps or even 22Mbps (802.11b+), while other WLAN card on the market may limited to 11Mbps only. - Page 52 LAN device in it. What are you supposed to do? Buy an expensive hardware access point? It will cost you at least 150 US dollars. You may just simply install AOpen SoftAP utility from the Driver CD come with AOpen Mini-PCI Wireless LAN Card, then you do not have to spend extra money to buy one.
- Page 53 AOpen SoftAP is an utility to configure and monitor wireless LAN status under Windows environment, which not only provide you a free software access point, but allow user to configure settings manually. It is very easy to install AOpen SoftAP.
- Page 54 After that, please shut down your PC, install the WLAN card on your motherboard, and plug LAN cable to the RJ45 connector on back panel. Restart the PC, and a new device will be detected. Install it. Double click the SoftAP icon on the desktop. After that, please go to Card Mode page, select SoftAP mode, choose broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, and press Apply button。...
- Page 55 Select Configuration page, fill in any SSID name you wish, the channel is arbitrary (Here we use “wlan” as example). Before leaving this section, press Apply. After these above settings, it’s done! You will be able to use your motherboard as access point then.
- Page 56 The installation of AOpen Mini-PCI Wireless LAN card can be easily accomplished by several steps. Gently Press insert MINI MINI wireless Wireless module into the module down MINI-PCI slot till you heard at 45 degree as “Clip” sound picture shows.
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Page 57: Support Usb 2.0 Ports
This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There is one USB connector on the board for you to connect two USB devices and six other ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect USB devices from back panel or connect the front USB connector to the front panel of chassis. -
Page 58: Com2 Connector
This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper left of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis. Pin 1 DCD# SOUT DTR# DSR#... -
Page 59: Game Port Bracket Supported
This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard. Pin1 Joystick Module (User Upgrade Optional) -
Page 60: Color Coded Back Panel
The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. USB 2.0 SPP/EPP/ECP RJ-45 LAN PS/2 Mouse Ports... -
Page 61: S/Pdif (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a latest audio transfer file format that provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog. Normally there are two S/PDIF outputs as shown, one for RCA connector, the most common one used for consumer audio products, and the other for optical connector with a even better audio quality. -
Page 62: Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect
This motherboard comes with an ALC650E CODEC, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC650, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any external module. -
Page 63: Front Audio Connector
If the housing has been designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. By the way, please remove the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if your housing doesn’t have an audio port on the front panel. -
Page 64: Fm Radio Card (User Upgrade Optional)
To solve the above said torments for our users, AOpen had integrated the FM frequency radio function into a little piece of expansion card, to allow you listening to exciting game broadcasting, without missing any good moments, even, taping down any exciting pitch for replaying. - Page 65 After necessary hardware had been installed, you may power and reboot the wide as possible. system. Please run the AOpen Bonus Pack CD after entering Window system. General speaking, it would be better An installation program will prompt up automatically on the screen, please to receive frequency with antenna located beside windows.
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Page 66: Diehard Bios Ii
ROM into an Read-and-write ROM. You may download fancy skins from our website to apply it on JukeBox, VividBIOS or JukeBox FM by adjusting JP25 to Pin2-3. This motherboard comes with one BIOS ROM; you may contact our local distributors or resellers for purchasing an extra BIOS ROM. Please visit our website at english.aopen.com.tw for details. JP24... -
Page 67: Jp15/Jp16 Dr. Voice Language Select Jumpers
Dr. Voice is a great feature of AX4SG WLAN, which can identify the problems you may encounter in the operating system. It can clearly “tell you” whether the problem is caused from components or improper installation such as CPU, memory module, VGA, PCI add-on card, FDD, HDD or keyboard. -
Page 68: Jp2 Dr.voice Speaker/Buzzer Output Jumper
This motherboard comes with another considerate option that allows you to switch the Dr. Voice sound out from buzzer or speaker. You can choose not to be bothered by the warning made from Dr. Voice when it detects any error in operating system. You may also set JP2 to choose sending out voices from buzzer or speaker. -
Page 69: Cd Audio Connector
This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. Note: Though some of the latest versions of Windows support “Digital Audio” through IDE bus. However, in CD-IN Connector order to use Open Jukebox player, which is driven under BIOS, it is a MUST to connect audio cable to CD-IN connector on the motherboard. -
Page 70: Aux-In Connector
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Page 71: Case Open Connector
The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function works, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or by the opening of the chassis, the system will beep to inform you. -
Page 72: Stby Led And Boot Led
Both STBY LED and BOOT LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard. This is a convenient indication for you to check the system power status in many circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode. -
Page 73: Resetable Fuse
Traditional motherboard uses fuses to prevent Keyboard and USB port from over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that when it is broken (function to protect motherboard), user cannot replace them and result in malfunction of motherboard. With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function even after the fuse had done its protection job. Resetable Fuse... -
Page 74: Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink
Cool down CPU and Chipset are important for system reliability. Enlarged aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption especially when you are trying to over-clock the CPU. -
Page 75: Low Esr Capacitor
The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for the stability of CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, AX4SG WLAN implements 3300μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 &... -
Page 76: V4 Power Engine
While the market are flooded with low quality, cost-down power materials on motherboard by treacherous manufacturers that subsequently cause the stability of your system, unknown system crashing, overheating of your motherboard, we, AOpen have decided to maintain our long-lasting reputation of refined manufacturer by keep providing solid materials on our products. - Page 77 Comprison Transient of 3-phase and 4-phase PWM As test report shows, while most of the motherboards on the market are powered by 3-phase PWM controller, this motherboard does comes with 4-phase PWM controller providing stronger power, and could lower down the temperature of mothereboard from 30℃ to 15℃. phase Vcore tolerance of - 116 mv...
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Page 78: The Noise Is Gone
Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored to bring you a new overall solution, SilentTek, to make your system quiet. To collocate... - Page 79 The first image you have here is the Voltage Status In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the page. You can find current status of all voltages and set current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis. your expected margins of warning level. Also, you can check if fans are running properly.
- Page 80 You may find that this setting fits you best. AOpen Recommend Setting: This setting is designed specifically for AOpen housing. A series of lab tests were conducted under the real world scenario to determine optimum fan speed to reduce noise level within CPU working condition and temperature.
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Page 81: Ezclock
With brand-new and user-friendly EzClock that AOpen specially designs for his users, you can adjust those important values as you please and think of suitable. This tailor-made EzClock allows you to set... - Page 82 How You Adjust the Settings in EzClock Utility In EzClock utility, you can adjust CPU Front Side Bus (FSB), the voltage and frequency of VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM. Besides, the CPU related information such as CPU voltage, temperature and CPUFAN rotation speed will also be displayed on this utility. On the left circle area shows Ratio, FSB and frequency information CPU Color Bars: The color bar will...
- Page 83 On the bottom rectangular panel represents CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature. The three color bars on the right hand side will light on according to operation temperature. Please refer to the picture shown above. CPU Color Bars: CPU Fan, Voltage and Temperature: The color bars will light on representing CPU fan speed, CPU...
- Page 84 How Your Boot Screen Looks Like After you finish setting BIOS, these setting values will be displayed on the boot screen like the shown picture here. Every time you boot your system, both default and current settings will pop up on the screen. Your personal settings that had been adjusted earlier will be highlighted;...
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Page 85: Hyper Threading Technology
What is Hyper-Threading? Hyper-Threading technology is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, an average improvement of ~40% in CPU resource utilization yields higher processing throughput. How Hyper-Threading Works A form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT), Hyper-Threading technology allows multiple threads of software applications to be run simultaneously on one processor by duplicating the architectural state on each processor while the same processor execution... - Page 86 For multiprocessor-capable software applications, the Hyper-Threading based processor is considered two separate logical processors on which the software applications can run without modification. Also, each logical processor responds interrupts independently. first logical processor track software thread, while the second logical processor tracks another...
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Page 87: Aoconfig Utility
Moreover, AOConfig allows users to save information in *.BMP or *.TXT format which users may collect the system information in detail and send them to AOpen directly for technical support or for further diagnose of system problems. 1. The system page shows the... - Page 88 .bmp or .txt format. NOTE: AOConfig can be used under Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP. Please also note that AOConfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard. Before running AOConfig, all applications must be closed.
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Page 89: Raid Introduction
’ ’ Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures. The idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was first introduced by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy H. Katz at the University California at Berkeley in 1988. -
Page 90: What Are The Raid Levels
RAID level 0, which is the fastest drive array you can have, is a performance-oriented disk mapping method. The data in this array gets written across a stripe or different disks for a faster transfer. This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. - Page 91 Block 1 RAID level 1 uses at least two duplicate hard drives and store the exact same Block 2 blocks of information between them. This is the slowest form of fault Block 3 tolerance because the data has to be replicated onto two disks at the same time.
- Page 92 As the name would suggest, RAID 0+1 is striping and mirroring combined. This RAID combines the best of both RAID 0 and RAID 1. It takes a Disk stripe using two disks, and mirrors it to another set of disks for fault tolerance. Data is stripped across several disks, each disk has partner with exactly the same data on it.
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Page 93: Hdd Capacity Of Raid Levels
Striping Logical Drive Physical Disks Physical Disks 80 GB 40 GB 40 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Mirroring Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Logical Drive Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Striping... -
Page 94: Serial Ata Raid For Intel Ich5R
With the latest chipsets implemented, Intel ICH5R provides RAID 0 function for the Serial ATA hard disks. You may follow the steps shown below to setup your disk array. After having properly installed your Serial ATA hard disks, you may directly get into the BIOS setting screen for adjustment. You may simply press “Integrated Peripherals On-Chip IDE Device On-Chip Serial ATA”... - Page 95 In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID Configuration Utility to do some configuration. After finishing the BIOS setup and reboot, you will see [Press CTRL + I to enter configuration Utility] about half way through the boot up.
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Page 96: Phoenix-Award Bios
Most BIOS settings of AX4SG WLAN have been optimized by AOpen’s R&D engineering team. But, the default setting of BIOS still can’t fine-tune the chipset controlling entire system. Therefore, the rest of this chapter intends to guide you the process of configuring your system setup. -
Page 97: How To Use Phoenix-Award™ Bios Setup Program
<Page Down> key to change setting values. You can press <Esc> key to quit Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program. Alternatively, it's strongly recommended to install AOpen’s newest WinBIOS Utility to get more detailed description, further powerful functions and advanced setting of BIOS. -
Page 98: How To Enter Bios Setup
After you finish jumper settings and connect correct cables, power on and enter the BIOS Setup. Press <Del> during POST (Power-On Self Test) and choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance. Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting. -
Page 99: Winbios Utility
POST (Power-On-Self-Test) screen to get into the BIOS, which is inconvenient and clumsy. From now on, AOpen provides an easier way to configure your BIOS. WinBIOS is a customized utility for running exclusively on AOpen motherboards, which allows you to setup your BIOS under Windows environment. - Page 100 For the latest WinBIOS profile and language pack modules, you may find them from AOpen official web site as shown below: (http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/download/WinBIOS/default.htm) Note: Due to BIOS versions are updated in an extremely fast speed, it's strongly recommended to download the latest BIOS...
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Page 101: Bios Upgrade Under Windows Environment
Windows 95/98, 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP. In the meanwhile, in order to provide a much more user-friendly operating environment, AOpen EzWinFlash is natively designed to have multi-language function to provide easier way for users’ usage in changing BIOS setting. - Page 102 1. Download the new version of BIOS package file from AOpen official web site. (ex: http://www.aopen.com) 2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WAX4SGWLAN102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WAX4SGWLAN102.EXE & WAX4SGWLAN102.BIN.
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Page 103: Vivid Bios Technology
POST screen! Unlike earlier graphic POST screen which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during POST. With this innovative design, VividBIOS now brings you a beautiful and sleek 256 colours screen without missing any important information shown on POST screen. -
Page 104: Driver And Utility
There are motherboard drivers and utilities in AOpen Bonus CD. You don’t need to install all of them to boot your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows XP) before you install any drivers or utilities. -
Page 105: Installing Intel ® Chipset Software Installation Utility
® ® ® The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility should be installed onto the target system and the Windows * INF files outline the operating ® system how the chipset components will be configured. It is recommended that the Intel Chipset Software Installation utility be installed onto the target system prior to the installation of other drivers. -
Page 106: Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver
You can install Intel Extreme graphic driver to get the best graphics function of the chipset. You can find it in the Bonus Pack CD disc. -
Page 107: Installing Onboard Sound Driver
This motherboard comes with AC97 CODEC. This audio driver supports Windows 98SE and upper Windows OS; you can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu. -
Page 108: Installing Intel Application Accelerator Raid Edition Driver In Windows Xp
Edition is designed to provide functionality for the Intel ICH5R SATA RAID Controller. This product is available for use on Pentium (R) 4 processor-based systems with an ICH5R I/O Controller Hub and running Microsoft Windows XP. Software installation is flexible and fully automated for Windows XP. You can find it in the AOpen Bonus Pack. -
Page 109: Installing Lan Driver In Windows 2000/Xp
This motherboard integrates BCM5705 Gigabit Ethernet Chip. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu. -
Page 110: Install Lan Driver In Windows 98Se/Me
Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " Click "PCI Ethernet Controller "-> " Driver " -> "Update Driver" and Select "Install the software automatically (Recommended) " And then Click "Next". - Page 111 4. When prompted, insert the media to be searched into your CD-ROM drive, type the path to the driver, and select OK. Example: e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705\Win98MENT Where "e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705\Win98MENT" is the designation of the driver on your system.
- Page 112 In the Driver Files Search Results window, verify that the correct path to the driver software is shown, then click Next. Then OS will request to insert the Bonus CD into CD-ROM Drive.
- Page 113 Type the path of the BroadCom Ethernet driver and select " OK " Example: e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705\Win98MENT Where "e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705\Win98MENT" is the designation of the " b57w2k.sys " on your Bonus CD. 8. BroadCom Ethernet driver installation finish.
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Page 114: Install Lan Driver In Windows Nt 4.0
Verify that the Windows NT system is upgraded with Service Pack 4 or later. Start your Windows NT system and log in. You must have System Administrator privileges to install the driver software. Open the Control Panel. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab Click "Add"... - Page 115 7. When the Select Network Adapter window opens, click "Have Disk"..8. When prompted, insert the driver installation media, or choose a location to install the driver from. Type the path to the driver, and click "OK". For example, to install the adapter driver software for Windows NT, type D:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705 in the Insert Disk location box (where is the designation of the LAN driver on Bonus CD) 9.
- Page 116 The adapter files are installed, and then the Network window is displayed showing the newly installed adapter Click "Close", then the Microsoft TCP/IP Properties window appears. Configure the TCP/IP protocol and click "OK". When prompted to restart your computer, click "Yes".
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Page 117: Installing Usb 2.0 Driver
* Windows 2000 Installation Guide *************************************************** Installing Drivers During Windows 2000 Installation *************************************************** The following details the installation of the USB 2.0 driver while installing Windows 2000 (with the USB 2.0 controller is enabled already). 1. After enabling the USB 2.0 controller, install Windows 2000 normally. 2. - Page 118 12. Type "[CD-ROM]:\Driver\Intel\USB2.0\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press " OK ". 13. Click on "Next." A message informing you that Windows has found "Intel PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller - ICH5" should appear. 14. Click on "Next," and then on "Finish."...
- Page 119 ************************************************* Installing Driver in Existing Windows 2000 System ************************************************* After enabling the USB 2.0 controller and rebooting your system, Windows 2000 setup will show a "New Hardware Found" dialog box. Under Windows 2000, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" will be displayed. 1.
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Page 121: Glossary
Basically, AC97 CODEC is the standard structure of PCI sound card. As we know, computer is digital-based, but music is based on analog-based. Therefore, there must be a process to turn digital into analog during the last stage processing of sound in computer. -
Page 122: Agp (Accelerated Graphic Port)
The main function of AGP simply put is to tell monitor what screen information had to be shown, a visual transmission device actually. With the rapid developing of AGP card, we can see that it had been developed from single colorful AGP card to 2D and 3D graphic. -
Page 123: Bios (Basic Input/Output System)
DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz/s Ultra DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 2 = 33MB/s. ATA/66, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 4 = 66MB/s. ATA/100, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 6 = 100MB/s. ATA/133, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 8 = 133MB/s. (ATA/133 uses both rising edge and falling edge as ATA/66 but clock cycle time is reduced to 30ns.) BIOS, is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM... -
Page 124: Cnr (Communication And Networking Riser)
The CNR specification provides the PC industry the opportunity to deliver a flexible and cost reduced method of implementing LAN, home networking, DSL, USB, wireless, audio and modem subsystems widely used in today's "connected PCs". The CNR specification is an open industry specification and is supported by OEMs, IHV card manufacturers, silicon supplier and Microsoft. DDR RAM utilizes the existing SDRAM (For ex, PC-100, PC-133) infrastructure and technology while doubling the nominal... -
Page 125: Eprom (Erasable Programmable Rom)
Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light. If BIOS has to be upgraded, you need to remove EPROM from motherboard, clear by UV light, re-program, and then insert back. EV6 Bus is the technology of Alpha processor from Digital Equipment Corporation. EV6 bus uses both rising and falling clock edge to transfer data, similar as DDR RAM or ATA/66 IDE bus. -
Page 126: Flash Rom
Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals. It is easier for BIOS to upgrade by a flash utility, but it is also easier to be infected by virus. Because of increase of new functions, BIOS size is increased from 64KB to 512KB (4M bit). Hyper-Threading technology is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. -
Page 127: Parity Bit
The parity mode uses 1 parity bit for each byte, normally it is even parity mode, that is, each time the memory data is updated, parity bit will be adjusted to have even count "1" for each byte. When next time, if memory is read with odd number of "1", the parity error is occurred and this is called single bit error detection. -
Page 128: Post (Power-On Self Test)
The BIOS self-test procedure after power-on, sometimes, it is the first or the second screen shown on your monitor during system boot. PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU. CPU internal clock = CPU PSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio A DRAM technology developed by Rambus Corporation*, to achieve high speed of memory through the use of multiple channels in parallel by 16-bits. -
Page 129: Sata (Serial Ata)
The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome speed limitations while enabling the storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel with the compatibility with existing operating systems and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It is developed with data transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second, and 300M/bs, 600M/bs to come. -
Page 130: Vcm (Virtual Channel Memory)
NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements. VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I/O pins. Using VCM technology results in reduced data access latency and reduced power consumption. -
Page 131: Troubleshooting
If you encounter any trouble to boot you system, follow the procedures accordingly to resolve the problem. Start Turn off the power and unplug the AC power cable, then remove all of the add-on cards and cables, including VGA, IDE, FDD, COM1, COM2 and printer. Make sure if all jumper settings are correct. - Page 132 Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power and check if the power supply and CPU fan work properly. The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure. Next Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing.
- Page 133 Continue Perhaps your VGA card Check if there is display? or monitor is defective. Press <Ctrl> and <Alt> key at the same time, hold them and then press <Del> to reboot the system. It is very possible that your Check if the system keyboard is defective.
- Page 134 Continue During system rebooting, press <Del> to enter BIOS setup. Choose “Load Setup Default”. Turn off the system and re-connect IDE cable. The problem should be Check if the system can caused by the IDE cable reboot successfully? or HDD itself. Re-install the operating system such as Windows XP.
- Page 135 Dear Customer, Thanks for choosing AOpen products. To provide the best and fastest service to our customer is our first priority. However, we receive numerous emails and phone-calls worldwide everyday, it is very hard for us to serve everyone on time. We recommend you follow the procedures below and seek help before contact us.
- Page 136 AOpen eForum is provided to discuss our products with other users, in which your problem probably had been discussed before or will be answered. After log on, you may select your preferred language under “Multi-language”. http://club.aopen.com.tw/forum/ Contact Distributors/Resellers: We sell our products through resellers and integrators. They should know your system configuration very well and should be able to solve your problem efficiently and provide important reference for you.
- Page 137 The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label. You can find this bar code label on the outside packing, or on component side of PCB. For example: Part No. Serial No. P/N: 91.88110.201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number.
- Page 138 Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AX4SG WLAN R1.00 June. 1. 2003 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc.
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Page 139: Product Registration
Be able to join the discussions of web-based news groups. AOpen makes sure that the information you provide is encrypted, so that it cannot be read or intercepted by other people or companies. Further, AOpen will not disclose any of information you submitted under any conditions. Please consult our... - Page 140 Please do not hesitate contact us if you have any problem about our products. Any opinion will be appreciated. Pacific Rim Europe America AOpen Inc. AOpen Computer b.v. AOpen America Inc. Tel: 1-510-498-8928 Tel: 886-2-3789-5888 Tel: 31-73-645-9516 Fax: 886-2-3789-5899 Email: Support@AOpen.NL...