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² This device may not cause harmful interference, and ² This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
Thanks for purchasing AP0 motherboard. This user’s manual contains all the information and features that show you how to use the AP0 motherboard. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the design and organization of this manual. Manual Features...
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I. PRODUCT INFORMATION The package includes: One AP0 Motherboard One Floppy Interface Cable One IDE Interface Cable One CD Title including Bus Master IDE Driver and Utilities One User’s Manual 1-3 Motherboard Specification Form Factor -MICRO-ATX form factor Board Size...
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CPU fan, housing fan or system fan is malfunction -Voltage monitor-Warning when system voltage (5V, 12V, 3.3V, VCORE) are abnormal -CPU and system thermal monitor-Warning when CPU and system temperature is higher than a predefined value Power -Supports ATX (20-pin) power connector Connector AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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-Flash/Upgrade BIOS protection -Supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and OS Directed Power Management -Supports SOFT power -Virus warning supported -Floppy drive swapping function supported LED Indicator -System power LED -HDD activity LED Other -Support two FAN connectors AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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I. PRODUCT INFORMATION 1-4 Motherboard Layout AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Printer (Parallel) Port Connector (25-pin female) PRINTER Joystick Connector (15-pin female) JOYSTICK CD Audio Line in (4-pin male ) CD1/CD2 Sound port Connector (Line out / Line in / MIC in) SOUND ATX Motherboard Power Connector (20-pin block) ATX POWER AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Reset Switch Connector (2 pins) RESET SMI Connector (2 pins reserved) HDD LED Connector (2 pins) HDD LED ATX Power Switch Connector (2 pins) PWR ON ATX Power LED Connector (3 pins) PWR LED Keyboard Lock Switch Connector (2 pins) KBLCK AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
2. Short JP12 at pin 2-3 for few seconds. 3. Set JP12 back to its Normal position at pin 1-2. 4. Plug the AC power cord to the chassis. 5. Power on the system and load the BIOS setup default. AP0 USER'S MANUAL...
CPU. Align this corner towards the end of the lever as shown in the figure below. Insert the CPU, press it down, and close the lever until it locks into place AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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CPU. Find the jumpers labeled JP19 and JP6~8. Set the jumpers according to the figure below and table for CPU frequency. JP19 JP6, JP7, JP8 JP6/JP7/JP8/JP19: CPU External Frequency Setup Table JP19 CPU (MHz) S: short, O: open AP0 USER'S MANUAL...
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Warning : Normally, Aladdin Pro II Chipset supports 66MHz/100MHz CPU Clock Frequency, the other CPU Clock Frequency are available only for internal test or end- user over-clocking testing, which may cause your system unstable or serious damage. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
Reset SMI Switch Connector (2 pins Reserved) HDD LED Connector (2 pins) HDD LED Power ON Switch Connector (2 pins) PWR ON Power LED ATX Power LED Connector (3 pin) Keyboard Lock Switch Connector (2 pins) Keylock AP0 USER'S MANUAL...
ATX Power Connector 2-2.3 Fan Connectors Connect the CPU and Chassis Fan cables to the fan connectors shown below. The fan connectors are marked as CPUFAN and CHAFAN on the mainboard. Fan Connector CPUFAN SENSE +12v CHAFAN AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
2-2.4 PS/2 Mouse Connector Connect the PS/2 mouse to the onboard 6-pin Mini-Din connector marked as MOUSE. PS/2 Mouse 2-2.5 Keyboard Connector Connect the PS/2 keyboard to the onboard 6-pin Mini-Din connector marked as KB. PS/2 Keyboard AP0 USER'S MANUAL...
Connect your USB device(s) to the onboard USB connector marked as USB. Top: USB1 Bottom: USB2 2-2.7 Serial Device(COM1/COM2) Connectors Connect your serial device(s) to the onboard 9-pin serial connectors marked as COM1 and COM2. COM1 COM2 AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
II.HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2-2.8 Printer Connctor Connect your local printer to the onboard 25-pin printer connector marked as PRINTER. PRINTER 2-2.9 Floppy Drive Connector Connect the floppy drive cable to the onboard 34-pin floppy drive connector marked as FDD. AP0 USER'S MANUAL...
Each IDE channel, either Primary or Secondary, supports two IDE devices which must be set differently to master mode and slave mode. (Refer to your hard disk and CD-ROM user’ s manual for detailed settings of IDE master and slave mode.) AP0 USER’S MANUAL 2-10...
IRTX 2-2.12 Game/Audio Connector Connect the Game/Audio devices to the onboard connector marked as Joystick/Line in/Line out/MIC in. Connect the audio cable to the onboard marked as CD1/CD2/AUX. (J7: This jumper ENABLE/DISABLE the ONBOARD SOUND FUNCTION) AP0 USER'S MANUAL 2-11...
II.HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2-2.13 Wake on LAN Connector This mainboard supports wake up on LAN function. To use this function, you need a Wake on LAN supported network card and software. Wake on LAN Description +5V Standby Signal AP0 USER'S MANUAL 2-13...
-10 =10ns, and the maximum clock is 100MHz -8 = 8ns, and the maximum clock is 125MHz -7 = 7ns, and the maximum clock is 142MHz PC-100 = New Intel specification for high memory speed With 100MHz or above CPU Bus Clock. AP0 USER’S MANUAL 2-14...
2-3.4 2-clock and 4-clock signal Both 2-clock and 4-clock SDRAM DIMM supported by this mainboard. 2-3.5 Parity and Non-parity This mainboard supports standard 64 bit (Non-parity) and 72 bit (Parity) DIMM modules. AP0 USER'S MANUAL 2-15...
F10:Save & Exit Setup (Shift)F2:Change Color Onboard I/O, IRQ, DMA Assignment The main menu displays a table of items, which defines basic information about your system. Below are the keyboard function keys you can use under the menu. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
Menu function keys: E S C To close the BIOS Setup Utility. ↑ ↓ ← → To move around the screen. An item is highlighted if it is selected. To displays information about the highlighted item you selected. S H I F T + F 2 To Change the color scheme.
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HDD over than 528MB and do not support LBA mode. - LBA Note: We recommend that you set both IDE HDD TYPE - LARGE and MODE to AUTO to let BIOS automatically detect the hard disk drives for you. Default: Auto AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Ø Floppy à Drive A Ø Floppy à Drive B Drive A / B: Select the floppy drive type installed in your system. - None The available options for Drive A and Drive B are: - 360KB - 5.25" 360KB 5.25” , 1.2MB 5.25” , 720KB 3.5” , 1.44MB 3.5” , - 1.2MB - 5.25"...
- Enabled BIOS will halt the system and the error message will - Disabled appear, if necessary, you will be able to run an anti-virus program to locate and remove the problem before any damage is done. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Ø CPU Internal Cache/External Cache CPU Internal These two categories speed up memory access. However, it depends on CPU/chipset design. Cache/External default value is enable. Cache: - Enabled - Disabled Ø Quick Power-on Self-test Quick Power-on This item can be used to start operating system Self-test: quickly by skip some normal POST checking items.
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A20. Ø Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate To Enable or Disable the speed of keyboard to send Setting: repeat keystrokes. - Enabled - Disabled AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Ø Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Rate: This item provides typematic rate setting, which allows you to control the repeated keystroke speed. - 10 - 12 - 15 - 20 - 24 - 30 Ø Typematic Delay (Msec) Typematic Delay: This item provides typematic delay setting, which allows you control the delay time between the first - 250 and the second keystroke.
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Set Enabled if you know the address that your add on DC000-DFFFF card ROM used to shadow them. If the item is Shadow: Enabled, BIOS will copy the selected area from ROM to RAM to increase system performance. - Enabled - Disabled AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
Chipset Features Setup This section allows you to configure the system based on the specific features of the installed chipset. This chipset manages bus speeds and access to system memory resources, such as DRAM and the external cache. It also coordinates communications between the conventional ISA bus and the PCI bus.
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You can set the speed of the AT bus in terms of a fraction of the CPU clock speed (PCLK2), or at the - 7.16MHz fixed speed of 7.16 MHz. - CLK2/2 - CLK2/3 - CLK2/4 - CLK2/5 - CLK2/6 AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-11...
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Ø ECC / EC Option ECC / EC Option: You could select the option of ECC (error-correcting code) / EC (error checking) for memory. - No ECC/EC - ECC ON - EC ON Ø Local In-Order-Queue Depth Local In-Order- You could select the depth of the Internal IOQ (In- Queue Depth: Order-Queue) buffer.
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Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS Cacheable: ROM at C0000h to C7FFFh, resulting in better video performance. However, if any program writes to this - Enabled memory area, a memory access error may result. - Disabled AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-13...
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Ø AGP Aperture Size (MB) AGP Aperture Size Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port (MB): (AGP) aperture. The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics - 16 MB memory address space. Host cycles that hit the - 32 MB aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any - 64 MB...
PU/PD/+/-: Modify F5: Old Values (Shift) F2:Color F6: Load BIOS Defaults F7: Load Setup Defaults Ø ACPI Function ACPI Function: This item allows you to enable/disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI). - Enabled - Disabled AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-15...
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Ø Power Management Power This item allows you to set the default parameters Management: of power-saving modes. Set to Disable to disable power management function. Set to User Define to - Max Saving define your own parameters. - Mix Saving - User Define - Disabled Ø...
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CPU clock will run at slower speed - Disabled while all other devices still operate at full speed. - 1 Min..15 Min - 20 Min - 30 Min - 40 Min - 50 Min - 1 Hour Ø Standby Mode AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-17...
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Standby Mode: When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the fixed disk drive and the video would be - Disabled shut off while all other devices still operate at full - 1 Min..15 Min speed. - 20 Min - 30 Min - 40 Min - 50 Min...
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- Enabled - Disabled Ø RTC Alarm Function RTC Alarm When Enabled, you can set the date and time at Function: which the RTC (real-time clock) alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode. - Enabled - Disabled AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-19...
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Ø WakeUp Date (of Month) WakeUp Date (of This item displayed only when you enable the RTC Wake Up Timer item. Month): You can use this item to specify the date you want to wake up the system. For Example, if you set to 18, the system will wake up on the 18th day of every - ..
95, BIOS will bypass PnP device initial except of boot device (VGA/IDE or SCSI) and PnP operating system will do these PnP devices resource allocation. If this item is set to No, BIOS will handle all PnP devices. AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-21...
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Ø Resources Controlled By Resources Basically, BIOS will allocate the IRQ/DMA resources Controlled by: automatically for these PNP/PCI and onboard devices. The exception might be encountered when - Auto legacy ISA devices are installed, which occupies - Manual resources that BIOS can not know. Therefore, this option is for BIOS to know in advance that IRQ/DMA is occupied by legacy ISA devices if Manual is selected.
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This sets the method by which the PCI bus recognizes that an IRQ service is being requested by a device. Under all circumstances, you should retain - Level the default configuration unless advised otherwise by - Edge your system’ s manufacturer. AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-23...
Load BIOS Defaults ROM PCI/ISA BIOS(2A6KL00B) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP W83783S Hardware Monitor BIOS FEATURES SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP PASSWORD SETTING POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT Load BIOS Defaults (Y/N)? N LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS SAVE &...
"Chipset Features Setup" to get proper setting to get the best system performance. Before changing any settings in the "Chipset Features Setup", be sure that you understand the functions of every item. AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-25...
W83783S Hardware Monitor This option allows you to configure the W83783S Hardware Monitor features. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS(2A6KL00B) W83783S Hardware Monitor AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. CPU Warning Temperature : 40C/104F Current System Temp. : 23C/75F Current CPU1 Speed : 21C/69F Current CPUFAN1 Speed : 0 RPM Current CPUFAN2 Speed : 0 RPM...
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Current CPU/System Temperature Current Indicate the temperature of current CPU/System. CPU/System Temperature: Ø Current CPUFAN1/2 Speed Current Indicate the speed of current CPUFAN 1 / CPUFAN CPUFAN1/2 Speed: 2.On Ø Shutdown Temperature Shutdown Select the Shutdown temperature. Temperature: AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-27...
3-10 Integrated Peripherals This option allows you to configure the I/O features. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS(2A6KL00B) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. On-Chip Primary IDE : Enabled Onboard UART Port 1 : 3F8/IRQ4 Master PIO : Auto Onboard UART Port 2 : 2F8/IRQ3 Slave PIO : Auto UART2 Mode...
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If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives - Enabled do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the - Disabled optimal number of block read/writes per sector the drive can support AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-29...
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Ø On-Chip USB Controller On-Chip USB Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Controller: Serial Bus (USB) controller - Enabled - Disabled Ø USB Keyboard Support USB Keyboard Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Support: Serial Bus (USB) controller and you have a USB keyboard - Disabled - Enabled...
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-2E8/IRQ3 -3E8/IRQ4 -2F8/IRQ3 - Disabled - Auto Ø UART 2 Mode UART 2 Mode: Select an operating mode for the second serial port. - IrDA The choice: IrDA, Normal, ASK IR. - Norma - ASK IR AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-31...
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Ø Half Duplex time-out Half Duplex time-out: Half-duplex mode permits transmission in one direction only at a time - Enabled - Disabled Ø Onboard Parallel Port Onboard Parallel This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which I/O address Port: - 378/IRQ7 - 278/IRQ5...
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Ø IR IRQ Select IR IRQ Select: You could select the IRQ for the IR. - IRQ3, - IRQ4, - IRQ10 - IRQ11 Ø IrDA Mode IrDA Mode: Select the IrDA mode. - IrDA1.0 - IrDA1.1 AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-33...
3-11 Password Setting Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before boot or access to Setup, the steps as follows, Highlight the item Password Setting on the main menu and press ENTER. The password dialog box will appear.
When the Save and Exit dialog box appears, press Y to save and exit, or press N to return to the setup main menu. 3-14 Exit without Saving Use this option to exit Setup Utility without saving the CMOS value changes. AP0 USER’S MANUAL 3-35...
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“OK”. Now, system is installing device drivers automatically. After a while, the system will finish the installation includes the following device drivers. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Select “Devices” page, and press “Add” button. Select “Unlisted or Updated Driver” item in “List of Drivers”. Specify the drive and the path where NT drivers are in (such as D:\NT40\DRV). Select “C-Media CM8338” item and press “OK” button. Select proper I/O value. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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“D:\NT40\APP\SETUP.EXE” 14. Click “OK” to start the installation procedure, and follow the on-screen instructions to finish the installation. When all of application software have been installed, shut down the Windows NT system, and then reboot your system. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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By means of a user-friendly interface(as easy as operating your home stereo system), this PCI audio rack provides you with the control over your PC’s audio functions, including the advantage of four speakers mode enable/ disable, and perfect digital sound ( SPDIF ) input / output control. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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MIDI Player, Wave Player, and CD Player CD Player (above, similar to Wave Player and MIDI Player) Sel (or Trk) field: If you have multiple selections in your playlist, this shows the number of the current selection or CD track. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Input and Output Level Sliders and Buttons: For each input or output signals type, the control slider controls the loudness whereas the horizontal slider controls the balance between the two speakers. The mute button temporarily stops input or output without changing slider positions. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...
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Mute Buttons: Toggle between muting and enabling the signal. A button with a lit LED is enabled, and when it is not lit, it means it is mute. Several output signals can usually be enabled at once. AP0 USER’S MANUAL...