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  • Page 1 MX3S / MX3SP...
  • Page 2 MX3S / MX3SP ................... 1 What’s in this manual........................2 You Must Notice........................... 9 Before You Start ........................10 Quick Installation Procedure ...................... 11 Motherboard Map ........................12 Block Diagram ........................... 13 Hardware....................14 JP14 Clear CMOS ........................15 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup....................16 CPU Socket and Fan Connector ....................
  • Page 3 Front Panel Connector....................... 26 ATX Power Connector........................ 28 AC Power Auto Recovery ......................29 IDE and Floppy Connector......................30 IrDA Connector .......................... 33 GPO-Connector (General Purpose Output) (Optional) ............... 34 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) ..................35 WOL (Wake on LAN) ......................... 38 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ...................
  • Page 4 Battery-less and Long Life Design ..................... 48 Over-current Protection......................50 Hardware Monitoring........................52 Resettable Fuse......................... 53 Year 2000 (Y2K) ........................54 Low ESR Capacitor........................56 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)....................58 Driver and Utility ..................59 Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ................... 60 Eliminate “?”...
  • Page 5 VGA and HDD ........................... 87 Glossary Glossary ....................88 Glossary Glossary AC97 ............................88 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..............88 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ....................89 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ......................89 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ......................89 APM............................89 ATA/66 ............................90...
  • Page 6 ATA/100 ............................. 90 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)..................... 90 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode)..................... 90 CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ....................91 DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)..................91 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ..................91 EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ..................91 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ..............
  • Page 7 PC133 DIMM ..........................94 PDF Format ..........................94 PnP (Plug and Play)........................94 POST (Power-On Self Test) ....................... 94 RDRAM (Rambus DRAM)......................95 RIMM............................95 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ....................95 SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ..................95 SMBus (System Management Bus) ................... 96 SPD (Serial Presence Detect)....................
  • Page 8 Model name and BIOS version ................105...
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  • Page 14 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. 1.Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2.Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component.
  • Page 15  When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
  • Page 16  You have to wait for system to successfully boot from operation system (such as Windows or DOS) before the Wake-On-Keyboard/Mouse can take effect. This is because the information of how to support this function must be stored into Super I/O Controller and then you can use it for next power on.
  • Page 18 Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
  • Page 20            INTEL i815E / i815EP chipset 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 JP14 to clear CMOS and restore to the default setting.
  • Page 21  This motherboard support       auto-detection function.    Hence, you don’t need to setup !"#$ the CPU frequency by manual.
  • Page 22 ®  Intel i815E / i815EP chipset supports maximum 133MHz Bus and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
  • Page 24  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, you need to calculate the chip count by yourself.
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  • Page 28            For ATX system, there is always a standby current on the motherboard. Please make sure that you have unplugged the ATX power cable from the connector before you insert or pull out any CPU, DIMM, PCI and AGP cards.
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  • Page 31  The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum of 46cm (18 inches), make sure your cable does not exceed this length.  For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device to master mode and follow the suggested sequence to install your new device.
  • Page 32  To achieve the best performance of Ultra DMA/100 hard disks, a special &$"!'( is required.
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  • Page 42 This motherboard implements special technology to support Wake On LAN. To take advantage of this function, you will need to insert an add-on PCI LAN card.
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  • Page 48  For your convenience, this motherboard is still shipped with one Lithium (CR-2032) battery in the battery socket. If you prefer to use battery, you can keep it in the socket. The RTC will still keep running even power cord is removed.
  • Page 51 %& Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human operating mistake, there is still certain risk that CPU, memory, HDD, add-on cards that install on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason. !  '    ( ((   )*...
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  • Page 62 If you are using Windows95, you should install DCOM95 patch from the Bonus Pack auto-run menu first, before you install AGP driver.
  • Page 64 Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure.
  • Page 65 If the New Hardware Found dialog box does not appear at startup and you cannot connect to the network, check the Device Manager list to see if the new adapter is present. If it is not, please install the LAN driver...
  • Page 66 It is recommended that you install the latest Service Pack for Windows NT 4.0, available through Microsoft.
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  • Page 74  " " #$ #$  "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled.
  • Page 75  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.
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  • Page 78  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 81  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.
  • Page 82 ()  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 83 )  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 84  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 86  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.
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