AOpen S661FXm-FSN User Manual

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Chapter 1 Table of Contents..................................................................... 1

1.1 Saftey Precautions.......................................................................................4

1.2 Disposal Instruction .....................................................................................5

1.3 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................8

1.4 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................9

1.5 Safety Information ......................................................................................9

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................. 10

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?......................................................... 10

2.2 Specification ............................................................................................. 11

2.3 Block Diagram .......................................................................................... 12

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............................................................. 13

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure ....................................................................... 13

3.2 Installation You Have to Know..................................................................... 14

Installing CPU ...........................................................................................14

Installing CPU Cooler .................................................................................15

Installing CPU and System Fans ..................................................................18

Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................19

Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................20

Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................21

Connecting ATX Power Cables .....................................................................22

3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 23

Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................23

Connecting Serial ATA ................................................................................24

Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................25

Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot ..............................................................26

Connecting IrDA........................................................................................27

10/100 LAN Supported...............................................................................28

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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Chapter 1 Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1 Table of Contents..............1 1.1 Saftey Precautions..................4 1.2 Disposal Instruction ..................5 1.3 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start............8 1.4 Features of This Manual ................9 1.5 Safety Information ..................9 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ..........10 2.1 How does your motherboard look like?............
Page 2 Connecting USB2.0..................29 Connecting 1394 ..................30 Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect ..............31 Connecting Front Audio ................32 Connecting CD_IN ..................33 Connecting AUX_IN ...................34 Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) ........35 Colored Coded Back Panel ................36 LED Indication ..................37 3.4 Jumper Settings ..................38 Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities...........
Page 3 Save & Exit Setup ..................59 Exit without Saving ...................59 Load EEPROM Defaults ................59 Save EEPROM Defaults................59 Credits.....................59 5.4 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment..........60 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers ..............62 6.1 Installing Drivers..................63 6.2 Installing Utilities ..................64 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..............65 Chapter 8 Technical Support ..............
Page 4: Saftey Precautions
1.1 Saftey Precautions Read and follow the content of the Safety Precautions carefully so that you will not cause damages to yourself or the system. Before you install or remove any components on the motherboard, please make sure to disconnect the power first in case of damaging motherboard or other components.
Page 5: Disposal Instruction
For more information about the collection and recycling of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), you are invited to visit our homepage at www.aopen.com under “Green Products”. 廃棄上の指示 (US) より良い地球保護のために、電子機器を廃棄処分にするときは、ゴミ箱に捨てないで下さ...
Page 6 Voor meer informatie over de verzameling en recycling van elektrisch afval en elektronische apparatuur (WEEE), nodigen we u uit om onze homepage te bezoeken www.aopen.com onder "Green Products". Instruction de Disposition (French) Pour une meilleure protection de la terre, ne jetez pas ce dispositif électronique dans la poubelle municipale lors de la disposition.
Page 7 För att minimera mängden föroreningar och så långt som möjligt skydda den globala miljön bör produkten återvinnas. För vidare information om insamling och återvinning av uttjänta elektriska och elektroniska produkter (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE), besök avsnittet "Green Products" på vår hemsida, www.aopen.com.
Page 8: 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 9: Features Of This Manual
1.4 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 10: 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. Realtek 10/100 LAN 16. DieHard BIOS Lite 2. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 17. Onboard AC’97 CODEC 3. 4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector 18.
Page 11: Specification
2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models S661FXm-FSN Intel Pentium M / Celeron M Processor Socket 479 533/400MHz Chipset SiS 661FX/964 Chipset 400/333MHz DDR DIMM x 2 Main Memory DIMM Type : 256/512MB & 1GB Max Memory : 2GB...
Page 12: Block Diagram
2.3 Block Diagram PCI Bus Socket 479 32-bit PCI Slot x3 Intel Pentium M 150MB/s Serial ATA Ports x 2 533/400MHz System Bus 66/100/133 IDE Drives x 4 VGA Onboard 661FX AGP bus Chipset RealTek AGP 8X AC97 CODEC AGP 8X Slot DIMM Sockets x2 DDR 400/333 RAM Up to 2GB...
Page 13: 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 14: Installation You Have To Know
3.2 Installation You Have to Know Installing CPU This socket supports uFCPGA package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in. Unscrew the socket screw counter-clockwise. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a golden arrow on the CPU upper interface.
Page 15: Installing Cpu Cooler
Installing CPU Cooler This motherboard comes with a special CPU cooler desiged by AOpen, please follow the following steps to install CPU cooler. Please apply thermal paste on the bottom of CPU cooler. Thermal paste Gently put CPU cooler onto the CPU retention module.
Page 16 Install two cooler fixing sticks into CPU retention module. Note: Make sure that the sticks have hooked CPU retention module firmly. Fixing stick Push the iron plate of cooler fixing stick up a bit. Iron plate...
Page 17 Then press iron plate downward till you hear a “clip” sound. Note: Make sure that the iron plate have hooked CPU retention module firmly. Note: We recommand to use our AOpen FAN.
Page 18: 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. SENSOR +12V SYSFAN1 Connector +12V Sensor CPUFAN Connector +12V Sensor SYSFAN2 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so...
Page 19: Installing Memory Modules
Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in black 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 DIMM in place when the DIMM...
Page 20: 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 Secondary Secondary Slave (4th) Master (3rd) Pin 1 Primary...
Page 21: 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 housing, which is a 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel.
Page 22: Connecting Atx Power Cables
Connecting ATX Power Cables This motherboard comes with a 24-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 24-pin connector. +12V +12V Ground...
Page 23: 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. Setting CPU Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through 1MHz stepping CPU Overclocking in the BIOS.
Page 24: 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 25: 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 26: Connecting Agp 8X Expansion Slot
Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot This motherboard provides an AGP 8X slot. 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 27: 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 28: 10/100 Lan Supported
10/100 LAN Supported On the strength of SIS 10/100 LAN controller on board, this motherboard provides 10/100Mbps 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 29: 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 30: 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 31: Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect
Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with a Realtek AC’97 CODEC (ALC655), which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC655, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any external module.
Page 32: 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 33: Connecting Cd_In
Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. CD-IN Connector...
Page 34: Connecting Aux_In
Connecting AUX_IN This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
Page 35: 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 36: Colored Coded Back Panel
Colored Coded Back Panel The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, IEEE1394, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, and AC’97 sound. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP RJ45 PS/2 Mouse...
Page 37: Led Indication
LED Indication LED indication including Standby LED and AGP 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 This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse JP28 Keyboard / Mouse wake-up function. Wakeup Jumper Pin 1 Enable Disable (Default) JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper Normal Clear CMOS (Default) JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper Pin 1 You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below.
Page 39: Chapter 4 Special Features And Utilities
Serial ATA hard disks. You may use RAID BIOS Setting Utility provided by SIS to setup your disk array. For more RAID introduction, please visit our website: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/RAID.htm RAID BIOS Setting Utility In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID BIOS Setting Utility to do some configuration.
Page 40: Other Useful Features
4.2 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 41: 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 42: How To Use Phoenix-Award™ Bios Setup Program
5.2 How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, press <Enter> key to select, and use <Page Up> and <Page Down> keys to change setting values. You can press <Esc> key to quit Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program.
Page 43: Standard Cmos Features
Standard CMOS Features The "Standard CMOS Setup" sets the basic system parameters such as the date, time, and the hard disk type. Use the arrow keys to highlight an item and <PgUp> or <PgDn> to select the value for each item. Standard CMOS Features >...
Page 44 Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 0 Master > IDE HDD Auto-Detection Press “Enter” to auto-detect parameters of HDD Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 0 Master > IDE Channel 0 Master (Slave) Define the parameters of IDE devices in Channel 0 (Master or Slave). Available options: None: if there is no device, please select “None”...
Page 45: Advanced Bios Features
Standard CMOS Features > HaltOn This parameter enables you to control the system stops in case of Power-On Self Test (POST) error. Available items: No errors / All errors / All, But Keyboard / All, But Diskette / All, But Disk/Key Advanced BIOS Features This screen appears when you select the option "Advanced BIOS Features"...
Page 46 enabled, and a high temperature situation is detected, it will cause the CPU to adjust its operating frequency via the core to bus ratio and input voltage via the VID signals. TM2 Bus Ratio and TM2 Bus VID show the CPU default value for TM2.
Page 47: Advanced Chipset Features
The “Setup” option limits access only to BIOS setup. To disable the security option, select Password Setting from the main menu, don't type anything and just press <Enter> Advanced BIOS Features > APIC Mode Advanced BIOS Features > MPS Version Control For OS Advanced Chipset Features The "Advanced Chipset Features"...
Page 48 Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > DRAM Timing Control Available options: By SPD: System will define timing according to default of Dram. (Default) Manual: Allow user to define timing himself. Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > CAS Latency Time When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing.
Page 49: Integrated Peripherals
Integrated Peripherals This submenu appears if you select the option "Integrated Peripherals" from the main menu. This option allows you to configure the I/O features. Integrated peripherals > SiS OnChip IDE Device This parameter allows you to “Enable” or “Disable” the IDE device connected to the primary or secondary IDE connector.
Page 50 Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device This item allows you to set onboard devices. Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > AC97 Audio This item is used to enable or disable the onboard audio. Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > Onboard LAN Control This item lets you enable or disable onboard LAN.
Page 51 Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device > Onboard FDC Controller Setting this parameter to “Enabled“ allowing you to connect your floppy disk drives to the onboard floppy disk connector instead of a separate controller card. Change the setting to Disabled if you want to use a separate controller card. Integrated peripherals >...
Page 52 Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >IR Transmission Delay If “Enabled” is selected, there will be a 4 character delay when SIR is changed from TX mode to RX mode. Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >Use IR Pins Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >Onboard Parallel Port This item controls the onboard parallel port address and interrupt.
Page 53: Power Management Setup
Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup screen enables you to control the motherboard green features. See the following screen. Power Management > ACPI Suspend Type This function allows you to select suspend types. S1 is Power On Suspend and S3 is Suspend to RAM.
Page 54 Power Management > Soft-off by PWR-BTTN This is a specification of ACPI and supported by hardware. When Delay 4 sec. is selected, the soft power switch on the front panel can be used to control power On, Suspend and Off. If the switch is pressed for less than 4 seconds during power On, the system will go into Suspend mode.
Page 55: Pnp/Pci Configurations
PNP/PCI Configurations The PNP / PCI Configuration Setup allows you to configure the ISA and PCI devices installed in your system. The following screen appears if you select the option "PNP/PCI Configuration Setup" from the main menu. PNP/PCI Configurations > Reset Configuration Data PNP/PCI Configurations >...
Page 56: Silent Bios/Hw Monitor
PNP/PCI Configurations > Assign IRQ For USB In case conflict occurs after you assign the IRQs or after you configure your system, you can enable this function, allow your system to automatically reset your configuration and reassign the IRQs, DMAs, a nd I/O address.
Page 57: Frequency/Voltage Control
Fixed Speed: User could define the voltage of each fan to make fan operate in a fixed speed. 1. If CPUFAN doesn’t be connected or operate, there would be Warning Beep. 2. When SystemFAN or PowerFAN is connected to motherboard, if SystemFAN or PowerFAN doesn’t work, there would be Warning Beep.
Page 58: Load Setup Defaults
Frequency/Voltage Control > Clock Spread Spectrum This item is used to set the value of clock Spread Spectrum. BIOS will determine the adjustable value according to the CPU installed, not all items will be showed. This function only works when CPU Bus frequency is at 100MHz. Available options: 0.3% Center / 0-0.5% down / 0.55% Center / 0-0.75% down / Spread Off Frequency/Voltage Control >...
Page 59: Set Password
You may use this item to save your own settings into EEPROM. Then, if the data in CMOS is lost or you forget the previous settings, you may use "Load EEPROM Default" to reload. Credits List of all excellent AOpen’s R&D join the research and development of this motherboard.
Page 60: Bios Upgrade Under Windows Environment
5.4 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 61 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.
Page 62: 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 63: 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 64: 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 65: Chapter 7 Troubleshooting
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Page 66: Chapter 8 Technical Support
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Page 67: 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 68: Technical Support
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AOpen S661FXm-FSN User Manual

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Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

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