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Table of Contents ................................................................................... 1
1.1 Thank-you Note Before You Get Start.............................................................4
1.2 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................5
1.3 Safety Information ......................................................................................5
Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................... 6
2.1 How does your motherboard look like?...........................................................6
2.2 Specification ...............................................................................................7
2.3 Block Diagram ............................................................................................8
Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............................................................... 9
3.1 Quick Installation Procedure .........................................................................9
3.2 Installation You Have to Know..................................................................... 10
Installing CPU ...........................................................................................10
Installing CPU Fan .....................................................................................11
Connecting CPU and System Fans ...............................................................12
Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................13
Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel............................................14
Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................15
Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................16
Connecting ATX Power Cables .....................................................................17
3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 18
Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................18
Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................19
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................20
Connecting PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot...................................................22
Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot..................................................................23
Connecting IrDA........................................................................................24
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported ...............................................................25
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents ................... 1 1.1 Thank-you Note Before You Get Start.............4 1.2 Features of This Manual ................5 1.3 Safety Information ..................5 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ..........6 2.1 How does your motherboard look like?............6 2.2 Specification ....................7 2.3 Block Diagram ....................8 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............... - Page 2 Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) ........31 Connecting Game Port ................32 Connecting CD_IN ..................33 Connecting Case Open ................34 Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Ga-EFRII) ..........35 Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Pa-EFRII) ..........36 LED Indication ..................37 3.4 Jumper Settings ..................38 Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities........... 40 4.1 SATA RAID by ICH6R .................
- Page 3 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers ..............55 6.1 Installing Drivers..................56 6.2 Installing Utilities ..................57 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..............58 Chapter 8 Technical Support ..............59 Model Name and BIOS Version..............60 Register Your Motherboard .................60 Technical Support..................61...
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Page 4: Thank-You Note Before You Get Start
We regret not informing about any changes in usage standards and other related information. AOpen reserves the right of altering or modifying the content of this manual. In case of any mistakes or incorrect descriptions, which include those on the products, AOpen makes no guarantee or commitments. -
Page 5: Features Of This Manual
1.2 Features of This Manual To help you grab the useful information of this motherboard and aware of certain conditions that you might need to know, you will see the icons below frequently: Note This contains knowledge you should know in process of assembling, or some helpful tips. -
Page 6: Chapter 2 Introduction To This Motherboard
Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? 1. Resetable Fuse 18. S/PDIF Connector 2. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 19. Game Port Connector 3. CPUFAN Connector 20. 32-bit PCI Expansion Slots x 3 4. -
Page 7: Specification
2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models i915Ga-EFRII i915Pa-EFRII Intel FC-LGA4 CPU Intel FC-LGA4 CPU Socket T Socket T 800MHz 800MHz Chipset Intel 915G/ICH6R Intel 915P/ICH6R Dual Channel Mode DDR Dual Channel Mode DDR DDR2 533... -
Page 8: Block Diagram
IDE Drives x 2 VGA Onboard Intel Grantsdale 915G / 915P HD Audio chipset PCI Express x 16 CODEC Graphics Slot Support ADD2 Card (for i915Ga-EFRII) DIMM Sockets x4 Dual Channel DDR2 533 SDRAM ICH6R Up to 4GB Broadcom Gigabit Winbond PCI Express... -
Page 9: Chapter 3 Hardware Installation
Chapter 3 Hardware Installation Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure 12. Installing Drivers & 1. Installing CPU Utilities 11. Installing Operating System 2. Installing CPU (such as, Windows Fan & System Fan 10. Loading Default BIOS, Setting CPU 3. -
Page 10: Installation You Have To Know
3.2 Installation You Have to Know Installing CPU This socket supports FC-LGA4 CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in. Pull CPU socket lever and plate up. Remove plastic cap from CPU socket plate. -
Page 11: Installing Cpu Fan
Installing CPU Fan 1. Gently put down the CPU fan on CPU socket with four sticks aiming correctly to the four mounting holes. Mounting Mounting hole hole 2. Press down four fixing sticks into the holes one by one. Make sure the sticks are firmly fixed into the holes. -
Page 12: Connecting Cpu And System Fans
Connecting CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 4-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug chassis fan in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. SENSOR +12V CPUFAN Connector +12V SENSOR SENSOR +12V SYSFAN1 Connector SYSFAN2 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so... -
Page 13: Installing Memory Modules
Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in black and navy blue which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place. Pin 1 Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will clip to hold the... -
Page 14: Maximum The Performance Of The Dual Channel
Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel To obtain the highest performance of Dual Channel, the configuration of DIMM must meet the following conditions. Matched DIMM configuration in each channel ● Same density (128MB~1GB) As long as you insert memory modules of same density into Channel 1 (DIMM A1 &... -
Page 15: Connecting Ide And Floppy Cables
Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables Connect the 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage. Pin 1 FDD Connector Primary Primary Slave (2nd) Master (1st) Pin 1 Pin 1... -
Page 16: Connecting Front Panel Cable
Connecting Front Panel Cable Attach the power LED, speaker 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, which is a 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. -
Page 17: Connecting Atx Power Cables
Connecting ATX Power Cables This motherboard comes with a 24-pin ATX power connector and 4-pin 12V ATX power connector as shown below. Make sure you plug them in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to insert the 4-pin connector before connecting the 24-pin connector. -
Page 18: Other Installation For Your Reference
3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency Setting CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports Voltage ID (VID) function to detect CPU voltage automatically during power-on and the range is from 0.8375V to 1.6V. It’s not necessary to set CPU core voltage. Setting CPU Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design;... -
Page 19: Connecting Serial Ata
Connecting Serial ATA 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 20: Adjusting Your Hard Disk Setting
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting Except its original 1 set of parallel IDE, this motherboard supports the latest serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after having them installed, the problem may lie in the BIOS setting. - Page 21 If you desire to change the default setting, press Enter for selection list: Disabled: You can choose this item if there are only traditional IDE hard disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item will also cancel the detection of serial ATA hard disks during POST, which will theoretically speed up your boot-up time a little bit;...
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Page 22: Connecting Pci Express X 16 Graphics Slot
Connecting PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot i915Ga-EFRII / i915Pa-EFRII provides a PCI Express x 16 Graphics slot, a red slot having the latest PCI Express x 16 specification on motherboard. The PCI Express x 16 is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 8X AGP, and the data transfer rate could achieve 2.1GB/s. -
Page 23: Connecting Pci Express X 1 Slot
Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot This motherboard provides one PCI Express x 1 slot, which is located between the PCI Express x 16 and traditional PCI slot. In order to go with the step of today’s and tomorrow’s processors, PCI Express x 1 provides higher I/O bandwidth. The transfer data rate could achieve 500MB/s concurrently (it’s 250MB/s per direction), which is nearly 4 times faster than the traditional PCI. -
Page 24: Connecting Irda
Connecting IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports both HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps). -
Page 25: 10/100/1000Mbps Lan Supported
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported On the strength of Broadcom Gigabit LAN controller on board, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on the top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link mode;... -
Page 26: Connecting Usb2.0
Connecting USB2.0 This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are four ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel. -
Page 27: Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect
Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC880 or ALC850 CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high quality of audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. This motherboard provides 7.1 Channel ports shown as below. Picture represents the standard location of all speakers in 7.1 Channel sound tracks. -
Page 28: Connecting Front Audio
Connecting Front Audio If the housing is designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. Please be informed that to have front audio ports work properly, the front audio panel of the housing should be designed for High definition Audio jack. -
Page 29: Connecting 1394
Connecting 1394 With IEEE1394 Chip on board (TI 1394), having its data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, this interface can connect to devices that require high data transferring performance such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices. -
Page 30: Connecting Com2 (For I915Ga-Efrii Only)
Connecting COM2 (for i915Ga-EFRII only) This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the left of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis. -
Page 31: Connecting S/Pdif (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)
Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through a specific audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital output. -
Page 32: Connecting Game Port
Connecting Game Port 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. Pin1 (User Upgrade Optional) -
Page 33: Connecting Cd_In
Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. -
Page 34: Connecting Case Open
Connecting Case Open The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, 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 35: Colored Coded Back Panel (For I915Ga-Efrii)
Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Ga-EFRII) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, Azalia sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. -
Page 36: Colored Coded Back Panel (For I915Pa-Efrii)
Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Pa-EFRII) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, COM2, Printer, USB, Azalia sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP Rear SUR RJ45... -
Page 37: Led Indication
LED Indication LED indication including Boot LED and Standby LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard, giving you a convenient indication check the system power status in circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode. -
Page 38: Jumper Settings
3.4 Jumper Settings JP28 Keyboard / Mouse This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse Wakeup Jumper wake-up function. JP28 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper Disable Enable (Default) JP2 Speaker Output Jumper Buzzer Speaker (default) JP2 Speaker Output Allows you to turn off the voice from buzzer or speaker. - Page 39 BIOS from viruses. Once your BIOS were crashed, please set JP24 to Pin2-3 to boot up the system with BIOS 2. Then set the JP24 back to Pin1-2. You can go to our website (http://download.aopen.com.tw/downloads) to download your BIOS version suited for your motherboard, and have it flashed.
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Page 40: Chapter 4 Special Features And Utilities
With Intel ICH6R integrated onboard, this motherboard supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions. For more RAID introduction, please visit our website: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/RAID.htm After having properly installed your Serial ATA hard disks, you may directly get into the BIOS setting screen for adjustment. You may simply press “Integrated... -
Page 41: Raid Configuration Utility
RAID Configuration Uitlity In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID Option ROM to do some configuration. After finishing the BIOS setup and reboot, you will see [Press CTRL + I to enter configuration Utility] about half way through the boot up. -
Page 42: Sata Raid By Promise Pdc20579
4.2 SATA RAID by Promise PDC20579 Apart from the RAID function offered by Intel ICH6R, this motherboard is also designed with Promise Serial ATA (PDC20579) controller onboard, which is capable of providing you additional RAID 0, 1, 0+1 through 1 ATA133 IDE connector and 2 SATA connectors. -
Page 43: Raid Configuration Utility
RAID Configuration Utility Promise PDC20579 is capable of creating RAID 0, 1, 0+1 by SATA5, 6 and IDE2. When driver is successfully installed, please press <Ctrl-F> in POST to enter FastBuild Utility to set up RAID arrays. The Main Menu of FastBuild Utility Auto Setup: Press 1 to enter Auto Setup and BIOS will automatically optimize your RAID array depending on your personal demand for data storage. - Page 44 Define Array: Press 3 to enter Define Array and BIOS will allow you to set up a RAID array by choosing Array No, RAID Mode, and Total Drv. Delete Array: Press 4 to enter Delete Array and BIOS will allow you to delete an existing RAID array.
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Page 45: Silenttek - Noise Is Gone
Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored to bring you a new overall solution, SilentTek, to make your system quiet. To collocate with hardware circuit, BIOS and the utility under Windows, SilentTek combines “Hardware-Status Monitoring”,... - Page 46 The first image you have here is Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages here and set your expected margins of warning level. You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here. In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you can get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis.
- Page 47 Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting of SilentTek and can be used for any branded computer housing. With a special algorithm developed by AOpen, the fan speed is automatically adjusted by the parameters of CPU and ambient temperature which is ease-of-use and trouble free at your service.
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Page 48: Other Useful Features
4.4 Other Useful Features With excellent design ability of R&D team, AOpen boasts for its various powerful and handy features that come with our product like follows. You are welcomed to visit our technical website to learn more about those features. -
Page 49: Chapter 5 Setting Bios
AOpen’s R&D engineering team had optimized most BIOS settings of this motherboard. However, some default settings of BIOS cannot fine-tune those sections that controlled by chipset. Therefore, this chapter is intended to guide you and help you to configure some other settings. -
Page 50: How To Use 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 51: Bios Upgrade Under Windows Environment
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinFlash. With an eye to convenience for users, EzWinFlash combines the BIOS binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on the utility you downloaded from web and let it help you complete the flash process automatically. - Page 52 STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all applications before you start the upgrades. Download the latest version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (Ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw/) Unzip the downloaded BIOS package (ex: WSGMAXII102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment.
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Page 53: Winbios Utility
In the past, users have to keep punching the DEL key 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, running exclusively on AOpen motherboards, to allow you setting up BIOS under Windows environment. -
Page 54: Vivid Bios Technology
Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful... -
Page 55: Chapter 6 Installing Drivers
Click and done. Yes. EzInstall makes installation easy and even foolproof! After putting in the CD, you will be prompted with AOpen welcome page and our branches information. First, click on the install driver ICON at left side for necessary drivers. -
Page 56: Installing Drivers
6.1 Installing Drivers As you may see from the Installing driver page, EzInstall had picked up necessary for your motherboard. All you have to do is just click on the “GO”, and no more steps afterward, of all listed drivers, grey checks indicate necessary drivers; you cannot click them off. -
Page 57: Installing Utilities
6.2 Installing Utilities Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilities to manage your system. You may find lots of fabulous utilities listed there, and all you have to do is to click on the “GO”, then it will install the utilities to your system right away without complicated steps. -
Page 58: Chapter 7 Troubleshooting
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting... -
Page 59: Chapter 8 Technical Support
Gold Member of Club AOpen so as to ensure quality service in the future. In order to maintain the best service to every customer of us, we recommend you to follow the procedures below and seek help from our branches according to the region you buy the product. -
Page 60: Model Name And Bios Version
Gold member of Club AOpen, and to ensure high service quality and priority from AOpen. You will also have a chance to play slot machine game to win prize from AOpen. Please prepare the following information before you start: Model Name, Part Number (P/N), Serial Number (S/N) and Purchase Date. -
Page 61: Technical Support
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