AOpen AX4C Max II Setup guide

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AX4C Max II ...................................................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual...................................................................................................................................................... 2
You Must Notice.............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Before You Start ........................................................................................................................................................... 10
Overview....................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Feature Highlight .......................................................................................................................................................... 12
Quick Installation Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 17
Motherboard Map ......................................................................................................................................................... 18
Block Diagram .............................................................................................................................................................. 19
Hardware Installation ............................................................................................................... 20
About “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” and “User Upgrade Optional”… ..................................................................... 21
JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................................................................................................................................ 22
CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 23
CPU Jumper-less Design .............................................................................................................................................. 25
CPU Core Voltage Auto Detectable............................................................................................................................... 27
CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ............................................................................................... 29
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Enable/Disable Jumper ............................................................................................. 30
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DIMM Sockets (128-Bit DDR Dual Channel) ................................................................................................................. 31
Front Panel Connector.................................................................................................................................................. 34
ATX Power Connector................................................................................................................................................... 35
AC Power Auto Recovery ............................................................................................................................................. 36
STBY LED and BOOT LED ........................................................................................................................................... 37
IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 38
ATA/133 Supported ....................................................................................................................................................... 41
Serial ATA Supported (with RAID function) ................................................................................................................... 42
Connecting Serial ATA Disk .......................................................................................................................................... 43
IrDA Connector ............................................................................................................................................................. 46
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector ........................................................................................................ 47
Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................... 48
AGP 8X Slot.................................................................................................................................................................. 49
AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED.................................................................................................................... 50
Self-Powered PCI Slot .................................................................................................................................................. 51
WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector ........................................................................................................ 52
WOL (Wake on LAN) .................................................................................................................................................... 55
PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................................................................................................................................... 57
Support Gigabit LAN onboard ....................................................................................................................................... 58
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Support Eight USB2.0 Connectors ................................................................................................................................59
Onboard IEEE 1394 Controller ..................................................................................................................................... 60
Chassis Intrusion Connector ......................................................................................................................................... 61
CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 62
AUX-IN Connector ........................................................................................................................................................ 63
Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 64
Die-Hard BIOS II (User Upgrade Optional) ................................................................................................................... 65
External Controller for DIE-HARD BIOS (User Upgrade Optional) ................................................................................ 66
JP2 Dr. Voice Output Select Jumper............................................................................................................................. 68
Dr. LED Connector........................................................................................................................................................ 69
Battery-less and Long Life Design ................................................................................................................................71
CPU Over-current Protection ........................................................................................................................................ 72
AOConfig Utility ............................................................................................................................................................ 73
Resetable Fuse............................................................................................................................................................. 75
3300µF Low ESR Capacitor .......................................................................................................................................... 76
V4 Power Engine .......................................................................................................................................................... 77
Open JukeBox Player ................................................................................................................................................... 79
Vivid BIOS technology .................................................................................................................................................. 83
Hyper Threading Technology ........................................................................................................................................ 84
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RAID Introduction .....................................................................................................................86
What’s RAID? ............................................................................................................................................................... 86
What are the RAID levels?............................................................................................................................................ 87
HDD Capacity of RAID Levels ...................................................................................................................................... 90
Serial ATA RAID for Intel ICH5R ................................................................................................................................... 91
Serial ATA RAID for Promise PDC20378....................................................................................................................... 94
Driver and Utility ..................................................................................................................... 111
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ............................................................................................................................111
Installing Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility ................................................................................................... 112
BroadCOM BCM5705 Gigabit LAN Driver ................................................................................................................... 113
Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................................. 124
The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek ................................................................................................................................ 131
EzClock ...................................................................................................................................................................... 134
PHOENIX-AWARD BIOS ........................................................................................................... 138
About Phoenix-Award BIOS Function Description… ................................................................................................... 139
How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program .................................................................................................. 140
How To Enter BIOS Setup........................................................................................................................................... 141
WinBIOS Utility ........................................................................................................................................................... 142
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ............................................................................................................... 144
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Glossary .................................................................................................................................. 146
AC97 CODEC ............................................................................................................................................................. 146
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..................................................................................................... 146
ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) ...................................................................................................................... 146
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................................................................................................................................. 147
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ......................................................................................................................................... 147
ATA (AT Attachment) ................................................................................................................................................... 147
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).............................................................................................................................. 148
Bluetooth .................................................................................................................................................................... 148
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser) ............................................................................................................. 149
DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM.................................................................................................................................... 149
ECC (Error Checking and Correction)......................................................................................................................... 150
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ................................................................................................. 150
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) .................................................................................................................... 150
EV6 Bus...................................................................................................................................................................... 150
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)......................................................................................................................... 151
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ............................................................................................................................. 151
FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ........................................................................................................................... 151
Flash ROM.................................................................................................................................................................. 151
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Hyper Threading ......................................................................................................................................................... 151
IEEE 1394 .................................................................................................................................................................. 152
Parity Bit ..................................................................................................................................................................... 152
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................. 153
PDF Format ................................................................................................................................................................ 153
PnP (Plug and Play).................................................................................................................................................... 153
POST (Power-On Self Test) ........................................................................................................................................ 153
PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock ........................................................................................................................... 154
RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ............................................................................................... 154
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ...................................................................................................................... 154
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM).................................................................................................................................... 154
SATA (Serial ATA) ....................................................................................................................................................... 155
SMBus (System Management Bus) ............................................................................................................................ 155
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)..................................................................................................................................... 155
USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ................................................................................................................................... 155
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) .................................................................................................................................. 156
Wireless LAN – 802.11b ............................................................................................................................................. 156
ZIP file ........................................................................................................................................................................ 157
Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................................... 158
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Technical Support ................................................................................................................... 162
Product Registration ............................................................................................................... 165
How to Contact Us .................................................................................................................. 166
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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
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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
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