AOpen AX47 Easy Installation Manual

CD-IN Connecto

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WOL (Wake on LAN) Connecto

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Front Audio Connecto

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MODEM-CN Connecto

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CNR Expansion Slot

IrDA Connecto

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Front Panel Connecto

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FDD Connecto

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Supports 2nd USB Connecto

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JP14 CMOS Clear Jumpe

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2Mbit Programmable Flash ROM

Resettable Fuse

478-pin CPU socket (Willamette/
Northwood) with Voltage and Frequency

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uto-detection that supports Intel®

Pentium

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4 1.3~2.4GHz+ CPU

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GP 4x Expansion Slot

32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x5

184-pin DIMM Socket x3 supports
PC-1600/2100 DDR SDRAM
maximum up to 3 GB

VIA Apollo P4X266 Chipset that
supports LAN, Ultra ATA/100, DDR
SDRAM Solution

2200μF Low ESR Capacitors

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TX Power Connector

ATA/33/66/100 IDE Connector x2

AUX-IN Connecto

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4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector

Dr. LED Connector(Upgrade Optional)

Onboard AC’97 CODEC

CPU Thermal Sensor

MIC-In
Line-In
Speaker Out

PS/2 Mouse

Connecto

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SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port

MIDI/Game Port

RJ45 10/100

LAN Jack
(Optional)

PS/2 Keyboard

Connecto

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USB Port COM 1 Port

COM 2 Port

Supports 3rd USB Connecto

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Standby LED

FAN3 Connecto

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FAN2 and CPU FAN connector

JP17 FSB Select Jumpe

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1. JP14 Clear CMOS

Everything you need to boot this
motherboard is included in this
Easy Installation Guide. For more
information, a complete Online

User's Manual can be found in the
Bonus Pack CD Disc. Thanks for

the help of saving our earth.

PART NO: 49.36S01.001 DOC. NO: AX47-EG-E0109A

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

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

2. Remove ATX p ower 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 p ower cable back to connector PWR2.

Tip: When should I Clear CMOS?

1. Boot fail because of overclocking…

2. Forget password…

3. Troubleshooting…

2. JP17 FSB Select Jumper

This jumper allows you to select CPU FSB frequency manually. If you are not an overclocker, we
recommend you keep the default jumper setting.

Motherboard x1
This Easy Installation Guide x1
80-wire IDE Cable x1

Floppy Disk Drive Cable x1

Registration Card x1
Bonus Pack CD x1
NORTON AntiVirus CD x1

Pin 1

Pin 1

133MHz 100MHz

(Default)

1

1

Normal

(

default

)

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Clear CMOS

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1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to
90-degree angle.

2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look fo

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a (golden) cut edge on the CPU uppe

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interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge.
Then insert the CPU into the socket.

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

Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPU FAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you
can also plug it on System FAN (FAN2) or AUX FAN (FAN3) connector.

This motherboard comes with a 20-pin ATX power connector and an extra 4-pin connecto

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as shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to
insert the 4-pin connector before connecting the 20-pin connector.

CPU Ratio 8x, 9x, 10x… 21x, 22x, 23x, 24x
CPU FSB (By manual) 100 ~ 200MHz
CPU FSB (By BIOS table) 100, 105, 108, 114, 120 and 123MHz.

CPU

CPU Core
Frequency

FSB
Clock

System
Bus

Ratio

Pentium 4 1.3G 1300MHz 100MHz 400MHz 13x

Pentium 4 1.4G 1400MHz 100MHz 400MHz 14x
Pentium 4 1.5G 1500MHz 100MHz 400MHz 15x
Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 100MHz 400MHz 16x
Pentium 4 1.7G 1700MHz 100MHz 400MHz 17x
Pentium 4 1.8G 1800MHz 100MHz 400MHz 18x
Pentium 4 1.9G 1900MHz 100MHz 400MHz 19x
Pentium 4 2G 2000MHz 100MHz 400MHz 20x
Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 100MHz 400MHz 22x
Pentium 4 2.4G 2400MHz 100MHz 400MHz 24x

5. Setting CPU Voltage & Frequency

Setting CPU Core Voltage

This motherboard supports C PU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatical l

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detected.

Setting CPU Frequency

This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through the
BIOS setup, and no jumpers or switches are needed. The default setting is "1MHz
stepping mode", which you can change to "table select mode" by enabling the "Spread
Spectrum" in the bios. so that you can adjust the FSB from "CPU Host/PCI/3V66 Clock"
for overclocking.

3. Installing Processor

Note: If you do not match the CPU

socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it
may damage the CPU.

CPU socket lever

CPU Pin 1 and cut edge

Note: Some CPU fans do not have
sensor pin so they cannot support fan
monitoring.

CPU Fan Connector

GND

SENSOR

+12V

Warning: VIA Apollo
P4X266 Chipset supports
maximum 400MHz
(100MHz*4) system bus
and 66MHz AGP clock;
higher clock setting may
cause serious system
damage.

4. Installing CPU & System Fan

6. Connecting ATX Power Connector

FAN3 Connector

This socket supports Micro-FC-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package
developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in.

Ground
12V
12V

Pin1

FAN2 Connector

COM
COM

-5V
+5V
+5V

+12V

5VSB

PO-O

K

COM

+5V

COM
PS-ON
COM

-12V
+3.3V

+3.3V
+3.3V
COM
+5V
COM

GND

+12V

SENSOR

Secondary

Master (3rd)

Secondary
Slave (4th)

Pin 1

Primary

Slave (2nd)

Primary

Master (1st)

9. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables

10. Connecting Front Panel Cable

8. Connect IrDA Connector

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, UART mode select, make sure to have the correct orientation when
you plug in the IrDA connector.

Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector FDC and
IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system
damage.

Pin 1

ATA 33/66/100
IDE Connector

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ttach the power LED, speaker, 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.

Pin 1

FDD Connector

IDE 1 (Primary)
IDE 2 (Secondary)

7. Support Six USB Connectors

This motherboard provides six USB connectors to connect USB devices, such as mouse,
keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are two connectors on the PC99 back panel. You
can use proper cable to connect other USB connectors to the back panel or front panel o f
chassis.

Pin 1

IrDA Connector

1

SPWR
GND
ACPI LED­ GND
ACPILED
NC
NC
GND
RESET
GND

NC
NC

+5

V

IDE LED
IDE LED

+5

V

+5

V

GND

NC

SPEAKE

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1

Speaker

IDE LED

SPWR

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CPI & PWR

LED

Reset

1

KEY
GND
SBD2+
SBD2­+5V

NC

GND

SBD3+

SBD3-

+5V

USB2 Connector

IR_TX
+5V
NC

IR_RX

GND

KE

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Pin 1

Connector Pin1 Pin2 Pin3 Pin4

AUX-IN

Left GND GND Right

MODEM-CN

Mono In GND GND Mic Out

CD-IN

Left GND GND Right

13. Connecting CD / MODEM / AUX Connector

11. Front Audio Connector

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.

The AUX-IN connector is used to connect MPEG

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udio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.

The MODEM-CN connector is used to connect
Mono In/ Mic Out cable from internal modem card to
onboard sound circuit.

The CD-IN connector is used to connect CD Audio
cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.

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UX-IN (Green)

CD-IN (Black)

MODEM-CN (Red)

Pin 1

14. Installing LAN Driver (Optional)

The South Bridge of VIA Apollo P4X266 chipset integrates a total communication solution including
10/100Mb Fast Ethernet for Office requirement. You can install LAN Driver under Windows95/98,
98SE, ME and 2000 by following steps.
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1. Turn on your computer and activate Windows OS. Windows will auto-detect your new adapter

and pop up “New Hardware Found” message.

2

. Select “Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer” to install driver from the diskette

that comes with your LAN adapter.

3

. Specify the path of the driver in the Bonus CD (i.e. [CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\82318233) to copy the

files to your systems.

4

. When the driver installation is completed, restart Windows.

Note:

1. The NDIS2 and ODI drivers are only supported in Windows95.

2

. To update the driver in WinM E to this version:

a. Right click “My Computer” on desktop, and choose “Property”.
b. Choose “Device Manager” tab, and expand “Network Adapters”

in the device list.

c. Double click the specified network adapter and click “Update

Driver” in tab “Driver”.

d. Choose “Specify the location of the Driver(Advance)”, and then

key in the driver path. (i.e. [CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\82318233).

e. WinME will update the driver to this version and prompt the user

to restart windows.

Note: If the Ne

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Hardware Found dialo

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box does not appear a

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startup and you canno

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connect to the network,
check the Device
Manager list to see i

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the new adapter i

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resent. If it is not,

p

lease install the LA

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driver manually.

12. Support 10/100 Mbps LAN onboard (Optional)

Green/ACT

Orange/Speed

The South Bridge V8233 of VIA Apollo P4X266 chipset includes a fast Ethernet controller
on chip. On the strength of SB Integrated MAC+ LSI TQ80223 PHY on board, 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 green LED indicates the link mode, it lights when linking to network and blinking when
transferring data. The orange LED indicates the transfer mode, and it lights when data is
transferring in 100Mbps mode. To enable or disable this function, you may simply adjust it
throu

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h BIOS.

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GND

FRONT L

KEY

FRONT R

VCC

MIC

MIC VREF

FRONT R

NC

FRONT L

2

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fter 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.

15. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup

16. AOpen Bonus Pack CD

18. BIOS Upgrade

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Open Easy Flash is more user-friendly than traditional flash method. The BIOS binary
file and flash routine are combined together and you simply run a single file to complete
the flash process.

1. Download new BIOS upgrade zipped file from AOpen's web site. For example,
AX47102.ZIP.

2. Run shareware PKUNZIP (http://www.pkware.com

) which supports
miscellaneous operation systems to extract the binary BIOS file and the flash
utility. Or Winzip (http://www.winzip.com/) in Windows environment.

3. Save the unzipped file into a bootable floppy disk.
For example, AX47102.BIN & AX47102.EXE

4. Reboot the system to DOS mode without loading any mem ory handler (su ch as
EMM386) or device driver. It needs around 520K free memory space.

5. Execute A:> AX47102 and the program will do the rest of it.

DO NOT turn off the power during FLASH PROCESS until you are asked to!!

6. Reboot system and press <Del> to enter BIOS Setup, Choose "Load Setup
Defaults", then “Save & Exit Setup” and finish the BIOS upgrade.

Warning: The upgrade of new BIOS will permanently replace your original BIOS
content after flashing. The original BIOS setting and Win95/Win98 PnP information
will be refreshed and you probably need to re-configure your system.

17. Installing Onboard Sound Driver

You can use the autorun menu of Bonus CD disc. Choose the utility and driver and select
model name.

Del

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

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our system components (CPU, DRAM,
HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo
settin

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.

This motherboard comes with a RealTek ALC201 AC97 CODEC, you can find the audio
driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc auto-run menu.

If you encounter any trouble to boot you system, follow the procedures
accordingly to resolve the problem.

Part Number and Serial Number

The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label. You can find this
bar code label on the outside packing, on ISA/CPU slot or on component side of PCB.
For example:

Model name and BIOS version

AX47 R1.02 Sep. 01. 2001 AOpen Inc.

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ward Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A

Copyright © 1998, Award Software, Inc.

Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen
(POST screen). For example:

AX47 is model name of motherboard; R1.02 is BIOS version

Make sure if the jumper settings for CPU and DRAMs are correct.

Clear CMOS.

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

The problem was probably caused
by power supply or motherboard
failure. Please contact your reselle

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or local distributor for repairing.

Perhaps your VGA card or monito

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is defective.

No

Yes

No

Yes

It is very possible that your keyboard
is defective.

During system rebooting, press Del to enter BIOS Setup. Choose
“Load Setup Default".

The problem should be caused by the
IDE cables or HDD itself.

Re-install Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT.

Yes

Yes

Turn off the power and unplug the AC power cable, then remove all
of the addon cards and cables, including VGA, IDE, FDD, COM1,
COM2 and Printer.

Turn on the power, and check if

the power supply and CPU fan

work properly.

Start

Check if there is display.

Press Ctrl, and Alt key at the

same time, hold them and then

press Del to see if the

s

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stem reboots.

Turn off the system and

re-connect the IDE cable.

Check if the system can

reboot successfully.

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P/N: 91.88110.201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number.

Part No. Serial No.

Part No.

Serial No.

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