User manual AOPEN AX4PEMAX

[. . . ] Overview Hardware Installation Troubleshooting & Technical Support Drivers & Utilities AWARD BIOS Setup Glossary Online Manual DOC. NO. : AX4PEM-OL-E0208A AX4PE Max AX4PE Max 1 AX4PE Max W h a t 's i n t h i s m a n u a l Online Manual AX4PE Max. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What's in this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 You Must Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Even more, you may design your own skins with innovative idea and sharing them to users around the world by uploading to our website. For further technical information, we welcome you to visit our website at h ttp://english. aopen. com. tw/tech/download/skin 79 AX4PE Max Vivid BIOS technology Online Manual Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen?Let's rule out the tradition idea that POST screen are stiff and frigid, and let AOpen show you the newly developed VividBIOS to experience the lively vivid colorful POST scre en!Unlike earlier graphic POST screen which could occupy the whole screen and mask text information during POST, AOpen VividBIOS deals with graphics and texts separately, and makes them running simultaneously during POST. With this innovative design, VividBios now brings you a beautiful and sleek 256 colors screen without missing any important information shown on POST screen. In addition, the limited space of BIOS ROM is another big issue. When all of the traditional BIOS can only show space-consuming and uncompressed Bitmap, AOpen has considerately tuned the BIOS to next generation, to recognize the smaller-sized GIF format and even dynamic-showing GIF animation. Vivid BIOS shares the same fundamental technology with Open JukeBox CD Player, you may use the same EzSkin utility to c hange your Vivid BIOS screen or to download your favorite Open JukeBox skin. If you see this little logo shown beside your model name on the BIOS download page, http://english. aopen. com. tw/tech/download/skin, it is assured that your motherboard supports this innovative feature! 80 AX4PE Max 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 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. 81 AX4PE Max 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 Online Manual You can use the auto-run menu of Bonus CD disc. Ch oose the utility and driver and select model name. 82 AX4PE Max 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 Online Manual You can install the Intel INF Update Utility from the Bonus Pack CD disc auto-run menu to eliminate th e "?" marks, but except Windows 95 and 98 (First version). 83 AX4PE Max I ns t a ll i n g I n t e l I A A D ri v e r Online Manual 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. 84 AX4PE Max I ns t a ll i n g O n b o a r d S o u n d D ri v e r Online Manual This motherboard comes with AC97 CODEC. You can find the audio driver from the Bonus Pack CD disc auto-run menu. 85 AX4PE Max Online Manual 86 AX4PE Max The nois e is gone!!- -- - Si le nt PC Online Manual As the clock of CPU keeps rocketing higher and higher, it inevitably brings higher heat and system temperature in a relative way. The way we deal with this heat problem, however, is to spare no effort to add one fan after another to protect our pampered s ystem, expecting these fans could cool down our machine as much as it could. But at the same time, we believe that same amount of users are affected terribly while working with their PC by the irritating noises of these fans . As a matter of fact, we do not have to get our fans running at such a high speed in most cases; on the contrary, we discovered that having your fans running at appropriate time and speed could not only reduce the noise, but also c onsume the least po wer the system needed, so as to prevent over-wasting of energy resource. Today, AOpen Motherboard is honored to bring you a new overall solution, SilentPC, to have your system quiet. To collocate with hardware circuit, BIOS and the utility under Windows, SilentPC combined "Hardware-Status Monitoring", "Overheat Warning" and "Fan Speed Control" with user-friendly interfaces to provide you a perfect balance betwe en noises, system p erformance and stability. The first image you have here is the Voltage Status page. You can find current status of all voltages and set your expected margins of warning level. You may check your system voltage from the indicating bar here. 87 AX4PE Max In "Temp/Fan/Case" page, you may get aware of the current temperature of CPU and the heat inside chassis, plus checking if fans are running properly. Online Manual You may set the hi ghest margin of your CPU and system temperature as default, and SilentPC would pop up a message box and alert you with alarm when the temperature goes beyo nd the specified margin. Of course, you may set your defaulted lowest margin for your fans and the SilentPC would also pop up a message box and alarm you when the fan is rotating slower than this specified speed. 88 AX4PE Max Online Manual T he following page is sure to be the most i mportant part of this utility, you may control the rotation speed of specific fans you got with options inside in this page. [. . . ] You can find this bar code label on the outside packing, or on comp onen t side of PCB. For example: Part No. Serial No. Part No. P/N: 9 1. 88110. 201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number. 131 AX4PE Max Mo de l na me a n d B IO S v ers i on Online Manual M odel nam e and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: AX 4PE Max R1. 20 Aug. 01. 2002 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1. 0A Co pyright © 1998, Award Software, Inc. AX4PE Max is model name of motherboard; R1. 20 is BIOS version. 132 AX4PE Max Online Manual Pr o d uc t R e g is t r at i o n Thank you for choosing AOpen product. [. . . ]