AOpen MX4SG-N Setup guide

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Overview
Hardware
Installation
Drivers &
Utilities
AWARD
BIOS Setup
Glossary
Troubleshooting &
Technical Support
MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L
DOC. NO.: MX4SGN-OL-E0305B

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MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L ....................................................................................................................................1
What’s in this manual................................................................................................................................................................ 2
You Must Notice........................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Before You Start........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Overview................................................................................................................................................................................. 10
Feature Highlight .....................................................................................................................................................................11
Quick Installation Procedure ................................................................................................................................................... 16
Motherboard Map ................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18
Hardware Installation ............................................................................................................................19
About “User Upgrade Optional” and “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”… ................................................................................. 20
CPU Installation ...................................................................................................................................................................... 21
CPU Over-current Protection .................................................................................................................................................. 24
Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink .................................................................................................................................................. 25
Full-range Auto-detect CPU Core Voltage............................................................................................................................... 26
CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ......................................................................................................... 28
DIMM Sockets ........................................................................................................................................................................ 29
ATX Power Connector............................................................................................................................................................. 31

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AC Power Auto Recovery........................................................................................................................................................ 31
IDE and Floppy Connector...................................................................................................................................................... 32
Serial ATA Supported.............................................................................................................................................................. 34
Connecting Serial ATA Disk..................................................................................................................................................... 35
Front Panel Connector............................................................................................................................................................ 38
AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 8X Expansion Slot................................................................................................................ 39
IrDA Connector ....................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Support 10/100 Mbps(MX4SG-N) and 10/100/1000Mbps(MX4SG-L) LAN onboard ................................................................ 41
Support Front USB 2.0 Ports................................................................................................................................................... 42
Color Coded Back Panel......................................................................................................................................................... 43
Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .............................................................................................................................................. 44
Front Audio Connector............................................................................................................................................................ 45
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector................................................................................................................... 46
CD Audio Connector ............................................................................................................................................................... 47
AUX-IN Connector .................................................................................................................................................................. 48
Case Open Connector ............................................................................................................................................................ 49
JP14 Clear CMOS Data.......................................................................................................................................................... 50
JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Jumper ................................................................................................................................ 51
STBY LED (Standby LED) ...................................................................................................................................................... 52

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AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED.............................................................................................................................. 53
Resetable Fuse....................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Low ESR Capacitor................................................................................................................................................................. 56
AOpen “Watch Dog ABS”........................................................................................................................................................ 58
Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ............................................................................................................................59
About BIOS Function Description… ........................................................................................................................................ 60
How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program .............................................................................................................. 61
How To Enter BIOS Setup....................................................................................................................................................... 62
BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment........................................................................................................................... 63
Vivid BIOS technology ............................................................................................................................................................ 65
Driver and Utility....................................................................................................................................66
Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD............................................................................................................................................... 66
Installing Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility ................................................................................................................ 67
Installing Intel Extreme Graphic Driver .................................................................................................................................... 68
Installing LAN Driver (for MX4SG-N)....................................................................................................................................... 69
Installing LAN Driver (for MX4SG-L) ....................................................................................................................................... 77
Installing Audio Driver ............................................................................................................................................................. 78
Installing USB2.0 Driver.......................................................................................................................................................... 79
AOConfig Utility ...................................................................................................................................................................... 84

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Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ...................................................................................................................................... 86
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) ............................................................................................................. 91
EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)................................................................................................................................ 91
EV6 Bus.................................................................................................................................................................................. 91
FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ..................................................................................................................................... 91
FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array).......................................................................................................................................... 92
FC-PGA2 (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)........................................................................................................................................ 92

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Flash ROM ............................................................................................................................................................................. 92
Hyper Threading ..................................................................................................................................................................... 92
IEEE 1394 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 92
Parity Bit ................................................................................................................................................................................. 93
PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ............................................................................................................................. 93
PDF Format ............................................................................................................................................................................ 94
PnP (Plug and Play)................................................................................................................................................................ 94
POST (Power-On Self Test) .................................................................................................................................................... 94
PSB (Processor System Bus) Clock........................................................................................................................................ 94
RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) ........................................................................................................... 95
RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module).................................................................................................................................. 95
SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ............................................................................................................................................... 95
SATA (Serial ATA) ................................................................................................................................................................... 95
SMBus (System Management Bus) ........................................................................................................................................ 96
SPD (Serial Presence Detect)................................................................................................................................................. 96
USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ............................................................................................................................................... 96
VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) .............................................................................................................................................. 96
Wireless LAN – 802.11b.......................................................................................................................................................... 97
ZIP file .................................................................................................................................................................................... 97

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Troubleshooting .....................................................................................................................................98
Technical Support................................................................................................................................102
Product Registration............................................................................................................................105
How to Contact Us...............................................................................................................................106

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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 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD or you can get free download from Adobe web
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Thank you for choosing AOpen MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L motherboard. MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L is Intel®Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based
on the micro ATX form factor featuring the Intel Springdale-G chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L
motherboard supports Intel®Socket 478 Pentium®4 / Prescott / Springdale chipsets and 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock. In
AGP performance, it has one AGP slot and supports both AGP 8X/4X mode and ADD card and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst
transfer up to 2112MB/sec. According to different customer’s requirements, this motherboard supports dual channel non-ECC DDR266,
DDR333 and DDR400 SDRAM up to 2GB maximum. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100 mode, Serial ATA 150 and
there are 3 PCI slots provided on this board. A total of 6 USB2.0 ports on the back panel and one USB2.0 connector on the board give you
the best use of all USB devices. More than that, on the strength of integrated Broadcom LAN controller on board, which is a highly
integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100Mbps Ethernet on MX4SG-N and 10/100/1000Mbps on MX4SG-L for office and
home use. Besides, MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L has a S/PDIF connector and an AC97 CODEC 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 MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L motherboard.

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CPU
Supports Intel® Socket 478 Pentium®4 (Northwood / Prescott) 1.6GHz~3.06GHz+ with 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for
Socket 478 technology.
Chipset
Springdale is a Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) designed for use with the Pentium 4 processor with 512-KB L2 cache on 0.13
micron processor and Prescott processor. It provides CPU, DDR, AGP, Hub, CSA Interfaces and integrated graphics with display interfaces.
The CPU interface supports Pentium 4 processor subset of the Extended Mode of the Scalable Bus Protocol. The GMCH memory interface
supports a up to two channels of DDR, and the AGP interface supports 0.8V/1.5V signaling with 8X/4X data transfers and 8X/4X AGP Fast
Writes. The integrated graphics controller provides 3D, 2D, and display capabilities while using a portion of system memory for graphics
memory (UMA) to provide a cost effective, high performance graphics solution. The Springdale platform supports the fifth generation I/O
Controller Hub (ICH5).
The ICH5 integrates an Ultra ATA 100 controller, two Serial ATA host controllers, one EHCI host controller and four UHCI host controllers
supporting eight external USB2.0 ports, LPC interface controller, flash BIOS interface controller, PCI interface controller, AC’97 digital
controller, integrated LAN controller, an ASF controller and a hub interface for communication with the Springdale GMCH.
Memory
Provides two 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets that support up to 2GB of dual channel non-ECC DDR266 (PC2100), DDR333 (PC2700)
and DDR400 (PC3200) compliant SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory).

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Expansion Slots
Including three 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 8X/4X slots. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. Of three PCI slots
provided, all of them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus. MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L
motherboard includes one AGP expansion slot for a bus mastering AGP or ADD 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.
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
MX4SG-N: On the strength of Intel ICH5 on board and Broadcom LAN chip, it provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use.
MX4SG-L: The Broadcom LAN chip implemented on this motherboard is a fully integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Media
Access Control and Physical Layer Transceiver solution for high-performance network applications. It combines triple-speed, IEEE 802.3
compliant media access controller (MAC), PCI bus interface, on-chip buffer memory, and integrated physical layer transceiver in a single
device.
Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Mater 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 33/66/100, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 5, and supports Enhanced IDE devices.
Serial ATA
Integrated in ICH5 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. The ICH5 SATA interface supports data transfer rates up to
150MB/s.
On-board AC’97 Sound
MX4SG-N / MX4SG-L uses RealTek AC97 sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system.

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Eight USB2.0 Ports
Provides six ports on the back panel and one USB connector on the board, providing a total of eight USB2.0 interface 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 that 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.
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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Super Multi-I/O
Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART can also be directed
from COM1 to the Infrared Module for the wireless connections.

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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. Reboot
10. Installing Operating System (such as Windows XP)
11. Installing Driver and Utility

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JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup
Jum
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Case Open Connector
Motherboard Map
Colored Back Panel
Resetable Fuse
JP14 CMOS Clear Jumpe
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Front Audio Connecto
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IrDA Connecto
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Front Panel Connecto
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SYSFAN3 Connecto
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TA66/100 IDE Connector x2
FDD Connector
184-pin DIMMx2 support dual
channel DDR400/333/266
SDRAM maximum up to 2GB
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Springdale-G/ICH5 Chipsets
478-pin CPU socket
(Northwood/Prescott) with
Voltage and Frequenc
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Intel®Pentium®4 1.6~3.06GHz+
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32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x3
4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector
Low ESR Ca
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USB2.0 Connecto
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SYSFAN2 Connecto
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CPUFAN1 connecto
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S/PDIF Connecto
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CD-IN Connecto
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AC’97 CODEC
SATA Connector x 2

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Intel
Springdale-G
Socket 478
Intel Pentium 4
CPU (Northwood / Prescott)
400/533/800MHz
System Bus
DIMM Socket x2
AGP 8X Slot
ICH5
Serial Port
USB Port
USB Port x8
32-bit PCI Slot x3
Parallel Port
IDE Drive x4
ATA 66/100
DDR400/333/266 Dual Channel
SDRAM Up to 2GB
Primary
Channel
Secondary
Channel
4Mbit Flash EEPROM
PCI Bus
Floppy Disk Drive x2
RealTek
AC97
CODEC
LAN connect Component
USB Port
USB Port
SATA1
SATA2
2 Serial ATA Ports
150MB/s
USB Port
VGA Port
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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.

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Ab bo ou ut t “ “U Us se er r U Up pg gr ra ad de e O Op pt ti io on na al l” ” a an nd d “ “M Ma an nu uf fa ac ct tu ur re e U Up pg gr ra ad de e O Op pt ti io on na al l” ”… …
When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may notice that some of the functions are marked as
“User Upgrade Optional” or “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. Although all of AOpen’s motherboards have included many amazing and
powerful features, sometimes not every user is familiar with these powerful features. As a result of this we define features that can be
upgraded by users as “User Upgrade Optional”. You can upgrade these functions by purchasing additional devices. As for functions that
cannot be upgraded by users, we define them as “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. If need be, you can contact our local distributors or
resellers to purchase “Manufacture Upgrade Optional” components, and again you are also welcome to visit our official website at
english.aopen.com.tw for detail information.