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Chapter 7 Troubleshooting..................................................................... 51

 

Chapter 8 Technical Support .................................................................. 52

 

Model Name and BIOS Version....................................................................53

 

Register Your Motherboard .........................................................................53

 

Technical Support......................................................................................54

 

Summary of Contents for i945Ga-PHS

Page 1: ...Have to Know 10 Installing CPU 10 Installing CPU Cooler 11 Installing CPU and System Fans 12 Installing Memory Modules 13 Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel 14 Connecting IDE and Floppy Cabl...

Page 2: ...i945Pa PFS 36 LED Indication 37 3 4 Jumper Settings 38 Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities 39 4 1 Other Useful Features 39 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS 40 5 1 Introduction 40 5 2 How To Use Phoenix Awa...

Page 3: ...3 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 51 Chapter 8 Technical Support 52 Model Name and BIOS Version 53 Register Your Motherboard 53 Technical Support 54...

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

Page 5: ...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 6: ...l FC LGA4 CPU 24 IEEE 1394 Connector X 1 8 Intel 945G ICH7 i945Ga PHS Intel 945P ICH7 i945Pa PFS 25 COM2 Connector 9 240 pin DDRII DIMMs x 4 26 USB 2 0 Connector x 2 10 CPU FAN connector 27 Case Open...

Page 7: ...ol Chip Agere 1394 Control Chip Slots PCI Express x 1 Slot x 2 PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot x 1 PCI Slot x 3 PCI Express x 1 Slot x 2 PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot x 1 PCI Slot x 3 Back Panel I O P...

Page 8: ...x 2 AC 97 CODEC ATA 66 100 133 4Mbits Flash EEPROM USB 2 0 x 8 LAN connect Component PCI Express x 1 Slot x 2 Realtek Gigabit LAN Chip 32 bit PCI Slot x 3 Serial ATA II Port x 4 500MB s Agere IEEE 139...

Page 9: ...HD 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...

Page 10: ...rrow on the CPU upper interface Match Pin 1 and golden arrow Then insert the CPU into the socket 4 Press down the CPU socket plate and lever to finish CPU installation Note It s strongly recommended b...

Page 11: ...U fan on CPU socket with four sticks aiming correctly to the four mounting holes 2 Press down four fixing sticks into the holes one by one Make sure the sticks are firmly fixed into the holes Note The...

Page 12: ...N connector If you have chassis fan you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector Note Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so that they cannot support fan monitoring SYSFAN1 Connector 12V Sens...

Page 13: ...h 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 Note The tabs of the DIMM slot will clip...

Page 14: ...DIMM 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 e...

Page 15: ...cting IDE and Floppy Cables Connect the 34 pin 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 dam...

Page 16: ...wer 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...

Page 17: ...ure you plug them in the right direction We strongly recommend you to insert the 4 pin connector before connecting the 24 pin connector Aiming at the left side Foolproof Note Please aim the power plug...

Page 18: ...9x 2MB L2 660 3 60G 800MHz 18x 2MB L2 650 3 40G 800MHz 17x 2MB L2 640 3 20G 800MHz 16x 2MB L2 630 3 00G 800MHz 15x 2MB L2 5 Series 570 3 80G 800MHz 19x 1MB L2 560 3 60G 800MHz 18x 1MB L2 550 3 40G 800...

Page 19: ...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 II hard d...

Page 20: ...tem 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...

Page 21: ...andomly 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 Chann...

Page 22: ...rate 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 i945Ga PHS the PCI Express x16 Graph...

Page 23: ...16 and traditional PCI slot In order to go with the step of today s and tomorrow s processors PCI Express x 1 provides higher I O bandwidth The transfer data rate could achieve 250MB s which is close...

Page 24: ...nsfer 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...

Page 25: ...ct 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 User Upgrade Optional 5V JBB1 JBCX M...

Page 26: ...ow 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 tr...

Page 27: ...connect 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 28: ...a transferring performance such as digital camera scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices Warning Please note that Hot Plug is not allowed on IEEE...

Page 29: ...audio 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 s...

Page 30: ...nel 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 audi...

Page 31: ...31 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...

Page 32: ...erboard Also i945Pa PFS have two serial ports one is on the back panel and the other is on the motherboard With proper cable you can connect it to the back panel of chassis Pin 1 COM1 Connector i945Ga...

Page 33: ...der 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...

Page 34: ...n one 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 pro...

Page 35: ...onnect with TV which support SVideo input RJ 45 LAN Port To connect Ethernet for home or office use VGA Connector To connect with PC monitor USB Port Available for connecting USB devices IEEE 1394 Por...

Page 36: ...which support SVideo input RJ 45 LAN Port To connect Ethernet for home or office use COM Port To connect with pointing devices modem or others serial devices USB Port Available for connecting USB devi...

Page 37: ...ndication 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...

Page 38: ...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 39: ...sign 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 feat...

Page 40: ...dard 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 BIOS cannot fine tune...

Page 41: ...Load Setup Defaults for recommended optimal performance 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 42: ...then you can enter the BIOS setting page Once you get into BIOS setting page please select the Frequency voltage control to set up the Power Master You will have three modes to select what you want v...

Page 43: ...ry when the processor is in low loading Power Master will drop the clock frequency to reduce the noise from processor fan Performance Mode Once you enable this mode Power Master will detect your proce...

Page 44: ...provide you the quietest working environment you can choose this mode In this mode the processor clock frequency will be lower and the noise from processor fan might be very silent Normal Mode When yo...

Page 45: ...platform 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 EzWinFl...

Page 46: ...inzip com in Windows environment Save the unzipped files into a folder for example WSGMAXII102 EXE WSGMAXII102 BIN Double click WSGMAXII102 EXE EzWinFlash will detect the model name and BIOS version o...

Page 47: ...6 colors 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 consu...

Page 48: ...tion 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 side for necessary drivers...

Page 49: ...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 50: ...ilities 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 com...

Page 51: ...51 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting...

Page 52: ...much for your understanding AOpen Technical Supporting Team 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 53: ...g information before you start Model Name Part Number P N Serial Number S N and Purchase Date The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label You can find this bar code label on the ou...

Page 54: ...54 Technical Support...

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