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MX34 Online Manual What’s in this manual MX34......................................................................................................1 What’s in this manual..........................................................................................................................2 Before You Start..................................................................................................................................8 Quick Installation Procedure .......................................
MX34 Online Manual AC Power Auto Recovery .................................................................................................................26 IDE and Floppy Connector ...............................................................................................................27 IrDA Connector .................................................................................................................................30 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem)..................................
MX34 Online Manual Resettable Fuse................................................................................................................................48 Year 2000 (Y2K) ...............................................................................................................................49 1500uF Low ESR Capacitor .............................................................................................................51 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall).............................
MX34 Online Manual How To Enter BIOS Setup ................................................................................................................74 BIOS Upgrade...................................................................................................................................75 Overclocking........................................................................................77 VGA Card & Hard Disk .................................................................................
MX34 Online Manual DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module) ..............................................................................................83 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) .............................................................................................83 EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ............................................................................................83 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) .....................................................
MX34 Online Manual PnP (Plug and Play) .........................................................................................................................86 POST (Power-On Self Test) .............................................................................................................87 RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ................................................................................................................87 RIMM .....................................................................
MX34 Online Manual Before You Start This Online Manual is 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. Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer driver.
MX34 Online Manual Quick Installation Procedure This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly.
MX34 Modem-CN Online Manual Motherboard Map JP12 Onboard Sound PC99 Back Panel CD-IN AUX-IN 4X AGP Expansion Slot Resettable Fuse CPU Fan Connector System Voltage & Fan Monitoring Front Audio Connector WOM Wakeup on Modem WOL Wakeup on LAN USB2 Connector Buzzer Socket370 CPU with Voltage and Frequency Auto-detection ® ® supports Intel Pentium III & Celeron™ 300MHz~1GHz+ CPU CPU Jumper-less Design Over-current Protection Thermal Protection 2Mbit Flash ROM Multilanguage BIOS Virus Protection Wake On R
MX34 Online Manual Block Diagram CPU 66/100/133MHz FSB Clock Generator North Bridge AGP Card 4X mode AGP Bus VIA 694X DIMM 66/100/133 Memory Bus PCI Card ATA 66/100 PCI Bus IDE Bus South HDD/CDROM Bridge AC97 Link Audio VIA 686A CODEC (686B for optional) MIC, Line-in and Speaker USB, Serial port, Printer and PS2 KB/Mouse Floppy BIOS Flash ROM ISA Bus 11
MX34 Online Manual Hardware 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.Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component.
MX34 Online Manual JP14 Clear CMOS You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. 1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power. 2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2. 3. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds. 4. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pins 1-2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2. Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3.
MX34 Online Manual CPU Socket This motherboard supports Celeron, and Pentium III FC-PGA Socket370 CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you pug it into CPU socket.
MX34 Online Manual CPU Fan and Housing Fan Connector Plug in the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have other housing fan, you can also plug it on FAN connector. GND +12V GND +12V SENSOR Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
MX34 Online Manual CPU Jumper-less Design CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The correct CPU information is saved into the EEPROM. With these technologies, the disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection and no need to re-open the housing in case of CMOS battery loss.
MX34 Online Manual Setting CPU Frequency This motherboard is CPU jumper-less design, you can set CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, no jumpers or switches are needed. BIOS Setup > Chipset Features Setup > CPU Clock Frequency BIOS Setup > Chipset Features Setup > CPU Clock Ratio CPU Ratio CPU FSB 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 3.5x, 4x, 4.5x, 5x, 5.5x, 6x, 6.5x, 7x, 7.5x, and 8x 66.8, 75, 83.3, 100, 103, 105, 110, 112, 115, 120, 124, 133, 140, and 150 MHz.
MX34 Online Manual Core Frequency = CPU FSB Clock * CPU Ratio CPU CELERON 300A CELERON 600 CELERON 700 CELERON 800 CELERON 850 Pentium!!! 700E Pentium!!! 750E Pentium!!! 800E Pentium!!! 850E Pentium!!! 733EB Pentium!!! 866EB Pentium!!! 933EB Pentium!!! 1G Pentium!!! 1.13G CPU Core Frequency 300MHz 600MHz 700MHz 800MHz 850MHz 700MHz 750MHz 800MHz 850MHz 733MHz 866MHz 866MHz 1GHz 1.13GHz 18 FSB Clock 66MHz 66MHz 66MHz 100MHz 100MHz 100MHZ 100MHZ 100MHZ 100MHZ 133MHZ 133MHZ 133MHZ 133MHZ 133MHz Ratio 4.
MX34 Online Manual JP29/JP23 FSB/PCI Clock Ratio This jumper is used to specify the relationship of PCI and FSB clock. Generally speaking, if you are not overclockers, we recommend to set at the default setting. For example, you must set JP29 to “5-6” and JP23 to “3-4” if you want to overclock a 66MHz FSB clock CPU to 100MHz or higher.
MX34 Online Manual PCI Clock = CPU FSB Clock / Clock Ratio AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 Clock Ratio CPU (Host) PCI AGP Memory 2X 66 33 66 PCI x2 or x3 3X 100 33 66 PCI x2 or x3 or x4 3X, overclocking 112 37.3 74.6 PCI x2 or x3 or x4 4X 133 33 66 PCI x3 or x4 4X, overclocking 155 38.75 77.5 PCI x3 or x4 Warning: VIA 694X chipset supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
MX34 Online Manual DIMM Socket This motherboard has three 168-pin DIMM sockets that allow you to install PC133 memory up to 1.5GB. Only SDRAM is supported. Tip: The driving capability of new generation chipset is limited due to the lack of a memory buffer (to improve performance). This makes DRAM chip count an important factor to take into consideration when you install DIMMs.
MX34 Online Manual DIMM can be single side or double side, it has 64 bit data and 2 or 4 clock signals. We strongly recommend choosing 4-clock SDRAM for its reliability Tip: To identify 2-clock and 4-clock DIMM, you may check if there are traces connected to the golden finger pins 79 and 163 of the SDRAM. If there are traces, the SDRAM is probably 4-clock; otherwise, it is 2-clock. Tip: To identify single-side or double-side DIMM, check golden finger pin 114 and pin 129.
MX34 Online Manual Front Panel Connector 1 Keylock IDE LED + + SPWR + + ACPI & Power LED + + Speaker Reset 1 GND KEYLOCK +5V IDE LED IDE LED +5V +5V GND NC SPEAKER 23 SPWR GND ACPI & PWR LED GND +5V NC +5V GND RESET GND
MX34 Online Manual Attach the power LED, keylock, speaker, and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable Power Management > Suspend Mode in BIOS Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system is in suspend mode. Suspend Type ACPI LED Power on Suspend (S1) Flashing for every second Suspend to RAM (S3) Flashing for every 4 seconds Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing. It is 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel.
MX34 Online Manual ATX Power Connector The ATX power supply uses 20-pin connector shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction. COM +5V COM +3.3V +3.3V +3.
MX34 Online Manual AC Power 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. If BIOS Setup > Power management > AC PWR Auto Recovery is set to “On” the system will automatically power-on after AC power resumes.
MX34 Online Manual IDE and Floppy Connector Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin IDE cable to floppy connector FDC and IDE connector The blue connector is IDE1 for clear identification. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system damage.
MX34 Online Manual IDE1 is also known as the primary channel and IDE2 as the secondary channel. Each channel supports two IDE devices that make a total of four devices. In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must be set differently to master and slave mode. Either one can be the hard disk or the CDROM. The setting as master or slave mode depends on the jumper on your IDE device, so please refer to your hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly.
MX34 Online Manual This motherboard supports ATA 66 IDE (ATA/100 for optional). 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. Mode Clock Period Clock Count Cycle Time Data Transfer Rate PIO mode 0 30ns 20 600ns (1/600ns) x 2byte = 3.3MB/s PIO mode 1 30ns 13 383ns (1/383ns) x 2byte = 5.2MB/s PIO mode 2 30ns 8 240ns (1/240ns) x 2byte = 8.3MB/s PIO mode 3 30ns 6 180ns (1/180ns) x 2byte = 11.
MX34 Online Manual IrDA Connector 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).
MX34 Online Manual WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) 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.
MX34 Online Manual WOM by External BOX Modem 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.
MX34 Online Manual WOM by Internal Modem Card 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.
MX34 Online Manual WOL (Wake on LAN) 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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MX34 Online Manual 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) This motherboard supports 4X AGP. AGP is a bus interface designed for high-performance 3D graphic and supports only memory read/write operation. One motherboard can only have one AGP slot. 2X AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4 bytes x 2 = 528MB/s.
MX34 Online Manual PC99 Color Coded Back Panel The onboard I/O devices are PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, serial ports COM1 and COM2, Printer, four USB, AC97 sound and Game port. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. PS/2 Mouse Connector SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel MIDI/Game Port USB Port PS/2 Keyboard Connector COM 1 Port COM 2 Port MIC-In Line-In Speaker Out Speaker: To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier. Line-In: From signal source such as CD/Tape player.
MX34 Online Manual Support 4 USB Ports This motherboard supports four USB ports. Two of them are on back panel connector, the other two are on the left-bottom area of this motherboard. With proper cable, you can connect them to front panel.
MX34 Online Manual JP12 Enable/Disable Onboard Sound This motherboard has AC97 sound onboard. JP12 is used to enable or disable onboard AD1885 CODEC chip. If you select Disable, you can use your preferred PCI sound card.
MX34 Online Manual CD Audio Connector This CD-IN is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
MX34 Online Manual AUX-IN Connector The AUX-IN connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard AUX-IN L R GND 41
MX34 Online Manual Modem Audio Connector This connector is used to connect Mono In/Mic Out cable from internal modem card to onboard sound circuit. The pin 1-2 is Mono In, and the pin 3-4 is Mic Out. Please note that there is no standard for this kind of connector yet, only some internal modem cards implement this connector.
MX34 Online Manual Front Audio Connector If the housing has been design 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 Panel Audio Connector before you connect the cable. Do not remove this yellow jumper cap if housing without an audio port on the front panel.
MX34 Online Manual Battery-less and Long Life Design This Motherboard implements EEPROM 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 EEPROM and the system will recover as usual.
MX34 Online Manual Over-current Protection The Over Current Protection was very popular implemented on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply. However, the new generation CPU uses different voltage that has regulator to transfer 5V to CPU voltage (for example, 2.0V), and makes 5V over current protection useless. This motherboard with switching regulator onboard support CPU over-current protection, in conjunction with 3.3V/5V/12V power supply provide the full line over-current protection.
MX34 Online Manual Note: Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human operating mistake, there is still certain risk that CPU, memory, HDD, add-on cards installed on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason. AOpen cannot guaranty the protection circuit will always work perfectly.
MX34 Online Manual Hardware Monitoring This motherboard implements a hardware monitoring system. As you turn on your system, this smart design will continue to monitor your system’s working voltage, fan status and CPU temperature. If any of these system’s status go wrong, there will be an alarm through the AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility to warn the user.
MX34 Online Manual Resettable 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 (did the job to protect motherboard), user still cannot replace it and the motherboard is still malfunction. With expensive Resettable Fuse, the motherboard can back to normal function after fuse did the protection job.
MX34 Online Manual Year 2000 (Y2K) Y2K is basically a problem of the identification of year code. To save storage space, traditional software uses only two digits for year identification. For example, 98 for 1998 and 99 for 1999, but 00 will be confused with 1900 and 2000. There is an RTC circuit (Real Time Clock) in conjunction with 128 bytes of CMOS RAM data in the chipset of the motherboard. The RTC has only two digits and the CMOS has another 2 digits.
MX34 Online Manual Applications Operating System (such as Windows 98) BIOS (Tick Routine) RTC and CMOS data There is a Tick Routine (that goes live around every 50m sec) in the BIOS to keep record of date/time information. In general the BIOS, this Tick Routine does not update the CMOS every time because the CMOS is a very slow device which degrades system performance.
MX34 Online Manual 1500uF Low ESR Capacitor The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for stability of CPU power. The location of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, this motherboard implements Low ESR capacitors, which is much larger than normal (1000uF) and provide better stability for CPU power.
MX34 Online Manual The power circuit of the CPU core voltage must be checked to ensure system stability for high speed CPUs (such as the new Pentium III, or when overclocking). A typical CPU core voltage is 2.0V, so a good design should control voltage between 1.860V and 2.140V. That is, the transient must be below 280mV. Below is a timing diagram captured by a Digital Storage Scope, it shows the voltage transient is only 143mv even when maximum 18A current is applied.
MX34 Online Manual Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) For high frequency operation, especially overclocking, layout is the most important factor to make sure chipset and CPU working in stable condition. The layout of this motherboard implements AOpen’s unique design called “ Frequency Isolation Wall”.
MX34 Online Manual Driver and Utility 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. Note: Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 and Windows 98.
MX34 Online Manual Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc You can use the autorun menu of Bonus CD disc. Choose the utility and driver and select model name.
MX34 Online Manual Installing Windows 95 1. First, don’t install any add-on card except AGP card. 2. Install Windows 95 OSR2 v2.1, 1212 or 1214 version and later with USB support. Otherwise, you need to install USBSUPP.EXE. 3. Install the VIA 4 in 1 driver, which includes VIA AGP Vxd driver, VIA ATAPI Vendor Support driver and VIA registry (INF) program. 4. Finally, Install other add-on cards and their drivers.
MX34 Online Manual Installing Windows 98 1. First, don’t install any add-on card except AGP card. 2. Enable USB Controller in BIOS Setup > Advanced Chipset Features > USB COntroller, to make BIOS fully capable of controlling IRQ assignment. 3. Install Window 98 into your system. 4. Install the VIA 4 in 1 driver, which includes VIA AGP Vxd driver, IRQ Routing, VIA ATAPI Vendor Support driver and VIA registry (INF) program. 5. Finally, Install other add-on cards and their drivers.
MX34 Online Manual Installing Windows 98 SE, Windows ME & Windows2000 ® ® ® If you are using Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition or Windows 2000, you do not need to install the 4-in-1 driver as the IRQ Routing Driver and the ACPI Registry are ® already incorporated into the operating system. Users with Windows 98 SE may update the VIA Registry INF and AGP drivers by installing them individually. Please refer to VIA Technologies Inc. for latest version of 4 in 1 driver: http://www.
MX34 Online Manual Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver You can install the VIA 4 in 1 driver (IDE Bus master (For Windows NT use), VIA ATAPI Vendor Support Driver, VIA AGP, IRQ Routing Driver (For Windows 98 use), VIA Registry (INF) Driver) from the Bonus Pack CD disc Autorun menu. Note: Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure. Warning: If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver, please remove the AGP card driver first.
MX34 Online Manual Installing Onboard Sound Driver If this motherboard comes with an AD 1885 AC97 CODEC, you can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc autorun menu.
MX34 Online Manual Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility You can install Hardware Monitoring Utility to monitor CPU temperature, fans and system voltage. The hardware monitoring function is automatically implemented by the BIOS and utility software, no hardware installation is needed.
MX34 Online Manual ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive is basically controlled by Windows operation system. It saves your current work (system status, memory and screen image) into hard disk, and then the system can be totally power off. Next time, when power is on, you can resume your original work directly from hard disk within few seconds without go through the Windows booting process and run your application again.
MX34 Online Manual When go into Suspend: System Image & Status Save into Hard Disk When power-on next time: System Image & Status Hard Disk Restore within seconds 63
MX34 Online Manual System Requirement 1. AOZVHDD.EXE 1.30b or later. 2. Delete config.sys and autoexec.bat. Fresh installation of Windows 98 on a new system 1. Execute "Setup.exe /p j" to install Windows 98 2. After Windows 98's installation is complete, go to the Control Panel > Power Management. a. Set Power Schemes > System Standby to "Never". b. Click on "Hibernate" and select "Enable Hibernate Support" then "Apply". c. Click on the "Advanced" tab, you'll see "Hibernate" on "Power Buttons".
MX34 Online Manual b. If you assign an individual partition for Win 98, please run "aozvhdd /c /partition". Of course, the system needs to provide unformatted an empty partition. 2. 3. Reboot system. You've already implemented ACPI Suspend to-Hard Drive. Click "Start > Shut Down > Standby" then the screen will go off immediately. And 1 minute or so will be taken for the system to save what's in the memory to the hard drive; the larger the memory size the longer this process will take.
MX34 Online Manual Changing from APM to ACPI (Windows 98 only) 1. Run "Regedit.exe" a. Go through the following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE MICROSOFT WINDOWS CURRENT VERSION DETECT b. Select "ADD Binary" and name it as "ACPIOPTION". c. Right click and select Modify, add "01" after "0000" to make it "0000 01". d. Save changes. 2. Select "Add New Hardware" under Control Panel. Allow Windows 98 to detect new hardware. (It will find "ACPI BIOS" and remove "Plug and Play BIOS") 3. Reboot system. 4.
MX34 Online Manual Changing from ACPI to APM 1. Run "Regedit.exe" a. Go through the following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE MICROSOFT WINDOWS CURRENT VERSION DETECT ACPI OPTION b. Right click and select "Modify, change "01" to "00" to make it "0000 02". Tip: "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled. c. Save changes.
MX34 Online Manual 2. Select "Add New Hardware" under Control Panel. Allow Windows 98 to detect new hardware. (It will find "Plug and Play BIOS" and remove "ACPI BIOS") 3. Reboot system. 4. Run "Add New Hardware" again and it will find "Advanced Power Management Resource". 5. Click "OK". Tip: Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend to disk. Please refer to AOpen web site for latest update.
MX34 Online Manual ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR) This motherboard supports ACPI Suspend to RAM function. With this function, you can resume your original work directly from DRAM without going through the Windows 98 booting process and run your application again. Suspend to DRAM saves your current work in the system memory, it is faster than Suspend to Hard Drive but requires power supplied to DRAM, while Suspend to Hard Drive requires no power.
MX34 Online Manual To implement ACPI Suspend to DRAM, please follow the procedures as below: System Requirement 1. An ACPI OS is required. Currently, Windows 98 is the only choice. Please refer to ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive of how to setup Windows 98 ACPI mode. 2. The VIA 4 in 1 Driver must have been installed properly. Procedures 1. Changed the following BIOS settings. BIOS Setup > Power Management > ACPI Function : Enabled BIOS Setup > Power Management > ACPI Suspend Type :S3. 2.
MX34 Online Manual AWARD BIOS 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 byte CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset). To enter to BIOS setup menu, press when POST (Power-On Self Test) screen is shown on your monitor.
MX34 Online Manual How To Use 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 Award™ BIOS setup program. The following table provides details about how to use keyboard in the Award™ BIOS setup program.
MX34 Online Manual Key Description Left Arrow Move the light bar to left side of menu. Right Arrow Move the light bar to right side of menu. F1 Get menu or item help description. F3 Changing menu language. F5 Load previous setting value from CMOS. F6 Load fail-save setting value from CMOS. F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS. F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program. Note: AOpen always dedicates to give users a more friendly computer system.
MX34 Online Manual How To Enter BIOS Setup After you finish the setting of jumpers and connect correct cables. Power on and enter the BIOS Setup, press during POST (Power-On Self Test). Choose "Load Setup Defaults" for recommended optimal performance. Del Warning: Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
MX34 Online Manual BIOS Upgrade By flashing your motherboard, you agree to accept the possibility of BIOS flash failure. If you motherboard is working and is stable, and there are no major bugs that were fixed by a latter BIOS revision, we recommend that you DO NOT try to upgrade your BIOS. By doing so, you are taking a risk of BIOS flash failure. If you indeed intent on upgrading, PLEASE BE SURE to use the right BIOS revision for the right motherboard model.
MX34 Online Manual Below are the steps for easy flashing procedures: (applies for Award BIOS ONLY) 1. Download new BIOS upgrade zip file from AOpen's web site. For example, MX34102.ZIP. 2. Run shareware PKUNZIP (http://www.pkware.com/) which supports miscellaneous operation systems to extract the binary BIOS file and the flash utility. Or Winzip (http://www.winzip.com/) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped file into a bootable floppy disk. For example, MX34102.BIN & MX34102.EXE 4.
MX34 Online Manual Overclocking As a leading manufacturer in motherboard industry, AOpen always listens to what customers want and develop products to fit different user's requirements. Reliability, compatibility, leading technology and friendly features are our basic goals when designing motherboards. Other than above mentioned design criteria, there are power users who are always seeking to push the limitation of the system performance by overclocking which we call them "Overclocker".
MX34 Online Manual Warning: The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your system or important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially CPU, memory, hard disks, and AGP VGA cards. Tip: Note that overclocking may also cause thermal problem.
MX34 Online Manual VGA Card & Hard Disk VGA and HDD is key components for overclocking, for your reference, the following list are what have been successful overclocked in our lab. Please note that AOpen can not guaranty they can be successful overclocked again. Please check the Available Vendor List (AVL) by link to our official website. VGA: http://www.aopen.com.tw/tech/report/overclk/mb/vga-oc.htm HDD: http://www.aopen.com.tw/tech/report/overclk/mb/hdd-oc.
MX34 Online Manual Glossary AC97 Basically, AC97 specification separates sound/modem circuit to two parts, digital processor and a CODEC for analog I/O, they are linked by AC97 link bus. Since digital processor can be put into motherboard main chipset, the cost of sound/modem onboard solution can be reduced. ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ACPI is the power management specification of PC97 (1997).
MX34 Online Manual support 4X AGP motherboards by both AX6C (Intel 820) and MX64/AX64 (VIA 694x), started from Oct 1999. AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) The CODEC circuit of AC97 sound/modem solution can be put on motherboard or put on a riser card (AMR card) that connects to motherboard through AMR connector. AOpen Bonus Pack CD A disc bundled with AOpen motherboard product, there are motherboard drivers, Acrobat Reader for PDF online manual and other useful utilities.
MX34 Online Manual ATA/100 ATA/100 is a new IDE specification under developing. ATA/100 uses both rising edge and falling edge as ATA/66 but clock cycle time is reduced to 40ns. The data transfer rate is (1/40ns) x 2 bytes x 2 = 100MB/s. To use ATA/100, you need special 80-wire IDE cable, the same as ATA/66. BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) BIOS is a set of assembly routine/program that reside in EPROM or Flash ROM. BIOS controls Input/output devices and other hardware devices of motherboard.
MX34 Online Manual DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module) DIMM socket has total 168-pin and supports 64-bit data. It can be single or double side, the golden finger signals on each side of PCB are different, that is why it was called Dual In Line. Almost all DIMMs are made by SDRAM, which operate at 3.3V. Note that some old DIMMs are made by FPM/EDO and only operate at 5V. Do not confuse them with SDRAM DIMM.. ECC (Error Checking and Correction) The ECC mode needs 8 ECC bits for 64-bit data.
MX34 Online Manual EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light. If BIOS has to be upgraded, you need to remove EPROM from motherboard, clear by UV light, re-program, and then insert back. FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) 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.
MX34 Online Manual FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock FSB Clock means CPU external bus clock. CPU internal clock = CPU FSB Clock x CPU Clock Ratio I2C Bus See SMBus. P1394 P1394 (IEEE 1394) is a standard of high-speed serial peripheral bus. Unlike low or medium speed USB, P1394 supports 50 to 1000Mbit/s and can be used for video camera, disk and LAN.
MX34 Online Manual asynchronous SRAM. PBSRAM is often used on L2 (level 2) cache of Socket 7 CPU. Slot 1 and Socket 370 CPU do not need PBSRAM. PC100 DIMM SDRAM DIMM that supports 100MHz CPU FSB bus clock. PC133 DIMM SDRAM DIMM that supports 133MHz CPU FSB bus clock. PDF Format A file format for electronic document, PDF format is independent from platform, you can read PDF file under Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac … with different PDF reader.
MX34 Online Manual POST (Power-On Self Test) The BIOS self test procedure after power-on, sometimes, it is the first or the second screen shown on your monitor during system boot. RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) Rambus is a memory technology that uses large burst mode data transfer. Theoretically, the data transfer should be high than SDRAM. RDRAM is cascaded in channel operation.
MX34 Online Manual SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) SIMM socket is only 72-pin, and is only single side. The golden finger signals on each side of PCB are identical. That is why it was called Single In Line. SIMM is made by FPM or EDO DRAM and supports 32-bit data. SIMM had been phased out on current motherboard design. SMBus (System Management Bus) SMBus is also called I2C bus. It is a two-wire bus developed for component communication (especially for semiconductor IC).
MX34 Online Manual 16.6MB/s x2 = 33MB/s USB (Universal Serial Bus) USB is a 4-pin serial peripheral bus that is capable of cascading low/medium speed peripherals (less than 10Mbit/s) such as keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner, printer and modem. With USB, the traditional complex cables from back panel of your PC can be eliminated. 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.
MX34 Online Manual Troubleshooting 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.
MX34 Online Manual Continue Install the VGA card. Then connect your monitor and keyboard. Turn on the power Yes and check if the power No 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.
MX34 Online Manual Continue No Check if there is display? Perhaps your VGA card or monitor is defective. Yes Press and key at the same time, hold them and then press to reboot the system. No Check if the system reboots? Yes Next 92 It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.
MX34 Online Manual Continue During system rebooting, press to enter BIOS setup. Choose “Load Setup Default”. Turn off the system and re-connect IDE cable. Check if the system can No reboot successfully? Yes Re-install operatiing system such as Windows 98. End 93 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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MX34 7 Online Manual Contact Us: Please prepare detail system configuration and error symptom before contacting us. The part number, serial number and BIOS version are also very helpful. Part Number and Serial Number The Part Number and Serial number are printed on bar code label. You can find this bar code label on the outside packing, on ISA/CPU slot or on component side of PCB. For example: Part No. Serial No. P/N: 91.88110.
MX34 Online Manual 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: MX34 R1.00 Feb.01.2001 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 1998, Award Software, Inc. MX34 is model name of motherboard, R1.00 is BIOS version.
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