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Installing CPU Cooler 

1.  Gently put down the CPU fan on CPU socket with four sticks aiming correctly 

to the four mounting holes.   

Mounting 

hole 

Mounting 

hole 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Press down four fixing sticks into the holes one by one. 

Make sure the 

sticks are firmly fixed into the holes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixing  
stick 

 

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Summary of Contents for i915Ga-PLF

Page 1: ...e 8 3 2 Installation You Have to Know 9 Installing CPU 9 Installing CPU Cooler 10 Installing CPU and System Fans 11 Installing Memory Modules 12 Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel 13 Connecti...

Page 2: ...on 35 3 4 Jumper Settings 36 Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities 37 4 1 Other Useful Features 37 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS 38 5 1 Introduction 38 5 2 How To Use Phoenix Award BIOS Setup Program 39 5...

Page 3: ...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 4: ...e careful when you see this mark It highlights mistakes that occur often during assembling or something you need to pay attention to Please wear a wrist strap and attach it to a metal part of the syst...

Page 5: ...s x16 Graphics slot 25 IEEE 1394 Connector X 2 9 LGA775 CPU Socket supporting Intel FC LGA4 9 CPU 26 DieHard BIOS Lite 10 CPUFAN Connector 27 Serial ATA Ports X 4 11 Intel 915G ICH6 i915Ga PLF 11 Inte...

Page 6: ...ress x 16 graphics slot x 1 PCI slots x 3 PCI Express x 1 slots x 2 PCI Express x 16 graphics slot x 1 PCI slots x 3 Back Panel I O PS 2 Keyboard x 1 PS 2 Mouse x 1 USB Port x 4 LAN Port x 1 VGA Port...

Page 7: ...ocket Intel FC LGA4 533 800 MHz System Bus Support ADD2 Card for i915Ga PLF PCI Express x16 Graphics slot VGA Onboard i915Ga PLF CPU DIMM Sockets x4 Dual Channel DDR 333 400 SDRAM Up to 4GB ICH6 4Mbit...

Page 8: ...CD ROM and SATA Disk etc 6 Connecting ATX Power Cable 5 Connecting Front Panel Cable 7 Installing PCI Express x16 Graphics cards PCI Express x 1 cards PCI Cards 8 Installing Other Devices USB Front A...

Page 9: ...w on the CPU upper interface Match Pin 1 and golden arrow Then insert the CPU into the socket 9 4 Press down the CPU socket plate and lever to finish CPU installation Plastic cap Plas p tic ca CPU soc...

Page 10: ...icks aiming correctly to the four mounting holes Mounting hole Mounting hole 2 Press down four fixing sticks into the holes one by one Make sure the sticks are firmly fixed into the holes Fixing stick...

Page 11: ...onnector If you have chassis fan you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector 11 SYSFAN1 Connector CPUFAN Connector PWM SENSOR GND 12V SYSFAN2 Connector GND 12V Sensor 12V Sensor GND Note Some...

Page 12: ...ich are very 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 12 Pin 1 Tab Note The tabs of the DIMM...

Page 13: ...MM A1 DIMM A2 and Channel 2 DIMM B1 DIMM B2 dual channel mode will be enabled DIMM A1 DIMM A2 DIMM B1 DIMM B2 Ex if you insert 1GB memory module into DIMM A1 and DIMM A2 dual channel mode will be enab...

Page 14: ...floppy cable and 40 pin 80 wire IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector Be careful of the pin1 orientation Wrong orientation may cause system damage 14 Primary Slave 2nd Pin 1 Primary Master...

Page 15: ...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 16: ...This motherboard comes with a 24 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 17: ...their own risks Note With CPU speed changing rapidly there might be faster CPU on the market by the time you received this installation guide This table is kindly for your references only CPU Ratio 8...

Page 18: ...ther 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 hard disk...

Page 19: ...after having them installed the problem may lie in the BIOS setting You can simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly After installing your hard disks properly you can directly go to BIO...

Page 20: ...omly choose either IDE hard disks or serial ATA had disk as your first boot device But please note IDE will exist with serial ATA in a mapping way which means it will occupy one of the serial Channel...

Page 21: ...e could achieve 2 1GB s Now PCI Express x 16 is moving to higher data transfer rate which is upgraded to 8 0GB s 250MB s x 16 x 2 it s 4 0GB s per direction For i915Ga PLF the PCI Express x16 Graphics...

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: ...any midi devices or joysticks To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard Pin1 5V JBB1 JBCX MIDI_TXD JBCY JBB2 MIDI_RX...

Page 24: ...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 trans...

Page 25: ...nect 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 Pi...

Page 26: ...erring performance such as digital camera scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices Pin1 26 Pin1 9 10 Warning Please note that Hot Plug is not allow...

Page 27: ...io experience This motherboard provides 7 1 Channel ports shown as below Picture represents the standard location of all speakers in 7 1 Channel sound tracks Please connect the plug of your front spea...

Page 28: ...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 29: ...Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound R GND L AUX IN Connector 29...

Page 30: ...PLF provides 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 Connect...

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: ...To connect with SPP ECP EPP printer COM1 Port To connect with pointing devices modem or others serial devices RJ 45 LAN Port To connect Ethernet for home or office use VGA Connector To connect with P...

Page 34: ...Out Line In 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 Parallel Port To connect with SPP ECP EPP printer COM1 COM2 Port To connect w...

Page 35: ...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 36: ...power cable from connector PWR3 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 power cable back to connector PWR3 JP14 Cl...

Page 37: ...1 Other Useful Features With excellent design 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 technic...

Page 38: ...level 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 o...

Page 39: ...tting to previous value or decrease value Enter Select the item Esc In main menu Quit without saving any changes In sub menu Exit current menu to main menu Up Arrow Highlight previous item Down Arrow...

Page 40: ...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 41: ...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 42: ...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 43: ...e Yes 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 l...

Page 44: ...board All you have to do is just click on the GO and no more steps afterward of all listed drivers grey checks indicate necessary drivers you cannot click them off Red checks can be disabled if you do...

Page 45: ...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 46: ...Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 46...

Page 47: ...ch for your understanding AOpen Technical Supporting Team 47 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 48: ...e 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 Number S N and Purchase Date The Part Number an...

Page 49: ...Technical Support 49...

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