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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