Table of Contents Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 1 Table of Contents..................................................................... 1 1.1 Disposal Instruction .....................................................................................4 1.2 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................6 1.3 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................7 1.4 Safety Information ....................
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported ...............................................................29 Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................30 Connecting 1394 .......................................................................................31 Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect ...................................................................32 Connecting Front Audio ..............................................................................
Exit without Saving ...................................................................................58 5.4 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment.................................................. 59 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers ................................................................... 61 6.1 Installing Drivers....................................................................................... 62 6.2 Installing Utilities .......................................................................
1.1 Disposal Instruction Disposal Instruction (US) For better protection of our earth, please don't throw this electronic device into municipal trash bin when discarding. To minimize pollution and ensure utmost protection of the global environment, please recycle the product. For more information about the collection and recycling of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) , you are invited to visit our homepage at www.aopen.com under “Green Products”.
Für mehr Informationen zum Sammeln und Recyceln von elektrischen und elektronischen Müll (WEEE) besuchen Sie bitte unsere Homepage unter www.aopen.com unter dem Punkt "Green Products". Istruzioni per lo smaltimento (Italian) Per una migliore salvaguardia del nostro pianeta, si prega di non gettare questo dispositivo elettronico nei normali rifiuti al momento dell'eliminazione. Per ridurre al minimo l'inquinamento ed assicurare la massima protezione dell'ambiente, si prega di riciclare il prodotto.
1.2 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for purchasing AOpen products. Once again, this motherboard is designed uniquely to meet all your personal needs with our great industry-designing ability and our everlasting perseverance to the quality of all our products. This manual will introduce you how this motherboard is installed. Please keep it well for your future reference. If you lost your printed manual, you may also go to our website at http://www.
1.3 Features of This Manual To help you grab the useful information of this motherboard and aware of certain conditions that you might need to know, you will see the icons below frequently: Note This contains knowledge you should know in process of assembling, or some helpful tips. Warning / Caution Warning Please be careful when you see this mark. It highlights mistakes that occur often during assembling, or something you need to pay attention to.
Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? L1 L2 R1 L3 R2 L4 R3 L5 R4 L6 R5 L7 R6 L8 L9 R7 L10 R8 L11 L12 L13 L14 L15 R9 L16 L17 R10 L18 R11 L19 R12 L20 R13 L21 i945GTm-VHL Picture L1. Onboard HD audio codec R1. Power Temperature Connector L2. S/PDIF Connector R2. JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper L3. IRDA Connector R3. Power FAN1 power connector L4. Front Audio Connector L5.
2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard.
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Chapter 3 Hardware Installation Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure 12. Installing Drivers & Utilities 1. Installing CPU 11. Installing Operating System (such as, Windows XP) 2. Installing CPU Fan & System Fan 10. Loading Default BIOS, Setting CPU Frequency 3. Installing Memory Module 9. Connecting Back Panel Ports 4. Installing HD, CD-ROM and SATA Disk, etc 8. Installing Other Devices (USB, Front Audio, etc) 5. Connecting Front Panel Cable 7.
3.2 Installation You Have to Know Installing CPU This socket supports uFCPGA & uFCBGA package CPU, which is the latest Yonah Core Duo and Core Solo CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms of CPU package are impossible to be fitted in. 1. Unscrew the socket screw counter-clockwise. 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a golden arrow on the CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and golden arrow. Then insert the CPU into the socket. 3. Lock the CPU socket screw clockwise to fasten CPU.
Installing CPU Cooler This motherboard comes with a special CPU cooler desiged by AOpen, please follow the following steps to install CPU cooler. 1. Please apply thermal paste on the bottom of CPU cooler. Thermal paste 2. Gently put CPU cooler onto the CPU retention module. 3. Connect cooler’s fan power cable onto CPUFAN connector.
4. Install two cooler fixing sticks into CPU retention module. Note: Make sure that the sticks have hooked CPU retention module firmly. Fixing stick 5. Push the iron plate of cooler fixing stick up a bit.
6. Then press iron plate downward till you hear a “clip” sound. Note: Make sure that the iron plate have hooked CPU retention module firmly.
Installing CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPU FAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it in SYSFAN2 connector. --- GND +12V Sensor POWER FAN Connector GND +12V Sensor System FAN Connector GND +12V Sensor CPU FAN Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so that they cannot support fan monitoring.
Installing Memory Modules SODIMM slots are designed in high and low positions which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the SODIMM slot with fingers and press down firmly until the SODIMM module is securely in place. 4. Check the tabs are properly hold memory module Key 1. Please aim the key with SODIM memory module 2.
Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel To obtain the highest performance of Dual Channel, the configuration of DIMM must meet the following conditions. Matched DIMM configuration in each channel ● Same density (128MB~1GB) As long as you insert memory modules of same density into Channel 1 (SODIMM1) and Channel 2 (SODIMM3), dual channel mode will be enabled.
Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables Connect the 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
Connecting Front Panel Cable Attach the power LED, speaker 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 housing, which is a 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. Plug this connector to the soft-power switch connector marked SPWR.
Connecting ATX Power Cables This motherboard comes with a 24-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector as shown below. Make sure you plug them in the right direction. We strongly recommend you to insert the 4-pin connector before connecting the 20-pin connector. +12V +12V Ground Ground Note: Please aim the power plug at the left side of the 24-pin ATX power connector when the foolproof design faces you as shown.
3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference Setting CPU Frequency Setting CPU Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through 1MHz stepping CPU Overclocking in the BIOS. CPU Core Frequency = CPU External Frequency x CPU Ratio. However, all CPU now selling in the market belong to "Fixed Multiplier". That means users can not adjust the CPU Ratio but only change CPU FSB clock to achieve overclocking.
Connecting Serial ATA 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. Please be noted that it is a jumper free implement; you don’t need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk.
Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting Except its original 1 set of parallel IDE, this motherboard supports the latest serial ATA hard disk. If you are unable to find your newly installed serial ATA hard disks on your operating system after having them installed, the problem may lie in the BIOS setting. You can simply adjust BIOS settings to have them work properly. After installing your hard disks properly, you can directly go to BIOS setting screen for adjustment.
Connecting PCI express x16 Graphics Slot This motherboard provides a PCI Express x 16 Graphics slot, a black slot having the latest PCI Express x 16 specification on motherboard. The PCI Express x 16 is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. Traditionally AGP used both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock for 8X AGP, and the data transfer rate could achieve 2.1GB/s. Now PCI Express x 16 is moving to higher data transfer rate, which is upgraded to 8.0GB/s (250MB/s x 16 x 2, it’s 4.
If user plugs a PCI Express x 16 Graphics, you must remove jumpers beside PCI Express x 16 Slot. Plug PCI Express x16 graphic card, please remove jumpers below Remove Jumpers Warning: If user doesn’t remove jumper, it might make system unstable.
Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot This motherboard provides one PCI Express x 1 slot, which is located between the PCI Express x 16 and traditional PCI slot. In order to go with the step of today’s and tomorrow’s processors, PCI Express x 1 provides higher I/O bandwidth. The transfer data rate could achieve 500MB/s concurrently (it’s 250MB/s per direction), which is nearly 4 times faster than the traditional PCI. You could install any PCI Express x 1 device in these slots for your preference.
Connecting IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports both HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps). Install an infrared module onto the IrDA connector and enable the infrared function from BIOS Setup, UART Mode, you can use this function.
10/100/1000Mbps LAN Supported On the strength of Marvell Gigabit LAN controller on board, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for office and home use. The Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on the top of USB connectors. The right hand side LED indicates link mode; it lights in yellow when linking to network.
Connecting USB2.0 This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are four ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel.
Connecting 1394 With IEEE1394 Chip on board (AGERE 1394), having its data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, this interface can connect to devices that require high data transferring performance such as digital camera, scanner or others IEEE 1394 devices. Please use appropriate cables to connect IEEE1394 devices. Pin1 SHIED GND +12V (Fused) +12V (Fused) TPB+ GND TPA+ TPBGND TPA2 1 IEEE 1394 Connector Warning: 12V Power Support 6W only.
Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC882D CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high quality of audio effects, bringing you a brand new audio experience. This motherboard provides 7.1 Channel ports shown as below. Picture represents the standard location of all speakers in 7.1 Channel sound tracks.
Connecting Front Audio If the housing is 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 the jumper cap from the Front Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if your housing doesn’t have an audio port on the front panel.
Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
Connecting COM1/COM2 This motherboard provides two serial ports. All of them are on the left of PCI32 slot. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis.
Connecting Case Open The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, 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 by the opening of the chassis, the system will beep to inform you.
Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) 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 converter, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital input/output.
3.4 Jumper Settings This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function. 1 1 Disable (Default) Enable JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 1 Normal (Default) 1 Clear CMOS JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. JP14 Clear CMOS Data 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.
Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities 4.1 RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) With intel Southbridge ICH7MDH implemented, i945GTm-VHL provides RAID 0 and RAID 1 function for the Serial ATA hard disks.
Press the “S” key to select “Specify Additional Device Please insert Raid Driver floppy Disk into Drive A: After Raid driver floppy disk insert properly in drive A, please “ENTER” to continue.
Please select “intel® 82801 GHM SATA RAID Controller (Mobile ICH7R/DH)” Press “enter” after selection.
4.2 Other Useful Features With excellent design ability of R&D team, AOpen boasts for its various powerful and handy features that come with our product like follows. You are welcomed to visit our technical website to learn more about those features. http://english.aopen.com.
Chapter 5 Setting BIOS Chapter 5 Setting BIOS 5.1 Introduction 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.
5.2 How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, press key to select, and use and keys to change setting values. You can press key to quit Phoenix-Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Phoenix-AwardBIOS setup program. Key Description Page Up or + Change setting to next value or increase the value.
Standard CMOS Features The "Standard CMOS Setup" sets the basic system parameters such as the date, time, and the hard disk type. Use the arrow keys to highlight an item and or to select the value for each item. Standard CMOS Features > Date To set the date, highlight the Date parameter. Press or to set the current date. The date format is month, date, and year. Standard CMOS features > Time To set the time, highlight the Time parameter.
IDE HDD Auto-Detection: Press “Enter” to auto-detect parameters of HDD IDE Channel 0 Master (Slave): Define the parameters of IDE devices in Channel 0 (Master or Slave). Available options: z None: if there is no device, please select “None” for speeding boot up. z Auto: enable BIOS to auto-detect parameters of IDE device. (Default) z Manual: allow users to define parameter of IDE device. Access Mode: Set the using mode of HDD. Available options: CHS / LBA / Large / Auto (default).
Advanced BIOS Features This screen appears when you select the option "Advanced BIOS Features" from the main menu. Advanced BIOS Features > Removable Device Priority Advanced BIOS Features > Hard Disk Boot Priority Advanced BIOS Features > CD-ROM Boot Priority This parameter allows you to specify the system boot up search sequence.
Advanced Chipset Features The "Advanced Chipset Features" includes settings for the chipset dependent features. These features are related to system performance. Warning: Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything. You may change the parameter settings to improve system performance. However, it may cause your system to be unstable if the setting is not correct for your system configuration.
Integrated Peripherals This submenu appears if you select the option "Integrated Peripherals" from the main menu. This option allows you to configure the I/O features. Integrated peripherals > OnChip IDE Device Integrated peripherals > OnChip IDE Device > On-Chip Primary PCI IDE This item allows you to select work mode on PATA .
Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device Integrated peripherals > Onboard Device > USB Controller Integrated Peripherals > Onboard Device > USB 2.0 Controller Integrated Peripherals > Onboard Device > USB keyboard Controller Integrated Peripherals > Onboard Device > Azalia/AC97 Audio Select Integrated Peripherals > Onboard Device > Onboard Lan Controller Integrated Peripherals > Onboard Device > Onboard 1394 Controller These items allow you to select working or non working.
Integrated peripherals > SuperIO Device This item allows you to set SuperIO device. Power ON Function: This item is used to select Wake on Keyboard/Mouse mode. z Password: Disable the function of power button and let the system can only be powered on through the preset keys (like a password). z Hot Key: If selecting this option, you also need to specify the hot key from “Hot Key Power On” item. z Any Key: This function allows you wake up the system by clicking any key.
Onboard Serial Port 2: This item allows you to assign address and interrupt for the board serial port. The default is “Auto”. UART Mode Select: This item is configurable only if the "Onboard Serial Port 2" is enabled. This allows you to specify the mode of serial port2. Available options: z Normal: Sets serial port 2 to operate in normal mode. This is the default setting. z IrDA (SIR): This setting allows infrared serial communication at a maximum baud rate of 115.2K baud.
Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup screen enables you to control the motherboard green features. See the following screen. Power Management > ACPI Suspend Type This function allows you to select suspend types. S1 is Power On Suspend and S3 is Suspend to RAM. Available Options: S1, S3, S1 & S3 Power Management > Soft-off by PWR-BTTN This is a specification of ACPI and supported by hardware. When Delay 4 sec.
Power Management > USB KB wake-up From S3 The USB KB wake-up from S3 support USB Keyboard wake up under S3 mode Available options: Disabled, Enabled Power Management > Resume by Alarm This function can provide alarm to resume system immediately. Available options: Disabled, Enabled Power Management > Date (of Month) Alarm This item is displayed when you enable the Wake On RTC Timer option. Here you can specify what date you want to wake up the system.
PC Health Status The PC Health Status can bring PC important safety parameters for detect Health of your system. PC Health Status > CPU Smart Fan The CPU smart fan can detect CPU temperature and adjust fan speed automatically. That can ensure you to have silent & best working environment for system. Suggestion: Enabled it.
Frequency/Voltage Control This submenu allows you to configure the CPU and memory clock. Frequency/Voltage Control > Spread Spectrum This item is used to set the value of clock Spread Spectrum. BIOS will determine the adjustable value according to the CPU installed, not all items will be showed. Available options: Disabled, Enabled Frequency/Voltage Control > CPU Clock This item shows the CPU Clock of status. You can adjust the clock according it.
Load Optimized Defaults The "Load Optimized Defaults" option loads BIOS default settings. Set Supervisor Password Supervisor Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before boot or access to Setup. The item are supervisor level, that can be allow modification all kind of item on BIOS inside. To set a password: 1. 2. 3. At the prompt, type your password. Your password can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters.
Set User Password User Password can authorize users check only. It cannot modify the BIOS setting inside. The item just allow take a look defult value on BIOS inside. To set a password: 4. 5. 6. At the prompt, type your password. Your password can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters. When you type the characters, they appear as asterisks on the password screen box. After typing the password, press. At the next prompt, re-type your password and press again to confirm the new password.
5.4 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinFlash. With an eye to convenience for users, 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 help you complete the flash process automatically.
You may accomplish BIOS upgrade procedure with EzWinFlash according to following steps, and it’s STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to close all applications before you start the upgrades. Download the latest version of BIOS package zip file from AOpen official web site. (Ex: http://english.aopen.com.tw/) Unzip the downloaded BIOS package (ex: WSGMAXII102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WSGMAXII102.EXE & WSGMAXII102.BIN.
Chapter 6 Installing Drivers Chapter 6 Installing Drivers You may think that installing drivers and utilities would be a repeated task of going through those installation wizards and steps-by-steps. Now, you will be surprised with how “Ez” EzInstall could do. Without wizards or steps, all you have to do is to do one click and then it’s done. Click and done. Yes.
6.1 Installing Drivers As you may see from the Installing driver page, EzInstall had picked up necessary for your motherboard. All you have to do is just click on the “GO”, and no more steps afterward, of all listed drivers, grey checks indicate necessary drivers; you cannot click them off. Red checks can be disabled if you don’t want to install them now. Press the icon will prompt the “Install Driver” page. You may also press “Back” to return to the Main page.
After installed the driver successfully, the system configuration of your system can be checked through the Window Device Manager. There should not have any warning sign on each red frame below. That means your driver work successful now.
6.2 Installing Utilities Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilities to manage your system. You may find lots of fabulous utilities listed there, and all you have to do is to click on the “GO”, then it will install the utilities to your system right away without complicated steps. Press the icon will prompt the “Install Utilities” page for your selection. You may also press “Back” to get back to the Main page.
6.3 Display output behavior AOpen provides newest innovation with high definition display output. Below diagram will show the way of display output. DVI D-SUB YPbPr S-Video CRT TV/HDTV TV/SDTV LCD with DVI Connector FAQ (1) Intel Drive just supports “Dual Monitor Mode” and “Single Monitor Mode”. (2) When running in Dual Monitor mode and playing Media Player, there is only an output device can work.
Display output behavior Output Mode Output Connector During POST VGA initial YpbPr / D-SUB DVI S-Video Output Device CRT LCD TV 1 D-SUB On N/A N/A DVI N/A On N/A YPbPr / S-Video N/A N/A On D-SUB+DVI On On N/A D-SUB+YPbPr / S-Video On N/A OFF D-SUB+DVI+YPbPr / S-Video On On OFF DVI+YPbPr / S-Video N/A On OFF Combination Output Mode Output Connector Windows Platform YpbPr / D-SUB DVI S-Video Output Device CRT LCD TV 1 D-SUB On N/A N/A DVI N/A On N/A YPbPr / S-Vid
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Chapter 8 Technical Support Chapter 8 Technical Support Dear Customer, Thanks for choosing AOpen products. We invite you to register at http://www.aopen.com to become a Gold Member of Club AOpen so as to ensure quality service in the future. In order to maintain the best service to every customer of us, we recommend you to follow the procedures below and seek help from our branches according to the region you buy the product.
Model Name and BIOS Version Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 2005, Phoenix Technologies, LTD. i945GTm-VHL R1.00 Jan. 31. 2005 AOpen Inc. i945GTm-VHL is model name of motherboard; R1.00 is BIOS version Register Your Motherboard Thanks for choosing AOpen product, please register this motherboard at http://club.aopen.com.
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