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  • Page 2: Hardware Installation

    ............................1 What’s in this manual ..............................2 You Must Notice ................................8 Before You Start................................9 Overview ..................................10 MX3W-E2 Series Comparison Table ..........................11 Feature Highlight................................12 Quick Installation Procedure ............................15 Motherboard Map ................................16 Block Diagram................................17 Hardware Installation........................18 About “Optional”...
  • Page 3 Front Panel Connector ..............................33 ATX Power Connector ..............................34 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up ............................35 Power and RAM Power Indicate LED ..........................36 AC Power Auto Recovery.............................. 37 IDE and Floppy Connector ............................38 IrDA Connector ................................40 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector......................41 WOL (Wake on LAN)..............................

  • Page 4: Award Bios

    Year 2000 (Y2K)................................59 Low ESR Capacitor ............................... 60 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ..........................62 Driver and Utility ..........................63 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ..........................64 Installing Chipset Software Installation Utility........................ 65 Installing Onboard AGP Driver ............................66 Installing Ultra ATA/100 IDE Driver..........................67 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ...........................
  • Page 5 AC97 ..................................... 87 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ....................... 87 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ........................... 87 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................88 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ..............................88 APM (Advanced Power Management)........................... 88 ATA (AT Attachment) ..............................88 ATA/66 ..................................88 ATA/100 ..................................
  • Page 6 EV6 Bus ..................................92 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ........................... 92 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)..........................92 Flash ROM ..................................92 FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ............................93 C Bus ..................................93 IEEE 1394 ..................................93 Parity Bit ..................................93 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)..........................

  • Page 7: Troubleshooting

    SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ......................... 96 SMBus (System Management Bus) ..........................97 SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ............................97 Ultra DMA ..................................97 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ............................98 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)............................. 98 ZIP file ..................................98 Troubleshooting..........................99 Technical Support .........................103 Product Registration ........................106 How to Contact Us ........................107...
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  • Page 18  Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always read 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 20  When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
  • Page 22 If you do not insert CPU well or go wrong with its direction, you may damage the CPU.
  • Page 24          supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 810 chipset supports maximum 100MHz FSB. Both support 66MHz AGP clock. Higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
  • Page 27   !  supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 810 chipset supports maximum 100MHz FSB. Both support 66MHz AGP clock. Higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.  If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use <Home> key to restore the default setting (433MHz)  This motherboard supports CPU  " #$! ...
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  • Page 29  supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 810 chipset supports maximum 100MHz FSB. Both support 66MHz AGP clock. Higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
  • Page 30  Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so they cannot support fan monitoring.
  • Page 32  The tabs of the DIMM slot will close-up hold memory module in place when module been firmly located.
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  • Page 36  Do not install or remove the DIMM module when the RAM power LED is on.
  • Page 39  For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device master mode follow suggested sequence to install your new device. Please refer to above diagram achieve best performance Ultra DMA 66/100 hard disks, a special    ! Ultra 66/100 is required.

  • Page 52: Front Panel Audio Connector

     Please remove the jumper cap from the Front Panel Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if housing without an audio port on the front panel.
  • Page 54   Both Windows 2000 and GSM smart cards can be applied to the driver we provide in Bonus Pack CD disc.
  • Page 56  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.
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  • Page 63 Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows...
  • Page 66 If you are using Windows95, you should install DCOM95 patch from the Bonus Pack auto-run menu first, before you install AGP driver.
  • Page 67  Installing this ATA/100 IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure.
  • Page 70 Under Win98/98SE/ME, you have to install step 2 and step 3, application cannot executed.
  • Page 73 Setting Logon Smart Card: Logon is an action to identify the user by password, smart card, or other tokens. If identity is correct, the system will boot successfully.
  • Page 74 Logon Card Check Mode File Protect Check Mode Encrypt Files: you can encrypt files in the following screen. Please note that “read-only” files cannot be encrypted. Decrypt Files: allows you to decrypt the encrypted files only with the original card you set earlier.
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  • Page 79  "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled.  Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend to disk. Please refer to AOpen web site for latest update...

  • Page 80: Award Bios

     Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard.
  • Page 81  AOpen always dedicates to give users a more friendly computer system. Now, we include all function descriptions of BIOS setup program into the BIOS Flash ROM. When you select one function of BIOS setup program, the function description will appeared at right side of screen.
  • Page 82  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 *$  AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are designed to be compatible with the Award BIOS. At the date of this note, AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are not available for AMI BIOS. AMI BIOS appears mostly only on old 486 boards and some early Pentium boards.

  • Page 84: Bios Upgrade

     The new BIOS upgrade will permanently replace your original BIOS's settings and PnP information when flashing. You may need to reconfigure your BIOS setting and re-install Win95/Win98 as well as your add-on cards, so that your system can go back to work as normal.

  • Page 85: Overclocking

    "  The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your  Note that overclocking may also system or important data.
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  • Page 106  If registering products purchased from different dealers/retails and/or purchased on different dates, please submit a separate form for each product.  ...
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