Chapter of Contents Chapter of Contents Chapter of Contents ..................................................................................... 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Started ................................... 3 1.2 The Features Of This Manual ........................................................ 4 1.3 Preliminary Tools........................................................................... 5 Chapter 2 What's In The Box? .................................................................... 6 2.1 What's In The Box? ....................................................................... 6 2.2 Accessory....................................................................................... 7 Chapter 3 Start To Assemble ....................................................................... 8 3.1 Features of XC Cube ..................................................................... 8 3.2 Starting Installing........................................................................... 9 3.3 Cooler, Hard Disk, Floppy Drives and Optical devices............... 10 3.3.1 Taking Cooler out ............................................................. 10 3.3.2 Install Hard disk................................................................ 11 3.3.3 Install Floppy Drive.......................................................... 11 3.3.4 Install Optical Drive ......................................................... 12 3.4 Cables and Connectors ................................................................ 12 3.5 Install CPU .................................................................................. 14 3.5.1 Install CPU On Socket 478............................................... 14 3.5.2 Install CPU On Socket T .................................................. 15 3.5.3 Install CPU On Socket 754............................................... 16 3.5.4 Install CPU On Socket A .................................................. 17 3.5.5 Install CPU On Socket 479............................................... 17 3.5.6 Install CPU On Socket 939 ............................................... 18 3.6 Install CPU Cooler and CPU Fan Connector............................... 19 1 3.7 Connecting DRAM to DIMM Sockets ........................................ 19 3.8 Insert AGP card or PCI card to motherboard............................... 19 3.9 Putting Drives Cage back to Chassis ........................................... 21 3.10 All Set ........................................................................................ 22 3.11 How about all external peripheral? ............................................ 23 Chapter 4 Turn On The Power! ................................................................. 27 Postscripts.................................................................................................. 31 Appendix ................................................................................................... 32 Install OS Into Serial ATA Hard Disk for UX661 Series................... 32 RAID Driver Installation Guide for UX661 Series ........................... 33 Introduction To Jumper Settings and Other Connectors.................... 35 2 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Started First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for purchasing our AOpen specially-designed XC Cube. Once again, this bare-system 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 is for those who want to set up computer by themselves. In other words, this is a book for " Fresh drivers on the road." If you are already a veteran, this manual may not be suitable for you. It is our hope that novices can build up their own computer step by step. Now, we would like to invite you to personally experience this user-friendly manual and all of the powerful functions this AOpen XC Cube 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 and Pentium II&III are the registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. The logos of nVidia are the registered trademarks of nVidia Corporation. 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All rights reserved. http://xc.aopen.com.tw 3 1.2 The Features Of This Manual In this manual, you'll be able to learn how to: set up a personal computer on your own. correctly and safely put everything together and learn something about hardware. learn some practical techniques that make doing the job easier. In addition, this manual DOES NOT offer you: any sorts of back doors, such as overclocking. a great deal of hardware standard that are hard to comprehend. lengthy fanciful article or vague theories. Instead, this manual explains profound theories in simple language by colorful illustrations. Therefore, you will see the icons below frequently: Note mark Contains knowledge you should know in process of assembling, or some helpful tips. Warning mark Please be careful when you see this mark. It highlights mistakes that occur often during assembling, or something you need to pay attention to. Force direction This arrow shows the right direction the force should be imposed, or the correct assembling direction. 4 1.3 Preliminary Tools "A workman must first sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well". Right before you start the assembly, there are some tools that can't be spared. Firstly, the most frequently-used tool is cross screwdriver by which most interior components are fixed. A suitable screwdriver can make the following job much easier. Being so, does any screwdriver apply? Actually a magnetic tip one is suggested. That is because in the process of setting up your PC, the situation is very likely to happen: you accidentally drop the screws into the interior of the computer. In case of this, a magnetic screwdriver helps attracting the fallen screws that are hard to reach by hands. Some screw holes are placed where hands can hardly reach. At this time, we need a magnetic screwdriver, too. In addition, the size of our tool also matters. Generally, the domestic 107 cross screwdriver is the most appropriate one. Besides, a flat screwdriver is also essential for installing CPU on socket 479. I can get it done!! When putting things together, it is necessary to adjust Jumper. In most cases, things can be done barehanded. But there comes a time always when your hands fail to reach in and fix the problem. You'll thank God with a pliers on hand which keeps you away from any annoying trouble for just setting one JUMPER. What is Jumper? Jumper is something generally referred to " Jumping wire" that utilizes the short circuit of the pins to tune up some functions, such as FSB (front side bus), ratio, and sound switches adjusting. 5 Chapter 2 2 What's In The Box? Chapter What's In The Box? 2.1 What's In The Box? Open the XC Cube box, you will find components as follow: XC Cube chassis / Drives Cage Motherboard Power Supply CPU cooler All in One Drives Cage Power Supply / XC Cube Chasiss CPU cooler Motherboard The pictures above may look different from the product you purchased. 6 2.2 Accessory Beside main components, you are supposed to see the following accessories: Fixed screws: After opening the accessory parcel, you'll see the following four different type of screws: As shown in the picture, the threads on NO.1 screw are wide and it has a hexagonal head As shown in the picture, the NO.3 screw's threads are wide as well but it has a round head. As shown in the picture, threads on NO.2 screw are narrow and there is a ring on its head. As shown in the picture, the NO.4 screw's threads are wide as well but it has a flat head. IDE Cable: a 40 -pin connector to connect the hard disk with IDE interface. 40-pin hard disk Connector IDE Cable: a 40 -pin connector to connect the optical device IDE interface. 40-pin optical Connector Disk Drive Cable: a 34-pin connector to connect disk drive. FDD header Motherboard header 34-Pin Connector 7 Chapter 33Start To Assemble Chapter Start To Assemble 3.1 Features of XC Cube AOpen XC Cube, designed as a Mini-PC, provides you as many advantages as it can. You may find that it is elegant among other traditional PC design that obviously highlighted your individual style and taste with different color panel provided. In addition to it's unique appearance, AOpen XC Cube is easy to move around in your house, suitable for decoration even in your living room. As light and crispy as it is, it is definitely your choice for a PC. Unique design that reflects your style and taste! Color Panel changing that changes with your mood! Space flexibility allows you to move it from living room or to your bedroom. Silent Technology, PC that is quiet even in the middle of the night. Easy Installation for any new hand assembling their first PC. Mini housing which saves you almost 60% of housing space. Hand-harmlessness design ensures you 100% security during assembling. Equipped with a highly efficient power supply to keep your computer work smoothly in most cases. Conform to FCC ClassB/DoC and CE standards to guarantee your health. Teamed with high-efficiency motherboard to make your job a great deal easier. Great extensible function where you can optionally purchase AGP/PCI interfaces with low-profile standards. 8 3.2 Starting Installing 1. Unscrew all screws on the chassis. Use your thumb to push the chassis backward to you. 2. Lift the chassis up. Here you may see the internal of the chassis. 9 3.3 Cooler, Hard Disk, Floppy Drives and Optical devices 3.3.1 Taking Cooler out Before installing hard disk, floppy drives and optical devices into the XC Cube chassis, let's take the cooler out from chassis first. 1. Take the screws off the chassis and then take the Drives Cage out. Drives Cage 2. Before taking AOpen-made Cooler out, please disconnect its connector first. After that, unfasten AOpen-made Cooler. For detail, please refer to EIG wording. 3. Take the cooler out of the chassis. Put it aside for later use then. Why AOpen Fan Cooler After thermal testing and confirmation, we have chosen this model of AOpen cooler for fitting with XC Cube. It has been tested with optimized air-flow and excellent heat dissipation function for our XC Cube system. It is highly recommended not to use other branded cooler to go with XC Cube. 10 The bottom of Cooler had been protected with a plastic cover when shipped. Please take it off when you want to put the cooler on CPU. 3.3.2 Install Hard disk After taking out Cooler, let's focus on Installing Drives Cage. Slide hard disk into the Drives Cage, and use screw no. 3 to screw it firmly to the cage. Heat dissipation side faces up. Front mark Front mark 3.3.3 Install Floppy Drive Slide in the floppy drive as shown. Use screw no.2 to screw the 3rd and 6th hole separately. Front Mark 11 3.3.4 Install Optical Drive Slide in the optical drive. Use screw no.2 to screw the optical drive firmly. Optical device must aim at the edge of Drives Don't mess up screws!! Generally there are special screws for hard disk in the parcel when you buy a new hard disk. There will be no harm done using those screws. If no screws are attached, use those packed in the accessory parcel. Make sure to use the NO.2 screws. (See page 7) 3.4 Cables and Connectors 1. Before connecting necessary cables and connector to motherboard, you may found most of the I/O panel connectors (IEEE1394, USB, Front Audio and S/PDIF) both at front panel and back panel on motherboard have had been connected properly as shown. I/O connectors have had been inserted previously. 12 2. Connecting floppy cable, hard disk and optical cable on motherboard for later use. Hard disk cable Optical device cable 3. If you happen to have Serial ATA hard disk, Except EZ661L, this motherboard comes with Serial ATA connectors onboard as w ...