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AX4SP-G/AX4SP-GN/AX4SPE-G/AX4SPE-GN

DOC. NO.: AX4SPEGN-OL-E0307A
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  • Page 1: Ax4Sp-G/Ax4Sp-Gn/Ax4Spe-G/Ax4Spe-Gn

    AX4SP-G/AX4SP-GN/AX4SPE-G/AX4SPE-GN DOC. NO.: AX4SPEGN-OL-E0307A...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    What’s in this manual ..............................2 You Must Notice ................................8 Before You Start ................................9 Overview ..................................10 AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN Comparison Table ................. 11 Feature Highlight................................12 Quick Installation Procedure ............................16 Motherboard Map ................................17 Block Diagram................................
  • Page 3 CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ....................31 JP22 Front Side Bus 800 MHz OverClocking Jumper ....................32 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Enable/Disable Jumper ....................33 DIMM Sockets ................................34 Front Panel Connector ..............................37 ATX Power Connector ..............................38 AC Power Auto Recovery ..............................
  • Page 4 Front Audio Connector ..............................56 AOConfig Utility................................57 Resetable Fuse ................................59 3300µF Low ESR Capacitor ............................60 Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ............................62 Vivid BIOS technology..............................63 EzClock ..................................64 Hyper Threading Technology............................68 Driver and Utility ........................70 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ..........................70 ®...
  • Page 5 Glossary ............................ 90 AC97 CODEC ................................90 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ....................... 90 ACR (Advanced Communication Riser)......................... 90 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port)............................ 91 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................91 ATA (AT Attachment) ..............................91 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ..........................92 Bluetooth..................................
  • Page 6 Hyper Threading ................................95 IEEE 1394 ..................................95 Parity Bit ..................................95 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ........................96 PDF Format................................... 96 PnP (Plug and Play) ..............................96 POST (Power-On Self Test) ............................96 PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ..........................96 RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ....................
  • Page 7 Technical Support ........................104 Product Registration ....................... 107 How to Contact Us ........................108...

  • 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 format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site.

  • Page 10: Overview

    Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN motherboard. The AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / ® ® AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN is Intel Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel 865-P ®...

  • Page 11: Ax4Sp-G / Ax4Sp-Gn / Ax4Spe-G / Ax4Spe-Gn Comparison Table

    Following we list functions of all models. “V” represents those functions that the model equips with and “X” represents functions that models don’t have. Please always refer to this page to see the functions of your model. Item AX4SP-G AX4SP-GN AX4SPE-G AX4SPE-GN...

  • Page 12: Feature Highlight

    Socket 478 Pentium 4 1.6GHz~3.20 GHz+ designed for Socket 478 technology. AX4SPE-G and AX4SPE-GN support 400/533/800 MHz FSB; AX4SP-G and AX4SP-GN only support 400/533 MHz FSB. Chipset Intel 865-P/PE is a Memory Controller Hub (MCH) designed for use with the Pentium 4 processor with 512-KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron processor.
  • Page 13 Including five 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. All of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card.
  • Page 14 IDE interface, while providing a lower pin count and higher performance. The ICH5 SATA interface supports data transfer rates up to 150MB/s. On-board AC’97 Sound AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN use the AC97 CODEC sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. 1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment Provides “1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment”...
  • Page 15 Eight USB 2.0 Ports Provides six ports on the back panel and one USB 2.0 header on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. Power Management/Plug and Play Supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S.

  • Page 16: 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 17: Motherboard Map

    Motherboard Map Realtek 8101L LAN chip (AX4SP-GN and AX4SPE-GN) Colored Back Panel Game Port Connector 2Mb Flash ROM BIOS JP22 FSB OverClocking Jumper Onboard AC’97 CODEC Resetable Fuse Front Audio Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper AUX-IN Connector ATX Power Connector CD-IN Connector 3300μF Low ESR Capacitors IrDA Connector...

  • Page 18: Block Diagram

    PCI Bus DIMM Socket x2 SATA 2 Two Serial ATA Ports 150M B/s 800/533/400MHz Socket 478 System Bus Intel Pentium 4 Intel 865-P (AX4SP-G and AX4SP-GN) Intel 865-PE Primary (AX4SPE-GN and AXSPE-GN) GMCH 33/66100 Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel...

  • Page 19: 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 20: About "Manufacturer Upgrade Optional" And "User Upgrade Optional

    “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional”. If needed, you can contact our local distributors or resellers for purchasing “User Upgrade Optional” components, and again you can visit AOpen official web site: http://english.aopen.com.tw/...

  • Page 21: Jp14 Clear Cmos Data

    You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the 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 pins 1 &...

  • Page 22: Cpu Installation

    ® This motherboard supports Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket. 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a cut edge on the CPU upper 1.
  • Page 23 Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU install CPU cut edge Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it may damage the CPU. Note: This socket supports Micro-FC-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel.
  • Page 24 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.
  • Page 25 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 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 28: 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 29: Cpu Core Voltage Auto Detectable

    Tip: If your system hangs or fails to boot because of Home overclocking, simply use <Home> key to restore the default setting or you can wait the AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” reset the system after five seconds and system will auto-detect hardware again.
  • Page 30 Core Frequency = CPU FSB Clock * CPU Ratio PCI Clock = CPU FSB Clock / Clock Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 CPU Core Northwood CPU FSB Clock System Bus Ratio Frequency Note: Intel 865-P/PE chipset only Pentium 4 2.0G 2000MHz...

  • Page 31: Cpu And System Fan Connector (With H/W Monitoring)

    Please 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 SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector +12V SENSOR CPUFAN1 Connector +12V SENSOR Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support SYSFAN3 Connector hardware monitoring function.

  • Page 32: Jp22 Front Side Bus 800 Mhz Overclocking Jumper

    ® The AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN motherboard with Intel 865-P chipsets only support 400/533MHz FSB. However you can overclock to 800MHz FSB via JP22. The defaulting setting is 1-2 in normal mode. To run in 800MHz FSB, you should set Jumper to 2-3 in Turbo mode that support 200 system bus.

  • Page 33: Jp28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-Up Enable/Disable Jumper

    This motherboard provides keyboard / mouse wake-up function. You can use JP28 to enable or disable this function, which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse installed. The factory default setting is set to “Disable” (1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3. Pin 1 JP28 KB/Mouse Wake-up...

  • Page 34: Dimm Sockets

    This motherboard has two 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel DDR400, DDR333 or DDR266 memory up to 2GB (AX4SPE-G and AX4SPE-GN support DDR400/333/266; AX4SP-G and AX4SP-GN support DDR333/266). Only non-ECC DDR RAM is supported. Please install suitable modules; otherwise serious damage may occur on memory sockets or you RAM modules.
  • Page 35 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.
  • Page 36 Maximum the performance of Dual Channel To get the highest performance of Dual Channel, the DIMM must meet the following conditions. Matched DIMM configuration in each channel Same Density (128MB, 256MB, 512MB, etc.) Same DRAM technology (128Mb, 256Mb, or 512Mb) ●...

  • Page 37: 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 38: 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 39: Ac Power Auto Recovery

    A traditional ATX system should remain at power off stage when AC power resumes from power failure. This design is inconvenient for a network server or workstation, without an UPS, that needs to keep power-on. This motherboard implements an AC Power Auto Recovery function to solve this problem.

  • Page 40: Stby Led

    STBY LED is 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. 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 41: 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. Pin 1 Primary Primary Master (1st) Slave (2nd) FDD Connector Pin 1 Secondary Secondary Master (3rd) Slave (4th)
  • Page 42 IDE1 is also known as the primary channel, IDE2 is known 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.

  • Page 43: Serial Ata Supported

    The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second. However, while ATA has enjoyed an illustrious track record, the specification is now showing its age and imposes some serious design issues on today’s developers, including a 5-volt signaling requirement, high pin count, and serious cabling headaches.
  • Page 44 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 45 Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard does come with the support for the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you have had installed them on, the problem mainly lies in the BIOS setting.
  • Page 46 If you intend to change the default setting, simply press Enter for a list of selection: Disabled: You may choose this item if you’re sure that only traditional IDE hard disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item may also cancel the detection to Serial ATA hard disk during POST, which theoretically, could speed up your boot-up timing for a little bit;...

  • Page 47: 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). Install the infrared module onto the IrDA connector and enable the infrared function from BIOS Setup, UART Mode, make sure to have the correct orientation when you plug in the IrDA connector.

  • Page 48: Agp (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot

    Onli AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN provide an AGP 8x slot, a light blue slot in motherboard. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 4X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s.

  • Page 49: Color Coded Back Panel

    The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, COM1 and COM2, RJ45 LAN, Printer, USB2.0 and AC97 sound. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. RJ45 LAN Jack SPP/EPP/ECP (for AX4SP-GN and Parallel Port PS/2 Mouse AX4SPE-GN)

  • Page 50: Support Realtek 8101L Lan Chip Onboard (For Ax4Sp-Gn And Ax4Spe-Gn)

    On the strength of Realtek 8101L LAN controller (for AX4SP-GN and AX4SPE-GN) on board, this motherboard provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The orange LED indicates the link mode, it lights when linking to network. The green LED indicates the transfer mode and it lights when data is transferring in 100 Mbps.

  • Page 51: Support Eight Usb 2.0 Connectors

    Compared to traditional USB 1.0/1.1 with the speed of 12Mbps, USB 2.0 has a fancy speed up to 480Mbps, which is 40 times faster than the traditional one. Except for the speed increase, USB 2.0 supports old USB 1.0/1.1 software and peripherals, offering impressive and even better compatibility to customers.

  • Page 52: 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 Pin1 (User Upgrade Optional)

  • Page 53: Chassis Intrusion 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 the opening of the chassis, the system will send out beep sound to inform you.

  • Page 54: Cd Audio Connector

    This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. Note: Though some of the latest versions of Windows support “Digital Audio” through IDE bus. However, in order to use Open Jukebox player, which is driven under BIOS, it is a MUST to insert audio cable to CD-IN connector on the motherboard.

  • Page 55: Aux-In Connector

    This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound. AUX-IN Connector...

  • Page 56: 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 5-6 and 9-10 jumper caps from the Front Audio Connector before connecting the cable.

  • Page 57: 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 further diagnosis of system problem. The system page shows the...
  • Page 58 .bmp or .txt format. NOTE: AOconfig can be used in Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP. Please be informed that AOconfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard. Meanwhile, all applications must be closed before starting AOconfig.

  • Page 59: Resetable Fuse

    Traditional motherboard has fuse for Keyboard and USB port to prevent over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that when it is broken (function as protecting the motherboard), user still cannot replace it and the motherboard is still malfunctioning. With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function after the fuse had done its protection job.

  • Page 60: 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, AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN implements 3300μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1500 and 2200μf) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
  • Page 61 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.

  • Page 62: 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 63: Vivid Bios Technology

    VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colourful 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 64: 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 65 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 66 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 67 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;...

  • Page 68: 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...
  • Page 69 For multiprocessor-capable software applications, the Hyper-Threading based processor is considered two separate logical processors on which the software applications without modification. Also, each logical processor responds to interrupts independently. first logical processor can track one software thread, while the second logical processor tracks another software thread simultaneously.

  • Page 70: Driver And Utility

    There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD disc. You don’t need to install all of them in order 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 can install any drivers or utilities.

  • Page 71: Installing Intel ® Chipset Software Installation Utility

    ® ® ® The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility should be installed onto the target system and the Windows * INF files outline how the chipset components will be configured. It is recommended that the Intel ® Chipset Software Installation utility be installed onto the target system prior to the installation of other drivers.

  • Page 72: Installing Onboard Sound Driver

    This motherboard comes with 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 73: Installing Lan Driver In Windows 98Se/Me/2000/Xp (For Ax4Sp-Gn And Ax4Spe-Gn)

    For Win98SE/ME/2000/XP operating system, please kindly follow this InstallShield Wizard for steps.
  • Page 74 Installing LAN Driver in Windows 95(Golden version) / Win95A / OSR2 / Windows NT 4.0 [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 75 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 file OEMSETUP.INF is located, and then choose the OK button. 6.
  • Page 76 button. The "Input Ethernet ID" dialog box appears and input adapter's Ethernet ID. Last step is to select OK and close NETWORK SETUP. Select SKIP if only one adapter is installed on this computer.

  • Page 77: Installing Usb 2.0 Driver In Windows 98Se/Me

    For Windows 98SE/ME operating system, please kindly follow this InstallShield Wizard for steps.
  • Page 78 Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 2000 ********************************************************** Installing Drivers during Windows 2000 Installation ********************************************************** The following details the installation of the USB 2.0 driver while installing Windows 2000 (with the USB 2.0 controller is enabled already). 1. After enabling the USB 2.0 controller, install Windows 2000 normally. 2.
  • Page 80 8. Choose the "Driver" tab in the "Properties" window, choose "Update Driver," and then press "Next." 9. Choose "Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)" from the list, and then press "Enter". 10. Choose "Specify a location." and then press "Next" 11.
  • Page 81 13. Click on "Next." A message informing you that Windows has found "Intel PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller - ICH5" should appear.
  • Page 82 14. Click on "Next," and then on "Finish." ********************************************************* Installing Driver in Existing Windows 2000 System ********************************************************* After enabling the USB 2.0 controller and rebooting your system, Windows 2000 setup will show a "New Hardware Found" dialog box. Under Windows 2000, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" will be displayed. 1.

  • Page 83: Phoenix-Award Bios

    BIOS. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports. Most BIOS setting of AX4SP-G / AX4SP-GN / AX4SPE-G / AX4SPE-GN had been op125timized by AOpen’s R&D engineering team. But, the default setting of BIOS still can’t fine-tune the chipset controlling entire system. Hence, the rest of this chapter is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using setup.

  • Page 84: How To Use Phoenix-Award™ Bios Setup Program

    <Page Up> and <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 85: How To Enter Bios Setup

    After you finish the setting of jumpers and connect correct cables. Power on and enter the BIOS Setup, press <Del> during POST (Power-On Self Test). 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 86: 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 87 You may accomplish BIOS upgrade procedure with EzWinFlash by the following steps, and it’s STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all the applications before you start the upgrading. 1. Download the new version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw) 2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WAX4SPEGN102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment.

  • Page 88: 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 89 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...

  • Page 90: 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 91: 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. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only.

  • Page 92: Bios (Basic Input/Output System)

    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 Flash...

  • Page 93: Ddr (Double Data Rate) Ram

    DDR RAM utilizes the existing SDRAM (For ex, PC-100, PC-133) infrastructure and technology while doubling the nominal bandwidth available to systems in an easy to design and simple to adopt way. Based on FSB frequency, DDR RAM on the market are DDR200, DDR266 and DDR333 with more coming around soon.

  • Page 94: Ev6 Bus

    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. EV6 Bus Speed = CPU external bus clock x 2. 200 MHz EV6 bus, 200MHz = 100 MHz external bus clock x 2 The DoC is component certification standard of FCC EMI regulations.

  • Page 95: 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. IEEE 1394, which also called Firewire, is a serial data transfer protocol and interconnection system.

  • Page 96: Pci (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus

    Developed by Intel, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local bus standard. A bus is a channel used to transfer data to (input) and from (output) a computer and to or from a peripheral device. Most PCs have a PCI bus usually implemented at 32-bits providing a 33 MHz clock speed with a throughput rate of 133 MBps.

  • Page 97: Rdram (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory)

    A DRAM technology developed by Rambus Corporation*, to achieve high speed of memory through the use of multiple channels in parallel by 16-bits. Basically, RDRAM uses new structure of Multibank, which is quite different from FPM, EDO, SDRAM. Using different memory module as well, RDRAM uses “RIMM”...

  • Page 98: Smbus (System Management Bus)

    SMBus is also called I C bus. It is a two-wire bus developed for component communication (especially for semiconductor IC). For example, set clock of clock generator for jumper-less motherboard. The data transfer rate of SMBus is only 100Kbit/s, it allows one host to communicate with CPU and many masters and slaves to send/receive message.

  • Page 99: Wireless Lan - 802.11B

    – – 802.11 is a specification developed by IEEE and Wireless LAN technology, which is an interface between a wireless client and a base station or between two wireless clients. 802.11 family includes the following specifications and with more coming: 802.11 = 1 or 2 Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz band, using either frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) or direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)).

  • Page 100: 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 101 Continue Install the VGA card (if have). 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 102 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 103 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.
  • Page 104 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 105 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 106 Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AX4SPE-GN R1.00 Jun.01.2003 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AX4SPE-GN is model name of motherboard; R1.00 is BIOS version.

  • Page 107: 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 108 Please do not hesitate contact us if you have any problem about our products. Any opinion will be appreciated. Pacific Rim Europe America AOpen Inc. AOpen Computer b.v. AOpen America Inc. Tel: 886-2-3789-5888 Tel: 31-73-645-9516 Tel: 1-510-489-8928 Fax: 886-2-3789-5899 Email: Support@AOpen.NL...

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