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Table of Contents 

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents ................................................................................... 1

 

1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................4

 

1.2 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................5

 

1.3 Safety Information ......................................................................................5

 

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................... 6

 

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?...........................................................6

 

2.2 Specification ...............................................................................................7

 

2.3 Block Diagram ............................................................................................8

 

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............................................................... 9

 

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure .........................................................................9

 

3.2 Installation You Have to Know..................................................................... 10

 

Installing CPU ...........................................................................................10

 

Installing CPU Cooler .................................................................................11

 

Installing CPU and System Fans ..................................................................14

 

Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................15

 

Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................16

 

Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................17

 

Connecting ATX Power Cables.....................................................................18

 

3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 19

 

Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................19

 

Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................20

 

Connecting AGP 4X Expansion Slot ..............................................................21

 

Connecting IrDA........................................................................................22

 

Dual Gigabit LAN Supported .......................................................................23

 

Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................24

 

Connecting 1394 .......................................................................................25

 

Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect...................................................................26

 

 

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Summary of Contents for i855GMEm-LFS

Page 1: ...allation Procedure 9 3 2 Installation You Have to Know 10 Installing CPU 10 Installing CPU Cooler 11 Installing CPU and System Fans 14 Installing Memory Modules 15 Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables 16...

Page 2: ...Independent Disks 36 RAID BIOS Setting Utility 36 4 2 Other Useful Features 40 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS 41 5 1 Introduction 41 5 2 How To Use Phoenix Award BIOS Setup Program 42 5 3 How To Enter BIOS Se...

Page 3: ...grade under Windows environment 59 5 5 Vivid BIOS technology 61 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers 62 6 1 Installing Drivers 63 6 2 Installing Utilities 64 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 65 Chapter 8 Technical S...

Page 4: ...l Intel Celeron Pentium II III Pentium 4 and Pentium Mare the registered trademarks of Intel Corporation The logos of nVidia are the registered trademarks of nVidia Corporation The logos of Microsoft...

Page 5: ...ease be careful when you see this mark It highlights mistakes that occur often during assembling or something you need to pay attention to Warning Tip 1 3 Safety Information Please wear a wrist strap...

Page 6: ...Intel 855GME ICH4 M Chipsets 23 32 bit PCI Expansion Slots X 3 8 CPUFAN Connector 24 Serial ATA Ports X 2 9 184 pins DIMMs x 2 25 USB 2 0 Connector 10 Power Temperature Connector 26 IEEE 1394 Connecto...

Page 7: ...ound Realtek AC 97 CODEC onboard support 5 1 Channel USB Integrated in chipset USB 2 0 x 6 IEEE 1394 Agere 1394 Control Chip Slots AGP x 1 PCI x 3 Back Panel I O PS 2 Keyboard x 1 PS 2 Mouse x 1 USB P...

Page 8: ...us AGP 4X Slot AGP 4X VGA Onboard AGP bus DIMM Sockets x2 DDR 333 266 200 RAM Up to 2GB Serial ATA Ports x2 RAID 0 1 supported 150MB s 4Mbits Flash EEPROM USB Ports x6 Marvell Dual Gigabit LAN Chip LA...

Page 9: ...ry Module 4 Installing HD CD ROM and SATA Disk etc 6 Connecting ATX Power Cable 5 Connecting Front Panel Cable 7 Installing AGP PCI Cards 8 Installing Other Devices USB Front Audio etc 9 Connecting Ba...

Page 10: ...Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in 1 Unscrew the socket screw counter clockwise 2 Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a golden arrow on the CPU upper interface Match Pin 1...

Page 11: ...siged by AOpen please follow the following steps to install CPU cooler 1 Please apply thermal paste on the bottom of CPU cooler Thermal paste 2 Gently put CPU cooler onto the CPU retention module 3 Co...

Page 12: ...all two cooler fixing sticks into CPU retention module Fixing stick Note Make sure that the sticks have hooked CPU retention module firmly 5 Push the iron plate of cooler fixing stick up a bit Iron pl...

Page 13: ...6 Then press iron plate downward till you hear a clip sound Note Mak the iron plate h CPU retention mo e sure that ave hooked dule firmly 13...

Page 14: ...le to the 3 pin CPUFAN connector If you have chassis fan you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 connector 14 SYSFAN1 Connector CPUFAN Connector 12V Sensor GND Sensor 12V GND Note Some CPU fans do not have se...

Page 15: ...easy to recognize Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place 15 Pin 1 Tab Note The tabs of the DIMM slot will cl...

Page 16: ...pin 80 wire IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector Be careful of the pin1 orientation Wrong orientation may cause system damage 16 Primary Slave 2nd Secondary Slave 4th Pin 1 Primary Master 1...

Page 17: ...LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode Locate the power switch cable from your housing which is a 2 pin female connector from the housing front panel Plug this connector to the so...

Page 18: ...This motherboard comes with a 20 pin and 4 pin ATX power connector as shown below Make sure you plug them in the right direction We strongly recommend you to insert the 4 pin connector before connect...

Page 19: ...MHz 400MHz 2MB L2 20x Pentium M 745 90nm 1800MHz 400MHz 2MB L2 18x Pentium M 735 90nm 1700MHz 400MHz 2MB L2 17x Pentium M 725 90nm 1600MHz 400MHz 2MB L2 16x Pentium M 715 90nm 1500MHz 400MHz 2MB L2 15...

Page 20: ...very other traditional disk you also have to connect a power cable Please be noted that it is a jumper free implement you don t need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk When serial ATA har...

Page 21: ...ng AGP 4X Expansion Slot This motherboard provides an AGP 4X slot The AGP 4X is a bus interface targeted for high performance 3D graphic and the data transfer rate could achieve 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 105...

Page 22: ...er files to or from laptops notebooks PDA devices and printers This connector supports both HPSIR 115 2Kbps 2 meters and ASK IR 56Kbps Install an infrared module onto the IrDA connector and enable the...

Page 23: ...when linking to network The left hand side LED indicates the transfer mode and will light in green when data is transferring at 100Mbps never lights while at 10Mbps but will light in orange when tran...

Page 24: ...onnect USB devices such as mouse keyboard modem printer etc There are four ports on the back panel You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel Pin 1...

Page 25: ...erring performance such as digital camera scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices Pin1 Pin1 12V Fused GND TPB TPA TPB 12V Fused SHIED GND TPA GND...

Page 26: ...surround audio output without connecting any external module To apply this function you have to install the audio driver in the Bonus Pack CD as well as an audio application supporting 5 1 Channel Pic...

Page 27: ...through this connector By the way please remove the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if your housing doesn t have an audio p...

Page 28: ...Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound L R GND GND CD IN Connector 28...

Page 29: ...Connecting AUX_IN This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound R GND GND L AUX IN Connector 29...

Page 30: ...ovides two serial ports One of them is on back panel connector and the other is on the upper of CPU socket With proper cable you can connect it to the back panel of chassis 30 Pin 1 COM Connector DTR...

Page 31: ...to a sensor somewhere on the chassis So whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or by the opening of the chassis the system will beep to inform you Please be informed that this useful function onl...

Page 32: ...ne for RCA connector the most common one used for consumer audio products and the other for optical connector with better audio quality Same as outputs you can also connect RCA or optical audio produc...

Page 33: ...eaker Out Line In RJ45 LAN Jack MIC In PS 2 Keyboard For standard keyboard which use a PS 2 plug PS 2 Mouse For PC Mouse which use a PS 2 plug USB Port Available for connecting USB devices Parallel Po...

Page 34: ...cation check the system power status in circumstances such as power on off stand by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode BOOT LED will keep blinking when you power the system on and wh...

Page 35: ...eyboard Mouse Wakeup Jumper 35 2 Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2 3 Locate JP14 and short pins 2 3 for a few seconds 4 Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin 1 pin 2 5 Connect ATX...

Page 36: ...For more RAID introduction please visit our website http english aopen com tw tech techinside RAID htm RAID BIOS Setting Utility In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA...

Page 37: ...main menu of FastBiuld utility you can use this utility to create or delete your disk arrays Auto Setup Press 1 to enter Auto Setup You can choose Performance RAID 0 or Security RAID 1 mode by pressi...

Page 38: ...drive information by physical array Define Array Press 3 to enter Define Array and BIOS will allow you to setup a RAID array by choosing Array No RAID Mode and Total Drv Note FastBuil If you are not f...

Page 39: ...lete Array Press 4 to enter Delete Array and BIOS will allow you to delete an existing RAID array Rebuild Array Press 5 to enter Rebuild Array and BIOS will allow you to rebuild a crashed RAID array 3...

Page 40: ...n ability of R D team AOpen boasts for its various powerful and handy features that come with our product like follows You are welcomed to visit our technical website to learn more about those feature...

Page 41: ...vel support for standard devices such as hard disk drives serial and parallel ports AOpen s R D engineering team had optimized most BIOS settings of this motherboard However some default settings of B...

Page 42: ...etup Defaults for recommended optimal performance Del 42 Key Description Page Up or Change setting to next value or increase the value Page Down or Change setting to previous value or decrease value E...

Page 43: ...n hour minute and second format The time is based on the 24 hour military clock Standard CMOS features Primary Master Standard CMOS features Primary Slave Standard CMOS features Secondary Master Stand...

Page 44: ...der Enter cylinder number Head Enter head number Precomp Write precompensation Landing Zone Location of head Sector Sector Number Standard CMOS features Drive A This item allows user select the floppy...

Page 45: ...itor Available options 4 Min 8 Min 16 Min 32 Min Thermal Management Set the function of CPU internal Thermal Management When CPU supports Thermal Monitor 1 TM1 and Thermal Monitor 2 TM2 user could sel...

Page 46: ...Set this parameter to On to enable the numeric function of the numeric keypad Set this parameter to Off to disabling the numeric function allows you to use the numeric keypad for cursor control Advanc...

Page 47: ...Available options z By SPD System will define timing according to default of Dram Default z Manual Allow user to define timing himself Advanced Chipset features CAS Latency Time When synchronous DRAM...

Page 48: ...ed Chipset features Video BIOS cacheable Allow the video BIOS to be cached to allow faster video performance Available options Disabled Enabled Advanced Chipset features AGP Aperture Size MB This item...

Page 49: ...ain menu This option allows you to configure the I O features Integrated peripherals OnChip IDE Device This parameter allows you to Enable or Disable the IDE device connected to the primary or seconda...

Page 50: ...USB driver in the operating system AC97 Audio This item is used to enable or disable the onboard audio Init Display First If you installed a PCI VGA card this item lets you decide which one is the ini...

Page 51: ...S it is necessary to install the DOS driver of the mouse z Mouse Right This function allows you wake up the system by clicking right mouse button twice successively KB Power ON Password You can specif...

Page 52: ...nced Parallel Port EPP enhances the parallel port throughput by directly writing reading data to from parallel port without latch z ECP Extend Parallel Port ECP supports DMA and RLE Run Length Encoded...

Page 53: ...On and Off so there is no need to press it for 4 seconds and there is no Suspend Available Options Delay 4 sec Instant Off Power Management Wake On PCI card This is a function of PCI specification 2 2...

Page 54: ...iguration Setup allows you to configure the ISA and PCI devices installed in your system The following screen appears if you select the option PNP PCI Configuration Setup from the main menu PNP PCI Co...

Page 55: ...be connected or operate there would be Warning Beep 2 When SystemFAN or PowerFAN is connected to motherboard if SystemFAN or PowerFAN doesn t work there would be Warning Beep z Smart Control User cou...

Page 56: ...ency The ratio of AGP and PCI Bus frequency is fixed at 2 1 Available options 66 00 33 00 75 43 33 72 88 00 44 00 Frequency Voltage Control Clock Spread Spectrum This item is used to set the value of...

Page 57: ...unstable problem you may manually set the parameter in the Advanced BIOS Features and Advanced Chipset Features to get slowest and safer setting Load Turbo Defaults The Load Turbo Defaults option giv...

Page 58: ...enter the password The screen displays a message confirming that the password has been disabled Save Exit Setup This function automatically saves all CMOS values before leaving Setup Exit without Sav...

Page 59: ...atform you might be using no matter if you re using Windows 95 98 98SE ME NT4 0 2000 or Windows XP In the meanwhile in order to provide a much more user friendly operating environment AOpen EzWinFlash...

Page 60: ...version of your motherboard If you collect wrong BIOS you will not be allowed to proceed with the flash steps You may select a preferred language in main menu then click Start Flash to begin the BIOS...

Page 61: ...olors screen without missing any important information shown on POST screen In addition the limited space of BIOS ROM is another big issue When all of the traditional BIOS can only show space consumin...

Page 62: ...es EzInstall makes installation easy and even foolproof After putting in the CD you will be prompted with AOpen welcome page and our branches information First click on the install driver ICON at left...

Page 63: ...listed drivers grey checks indicate necessary drivers you cannot click them off Red checks can be disabled if you don t want to install them now 63 Once clicking GO EzInstall will run the installing p...

Page 64: ...ties to manage your system You may find lots of fabulous utilities listed there and all you have to do is to click on the GO then it will install the utilities to your system right away without compli...

Page 65: ...Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 65...

Page 66: ...ch for your understanding AOpen Technical Supporting Team 66 Chapter 8 Technical Support Europe Email Support AOpen NL Pacific Rim http www aopen com tw tech default htm China http www aopen com cn te...

Page 67: ...and priority from AOpen You will also have a chance to play slot machine game to win prize from AOpen Please prepare the following information before you start Model Name Part Number P N Serial Numbe...

Page 68: ...Technical Support 68...

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