AOpen AX45F-4D Setup guide

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AX45F-4D Series
DOC. NO.:AX45F4DMAX-OL-E0309A

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AX45F-4D Series......................................................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual .................................................................................................................................................................... 2
You Must Notice ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Before You Start ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Overview ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
AX45F-4D Series Comparison Table .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Feature Highlight ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Quick Installation Procedure ....................................................................................................................................................... 17
Motherboard Map ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18
Block Diagram ............................................................................................................................................................................. 19
Hardware Installation ........................................................................................................................ 20
About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ................................................................................... 21
EzColor........................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
CPU Installation........................................................................................................................................................................... 24
CPU Fan Installation ................................................................................................................................................................... 26
CPU Over-current Protection ...................................................................................................................................................... 28
AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” ............................................................................................................................................................ 30
Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage .................................................................................................................................... 31
CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ............................................................................................................ 33

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DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................................. 34
Maximum the performance of Dual Channel............................................................................................................................... 36
ATX Power Connector ................................................................................................................................................................. 37
AC Power Auto Recovery............................................................................................................................................................ 37
IDE and Floppy Connector .......................................................................................................................................................... 38
ATA133 Supported ...................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Serial ATA Supported .................................................................................................................................................................. 41
Connecting Serial ATA Disk......................................................................................................................................................... 42
Support RAID 0 and RAID 1........................................................................................................................................................ 44
Front Panel Connector ................................................................................................................................................................ 45
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot................................................................................................................... 46
AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED ................................................................................................................................. 47
Hercules PCI Slot ........................................................................................................................................................................ 48
IrDA Connector............................................................................................................................................................................ 49
Support LAN onboard (for AX45-4DL, AX45-4DN and AX45F-4D Max)..................................................................................... 50
Support USB 2.0 Ports ................................................................................................................................................................ 51
Color Coded Back Panel ............................................................................................................................................................. 52
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector ...................................................................................................................... 53
Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................................. 54
Front Audio Connector ................................................................................................................................................................ 55

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Game Port Bracket Supported .................................................................................................................................................... 56
CD Audio Connector.................................................................................................................................................................... 57
AUX-IN Connector....................................................................................................................................................................... 58
Case Open Connector................................................................................................................................................................. 59
STBY LED (Standby LED)........................................................................................................................................................... 60
Fansink on North Bridge.............................................................................................................................................................. 61
Low ESR Capacitor ..................................................................................................................................................................... 62
JP2 Speaker Output Jumper (only for AX45F-4D Max) .............................................................................................................. 63
JP14 Clear CMOS Data .............................................................................................................................................................. 64
JP15/JP16 Dr. Voice II Language Select Jumpers (only for AX45F-4D Max)............................................................................. 65
JP24 / JP25 BIOS Rescue Jumper (only for AX45F-4D Max) .................................................................................................... 66
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper.................................................................................................................................... 67
The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek................................................................................................................................................. 68
EzClock ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
Hyper Threading Technology ...................................................................................................................................................... 75
AOConfig Utility ........................................................................................................................................................................... 77
RAID Introduction ..............................................................................................................................79
What’s RAID?.............................................................................................................................................................................. 79
What are the RAID levels? .......................................................................................................................................................... 80
HDD Capacity of RAID Levels..................................................................................................................................................... 82

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Serial ATA RAID for SiS964......................................................................................................................................................... 83
Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ........................................................................................................................85
How to Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program .................................................................................................................. 86
How To Enter BIOS Setup........................................................................................................................................................... 87
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment .............................................................................................................................. 88
WinBIOS Utility (only for AX45F-4D Max) ................................................................................................................................... 90
Open JukeBox Player (only for AX45F-4D Max) ......................................................................................................................... 92
Vivid BIOS technology................................................................................................................................................................. 96
Driver and Utility ................................................................................................................................ 97
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD ................................................................................................................................................... 97
Installing AGP Driver ................................................................................................................................................................... 98
Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................................................. 99
Installing Gigabit LAN Driver (for AX45F-4D Max and AX45F-4DL) ......................................................................................... 100
Installing Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN Driver in Win98SE/2000/XP (for AX45F-4DN)...............................................................111
Installing IDE Driver................................................................................................................................................................... 115
Installing SiS Serial ATA Raid Driver in Win 2000/XP ............................................................................................................... 116
Installing Promise Serial ATA Driver (only for AX45F-4D Max) ................................................................................................. 117
Installing USB 2.0 Driver ........................................................................................................................................................... 129
Glossary ........................................................................................................................................... 130
AC’97 CODEC........................................................................................................................................................................... 130

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ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)................................................................................................................... 130
ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) .................................................................................................................................... 130
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ............................................................................................................................................... 131
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ....................................................................................................................................................... 131
ATA (AT Attachment) ................................................................................................................................................................. 131
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)............................................................................................................................................ 132
Bluetooth ................................................................................................................................................................................... 132
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)........................................................................................................................... 133
DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM............................................................................................................................................. 133
ECC (Error Checking and Correction)....................................................................................................................................... 133
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) .............................................................................................................. 133
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................................................. 134
EV6 Bus .................................................................................................................................................................................... 134
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)....................................................................................................................................... 134
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)............................................................................................................................................ 134
FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).......................................................................................................................................... 134
Flash ROM ................................................................................................................................................................................ 135
Hyper Threading........................................................................................................................................................................ 135
IEEE 1394 ................................................................................................................................................................................. 135
Parity Bit .................................................................................................................................................................................... 136

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PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus............................................................................................................................... 136
PDF Format............................................................................................................................................................................... 136
PnP (Plug and Play) .................................................................................................................................................................. 136
POST (Power-On Self Test) ...................................................................................................................................................... 136
PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ......................................................................................................................................... 137
RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ............................................................................................................ 137
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module).................................................................................................................................... 137
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ................................................................................................................................................. 137
SATA (Serial ATA)...................................................................................................................................................................... 138
SMBus (System Management Bus) .......................................................................................................................................... 138
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)................................................................................................................................................... 138
USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................................. 138
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) ................................................................................................................................................ 139
Wireless LAN – 802.11b............................................................................................................................................................ 139
ZIP file ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 139
Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................... 140
Technical Support............................................................................................................................ 144
Product Registration........................................................................................................................ 148
How to Contact Us........................................................................................................................... 149

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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.
Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper size and
set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer driver.
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Thank you for choosing AX45F-4D Series. AX45F-4D Series is Intel®Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor
featuring the SiS 655FX/964 chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AX45F-4D Series supports Intel®Socket 478
Pentium®4 1.6GHz~3.20GHz. It supports 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock and Hyper-Threading Technology that brings
additional intelligence to systems. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot to support AGP 8X/4X mode and pipelined
spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2112MB/sec. According to different customer’s requirements, this M/B supports DDR266,
DDR333 and DDR400 RAM up to 4GB maximum in Dual Channel mode. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133
mode and Serial ATA 150 MB/s (supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions). There are 5 PCI slots provided on this board, including one
Hercules PCI slot. A total of four USB 2.0 ports on the
back panel and two headers on the board give you the
best use of all USB devices with the fancy speed up to
480Mbps. More than that, on the strength of integrated
Realtek LAN controller on board, which is a highly
integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides
10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (for AX45F-4DN, it is 10/100
Mbps) for office and home use. Besides, AX45F-4D
Series has S/PDIF connector and an AC’97 CODEC
Realtek chipset onboard, providing high performance
and magic surround stereo sound to let people enjoy
working with it. Now, let’s enjoy all features from
AX45F-4D Series.

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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.
Model IDE
Slots
SATA
Slots LAN Diehard BIOS
Hercules
PCI Slot Dr. Voice II
AX45F-4D 2 2 X X X X
AX45F-4DL 2 2 10/100/1000 Mbps X X X
AX45F-4DN 2 2 10/100 Mbps X X X
AX45F-4D Max 3 4 10/100/1000 Mbps V V V

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CPU
Supports Intel® Socket 478 Pentium®4 1.6GHz~3.20GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478
technology. The AX45F-4D Series motherboard supports Intel Hyper-Threading Technology.
Chipset
The motherboard is equipped with SIS 655FX chipset. The SIS 655FX Host & Memory & AGP Controller integrates a high performance
host interface for Intel Pentium 4 processor, a high performance memory controller, an AGP interface and SiS MuTIOL 1G Technology
connecting with SiS964 MuTIOL 1G Media IO. The host interface plays the role of processor transactions’ dispatcher. It dispatches
transactions to Memory, I/O interface and AGP bus. Transactions to different destinations can be dispatched concurrently in order to
maximum pipeline efficiency. The Memory controller supports DDR 400/333/266 RAM and the Suspend to RAM function by retaining the
CKE# pins asserted in ACPI S3 state in which only AUX source deliver power. The AGP interface supports external AGP slot with AGP
4X/8X capability and Fast Write Transactions.
Memory
With SiS 655FX/964 chipset, this motherboard can support dual channel Double-Data-Rate (DDR) SDRAM. 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.

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Expansion Slots
Including five 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots (The PCI 5 is named Hercules which is reserved especially for high
power-consuming PCI cards). The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. Of five PCI slots provided, all of them are master
PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. The AGP expansion slot is designed for a bus mastering
AGP graphic card. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed.
The AGP video cards support data transfer rate up to 2112MB/s.
AGP Protection Technology
With AGP Protection Technology implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your
chipsets from being burnt out.
Hyper-Threading Technology
Support Hyper-Threading Technology which brings additional intelligence to systems so that multiple tasks received from the processor
can be managed and prioritized more effectively.
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 100~248MHz by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and helps your system get maximum performance.

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LAN Port (for AX45F-4DL, AX45F-4DN and AX45F-4D Max)
On the strength of Gigabit LAN controller (AX45F-4D Max and AX45F-4DL) or Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN controller (AX45F-4DN) on
board, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (for AX45F-4DN, it is 10/100 Mbps) for office and home use. For
AX45F-4D motherboard, it does not support LAN onboard.
Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Bus IDE
Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports
Ultra DMA 66/100/133, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 5, and supports Enhanced IDE devices. For AX45F-4D Max,
there are three connectors and support six IDE devices in three channels.
Serial ATA
Integrated in SiS 964 chipset that contains independent DMA operation on two ports, the SATA controllers are completely software
transparent with the IDE interface, while providing a lower pin count and higher performance and aiming to provide you an even faster
transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second. For AX45F-4D Max motherboards, there are 4 SATA connectors onboard including the other two
ports provided by an extra Promise SATA controller.
On-board AC’97 Sound
AX45F-4D Series uses RealTek AC’97 CODEC Realtek ALC658 chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and
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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.
S/PDIF Connector
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is the newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical fiber
and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio.
Power Management/Plug and Play
Supports the power management function which confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers Plug-and-Play, which helps save users from configuration problems, thus making the system
much user-friendlier.
Hardware Monitoring Management
Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor module.
SilentTek
Combines “Hardware-Status Monitoring”, “Overheat Warning” and “Fan Speed Control” with user-friendly interfaces to provide a perfect
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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.

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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.
10.
11.
Reboot
Installing Operating System (such as Windows XP)
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Motherboard Map
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse
Wakeup Jumper
Colored Back Panel
32-bit PCI Expansion Slo
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x
5
(Slot 5: Hercules PCI card that
supports high power-consuming
PCI cards,
only for AX45F-4D Max)
ConnectorSYSFAN1
Low ESR Capacitors
4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector
supports 8X AGP Cards (2.1GB/s)
AGP 8X Expansion Slot
AGP Protection LED
JP14 CMOS Clear Jumper
Front Audio Connector
Front Panel Connector
SYSFAN2 Connector
ATA 66/100
/
133 IDE Connecto
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x
3
(for AX45F-4D, AX45F-4DL and
AX45F-4DN, Connectors x2)
FDD Connector
USB 2.0 Connectors x2
AUX-IN Connector
S/PDIF Connector
CD-IN Connector
Onboard AC’97 CODEC
SATA Ports x 4
(for AX45F-4D, AX45F-4DL and
AX45F-4DN, Ports x2)
Game Port Connector
IrDA Connector
Die-hard BIOS x2
(only for AX45F-4D Max)
Case Open Connector
JP2 Speaker output Jumper
JP15/JP16 Dr.Voice II
Language Selection Jumper
(only for AX45F-4D Max)
JP24
/
JP25 BIOS Rescue Jumpe
r
(only for AX45F-4D Max)
Realtek Gigabit LAN chip
(for AX45F-4D Max and AX45F-4DL)
Realtek 10/100 Mbps LAN chip
(for AX45F-4DN)
SiS 655FX/964 Chipset that
support 400/533/800MHz FSB,
DDR 266/333/400 and AGP 8X
478-pin CPU socket with Voltage and
Frequency Auto-detection that supports
Intel®Pentium®4 1.6~3.20GHz+ CPU
CPUFAN Connector
184-pin DIMMsx4 support
Dual Channel DDR400/333/266
Max. To 4 GB
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SiS
655FX
chipset
Socket 478
Intel Pentium 4
CPU
400/533/800MHz
System Bus
DIMM Sockets x4
AGP 8X Slot
SiS
964
Serial Ports x2
USB Port
USB Ports x8
32-bit PCI Slots x5
Parallel Port
IDE Drives x6
ATA
66/100/133
DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel
RAM Up to 4GB
Primary
Channel
Secondary
Channel
PCI Bus
Floppy Disk Drive
RealTek
AC97
CODEC
LAN connect Component
USB Port
USB Port
SATA 1
Serial ATA Ports x4
USB Port
SATA 4
AGP bus
Gigabit LAN Chip
(AX45F-4D Max
and AX45F-4DL)
Realtek
10/100Mbps
(AX45F-4DN)
150MB/s
Hercules PCI Slot
SATA 2
SATA 3
Third
Channel
For AX45F-4D, AX45F-4DL
and AX45F-4DN, Ports x2
For AX45F-4D, AX45F-4DL
and AX45F-4DN,
Connectors x2
4Mbit Flash EEPROM
only AX45F-4D Max supports
Die-hard BIOS
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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. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component. If
a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout any procedure requiring
ESD protection.