User manual AOPEN I915GMI
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[. . . ] 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The right hand side LED indicates link mode; it lights in yellow when linking to network. The left hand side LED indicates the transfer mode and will light in green when data is transferring at 100Mbps (never lights while at 10Mbps), but will light in orange when transferring in Gigabit's mode. To enable or disable this function, you may simply adjust it through BIOS. To enable LAN wakeup function, you have to set the "Wake on PCI Card" enable in the BIOS "Power Management Setup" section.
Speed LED (Left) Green 100Mbps Orange Gigabit mode ACT LED (Right) Yellow
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Connecting USB2. 0
This motherboard provides eight USB 2. 0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. You can use proper cables to connect Front USB connector to USB modules or chassis front panel.
Pin 1
Pin 1
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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. 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. .
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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.
Pin1
1 PORT1L PORT1R PORT2R SENSE_SEND PORT2L GND PRESENCE# SENSE1_RETURN KEY SENSE2_RETURN
Front Audio Connector
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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)
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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
RI# RTS# 1 2 DSR# CTS#
GND SOUT DOD#
SIN DTR#
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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
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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
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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. To connect with pointing devices, modem or To connect Ethernet for home or office use. Comes from the signal sources, such as CD/Tape For Microphone
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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
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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. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR3.
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Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities
Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities
SilentTek Noise is Gone!
As CPU clock keeps rocketing higher and higher, it has inevitably brought 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 system, expecting these fans cool down our machine as much as they can. [. . . ] Without wizards or steps, all you have to do is to do one click and then it's done. After putting in the CD, you will be prompted with AOpen welcome page and our branches information. First, click on the install driver ICON at left side for necessary drivers. Second, click on the install utility ICON at left side for preferred utilities. [. . . ]
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