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Table of Contents 

 

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

 

1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................3

 

1.2 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................4

 

1.3 Safety Information ......................................................................................4

 

Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard ............................................... 5

 

2.1 How does your motherboard look like?...........................................................5

 

2.2 Specification ...............................................................................................6

 

2.3 Block Diagram ............................................................................................7

 

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation ............................................................... 8

 

3.1 Quick Installation Procedure .........................................................................8

 

3.2 Installation You Have to Know.......................................................................9

 

Installing CPU ............................................................................................ 9

 

Installing CPU and System Fans ..................................................................10

 

Installing Memory Modules .........................................................................11

 

Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables ..............................................................12

 

Connecting Front Panel Cable .....................................................................13

 

Connecting ATX Power Cables .....................................................................14

 

3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference ........................................................... 15

 

Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency .............................................................15

 

Connecting Serial ATA................................................................................16

 

Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting.................................................................17

 

Connecting AGP 8X Expansion Slot ..............................................................18

 

Connecting IrDA........................................................................................19

 

10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported (1000Mbps for s760GXm-SL only) ..............20

 

Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................21

 

Connecting S/PDIF ....................................................................................22

 

Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect ...................................................................23

 

Table of Contents

Summary of Contents for s760GXm

Page 1: ...You Have to Know 9 Installing CPU 9 Installing CPU and System Fans 10 Installing Memory Modules 11 Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables 12 Connecting Front Panel Cable 13 Connecting ATX Power Cables 14 3...

Page 2: ...tting Utility for s760GXm SL s760GXm S only 32 Other Useful Features 33 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS 34 Introduction 34 How To Use Phoenix Award BIOS Setup Program 35 How To Enter BIOS Setup 35 BIOS Upgrade...

Page 3: ...Intel Intel Celeron Pentium II III and Pentium 4 are the registered trademarks of Intel Corporation The logos of nVidia are the registered trademarks of nVidia Corporation The logos of Microsoft Wind...

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: ...760GX 964L chipsets s760GXm 20 FDD Connector 7 SYSFAN1 Connector 21 USB2 0 Connectors x 2 8 20 pin ATX Power Connector 22 COM2 Connector 9 4 pin 12V ATX Power Connector 23 JP14 CMOS Data Clear Jumper...

Page 6: ...x 1 PCI x 3 AGP x 1 PCI x 3 Back Panel I O PS 2 Keyboard x 1 PS 2 Mouse x 1 USB Port x 4 LAN Port x 1 COM Port x 1 VGA Port x 1 Printer Port x 1 Speaker_Out x 1 Line_In x 1 MIC_In x 1 PS 2 Keyboard x...

Page 7: ...SiS 964 s760GXm SL s760GXm S SiS 964L s760GXm 32 bit PCI Slots x3 PCI Bus 150MB s RealTek AC97 CODEC 4Mbits FlashEEPROM Parallel Port Serial Ports x2 USB Ports x8 Floppy Disk Drive AGP 8X Slot LAN con...

Page 8: ...mory 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...

Page 9: ...tomatically power off when the temperature of CPU reached 97 degree 1 Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90 degree angle 2 Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a golden arrow on the CPU upper i...

Page 10: ...FAN connector If you have chassis fan you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector SYSFAN1 Connector CPUFAN Connector SYSFAN2 Connector Note Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so that they c...

Page 11: ...ery 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 to hold...

Page 12: ...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 damage IDE 1...

Page 13: ...r LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing which is a 2 pin female connector from the housing front panel Plug this connector to t...

Page 14: ...les 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 conn...

Page 15: ...00MHz 200MHz 512KB 9x Athlon 64 3000 2000MHz 200MHz 512KB 10x Athlon 64 3200 2000MHz 200MHz 1024KB 10x Athlon 64 3200 2200MHz 200MHz 512KB 11x Athlon 64 3400 2200MHz 200MHz 1024KB 11x Athlon 64 3400 2...

Page 16: ...y 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 hard d...

Page 17: ...ard disks on your operating system 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 p...

Page 18: ...MHz clock for 4X AGP and the data transfer rate could achieve 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 1056MB s Now AGP is moving to AGP 8X mode which is upgraded to 66MHz x 4bytes x 8 2 1GB s Warning It is strongly recomm...

Page 19: ...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 20: ...LED indicates link mode it lights in 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...

Page 21: ...evices such as mouse keyboard modem printer etc There are four ports on the back panel You can also use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel ACT LED Right...

Page 22: ...e 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 product...

Page 23: ...urround 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 Pict...

Page 24: ...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 25: ...25 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...

Page 26: ...26 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...

Page 27: ...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 28: ...es two serial ports One of them is on back panel connector and the other is on the left of board below FDD connector With proper cable you can connect it to the back panel of chassis Pin 1 COM Connect...

Page 29: ...le for connecting USB devices Parallel Port 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...

Page 30: ...nd by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode AGP LED aims to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over voltage of AGP card When AGP Protection Technology is implemented this mo...

Page 31: ...e below 1 Turn off the system and unplug the AC power 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 pi...

Page 32: ...or the Serial ATA hard disks You may use RAID BIOS Setting Utility provided by SiS to setup your disk array For more RAID introduction please visit our website http english aopen com tw tech techinsid...

Page 33: ...gn 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 featur...

Page 34: ...rd 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 t...

Page 35: ...d 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 Enter...

Page 36: ...platform you might be using no matter if you re using Windows 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 37: ...nzip com in Windows environment Save the unzipped files into a folder for example S760GXMSL102 EXE S760GXMSL102 BIN Double click S760GXMSL102 EXE EzWinFlash will detect the model name and BIOS version...

Page 38: ...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 consumi...

Page 39: ...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 40: ...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 41: ...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 42: ...42 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting...

Page 43: ...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 44: ...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 45: ...45 Technical Support...

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