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  • Page 2: Hardware Installation

    ..............................1 What’s in this manual ..............................2 You Must Notice ................................8 Before You Start................................9 Overview ..................................11 Feature Highlight................................12 Quick Installation Procedure ............................15 Motherboard Map ................................16 Block Diagram................................17 Hardware Installation........................19 About “Optional” and “Upgrade Optional”… ........................20 Clear CMOS Data .................................
  • Page 3 ATX Power Connector ..............................36 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up ............................37 Power and RAM Power Indicate LED ..........................38 AC Power Auto Recovery.............................. 39 IDE and Floppy Connector ............................40 IrDA Connector ................................42 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector......................43 WOL (Wake on LAN)..............................

  • Page 4: Award Bios

    Resettable Fuse ................................60 Year 2000 (Y2K)................................61 Low ESR Capacitor ............................... 62 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ..........................64 Driver and Utility ..........................65 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ..........................66 Eliminate “?” mark from Windows 95/98 ........................67 Installing Onboard AGP Driver ............................
  • Page 5 AC97 ..................................... 83 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ....................... 83 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ........................... 83 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................84 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ..............................84 APM (Advanced Power Management)........................... 84 ATA (AT Attachment) ..............................84 ATA/66 ..................................84 ATA/100 ..................................
  • Page 6 EV6 Bus ..................................88 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ........................... 88 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)..........................88 Flash ROM ..................................88 FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ............................89 C Bus ..................................89 IEEE 1394 ..................................89 Parity Bit ..................................89 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)..........................
  • Page 7 SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ......................... 92 SMBus (System Management Bus) ..........................93 SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ............................93 Ultra DMA ..................................93 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ............................94 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)............................. 94 ZIP file ..................................94 Troubleshooting..........................95 Technical Support ...........................
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  • Page 19 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 When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
  • Page 23 If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it may damage the CPU.
  • Page 25               supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage...
  • Page 28   !         supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.   If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use <Home> key to restore the default setting (433MHz)
  • Page 29 This motherboard support CPU  " #$!  auto-detection function. Hence, you    "  $!  don’t need to setup the CPU frequency by manual.       ...
  • Page 30  supports maximum 133MHz Bus and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
  • Page 31 Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
  • Page 32 The driving capability of new generation chipset is limited due to the lack of a memory buffer (to improve performance). This makes DRAM chip count an important factor to take into consideration when you install DIMMs. Unfortunately, there is no way that the BIOS can identify the correct chip count;...
  • Page 34 The tabs of the DIMM slot will close-up to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom.
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  • Page 38 Do not install or remove the DIMM module when the RAM power LED is lighting.
  • Page 41 For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device master mode follow suggested sequence to install your new device. Please refer to above diagram achieve best performance Ultra DMA 66/100 hard disks, a special Ultra 66/100 is required.
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  • Page 55: Front Panel Audio Connector

    Please remove the jumper cap from the Front Panel Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if housing without an audio port on the front panel.
  • Page 58 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.
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  • Page 65 Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows...
  • Page 68   If you are using Windows95, you should install DCOM95 patch from the Bonus Pack auto-run menu first, before you install AGP driver.
  • Page 69 Installing this ATA/100 IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure.
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  • Page 75 "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled. Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend to disk. Please refer to AOpen web site for latest update...

  • Page 76: Award Bios

      Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard.
  • Page 77 AOpen always dedicates to give users a more friendly computer system. Now, we include all function descriptions of BIOS setup program into the BIOS Flash ROM. When you select one function of BIOS setup program, the function description will appeared at right side of screen. Hence, you don’t need read this manual while you changing the BIOS setting.
  • Page 78 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 79 AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are designed to be compatible with the Award BIOS. At the date of this note, AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are not available for AMI BIOS. AMI BIOS appears mostly only on old 486 boards and some early Pentium boards.

  • Page 80: Bios Upgrade

    The new BIOS upgrade will permanently replace your original BIOS's settings and PnP information when flashing. You may need to reconfigure your BIOS setting and re-install Win95/Win98 as well as your add-on cards, so that your system can go back to work as normal.

  • Page 81: Overclocking

    ! ! ! !     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   Note that overclocking may also system or important data.
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  • Page 102 If registering products purchased from different dealers/retails and/or purchased on different dates, please submit a separate form for each product.
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