User Guide
Table Of Contents
- AX4GE Tube / AX4PE Tube
- What¡¦s in this manual
- You Must Notice
- Before You Start
- Overview
- Feature Highlight
- CPU
- Chipset
- Expansion Slots
- Memory
- Watch Dog Timer
- 1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment
- AGP Protection Technology
- LAN Port
- Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Mater IDE
- On-board AC¡¦97 Sound
- Sovtek 6922 Dual Triode Tube
- Six USB2.0 Ports
- S/PDIF Connectors
- Power Management/Plug and Play
- Hardware Monitoring Management
- Enhanced ACPI
- Super Multi-I/O
- Quick Installation Procedure
- Motherboard Map
- Block Diagram
- Hardware Installation
- About ¡§User Upgrade Optional¡¨ and ¡§Manufacture Upgrade Optional
- JP14 Clear CMOS Data
- CPU Installation
- CPU Jumper-less Design
- AOpen ¡§Watch Dog Timer
- Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage
- CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring)
- DIMM Sockets and Memory Adjustable Voltage
- DDR 266(PC2100) and DDR 333(PC2700)
- Front Panel Connector
- ATX Power Connector
- AC Power Auto Recovery
- STBY LED (Standby LED) and BOOT LED
- IDE and Floppy Connector
- ATA/133 Supported
- Serial ATA Supported
- Connecting Serial ATA Disk
- IrDA Connector
- AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) Expansion Slot and Adjustable Voltage
- AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED
- WOL (Wake on LAN)
- Game Port Bracket Supported
- Support 10/100 Mbps LAN onboard
- JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper
- Die-Hard BIOS and JP24 Die-Hard BIOS Select Jumper
- PC99 Color Coded Back Panel
- Support 2nd USB 2.0 Ports
- Case Open Connector
- CD Audio Connector
- AUX-IN Connector
- COM2 Connector
- Front Audio Connector
- Tube Related components
- JP3 Tube Power Jumper
- S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector
- Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect
- FM Radio Card Supported
- The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek
- Over-current Protection
- Hardware Monitoring
- Resetable Fuse
- Low ESR Capacitor
- Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)
- Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink
- Vivid BIOS technology
- Open JukeBox Player
- Hyper Threading Technology
- Driver and Utility
- Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD
- Installing IntelR Chipset Software Installation Utility
- Installing Intel IAA Driver
- Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver (For AX4GE Tube)
- Installing Promise SATA Driver
- Installing LAN Driver
- Installing Onboard Audio Driver
- Installing USB2.0 Driver
- AOConfig Utility
- Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility
- Phoenix-AWARD BIOS
- Overclocking
- Glossary
- AC97
- ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)
- AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port)
- AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)
- AOpen Bonus Pack CD
- APM (Advanced Power Management)
- ATA (AT Attachment)
- ATA/66
- ATA/100
- ATA/133
- BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
- Bus Master IDE (DMA mode)
- CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)
- CODEC (Coding and Decoding)
- DDR (Double Data Rated) SDRAM
- DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)
- DMA (Direct Memory Access)
- ECC (Error Checking and Correction)
- EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory
- EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM)
- EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)
- EV6 Bus
- FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)
- FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)
- Flash ROM
- FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock
- I2C Bus
- IEEE 1394
- Parity Bit
- PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)
- PC-100 DIMM
- PC-133 DIMM
- PC-1600, PC-2100 or PC-2700 DDR DRAM
- PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus
- PDF Format
- PnP (Plug and Play)
- POST (Power-On Self Test)
- RDRAM (Rambus DRAM)
- RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module)
- SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)
- Shadow E2PROM
- SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module)
- SMBus (System Management Bus)
- SPD (Serial Presence Detect)
- Ultra DMA
- USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- USB2.0 (Universal Serial Bus)
- VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)
- ZIP file
- Troubleshooting
- Technical Support
- Product Registration
- How to Contact Us

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Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4GE Tube / AX4PE Tube motherboard. AX4GE Tube / AX4PE Tube is Intel
®
Socket 478 motherboard
(M/B) based on the micro ATX form factor featuring the Intel 845GE / Intel 845PE chipsets
. As high performance chipset built in the M/B,
AX4GE Tube / AX4PE Tube motherboard supports 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 DDR266 (PC2100) SDRAM and
DDR333 (PC2700) SDRAM up to 2GB maximum. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA
33/66/100, Promise ATA133 and Serial
ATA mode and there are 3 PCI slots provided on this board. In addition, AX4GE Tube / AX4PE Tube Motherboard incorporates
Sovtek 6922
dual Triode tube to provide you an incredible sound effects that even audiophiles would be stunned when they listen to the music. Besides,
AX4GE Tube / AX4PE Tube 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 Tube / AX4PE Tube motherboard.










