AOpen AX34 Pro II Setup guide

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AX34 Pro
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AX34 Pro ...................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual................................................................................................................... 2
Before You Start ........................................................................................................................ 10
Quick Installation Procedure ...................................................................................................... 11
Motherboard Map ...................................................................................................................... 12
Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................... 13
Hardware.................................................................................................14
JP14 Clear CMOS ..................................................................................................................... 15
CPU Socket ............................................................................................................................... 16
CPU and Housing Fan Connector.............................................................................................. 17
CPU Jumper-less Design........................................................................................................... 18
JP29/JP23 FSB/PCI Clock Ratio................................................................................................ 22
JP33/JP32 Select CPU Type...................................................................................................... 24
DIMM Socket ............................................................................................................................. 25
RAM Power LED........................................................................................................................ 27

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Front Panel Connector............................................................................................................... 28
ATX Power Connector................................................................................................................ 30
AC Power Auto Recovery ..........................................................................................................31
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IDE and Floppy Connector......................................................................................................... 32
IrDA Connector.......................................................................................................................... 35
WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) ...................................................................................... 36
WOL (Wake on LAN) ................................................................................................................. 39
4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port)........................................................................................... 41
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ........................................................................................................ 42
PC99 Color Coded Back Panel.................................................................................................. 43
Support 4 USB Ports.................................................................................................................. 44
JP12 Enable/Disable Onboard Sound........................................................................................ 45
CD Audio Connector.................................................................................................................. 46
Modem Audio Connector ...........................................................................................................47
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Video_Audio_IN Connector........................................................................................................48
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Battery-less and Long Life Design ............................................................................................. 49

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Over-current Protection.............................................................................................................. 50
Hardware Monitoring.................................................................................................................. 52
Resettable Fuse......................................................................................................................... 53
JP30 Die-Hard BIOS (100% Virus Protection)............................................................................ 54
Year 2000 (Y2K) ........................................................................................................................ 56
2200uF Low ESR Capacitor....................................................................................................... 58
Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall).............................................................................................. 60
24K Gold Heatsink..................................................................................................................... 61
Driver and Utility ..................................................................................... 62
Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ........................................................................................... 63
Installing Windows 95 ................................................................................................................ 64
Installing Windows 98 ................................................................................................................ 65
Installing Windows 98 SE & Windows2000 ................................................................................ 66
Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver.......................................................................................................... 67
Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................ 68
Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility .........................................................................................69

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ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive ..................................................................................................... 70
ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR) .................................................................................................... 77
AWARD BIOS ...........................................................................................79
Enter BIOS Setup ...................................................................................................................... 80
Change Language ..................................................................................................................... 81
Standard CMOS Setup .............................................................................................................. 82
BIOS Features Setup................................................................................................................. 88
Chipset Features Setup ............................................................................................................. 99
Power Management Setup....................................................................................................... 108
PNP/PCI Configuration Setup .................................................................................................. 118
Load Setup Defaults ................................................................................................................ 126
Load Turbo Defaults................................................................................................................. 127
Integrated Peripherals.............................................................................................................. 128
Password Setting..................................................................................................................... 140
IDE HDD Auto Detection.......................................................................................................... 141
Save & Exit Setup.................................................................................................................... 143

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Load EEPROM Default ............................................................................................................ 144
Save EEPROM Default............................................................................................................ 144
Exit without Saving................................................................................................................... 144
NCR SCSI BIOS and Drivers ................................................................................................... 144
BIOS Upgrade ......................................................................................................................... 145
Overclocking .........................................................................................146
VGA and HDD ......................................................................................................................... 148
Glossary
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Glossary ................................................................................................149
AC97 ....................................................................................................................................... 149
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) .................................................................. 149
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) .............................................................................................. 150
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ...................................................................................................... 150
AOpen Bonus Pack CD ........................................................................................................... 150
APM......................................................................................................................................... 150
ATA/66..................................................................................................................................... 151
ATA/100 ................................................................................................................................... 151

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BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)........................................................................................... 151
Bus Master IDE (DMA mode)................................................................................................... 152
CODEC (Coding and Decoding) .............................................................................................. 152
DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)....................................................................................... 152
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ...................................................................................... 152
EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory..................................................................................... 153
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) .............................................................. 153
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)................................................................................. 153
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ...................................................................................... 153
FC-PGA................................................................................................................................... 154
Flash ROM .............................................................................................................................. 154
FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ..................................................................................................... 154
I2C Bus.................................................................................................................................... 154
P1394 ...................................................................................................................................... 155
Parity Bit .................................................................................................................................. 155
PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM) ........................................................................................... 155

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PC100 DIMM ........................................................................................................................... 155
PC133 DIMM ........................................................................................................................... 156
PDF Format ............................................................................................................................. 156
PnP (Plug and Play)................................................................................................................. 156
POST (Power-On Self Test)..................................................................................................... 156
RDRAM (Rambus DRAM)........................................................................................................ 157
RIMM....................................................................................................................................... 157
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ................................................................................................ 157
SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) .................................................................................... 157
SMBus (System Management Bus) ......................................................................................... 158
SPD (Serial Presence Detect).................................................................................................. 158
Ultra DMA/33 ........................................................................................................................... 158
USB (Universal Serial Bus)...................................................................................................... 159
ZIP file ..................................................................................................................................... 159
Troubleshooting ....................................................................................160
Technical Support.................................................................................164

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Part Number and Serial Number ........................................................................... 166
Model name and BIOS version .............................................................................. 167

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