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Page 1: Ax45F-1394
AX45F-1394 DOC. NO.: AX45F1394-OL-E0306A... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ................... 19 CPU Installation................................... 20 Hyper Threading Technology ..............................23 CPU Jumper-less Design ................................25 CPU Over-current Protection ..............................26 AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” ................................27 CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ......................31 DIMM Sockets ..................................... 32... - Page 3 Front Panel Connector ................................34 ATX Power Connector................................. 35 AC Power Auto Recovery................................35 IDE and Floppy Connector ................................36 ATA/133 Supported ..................................38 IrDA Connector.................................... 39 Support AGP 8X (Accelerated Graphic Port) Expansion Slot ..................... 40 AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED ..........................41 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector........................
- Page 4 Front Audio Connector ................................54 Dr. LED Connector (User Upgrade Optional) ..........................55 Case Open Connector................................. 57 CD Audio Connector..................................58 AUX-IN Connector..................................59 Game Port Bracket Supported ..............................60 JP2 Speaker Output Jumper ............................... 61 JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................62 JP15/JP16 Dr.
- Page 5 How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program ......................... 81 How To Enter BIOS Setup................................82 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ..........................83 WinBIOS Utility.................................... 85 Vivid BIOS technology................................. 87 Driver and Utility ............................88 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD ..............................88 Installing AGP Driver ...................................
- Page 6 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).............................. 98 Bluetooth ..................................... 98 CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)..........................99 DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM..............................99 ECC (Error Checking and Correction)............................99 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ........................ 99 EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)..........................100 EV6 Bus ....................................100 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)............................
- Page 7 PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ............................103 RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ......................103 RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module)............................ 103 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ..............................103 SATA (Serial ATA)..................................104 SMBus (System Management Bus) ............................104 SPD (Serial Presence Detect)..............................104 USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ..............................
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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
In the performance, it has one AGP slot and supports AGP 8X mode pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2112MB/sec. According to different customer’s requirements, AX45F-1394 supports 400/333/266 RAM up to 3GB maximum. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode. -
Page 11: Feature Highlight
Including six 32-bit/33MHz PCI, one CNR and one AGP 4X/8X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Communication & Networking Riser (CNR) slot provided in AX45F-1394 supports CNR interface for a Modem/Audio card. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed. - Page 12 Watch Dog ABS Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail the system overclocking. 1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment Provides “1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you to adjust CPU FSB frequency from 100~248MHz by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and helps your system get maximum performance.
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Page 13: Agp Protection Technology
66/100/133, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 5, and supports Enhanced IDE devices. On-board AC’97 Sound AX45F-1394 uses RealTek ALC650 AC97 sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Six USB 2.0 Ports Provides four ports on the back panel and one header on board to connect USB 2.0 interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem,... - Page 14 S/PDIF Connectors 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. On-board IEEE 1394 Connectors Comes with two onboard IEEE 1394 (IEEE-1394a-2000) fully compliant cable ports at 100/200/400 Mbs/sec for you to connect IEEE 1394 devices, such as digital camera or other IEEE 1394 storage devices.
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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 Front Audio Connector AUX-IN Connector ALC650 AC’97 CODEC JP15/16 Dr. Voice II JP27 USB/LAN Wakeup Jumper Language Select Jumper PC99 Colored Back Panel Game Port Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup JP2 Speaker output Jumper Jumper CD-IN Connector 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector S/PDIF Connector SYS-FAN2 Connector CNR Expansion Slot... -
Page 17: Block Diagram
DDR400/333/266 RAM Up to 3GB 32-bit PCI Slot x6 DIMM Socket x3 Socket 478 800/533MHz Intel Pentium 4 System Bus PCI Bus SIS 648FX Primary 66/100/133 Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary AGP 8X Slot Channel RealTek AC97 SIS 963 CODEC Realtek RTL8100BL LAN connect Component... -
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 and start to assemble your computer system, 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 (Willamette / 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 Micro-FC-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel.
- Page 22 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.
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Page 23: 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. How Hyper-Threading Works A form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT), Hyper-Threading technology allows multiple threads of software applications to be run simultaneously on one processor... - Page 24 For multiprocessor-capable software applications, 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 can track one software thread, while second logical processor tracks another...
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Page 25: Cpu Jumper-Less Design
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. -
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 guaranty the protection circuit will always work perfectly. -
Page 27: 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 28 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 29 BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Bus Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, and no jumpers or switches are needed. The default setting is "table select mode". You can adjust the FSB from "CPU Bus Frequency" for overclocking. Core Frequency = CPU FSB Clock * CPU Ratio PCI Clock = CPU FSB Clock / Clock Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2...
- Page 30 CPU Core System Willamette CPU Core System Northwood CPU FSB Clock Ratio Ratio Frequency Frequency Clock Pentium 4 2.0G 2000MHz 100MHz 400MHz Pentium 4 1700MHz 100MHz 400MHz 1.7G Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 100MHz 400MHz Pentium 4 1800MHz 100MHz 400MHz 1.8G Pentium 4 2.26G 2260MHz 133MHz...
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Page 31: 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 SYSFAN2 Connector SENSOR Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that they cannot support CPUFAN1 Connector hardware monitoring function. -
Page 32: Dimm Sockets
DDR 266/333/400 RAM in market. However, we strongly motherboard does not support DDR 266 when recommend you to visit our http://www.aopen.com/tech/report/default.htm run in FSB 800.Otherwise, serious damage will to get further information of compatibility before you install RAM in your happen to your motherboard and RAM. - Page 33 AX45F-1394 AX45F-1394 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.
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Page 34: 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 35: Atx Power Connector
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 36: 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. Secondary Secondary Slave (4th) Master (3rd) IDE 2 (Secondary) IDE 1 (Primary) Pin 1 Primary Primary Slave (2nd) - Page 37 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 38: Ata/133 Supported
This motherboard supports ATA66, ATA100 ATA133 IDE devices. Following table lists the transfer rate of IDE PIO and DMA modes. The IDE bus is 16-bit, which means every transfer is two bytes. As the hard drive industry introduces faster and higher capacity hard drives, the current Ultra ATA/100 interface causes a data bottleneck between the drive and the host computer. -
Page 39: 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, the 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 40: Support Agp 8X (Accelerated Graphic Port) Expansion Slot
AX45F-1394 provides an 8x slot which is the latest AGP specification. The AGP 8x calls for the bus to operate at the basic AGP 66-MHz clock frequency and the bandwidth are 2.1Gbytes/s. It is a great improvement on the performance of 3D graphic. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only. -
Page 41: Agp Protection Technology And Agp Led
With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this model 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 SIS648FX, the AGP LED on the motherboard will light up to warn you the possible damage of the... -
Page 42: Wom (Zero Voltage Wake On Modem) Connector
This motherboard implements special circuit to support Wake On Modem; both Internal modem card and external box modem are supported. Since Internal modem card consumes no power when system power is off, it is recommended to use an internal modem. To use internal modem, connect 4-pin cable from RING connector of modem card to WOM connector on the motherboard. -
Page 43: Wom By External Box Modem
Traditional Green PC suspend mode does not really turn off the system power supply, it uses external box modem to trigger MB COM port and resume back to active. Serial Port (Modem Side) Pin 1 Pin 1 Serial Port (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only;... -
Page 44: Wom By Internal Modem Card
With the help of the ATX soft power On/Off, it is possible to have a system totally power off, and wakeup to automatically answer a phone call as an answering machine or to send/receive a fax. You may identify whether or not your system is in true power off mode by checking to see if the fan of your power supply is off. -
Page 45: Wol (Wake On Lan) Connector
To use Wake On LAN function, you must have a network card with chipset that supports this feature, and connect a cable from LAN card to motherboard WOL connector. The system identification information (probably IP address) is stored on network card and because there is a lot of traffic on the Ethernet, you need to install network management software, such as ADM, for the checking of how to wake up the system. - Page 46 WOL Connector (Ethernet Card Side) WOL Connector (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly look the same with the motherboard you purchased.
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Page 47: Support 10/100 Mbps Lan Onboard
The South Bridge SIS963 includes a fast Ethernet controller on chip. On the strength of Realtek 8100BL LAN controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100M bps Ethernet for office and home use, the Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. -
Page 48: Cnr (Communication And Network Riser) Expansion Slot
is a riser card specification to replace the AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) that supports V.90 analog modem, multi-channel audio, and phone-line based networking. Owing to CPU computing power getting stronger, the digital processing job can be implemented in main chipset and share CPU power. The analogy conversion (CODEC) circuit requires a different and separate circuit design, which is put on CNR card. -
Page 49: Support Usb 2.0 Ports
This motherboard provides six ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are four connectors on the back panel and one header on board. You can use proper cables to connect USB devices from back panel or connect USB 2.0 header to the front panel of chassis. -
Page 50: Ieee 1394 Connectors
With IEEE1394 MAC Embedded in SiS 963 (with AGERE FW803), the IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, and USB 1.0/1.1 just has 12Mbps. Hence, the IEEE 1394 interface can connect with the devices that need high data transferring performance, such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. -
Page 51: Colored Back Panel
The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1 and COM2, Printer, USB, and AC97 sound. The view angle of the drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP RJ-45 LAN Parallel Port Connector PS/2 Mouse LINE-IN... -
Page 52: 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 53: Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect
This motherboard comes with an ALC650 Codec which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effect, bringing you a brand new audio experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC650, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any external module. -
Page 54: 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 55: Dr. Led Connector (User Upgrade Optional)
Connecting Dr. LED you can easily find the system problems that may occur while assembling. It can clearly indicate whether the problem is caused from components or improper installation through the 8 LED lights of Dr. LED on the front panel. That is to say you can diagnose your system status quickly. - Page 56 Dr. LED is a CD disc storage box with 8 LEDs on its front panel, the size of Dr. LED is exactly the same as 5.25 in floppy drive, so that it can be mount into normal 5.25 in drive bay of any housing. Floppy Boot O.K.
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Page 57: 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 58: Cd Audio Connector
This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. CD-IN Connector... -
Page 59: Aux-In Connector
This GREEN connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound. AUX-IN Connector... -
Page 60: 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 61: Jp2 Speaker Output Jumper
This motherboard comes with another considerate option that allows you to turn off the voice from buzzer and speaker. You can choose not to be bothered by the warning made from Dr. Voice II when it detects any error in operating system. You may also set JP2 to choose sending out voices from buzzer or speaker. -
Page 62: Jp14 Clear Cmos Data
You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear 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 pin 1 &... -
Page 63: Jp15/Jp16 Dr. Voice Ii Language Select Jumpers
Dr. Voice is a great feature of AX45F-1394, which can identify the problems you may encounter in the operating system. It can clearly “tell you” whether the problem is caused from components or improper installation such as CPU, memory module, VGA, PCI add-on card, FDD, HDD or keyboard. -
Page 64: Jp27 / Jp28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-Up Jumper
This motherboard provides USB and PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function. You can use JP27 / JP28 to enable or disable the resuming of your system from suspend mode with any USB keyboard or mouse connected. JP28 controls 1 USB channel, and JP27 controls 2 USB channel. -
Page 65: Jp29 Ddr Voltage Jumper
This motherboard supports all DDR266/333/400 DDR RAM in the market. And in order to get higher and more stable performance of memory, we provide JP29 to adjust the voltage of RAM from 2.55V to 2.70V. However, if you wish to use DDR400 RAM which requires higher voltage, you may have to adjust the jumper to set a suitable voltage supply from 2.65V to 2.70. -
Page 66: Stby Led
STBY LED is AOpen’s considerate design that we 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 67: 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 68: Resettable 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 Resettable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function even after the fuse had done its protection job. Resettable Fuse... -
Page 69: 3300Μf 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, AX45F-1394 implements 3300μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power. - Page 70 The power circuit of the CPU core voltage must be checked to ensure system stability for high speed CPUs (such as the Pentium IV, or when overclocking). A typical CPU core voltage is 2.0V, so a good design should control voltage between 1.860V and 2.140V. That is, the transient must be below 280mV.
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Page 71: 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 72 .bmp or .txt format. NOTE: AOConfig can be used under Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000/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 73: The Noise Is Gone
Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored to bring you a new overall solution, SilentTek, to make your system quiet. To collocate... - Page 74 In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the The first image you have here is the Voltage Status current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis. page. You can find current status of all voltages and set Also, you can check if fans are running properly. your expected margins of warning level.
- Page 75 You may find that this setting fits you best. AOpen Recommend Setting: This setting is designed specifically for AOpen housing. A series of lab tests were conducted under the real world scenario to determine optimum fan speed to reduce noise level within CPU working condition and temperature.
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Page 76: Ezclock
But from now on, you don’t 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 tailor-made EzClock allows you to set... - Page 77 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 78 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 79 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 80: Phoenix-Award Bios
Most BIOS settings of this model 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 81: How To Use Phoenix-Award™ Bios Setup Program
<Page Down> key to change setting values. You can press <Esc> key to quit Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the 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. -
Page 82: 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 83: 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 84 Download the new version of BIOS package file from AOpen official web site. (ex: http://www.aopen.com) Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WAX45F1394-102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WAX45F1394-102.EXE & WAX45F1394-102.BIN.
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Page 85: Winbios Utility
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 86 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 87: 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 colors screen without missing any important information shown on POST screen. -
Page 88: 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 89: Installing Agp Driver
You can find AGP driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu. -
Page 90: Installing Onboard Sound Driver
This motherboard comes with RealTek ALC650 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 91: Installing Ide Driver
To use IDE devices you have to install IDE driver from Bonus Pack CD. -
Page 92: Installing Lan Driver
You can find LAN Driver from the Bonus Pack CD and install Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter under Windows 98SE/ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP system. - Page 93 Install Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter under Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A, OSR2, Windows NT v4.0. [Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A and OSR2] Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ask you to select which driver you want to install, select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". 2.
- Page 94 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 files OEMSETUP.INF is located, and then chooses the OK button.
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Page 95: Installing Usb 2.0 Driver
In Bonus Pack CD, you can install USB 2.0 driver from the following screen. -
Page 96: 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. -
Page 97: 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 98: Bios (Basic Input/Output System)
DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz/s 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 99: 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 100: 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 101: 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 102: 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 103: 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 104: 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 105: 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 106: 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 107 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 108 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 109 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 110: 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 111 AOpen eForum is provided to discuss our products with other users, in which your problem probably had been discussed before or will be answered. After log on, you may select your preferred language under “Multi-language”. http://club.aopen.com.tw/forum/ Contact Distributors/Resellers: We sell our products through resellers and integrators. They should know your system configuration very well and should be able to solve your problem efficiently and provide important reference for you.
- Page 112 The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label. You can find this bar code label on the outside packing, or on component side of PCB. For example: Part No. Serial No. P/N: 91.88110.201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number.
- Page 113 Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AX45F-1394 R1.00 Jun. 1. 2003 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AX45F-1394 is model name of motherboard, R1.00 is BIOS version.
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Page 114: Product Registration
Be able to join the discussions of web-based news groups. AOpen makes sure that the information you provide is encrypted, so that it cannot be read or intercepted by other people or companies. Further, AOpen will not disclose any of information you submitted under any conditions. Please consult our... -
Page 115: How To Contact Us
Please do not hesitate contact us if you have any problem about our products. Any opinion will be appreciated. Pacific Rim Europe America AOpen America Inc. AOpen Inc. AOpen Computer b.v. Tel: 886-2-3789-5888 Tel: 31-73-645-9516 Tel: 1-510-498-8928 Fax: 1-408-922-2935 Fax: 886-2-3789-5899 Email: support@aopen.nl...
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