AOpen MX3W-E2 Setup guide

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..............................................................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2
You Must Notice .............................................................................................................................................................. 8
Before You Start.............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Feature Highlight........................................................................................................................................................... 12
Quick Installation Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 15
Motherboard Map .......................................................................................................................................................... 16
Block Diagram............................................................................................................................................................... 17
Hardware Installation......................................................................................................................19
About “Optional” and “Upgrade Optional”… .................................................................................................................. 20
Clear CMOS Data ......................................................................................................................................................... 21
CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 22
JP23 Adjust FSB/PCI Clock Ratio ................................................................................................................................. 24
CPU Jumper-less Design .............................................................................................................................................. 26
CPU and Housing Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) .............................................................................................. 31
DIMM Socket................................................................................................................................................................. 32
Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 35

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ATX Power Connector................................................................................................................................................... 36
Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up ............................................................................................................................................ 37
Power and RAM Power Indicate LED ............................................................................................................................ 38
AC Power Auto Recovery.............................................................................................................................................. 39
IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 40
IrDA Connector ............................................................................................................................................................. 42
WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector......................................................................................................... 43
WOL (Wake on LAN)..................................................................................................................................................... 46
CNR (Communication and Network Riser) Expansion Slot............................................................................................ 48
PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................................................................................................................................... 49
Support 2nd USB Port .................................................................................................................................................... 50
JP12 Enable/Disable Onboard Sound ........................................................................................................................... 51
CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 52
Modem Audio Connector............................................................................................................................................... 53
VIDEO-AUDIO-IN Connector......................................................................................................................................... 54
Front Panel Audio Connector ........................................................................................................................................ 55
GPO (General Purpose Output) Connector ................................................................................................................... 56
Battery-less and Long Life Design ................................................................................................................................ 57
Over-current Protection................................................................................................................................................. 58
Hardware Monitoring ..................................................................................................................................................... 59

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Resettable Fuse ............................................................................................................................................................ 60
Year 2000 (Y2K)............................................................................................................................................................ 61
Low ESR Capacitor ....................................................................................................................................................... 62
Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ................................................................................................................................. 64
Driver and Utility .............................................................................................................................65
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ............................................................................................................................. 66
Eliminate “?” mark from Windows 95/98........................................................................................................................ 67
Installing Onboard AGP Driver ...................................................................................................................................... 68
Installing Ultra ATA/100 IDE Driver................................................................................................................................ 69
Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................................... 70
Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ............................................................................................................................ 71
ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive......................................................................................................................................... 72
AWARD BIOS ....................................................................................................................................76
How To Use Award™ BIOS Setup Program .................................................................................................................. 77
How To Enter BIOS Setup............................................................................................................................................. 78
BIOS Upgrade............................................................................................................................................................... 79
Overclocking .................................................................................................................................... 81
VGA Card & Hard Disk.................................................................................................................................................. 82
Glossary ...........................................................................................................................................83

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AC97............................................................................................................................................................................. 83
ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ....................................................................................................... 83
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................................................................................................................................... 83
AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................................................................................................................................ 84
AOpen Bonus Pack CD ................................................................................................................................................. 84
APM (Advanced Power Management)........................................................................................................................... 84
ATA (AT Attachment) ..................................................................................................................................................... 84
ATA/66 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 84
ATA/100 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 85
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ................................................................................................................................ 85
Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) ........................................................................................................................................ 85
CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)................................................................................................................ 85
CODEC (Coding and Decoding).................................................................................................................................... 86
DDR (Double Data Rated) SDRAM ............................................................................................................................... 86
DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)............................................................................................................................ 86
DMA (Direct Memory Access) ....................................................................................................................................... 86
ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ........................................................................................................................... 87
EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory .......................................................................................................................... 87
EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................... 87
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) ...................................................................................................................... 87

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EV6 Bus ........................................................................................................................................................................ 88
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ........................................................................................................................... 88
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)................................................................................................................................ 88
Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................... 88
FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock .......................................................................................................................................... 89
I2C Bus.......................................................................................................................................................................... 89
IEEE 1394..................................................................................................................................................................... 89
Parity Bit ....................................................................................................................................................................... 89
PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)................................................................................................................................. 90
PC-100 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................... 90
PC-133 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................... 90
PC-1600 or PC-2100 DDR DRAM ................................................................................................................................. 90
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................... 90
PDF Format .................................................................................................................................................................. 91
PnP (Plug and Play)...................................................................................................................................................... 91
POST (Power-On Self Test) .......................................................................................................................................... 91
RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ............................................................................................................................................. 91
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ........................................................................................................................ 92
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ...................................................................................................................................... 92
Shadow E2PROM .......................................................................................................................................................... 92

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SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ......................................................................................................................... 92
SMBus (System Management Bus)............................................................................................................................... 93
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)....................................................................................................................................... 93
Ultra DMA ..................................................................................................................................................................... 93
USB (Universal Serial Bus) ........................................................................................................................................... 94
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)..................................................................................................................................... 94
ZIP file .......................................................................................................................................................................... 94
Troubleshooting...............................................................................................................................95
Technical Support ...........................................................................................................................99
Product Registration .....................................................................................................................102
How to Contact Us ........................................................................................................................103

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                  !  
   G" %H       =    !  
G%HG"%H
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