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Page 1: Ax4Sg-Gn
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
’ ’ AX4SG-GN ..............................1 What’s in this manual................................2 You Must Notice..................................8 Before You Start..................................9 Overview....................................10 Feature Highlight ..................................11 Quick Installation Procedure ..............................15 Motherboard Map ................................... 16 Block Diagram ..................................17 Hardware Installation ..........................18 About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ................. 19 CPU Installation .................................. - Page 3 AC Power Auto Recovery................................ 32 IDE and Floppy Connector..............................33 Serial ATA Supported ................................35 Connecting Serial ATA Disk..............................36 Front Panel Connector................................39 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot........................ 40 Support USB 2.0 Ports................................41 Color Coded Back Panel................................. 42 Front Audio Connector ................................
- Page 4 AOpen “Watch Dog ABS”................................ 54 STBY LED and BOOT LED..............................55 AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED..........................56 Battery-less and Long Life Design ............................57 Resetable Fuse..................................58 Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ..............................59 Low ESR Capacitor................................. 60 EzClock ....................................61 AOConfig Utility ..................................
- Page 5 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ............................. 78 Installing LAN Driver in Windows 98/ME/2000/XP........................79 Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98/SE..........................82 Glossary ..............................87 AC97 CODEC..................................87 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ......................... 87 ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) ..........................87 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) .............................
- Page 6 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................91 FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................91 Flash ROM ..................................... 92 Hyper Threading ..................................92 IEEE 1394 ....................................92 Parity Bit ....................................93 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ..........................93 PDF Format .................................... 93 PnP (Plug and Play)................................93 POST (Power-On Self Test) ..............................
- Page 7 Wireless LAN – 802.11b................................96 ZIP file ....................................96 Troubleshooting .............................97 Technical Support..........................101 Product Registration..........................104 How to Contact Us..........................105...
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Page 8: You Must Notice
All of the specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without notice. AOpen reserves the right to revise this publication and to make reasonable changes. AOpen assumes no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual, including the products and software described in it. -
Page 9: Before You Start
This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved in format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD or you can get free download from Adobe web... -
Page 10: Overview
Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor ® featuring the Intel 865G chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AX4SG-GN motherboard supports Intel Socket 478 ® Pentium 4 1.6GHz~3.06GHz. It supports 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock and... -
Page 11: Feature Highlight
® ® Supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.06GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset Intel 865G is a Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) designed for use with the Pentium 4 processor with 512-KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron processor. -
Page 12: Expansion Slots
132MB/s. Of five PCI slots provided, all of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. AX4SG-GN motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card. The... -
Page 13: Lan Port
IDE interface, while providing a lower pin count and higher performance. The ICH5 SATA interface supports data transfer rates up to 150MB/s. On-board AC’97 Sound AX4SG-GN uses Realtek AC97 CODEC Realtek ALC202A sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. - Page 14 Eight USB 2.0 Ports Provides six ports on the back panel and one USB 2.0 connector on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. S/PDIF Connector S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is the newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio.
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Page 15: Quick Installation Procedure
This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. Installing CPU and Fan Installing System Memory (DIMM) Connecting Front Panel Cable Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable Connecting ATX Power Cable Connecting Back Panel Cable Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default Setting CPU Frequency Reboot... -
Page 16: Motherboard Map
Motherboard Map AC’97 CODEC Colored Back Panel AUX-IN Connector COM2 Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper S/PDIF Connector SYSFAN2 Connector Game Port Connector 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector Resetable Fuse Low ESR Capacitors IrDA Connector ATX Power Connector AGP 8x Expansion Slot Front Audio Connector supports ADD card 478-pin CPU socket (Northwood) -
Page 17: Block Diagram
Dual Channel DDR400/333/266 SDRAM Up to 2GB 32-bit PCI Slot x5 DIMM Socket x2 PCI Bus SATA 1 2 Serial ATA Ports 533/800MHz 150MB/s System Bus Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 SATA 2 Intel AGP bus 865G ATA 66/100 Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary... -
Page 18: Hardware Installation
This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard. Note: 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 19: About "User Upgrade Optional" And "Manufacture Upgrade Optional
When you read this online manual, you may notice that some of the functions are marked as “User Upgrade Optional” or “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. Although all of AOpen’s motherboards have included many amazing and powerful features, sometimes not every user is familiar with these powerful features. -
Page 20: Cpu Installation
® This motherboard supports Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 series CPU (Northwood). Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket. 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for mark on the CPU upper interface. 1. - Page 21 3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation. CPU cut edge Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you may damage the CPU. Note: This socket supports FC-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel.
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Page 22: Hyper Threading Technology
What is Hyper-Threading? Hyper-Threading technology is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, an average improvement of ~40% in CPU resource utilization yields higher processing throughput. - Page 23 For multiprocessor-capable software applications, the Hyper-Threading based processor is considered two separate logical processors on which the software applications can run without modification. Also, each logical processor responds interrupts independently. first logical processor track software thread, while the second logical processor tracks another...
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Page 24: Cpu Fan Installation
This motherboard comes with a retention module attached on the CPU socket when shipped, we strongly recommend you to install AOpen special designed CPU Fan as shown below on the retention module for better heat dissipation. Please install the CPU Fan correctly as the following pictures shown. - Page 25 CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection.
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Page 26: Cpu Over-Current Protection
Note: 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. AOpen cannot guarantee the protection circuit will always work perfectly. -
Page 27: Cpu And System Fan Connector (With H/W Monitoring)
Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN1 connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN2 or SYSFAN3 connector. +12V SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector +12V SENSOR CPUFAN1 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that they cannot support +12V hardware monitoring function. -
Page 28: Full-Range Adjustable Cpu Core Voltage
This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 0.8375V to 1.6V. It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage. BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Bus Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency in BIOS;... - Page 29 CPU Core System Northwood CPU Ratio Frequency Clock Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 100MHz 400MHz Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 133MHz 533MHz Pentium 4 1.7G 1700MHz 133MHz 533MHz Note: Intel 865G chipset doesn’t support Pentium 4 1.8G 1800MHz 100MHz 400MHz Willamette Celeron processors.
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Page 30: Dimm Sockets
This motherboard has two 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel DDR400, DDR333 DDR266 memory up to 2GB. Only non-ECC DDR RAM is supported. Please install suitable modules; otherwise serious damage may occur on memory sockets or you RAM modules. - Page 31 Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation. Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below. 40 pins 52 pins Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place. Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will close-up to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the...
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Page 32: Ac Power Auto Recovery
This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector. Make sure you plug in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to connect the 4-pin 12V ATX connector before connecting the 20-pin ATX power connector and use standard power supply specially designed for Pentium 4 system. -
Page 33: Ide And Floppy Connector
Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDD and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage. Primary Primary Master (1st) Slave (2nd) IDE 1 (Primary) IDE 2 (Secondary) Pin 1 Secondary Secondary Slave (4th) - Page 34 IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 as the secondary channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of four devices. In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must be set differently to Master and Slave mode. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM.
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Page 35: Serial Ata Supported
The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second. However, while ATA has enjoyed an illustrious track record, the specification is now showing its age and imposes some serious design issues on today’s developers, including a 5-volt signaling requirement, high pin count, and serious cabling headaches. -
Page 36: Connecting Serial Ata Disk
To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please be noted that it is a jumper free implement;... - Page 37 Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard does come with the support for the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you have had installed them on, the problem mainly lies in the BIOS setting.
- Page 38 If you intend to change the default setting, simply press Enter for a list of selection: Disabled: You may choose this item if you’re sure that only traditional IDE hard disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item may also cancel the detection to Serial ATA hard disk during POST, which theoretically, could speed up your boot-up timing for a little bit;...
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Page 39: Front Panel Connector
Attach the power LED, Keylock, speaker, power and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode. Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing. It is 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. -
Page 40: Agp (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot
AX4SG-GN provides an 8x slot. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 4X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. AGP is now moving to AGP 8x mode, which is 66MHz x 4bytes x 8 =2.1GB/s. -
Page 41: Support Usb 2.0 Ports
This motherboard provides eight 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There is one USB connector on the board for you to connect two USB devices and six other ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect USB devices from back panel or connect the front USB connector to the front panel of chassis. -
Page 42: Color Coded Back Panel
The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. USB 2.0 SPP/EPP/ECP RJ-45 LAN PS/2 Mouse Ports... -
Page 43: Front Audio Connector
If the housing has been designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. By the way, please remove the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if your housing doesn’t have an audio port on the front panel. -
Page 44: Support 10/100Mbps Lan Onboard
On the strength of Realtek LAN, which is a highly integrated platform LAN connect device, it provides 10/100Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link mode, it lights in yellow whenever linking to network. -
Page 45: S/Pdif (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a latest audio transfer file format that provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog. Normally there are two S/PDIF outputs as shown, one for RCA connector, the most common one used for consumer audio products, and the other for optical connector with a even better audio quality. -
Page 46: Irda Connector
The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module. With this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows 98 Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps). -
Page 47: Com2 Connector
This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper left of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis. Pin 1 DCD# SOUT DTR# DSR#... -
Page 48: Game Port Bracket Supported
This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard. Joystick Module (User Upgrade Optional) Pin1... -
Page 49: Cd Audio Connector
This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. CD-IN Connector Note: Though some of the latest versions of Windows support “Digital Audio” through IDE bus. However, in order to use Open Jukebox player, which is driven under BIOS, it is a MUST to connect audio cable to CD-IN connector on the motherboard. -
Page 50: Aux-In Connector
This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound. AUX-IN Connector... -
Page 51: Case Open Connector
The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function works, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or by the opening of the chassis, the system will beep to inform you. -
Page 52: Jp14 Clear Cmos Data
You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin1 &... -
Page 53: Jp28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-Up Jumper
This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function. You can use JP28 to enable or disable this function, which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse. The factory default setting is set to “Disable” (1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3. -
Page 54: Aopen "Watch Dog Abs
“ ” “ ” AOpen provides a special and useful feature on this motherboard for overclockers. When you power-on the system, the BIOS will check last system POST status. If it succeeded, the BIOS will enable “Watch Dog ABS” function immediately, and set the CPU FSB frequency according to user’s settings stored in the BIOS. -
Page 55: Stby Led And Boot Led
Both STBY LED and BOOT LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard. This is a convenient indication for you to check the system power status in many circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode. -
Page 56: Agp Protection Technology And Agp Led
With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this motherboard implements a blend new technology to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over-voltaging of AGP card. When AGP Protection Technology is implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Please note that if you install a AGP card with 3.3V, which is not supported by Intel Springdale chipset, the AGP LED on the motherboard will light up to warn you the... -
Page 57: Battery-Less And Long Life Design
This Motherboard implements a Flash ROM and a special circuit that provide you no batter power consumption of current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations. The RTC (real time clock) can also keep running as long as the power cord is plugged. If you lose your CMOS data by accident, you can just reload the CMOS configurations from Flash ROM and the system will recover as usual. -
Page 58: Resetable Fuse
Traditional motherboard uses fuses to prevent Keyboard and USB port from over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that when it is broken (function to protect motherboard), user cannot replace them and result in malfunction of motherboard. With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function even after the fuse had done its protection job. Resetable Fuse... -
Page 59: Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink
Cool down CPU and Chipset are important for system reliability. Enlarged aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption especially when you are trying to over-clock the CPU. -
Page 60: Low Esr Capacitor
CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, AX4SG-GN implements 3300 F capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500 F) and it provides... -
Page 61: Ezclock
But from now on, you don’t have to surfer the boring stuffs anymore. With brand-new and user-friendly EzClock that AOpen specially designs for his users, you can adjust those important values as you please and think of suitable. This... - Page 62 How You Adjust the Settings in EzClock Utility In EzClock utility, you can adjust CPU Front Side Bus (FSB), the voltage and frequency of VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM. Besides, the CPU related information such as CPU voltage, temperature and CPUFAN rotation speed will also be displayed on this utility. On the left circle area shows Ratio, FSB and frequency information CPU Color Bars: The color bar will...
- Page 63 On the bottom rectangular panel represents CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature. The three color bars on the right hand side will light on according to operation temperature. Please refer to the picture shown above. CPU Color Bars: CPU Fan, Voltage and Temperature: The color bars will light on representing CPU fan speed, CPU...
- Page 64 How Your Boot Screen Looks Like After you finish setting BIOS, these setting values will be displayed on the boot screen like the shown picture here. Every time you boot your system, both default and current settings will pop up on the screen. Your personal settings that had been adjusted earlier will be highlighted;...
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Page 65: Aoconfig Utility
Moreover, AOConfig allows users to save information in *.BMP or *.TXT format which users may collect the system information in detail and send them to AOpen directly for technical support or for further diagnose of system problems. 1. The system page shows the... - Page 66 .bmp or .txt format. NOTE: AOConfig can be used under Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP. Please also note that AOConfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard. Before running AOConfig, all applications must be closed.
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Page 67: Phoenix-Award Bios
Most BIOS settings of AX4SG-GN have been optimized by AOpen’s R&D engineering team. But, the default setting of BIOS still can’t fine-tune the chipset controlling entire system. Therefore, the rest of this chapter intends to guide you the process of configuring your system setup. -
Page 68: How To Use Phoenix-Award™ Bios Setup Program
Phoenix-Award BIOS setup program. Alternatively, it's strongly recommended to install AOpen’s newest WinBIOS Utility to get more detailed description, further powerful functions and advanced setting of BIOS. Description Page Up or + Changing setting to next value or increase the value. -
Page 69: How To Enter Bios Setup
After you finish jumper settings and connect correct cables, power on and enter the BIOS Setup. Press <Del> during POST (Power-On Self Test) and choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance. Warning: 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 70: Winbios Utility
DEL key at a good timing during POST (Power-On-Self-Test) screen to get into the BIOS, which is inconvenient and clumsy. From now on, AOpen provides an easier way to configure your BIOS. WinBIOS is a customized utility for running exclusively on AOpen motherboards, which allows you to setup your BIOS under Windows environment. - Page 71 For the latest WinBIOS profile and language pack modules, you may find them from AOpen official web site as shown below: (http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/download/WinBIOS/default.htm) Note: Due to BIOS versions are updated in an extremely fast speed, it's strongly recommended to download the latest BIOS...
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Page 72: Bios Upgrade Under Windows Environment
Windows 95/98, 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP. In the meanwhile, in order to provide a much more user-friendly operating environment, AOpen EzWinFlash is natively designed to have multi-language function to provide easier way for users’ usage in changing BIOS setting. - Page 73 1. Download the new version of BIOS package file from AOpen official web site. (ex: http://www.aopen.com) 2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WAX4SGGN102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WAX4SGGN102.EXE & WAX4SGGN102.BIN.
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Page 74: Vivid Bios Technology
POST screen! Unlike earlier graphic POST screen which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during POST. With this innovative design, VividBIOS now brings you a beautiful and sleek 256 colours screen without missing any important information shown on POST screen. -
Page 75: Driver And Utility
There are motherboard drivers and utilities in AOpen Bonus CD. You don’t need to install all of them to boot your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows XP) before you install any drivers or utilities. -
Page 76: Installing Intel ® Chipset Software Installation Utility
® ® ® The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility should be installed onto the target system and the Windows * INF files outline the operating ® system how the chipset components will be configured. It is recommended that the Intel Chipset Software Installation utility be installed onto the target system prior to the installation of other drivers. -
Page 77: Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver
You can install Intel Extreme graphic driver to get the best graphics function of the chipset. You can find it in the Bonus Pack CD. -
Page 78: Installing Onboard Sound Driver
This motherboard comes with AC97 CODEC. This audio driver supports Windows 98SE and upper Windows OS; you can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu. -
Page 79: Installing Lan Driver In Windows 98/Me/2000/Xp
This motherboard integrates Realtek Ethernet Chip. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu. - Page 80 Install LAN Driver in Windows 95 Introduction: ------------- This document describes the procedure to install Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A, OSR2, Windows NT v4.0 driver for Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter. [Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A and OSR2] Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95 : ----------------------------------------------------- 1.
- Page 81 3. In the Network Settings dialog box, choose the "Add Adapter" button. The Add Network Adapter dialog box appears. 4. In the list of network cards, select "<other> Requires disk from manufacturer", and then press <Enter> button. 5. Enter drive and pathname [CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\NT (for NT 4.0) which is the path where the setup file OEMSETUP.INF is located, and then choose the OK button.
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Page 82: Installing Usb 2.0 Driver In Windows 98/Se
This motherboard supports USB2.0. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu. - Page 83 Windows 2000 Installation Guide *************************************************** Installing Drivers During Windows 2000 Installation *************************************************** The following details the installation of the USB 2.0 driver while installing Windows 2000 (with the USB 2.0 controller is enabled already). 1. After enabling the USB 2.0 controller, install Windows 2000 normally. 2.
- Page 84 Choose the "Driver" tab in the "Properties" window, choose "Update Driver," and then press "Next." Choose "Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)". from the list, and then press "Enter". 10. Choose "Specify a location." and then press "Next" 11.
- Page 85 13. Click on "Next." A message informing you that Windows has found "Intel PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller - ICH5" should appear. 14. Click on "Next," and then on "Finish."...
- Page 86 ************************************************* Installing Driver in Existing Windows 2000 System ************************************************* After enabling the USB 2.0 controller and rebooting your system, Windows 2000 setup will show a "New Hardware Found" dialog box. Under Windows 2000, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" will be displayed. 1.
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Page 87: Glossary
Basically, AC97 CODEC is the standard structure of PCI sound card. As we know, computer is digital-based, but music is based on analog-based. Therefore, there must be a process to turn digital into analog during the last stage processing of sound in computer. Hence, the component on sound card that play this important task is what we called CODEC. -
Page 88: Agp (Accelerated Graphic Port)
The main function of AGP simply put is to tell monitor what screen information had to be shown, a visual transmission device actually. With the rapid developing of AGP card, we can see that it had been developed from single colorful AGP card to 2D and 3D graphic. -
Page 89: Bios (Basic Input/Output System)
Ultra DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 2 = 33MB/s. ATA/66, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 4 = 66MB/s. ATA/100, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 6 = 100MB/s. ATA/133, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 8 = 133MB/s. (ATA/133 uses both rising edge and falling edge as ATA/66 but clock cycle time is reduced to 30ns.) BIOS, is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM... -
Page 90: Cnr (Communication And Networking Riser)
The CNR specification provides the PC industry the opportunity to deliver a flexible and cost reduced method of implementing LAN, home networking, DSL, USB, wireless, audio and modem subsystems widely used in today's "connected PCs". The CNR specification is an open industry specification and is supported by OEMs, IHV card manufacturers, silicon supplier and Microsoft. DDR RAM utilizes the existing SDRAM (For ex, PC-100, PC-133) infrastructure and technology while doubling the nominal... -
Page 91: Eprom (Erasable Programmable Rom)
Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light. If BIOS has to be upgraded, you need to remove EPROM from motherboard, clear by UV light, re-program, and then insert back. EV6 Bus is the technology of Alpha processor from Digital Equipment Corporation. EV6 bus uses both rising and falling clock edge to transfer data, similar as DDR RAM or ATA/66 IDE bus. -
Page 92: Flash Rom
Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals. It is easier for BIOS to upgrade by a flash utility, but it is also easier to be infected by virus. Because of increase of new functions, BIOS size is increased from 64KB to 512KB (4M bit). Hyper-Threading technology is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. -
Page 93: Parity Bit
The parity mode uses 1 parity bit for each byte, normally it is even parity mode, that is, each time the memory data is updated, parity bit will be adjusted to have even count "1" for each byte. When next time, if memory is read with odd number of "1", the parity error is occurred and this is called single bit error detection. -
Page 94: Post (Power-On Self Test)
The BIOS self-test procedure after power-on, sometimes, it is the first or the second screen shown on your monitor during system boot. PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU. CPU internal clock = CPU PSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio A DRAM technology developed by Rambus Corporation*, to achieve high speed of memory through the use of multiple channels in parallel by 16-bits. -
Page 95: Sata (Serial Ata)
The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome speed limitations while enabling the storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel with the compatibility with existing operating systems and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It is developed with data transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second, and 300M/bs, 600M/bs to come. -
Page 96: Vcm (Virtual Channel Memory)
NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements. VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I/O pins. Using VCM technology results in reduced data access latency and reduced power consumption. -
Page 97: Troubleshooting
If you encounter any trouble to boot you system, follow the procedures accordingly to resolve the problem. Start Turn off the power and unplug the AC power cable, then remove all of the add-on cards and cables, including VGA, IDE, FDD, COM1, COM2 and printer. Make sure if all jumper settings are correct. - Page 98 Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power and check if the power supply and CPU fan work properly. The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure. Next Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing.
- Page 99 Continue Perhaps your VGA card Check if there is display? or monitor is defective. Press <Ctrl> and <Alt> key at the same time, hold them and then press <Del> to reboot the system. It is very possible that your Check if the system keyboard is defective.
- Page 100 Continue During system rebooting, press <Del> to enter BIOS setup. Choose “Load Setup Default”. Turn off the system and re-connect IDE cable. The problem should be Check if the system can caused by the IDE cable reboot successfully? or HDD itself. Re-install the operating system such as Windows XP.
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Page 101: Technical Support
Dear Customer, Thanks for choosing AOpen products. To provide the best and fastest service to our customer is our first priority. However, we receive numerous emails and phone-calls worldwide everyday, it is very hard for us to serve everyone on time. We recommend you follow the procedures below and seek help before contact us. - Page 102 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 eForum: We welcome you to join AOpen eForum to discuss our products with other users. Your problem probably had been discussed before or will be answered by other power users here. http://club.aopen.com.tw/forum/...
- Page 103 Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AX4SG-GN R1.00 Jun. 1. 2003 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AX4SG-GN is model name of motherboard, R1.00 is BIOS version.
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Page 104: Product Registration
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Page 105: How To Contact Us
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