AOpen AX4SPEMAX User Manual

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Overview

Installation

Hardware

Drivers &

Utilities

BIOS Setup

AWARD

Glossary

Troubleshooting &

Technical Support

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TUAX4SPE MaxUT.............................................................................................................................................1

TUWhat’s in this manualUT .................................................................................................................................................................... 2

TUYou Must NoticeUT ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9

TUBefore You StartUT .......................................................................................................................................................................... 10

TUOverviewUT ......................................................................................................................................................................................11

TUFeature HighlightUT ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12

TUQuick Installation ProcedureUT ....................................................................................................................................................... 17

TUMotherboard MapUT ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18

TUBlock DiagramUT ............................................................................................................................................................................. 19

TUHardware InstallationUT ............................................................................................................................20

TUAbout “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”…UT ................................................................................... 21

TUJP14 Clear CMOS DataUT .............................................................................................................................................................. 22

TUCPU InstallationUT...........................................................................................................................................................................23

TUCPU Fan InstallationUT ...................................................................................................................................................................25

TUCPU Jumper-less DesignUT ............................................................................................................................................................ 26

TUCPU Over-current ProtectionUT ......................................................................................................................................................27

TUBattery-less and Long Life DesignUT ..............................................................................................................................................28

TUAOpen “Watch Dog ABS”UT............................................................................................................................................................ 29

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TUFull-range Adjustable CPU Core VoltageUT ....................................................................................................................................30

TUCPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring)UT ............................................................................................................ 32

TUJP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up JumperUT....................................................................................................................................33

TUDIMM SocketsUT ............................................................................................................................................................................. 34

TUATX Power ConnectorUT.................................................................................................................................................................36

TUAC Power Auto RecoveryUT............................................................................................................................................................36

TUIDE and Floppy ConnectorUT .......................................................................................................................................................... 37

TUSerial ATA SupportedUT ..................................................................................................................................................................39

TUConnecting Serial ATA DiskUT......................................................................................................................................................... 40

TUSupport RAID 0 and RAID 1UT........................................................................................................................................................43

TUFront Panel ConnectorUT ................................................................................................................................................................ 44

TUAGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion SlotUT................................................................................................................... 45

TUAGP Protection Technology and AGP LEDUT .................................................................................................................................46

TUWOL (Wake on LAN)UT...................................................................................................................................................................47

TUIrDA ConnectorUT............................................................................................................................................................................49

TUSupport 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN onboardUT................................................................................................................................... 50

TUSupport USB 2.0 PortsUT ................................................................................................................................................................ 51

TUIEEE 1394 ConnectorsUT................................................................................................................................................................ 52

TUGame Port Bracket SupportedUT .................................................................................................................................................... 53

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TUColor Coded Back PanelUT ............................................................................................................................................................. 54

TUS/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) ConnectorUT ...................................................................................................................... 55

TUSuper 5.1 Channel Audio EffectUT .................................................................................................................................................. 56

TUFront Audio ConnectorUT ................................................................................................................................................................57

TUDie-Hard BIOSUT ............................................................................................................................................................................58

TUJP15/JP16 Dr. Voice Language Select JumpersUT.........................................................................................................................60

TUJP2 Speaker Output JumperUT ....................................................................................................................................................... 61

TUCD Audio ConnectorUT ................................................................................................................................................................... 62

TUAUX-IN ConnectorUT.......................................................................................................................................................................63

TUCase Open ConnectorUT.................................................................................................................................................................64

TUSTBY LED (Standby LED)UT...........................................................................................................................................................65

TUResetable FuseUT ........................................................................................................................................................................... 66

TUEnlarged Aluminum HeatsinkUT ...................................................................................................................................................... 67

TULow ESR CapacitorUT ..................................................................................................................................................................... 68

TUThe noise is gone!! ---- SilentTekUT ................................................................................................................................................ 70

TUEzClockUT .......................................................................................................................................................................................73

TUHyper Threading T echnologyUT ......................................................................................................................................................77

TUAOConfig UtilityUT ........................................................................................................................................................................... 79

TURAID IntroductionUT ..................................................................................................................................81

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TUWhat’s RAID?UT.............................................................................................................................................................................. 81

TUWhat are the RAID levels?UT .......................................................................................................................................................... 82

TUHDD Capacity of RAID LevelsUT.....................................................................................................................................................85

TUSerial ATA RAID for Intel ICH5RUT..................................................................................................................................................86

TUSerial ATA RAID for Silicon Image 3112AUT ...................................................................................................................................88

TUPhoenix-AWARD BIOSUT ............................................................................................................................93

TUHow To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup ProgramUT ................................................................................................................. 94

TUHow To Enter BIOS SetupUT........................................................................................................................................................... 95

TUWinBIOS UtilityUT............................................................................................................................................................................ 96

TUBIOS Upgrade under Windows environmentUT ..............................................................................................................................98

TUVivid BIOS technologyUT...............................................................................................................................................................100

TUDriver and UtilityUT ..................................................................................................................................101

TUAuto-run Menu from Bonus CDUT ................................................................................................................................................. 101

TUInstalling IntelUPU

TUInstalling Onboard Sound DriverUT ............................................................................................................................................... 103

TUInstalling Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Driver in Windows 2000/XPUT .............................................................................104

TUInstalling LAN DriverUT..................................................................................................................................................................105

TUInstalling USB 2.0 DriverUT ............................................................................................................................................................112

TUInstalling Silicon Image SiI3112A SATA Raid DriverUT...................................................................................................................117

UPU

Chipset Software Installation UtilityUT .................................................................................................................. 102

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TUGlossaryUT ...............................................................................................................................................124

TUAC97 CODECUT ...........................................................................................................................................................................124

TUACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)UT .................................................................................................................. 124

TUACR (Advanced Communication Riser)UT .................................................................................................................................... 124

TUAGP (Accelerated Graphic Port)UT ............................................................................................................................................... 125

TUAMR (Audio/Modem Riser)UT .......................................................................................................................................................125

TUATA (AT Attachment)UT ................................................................................................................................................................. 125

TUBIOS (Basic Input/Output System)UT............................................................................................................................................ 126

TUBluetoothUT ................................................................................................................................................................................... 126

TUCNR (Communication and Networking Riser)UT........................................................................................................................... 127

TUDDR (Double Data Rate) RAMUT.................................................................................................................................................. 127

TUECC (Error Checking and Correction)UT....................................................................................................................................... 127

TUEEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM)UT .............................................................................................................. 127

TUEPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)UT..................................................................................................................................128

TUEV6 BusUT ....................................................................................................................................................................................128

TUFCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)UT .......................................................................................................................................128

TUFC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)UT............................................................................................................................................128

TUFC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)UT ......................................................................................................................................... 128

TUFlash ROMUT ................................................................................................................................................................................ 129

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TUHyper ThreadingUT........................................................................................................................................................................ 129

TUIEEE 1394UT ................................................................................................................................................................................. 129

TUParity BitUT .................................................................................................................................................................................... 130

TUPCI (Peripheral Component Interface) BusUT............................................................................................................................... 130

TUPDF FormatUT............................................................................................................................................................................... 130

TUPnP (Plug and Play)UT .................................................................................................................................................................. 130

TUPOST (Power-On Self Test)UT ......................................................................................................................................................131

TUPSB (Processor System Bus) ClockUT .........................................................................................................................................131

TURDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory)UT ............................................................................................................ 131

TURIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module)UT....................................................................................................................................131

TUSDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)UT .................................................................................................................................................131

TUSATA (Serial ATA)UT......................................................................................................................................................................132

TUSMBus (System Management Bus)UT ..........................................................................................................................................132

TUSPD (Serial Presence Detect)UT................................................................................................................................................... 132

TUUSB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus)UT .................................................................................................................................................132

TUVCM (Virtual Channel Memory)UT ................................................................................................................................................133

TUWireless LAN – 802.11bUT ............................................................................................................................................................ 133

TUZIP fileUT .......................................................................................................................................................................................133

TUTroubleshootingUT ...................................................................................................................................134

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TUTechnical SupportUT ................................................................................................................................138

TUProduct RegistrationUT............................................................................................................................142

TUHow to Contact UsUT...............................................................................................................................143

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Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD, the AMD logo, Athlon and Duron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium 4 are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or

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respective owners.

All of the specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without notice. AOpen reserves the right to revise this publication and to make reasonable changes. AOpen assumes no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual, including the products and software described in it.

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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 recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 for online viewing, it is included in

siteUTH.

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.

Thanks for the help of saving our earth.

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Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4SPE Max motherboard. AX4SPE Max is IntelP factor featuring the Socket 478 Pentium which brings additional intelligence to systems. In the spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2112MB/sec. According to different customer’s requirements, this motherboard supports

HTUDDR333UTH and HTUDDR400UTH RAM up to 4GB maximum. The onboard IDE controller supports HTUUltra DMA 33/66/100UTH mode, HTUSerial ATAUTH 150 MB/s

Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form

HTUIntel Springdale-PE chipsetsUTH. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AX4SPE Max motherboard supports IntelP

4 1.6GHz~3.06GHz. It supports 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (HTUFSBUTH) clock and HTUHyper-ThreadingUTH Technology

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

HTUDDR266UTH,

and IDE Raid 0, Raid 1 mode. There are 6 PCI slots provided on this board and two

UTH ports on the back panel and one connector on the board

2.0

HTUIEEE1394 UTHconnectors. A total of 6 HTUUSB

give you the best use of all USB devices with the fancy speed up to 480Mbps. More than that, on the strength of integrated Broadcom LAN controller on board, which is a highly integrated platform LAN connect devices, it provides 10/100/1000M bps Ethernet for office and home use. Besides, AX4SPE Max has S/PDIF connector and an

HTUAC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650UHT

chipset onboard, providing high performance and magic surround stereo sound to let people enjoy working with it. Now, let’s enjoy all features from AOpen AX4SPE Max motherboard.

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CPU

Supports IntelP 478 technology.

Socket 478 PentiumP

4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.06GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket

Chipset

Springdale-PE is a Memory Controller Hub (MCH) designed for use with the Pentium 4 processor with 512-KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron processor. It provides CPU, DDR, AGP, Hub and CSA Interfaces. The CPU interface supports Pentium 4 processor subset of the Extended Mode of the Scalable Bus Protocol. The MCH memory interface supports one up to two channels of DDR, and the AGP interface supports

0.8/1.5V signaling with 8X/4X data transfers and 8X/4X AGP Fast Writes. The Springdale-PE platform supports the fifth generation I/O Controller Hub (ICH5R).

The ICH5R 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, integrated 1394 controller, an ASF controller and a hub interface for communication with the Springdale-PE MCH.

Memory

With Springdale-PE chipset, this motherboard can support dual channel HTUDouble-Data-Rate (DDR) RAMUTH. 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 RAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512 MB or 1GB DDR RAM and maximum up to 4GB.

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Expansion Slots

Including six 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots. The HTUPCIUTH local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. Of six PCI slots provided, all of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. AX4SPE Max motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card. The video display sophistication and speed. The AGP video cards support data transfer rate up to 2112MB/s.

HTUAccelerated Graphics Port (AGP)UTH specification provides a new level of

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.

Watch Dog ABS

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

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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

On the strength of Broadcom BCM5705, a fourth-generation triple-speed 10/100/1000 base-T Ethernet LAN Controller solution for high-performance network applications, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000M bps Ethernet for office and home use.

Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Mater 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 A TA

Integrated in ICH5R 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 IC H5R SATA interface supports data transfer rates up to 150MB/s and RAID 0 and RAID 1. On the strength of the Silicon Image SATA controller, this motherboard provides two other SATA ports (port 3 and port 4). This two ports support RAID 0 and RAID 1.

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On-board AC’97 Sound

AX4SPE Max uses RealTek AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC650 sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system.

Eight USB 2.0 Ports

Provides six ports on the back panel and one USB 2.0 connector on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.

Dr. Voice II

The Dr. Voice II can identify what kind of problems had occurred in the operating system. It provides four kinds language versions.

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 user-friendlier.

HTUPlug-and-PlayUTH, which helps save users from configuration problems, thus making the system much

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Hardware Monitoring Management

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

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 HTUACPIUTH standard for WindowsP STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) and S5 features.

98/ME/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3),

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

1. Installing HTUCPUUTH and HTUFanUTH

2. HTUInstalling System Memory (DIMMUTH)

3. HTUConnecting Front Panel CableUTH

4. HTUConnecting IDE and Floppy CableUTH

5. HTUConnecting ATX Power CableUTH

6. HTUConnecting Back Panel CableUTH

7. HTUPower-on and Load BIOS Setup DefaultUTH

8. HTUSetting CPU FrequencyUTH

9. Reboot

10. Installing Operating System (such as Windows XP)

11. HTUInstalling Driver and UtilityUTH

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Motherboard Map

AC’97 CODEC

HTAUX-INTH Connector

CD-IN Connector

S/PDIF Connector

Front Audio ConnectorTH

HT32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6TH

IrDA Connector

Game Port Connector

USB 2.0 ConnectorTH

SATA Port x 4

IEEE1394 Connector x 2

Wake on LAN Connector

SYSHTFAN3 ConnectorTH

JP24 BIOS Rescue Jumper

Front Panel ConnectorTH

JP14 CMOS Clear JumperTH

HTCase Open ConnectorTH

STBY LED

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HTColored Back PanelTH

Resetable FuseTH

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper

HTFAN2TH Connector

SYS

4-pin 12V. ATX Power ConnectorTH

Low ESR CapacitorsTH AGP Protection LED

HTAGP 8x Expansion SlotTH

HT478-pin CPU socket (Northwood)

with Voltage and Frequency Auto-detection that supports Intel

Pentium

4 1.6~3.06GHz+ CPUTH

CPUFAN1 connector

Springdale-PE Chipset that supports 400/533/800MHz FSB,

H184-pin DIMMx4 support

DDR400/333/266 SDRAM maximum up to 4GB

ATX Power ConnectorTH

JP2 Speaker Output Connector

JP15/JP16 Dr. Voice II Language Select Jumper

ATA66/100 IDE Connector x2TH

FDD ConnectorTH

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Socket 478

Intel Pentiu m 4

CPU (Northwood)

AGP 8X Sl ot

LAN connect Component

533/800MHz

System Bus

AGP bus

Floppy Disk Drive x2

DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel

RAM Up to 4GB

DIMM Socket x4

Intel

Springdale-PE

Broadcom

BCM5705

USB Port x8

PCI Bus

USB Port

32-bit PCI Slot x6

2 Serial AT A Por ts

150MB/s

Silicon Imag e

SATA Controller

ATA 66/100

Primary

Channel

Secondary

Channel

ICH5R

SATA 3

SATA 4

SATA 1

SATA 2

RealTek

AC97

CODEC

4Mbit Flash EEPROM

Parallel Port

Serial Port x2

IEEE1394 x2

IDE Drive 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

HTUenglish.aopen.com.twUTH for detail information.

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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.

Pin 1

Normal

default)

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 IntelP socket.

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

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

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 installation.

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

CPU cut edge

Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you ma

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 HTUSMbusUTH 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)

IntelP

Power Regulator

Socket 478

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, 2.0V), 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.

12V (Protected by power supply)

3.3V (Protected by power supply)

5V (Protected by power supply)

Onboard Power Regulator

(Over-Current Protection)

CPU Core Voltage

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This Motherboard implements a HTUFlash ROMUTH and a special circuit that provide you no batter power consumption of current CPU and 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.

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

BIOS

Reset Signal

Clock Generator

Countdown about 5 seconds if fails in POST

CPU

HTUPOSTUTH status. If it succeeded, the BIOS will

CPU ID Signal

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This function is dedicated to overclockers and supports Adjustable CPU Core Voltage from 1.10V to 2.025V. However, this motherboard can also automatically detect CPU VID signal and generates proper 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… 21x, 22x, 23x, 24x CPU FSB (By BIOS table) 100-400MHz

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Northwood CPU

Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 100MHz 400MHz 16x Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 133MHz 533MHz 12x

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

CPU Core

Frequency

FSB

Clock

System

Bus

Ratio

Note: Intel Springdale-PE chipset only support Northwood processors, and don’t support Willamette or Celeron processors. Northwood processor would detect the clock ratio automatically, you may not be able to adjust the clock ratio in BIOS manually.

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 3000MHz 200MHz 800MHz 15x

Warning: Intel Springdale-PE chipset supports maximum 800MHz (200MHz*4) system bus and 66MHz AGP clock; higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.

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Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN1 connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN2 or SYSFAN3 connector.

SYSFAN2 Connector

CPUFAN1 Connector

GND +12V SENSOR

Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that they cannot support hardware monitoring function.

SYSFAN3 Connector

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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 en able this function by setting the jumper to 2-3.

Pin 1

1 1

Disable

(Default)

Enable

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This motherboard has four 184-pin DDR HTDIMMTH sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel HTUDDR400UTH, HTUDDR333UTH or HTUDDR266UTH memory up to 4GB. Only non-ECC DDR RAM is supported. Please install suitable modules; otherwise serious damage may occur on memory sockets or you RAM modules. Please note that when you install DDR333 memory module and have y our CPU FSB set at 800MHz, the memory can only run with the spe ed of DDR320. It is limitation of Intel. For other limitation of CPU types, please see the table below.

Warning: This motherboard supports DDR RAM. Please do not install the SDRAM on the DDR RAM sockets; otherwise it will cause serious damage on memory sockets or SDRAM module.

Item

CPU FSB 400MHz V X X CPU FSB 533MHz V V X CPU FSB 800MHz V

DDR266 DDR333 DDR400

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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.

DIMMA1 DIMMA2

DIMMB1 DIMMB2

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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.

Tab

Key

40 pins 52 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

s bottom.

slot

Pin 1

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This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector. 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 Rec overy function to solve this problem.

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

Secondary Slave (4th)

Secondary

Master (3rd)

Pin 1

FDD Connector

Pin 1

Primary

Slave (2nd)

ATA 66/100 IDE

Connector

IDE 2 (Secondary) IDE 1 (Primary)

Primary

Master (1st)

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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.

SATA port 1 (ICH5R)

SATA port 4 (Sil 3112)

Serial ATA Ports

SATA port 3 (Sil 3112)

SATA port 2 (ICH5R)

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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.

Item Parallel ATA Serial A TA

Bandwidth 100/133 MB/Sec 150/300/600 MB/Sec Volts 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 simpl y 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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With Intel ICH5R chipset and Silicon Image Sil3112A onboard, this motherboard provides a cost-effective, high performance striping (RAID

0) and mirroring (RAID 1) solution. With striping, identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance. Mirroring

increase read performance through load balancing and elevator seeking while creating a complete backup of your files. When supporting RAID 0 or RAID 1, you should connect SATA hard driver disks to SATA Header 1and 2. You can set in BIOS which mode you want to support.

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Pin1

Attach the power LED, Keylock, speaker, power and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode.

Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing. It is 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. Plug this connector to the soft-power switch connector marked SPWR.

Suspend Type ACPI LED

Power on Suspend (S1) or Suspend to RAM (S3) Flashing for every second

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

NC NC

+5V

+5V +5V

GND

5VSB SPWR ACPI LED GND ACPILED NC ACPI_B GND RESET GND

IDE LED

Speaker

SPWR

IDE LED

ACPI & PWR LED

ACPI LED (BLUE)

Reset

IDE LED

SPEAKER

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AX4SPE Max provides an HTUAGPUTH 8x slot. 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 =2112MB/s. You can adjust AGP voltage in BIOS within a rage from 1.5V to 1.7V.

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

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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-voltaging 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 Springdale-PE 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 (Under the slot)

Warning: It is strongly recommended not to install a 3.3V AGP card, which is not supported by Intel Spingdale-PE. When you do so, the AGP LED on the motherboard will light up to warn you the possible damage.

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To use Wake on LAN function, you must have a network card with chipset that supports this feature, and connect a cable from LAN card to motherboard WOL connector. The system identification information (probably IP address) is stored on network card and because there is a lot of traffic on the Ethernet, you need to install network management software, such as ADM, for the checking of how to wake up the system. Note that, at least 600mA ATX standby current is required to support the LAN card for this function.

+5VSB GND LID

WOL Connector

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WOL Connector

(Motherboard Side)

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

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WOL Connector

(Ethernet Card Side)

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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

IrDA Connecto

+5V

IR_TX

KEY GND IR_RX

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On the strength of BCM5705, a fourth-generation triple-speed 10/100/1000 base-T Ethernet LAN Controller solution for high-performance network applications, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000M bps Ethernet for office and home use. 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.

Transferring (Left)

Green 100Mbps

Orange Gigabit

Linking (Right)

Orange

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This motherboard provides eight HTUUSBUTH 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are one USB connector on the board for you to connect two USB devices and six 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 which is 40 times faster than the traditional one. Except for the speed increase, USB 2.0 supports old USB 1.0/1.1 software and peripherals, offering impressive and even better compatibility to customers. On this motherboard, all eight ports support USB 2.0 function.

SBD6+

+5V

SBD6-

GND

KEY

USB 2.0 Connector

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.

+5V SBD7SBD7+ GND NC

Pin 1

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With HTUIEEE1394 UTHMAC Embedded in Intel ICH5R (with AGERE FW323), the IEEE 1 394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, and US B

1.0/1.1 just has 12Mbps. Hence, the IEEE 1394 interface can connect with the devices that need high data transferring performance, such

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

SHIED GND

+12V (Fused)

10 9

+12V (Fused)

TPB-

GND TPA-

Warning: Please be noted that Hot-Plug in is not allowed on IEEE 1394 header, because it will burn the IC of the controller and damage the motherboard.

TPB+ GND TPA+

2 1

Pin 1

IEEE 1394

Port 1 & 2

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This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard.

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

Joystick Module

(User Upgrade Optional)

Pin1

Game Port Connector

+5V

JAB1

JACX

GND GND

JACY

JAB2

+5V

+5V JBB1 JBCX MIDI_TXD JBCY JBB2 MIDI_RXD KEY

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The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing.

PS/2 Mouse

Connecto

PS/2 Keyboard

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. COM Port: To connect with pointing devices, modem or others serial devices. RJ-45 LAN connector To connect Ethernet for home or office use. Speaker Out: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier. Line-In: Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape player. MIC-In: From Microphone.

Connector

USB 2.0

Ports

COM 1 Port

SPP/EPP/ECP

Parallel Port

COM 2 Port

RJ-45 LAN Connector

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 Cable

S/PDIF IN

(Optical)

S/PDIF Module

(User Upgrade Optional)

Pin 1

S/PDIF Connector

+5V NC SPDIFOUT GND SPDIFIN

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This motherboard comes with an ALC650E CODEC, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC650, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any external module. To apply this function, you have to install the audio driver in the Bonus Pack CD as well as an audio application supporting 5.1 Channel. Picture bellow represents the standard location of all speakers in 5.1 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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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 throug h 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

AUD_GND AUD_VCC AUD_RET_R

KEY AUD_RET_L

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.

Front Audio Connector

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Many viruses have been found that they may destroy bios code and data area lately. This motherboard implements a very effective hardware protection method without any software or BIOS coding involved, therefore it is 100% virus free. You may restore the originally mounted BIOS with 2 may contact our local distributors or resellers for purchasing an extra BIOS ROM. Please visit our website at

BIOS ROM by setting JP24 to pin 2-3 if it fails to work properly. This motherboard comes with one BIOS ROM, you

HTUwww.aopen.comUTH for details.

Pin1

Normal Rescue ROM

JP24

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Dr. Voice is a great feature of AX4SPE Max, which can identify the problems you may encounter in the operating system. It can clearly “tell you” whether the problem is caused from components or improper installation such as CPU, memory module, VGA, PCI add-on card, FDD, HDD or keyboard. Dr. Voice provides four language versions: English, German, Japanese and Chinese. You can select your preferred language by JP15 & JP16 jumpers. However, you may also set JP2 to choose making out voices from buzzer or speaker.

JP15

Pin1

Dr. Voice Language

Select Jum

(Default)

Japanese

Chinese

German

English

JP16

JP15

JP16

Pin1 Pin1

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This motherboard comes with another considerate option that allows you to turn off the voice from buzzer and speaker. You can choose not to be bothered by the warning made from Dr. Voice when it detects any error in operating system. You may also set JP2 to choose sending out voices from buzzer or speaker.

Pin 1

JP2 Speaker Output Jumper

Buzzer

default

Speaker

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

CD-IN Connector

L GND GND R

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 MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.

L GND GND R

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.

GND

Sensor

Pin 1

Case Open Connector

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STBY LED is AOpen’s considerate design that we 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.

Warning: Do not install or remove the DIMM module or others devices when the STBY LED lights on.

STBY LED

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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, AX4SPE Max implements 3300μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500μF) and it provi des better stability for CPU power.

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The power circuit of the CPU core voltage must be checked to ensure system stability for high speed CPUs. A typical CPU core voltage is

2.0V, so a good design should control voltage between 1.860V and 2.140V. That is, the transient must be below 280mV. Below is a timing diagram captured by a Digital Storage Scope, it shows the voltage transient is only 143mv even when maximum 60A current is applied.

Note: This diagram for example only, it may not be exactly the same as the motherboard you purchased.

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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 motherb oard under Windows environme nt an d be a real master of your system? Everybody knows that the ratio and frequency setting are key factors to influence the system performance, however, it’s absolutely not an easy task for an amateur to adjust the setting value. On most traditional motherboards, you have to get into BIOS screen for the frequency and reboot the system again and again. But from now on, you don’t have to surfer the boring stuffs anymore.

With brand-new and user-friendly EzClock that AOpen specially designs for his users, you can adjust those important values as you please and think of suitable. This tailor-made EzClock allows you to set the voltage and frequency of CPU, VGA, PCI and memory under Windows environment as well as in BIOS setting page; even better, those settings will be displayed realtime. Having this handy EzClock, you can monitor the system when you’re fine-tuning the performance of your system. It provides you detailed and necessary information. Now let’s take a look how it works on utility, BIOS and POST.

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How You Adjust the Settings in EzClock Utility

In EzClock utility, you can adjust CPU Front Side Bus (FSB), the voltage and frequency of VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM. Besides, the CPU related information such as CPU voltage, temperature and CPUFAN rotation speed will also be displayed on this utility.

CPU Color Bars:

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

On the right part of the panel is the section that you adjust the settings of VGA, AGP, PCI and memory. To adjust the voltage and clock frequency of those installments, you can press “-“ or “+” on corresponding items. The color parts represent the situation of values. The higher value you set, the light on the color bar goes to right and turns red. After finishing those value settings, you can press “S” button on the upper right hand corner to save changes to CMOS.

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

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

On the left circle area shows Ratio, FSB and frequency information about CPU. When the values are set to factory default, the light on the top and bottom of the circle will show green and it will vary as you change these CPU settings.

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

Control buttons:

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

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On the bottom rectangular panel represents CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature. The three color bars on the right hand side will light on according to operation temperature. Please refer to the picture shown above.

CPU Color Bars: The color bars will light on according to CPU operation

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CPU Fan, Voltage and Temperature:

representing CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees.

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How You Adjust the Settings in BIOS

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

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

Also, the same keys help you adjust the voltage of CPU and DDR settings. Some values may change while you adjust the settings. You can press “F10” to save the changes you’ve made.

Function Keys Description

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How Your Boot Screen Looks Like

After you finish setting BIOS, these setting values will be displayed on the boot screen like the shown picture here.

Every time you boot your system, both default and current settings will pop up on the screen. Your personal settings that had been adjusted earlier will be highlighted; thus, you can have clear idea how your system functions and monitor your system more easily.

NOTE: Due to BIOS versions are updated in an extremely fast speed, it's strongly recommended to download the latest version of EzClock from our website for best compatibility.

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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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 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.

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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Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures.

The idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was first introduced by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy H. Katz at the University California at Berkeley in 1988. RAID is a purpose of storing the same data in different places on multiple improves storage subsystem performance. The advantage of RAID is to provide better throughput performance and/or data fault tolerance. Better performance is accomplished by sharing the workload in parallel among multiple physical hard drives. Fault-tolerance is achieved through data redundant operation where if one (or more) drive fails or has a sector failure, a mirrored copy of the data can be found on another drive(s).

A RAID appears to the operating system to be a single logical hard disk. The RAID controller manages how the data is stored and accessed across the physical and logical arrays. The RAID controller help users to ensure that the operating system only sees the logical drives and users do not need to worry about managing the complicated schema.

For optimal performance results, select identical hard drives to install in disk arrays. The drives’ matched performance allows the array to function better as a single drive.

Warning: The Serial ATA RAID function can be supported under Windows XP and Windows .Net environments.

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RAID level 0, which is the fastest drive array you can have, is a performance-oriented disk mapping method. The data in this array gets written across a stripe or different disks for a faster transfer. This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. Reads and writes sector of data interleaved between multiple drives. When any disk member fails, it affects the entire array. Performance is better than a single drive since the workload is balanced between the array members. This array type is for high performance systems. Identical drives are recommended for perfor mance as well as data storage efficiency. The disk array data capacity is equal to the number of members times the smallest member capacity. For example, one 40GB and one 60GB drives will form an 80GB (40GBx2) disk array.

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RAID level 1 uses at least two duplicate hard drives and store the exact same blocks of information between them. This is the slowest form of fault tolerance because the data has to be replicated onto two disks at the same time. However, this is the simplest way to provide high reliability.

If one of the mirrored drives suffers a mechanical failure or does not respond, the remaining drive will continue to serve and provide correct data. If one drive has a physical sector error, the mirrored drive will continue to function.

Due to redundancy, the drive capacity of the array is half the total drive capacity. For example, two 40GB drives that have a combined capacity of 80GB would have 40GB of usable storage. With drives of different capacities, there may be unused capacity on the larger drive. RAID 1 increases cost as it takes twice as much hard drives to build our arrays.

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As the name would suggest, RAID 0+1 is striping and mirroring combined. This RAID combines the best of both RAID 0 and RAID 1. It takes a Disk stripe using two disks, and mirrors it to another set of disks for fault tolerance. Data is stripped across several disks, each disk has partner with exactly the same data on it. You get the benefits of fast data access as in RAID 0, with the fault tolerance of RAID 1. This configuration provides optimal speed and reliability. You need double the number of disks as a RAID 0, half for each side of the mirror. At least 4 hard disks are needed while performing RAID 0+1. There is other RAID configurations in addition to those described here, but th ese are the types most commonly used in the industry.

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With the latest chipsets implemented, Intel ICH5R provides RAID 0 and RAID 1 function for the Serial ATA hard disks. You may follow the steps shown below to setup your disk array.

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After having properly installed your Serial ATA 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 Enhanced mode. In order to utilize Serial ATA function, please select RAID in SATA Mode. Finally, do save the changes and exit BIOS setup screen.

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In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID Configuration Utility to do some configuration. After finishing the BIOS setup and reboot, you will see [Press CTRL + I to enter configuration Utility] about half way through the boot up. Please press these two buttons simultaneously. When you enter you will be presented with a screen as shown below:

1. Create RAID Volume:

This section allows users to choose the strip size and disk volume of RAID.

2. Delete RAID Volume:

This section allows users to delete the volume of RAID. Please be noted that deleting a volume will destroy volume data and cause any member disks to become available as non-RAID disks.

3. Reset Disks to Non-RAID:

Users can remove any internal RAID structures from all RAID disks, including disks with working volume. Select “Yes” will cause all data on any disk to be lost.

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Silicon Image’s SATARaidP PCI-to-SATA host controller product.

Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that provides easy-to-use configurations for the different RAID Sets supported.

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The driver is located on the provided floppy disk. Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and click Browse. Most floppy disk drives are configured as [A:]. Choose the [A:] drive in your browser and the Si3112r.inf file for the SiI 3112. Select the file and click Open.

For Windows NT system, please select the file Oemsetup.inf and click Open. The next window allows you to select which driver to install. Select SiI 3112 Raid Controller and click on OK.

For Windows 98/ME, please use the driver installation files (siI3112r.sys) on the provided floppy disk if necessary. Now, a window verifying that the new Driver for the board has been properly installed. Click Finish. It is always good to restart the computer after an installation. When asked to do so, click yes. To install SATARaid, use Windows InstallShield by performing the following:

1. After computer restarts, insert CD in disk drive.

2. Double-click on Install SATARaid.exe.

3. Follow on-screen instructions to complete installation. Note: Do NOT install in the Start Up folder. Choose the Default folder (normally Accessories or Administrative Tools or something similar).

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Creating and Deleting RAID Sets is a function set in the BIOS and please press <CRTL-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility during boot.

Creating RAID Sets

1. Select “Create RAID Set”.

2. Choose either a “Striped” or “Mirrored” RAID Set.

3. Select if you want the utility to Auto Configure the RAID Set or if you want to manually configure the RAID Set. For Striped Sets, you can change the chunk size. For Mirrored Sets, you assign which is the Source and Target drives, as well as if you

want Disk Copy. The utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration.

Deleting RAID Sets

1. To remove one or more RAID sets, select “Delete RAID Set”.

2. Select desired set and press Y when asked “Are You Sure?”

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The creating and naming of partitions is something done within the Windows operating system. Windows XP/2000 and Windows NT both use the Disk Management window to start this work. And Windows 98/ME uses FDISK to realize this function.

Windows XP/2000

SECTION 1: System listing of all formatted and available disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 2: Report of physical connection of disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 3: Report of partition status, disk letter, and volume name.

Windows NT

Button 1: opens the Disk Administrator Volumes window which lists the recognizable Volumes, their capacity, free space, type of format, etc.

Button 2: opens the Disk Configuration window (shown above), detailing all disks (or RAID Sets), partitions, and allows he sure to format and name each partition and volume.

Section 1: reports the size of each disk (or RAID Set). Section 2: reports on each partition, and allows the user to format or

delete partitions.

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The SATARaid GUI offers the user the ability to easily monitor your RAID Set. To launch the GUI, simply double-click on the icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop.

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System parameters can be modified by going into HTUBIOSUTH 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 provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports.

Most BIOS settings of AX4SPE Max 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

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

HTUPOST (Power-On Self Test)UTH screen is shown on your monitor.

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.

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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. Alternatively, it's strongly recommended to install AOpen’s newest

HTUWinBIOS UtilityUTH to get more detailed description, further powerful functions and advanced setting of BIOS.

Key Description

Page Up or + Changing setting to next value or increase the value. Page Down or - Changing setting to previous value or decrease value. Enter Select the item. Esc 1. In main menu: Quit and don’t save any change.

2. In sub menu: Exit current menu to main menu. Up Arrow Highlight previous item. Down Arrow Highlight next item. Left Arrow Move the light bar to left side of menu. Right Arrow Move the light bar to right side of menu. F6 Load fail-save setting value from CMOS. F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS. F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.

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After you finish jumper settings and connect correct cables, power on and enter the BIOS Setup. Press <Del> during HTUPOSTUTH (Power-On Self Test) and choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance.

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Warning: Pleas e 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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timing during POST (Power-On-Self-Test) screen to get into the BIOS, which is inconvenient and clumsy. From now on, AOpen provides an easier way to configure your BIOS. WinBIOS is a customized utility for running exclusively on AOpen motherboards, which allows you to setup your BIOS under Windows environment. Designed with traditional-BIOS-alike interface, you may adjust BIOS parameter with clear descriptions for each item.

WinBIOS is natively designed with multi-language support. There are various widely-use languages provided on our website for your downloading, which also helps to prevent wrong settings caused by misunderstanding of the languages. The only thing you have to do is to visit our official website and download your respective language pack (of few KB size), then double-click on it to activate the support with your chosen language.

Moreover, with high scalability, either for newly bought motherboard or the latest BIOS version with new function, you don’t have to re-install the whole program again and again. All you have to do is to grab the latest profile from our website, simply double-click on it as well to support the latest version of your BIOS. You don’t have to spend any extra effort to have your motherboard supported by WinBIOS.

In the past, users have to keep punching the DEL key at a good

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Function keys:

It’s definitely easy to handle WinBIOS as if you’re using traditional BIOS setting. Users can use the arrow keys such as to move around the items in WinBIOS screen. And use “+” or “-” to change the setting value if they are available. Press get back to the previous screen. Furthermore, the hotkeys shown in the table may help you and save your time. Some settings may not come into effect until you reboot your system.

TCaution: After updating your BIOS, please remember to update

WinBIOS profile as well. If the upgraded BIOS version is newer than WinBIOS profile, WinBIOS will not be able to launch and a dialog box with error message will pop up. This verification is designed on purpose to protect your BIOS from damaged by wrong profile version.

For the latest WinBIOS profile and language pack modules, you may find them from AOpen official web site as shown below:

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Note: Due to BIOS versions are updated in an extremely fast speed, it's strongly recommended to download the latest BIOS version and WinBIOS profile from our website upon receipt of the motherboard.

Hotkey Function Description

F1 Get help description. F2 Item Help

F3 Changing menu language.

F5 Load previous setting F6 Load setup default setting F7 Load turbo setting F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program. F12 Full Screen / Normal Mode

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

EzWinFlash. With an eye to users convenience, EzWinFlash combines the BIOS binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on the utility you downloaded from web and let it helps you complete the flash process automatically. EzWinFlash detects your motherboard and checks the BIOS version cleverly to prevent your system from any possible failure. Moreover, EzWinFlash has been taken into consideration to go with any windows platform you might be using, no matter if you’re using Windows 95/98, 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP.

In the meanwhile, in order to provide a much more user-friendly operating environment, AOpen EzWinFlash is natively designed to have multi-language function to provide easier way for users’ usage in changing BIOS setting.

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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

2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WSPEMAX102.ZIP) with WinZip (

3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WSPEMAX102.EXE & WSPEMAX102.BIN.

4. Double click on the WSPEMAX102.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.

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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 the BIOS download page, innovative feature!

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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!

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AOpen AX4SPEMAX User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

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Chipset

Memory

Expansion Slots

AGP Protection Technology

Hyper-Threading Technology

Watch Dog ABS

1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment

LAN Port

Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Mater IDE

Serial A TA

On-board AC’97 Sound

Eight USB 2.0 Ports

Dr. Voice II

S/PDIF Connector

Power Management/Plug and Play

Hardware Monitoring Management

Enhanced ACPI

Motherboard Map

Front Audio Connector

JP2 Speaker Output Jumper

AUX-IN Connector

Case Open Connector

Resetable Fuse

How You Adjust the Settings in BIOS