User manual AOPEN AX4GE

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NO.: AX4GEN-OL-E0208A AX4GE / AX4GE-N AX4GE / AX4GE-N 1 AX4GE / AX4GE-N What's in this manual Online Manual AX4GE / AX4GE-N........................................................................................................................................1 What's in this manual................................................................................................................................................................ 2 You Must Notice........................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Before You Start...................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Overview..................................................................................................................................................................................11 Feature Highlight .................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Quick Installation Procedure ................................................................................................................................................... 16 Motherboard Map ................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Hardware Installation ............................................................................................................................19 About "User Upgrade Optional" and "Manufacture Upgrade Optional"... ................................................................................. 20 JP14 Clear CMOS Data .......................................................................................................................................................... 21 CPU Installation ...................................................................................................................................................................... 22 CPU Jumper-less Design........................................................................................................................................................ 25 AOpen "Watch Dog Timer"...................................................................................................................................................... 26 Full-range Auto-detect CPU Core Voltage ............................................................................................................................... 27 CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ......................................................................................................... 29 DIMM Sockets ........................................................................................................................................................................ 30 2 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual DDR 266(PC2100) and DDR 333(PC2700) ............................................................................................................................ 32 Front Panel Connector............................................................................................................................................................ 33 ATX Power Connector............................................................................................................................................................. 34 AC Power Auto Recovery........................................................................................................................................................ 34 STBY LED (Standby LED) ...................................................................................................................................................... 35 IDE and Floppy Connector...................................................................................................................................................... 36 IrDA Connector ....................................................................................................................................................................... 38 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) Expansion Slot ..................................................................................................................... 39 AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED.............................................................................................................................. 40 WOL (Wake on LAN) .............................................................................................................................................................. 41 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector .................................................................................................................. 43 WOM by External BOX Modem............................................................................................................................................... 44 WOM by Internal Modem Card................................................................................................................................................ 45 CNR (Communication and Network Riser) Expansion Slot...................................................................................................... 46 Support 10/100 Mbps LAN onboard (For AX4GE-N Only) ....................................................................................................... 47 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper ................................................................................................................................ 48 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ............................................................................................................................................... 49 Support 2nd USB 2.0 Ports ...................................................................................................................................................... 50 Case Open Connector ............................................................................................................................................................ 51 3 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual CD Audio Connector ............................................................................................................................................................... 52 Modem Audio Connector ........................................................................................................................................................ 53 COM2 Connector.................................................................................................................................................................... 54 Front Audio Connector ............................................................................................................................................................ 55 S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector................................................................................................................... 56 Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .............................................................................................................................................. 57 Dr. LED Connector.................................................................................................................................................................. 58 Battery-less and Long Life Design .......................................................................................................................................... 59 Over-current Protection........................................................................................................................................................... 60 Hardware Monitoring............................................................................................................................................................... 61 Resetable Fuse....................................................................................................................................................................... 62 Low ESR Capacitor................................................................................................................................................................. 63 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)........................................................................................................................................... 65 Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink .................................................................................................................................................. 66 Vivid BIOS technology ............................................................................................................................................................ 67 Driver and Utility ....................................................................................................................................68 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD ............................................................................................................................................... 69 Installing Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility ................................................................................................................ 70 Installing Intel IAA Driver......................................................................................................................................................... 71 4 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver .................................................................................................................................... 72 Installing LAN Driver (For AX4GE-N Only) .............................................................................................................................. 73 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ............................................................................................................................................. 74 Installing USB2.0 Driver .......................................................................................................................................................... 75 AOConfig Utility ...................................................................................................................................................................... 78 Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ...................................................................................................................................... 80 ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive .................................................................................................................................................. 81 ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR) ................................................................................................................................................. 85 Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ............................................................................................................................87 About BIOS Function Description... ........................................................................................................................................ 88 How To Use Phoenix-AwardTM BIOS Setup Program .............................................................................................................. 89 How To Enter BIOS Setup....................................................................................................................................................... 91 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ........................................................................................................................... 92 Overclocking ..........................................................................................................................................94 VGA Card & Hard Disk............................................................................................................................................................ 95 Glossary .................................................................................................................................................96 AC97 ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 96 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ................................................................................................................. 96 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ............................................................................................................................................. 96 5 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ..................................................................................................................................................... 97 AOpen Bonus Pack CD .......................................................................................................................................................... 97 APM (Advanced Power Management) .................................................................................................................................... 97 ATA (AT Attachment) ............................................................................................................................................................... 97 ATA/66 .................................................................................................................................................................................... 97 ATA/100 .................................................................................................................................................................................. 98 ATA/133 .................................................................................................................................................................................. 98 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).......................................................................................................................................... 98 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode).................................................................................................................................................. 98 CNR (Communication and Networking Riser) ......................................................................................................................... 99 CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ............................................................................................................................................. 99 DDR (Double Data Rated) SDRAM......................................................................................................................................... 99 DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)...................................................................................................................................... 99 DMA (Direct Memory Access) ............................................................................................................................................... 100 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ................................................................................................................................... 100 EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory .................................................................................................................................. 100 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ........................................................................................................... 100 EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) .............................................................................................................................. 100 EV6 Bus................................................................................................................................................................................ 101 6 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ................................................................................................................................... 101 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)........................................................................................................................................ 101 Flash ROM ........................................................................................................................................................................... 101 FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock .................................................................................................................................................. 102 I2C Bus ................................................................................................................................................................................. 102 IEEE 1394 ............................................................................................................................................................................ 102 Parity Bit ............................................................................................................................................................................... 103 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM) ........................................................................................................................................ 103 PC-100 DIMM ....................................................................................................................................................................... 103 PC-133 DIMM ....................................................................................................................................................................... 103 PC-1600, PC-2100 or PC-2700 DDR DRAM......................................................................................................................... 104 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ........................................................................................................................... 104 PDF Format .......................................................................................................................................................................... 104 PnP (Plug and Play).............................................................................................................................................................. 104 POST (Power-On Self Test) .................................................................................................................................................. 105 RDRAM (Rambus DRAM)..................................................................................................................................................... 105 RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ................................................................................................................................ 105 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ............................................................................................................................................. 105 Shadow E2PROM ................................................................................................................................................................. 105 7 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ................................................................................................................................. 106 SMBus (System Management Bus) ...................................................................................................................................... 106 SPD (Serial Presence Detect)............................................................................................................................................... 106 Ultra DMA ............................................................................................................................................................................. 107 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................................... 107 USB2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) .............................................................................................................................................. 107 VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) ............................................................................................................................................ 108 ZIP file .................................................................................................................................................................................. 108 Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................................................109 Technical Support................................................................................................................................113 Product Registration............................................................................................................................116 How to Contact Us...............................................................................................................................117 8 AX4GE / AX4GE-N You Must Notice Online Manual Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD, the AMD logo, Athlon and Duron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium 4 are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All product and brand names used on this manual are used for identification purposes only and may be the registered trademarks of their respective owners. All of the specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without notice. AOpen reserves the right to revise this publication and to make reasonable changes. AOpen assumes no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual, including the products and software described in it. This documentation is protected by copyright law. All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system without prior written permission from AOpen Corporation. Copyright© 1996-2002, AOpen Inc. All Rights Reserved. 9 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Before You Start Online Manual This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved in PDF format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD or you can get free download from Adobe web site. Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer driver. Thanks for the help of saving our earth. 10 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Overview Online Manual Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4GE / AX4GE-N motherboard. AX4GE / AX4GE-N is Intel® Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel 845GE chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AX4GE / AX4GE-N motherboard support Intel® Socket 478 Pentium® 4 (Willamette / Northwood) and 400/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot and supports AGP 4X mode and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 1056MB/sec. According to different customer's requirements, this motherboard supports DDR200 (PC1600), DDR266 (PC2100) SDRAM and DDR333 (PC2700) SDRAM up to 2GB maximum. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100 mode and there are 6 PCI slots provided on this board. A total of 6 USB2.0 ports give you the best use of all USB devices. Besides, AX4GE / AX4GE-N has an AC97 CODEC chipset onboard providing high performance and magic surround stereo sound to let people enjoy working with it. Now, let's enjoy all features from AOpen AX4GE / AX4GE-N motherboard. 11 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Feature Highlight CPU Online Manual Supports Intel® Socket 478 Pentium® 4 (Willamette / Northwood) 1.4GHz~2.8GHz+ with 400/533MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset The 845GE chipset contains two core components designed for the desktop platform: the 845GE Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH), and the Intel I/O Controller Hub 4 (ICH4). These components are interconnected via an Intel proprietary interface called Hub Interface. The Hub Interface is designed into the 845GE chipset to provide an efficient, high bandwidth communication channel between the GMCH and the ICH4. The GMCH component provides the processor interface, system memory interface, Hub interface, AGP interface, and an integrated graphics device with analog and digital display ports. The ICH4 integrates a Universal Serial Bus 2.0 controller, Ultra ATA/100 Controller, Low Pin Count interface, Firmware Hub Flash BIOS interface controller, PCI interface controller, integrated LAN, AC'97 digital controller, and a Hub Interface for communication with the GMCH. Expansion Slots Including six 32-bit/33MHz PCI, one AGP 1X/2X/4X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed. The AGP video cards support data transfer rate up to 1056MB/s. AX4GE / AX4GE-N motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card. For AD and SBA signaling, AX4GE / AX4GE-N motherboard can support 4X mode. Of six PCI slots provided, all of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. 12 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Memory Online Manual Provides three 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets that support up to 2GB of PC2700(DDR333), PC2100(DDR266) and PC1600(DDR200) compliant SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory). Watch Dog Timer Includes AOpen "Watch Dog Timer" function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail to system overclocking. 1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment Provides "1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment" function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you to adjust CPU FSB frequency from 100~248MHz by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and helps your system get maximum performance. LAN Port (For AX4GE-N Only) On the strength of Intel ICH4 on board, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Mater IDE Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 5, and supports Enhanced IDE devices. 13 AX4GE / AX4GE-N On-board AC'97 Sound Online Manual AX4GE / AX4GE-N uses RealTek AC97 sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Six USB2.0 Ports Provides two ports on the back panel, two USB connectors, providing a total of six USB2.0 interface devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. S/PDIF Connectors S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is the newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Power Management/Plug and Play Supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers Plug-and-Play, which helps save users from configuration problems, thus making the system much user-friendlier. Hardware Monitoring Management Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor module. 14 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Enhanced ACPI Online Manual Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows® 98/ME/2000 series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) features. Super Multi-I/O Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART can also be directed from COM1 to the Infrared Module for the wireless connections. 15 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Quick Installation Procedure This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. Online Manual 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Installing CPU and Fan Installing System Memory (DIMM) Connecting Front Panel Cable Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable Connecting ATX Power Cable Connecting Back Panel Cable Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default Setting CPU Frequency Reboot 10. Installing Operating System (such as Windows 98) 11. Installing Driver and Utility 16 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Motherboard Map Front Audio Connector MODEM-CN Connector Online Manual PC99 Colored Back Panel AC'97 CODEC S/PDIF Connector CD-IN Connector 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector CNR Connector Low ESR Capacitors SYSFAN2 Connector AGP 4x Expansion Slot 478-pin CPU socket (Willamette/ Northwood) with Voltage and Frequency Auto-detection that supports Intel® Pentium® 4 1.4~2.8GHz+ CPU Intel 845GE Chipset CPUFAN1 connector 184-pin DIMMx3 supports PC1600/2100/2700 DDR SDRAM maximum up to 2GB Resetable Fuse 32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6 WOL Connector COM2 Connector Dr. LED Connector SYSFAN3 Connector IrDA Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper Case Open Connector USB2.0 Connector Front Panel Connector JP14 CMOS Clear Jumper ATA66/100 IDE Connector x2 ATX Power Connector FDD Connector 17 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Block Diagram PC-1600/2100/2700 SDRAM Up to 2GB 32-bit PCI Slot x6 DIMM Socket x3 Online Manual Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 CPU(Willamette /Northwood) 533MHz System Bus PCI Bus ATA 66/100 Primary Channel Secondary Channel Intel 845GE IDE Drive x4 AGP 4X Slot ICH4 LAN connect Component RealTek AC97 CODEC USB Port USB Port x6 USB Port USB Port Winbond W83627 HF 4Mbit Flash EEPROM Parallel Port Serial Port x2 Floppy Disk Drive x2 18 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual Hardware Installation This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard. Note: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. 1. 2. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component. If a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout any procedure requiring ESD protection. 19 AX4GE / AX4GE-N Online Manual About "User Upgrade Optional" and "Manufacture Upgrade Optional"... When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may notice that some of the functions are marked as "User Upgrade Optional" or "Manufacture Upgrade Optional". Although all of AOpen's motherboards have included many amazing and powerful features, sometimes not every user is familiar with these powerful features. As a result of this we define features that can be upgraded by users as "User Upgrade Optional". You can upgrade these functions by purchasing additional devices. As for functions that cannot be upgraded by users, we define them as "Manufacture Upgrade Optional". If need be, you can contact our local distributors or resellers to purchase "Manufacture Upgrade Optional" components, and again you are also welcome to visit our official website at english.aopen.com.tw for detail information. 20