Aopen S661FXMFSN0602A User Manual

Chapter 1 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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

1.1 Saftey Precautions.......................................................................................4

1.2 Disposal Instruction .....................................................................................5

1.3 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................8

1.4 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................9

1.5 Safety Information ......................................................................................9

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................. 10

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?.........................................................10

2.2 Specification ............................................................................................. 11

2.3 Block Diagram .......................................................................................... 12

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation............................................................. 13

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure ....................................................................... 13

3.2 Installation You Have to Know..................................................................... 14

Installing CPU ...........................................................................................14

Installing CPU Cooler .................................................................................15

Installing CPU and System Fans ..................................................................18

Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................19

Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................20

Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................21

Connecting ATX Power Cables .....................................................................22

3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 23

Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................23

Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................24

Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................25

Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot ..............................................................26

Connecting IrDA........................................................................................27

10/100 LAN Supported...............................................................................28

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Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................29

Connecting 1394 .......................................................................................30

Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect ...................................................................31

Connecting Front Audio ..............................................................................32

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

Connecting AUX_IN ...................................................................................34

Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) ........................................35

Colored Coded Back Panel ..........................................................................36

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

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

Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities................................................... 39

4.1 RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)..............................................39

RAID BIOS Setting Utility ...........................................................................39

4.2 Other Useful Features ................................................................................ 40

Chapter 5 Setting BIOS......................................................................... 41

5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................. 41

5.2 How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program........................................ 42

5.3 How To Enter BIOS Setup ........................................................................... 42

Standard CMOS Features ...........................................................................43

Advanced BIOS Features ............................................................................45

Advanced Chipset Features.........................................................................47

Integrated Peripherals................................................................................49

Power Management Setup ..........................................................................53

PNP/PCI Configurations ..............................................................................55

Silent BIOS/HW Monitor .............................................................................56

Frequency/Voltage Control .........................................................................57

Load Setup Defaults ..................................................................................58

Load Turbo Defaults...................................................................................58

Set Password............................................................................................59

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Save & Exit Setup .....................................................................................59

Exit without Saving ...................................................................................59

Load EEPROM Defaults ...............................................................................59

Save EEPROM Defaults...............................................................................59

Credits.....................................................................................................59

5.4 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment.................................................. 60

Chapter 6 Installing Drivers................................................................... 62

6.1 Installing Drivers....................................................................................... 63

6.2 Installing Utilities ...................................................................................... 64

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..................................................................... 65

Chapter 8 Technical Support .................................................................. 66

Model Name and BIOS Version....................................................................67

Register Your Motherboard .........................................................................67

Technical Support ......................................................................................68

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1.1 Saftey Precautions

Read and follow the content of the Safety Precautions carefully so that you will not
cause damages to yourself or the system. 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.

1. Pay attention to the warnings and notes in this manual to avoid causing
unexpected damages.

2. If you want to wipe the system with a wet cloth, make sure the power cord is
disconnected. We strongly suggest not to wipe the system with chemical
detergent or sprayed detergent.

3. When moving the system, do not put the system on uneven, unsteady or
slanting surfaces.

4. Do not put water cups or beverages near the PC system to protect the system
from being damaged by liquids.

5. There are ventilating holes on the backboard of the computer case to
dissipate heat from the machine. You should pay attention to the position of
the PC so that the ventilating holes will not be blocked. Meanwhile, do not put
your PC on something not sturdy enough – like rug or bed mattress – to
ensure smooth air flow for heat dissipation.

6. Before plugging on power, make certain the electric voltage in your area
complies with that of the PC. If you are uncertain, consult your PC dealer or
power company first.

7. Do not place your PC on power cords. Do not leave the power lines in tangles
which may cause people to stumble.

8. It normally takes several power sockets to meet the need of a PC system.
Make sure the extension power line is capable of handling the total power load
for all equipment. In other words, the combined amperage of all electrical
appliances on the same extension line must not exceed the strength of
electric currents or the fuse of the extension line.

9. When your PC system runs into problems, do not try to fix it unless you
possess adequate technical know-how concerning hardware installation and
system maintenance. It would advisable to seek assistance from qualified
maintenance personnel so as to avoid improper disassembling.

10. When encountering the following more dangerous situations, unplug the
power to shut down the system and then seek help from professional
technicians to fix the problems:

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* When liquids find their way into the equipment.

* When the PC is soaked by rain.

* When power cords or power sockets are damaged.

* When the PC system falls to the ground and is damaged.

* When some problems cannot be solved even after you installed the system
according to the manual or the troubleshooting procedures.

1.2 Disposal Instruction

Disposal Instruction (US)

For better protection of our earth, please don't throw this
electronic device into municipal trash bin when discarding. To
minimize pollution and ensure utmost protection of the global
environment, please recycle the product.

For more information about the collection and recycling of
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), you are
invited to visit our homepage at www.aopen.com
“Green Products”.

廃棄上の指示 (US)

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より良い地球保護のために、電子機器を廃棄処分にするときは、ゴミ箱に捨てないで下さ
い。汚染を最小限に抑え、地球環境を最大限に保護するために、製品のリサイクルをお願
い致します。

廃電気電子機器(WEEE)の回収とリサイクルについての情報は、弊社ホームページ

www.aopen.com

Instruktion til bortskaffelse (Danish)

Af hensyn til vores miljø bedes De ikke bortskaffe denne elektroniske enhed i en
almindelig affaldsspand. For at mindske forurening og sikre beskyttelse af miljøet
bedes De genbruge produktet.

For yderligere information vedrørende indsamling og genbrug af elektronik-affald
(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)) er De velkommen til at
besøge vores website www.aopen.com
Products".

の“Green Products”（環境に優しい製品）をご覧下さい。

og læse nærmere under "Green

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Verwijderingsinstructie (Dutch)

Om mogelijke schade aan het milieu of de menselijke gezondheid door
ongecontroleerde afvalverwijdering te voorkomen, moet u dit elektronisch
product scheiden van andere soorten afval en op een verantwoorde manier
recyclen. Verwijder dit product dan ook alstublieft niet samen met ander
huishoudelijk afval.

Voor meer informatie over de verzameling en recycling van elektrisch afval en
elektronische apparatuur (WEEE), nodigen we u uit om onze homepage te
bezoeken www.aopen.com

onder "Green Products".

Instruction de Disposition (French)

Pour une meilleure protection de la terre, ne jetez pas ce dispositif électronique
dans la poubelle municipale lors de la disposition. Pour éliminer la pollution et
assurer la plus grande protection de l'environnement global, réutilisez s’il vous
plaît le produit.

Pour plus d'informations sur la gestion des déchets d’Equipements Electriques et
Electroniques (DEEE ou WEEE), vous êtes invité à visiter notre site à

www.aopen.com

sous " Green Products".

Entsorgungsanleitung (German)

Zum besseren Schutze unseres Planeten, schmeissen Sie elektrische Geräte bitte
nicht in öffentliche Mülleimer. Zur Verringerung der Verschmutzung und zur
Sicherstellung grösstmöglichen Schutzes der Umwelt recyceln Sie bitte das
Produkt.

Für mehr Informationen zum Sammeln und Recyceln von elektrischen und
elektronischen Müll (WEEE) besuchen Sie bitte unsere Homepage unter

www.aopen.com

unter dem Punkt "Green Products".

Istruzioni per lo smaltimento (Italian)

Per una migliore salvaguardia del nostro pianeta, si prega di non gettare questo
dispositivo elettronico nei normali rifiuti al momento dell'eliminazione. Per ridurre
al minimo l'inquinamento ed assicurare la massima protezione dell'ambiente, si
prega di riciclare il prodotto.

Per maggiori informazioni riguardanti la raccolta ed il riciclaggio delle
apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche residue (WEEE), siete invitati a visitare
la nostra homepage www.aopen.com

alla voce "Green Products".

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Instruksjoner for Resirkulering og Oppsamling (Norweigian)

For ĺ beskytte vĺr planet, kast ikke dette elektroniske utstyret sammen med vanlig
avfall. For ĺ beskytte vĺr natur og miljř, vennligst resirkuler dette produktet.

For mer informasjon om oppsamling og resirkulering i henhold til Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), se vĺr hjemmeside pĺ www.aopen.com
"Green Products".

REEE - Programa de Tratamento de Resíduos de Equipamentos Eléctricos
e Electrónicos (Portugese)

Para melhor protecção ambiental do nosso planeta terra, não coloque o
dispositivo electrónico no receptáculo de lixo municipal. Para minimizar a poluição
e garantir protecção máxima do ambiente global, recicle o produto.

Para mais informações sobre acerca da recolha e reciclagem de Equipamento
Eléctrico e Electrónico (WEEE), convidamos-lhe a visitar nossa página na Internet
em www.aopen.com

Instrucciones para depositar los productos electrónicos (Spanish)

Para proteger mejor el medio ambiente, por favor, no deposite los productos
electrónicos en los contenedores de basura tradicionales. Para reducir la
contaminación y proteger el medio ambiente se recomienda que los recicle.

Para más información acerca de dónde depositar y cómo reciclar Equipos
Electrónicos y Desperdicios Electrónicos (WEEE), por favor, visite la página web

www.aopen.com

Kassering (Swedish)

För att bättre värna om vår jord bör denna elektroniska utrustning ej kasseras
tillsammans med vanligt avfall. För att minimera mängden föroreningar och så
långt som möjligt skydda den globala miljön bör produkten återvinnas.

För vidare information om insamling och återvinning av uttjänta elektriska och
elektroniska produkter (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE), besök
avsnittet "Green Products" på vår hemsida, www.aopen.com

sobre "Green Products".

y entre en la sección Productos Ecológicos (“Green Products”).

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1.3 A 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

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

The logos of Adobe and Acrobat are the registered trademarks of Adobe Systems
Incorporated.

The logos of AMD, Athlon, and Duron are the registered trademarks of Advanced Micro
Devices, Inc.

The logos of Intel, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, III, Pentium 4 and Pentium Mare the registered
trademarks of Intel Corporation.

The logos of nVidia are the registered trademarks of nVidia Corporation.

The logos of Microsoft, Windows are the registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in
America and other countries.

to download the updated file.

All the titles of the products and the trademarks mentioned in this manual are for the
purpose of illustrative conveniences and are possessed by their respective firms.

We regret not informing about any changes in usage standards and other related
information. AOpen reserves the right of altering or modifying the content of this manual. In
case of any mistakes or incorrect descriptions, which include those on the products, AOpen
makes no guarantee or commitments.

This document is based on the copyright laws in order to protect our company and reserve
all rights.

Under no circumstances are any types of duplicating and loading this brochure in any
databases and media permitted except the permission signed on formal document by
AOpen Company.

1996-2006 Copyrights, AOpen Ltd. All rights reserved.

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1.4 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.

1.5 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.

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Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?

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1. Realtek 10/100 LAN 16. DieHard BIOS Lite

2. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 17. Onboard AC’97 CODEC

3. 4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector 18. Front Audio Connector

4. JP2, JP3 CPU FSB Jumper 19. S/PDIF Connector

5. SYSFAN1 Connector

6. AGP 8X Expansion Slot 21. CD_IN Connector

7. 479-pin CPU socket supporting Intel Pentium M

5. CPU

8. SiS 661FX Chipset 23. AGP LED

9. SiS 964 Chipset 24. USB 2.0 Connector x 2

10. CPUFAN Connector 25. 32-bit PCI Expansion Slots X 3

11. 184-pins DIMMs x 2 26. IEEE 1394 Connector

12. IDE Connectors x 2 27. Serial ATA Ports X 2

13. 24-pin ATX Power Connector 28. Front Panel Connector

14. IRDA Connector 29. JP14 CMOS Data Clear Jumper

15. FDD Connector 30. SYSFAN2 Connector

20. AUX_IN Connector

22. STBY LED

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2.2 Specification

Here is the main function of your motherboard.

Models S661FXm-FSN

CPU

Chipset SiS 661FX/964 Chipset

Main Memory

Graphics

IDE

LAN

Sound

USB

IEEE 1394 Agere 1394 Control Chip
Slots

Back Panel I/O

On Board Connector

BIOS Award PnP 4Mb Flash ROM BIOS
Board Size 244 mm x 230 mm

Intel Pentium M / Celeron M Processor
Socket 479
533/400MHz

400/333MHz
DDR DIMM x 2
DIMM Type : 256/512MB & 1GB
Max Memory : 2GB
Integrated High Performance Graphic Engine
8X AGP slot
Integrated ATA133 and Serial ATA Controller
Support Serial ATA RAID 0, 1
Max Disk: 144,000,000GB [by 48 bits LBA Spec.]
Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN Controller
RealTek PHY
Realtek AC'97 CODEC onboard
support 5.1 Channel
Integrated in chipset
USB 2.0 x 8 Port

8X AGP x 1
PCI x 3
PS/2 Keyboard x 1
PS/2 Mouse x 1
USB Port x 4
IEEE1394 Port x 1
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
Floppy Driver Connector x 1
IDE Channel: ATA133 x 2
Serial ATA Channel x 2
Front Panel x 1
Front Audio x 1
CPU FAN x 1
System FAN x 2
Power FAN x 1
CD_IN x 1
AUX_IN x 1
IrDA x 1
S/PDIF x 1
IEEE 1394 x 1
USB Connector x 2

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2.3 Block Diagram

p

r

p

VGA Onboard

AGP 8X

AGP 8X Slot

533/400MHz
System Bus

AGP bus

Socket 479

Pentium M

Intel

CPU

SiS

661FX

Chipset

PCI Bus

150MB/s

ATA
66/100/133

RealTek

AC97

CODEC

32-bit PCI Slot x3

Serial ATA Ports x 2

IDE Drives x 4

DIMM Sockets x2

Realtek
10/100

LAN

Controller

LAN connect

onent

Com

DDR 400/333
RAM Up to 2GB

Agere

IEEE

1394

Controlle

IEEE 1394 x 2

SiS 964
Chi

set

4Mbits Flash
EEPROM

USB Ports x 8

Parallel Port

Floppy Disk
Drive

Serial Ports x2

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Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

Chap

q

ter 3 Hardware Installation

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure

2. Installing CPU
Fan & System 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)

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3.2 Installation You Have to Know

Installing CPU

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

1. Unscrew the socket screw counter-clockwise.

2. 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.

3. Lock the CPU socket screw clockwise to fasten CPU.

Socket Pin 1

Socket screw

Golden arrow

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Installing CPU Cooler

This motherboard comes with a special CPU cooler desiged by AOpen, please
follow the following steps to install CPU cooler.

1. Please apply thermal paste on the bottom of CPU cooler.

2. Gently put CPU cooler onto the CPU retention module.

Thermal
paste

3. Connect cooler’s fan power cable onto CPUFAN connector.

CPUFAN
Connector

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4. Install two cooler fixing sticks into CPU retention module.

Fixing stick

Note: Make sure that
the sticks have hooked CPU
retention module firmly.

5. Push the iron plate of cooler fixing stick up a bit.

Iron plate

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6. Then press iron plate downward till you hear a “clip” sound.

Note: Make sure that
the iron plate have hooked
CPU retention module firmly.

Note: We recommand to use our AOpen FAN.

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Installing CPU and System Fans

R

Plug the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan,
you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector.

SENSO

+12V

GND

SYSFAN1 Connector

SYSFAN2 Connector

GND
+12V
Sensor

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

CPUFAN Connector

GND
+12V
Sensor

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Installing Memory Modules

DIMM slots are designed in black 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.

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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

Secondary
Slave (4th)

Pin 1

Primary
Slave (2nd)

ATA 66/100/133 IDE Connector

Secondary
Master (3rd)

Primary
Master (1st)

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FDD Connector

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

HDD LED
HDD LED

SPEAKER

NC
NC

+5V

+5V
+5V

GND

NC

1

Power Switch
GND

Power LED­GND
Power LED+
NC
GND

GND
RESET
GND

Front Panel Connector

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Connecting ATX Power Cables

This motherboard comes with a 24-pin and 4-pin 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.

+12V

+12V

Ground

Ground

COM
PS-ON
COM

-12V
+3.3V

+3.3V
+3.3V
COM
+5V
COM

COM

+3.3V

+12V
5VSB

PW-OK

COM
COM

-5V
+5V
+5V

COM

+5V

Note: Please aim the power plug at the left side of the 24-pin ATX power
connector when the foolproof design faces you as shown.

Aiming at the

left side

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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.

Setting CPU Frequency

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

(Users do the overclocking at their own risk!!)

BIOS Setup > Frequency / Voltage Control > CPU Bus Frequency

CPU Ratio 4x, 7x… 17x, 18x, 20x
CPU FSB
(Adjustment manually)

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

Processor

Number

Pentium M 770 90nm 2.13GHz 533MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 760 90nm 2.00GHz 533MHz 2MB L2

Pentium M 750 90nm 1.86GHz 533MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 740 90nm 1.73GHz 533MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 730 90nm 1.60GHz 533MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 765 90nm 2.10GHz 400MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 755 90nm 2.00GHz 400MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 745 90nm 1.80GHz 400MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 735 90nm 1.70GHz 400MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 725 90nm 1.60GHz 400MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 715 90nm 1.50GHz 400MHz 2MB L2
Pentium M 705 130nm 1.50GHz 400MHz 1MB L2

Celeron M 370 90nm 1.50GHz 400MHz 1MB L2
Celeron M 360 90nm 1.40GHz 400MHz 1MB L2
Celeron M 350 90nm 1.30GHz 400MHz 1MB L2
Celeron M 340 130nm 1.50GHz 400MHz 512KB L2 15x
Celeron M 330 130nm 1.40GHz 400MHz 512KB L2 15x

Note: With CPU speed changing rapidly, there might be faster CPU on the market by the time
you received this installation guide. This table is kindly for your references only.

Architecture

Clock

Speed

Front

Side Bus

Cache Ratio

16x
15x

14x
13x
12x
21x
20x
18x
17x
16x
15x
15x
15x
14x
13x

Warning: SiS 661FX chipset support maximum 533MHz (133MHz*4) system bus;

higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.

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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 Port0 (SATA1) will be set as the first boot device
automatically. Please note that it doesn’t support Hot-Plug in function.

SATA1 SATA2

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Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting

Except its original 2 sets 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

OnChip PCI Device

Æ

SIS Serial ATA Controller” to either enable or disable

SATA interface.

Æ

SIS

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Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot

This motherboard provides an AGP 8X slot. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted
for high-performance 3D graphic. Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling
edge of the 66MHz clock for 4X AGP, and the data transfer rate could achieve
66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. Now AGP is moving to AGP 8X mode, which is
upgraded to 66MHz x 4bytes x 8 =2.1GB/s.

Warning: It is strongly recommended

not adjust AGP/PCI voltage/clock when you
connect SATA device. It is because when the
voltage/clock for AGP/PCI is adjusted, the
SATA clock cannot remain at 100MHz, and
the system will therefore be unstable.

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Warning: It is

strongly recommended
not install a 3.3V AGP
card, which is not
supported by SIS 661FX
chipsets on this
motherboard.

Connecting IrDA

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1

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.

NC

+5V

TX

IR

IrDA Connector

KEY
GND
IR_RX

Pin 1

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10/100 LAN Supported

On the strength of SIS 10/100 LAN controller on board, this motherboard
provides 10/100Mbps 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). 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

ACT LED (Right)

Yellow

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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.

Pin 1

Pin 1

SBD6-

SBD6+

1

+5V

GND

KEY

USB 2.0 Connector

+5V

SBD7-

SBD7+

GND

NC

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Connecting 1394

With IEEE1394 Chip on board (AGERE 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

+12V (Fused)

TPA+

TPB+

IEEE 1394 Connector

GND

1 2

TPA-

GND

TPB-

+12V (Fused)

SHIED GND

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

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Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect

This motherboard comes with a Realtek AC’97 CODEC (ALC655), which supports
high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio
experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC655, you're able to
use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any
external module. To apply this function, you have to install the audio driver in the
Bonus Pack CD as well as an audio application supporting 5.1 Channel. Picture
below 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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Connecting Front Audio

R

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. 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.

AUD_MIC_BIAS

AUD_FPOUT_

AUD_FPOUT_L

Pin1

1 2

AUD_MIC

NC

Front Audio Connector

AUD_GND

AUD_VCC

AUD_RET_R

KEY

AUD_RET_L

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Connecting CD_IN

R

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

GND
GND

L

CD-IN Connector

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Connecting AUX_IN

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

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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

S/PDIF Connector

1

+5V

KEY

SPDIF OUT

GND

SPDIF IN

(RCA)

S/PDIF OUT

S/PDIF IN

S/PDIF OUT

S/PDIF IN

(Optical)

S/PDIF Module

(User Upgrade Optional)

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S/PDIF
Cable

Colored Coded Back Panel

The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector,
IEEE1394, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, and AC’97 sound. The view angle of
drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing.

PS/2 Mouse
Connector

SPP/EPP/ECP
Parallel Port

IEEE

1394

RJ45

LAN Jack

Line-In

PS/2 Keyboard
Connector

COM 1 Port

VGA Port

USB 2.0
Ports

USB 2.0
Ports

Speaker Out

MIC-In

PS/2 Keyboard: For standard keyboard, which use a PS/2 plug.

PS/2 Mouse: For PC-Mouse, which use a PS/2 plug.

USB Port: Available for connecting USB devices.

Parallel Port: To connect with SPP/ECP/EPP printer.

COM1 Port: To connect with pointing devices, modem or others serial

devices.

RJ-45 LAN Port:

To connect Ethernet for home or office use.

IEEE 1394 Port: Available for connecting IEEE 1394 interface devices.

VGA Connector: To connect with PC monitor.

Speaker Out: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier.

Line-In: Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape player.

MIC-In: For Microphone

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LED Indication

LED indication including Standby LED and AGP 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.

v

STBY LED

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3.4 Jumper Settings

JP28 Keyboard / Mouse
Wakeup Jumper

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

JP14 Clear CMOS Data

Pin 1

1

Disable

(Default)

JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse
Wakeup Jumper

1

Normal

(Default)

JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper

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 pin 1 & pin 2.

5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2.

1

Clear CMOS

1

Enable

Pin 1

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Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities

Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities

4.1 RAID (Redundant Array of Independent
Disks)

With the latest chipsets implemented, SIS 964 provides RAID 0 and RAID 1
function for the Serial ATA hard disks. You may use RAID BIOS Setting Utility
provided by SIS to setup your disk array. For more RAID introduction, please visit
our website: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/RAID.htm

RAID BIOS Setting Utility

In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID
device smoothly, we have to enter RAID BIOS Setting Utility to do some
configuration. After finishing the BIOS setup and reboot, you will see [Press
<CRTL><S> to run BIOS Setting Utility] about half way through the boot up.
When you enter you will be presented with a screen as shown below. You can use
this utility to create or delete your disk arrays.

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. RAID BIOS Setting Utility v1.xx
(c) 2003-2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.All Right Reserved.

Press <CTRL><S> to run BIOS Setting Utility
Scan Device. Please Wait………….

Primary Master : xxxxxxxx xxxxxxMB UDMA 5
Primary Slave : <Deice Not Found>
Secondary Master : <SATA Device Not Found>
Secondary Slave : xxxxxxxx xxxxxMB UDMA 5

［RAID Information］

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4.2 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

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Chapter 5 Setting BIOS

Chapter 5 Setting BIOS

5.1 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.

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5.2 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.

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.

5.3 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.

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Standard CMOS Features

The "Standard CMOS Setup" sets the basic system parameters such as the date,
time, and the hard disk type. Use the arrow keys to highlight an item and <PgUp>
or <PgDn> to select the value for each item.

Standard CMOS Features > Date

To set the date, highlight the Date parameter. Press <PgUp> or <PgDn> to set
the current date. The date format is month, date, and year.

Standard CMOS features > Time

To set the time, highlight the Time parameter. Press <PgUp> or <PgDn> to set
the current time in hour, minute, and second format. The time is based on the
24 hour military clock.

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 0 Master

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 0 Slave

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 1 Master

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 1 Slave

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 2 Master

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 3 Master

This item lets you select the IDE hard disk parameters that your system supports.
These parameters are Size, Number of Cylinder, Number of Head, Start Cylinder
for Pre-compensation, Cylinder number of Head Landing Zone and Number of
Sector per Track. The default setting is

Auto, which enables BIOS to

automatically detect the parameters of installed HDD (Hard Disk Drive) at POST
(Power-On Self Test). If you prefer to enter HDD parameters manually, select
Manual.

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Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 0 Master > IDE HDD
Auto-Detection

Press “Enter” to auto-detect parameters of HDD

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 0 Master > IDE Channel 0 Master
(Slave)

Define the parameters of IDE devices in Channel 0 (Master or Slave).
Available options:

z None: if there is no device, please select “None” for speeding boot up.
z Auto: enable BIOS to auto-detect parameters of IDE device. (Default)
z Manual: allow users to define parameter of IDE device.

Standard CMOS features > IDE Channel 0 Master > Access Mode

Set the using mode of HDD.
Available options: CHS / LBA / Large / Auto (default). User can select the mode
according to the label on HDD.

z Cylinder: Enter cylinder number
z Head: Enter head number
z Precomp: Write precompensation
z Landing Zone: Location of head
z Sector: Sector Number

Standard CMOS Features > Drive A

This item allows user select the floppy drive type.
Available items: None / 360KB 5.25” / 1.2MB 5.25” / 720KB 3.5” / 1.44MB

3.5” / 2.88MB 3.5”

Standard CMOS Features > Vedio

This item specifies the type of video card in use. The default setting is VGA/EGA.
Since current PCs use VGA only, this function is almost useless and may be
disregarded in the future.

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Standard CMOS Features > HaltOn

This parameter enables you to control the system stops in case of Power-On Self
Test (POST) error.
Available items: No errors / All errors / All, But Keyboard / All, But Diskette
/ All, But Disk/Key

Advanced BIOS Features

This screen appears when you select the option "Advanced BIOS Features" from
the main menu.

Advanced BIOS Features > CPU feature

Advanced BIOS Features > CPU feature > Thermal Management

Set the function of CPU internal Thermal Management. When CPU supports
Thermal Monitor 1 (TM1) and Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2), user could select TM1 or
TM2. But if CPU doesn’t Support TM2, it will be fixed On TM1. When TM2 is

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enabled, and a high temperature situation is detected, it will cause the CPU to
adjust its operating frequency via the core to bus ratio and input voltage via the
VID signals. TM2 Bus Ratio and TM2 Bus VID show the CPU default value for
TM2.

Advanced BIOS Features > Removable Device Priority

Advanced BIOS Features > Hard Disk Boot Priority

Advanced BIOS Features > Virus Warning

Advanced BIOS Features > CPU L1 & L2 Cache

Advanced BIOS Features > Quick Power On Self Test

Advanced BIOS Features > First Boot Device

Advanced BIOS Features > Second Boot Device

Advanced BIOS Features > Third Boot Device

This parameter allows you to specify the system boot up search sequence.
Available options:

z Removable: Floppy, USB, ZIP…etc
z Hard Disk: Hard Disk Drives
z CD-ROM: CD-ROM, DVD-ROM…etc
z LAN: LAN Card with boot ROM

z Disabled

Advanced BIOS Features > Boot Other Device

This parameter allows you to enable other system boot up devices that is not
described above.

Advanced BIOS Features > Swap Floppy Drive

Advanced BIOS Features > Boot Up Floppy Seek

Advanced BIOS Features > Boot Up NumLock Status

Set this parameter to “On” to enable the numeric function of the numeric keypad.
Set this parameter to “Off” to disabling the numeric function allows you to use
the numeric keypad for cursor control.

Advanced BIOS Features > Typematic Rate Setting

Advanced BIOS Features > Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)

Advanced BIOS Features > Typematic Delay (Msec)

Advanced BIOS Features > Security Option

The “System” option limits access to both the System boot and BIOS setup. A
prompt asking you to enter your password appears on the screen every time you
boot the system.

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The “Setup” option limits access only to BIOS setup.
To disable the security option, select Password Setting from the main menu, don't

type anything and just press <Enter>

Advanced BIOS Features > APIC Mode

Advanced BIOS Features > MPS Version Control For OS

Advanced Chipset Features

The "Advanced Chipset Features" includes settings for the chipset dependent
features. These features are related to system performance.

Warning: Make sure you fully
understand the items contained in this menu
before you try to change anything. You may
change the parameter settings to improve
system performance. However, it may cause
your system to be unstable if the setting is not
correct for your system configuration.

Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control

Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > Performance
Mode

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Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > DRAM
Timing Control

Available options:

z By SPD: System will define timing according to default of Dram. (Default)
z Manual: Allow user to define timing himself.

Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > CAS Latency
Time

When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency
depends on the DRAM timing. Available options: 2, 2.5, 3

Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > RAS Active
Time

Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > RAS
Precharge Time

If an insufficient number of cycles are allowed for the RAS to accumulate its
charge before DRAM refresh, the refresh may be incomplete and the DRAM may
fail to retain data. Fast give faster performance; and Slow gives more stable
performance. This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the
system. Available options: 2, 3, 4, 5

Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Clock/Timing Control > RAS to CAS
Delay

This field lets user to insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe
signals, used when RAM is written to, read from, or refreshed. Fast gives fater
performance; and Slow give more stable performance. This field applies only
when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system.
Available options: 2, 3, 4, 5

Advanced Chipset features > Graphic Window WR Combin

Advanced Chipset features > AGP Fast Write Support

Advanced Chipset features > AGP Data Rate

Advanced Chipset features > AGP Aperture Size (MB)

This item allows you to determine the effective size of the AGP Graphic Aperture.
Available options: 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256

Advanced Chipset features > Graphics Engin Clock

Advanced Chipset features > VGA Share Memory Size

Advanced Chipset features > Intruder Detection

This item allow user to detect the housing is opened or not. It works only when
the housing is designed with CASE OPEN cable and connected to motherboard.
Available options: Disabled, Enabled

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Integrated Peripherals

This submenu appears if you select the option "Integrated Peripherals" from the
main menu. This option allows you to configure the I/O features.

Integrated peripherals > SiS OnChip IDE Device

This parameter allows you to “Enable” or “Disable” the IDE device connected to
the primary or secondary IDE connector.

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Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device

This item allows you to set onboard devices.

Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > AC97 Audio
This item is used to enable or disable the onboard audio.

Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > Onboard LAN Control
This item lets you enable or disable onboard LAN.

Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > Onboard 1394 Controller
This item lets you enable or disable onboard 1394.

Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > SiS Serial ATA Controller

This item lets you enable or disable onboard SATA.

Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > SiS Serial ATA Mode

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device

This item allows you to set SuperIO device.

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Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device > Onboard FDC
Controller

Setting this parameter to “Enabled“ allowing you to connect your floppy disk
drives to the onboard floppy disk connector instead of a separate controller card.
Change the setting to Disabled if you want to use a separate controller card.

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device > Onboard Serial Port1

This item allows you to assign address and interrupt for the board serial port.
The default is “Auto”.

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device > Onboard Serial Port2

This item allows you to assign address and interrupt for the board serial port. The
default is “Auto”.

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device > UART Mode Select

This item is configurable only if the "Onboard Serial Port 2" is enabled. This allows
you to specify the mode of serial port2.
Available options:
z Normal:

Sets serial port 2 to operate in normal mode. This is the default

setting.

z IrDA (SIR): This setting allows infrared serial communication at a maximum

baud rate of 115.2K baud.

z ASKIR: This setting allows infrared serial communication at a maximum baud

rate of 57.6K baud.

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device > RXD, TXD Active

This item is used to select RxD (Receive Data) and TxD (Transmit Data) mode for
UART, for instance, IR device, modem, etc. Normally, we suggest you keep the
default setting. Please see the documentation that comes with your device.
Available options: Hi, Hi / Hi, Lo

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Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >IR Transmission
Delay

If “Enabled” is selected, there will be a 4 character delay when SIR is changed
from TX mode to RX mode.

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >Use IR Pins

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >Onboard Parallel Port

This item controls the onboard parallel port address and interrupt.
Available options: 3BC/IRQ7, 3BC/IRQ7, 3BC/IRQ7, Disabled

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >Parallel Port Mode

This item lets you set the parallel port mode. The mode options are SPP
(Standard and Bidirection Parallel Port), EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) and ECP
(Extended Parallel Port).
Available options:
z SPP (Standard and Bidirection Paralell Port): SPP is the IBM AT and

PS/2 compatible mode.

z EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port): EPP enhances the parallel port throughput

by directly writing/reading data to/from parallel port without latch.

z ECP (Extend Parallel Port): ECP supports DMA and RLE (Run Length

Encoded) compression and decompression.

z ECP + EPP

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >EPP Mode Select

This item lets you select EPP mode protocol.
Available options: EPP 1.7, EPP 1.9

Integrated peripherals > Onbard SuperIO Device >ECP Mode Use DMA

This item lets you set the DMA channel of ECP mode.
Available options: 3, 1

Integrated peripherals > USB Controller
This item lets you enable or disable the USB controller.

Integrated peripherals > USB 2.0 Controller
This item lets you enable or disable the USB 2.0 controller.

Integrated peripherals > USB Keyboard Support

This item lets you enable or disable the USB keyboard driver within the onboard
BIOS. The keyboard driver simulates legacy keyboard command and let you use
USB keyboard during POST or after boot if you don't have USB driver in the
operating system.

Integrated peripherals > IDE HDD Block Mode

Integrated peripherals > Init Display First

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Power Management Setup

The Power Management Setup screen enables you to control the motherboard
green features. See the following screen.

Power Management > ACPI Suspend Type

This function allows you to select suspend types. S1 is Power On Suspend and S3
is Suspend to RAM.
Available Options: S1, S3, S1 & S3

Power Management > Power Management

Power Management > Suspend Mode

Power Management > Video off In Suspend

Power Management > Video off Method

Power Management > MODEN use IRQ

Power Management > HDD of After

Power Management > AC PWR Auto Recovery

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 item is used to
solve this problem. Selecting On enabling system to automatically power-on after
AC power resumes; in the other hand, the system will remain power-off if you
select Off. If Former-Sts (former status) option is selected, the system will
power-on or power-off based on the original state.
Available options: Former-Sts, On, Off

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Power Management > Soft-off by PWR-BTTN

This is a specification of ACPI and supported by hardware. When Delay 4 sec. is
selected, the soft power switch on the front panel can be used to control power On,
Suspend and Off. If the switch is pressed for less than 4 seconds during power On,
the system will go into Suspend mode. If the switch is pressed for longer than 4
seconds, the system will be turned Off. The default setting is Instant-Off. If
Instant-Off is selected the soft power switch is only used to control On and Off, so
there is no need to press it for 4 seconds, and there is no Suspend.
Available Options: Delay 4 sec., Instant-Off

Power Management > Wake On Modem

This option lets you specify enable or disable Wake On Modem function.
Available options: Disabled, Enabled

Power Management > MACPME Power Up Control

Power Management > Wake On PCI card

This is a function of PCI specification 2.2. PCI bus supports standby current to PCI
card and PCI card can wakeup system if it detects certain activity.
Available options: Disabled, Enabled

Power Management > USB Port Wake Up Control

Power Management > PS2KB Wakeup from S3/S4/S5

Power Management > PS2MS Wakeup from S3/S4/S5

Power Management > Wake On RTC Timer

The Wake Up Timer is more like an alarm, which wakes up and powers on your
system at a pre-defined time for a specific application. It can be set to wake up
everyday or on specific date within a month. The date/time is accurate to within
a second. This option lets you enable or disable the RTC Wake Up function.
Available options: By Date, By Week, Disabled

Power Management > Date (of Month) Alarm

This item is displayed when you enable the Wake On RTC Timer option. Here you
can specify what date you want to wake up the system. For Example, setting to 15
will wake up the system on the 15th day of every month.

Tip: Setting this item to 0 will wake up the
system on the specified time (which can be set in
the Wake On RTC Timer) every day.

Power Management > Time (hh:mm:ss) Alarm

This item is displayed when you enable the Wake On RTC Timer option. Here you
can specify what time you want to wake up the system.

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PNP/PCI Configurations

The PNP / PCI Configuration Setup allows you to configure the ISA and PCI
devices installed in your system. The following screen appears if you select the
option "PNP/PCI Configuration Setup" from the main menu.

PNP/PCI Configurations > Reset Configuration Data

PNP/PCI Configurations > Resources Controlled By

PNP/PCI Configurations > IRQ Resources

PNP/PCI Configurations > Assign IRQ For VGA

In case conflict occurs after you assign the IRQs or after you configure your
system, you can enable this function, allow your system to automatically reset
your configuration and reassign the IRQs, DMAs, and I/O address.
Available options: Disabled, Enabled

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PNP/PCI Configurations > Assign IRQ For USB

In case conflict occurs after you assign the IRQs or after you configure your
system, you can enable this function, allow your system to automatically reset
your configuration and reassign the IRQs, DMAs, a

nd I/O address.

Available options: Disabled, Enabled

Silent BIOS/HW Monitor

This submenu displays Silent BIOS / HW monitor status and provides some basic
control function.

Silent BIOS/HW Monitor > CPU Warning Temperature

This item is used to specify a CPU warning temperature. When the CPU’s
temperature is higher than this predefined value, the CPU’s speed will
automatically slow down and there will be a warning from BIOS.

Silent BIOS/HW Monitor > CPUFan Boot Speed

Silent BIOS/HW Monitor > SYSFan Boot Speed

Silent BIOS/HW Monitor > Fan Mode

This item allows user to select the mode of Fan Speed. Available options:
z Full Speed: All fans will operate in full speed.

1. If CPUFAN doesn’t be connected or operate, there would be Warning Beep.

2. When SystemFAN or PowerFAN is connected to motherboard, if
SystemFAN or PowerFAN doesn’t work, there would be Warning Beep.

z Smart Control: User could set critical temperature for each fan. If the

temperature is under critical temperature, fan wouldn’t operate; on the
contrary fan would operate.

1. If Power Temperature connector isn’t be connected, Smart Control.mode
for Power Fan will be disabled.

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z Fixed Speed: User could define the voltage of each fan to make fan operate

in a fixed speed.

1. If CPUFAN doesn’t be connected or operate, there would be Warning Beep.

2. When SystemFAN or PowerFAN is connected to motherboard, if
SystemFAN or PowerFAN doesn’t work, there would be Warning Beep.

Frequency/Voltage Control

This submenu allows you to configure the CPU and memory clock.

Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Frequency Detected

Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Bus Frequency

This item allows user to overclock the bus frequency of CPU. The range is from

100 to 400.

Tip: When you fail to overclock, you could:

1. Clear CMOS (JP14) to restore the default setting.

2. After turning power on, press “Home” immediately
until the screen appears.

Frequency/Voltage Control > AGP Bus Frequency

Frequency/Voltage Control > PCI Bus Frequency

These two items allow user to adjust AGP / PCI Bus Frequency. The ratio of AGP
and PCI Bus frequency is fixed at 2:1. Available options: 66.00/33.00,

75.43/33.72, 88.00/44.00

Frequency/Voltage Control > DRAM Requency

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Frequency/Voltage Control > Clock Spread Spectrum

This item is used to set the value of clock Spread Spectrum. BIOS will determine
the adjustable value according to the CPU installed, not all items will be showed.
This function only works when CPU Bus frequency is at 100MHz.
Available options: 0.3% Center / 0-0.5% down / 0.55% Center / 0-0.75%

down / Spread Off

Frequency/Voltage Control > DDR Voltage Setting

Load Setup Defaults

The "Load Setup Defaults" option loads optimized settings for optimum system
performance. Optimal settings are relatively safer than the Turbo settings. All
the product verification, compatibility/reliability test report and manufacture
quality control are based on "Load Setup Defaults". We recommend using these
settings for normal operation. "Load Setup Defaults" is not the slowest setting for
this motherboard. If you need to verify an unstable problem, you may manually
set the parameter in the "Advanced BIOS Features" and "Advanced Chipset
Features" to get slowest and safer setting.

Load Turbo Defaults

The "Load Turbo Defaults" option gives better performance than "Load Setup
Defaults". It is provided for the convenience of power user who wants to push the
motherboard to get better performance. Turbo setting does not go though all the
detail reliability and compatibility test, it is tested only with limited configuration
and loading (for example, a system that contains only a VGA card and one
DIMM/RIMM). Use Turbo setting only when you fully understand the items in
Chipset Setup menu.

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Set Password

Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the
system prompts for the correct password before boot or access to Setup.

To set a password:

1. At the prompt, type your password. Your password can be up to 8
alphanumeric characters. When you type the characters, they appear as
asterisks on the password screen box.

2. After typing the password, press.

3. At the next prompt, re-type your password and press again to confirm the
new password. After the password entry, the screen automatically reverts to
the main screen.

To disable the password, press “Enter” when being prompted to enter the
password. The screen displays a message confirming that the password has been
disabled.

Save & Exit Setup

This function automatically saves all CMOS values before leaving Setup.

Exit without Saving

Use this function to exit Setup without saving the CMOS value changes. Do not
use this option if you want to save the new configuration.

Load EEPROM Defaults

Except "Load Setup Default" and "Load Turbo Default", you may also use "Save
EEPROM Default" to save your own settings into EEPROM, and reload by using this
item.

Save EEPROM Defaults

You may use this item to save your own settings into EEPROM. Then, if the data
in CMOS is lost or you forget the previous settings, you may use "Load EEPROM
Default" to reload.

Credits

List of all excellent AOpen’s R&D join the research and development of this
motherboard.

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5.4 BIOS Upgrade under Windows

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environment

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.

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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 version of BIOS package 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.

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Chapter 6 Installing Drivers

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

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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 mo re
steps afterward, of all listed drivers, grey checks indicate necessary drivers; you
cannot click them off. Red 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).

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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”, then
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.

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Chapter 7 Troubleshooting

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Chapter 7 Troubleshootin

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Chapter 8 Technical Support

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:[phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Germany

AOpen Computer GmbH.
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Europe http://www.aopen.nl/tech/default.htm
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: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Pacific Rim

AOpen Inc.
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Japan

AOpen Japan Inc.
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

America

AOpen America Inc.
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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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

Copyright (C) 2004, Phoenix Technologies, LTD.

s661FXm-FSN R1.02 Apr. 01. 2006 AOpen Inc.

s661FXm-FSN is 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.

Phoenix-Award BIOS ERROR Message

Beep Sound Message

1 short(Beep) System booting is normally.

1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR

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

1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error

Long(Beep) continuous DRAM hasn't inset correctly.

Part No.

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Serial No.

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