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Table of Contents ................................................................................... 1
1.1 A 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 and System Fans ..................................................................11
Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................12
Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................13
Connecting ATX Power Cables .....................................................................14
Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................15
3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 16
Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................16
Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................17
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................18
Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot ..............................................................20
Connecting IrDA........................................................................................21
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported ...............................................................22
Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................23
Connecting 1394 .......................................................................................24
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents ................... 1 1.1 A 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 COM2 (for AX4SG Max II only) ...........30 Connecting CD_IN ..................31 Connecting Case Open ................32 Colored Coded Back Panel (for AX4SG Max II) ..........33 Colored Coded Back Panel (for AX4SPE Max II) ..........34 LED Indication ..................35 3.4 Jumper Settings ..................36 Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities...........
- Page 3 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers ..............53 6.1 Installing Drivers..................54 6.2 Installing Utilities ..................55 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..............56 Chapter 8 Technical Support ..............57 Model Name and BIOS Version..............58 Register Your Motherboard .................58...
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Page 4: A 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. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 16. CD-IN Connector 2. AGP 8X Expansion Slot 17. Front Audio Connector 3. 4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector 18. -
Page 7: Specification
2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models AX4SG Max II AX4SPE Max II Intel Pentium 4 CPU Intel Pentium 4 CPU Socket 478 Socket 478 400/533/800MHz 400/533/800MHz Chipset Intel 865G/ICH5 Intel 865PE/ICH5 Dual Channel Mode DDR... -
Page 8: Block Diagram
2.3 Block Diagram PCI Bus 32-bit PCI Slot Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 150MB/s Serial ATA Ports 400/533/800MHz 33/66/100 (For AX4SG Max II) System Bus IDE Drives x 4 VGA Onboard Intel 865 chipset AGP bus RealTek AGP 8X AC97... -
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-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in. Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90-degree angle. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a (golden) cut edge on the CPU upper interface. -
Page 11: Installing Cpu And System Fans
Installing CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. +12V SENSOR SYSFAN1 Connector +12V SENSOR +12V SENSOR CPUFAN Connector SYSFAN2 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so... -
Page 12: Installing Memory Modules
Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in Navy Blue and Electronic 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 13: 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. FDD Connector Secondary Secondary Master (3rd) Slave (4th) Pin 1 ATA 66/100 IDE Connector Pin 1... -
Page 14: Connecting Atx Power Cables
Connecting ATX Power Cables This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin 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 20-pin connector. -
Page 15: 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 16: 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. However, if users are willing to do overclocking, we also provide a range from 1.10V to 1.85V in the BIOS. Sometimes increasing the original core voltage a little bit will make CPU overclock more properly. -
Page 17: 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 18: Adjusting Your Hard Disk Setting
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting Except its original 2 sets 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 19 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 20: Connecting Agp 8X Expansion Slot
Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot AX4SG Max II / AX4SPE Max II provide an AGP 8X slot, a sky blue slot having the latest AGP specification on motherboard. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 4X AGP, and the data transfer rate could achieve 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. -
Page 21: 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 22: 10/100/1000Mbps Lan Supported
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported On the strength of 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; it lights in orange when linking to network. The left hand side LED indicates the transfer mode and will light in green when data is transferring at 100Mbps (never lights while at 10Mbps), but will light in orange when transferring in Gigabit’s mode. -
Page 23: 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 24: Connecting 1394
Connecting 1394 With IEEE1394 Chip on board (AGERE 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 25: Connecting Ex_Sound
Connecting EX_Sound EX_SOUND Connector supports the latest 7.1 Channel and S/PDIF function. S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a new audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through two specific audio cables, you can connect the EX_SOUND connector to our special EX_SOUND audio module, which bears six ports for S/PDIF and 7.1 Channel. -
Page 26: Connecting Ssr_Out (Surrounding Out) Connector
Connecting SSR_OUT (Surrounding Out) Connector This connector is designed to support 7.1 channels function. Please connect SSR_OUT cable to the Green connector on the EX_SOUND module and this SSR_OUT connector onboard. SSR_OUT Connector... -
Page 27: Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect
Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC850 CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high quality of audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. To enjoy this function, you have to connect one EX_SOUND Cable and one SSR_OUT cable to our specially designed EX_SOUND module, all of which can be found in accessory. -
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. By the way, please remove the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. -
Page 29: 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 30: Connecting Com2 (For Ax4Sg Max Ii Only)
Connecting COM2 (for AX4SG Max II only) This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper left of board between PCI slots. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis. -
Page 31: Connecting Cd_In
Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. -
Page 32: 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 33: Colored Coded Back Panel (For Ax4Sg Max Ii)
Colored Coded Back Panel (for AX4SG Max II) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. -
Page 34: Colored Coded Back Panel (For Ax4Spe Max Ii)
Colored Coded Back Panel (for AX4SPE Max II) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, COM2 port, Printer, USB, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP RJ45 10/100/1000 PS/2 Mouse... -
Page 35: Led Indication
LED Indication LED indication including Boot LED, Standby LED and AGP 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, giving you a... -
Page 36: Jumper Settings
3.4 Jumper Settings Allows you to turn off the voice from buzzer and speaker. You can choose not to be bothered by the JP2 Speaker Output warning made from Dr. Voice when it detects any error in operating system. JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper Clear CMOS Normal (default) - Page 37 Dr. Voice provides four language versions: English, JP15/16 Dr. Voice Language German, Japanese and Chinese. You can select your Select preferred language by JP15 & JP16 jumpers. Disable Enable (Default) JP28 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper JP15/16 Dr. Voice Languages Select Jumper JP16 JP15 JP16...
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Page 38: Chapter 4 Special Features And Utilities
RAID Configuration Utility In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID Configuration Utility to do some settings. After finishing the BIOS setup and reboot, you will see [Press CTRL + S to enter configuration Utility] about half way through the boot up. -
Page 39: Serial Ata Raid For Silicon Image 3114
Serial ATA RAID for Silicon Image 3114 Silicon Image’s SATARaidTM provides Serial ATA RAID 0 (Striping), RAID 1 (Mirroring) and RAID 0+1 (Striping and Mirroring) functionality to enhance the industry’s leading PCI-to-SATA host controller products. Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that provides easy-to-use configurations for different RAID Sets supported. -
Page 40: Silicon Image Sataraid Gui Overview
Silicon Image SATARaid GUI Overview The SATARaid GUI Installation program configures the SATARaid GUI to automatically start when Windows is started. If the SATARaid GUI does not automatically start or is closed by user, choose the JAVA SATARaid program from Start Menu to launch the GUI. -
Page 41: Pbe - Performance Boost Engine
PBE – Performance Boost Engine Configuring Intel 865 chipset, the performance of this motherboard had been uplifted by implementing PBE Technology (Performance Boosting Engine). Acting as similar as PAT in uplifting the system performance, PBE enables users to optimize the accessing speed and quality between CPU and Memory. Theoretically speaking, CPU must go through some standard paths to access memory. -
Page 42: 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 43 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 44 Smart FAN Control: 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 45: Other Useful Features
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 visit technical website learn more about those features. http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside... -
Page 46: 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 47: How To Use 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 + Change setting to next value or increase the value. Page Down or - Change setting to previous value or decrease value. -
Page 48: 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 49 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 50: 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 51: Function Keys
This verification is designed on purpose to protect your BIOS from being damaged by wrong profile version. For the latest WinBIOS profile and language pack modules, you can find them on AOpen official web site: (http://download.aopen.com.tw/downloads/default.asp) Note: Because BIOS versions are... -
Page 52: 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 53: 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 54: 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 55: 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 56: Chapter 7 Troubleshooting
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting... -
Page 57: 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 58: 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.
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