Summary of Contents for EPOX An Intel Socket 478 Processor Based Mainboard (400/533MHz)
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Table of Contents Page Section 1 Introduction Overview Section 2 Features Section 3 Installatio Easy Installation Procedure...
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Section 4 Award BIOS Setup Section 5 Driver Installation Appendix Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E...
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Introduction Hyper Pipelined Technology & 400/533MHz System Bus Hyper-Threading Technology For more information about all the new features the Pentium 4 delivers check out the Intel website at http://www.intel.com Page 1-5...
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Introduction Mainboard Form-Factor Expandable I/O AT X Single chassis fan Power Supply for system PCI slots ATX 12V power AGP slot connector ATX power connector 5 1/4" Floppy / IDE 3 1/2" connectors Figure 2: Summary of ATX chassis features Page 1-8...
Introduction I/O Shield Connector RJ-45 LAN Joystick/Midi Port Parallel Port (Optional) PS/2 Mouse PS/2 Keyboard COM1 USB2.0 Line-out/Front out ports Line-in/Rear out Mic-in/Center&Subwoofer Figure 3: I/O back panel layout Power-On/Off (Remote) Remote On/Off ® Note: For maintaining the DDR SDRAM power during STR (ACPI S3) function, it is strongly recommend to use power supplies that have a +5VSB current of (>=) 1A (1000mA).
Installation Section 3-3 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout NOTE:The mainboard does not support double-sided x 16 DDR DIMMs. Use DDR SDRAM (Double-Data-Rate Synchronous DRAM) modules only. <Figure 7> Bank 0/1 DDR DIMM 1 Synchronous DDR DIMM 2 Bank 2/3 DRAM <Table 1>...
Installation Section 3-4 Device Connectors RJ-45 LAN Joystick/Midi Port Parallel Port (Optional) PS/2 Mouse PS/2 Keyboard COM1 USB2.0 Line-out/Front out ports Line-in/Rear out Mic-in/Center&Subwoofer Figure 11 - I/O Ports FAN2 FAN1: FAN2: FAN3: CPU Fan Power Fan Chassis Fan FAN1 FAN3 Page 3-8...
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Installation FLOPPY1 Caution: ATX2 Be sure that the ATX1 and ATX2 Power Connector must be used ATX1 simultaneously or else boot-up may not be possible. COM2 Note: The board requires a minimum of 250 Watt power supply to operate. Your system configuration (amount of memory, add-in cards, peripherals, etc.) may exceed the minimum power requirement but to ensure that adequate power is provided, use a 300 Watt (or greater) power supply.
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Installation Settings Pins (5-6) & (9-10) Short (default): Only the Onboard Rear Audio Speaker can be used. Pins (5-6) & (9-10) Open: Only Front Panel Audio Speaker can be used. In 2-Channel audio mode, Mic-In is shared for both front panel and rear panel. In 6-Channel audio mode, the Mic-In is dedicated for front panel used, and rear panel Mic-In function will switch to Center and subwoofer support.
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Installation -Data USB2 +Data +Data -Data USB3 CAUTION ! Please make sure the USB cable has the same pin assignment. The different pin assignment may be caused damage of system. If you need the USB cable, please contact our retailer. Page 3-11...
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Installation " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " * The power LED lights when the system is powered on and blinks in SLEEP Mode or STR Mode. "...
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Installation Section 3-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO) Modem-Ring Power ON Function Keyboard Power ON Function NOTES: Page 3-13...
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Installation 3-6 STR (Suspend To RAM) Function ® NOTE: Clicking your PS/2 mouse or pressing a PS/2 keyboard key does not wake the system from STR mode. Page 3-14...
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BIOS IMPORTANT! If using PCI cards on shared slots, make sure that the drivers support Shared IRQ or that the cards dont need IRQ assignments. Conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups that will make the system unstable or cards inoperable.
Drivers Installation Section 5 Driver Installation Easy Driver Installation INTEL 845G/845GL/845GE/845PE CHIPSET DRIVER INTEL CHIPSET INF FILES INTEL APPLICATION ACCELERATOR ALC 201A/650 AC97 AUDIO DRIVER (Optional) VIA 6105 LAN DRIVER ACROBAT READER CD EXPLORER EXIT Insert the bundled CD-disk. Step 1 : Click INTEL CHIPSET INF FILES...
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Drivers Installation ALC650 Configuration Setup (6 Channel) To enable ALC650 Function <Figure 1> 1. Right-click Sound Effect button in the tool bar display currently selected Titles. Select Sound Manager. Sound Effect: <Figure 2> 2. Click Sound Effect button and select Environment from the drop-down menu.
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Drivers Installation Equalizer: <Figure 3> 3. Click Equalizer and setup the value of dB. Speak Configutation: <Figure 4> 4. Click Line in and Mic in buttons to enable 6 channel function as this is required for the ALC650. Page 5-3...
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Drivers Installation Speak Configutation: <Figure 5> 5. The selected screen appears. Speaker Test: <Figure 6> 6. Click Speaker Test button and click on the speakers directly which show on the screen to test it. Page 5-4...
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Drivers Installation General: <Figure 7> 7. General Information for user reference. Page 5-5...
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Appendix Appendix A A-1 Realtek Media Player User’s Guide Realtek Media Player Platform " 06 - Reo Speedwagon " & 06-Reo Speedwagon - K 03:31 Functional Descriptions A. Playback Windows Display...
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Appendix B. Playback Function Controls e l l y t i t i d t o l C. Playback Controls...
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Appendix D. Seeking bar E. Title/Play List Windows F. Title/Play List Edit Controls G. Title/Play List Scroll bar H. Recording Function Controls I. REC/Playback Time Display...
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Appendix J. Platform Display Panel Controls K. Equalizer Control Panel...
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Appendix Appendix B B-1 Update Your System BIOS XXXX XXXX XXXXX xxxxx.bin...
Appendix Appendix C C-1 EEPROM BIOS Remover Do not remove the BIOS chip, unless instructed by a technician and only with a PLCC IC extractor tool. The BIOS socket may be damaged if using an improper method to replace the BIOS chip.
Appendix Appendix D D-1 GHOST 7 Quick User’s Guide (Optional) Ghost7 Ghost.exe Main Menu Description of Menu Ghost Disk Partition. Disk Partition Check Disk...
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Appendix There are 3 hard disk functions: Important! Disk To Disk (Disk Cloning) Source drive Destination drive...
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Appendix Disk To Image (Disk Backup) Disk From Image(Restore Backup)
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Appendix 1. Partition To Partition 2. Partition To Image 3. Partition From Image Partition To Partition (Partition Cloning) Partition To Image (Partition Backup)
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Appendix Partition From Image (Restore Partition)
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Appendix How to Reinstall Windows in 2 Minutes This chapter guides you how to setup your computer properly and, if necessary, reinstall Windows Ghost Recover Floppy Recover CD Emergency Recover Floppy Windows Office Windows, Ghost Original.gho !" !" !" !" Windows Autoexec.
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Appendix Autoexec.bat B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p Restore Restore Restore Restore Restore [General Windows] [Windows and Application Programs].
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Appendix Recover CD [Introducing Ghosts Functions] D-10...
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