AOpen UK79G-1394 User manual

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Chapter of Contents................................................................................................1
1.1 AThank-you Note Before You Get Started...............................................3
1.2 The Features Of This Manual ..................................................................4
1.3 Preliminary Tools......................................................................................5
Chapter 2 What’s In The Box?................................................................................6
2.1 What’s In The Box?..................................................................................6
2.2 Accessory.................................................................................................7
2.3 What Specification Do We Got here?.......................................................8
2.4 What Features bundled here?................................................................10
Chapter 3 Start To Assemble ................................................................................ 11
3.1 Features of XC cube.............................................................................. 11
3.2 Starting installing....................................................................................12
3.3 Cooler, Hard Disk, Floppy Drives and DVD-RW devices.......................12
3.3.1 Taking Cooler out........................................................................12
3.3.2 Install Hard disk..........................................................................15
3.3.3 Install Floppy Drive.....................................................................15
3.3.4 Install DVD-RW Drive.................................................................15
3.4 Cables and Connectors..........................................................................16
3.5 Install CPU, CPU Cooler and CPU Fan Connector ...............................18
3.6 Connecting DRAM to DIMM Sockets.....................................................20
3.7 Insert AGP card or PCI card to motherboard.........................................21
3.8 Putting Drives Cage back to Chassis.....................................................22
3.9 All Set.....................................................................................................23
3.10 How about all external peripheral? ......................................................24
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Chapter 4 Turn On The Power!.............................................................................28

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Chapter 5 Wonderful Feature Provided From AOpen...........................................32
Postscripts.............................................................................................................34
Appendix...............................................................................................................35

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1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Started
First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for purchasing our AOpen specially-designed
XCcube. Once again, this bare-system is designed uniquely to meet all your personal needs with our
great industry-designing ability and our everlasting perseverance to the quality of all our products.
This manual is for those who want to set up computer by themselves. In other words, this is a
book for " Fresh drivers on the road." If you are already a veteran, this manual may not be suitable for
you. It is our hope that novices can build up their own computer step by step.
Now, we would like to invite you to personally experience this user-friendly manual and all of the
powerful functions this AOpen XCcube offers.
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http://www.aopen.com

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1.2 The Features Of This Manual
In this manual, you'll be able to learn how to:
set up a personal computer on your own.
correctly and safely put everything together and learn something about
hardware.
learn some practical techniques that make doing the job easier.
In addition, this manual DOES NOT offer you:
any sorts of back doors, such as overclocking.
a great deal of hardware standard that are hard to comprehend.
lengthy fanciful article or vague theories.
Instead, this manual explains profound theories in simple language by colorful illustrations.
Therefore, you will see the icons below frequently:
Note mark Contains knowledge you should know in process of
assembling, or some helpful tips.
Warning mark Please be careful when you see this mark. It highlights
mistakes that occur often during assembling, or
something you need to pay attention to.
This arrow shows the right direction the force should be
imposed, or the correct assembling direction.
Force direction

1.3 Preliminary Tools
"A workman must first sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well". Right before you start the
assembly, there are some tools that can't be spared.
Firstly, the most frequently-used too is cross screwdriver by which most interior components are
fixed. A suitable screwdriver can make the following job much easier. Being so, does any
screwdriver apply? Actually a magnetic tip one is suggested. That is because in the process of
setting up your PC, the situation is very likely to happen: you accidentally drop the screws into the
interior of the computer. In case of this, a magnetic screwdriver helps attracting the fallen screws that
are hard to reach by hands. Some screw holes are placed where hands can hardly reach. At this
time, we need a magnetic screwdriver, too. In addition, the size of our tool also matters. Generally,
the domestic 107 cross screwdriver is the most appropriate one.
I can get it done!!
When putting things together, it is necessary to adjust Jumper. In most cases, things can be
done barehanded. But there comes a time always when your hands fail to reach in and fix the
problem. You'll thank God with a pliers on hand which keeps you away from any annoying trouble for
just setting one JUMPER.
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What is Jumper?
Jumper is something generally referred to
" Jumping wire" that utilizes the short
circuit of the pins to tune up some
functions, such as FSB (front side bus),
ratio, and sound switches adjusting.

Chapter 2 What’s In The Box?
2.1 What’s In The Box?
Open the XCcube box, you will finds components as follow:
XCcube chassis / Drives Cage
Motherboard
Power Supply
CPU cooler
All in One
Chapter 2 What’s In The Box?
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Power Supply / XC cube chassis
Drives Cage
CPU cooler
(EZ65 or EZ18)
Motherboard
[UX4SG-1394 (EZ65) / UK79G-1394 (EZ18)]

2.2 Accessory
Beside main components, you are supposed to see the following accessories:
Fixed screws:
After opening the accessory parcel, you'll see the following four different type of
screws:
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IDE Cable: a 80 -pin connector to connect the hard disk with IDE interface.
As shown in the
picture, the
threads on
NO.1 screw are
wide and it has
a hexagonal
head
As shown in the
picture, threads
on NO.2 screw
are narrow and
there is a ring
on its head.
As shown in the
picture, the NO.3
screw’s threads
are wide as well
but it has a round
head.
As shown in the
picture, the NO.4
screw’s threads
are wide as well
but it has a flat
head.
IDE Cable: a 80 -pin connector to connect the DVD-RW IDE interface.
80-wire hard disk
Connector
Disk Drive Cable: a 34-pin connector to connect disk drive.
80-wire DVD-RW
Connector
34-Pin Connector

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2.3 What Specification Do We Got here?
This XCcube comes with two type of motherboard for your selection. Let’s take a brief look at what
specification these two boards got.
For Intel lover, we provide UX4SG-1394 here.
Please refer to the Appendix chapter for motherboard details.
Note: Intel 865G chipset don’t support
Willamette or Celeron (0.18u) processors.
Northwood processor would detect the clock
ratio automatically, you may not be able to
adjust the clock ratio in BIOS manually.
Back Panel
IEEE1
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4 x 2
USB Connectors
Front Audio
SYSFAN3
C
P
U
FAN1
478-pin CPU
supports Intel®
Pentium® 4 CPU
Intel 865
Chi
p
set + ICH5
SYSFAN2
DDR400/333/266
DIMM x 2
Max. 2 GB
A
TX Power
PCI slot
AGP 8X
JP14 CMOS Jum
p
er
Serial ATA Ports X 2
IDE Connector x 2
(
AT
A
33/66
/
100
nnector
FDD Connector
Front Panel Co
AC’97 CODEC
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U
U
X
X
X4
4
4S
S
SG
G
G-
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-1
1
13
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For Pro- AMD user, we provide UK79G-1394.
Please refer to the Appendix chapter for motherboard details.
U
U
UK
K
K7
7
79
9
9G
G
G-
-1
1
13
3
39
9
94
4
4
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JP14 CMOS Jum
p
er
IDE Connector
nForce2-GT
(IGP+ MCP-T)
Back Panel
Fr
o
n
t
A
ud
i
o
IEEE1394 x 2
USB connectors x 2
A
TX Power
462-pin CPU Socket
that supports AMD
Athlon / Duron / and
AthlonXP ( with CPU
Overheat Protection
circuit to AthlonXP
CPU onl
y)
DDR400 (VGA Disabled)
/333/266 DIMM x 2
Max. 2 GB
Dr.Voice II (JP15, J
& JP2 P16)
Front Panel
FDD Connector
AGP 8X
SYSFAN2 SYSFAN3
PCI slot
AC’97 CODEC

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2.4 What Features bundled here?
One of the advantages of AOpen motherboard is its inventive features, which bundled along with their
models. Various features had been included in UX4SG-1394 (EZ65) and UK79G-1394 (EZ18)
motherboard.
You may directly visit our technical website for details: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside
UK79G-1394
UX4SG-1394

Chapter 3 Start To Assemble
3.1 Features of XC cube
AOpen XC cube, designed as a Mini-PC, providing you as many advantages as it can. You
may find that it is elegant among other traditional PC design that obviously highlighted your individual
style and taste with different color panel provided. In addition to it’s unique appearance, AOpen XC
cube is easy to move around in your house, suitable for decoration even in your living room. As light
and crispy as it is, it is definitely your choice for a PC.
Unique design that reflects your style and taste!
Color Panel changing that changes with your mood!
Space flexibility allows you to move it from living room or to your bedroom.
Silent Technology, PC that is quiet even in the middle of the night.
Easy Installation for any new hand assembling their first PC.
Mini housing which saves you almost 60% of housing space.
Hand-harmlessness design ensures you 100% security during assembling.
Equipped with a highly efficient power supply to keep your computer work
smoothly in most cases.
Conform to FCC ClassB/DoC and CE standards to guarantee your health.
Teamed with high-efficiency motherboard to make your job a great deal easier.
Great extensible function where you can optionally purchase AGP/PCI interfaces
with low-profile standards.
Chapter 3 Start To Assemble
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3.2 Starting installing
1. Unscrew all screws on the chassis. Use your thumb to push the chassis backward to you.
2. Lift the chassis up. Here you may see the internal of the chassis.
3.3 Cooler, Hard Disk, Floppy Drives and DVD-RW devices
3.3.1 Taking Cooler out
Before installing hard disk, floppy drives and DVD-RW into the XC cube chassis, let’s take the cooler
out from chassis first.

1. Take the screws off the chassis and then take the Drives Cage out.
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2. For EZ65 XC cube PC,. Before taking AOpen-made Cooler out, please disconnect its connector
first. After that, unfasten AOpen-made Cooler.
Take the cooler out of the chassis. Put it aside for later use then.
Pull the iron plate up and
relieve it from the hook of
retention module.
Drives Cage
Why AOpen Fan Cooler？
After thermal testing and confirmation, we
have chosen this model of AOpen cooler for
fitting with XC cube. It has been tested with
optimized air-flow and excellent heat
dissipation function for our XC cube system.
It is highly recommended not to use other
branded cooler to go with XC cube.

The bottom of Cooler had been protected
with a plastic cover when shipped.
Please take it off when you want to put the
cooler on CPU.
Where’s the direction？
It would be a lot of problem if we have had
installed the devices in the incorrect direction.
Therefore, please kindly pay attention to the
FRONT mark shown in the picture.
3. For EZ18 XC cube PC. Before taking AOpen-made Cooler out, please disconnect its connector
first. After that, unfasten AOpen-made Cooler.
Use a screwdriver to push
the iron lock down to relieve
it from the socket.
Take the cooler out of the chassis. Put it aside for later use then.
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3.3.2 Install Hard disk
After taking out Cooler, let’s focus on Installing Drives Cage. Slide hard disk into the Drives Cage,
and use screw no. 3 to screw it firmly to the cage.
Front mark
Front mark
Heat dissipation side face up.
3.3.3 Install Floppy Drive
1. Slide in the floppy drive as shown. Use screw no.2 to screw the 3rd and 6th hole separately.
3.3.4 Install DVD-RW Drive
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1. Slide in the DVD-RW drive. Use screw no.2 to screw the DVD-RW firmly.
Front Mark
DVD-RW must aim at the
edge of Drives Cage.

Don't mess up screws!!
Generally there are special screws for
hard disk in the parcel when you buy a
new hard disk. There will be no harm
done using those screws. If no screws
are attached, use those packed in the
accessory parcel. Make sure to use the
NO.2 screws. (See page 6)
3.4 Cables and Connectors
1. Before connecting necessary cables and connector to motherboard, you may found most of the
I/O panel connectors (IEEE1394, USB, Front Audio and S/PDIF) both at front panel and back
panel on motherboard have had been connected properly as shown.
I/O connectors have
had been inserted
previously.
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2. Connecting floppy cable, hard disk and DVD-RW cable on motherboard for later use.
DVD-RW
cable
Hard disk
cable

Floppy
drive
cable
You might have to
pull Front Panel
Cable aside a bit
to find the FDD
connector.
3. If you happen to have SerialATA hard disk, this motherboard comes with Serial ATA connectors
onboard as well. With EzColor design, you may easily find out the correct flame-red cable with
the correct header. You may kindly install the Serial ATA cables onto Serial ATA headers.
Serial ATA
Cables
Power
Connector
As Serial ATA hard disk comes with different power connector, please use our bundled
SATA power connector to connect the hard disk.
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Where is Pin1？
When connecting IDE cables, bear in mind to
aim the red side of IDE cables at the first pin
of the socket where there’s an arrow mark on
the motherboard. If you are still not sure,
please refer to your motherboard manual.

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3.5 Install CPU, CPU Cooler and CPU Fan Connector
1. Erect sensor up a bit (it might have been folded while shipped in with Cooler on top of it). After
that, erect CPU socket lever up.
Sensor Lever
2. Install CPU onto the CPU bracket. Press the lever back to CPU socket.
3. And it’s done.

4. For EZ65 XC cube. Put CPU cooler firmly onto the CPU retention module.
Connect the fan cable onto the CPU FAN connector onboard. Evenly press the iron plate
downward till you hear a “clip” sound
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5. For EZ18 XC cube. Put CPU cooler firmly onto the CPU retention module.
CPU Fan connector
UX4SG-1394 motherboard
The vertical side
of the Cooler
must be faced to
this side as
shown.
The vertical side
of the Cooler
must be faced to
this side as
shown.

Connect the fan cable onto the fan connector onboard. Lock the right iron plate of cooler to the
socket as shown.
Use screwdriver to press the iron plate downward till the iron plate is firmly hooked to socket.
UX4SG-1394 motherboard
CPU Fan connector
3.6 Connecting DRAM to DIMM Sockets
1. DIMM socket is designed in Sky Blue color, which is very easy to recognize. Install memory
module evenly into DIMM.
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