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AX4SG- GN Online Manual What’s in this manual AX4SG-GN ..................................................................................................................................................1 What’s in this manual................................................................................................................................................................ 2 You Must Notice............................................................................................................
AX4SG- GN Online Manual AC Power Auto Recovery........................................................................................................................................................ 32 IDE and Floppy Connector...................................................................................................................................................... 33 Serial ATA Supported .............................................................................................................
AX4SG- GN Online Manual AOpen “Watch Dog ABS”........................................................................................................................................................ 54 STBY LED and BOOT LED..................................................................................................................................................... 55 AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED..................................................................................................
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Installing Onboard Sound Driver ............................................................................................................................................. 78 Installing LAN Driver in Windows 98/ME/2000/XP................................................................................................................... 79 Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98/SE......................................................................................................
AX4SG- GN Online Manual FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).......................................................................................................................................... 91 FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)........................................................................................................................................ 91 Flash ROM ...............................................................................................................................
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Wireless LAN – 802.11b.......................................................................................................................................................... 96 ZIP file .................................................................................................................................................................................... 96 Troubleshooting ................................................................................................
AX4SG- GN Online Manual You Must Notice 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.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Before You Start 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.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Overview Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4SG-GN motherboard. AX4SG-GN is Intel® Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel 865G chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AX4SG-GN motherboard supports Intel® Socket 478 Pentium® 4 1.6GHz~3.06GHz. It supports 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock and Hyper-Threading Technology that brings additional intelligence to systems.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Feature Highlight CPU Supports Intel® Socket 478 Pentium® 4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.06GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset Intel 865G 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.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Memory With Intel 865G chipset, this motherboard can support dual channel Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. 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 two slots of DDR RAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512 MB or 1GB DDR RAM and maximum up to 2GB. Expansion Slots Including five 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual 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.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Eight USB 2.0 Ports Provides six ports on the back panel and one USB 2.0 connector 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.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Quick Installation Procedure This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. 1. Installing CPU and Fan 2. Installing System Memory (DIMM) 3. Connecting Front Panel Cable 4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable 5. Connecting ATX Power Cable 6. Connecting Back Panel Cable 7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default 8. Setting CPU Frequency 9. Reboot 10. Installing Operating System (such as Windows XP) 11.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Motherboard Map AC’97 CODEC Colored Back Panel AUX-IN Connector COM2 Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper S/PDIF Connector SYSFAN2 Connector Game Port Connector 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector Resetable Fuse Low ESR Capacitors IrDA Connector ATX Power Connector AGP 8x Expansion Slot supports ADD card 478-pin CPU socket (Northwood) with Voltage and Frequency Auto-detection that supports Intel® ® Pentium 4 1.6~3.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Block Diagram Dual Channel DDR400/333/266 SDRAM Up to 2GB 32-bit PCI Slot x5 DIMM Socket x2 PCI Bus SATA 1 2 Serial ATA Ports Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 CPU 533/800MHz System Bus 150MB/s SATA 2 Intel 865G AGP bus ATA 66/100 Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel AGP 8X Slot ICH5 VGA onboard Realtek AC97 CODEC USB Port LAN connect Component Realtek LAN USB Port USB Port x8 4Mbit Flash EEPROM USB Port Parallel Port USB Port Serial Port x2 Floppy Disk Driv
AX4SG- GN 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. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… When you read this online manual, you may notice that some of the functions are marked as “User Upgrade Optional” or “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. Although all of AOpen’s motherboards have included many amazing and powerful features, sometimes not every user is familiar with these powerful features. As a result of this we define features that can be upgraded by users as “User Upgrade Optional”.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual CPU Installation This motherboard supports Intel® Pentium 4 Socket 478 series CPU (Northwood). Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket. 1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90-degree angle. 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for mark on the CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge, then insert the CPU into the socket.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual 3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation. CPU cut edge Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you may damage the CPU. Note: This socket supports FC-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in. Note: This picture is for example only; it may not look the same with the motherboard you purchased.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Hyper Threading Technology What is Hyper-Threading? Hyper-Threading technology is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, an average improvement of ~40% in CPU resource utilization yields higher processing throughput.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual For multiprocessor-capable software applications, the Hyper-Threading based processor is considered two separate logical processors on which the software applications can run without modification. Also, each logical processor responds to interrupts independently. The first logical processor can track one software thread, while the second logical processor tracks another software thread simultaneously.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual CPU Fan Installation This motherboard comes with a retention module attached on the CPU socket when shipped, we strongly recommend you to install AOpen special designed CPU Fan as shown below on the retention module for better heat dissipation. Please install the CPU Fan correctly as the following pictures shown. 2. Pressing down the four clips with force one by one on the retention module. 1.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual CPU Jumper-less Design CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection. Clock Generator Intel® Socket 478 BIOS Pentium 4 Controlled CPU Freq.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual CPU Over-current Protection The Over Current Protection is a popular implementation on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply. However, the new generation CPU uses different voltage with a regulator to transfer 12V to CPU voltage (for example, 2.0V), and thus makes 5V over current protection useless. This motherboard is with switching regulator onboard supporting CPU over-current protection; in conjunction with 3.3V/5V/12V power supply provide the full line over-current protection.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN1 connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN2 or SYSFAN3 connector. GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector GND +12V SENSOR CPUFAN1 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that they cannot support hardware monitoring function.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 0.8375V to 1.6V. It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage. Setting CPU Frequency BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Bus Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency in BIOS; no jumpers or switches are needed. The default setting is "table select mode".
AX4SG- GN Online Manual CPU Core Frequency FSB Clock System Bus Ratio Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 100MHz 400MHz 16x Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 133MHz 533MHz 12x Pentium 4 1.7G 1700MHz 133MHz 533MHz 13x Pentium 4 1.8G 1800MHz 100MHz 400MHz 18x Pentium 4 2.0G 2000MHz 100MHz 400MHz 20x Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 100MHz 400MHz 22x Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 133MHz 533MHz 16x Pentium 4 2.26G 2260MHz 133MHz 533MHz 17x Pentium 4 2.4G 2400MHz 100MHz 400MHz 24x Pentium 4 2.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual DIMM Sockets This motherboard has two 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel DDR400, DDR333 or DDR266 memory up to 2GB. Only non-ECC DDR RAM is supported. Please install suitable modules; otherwise serious damage may occur on memory sockets or you RAM modules. Please note that when you install DDR333 memory module and have your CPU FSB set at 800MHz, the memory can only run with the speed of DDR320. It is limitation of Intel.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual How to Install Memory Modules Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation. 1. Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below. 40 pins 2. 52 pins Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place. Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will close-up to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom. Tab Key 3.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual ATX Power Connector This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector. Make sure you plug in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to connect the 4-pin 12V ATX connector before connecting the 20-pin ATX power connector and use standard power supply specially designed for Pentium 4 system. AC Power Auto Recovery A traditional ATX system should remain at power off stage when AC power resumes from power failure.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual IDE and Floppy Connector Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDD and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 as the secondary channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of four devices. In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must be set differently to Master and Slave mode. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM. The setting as master or slave mode depends on the jumper on your IDE device, so please refer to your hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly. Tip: 1.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Serial ATA Supported The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Connecting Serial ATA Disk To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please be noted that it is a jumper free implement; you don’t need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Adjusting Your Hard Disk Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard does come with the support for the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you have had installed them on, the problem mainly lies in the BIOS setting. You may simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual If you intend to change the default setting, simply press Enter for a list of selection: 1. Disabled: You may choose this item if you’re sure that only traditional IDE hard 2. disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item may also cancel the detection to Serial ATA hard disk during POST, which theoretically, could speed up your boot-up timing for a little bit; however, please remember to re-adjust the settings here if you intend to use Serial ATA hard disk later.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Front Panel Connector Attach the power LED, Keylock, speaker, power and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode. Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing. It is 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. Plug this connector to the soft-power switch connector marked SPWR.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot AX4SG-GN provides an AGP 8x slot. The AGP 8X is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 4X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s. AGP is now moving to AGP 8x mode, which is 66MHz x 4bytes x 8 =2.1GB/s.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Support USB 2.0 Ports This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There is one USB connector on the board for you to connect two USB devices and six other ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect USB devices from back panel or connect the front USB connector to the front panel of chassis. Compared to traditional USB 1.0/1.1 with the speed of 12Mbps, USB 2.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Color Coded Back Panel The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. PS/2 Mouse Connector USB 2.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Front Audio Connector If the housing has been designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. By the way, please remove the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if your housing doesn’t have an audio port on the front panel.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Support 10/100Mbps LAN Onboard On the strength of Realtek LAN, which is a highly integrated platform LAN connect device, it provides 10/100Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link mode, it lights in yellow whenever linking to network. The left hand side LED indicates transfer mode and it lights in green when data is transferring in 100Mbps (no light while in 10Mbps).
AX4SG- GN Online Manual S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a latest audio transfer file format that provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog. Normally there are two S/PDIF outputs as shown, one for RCA connector, the most common one used for consumer audio products, and the other for optical connector with a even better audio quality.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual IrDA Connector The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module. With this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows 98 Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps). Install the infrared module onto the IrDA connector and enable the infrared function from BIOS Setup, UART Mode.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual COM2 Connector This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper left of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Game Port Bracket Supported This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual CD Audio Connector This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. L GND GND R CD-IN Connector Note: Though some of the latest versions of Windows support “Digital Audio” through IDE bus. However, in order to use Open Jukebox player, which is driven under BIOS, it is a MUST to connect audio cable to CD-IN connector on the motherboard.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Case Open Connector The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function works, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or by the opening of the chassis, the system will beep to inform you.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual JP14 Clear CMOS Data You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. 1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power. 2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2. 3. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds. 4. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin1 & pin2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2. Pin 1 1 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? Normal (default) 1.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function. You can use JP28 to enable or disable this function, which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse. The factory default setting is set to “Disable” (1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” AOpen provides a special and useful feature on this motherboard for overclockers. When you power-on the system, the BIOS will check last system POST status. If it succeeded, the BIOS will enable “Watch Dog ABS” function immediately, and set the CPU FSB frequency according to user’s settings stored in the BIOS. If system failed in BIOS POST, the “Watch Dog ABS” will reset the system to reboot in five seconds.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual STBY LED and BOOT LED Both STBY LED and BOOT LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard. This is a convenient indication for you to check the system power status in many circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this motherboard implements a blend new technology to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over-voltaging of AGP card. When AGP Protection Technology is implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Please note that if you install a AGP card with 3.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Battery-less and Long Life Design This Motherboard implements a Flash ROM and a special circuit that provide you no batter power consumption of current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations. The RTC (real time clock) can also keep running as long as the power cord is plugged. If you lose your CMOS data by accident, you can just reload the CMOS configurations from Flash ROM and the system will recover as usual.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Resetable Fuse Traditional motherboard uses fuses to prevent Keyboard and USB port from over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that when it is broken (function to protect motherboard), user cannot replace them and result in malfunction of motherboard. With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function even after the fuse had done its protection job.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink Cool down CPU and Chipset are important for system reliability. Enlarged aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption especially when you are trying to over-clock the CPU.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Low ESR Capacitor The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for the stability of CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, AX4SG-GN implements 3300 F capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500 F) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual EzClock Have you ever thought how great it would be if you can adjust the frequency setting on your motherboard under Windows environment and be a real master of your system? Everybody knows that the ratio and frequency setting are key factors to influence the system performance, however, it’s absolutely not an easy task for an amateur to adjust the setting value.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual How You Adjust the Settings in EzClock Utility In EzClock utility, you can adjust CPU Front Side Bus (FSB), the voltage and frequency of VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM. Besides, the CPU related information such as CPU voltage, temperature and CPUFAN rotation speed will also be displayed on this utility. CPU Color Bars: The color bar will light on and show different colors as values change. On default values, it will show green.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual On the bottom rectangular panel represents CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature. The three color bars on the right hand side will light on according to operation temperature. Please refer to the picture shown above. CPU Color Bars: CPU Fan, Voltage and Temperature: The color bars will light on according to CPU operation temperature. representing CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual How Your Boot Screen Looks Like After you finish setting BIOS, these setting values will be displayed on the boot screen like the shown picture here. Every time you boot your system, both default and current settings will pop up on the screen. Your personal settings that had been adjusted earlier will be highlighted; thus, you can have clear idea how your system functions and monitor your system more easily.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual AOConfig Utility AOpen always dedicated to provide users a much friendly computer environment. We now bring you a comprehensive system detection utility. AOConfig is a Windows based utility with user-friendly interface that allows users to obtain information of the operation system and hardware such as motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI devices and IDE devices. The powerful utility also displays the version of BIOS and firmware for your convenience of maintenance.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual 3. This page presents the IDE device information, such as serial number, manufacturer, firmware version, and capacity. 4. From this page, users can obtain the technical support information of AOpen. Moreover, detailed information could be saved in .bmp or .txt format. NOTE: AOConfig can be used under Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or Windows XP. Please also note that AOConfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Phoenix-AWARD BIOS System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu, this menu allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset). Phoenix-Award BIOS™ installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, then press key to select, and use the and key to change setting values. You can press key to quit Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Phoenix-Award BIOS setup program.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual How To Enter BIOS Setup After you finish jumper settings and connect correct cables, power on and enter the BIOS Setup. Press during POST (Power-On Self Test) and choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance. Del Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual WinBIOS Utility In the past, users have to keep punching the DEL key at a good timing during POST (Power-On-Self-Test) screen to get into the BIOS, which is inconvenient and clumsy. From now on, AOpen provides an easier way to configure your BIOS. WinBIOS is a customized utility for running exclusively on AOpen motherboards, which allows you to setup your BIOS under Windows environment.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Function keys: Hotkey Function Description It’s definitely easy to handle WinBIOS as if you’re using traditional F1 Get help description. F2 Item Help F3 Changing menu language. F5 Load previous setting table may help you and save your time. Some settings may not come F6 Load setup default setting into effect until you reboot your system. F7 Load turbo setting F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program. F12 Full Screen / Normal Mode BIOS setting.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---EzWinFlash. With an eye to users convenience, EzWinFlash combines the BIOS binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on the utility you downloaded from web and let it helps you complete the flash process automatically.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual You may accomplish BIOS upgrade procedure with EzWinFlash by the following steps, and it’s STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all the applications before you start the upgrading. 1. Download the new version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (ex: http://www.aopen.com) 2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WAX4SGGN102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WAX4SGGN102.EXE & WAX4SGGN102.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Vivid BIOS technology Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colourful POST screen! Unlike earlier graphic POST screen which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during P
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Driver and Utility There are motherboard drivers and utilities in AOpen Bonus CD. You don’t need to install all of them to boot your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows XP) before you install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide. Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD You can use the auto-run menu of Bonus CD.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Installing Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility The Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility should be installed onto the target system and the Windows * INF files outline the operating system how the chipset components will be configured. It is recommended that the Intel® Chipset Software Installation utility be installed onto the target system prior to the installation of other drivers.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver You can install Intel Extreme graphic driver to get the best graphics function of the chipset. You can find it in the Bonus Pack CD.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Installing Onboard Sound Driver This motherboard comes with AC97 CODEC. This audio driver supports Windows 98SE and upper Windows OS; you can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Installing LAN Driver in Windows 98/ME/2000/XP This motherboard integrates Realtek Ethernet Chip. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows 95 Introduction: ------------This document describes the procedure to install Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A, OSR2, Windows NT v4.0 driver for Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter. [Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A and OSR2] Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95 : ----------------------------------------------------1.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual 3. In the Network Settings dialog box, choose the "Add Adapter" button. The Add Network Adapter dialog box appears. 4. In the list of network cards, select " Requires disk from manufacturer", and then press button. 5. Enter drive and pathname [CD-ROM]:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100\Windows\NT (for NT 4.0) which is the path where the setup file OEMSETUP.INF is located, and then choose the OK button. 6.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98 / SE This motherboard supports USB2.0. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Windows 2000 Installation Guide *************************************************** Installing Drivers During Windows 2000 Installation *************************************************** The following details the installation of the USB 2.0 driver while installing Windows 2000 (with the USB 2.0 controller is enabled already). 1. After enabling the USB 2.0 controller, install Windows 2000 normally. 2. After installation, go the "Start" menu and choose "Settings." 3.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual 8. Choose the "Driver" tab in the "Properties" window, choose "Update Driver," and then press "Next." 9. Choose "Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)". from the list, and then press "Enter". 10. Choose "Specify a location." and then press "Next" 11. Insert the Bonus CD in CD-ROM. 12. Type "[CD-ROM]:\Driver\Intel\USB2.0\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press " OK ".
AX4SG- GN Online Manual 13. Click on "Next." A message informing you that Windows has found "Intel PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller - ICH5" should appear. 14. Click on "Next," and then on "Finish.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual ************************************************* Installing Driver in Existing Windows 2000 System ************************************************* After enabling the USB 2.0 controller and rebooting your system, Windows 2000 setup will show a "New Hardware Found" dialog box. Under Windows 2000, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" will be displayed. 1. Choose "Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)". from the list, and then press "Enter". 2.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual G l os s a r y A C 9 7 C O DE C Basically, AC97 CODEC is the standard structure of PCI sound card. As we know, computer is digital-based, but music is based on analog-based. Therefore, there must be a process to turn digital into analog during the last stage processing of sound in computer. Hence, the component on sound card that play this important task is what we called CODEC.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual A GP ( A c c e l e r a t ed Gr a p h i c P o r t ) The main function of AGP simply put is to tell monitor what screen information had to be shown, a visual transmission device actually. With the rapid developing of AGP card, we can see that it had been developed from single colorful AGP card to 2D and 3D graphic. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Ultra DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 2 = 33MB/s. ATA/66, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 4 = 66MB/s. ATA/100, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 6 = 100MB/s. ATA/133, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 8 = 133MB/s. (ATA/133 uses both rising edge and falling edge as ATA/66 but clock cycle time is reduced to 30ns.) B I OS ( B a si c I n p u t/ Ou t p u t S y s t em ) BIOS, is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual C N R ( C o m m u n i c a ti o n an d N e t w o r ki n g Ri s e r ) The CNR specification provides the PC industry the opportunity to deliver a flexible and cost reduced method of implementing LAN, home networking, DSL, USB, wireless, audio and modem subsystems widely used in today's "connected PCs". The CNR specification is an open industry specification and is supported by OEMs, IHV card manufacturers, silicon supplier and Microsoft.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual E P RO M ( E r a s a b l e P r o g r a m m a b l e R O M ) Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light. If BIOS has to be upgraded, you need to remove EPROM from motherboard, clear by UV light, re-program, and then insert back. EV 6 Bu s EV6 Bus is the technology of Alpha processor from Digital Equipment Corporation. EV6 bus uses both rising and falling clock edge to transfer data, similar as DDR RAM or ATA/66 IDE bus.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual F l a sh R O M Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals. It is easier for BIOS to upgrade by a flash utility, but it is also easier to be infected by virus. Because of increase of new functions, BIOS size is increased from 64KB to 512KB (4M bit).
AX4SG- GN Online Manual P a r i t y Bi t The parity mode uses 1 parity bit for each byte, normally it is even parity mode, that is, each time the memory data is updated, parity bit will be adjusted to have even count "1" for each byte. When next time, if memory is read with odd number of "1", the parity error is occurred and this is called single bit error detection.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual P O S T ( P o w e r - O n S e l f Te s t ) The BIOS self-test procedure after power-on, sometimes, it is the first or the second screen shown on your monitor during system boot. P S B (P r o c e s so r S y s t em B u s ) C l o c k PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual SATA (S eri al ATA) The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome speed limitations while enabling the storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel ATA with the compatibility with existing operating systems and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It is developed with data transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second, and 300M/bs, 600M/bs to come.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual VCM (Vi rtu al Ch ann el Mem o ry) NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements. VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I/O pins. Using VCM technology results in reduced data access latency and reduced power consumption. Wireless L AN – 802. 11b 802.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Troubleshooting If you encounter any trouble to boot you system, follow the procedures accordingly to resolve the problem. Start Turn off the power and unplug the AC power cable, then remove all of the add-on cards and cables, including VGA, IDE, FDD, COM1, COM2 and printer. Make sure if all jumper settings are correct.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power Yes and check if the power supply and CPU fan work properly. No The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure. Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Continue No Check if there is display? Perhaps your VGA card or monitor is defective. Yes Press and key at the same time, hold them and then press to reboot the system. No Check if the system reboots? Yes Next 99 It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.
AX4SG- GN Online Manual Continue During system rebooting, press to enter BIOS setup. Choose “Load Setup Default”. Turn off the system and re-connect IDE cable. Check if the system can No reboot successfully? Yes Re-install the operating system such as Windows XP. End 100 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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AX4SG- GN Online Manual 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: AX4SG-GN R1.00 Jun. 1. 2003 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AX4SG-GN is model name of motherboard, R1.00 is BIOS version.
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