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Summary of Contents for AOpen MX36LE-N

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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 Feature Highlight ......................................11 Quick Installation Procedure ..................................14 Motherboard Map ....................................... 15 Hardware Installation ........................16 JP14 Clear CMOS Data ..................................... 17 CPU Installation ......................................
  • Page 3: Driver And Utility

    ATX Power Connector....................................28 IDE and Floppy Connector ..................................29 IrDA Connector ......................................32 WOL (Wake on LAN)....................................33 CNR Expansion Slot....................................35 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ................................36 COM2 Connector ......................................37 Support 2 USB Port ....................................38 CD Audio Connector ....................................
  • Page 4: Award Bios

    Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ................................. 52 Installing Windows 95 ....................................53 Installing Windows 98 ....................................54 Installing Windows 98 SE, Windows ME & Windows2000 ........................55 Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver..................................56 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................57 Installing Onboard AGP Driver .................................
  • Page 5 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..........................79 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................................79 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ..................................80 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ..................................... 80 APM (Advanced Power Management) ..............................80 ATA (AT Attachment) ....................................80 ATA/66.......................................... 80 ATA/100........................................81 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)................................
  • Page 6 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ................................84 Flash ROM ........................................84 FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ..................................84 C Bus ......................................... 84 IEEE 1394 ........................................85 Parity Bit ........................................85 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM) ................................85 PC-100 DIMM......................................86 PC-133 DIMM......................................86 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ............................
  • Page 7: Technical Support

    SPD (Serial Presence Detect) .................................. 88 UltraATA ........................................89 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ..................................89 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) ................................90 ZIP file .......................................... 90 Troubleshooting ...........................91 Technical Support........................95 Product Registration........................99...
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  • Page 16 &    $      !       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 17 F   %    &   %  !     ! 7&     !  -(&.!        (- /1 E7)  -3/ !  )( E7)      7G- C &.!        (-  When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 7 3. Troubleshooting…         ...
  • Page 18 &         /6*"+   " !    "    "   >*3   1 7           "      7    &    "    ! "    "  If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you may damage the CPU.            ...
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  • Page 20   H"'+  #  (  '4/!  2567 8 2. #% =- =/ -.:%   ; /6C =- =/ 7** =- =/ =) /.:%   ; 77- /6/ =- =/ =) 7// =/ =)   VIA PLE133 chipset supports maximum 133MHz FSB, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage....
  • Page 21 " "   !"#$ %& !'    If your system hangs or fails to boot        because of overclocking, simply use <( )> key to restore the default setting.  25# 03:'4 /!  25 0#9%   C** C**9, 009, 6C=   C// C//9, 009,...
  • Page 22 B002+ B009, 7//9, 0C >//2+ >//9, 7//9, 7< 7***9, 7//9, 6C= 77/< 77/<9, 7//9, BC= 7-< 7-<9, 7//9, >= 7/< 7/<9, 7//9, 7*=  VIA PLE133 chipset supports maximum 133MHz FSB Bus, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage....
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  • Page 30 27    !          2-         2      ! 2               !      !         ! #  3'!) 2           (%&             $    2       (%      The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum of 46cm (18 inches), make sure your...
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  • Page 42 " "          !             O                       '    7   - <4 'L 7 AC5 'L5(2' 9%42L( 9%42L1 >  7*  Please remove the jumper cap from the Front Panel Audio Connector before you connect the cable.
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  • Page 45  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 51 &                 % +    F O                +     !       :  ! >B;            O   Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows 98....
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  • Page 56 F    5 )7   :2+  :'  !4&; 5&5     5<(R (   :'  !>B;5(  :4';  ;  +    Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure. If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver, please remove the AGP card driver first. Otherwise, the screen may go black at rebooting after the un-installation....
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  • Page 67 ! >B    !  !  : !   S2'& ! 2'!% :.3S#)D2.:.3S; /( )(S4!9 ! S ! S !  ( S C  S%KS  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 70      +%  !                 7-B  %   :      (&        ;&    +%  W Q! %&:! 3% &;  !    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....
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  • Page 72 '7*    =   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 73           $          !        +%    W Q    %&:! 3% &; S1 S        *   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 74               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 75 + !         M:  ! +%%41F; 7 ! !+% ,  %Y!  ' = ./01247*-Z - (  ! K"4Z: M##!!!!  #;!      =     +%      %  ,: M##!!!!, #; !  /  ,    ' = ./01247*-+4G./01247*-2.2 ) ( %!       : 2/B0;      C-*K    C 2= MQ./01247*-   !     #** "(##&0 372/ 33 '%!#!4 FF 0 ( W Q +% S1 S IG2=JD   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.
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  • Page 77  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 your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially CPU, DRAMs, hard disks, and AGP VGA cards.  Note that overclocking may also cause thermal problem.
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