AOpen MX3S Setup guide

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MX3S / MX3SP
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MX3S / MX3SP ...........................................................................................1
What’s in this manual................................................................................................................... 2
You Must Notice........................................................................................................................... 9
Before You Start ........................................................................................................................ 10
Quick Installation Procedure ...................................................................................................... 11
Motherboard Map ...................................................................................................................... 12
Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................... 13
Hardware................................................................................................. 14
JP14 Clear CMOS ..................................................................................................................... 15
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup................................................................................................. 16
CPU Socket and Fan Connector ................................................................................................ 18
CPU Jumper-less Design........................................................................................................... 19
JP23/JP29 FSB/PCI Clock Ratio................................................................................................ 23
DIMM Socket ............................................................................................................................. 24
RAM Power LED & Blinking LED ............................................................................................... 25

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Front Panel Connector............................................................................................................... 26
ATX Power Connector................................................................................................................ 28
AC Power Auto Recovery ..........................................................................................................29
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IDE and Floppy Connector......................................................................................................... 30
IrDA Connector.......................................................................................................................... 33
GPO-Connector (General Purpose Output) (Optional) ............................................................... 34
WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) ...................................................................................... 35
WOL (Wake on LAN) ................................................................................................................. 38
4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ........................................................................................... 40
PC99 Color Coded Back Panel.................................................................................................. 41
Support 10/100 Mbps LAN onboard ........................................................................................... 42
Support 4 USB Ports.................................................................................................................. 43
AUX_IN Connector .................................................................................................................... 44
Modem Audio Connector ...........................................................................................................45
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CD Audio Connector.................................................................................................................. 46
Front Audio................................................................................................................................ 47

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Battery-less and Long Life Design ............................................................................................. 48
Over-current Protection.............................................................................................................. 50
Hardware Monitoring.................................................................................................................. 52
Resettable Fuse......................................................................................................................... 53
Year 2000 (Y2K) ........................................................................................................................ 54
Low ESR Capacitor.................................................................................................................... 56
Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall).............................................................................................. 58
Driver and Utility ..................................................................................... 59
Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ........................................................................................... 60
Eliminate “?” mark from Windows 95/98..................................................................................... 61
Installing Onboard AGP Driver ...................................................................................................62
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Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................ 63
Installing Bus Master IDE Driver ................................................................................................64
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Installing LAN Driver .................................................................................................................. 65
Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ......................................................................................... 67
ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive ..................................................................................................... 69

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ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR) .................................................................................................... 76
AWARD BIOS ...........................................................................................78
About BIOS Function Description… ........................................................................................... 79
How To Use Award™ BIOS Setup Program............................................................................... 80
How To Enter BIOS Setup.......................................................................................................... 82
BIOS Upgrade ........................................................................................................................... 83
Overclocking ........................................................................................... 85
VGA and HDD ........................................................................................................................... 87
Glossary
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Glossary ..................................................................................................88
AC97 ......................................................................................................................................... 88
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) .................................................................... 88
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................................................................................................ 89
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ........................................................................................................ 89
AOpen Bonus Pack CD .............................................................................................................89
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APM........................................................................................................................................... 89
ATA/66 ....................................................................................................................................... 90

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ATA/100 ..................................................................................................................................... 90
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)............................................................................................. 90
Bus Master IDE (DMA mode)..................................................................................................... 90
CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ................................................................................................ 91
DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)......................................................................................... 91
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ........................................................................................ 91
EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ....................................................................................... 91
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ................................................................ 92
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)................................................................................... 92
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)........................................................................................ 92
Flash ROM ................................................................................................................................ 92
FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ....................................................................................................... 93
I2C Bus...................................................................................................................................... 93
P1394 ........................................................................................................................................ 93
PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM) ............................................................................................. 93
PC100 DIMM ............................................................................................................................. 93

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PC133 DIMM ............................................................................................................................. 94
PDF Format ............................................................................................................................... 94
PnP (Plug and Play)................................................................................................................... 94
POST (Power-On Self Test) .......................................................................................................94
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RDRAM (Rambus DRAM).......................................................................................................... 95
RIMM......................................................................................................................................... 95
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) .................................................................................................. 95
SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ...................................................................................... 95
SMBus (System Management Bus) ........................................................................................... 96
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)....................................................................................................96
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Ultra DMA/33 ............................................................................................................................. 96
USB (Universal Serial Bus) ........................................................................................................ 96
ZIP file ....................................................................................................................................... 97
Troubleshooting ......................................................................................98
Technical Support.................................................................................102
Part Number and Serial Number ........................................................................... 104

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Model name and BIOS version .............................................................................. 105

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1.Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you
are ready to install it.
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unit before handling a component. If a wrist strap is not available,
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 When should I Clear CMOS?
1. Boot fail because of overclocking…
2. Forget password…
3. Troubleshooting…
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 You have to wait for system to successfully
boot from operation system (such as Windows or
DOS) before the Wake-On-Keyboard/Mouse can
take effect. This is because the information of how
to support this function must be stored into Super
I/O Controller and then you can use it for next
power on.
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Some CPU fans do not have
sensor pin, so that cannot support fan
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%" 
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 INTEL i815E / i815EP chipset supports
maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher
clock setting may cause serious system damage.
 If your system hangs or fails to boot because of
overclocking, simply use JP14 to clear CMOS and restore to
the default setting. 