1 eTable of Contents eTable of Contents... 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Bef
10 3.2 Installation You Have to Know Installing CPU This socket supports uFCPGA & uFCBGA package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed b
11 Installing CPU Cooler This motherboard comes with a special CPU cooler designed by AOpen, please follow the following steps to install CPU cooler.
12 3. Remove the four screws of the heat sink and let the bracket drop. 4. Lock the bracket on the back of the motherboard.
13 5. Smear over the thermal compound under the heat sink smoothly and let it be well mixed. 6. Put the CPU cooler on the processor and
14 7. Let the CPU Cooler’s power cord connect to the CPU FAN Connector. Then it’s done. 8. Adjust the jumper for your CPU.
15 Installing CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPU FAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it in SYSFAN2 con
16 Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in black and navy blue which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the
17 Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel To obtain the highest performance of Dual Channel, the configuration of DIMM must meet the following c
18 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 o
19 Connecting Front Panel Cable Attach the power LED, speaker and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” ite
2 Connecting USB2.0...30 Connecting 1394 ...
20 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 righ
21 3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency Setting CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports Voltage ID (VID) fu
22 SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 Connecting Serial ATA To connect a serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the s
23 Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting Except its original 1 set of parallel IDE, this motherboard supports the latest serial ATA hard disk. If you are
24 If you desire to change the default setting, press Enter for selection list: Disabled: You can choose this item if there are only traditional IDE
25 Connecting PCI express x16 Graphics Slot This motherboard provides a PCI Express x 16 Graphics slot, a black slot having the latest PCI Express x
26 If user plugs a PCI Express x 16 Graphics, you must remove jumpers beside PCI Express x 16 Slot. Remove Jumper Warning: If user doesn’t remove
27 Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot This motherboard provides one PCI Express x 1 slot, which is located between the PCI Express x 16 and traditional
28 Connecting IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplin
29 10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported On the strength of Marvell Gigabit LAN controller on board, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for o
3 Exit without Saving ...63 Load EEPROM Defaults ...
30 Connecting USB2.0 This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are fou
31 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
32 Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC880 CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high quality of audio effec
33 Connecting Front Audio If the housing is designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel th
34 Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. CD-IN Connector
35 Connecting COM1/COM2 This motherboard provides two serial ports. All of them are on the left of PCI32 slot. With proper cable, you can connect it
36 Connecting Case Open The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, you have to enable it in t
37 Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides
38 Connecting PS2 Keyboard This connector is designed to connect PS2 Keyboard to support legacy device. Plug into by follow
39 Rear SUR Colored Coded Back Panel The onboard I/O devices have AC’97 sound, VGA Port, DVI Connector, YPbPr Connector, S-Video, RJ-45 LAN Connect
4 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 mo
40 LED Indication LED indication including Standby LED and BOOT LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system informa
41 3.4 Jumper Settings JP14 Clear CMOS Data You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. 1.
42 Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities 4.2 Other Useful Features With excellent design ability of R&D team, AOpen boasts for its various p
43 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 sy
44 Del 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
45 Standard CMOS Features The "Standard CMOS Setup" sets the basic system parameters such as the date, time, and the hard disk type. Use th
46 IDE HDD Auto-Detection: Press “Enter” to auto-detect parameters of HDD IDE Channel 0 Master (Slave): Define the parameters of IDE devices
47 Advanced BIOS Features This screen appears when you select the option "Advanced BIOS Features" from the main menu. Advanced BI
48 Advanced BIOS Features > Removable Device Priority Advanced BIOS Features > Hard Disk Boot Priority Advanced BIOS Features > CD-ROM Boot
49 Advanced Chipset Features The "Advanced Chipset Features" includes settings for the chipset dependent features. These features are relat
5 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
50 Advanced Chipset features > DRAM RAS# Precharge If an insufficient number of cycles are allowed for the RAS to accumulate its charge before DRA
51 Advanced Chipset features > TV Format Available options: Auto, NTSC_M, NTSC_M_J, NTSC_433, NTSC_N, PAL_B, PAL_G, PAL_D, PAL_H, PAL_I, PAL_M, PA
52 Integrated peripherals > OnChip IDE Device Integrated peripherals > OnChip IDE Device > On-Chip Serial ATA This item allows y
53 Note: Whenever you change this item, it will only take effect after you restart the system and successfully boot the Windows or DOS. Wake o
54 KB Power ON Password: You can specify 1-5 keys as a password. Hot Key Power On: If you select “Hot Key” option in “Power On Function” Item, you ne
55 ECP Mode Use DMA: This item lets you set the DMA channel of ECP mode. Available options: 3, 1 AC Power Auto Recovery: A traditional ATX system sho
56 Integrated peripherals > Onboard LAN2 Control: This item lets you enable or disable onboard LAN. Integrated peripherals > Onboard SATA Contr
57 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
58 PNP/PCI Configurations The PNP / PCI Configuration Setup allows you to configure the ISA and PCI devices installed in your system. The following s
59 Silent BIOS/HW Monitor This submenu displays Silent BIOS / HW monitor status and provides some basic control function. Silent BIOS/HW
6 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? 1. Power Temperature Connector 19. Printer Port
60 Tip: When you fail to overclock, you could: Clear CMOS (JP14) to restore the default setting. After turning power on, press “Home” immediately un
61 Load Setup Defaults The "Load Setup Defaults" option loads optimized settings for optimum system performance. Optimal settings are re
62 Load Turbo Defaults The "Load Turbo Defaults" option gives better performance than "Load Setup Defaults". It is provided for t
63 Set Password Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before boot o
64 5.4 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinF
65 Warning: The new BIOS upgrade will permanently replace your original BIOS setting when flashing. You may need to reconfigure the BIOS setting be
66 5.5 Vivid BIOS technology Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST scre
67 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers You may think that installing drivers and utilities would be a repeated task of going through those installation
68 Once clicking “GO”, EzInstall will run the installing procedure automatically, and prompt a reboot dialog (Some drivers or utilities may skip t
69 6.2 Installing Utilities Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilitie
7 2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models i915Ga-HFS CPU Intel Pentium M (Dothan) CPU Socket 479 533MHz Chipset Inte
70 6.3 Display output behavior AOpen provides newest innovation with high definition display output. Below diagram will show the way of display outpu
71 Display output behavior Below table will show the behavior of display output. Please use Intel VGA Driver 14.11.00.4277 later.
72 Note: (1) Driver only support two devices to output in dual mode. The mean it can work with another one besides selecting both of TV
73 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting
74 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
75 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: i
76 Technical Support
8 2.3 Block Diagram Intel 915G Chipset DDRII DIMM x 4 DDRII 400/533 RAM Up to 4GB Socket 479 Intel Pentium M CPU 533MHz
9 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure Chapter 3 Hardware Installation1. Installing CPU 2. Installing
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