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Installing CPU and System Fans

Plug the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPU FAN connector. If you have chassis fan,
you can also plug it in and SYSFAN and PWRFAN connector.

CPUFAN Connector

Note:

Some CPU FANs do

not have sensor pin so that
they cannot support fan

monitoring.

+12V

Sensor

GND

PWRFAN Connector

+12V

Sensor

GND

SYSFAN1 Connector

+12V

Sensor

GND

Summary of Contents for i975Xa- YDG

Page 1: ...1 Quick Installation Procedure 11 3 2 Installation You Have to Know 12 Installing CPU 12 Installing CPU Cooler 13 Installing CPU and System Fans 15 Installing CPU and System Fans 16 Installing Memory...

Page 2: ...nnecting COM1 42 Colored Coded Back Panel 43 LED Indication 44 3 4 Jumper Settings 45 4 2 Other Useful Features 48 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS 49 5 1 Introduction 49 5 2 How To Use Phoenix Award BIOS Setup...

Page 3: ...ows environment 70 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers 72 6 1 Installing Drivers 73 6 2 Installing Utilities 74 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 75 Chapter 8 Technical Support 76 Model Name and BIOS Version 77 Regi...

Page 4: ...PC on somewhere is not sturdy For examples rug or bed mattress Ensure smooth air flow for heat dissipation 6 Before plugging on power make certain the electric voltage in your area complies with that...

Page 5: ...manual or the troubleshooting procedures Disposal Instruction For better protection of our earth please don t throw this electronic device into municipal trash bin when discarding To minimize polluti...

Page 6: ...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 7: ...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 8: ...Jumper 9 479 pin CPU Socket supporting Intel Yonah Core Duo Solo Processors 27 ATA133 IDE connector x 2 10 Serial ATA II connector x 4 28 IEEE 1394 Connector 11 Boot LED 29 Power Master II Ready LED...

Page 9: ...io on board Support 7 1 Channel USB Integrated in Chipset USB 2 0 x 8 Port IEEE 1394 Agere 1394 Control Chip Slots PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot x 2 PCI Express x 1 Slot x 2 PCI Slot x 2 Back Panel I...

Page 10: ...EPROM USB 2 0 x 8 Hardware Moniter PCI Express x 1 Slot x 1 Marvell Gigabit LAN Chip 32 bit PCI Slot x 2 Serial ATA Port x 4 500MB s Winbond Super I O IEEE 1394 x 2 PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot PCI...

Page 11: ...OM and SATA Disk etc 6 Connecting ATX Power Cable 5 Connecting Front Panel Cable 7 Installing PCI Express x 16 Graphics Cards PCI Express x 1 Cards and PCI Cards 8 Installing Other Devices IrDA Remote...

Page 12: ...Yonah core CPU 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 interfa...

Page 13: ...desiged by AOpen please follow the following steps to install CPU cooler 1 Please apply thermal paste on the bottom of CPU cooler 2 Gently put CPU cooler onto the CPU retention module 3 Connect coole...

Page 14: ...nstall two cooler fixing sticks into CPU retention module 5 Push the iron plate of cooler fixing stick up a bit Note Make sure that the sticks have hooked CPU retention module firmly Fixing stick Iron...

Page 15: ...15 6 Then press iron plate downward till you hear a clip sound Note Make sure that the iron plate have hooked CPU retention module firmly...

Page 16: ...AN connector If you have chassis fan you can also plug it in and SYSFAN and PWRFAN connector CPUFAN Connector Note Some CPU FANs do not have sensor pin so that they cannot support fan monitoring 12V S...

Page 17: ...dress Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in black and navy blue which are very easy to recognize Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly u...

Page 18: ...Either single sided or double sided When dual channel mode is successfully enabled the screen will show Dual Channel Mode Enabled while entering POST screens Note Using memory modules of different chi...

Page 19: ...and IDE connector Be careful of the pin1 orientation Wrong orientation may cause system damage ATA 33 66 100 IDE Connector Pin 1 Primary Slave 2nd Primary Master 1st FDD Connector Pin 1 ATA 66 100 133...

Page 20: ...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 21: ...ure you plug them in the right direction We strongly recommend you to insert the 4 pin connector before connecting the 20 pin connector 12V 12V Ground Ground Aiming at the left side Foolproof Note Ple...

Page 22: ...adjust the CPU Ratio but only change CPU FSB clock to achieve overclocking Users do the overclocking at their own risk BIOS Setup Frequency Voltage Control CPU Bus Frequency Processor Number Architec...

Page 23: ...the disk Like every 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 Whe...

Page 24: ...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 25: ...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 26: ...26 Adjusting your Hot Plug Hard Disk Setting External Hot Plug SATA HDD 1 Plug SATA cable to onboard External 2 Plug SATA cable to SATA HDD...

Page 27: ...herboard The PCI Express x 16 is a bus interface targeted for high performance 3D graphic Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 8X AGP and the data transfer rate c...

Page 28: ...ecommended and must plug while you want to use one or two PCI Express VGA This power can provide extra power from power supply to make sure all peripherals run well It is POWER IN connector 2 Plug PCI...

Page 29: ...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 500MB s concurrently it s 250MB s per dire...

Page 30: ...yellow 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 whe...

Page 31: ...provides eight USB 2 0 ports to 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 modu...

Page 32: ...a transferring performance such as digital camera scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices Pin1 Warning Please note that Hot Plug is not allowed on...

Page 33: ...nnecting IR 1 Take IR_Receiver and IR_Remote Control from package 2 Install IR_Receiver 1 Install IR_Receiver Connector on the Power Master II Connector KEY IR_Data_In Power Master II Connector 5VSB G...

Page 34: ...ny block on it So it can receive IR signal without interfere 3 Remote Control Installation 1 Pull out Remote Control s battery socket 2 Placce battery into battery socket and plug into remote control...

Page 35: ...e will show screen with EZInstall Select Install Utilities In Install Utilities click AOpen COO Paradise 2 After installation you can find icon on the desk with AOpen COO Paradise Utility Press the ic...

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Page 37: ...antly No need to shut down machine and power on again to enter BIOS setup Over clcoking using AOpen remote control is very convience and instant solution 3 Window Media player control to play DVD VCD...

Page 38: ...38 Below picture show you the AOpen COO Paradise utility which it brings clear information for you while you are over clocking...

Page 39: ...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 speaker...

Page 40: ...gh 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 port on...

Page 41: ...41 Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound CD IN Connector GND GND L R...

Page 42: ...ng COM1 This motherboard provides two serial ports All of them are on the left of PCI32 slot With proper cable you can connect it to the back panel of chassis SIN DTR DSR CTS DCD SOUT GND RTS R1 1 COM...

Page 43: ...Port Available for connecting USB devices RJ 45 LAN Port To connect Ethernet for home or office use S PDIF Out An optical S PDIF output to send signals via the digital outputs S PDIF In An optical S...

Page 44: ...nces 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 when your system is under POST Power On Self Test A...

Page 45: ...e 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 power cable back to connector PWR2 Ti...

Page 46: ...You can use JP28 to enable or disable this function which could resume your system from suspend mode with keyboard or mouse The factory default setting is Disable 1 2 and you may enable this function...

Page 47: ...r 1 JP4 1 JP5 1 JP4 1 JP5 Normal Default JP4 and JP5 Front Side Bus Clock Frequency Jumper Front Side Bus FSB is also known as the Processor Bus Memory Bus or System Bus and connects the CPU with the...

Page 48: ...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 49: ...tom version of an industry standard BIOS The BIOS provides critical low level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives serial and parallel ports AOpen s R D engineering team had optimized...

Page 50: ...and connecting cables you can power on and enter the BIOS Setup Press Del during POST Power On Self Test and choose Load Setup Defaults for recommended optimal performance Key Description Page Up or...

Page 51: ...n the 24 hour military clock Standard CMOS features IDE Channel 0 Master Standard CMOS features IDE Channel 0 Slave Standard CMOS features IDE Channel 2 Master Standard CMOS features IDE Channel 2 Sla...

Page 52: ...ures IDE Channel 0 Master Access Mode Set the using mode of HDD Available options CHS LBA Large Auto default User can select the mode according to the label on HDD z Cylinder Enter cylinder number z H...

Page 53: ...riority This parameter allows you to specify the system boot up search sequence Advanced BIOS Features First Boot Device Advanced BIOS Features Second Boot Device Advanced BIOS Features Third Boot Dev...

Page 54: ...g you to enter your password appears on the screen every time you boot the system The Setup option limits access only to BIOS setup To disable the security option select Password Setting from the main...

Page 55: ...tten to read from or refreshed Fast gives fater performance and Slow give more stable performance This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system Available options 2 3 4 5 6 A...

Page 56: ...features System Memory Frequency This item is used to set DRAM timing Available options DDRII533 MHz 667 MHz Auto Advanced Chipset features PCI Express Root Port Func Advanced Chipset features DRAM Da...

Page 57: ...ain menu This option allows you to configure the I O features Integrated peripherals OnChip IDE Device Integrated peripherals OnChip IDE Device On Chip Primary PCI IDE This item allows you to select w...

Page 58: ...ach channel z Enhanced Mode Enable both SATA and PATA Max of 6 IDE drives are supported z SATA only SATA is operating in legacy mode Integrated peripherals OnChip IDE Device PATA IDE Mode When On chip...

Page 59: ...grated peripherals Onboard Device Onboard 1394 Control This item lets you enable or disable onboard 1394 Integrated peripherals Onboard Device Onboard IDE Control This item lets you enable or disable...

Page 60: ...board serial port The default is 3F8 IRQ4 Integrated peripherals SuperIO Device Onboard Serial Port 2 This item allows you to assign address and interrupt for the board serial port The default is 2F8...

Page 61: ...mes from power failure This design is inconvenient for a network server or workstation without an UPS that needs to keep power on This item is used to solve this problem Selecting On enabling system t...

Page 62: ...in activity Available options Disabled Enabled Power Management Power On by Ring The option lets you specify enable or disable Wake On Modem Ring function Available options Disabled Enabled Power Mana...

Page 63: ...tem is displayed when you enable the Wake On RTC Timer option Here you can specify what date you want to wake up the system For Example setting to 15 will wake up the system on the 15th day of every m...

Page 64: ...System Temperature PC Health Status CPU Temperature PC Health Status PWR Fan PC Health Status CPU Fan PC Health Status System Fan PC health status bring you on the System temperature CPU temperature...

Page 65: ...This submenu allows you to configure the CPU and memory clock Frequency Voltage Control CPU Voltage Setting This item allows user to adjust CPU Vcore voltage BIOS will determine the adjustable value a...

Page 66: ...mine the adjustable value according to the North Bridge default Available options Auto 1 525V 1 575V 1 625V 1 675V Frequency Voltage Control Spread Spectrum This item is used to set the value of clock...

Page 67: ...Thie item shows the CPU Clock of status You can adjust the clock according it Available options 166MHz 199MHz Frequency Voltage Control Power Master Please press the Del button after you start the co...

Page 68: ...choose this mode Power Master will be turned off The processor clock frequency will always keep at the original speed Load Optimized Defaults The Load Optimized Defaults option loads optimized setting...

Page 69: ...rd has been disabled Set User Password User Password can authorize users check only It cannot modify the BIOS setting inside To set a password 1 At the prompt type your password Your password can be u...

Page 70: ...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 71: ...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 72: ...ation 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 driver...

Page 73: ...Installing driver page EzInstall had picked up necessary for your motherboard All you have to do is just click on the GO and no more steps afterward of all listed drivers grey checks indicate necessar...

Page 74: ...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 75: ...75 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting...

Page 76: ...for your understanding AOpen Technical Supporting Team Chapter 8 Technical Support Europe http www aopen nl tech default htm Pacific Rim http www aopen com tw tech default htm China http www aopen com...

Page 77: ...ng 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 o...

Page 78: ...78 Technical Support Chapter 5 Setting BIOS...

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