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AX34 ......................1 What’s in this manual........................2 Before You Start .......................... 9 Quick Installation Procedure ...................... 10 Motherboard Map ........................11 Block Diagram ........................... 12 Hardware....................13 JP14 Clear CMOS ........................14 CPU Socket ..........................15 CPU and Housing Fan Connector....................16 CPU Jumper-less Design......................
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Front Panel Connector....................... 26 ATX Power Connector........................ 28 AC Power Auto Recovery ......................29 IDE and Floppy Connector......................30 IrDA Connector .......................... 33 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) ..................34 WOL (Wake on LAN) ......................... 37 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................... 39 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ......................
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Over-current Protection......................48 Hardware Monitoring........................50 Resettable Fuse......................... 51 Year 2000 (Y2K) ........................52 1500uF Low ESR Capacitor....................... 54 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)....................56 Driver and Utility ..................57 Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ................... 58 Installing Windows 95 ........................ 59 Installing Windows 98 ........................
PC99 Back Panel CD Audio Video_Audio_In Modem Audio 1500uF Low ESR capacitor JP12 Onboard Sound VIA 694X Chipset 133MHz FSB Clock Multi-Language BIOS Resettable Fuse Wake on Timer CPU Fan Connector System Voltage & Fan Wakeup on LAN Monitoring ISA Slot (Optional) Jumper-less Design 4X AGP Over-current Protection...
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Clock Generator 66/100/133MHz FSB North Bridge AGP Card VIA 694X DIMM 4X mode 66/100/133 AGP Bus Memory Bus PCI Card ATA/66 or 100 PCI Bus IDE Bus HDD/CDROM South AC97 Link Bridge AMR Card USB, Serial port, Printer and VIA 686A PS2 KB/Mouse (686B for Audio...
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The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your system or important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially CPU, memory, hard disks, and AGP VGA cards. Note that overclocking may also cause thermal problem.
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