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AK79G Tube Online Manual W h a t ’s i n t h i s m a n u a l AK79G Tube ................................................................................................................................... 1 What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice ..................................................................................................................
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AK79G Tube Online Manual DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 30 STBY LED ..................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Front Panel Connector .............................................................................................................
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Support USB 2.0 Ports .................................................................................................................................................. 50 IEEE 1394 Connectors .................................................................................................................................................. 51 Case Open Connector...........................................................................................................................
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AK79G Tube Online Manual NVIDIA nForce Drivers .................................................................................................................................................. 77 NVIDIA Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Display Driver .......................................................................................................... 78 Install USB2.0 driver in Existing Windows XP System...................................................................................................
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AK79G Tube Online Manual DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM ...................................................................................................................................... 92 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ........................................................................................................................... 92 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM)....................................................................................................
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AK79G Tube Online Manual SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ...................................................................................................................................... 96 SATA (Serial ATA) ......................................................................................................................................................... 97 SMBus (System Management Bus) .....................................................................................................................
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AK79G Tube Online Manual You Must Notice Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD, the AMD logo, Athlon and Duron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Before You Start This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved in PDF format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Ove rv ie w ® Thank you for choosing AOpen AK79G Tube. The AK79G Tube is based on AMD Socket 462 motherboard with ATX form factor featuring the AMD Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP CPU. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AK79G Tube support AMD ® Socket 462 series Athlon™, Duron™ and AthlonXP™ processor (with CPU Overheat Protection circuit to Athlon™XP CPU only). The motherboard also supports 333/266/200MHz EV6 bus.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual F e a t ur e H i g h li g h t CPU ® Supports AMD Socket 462 series CPU with 200MHz, 266MHz and 333MHz, EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology. Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz Duron: 600MHz~1.3GHz AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~2800+(2.25GHz) Chipset NVIDIA nForce™2-G is excellent in providing amazing digital media performance, such as 400MHz DDR memory controller, optimized 128-bit architecture reducing overall system memory latency.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Including three 32-bit/33MHz PCI slots and one AGP 8X slot which supports AGP card. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed with data transfer rate up to 2.1GB/s. Memory With NVIDIA nForce™2-G chipsets, the AK79G Tube can support dual channel Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The dual channel mode allows chipsets to get data in 128 bit.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual LAN MAC embedded in nForce2 chipsets and a Realtek RTL8201BL PHY onboard, which support 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet and is IEEE802.3 compliant. Six USB 2.0 Connectors Provides three ports, six USB 2.0 connectors with transfer rates at high speed of 480Mbps for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Power Management/Plug and Play Supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers Plug-and-Play, which helps saving users from configuration problems, thus making the system much more user-friendly.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Q u i c k I n s t a ll a t i o n P r oc e d u re This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. 1. Installing CPU and Fan 2. Installing System Memory (DIMM) 3. Connecting Front Panel Cable 4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable 5. Connecting ATX Power Cable 6. Connecting Back Panel Cable 7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default 8. Setting CPU Frequency 9. Reboot 10.
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AK79G Tube Realtek LAN PHY CD-IN Connector AUX-IN Connector Onboard AC’97 CODEC Tube Audio Connector Case Open Connector IrDA Connector S/PDIF Connector Sovtek 6922 dual Triode Tube & Tube Base Online Manual M o t h e r b o a r d Ma p Front Audio Connector PC99 Colored Back Panel JP28 KB/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper AGP LED TV Output Connector SYSFAN2 Connector WIMA Hi-End Audio Grade Capacitor MultiCap Hi-End Audio Grade Capacitor 462-pin CPU Socket that supports AMD TM Athlon TM / Duron TM / Ath
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AK79G Tube Online Manual B l oc k Di a gr a m 128bit dual channel DDR400/333/266 Up to 3GB DDR SDRAM Socket x3 PCI Bus 32-bit PCI Slot x3 200/266/333MHz System Bus Socket 462 AMD Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP CPU ATA 66/100/133 nVidia nForce2 IGP Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel AGP Bus AC’97 Link nVidia nForce2 MCP-T AGP 8X Slot VGA onboard LAN connect Component Audio CODEC RealTek RTL8201BL 4Mb Flash EEPROM 1st USB Port 4Mb Flash EEPROM 2nd USB Port 3rd USB Port USB Port x6 Winbo
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AK79G Tube Online Manual H a rd w ar e I ns t a l l at i o n This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard. Note: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. 1. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual A b o u t “ U s e r U p g r a d e O p t i o n a l ” a n d “ Ma n u f a c t u r e U p g r a d e Optional”… When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may notice that some of the functions are marked as “User Upgrade Optional” or “Manufacture Upgrade Optional”. Although all of AOpen’s motherboards have included many amazing and powerful features, sometimes not every user is familiar with these powerful features.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual J P 1 4 C l e a r C MO S D a t a You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedures 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. Pin 1 1 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual CPU I nst al lat i on ® This motherboard supports AMD Athlon and Duron Socket 462 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket (with CPU Overheat Protection function implemented, the system will be automatically power off when the temperature of CPU reached 97 degree, but works on AthlonXP CPU only). 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the CPU upper interface.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual 3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation. CPU cut edge Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, you may damage the CPU. Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual AOpen Overheat Protection (O.H.P.) Technology With AMD platform substantially keeps increasing the speed of its CPU, it inevitably led to the annoying problem of high CPU operation temperature at the same time. In order to prevent accidental failure of CPU fan, which could cause the burning down of the AthlonXP CPU, we, AOpen, have meticulously developed a new technology, named, O.H.P. (Overheat Protection) Technology to protect them.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual CPU Jumper-less Design CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” With this motherboard, AOpen provides a very special, useful feature for overclockers. When you power-on the system, the BIOS will check last system POST status. If it succeeded, the BIOS will enable “Watch Dog ABS” function immediately, and set the CPU FSB frequency by user’s setting that stored in the BIOS. If system failed in BIOS POST, the “Watch Dog ABS” will reset the system to reboot in five seconds.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 1.1V to 1.85V. It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage. Set ting CPU Fre que ncy This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, and no jumpers or switches are needed. BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Speed Setting CPU Ratio From 5.5x to 16x step 0.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Support e d CPU Fre que ncy Core Frequency = CPU Bus Clock * CPU Ratio PCI Clock = CPU Bus Clock / Clock Ratio EV6 Bus Speed = CPU external bus clock x 2 AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 CPU CPU Core Frequency EV6 Bus Clock Ratio Athlon 1G 1GHz 266MHz 7.5x Athlon 1.13G 1.13GHz 266MHz 8.5x Athlon 1.2G 1.2GHz 266MHz 9.0x Athlon 1.33G 1.33GHz 266MHz 10.0x Athlon 1.4G 1.4GHz 266MHz 10.5x AthlonXP 1500+ 1.3GHz 266MHz 10.0x AthlonXP 1600+ 1.4GHz 266MHz 10.5x AthlonXP 1700+ 1.46GHz 266MHz 11.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual CPU and Housin g Fan C onnector Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN1 connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on SYSFAN2 or SYSFAN3 connector. GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector GND +12V SENSOR CPUFAN1 Connector GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN3 Connector 28 Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that they cannot support fan monitoring.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Jumpers This motherboard provides keyboard / mouse wake-up function. 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 by setting the jumper to 2-3.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual DI MM So cke ts This motherboard has three 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install 128bit dual channel DDR400 or DDR333 or DDR266 memory up to 3GB. To reach maximal performance, you had better install at least 2 RAM in the sockets(in 128 bit dual channel mode, you must install two RAM in DIMM 1,DIMM3 or DIMM 2, DIMM3). Only Non-ECC DDR RAM is supported, otherwise, it will cause serious damage on memory sockets or SDRAM module.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual H o w t o I n s t a l l Me m o r y Mo d u l e s Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation. 1. Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below. Pin 1 52 pins 2. 40 pins Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place. Tab Key 3. Pin 1 Repeat step 2 to finish additional DIMM modules installation.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual STBY LED STBY LED is AOpen’s considerate design that aims at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED will light up when power is connected to the motherboard. This is a convenient indication for you to check the system power status in many circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode. Warning: Do not install or remove the DIMM module or others devices when the STBY LED lights on.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual F r o n t P a n e l C o n n e c t or Attach the power LED, speaker, power and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” item in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode. Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing. It is 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. Plug this connector to the soft-power switch connector marked SPWR.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual ATX Power Connector The ATX power supply uses 20-pin connector shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction. AC Pow er Auto Recovery 20-Pin Power Connector A traditional ATX system should remain at power off stage when AC power resumes from power failure. This design is inconvenient for a network server or workstation, without an UPS, that needs to keep power-on. This motherboard implements an AC Power Auto Recovery function to solve this problem.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual IDE and Floppy Connector Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 as the secondary channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of four devices. In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must be set differently to Master and Slave mode. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM. The setting as master or slave mode depends on the jumper on your IDE device, so please refer to your hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Tube Related components To provide audiophiles excellent audio effect on the computer system, this motherboard is equipped with a Vacuum Tube. You may find its related component as shown below. For the detail information of tube installation or other related components, please refer to Tube Manual.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual JP3 Tube Power Jumper This JP3 jumper allows you to switch on/off power supply for Vacuum Tube. You may switch the power off whenever you are not using Tube as your audio output in order to save the power. Pin 1 JP3 Tube Power Jumper 1 1 Note: For details of Vacuum Tube, please refer to our specially made Tube Manual.
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AK79G Tube Onlliine Manual S / P D I F ( S o n y / P h il i ps D i g i t a l I nt e r f a c e ) C o n n e c t or S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through a specific audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital output.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC650 CODEC, which supports high quality of 5.1 Channel audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. On the strength of the innovative design of ALC650, you're able to use standard line-jacks for surround 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.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual TV Output Conn ector This motherboard comes with a TV Output connector which allows you to accept digital graphic input signal, and encodes, and transmit data through DVI or TV Output. Both NTSC and PAL TV formats are supported for this function. You may just install a TV Output module (as shown) to your back panel, connect S-Terminal or AV-terminal to your TV, then use it as your another monitor.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Ir DA Co nnec t or The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows 95 Direct Cable Connection, the user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps).
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AK79G Tube Online Manual A G P ( A c c e l e r a t e d G ra p h i c P o r t) 8 X E x pa n s i o n S l o t Integrated GeForce4 MX Graphics, which provides the fastest integrated graphics performance and the most comprehensive set of features, this motherboard provides an AGP 8x slot targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 4X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, this model implements a blend new technology to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over-voltage of AGP card. When AGP Protection Technology is implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Please note that if you install a AGP card with 3.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Suppor t 10/ 10 0 Mbps LAN Onboa r d On the strength of nVIDIA nForce2 LAN controller on chip (with RealTek RTL8201BL PHY), which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100M bps Ethernet for office and home use, the Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The orange LED indicates the link mode, it lights when linking to network. The green LED indicates the transfer mode, and it lights when data is transferring.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual G a me Po rt Br ac ket Su p p o rt e d This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect 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.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual D ie - Ha r d BI O S I I Many viruses have been found that they may destroy bios code and data area lately. This motherboard implements a very effective hardware protection method without any software or BIOS coding involved, therefore it is 100% virus free. You may restore the originally mounted BIOS with 2 nd BIOS ROM by setting JP24 to pin 2-3 if it fails to work properly.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual C o l o r C o d e d Ba c k Pa n el The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, serial ports COM1 and VGA, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game port. The view angle of drawing shown here is the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port PS/2 Mouse Connector LAN Port Line-In USB2.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual C O M2 C o n n e c t o r This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper left of board. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Support USB 2.0 Ports This motherboard provides six USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There is one USB connector on the board for you to connect two USB devices and four other ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect USB devices from PC99 back panel or connect the front USB connector to the front panel of chassis. Compared to traditional USB 1.0/1.1 with the speed of 12Mbps, USB 2.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual IEEE 13 9 4 Conne ct ors With IEEE1394 MAC Embedded in nForce2-GT/ST (with AGERE FW802A), the IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, and USB just has 12Mbps. Hence, the IEEE 1394 interface can connect with the devices that need high data transferring performance, such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use the proper cable to connect with devices.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Case Op en Conn ector The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function works, you have to enable it in the system BIOS, connect this header to a sensor somewhere on the chassis. So, whenever the sensor is triggered by lights or the opening of the chassis, the system will send out beep sound to inform you.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual CD Audi o Connector This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CD-ROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. L GND GND R CD-IN Connector Note: Though some of the latest version of Windows support “Digital Audio” through IDE bus. However, in order to use Open Jukebox player, which is driven under BIOS, it is a MUST to insert audio cable to CD-IN connector on the motherboard.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual F r o n t A u d i o C o n n e c t or 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.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Battery-less and Long Life Des ign This Motherboard implements Flash ROM and a special circuit that allows you to save your current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations without using the battery. The RTC (real time clock) can also keep running as long as the power cord is plugged. If you lose your CMOS data by accident, you can just reload the CMOS configurations from Flash ROM and the system will recover as usual.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual CPU Ov er- c urre nt Prote ction Over Current Protection has been popularly implemented on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply for a while. However, new generation CPU is able to use regulator of different voltages to transfer 12V to CPU voltage (for example, to 2.0V). This motherboard is with switching regulator onboard that supports CPU over-current protection, and it applies to 3.3V/5V/12V power supply for providing full line over-current protection.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual H a r d w a r e Mo n i t o r i n g This motherboard implements a hardware monitoring system. As you turn on your system, this smart design will monitor your system’s working voltage, fan status and CPU temperature. If any of those systems’ status goes wrong, there will be an alarm through the chassis external speaker or buzzer of motherboard (if having this function and enabled) to warn the user.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual A O C o n f i g Ut i li ty AOpen always dedicated to provide users a much friendlier computer environment. We now bring you a comprehensive system detective utility. AOconfig is a Windows based utility with user-friendly interface that allows users to obtain information of the operation system and hardware such as motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI devices and IDE devices. The powerful utility also displays the version of BIOS and firmware for your convenience of maintenance.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual 3. This page presents the IDE devices information, such as the serial number, the manufacturer, the firmware version, and capacity. 4. From this page, users may obtain the technical support information of AOpen. Moreover, detailed information could be saved in .bmp or .txt format. NOTE: AOconfig can be used in Windows 98SE/ME, NT4.0/2000 and Windows XP. Please be informed that AOconfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Resetable Fuse Traditional motherboard has fuse for Keyboard and USB port to prevent over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that user cannot replace it when it is damaged (did the job to protect motherboard), and the motherboard remains malfunction. With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can resume back to normal function after fuse had done its protection job.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual 220 0 μ F L o w ES R Ca p a c it o r The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for the stability of CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, this motherboard implements 2200μF capacitor, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 or 1500μF) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink Cool down CPU and Chipset is important for system reliability. Enlarged aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption especially when you are trying to over clocking the CPU.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Open Ju keBox Player Here we are pleased to provide you a brand-new powerful interface—Open JukeBox. Without any cost you can have your PC turn into a fashionable CD player! This latest Open JukeBox motherboard aims at helping you directly operate your CD player on the PC without any hassle of entering Windows operation system.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual How Your Open JukeBox Works The operation of Open JukeBox Player is the same as other CD players. By pressing specific keys on the keyboard you will find playing Open JukeBox Player couldn’t be easier than the traditional CD Players. Below is the function description of respective buttons. Power-Off Button Display Screen Boot to Operation System Function Key Power: Pressing O, to directly power off your computer with no hassle of entering Windows Operation System.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Your Open JukeBox Settings in BIOS There are three Open JukeBox settings in BIOS as follows. Auto: The default setting is “Auto” with which the Open JukeBox will automatically check the CD player every time you power on. The Open JukeBox will automatically be launched when it detects a music CD in your CD player. Press Insert Key: Choosing this setting will allow a reminder message popped up on the screen during BIOS POST.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Your Open JukeBox EzSkin Except these powerful functions above, Open JukeBox Player is also equipped with another fancy feature for you to change its “skin”. You can download as many skins as you want from AOpen Website, and changing them whenever you want by using this useful utility – EzSkin – which may also be downloaded from our website. Even more, you may design your own skins with innovative idea and sharing them to users around the world by uploading to our website.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Vivid BIOS technology Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful POST screen! Unlike earlier graphic POST screen, which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during
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AK79G Tube Online Manual The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek As the clock of CPU keeps rocketing higher and higher, it inevitably brings higher heat and system temperature in a relative way. The way we deal with this heat problem, however, is to spare no effort to add one fan after another to protect our pampered system, expecting these fans could cool down our machine as much as they could.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual In “Temp/Fan/Case” page, you may get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis. Also, you can check if fans are running properly. The first image you have here is the Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages and set your expected margins of warning level. You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual The following page is surely the most important part of this utility. You may control the rotation speed of specific fans that you have got the options inside in this page. 1. Smart FAN Control: This is the default setting of SilentTek and can be used for any branded computer housing. With a special algorithm developed by AOpen, the fan speed is automatically adjusted by the factors of CPU and ambient temperature. Ease-of-use and trouble free at your service. 2.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual EzClock Have you ever thought how great it would be if you can adjust the frequency setting on your motherboard under Windows environment and be a real master of your system? Everybody knows that the ratio and frequency setting are key factors to influence the system performance, however, it’s absolutely not an easy task for an amateur to adjust the setting value.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual How You Adjust the Settings in EzClock Utility In EzClock utility, you can adjust CPU Front Side Bus (FSB), the voltage and frequency of VGA, AGP, PCI and DRAM. Besides, the CPU related information such as CPU voltage, temperature and CPUFAN rotation speed will also be displayed on this utility. CPU Color Bars: The color bar will light on and show different colors as values change. On default values, it will show green.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual On the bottom rectangular panel represents CPU fan speed, CPU voltage and CPU temperature. The three color bars on the right hand side will light on according to operation temperature. Please refer to the picture shown above. CPU Color Bars: CPU Fan, Voltage and Temperature: The color bars will light on representing CPU fan speed, CPU according to CPU operation voltage and CPU temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees. temperature.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual How Your Boot Screen Looks Like After you finish setting BIOS, these setting values will be displayed on the boot screen like the shown picture here. Every time you boot your system, both default and current settings will pop up on the screen. Your personal settings that had been adjusted earlier will be highlighted; thus, you can have clear idea how your system functions and monitor your system more easily.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual D r iv e r a n d Ut i li t y There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD. You don’t need to install all of them in order to boot your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows 2000/XP) before you can install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual N VI D I A n F o rc e Dr ive rs This nForce driver is an all in one package, which contains the below components: GPU driver, Audio driver, Audio utilities, Network driver, GART driver, SMBus driver, Memory controller driver, USB 2.0 driver.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual N V I D I A Wi n d o w s 9 8 / M E / 2 0 0 0 / X P D i s p l a y D r i v e r For Display Driver of 98/ME/2000/XP, please use this driver for installation 78
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AK79G Tube Online Manual I n s t a l l U S B 2 . 0 d r i v e r i n E x i s t i n g Wi n d o w s X P S y s t e m * Windows XP Installation Guide NOTICE: If you have install Windows XP Service Pack1 , it is not necessary to install USB2.0 driver. Because USB2.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual I n s t a l l U S B 2 . 0 d r i v e r i n E x i s t i n g Wi n d o w s 9 8 / M E S y s t e m For USB2.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Ph o e n ix A w ar d B I O S System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu, this menu allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset). The Phoenix AwardBIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual How To Use Phoenix Award™ BIOS Setup Program Generally, you can use the arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, then press key to select, and use the and key to change setting value. You also can press key for help and press key to quit Phoenix Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Phoenix Award BIOS setup program.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Key Description F6 Load Setup Defaults setting value from CMOS. F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS. F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual How To Enter BIOS Setup After you finish the setting of jumpers and connect correct cables. Power on and enter the BIOS Setup, press during POST (Power-On Self Test). Choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance. Del Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, SDRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Wi n B I O S U t i l i t y In the past, users have to keep punching the DEL key at a good timing during POST (Power-On-Self-Test) screen to get into the BIOS, which is inconvenient and clumsy. From now on, AOpen provides an easier way to configure your BIOS. WinBIOS is a customized utility for running exclusively on AOpen motherboards, which allows you to setup your BIOS under Windows environment.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Function keys: Hotkey Function Description It’s definitely easy to handle WinBIOS as if you’re using F1 Get help description. traditional BIOS setting. Users can use the arrow keys such F2 Item Help F3 Changing menu language. F5 Load previous setting previous screen. Furthermore, the hotkeys shown in the table F6 Load setup default setting may help you and save your time. Some settings may not come F7 Load turbo setting into effect until you reboot your system.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual B I O S U p g r a d e u n d e r Wi n d o w s e n v i r o n m e n t 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.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual You may accomplish BIOS upgrade procedure with EzWinFlash by the following steps, and it’s STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all the applications before you start the upgrading. 1. Download the new version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw/) 2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WAK79GTube102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WAK79GTube102.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual G l os s a r y AC97 COD EC Basically, AC97 CODEC is the standard structure of PCI sound card. As we know, computer is digital-based, but music is based on analog-based. Therefore, there must be a process to turn digital into analog during the last stage processing of sound in computer. Hence, the component on sound card that play this important task is what we called CODEC.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual A GP ( A cc e l era t ed Gr ap h ic Po rt ) The main function of AGP simply put is to tell monitor what screen information had to be shown, a visual transmission device actually. With the rapid developing of AGP card, we can see that it had been developed from single colorful AGP card to 2D and 3D graphic. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Ultra DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 2 = 33MB/s. ATA/66, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 4 = 66MB/s. ATA/100, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 6 = 100MB/s. ATA/133, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 8 = 133MB/s. (ATA/133 uses both rising edge and falling edge as ATA/66 but clock cycle time is reduced to 30ns.) B IO S ( B as i c I np ut /O ut p ut Sys t e m) BIOS, is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual CNR (C o mmun icat ion a nd N etw or k ing R ise r) The CNR specification provides the PC industry the opportunity to deliver a flexible and cost reduced method of implementing LAN, home networking, DSL, USB, wireless, audio and modem subsystems widely used in today's "connected PCs". The CNR specification is an open industry specification and is supported by OEMs, IHV card manufacturers, silicon supplier and Microsoft.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual E P R O M ( E r a s a b l e P r o g r a m m a b l e R O M) Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light. If BIOS has to be upgraded, you need to remove EPROM from motherboard, clear by UV light, re-program, and then insert back. E V6 B us EV6 Bus is the technology of Alpha processor from Digital Equipment Corporation. EV6 bus uses both rising and falling clock edge to transfer data, similar as DDR RAM or ATA/66 IDE bus.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual F las h R O M Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals. It is easier for BIOS to upgrade by a flash utility, but it is also easier to be infected by virus. Because of increase of new functions, BIOS size is increased from 64KB to 512KB (4M bit).
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Pa r it y B it The parity mode uses 1 parity bit for each byte, normally it is even parity mode, that is, each time the memory data is updated, parity bit will be adjusted to have even count "1" for each byte. When next time, if memory is read with odd number of "1", the parity error is occurred and this is called single bit error detection.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual POST (Power-On Self Test) The BIOS self-test procedure after power-on, sometimes, it is the first or the second screen shown on your monitor during system boot. P SB ( Pr oc e sso r Sy st e m B us) C l oc k PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual SATA (Serial ATA) The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome speed limitations while enabling the storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC platforms. Serial ATA is to replace parallel ATA with the compatibility with existing operating systems and drivers, adding performance headroom for years to come. It is developed with data transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second, and 300M/bs, 600M/bs to come.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements. VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I/O pins. Using VCM technology results in reduced data access latency and reduced power consumption. Wireless LAN – 802.11b 802.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Tr oubl es hooti ng If you encounter any trouble to boot you system, follow the procedures accordingly to resolve the problem. Start Turn off the power and unplug the AC power cable, then remove all of the add-on cards and cables, including VGA, IDE, FDD, COM1, COM2 and printer. Make sure if all jumper settings are correct. Clear CMOS, then plug the ATX power cord correctly. (For P4 system, please also plug the 4pin(+12V) cord.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power Yes No and check if the power supply and CPU fan work properly. The problem is probably caused by power supply or motherboard failure. Next Please contact your reseller or local distributor for repairing.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Continue No Check if there is display? Perhaps your VGA card or monitor is defective. Yes Press and key at the same time, hold them and then press ~~to reboot the system. No Check if the system It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.~~
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Continue During system rebooting, press to enter BIOS setup. Choose “Load Setup Default”. Turn off the system and re-connect IDE cable. Check if the system can No reboot successfully? Yes Re-install the operating system such as Windows 98. End 102 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual T e c h n ic a l S u p p or t Dear Customer, Thanks for choosing AOpen products. To provide the best and fastest service to our customer is our first priority. However, we receive numerous emails and phone-calls worldwide everyday, it is very hard for us to serve everyone on time. We recommend you follow the procedures below and seek help before contact us. With your help, we can then continue to provide the best quality service to more customers.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual 5 eForum: AOpen eForum is provided to discuss our products with other users, in which your problem probably had 6 Contact Distributors/Resellers: We sell our products through resellers and integrators. They should know your 7 Contact Us: Please prepare detail system configuration and error symptom before contacting us. The part number, been discussed before or will be answered. After log on, you may select your preferred language under “Multi-language”. http://club.aopen.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Pa rt N u mbe r a nd Se r ia l N um be r The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label. You can find this bar code label on the outside packing, or on component side of PCB. For example: Part No. Serial No. P/N: 91.88110.201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Mo de l na me a n d B IO S v ers i on Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AK79G Tube R1.00 Dec. 1. 2002 AOpen Inc. Phoenix-Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. AK79G Tube is model name of motherboard, R1.00 is BIOS version.
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AK79G Tube Online Manual Pr o d uc t R e g is t r at i o n Thank you for choosing AOpen product. AOpen encourages you to spend few minutes in completing the following product registration. To register your product will ensure the high quality of services from AOpen. After the registration, you will: • Have opportunities to play online slot machine and win a prize from AOpen by accumulating your bonuses for later prize exchange. • Be upgraded to gold membership of Club AOpen program.
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