User manual AOPEN AX4GEMAX

[. . . ] Overview Hardware Installation Troubleshooting & Technical Support Drivers & Utilities AWARD BIOS Setup Glossary Online Manual DOC. NO. : AX4GEM-OL-E0211B AX4GE Max AX4GE Max 1 AX4GE Max W h a t 's i n t h i s m a n u a l Online Manual AX4GE Max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What's in this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 You Must Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Boot: Pressing B, to intelligently boot to Windows Operation System for you. Note: Though some of the latest Pause: Pressing P, to pause the music playing temporarily. version of Windows support "Digital Eject: Pressing E, to eject CD tray for you to change CD disc. However, in Repeat: Like other CD Players, pressing R, to shift the repeat mode. order to use Open Jukebox player, Volume +/-: Pressing + or ­ to adjust the volume of playing music. which is driven under BIOS, it is a Rewind/Forward / : Pressing arrow keys, to rewind or forward the music. MUST to insert audio cable to CD-IN 76 connector on the motherboard. AX4GE Max Your Open JukeBox Settings in BIOS There are three Open JukeBox settings in BIOS as follows. Online Manual Auto: The default setting is "Auto" with which the Open JukeBox will automatically check the CD player every time you power on. The Open JukeBox will automatically be launched when it detects a music CD in your CD player. Press Insert Key: Choosing this setting will allow a reminder message popped up on the screen during BIOS POST. It reminds you of pressing "Ins" key on your keyboard to start Open JukeBox Player; otherwise the system will launch the Windows Operation System. CD Player: Choosing this setting allows the system to launch Open JukeBox Player every time you power on. However, by pressing B on your keyboard the Windows Operation System will be launched. 77 AX4GE Max Your Open JukeBox EzSkin Online Manual Except these powerful functions above, Open JukeBox Player is also equipped with another fancy feature for you to change its "skin". You can download as many skins as you want from AOpen Website, and changing them whenever you want by using this useful utility ­ EzSkin ­ which may also be downloaded from our website. 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 http://english. aopen. com. tw/tech/download/skin 78 AX4GE 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 screen!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. 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 change 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! 79 AX4GE Max Hyper Threading Technology What is Hyper-Threading? Online Manual Hyper-Threading technology is an innovative design from Intel that enables multi-threaded software applications to process threads in parallel within each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, an average improvement of ~40% in CPU resource utilization yields higher processing throughput. How Hyper-Threading Works A form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT), Hyper-Threading technology allows multiple threads of software applications to be run simultaneously on one while processor the same by duplicating the architectural state on each processor processor execution resources is shared. The figure below represents how a Hyper-Threading based processor differentiates The shows a a traditional left-hand traditional multiprocessor. 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