AOpen AK79GTUBE User Manual

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DOC. NO.: AK79GTUBE-OL-E0212A

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AK79G Tube ...................................................................................................................................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

About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ....................................................................... 19

JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................................................................................................................................ 20

CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 21

AOpen Overheat Protection (O.H.P.) Technology .......................................................................................................... 23

CPU Jumper-less Design .............................................................................................................................................. 24

AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” ..............................................................................................................................................25

CPU and Housing Fan Connector .................................................................................................................................28

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumpers ...................................................................................................................... 29

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DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 30

STBY LED ..................................................................................................................................................................... 32

Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 33

ATX Power Connector...................................................................................................................................................34

AC Power Auto Recovery .............................................................................................................................................. 34

IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 35

Tube Related components............................................................................................................................................. 37

JP3 Tube Power Jumper ............................................................................................................................................... 38

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector......................................................................................................... 39

Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................... 40

TV Output Connector .................................................................................................................................................... 41

IrDA Connector .............................................................................................................................................................42

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot......................................................................................................43

AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED....................................................................................................................44

Support 10/100 Mbps LAN Onboard.............................................................................................................................. 45

Game Port Bracket Supported ...................................................................................................................................... 46

Die-Hard BIOS II ........................................................................................................................................................... 47

Color Coded Back Panel ...............................................................................................................................................48

COM2 Connector ..........................................................................................................................................................49

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Support USB 2.0 Ports .................................................................................................................................................. 50

IEEE 1394 Connectors .................................................................................................................................................. 51

Case Open Connector................................................................................................................................................... 52

CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 53

AUX-IN Connector.........................................................................................................................................................54

Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 55

Battery-less and Long Life Design................................................................................................................................. 56

CPU Over-current Protection......................................................................................................................................... 57

Hardware Monitoring.....................................................................................................................................................58

AOConfig Utility .............................................................................................................................................................59

Resetable Fuse ............................................................................................................................................................. 61

2200μF Low ESR Capacitor.........................................................................................................................................62

Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ........................................................................................................................................ 63

Open JukeBox Player.................................................................................................................................................... 64

Vivid BIOS technology...................................................................................................................................................68

The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek ..................................................................................................................................69

EzClock.........................................................................................................................................................................72

Driver and Utility .......................................................................................................................76

Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD .....................................................................................................................................76

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NVIDIA nForce Drivers .................................................................................................................................................. 77

NVIDIA Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Display Driver ..........................................................................................................78

Install USB2.0 driver in Existing Windows XP System...................................................................................................79

Install USB2.0 driver in Existing Windows 98/ME System ............................................................................................. 80

Phoenix Award BIOS..................................................................................................................81

How To Use Phoenix Award™ BIOS Setup Program.....................................................................................................82

How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................. 84

WinBIOS Utility ............................................................................................................................................................. 85

BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment .................................................................................................................87

Glossary ....................................................................................................................................89

AC97 CODEC ............................................................................................................................................................... 89

ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) .......................................................................................................89

ACR (Advanced Communication Riser)......................................................................................................................... 89

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port).................................................................................................................................... 90

AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................................................................................................................................ 90

ATA (AT Attachment) .....................................................................................................................................................90

BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ................................................................................................................................ 91

Bluetooth.......................................................................................................................................................................91

CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)................................................................................................................ 92

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DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM ...................................................................................................................................... 92

ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ........................................................................................................................... 92

EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM)....................................................................................................92

EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)....................................................................................................................... 93

EV6 Bus ........................................................................................................................................................................ 93

FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ........................................................................................................................... 93

FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ................................................................................................................................ 93

FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) .............................................................................................................................. 93

Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................... 94

Hyper Threading ........................................................................................................................................................... 94

IEEE 1394.....................................................................................................................................................................94

Parity Bit .......................................................................................................................................................................95

PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ...................................................................................................................95

PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................... 95

PnP (Plug and Play) ...................................................................................................................................................... 95

POST (Power-On Self Test) ..........................................................................................................................................96

PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock .............................................................................................................................. 96

RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory)..................................................................................................96

RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ........................................................................................................................96

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SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ...................................................................................................................................... 96

SATA (Serial ATA) .........................................................................................................................................................97

SMBus (System Management Bus) ............................................................................................................................... 97

SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ....................................................................................................................................... 97

USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ..................................................................................................................................... 97

VCM (Virtual Channel Memory).....................................................................................................................................98

Wireless LAN – 802.11b ................................................................................................................................................ 98

ZIP file........................................................................................................................................................................... 98

Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................... 99

Technical Support ...................................................................................................................103

Product Registration ...............................................................................................................107

How to Contact Us .................................................................................................................. 108

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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

in PDF format

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Thank you for choosing AOpen AK79G Tube. The AK79G Tube is based on AMD® Socket 462 motherboard with ATX form factor

featuring the AMD Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP CPU

Socket 462 series Athlon™, Duron™ and AthlonXP™ processor (with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to Athlon™XP CPU only).

The motherboard also supports 333/266/200MHz EV6 bus. For better graphic performance, GeForce4 MX Graphics is

integrated for delivering fastest speed, multi-display functionality and multiple configurations of CRTs and TVs. Hence, AK79G

Tube supports TV-OUT function which supports TV-Out card. It also supports 1.5V AGP interface with AGP 8x/4x with Fast Write

data transfer. According to different customers’ requirements,

this motherboard supports DDR400

dual channel DDRAM up to 3GB maximum. The onboard

IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 and the

transfer rate up to 133MB/s. In addition, AK79G Tube

Motherboard integrates Sovtek 6922 dual Triode tube to

provide you incredible sound effects that even audiophiles

would be stunned when they listen to the music. Besides,

AK79G Tube has an AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650

onboard providing high performance and magic surround

stereo sound to let people enjoy working with it. More than

that, this motherboard supports USB 2.0

fancy speed of up to 480Mbps.Now, let’s enjoy all features

from AK79G Tube motherboard.

. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK79G Tube support AMD®

, DDR333 and DDR266

chipset

function with a

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CPU

Supports AMD® Socket 462 series CPU with 200MHz, 266MHz and 333MHz, EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology.

Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz

Duron: 600MHz~1.3GHz

AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~2800+(2.25GHz)

Chipset

NVIDIA nForce™2-G is excellent in providing amazing digital media performance, such as 400MHz DDR memory controller,

optimized 128-bit architecture reducing overall system memory latency. What nForce™2-G integrated in this excellent chipset is

the GeForce4 MX Graphics, which provides the fastest integrated graphics performance and the most comprehensive set of

features. Of three PCI slots provided, this model supports all three master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all

integrated functions and LPC bus.

Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Bus Master IDE

Embedded within NVIDIA MCP-T, this motherboard equips with Ultra DMA 66/100/133 that supports two connectors, and that

means four IDE devices in two channels, and supports Enhanced IDE devices.

Expansion Slots

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Including three 32-bit/33MHz PCI slots and one AGP 8X slot which supports AGP card. The PCI local bus throughput can be up

to 132MB/s. The

with data transfer rate up to 2.1GB/s.

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)

specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed

Memory

With NVIDIA nForce™2-G chipsets, the AK79G Tube can support dual channel Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The dual

channel mode allows chipsets to get data in 128 bit. The DDR RAM interface allows zero wait state bursting between the

SDRAM and the data buffers at 333/266/200MHz. The three slots of DDR RAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64,

128, 256, 512 MB or 1GB DDR RAM and maximum up to 3GB. The AK79G Tube allows DDR RAM to run at either synchronous

or pseudo-synchronous mode with the host CPU bus frequency (400/333/266MHz).

On-board AC97 Sound

AK79G Tube uses the AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and

playback system.

Sovtek 6922 Dual Triode Tube

This tube Motherboard incorporates Sovtek 6922 dual Triode tube to provide you the incredible sound effects that even

audiophiles would be stunned when they listen the music.

LAN Port

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LAN MAC embedded in nForce2 chipsets and a Realtek RTL8201BL PHY onboard, which support 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet

and is IEEE802.3 compliant.

Six USB 2.0 Connectors

Provides three ports, six USB 2.0 connectors with transfer rates at high speed of 480Mbps for USB interface devices, such as

mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.

1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment

Provides “1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS, this magic function allows you adjust CPU FSB

frequency from 100~200 by 1MHz stepping, and lets your system can get maximum performance.

Watch Dog ABS

Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail to system overclocking.

S/PDIF Connector

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is the newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical

fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio.

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Power Management/Plug and Play

Supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers

making the system much more user-friendly.

Plug-and-Play

, which helps saving users from configuration problems, thus

Hardware Monitoring Management

Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor

module and

Aopen Hardware Monitoring Utility.

SilentTek

Combines “Hardware-Status Monitoring”, “Overheat Warning” and “Fan Speed Control” with user-friendly interfaces to provide a

perfect balance among noises, system performance and stability.

Enhanced ACPI

Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR

(Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) features.

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This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly.

1. Installing CPU and Fan

2. Installing System Memory (DIMM)

3. Connecting Front Panel Cable

4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable

5. Connecting ATX Power Cable

6. Connecting Back Panel Cable

7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default

8. Setting CPU Frequency

Reboot

10.

Installing Driver and Utility

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Realtek LAN PHY

CD-IN Connector

AUX-IN Connector

Onboard AC’97 CODEC

Tube Audio Connector

Case Open Connector

IrDA Connector

S/PDIF Connector

Sovtek 6922 dual Triode Tube

MultiCap Hi-End Audio Grade

32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x3

JP24 Die-Hard BIOS Jumper JP25 Rescue BIOS Jumper

JP2 Speaker output Jumper

Language Selection Jumper

& Tube Base

WIMA Hi-End Audio Grade

Game Port Connector

Capacitor

COM2 Connector

JP3 Tube Power Jumper

JP 14 CMOS Clear Jumper

USB 2.0 Connector

Front Panel Connector

SYSFAN3 Connector

JP15/JP16 Dr. Voice II

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Front Audio Connector

PC99 Colored Back Panel

JP28 KB/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper

AGP LED

TV Output Connector

SYSFAN2 Connector

462-pin CPU Socket that supports AMD Athlon / Duron / Athlon XP(with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to Athlon

AGP 8x Expansion Slot Up to 2.1 GB/s Translate rate

nForce2-GT Chipsets that supports 333MHz FSB,DDR 400 AGP 8X, integrates nVidia Geforce4 MX

184-pin DIMMx3 Supports 128bit dual channel DDR400/333/266 max. to 3GB

ATX Power Connector IEEE1394 Connector x 2 FDD Connector IDE Connector x 2

(ATA/66/100/133 supported)

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XP CPU only)

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Socket 462

Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP CPU

AMD

VGA onboard

200/266/333MHz

System Bus

AGP 8X Slot

128bit dual channel

DDR400/333/266 Up to 3GB

DDR SDRAM Socket x3

nVidia

nForce2 IGP

AGP Bus

LAN connect Component

PCI Bus

RTL8201BL

1stUSB Port

2ndUSB Port

3rdUSB Port

USB Port x6

Floppy Disk Drive x2

66/100/133

RealTek

32-bit PCI Slot x3

ATA

Primary

Channel

Secondary

Channel

nVidia

nForce2 MCP-T

AC’97 Link

Winbond

W83627HF

IDE Drive x4

Audio CODEC

4Mb Flash EEPROM

Parallel Port

Serial Port x2

IEEE 1394 x2

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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.

1. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it.

2. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a

component. If a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout

any procedures requiring ESD protection.

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When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may notice that some of the functions are

marked as “User Upgrade Optional” or “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. Although all of AOpen’s motherboards have included

many amazing and powerful features, sometimes not every user is familiar with these powerful features. As a result of this we

define features that can be upgraded by users as “User Upgrade Optional”. You can upgrade these functions by purchasing

additional devices. As for functions that cannot be upgraded by users, we define them as “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. If

need be, you can contact our local distributors or resellers to purchase “Manufacture Upgrade Optional” components, and again

you are also welcome to visit our official website at english.aopen.com.tw

for detail information.

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You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedures below.

1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power.

2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2.

3. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds.

4. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin 1 & pin 2.

5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2.

Normal Operation

(default)

Pin 1

Clear CMOS

Tip: When should I Clear CMOS?

1. Boot fails because of overclocking…

2. Forget password…

3. Troubleshooting…

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This motherboard supports AMD® Athlon and Duron Socket 462 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into

CPU socket (with CPU Overheat Protection function implemented, the system will be automatically power off when the

temperature of CPU reached 97 degree, but works on AthlonXP CPU only).

1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and

up to 90-degree angle.

2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge, then insert the CPU into the socket.

CPU socket

Lever

Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly be the same motherboard.

CPU pin 1

and cut edge

Black dot

and cut edge

CPU

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3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation.

Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly be the same motherboard.

cut edge

Note: If you do not match the CPU

socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well,

ou may damage the CPU.

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With AMD platform substantially keeps increasing the speed of its CPU, it inevitably led to the annoying problem of high CPU

operation temperature at the same time. In order to prevent accidental failure of CPU fan, which could cause the burning down

of the AthlonXP CPU, we, AOpen, have meticulously developed a new technology, named, O.H.P. (Overheat Protection)

Technology to protect them. Thanks to the intelligent monitoring design of AOpen O.H.P. technology, user can now finally set

their mind at ease even when fan failed to work without fearing the possible damage of CPU.

Under the circumstances that CPU fan is running properly, AthlonXP temperature should be way below the highest temperature

limit of 97℃. However, if CPU fan accidentally becomes

malfunction or improperly installed, the CPU temperature

would rocket abruptly, and you may find your system hang

up or crying over the smoking CPU if you haven’t installed

AOpen O.H.P. previously. With AOpen O.H.P. technology

applied, the specific thermal detection pins on AthlonXP

CPU would sense voltage difference when processor is

overheated with fan failed, and the overheat protection

system would immediately send out a signal to abort your

system by cutting CPU electricity before any damage is

done. Unlike other manufacturers who use BIOS or

software to control the power supply of CPU, AOpen O.H.P.

Technology is purely hardware-controlled the minute after

system boot-up, and occupies no system resource. We are

pleasant to phase in this practical function on all AOpen

AMD series motherboards to protect customer’s valuable

hardware and personal data.

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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.

CPU voltage

AMD

Socket 462 CPU

CPU VID signal

Attansic

ATXP3

VID signal

Power Regulator

nVIDIA

nForce2 IGP

SMbus

(Automatically generates CPU voltage)

nForce2 MCP-T

nVIDIA

BIOS

CPU Freq

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BIOS will detect the CPU’s default frequency and POST again. With this special feature, you can easily overclock your system

to get higher system performance, and without removing the cover of system housing to set the jumper to clear CMOS data

when your system hanged.

AOpen

Watch Dog ABS

Enable/Disable Signal

With this motherboard, AOpen provides a very special, useful feature for overclockers.

When you power-on the system, the BIOS will check last system POST

succeeded, the BIOS will enable “Watch Dog ABS” function immediately, and set the

CPU FSB

POST, the “Watch Dog ABS” will reset the system to reboot in five seconds. Then,

from BIOS

frequency by user’s setting that stored in the BIOS. If system failed in BIOS

BIOS

Reset Signal

Clock Generator

Countdown about

5 seconds if fails

in POST

CPU

status. If it

CPU ID Signal

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This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 1.1V

to 1.85V. It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage.

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This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, and no jumpers or switches

are needed.

BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Speed Setting

CPU Ratio From 5.5x to 16x step 0.5x

CPU FSB (Adjustment manually)

Home

FSB=100~200 by 1MHz Stepping CPU Overclocking

Warning: nForce2-G chipsets support 166MHz FSB (with performance reaches

maximum 333MHz EV6 system bus) and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may

cause serious system damage.

Tip: If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use <Home>

key to restore the default setting or you can wait the AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” reset

the system after few seconds and system will auto-detect hardware again.

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Core Frequency = CPU Bus Clock * CPU Ratio EV6 Bus Speed = CPU external bus clock x 2 PCI Clock = CPU Bus Clock / Clock Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2

CPU CPU Core Frequency EV6 Bus Clock Ratio Athlon 1G 1GHz 266MHz 7.5x Athlon 1.13G 1.13GHz 266MHz 8.5x Athlon 1.2G 1.2GHz 266MHz 9.0x Athlon 1.33G 1.33GHz 266MHz 10.0x Athlon 1.4G 1.4GHz 266MHz 10.5x AthlonXP 1500+ 1.3GHz 266MHz 10.0x AthlonXP 1600+ 1.4GHz 266MHz 10.5x AthlonXP 1700+ 1.46GHz 266MHz 11.0x AthlonXP 1800+ 1.53GHz 266MHz 11.5x AthlonXP 1900+ 1.6GHz 266MHz 12.0x AthlonXP 2000+ 1.667GHz 266MHz 12.5x AthlonXP 2100+ 1.73GHz 266MHz 13x AthlonXP 2200+ 1.80GHz 266MHz 13.5x AthlonXP 2400+ 2.0GHz 266MHz 15x AthlonXP 2600+ 2.13GHz 266MHz 16x AthlonXP 2700+ 2.16GHz 333MHz 13x AthlonXP 2800+ 2.25GHz 333MHz 13.5x Duron 1G 1GHz 200MHz 10.0x Duron 1.1G 1.1GHz 200MHz 11.0x Duron 1.2G 1.2GHz 200MHz 12.0x Duron 1.3G 1.3GHz 200MHz 13.0x

Note: With CPU speed changing rapidly, there might be fastest CPU on

the market by the time you received this installation guide. This table is kindly for your references only.

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Note: You have to adjust CPU

FSB in BIOS after installing

CPU; otherwise CPU will run at

default speed of CPU FSB

value.

Note: Due to the limitation of

nVidia chipset itself, if the FSB

overclocking frequency is

extremely high, (for example,

over 160MHz), the WatchDog

ABS and Home key function

may not be able to automatically

recover your motherboard. In

such case, please clear CMOS

by JP14.

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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.

SYSFAN3 Connector

CPUFAN1 Connector

GND +12V SENSOR

SYSFAN2 Connector

GND +12V SENSOR

Note: Some CPU fans do not have

sensor pin, so that they cannot support

fan monitoring.

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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. The factory default setting is “Disable”(1-2), and you

may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3.

JP28

Pin 1

Disable

(Default)

Enable

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This motherboard has three 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128bit dual channel DDR400 or DDR333 or

DDR266

channel mode, you must install two RAM in DIMM 1,DIMM3 or DIMM 2, DIMM3). Only Non-ECC DDR RAM is supported,

otherwise, it will cause serious damage on memory sockets or SDRAM module. For over clocking purpose, you can adjust

memory voltage in BIOS from 2.5V to 2.65V.

memory up to 3GB. To reach maximal performance, you had better install at least 2 RAM in the sockets(in 128 bit dual

Warning: This motherboard supports DDR

RAM. Please do not install the SDRAM on

the DDR RAM sockets, otherwise, it will

cause serious damage on memory sockets

or SDRAM module.

DIMM3

DIMM2

DIMM1

DDR RAM

Note: It is strongly recommended to run

DDR 400 under 2.65 V, otherwise the

system will be unstable.

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Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation.

1. Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below.

2. Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely

in place.

3. Repeat step 2 to finish additional DIMM modules installation.

Pin 1

Ta b

Key

52 pins 40 pins

Pin 1

Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot

will close-up to hold the DIMM in

place when the DIMM touches

the slot’s bottom.

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STBY LED is AOpen’s considerate design that aims at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED will light up

when power is connected 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.

Warning: Do not install or remove the

DIMM module or others devices when

the STBY LED lights on.

STBY LED

(

)

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Pin 1

Front Panel Connector

Attach the power LED, 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. Plug this connector to the soft-power

switch connector marked SPWR.

Suspend Type ACPI LED

Power on Suspend (S1) or Suspend to RAM (S3) Blinking between green and red.

Suspend to Disk (S4) The LED will be turned off

NC NC

+5V

+5V +5V

GND

SPWR GND ACPI LE D GND ACPILED NC ACPI_B GND RESET GND

IDE LED

Speaker

SPWR

ACPI & PWR LED

ACPI LED

Blue

Reset

IDE LED IDE LED

SPEAKER

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The ATX power supply uses 20-pin connector shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction.

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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.

20-Pin Power Connector

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Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation.

Wrong orientation may cause system damage.

ATA 66/100/133

IDE Connector

IDE1 (Primary)

Pin 1

FDD Connector

Pin1

Pin 1

IDE2 (Secondary)

66/100

/133is required

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IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 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. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM. The setting as master or slave mode depends on the jumper on

your IDE device, so please refer to your hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly.

This motherboard supports ATA66

modes. The IDE bus is 16-bit, which means every transfer is two bytes.

Mode Clock Period Clock Count Cycle TimeData Transfer Rate

PIO mode 0 30ns 20 600ns (1/600ns) x 2byte = 3.3MB/s

PIO mode 1 30ns 13 383ns (1/383ns) x 2byte = 5.2MB/s

PIO mode 2 30ns 8 240ns (1/240ns) x 2byte = 8.3MB/s

PIO mode 3 30ns 6 180ns (1/180ns) x 2byte = 11.1MB/s

PIO mode 4 30ns 4 120ns (1/120ns) x 2byte = 16.6MB/s

DMA mode 0 30ns 16 480ns (1/480ns) x 2byte = 4.16MB/s

DMA mode 1 30ns 5 150ns (1/150ns) x 2byte = 13.3MB/s

DMA mode 2 30ns 4 120ns (1/120ns) x 2byte = 16.6MB/s

ATA33 30ns 4 120ns (1/120ns) x 2byte x 2 = 33MB/s

ATA66 30ns 2 60ns (1/60ns) x 2byte x 2 = 66MB/s

ATA100 20ns 2 40ns (1/40ns) x 2byte x 2 = 100MB/s

ATA133 15ns 2 30ns (1/30ns) x 2byte x 2 = 133MB/s

Warning: The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum of 46cm (18 inches);

make sure your cable does not exceed this length.

, ATA100 or ATA1 33 IDE devices. Following table lists the transfer rate of IDE PIO and DMA

Tip:

1. For better signal quality,

it is recommended to set

the far end side device

to master mode and

follow the suggested

sequence to install your

new device. Please refer

to above diagra m

2. To achieve the best

performance of Ultra

DMA 66/100/133 hard

disks, a special 80-wires

IDE cable for Ultra DMA

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To provide audiophiles excellent audio effect on the computer system, this motherboard is equipped with a Vacuum Tube. You

may find its related component as shown below. For the detail information of tube installation or other related components,

please refer to Tube Manual.

Sovtek 6922 Tube and Tube Base

WIMA Hi-End Audio Grade Capacitor

Audio Cable Connector

MultiCap Hi-End Audio

Grade Capacitor

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This JP3 jumper allows you to switch on/off power supply for Vacuum Tube. You may switch the power off whenever you are not

using Tube as your audio output in order to save the power.

Note: For details of Vacuum Tube, please

refer to our specially made Tube Manual.

Pin 1

JP3 Tube Power Jumper

(Default)

OFF

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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. Normally there are two S/PDIF

outputs as shown, one for RCA connector, the most common one used for consumer audio products, and the other for optical

connector with better audio quality. Same as outputs, you can also connect RCA or optical audio products to input connectors

on the module and have the voice or music come out from your computer. However, you must have a S/PDIF supported

speaker/amplifier/decoder with S/PDIF digital input/output to connect to the S/PDIF digital input/output to make the most out of

this function.

(RCA)

S/PDIF OUT

S/PDIF IN

S/PDIF OUT

S/PDIF IN

(Optical)

S/PDIF Module

(User Upgrade Optional)

S/PDIF Cable

Pin 1

+5V

SPDIFOUT

GND

SPDIFIN

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This motherboard comes with an ALC650 CODEC, 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 ALC650, you're able to use standard line-jacks for

surround audio output without connecting any external module. To apply this function, you have to install the audio driver in the

Bonus Pack CD as well as an audio application supporting 5.1 Channel. Picture bellow represents the standard location of all

speakers in 5.1Channel sound track. Please connect the plug of your front speakers to the green “Speaker out” port, rear

speakers’ plug to the blue “Line in” port and both of the center and subwoofer speakers to the red “MIC in” port.

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This motherboard comes with a TV Output connector which allows you to accept digital graphic input signal, and encodes, and

transmit data through DVI or TV Output. Both NTSC and PAL TV formats are supported for this function. You may just install a

TV Output module (as shown) to your back panel, connect S-Terminal or AV-terminal to your TV, then use it as your another

monitor.

S-Terminal

AV-Termi na l

(User Upgrade Optional)

Pin 1

Key

Composite

Video

TV Output Connector

GND

Chroma

Luma

GND

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GND

IR_RX

IrDA Connector

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The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as

Laplink or Windows 95 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, UART2 Mode, make sure

to have the correct orientation when you plug in the IrDA connector.

+5V

IR_TX

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Integrated GeForce4 MX Graphics, which provides the fastest integrated graphics performance and the most comprehensive set

of features, this motherboard provides an AGP

falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 4X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. AGP is now moving

to AGP 8x mode, which is 66MHz x 4bytes x 8 =2.1GB/s.You can also adjust AGP voltage in BIOS within a rage from 1.5V to

1.6V.

Note: Please note that when an extra AGP card is

installed and the onboard AGP function in BIOS is

disabled, the system can support

DDR400/333/266; otherwise it only supports up to

DDR333.

8x slot targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP uses both rising and

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With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this model implements a blend new technology to

protect your motherboard from being damaged by over-voltage of AGP card. When AGP Protection Technology is implemented,

this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Please note

that if you install a AGP card with 3.3V, which is not supported, the AGP LED on the motherboard will light up to warn you the

possible damage of the exceeding voltage. You may contact your AGP card vendor for further support.

Warning: It is strongly recommended not

to install a AGP card with 3.3V, which is not

supported, the LED3 will light up to warn

you the possible damage.

AGP LED

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On the strength of nVIDIA nForce2 LAN controller on chip (with RealTek RTL8201BL PHY), which is a highly-integrated Platform

LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100M bps 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. To enable or disable this function, you may simply adjust it through BIOS.

Green/Transfer

Orange/Link

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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.

Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly look the same with the motherboard you purchased.

Joystick Module

(User Upgrade Optional)

Pin1

Game Port Connector

+5V

JAB1

JACX

GND GND

JACY

JAB2

+5V

+5V JBB1 JBCX MIDI_TXD JBCY JBB2 MIDI_RXD KEY

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Pin1

BIOS ROM by setting JP24 to pin 2-3 if it fails to work properly. This motherboard

JP24

Pin1

JP25 JP25

DDiiee--HHaarrdd BBIIOOSS IIII

Many viruses have been found that they may destroy bios code and data area lately. This motherboard implements a very

effective hardware protection method without any software or BIOS coding involved, therefore it is 100% virus free. You may

restore the originally mounted BIOS with 2

comes with one BIOS ROM, you may contact our local distributors or resellers for purchasing an extra BIOS ROM. Please visit

our website at www.aopen.com for details.

Rescue Normal

NO Protection Protection

JP24

VGA

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The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, serial ports COM1 and VGA, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game

port. The view angle of drawing shown here is the back panel of the housing.

PS/2 Keyboard: For standard keyboard, which is using a PS/2 plug. PS/2 Mouse: For PC-Mouse, which is using a PS/2 plug. USB Port: Available for connecting USB devices. Parallel Port: To connect with SPP/ECP/EPP printer. COM1 Port: To connect with pointing devices, modem or others serial devices. VGA Connector: To connect with PC monitor. Speaker Out: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier. Line-In: Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape player. MIC-In: From Microphone. LAN Port: Available for 10/100 LAN connection.

PS/2 Mouse

Connector

PS/2

Keyboard

USB2.0

Ports

SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port

COM 1 Port

Port

LAN Port

USB2.0 Ports

Line-In

Spea ker Out

MIC-In

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This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper left of board.

With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis.

Pin 1

GND

RI#

RTS#

1 2

SIN DTR# DSR# CTS#

DCD# SOUT

COM2 Connector

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SBD3-

Pin 1

Note: Please note that if you would like to use

USB devices (Example: keyboard, mouse etc.)

under DOS environment, you must install driver

comes with the devices to make it work.

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This motherboard provides six USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There is

one USB connector on the board for you to connect two USB devices and four other ports on the back panel. You can use

proper cables to connect USB devices from PC99 back panel or connect the front USB connector to the front panel of chassis.

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. On this motherboard, all six ports support USB 2.0 function.

GND

Key

GND

SBD2+

SBD3+

USB 2.0 Connector

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With IEEE1394 MAC Embedded in nForce2-GT/ST (with AGERE FW802A), the IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to

400Mb/s, and USB just has 12Mbps. Hence, the IEEE 1394 interface can connect with the devices that need high data

transferring performance, such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use the proper cable to connect

with devices.

+12V(fused)

9 10

SHIELD GND

-12V(fused)

TPB+

TPB-

IEEE 1394

Port 1 & 2

TPA+

TPA-

Pin 1Pin 1

GND

1 2

GND

Warning: Please be noted

that Hot-Plug in is not

allowed on IEEE 1394

header, because it will burn

the IC of the controller and

Pin 1

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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. Please be informed that this useful function only

applies to advanced chassis, you may purchase an extra sensor, attach it on your chassis, and make a good use of this

function.

GND

Sensor

Case Open Connector

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This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CD-ROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.

CD-IN Connector

GND

Note: Though some of the latest version 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.

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This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.

L GND GND R

AUX-IN Connector

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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. Please do not remove these 5-6 and 9-10 yellow jumper caps if there’s no audio port on the front panel.

AUD_MIC AUD_MIC_BIAS AUD_FPOUT_R

AUD_FPOUT_L

Pin 1

AUD_GND AUD_VCC AUD_RET_R KEY AUD_RET_L

Front Audio Connector

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This Motherboard implements Flash ROM and a special circuit that allows you to save your current CPU and CMOS Setup

configurations without using the battery. 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.

Flash

ROM

ATX Stand-by Power Battery

Auto Switch

RTC

(Real Time Clock)

00:00:00

CMOS

S817

Regulator

Backup by EEPROM

LPC

Super I/O

Auto switching to ATX standby

power as long as AC power

line is plugged. This smart

design can increases battery

life if you still had battery

plugged on motherboard.

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Over Current Protection has been popularly implemented on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply for a while. However,

new generation CPU is able to use regulator of different voltages to transfer 12V to CPU voltage (for example, to 2.0V). This

motherboard is with switching regulator onboard that supports CPU over-current protection, and it applies to 3.3V/5V/12V power

supply for providing full line over-current protection.

ATX Switching Power Supply

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.

12V (Protected by power supply)

3.3V (Protected by power supply)

5V (Protected by power supply)

Onboard Power Regulator

(Over-Current Protection)

CPU Core Voltage

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This motherboard implements a hardware monitoring system. As you turn on your system, this smart design will monitor your

system’s working voltage, fan status and CPU temperature. If any of those systems’ status goes wrong, there will be an alarm

through the chassis external speaker or buzzer of motherboard (if having this function and enabled) to warn the user.

Fan

CPU

Power

Fan Speed

AOpen H/W

Monitoring

Utility

CPU Temperature

CPU Voltage

System Voltage

Detection

Circuit

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and IDE devices. The powerful utility also displays the version of BIOS and firmware for your convenience of maintenance.

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.

AOpen always dedicated to provide users a much friendlier computer environment.

We now bring you a comprehensive system detective utility. AOconfig is a Windows

based utility with user-friendly interface that allows users to obtain information of the

operation system and hardware such as motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI devices

1. The system page shows the detail information of the motherboard, the operating system, the processor, and BIOS version.

2. The PCI device page shows the configurations of all PCI devices installed on your motherboard.

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3. This page presents the IDE devices information, such as the serial number, the manufacturer, the firmware version, and capacity.

4. From this page, users may obtain the technical support information of AOpen.

Moreover, detailed information

could be saved in .bmp or .txt

format.

NOTE: AOconfig can be used in Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000 and Windows XP. Please be informed that

Oconfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard. Meanwhile, all applications must

be closed before starting AOconfig.

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Traditional motherboard has fuse for Keyboard and USB port to prevent over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered

onboard that user cannot replace it when it is damaged (did the job to protect motherboard), and the motherboard remains

malfunction.

With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can resume back to normal function after fuse had done its protection job.

Resetable Fuse

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2222000

The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for the

stability of CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail

calculation.

Not only that, this motherboard implements 2200μF capacitor, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 or 1500μF)

and it provides better stability for CPU power.

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Cool down CPU and Chipset is important for system reliability. Enlarged aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption

especially when you are trying to over clocking the CPU.

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without any hassle of entering Windows operation system.

Here we are pleased to provide you a brand-new powerful interface—Open JukeBox.

Without any cost you can have your PC turn into a fashionable CD player! This latest Open

JukeBox motherboard aims at helping you directly operate your CD player on the PC

play

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How Your Open JukeBox Works

The operation of Open JukeBox Player is the same as other CD players. By pressing specific keys on the keyboard you will find

playing Open JukeBox Player couldn’t be easier than the traditional CD Players. Below is the function description of respective

buttons.

Power-Off Button

Operation System

Boot to

Power: Pressing O Boot: Pressing B Play: Pressing A Stop: Pressing S Pause: Pressing P Eject: Pressing E Repeat: Like other CD Players, pressing R Vol um e +/ -: Pressing + or – to adjust the volume of playing music.

Rewind/Forward Å / Æ: Pressing arrow keys, to rewind or forward the music.

, to directly power off your computer with no hassle of entering Windows Operation System.

, to intelligently boot to Windows Operation System for you. , to start playing CD music. , to stop the music playing. , to pause the music playing temporarily. , to eject CD tray for you to change CD disc.

, to shift the repeat mode.

Note: Though some of the latest

version of Windows support “Digital

udio” 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.

Dis

Function Key

Screen

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Your Open JukeBox Settings in BIOS

There are three Open JukeBox settings in BIOS as follows.

Auto

: The default setting is “Auto” with which the Open JukeBox will automatically check the CD player every time you power

on. The Open JukeBox will automatically be launched when it detects a music CD in your CD player.

Press Insert Key

you of pressing “Ins” key on your keyboard to start Open JukeBox Player; otherwise the system will launch the Windows

Operation System.

CD Player

pressing B on your keyboard the Windows Operation System will be launched.

: Choosing this setting will allow a reminder message popped up on the screen during BIOS POST. It reminds

: Choosing this setting allows the system to launch Open JukeBox Player every time you power on. However, by

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Your Open JukeBox EzSkin

Except these powerful functions above, Open JukeBox Player is also equipped with another fancy feature for you to

change its “skin”. You can download as many skins as you want from AOpen Website, and changing them whenever

you want by using this useful utility – EzSkin – which may also be downloaded from our website.

Even more, you may design your own skins with innovative idea and sharing them to users around the world by uploading to our website. For further technical information, we welcome you to visit our website at

http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/download/skin

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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.

In addition, the limited space of BIOS ROM is another big issue. When all of the traditional BIOS can only show

space-consuming and uncompressed Bitmap, AOpen has considerately tuned the BIOS to next generation, to recognize the

smaller-sized GIF format and even dynamic-showing GIF animation.

Vivid BIOS shares the same fundamental technology with Open JukeBox CD Player, you may use the same EzSkin utility to

change your Vivid BIOS screen or to download your favorite Open JukeBox skin. If you see this little logo your model name on the BIOS download page, http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/download/skin

motherboard supports this innovative feature!

Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out

the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly

developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful POST screen!

shown beside

, it is assured that your

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As the clock of CPU keeps rocketing higher and higher, it inevitably brings higher heat and

system temperature in a relative way. The way we deal with this heat problem, however, is to

spare no effort to add one fan after another to protect our pampered system, expecting these

fans could cool down our machine as much as they could.

But at the same time, we believe that same users are affected terribly by the irritating noises of these fans while working with

their PC. As a matter of fact, we do not have to get our fans running at such a high speed in most cases; on the contrary, we

discovered that having your fans running

at appropriate time and speed not only

reduces the noise, but also consumes the

least power the system needs, so as to

prevent over-wasting of energy resource.

Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored to

bring you a new overall solution, SilentTek,

to make your system quiet. To collocate

with hardware circuit, BIOS and the utility

under Windows, SilentTek combined

“Hardware-Status Monitoring”, “Overheat

Warning” and “Fan Speed Control” with

user-friendly interfaces to provide you a

perfect balance among noises, system

performance and stability.

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The first image you have here is the Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages and set your expected margins of warning level.

You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here.

In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis. Also, you can check if fans are running properly.

Of course, you may set your defaulted lowest margin for your fans and SilentTek would also pop up a message box to alarm you when the fan is rotating slower than this specified speed.

You may set the highest margin of your CPU and system temperature as default, and SilentTek would pop up a message box to alert you with alarm when the temperature goes beyond the specified margin.

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The following page is surely the most important part of this utility. You may control the rotation speed of specific fans that you have got

the options inside in this page.

CD-ROM Rotation Speed Control: by enabling the CD-ROM

Rotation Speed Control, you can adjust the rotation speed of your

CD-ROM. When you set the speed to high level, the CD-ROM will

work at its fastest speed and it will run at basic required speed

while you set the value to low speed.

1. Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting of

SilentTek and can be used for any branded computer

housing. With a special algorithm developed by AOpen,

the fan speed is automatically adjusted by the factors of

CPU and ambient temperature. Ease-of-use and trouble

free at your service.

2. Fixed FAN Control: Under this setting, a desired fan

speed is set fixed when operating.

3. Multiple Level Control: This is the most versatile

setting that allows you to set fan speed in relation to

temperature. You may find that this setting fits you best.

4. AOpen Recommend Setting: This setting is designed

specifically for AOpen housing. A series of lab tests were

conducted under the real world scenario to determine

optimum fan speed to reduce noise level within CPU

working condition and temperature. Most of the time, the

fan would remain still when CPU is not fully utilized.

Note: Due to hundreds different brands of fan on the

market, inaccuracy may happen in some cases when you

had your rotation speed adjusted. It is still under the

criterion and please rest assured that it won’t cause any

problem to your system.

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Have you ever thought how great it would be if you can adjust the frequency setting on your motherboard under Windows environment

and be a real master of your system? Everybody knows that the ratio and frequency setting are key factors to influence the system

performance, however, it’s absolutely not an easy task for an amateur to adjust the setting value. On most traditional motherboards, you

have to get into BIOS screen for the frequency

and reboot the system again and again. But from

now on, you don’t have to 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 the voltage and frequency of CPU,

VGA, PCI and memory under Windows

environment as well as in BIOS setting page;

even better, those settings will be displayed

realtime. Having this handy EzClock, you can

monitor the system when you’re fine-tuning the

performance of your system. It provides you

detailed and necessary information. Now let’s

take a look how it works on utility, BIOS and

POST.

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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.

CPU Color Bars:

The color bar will light on and show different colors as values change. On default values, it will show green.

On the right part of the panel is the section that you adjust the settings of

VGA, AGP, PCI and memory. To adjust the voltage and clock frequency of

those installments, you can press “-“ or “+” on corresponding items. The

color parts represent the situation of values. The higher value you set, the

light on the color bar goes to right and turns red. After finishing those value

settings, you can press “S” button on the upper right hand corner to save

changes to CMOS.

VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM Voltage / Clock Area:

Pressing “_” and “+” buttons, you can adjust the voltage and clock frequency values of onboard VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM.

On the left circle area shows Ratio, FSB and frequency information

about CPU. When the values are set to factory default, the light on

the top and bottom of the circle will show green and it will vary as you

change these CPU settings.

CPU Ratio, FSB and frequency displaying area: You can adjust CPU FSB here by entering preferred value.

Control buttons:

“_” button allows you to minimize the utility and “X” button to close the utility. Pressing “Apply” button you can save the changes to CMOS.

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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:

The color bars will light on

according to CPU operation

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CPU Fan, Voltage and Temperature:

representing CPU fan speed, CPU

voltage and CPU temperature in

Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees.

How You Adjust the Settings in BIOS

Apart from EzClock utility, the voltage and frequency values of CPU, PCI and memory can also be adjusted on BIOS page. By pressing

“+”, “-“, “PgUp” or “PgDn” keys, you can adjust the frequency values of CPU Bus, PCI Bus and DRAM.

Also, the same keys help you adjust the

voltage of CPU and DDR settings. Some

values may change while you adjust the

settings. You can press “F10” to save the

changes you’ve made.

Function Keys Description

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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; thus, you can have clear idea

how your system functions and monitor your

system more easily.

Current values

of your system

Default settings of

this motherboard

The highlighted setting

value you manually

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There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD. 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

2000/XP) before you can install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide.

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You can use the auto-run menu of Bonus CD. Choose the utility and driver and select model name.

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This nForce driver is an all in one package, which contains the below components:

GPU driver, Audio driver, Audio utilities, Network driver, GART driver, SMBus driver, Memory controller driver, USB 2.0 driver.

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For Display Driver of 98/ME/2000/XP, please use this driver for installation

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* Windows XP Installation Guide

NOTICE:

If you have install Windows XP Service Pack1 , it is not necessary to install USB2.0 driver.

Because USB2.0 driver was packaged in Service Pack1

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Installing Driver in Existing Windows XP System

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Please follow these directions for a smooth installation of the USB 2.0 package.

After enabling the USB 2.0, Windows XP setup will show a "Found New Hardware" dialog box.

Under Windows XP, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" will be displayed.

1. Click on "Next," and from the generated list box, choose "Install from a list or special location (Advanced)", click "Next"

2. Click on "Next," and from the generated choices, choose "Include this location in the search:"

3. Insert the Bonus CD in CD-ROM.

4. Type "[CD-ROM]:\Driver\Nvidia\USB2.0\WinXP" in the text box that appears.

5. Click on "Next." A message informing you that Windows XP has found "NVIDIA PCI to USB

Enhanced Host Controller W/ Filter FPGA (3616)" should appear.

6. When the New Hardware Wizard has finished installing the USB driver, click on "Finish"

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For USB2.0 driver for Windows 98/ME, please use the driver for installation

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System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu, this menu allows you to configure the system parameters

and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset).

The Phoenix AwardBIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM

The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports.

Most BIOS setting of this model had been optimized by AOpen’s R&D engineering team. But, the default setting of BIOS still

can’t fine-tune the chipset controlling the entire system. Hence, the rest of this chapter is intended to guide you through the

process of configuring your system using setup procedures.

To enter to BIOS setup menu, press <Del> when POST (Power-On Self Test)

Note: 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.

of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS.

screen is shown on your monitor.

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Generally, you can use the arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, then press <Enter> key to select, and use the

<Page Up> and <Page Down> key to change setting value. You also can press <F1> key for help and 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. By the way, all products of AOpen also provides a special function in the BIOS setup, you can press <F3>

key selecting preferred menu language to display.

Key Description

Page Up or + Changing setting to next value or increase the value.

Page Down or - Changing setting to previous value or decrease value.

Enter Select the item.

Esc 1. In main menu: Quit and don’t save any change.

2. In sub menu: Exit current menu to main menu.

Up Arrow Highlight previous item.

Down Arrow Highlight next item.

Left Arrow Move the light bar to left side of menu.

Right Arrow Move the light bar to right side of menu.

F1 Get menu or item help description.

F3 Changing menu language.

F5 Load previous setting value from CMOS.

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Key Description

F6 Load Setup Defaults setting value from CMOS.

F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS.

F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.

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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.

Del

Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless

you are sure your system components (CPU, SDRAM, HDD,

etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.

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(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.

Designed with traditional-BIOS-alike interface, you may adjust

BIOS parameter with clear descriptions for each item.

WinBIOS is natively designed with multi-language support. There

are various widely-use languages provided on our website for

your downloading, which also helps to prevent wrong settings

caused by misunderstanding of the languages. The only thing

you have to do is to visit our official website and download your

respective language pack (of few KB size), then double-click on it to activate the support with your chosen language.

Moreover, with high scalability, either for newly bought motherboard or the latest BIOS version with new function, you don’t have

to re-install the whole program again and again. All you have to do is to grab the latest profile from our website, simply

double-click on it as well to support the latest version of your BIOS. You don’t have to spend any extra effort to have your

motherboard supported by WinBIOS.

In the past, users have to keep

punching the DEL key at a

good timing during POST

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Function keys:

It’s definitely easy to handle WinBIOS as if you’re using

traditional BIOS setting. Users can use the arrow keys such

screen. And use , “+” or “-” to change the setting

value if they are available. Press

previous screen. Furthermore, the hotkeys shown in the table

may help you and save your time. Some settings may not come

into effect until you reboot your system.

Caution: After updating your BIOS, please remember to

update WinBIOS profile as well. If the upgraded BIOS

version is newer than WinBIOS profile, WinBIOS will not be

able to launch and a dialog box with error message will pop

up. This verification is designed on purpose to protect your

BIOS from damaged by wrong profile version.

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)

to move around the items in WinBIOS

to get back to the

Hotkey Function Description

F1 Get help description.

F2 Item Help

F3 Changing menu language.

F5 Load previous setting

F6 Load setup default setting

F7 Load turbo setting

F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.

F12 Full Screen / Normal Mode

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With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard

---- EzWinFlash. With an eye to users convenience, 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 helps you complete the flash process automatically. EzWinFlash detects your

motherboard and checks the BIOS version cleverly to prevent your system from any possible failure. Moreover, EzWinFlash has

been taken into consideration to go with any windows platform you might be using, no matter if you’re using 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.

Note: The model name on this BIOS picture is for reference only. It may not be the exact model name.

Caution: By updating your motherboard, you

are taking a risk of BIOS flash failure. If your

motherboard is working stable, and there are

no major bugs that had been fixed by a latter

BIOS revision, we recommend that you DO

NOT try to upgrade your BIOS.

If you intent on upgrading, PLEASE BE SURE

to get the right BIOS revision for the right

motherboard model to avoid any possibility

failure.

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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: WAK79GTube102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com

environment.

3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WAK79GTube102.EXE & WAK79GTube102.BIN.

4. Double click on the WAK79GTube102.EXE, EzWinFlash will detect the model name and BIOS version of your

motherboard. If you had got the wrong BIOS, you will not be allowed to proceed with the flash steps.

5. You may select preferred language in the main menu, then click [Start Flash] to start the BIOS upgrade procedure.

6. EzWinFlash will complete all the process automatically, and a dialogue box will pop up to ask you to restart Windows.

You may click [YES] to reboot Windows.

7. Press <Del> at POST to enter BIOS setup

It is strongly recommended NOT to turn off the power or run any application during FLASH PROCESS.

Warning: The new BIOS upgrade will

permanently replace your original

BIOS’s settings when flashing. You

may need to reconfigure your BIOS

setting so that your system can go

back to work as normal.

, choose "Load Setup Defaults", then “Save & Exit Setup”. Done!

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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. Hence, the component on sound card that play this important task is what we called CODEC.

Audio CODEC 97 (briefly called AC97) is the specification regulated by Intel, and it’s about the structure of audio conversion.

The special place about CODEC is that it is separated from sound card (CODEC is an independent chipset). Therefore, PCI

sound card could possess with 90db and do other application process as well. We called CODEC that meets this structure AC97

CODEC.

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ACPI is the power management specification of PC97 (1997). It intends to save more power by taking full control of power

management to operating system and bypass

to operating system (such as Windows 98). This is a bit similar as the

power switch to control the power state transition.

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Building on the PC motherboard riser architecture, ACR slot is backward compatible with AMR but beyond the limitation of it.

The ACR specification is designed to support modem, audio, Local Area Network (LAN) and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL).

. The chipset or super I/O chip needs to provide standard register interface

BIOS

PnP

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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. Though AGP and

PCI share the same algorithm of 32-bit, its frequencies are 66MHz and 33MHz respectively. AGP interface had been

developed from 2X to 8x.

1X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 1 = 264MB/s

2X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 2 = 528MB/s

4X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 4 = 1056MB/s.

8X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 8 = 2112MB/s.

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The CODEC circuit of AC97 sound/modem solution can be put on motherboard or put on a riser card (AMR card) that connects

to motherboard through AMR connector.

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Before talking about ATA (AT Attachment), we must understand DMA (Direct Memory Access), which allows devices to skip the

CPU devices and access memory directly. DMA specification could not only eliminate the workload of CPU, but also accelerate

the transmission of data. DMA begins with a data transfer rate of 16.6MB/Sec, but afterward developed to new data rate of

33.3MB/Sec, which is twice the data rate and we called it Ultra DMA. ATA details power and data signals between the drive

and integrated drive controller and the computer's motherboard. Two drives (master and slave) are supported. The ATA

specification allows the drive to connect directly to the ISA bus on the computer. ATA transfer rate then had been developed to

133MHz/Sec and would come out with fastest rate later (please refer to

DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz/s.

Serial ATA

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Ultra DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 2 = 33MB/s.

ATA/6 6, 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.)

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BIOS, is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM. BIOS controls Input/output devices and other

hardware devices of motherboard. In general, to provide hardware independent portability, operation system and drivers is

required to access BIOS without directly access hardware devices.

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Bluetooth is a wireless transferring technology that enables short-range wireless connections between desktop and laptop

computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cellular phones, printers, scanners, digital cameras and even home

appliances. The principle of Bluetooth (a chipset) is to transfer information and voices at the frequency of ISM Band. Every

Bluetooth technology devices do come with a standard address for you to connect one-to-one or one-to-seven (to form a

Pico-net), with transferring range up to 10 meters (100 meters to follow), using low power radio. Bluetooth do not only possess

high transfer rate of 1MB/s, it also could be encrypted with pin code. With hopping rate of 1600 hops per second, it’s difficult to

be intercepted and are less interrupted by electromagnetic wave.

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The CNR specification provides the PC industry the opportunity to deliver a flexible and cost reduced method of implementing

LAN, home networking, DSL, USB, wireless, audio and modem subsystems widely used in today's "connected PCs". The CNR

specification is an open industry specification and is supported by OEMs, IHV card manufacturers, silicon supplier and

Microsoft.

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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.

DDR200, transfer bandwidth up to 200x64/8=1600MB/s (PC1600) DDR266, transfer bandwidth up to 266x64/8=2100MB/s (PC2100) DDR333, transfer bandwidth up to 333x64/8=2700MB/s (PC2700) DDR400, transfer bandwidth up to 400x64/8=3200MB/s (PC3200)

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The ECC mode needs 8 ECC bits for 64-bit data. Each time memory is accessed; ECC bits are updated and checked by a

special algorithm. The ECC algorithm has the ability to detect double-bit error and automatically correct single-bit error while

parity mode can only detect single-bit error.

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Also known as E2PROM. Both EEPROM and Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals, but the interface

technology is different. Size of EEPROM is much smaller than flash ROM.

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Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light. If BIOS has to be

upgraded, you need to remove EPROM from motherboard, clear by UV light, re-program, and then insert back.

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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

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The DoC is component certification standard of FCC EMI regulations. This standard allows DIY component (such as

motherboard) to apply DoC label separately without a shielding of housing.

FFCC--PPGGAA ((FFlliipp CChhiipp--PPiinn GGrriidd AArrrraayy))

FC means Flip Chip, FC-PGA is a package of Intel for Pentium III for 0.18µm process CPU, which can be plugged into SKT370

socket.

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After FC-PGA, FC-PGA2 is the package for 0.13µm process CPU developed by Intel, which can be plugged into SKT423/478

socket as well.

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Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals. It is easier for BIOS to upgrade by a flash utility, but it is also easier to

be infected by virus. Because of increase of new functions, BIOS size is increased from 64KB to 512KB (4M bit).

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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.

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IEEE 1394, which also called Firewire, is a serial data transfer protocol and interconnection system. The main feature of the

Firewire that assures its adoption for the digital video and audio (A/V) consumer application is its low cost. Fire wire interface is

capable of supporting various high-end digital A/V applications, such as consumer A/V device control and signal routing, Digital

Video (DV) editing, home networking, and more than 32 channels of digital mixing. Gone are those days of expensive video

capture cards. Firewire allows for video capture from both newer DV camcorders with Firewire ports and older analog

equipment using A/V to Firewire converters.

The advantages of the IEEE1394:

High data transfer rate – Start from 400 Mbps, (with 800/1600/3200 Mbps coming soon), which is about 30 times faster than

USB 1.1.

Supports up to 63 devices (16 - daisy chained) with cable length up to about 4.5 m (14 feet).

Hot-pluggable (like USB). No need to turn of your device to connect or disconnect, and you don't need to reboot your PC. Also,

it is a plug-and-play bus.

IEEE1394 is very easy to connect (Like USB1.1/2/0).

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The parity mode uses 1 parity bit for each byte, normally it is even parity mode, that is, each time the memory data is updated,

parity bit will be adjusted to have even count "1" for each byte. When next time, if memory is read with odd number of "1", the

parity error is occurred and this is called single bit error detection.

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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.

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With PDF file, it is easy to do universal document exchange. Virtually any document may be converted in Portable Document

Format (PDF). Contents in PDF documents are exactly the same as the original file, including fonts and graphics, and they can

be distributed by e-mail or stored on the World Wide Web, an intranet, a file system, or a CD-ROM for other users to view on

any platforms. You may download Acrobat Reader in order to read PDF file from its website (

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Oversimplified, Plug-and-Play automatically tells the software (device drivers) where to find various pieces of hardware (devices)

such as modems, network cards, sound cards, etc. Plug-and-Play's task is to match up physical devices with the software

(device drivers) that operates them and to establish channels of communication between each physical device and its driver.

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The BIOS self-test procedure after power-on, sometimes, it is the first or the second screen shown on your monitor during

system boot.

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PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU.

CPU internal clock = CPU PSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio

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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” with transfer rate of 600/700/800MHz, providing bandwidth as

high to 1.6GB.

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184-pin memory module that supports RDRAM memory technology. A RIMM memory module may contain up to maximum of 16

RDRAM devices.

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SDRAM is one of the DRAM technologies that allow DRAM to use the same clock as the CPU host bus (EDO and FPM are

asynchronous and do not have clock signal). It is similar as PBSRAM to use burst mode transfer. SDRAM comes in 64-bit

168-pin DIMM and operates at 3.3V, and have been gradually replaced by DDR RAM.

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The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome speed limitations while enabling the storage interface to scale with the

growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel

systems and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It is developed with data transfer rate of 150

Mbytes/second, and 300M/bs, 600M/bs to come. It reduces voltage and pins count requirements and can be implemented with

thin and easy to route cables.

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SMBus is also called I2C 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.

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SPD is a small ROM or EEPROM device resided on the DIMM or RIMM. SPD stores memory module information such as DRAM

timing and chip parameters. SPD can be used by

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A Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an external bus (an interconnect) standard that supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps. A single

USB port can be used to connect up to 127 peripheral devices, such as mouse, modems and keyboards. Introduced in 1996,

USB has completed replaced serial and parallel ports. It also supports plug-and-play installations and hot plugging

Plug-and-play is the ability to add and remove devices to a computer while the computer is running and have the operating

system automatically recognize the change. USB 2.0, which supports data transfer rates of 480 Mbps, has been widely used in

motherboard these days.

with the compatibility with existing operating

ATA

to decide best timing for this DIMM or RIMM.

BIOS

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NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability

to service multimedia requirements. VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by

providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I/O pins. Using VCM technology results in reduced data

access latency and reduced power consumption.

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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)).

802.11a = 54 Mbps in the 5GHz band, using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing)

802.11b (11 Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz band, using direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS).

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A compressed file format to reduce file size. To unzip file, run shareware PKUNZIP (http://www.pkware.com/) for DOS and other

operating system or WINZIP (

http://www.winzip.com/

) for windows environment.

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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.

Clear CMOS, then plug the ATX power cord correctly. (For P4

system, please also plug the 4pin(+12V) cord.

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Continue

Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard.

Turn on the power

Yes

and check if the power

supply and CPU fan work

properly.

The problem is probably caused by

power supply or motherboard failure.

Please contact your reseller or local

distributor for repairing.

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AOpen AK79GTUBE User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

AK79G Tube

Chipset

Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Bus Master IDE

Expansion Slots

Memory

On-board AC97 Sound

Sovtek 6922 Dual Triode Tube

Six USB 2.0 Connectors

1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment

Watch Dog ABS

S/PDIF Connector

Power Management/Plug and Play

Hardware Monitoring Management

Enhanced ACPI

STBY LED

Front Panel Connector

JP3 Tube Power Jumper

TV Output Connector

IrDA Connector

COM2 Connector

Case Open Connector

AUX-IN Connector

Front Audio Connector

Resetable Fuse

How Your Open JukeBox Works

Your Open JukeBox Settings in BIOS

Your Open JukeBox EzSkin

How You Adjust the Settings in BIOS