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Thanks for purchasing AOpen's AX5TC motherboard. This Guide will help you installing the
system. Following figure shows the location of the jumpers and connectors on this motherboard:
Printer connector
COM2 connector
SB-Link connector
JP14: Clear CMOS
WKUP connector
Panel connector
LAN WKUP connector
FDC connector
AX5TC implements many special features as following:
Full-range CPU core voltage This motherboard supports the CPU core voltage from 1.3V to
3.5V, that can be applied to various CPU type in future.
Suspend to Hard Drive This function saves your work to HDD and resumes within a short time.
Zero Voltage Modem Wake Up Through this feature, it is possible to have system totally power
off and wakeup to automatically answer a phone call, such as answering machine or to
send/receive fax.
Over-current Protection CPU Vcore over-current protection to prevent any accident short circuit.
CPU Thermal Protection Warning when CPU temperature is higher than a predefined value.
CPU Fan Monitoring The system will alarm CPU fan malfunction to prevent CPU overheat.
System Voltage Monitoring This design will monitor your system working voltage continuously.
Switching Regulator High efficient switching regulator for future CPU.
75/83.3MHz External Clock
clock. Please note that it is user's risk to do over-clocking.
PCI Sound Card connector If you have a Creative-compatible PCI sound card, it is necessary to
link the card to this connector for compatibility issu under DOS environment.
Note: This Quick Installation Guide is only for quick reference. For more information,
please see the User's manual.
Setting CPU Core Voltage
The switch 4-8 of SW1 is used to select CPU core voltage.
Vcore
3.52V
3.45V
3.2V
2.9V
2.8V
2.2V
Quick Installation Guide
For user's convenience, AX5TC supports 75/83.3MHz external
S4
S5
S6
ON
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
OFF
OFF
ON
ON
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
ON
OFF
~1
~
COM1 connector
Keyboard connector
PS/2 mouse connector
USB connector
PER2 ATX Power connector
JP6, JP5, JP4: CPU external clock
IDE2 primary channel
IDE1 primary channel
SW1: DIP Switch for CPU voltage
and clock ratio
S7
S8
CPU
ON
OFF
6x86/K5
ON
OFF
P54C/IDT C6
ON
OFF
K6-233
ON
OFF
K6-166/200 or M2
ON
OFF
P55C
OFF
OFF
K6-266/300
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Summary of Contents for AOpen AX5TC
- Page 1 Quick Installation Guide Thanks for purchasing AOpen's AX5TC motherboard. This Guide will help you installing the system. Following figure shows the location of the jumpers and connectors on this motherboard: Printer connector COM1 connector COM2 connector Keyboard connector PS/2 mouse connector...
- Page 2 SENSE, which periodically sends fan signal out. Warning: It is recommended to adopt a larger fan on PP/MT-233 or AMD K6 for better air flow in the system. Refer to AOpen's web site (http://www.aopen.com.tw) to choose a proper CPU fan.
- Page 3 The most important break through is not only external box modem but also internal modem card can be used to support Modem Wake Up. AX5TC and MP56 internal modem card implement special circuit to make sure the modem card work properly without any power.
- Page 4 When CPU temperature is higher than a predefined value, the CPU speed will automatically slow down and the PC speaker will beep. To work with this feature, AOpen software team also develope an Hardware Monitor Utility, which could help you monitor the CPU temperature and voltage.
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