Chapter of Contents Chapter of Contents Chapter of Contents ..................................................................................... 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Started ................................... 3 1.2 The Features Of This Manual ........................................................ 4 1.3 Preliminary Tools........................................................................... 5 Chapter 2 What’s In The Box? .............................................................
3.7 Connecting DRAM to DIMM Sockets ........................................ 19 3.8 Insert AGP card or PCI card to motherboard............................... 19 3.9 Putting Drives Cage back to Chassis ........................................... 21 3.10 All Set ........................................................................................ 22 3.11 How about all external peripheral? ............................................ 23 Chapter 4 Turn On The Power! ..........................................
1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Started First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for purchasing our AOpen specially-designed XC Cube. Once again, this bare-system is designed uniquely to meet all your personal needs with our great industry-designing ability and our everlasting perseverance to the quality of all our products. This manual is for those who want to set up computer by themselves. In other words, this is a book for " Fresh drivers on the road.
1.2 The Features Of This Manual In this manual, you'll be able to learn how to: set up a personal computer on your own. correctly and safely put everything together and learn something about hardware. learn some practical techniques that make doing the job easier. In addition, this manual DOES NOT offer you: any sorts of back doors, such as overclocking. a great deal of hardware standard that are hard to comprehend. lengthy fanciful article or vague theories.
1.3 Preliminary Tools "A workman must first sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well". Right before you start the assembly, there are some tools that can't be spared. Firstly, the most frequently-used tool is cross screwdriver by which most interior components are fixed. A suitable screwdriver can make the following job much easier. Being so, does any screwdriver apply? Actually a magnetic tip one is suggested.
Chapter Chapter2 2What’s What’sInInThe TheBox? Box? 2.1 What’s In The Box? Open the XC Cube box, you will find components as follow: XC Cube chassis / Drives Cage Motherboard Power Supply CPU cooler All in One Drives Cage Power Supply / XC Cube Chasiss Motherboard CPU cooler The pictures above may look different from the product you purchased.
2.2 Accessory Beside main components, you are supposed to see the following accessories: Fixed screws: After opening the accessory parcel, you'll see the following four different type of screws: As shown in the picture, the threads on NO.1 screw are wide and it has a hexagonal head As shown in the picture, the NO.3 screw’s threads are wide as well but it has a round head. As shown in the picture, threads on NO.2 screw are narrow and there is a ring on its head. As shown in the picture, the NO.
Chapter Chapter33Start StartTo ToAssemble Assemble 3.1 Features of XC Cube AOpen XC Cube, designed as a Mini-PC, provides you as many advantages as it can. You may find that it is elegant among other traditional PC design that obviously highlighted your individual style and taste with different color panel provided. In addition to it’s unique appearance, AOpen XC Cube is easy to move around in your house, suitable for decoration even in your living room.
3.2 Starting Installing 1. Unscrew all screws on the chassis. Use your thumb to push the chassis backward to you. 2. Lift the chassis up. Here you may see the internal of the chassis.
3.3 Cooler, Hard Disk, Floppy Drives and Optical devices 3.3.1 Taking Cooler out Before installing hard disk, floppy drives and optical devices into the XC Cube chassis, let’s take the cooler out from chassis first. 1. Take the screws off the chassis and then take the Drives Cage out. Drives Cage 2. Before taking AOpen-made Cooler out, please disconnect its connector first. After that, unfasten AOpen-made Cooler. For detail, please refer to EIG wording. 3. Take the cooler out of the chassis.
The bottom of Cooler had been protected with a plastic cover when shipped. Please take it off when you want to put the cooler on CPU. 3.3.2 Install Hard disk After taking out Cooler, let’s focus on Installing Drives Cage. Slide hard disk into the Drives Cage, and use screw no. 3 to screw it firmly to the cage. Heat dissipation side faces up. Front mark Front mark 3.3.3 Install Floppy Drive Slide in the floppy drive as shown. Use screw no.2 to screw the 3rd and 6th hole separately.
3.3.4 Install Optical Drive Slide in the optical drive. Use screw no.2 to screw the optical drive firmly. Optical device must aim at the edge of Drives Don't mess up screws!! Generally there are special screws for hard disk in the parcel when you buy a new hard disk. There will be no harm done using those screws. If no screws are attached, use those packed in the accessory parcel. Make sure to use the NO.2 screws. (See page 7) 3.4 Cables and Connectors 1.
2. Connecting floppy cable, hard disk and optical cable on motherboard for later use. Optical device cable Hard disk cable 3. If you happen to have Serial ATA hard disk, Except EZ661L, this motherboard comes with Serial ATA connectors onboard as well. With EzColor design, you may easily find out the correct flame-red cable with the correct header. You may kindly install the Serial ATA cables onto Serial ATA headers.
Λ Where is Pin1Λ When connecting IDE cables, bear in mind to aim the red side of IDE cables at the first pin of the socket where there’s an arrow mark on the motherboard. If you are still not sure, please refer to your motherboard manual. 3.5 Install CPU 3.5.1 Install CPU On Socket 478 1. Erect sensor up a bit (it might have been folded while shipped in with Cooler on top of it). After that, erect CPU socket lever up. Lever Sensor 2. Install CPU onto CPU socket. Press the lever back to CPU socket.
3. And it’s done. 3.5.2 Install CPU On Socket T 1. Remove plastic cap and erect CPU socket lever up. Plastic Cap 2. Lever Pull CPU socket plate up and install CPU onto CPU socket. Then press plate back to CPU socket.
3. Press down CPU socket lever to finish CPU installation. 3.5.3 Install CPU On Socket 754 1. Erect CPU socket lever up and gently put CPU onto socket. Lever 2. Press lever back to CPU socket, and then it’s done.
3.5.4 Install CPU On Socket A 1. Erect CPU socket lever up and gently put CPU onto Socket Lever 2. Press lever back to CPU socket, and then it’s done. 3.5.5 Install CPU On Socket 479 1. Remove plastic membrane from CPU socket and make sure the drop-shaped indicator on socket screw aims at open direction (the default is open).
2. Match socket Pin 1 and golden arrow, and gently put CPU onto CPU socket. Then lock socket screw clockwise to finish CPU installation. Golden arrow Socket pin 1 3.5.6 Install CPU On Socket 939 1.
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2. After that, please plug in the AGP card. Screw the iron lock on top of the AGP slot will do. 3.
3.9 Putting Drives Cage back to Chassis 1. Putting all cables aside, you may assemble the Drives Cage back to the chassis from top of the chassis. 2. Lift the Drive Cage up at 45 degree for better installing optical and Floppy Drive.
Connecting hard disk/power cord to Drive Cage: Lock the Drives Cage with screw No. 2. 3.10 All Set 1.
2. Mount screws and then it’s down. 3.11 How about all external peripheral? 1. Let’s take a look at the Front Panel and Rear Panel ports. Front Panel Optical Devices Floppy Drive/Card Reader On/Off button IEEE1394 port (6-pin) IEEE1394 port (4-pin) USB2.
Back Panel IEEE1394 connector Coaxial Out RCA Port Ethernet network connector (RJ-45) COM1 Line-In Jack (SUR L/R) Printer Port Line-out Jack(L/R) Microphone jack(C/B) PS/2 mouse connector PS/2 keyboard connector USB2.0 connector S/PDIF IN port Monitor connector The pictures above are for reference. Please refer to the EIG for detail. 2. Connect keyboard 3. Connect and mouse.
4. Connect Microphone (speaker or earphone) and network cable 5. Set proper voltage and connect power supply cable. The voltage supplied by power outlet differs from countries or areas you dwell in. If the outlet is supplied by 110V, please set the switch to 115V. If the outlet is supplied by 220V, please set the switch to 230V. For 110/115V For 220/230V Connect Power Cord Cable finally.
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Chapter Chapter44Turn TurnOn OnThe ThePower! Power! 1. Turn on the power. Ok, all cables have been properly connected. Are you getting confident of assembling a computer by yourself? The final stage is to turn on the power to check what you have done so far. Now take a short break and have a drink. Then turn on the computer to see how things are going. 2. Set BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). Not long after activating the power, you'll see the following screen.
After pressing Delete, you'll see the following BIOS setup: Now, you can move the cursor by using direction keys on the keyboard.
Then, the following dialogue screen will pop up to confirm the default BIOS values. Please press "Y" to confirm and then press Enter Finally, move the cursor to "Save & Exit Setup" and press Enter to save the parameters and exit BIOS setup.
At the same time, type "Y" in the dialogue box and press Enter to exit.
Postscripts Postscripts First of all we would like to congratulate your successful computer DIY. Now you can install an operation system and some application software based on your personal requirements. However, these are beyond discussions of this manual which mainly aims to teach you correct understanding of DIY skills and enable you to assemble a computer step by step. As for the application part, you can find all varieties of books with comprehensive introduction in bookstores.
Appendix Appendix Install OS Into Serial ATA Hard Disk for UX661 Series UX661 is equipped with powerful SiS 964 chip with Serial ATA function. Please notice that when installing OS into Serial ATA hard disk, there will be some limitations due to the limitation of SiS 964 chip. Please carefully follow the installation guides below to install Windows 2000/XP or Windows 98SE/ME. 1. Power on and then press to enter BIOS during POST (Power On Self Test). 2.
RAID Driver Installation Guide for UX661 Series By the strength of SiS 964 chip, UX661 provides RAID 0 and 1 functions. User could build RAID in Windows 2000 or Windows XP. For enabling RAID function, it’s needed to install driver from Floppy drive. Please connect Floppy drive to motherboard before starting to install OS. Of course, user needs to install two Serial ATA hard disks to motherboard too. 1.
3. Select the driver for your OS (Windows 2000 or Windows XP) and press to install the driver. 4. For more information of RAID installation, please refer to the file “964_180umh030.pdf“ in the Utility CD.
Introduction To Jumper Settings and Other Connectors JP14 Clear CMOS You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure 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 pin 1 & pin 2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2.
CPU and System Fan Connector Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN1 connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it into SYSFAN2.