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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards

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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards ..............................................................................................................1

What’s in this manual .................................................................................................................................................................... 2

You Must Notice ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8

Before You Start ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9

Overview ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Comparison Table................................................................................................................. 11

Feature Highlight .........................................................................................................................................................................12

Quick Installation Procedure ....................................................................................................................................................... 17

Motherboard Map ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18

Block Diagram ............................................................................................................................................................................. 19

Hardware Installation ........................................................................................................................20

About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ................................................................................... 21

EzColor........................................................................................................................................................................................ 22

JP14 Clear CMOS Data .............................................................................................................................................................. 24

CPU Installation........................................................................................................................................................................... 25

CPU Fan Installation ................................................................................................................................................................... 27

CPU Over-current Protection ...................................................................................................................................................... 29

AOpen “Watch Dog ABS”............................................................................................................................................................ 31

Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage.................................................................................................................................... 32

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CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ............................................................................................................ 34

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper.................................................................................................................................... 35

DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................................. 36

ATX Power Connector................................................................................................................................................................. 38

AC Power Auto Recovery............................................................................................................................................................ 38

IDE and Floppy Connector .......................................................................................................................................................... 39

Serial ATA Supported .................................................................................................................................................................. 41

Connecting Serial ATA Disk......................................................................................................................................................... 42

Front Panel Connector ................................................................................................................................................................ 45

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot................................................................................................................... 46

AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED ................................................................................................................................. 47

IrDA Connector............................................................................................................................................................................ 48

Support 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN onboard................................................................................................................................... 49

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

Color Coded Back Panel ............................................................................................................................................................. 51

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector...................................................................................................................... 52

Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................................. 53

Wake On Modem / Wake On LAN / Wake On PCI Card............................................................................................................. 54

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

Game Port Bracket Supported .................................................................................................................................................... 56

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COM2 Connector ........................................................................................................................................................................ 57

CD Audio Connector.................................................................................................................................................................... 58

AUX-IN Connector....................................................................................................................................................................... 59

Case Open Connector................................................................................................................................................................. 60

STBY LED (Standby LED) and BOOT LED ................................................................................................................................ 61

Resetable Fuse ........................................................................................................................................................................... 62

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

Low ESR Capacitor ..................................................................................................................................................................... 64

PBE – Performance Boosting Engine (for AX4SG and AX4SPE series) .................................................................................... 65

The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek................................................................................................................................................. 66

EzClock ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 69

Hyper Threading Technology ...................................................................................................................................................... 73

AOConfig Utility ........................................................................................................................................................................... 75

Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ........................................................................................................................ 77

How to Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program .................................................................................................................. 78

How To Enter BIOS Setup........................................................................................................................................................... 79

BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment .............................................................................................................................. 80

Vivid BIOS technology................................................................................................................................................................. 82

Driver and Utility................................................................................................................................ 83

Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD ................................................................................................................................................... 83

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Installing Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility..................................................................................................................... 84

Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver (only for AX4SG-U, AX4SG-UL and AX4SG-UN) ....................................................... 85

Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................................................. 86

Installing Gigabit LAN Driver (for AX4SG-UL, AX4SPE-UL and AX4SPB-UL) ......................................................................... 87

Installing Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN Driver in Win98SE/2000/XP (for AX4SG-UN, AX4SPE-UN and AX4SPB-UN) .............. 98

Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98SE/ME........................................................................................................................ 102

Glossary ...........................................................................................................................................106

AC’97 CODEC........................................................................................................................................................................... 106

ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)................................................................................................................... 106

ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) .................................................................................................................................... 106

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ............................................................................................................................................... 107

AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ....................................................................................................................................................... 107

ATA (AT Attachment) ................................................................................................................................................................. 107

BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)............................................................................................................................................ 108

Bluetooth ................................................................................................................................................................................... 108

CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)........................................................................................................................... 109

DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM............................................................................................................................................. 109

ECC (Error Checking and Correction)....................................................................................................................................... 109

EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) .............................................................................................................. 109

EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................................................. 110

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EV6 Bus .................................................................................................................................................................................... 110

FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)....................................................................................................................................... 110

FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................................................................................................................................ 110

FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).......................................................................................................................................... 110

Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................................111

Hyper Threading.........................................................................................................................................................................111

IEEE 1394 ..................................................................................................................................................................................111

Parity Bit .................................................................................................................................................................................... 112

PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus............................................................................................................................... 112

PDF Format............................................................................................................................................................................... 112

PnP (Plug and Play) .................................................................................................................................................................. 112

POST (Power-On Self Test) ...................................................................................................................................................... 112

PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ......................................................................................................................................... 113

RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ............................................................................................................ 113

RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module).................................................................................................................................... 113

SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ................................................................................................................................................. 113

SATA (Serial ATA)...................................................................................................................................................................... 114

SMBus (System Management Bus) .......................................................................................................................................... 114

SPD (Serial Presence Detect)................................................................................................................................................... 114

USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................................. 114

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VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) ................................................................................................................................................ 115

Wireless LAN – 802.11b............................................................................................................................................................ 115

ZIP file ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 115

Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................... 116

Technical Support............................................................................................................................ 120

Product Registration........................................................................................................................ 124

How to Contact Us........................................................................................................................... 125

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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, we

recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD or you can get free download from Adobe

web site.

Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper size and

set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer driver.

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Thank you for choosing AOpen i865 Family motherboards. AOpen i865 Family Motherboard is Intel® Socket 478 motherboard (M/B)

based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel 865G chipsets (for AX4SG series), Intel 865PE chipsets (for AX4SPE series) and Intel

848P chipsets (for AX4SPB series). As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AOpen i865 Family motherboard supports Intel

Socket 478 Pentium

that brings additional intelligence to systems. In the AGP

spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2112MB/sec. For AX4SG series, it integrates VGA Engine in chipset and AGP 8X slot also

support ADD cards. According to different customer’s requirements, this M/B supports DDR266

maximum in Dual Channel mode. For AX4SPB series, it only has two RAM slots and supports Single Channel mode with maximum

capacity up to 2 GB. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100

provided on this board. A total of four USB 2.0

back panel and two headers on the board give you the best

use of all USB devices with the fancy speed up to 480Mbps.

More than that, on the strength of integrated Realtek LAN

controller on board, which is a highly integrated Platform LAN

Connect device, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (for -UL

series, it is 10/100/1000 Mbps) for office and home use. For

–U series motherboards, they do not support LAN onboard.

Besides, AOpen i865 Family motherboard has S/PDIF

connector and an AC’97 CODEC Realtek

providing high performance and magic surround stereo

sound to let people enjoy working with it. Now, let’s enjoy all

features from AOpen i865 Family motherboards.

4 1.6GHz~3.20GHz. It supports 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock and Hyper-Threading Technology

performance, it has one AGP slot to support AGP 8X/4X mode and pipelined

, DDR333 and DDR400 RAM up to 4GB

mode and Serial ATA 150 MB/s. There are 5 PCI slots

ports on the

chipset onboard,

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Following we list functions of all models. “V” represents those functions that the model equips with and “X” represents functions that

models don’t have. Please always refer to this page to see the functions of your model.

Series Model Chipset

AX4SG-U

AX4SG Series

AX4SPE Series

AX4SPB Series

AX4SG-UL

AX4SG-UN

AX4SPE-U

AX4SPE-UL

AX4SPE-UN

AX4SPB-U

AX4SPB-UL

Dual

Channel

Intel 865G V 4 X V V V

Intel 865G V 4 10/100/1000 Mbps V V V

Intel 865G V 4 10/100Mbps V V V

Intel 865PE V 4 X X X V

Intel 865PE V 4 10/100/1000 Mbps X X V

Intel 865PE V 4 10/100Mbps X X V

Intel 848P X 2 X X X X

Intel 848P X 2 10/100/1000 Mbps X X X

RAM Slots

LAN VGA

Support

ADD card

PBE

AX4SPB-UN

Intel 848P X 2 10/100Mbps X X X

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CPU

Supports Intel® Socket 478 Pentium® 4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.20GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for

Socket 478 technology.

Chipset

Intel 865 chipset is a Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) designed for use with the Pentium 4 processor with 512-KB L2 cache on

0.13-micron processor. It provides CPU, DDR, AGP, Hub, CSA Interfaces and integrated graphics with display interfaces. The CPU

interface supports Pentium 4 processor subset of the Extended Mode of the Scalable Bus Protocol. The GMCH memory interface

supports one up to two channels of DDR (for 865G and 865PE chipsets), and the AGP interface supports 0.8/1.5V signaling with 8X/4X

data transfers and 8X/4X AGP Fast Writes. The integrated graphics controller provides 3D, 2D, and display capabilities while using a

portion of system memory for graphics memory (UMA) to provide a cost effective, high performance graphics solution. The Intel 865

platform supports the fifth generation I/O Controller Hub.

The ICH5 integrates an Ultra ATA 100 controller, two Serial ATA host controllers, one EHCI host controller and four UHCI host controllers

supporting eight external USB 2.0 ports, LPC interface controller; flash BIOS interface controller, PCI interface controller, AC’97 digital

controller, integrated LAN controller, an ASF controller and a hub interface for communication with the 865 GMCH.

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Memory

With Intel 865G/865PE chipset, this motherboard can support dual channel Double-Data-Rate (DDR) SDRAM (for AX4SG and AX4SPE

series). The dual channel mode allows chipsets to get data in 128 bit and zero wait state bursting between the RAM. The data transfer

at 266/333/400MHz. The four slots of DDR SDRAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512 MB or 1GB DDR

SDRAM and maximum up to 4GB. For AX4SPB series, it only has two RAM slots and support maximum up to 2GB in Single Channel

mode.

Expansion Slots

Including five 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. Of five PCI slots

provided, all of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. AOpen i865 Family

motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)

specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed. The AGP video cards support data transfer rate up to

2112MB/s. For AX4SG series, you may have ADD card cabled to this AGP slot to provide high-speed digital connection for digital

displays.

AGP Protection Technology

With AGP Protection Technology implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your

chipsets from being burnt out.

Hyper-Threading Technology

Support Hyper-Threading Technology which brings additional intelligence to systems so that multiple tasks received from the processor

can be managed and prioritized more effectively.

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Watch Dog ABS

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

1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment

Provides “1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you to adjust CPU FSB

frequency from 100~400MHz by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and helps your system get maximum performance.

LAN Port (for –UL and –UN series)

On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller (-UL series) or Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN controller (-UN series) on board, this motherboard

provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (for –UL series, it is 10/100/1000 Mbps) for office and home use. For –U series motherboard, it does not

support LAN onboard.

Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus IDE

Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports

Ultra DMA 33/66/100, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 5, and supports Enhanced IDE devices.

Serial ATA

Integrated in ICH5 that contains independent DMA operation on two ports, the SATA controllers are completely software transparent with

the IDE interface, while providing a lower pin count and higher performance. The ICH5 SATA interface supports data transfer rates up to

150MB/s.

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On-board AC’97 Sound

AOpen i865 Family motherboard uses RealTek AC’97 CODEC Realtek ALC655 chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio

recording and playback system.

Eight USB 2.0 Ports

Provides four ports on the back panel and two USB 2.0 headers on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect

devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.

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.

Power Management/Plug and Play

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

(EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers

much user-friendlier.

Plug-and-Play

, which helps save users from configuration problems, thus making the system

Hardware Monitoring Management

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

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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® 98/ME/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM,

S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) and S5 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 Operating System (such as Windows XP)

11.

Installing Driver and Utility

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Realtek Gigabit LAN chip

Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN chip

32-bit PCI Expansion Slots x5

USB 2.0 Connectors x 2

JP14 CMOS Clear Jumper

ATA 66/100 IDE Connectors x2

(for -UL series)

(for -UN series)

4Mb Flash ROM BIOS

Onboard AC’97 CODEC

Front Audio Connector

COM2 Connector

Game Port Connector

IrDA Connector

S/PDIF Connector

AUX-IN Connector

CD-IN Connector

Case Open Connector

SYSFAN2 Connector

SATA Ports x 2

Front Panel Connector

FDD Connector

Motherboard Map

Colored Back Panel

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper

ATX Power Connector

4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector

Low ESR Capacitors

Connector SYSFAN1

AGP Protection LED

478-pin CPU socket (Northwood) with Voltage and Frequency Auto-detection that supports Intel Pentium® 4 1.6~3.20GHz+ CPU

CPUFAN Connector

Intel 865G/865PE/848P Chipset that supports 400/533/800MHz FSB, DDR 266/333/400 and AGP 8X

184-pin DIMMsx4 support Dual Channel

DDR400/333/266 Max. To 4 GB

(for AX4SG and AX4SPE series)

184-pin DIMMx2 support Single Channel

DDR400/333/266 Max. To 2GB

(for AX4SPB serie s)

AGP 8X Expansion Slot (for AX4SG series, it also supports ADD card.)

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DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel

RAM Up to 4GB

Socket 478

Intel Pentium 4

CPU

AGP 8X Slot

Support ADD Card (for AX4SG series)

VGA onboard

(for AX4SG series)

LAN connect Component

For AX4SPB series, it only has two slots and

support 2GB maximum in Single Channel

DIMM Sockets x4

400/533/800MHz

System Bus

AGP bus

Intel

865 chipset

Gigabit LAN Chip

(-UL series)

Realtek 10/100Mbps (-UN series)

USB Ports x8

Floppy Disk Drive

PCI Bus

Serial ATA Por ts x2

USB Port

32-bit PCI Slots x5

150MB/s

ATA

33/66/100

SATA 1

SATA 2

Primar y

Channel

Secondary

Channel

ICH5

RealTek

AC97

CODEC

4Mbit Flash EEPROM

Parallel Po rt

Serial Ports x2

IDE D rives x4

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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 procedure 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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Breaking through traditional outlook of motherboard, AOpen now brings you a new fresh look of motherboard! – EzColor!

Fancy? You may think so, but actually it is a practical and useful feature for amateur or even power-users. Coming in specific color for

specific connector and module, components on motherboard are now born with their respective colors. Users may now easily recognize

what jumper or cable should match with specific jumper or cable by COLOR, without having the trouble of holding user guide in one

hand and connecting jumpers with the other hand.

And what makes this feature so great is that, even the easy-to-get-confused front panel connector is differentiated now with different

light colors!

Sand: PCI Slot

Sky Blue: AGP Slot

Flame Red:

Both 4-pin and 12-pin

ATX connector

Electric Blue:

Memory Module

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Power Switch

IDE LED

SPEAKER

Note: Colors setting varies on different motherboards; the color setting here applies only to AOpen i865 Family Motherboards.

ACPI & Power LED

RESET

Claret: Serial ATA connector

Navy Blue: IDE 1 Connector

Black: IDE 2 Connector

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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 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 pin1 & pin2.

5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2.

Normal

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 Intel® Pentium 4 Socket 478 series CPU (Northwood). Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into

CPU socket.

1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and

up to 90-degree angle.

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

Note: Those pictures are for example only; they may not look the same with the motherboard you purchased.

CPU socket

Lever

CPU pin 1 and

cut edge

CPU cut edge

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3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU

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

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CPU cut edge

Note: If you do not match the CPU

socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you

may damage the CPU.

Note: 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.

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This motherboard comes with a retention module attached on the CPU socket when shipped, we strongly recommend you to install

AOpen special designed CPU Fan as shown below on the retention module for better heat dissipation. Please install the CPU Fan

correctly as the following pictures shown.

1. Gently put the CPU Fan down on the

retention module with clips aligning correctly to the four corners.

Note: The picture above may look different from the product you purchased.

2. Pressing down the four clips with force one by one on the retention module.

Clip

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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 VID signal

(Automatically generates CPU voltage)

Intel® Socket 478

Power Regulator

Pentium 4

CPU voltage

Clock Generator

CPU Freq. Ratio

BIOS

Controlled

Circuit

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The Over Current Protection is a popular implementation on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply. However, the new generation

CPU uses different voltage with a regulator to transfer 12V to CPU voltage (for example, 1.475V), and thus makes 5V over current

protection useless. This motherboard is with switching regulator onboard supporting CPU over-current protection; in conjunction with

3.3V/5V/12V power supply provide the 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.

5V (Protected by power supply)

3.3V (Protected by power supply)

12V (Protected by power supply)

Onboard Power Regulator

(Over-Current Protection)

CPU Core Voltage

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This Motherboard implements a Flash ROM

CMOS Setup configurations. 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.

and a special circuit that provide you no batter power consumption of current CPU and

ATX Stand-by Power

Battery

Flash ROM

(Real Time Clock)

Auto Switch

RTC

00:00:00

CMOS

Auto switch to ATX standby

power as long as AC power line

is plugged. This smart design

increases battery life if you still

plug battery on motherboard.

Backup by EEPROM

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to user’s settings stored in the BIOS. If system failed in BIOS POST, the “Watch Dog Timer” will reset the system to reboot in five

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

system to get a higher system performance without removing the system housing and save the hassle from setting the jumper to clear

CMOS data when system hangs.

AOpen

Watch Dog ABS

Enable/Disable Signal from

AOpen provides a special and useful feature on this motherboard for overclockers. When you

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

will enable “Watch Dog ABS” function immediately, and set the CPU FSB frequency according

BIOS

Reset Signal

Clock Generator

Countdown about

5 seconds if fails

in POST

CPU

status. If it succeeded, the BIOS

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 0.8375V to

1.6000V. It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage.

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BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Bus Frequency

This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency in BIOS; no jumpers or switches are needed. The default

setting is "table select mode". You can adjust the FSB from "CPU Host/RAM/PCI Clock" for overclocking.

Core Frequency = CPU FSB Clock * CPU Ratio

PCI Clock = CPU FSB Clock / Clock Ratio

AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2

CPU Ratio 8x, 10x… 25x, 26x, 27x, 28x

CPU FSB (By BIOS table) 100-400MHz

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Northwood CPU

Pentium 4 1.7G 1700MHz 133MHz 533MHz 13x

Pentium 4 1.8G 1800MHz 100MHz 400MHz 18x

Pentium 4 2.0G 2000MHz 100MHz 400MHz 20x

Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 100MHz 400MHz 22x

Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 133MHz 533MHz 16x

Pentium 4 2.26G 2260MHz 133MHz 533MHz 17x

Pentium 4 2.4G 2400MHz 100MHz 400MHz 24x

Pentium 4 2.4G 2400MHz 133MHz 533MHz 18x

Pentium 4 2.53G 2530MHz 133MHz 533MHz 19x

Pentium 4 2.6G 2600MHz 200MHz 800MHz 13x

Pentium 4 2.66G 2660MHz 133MHz 533MHz 20x

Pentium 4 2.8G 2800MHz 133MHz 533MHz 21x

Pentium 4 2.8G 2800MHz 200MHz 800MHz 14x

Pentium 4 3.06G 3066MHz 133MHz 533MHz 23x

Pentium 4 3.20G 3200MHz 200MHz 800MHz 16x

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.

CPU Core

Frequency

FSB

Clock

System

Bus

Ratio

Note: Intel 865G/PE and 848P chipset only

support Northwood processors.

Northwood processors would detect the

clock ratio automatically; you may not be

able to adjust the clock ratio in BIOS

manually.

Warning: Intel 865G/PE and 848P chipset

supports maximum 800MHz (200MHz*4)

system bus and 66MHz AGP clock; higher

clock setting may cause serious system

damage.

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The fan Connectors are painted in white in EzColor. Please plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have

chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector.

SYSFAN1 Connector

GND +12V SENSOR

SYSFAN2 Connector

SENSOR

+12V

GND

CPUFAN Connector

Note: Some CPU fans do not have

sensor pin, so that they cannot support

hardware monitoring function.

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Disable

(Default)

Pin 1

Enable

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This motherboard provides PS2 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 set to “Disable” (1-2), and you may

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

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For AX4SG and AX4SPE series, the motherboard has four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel

DDR400

maximum up to 2GB in Single Channel mode. The DIMM sockets are painted in electric blue and only support non-ECC DDR RAM.

Please install suitable modules; otherwise serious damage may occur on memory sockets or you RAM modules. The RAM voltage for

you to adjust is from 2.60V-2.70V.

, DDR333 or DDR266 memory up to 4GB. For AX4SPB series motherboard, it only has two DDR DIMM sockets and support

Warning: This motherboard supports DDR SDRAM. Please

do not install the SDRAM on the DDR SDRAM sockets;

otherwise it will cause serious damage on memory sockets or

SDRAM module.

DIMMA1 DIMMA2 DIMMB1 DIMMB2

Note: To run dual channel speed, you have to use

the same type memory modules installed on two

DIMMs. If you install two different sized modules,

the system can only run single channel mode and

with the speed of that lower memory module.

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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.

Note: These images are for example only; they may not be exactly the same as the motherboard you purchased.

Ta b

Key

52 pins40 pins

Note: Please pay attention to

the Blue slots. To run dual

channel speed, you should

insert the RAM in the slot of

DIMM A1 and DIMM B1 or

DIMM A2 and DIMM B2.

Please don't use the

different frequency DIMM on

dual channel

Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot

will close-up to hold the DIMM in

place when the DIMM touches the

slot’s bottom.

Pin 1

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This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector in flame red. Make sure you plug in the right direction. We

strongly recommend you to connect the 4-pin 12V ATX connector before connecting the 20-pin ATX power connector and use standard

power supply specially designed for Pentium 4 system.

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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.

+12V

Ground

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Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDD and IDE connector. The IDE 1 connector is painted in navy

blue; the IDE 2 connector and FDD connector are painted in Black. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause

system damage.

Pin1

Pin 1

ATA 33/66/100

IDE Connector

Primary

Master (1st)

IDE 1 (Primary)

Primary

Slave (2nd)

IDE 2 (Secondary)

FDD Connector

Secondary

Master (3rd)

Secondary

Slave (4th)

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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.

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 diagram

2. To achieve the best performance of Ultra DMA 66/100 hard disks, a special

80-wires IDE cable for Ultra DMA 66/100 is required.

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

make sure your cable does not exceed this length.

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The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3

Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been

developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second. However, while ATA has enjoyed an illustrious track record, the

specification is now showing its age and imposes some serious design issues on today’s developers, including a 5-volt signaling

requirement, high pin count, and serious cabling headaches.

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

growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel ATA with the compatibility with existing operating systems

and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It reduces voltage and pins count requirements and can be implemented

with thin and easy to route cables.

Serial ATA Ports

SATA port 1 SATA port 2

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You will find the claret serial ATA connectors in motherboard easily. To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA

cable. Connect two ends of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional

disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please be noted that it is a jumper free implement; you don’t need to set jumpers to

define a master or slave disk. When serial ATA hard disks are installed on serial ATA ports, the one connected on Port 0(SATA 1) will be

set as the first boot device automatically. Please be noted that it doesn’t support Hot-Plug in function.

Note: These images are for example only; they may not be exactly the same as the motherboard you purchased.

Item Parallel ATA Serial ATA

Bandwidth 100/133 MB/Sec 150/300/600 MB/Sec

Vol ts 5V 250mV

Pins 40 7

Length Limitation 18 inch (45.72cm) 1 meter (100cm)

Cable Wide Thin

Ventilation Bad Good

Peer-to-Peer No Yes

Comparison between Parallel ATA and Serial ATA

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Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard does come with the support for the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are

unable to find your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you have had installed them on, the problem

mainly lies in the BIOS setting. You may simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly.

After having properly installed your hard disks, you may directly get into the BIOS setting screen for adjustment. You may simply press

“Integrated Peripherals Æ On-Chip IDE Device Æ On-Chip Serial ATA” to choose your preferable mode. If you have no intention of

changing its setting, the default would be Auto.

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If you intend to change the default setting, simply press Enter for a list of selection:

1. Disabled: You may choose this item if you’re sure that only traditional IDE hard

disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item may also cancel

the detection to Serial ATA hard disk during POST, which theoretically, could

speed up your boot-up timing for a little bit; however, please remember to

re-adjust the settings here if you intend to use Serial ATA hard disk later.

2. Auto: This is the default setting upon receipt of the motherboard. Basically, if

your system functions properly, it’s not necessary to change it. The system will

automatically recognize the first hard disk on IDE1 as the first boot device.

Note: Please be informed that when you are using Windows98/ME with six hard disks fully installed, Auto mode is not able to function

properly, it’s just because Windows98/Me is not able to energize Enhanced Mode to detect all hard disks.

3. Combined Mode: If you have had installed traditional IDE hard disks and Serial ATA hard disks at the same time, then you may

choose this Combined Mode. Under this mode, you may randomly choose either IDE hard disks or Serial ATA had disk as your first

boot device. But please be aware that Serial ATA will exist with IDE in a mapping way, which also means it will occupy one of the

IDE Channel and left you with one IDE Channel only.

4. Enhanced Mode: If you are using the latest operating system (say, Windows XP, Windows.NET Server), it is highly recommended

to select Enhanced Mode. The system would be able to detect all six devices (traditional IDE x4, Serial ATA x 2) completely and

functions perfectly under this mode. But please be noted that it is defaulted with using traditional IDE as the first boot device.

Note: From our practical lab tests, we found no obvious problem or mistakes happened under Windows2000 operating system, but,

however, it is not within the regulation recommended by Intel.

5. SATA Only: You may select this SATA Only mode if you have had installed Serial ATA hard disks only. It also allows you to select

booting sequence from Port0 (SerialATA1) or Port1 (SerialATA2).

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Pin1

IDE LED

SPEAKER

The pins of Front Panel Connector are painted in different colors with their respective

functions. Please attach the power LED, speaker, power and reset switch connectors

to the corresponding pins matched in same colors. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item

in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing or high light 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) Flashing for every second

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

Power Switch

ACPI & Power LED

RESET

IDE LED IDE LED

SPEAKER

NC NC

+5V

+5V +5V

GND

SPWR GND ACPILEDGND ACPILED+ NC NC GND RESET GND

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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards provides an AGP 8X slot, a sky blue slot which has the latest AGP specification in motherboard. The

AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP uses both rising and 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 range from 1.5V to 1.6V. For AX4SG series, this AGP slot could

automatically become an AGP slot or a Multiplexed Intel DVO Output depending on what kind of cards inserted, like AGP, or ADD (AGP

Digital Display) cards. With ADD card cabled to this slot, Multiplexed Intel DVO output could provide high-speed digital connection for

digital displays or TV-OUT functionality.

Warning: It is strongly

recommended not to adjust

voltage/clock of AGP/PCI

when connecting any SATA

service. It is because when

the voltage/clock for

AGP/PCI is adjusted, the

clock for SATA couldn’t

keep 100MHz, and the

system will be unstable.

Warning: It is strongly recommended not

to install a 3.3V AGP card, which is not

supported by Intel 865G / 865PE / 848P

chipset.

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With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this motherboard 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 by Intel 865 chipset, 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.

AGP LED

Warning: It is strongly recommended not to

install a 3.3V AGP card, which is not

supported by Intel 865 chipset. When you do

so, the AGP LED on the motherboard will light

up to warn you the possible damage.

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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 98 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, make sure to have

the correct orientation when you plug in the IrDA connector.

Pin 1

+5V

IR_TX

KEY GND IR_RX

IrDA Connector

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On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller (-UL series) or Realtek 10/100Mbps LAN controller (-UN series) on board, this motherboard

provides 10/100 Mbps (for Gigabit LAN, it is 10/100/1000 Mbps) Ethernet for office and home use. To –U series motherboards, they do

not support LAN onboard. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link

mode, it lights in orange whenever linking to network. The left hand side LED indicates the transfer mode and it lights in green when

data is transferring in 100Mbps (never lights while in 10Mbps), but lights in orange when transferring in Gigabit’s mode. To enable or

disable this function, you may simply adjust it through BIOS. To enable LAN wakeup function, you have to set the “Wake on PCI Card”

enable in the BIOS “Power Management Setup” section.

Transferring (Left)

Green 100Mbps

Orange Gigabit mode

Linking (Right)

Orange

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This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are two

USB headers 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 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 that 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 eight ports support USB 2.0 function.

SBD6+

+5V

SBD6-

GND

KEY

USB 2.0 Connector

Pin 1

+5V SBD7SBD7+ GND NC

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

that comes with the devices to make it work.

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VGA

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The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, AC’97 sound and

game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing.

PS/2 Keyboard: For standard keyboard, which use a PS/2 plug. PS/2 Mouse: For PC-Mouse, which use 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. RJ-45 LAN connector To connect Ethernet for home or office use. 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.

PS/2 Mouse

Connector

PS/2 Keyboard

Connector

USB 2.0

Ports

COM 1 Port

SPP/EPP/ECP

Parallel Port

(for AX4SG series only)

RJ45 10/100

Series Motherboards

Port

1000 LAN Jack

(for –UL and –UN

USB 2.0 Ports

Line-In

Speaker Out

MIC-In

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S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a latest audio transfer file format that provides impressive quality through optical fiber and

allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog. 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 a even better audio quality. Through a specific

audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to a S/PDIF audio module bearing S/PDIF digital output. However, you must have a

S/PDIF supported speaker with S/PDIF digital input to make the most of this function.

S/PDIF OUT

S/PDIF IN

(Optical)

S/PDIF Module

(User Upgrade Optional)

S/PDIF Cable

Pin 1

S/PDIF Connector +5V NC SPDIFOUT GND SPDIFIN

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This motherboard comes with an ALC655 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 ALC655, 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 5.1 Channel sound tracks.

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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motherboard implements special circuit to support Wake On Modem, Wake On LAN and Wake On PCI Card.

TThhiiss

Green PC suspend mode does not really turn off the system power supply, it can be triggered by Modem, LAN or Other PCI Cards and

resume back to active. If you have an external Modem card and want to use this wake-up feature, Please enable the “Wake On Modem”

item. For an internal modem, LAN and other PCI cards, please enable the “Wake On PCI Card” item.

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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 the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove

this yellow jumper cap if your housing doesn’t have an audio port on the front panel.

Pin 1

AUD_MIC AUD_MIC_BIAS AUD_FPOUT_R

AUD_FPOUT_L

Front Audio Connector

AUD_GND AUD_VCC AUD_RET_R KEY AUD_RET_L

Front Audio Connector

Note: Please remove the jumper cap from the front audio connector before you

connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if your housing doesn’t

have an audio port on the front panel.

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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.

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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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

1 DCD# SOUT

GND

RI#

RTS#

COM2 Connector

SIN DTR# DSR# CTS#

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GND

Note: Though some of the latest versions 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 connect audio cable to CD-IN

connector on the motherboard.

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

CD-IN Connector

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

GND

AUX-IN Connector

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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 by the

opening of the chassis, the system will beep 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.

Pin 1

Case Open Connector

Sensor

GND

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Both STBY LED and BOOT LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED

will light up when power is provided 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.

BOOT LED will keep blinking when you power the system on and when your system is under POST (Power-On Self Test)

diagnoses everything all right and finishes the booting, the LED will stay on otherwise it will remain flashing to warn you that mistakes

have occurred during POST

STBY LED

. After POST

BOOT LED

Warning: Do not install or remove the

DIMM module or others devices when the

STBY LED lights on.

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Traditional motherboard uses fuses to prevent Keyboard and USB port from over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard

that when it is broken (function to protect motherboard), user cannot replace them and result in malfunction of motherboard.

With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function even after the fuse had done its protection

job.

Resetable Fuse

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

especially when you are trying to over-clock the CPU.

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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, AOpen i865 Family motherboards implements 2200μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power.

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Configuring Intel 865 chipset, the performance of this motherboard had been uplifted by implementing PBE Technology (Performance

Boosting Engine). Acting as similar as PAT in uplifting the system performance, PBE enable users to optimize the accessing speed and

quality between the CPU and Memory. Theoretically speaking, CPU must go through some standard paths to access memory. However,

with an optimized path created, CPU may access memory through optimized path in a faster way. Therefore, PBE effectively shortened

the distance between CPU and memory and thus increasing system performance as a matter of fact. To enable it, all you have to do is

to go to BIOS screen, select Advanced Chipset Feature/Performance Boost Engine.

Chipsets

PBE Technology

Optimized Access

Memory

Normal Access

Dual Channel DDR Memory

Note: Enabling this feature will make maximum use of your

RAM modules. This is not standard specification of Intel

865G/865PE chipset. Uneven quality RAM modules in the

market may not able to withstand this kind of extreme usage

and cause the instability of your system. You are taking

our own risk for taking advantage of this benefit.

Enable or Disabled

PBE item : Disabled

Default

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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 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 real-time. 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 “Apply” 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

temperature.

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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 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.

Note: The items provided by EzClock

Utility vary in different motherboards. The

unavailable function in your motherboard

will present in grey.

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 adjust

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What is Hyper-Threading?

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.

How Hyper-Threading Works

A form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT), Hyper-Threading technology allows multiple threads of software applications

to be run simultaneously on one processor by duplicating the architectural state on each processor while the same processor execution

resources is shared. The figure below

represents how a Hyper-Threading based

processor differentiates a traditional

multiprocessor. The left-hand configuration

shows a traditional multiprocessor system

with two physical processors. Each

processor has its own independent

execution resources and architectural state.

The right-hand configuration represents an

Intel Hyper-Threading technology based

processor. You can see that the architectural

state for each processor is duplicated, while

the execution resources is shared.

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For multiprocessor-capable software applications, the Hyper-Threading based processor is considered two separate logical processors

on which the software applications can

run without modification. Also, each

logical processor responds to

interrupts independently. The first

logical processor can track one

software thread, while the second

logical processor tracks another

software thread simultaneously.

Because the two threads share the

same execution resources, the second

thread can use resources that would

be otherwise idle if only one thread

was executing. This results in an

increased utilization of the execution

resources within each physical

processor.

The figure below represents how

Hyper-Threading saves time when it

works. With two logical processors available on every single physical processor, multi-threaded applications can now take advantage of

thread-level parallelism on each physical processor for additional performance. As software applications continue to be optimized to take

greater advantage of processor parallelism, Hyper-Threading technology provides an additional boost for newer capabilities and the

growing needs of today’s users.

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and hardware such as motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI devices 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 for further diagnose of system problems.

AOpen always dedicated to provide users a much friendly computer environment. We now

bring you a comprehensive system detection utility. AOConfig is a Windows based utility

with user-friendly interface that allows users to obtain information of the operation system

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

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

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3. This page presents the IDE device information, such as serial number, manufacturer,

firmware version, and capacity.

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

detailed information could be saved in .bmp or .txt format.

NOTE:

AOConfig can be used under Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP. Please also note that AOConfig can

only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard. Before running AOConfig, all applications must

be closed.

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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).

Phoenix-Award BIOS™ installed in the Flash ROM

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

Most BIOS settings of AOpen i865 Family motherboards have been optimized by AOpen’s R&D engineering team. But, the default

setting of BIOS still can’t fine-tune the chipset controlling entire system. Therefore, the rest of this chapter intends to guide you the

process of configuring your system setup.

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. The BIOS

screen is shown on your monitor.

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Generally, you can use 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 values. You can 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.

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.

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.

F6 Load fail-save setting value from CMOS.

F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS.

F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.

Key Description

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

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After you finish jumper settings and connect correct cables, power on and enter the BIOS Setup. Press <Del> during POST (Power-On

Self Test) and 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, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are

good enough for turbo setting.

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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.

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

2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WSGUL102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com

3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WSGUL102.EXE & WSGUL102.BIN.

4. Double click on the WSGUL102.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; choose "Load Setup Defaults", then “Save & Exit Setup”. Done!

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.

file from AOpen official web site. (Ex: http://www.aopen.com)

) in Windows environment.

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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 colours 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 favourite Open JukeBox skin. If you see this little logo name on the BIOS download page,

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 colourful POST screen!

shown beside your model

http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/download/skin, it is assured that your motherboard

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There are motherboard drivers and utilities in AOpen Bonus CD. You don’t need to install all of them to boot your system. But after you

finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows XP) before you 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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The Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility should be installed onto the target system and the Windows * INF files outline the

operating system how the chipset components will be configured. It is recommended that the Intel

be installed onto the target system prior to the installation of other drivers.

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Chipset Software Installation utility

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You can install Intel Extreme graphic driver to get the best graphics function of the chipset. You can find it in the Bonus Pack CD disc.

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This motherboard comes with AC’97 CODEC. This audio driver supports Windows 98SE and upper Windows OS; you can find the audio

driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.

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Install LAN Driver in Windows 98SE

1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices"

2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD"

3. Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller”

4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab.

5. Select "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now. (Recommended)"

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6. Select "Specify a location", and type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that appears. Press “Next".

7. System will ask you to provide the file path for loading driver, please type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that

appears. Press “OK".

8. System will ask you to insert "Windows 98 CD-ROM".

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9. Driver installed.

10. Restart computer.

11. Confirming Windows 98 Installation.

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Install LAN Driver in Windows ME

1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices"

2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD"

3. Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller”

4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab.

5. Select "Specify the location of the driver (Advanced)".

6. Choose "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now. (Recommended)", then Select "Specify a location", and

type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\WinME" in the text box that appears. Press “Next".

7. Driver installed.

8. Restart computer.

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9. Confirming Windows ME Installation. 9. Confirming Windows ME Installation.

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Install LAN Driver in Windows NT 4.0

1. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab.

2. Click "Add" to install a new adapter. All previously installed drivers are listed under Network Adapters.

3. When the Select Network Adapter window opens, click "Have Disk"....

4. When prompted, insert the BONUS CD, type the path "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Winnt4" to the driver, and click "OK".

5. With "Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC" highlighted in the Select OEM Option window, click "OK".

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6. Restart computer.

7. Confirming Windows NT Installation

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Install LAN Driver in Windows 2000

1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices"

2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD "

3. Right click "Ethernet Controller ", and then select "Properties".

4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab.

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5. Select "Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)"

6. Select "Specify a location", and then click "Next".

7. Type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press " OK".

8. Driver installed.

9. Confirming Windows 2000 Installation.

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Install LAN Driver in Windows XP

1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices"

2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD "

3. Right click "Ethernet Controller ", then select "Update Driver".

4. Select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)", and then Click "Next".

5. Choose "Search for the best driver in these locations", and then select "Include this location in the search:". Type

"G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\WinXP" in the text box that appears. Press " Next ".

6. Driver installed.

7. Confirming Windows XP Installation

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This motherboard integrates Realtek 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Chip. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.

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Install LAN Driver in Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A and OSR2

Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95:

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1. Ask you to select which driver you want to install, select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer".

2. Specify the setup file pathname

[CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\95\WIN95A (for Windows 95 and Win95A) or

[CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\95\W95OSR2 (for Windows 95 OSR2).

3. Windows 95 will appear some messages to insert Windows 95 system disk to complete setup step.

4. Windows 95 will finish the other installation procedure automatically, and then you restart the system.

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Install LAN Driver in Windows NT 3.5, 3.51 & 4.0

Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows NT:

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When you are in Windows NT:

1. In the Main group of NT, select the "Control Panel" icon.

2. In the Control Panel window, choose the "Network" icon.

3. In the Network Settings dialog box, choose the "Add Adapter" button. The Add Network Adapter dialog box appears.

4. In the list of network cards, select "<other> Requires disk from manufacturer", and then press <Enter> button.

5. Enter drive and pathname

[CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\NT (for NT 4.0) which is the path where the setup files OEMSETUP.INF is located, and then

chooses the OK button.

6. The screen will appear "Select Line Speed" dialog box which is provided by RTL8139.SYS driver. The default value is "auto" so that

the

RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter and its driver RTL8139.SYS will auto-detect the line speed, 10 Mb or 100Mb, while the

RTL8139.SYS is loading. The other values, "10" or "100", are only used when you want to forced RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter to

10Mb or 100Mb.

7. The screen will appear "Input Ethernet ID" dialog box which is provided by RTL8139.SYS driver. This option is only required when you

have more than one Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapters on this computer. Select "SKIP" if only one adapter is installed on this

computer.

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