AOpen AW-840 User Manual

AOPEN AW-840 PCI Sound Card
User Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview
Installing the sound card
Appendix A. Hardware Information
FCC and CE Radiation Norm
FCC

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits
for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of Federal
Communication Commission (FCC) rules.

CE

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits
of the European Council Directive on the approximation of the law of
the member states relating to electromagnetic compatibility
(89/336/EEC) according to EN 55022 class B.

FCC and CE Compliance Statement

These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
frequency interface in residential installation. This equipment
generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not
installed or used in accordance with the instructions, may cause
harmful interference to radio communication. However, there is no
guarantee that interference will not occur in a television
reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and
on, the user is encouraged to try and correct the interference by
one or more of the following measures:

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

.

Increase the separation between the equipment and the

.

receiver

Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different

.

from that to which the receiver is connected to

CAUTION!

The Federal Communication Commission warns the user that changes or
modifications to the unit not expressly approved by the party
responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to
operate the equipment.

Overview

Features

Chipset :
. Aopen AS9400 audio chipset
System Interface :
. 32bit PCI Bus Master, PCI 2.1 / PCI 2.2 compliant
Hardware Interface :
. HRTF-base 3D positional audio, supporting DirectSound™3D, EAX™ and

A3D interface

. Karaoke system enabled
. Supports multi-speaker output to 2 / 2.1 / 4 / 4.1 speakers
. Support EAX™, Karaoke key, Echo… sound effects
. High Performance Dual Game Port
. MPU401 compatible MIDI interface & GM

. Comply with Microsoft

®

PC99 specification

. DLS-base Wavetable music synthesizer
. Fully Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro compatible and Direct Sound

compatible

Connector :
. Front-Out, Rear-Out, Line-In, MIC-In and Game/MIDI port
. CD Audio, AUX Connector

System Requirements

. IBM compatible PC with 32-bit PCI slot.
. Microsoft

®

4.0 or DOS

NT

. Intel
. 32MB system memory (Minimum)
. 30MB available HDD space
. CD-ROM drive (or DVD-ROM drive Recommended)

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Windows® 95/98/98SE, Windows® Me, Windows® 2000, Windows

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Pentium® 200 MHz CPU above (Recommended)

Software Bundle

. Multi-channel Speaker Tester
. GAMUT2000
. Powerful Audio Rack (CD / Midi / Wav / MP3 / VCD and Karaoke

Player )

Package

. Plug and Play PCI sound card
. “User manual and Installation Software ” CD-ROM

Latest Information

Please read the “ README.TXT ” f ile on Installation Software CD-ROM

Installing the Sound Card

A. Hardware Installation

Before you start, make sure that Windows
Windows

and running properly. Please follow the following steps carefully
while installing your sound card.

1. Turn off your computer and disconnect all power cords.

2. Remove the case from your computer. Refer to your PC’s user
manual for more details.

3. Plug the Sound Card into any free 32-bit expansion PCI slot of
the computer.

4. Connect the audio cable to your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.

5. Put the computer cover case on and reconnect the power cords.

Connecting Audio Devices

You can connect various types of audio equipment, such as speakers,
headphones, CD player and so on, to the sound card through its back
panel jacks. The following diagram shows the connectors on the back
panel.

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2000 or Windows NT

®

4.0 has been installed in your system

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95/98/98SE, Windows

®

Me,

Layout of the AOPEN AW-840 PCI Sound Card

Line-IN LINE-IN Connect to the audio output port of stereo
Mic-IN Connect to the Microphone ( Mono )
Front-Speaker Output to speakers with the amplifier or earphones

or AUDIO-IN of home stereo

Rear-Speaker Connect to the rear speakers while four channel

speakers mode is enabled

CD-IN There are two sets of pins, one for Mitsumi standard

and the other for Sony standard

GAME/MIDI Connect to Joystick or devices using MIDI interface

*A MIDI adapter is required to connect a MIDI instrument to the
sound card. The MIDI adapter can be purchased from your local
computer store and is connected to the MIDI/GAME port.

B. Drivers Setup

Installing the Sound Card Driver under Windows
95/98/98SE

1. After hardware installation has been finished, power up your
computer and wait for Windows

®

95/98/98SE to boot up.

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