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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual What’s in this manual AOpen i865 Family Motherboards .............................................................................................................. 1 What’s in this manual .................................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice ..............................................................................................
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ............................................................................................................ 34 JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper.................................................................................................................................... 35 DIMM Sockets .......................................................................................................................
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual COM2 Connector ........................................................................................................................................................................ 57 CD Audio Connector.................................................................................................................................................................... 58 AUX-IN Connector............................................................................
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual ® Installing Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility..................................................................................................................... 84 Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver (only for AX4SG-U, AX4SG-UL and AX4SG-UN) ....................................................... 85 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual EV6 Bus .................................................................................................................................................................................... 110 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)....................................................................................................................................... 110 FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)................................................................
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) ................................................................................................................................................ 115 Wireless LAN – 802.11b ............................................................................................................................................................ 115 ZIP file ..............................................................................................
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Overview ® Thank you for choosing AOpen i865 Family motherboards. AOpen i865 Family Motherboard is Intel Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel 865G chipsets (for AX4SG series), Intel 865PE chipsets (for AX4SPE series) and Intel 848P chipsets (for AX4SPB series). As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AOpen i865 Family motherboard supports Intel ® ® Socket 478 Pentium 4 1.6GHz~3.20GHz.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Comparison Table Following we list functions of all models. “V” represents those functions that the model equips with and “X” represents functions that models don’t have. Please always refer to this page to see the functions of your model.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Feature Highlight CPU ® ® Supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 (Northwood) 1.6GHz~3.20GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset Intel 865 chipset 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Memory With Intel 865G/865PE chipset, this motherboard can support dual channel Double-Data-Rate (DDR) SDRAM (for AX4SG and AX4SPE series). 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 SDRAM can be composed of an arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512 MB or 1GB DDR SDRAM and maximum up to 4GB.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Watch Dog ABS Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function that can auto-reset system in 4.8 seconds when you fail the system overclocking. 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual On-board AC’97 Sound AOpen i865 Family motherboard uses RealTek AC’97 CODEC Realtek ALC655 chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system. Eight USB 2.0 Ports Provides four ports on the back panel and two USB 2.0 headers on the board, providing a total of eight USB 2.0 interface to connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Realtek Gigabit LAN chip (for -UL series) Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN chip (for -UN series) Online Manual Motherboard Map Colored Back Panel 4Mb Flash ROM BIOS Onboard AC’97 CODEC JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumper Front Audio Connector ATX Power Connector 32-bit PCI Expansion Slots x5 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector Low ESR Capacitors COM2 Connector SYSFAN1 Connector USB 2.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Block Diagram For AX4SPB series, it only has two slots and support 2GB maximum in Single Channel DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel RAM Up to 4GB 32-bit PCI Slots x5 DIMM Sockets x4 PCI Bus SATA 1 Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 CPU Serial ATA Ports x2 400/533/800MHz System Bus 150MB/s SATA 2 AGP bus Intel 865 chipset ATA 33/66/100 AGP 8X Slot Primary Channel IDE Drives x4 Secondary Channel Support ADD Card (for AX4SG series) ICH5 VGA onboard RealTek AC97
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual EzColor Breaking through traditional outlook of motherboard, AOpen now brings you a new fresh look of motherboard! – EzColor! Fancy? You may think so, but actually it is a practical and useful feature for amateur or even power-users. Coming in specific color for specific connector and module, components on motherboard are now born with their respective colors.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Claret: Serial ATA connector 1 Power Switch IDE LED ACPI & Power LED SPEAKER RESET Navy Blue: IDE 1 Connector Black: IDE 2 Connector Note: Colors setting varies on different motherboards; the color setting here applies only to AOpen i865 Family Motherboards.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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, 1.475V), and thus makes 5V over current protection useless. This motherboard is with switching regulator onboard supporting CPU over-current protection; in conjunction with 3.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 1.6000V. 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".
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Northwood CPU Online Manual CPU Core Frequency FSB Clock System Bus Ratio 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 Northwood processors would detect the Pentium 4 2.26G 2260MHz 133MHz 533MHz 17x clock ratio automatically; you may not be Pentium 4 2.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) The fan Connectors are painted in white in EzColor. Please plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN1 Connector GND +12V SENSOR SENSOR +12V GND CPUFAN Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that they cannot support hardware monitoring function.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual DIMM Sockets For AX4SG and AX4SPE series, the 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. For AX4SPB series motherboard, it only has two DDR DIMM sockets and support maximum up to 2GB in Single Channel mode. The DIMM sockets are painted in electric blue and only support non-ECC DDR RAM.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual How to Install Memory Modules Note: Please pay attention to Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation. channel speed, you should 1. insert the RAM in the slot of the Blue slots. To run dual Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below. DIMM A1 and DIMM B1 or DIMM A2 and DIMM B2. Please don't use the different frequency DIMM on dual channel 2.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual ATX Power Connector This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector in flame red. 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual IDE and Floppy Connector Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDD and IDE connector. The IDE 1 connector is painted in navy blue; the IDE 2 connector and FDD connector are painted in Black. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Connecting Serial ATA Disk You will find the claret serial ATA connectors in motherboard easily. 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Front Panel Connector The pins of Front Panel Connector are painted in different colors with their respective functions. Please attach the power LED, speaker, power and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins matched in same colors. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing or high light while the system is in suspend mode. Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot AOpen i865 Family Motherboards provides an AGP 8X slot, a sky blue slot which has the latest AGP specification in motherboard. 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 voltage 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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).
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Support 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN onboard On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller (-UL series) or Realtek 10/100Mbps LAN controller (-UN series) on board, this motherboard provides 10/100 Mbps (for Gigabit LAN, it is 10/100/1000 Mbps) Ethernet for office and home use. To –U series motherboards, they do not support LAN onboard. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 are two USB headers on the board for you to connect two USB devices and four 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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, AC’97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port PS/2 Mouse Connector RJ45 10/100/1000 LAN Jack (for –UL and –UN Series Motherboards) USB 2.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC655 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 ALC655, 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Wake On Modem / Wake On LAN / Wake On PCI Card This motherboard implements special circuit to support Wake On Modem, Wake On LAN and Wake On PCI Card. Green PC suspend mode does not really turn off the system power supply, it can be triggered by Modem, LAN or Other PCI Cards and resume back to active. If you have an external Modem card and want to use this wake-up feature, Please enable the “Wake On Modem” item.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual CD Audio Connector 1 This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. L GND GND R Note: Though some of the latest versions of Windows support “Digital Audio” through IDE bus. However, in CD-IN Connector 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual STBY LED (Standby 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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, AOpen i865 Family motherboards implements 2200μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 & 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual PBE – Performance Boosting Engine (for AX4SG and AX4SPE series) Configuring Intel 865 chipset, the performance of this motherboard had been uplifted by implementing PBE Technology (Performance Boosting Engine). Acting as similar as PAT in uplifting the system performance, PBE enable users to optimize the accessing speed and quality between the CPU and Memory. Theoretically speaking, CPU must go through some standard paths to access memory.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 temperature. voltage and CPU temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 3. Online Manual 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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: WSGUL102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WSGUL102.
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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver (only for AX4SG-U, AX4SG-UL and AX4SG-UN) 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Installing Onboard Sound Driver This motherboard comes with AC’97 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Installing Gigabit LAN Driver (for AX4SG-UL, AX4SPE-UL and AX4SPB-UL) Install LAN Driver in Windows 98SE 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD" 3. Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller” 4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab. 5. Select "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 6. 7. Select "Specify a location", and type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that appears. Press “Next". System will ask you to provide the file path for loading driver, please type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win98" in the text box that appears. Press “OK". 8. Online Manual System will ask you to insert "Windows 98 CD-ROM".
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 9. Driver installed. 10. Restart computer. 11. Confirming Windows 98 Installation.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows ME 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD" 3. Double click "PCI Ethernet Controller” 4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab. 5. Select "Specify the location of the driver (Advanced)". 6. Choose "Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 9. Confirming Windows ME Installation.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows NT 4.0 1. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab. 2. Click "Add" to install a new adapter. All previously installed drivers are listed under Network Adapters. 3. When the Select Network Adapter window opens, click "Have Disk".... 4. When prompted, insert the BONUS CD, type the path "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Winnt4" to the driver, and click "OK". 5.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 6. Restart computer. 7.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Install LAN Driver in Windows 2000 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " 3. Right click "Ethernet Controller ", and then select "Properties". 4. Click "Reinstall Driver" in the General Tab.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 5. Select "Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)" 6. Select "Specify a location", and then click "Next". 7. Type "G:\Driver\LAN\RTL8100S-32\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press " OK". 8. Driver installed. 9. Confirming Windows 2000 Installation.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows XP 1. Open the Device Manager and check if there is a "Ethernet Controller" in "Other devices" 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " 3. Right click "Ethernet Controller ", then select "Update Driver". 4. Select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)", and then Click "Next". 5. Choose "Search for the best driver in these locations", and then select "Include this location in the search:".
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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Installing Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN Driver in Win98SE/2000/XP (for AX4SG-UN, AX4SPE-UN and AX4SPB-UN) This motherboard integrates Realtek 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Chip. You can find this driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows 95 (Golden version), Win95A and OSR2 Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95: ---------------------------------------------------------------------1. Ask you to select which driver you want to install, select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". 2.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Install LAN Driver in Windows NT 3.5, 3.51 & 4.0 Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows NT: ---------------------------------------------------------------------When you are in Windows NT: 1. In the Main group of NT, select the "Control Panel" icon. 2. In the Control Panel window, choose the "Network" icon. 3. In the Network Settings dialog box, choose the "Add Adapter" button. The Add Network Adapter dialog box appears. 4.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual 8. "Bus Location" display in next screen. Your machine contains more than one hardware bus; please select the Bus Type and Bus number on which your network adapter card is installed. 9. NT will then perform the binding process. If any additional network software options were installed, you may be prompted for specific information for these packages. 10. Restarting your system you will acquire network service.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98SE/ME This motherboard comes with USB 2.0. You can find the driver from the Bonus Pack CD auto-run menu.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Glossary AC’97 CODEC Basically, AC’97 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual 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.) BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) BIOS, is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM. BIOS controls Input/output devices and other hardware devices of motherboard.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual CNR (Communication and Networking Riser) 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) 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. EV6 Bus 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 SDRAM or ATA/66 IDE bus.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Flash ROM 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 bits).
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Parity Bit 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU. CPU internal clock = CPU PSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) A DRAM technology developed by Rambus Corporation*, to achieve high speed of memory through the use of multiple channels in parallel by 16-bits. Basically, RDRAM uses new structure of Multibank, which is quite different from FPM, EDO, SDRAM.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 300MB/s, 600MB/s to come.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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 119 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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AOpen i865 Family Motherboards Online Manual Part Number and Serial Number 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.
AOpen i865 Family Motherboards 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-UL R1.00 Sep. 1. 2003 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AX4SG-UL is model name of motherboard; R1.00 is BIOS version.
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