AOpen AX4SG-GN Setup guide

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DOC. NO.: AX4SGGN-OL-E0306A

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AX4SG-GN ..................................................................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual................................................................................................................................................................ 2
You Must Notice........................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Before You Start........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Overview................................................................................................................................................................................. 10
Feature Highlight .....................................................................................................................................................................11
Quick Installation Procedure ................................................................................................................................................... 15
Motherboard Map ................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Hardware Installation ............................................................................................................................18
About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ................................................................................. 19
CPU Installation ...................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Hyper Threading Technology .................................................................................................................................................. 22
CPU Fan Installation ............................................................................................................................................................... 24
CPU Over-current Protection .................................................................................................................................................. 26
CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ......................................................................................................... 27
Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage................................................................................................................................. 28
DIMM Sockets ........................................................................................................................................................................ 30

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AC Power Auto Recovery........................................................................................................................................................ 32
IDE and Floppy Connector...................................................................................................................................................... 33
Serial ATA Supported.............................................................................................................................................................. 35
Connecting Serial ATA Disk..................................................................................................................................................... 36
Front Panel Connector............................................................................................................................................................ 39
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot................................................................................................................ 40
Support USB 2.0 Ports............................................................................................................................................................ 41
Color Coded Back Panel......................................................................................................................................................... 42
Front Audio Connector............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Support 10/100Mbps LAN Onboard ........................................................................................................................................ 44
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector................................................................................................................... 45
IrDA Connector ....................................................................................................................................................................... 46
COM2 Connector.................................................................................................................................................................... 47
Game Port Bracket Supported ................................................................................................................................................ 48
CD Audio Connector ............................................................................................................................................................... 49
AUX-IN Connector .................................................................................................................................................................. 50
Case Open Connector ............................................................................................................................................................ 51
JP14 Clear CMOS Data.......................................................................................................................................................... 52
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper ................................................................................................................................ 53

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AOpen “Watch Dog ABS”........................................................................................................................................................ 54
STBY LED and BOOT LED..................................................................................................................................................... 55
AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED.............................................................................................................................. 56
Battery-less and Long Life Design .......................................................................................................................................... 57
Resetable Fuse....................................................................................................................................................................... 58
Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink .................................................................................................................................................. 59
Low ESR Capacitor................................................................................................................................................................. 60
EzClock .................................................................................................................................................................................. 61
AOConfig Utility ...................................................................................................................................................................... 65
Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ............................................................................................................................67
How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program .............................................................................................................. 68
How To Enter BIOS Setup....................................................................................................................................................... 69
WinBIOS Utility ....................................................................................................................................................................... 70
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment........................................................................................................................... 72
Vivid BIOS technology ............................................................................................................................................................ 74
Driver and Utility....................................................................................................................................75
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD............................................................................................................................................... 75
Installing Intel®Chipset Software Installation Utility ................................................................................................................. 76
Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver .................................................................................................................................... 77

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Installing Onboard Sound Driver ............................................................................................................................................. 78
Installing LAN Driver in Windows 98/ME/2000/XP................................................................................................................... 79
Installing USB 2.0 Driver in Windows 98/SE............................................................................................................................ 82
Glossary .................................................................................................................................................87
AC97 CODEC......................................................................................................................................................................... 87
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ................................................................................................................. 87
ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) .................................................................................................................................. 87
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ............................................................................................................................................. 88
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ..................................................................................................................................................... 88
ATA (AT Attachment)............................................................................................................................................................... 88
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).......................................................................................................................................... 89
Bluetooth ................................................................................................................................................................................ 89
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser) ......................................................................................................................... 90
DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM................................................................................................................................................ 90
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ..................................................................................................................................... 90
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ............................................................................................................. 90
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)................................................................................................................................ 91
EV6 Bus.................................................................................................................................................................................. 91
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ..................................................................................................................................... 91

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FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).......................................................................................................................................... 91
FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)........................................................................................................................................ 91
Flash ROM ............................................................................................................................................................................. 92
Hyper Threading ..................................................................................................................................................................... 92
IEEE 1394 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 92
Parity Bit ................................................................................................................................................................................. 93
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ............................................................................................................................. 93
PDF Format ............................................................................................................................................................................ 93
PnP (Plug and Play)................................................................................................................................................................ 93
POST (Power-On Self Test) .................................................................................................................................................... 94
PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock........................................................................................................................................ 94
RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ........................................................................................................... 94
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module).................................................................................................................................. 94
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ............................................................................................................................................... 94
SATA (Serial ATA) ................................................................................................................................................................... 95
SMBus (System Management Bus) ........................................................................................................................................ 95
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)................................................................................................................................................. 95
USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ............................................................................................................................................... 95
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) .............................................................................................................................................. 96

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Wireless LAN – 802.11b.......................................................................................................................................................... 96
ZIP file .................................................................................................................................................................................... 96
Troubleshooting .....................................................................................................................................97
Technical Support................................................................................................................................101
Product Registration............................................................................................................................104
How to Contact Us...............................................................................................................................105

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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 AOpen AX4SG-GN motherboard. AX4SG-GN is Intel®Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor
featuring the Intel 865G chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, AX4SG-GN motherboard supports Intel®Socket 478
Pentium®4 1.6GHz~3.06GHz. 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. The slot also support ADD card. According to different customer’s requirements, this motherboard
supports DDR266, DDR333 and DDR400 SDRAM up to 2GB maximum. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100 mode
and Serial ATA. There are 5 PCI slots provided on this board. A
total of 6 USB 2.0 ports on the back panel and one connector 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
10/100Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. Besides,
AX4SG-GN has S/PDIF connector and an AC97 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 AOpen AX4SG-GN motherboard.