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What’s in this manual........................2 You Must Notice........................... 8 Before You Start .......................... 9 Quick Installation Procedure ...................... 10 Motherboard Map ........................11 Block Diagram ........................... 12 .................. 13 JP14 Clear CMOS ........................14 JP21 FSB Select Jumper ......................15 CPU Socket and Fan Connector ....................
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ATX Power Connector........................ 25 IDE and Floppy Connector......................26 IrDA Connector .......................... 29 System / CPU Thermal Solution....................30 WOL (Wake on LAN) ......................... 31 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................... 33 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ....................34 Support 4 USB Ports........................35 Front Audio ..........................
Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)....................47 Driver and Utility ..................48 Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ................... 49 Installing Windows 95 ........................ 50 Installing Windows 98 ........................ 51 Installing Windows 98 SE & Windows2000 ................52 Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver......................53 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ....................
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AC97 ............................74 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..............74 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ....................75 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ......................75 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ......................75 APM............................75 ATA/66 ............................76 ATA/100 ............................. 76 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)..................... 76 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode).....................
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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.
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When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
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Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
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VIA ProSavage™KM133 / KM133A chipset supports maximum 133MHz/200 DDR Bus and 66MHz AGP clock with CPU running at 100 MHz ® (If CPU runs at 133MHz, VIA ProSavage™ KM133A chipset can supports 133MHZ/200 DDR and 66 MHz AGP clock only), clock setting may cause serious system damage.
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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. Otherwise, serious component damage may occur.
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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.
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To achieve the best performance of Ultra DMA/66/100 hard disks, a special ! for Ultra DMA/66/100 is required.
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Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows...
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Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure. If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver, please remove the AGP card driver first. Otherwise, the screen may go black at rebooting after the un-installation.
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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.
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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.
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Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
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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. Please be sure to view the README compressed inside the BIOS package before upgrading, and follow upgrade instructions carefully.
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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.
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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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