AOpen I915GAEFRII User Manual

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents ................................................................................... 1

1.1 Thank-you Note Before You Get Start.............................................................4

1.2 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................5

1.3 Safety Information ......................................................................................5

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................... 6

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?...........................................................6

2.2 Specification ...............................................................................................7

2.3 Block Diagram ............................................................................................8

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............................................................... 9

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure .........................................................................9

3.2 Installation You Have to Know..................................................................... 10

Installing CPU ...........................................................................................10

Installing CPU Fan .....................................................................................11

Connecting CPU and System Fans ...............................................................12

Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................13

Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel............................................14

Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................15

Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................16

Connecting ATX Power Cables.....................................................................17

3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 18

Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................18

Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................19

Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................20

Connecting PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot...................................................22

Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot ..................................................................23

Connecting IrDA........................................................................................24

10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported...............................................................25

Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................26

Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect...................................................................27

Connecting Front Audio..............................................................................28

Connecting 1394.......................................................................................29

Connecting COM2 (for i915Ga-EFRII only)....................................................30

Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) ........................................31

Connecting Game Port ...............................................................................32

Connecting CD_IN.....................................................................................33

Connecting Case Open ...............................................................................34

Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Ga-EFRII) ...............................................35

Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Pa-EFRII) ...............................................36

LED Indication ..........................................................................................37

3.4 Jumper Settings........................................................................................38

Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities................................................... 40

4.1 SATA RAID by ICH6R ................................................................................. 40

Arouse RAID function in BIOS.....................................................................40

RAID Configuration Utility...........................................................................41

4.2 SATA RAID by Promise PDC20579 ...............................................................42

RAID Configuration Utility...........................................................................43

4.3 SilentTek – Noise is Gone!..........................................................................45

4.4 Other Useful Features ................................................................................48

Chapter 5 Setting BIOS......................................................................... 49

Introduction .............................................................................................49

How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program .......................................50

How To Enter BIOS Setup ..........................................................................50

BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment..................................................51

WinBIOS Utility .........................................................................................53

Vivid BIOS technology ...............................................................................54

Chapter 6 Installing Drivers ................................................................... 55

6.1 Installing Drivers ....................................................................................... 56

6.2 Installing Utilities ...................................................................................... 57

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..................................................................... 58

Chapter 8 Technical Support .................................................................. 59

Model Name and BIOS Version....................................................................6 0

Technical Support......................................................................................61

1.1 Thank-you Note Before You Get Start

First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for purchasing AOpen products. Once again, this motherboard is designed uniquely to meet all your personal needs with our great industry-designing ability and our everlasting perseverance to the quality of all our products.

This manual will introduce you how this motherboard is installed. Please keep it well for your future reference. If you lost your printed manual, you may also go to our website at http://www.aopen.com to download the updated file.

Now, we would like to invite you to personally experience this user-friendly manual and all of the powerful functions this AOpen product offers.

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1.2 Features of This Manual

To help you grab the useful information of this motherboard and aware of certain conditions that you might need to know, you will see the icons below frequently:

Note

Warning / Caution

Warning

Tip

Warning

This contains knowledge you should know in process of assembling, or some helpful tips.

Please be careful when you see this mark. It highlights mistakes that occur often during assembling, or something you need to pay attention to.

This tip tells you some useful information that will make your installation smoothly.

1.3 Safety Information

Please wear a wrist strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component. Alternatively, you can also touch an object that is of ground connection or with metal surface.

Always unplug the power before you make any jumper setting.

Before you install or remove any components on the motherboard, please make sure to disconnect the power first in case of damaging motherboard or other components.

17 19

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?

1. Resetable Fuse 18. S/PDIF Connector

2. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 19. Game Port Connector

3. CPUFAN Connector 20. 32-bit PCI Expansion Slots x 3

4. 4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector 21. COM2 Connector

5. PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot 22. IrDA Connector

6. SYSFAN1 Connector 23. JP24 BIOS Rescue Jumper

7. LGA775 CPU Socket supporting Intel CPU FC-LGA4

8. Intel 915G/ICH6R

8. Intel 915P/ICH6R

9. 240-pin DIMMs x 4 26. Case Open Connector

10. BOOT LED 27. JP2 Speaker Output Jumper

11. ATX Power Connector 28. JP14 CMOS Data Clear Jumper

12. IDE Connectors x 2 29. FDD Connector

13. Broadcom Gigabit PCI Express LAN Chip 30. SYSFAN2 Connector

14. CD_IN Connector 31. USB2.0 Connectors x 2

15. PCI Express x 1 slots x 2 32. Front Panel Connector

16. Onboard HD Audio Codec 33. Serial ATA Ports x 6

17. Front Audio Connector

24. IEEE 1394 Connectors x 2

25. Die-hard BIOS x 2

2.2 Specification

Here is the main function of your motherboard.

Models i915Ga-EFRII i915Pa-EFRII

CPU

Chipset Intel 915G/ICH6R Intel 915P/ICH6R

Main Memory

Graphics

IDE

LAN Broadcom Gigabit PCI Express LAN Chip Broadcom Gigabit PCI Express LAN Chip

Sound

USB Integrated in chipset, USB 2.0 x 8 Integrated in chipset, USB 2.0 x 8 IEEE 1394 TI 1394 Control Chip, IEEE 1394 x 2 TI 1394 Control Chip, IEEE 1394 x 2

Slots

Back Panel I/O

On Board Connector

BIOS Award PnP 8Mb Flash ROM BIOS x 2 Award PnP 8Mb Flash ROM BIOS x 2 Board Size 305 mm x 244 mm 305 mm x 244 mm

Intel FC-LGA4 CPU Socket T 800MHz

Dual Channel Mode DDR DDR2 533 DDR2 DIMM x 4 DIMM Type : 128/256/512MB & 1GB Max Memory : 4GB Integrated VGA Engine in chipset PCI Express x 16 graphics slot, Support ADD2 card Integrated ATA100 and Serial ATA Controller (support RAID 0 and 1) Promise ATA133 and Serial ATA Control Chip(support RAID0,1 and 0+1) Max Disk: 144,000,000GB [by 48 bits LBA Spec.]

HD Audio Codec on-Board Support Dolby Digital System, 7.1 Channel and above

PCI Express x 1 slots x 2 PCI Express x 16 graphics slot x 1 PCI slots x 3 PS/2 Keyboard x 1, PS/2 Mouse x 1 USB Port x 4, LAN Port x 1, VGA Port x 1 COM Port x 1, Printer Port x 1 Speaker_Out x 1, Line_In x 1, MIC_In x 1 Side SUR x 1, Rear SUR x 1 Center/Subwoofer x 1 Floppy Drive Connector x 1 IDE Channel: ATA100 x 1, ATA133 x 1 Serial ATA Channel x 6 Front Panel x 1 Front Audio x 1 CPU FAN x 1,System FAN x 1, Chassis FAN x 1 Power FAN x 1 Power Temperature Connector x 1 Game Port Connector x 1 Case Open Connector x 1 ‘ S/PDIF Connector x 1 CD_IN x 1, IrDA x 1, COM2 x 1, USB2.0 Connectors x 2 IEEE 1394 x 2

Intel FC-LGA4 CPU Socket T 800MHz

Dual Channel Mode DDR DDR2 533 DDR2 DIMM x 4 DIMM Type : 128/256/512MB & 1GB Max Memory : 4GB PCI Express x 16 graphics slot,

Integrated ATA100 and Serial ATA Controller (support RAID 0 and 1) Promise ATA133 and Serial ATA Control Chip(support RAID0,1 and 0+1) Max Disk: 144,000,000GB [by 48 bits LBA Spec.]

HD Audio Codec on-Board Support Dolby Digital System, 7.1 Channel and above

PCI Express x 1 slots x 2 PCI Express x 16 graphics slot x 1 PCI slots x 3 PS/2 Keyboard x 1, PS/2 Mouse x 1 USB Port x 4, LAN Port x 1 COM Port x 2, Printer Port x 1 Speaker_Out x 1, Line_In x 1, MIC_In x 1 Side SUR x 1, Rear SUR x 1 Center/Subwoofer x 1 Floppy Drive Connector x 1 IDE Channel: ATA100 x 1, ATA133 x 1 Serial ATA Channel x 6 Front Panel x 1 Front Audio x 1 CPU FAN x 1,System FAN x 1, Chassis FAN x 1 Power FAN x 1 Power Temperature Connector x 1 Game Port Connector x 1 Case Open Connector x 1 ‘ S/PDIF Connector x 1 CD_IN x 1, IrDA x 1, USB2.0 Connectors x 2 IEEE 1394 x 2

2.3 Block Diagram

For i915Ga-EFRII

VGA Onboard

PCI Express x 16

Graphics Slot

ort ADD2 Card (for i915Ga-EFRII)

DIMM Sockets x4

Broadcom

Gigabit

PCI Express

LAN Chip

LAN connect Com

onent

ATA 66/100/133

IDE Drives x 2

Serial ATA Ports x2

533/800 MHZ System Bus

Dual Channel DDR2 533 SDRAM Up to 4GB

Parallel Port

Serial Ports x2

Floppy Disk Drive

150MB/s

LGA775

Socket

Int

l FC-LGA4

Intel

Grantsdale

915G / 915P

chipset

Promise

ATA133 and

Serial ATA

Control chip

PCI Bus

150MB/s

ATA 33/66/100

Winbond

I/O

chipset

PCI Express x 1 Slots x 2

32-bit PCI Slots x3

Serial ATA Ports x4

IDE Drives x 2

HD Audio

CODEC

ICH6R

4Mbits Flash EEPROM

USB Ports x8

TI 1394

Control Chip

IEEE 1394 x 2

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

Chapter 3

Hardware Installation

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure

2. Installing CPU Fan & Sy st em Fan

3. Installing Memory Module

4. Installing HD, CD-ROM and SATA Disk, etc

5. Connecting Front Panel Cable

1. Installing CPU

6. Connecting ATX Power Cable

12. Installing Drivers & Utilities

11. Installing Operating System (such as, Windows XP)

8. Installing Other Devices (USB, Front Audio, etc)

7. Installing AGP & PCI Cards

10. Loading Default BIOS, Setting CPU

uency

Fre

9. Connecting Back Panel Ports (Keyboard, Mouse, etc)

3.2 Installation You Have to Know

Installing CPU

This socket supports FC-LGA4 CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in.

1. Pull CPU socket lever and plate up.

2. Remove plastic cap from CPU socket plate.

3. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a golden arrow on the CPU upper

interface. Match Pin 1 and golden arrow. Then insert the CPU into the socket.

4. Press down the CPU socket plate and lever to finish CPU installation.

Warning: If you do not match the CP U socket Pin 1 and CPU golden arrow well, you may damage the CPU. And please don’t touch CPU socket pins when installing CPU.

Note: It’s strongly recommended by

Intel to use thermal paste properly to avoid over-heat generated from Prescott CPU .

CPU socket plate

Socket Pin 1

CPU socket lever

Golden arrow

Plastic cap

Installing CPU Fan

1. Gently put down the CPU fan on CPU socket with four sticks aiming correctly to the four mounting holes.

Mounting

hole

2. Press down four fixing sticks into the holes one by one. Make sure the sticks are firmly fixed into the holes.

Mounting

hole

Fixing stick

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

Connecting CPU and System Fans

Plug the CPU fan cable to the 4-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug chassis fan in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector.

SENSO

+12V

GND

SYSFAN2 Connector

CPUFAN Connector

SYSFAN1 Connector

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

PWM SENSOR +12V GND

GND +12V SENSOR

Installing Memory Modules

DIMM slots are designed in black and navy blue which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place.

Tab

Pin 1

Key

Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will clip to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom.

Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel

To obtain the highest performance of Dual Channel, the configuration of DIMM must meet the following conditions.

Matched DIMM configuration in each channel

● Same density (128MB~1GB)

As long as you insert memory modules of same density into Channel 1 (DIMM A1 & DIMM A2) and Channel 2 (DIMM B1 & DIMM B2), dual channel mode will be enabled. DIMM A1 + DIMM A2 = DIMM B1 + DIMM B2 Ex: if you insert 1GB memory module into DIMM A1 and DIMM A2, dual channel mode will be enabled when DIMM B1 + DIMM B2 = 1GB

● Same DRAM bus width (x8 or x16)

● Either single-sided or double-sided

Note: Using memory modules of dif ferent chip will cause system unstable.

When dual channel mode is successfully enabled, the screen will show “Dual Channel Mode Enabled” while entering POST screen.

Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables

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

Pin 1

ATA 66/100/133

IDE Connector

(Promise PDC20579)

Primary

Master (1st)

Pin 1

FDD Connector

Primary

Slave (2nd)

ATA 33/66/100

IDE Connector

(ICH6R)

Connecting Front Panel Cable

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

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

Connecting ATX Power Cables

This motherboard comes with a 24-pin ATX power connector and 4-pin 12V ATX power connector as shown below. Make sure you plug them in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to insert the 4-pin connector before connecting the 24-pin connector.

Note: If you don’t have 24-pin ATX power cable, please plug your 20-pin ATX power cable

leftwards into the ATX power connector as shown leftwards.

3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference

Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency

Setting CPU Core Voltage

This motherboard supports Voltage ID (VID) function to detect CPU voltage automatically during power-on and the range is from 0.8375V to 1.6V. It’s not necessary to set CPU core voltage.

Setting CPU Frequency

This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design; you can set CPU frequency by 1MHz stepping CPU Overclocking in the BIOS. CPU Core Frequency = CPU FSB clock x CPU Ratio. However, all CPU now sold in market belong to "Fixed Multiplier". That means users can not adjust the CPU Ratio but change CPU FSB clock to achieve overclocking only.

BIOS Setup > Frequency / Voltage Control > CPU Speed Setup

(Users will do the overclocking at their own risks!!)

CPU Ratio 8x, 10x… 24x, 25x, 26x, 27x, 28x

CPU FSB (Adjustment

manually)

Processor Number Processor FrequencyFSB CPU Ratio

580 4.00G 800MHZ 20x 1MB L2 570 3.80G 800MHZ 19x 1MB L2 560 3.60G 800MHZ 18x 1MB L2 550 3.40G 800MHZ 17x 1MB L2 540 3.20G 800MHZ 16x 1MB L2 530 3.00G 800MHZ 15x 1MB L2 520 2.80G 800MHZ 14x 1MB L2

350 3.20G 533MHZ 24x 256K L2 345 3.06G 533MHZ 23x 256K L2 340 2.93G 533MHZ 22x 256K L2 335 2.80G 533MHZ 21x 256K L2

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

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

FSB = 100MHz-400MHz by 1MHz Stepping CPU Overclocking

5 Series

3 Series

Cache

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

Warning: Intel Grantsdale 915G / Grantsdale 915P chipset support maximum

800MHz (200MHz*4) system; higher clock setting may cause serious s ystem dama ge.

Connecting Serial ATA

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 SATA1 will be set as the first boot device automatically. Please note that it doesn’t support Hot-Plug function.

(Promise PDC20579)

SATA5

(Promise PDC20579)

SATA6

SATA1

(ICH6R)

SATA2

(ICH6R)

SATA3

(ICH6R)

SATA4

(ICH6R)

Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting

Except its original 1 set of parallel IDE, this motherboard supports the latest serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after having them installed, the problem may lie in the BIOS setting. You can simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly.

After installing your hard disks properly, you can directly go to BIOS setting screen for adjustment. Simply pressing “Integrated Peripherals Æ OnChip IDE Device Æ On-Chip Serial ATA” to choose your preferable mode. If you have no intention of changing its original setting, the default would be Auto.

If you desire to change the default setting, press Enter for selection list:

Disabled:

there are only traditional IDE hard disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item will also cancel the detection of serial ATA hard disks during POST, which will theoretically speed up

your boot-up time a little bit; however, please remember to re-adjust the setting here if you want to use serial ATA hard disk later.

Auto:

This is factory default setting on this motherboard. Basically, if your system functions properly, there is no necessary to change it. The system will automatically recognize PATA (IDE) as primary.

Combined Mode:

installed at the same time, then you can choose this mode. Under this mode, you can randomly choose either IDE hard disks or serial AT A had disk as your first boot device. But please note, IDE will exist with serial ATA in a mapping way, which means it will occupy one of the serial Channel and leave you one serial Channel only. When PATA Mode is set to primary, SATA3 and SATA4 will be set to secondary, and when PA TA Mode is set to secondary , SA T A1 and SA T A2 will be set to primary .

Enhanced Mode:

Windows.NET Server), it is highly recommended that you select Enhanced Mode. Under this mode the system will detect all six devices (traditional IDE x 2, Serial AT A x 4) completely and function perfectly. But please note that PA T A Mode is set to primary under this mode.

Note: According to practical lab tests of us, there are no obvious problems or mistakes happened when we set this mode under Windows2000 operating system; however, it is not recommended by Intel.

If you have traditional IDE hard disks and serial AT A hard disks

If you are using the latest operating system (say , Windows XP,

You can choose this item if

SATA Only:

You may select this mode if you install serial ATA hard disks only.

Connecting PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot

i915Ga-EFRII / i915Pa-EFRII provides a PCI Express x 16 Graphics slot, a red slot having the latest PCI Express x 16 specification on motherboard. The PCI Express x 16 is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 8X AGP , and the data transfer rate could achieve 2.1GB/s. Now PCI Express x 16 is moving to higher data transfer rate, which is upgraded to 8.0GB/s (250MB/s x 16 x 2, it’s 4.0GB/s per direction). For i915Ga-EFRII, the PCI Express x 16 graphics slot can automatically recognize a PCI Express x 16 Graphics card or a Multiplexed Intel DVO Output card depending on which cards being inserted, such as PCI Express x 16 Graphics, or ADD2 (AGP Digital Display 2) cards. With an ADD2 card implemented to this slot, Multiplexed Intel DVO output will provide high-speed digital connection for digital displays or TV-OUT functionality.

Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot

This motherboard provides one PCI Express x 1 slot, which is locate d between the PCI Express x 16 and traditional PCI slot. In order to go with the step of today’s and tomorrow’s processors, PCI Express x 1 provides higher I/O bandwidth. The transfer data rate could achieve 500MB/s concurrently (it’s 250MB/s per direction), which is nearly 4 time s faster than the traditional P CI. Y ou could ins tall any PCI Express x 1 device in these slots for your preference.

Connecting IrDA

The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports both HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps).

Install an infrared module onto the IrDA connector and enable the infrared function from BIOS Setup, UART Mode, you can use this function. Please make sure you connect correct orientation when plugging IrDA module.

Pin 1

+5V

IR_TX

IrDA Connector

KEY GND IR_RX

10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported

On the strength of Broadcom Gigabit LAN controller on board, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on the top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link mode; it lights in yellow when linking to network. The left hand side LED indicates the transfer mode and will light in green when data is transferring at 100Mbps (never lights while at 10Mbps), but will light in orange when transferring in Gigabit’s mode. To enable or disable this function, you may simply adjust it through BIOS. To enable LAN wakeup function, you have to set the “Wake on PCI Card” enable in the BIOS “Power Management Setup” section.

Speed LED (Left)

Green 100Mbps

Orange Gigabit mode

ACT LED (Right)

Yellow

Connecting USB2.0

This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are four ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel.

Pin1

Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect

This motherboard comes with an ALC880 or ALC850 CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high quality of audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. This motherboard provides 7.1 Channel ports shown as below. Picture represents the standard location of all speakers in 7.1 Channel sound tracks. Please connect the plug of your front speakers to the green “Speaker out” port , rear surround speakers to orange port, side surround speakers to gray port and both of the center and subwoofer speakers to black port on the back panel..

Connecting Front Audio

If the housing is designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. Please be

informed that to have front audio ports work properly, the front audio panel of the housing should be designed for High definition Audio jack. If the front audio panel is not designed for High Definition Audio jack, we strongly recommend you to connect the microphone to the back panel of the motherboard.

SENSE2_RETURN

KEY

SENSE1_RETURN

PRESENCE#

GND

Pin1

PORT2L SENSE_SEND PORT2R PORT1R PORT1L

Connecting 1394

With IEEE1394 Chip on board (TI 1394), having its data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, this interface can connect to devices that require high data transferring performance such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices.

Pin1

Warning: Please note that Hot-Plug is not allowed on IEEE 1394 headers; doing so will burn the controller IC and damage the motherboard.

Connecting COM2 (for i915Ga-EFRII only)

This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the left of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis.

CTS#

DSR#

DTR#

SIN

Pin 1

R1# RTS# GND SOUT DCD#

Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through a specific audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital output. Normally there are two S/PDIF outputs as shown, one for RCA connector, the most common one used for consumer audio products, and the other for optical connector with better audio quality. Same as outputs, you can also connect RCA or optical audio products to input connectors on the module and have the voice or music come out from your computer. However, you must have a S/PDIF supported speaker/amplifier/decoder with S/PDIF digital input/output to connect to the S/PDIF digital input/output to make the most out of this function.

Pin 1

(RCA)

S/PDIF OUT

S/PDIF IN

S/PDIF OUT

S/PDIF IN

(Optical)

S/PDIF Module

(User Upgrade Optional)

S/PDIF Cable

Connecting Game Port

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.

Pin1

(User Upgrade Optional)

Connecting CD_IN

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

Connecting Case Open

The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or by the opening of the chassis, the system will beep to inform you. Please be informed that this useful function only applies to advanced chassis; you may purchase an extra sensor, attach it on your chassis and make a good use of this function.

Pin 1

Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Ga-EFRII)

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

PS/2 Mouse Connector

PS/2 Keyboard Connector

SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port

COM 1 Port

USB 2.0

VGA Port

RJ45

LAN Jack

Ports

USB 2.0

Ports

PS/2 Keyboard: For standard keyboard, which use a PS/2 plug. PS/2 Mouse: For PC-Mouse, which use a PS/2 plug. Parallel Port: To connect with SPP/ECP/EPP printer. COM1 Port: To connect with pointing devices, modem or others serial

devices.

Rear SUR

Line-In

eaker Out

Center/ Subwoofer

MIC-In

Side SUR

VGA Port: To connect with PC monitor. RJ-45 LAN Port: To connect Ethernet for home or office use. USB Port: Available for connecting USB devices. Rear SUR: For rear surround speaker. Line-In: Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape player. Center/Subwoofer: For center & subwoofer speaker. Speaker Out: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier. Side SUR: For side surround speaker. MIC-In: For Microphone.

Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Pa-EFRII)

The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector , COM1, COM2, Printer, USB, Azalia sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing.

PS/2 Mouse

Connector

PS/2 Keyboard Connector

SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port

COM 1 Port

USB 2.0

Ports

COM2 Port

RJ45

LAN Jack

USB 2.0

Ports

devices.

Rear SUR Line-In

eaker Out

Center/ Subwoofer

MIC-In Side SUR

COM2 Port: To connect with pointing devices, modem or others serial

devices.

RJ-45 LAN Port: To connect Ethernet for home or office use. USB Port: Available for connecting USB devices. Rear SUR: For rear surround speaker. Line-In: Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape player. Center/Subwoofer: For center & subwoofer speaker. Speaker Out: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier. Side SUR: For side surround speaker. MIC-In: For Microphone.

LED Indication

LED indication including Boot LED and Standby LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information.

STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard, giving you a convenient indication check the system power status in circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode.

BOOT LED will keep blinking when you power the system on and when your system is under POST (Power-On Self Test). After POST diagnoses everything all right and finishes the booting, the LED will stay on otherwise it will remain flashing to warn you that mistakes have occurred during POST

STBY LED

BOOT LED

3.4 Jumper Settings

JP28 Keyboard / Mouse Wakeup Jumpe r

This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function.

JP2 Speaker Output

JP28 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumpe r

Disable

(Default)

JP2 Speaker Output Jumper

Buzzer

(default)

Allows you to turn off the voice from buzzer or speaker. You can choose not to be bothered by the warning made from Dr. Voice when it detects any error in operating system.

Speaker

Enable

JP24 BIOS Rescue Jumper

This motherboard provides DieHard BIOS II function to rescue your BIOS and protect BIOS from viruses. Once your BIOS were crashed, please set JP24 to Pin2-3 to boot up the system with BIO S 2 . Then set t he JP24 back t o Pin1-2. You c an go to our website (http://download.aopen.com.tw/downloads version suited for your motherboard, and have it flashed.

Moreover BIOS 2 is further enhanced with data saving function. DieHard BIOS II allows you to turn BIOS2 into a Read-and-write ROM with larger space provided.

) to download your BIOS

Normal

(default)

Rescue

(Boot from BIOS2)

JP24 BIOS Rescue Jumper

Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities

hapter 4 Special Features and Utilities

4.1 SATA RAID by ICH6R

Arouse RAID function in BIOS

With Intel ICH6R integrated onboard, this motherboard supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions. For more RAID introduction, please visit our website:

http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/RAID.htm

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 OnChip IDE Device Æ On-Chip Serial ATA” to choose Combined Mode. In order to utilize Serial ATA function, please select RAID in SATA Mode. Finally, do save the changes and exit BIOS setup screen.

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

RAID Configuration Uitlity

In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID Option ROM 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 you to set up a name to identify the RAID volume and to choose the RAID level best suited to your usage mode.

2. Delete RAID Volume

This section allows you to delete a RAID volume. Please be noted that deleting a volume will destroy the volume data on the drive(s) and cause any member disks to become available as non-RAID disks.

4.2 SATA RAID by Promise PDC20579

Apart from the RAID function offered by Intel ICH6R, this motherboard is also designed with Promise Serial ATA (PDC20579) controller onboard, which is capable of providing you additional RAID 0, 1, 0+1 through 1 ATA133 IDE connector and 2 SATA connectors.

SATA5

(Promise PDC20579)

Channel SATA 1/2/3/4 SATA 5/6 & IDE2 RAID Function RAID 0, 1 RAID 0, 1, 0+1 Chipset Intel ICH6R Promise PDC20579

Note: Please be noted that the “1MHz stepping PCI overclocking” will automatically disabled when SATA device is being connected, for preventing any system instability.

SATA6

(Promise PDC20579)

SATA1

(ICH6R)

SATA2

(ICH6R)

SATA3

(ICH6R)

SATA4

(ICH6R)

IDE2 ATA133

(Promise PDC20579)

RAID Configuration Utility

Promise PDC20579 is capable of creating RAID 0, 1, 0+1 by SATA5, 6 and IDE2. When driver is successfully installed, please press <Ctrl-F> in POST to enter FastBuild Utility to set up RAID arrays.

The Main Menu of FastBuild Utility

Auto Setup:

your RAID array depending on your personal demand for data storage.

View Drive Assignments:

will show you the hard drive information by physical array.

Press 1 to enter Auto Setup and BIOS will automatically optimize

Press 2 to enter View Drive Assignments and BIOS

Define Array: Press 3 to enter Define Array and BIOS will allow you to set up a RAID array by choosing Array No, RAID Mode, and Total Drv.

Delete Array:

existing RAID array.

Rebuild Array:

a crashed RAID array.

Press 4 to enter Delete Array and BIOS will allow you to delete an

Press 5 to enter Rebuild Array and BIOS will allow you to rebuild

4.3 SilentTek – Noise is Gone!

As CPU clock keeps rocketing higher and higher, it has inevitably brought higher heat and system temperature in a relative way. The way we de al with this heat probl em, however, is to spare no effort t o ad d on e fan after another to protect our pampered system, expecting these fans cool down our machine as much as they can.

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 combines “Hardware-Status Monitoring”, “Overheat Warning” and “Fan Speed Control” in a user-friendly interface to provide you a perfect balance among noises, system performance and stability.

The first image you have here is Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages here 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 can 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 can set your defaulted lowest margin for your fans and SilentTek will also pop up a message box to alarm you when the fan is rotating slower than this specified speed.

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

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

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 parameters of CPU and ambient temperature which is ease-of-use and trouble free at your service.

Fixed FAN Control:

Under this setting, a desired fan speed is set fixed when

operating.

Multiple Level Controls:

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.

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 brands of fans on market, inaccuracy may happen in some cases when you have your rotation speed adjusted. It is still under the criterion and please rest assured that it won’t cause any problem to your system.

4.4 Other Useful Features

With excellent design ability of R&D team, AOpen boasts for its various powerful and handy features that come with our product like follows. You are welcomed to visit our technical website to learn more about those features.

http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside

Chapter 5 Setting BIOS

Introduction

System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu; this menu allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset).

The Phoenix-Award BIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports.

AOpen’s R&D engineering team had optimized most BIOS settings of this motherboard. However, some default settings of BIOS cannot fine-tune those sections that controlled by chipset. Therefore, this chapter is intended to guide you and help you to configure some other settings.

To enter BIOS setup menu, press <Del> when POST (Power-On Self Test) screen is shown on your monitor.

Note: Because BIOS code is the most often changed part on motherboard, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different from the BIOS version that comes with your motherboard.

How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program

Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, press <Enter> key to select, and use <Page Up> and <Page Down> keys 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 WinBIOS Utility to get more detailed description, further powerful functions and advanced setting of BIOS.

Key Description

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

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

Enter Select the item.

Esc In main menu: Quit without saving any changes.

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 Setup Default setting value from CMOS.

F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS.

F10 Save changed settings and exit setup program.

How To Enter BIOS Setup

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

Del

Warning: Please avoid of using “Load Turbo Defaults”, unless you are certain your system components (CPU, SDRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.

BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment

y p

With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinFlash. With an eye to convenience for users, 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 help 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 user in changing BIOS setting.

Caution: You are taking a risk of BIOS flash failure when you update your system. If your motherboard is working stable, and there are no major bugs to be fixed by a latter BIOS revision, we recommend that you DO NOT upgrade your BIOS. If you intent on upgrade PLEASE MAKE SURE you get the right BIOS revision for your motherboard model so as to avoid an

ossible failure.

Note: The model name on this BIOS picture is for reference only. It may not be the same model with your motherboard.

You may accomplish BIOS upgrade procedure with EzWinFlash according to following steps, and it’s STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all applications before you start the upgrades.

Download the latest ve rsion of BIOS packag e zip file from AOpen official web site. (Ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw/)

Unzip the downloaded BIOS package (ex: WSGMAXII102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment.

Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WSGMAXII102.EXE & WSGMAXII102.BIN.

Double click WSGMAXII102.EXE; EzWinFlash will detect the model name and BIOS version of your motherboard. If you collect wrong BIOS, you will not be allowed to proceed with the flash steps.

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

EzWinFlash will complete all the process automatically, and a dialogue box will pop up to ask you to restart Windows. Click [YES] to reboot Windows.

Press <Del> at POST to enter BIOS setup screen; choose "Load Setup Defaults", then “Save & Exit Setup”. Done!

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

Warning: The new BIOS upgrade will permanently replace your original BIOS setting when flashing. You may need to reconfigure the BIOS setting before your system goes back to work as normal.

WinBIOS Utility

In the past, users have to keep punching the DEL key 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, running exc lusively on AOpen mother b o a r ds, to allow you setting up BIOS under Windows environment. Designed to remain traditional-BIOS-alike interface, you can adjust BIOS parameter with clear descriptions for every item.

WinBIOS is natively designed with multi-language support. There are various widely-used languages provided on our website for you to download, 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, double-click on the profile. You don’t have to spend any extra effort to have your motherboard supported by WinBIOS.

Vivid BIOS technology

Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful POST screen!

Unlike earlier graphic POST screen which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during POST. With this innovative design, VividBIOS now brings you a beautiful and sleek 256 colors screen without missing any important information shown on POST screen.

In addition, the limited space of BIOS ROM is another big issue. When all of the traditional BIOS can only show space-consuming and uncompressed Bitmap, AOpen has considerately tuned the BIOS to next generation, to recognize the smaller-sized GIF format and even dynamic-showing GIF animation.

Vivid BIOS shares the same fundamental technology with Open JukeBox CD Player, you may use the same EzSkin utility to change your VividBIOS screen or to download your favorite Open JukeBox skin. If you see this little logo shown beside

your model name on the motherboard download page,

http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/ezskin/vivid.htm

that your motherboard supports this innovative feature!

, it is assured

Chapter 6 Installing Drivers

You may think that installing drivers and utilities would be a repeated task of going through those installation wizards and steps-by-steps. Now, you will be surprised with how “Ez” EzInstall could do. Without wizards or steps, all you have to do is to do one click and then it’s done. Click and done. Yes. EzInstall makes installation easy and even foolproof!

After putting in the CD, you will be prompted with AOpen welcome page and our branches information.

First, click on the install driver ICON at left side for necessary drivers.

Second, click on the install utility ICON at left side for preferred utilities.

Practically, it’s done. But you may also browse CD contents, Readme to get more information or just exit the CD installation.

Install driver

Install utility

Browse CD Contents

Readme

Click to install online manual

AOpen branches information

Exit CD

6.1 Installing Drivers

As you may see from the Installing driver page, EzInstall had picked up necessary for your motherboard. All you have to do is just click on the “GO”, and no more steps afterward, of all listed drivers, grey checks indicate necessary drivers; you cannot click them off. R ed checks can be disabled if you don’t want to install them now.

Press the icon will prompt the “Install Driver” page. You may also press “Back” to return to the Main page.

Once clicking “GO”, EzInstall will run the installing procedure automatically, and prompt a reboot dialog (Some drivers or utilities may skip the reboot part).

Note: Due to the limitation of Intel chipsets driver, Windows 2000 is needed to be updated to service pack 4 for installing Audio driver correctly.

6.2 Installing Utilities

Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilities to manage your system. You may find lots of fabulous utilities listed there, and all you have to do is to click on the “GO”, t h en it will install the utilities to your system right away without complicated steps.

Press the icon will prompt the “Install Utilities” page for your selection. You may also press “Back” to get back to the Main page.

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting

Chapter 7 Troubleshootin

Chapter 8 Technical Support

Dear Customer, Thanks for choosing AOpen products. We invite you to register at

http://www.aopen.com

to become a Gold Member of Club AOpen so as to ensure quality service in the future. In order to maintain the best service to every customer of us, we recommend you to follow the procedures below and seek help from our branches according to the region you buy the product. With your help, we can then continue to provide efficient and the best quality service to every customer.

Thanks very much for your understanding! AOpen Technical Supporting Team

Europe

AOpen Computer b.v. Tel: 31-73-645-9516

Email: Support@AOpen.NL

Germany

AOpen Computer GmbH. Tel: 49-2131-1243-710 Fax: 49-2131-1243-999

Europe Email: Support@AOpen.NL Pacific Rim: http://www.aopen.com.tw/tech/default.htm China: http://www.aopen.com.cn/tech/default.htm Germany: http://www.aopencom.de/tech/default.htm America: http://usa.aopen.com/tech/default.htm Japan: http://aopen.jp/tech/index.html

China

艾爾鵬國際貿易(上海)有限公司 Tel: 86-21-6225-8622 Fax: 86-21-6225-7926

Japan

AOpen Japan Inc. Tel: 81-048-290-1800 Fax: 81-048-290-1820

Pacific Rim

AOpen Inc. Tel: 886-2-3789-5888 Fax: 886-2-3789-5899

America

AOpen America Inc. Tel: 1-510-489-8928 Fax: 1-510-489-1998

Model Name and BIOS Version

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

Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally

i915Ga-EFRII R1.02 May. 01. 2004 AOpen Inc.

I915Ga-EFRII is the model name of motherboard; R1.02 is BIOS version

Register Your Motherboard

Thanks for choosing AOpen product, please register this motherboard at

http://club.aopen.com.tw/productreg/

and to ensure high service quality and priority from AOpen. You will also have a chance to play slot machine game to win prize from AOpen. Please prepare the following information before you start: Model Name, Part Number (P/N), Serial Number (S/N) and Purchase Date. The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label. You can find this bar code label on the outside packing or on component side of PCB. For example:

to become a Gold member of Club AOpen,

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

Beep Sound Message

1 short(Beep) System booting is working normally.

1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM error

1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connection error

1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard error

Long(Beep) continuous DRAM isn’t installed correctly.

Part No. Serial No.

Phoenix-Award BIOS ERROR Message

AOpen I915GAEFRII User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Table of Contents

1.1 Thank-you Note Before You Get Start

1.2 Features of This Manual

1.3 Safety Information

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?

2.2 Specification

2.3 Block Diagram

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure

3.2 Installation You Have to Know

Installing CPU

Installing CPU Fan

Connecting CPU and System Fans

Installing Memory Modules

Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel

Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables

Connecting Front Panel Cable

Connecting ATX Power Cables

3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference

Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency

Connecting Serial ATA

Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting

Connecting PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot

Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot

Connecting IrDA

10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported

Connecting USB2.0

Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect

Connecting Front Audio

Connecting 1394

Connecting COM2 (for i915Ga-EFRII only)

Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)

Connecting Game Port

Connecting CD_IN

Connecting Case Open

Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Ga-EFRII)

Colored Coded Back Panel (for i915Pa-EFRII)

LED Indication

3.4 Jumper Settings

Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities

4.1 SATA RAID by ICH6R

Arouse RAID function in BIOS

RAID Configuration Uitlity

4.2 SATA RAID by Promise PDC20579

RAID Configuration Utility

4.4 Other Useful Features

Chapter 5 Setting BIOS

Introduction

How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program

How To Enter BIOS Setup

BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment

WinBIOS Utility

Vivid BIOS technology

Chapter 6 Installing Drivers

6.1 Installing Drivers

6.2 Installing Utilities

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting

Chapter 8 Technical Support

Model Name and BIOS Version

Register Your Motherboard

Technical Support