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AX4SG Max Online Manual What’s in this manual AX4SG Max .................................................................................................................................................1 What’s in this manual .................................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice ......................................................................................................
AX4SG Max Online Manual JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper.................................................................................................................................... 33 DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................................. 34 AC Power Auto Recovery........................................................................................................
AX4SG Max Online Manual Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................................. 57 Front Audio Connector ................................................................................................................................................................ 58 Die-Hard BIOS II ......................................................................................................
Online Manual AX4SG Max What are the RAID levels? .......................................................................................................................................................... 83 HDD Capacity of RAID Levels..................................................................................................................................................... 86 Serial ATA RAID for Intel ICH5R...........................................................................................
AX4SG Max Online Manual Installing Silicon Image SiI3112A SATA Raid Driver.................................................................................................................. 126 Glossary ...............................................................................................................................................133 AC97 CODEC .....................................................................................................................................................
AX4SG Max Online Manual Flash ROM ................................................................................................................................................................................ 138 Hyper Threading........................................................................................................................................................................ 138 IEEE 1394 .................................................................................................
AX4SG Max Online Manual Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................................................143 Technical Support................................................................................................................................147 Product Registration............................................................................................................................151 How to Contact Us.....................
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max Online Manual Overview ® Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4SG Max motherboard. AX4SG Max is Intel Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form ® factor featuring the Intel 865-G chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AX4SG Max 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 which brings additional intelligence to systems.
AX4SG Max 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 865 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 Max Online Manual With Intel 865 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 four 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 4GB. Expansion Slots Including six 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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. Dr. Voice II The Dr. Voice II can identify what kind of problems had occurred in the operating system. It provides four kinds language versions.
AX4SG Max Online Manual SilentTek Combines “Hardware-Status Monitoring”, “Overheat Warning” and “Fan Speed Control” with user-friendly interfaces to provide a perfect balance among noises, system performance and stability. Enhanced ACPI ® Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) and S5 features.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual Motherboard Map AC’97 CODEC Colored Back Panel AUX-IN Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper CD-IN Connector COM2 Connector SYSFAN2 Connector Game Port Connector 32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6 Low ESR Capacitors 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector Resetable Fuse IrDA 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 Max Online Manual Block Diagram DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel RAM Up to 4GB 32-bit PCI Slot x6 DIMM Socket x4 PCI Bus SATA 1 4 Serial ATA Ports Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 CPU 533/800MHz System Bus 150MB/s SATA 2 SATA 3 SATA 4 Intel 865-G AGP bus ATA 66/100 Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel AGP 8X Slot ICH5R VGA onboard RealTek AC97 CODEC USB Port LAN connect Component Gigabit BCM5705 USB Port USB Port x8 USB Port 4Mbit Flash EEPROM 4Mbit Flash EEPROM Parallel Port USB
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, 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.
AX4SG Max 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 Normal (default) 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? Clear CMOS 1.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Micro-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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Timer” will reset the system to reboot in five seconds.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage This function is dedicated to overclockers and supports Adjustable CPU Core Voltage from 1.10V to 1.85V. However, this motherboard can also automatically detect CPU VID signal and generates proper 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.
AX4SG Max Northwood CPU 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 clock ratio automatically, you may not be Pentium 4 2.2G 2200MHz 133MHz 533MHz 16x Pentium 4 2.
AX4SG Max 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 SYSFAN3 Connector CPUFAN1 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that they cannot support hardware monitoring function.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual DIMM Sockets This motherboard has four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128-bit dual channel DDR400, DDR333 or DDR266 memory up to 4GB. 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 Max Online Manual How to Install Memory Modules Note: Please pay attention to 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. the Blue slots. To run dual channel speed, you should insert the RAM in the slot of DIMM A1 and DIMM B1 or DIMM A2 and DIMM B2. Please don't use the different frequency DIMM on dual channel 40 pins 2.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 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. 2.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Support RAID 0 and RAID 1 With Intel ICH5R chipset and Silicon Image Sil3112A onboard, this motherboard provides a cost-effective, high performance stripping (RAID 0) and mirroring (RAID 1) solution. With stripping, identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance. Mirroring increase read performance through load balancing and elevator seeking while creating a complete backup of your files.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max Online Manual WOL (Wake on LAN) To use Wake on LAN function, you must have a network card with chipset that supports this feature, and connect a cable from LAN card to motherboard WOL connector. The system identification information (probably IP address) is stored on network card and because there is a lot of traffic on the Ethernet, you need to install network management software, such as ADM, for the checking of how to wake up the system.
AX4SG Max Online Manual WOL Connector (Ethernet Card Side) WOL Connector (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
AX4SG Max 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, the 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).
AX4SG Max Online Manual Support 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN onboard On the strength of BCM5705, a fourth-generation triple-speed 10/100/100 base-T Ethernet LAN Controller solution for high-performance network applications, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000M bps 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 orange whenever linking to network.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual IEEE 1394 Connectors With IEEE1394 MAC Embedded in Intel ICH5R (with AGERE FW323), the IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, and USB 1.0/1.1 just has 12Mbps. Hence, the IEEE 1394 interface can connect with the devices that need high data transferring performance, such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use the proper cable to connect with devices.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max Online Manual Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC650E CODEC, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC650, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround audio output without connecting any external module. To apply this function, you have to install the audio driver in the Bonus Pack CD as well as an audio application supporting 5.1 Channel.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual Die-Hard BIOS II Inherited DieHard BIOS, the steps of rescuing your crashed BIOS 1 back to life is the same. First step is to set JP24 to Pin2-3 to boot up the system with BIOS 2. After that, please set the JP24 back to Pin1-2, go to AOpen website to get your BIOS version suited for your motherboard, and have it downloaded. There are two kinds of ways to flash the BIOS 1; you may flash it under Window environment with EZWinflash or under DOS system.
AX4SG Max Online Manual JP15/JP16 Dr. Voice Language Select Jumpers Dr. Voice is a great feature of AX4SGMax, which can identify the problems you may encounter in the operating system. It can clearly “tell you” whether the problem is caused from components or improper installation such as CPU, memory module, VGA, PCI add-on card, FDD, HDD or keyboard. Dr. Voice provides four language versions: English, German, Japanese and Chinese. You can select your preferred language by JP15 & JP16 jumpers.
AX4SG Max Online Manual JP2 Speaker Output Jumper This motherboard comes with another considerate option that allows you to turn off the voice from buzzer and speaker. You can choose not to be bothered by the warning made from Dr. Voice when it detects any error in operating system. You may also set JP2 to choose sending out voices from buzzer or speaker.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual STBY LED (Standby LED) STBY LED is AOpen’s considerate design that we 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. STBY LED Warning: Do not install or remove the DIMM module or others devices when the STBY LED lights on.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max implements 3300μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
AX4SG Max Online Manual V4 Power Engine While the market are flooded with low quality, cost-down power materials on motherboard by treacherous manufacturers that subsequently cause the stability of your system, unknown system crashing, overheating of your motherboard, we, AOpen have decided to maintain our long-lasting reputation of refined manufacturer by keep providing solid materials on our products.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Comprison Transient of 3-phase and 4-phase PWM As test report shows, while most of the motherboards on the market are powered by 3-phase PWM controller, this motherboard does comes with 4-phase PWM controller providing stronger power, and could lower down the temperature of motherboard from 15℃ to 30℃. 4-phase Vcore tolerance of - 116 mv 3-phase Vcore tolerance 顯示桌面.
AX4SG Max Online Manual The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek As the clock of CPU keeps rocketing higher and higher, it inevitably brings higher heat and system temperature in a relative way. The way we deal with this heat problem, however, is to spare no effort to add one fan after another to protect our pampered system, expecting these fans could cool down our machine as much as they could.
AX4SG Max Online Manual In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis. Also, you can check if fans are running properly. The first image you have here is the Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages and set your expected margins of warning level. You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here.
AX4SG Max Online Manual The following page is surely the most important part of this utility. You may control the rotation speed of specific fans that you have got the options inside in this page. 1. Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting of SilentTek and can be used for any branded computer housing. With a special algorithm developed by AOpen, the fan speed is automatically adjusted by the factors of CPU and ambient temperature. Ease-of-use and trouble free at your service. 2.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 representing CPU fan speed, CPU according to CPU operation voltage and CPU temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees. temperature.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 interrupts logical responds independently. processor can to The first track one software thread, while the second logical processor software thread tracks another simultaneously.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max Online Manual RAID Introduction What’s RAID? Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures. The idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was first introduced by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy H. Katz at the University California at Berkeley in 1988.
AX4SG Max Online Manual What are the RAID levels? Striping / Span (RAID 0) RAID level 0, which is the fastest drive array you can have, is a performance-oriented disk mapping method. The data in this array gets written across a stripe or different disks for a faster transfer. This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. Reads and writes sector of data interleaved between multiple drives.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Mirroring (RAID 1) Block 1 RAID level 1 uses at least two duplicate hard drives and store the exact same Block 2 blocks of information between them. This is the slowest form of fault Block 3 tolerance because the data has to be replicated onto two disks at the same time. However, this is the simplest way to provide high reliability.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0+1) As the name would suggest, RAID 0+1 is striping and mirroring combined. This RAID combines the best of both RAID 0 and RAID 1. It takes a Disk stripe using two disks, and mirrors it to another set of disks for fault tolerance. Data is stripped across several disks, each disk has partner with exactly the same data on it. You get the benefits of fast data access as in RAID 0, with the fault tolerance of RAID 1.
AX4SG Max Online Manual HDD Capacity of RAID Levels Striping / Span (RAID 0) Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0 +1) Striping Physical Disks 40 GB Physical Disks 40 GB Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Mirroring Mirroring (RAID 1) Physical Disks 40 GB Physical Disks 40 GB Logical Drive 80 GB Logical Drive 40 GB Physical Disks 40GB Striping 86 Physical Disks 40 GB
Online Manual AX4SG Max Serial ATA RAID for Intel ICH5R With the latest chipsets implemented, Intel ICH5R provides RAID 0, 1 function in Windows 2000/XP for the Serial ATA hard disks. You may follow the steps shown below to setup your disk array. Arouse RAID function in BIOS After having properly installed your Serial ATA hard disks, you may directly get into the BIOS setting screen for adjustment.
AX4SG Max Online Manual RAID Configuration Utility In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID Configuration Utility to do some configuration. After finishing the BIOS setup and reboot, you will see [Press CTRL + I to enter configuration Utility] about half way through the boot up. Please press these two buttons simultaneously. When you enter you will be presented with a screen as shown below: 1.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Serial ATA RAID for Silicon Image 3112A TM Silicon Image’s SATARaid provides Serial ATA Software RAID including Striping and Mirroring to enhance the industry’s first proven PCI-to-SATA host controller product. Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that provides easy-to-use configurations for the different RAID Sets supported. Installing Drivers and SATARaid GUI in Windows 98SE/ME/2000/NT/XP The driver is located on the provided floppy disk.
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AX4SG Max Online Manual Creating and Deleting Raid Sets Creating and Deleting RAID Sets is a function set in the BIOS and please press or F4 to enter RAID utility during boot. Creating RAID Sets 1. Select “Create RAID Set”. 2. Choose either a “Striped” or “Mirrored” RAID Set. 3. Select if you want the utility to Auto Configure the RAID Set or if you want to manually configure the RAID Set. For Striped Sets, you can change the chunk size.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Creating and Naming Partitions The creating and naming of partitions is something done within the Windows operating system. Windows XP/2000 and Windows NT both use the Disk Management window to start this work. And Windows 98/ME uses FDISK to realize this function. Windows XP/2000 SECTION 1: System listing of all formatted and available disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 2: Report of physical connection of disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 3: Report of partition status, disk letter, and volume name.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Using Silicon Image SATARaid GUI The SATARaid GUI offers the user the ability to easily monitor your RAID Set. To launch the GUI, simply double-click on the icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max Online Manual Wi n B I O S U t i l i t y 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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: WSGMAX102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WSGMAX102.EXE & WSGMAX102.BIN.
AX4SG Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 disc.
AX4SG Max 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.
Online Manual AX4SG Max Installing Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Driver in Windows 2000/XP You can install Intel IAA RAID Edition Driver in Windows 2000/XP to increase the performance of software applications and reduce PC boot times. The IAA RAID Edition is designed to provide functionality for the Intel ICH5R SATA RAID Controller. This product is available for use on Pentium (R) 4 processor-based systems with an ICH5R I/O Controller Hub and running Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Installing LAN Driver in Windows 2000/XP This motherboard integrates BCM5705 Gigabit Ethernet Chip. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows 98SE/ME 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD" Click "PCI Ethernet Controller " ->" Driver" -> "Update Driver" and Select "Install the software automatically (Recommended) " And then Click "Next". When prompted, insert the media to be searched into your CD-ROM drive, type the path to the driver, and select OK.
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AX4SG Max Online Manual 4. Type the path of the BroadCom Ethernet driver and select "OK" Example: e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705 Where is the designation of the “b57w2k.sys “on your Bonus CD.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows NT 4.0 1. Verify that the Windows NT system is upgraded with Service Pack 4 or later. 2. Start your Windows NT system and log in. You must have System Administrator privileges to install the driver software. 3. Open the Control Panel. 4. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. 5. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab 6. Click "Add" to install a new adapter.
AX4SG Max Online Manual 7. When the Select Network Adapter window opens, click "Have Disk".... 8. When prompted, insert the driver installation media, or choose a location to install the driver from. Type the path to the driver, and click "OK". For example, to install the adapter driver software for Windows NT, type D:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705 in the Insert Disk location box (where is the designation of the LAN driver on Bonus CD) 9.
AX4SG Max Online Manual The adapter files are installed, and then the Network window is displayed showing the newly installed adapter Click "Close", then the Microsoft TCP/IP Properties window appears. Configure the TCP/IP protocol and click "OK". When prompted to restart your computer, click "Yes".
AX4SG Max Online Manual Installing USB 2.0 Driver * Windows 98SE Installation Guide *********************************************************** Installing Drivers during Windows 98SE Installation *********************************************************** The following details the installation of the USB 2.0 driver while installing Windows 98SE (with the USB 2.0 controller is enabled already). 1. After enabling the USB 2.0 controller, install Windows 98/98SE normally. 2.
AX4SG Max Online Manual 11. Press the "Next" button. A message informing you that Windows has found "Intel USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller" should appear. 12. Press "Next," then "Finish," then "Yes" when asked if you want to restart your computer.
AX4SG Max Online Manual ***************************************************** Installing Drivers with Existing Windows 98SE ***************************************************** The following section details the installation of USB 2.0 driver on a system that has Windows 98SE already installed. 1. Enable the USB 2.0 controller and boot Windows. 2. The "Add New Hardware Wizard" will appear, informing you that it has found a "PCI Universal Serial Bus." 3.
AX4SG Max Online Manual 1. Choose "Settings" from the "Start" menu. 2. Choose "Control Panel," and then double-click on the "System" icon. 3. Choose the "Device Manager" tab, and then click the "+" in front of "Universal Serial Bus Controllers." "Intel USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller" should appear.
AX4SG Max Online Manual * Windows Me Installation Guide ******************************************************** Installing Drivers During Windows Me Installation ******************************************************** The following details the installation of the USB 2.0 driver while installing Windows Me (with the USB 2.0 controller is enabled already). 1. Install Windows Me fully. 2. After installation, go the "Start" menu and choose "Settings." 3. From the "Settings" menu, choose "Control Panel." 4.
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AX4SG Max Online Manual ************************************************************ Installing Drivers with Existing Windows Me System ************************************************************ The following section details the installation of USB 2.0 driver on a system that has Windows Me already installed and running. 1. After installing the USB 2.0 controller, boot system. 2. The "Add New Hardware Wizard" will appear, informing you that it has found a "PCI Universal Serial Bus." 3.
AX4SG Max Online Manual 1. Choose "Settings" from the "Start" menu. 2. Choose "Control Panel," and then double-click on the "System" icon. 3. Choose the "Device Manager" tab, and then click the "+" in front of "Universal Serial Bus Controllers." "Intel USB2.0 Enhanced Host Controller" should appear.
AX4SG Max 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.
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AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual 2. Choose the "Hardware" tab, and then click the "Device Manager" tab. 3. Click the "+" in front of "Universal Serial Bus controllers". "Intel PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller - ICH5R" should appear.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Installing Silicon Image SiI3112A SATA Raid Driver --------------------------------------------------------------------------------1) Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000/XP Fresh Installation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP, and you wish to boot from a device attached to the SiI 3112 controller. 1. Power off the system.
AX4SG Max Online Manual ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2) Adding the SiI RAID controller to an existing Windows NT 4.0 installation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow the instructions in this section to install the Silicon Image SiI 3112 driver on a system already running Windows NT 4.0. 1. Power off the system.
AX4SG Max Online Manual 2. During OS boot up, Windows 2000 will display the 'Found New Hardware Wizard'. Click 'Next'. 3. Select 'Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)' and Click 'Next'. 4. Under 'Optional search locations' insure that 'Floppy disk drives' is checked. 5. Insert the diskette labeled ' Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATA Raid Driver Installation Disk’ into A: and click 'Next'. 6. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click 'Next'. 7.
AX4SG Max Online Manual 1. Double click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Control Panel', click on 'SCSI Adapters' icon, 'Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATA Raid Controller' should displayed correctly under 'Device' and 'Driver' tab. 2. To view information about the devices attached to the controller, use the SiICfg Utility and click on the device from the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5) Update SiI RAID driver on Windows NT 4.
AX4SG Max Online Manual With the Silicon Image controller already plugged in and the driver already installed. Follow the instructions to update SiI RAID driver. 1. Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'. Under the 'System Properties' section, click on 'Hardware' tab, and then on 'Device Manager' click 'SCSI and RAID Controller’ and right click 'Silicon Image Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller'. 2.
AX4SG Max Online Manual the system. 5. After the system reboot, right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'. From the 'System Properties' , select 'Device Manager', right click on the '?PCI RAID controller' and select 'Properties' from the pop-up menu. 6. Click ‘Driver’,'Update Driver’ and select 'Automatic search for a better driver [Recommended]'. Insert the driver diskette into floppy drive. Click 'Next' and complete the driver installation. 7.
AX4SG Max Online Manual 5. See instructions in section A to verify controller was installed correctly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9) Update SiI RAID driver on Windows 98SE/ME with existing Silicon Image driver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------With the Silicon Image controller already plugged in and the driver already installed.
AX4SG Max Online Manual G l os s a r y AC97 COD EC 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 Max Online Manual A GP ( A cc e l era t ed Gr ap h ic Po rt ) 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 Max Online Manual DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz/s 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 IO S ( B as i c I np ut /O ut p ut Sys t e m) BIOS, is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM.
AX4SG Max Online Manual CNR (C o mmun icat ion a nd N etw or k ing R ise 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 Max Online Manual E P R O 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. E V6 B us 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 Max Online Manual F las h 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 Max Online Manual Pa r it y B it 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 Max Online Manual POST (Power-On Self Test) 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 SB ( Pr oc e sso r Sy st e m B us) C l oc k PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU.
AX4SG Max Online Manual SATA (Serial 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 Max Online Manual VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) 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 LAN – 802.11b 802.
AX4SG Max 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 Max Online Manual Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power Yes and check if the power No supply and CPU fan work properly. The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure. Next Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing.
AX4SG Max 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 It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.
AX4SG Max 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 146 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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AX4SG Max Online Manual 5 eForum: AOpen eForum is provided to discuss our products with other users, in which your problem probably had 6 Contact Distributors/Resellers: We sell our products through resellers and integrators. They should know your 7 Contact Us: Please prepare detail system configuration and error symptom before contacting us. The part number, serial number and BIOS version are also very helpful. been discussed before or will be answered.
AX4SG Max Online Manual Pa rt N u mbe r a nd Se r ia l N um be r The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label. You can find this bar code label on the outside packing, or on component side of PCB. For example: Part No. Serial No. P/N: 91.88110.201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number.
AX4SG Max 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 Max R1.00 Jun. 1. 2003 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AX4SG Max is model name of motherboard, R1.00 is BIOS version.
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