Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................... 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start..........................................................3 1.2 Features of This Manual ...............................................................................4 1.3 Safety Information ......................................................................................4 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard .....
Connecting USB2.0....................................................................................23 Connecting 1394 .......................................................................................24 Connecting S/PDIF ....................................................................................25 Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effects .................................................................26 Connecting Front Audio ..........................................................................
1.1 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.
1.2 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? 12 14 16 13 1 15 2 17 3 18 3 4 19 18 21 5 20 6 22 7 23 24 25 27 8 9 26 10 28 11 29 1.PCI Express x 1 16.Front Audio Connector 2.JP28 PS2 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 17.JP40 S/PDIF Source Jumper 3.LAN PHY 88E1111 18.Game Port Connector 4.CPUFAN Connector 19.32-bit PCI Expansion Slots x 3 5.SYSFAN1 Connector 20.Case Open Connector 6.
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 3. Installing Memory Module 10. Loading Default BIOS, Setting CPU Frequency 4. Installing HD, CD-ROM and SATA Disk, etc 9. Connecting Back Panel Ports (Keyboard, Mouse, 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 motherboard supports AMD® Athlon 64 Socket 939 CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation when you plug it into CPU socket (with CPU Overheat Protection function implemented, the system will be automatically power off when the temperature of CPU reached 97 degree). 1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90-degree angle. 2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a golden arrow on the CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and golden arrow.
Installing Retention Module 1. To paste the adhesive side on the motherboard, and the two-screw holder should be relative to the hole of the screw holder. 2. To alien the two-side hole of the RM and screw holder of the motherboard, then lock the two screws holder.
Installing CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 3-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or SYSFAN2 connector. GND +12V SENSOR CPUFAN Connector GND +12V SENSOR GND +12V SENSOR System Connector SYSFAN2 Connector Note: Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin so that they cannot support fan monitoring.
Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in Navy Blue or Electronic Blue which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the DIMM slot with both hands and press down firmly until the DIMM module is securely in place. Tab Pin 1 Key Note: The tabs of the DIMM slot will clip to hold the DIMM in place when the DIMM touches the slot’s bottom.
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 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 24-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.
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 ATX housing, which is a 2-pin female connector from the housing front panel. Plug this connector to the soft-power switch connector marked SPWR.
3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency Setting CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports Voltage ID (VID) function to detect CPU voltage automatically during power-on. However, if users are willing to do overclocking, we also provide a range from 0.80V to 1.55V in the BIOS. Sometimes increasing the original core voltage a little bit will make CPU overclock more properly.
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 2 sets 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 nCK804a-LFS/nCK804Ua-LFS 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.
Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot This motherboard provides two PCI Express x 1 slots, which are 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 250MB/s, which is close to twice the traditional PCI 2.2 data transfer rate. You could install any PCI Express x 1 device in the slot 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 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 orange when linking to network.
Connecting USB2.0 This motherboard provides ten USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are six ports on the back panel. You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel.
Connecting 1394 This motherboard comes with AGERE 1394 Control Chip onboard, the IEEE 1394 provides 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.
Connecting S/PDIF S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive audio quality through optical fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio. Through a specific audio cable, you can connect the S/PDIF connector to other end of the S/PDIF audio module, which bears S/PDIF digital output.
Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effects This motherboard comes with an AC’97 (Realtek ALC850) 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 Game Port This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this function you have to have a joystick module and connect it with a game port cable to this port on the motherboard.
Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
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.
Colored Coded Back Panel The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, COM2 port, Printer, USB, AC’97 sound. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. PS/2 Mouse Connector SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port USB 2.0 RJ45 Ports LAN Jack Rear SUR Line-I Speaker Out Center/ Subwoofer MIC-In PS/2 Keyboard COM 1 Port Connector COM 2 Port USB 2.0 Side SUR Ports PS/2 Keyboard: For standard keyboard, which use a PS/2 plug.
3.4 Jumper Settings 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 pin 1 & pin 2. 5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2. Pin 1 1 Normal (default) 1 Clear CMOS Tip: When should I Clear CMOS? 1.
JP28 Keyboard/ Mouse Wakeup 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. The factory default setting is “Disable” (1-2), and you may enable this function by setting the jumper to 2-3.
Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) This motherboard supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 functions. For more RAID introduction, please visit our website: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/RAID.htm RAID Configuration Utility Nvidia nForce4 chipset support RAID 0, 1 and 1+0 functions.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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). Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 2003, Phoenix Technologies, LTD. nCK804a-LFS R1.02 Mar. 01. 2004 AOpen Inc. For example: nCK804a-LFS is model name of motherboard; R1.02 is BIOS version Register Your Motherboard Thanks for choosing AOpen product, please register this motherboard at http://club.aopen.com.
