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MX4GR Online Manual W h a t ’s i n t h i s m a n u a l MX4GR .......................................................................................................................................... 1 What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 You Must Notice .....................................................................................................................
MX4GR Online Manual DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 31 Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 33 ATX Power Connector ..........................................................................................................................
MX4GR Online Manual CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 53 AUX-IN Connector ........................................................................................................................................................ 54 Front Audio Connector ...........................................................................................................................
MX4GR Online Manual ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive......................................................................................................................................... 73 ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR)........................................................................................................................................ 78 Phoenix-AWARD BIOS ................................................................................................................
MX4GR Online Manual ATA/133 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 91 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ................................................................................................................................ 91 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) .......................................................................................................................
MX4GR Online Manual Parity Bit ....................................................................................................................................................................... 96 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)................................................................................................................................. 96 PC-100 DIMM ......................................................................................................................................
MX4GR Online Manual ZIP file......................................................................................................................................................................... 101 Troubleshooting............................................................................................... 1 0 1 Technical Support ........................................................................................... 104 Product Registration .......................................................
MX4GR Online Manual You Must Notice Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD, the AMD logo, Athlon and Duron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III 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.
MX4GR Online Manual Before You Start This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved in PDF format, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can get free download from Adobe web site.
MX4GR Online Manual Ove rv ie w Thank you for choosing AOpen MX4GR motherboard. The MX4GR is Intel ® Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the Micro-ATX form factor featuring the Intel® 845G(Brookdale) chipset. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the MX4GR ® ® motherboard can support Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 (Willamette/Northwood) and 400/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock. In the AGP performance, it has one AGP slot which supports 1.
MX4GR Online Manual F e a t ur e H i g h li g h t CPU ® ® Supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 (Willamette/Northwood) 1.4GHz~2.4GHz+ with 400/533MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) designed for Socket 478 technology. Chipset With the Intel ® 845G (Brookdale-G) chipset, Intel delivers a discrete graphics solution with all the performance, innovative ® features and proven reliability of the Intel 845G chipset.
MX4GR Online Manual Memory Provides two 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets that support up to 2GB of PC-200/266/333 compliant DDR SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory). You may install 64, 128, 256, 512Mb DDR SDRAM DIMM modules into each socket. Please be informed that the FSB (Front Side Bus) 400 DOES NOT support DDR333 SDRAM.
MX4GR Online Manual Watch Dog Timer Includes AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” function that can auto-reset default settings in 4.8 seconds when you fail to system overclocking. S/PDIF Connectors S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Six USB2.
MX4GR Online Manual Hardware Monitoring Management Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor module. Enhanced ACPI ® Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows 98/ME/2000 series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) features. Super Multi-I/O Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities.
MX4GR Online Manual Q u i c k I n s t a ll a t i o n P r oc e d u re This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly. 1. Installing CPU and Fan 2. Installing System Memory (DIMM) 3. Connecting Front Panel Cable 4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable 5. Connecting ATX Power Cable 6. Connecting Back Panel Cable 7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default 8. Setting CPU Frequency 9. Reboot 10. Installing Operating System (such as Windows 98) 11.
MX4GR Online Manual Motherboard Map Front Audio Connector FAN2 Connector Green: AUX-IN Connector Black: CD-IN Connector Realtek RTL8100BL Onboard AC’97 CODEC S/PDIF Connector PC99 Colored Back Panel Resettable Fuse JP28 Mouse/Keyboard Wakeup COM2 Connector 4-pin ATX-12V Power Connector 2200μF Low ESR Capacitors CNR Expansion Slot AGP 4x Expansion Slot (for 1.
MX4GR Online Manual B l oc k Di a gr a m PC-200/266/333 DDR SDRAM Up to 2GB 32-bit PCI Slot x3 DIMM Socket x2 Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 CPU 400/533MHz System Bus Intel 845G GMCH PCI Bus ATA 33/66100 Primary Channel IDE Drive x4 Secondary Channel AGP 4X Slot Intel ICH4 LAN connect Component AC97 CODEC Realtek RTL8100BL AC Link USB2.
MX4GR Online Manual H a rd w ar e I ns t a l l at i o n This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard. Note: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. 1. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2.
MX4GR Online Manual About “ Opt ional” a nd “ Upgra de Opt ional”… When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may find some of functions are called “Optional”, and some are called “Upgrade Optional”. Though all AOpen motherboards include many amazing and powerful features, in some situations, these powerful features are not used to every user. Hence, we changed some key features as “Optional” for you to choose.
MX4GR Online Manual J P 1 4 C l e a r C MO S D a t a You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the 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 Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1 1.
MX4GR Online Manual CPU I nst al lat i on ® This motherboard supports Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 series CPU (Brookdale-G). 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.
MX4GR Online Manual 3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation. CPU cut edge Note: If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it may damage the CPU. Note: This socket supports 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.
MX4GR Online Manual CPU Fa n I nst al la t i on This motherboard comes with a retention module attached on the CPU socket when shipped, we strongly recommend you to install AOpen special designed CPU Fan as shown below on the retention module for better heat dissipation. Please install the CPU Fan correctly as the following pictures shown. 2. Pressing down the four clips with force one by one on the retention module. 1.
MX4GR Online Manual CPU Jumper-less Design CPU VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allows the user to set the CPU frequency through the BIOS setup, therefore no jumpers or switches are used. The disadvantages of the Pentium based jumper-less designs are eliminated. There will be no worry of wrong CPU voltage detection. Clock Generator ® Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 CPU Controlled CPU Freq.
MX4GR Online Manual AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” 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 Timer” 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 Timer” will reset the system to reboot in five seconds.
MX4GR Online Manual Full-range A uto-Detect CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports CPU VID function. The CPU core voltage will be automatically detected and the range is from 1.05V to 1.825V. 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.
MX4GR Online Manual Core Frequency = CPU FSB Clock * CPU Ratio PCI Clock = CPU FSB Clock / Clock Ratio Warning: Intel AGP Clock = PCI Clock x 2 Northwood CPU CPU Core Frequency supports FSB Clock System Bus Ratio ® 845G (MX4G-R) chipset maximum 400/533MHz (100/133MHz*4) system bus and 66MHz AGP clock; higher clock setting may cause Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 100MHz 400MHz 16x Pentium 4 1.6G 1600MHz 133MHz 533MHz 12x Pentium 4 1.7G 1700MHz 133MHz 533MHz 13x Pentium 4 1.
MX4GR Online Manual 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 CPU FAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it on System Fan (FAN2) or FAN3 (AUX Fan) connector. FAN2 Connector GND +12V SENSOR CPUFAN Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have FAN3 Connector (Without Hardware Monitor) 29 sensor pin, so that cannot support hardware monitoring function.
MX4GR Online Manual 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.
MX4GR Online Manual DI MM So cke ts This motherboard has two 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets that allow you to install DDR200, DDR266 or DDR333 memory up to 2 GB. Both ECC and Non-ECC DDR SDRAM are supported, but you can’t install them both on DIMM. Otherwise, it will cause serious damage on memory sockets or SDRAM module. Please be informed that CPU Front Side Bus 400 does not support DDR333.
MX4GR Online Manual H o w t o I n s t a l l Me m o r y Mo d u l e s Please follow the procedure as shown below to finish memory installation. 1. Make sure the DIMM module’s pin face down and match the socket’s size as depicted below. 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. place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom.
MX4GR Online Manual F r o n t P a n e l C o n n e c t or Attach the power LED, Keylock, 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.
MX4GR Online Manual 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. 12V Ground Ground 12V 4-Pin 12V ATX Power Connector 20-Pin Power Connector +5V COM PW-OK 5VSB +12V COM +5V COM +3.3V +3.3V +3.
MX4GR Online Manual 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.
MX4GR 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.
MX4GR 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.
MX4GR Online Manual Ir DA Co nnec t or The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Windows 95 Direct Cable Connection, the user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA devices and printers. This connector supports HPSIR (115.2Kbps, 2 meters) and ASK-IR (56Kbps).
MX4GR Online Manual S / P D I F ( S o n y / P h il i ps D i g i t a l I nt e r f a c e ) C o n n e c t or S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive 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.
MX4GR Online Manual A G P ( A c c e l e r a t e d G ra p h i c P o r t ) E x pa n s i o n S l ot The MX4G-R provides an AGP 4x slot. The AGP 1x2x4x is a bus interface targeted for high-performance 3D graphic. AGP supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only. AGP uses both rising and falling edge of the 66MHz clock, for 2X AGP, the data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4bytes x 2 = 528MB/s. AGP is now moving to AGP 4x mode, 66MHz x 4bytes x 4 = 1056MB/s.
MX4GR Online Manual AGP Protection Technology With the outstanding R&D ability of AOpen and its specially developed circuit, MX4G-R implements an all new technology to protect your motherboard from being damaged by over-voltaging of AGP card. With AGP Protection Technology implemented, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent your chipsets from being burnt out. Please note that if you install a AGP card with 3.
MX4GR Online Manual A D D C a r d ( I n te l 8 4 5 G c h i p s e t s u p p o rt e d) This motherboard supports ADD Card. ADD (AGP Digital Display) card is designed by Intel to multiplexe the AGP signal interface with two DVO ports, and is designed to plug into the special-designed purple slot as you can see, which we call ADD slot here.
MX4GR Online Manual WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector Thi s 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.
MX4GR Online Manual 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 Serial Port (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only, it may not be exactly the same as this motherboard.
MX4GR Online Manual 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.
MX4GR Online Manual 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.
MX4GR Online Manual WOL Connector (Ethernet Card Side) WOL Connector (Motherboard Side) Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.
MX4GR Online Manual C N R ( C o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d Ne t w o r k Ri s e r ) Ex p a n s i o n S l o t CNR is a riser card specification to replace the AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) that supports V.90 analog modem, multi-channel audio, and phone-line based networking. Owing to CPU computing power getting stronger, the digital processing job can be implemented in main chipset and share CPU power.
MX4GR Online Manual 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 VGA, Printer, USB, AC97 sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing.
MX4GR Online Manual Suppor t 10/ 10 0 Mbps LAN onboa r d The South Bridge ICH4 includes a fast Ethernet controller on chip. On the strength of Realtek 8100BL LAN controller on board, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100M bps Ethernet for office and home use, the Ethernet RJ45 connector is located on top of USB connectors. The green LED indicates the link mode, it lights when linking to network and blinking when transferring data.
MX4GR Online Manual S u p p o r t 2nd a n d 3 rd U S B 2 . 0 P o r ts 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, USB2 and USB3 connectors support USB 2.0 function.
MX4GR Online Manual 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.
MX4GR Online Manual CD Audi o Connector This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
MX4GR Online Manual AUX-IN Connector This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
MX4GR Online Manual F r o n t A u d i o C o n n e c t or If the housing has been designed with an audio port on the front panel, you’ll be able to connect onboard audio to front panel through this connector. By the way, please remove 5-6 and 9-10 jumper caps from the Front Audio Connector before connecting the cable. Please do not remove these 5-6 and 9-10 yellow jumper caps if there’s no audio port on the front panel.
MX4GR Online Manual 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.
MX4GR Online Manual CPU Ov er- c urre nt Prote ction Over Current Protection has been popularly implemented on ATX 3.3V/5V/12V switching power supply for a while. However, new generation CPU is able to use regulator of different voltages to transfer 12V to CPU voltage (for example, to 2.0V). This motherboard is with switching regulator onboard that supports CPU over-current protection, and it applies to 3.3V/5V/12V power supply for providing full line over-current protection.
MX4GR Online Manual H a r d w a r e Mo n i t o r i n g This motherboard implements a hardware monitoring system. As you turn on your system, this smart design will continue to monitor your system’s working voltage, fan status and CPU temperature. If any of these systems’ status goes wrong, there will be an alarm through the chassis external speaker or buzzer of motherboard (if existed) to warn the user.
MX4GR Online Manual Res ett a ble 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 Resettable Fuse, the motherboard can be resumed back to normal function after the fuse had done its protection job.
MX4GR Online Manual 220 0 μ F L o w ES R Ca p a c it o r The quality of low ESR capacitor (Low Equivalent Series Resistance) during high frequency operation is very important for the stability of CPU power. The idea of where to put these capacitors is another know-how that requires experience and detail calculation. Not only that, MX4GR implements 2200μF capacitors, which is much larger than normal capacitor (1000 and 1500μf) and it provides better stability for CPU power.
MX4GR Online Manual L a y o u t ( F r e q u e n c y I s o l a t i o n Wa l l ) 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”.
MX4GR Online Manual Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink Cool down CPU and Chipset is important for system reliability. Enlarged aluminum heat sink provides better heat consumption especially when you are trying to over clocking the CPU.
MX4GR Online Manual D r iv e r a n d Ut i li t y There are motherboard drivers and utilities included in AOpen Bonus CD . You don’t need to install all of them in order to boot your system. But after you finish the hardware installation, you have to install your operation system first (such as Windows 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 2000 and Windows 98.
MX4GR Online Manual A u t o - r u n Me n u f r o m B o n u s C D D i s c You can use the auto-run menu of Bonus CD disc. Choose the utility and driver and select model name.
MX4GR Online Manual I ns t a ll i n g I n t e l ® C h i p s e t S o f t w a re I n s t a l la t i o n Ut il it y Windows 95/98 cannot recognize this chipset, because it was released before the Intel 845G chipset. You can install the Intel INF Update Utility from the Bonus Pack CD disc auto-run menu to eliminate the “?” marks.
MX4GR Online Manual I nt e l B r o o k da le - G V G A d ri v e r You can install Intel VGA Driver to get the best graphics function of the chipset. You can find it in the AOpen Bonus Pack CD disc.
MX4GR Online Manual I ns t a ll i n g I n t e l I A A D ri v e r You can install Intel IAA Driver to increase the performance of software applications and reduce PC boot times. You can find it in the AOpen Bonus Pack CD disc.
MX4GR Online Manual Installing Onboard Sound Driver This motherboard comes with AC97 CODEC. You can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc auto-run menu.
MX4GR Online Manual Installing LAN Driver You can install LAN Driver under Windows95/98, Windows NT and Windows 2000 for RealTek 8100BL PCI Fast Ethernet adapter by following steps. Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95 : ----------------------------------------------------1. Select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer" when being asked which driver you would like to install. 2.
MX4GR Online Manual Installing USB2.0 Driver * Windows 2000 Installation Guide ************************************************* 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)".
MX4GR Online Manual * Windows XP Installation Guide *********************************************** Installing Driver in Existing Windows XP System *********************************************** After enabling the USB 2.0, Windows XP setup will show a "Found New Hardware" dialog box. Under Windows XP, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" will be displayed. 1. Click on "Next," and from the generated list box, choose "Install from a list or special location (Advanced)", click "Next" 2.
MX4GR 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.
MX4GR Online Manual A C P I S u s pe n d t o Ha r d Dr i v e 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.
MX4GR 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".
MX4GR Online Manual memory size the longer this process will take.
MX4GR 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.
MX4GR Online Manual HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE MICROSOFT WINDOWS CURRENT VERSION DETECT ACPI OPTION b. Right click and select "Modify, change "01" to "02" to make it "0000 02". Tip: "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled. c. Save changes. 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.
MX4GR Online Manual A C P I S u s pe n d t o R A M ( S T R ) 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.
MX4GR Online Manual To implement ACPI Suspend to DRAM, please follow the procedures as below: System Requirement 1. An ACPI OS is required. Currently, except Windows 95 and Windows NT, all other Windows Systems support ACPI. 2. The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility must have been installed properly. ® Procedures 1. Changed the following BIOS settings. BIOS Setup > Power Management Setup > ACPI Function: Enabled BIOS Setup > Power Management Setup > ACPI Suspend Type: S3. 2.
MX4GR Online Manual Phoe nix- A WARD 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 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset). The AwardBIOS™ that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports.
MX4GR Online Manual A b o u t B I O S F u n c ti o n D e s c r i pt i o n … 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.
MX4GR 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.
MX4GR Online Manual Key Description F6 Load fail-save setting value from CMOS. F7 Load turbo setting value from CMOS. F10 Save changed setting and exit setup program.
MX4GR 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.
MX4GR Online Manual B I O S U p g r a d e u n d e r Wi n d o w s e n v i r o n m e n t With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EZWinFlash. With an eye to users convenience, EZWinFlash combines the BIOS binary code and flash module together, so the only thing you have to do is just clicking on the utility you downloaded from web and let it helps you complete the flash process automatically.
MX4GR Online Manual You may accomplish BIOS upgrade procedure with EZWinFlash by the following steps, and it’s STRONGLY RECOMMMANDED 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://www.aopen.com) 2. Unzip the download BIOS package (ex: WMX4GR102.ZIP) with WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) in Windows environment. 3. Save the unzipped files into a folder, for example, WMX4GR102.EXE & WMX4GR102.BIN.
MX4GR Online Manual O v e r c l oc k i n g 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".
MX4GR Online Manual VG A C a r d & Ha r d Di sk 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/tech/report/overclk/mb/vga-oc.htm HDD: http://www.aopen.com/tech/report/overclk/mb/hdd-oc.
MX4GR Online Manual G l os s a r y AC97 Basically, AC97 specification separates sound/modem circuit to two parts, digital processor and a CODEC for analogy 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 ( Ad v a n c e d Co nf ig u r ati o n & Pow er I nt er f ac e ) ACPI is the power management specification of PC97 (1997).
MX4GR Online Manual A M R ( A u d i o / Mo d e m R i s e r ) 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. AO p e n B o n u s P a c k C D A disc bundled with AOpen motherboard product; there are motherboard drivers, Acrobat Reader for PDF online manual and other useful utilities.
MX4GR 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. ATA/133 ATA/133 is a new IDE specification under developing. ATA/133 uses both rising edge and falling edge as ATA/66 but clock cycle time is reduced to 30ns.
MX4GR Online Manual B u s Ma s t e r I D E ( D M A m o d e ) The traditional PIO (Programmable I/O) IDE requires the CPU to involve in all the activities of the IDE access including waiting for the mechanical events. To reduce the workload of the CPU, the bus master IDE device transfers data from/to memory without interrupting CPU, and releases CPU to operate concurrently while data is transferring between memory and IDE device.
MX4GR Online Manual DI M M ( D u al I n Li n e Me m o r y M o d ul e) 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, and 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.
MX4GR Online Manual E E P R O M ( El e c t r o ni c E r a s a bl e P r og r am m a b l e RO M) 2 Also known as E PROM. Both EEPROM and Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals, but the interface technology is different. Size of EEPROM is much smaller than flash ROM. E P R O M ( E r a s a b l e P r o g r a m m a b l e R O M) Traditional motherboard stores BIOS code in EPROM. EPROM can only be erased by ultra-violet (UV) light.
MX4GR Online Manual F C- P G A ( Fl i p C hi p- Pi n G r i d A rr a y) FC means Flip Chip, FC-PGA is a new package of Intel for Pentium III CPU. It can plug into SKT370 socket, but require motherboard to add some signals on socket 370. That is, the motherboard needs to be redesigned. Intel is going to ship FC-PGA 370 CPU and phase out slot1 CPU. Fl a s h RO M Flash ROM can be re-programmed by electronic signals.
MX4GR Online Manual IEEE 1394 IEEE 1394 is a low-cost digital interface originated by Apple Computer as a desktop LAN and developed by the IEEE 1394 working group. The IEEE 1394 can transport data at 100, 200 or 400 Mbps. One of the solutions to connect digital television devices together at 200 Mbps.
MX4GR Online Manual P C - 1 0 0 DI M M SDRAM DIMM that supports 100MHz CPU FSB bus clock. P C - 1 3 3 DI M M SDRAM DIMM that supports 133MHz CPU FSB bus clock. P C - 1 6 0 0 o r P C- 2 1 0 0 D D R D R A M Based on FSB frequency, the DDR DRAM has 200MHz and 266MHz two type of working frequency. Because of DDR DRAM data bus is 64-bit, it provides data transfer bandwidth up to 200x64/8=1600MB/s, and 266x64/8=2100MB/s.
MX4GR Online Manual Pn P ( Pl u g a n d Pl a y) The PnP specification suggests a standard register interface for both BIOS and operating system (such as Windows 95). These registers are used by BIOS and operating system to configure system resource and prevent any conflicts. PnP BIOS or operating system will automatically allocate the IRQ/DMA/Memory. Currently, almost all the PCI cards and most ISA cards are already PnP compliant.
MX4GR Online Manual S D R A M ( S y n c h r o n o u s D R A M) SDRAM is one of the DRAM technologies that allow DRAM to use the same clock as the CPU host bus (EDO and FPM are asynchronous and do not have clock signal). It is similar as PBSRAM to use burst mode transfer. SDRAM comes in 64-bit 168-pin DIMM and operates at 3.3V.
MX4GR Online Manual S P D ( S e ri al Pr e s e n c e D et e c t ) SPD is a small ROM or EEPROM device resided on the DIMM or RIMM. SPD stores memory module information such as DRAM timing and chip parameters. SPD can be used by BIOS to decide best timing for this DIMM or RIMM. Ul t r a D MA Ultra DMA (or, more accurately, Ultra DMA/33) is a protocol for transferring data between a hard disk drive through the computer’s data path (or bus) to the computer’s random access memory (RAM).
MX4GR Online Manual VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) NEC’s Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) is a new DRAM core architecture that dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements. VCM increases memory bus efficiency and performance of any DRAM technology by providing a set of fast static registers between the memory core and I/O pins. Using VCM technology results in reduced data access latency and reduced power consumption.
MX4GR Online Manual Troubleshooting 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.
MX4GR 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.
MX4GR Online Manual Continue No Check if there is display? Perhaps your VGA card or monitor is defective. Yes Press and key at the same time, hold them and then press to reboot the system. No Check if the system It is very possible that your keyboard is defective.
MX4GR Online Manual Continue During system rebooting, press to enter BIOS setup. Choose “Load Setup Default”. Turn off the system and re-connect IDE cable. Check if the system can No reboot successfully? Yes Re-install the operating system such as Windows 98. End 105 The problem should be caused by the IDE cable or HDD itself.
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MX4GR 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: MX4GR R1.00 Mar.30.2002 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright © 1998, Award Software, Inc. MX4GR is the model name of the motherboard; R1.00 is BIOS version.
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