User manual AOPEN I915GMIE

[. . . ] Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. 1 Thank-you Note Before You Get Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1. 2 Features of This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. 3 Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. 1 How does your motherboard look like?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. 2 Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 3 Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. 1 Quick Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. 2 Installation You Have to Know. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Installing CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel. Pin 1 Pin 1 25 Super 7. 1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an ALC880 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. Please connect the plug of your front speakers to the green "Speaker out" port , rear surround speakers to orange port, side surround speakers to gray port and both of the center and subwoofer speakers to black port on the back panel. . 26 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. Please be informed that to have front audio ports work properly, the front audio panel of the housing should be designed for High definition Audio jack. If the front audio panel is not designed for High Definition Audio jack, we strongly recommend you to connect the microphone to the back panel of the motherboard. Pin1 1 PORT1L PORT1R PORT2R SENSE_SEND PORT2L GND PRESENCE# SENSE1_RETURN KEY SENSE2_RETURN Front Audio Connector 27 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. Pin1 (User Upgrade Optional) 28 Connecting COM2 This motherboard provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the left side of EPS power connector. With proper cable, you can connect it to the back panel of chassis. Pin 1 RTS# R1# 1 2 CTS# DSR# GND SOUT DCD# SIN DTR# 29 Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. R GND GND L CD-IN Connector 30 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. Please be informed that this useful function only applies to advanced chassis; you may purchase an extra sensor, attach it on your chassis and make a good use of this function. Pin 1 1 Sensor GND Intrusion Sensor 31 Colored Coded Back Panel The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, Printer, USB, Azalia sound and game ports. The view angle of drawing shown here is from the back panel of the housing. SPP/EPP/ECP Parallel Port USB 2. 0 PS/2 Mouse Connector RJ45 LAN Jack Rear SUR Line-In Speaker Out Center/ Subwoofer MIC-In PS/2 Keyboard COM 1 Port Connector VGA Port USB 2. 0 Side SUR PS/2 Keyboard: PS/2 Mouse: Parallel Port: COM1 Port: others serial devices. RJ-45 LAN Port: VGA Connector: USB Port: Side SUR: Center/Subwoofer: Rear SUR: Speaker Out: Line-In: player. MIC-In: For standard keyboard, which use a PS/2 plug. To connect with pointing devices, modem or To connect Ethernet for home or office use. To External Speaker, Earphone or Amplifier. Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape For Microphone 32 LED Indication LED indication including Boot LED and Standby LED are AOpen's considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system information. STBY LED will light up when power is provided to the motherboard, giving you a convenient indication check the system power status in circumstances such as power on/off, stand-by mode and RAM power status during Suspend to RAM mode. BOOT LED will keep blinking when you power the system on and when your system is under POST (Power-On Self Test). After POST diagnoses everything all right and finishes the booting, the LED will stay on otherwise it will remain flashing to warn you that mistakes have occurred during POST STBY LED BOOT LED 33 3. 4 Jumper Settings JP28 Keyboard / Mouse Wakeup Jumper This motherboard provides PS2 keyboard / mouse wake-up function. JP28 KB/Mouse Wakeup Jumper 1 Disable (Default) 1 Enable JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper 1 1 Normal (default) Clear CMOS You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below. [. . . ] 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. Once clicking "GO", EzInstall will run the installing procedure automatically, and prompt a reboot dialog (Some drivers or utilities may skip the reboot part). Note: Due to the limitation of Intel chipsets driver, Windows 2000 is needed to be updated to service pack 4 for installing audio driver correctly. 45 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. [. . . ]