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NO.:AX4SGUL-OL-E0309A 1 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards What's in this manual Online Manual AOpen i865 Family Motherboards .............................................................................................................. 1 What's in this manual .................................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Before You Start ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Overview ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Comparison Table................................................................................................................. 11 Feature Highlight ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Quick Installation Procedure ....................................................................................................................................................... 17 Motherboard Map ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Block Diagram ............................................................................................................................................................................. 19 Hardware Installation ........................................................................................................................ 20 About "User Upgrade Optional" and "Manufacture Upgrade Optional"... ................................................................................... 21 EzColor........................................................................................................................................................................................ 22 JP14 Clear CMOS Data .............................................................................................................................................................. 24 CPU Installation........................................................................................................................................................................... 25 CPU Fan Installation ................................................................................................................................................................... 27 CPU Over-current Protection ...................................................................................................................................................... 29 AOpen "Watch Dog ABS" ............................................................................................................................................................ 31 Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage .................................................................................................................................... 32 2 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ............................................................................................................ 34 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper.................................................................................................................................... 35 DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................................. 36 ATX Power Connector................................................................................................................................................................. 38 AC Power Auto Recovery............................................................................................................................................................ 38 IDE and Floppy Connector .......................................................................................................................................................... 39 Serial ATA Supported .................................................................................................................................................................. 41 Connecting Serial ATA Disk......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Front Panel Connector ................................................................................................................................................................ 45 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot ................................................................................................................... 46 AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED ................................................................................................................................. 47 IrDA Connector............................................................................................................................................................................ 48 Support 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN onboard................................................................................................................................... 49 Support USB 2.0 Ports ................................................................................................................................................................ 50 Color Coded Back Panel ............................................................................................................................................................. 51 S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector ...................................................................................................................... 52 Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................................. 53 Wake On Modem / Wake On LAN / Wake On PCI Card............................................................................................................. 54 Front Audio Connector ................................................................................................................................................................ 55 Game Port Bracket Supported .................................................................................................................................................... 56 3 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual COM2 Connector ........................................................................................................................................................................ 57 CD Audio Connector.................................................................................................................................................................... 58 AUX-IN Connector....................................................................................................................................................................... 59 Case Open Connector................................................................................................................................................................. 60 STBY LED (Standby LED) and BOOT LED ................................................................................................................................ 61 Resetable Fuse ........................................................................................................................................................................... 62 Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ...................................................................................................................................................... 63 Low ESR Capacitor ..................................................................................................................................................................... 64 PBE ­ Performance Boosting Engine (for AX4SG and AX4SPE series) .................................................................................... 65 The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek................................................................................................................................................. 66 EzClock ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 69 Hyper Threading Technology ...................................................................................................................................................... 73 AOConfig Utility ........................................................................................................................................................................... 75 Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ........................................................................................................................ 77 How to Use Phoenix-AwardTM BIOS Setup Program .................................................................................................................. 78 How To Enter BIOS Setup........................................................................................................................................................... 79 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment .............................................................................................................................. 80 Vivid BIOS technology................................................................................................................................................................. 82 Driver and Utility ................................................................................................................................ 83 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD ................................................................................................................................................... 83 4 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards ® Online Manual Installing Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility..................................................................................................................... 84 Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver Installing Gigabit LAN Driver (only for AX4SG-U, AX4SG-UL and AX4SG-UN) ....................................................... 85 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................................................. 86 (for AX4SG-UL, AX4SPE-UL and AX4SPB-UL) ......................................................................... 87 Installing Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN Driver in Win98SE/2000/XP (for AX4SG-UN, AX4SPE-UN and AX4SPB-UN) .............. 98 Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98SE/ME........................................................................................................................ 102 Glossary ........................................................................................................................................... 106 AC'97 CODEC........................................................................................................................................................................... 106 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)................................................................................................................... 106 ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) .................................................................................................................................... 106 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ............................................................................................................................................... 107 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ....................................................................................................................................................... 107 ATA (AT Attachment) ................................................................................................................................................................. 107 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)............................................................................................................................................ 108 Bluetooth ................................................................................................................................................................................... 108 CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)........................................................................................................................... 109 DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM............................................................................................................................................. 109 ECC (Error Checking and Correction)....................................................................................................................................... 109 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) .............................................................................................................. 109 EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................................................. 110 5 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual EV6 Bus .................................................................................................................................................................................... 110 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)....................................................................................................................................... 110 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................................................................................................................................ 110 FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).......................................................................................................................................... 110 Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................................111 Hyper Threading.........................................................................................................................................................................111 IEEE 1394 ..................................................................................................................................................................................111 Parity Bit .................................................................................................................................................................................... 112 PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus............................................................................................................................... 112 PDF Format ............................................................................................................................................................................... 112 PnP (Plug and Play) .................................................................................................................................................................. 112 POST (Power-On Self Test) ...................................................................................................................................................... 112 PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ......................................................................................................................................... 113 RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ............................................................................................................ 113 RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module).................................................................................................................................... 113 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ................................................................................................................................................. 113 SATA (Serial ATA)...................................................................................................................................................................... 114 SMBus (System Management Bus) .......................................................................................................................................... 114 SPD (Serial Presence Detect)................................................................................................................................................... 114 USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................................. 114 6 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) ................................................................................................................................................ 115 Wireless LAN ­ 802.11b ............................................................................................................................................................ 115 ZIP file ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 115 Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................... 116 Technical Support............................................................................................................................ 120 Product Registration........................................................................................................................ 124 How to Contact Us........................................................................................................................... 125 7 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 1996-2003, AOpen Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 5.0 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. 9 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Overview ® Online Manual Thank you for choosing AOpen i865 Family motherboards. AOpen i865 Family Motherboard is Intel Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel 865G chipsets (for AX4SG series), Intel 865PE chipsets (for AX4SPE series) and Intel 848P chipsets (for AX4SPB series). As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AOpen i865 Family motherboard supports Intel ® ® Socket 478 Pentium 4 1.6GHz~3.20GHz. It supports 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock and Hyper-Threading Technology that brings additional intelligence to systems. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot to support AGP 8X/4X mode and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2112MB/sec. For AX4SG series, it integrates VGA Engine in chipset and AGP 8X slot also support ADD cards. According to different customer's requirements, this M/B supports DDR266, DDR333 and DDR400 RAM up to 4GB maximum in Dual Channel mode. For AX4SPB series, it only has two RAM slots and supports Single Channel mode with maximum capacity up to 2 GB. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100 mode and Serial ATA 150 MB/s. There are 5 PCI slots provided on this board. A total of four USB 2.0 ports on the back panel and two headers on the board give you the best use of all USB devices with the fancy speed up to 480Mbps. More than that, on the strength of integrated Realtek LAN controller on board, which is a highly integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (for -UL series, it is 10/100/1000 Mbps) for office and home use. For ­U series motherboards, they do not support LAN onboard. Besides, AOpen i865 Family motherboard has S/PDIF connector and an AC'97 CODEC Realtek 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 i865 Family motherboards. 10 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Comparison Table Following we list functions of all models. Online Manual "V" represents those functions that the model equips with and "X" represents functions that models don't have. Please always refer to this page to see the functions of your model. Series Model AX4SG-U Chipset Intel 865G Intel 865G Intel 865G Intel 865PE Intel 865PE Intel 865PE Intel 848P Intel 848P Intel 848P Dual RAM Channel Slots V V V V V V X X X 11 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 LAN X 10/100/1000 Mbps 10/100Mbps X 10/100/1000 Mbps 10/100Mbps X 10/100/1000 Mbps 10/100Mbps VGA V V V X X X X X X Support ADD card V V V X X X X X X PBE V V V V V V X X X AX4SG Series AX4SG-UL AX4SG-UN AX4SPE-U AX4SPE Series AX4SPE-UL AX4SPE-UN AX4SPB-U AX4SPB Series AX4SPB-UL AX4SPB-UN AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Feature Highlight CPU ® ® Online Manual Supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.20GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset Intel 865 chipset is a Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) designed for use with the Pentium 4 processor with 512-KB L2 cache on 0.13-micron processor. It provides CPU, DDR, AGP, Hub, CSA Interfaces and integrated graphics with display interfaces. The CPU interface supports Pentium 4 processor subset of the Extended Mode of the Scalable Bus Protocol. The GMCH memory interface supports one up to two channels of DDR (for 865G and 865PE chipsets), and the AGP interface supports 0.8/1.5V signaling with 8X/4X data transfers and 8X/4X AGP Fast Writes. The integrated graphics controller provides 3D, 2D, and display capabilities while using a portion of system memory for graphics memory (UMA) to provide a cost effective, high performance graphics solution. The Intel 865 platform supports the fifth generation I/O Controller Hub. The ICH5 integrates an Ultra ATA 100 controller, two Serial ATA host controllers, one EHCI host controller and four UHCI host controllers supporting eight external USB 2.0 ports, LPC interface controller; flash BIOS interface controller, PCI interface controller, AC'97 digital controller, integrated LAN controller, an ASF controller and a hub interface for communication with the 865 GMCH. 12 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Memory Online Manual With Intel 865G/865PE chipset, this motherboard can support dual channel Double-Data-Rate (DDR) SDRAM (for AX4SG and AX4SPE series). The dual channel mode allows chipsets to get data in 128 bit and zero wait state bursting between the RAM. The data transfer at 266/333/400MHz. The four slots of DDR SDRAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512 MB or 1GB DDR SDRAM and maximum up to 4GB. For AX4SPB series, it only has two RAM slots and support maximum up to 2GB in Single Channel mode. Expansion Slots Including five 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. Of five PCI slots provided, all of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. AOpen i865 Family motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP graphic card. 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 2112MB/s. For AX4SG series, you may have ADD card cabled to this AGP slot to provide high-speed digital connection for digital displays. AGP Protection Technology With AGP Protection Technology implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Hyper-Threading Technology Support Hyper-Threading Technology which brings additional intelligence to systems so that multiple tasks received from the processor can be managed and prioritized more effectively. 13 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Watch Dog ABS Online Manual Includes AOpen "Watch Dog ABS" function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail the system overclocking. 1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment Provides "1MHz Stepping CPU Frequency Adjustment" function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you to adjust CPU FSB frequency from 100~400MHz by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and helps your system get maximum performance. LAN Port (for ­UL and ­UN series) On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller (-UL series) or Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN controller (-UN series) on board, this motherboard provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (for ­UL series, it is 10/100/1000 Mbps) for office and home use. For ­U series motherboard, it does not support LAN onboard. Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus IDE Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 5, and supports Enhanced IDE devices. Serial ATA Integrated in ICH5 that contains independent DMA operation on two ports, the SATA controllers are completely software transparent with the IDE interface, while providing a lower pin count and higher performance. The ICH5 SATA interface supports data transfer rates up to 150MB/s. 14 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards On-board AC'97 Sound Online Manual AOpen i865 Family motherboard uses RealTek AC'97 CODEC Realtek ALC655 chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Eight USB 2.0 Ports Provides four ports on the back panel and two USB 2.0 headers on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. S/PDIF Connector S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is the newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Power Management/Plug and Play Supports the power management function which confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers 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. 15 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards SilentTek Online Manual Combines "Hardware-Status Monitoring", "Overheat Warning" and "Fan Speed Control" with user-friendly interfaces to provide a perfect balance among noises, system performance and stability. Enhanced ACPI Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) and S5 features. ® 16 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 XP) 11. Installing Driver and Utility 17 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Realtek Gigabit LAN chip (for -UL series) Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN chip (for -UN series) 4Mb Flash ROM BIOS Onboard AC'97 CODEC Front Audio Connector 32-bit PCI Expansion Slots x5 COM2 Connector USB 2.0 Connectors x 2 Game Port Connector IrDA Connector S/PDIF Connector AUX-IN Connector CD-IN Connector Case Open Connector SYSFAN2 Connector SATA Ports x 2 JP14 CMOS Clear Jumper Front Panel Connector ATA 66/100 IDE Connectors x2 FDD Connector Online Manual Motherboard Map Colored Back Panel JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper ATX Power Connector 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector Low ESR Capacitors SYSFAN1 Connector AGP Protection LED 478-pin CPU socket (Northwood) with Voltage and Frequency Auto-detection that supports Intel® Pentium® 4 1.6~3.20GHz+ CPU CPUFAN Connector Intel 865G/865PE/848P Chipset that supports 400/533/800MHz FSB, DDR 266/333/400 and AGP 8X 184-pin DIMMsx4 support Dual Channel DDR400/333/266 Max. To 4 GB (for AX4SG and AX4SPE series) 184-pin DIMMx2 support Single Channel DDR400/333/266 Max. To 2GB (for AX4SPB series) AGP 8X Expansion Slot (for AX4SG series, it also supports ADD card.) 18 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Block Diagram For AX4SPB series, it only has two slots and support 2GB maximum in Single Channel DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel RAM Up to 4GB DIMM Sockets x4 PCI Bus SATA 1 Online Manual 32-bit PCI Slots x5 Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 CPU 400/533/800MHz System Bus Serial ATA Ports x2 150MB/s SATA 2 AGP bus Intel 865 chipset ATA 33/66/100 Primary Channel Secondary Channel IDE Drives x4 AGP 8X Slot Support ADD Card (for AX4SG series) VGA onboard (for AX4SG series) Gigabit LAN Chip (-UL series) Realtek 10/100Mbps (-UN series) ICH5 RealTek AC97 CODEC USB Port USB Port USB Port USB Port 4Mbit Flash EEPROM Parallel Port Serial Ports x2 LAN connect Component USB Ports x8 Floppy Disk Drive 19 AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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. 20