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Summary of Contents for AOpen AX3S-U

  • Page 1  ...
  • Page 2 ..........................1 What’s in this manual ..................................2 You Must Notice ....................................9 Before You Start ..................................... 10 Overview ......................................11 Feature Highlight.................................... 12 Quick Installation Procedure ................................ 17 Motherboard Map ................................... 18 Block Diagram ....................................19 Hardware Installation........................20 About “Optional” and “Upgrade Optional”… ..........................21 JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................
  • Page 3 ATX Power Connector ................................... 37 AC Power Auto Recovery ................................38 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Enable/Disable Jumper ......................38 IDE and Floppy Connector................................39 IrDA Connector....................................41 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector ........................42 WOL (Wake on LAN) ..................................45 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) Expansion Slot........................

  • Page 4: Award Bios

    Dr. LED Connector (Upgrade Optional) ............................61 Dr. Voice (AX3S Pro-U only) ................................ 63 Battery-less and Long Life Design............................... 64 Over-current Protection ................................. 65 Hardware Monitoring ..................................66 Resettable Fuse ..................................... 67 Year 2000 (Y2K) ..................................... 68 1500 / 2200μF Low ESR Capacitor ............................. 70 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ...............................
  • Page 5 AC97 ........................................ 96 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)........................96 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ..............................96 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ................................97 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ................................. 97 APM (Advanced Power Management) ............................97 ATA (AT Attachment) ..................................97 ATA/66 ......................................97 ATA/100 ......................................
  • Page 6 CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ..............................99 DDR (Double Data Rated) SDRAM ............................. 99 DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)............................99 DMA (Direct Memory Access) ..............................99 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ............................100 EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ............................100 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM)......................
  • Page 7 PC-1600 or PC-2100 DDR DRAM ............................. 103 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ..........................103 PDF Format ....................................104 PnP (Plug and Play) ..................................104 POST (Power-On Self Test)................................ 104 RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ................................104 RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module)............................ 105 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ..............................
  • Page 8 How to Contact Us ........................116...
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  • Page 20 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 22 When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…...
  • Page 24 If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it may damage the CPU. This socket supports FC-PGA/FCPGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed Intel, strongly recommend you not to insert former PPGA-package CPU onto it.
  • Page 26              ® Intel 815E B-Step chipset supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
  • Page 29 133MHz FSB and 66MHz of overclocking, simply use <Home> key to restore AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause the default setting or you can wait the AOpen serious system damage. “Watch Dog Timer” reset the system after five seconds and system will auto-detect hardware again.
  • Page 30 This motherboard support CPU   !"   auto-detection function. Hence, you      "   don’t need to setup the CPU frequency manually.       ...
  • Page 31 ® Intel 815E B-Step chipset supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage. avoid possible damage caused overheating, an automatic shutdown of system had been especially designed on this motherboard. System would be automatically power when...
  • Page 32 Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support hardware monitoring function. Please note the FAN3 connector does support monitoring function.
  • Page 34 The tabs of the DIMM slot will close-up to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom.
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  • Page 40 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 56 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 59  If you place the switch to the middle (as picture shows), you will not be able to boot your system, thus you can protect your data from molesting.
  • Page 62 "          During POST ( ower est) procedure, the Debug LED will light on sequentially from LED0 to LED7 until the system boot O.K...
  • Page 63 If you found the sound that comes out from onboard buzzer is indistinct, please connect the external speaker of chassis to front panel of motherboard to get more clearly warning messages.
  • Page 65 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 74 Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows...
  • Page 77 If you are using Windows95, you should install DCOM95 patch from the Bonus Pack auto-run menu first, before you install AGP driver.
  • Page 78 Installing this ATA/100 driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure.
  • Page 79 Before you start installing the onboard sound chip driver, please make sure your system been installed Microsoft DirectX 5 or later version. You can find DirectX setup program in AOpen Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
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  • Page 84 "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...
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  • Page 87 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 90 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. Hence, you don’t need read this manual while you changing the BIOS setting.
  • Page 91 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 92 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 93 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 94 " 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 system or important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure Note that overclocking may also your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially cause thermal problem.
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  • Page 115 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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