Caution: By updating your motherboard, you are taking a risk
of BIOS flash failure. If your motherboard is working stable,
and there are no major bugs that had been fixed by a latter
BIOS revision, we recommend that you DO NOT try to upgrade
your BIOS.
If you intent on upgrading, PLEASE BE SURE to get the right
BIOS revision for the right motherboard model to avoid any
possibility failure.
10. Front Audio Connector
If the housing has been designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to
connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. By the way, please remove
5-6 and 9-10 jumper caps from the Front Audio Connector before connecting the cable.
Please do not remove these 5-6 and 9-10 yellow jumper caps if there’s no audio port on
the front panel.
Pin 1
11. Support Six USB Connectors
This motherboard provides six
USB
connectors to connect USB devices, such as mouse,
keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are two connectors on the PC99 back panel. You
can use proper cable to connect other USB connectors to the back panel or front panel of
chassis.
Pin 1
USB3 Connector
USB2 Connector
USBPWR0
USB_FP_P0-
US
GND
KEY
USBPWR0
USB_FP_P1-
US
GND
USB_FP_OC0
1 2
12. BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment
With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard
---- EZWinFlash. With an eye to users convenience, EZWinFlash combines the BIOS
binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on
the utility you downloaded from web and let it helps you complete the flash process
automatically. EZWinFlash detects your motherboard and checks the BIOS version
cleverly to prevent your system from any possible failure. Moreover, EZWinFlash has been
taken into consideration to go with any windows platform you might be using, no matter if
you’re using Windows 95/98, 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000, or even the latest Windows XP.
In the meanwhile, in order to provide a much more user-friendly operating environment,
AOpen EZWinFlash is natively designed to have multi-language function to provide easier
way for users’ usage in changing BIOS setting.
AUD_MIC
AUD_MIC_BIAS
AUD_FPOUT_R
NC
AUD_FROUT_L
AUD_GND
AUD_VCC
AUD_RET_R
KEY
AUD_RET_L
9 10
1 2
Note: The model name on this BIOS picture is for reference only. It may not be the
exact model name.
