AOpen I865PEA7ILFR User Manual
AOpen I865PEA7ILFR User Manual

AOpen I865PEA7ILFR User Manual

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Table of Contents ................................................................................... 1
1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................4
1.2 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................5
1.3 Safety Information ......................................................................................5
Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................... 6
2.1 How does your motherboard look like?...........................................................6
2.2 Specification ...............................................................................................7
2.3 Block Diagram ............................................................................................8
Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............................................................... 9
3.1 Quick Installation Procedure .........................................................................9
3.2 Installation You Have to Know..................................................................... 10
Installing CPU ...........................................................................................10
Installing CPU Fan .....................................................................................11
Connecting CPU and System Fans ...............................................................12
Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................13
Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel............................................14
Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................15
Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................16
Connecting ATX Power Cables .....................................................................17
3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 18
Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................18
Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................19
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................20
Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot ..............................................................22
Connecting IrDA........................................................................................23
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents ................... 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start............4 1.2 Features of This Manual ................5 1.3 Safety Information ..................5 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ..........6 2.1 How does your motherboard look like?............6 2.2 Specification ....................7 2.3 Block Diagram ....................8 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ...............
  • Page 2 Connecting USB2.0..................25 Connecting 1394 (for i865PEa-7 ILFR/IF & i865Ga-7IF only)......26 Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect ..............27 Connecting Front Audio ................28 Connecting Game Port ................29 Connecting COM2 (for i865Ga-7IF/IL) ............30 Connecting CD_IN ..................31 Connecting Case Open ................32 Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) ........33 Colored Coded Back Panel (for i865PEa-7 ILFR/IF) ........34 Colored Coded Back Panel (for i865Ga-7IF) ..........35 Colored Coded Back Panel (for i865Ga-7IL) ..........36...
  • Page 3 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers ..............51 6.1 Installing Drivers..................52 6.2 Installing Utilities ..................53 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..............54 Chapter 8 Technical Support ..............55 Model Name and BIOS Version..............56 Register Your Motherboard .................56 Technical Support..................57...
  • Page 4: A Thank-You Note Before You Get Start

    We regret not informing about any changes in usage standards and other related information. AOpen reserves the right of altering or modifying the content of this manual. In case of any mistakes or incorrect descriptions, which include those on the products, AOpen makes no guarantee or commitments.
  • Page 5: Features Of This Manual

    1.2 Features of This Manual To help you grab the useful information of this motherboard and aware of certain conditions that you might need to know, you will see the icons below frequently: Note This contains knowledge you should know in process of assembling, or some helpful tips.
  • Page 6: Chapter 2 Introduction To This Motherboard

    Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? 1. Resetable Fuse 17. Front Audio Connector 2. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 18. S/PDIF Connector 3. 4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector 19.
  • Page 7: Specification

    2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models I865PEa-7 ILFR/IF I865Ga-7 IL/IF I800Pa-7I Intel LGA775 CPU Intel LGA775 CPU Intel LGA775 CPU Socket T Socket T Socket T 533/800MHz 533/800MHz 533/800MHz Intel 865PE/ICH5R (ILFR) Intel 865G/ICH5 Intel 848P/ICH5 Chipset Intel 865PE/ICH5 (IF) Dual Channel Mode DDR...
  • Page 8: Block Diagram

    2.3 Block Diagram 32-bit PCI Slots PCI Bus Intel LGA775 100MB/s Serial ATA Ports 533/800MHz 33/66/100 System Bus IDE Drives x 4 VGA Onboard Intel 865PE/ 865G/848P AGP bus RealTek chipset AGP 8X AC97 CODEC AGP 8X Slot (i865Ga series support ADD card) DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel RAM Up to 4GB DIMM Sockets x4...
  • Page 9: Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

    Chapter 3 Hardware Installation Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure 12. Installing Drivers & 1. Installing CPU Utilities 11. Installing Operating System 2. Installing CPU (such as, Windows Fan & System Fan 10. Loading Default BIOS, Setting CPU 3.
  • Page 10: Installation You Have To Know

    3.2 Installation You Have to Know Installing CPU This socket supports FC-LGA4 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in. Pull CPU socket lever and plate up. Remove plastic cap from CPU socket plate.
  • Page 11: Installing Cpu Fan

    Installing CPU Fan Gently put down the CPU fan on CPU socket with four sticks aiming correctly to the four mounting holes. Mounting Mounting hole hole Press down four fixing sticks into the holes one by one. Make sure the sticks are firmly fixed into the holes.
  • Page 12: Connecting Cpu And System Fans

    Connecting CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 4-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug chassis fan in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. +12V SENSOR SYSFAN1 Connector +12V SENSOR CPUFAN Connector +12V SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector Note: Some CPU fans...
  • Page 13: Installing Memory Modules

    Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in Navy Blue and Electronic Blue which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place. Pin 1 Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will clip to hold the...
  • Page 14: Maximum The Performance Of The Dual Channel

    Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel To obtain the highest performance of Dual Channel, the configuration of DIMM must meet the following conditions. Matched DIMM configuration in each channel ● Same density (128MB~1GB) ● Same DRAM bus width (x8 or x16) ●...
  • Page 15: Connecting Ide And Floppy Cables

    Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables Connect the 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage. Secondary Secondary Master (3rd) Slave (4th) FDD Connector Pin 1 IDE 2 (Secondary) IDE 1 (Primary)
  • Page 16: Connecting Front Panel Cable

    Connecting Front Panel Cable Attach the power LED, speaker and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode. Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing, which is a 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel.
  • Page 17: Connecting Atx Power Cables

    Connecting ATX Power Cables This motherboard comes with a 24-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector as shown below. Make sure you plug them in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to insert the 4-pin connector before connecting the 20-pin connector. +12V +12V Ground...
  • Page 18: Other Installation For Your Reference

    3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency Setting CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports Voltage ID (VID) function to detect CPU voltage automatically during power-on and the range is from 0.8375V to 1.6V. It’s not necessary to set CPU core voltage. Setting CPU Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design;...
  • Page 19: Connecting Serial Ata

    Connecting Serial ATA 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 20: Adjusting Your Hard Disk Setting

    Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard supports the latest serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after having them installed, the problem may lie in the BIOS setting.
  • Page 21 If you desire to change the default setting, press Enter for selection list: Disabled: You can choose this item if there are only traditional IDE hard disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item will also cancel the detection of serial ATA hard disks during POST, which will theoretically speed up your boot-up time a little bit;...
  • Page 22: Connecting Agp 8X Expansion Slot

    Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot This motherboard provides an AGP 8X slot, a sky blue slot having the latest AGP specification on motherboard. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 4X AGP, and the data transfer rate could achieve 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s.
  • Page 23: Connecting Irda

    Connecting IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports both HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps).
  • Page 24: 10/100/1000Mbps Lan Supported (For Ilfr & Il Series Only)

    10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported (for ILFR & IL series only) On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller on board, i865PEa-7ILFR & i865Ga-IL motherboard provide 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on the top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link mode;...
  • Page 25: Connecting Usb2.0

    Connecting USB2.0 This motherboard provides eight USB2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are four ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel.
  • Page 26: Connecting 1394 (For I865Pea-7 Ilfr/If & I865Ga-7If Only)

    Connecting 1394 (for i865PEa-7 ILFR/IF & i865Ga-7IF only) With IEEE1394 Chip on board (AGERE 1394), having its data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, this interface can connect to devices that require high data transferring performance such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices.
  • Page 27: Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect

    Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC850 CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high quality of audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. This motherboard provides 7.1 Channel ports shown as below. Picture represents the standard location of all speakers in 7.1 Channel sound tracks.
  • Page 28: Connecting Front Audio

    Connecting Front Audio If the housing is 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.
  • Page 29: Connecting Game Port

    Connecting Game Port 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 (User Upgrade Optional)
  • Page 30: Connecting Com2 (For I865Ga-7If/Il)

    Connecting COM2 (for i865Ga-7IF/IL) i865Ga-7IF/IL provides two serial ports. One is on back panel connector, and the other is on-board connector. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis. Pin 1...
  • Page 31: Connecting Cd_In

    Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
  • Page 32: Connecting Case Open

    Connecting Case Open The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, 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 33: Connecting S/Pdif (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)

    Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through a specific audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital output.
  • Page 34: Colored Coded Back Panel (For I865Pea-7 Ilfr/If)

    Colored Coded Back Panel (for i865PEa-7 ILFR/IF) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, COM2 port, Printer, USB, 1394, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. IEEE RJ45 Rear SUR...
  • Page 35: Colored Coded Back Panel (For I865Ga-7If)

    Colored Coded Back Panel (for i865Ga-7IF) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, 1394, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. IEEE RJ45 Rear SUR...
  • Page 36: Colored Coded Back Panel (For I865Ga-7Il)

    Colored Coded Back Panel (for i865Ga-7IL) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. RJ45 Rear SUR PS/2 Mouse...
  • Page 37: Colored Coded Back Panel (For I800Pa-7I)

    Colored Coded Back Panel (for i800Pa-7I) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, COM2 port, Printer, USB, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. RJ45 Rear SUR PS/2 Mouse...
  • Page 38: Led Indication

    LED Indication LED indication including Standby AGP LED, Boot LED and Standby LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. AGP LED aims to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over voltage 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.
  • Page 39: Jumper Settings

    3.4 Jumper Settings JP28 Keyboard / Mouse This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse Wakeup Jumper wake-up function. Disable Enable (Default) JP28 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper Normal Clear CMOS (default) JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below.
  • Page 40: Chapter 4 Special Features And Utilities

    RAID introduction, please visit website: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/RAID.htm Arouse RAID Function in BIOS 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 OnChip IDE Device On-Chip Serial ATA”...
  • Page 41: Pbe - Performance Boost Engine

    PBE – Performance Boost Engine Configuring Intel 865PE/865G chipset, the performance of this motherboard had been uplifted by implementing PBE Technology (Performance Boosting Engine). Acting as similar as PAT in uplifting the system performance, PBE enables users to optimize the accessing speed and quality between CPU and Memory. Theoretically speaking, CPU must go through some standard paths to access memory.
  • Page 42: Silenttek - Noise Is Gone

    Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored to bring you a new overall solution, SilentTek, to make your system quiet. To collocate with hardware circuit, BIOS and the utility under Windows, SilentTek combines “Hardware-Status Monitoring”,...
  • Page 43 The first image you have here is Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages here and set your expected margins of warning level. You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here. In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you can get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis.
  • Page 44 Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting of SilentTek and can be used for any branded computer housing. With a special algorithm developed by AOpen, the fan speed is automatically adjusted by the parameters of CPU and ambient temperature which is ease-of-use and trouble free at your service.
  • Page 45: Other Useful Features

    Other Useful Features With excellent design ability of R&D team, AOpen boasts for its various powerful and handy features that come with our product like follows. You are welcomed visit technical website learn more about those features. http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside...
  • Page 46: Chapter 5 Setting Bios

    AOpen’s R&D engineering team had optimized most BIOS settings of this motherboard. However, some default settings of BIOS cannot fine-tune those sections that controlled by chipset. Therefore, this chapter is intended to guide you and help you to configure some other settings.
  • Page 47: How To Use 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. Description Page Up or + Change setting to next value or increase the value. Page Down or - Change setting to previous value or decrease value.
  • Page 48: Bios Upgrade Under Windows Environment

    BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinFlash. With an eye to convenience for users, EzWinFlash combines the BIOS binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on the utility you downloaded from web and let it help you complete the flash process automatically.
  • Page 49 STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all applications before you start the upgrades. Download the latest version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (Ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw/) Unzip the downloaded BIOS package (ex: WSGMAXII102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment.
  • Page 50: Vivid Bios Technology

    Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful...
  • Page 51: Chapter 6 Installing Drivers

    Click and done. Yes. EzInstall makes installation easy and even foolproof! After putting in the CD, you will be prompted with AOpen welcome page and our branches information. First, click on the install driver ICON at left side for necessary drivers.
  • Page 52: Installing Drivers

    6.1 Installing Drivers As you may see from the Installing driver page, EzInstall had picked up necessary for your motherboard. All you have to do is just click on the “GO”, and no more steps afterward, of all listed drivers, grey checks indicate necessary drivers; you cannot click them off.
  • Page 53: Installing Utilities

    6.2 Installing Utilities Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilities to manage your system. You may find lots of fabulous utilities listed there, and all you have to do is to click on the “GO”, then it will install the utilities to your system right away without complicated steps.
  • Page 54: Chapter 7 Troubleshooting

    Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting...
  • Page 55: Chapter 8 Technical Support

    Gold Member of Club AOpen so as to ensure quality service in the future. In order to maintain the best service to every customer of us, we recommend you to follow the procedures below and seek help from our branches according to the region you buy the product.
  • Page 56: Model Name And Bios Version

    Gold member of Club AOpen, and to ensure high service quality and priority from AOpen. You will also have a chance to play slot machine game to win prize from AOpen. Please prepare the following information before you start: Model Name, Part Number (P/N), Serial Number (S/N) and Purchase Date.
  • Page 57: Technical Support

    Technical Support...

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