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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards

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  • Page 1: Aopen I865 Family Motherboards

    AOpen i865 Family Motherboards DOC. NO.:AX4SGUL-OL-E0309A...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    What’s in this manual ..................................2 You Must Notice .................................... 8 Before You Start .................................... 9 Overview ..................................... 10 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Comparison Table......................... 11 Feature Highlight ..................................12 Quick Installation Procedure ............................... 17 Motherboard Map ..................................18 Block Diagram ..................................... 19 Hardware Installation ........................
  • Page 3 CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ......................34 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper............................ 35 DIMM Sockets ..................................... 36 ATX Power Connector................................. 38 AC Power Auto Recovery................................38 IDE and Floppy Connector ................................39 Serial ATA Supported .................................. 41 Connecting Serial ATA Disk................................. 42 Front Panel Connector ................................
  • Page 4 COM2 Connector ..................................57 CD Audio Connector..................................58 AUX-IN Connector..................................59 Case Open Connector................................. 60 STBY LED (Standby LED) and BOOT LED ..........................61 Resetable Fuse ................................... 62 Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ..............................63 Low ESR Capacitor ..................................64 PBE – Performance Boosting Engine (for AX4SG and AX4SPE series) ..................65 The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek..............................
  • Page 5 ® Installing Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility........................84 Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver (only for AX4SG-U, AX4SG-UL and AX4SG-UN) ............85 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ..............................86 Installing Gigabit LAN Driver (for AX4SG-UL, AX4SPE-UL and AX4SPB-UL) ................. 87 Installing Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN Driver in Win98SE/2000/XP (for AX4SG-UN, AX4SPE-UN and AX4SPB-UN) ....98 Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98SE/ME........................
  • Page 6 EV6 Bus ....................................110 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)............................110 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................110 FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................110 Flash ROM ....................................111 Hyper Threading..................................111 IEEE 1394 ....................................111 Parity Bit ....................................112 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus..........................112 PDF Format ....................................
  • Page 7 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) ..............................115 Wireless LAN – 802.11b ................................115 ZIP file ....................................... 115 Troubleshooting ..........................116 Technical Support..........................120 Product Registration........................124 How to Contact Us........................... 125...

  • Page 8: 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 9: 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...

  • Page 10: Overview

    ATX form factor featuring the Intel 865G chipsets (for AX4SG series), Intel 865PE chipsets (for AX4SPE series) and Intel ® 848P chipsets (for AX4SPB series). As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AOpen i865 Family motherboard supports Intel ®...

  • Page 11: Aopen I865 Family Motherboards Comparison Table

    Please always refer to this page to see the functions of your model. Dual Support Series Model Chipset Channel Slots ADD card AX4SG-U Intel 865G AX4SG Series AX4SG-UL Intel 865G 10/100/1000 Mbps AX4SG-UN Intel 865G 10/100Mbps AX4SPE-U...

  • Page 12: Feature Highlight

    ® ® Supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.20GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset Intel 865 chipset 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 8X/4X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. Of five PCI slots provided, all of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. AOpen i865 Family motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed.
  • Page 14 Watch Dog ABS Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail the system overclocking. 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 100~400MHz by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and helps your system get maximum performance.
  • Page 15 On-board AC’97 Sound AOpen i865 Family motherboard uses RealTek AC’97 CODEC Realtek ALC655 chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Eight USB 2.0 Ports Provides four ports on the back panel and two USB 2.0 headers on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.
  • Page 16 SilentTek Combines “Hardware-Status Monitoring”, “Overheat Warning” and “Fan Speed Control” with user-friendly interfaces to provide a perfect balance among noises, system performance and stability. Enhanced ACPI ® Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) and S5 features.

  • 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 Reboot...

  • Page 18: Motherboard Map

    Motherboard Map Realtek Gigabit LAN chip (for -UL series) Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN chip (for -UN series) Colored Back Panel 4Mb Flash ROM BIOS Onboard AC’97 CODEC JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper Front Audio Connector ATX Power Connector 32-bit PCI Expansion Slots x5 4-pin 12V.

  • Page 19: Block Diagram

    For AX4SPB series, it only has two slots and support 2GB maximum in Single Channel DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel 32-bit PCI Slots x5 RAM Up to 4GB DIMM Sockets x4 PCI Bus SATA 1 Serial ATA Ports x2 400/533/800MHz System Bus Socket 478 150MB/s Intel Pentium 4...

  • 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: 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 23 Claret: Serial ATA connector Power Switch ACPI & Power LED IDE LED SPEAKER Navy Blue: IDE 1 Connector RESET Black: IDE 2 Connector Note: Colors setting varies on different motherboards; the color setting here applies only to AOpen i865 Family Motherboards.

  • Page 24: 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 25: 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 26 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 27: Cpu Fan Installation

    This motherboard comes with a retention module attached on the CPU socket when shipped, we strongly recommend you to install AOpen special designed CPU Fan as shown below on the retention module for better heat dissipation. Please install the CPU Fan correctly as the following pictures shown.
  • Page 28 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.

  • Page 29: 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 30 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.

  • Page 31: 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 32: Full-Range Adjustable Cpu Core Voltage

    This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 0.8375V to 1.6000V. It is not necessary to set 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 33 CPU Core System Northwood CPU Ratio Frequency Clock Pentium 4 1.7G 1700MHz 133MHz 533MHz Pentium 4 1.8G 1800MHz 100MHz 400MHz Pentium 4 2.0G 2000MHz 100MHz 400MHz Note: Intel 865G/PE and 848P chipset only Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 100MHz 400MHz support Northwood processors.

  • Page 34: Cpu And System Fan Connector (With H/W Monitoring)

    The fan Connectors are painted in white in EzColor. Please plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. +12V SENSOR SYSFAN1 Connector +12V SENSOR SENSOR...

  • Page 35: 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 36: Dimm Sockets

    For AX4SG and AX4SPE series, the motherboard has four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel DDR400, DDR333 DDR266 memory up to 4GB. For AX4SPB series motherboard, it only has two DDR DIMM sockets and support maximum up to 2GB in Single Channel mode.
  • Page 37 Note: Please pay attention to the Blue slots. To run dual Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation. channel speed, you should insert the RAM in the slot of Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below. DIMM A1 and DIMM B1 or DIMM A2 and DIMM B2.

  • Page 38: Atx Power Connector

    This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector in flame red. 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. The IDE 1 connector is painted in navy blue; the IDE 2 connector and FDD connector are painted in Black. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
  • 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.

  • 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

    You will find the claret serial ATA connectors in motherboard easily. 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.
  • 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;...

  • Page 45: Front Panel Connector

    The pins of Front Panel Connector are painted in different colors with their respective functions. Please attach the power LED, speaker, power and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins matched in same colors. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI &...

  • Page 46: Agp (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot

    AOpen i865 Family Motherboards provides an 8X slot, a sky blue slot which has the latest AGP specification in motherboard. 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.

  • 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 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. Please note that if you install a AGP card with 3.3V, which is not supported by Intel 865 chipset, the AGP LED on the motherboard will light up to warn you the...

  • 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: Support 10/100/1000 Mbps Lan Onboard

    On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller (-UL series) or Realtek 10/100Mbps LAN controller (-UN series) on board, this motherboard provides 10/100 Mbps (for Gigabit LAN, it is 10/100/1000 Mbps) Ethernet for office and home use. To –U series motherboards, they do not support LAN onboard.

  • Page 50: Support Usb 2.0 Ports

    This motherboard provides eight 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are two USB headers on the board for you to connect two USB devices and four 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 51: 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, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. RJ45 10/100/1000 LAN Jack SPP/EPP/ECP (for –UL and –UN PS/2 Mouse...

  • Page 52: 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 53: Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect

    This motherboard comes with an ALC655 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 ALC655, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any external module.

  • Page 54: Wake On Modem / Wake On Lan / Wake On Pci Card

    s motherboard implements special circuit to support Wake On Modem, Wake On LAN and Wake On PCI Card. Green PC suspend mode does not really turn off the system power supply, it can be triggered by Modem, LAN or Other PCI Cards and resume back to active.

  • Page 55: 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 56: 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. Joystick Module (User Upgrade Optional) Pin1...

  • Page 57: 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 58: 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 59: Aux-In Connector

    This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound. AUX-IN Connector...

  • Page 60: 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 61: Stby Led (Standby 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 62: 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.

  • Page 63: 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 64: Low Esr Capacitor

    CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, AOpen i865 Family motherboards implements 2200μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power.

  • Page 65: Pbe - Performance Boosting Engine (For Ax4Sg And Ax4Spe Series)

    – – Configuring Intel 865 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 enable users to optimize the accessing speed and quality between the CPU and Memory.

  • Page 66: The 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...
  • Page 67 The first image you have here is the Voltage Status page. In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the current You can find current status of all voltages and set your temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis. Also, expected margins of warning level.
  • Page 68 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.

  • Page 69: Ezclock

    But from now on, you don’t surfer the boring stuffs anymore. 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 70 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 71 On the bottom rectangular panel represents CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature. The three color bars on the right hand 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.
  • Page 72 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;...

  • Page 73: 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 74 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...

  • Page 75: 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 76 .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.

  • Page 77: Phoenix-Award Bios

    Most BIOS settings of AOpen i865 Family motherboards 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 78: How To Use Phoenix-Award™ Bios Setup Program

    ™ ™ Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, then press <Enter> key to select, and use the <Page Up> and <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™...

  • Page 79: 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 80: 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’...
  • Page 81 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: WSGUL102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WSGUL102.EXE & WSGUL102.BIN.

  • Page 82: 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 83: 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 84 ® ® 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 85 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 86: Ac'97 Codec

    This motherboard comes with AC’97 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 87 Install LAN Driver in Windows 98SE Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" Insert the supplied "Bonus CD" Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller” Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab. Select "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now. (Recommended)"...
  • Page 88 Select "Specify a location", and type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that appears. Press “Next". System will ask you to provide the file path for loading driver, please type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that appears. Press “OK". System will ask you to insert "Windows 98 CD-ROM".
  • Page 89 Driver installed. Restart computer. Confirming Windows 98 Installation.
  • Page 90 Install LAN Driver in Windows ME Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" Insert the supplied "Bonus CD" Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller” Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab. Select "Specify the location of the driver (Advanced)". Choose "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now.
  • Page 91 Confirming Windows ME Installation. Confirming Windows ME Installation.
  • Page 92 Install LAN Driver in Windows NT 4.0 In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab. Click "Add" to install a new adapter. All previously installed drivers are listed under Network Adapters. When the Select Network Adapter window opens, click "Have Disk"..
  • Page 93 Restart computer. Confirming Windows NT Installation...
  • Page 94 Install LAN Driver in Windows 2000 Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " Right click "Ethernet Controller ", and then select "Properties". Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab.
  • Page 95 Select "Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)" Select "Specify a location", and then click "Next". Type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press " OK". Driver installed. Confirming Windows 2000 Installation.
  • Page 96 Install LAN Driver in Windows XP Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " Right click "Ethernet Controller ", then select "Update Driver". Select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)", and then Click "Next". Choose "Search for the best driver in these locations", and then select "Include this location in the search:".
  • Page 98 This motherboard integrates Realtek 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Chip. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
  • Page 99 Install LAN Driver in Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A and OSR2 Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ask you to select which driver you want to install, select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". 2. Specify the setup file pathname [CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\95\WIN95A (for Windows 95 and Win95A) or [CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\95\W95OSR2 (for Windows 95 OSR2).
  • Page 100 Install LAN Driver in Windows NT 3.5, 3.51 & 4.0 Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows NT: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you are in Windows NT: 1. In the Main group of NT, select the "Control Panel" icon. 2. In the Control Panel window, choose the "Network" icon. 3.
  • Page 101 8. "Bus Location" display in next screen. Your machine contains more than one hardware bus; please select the Bus Type and Bus number on which your network adapter card is installed. 9. NT will then perform the binding process. If any additional network software options were installed, you may be prompted for specific information for these packages.
  • Page 102 This motherboard comes with USB 2.0. You can find the driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
  • Page 103 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 105 ********************************************************* 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.
  • Page 106 ’ ’ Basically, AC’97 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. Hence, the component on sound card that play this important task is what we called CODEC.

  • Page 107: Ata (At Attachment)

    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. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only.

  • Page 108: Bluetooth

    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 Flash...
  • Page 109 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 SDRAM utilizes the existing SDRAM (For ex, PC-100, PC-133) infrastructure and technology while doubling the nominal...
  • Page 110 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 SDRAM or ATA/66 IDE bus.

  • Page 111: 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 bits). 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 112: 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 113 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 114 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.
  • Page 115 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 116 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 117 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 118 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 119 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 120 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 121 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 122 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 123 Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AX4SG-UL R1.00 Sep. 1. 2003 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc.

  • Page 124: 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 online privacy policy further information on our company policy.
  • Page 125 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: 886-2-3789-5888 Tel: 31-73-645-9516 Tel: 1-510-498-8928 Fax: 886-2-3789-5899 Email: Support@AOpen.NL...

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