eTable of Contents eTable of Contents.................................................................................. 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................4 1.2 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................5 1.3 Safety Information ......................................................................................5 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................... 6 2.1 How does your motherboard look like?...........................................................6 2.2 Specification ...............................................................................................7 2.3 Block Diagram ............................................................................................8 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............................................................... 9 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure .........................................................................9 3.2 Installation You Have to Know..................................................................... 10 Installing CPU ...........................................................................................10 Installing CPU Cooler .................................................................................11 Installing CPU and System Fans ..................................................................15 Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................16 Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel............................................17 Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................18 Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................19 Connecting ATX Power Cables .....................................................................20 3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 21 Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................21 Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................22 Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................23 Connecting PCI express x16 Graphics Slot ....................................................25 Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot..................................................................27 Connecting IrDA........................................................................................28 10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported ...............................................................29 1 Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................30 Connecting 1394 .......................................................................................31 Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect ...................................................................32 Connecting Front Audio ..............................................................................33 Connecting CD_IN .....................................................................................34 Connecting COM1/COM2 ............................................................................35 Connecting Case Open ...............................................................................36 Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) ........................................37 Connecting PS2 Keyboard ..........................................................................38 Colored Coded Back Panel ..........................................................................39 LED Indication ..........................................................................................40 3.4 Jumper Settings ........................................................................................ 41 4.2 Other Useful Features ................................................................................ 42 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS......................................................................... 43 5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................. 43 5.2 How To Use Phoenix-AwardTM BIOS Setup Program ........................................ 44 5.3 How To Enter BIOS Setup ........................................................................... 44 Standard CMOS Features ...........................................................................45 Advanced BIOS Features ............................................................................47 Advanced Chipset Features.........................................................................49 Integrated Peripherals ...............................................................................51 Power Management Setup ..........................................................................56 PNP/PCI Configurations ..............................................................................58 Silent BIOS/HW Monitor .............................................................................59 Frequency/Voltage Control .........................................................................60 Load Setup Defaults ..................................................................................61 Load Turbo Defaults ..................................................................................62 Set Password ............................................................................................63 Save & Exit Setup .....................................................................................63 2 Exit without Saving ...................................................................................63 Load EEPROM Defaults ...............................................................................63 Save EEPROM Defaults...............................................................................63 Credits.....................................................................................................63 5.4 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment.................................................. 64 5.5 Vivid BIOS technology ............................................................................... 66 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers ................................................................... 67 6.1 Installing Drivers....................................................................................... 68 6.2 Installing Utilities ...................................................................................... 69 6.3 Display output behavior ............................................................................. 70 Display output behavior .............................................................................71 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..................................................................... 73 Chapter 8 Technical Support .................................................................. 74 Model Name and BIOS Version....................................................................75 Register Your Motherboard .........................................................................75 Technical Support......................................................................................76 3 1.1 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 to download the updated file. Now, we would like to invite you to personally experience this user-friendly manual and all of the powerful functions this AOpen product offers. 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. 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All rights reserved. 4 1.2 Features of This Manual To help you grab the useful information of this motherboard and aware of certain conditions that you might need to know, you will see the icons below frequently: Note This contains knowledge you should know in process of assembling, or some helpful tips. Warning / Caution Warning Please be careful when you see this mark. highlights mistakes that occur often during It assembling, or something you need to pay attention to. Tip Warning This tip tells you some useful information that will make your installation smoothly. 1.3 Safety Information Please wear a wrist strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component. Alternatively, you can also touch an object that is of ground connection or with metal surface. Always unplug the power before you make any jumper setting. Before you install or remove any components on the motherboard, please make sure to disconnect the power first in case of damaging motherboard or other components. 5 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? 16 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 30 31 33 35 32 34 14 15 18 20 6 22 24 26 28 12 13 8 9 10 11 7 1 2 3 4 5 1. Power Temperature Connector 2. CD_IN Connector 3. Marvell PCI-Express Gigabit LAN 4. Azalia Audio codec 5. S/PDIF Connector 6. ATX Power Connector 7. Front Audio Connector 8. 4-pin 12V ATX Power Connector 9. PCI Express x16 Slot 10. 479-pin CPU socket supporting Intel Pentium M CPU 11. Intel 915G/ICH6 Chipsets 12. CPU FAN Connector 13. System FAN1 Connector 14. 240-pins DIMMs x 4 (DDRII) 15. IDE Connector 16. PCI Express x1 Slot 17. PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard Connector 18. COM1/COM2 Connectors 19. Printer Port connector 20. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 21. 32-bits PCI Expansion Slot 22. PCI Express VGA Card Enable Jumpers 23. DVI Controller 7307 24. IrDA Connector 25. TV-OUT Controller 7021 26. Power FAN Connector 27. USB Connector 28. 1394 Controller Agere FW3226 29. 1394 Connector 30. Case Open Connector 31. JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper 32. SYSTEM FAN2 Connector 33. Front Panel Connector 34. FDD Connector 35. Serial ATA Ports x 4 6 2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models CPU Chipset Main Memory Graphics IDE LAN Sound USB IEEE 1394 Slots i915Ga-HFS Intel Pentium M (Dothan) CPU Socket 479 533MHz Intel 915G/ICH6 Dual Channel DDRII DIMM x 4, DDRII400/533 DIMM Type : 256/512MB & 1GB Max Memory : 4GB Integrated VGA Engine in Chipset PCI Express x 16 Graphic Slot Integrated ATA100 and Serial ATA Controller Max Disk: 144,000,000GB [by 48 bits LBA Spec.] Marvell Gigabit PCI Express LAN Chip Intel High Definition Audio on Board Support 7.1 Channel and above Integrated in chipset, USB 2.0 x 8 Agere 1394 Control Chip PCI Express x16 Graphics Slot x 1 PCI Express x1 Slot x 1 PCI Slots x 3 USB Ports x 4, LAN Port x 1 VGA Port x 1, DVI Port x 1 Standard Video Port x 1 YPbPr Video Port x 1 D Connector (D1, D2, D3, D4) (For Japanese version only) Line_In x 1, Speaker_Out x 1, MIC_In x 1 Rear SUR x 1, Center/Subwoofer x 1, Side SUR x 1 Floppy Drive Connector x 1 IDE Channel: ATA100 x 1 Serial ATA Channel x 4 Front Panel x 1 Front Audio x 1 USB2.0 Connector x 2 CPU FAN x 1 System FAN x 2 Power FAN x 1 Power Temperature Connector x 1 Case Open Connector x 1 S/PDIF Connector x 1 CD_IN x 1 IrDA x 1 Printer Connector x 1 PS2 Keyboard Connector x 1 COM1 Connector x 1 COM2 Connector x 1 IEEE 1394 x 2 Award PnP 4Mb Flash R ...