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Hardware AX4C Max II Overview Online Manual AX4C Max II Drivers & AWARD Glossary DOC. NO.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II W h a t ’s i n t h i s m a n u a l AX4C Max II ................................................................................................................................... 1 What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice.................................................................................................................
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Online Manual AX4C Max II DIMM Sockets (128-Bit DDR Dual Channel) ................................................................................................................. 31 Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 34 ATX Power Connector........................................................................................................................................
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Support Eight USB2.0 Connectors ................................................................................................................................ 59 Onboard IEEE 1394 Controller ..................................................................................................................................... 60 Chassis Intrusion Connector ..............................................................................................................................
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Online Manual AX4C Max II RAID Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 86 What’s RAID? ............................................................................................................................................................... 86 What are the RAID levels? ............................................................................................................................................
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Glossary .................................................................................................................................. 146 AC97 CODEC ............................................................................................................................................................. 146 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) .....................................................................................................
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Hyper Threading ......................................................................................................................................................... 151 IEEE 1394 .................................................................................................................................................................. 152 Parity Bit ..........................................................................................................................
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Technical Support ................................................................................................................... 162 Product Registration ............................................................................................................... 165 How to Contact Us ..................................................................................................................
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site .
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Ove rv ie w ® Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4C Max II motherboard. The AX4C Max II is Intel Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel® 875P (Canterwood) chipset . As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the AX4C Max II motherboard supports Intel ® Socket 478 Pentium ® 4 and 800/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock. In the AGP performance, it supports 1.5V AGP 8X interface and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II F e a t ur e H i g h li g h t CPU ® Supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium ® 4 1.6GHz~3.06GHz+ with 800/533MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset ® With the Intel 875P (Canterwood) chipset, Intel delivers a discrete graphics solution with all the performance, innovative features and proven reliability of the Intel ® 875P (Canterwood) chipset.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Memory Providing ECC four 184-pin DDR RAM DIMM sockets that support up to 4GB of DDR400/333 compliant DDR RAM. You may install 128, 256, 512MB or 1GB DDR RAM DIMM modules into each socket. LAN Port Broadcom Gigabit PCI LAN Chip, which is an highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides Gigabits or 10/100Mbps Ethernet for office and home use.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment Provides “1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you adjust FSB frequency from 100~400 by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and lets your system can get maximum performance. Watch Dog ABS Includes AOpen “Watch Dog ABS” function, which could auto-reset default settings in 4.8 seconds when you fail to system overclocking.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Eight USB Connectors (2.0) Provide four ports, eight USB connectors for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. Compared to traditional USB 1.0/1.1 with the speed of 12Mbps, USB 2.0 has a fancy speed up to 480Mbps, which is 40 times faster than the traditional one. Dr. LED (User Upgrade Optional) The Dr. LED has 8 LEDs on this AX4C Max II M/B to easily show what kind of problems you may encounter.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Enhanced ACPI ® Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) features. Super Multi-I/O Provide two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART can also be directed from COM1or COM2 to the Infrared Module for the wireless connections.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Q u i c k I n s ta 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II Broadcom Gigabit PCI LAN Chip Onboard AC’97 CODEC S/PDIF Connector Motherboard Map PC99 Colored Back Panel Die-Hard BIOS (BIOS1 & 2) (User Upgrade Optional) Resetable Fuse GAME Connector JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper 4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector AGP LED V4 Power Engine CPUFAN1 Connector with H/W Monitoring Function SYSFAN2 Connector AGP Slot (For 1.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II B l oc k Di a gr a m SelfPowered PCI slot DDR400/333 DDR RAM Up to 4GB 32-bit PCI Slot x6 PCI Bus DIMM Socket x4 Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 CPU SATA Drive x2 Promise PDC20378 Serial ATA Third Channel ATA 133 800/533MHz System Bus ATA 33/66100 Primary Channel IDE Drive x6 Secondary Channel Intel 875P AGP 8x Slot SATA Drive x2 Intel ICH5R AC97 CODEC Broadcom Gigabit LAN LAN connect Component IEEE 1394 USB 2.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II A b o u t “ Ma n u f a c t ur e r U p g ra d e O p ti o n a l” a n d “ U s e r U p g ra d e Optional”… When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may find some of functions are called “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional”, and some are called “User Upgrade Optional”. Though all AOpen motherboards include many amazing and powerful features, in some situations, these powerful features are not used to every user.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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 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 pins 1 & pin2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2. Pin 1 1 1 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II CPU I nst al lat i on ® This motherboard supports Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket. 1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90-degree angle. 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a cut edge on the CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge, then insert the CPU into the socket.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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, it may damage the CPU. Note: This socket supports Micro-FC-PGA2 package CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in. Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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. Clock Generator ® Intel Socket 478 BIOS Pentium 4 CPU Controlled CPU Freq.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II CPU Core Voltage Auto Detectable This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 1.1V to 1.925V. It is not necessary to set CPU Core Voltage. Set ting CPU Fre que ncy BIOS Setup > Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Clock Setting This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, and no jumpers or switches are needed.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Core Frequency = CPU FSB Clock * CPU Ratio PCI Clock = CPU FSB Clock / Clock Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 Note: Since the latest processor, Northwood CPU CPU Core Frequency FSB Clock System Bus Ratio Northwood, would detect the clock Pentium 4 2.26G 2260MHz 133MHz 533MHz 17x ratio automatically, you may not be Pentium 4 2.4G 2400MHz 133MHz 533MHz 18x Pentium 4 2.53G 2530MHz 133MHz 533MHz 19x able to adjust the clock ratio in BIOS manually.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II C P U a n d S y s t e m F a n C o n n e c t o r ( w i t h H / W Mo n i t o r i n g ) 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 CPUFAN1 Fan Connector GND +12V SENSOR SYSFAN2 Connector SENSOR +12V GND SYSFAN3 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support hardware monitoring function.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Enable/Disable Jumper 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 installed. The factory default setting is set to “Disable”(1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II DI MM So cke ts ( 1 28- Bit DDR Dual Cha nnel ) This motherboard has four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install DDR400 or DDR333 memory up to 4 GB. ECC DDR RAM is supported. Newly implemented function, the Voltage of memory on this motherboard is adjustable from 2.5V to 2.85V (such as 2.5V, 2.55V, 2.6V, 2.65V, 2.7V, 2.75V, 2.8V, 2.85V) for over clocking purpose, but default value here is 2.55V. In the past, we used to have 64-bit memory bandwidth for memory access.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Ma M a x i m um th e p e rf o r ma n c e o f Du al Cha n n el Dual Channel memory configuration provides higher performance than single channel configuration. To get the highest performance of Dual Channel, the DIMM modules you’re using must meet the following conditions: ● Same DRAM technology (128Mb, 256Mb, or 512Mb) ● Same Density (128MB, 256MB, 512MB, etc.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Ho 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. 40 pins 2. 52 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. Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will close-up to hold the DIMM in Tab 3.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II ATX Power Connector This motherboard comes with a 20-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector. Make sure you plug in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to connect the 4-pin 12V ATX connector before connecting the 20-pin ATX power connector and use standard power supply specially designed for Pentium 4 system.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II AC Pow er Auto Recovery 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II STBY LED and B OOT LED Both STBY LED and BOOT LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. The STBY LED will light up when power is provided 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.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II IDE and Floppy Connector Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDD and IDE connector. The blue connector is IDE1 for clear identification. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II IDE1 is also known as the primary channel, IDE2 and IDE3 are known as the secondary and third channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of six 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II By the strength of Promise PDC29378, you will find an extra IDE 3 onboard for the scalability of hard disks capacity. All you have to do is to simply set the following configuration to make full advantage of it. 1. Please press Ctrl-F to get into the Promise PDC29378 BIOS during POST. 2. Select Auto Setup for the system to recognize your hard disk, and done. The Auto Setup will select the best mode for your hard disk.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II ATA/133 Supported This motherboard supports ATA66 , ATA100 or ATA133 IDE devices. Following table lists the transfer rate of IDE PIO and DMA modes. The IDE bus is 16-bit, which means every transfer is two bytes. As the hard drive industry introduces faster and higher capacity hard drives, the current Ultra ATA/100 interface causes a data bottleneck between the drive and the host computer.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Serial ATA Supported (with RAID function) The traditional parallel ATA specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just 3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been developed further with a burst data transfer rate of 133 Mbytes/second.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Connecting Serial ATA Disk To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. be noted that it is a jumper free implement; you don’t need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Adjusting Your Hard Disk Except its original 2 sets of parallel IDE, this motherboard does come with the support for the latest Serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed Serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after you have had installed them on, the problem mainly lies in the BIOS setting. You may simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II If you intend to change the default setting, simply press Enter for a list of selection: 1. Disabled: You may choose this item if you’re sure that only traditional IDE hard disks had been installed on your system. Disabling this item may also cancel the detection to Serial ATA hard disk during POST, which theoretically, could speed up your boot-up timing for a little bit; however, please remember to re-adjust the settings here if you intend to use Serial ATA hard disk later. 2.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II S / P D I F ( S o n y / P h il i ps D i g i ta 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. Normally there are two S/PDIF outputs as shown, one for RCA connector, the most common one used for consumer audio products, and the other for optical connector with better audio quality.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II AGP 8X Slot With Intel 875P (Canterwood) chipset implemented, this motherboard supports AGP function of 8X, it supports 1.5V AGP card only (adjustable by 0.033 steps, such as 1.5V, 1.55V, 1.6V, 1.65V, 1.7V, 1.75V, 1.8V and 1.85V), please do not insert 3.3V AGP card, otherwise, it could cause serious damage to the motherboard. Other than that, you could even adjust frequency between variations from 64MHz to 100MHz through BIOS.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED W i t h t h e o u t s t a n d i n g R & D a b i l i t y o f A O p e n a n d i ts s p e c i a l l y d e v e l o p e d c i r c u i t , t h i s m o d e l i m p l e m e n t s a b l e n d n e w t e c h n o l o g y t o p ro te c t yo u r m o t h e rb oa rd f ro m b ei n g d a m a g e d b y o v e r-v ol ta gi n g of A GP ca rd .
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Online Manual AX4C Max II S e l f- P o w e re d P C I S l ot Spotted easily among other PCI slots onboard, this Self-Powered PCI slot comes in a special BLUE color to illustrate its uniqueness and usefulness. As independent as it is, Self-Powered PCI comes in a separate set of 3.3 volt power circuitry which supplies needed current and making it virtually free from the “loading issue” of traditional PCI slot.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector This motherboard implements special circuit to support Wake On Modem, both internal modem card and external box modem are supported. Since internal modem card consumes no power when system power is off, it is recommended to use an internal modem. To use internal modem, connect 4-pin cable from RING connector of modem card to the WOM connector on the motherboard.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II W O M b y E x t e r n a l B o x Mo d e m Traditional Green PC suspend mode does not really turn off the system power supply, it uses external box modem to trigger MB COM port and resume back to active. Serial Port (Modem Side) Pin 1 Pin 1 Serial Port (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only; it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II W O M by I nte r nal Mo de m Car d With the help of the ATX soft power On/Off, it is possible to have a system totally power off, and wakeup to automatically answer a phone call as an answering machine or to send/receive a fax. You may identify whether or not your system is in true power off mode by checking to see if the fan of your power supply is off.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II W O L ( Wa k e o n L A N ) This feature is very similar as Wake On Modem , but it goes through local area network. To use Wake On LAN function, you must have a network card with chipset that supports this feature, and connect a cable from LAN card to motherboard WOL connector.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II WOL Connector (Ethernet Card Side) WOL Connector (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II P C 9 9 C o l or C o d e d Ba c k P a ne l The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, COM1 and COM2, RJ45 LAN, Printer, USB2.0 , AC97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. PS/2 Mouse Connector SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port RJ45 LAN Jack Line-In Speaker Out MIC-In PS/2 Keyboard USB Port Connector (2.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II S u p p o r t G i g a bi t L A N o n b o a r d On the strength of Broadcom Gigabit LAN controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides Gigabits Ethernet for office and home use, the Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The right-hand side LED indicates the link mode, it blinks in orange whenever linking to network.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Support Eight US B2.0 Co nnec t ors Compared to traditional USB 1.0/1.1 with the speed of 12Mbps, USB 2.0 has a fancy speed up to 480Mbps, which is 40 times faster than the traditional one. Except for the speed increase, USB 2.0 supports old USB 1.0/1.1 software and peripherals, offering impressive and even better compatibility to customers. On this motherboard, all eight USB connectors support USB 2.0 function.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Onboa r d I EEE 1 3 94 Cont r oll er This motherboard comes with AGERE 1394 Control Chip (FW323) onboard. The IEEE 1394 provides data transfer rate up to 400Mbps, 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II C h a s s i s I nt r us i o n C o n n e c t o r 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II CD Audi o Connector This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. L GND GND R C D -I N Co n n ec t o r 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II D ie - Ha r d BI O S I I ( U se r U p g ra d e O p ti o n a l) 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 nd restore the originally mounted BIOS with 2 BIOS ROM by setting JP24 to pin 2-3 if it fails to work properly.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II E x t e r n a l C o n t r ol l e r f o r D I E - H A R D B I O S ( U s e r U p g r a de O p t i o n a l ) External Controller provides you a better and convenience way to switch the BIOS status between “Rescue” and “Normal” without opening the case of your computer. You have to plug the jumper cable to the connector pin (JP30) on the motherboard. Be careful of the orientation when you connect, the red wire should correspond to Pin1.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 1. Turn off the system, set the External Controller to “Rescue” to read from rescue ROM. 2. Boot the system and set the switch back to “Normal”. 3. Follow the BIOS upgrade procedure to rehabilitate BIOS. Reboot the system, and you should be able to go back to normal mode.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II JP2 Dr. Voice Output Select Jumper This motherboard comes with another considerate function, which allows you to select the voice coming out from buzzer or speaker, if Dr. Voice detects any errors that occurred in the operating system. If you want to enable buzzer, you may set JP2 to pin 1-2, or pin 2-3 to enable speaker. For enabling different language versions of Dr Voice, please go to BIOS settings for adjustment. Pin 1 JP2 Dr.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Dr. LED Connector In conjunction with Dr. LED (Upgrade Optional), which can easily shows what kind of problems may occur on your system during assembly. It can clearly indicate whether there is a component issue or an installed issue by the 8 LEDs on the front panel of Dr. LED. This can helps you to have a self-diagnostic to your system status quickly. Pin 1 1 2 3.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Dr. LED is a CD disc storage box with 8 LEDs on its front panel, the size of Dr. LED is exactly the same as 5.25 in floppy drive, so that it can be mount into normal 5.25 in drive bay of any housing. 7 6 5 Boot O.K. KB HDD 4 Floppy 3 2 1 0 PCI Video Memory CPU The total 8 LEDs light up alternatively if the system fails in one of eight stages. Once the LED7 (latest LED) is lit, this indicates that the system has completed its boot-up procedure.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Battery-less and Long Life Design This Motherboard implements Flash ROM and a special circuit that allows you to save your current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations without the need of a 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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, or even the latest Windows XP. Please be informed that AOconfig can only be operated in a system equipped with an AOpen motherboard.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Resetable Fuse Traditional motherboard has fuse for Keyboard and USB port to prevent over-current or shortage. These fuses are soldered onboard that when it is broken (function as protecting the motherboard), user still cannot replace it and the motherboard is still malfunctioning. With expensive Resetable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function after the fuse had done its protection job.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 330 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, AX4C Max II implements 3300μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1500 and 2200μf) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II V4 Powe r Engine While the market are flooded with low quality, cost-down power materials on motherboard by treacherous manufacturers that subsequently cause the stability of your system, unknown system crashing, overheating of your motherboard, we, AOpen have decided to maintain our long-lasting reputation of refined manufacturer by keep providing solid materials on our products.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Comprison Transient of 3-phase and 4-phase PWM As test report shows, while most of the motherboards on the market are powered by 3-phase PWM controller, this motherboard does comes with 4-phase PWM controller providing stronger power, and could lower down the temperature of motherboard from 15℃ to 30℃.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II Hyper Threading Technology What is Hyper-Threading? Hyper-Threading technology is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, an average improvement of ~40% in CPU resource utilization yields higher processing throughput.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II For multiprocessor-capable software applications, the Hyper-Threading based processor is considered two separate logical processors on which the software applications can run modification. Also, each processor responds independently. The to without logical interrupts first logical processor can track one software thread, while the second logical processor tracks another software thread simultaneously.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II R A ID I nt r o d uc ti o n W h a t ’s R A I D ? Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures. The idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was first introduced by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy H. Katz at the University California at Berkeley in 1988.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II What a re t he RAID lev els ? Striping / Span (RAID 0) RAID level 0, which is the fastest drive array you can have, is a performance-oriented disk mapping method. The data in this array gets written across a stripe or different disks for a faster transfer. This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. Reads and writes sector of data interleaved between multiple drives.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Mi r ro r in g ( R A ID 1) Block 1 RAID level 1 uses at least two duplicate hard drives and store the exact Block 2 same blocks of information between them. This is the slowest form of fault tolerance because the data has to be replicated onto two disks at Block 3 the same time. However, this is the simplest way to provide high reliability. Block 4 Block 1 respond, the remaining drive will continue to serve and provide correct Block 2 data.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0+1) As the name would suggest, RAID 0+1 is striping and mirroring combined. This RAID combines the best of both RAID 0 and RAID 1. It takes a Disk stripe using two disks, and mirrors it to another set of disks for fault tolerance. Data is stripped across several disks, each disk has partner with exactly the same data on it. You get the benefits of fast data access as in RAID 0, with the fault tolerance of RAID 1.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II HDD Ca pac it y of RAI D Le vel s Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0 +1) Striping / Span (RAID 0) Striping Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Mirroring Mi r ro r in g ( R A ID 1) Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 80 GB Logical Drive 40 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Striping 90
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Serial ATA RAID for Intel ICH5R With the latest chipsets implemented, Intel ICH5R provides RAID 0 and RAID 1 function for the Serial ATA hard disks. You may follow the steps shown below to setup your disk array. A r ou s e R AI D f u n ct i o n i n BI O S After having properly installed your Serial ATA hard disks, you may directly get into the BIOS setting screen for adjustment.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II R A I D C o n f i gu r at i o n Ut i l i t y In order to make sure your system can recognize and operate Serial ATA RAID device smoothly, we have to enter RAID Configuration Utility to do some configuration. After finishing the BIOS setup and reboot, you will see [Press CTRL + I to enter configuration Utility] about half way through the boot up. Please press these two buttons simultaneously. When you enter you will be presented with a screen as shown below: 1.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II In st a lli n g IAA Dri v e r (I nt el Ap p li ca ti o n Ac c el er a t or RAI D Ed it io n) You can install Intel IAA RAID Edition Driver to increase the performance of software applications and reduce PC boot times. The IAA RAID Edition is designed to provide functionality for the Intel (R) ICH5R SATA RAID Controller. This product is available for use on Pentium (R) 4 processor-based systems with an ICH5R I/O Controller Hub and running Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Serial ATA RAID for Promise PDC20378 Integrated in ICH5R, this motherboard comes with the function of additional RAID 0 and RAID 1 function. Beside RAID 0 and RAID 1, this motherboard is designed with Promise Serial ATA (PDC20378) controller onboard, which is capable of providing you additional RAID 0, 1, 0+1 functioned by ATA133 IDE Connector.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II R A I D C o n f i gu r at i o n Ut i l i t y Promise PDC29378 is capable of creating RAID function of 0, 1, 0+1 (by IDE3). Briefly shows you how FASTBUILD Utility creates disk array for your different arrangement (For details, please refer to the RAID Utility Guide in Bonus CD). 1. To create the disk array for RAID 0 with 2 hard disks: 2.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 3. To create the disk array for RAID 0, 1, 0 + 1 with 4 hard disks: If this is the first time booting and drives installed, the Promise onboard BIOS will display the following screen.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Press “1” to display the Auto Setup Menu below. This is the fastest and easiest method to creating your first array. For viewing Drive Assignment, Define Array, Delete Array, or Rebuild Array, please select the respective item for settings.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II In te l( R) Ap pli c a ti o n Ac c el e ra t or The Intel(R) Application Accelerator is designed to improve performance of the storage sub-system and overall system performance. This software delivers improved performance through several ingredient technologies (components). Installation of the Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Utility prior to loading the Intel(R) Application Accelerator.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II In st a lli n g Dri v er (For details, please refer to the RAID Utility Guide in Bonus CD) Promise FastTrak 378 Windows XP Installation *************************** New Windows XP Installation *************************** The following details the installation of the FastTrak 378 drivers while installing Windows XP. 1. Start the installation: * Floppy Install: Boot the computer with the Windows XP installation diskettes. * CD-ROM Install: Boot from the CD-ROM.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II After installing the FastTrak 378 and rebooting your system, Under Windows XP, "Mass Storage Controller" will be displayed. 1. In the A: drive, insert the FastTrak 378 driver diskette. 2. Click on "Next," and from the generated list box, choose "Install from a list or special location (Advanced)". Click on "Next," and from the generated choices, choose "Include this location in the search:" 1a. Insert the Bonus CD in CD-ROM. 2a. Choose "Specify a location." and then press "Next".
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Promise FastTrak 378 Windows 2000 Installation ***************************** New Windows 2000 Installation ***************************** The following details the installation of the FastTrak 378 drivers while installing Windows 2000. 1. Start the installation: * Floppy Install: Boot the computer with the Windows 2000 installation diskettes. * CD-ROM Install: Boot from the CD-ROM.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II box. 1. In the A: drive, insert the FastTrak 378 driver diskette. 2. Choose Install the software automatically and press the Enter key. 1a. Insert the Bonus CD in CD-ROM. 2a. Choose "Specify a location." and then press "Next". Type "[CD-ROM]:\Driver\Promise\PDC20378\Driver\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press " OK ". 3. Choose "Win2000 Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller" from the list that appears on screen, then press the "Enter" key. 4.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Promise FastTrak 378 Windows 98SE Installation *************************** New Windows 98 Installation *************************** 1. After installing the FastTrak 378 controller and configuring the hard drive(s), partition and format your hard drive(s), if necessary. 2. Install Windows 98 normally. 3. After installation, go the "Start" menu and choose "Settings." 4. From the "Settings" menu, choose "Control Panel." 5.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II ******************************** Existing Windows 98SE Installation ******************************** 1. After installing the FastTrak 378 controller and configuring the hard drives, power up the system and boot Windows. 2. The "Add New Hardware Wizard" will appear, informing you that it has found a "PCI RAID Controller." 3. Check the "Search for the best driver for your device" box and click the Next button. 4. Check the "Specify a Location" box and click Next button. 5.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Promise FastTrak 378 Windows ME Installation *************************** New Windows ME Installation *************************** 1. After installing the FastTrak 378 controller and configuring the hard drive(s), partition and format your hard drive(s), if necessary. 2. Install Windows ME normally. 3. After installation, go the "Start" menu and choose "Settings." 4. From the "Settings" menu, choose "Control Panel." 5.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II ******************************** Existing Windows ME Installation ******************************** 1. After installing the FastTrak 378 controller and configuring the hard drives, power up the system and boot Windows. 2. The "Add New Hardware Wizard" will appear, informing you that it has found a "PCI RAID Controller." 3. Check the "Search for the best driver for your device" box and click the Next button. 4. Check the "Specify a Location" box and click Next button. 5.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Promise FastTrak 378 Windows NT 4.0 Installation ******************************* New Windows NT 4.0 Installation ******************************* 1. Start the system installation by booting from the Windows NT disk: a) Floppy install: boot the system with the Windows NT installation diskettes. b) Floppyless install: boot from floppy and type "WINNT /B". After files have been copied, the system will reboot.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II NT installation. 8. After a successful installation, the "SCSI Adapter Setup" box will show that the "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller" driver has been installed. ************************************ Existing Windows NT 4.0 Installation ************************************ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Choose "Settings" from the "Start" menu. Choose "Control Panel" from the "Settings" menu.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II *************************************** Removing the Driver from Windows NT 4.x *************************************** 1. In "Start" Button choose "Control Panel" in "Setup" group. 2. In "Control Panel," select "SCSI Adapter," next choose "Drivers" label 3. Choose "Remove" button. 4. After successful removing, the "SCSI Adapter Setup" box will show that "Win NT FastTrak 378 RAID Controller" has been removed.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II P r o m i s e A r r a y Ma n a g e m e n t U t i l i t y After installing Promise driver for respective operating system, please install this Promise Array Management Utility for managing your RAID arrays.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II D r iv e r a n d Ut i li t y There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD disc. 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 98) before you can install any drivers or utilities. Please refer to your operation system’s installation guide.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II I ns ta ll i n g I n t e l ® C h i p s e t S o ft w a re I n s t a l la t i o n Ut il it y The Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the chipset components will be configured. It is recommended that the Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation utility be installed onto the target system prior to the installation of other drivers.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II B r oa d C O M B C M 5 7 0 5 G i g a bi t L A N Dr iv e r For Win2000/Xp operating system, please kindly follow this InstallShield Wizard for steps.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II BroadCom Enthernet Driver InstallGuide under Win98SE/ME 1.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 2. Insert the supplied "Bonus CD " 3. Click "PCI Enthernet Controller " → " Driver " → "Update Driver" and Select "Install the software automatically (ReCommended) " And then Click "Next".
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 4. When prompted, insert the media to be searched into your CD-ROM drive, type the path to the driver, and select OK. Example: e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705 Where "e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705" is the designation of the driver on your system.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 5. In the Driver Files Search Results window, verify that the correct path to the driver software is shown, then click Next. 6.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 7. Type the path of the BroadCom Enthernet driver and select " OK " Example: e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705 Where "e:\Driver\Lan\BCM5705" is the designation of the " b57w2k.sys " on your Bonus CD. 8. BroadCom Enthernet driver installation finish.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II BroadCom Enthernet Driver InstallGuide under Windows NT4.0 1. Verify that the Windows NT system is upgraded with Service Pack 4 or later. 2. Start your Windows NT system and log in. You must have System Administrator privileges to install the driver software. 3. Open the Control Panel. 4. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon. 5. When the Network window opens, select the Adapters tab.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 6. Click "Add" to install a new adapter. All previously installed drivers are listed under Network Adapters. 7. When the Select Network Adapter window opens, click "Have Disk".... 8. When prompted, insert the driver installation media, or choose a location to install the driver from. Type the path to the driver, and click "OK".
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 9. With "Gigabit Ethernet Controller" highlighted in the Select OEM Option window, click "OK".
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Online Manual AX4C Max II The adapter files are installed, then the Network window is displayed showing the newly installed adapter.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 10. Click "Close", then the Microsoft TCP/IP Properties window appears. 11. Configure the TCP/IP protocol and click "OK". 12. When prompted to restart your computer, click "Yes".
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Online Manual AX4C Max II I ns ta ll i n g O n b o a r d S o u n d D ri v e r This motherboard comes with AC97 CODEC . You can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc auto-run menu.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II I C H5 U SB 2 .0 Dr i ver * Windows 2000 Installation Guide *************************************************** Installing Drivers During Windows 2000 Installation *************************************************** The following details the installation of the USB 2.0 driver while installing Windows 2000 (with the USB 2.0 controller is enabled already). 1. After enabling the USB 2.0 controller, install Windows 2000 normally. 2.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 8. Choose the "Driver" tab in the "Properties" window, choose "Update Driver," and then press "Next." 9. Choose "Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)". from the list, and then press "Enter". 10. Choose "Specify a location." and then press "Next" 11. Insert the Bonus CD in CD-ROM. 12. Type "[CD-ROM]:\Driver\Intel\USB2.0\Win2000" in the text box that appears. Press " OK ".
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 13. Click on "Next." A message informing you that Windows has found "Intel PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller - ICH5" should appear.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 14. Click on "Next," and then on "Finish." ************************************************* Installing Driver in Existing Windows 2000 System ************************************************* After enabling the USB 2.0 controller and rebooting your system, Windows 2000 setup will show a "New Hardware Found" dialog box. Under Windows 2000, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" will be displayed. 1. Choose "Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)".
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II P H O E N I X- AW A RD 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-Award BIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II About Phoenix-Award BIOS Function Description… AOpen always dedicates to give users a more friendly computer system. Now, we include all function descriptions of BIOS setup program into the BIOS Flash ROM. When you select one function of BIOS setup program, the function description will appeared at right side of screen. Hence, you don’t need read this manual while you changing the BIOS setting.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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 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. F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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: WAX4CMAXII102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II G l os s a r y AC97 CODEC 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II AGP (Ac c el e r a te d Gr a phi c P or t) 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 33.3MB/Sec, which is twice the data rate and we called it Ultra DMA. ATA details power and data signals between the drive and integrated drive controller and the computer's motherboard. Two drives (master and slave) are supported. The ATA specification allows the drive to connect directly to the ISA bus on the computer. ATA transfer rate then had been developed to 133MHz/Sec and would come out with fastest rate later (please refer to Serial ATA ). DMA, data transfer rate is 16.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Bluetooth technology devices do come with a standard address for you to connect one-to-one or one-to-seven (to form a Pico-net), with transferring range up to 10 meters (100 meters to follow), using low power radio. Bluetooth do not only possess high transfer rate of 1MB/s, it also could be encrypted with pin code. With hopping rate of 1600 hops per second, it’s difficult to be intercepted and are less interrupted by electromagnetic wave.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II E CC (E rr or C he c ki ng a nd Cor re c ti on) The ECC mode needs 8 ECC bits for 64-bit data. Each time memory is accessed; ECC bits are updated and checked by a special algorithm. The ECC algorithm has the ability to detect double-bit error and automatically correct single-bit error while parity mode can only detect single-bit error. EE P ROM (E l e c tr oni c E r as a bl e P r ogr a mma bl e R OM) 2 Also known as E PROM.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II FC C DoC (De cl ar a ti on of Conf or mi ty ) The DoC is component certification standard of FCC EMI regulations. This standard allows DIY component (such as motherboard) to apply DoC label separately without a shielding of housing. FC-P GA (Flip Chip-P in Grid Ar ray) FC means Flip Chip, FC-PGA is a package of Intel for Pentium III for 0.18µm process CPU, which can be plugged into SKT370 socket. FC-P GA2 (Flip Chip-P in Grid Arr ay) After FC-PGA, FC-PGA2 is the package for 0.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II average improvement of ~40% in CPU resource utilization yields higher processing throughput. IE E E 1 3 9 4 IEEE 1394, which also called Firewire, is a serial data transfer protocol and interconnection system. The main feature of the Firewire that assures its adoption for the digital video and audio (A/V) consumer application is its low cost.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II P CI (P er i phe r a l C ompone nt I n te r fac e ) B us Developed by Intel, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local bus standard. A bus is a channel used to transfer data to (input) and from (output) a computer and to or from a peripheral device. Most PCs have a PCI bus usually implemented at 32-bits providing a 33 MHz clock speed with a throughput rate of 133 MBps. PDF Format With PDF file, it is easy to do universal document exchange.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II PS B (Processor S ystem Bus) Clock PSB Clock means the external bus clock of CPU. CPU internal clock = CPU PSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio RDRAM (Ramb us Dynamic Random Access Memor y) A DRAM technology developed by Rambus Corporation*, to achieve high speed of memory through the use of multiple channels in parallel by 16-bits. Basically, RDRAM uses new structure of Multibank, which is quite different from FPM, EDO, SDRAM.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II S ATA (S er i a l 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II system automatically recognize the change. USB 2.0, which supports data transfer rates of 480 Mbps, has been widely used in motherboard these days. V CM (Vir tua l Cha nne l Me mor y ) NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II ZIP file A compressed file format to reduce file size. To unzip file, run shareware PKUNZIP ( http://www.pkware.com/ ) for DOS and other operating system or WINZIP ( http://www.winzip.com/ ) for windows environment.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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 161 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself .
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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Online Manual AX4C Max II 5 6 7 eForum: AOpen eForum is provided to discuss our products with other users, in which your problem probably had been discussed before or will be answered. After log on, you may select your preferred language under “Multi-language”. http://club.aopen.com.tw/forum / Contact Distributors/Resellers: We sell our products through resellers and integrators.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II Mo M o 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: AX4C Max II R1.00 April. 01.2003 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 1998, Award Software, Inc. AX4C Max II is model name of motherboard; R1.00 is BIOS version.
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Online Manual AX4C Max II 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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