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Green/ACT Orange/Speed
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C h a s s i s I n t r u s i o n S e n s or
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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 being triggered by light or opening of the chassis, the system will send out beep sound 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.
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SENSOR GND
Case Open Sensor Connector
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CD Audi o Conne c t or
This connector is used to connect CD Audio cable from CD-ROM or DVD drive to onboard sound.
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R GND GND L Note: Though some of the latest version of Windows support "Digital Audio" through IDE bus. However, in order to use Open Jukebox player, which is driven under BIOS, it is a MUST to insert audio cable to CD-IN connector on the motherboard.
CD-IN
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A U X -I N C o n n e c t o r
This connector is used to connect MPEG Audio cable from MPEG card to onboard sound.
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R GND GND L
AUX-IN
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Fr o n t A u d i o C o n n e c t o r
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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.
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1 AUD_MIC AUD_MIC_BIAS AUD_FPOUT_R NC AUD_FROUT_L 9
2 AUD_GND AUD_VCC AUD_RET_R KEY AUD_RET_L 10
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Ba t t e r y - l e s s a nd Long Li f e De s i gn
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This Motherboard implements Flash ROM and a special circuit that allows you to save your current CPU and CMOS Setup configurations without using the 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. ATX Stand-by Power Battery
Auto Switch
RTC (Real Time Clock) 00:00:00
Auto switching to ATX standby power as long as AC power line is plugged. This smart design can increases battery life if you still had battery plugged on motherboard.
Flash ROM
CMOS Backup by EEPROM
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CP U O v e r - c ur r e nt P r ot e c t i on
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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.
5V (Protected by power supply) ATX Switching Power Supply 3. 3V (Protected by power supply) 12V (Protected by power supply)
Onboard Power Regulator
Over-Current Protection Circuit
CPU Core Voltage
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. 59
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A O C o n fi g U ti l i t y
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AOpen always dedicated to provide users a much friendlier computer environment. AOconfig is a Windows based utility with user-friendly interface that allows users to obtain information of the operation system and hardware such as motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI devices and IDE devices. The powerful utility also displays the version of BIOS and firmware for your convenience of maintenance. Moreover, AOconfig allows users to save information in *. BMP or *. TXT format which users may collect the system information in detail and send them to AOpen directly for technical support or further diagnosis of system problem.
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The system page shows the detail information of the motherboard, the operating system, the processor, and BIOS version.
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The PCI device page shows the configurations of all PCI devices installed on your motherboard.
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3. This page presents the IDE devices information, such as the serial number, the manufacturer, the firmware version, and capacity.
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4. From this page, users may obtain the technical support information of AOpen. [. . . ] http://english. aopen. com. tw/tech/download/default. htm 112
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Contact Distributors/Resellers: We sell our products through resellers and integrators. They should know your system configuration very well and should be able to solve your problem more efficiently than us. After all, their attitude of service is an important reference for you if next time you want to buy something else from them. [. . . ]