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..........................1 What’s in this manual ..................................2 You Must Notice ....................................8 Before You Start ....................................9 Overview ......................................10 Feature Highlight.....................................11 Quick Installation Procedure ................................ 15 Motherboard Map ................................... 16 Block Diagram ....................................17 Hardware Installation........................18 Clear CMOS Data ..................................19 CPU Installation .....................................
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ATX Power Connector ................................... 33 AC Power Auto Recovery ................................34 JP28 Keyboard Wake-up ................................34 IDE, Floppy and IDE RAID (AK77 Plus only) Connector ......................35 IDE RAID Controller (AK77 Plus only) ............................37 IrDA Connector....................................38 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector ........................39 WOL (Wake on LAN) ..................................
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If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use <Home> key to restore the 7 default setting (433MHz) or you can wait the AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” reset the system after five seconds and system will auto-detect hardware again....
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