1 Table of Contents Table of Contents ... 1 1.1 A Thank-you Note Bef
10 3.2 Installation You Have to Know Installing CPU This socket supports FC-LGA4 CPU, which is the latest CPU package developed by Intel. Other forms
11 Mounting hole Mounting hole Installing CPU Cooler 1. Gently put down the CPU fan on CPU socket with four sticks aiming correctly to the four moun
12 Installing CPU and System Fans Plug the CPU fan cable to the 4-pin CPUFAN connector. If you have chassis fan, you can also plug it in SYSFAN1 or S
13 Installing Memory Modules DIMM slots are designed in black and navy blue which are very easy to recognize. Insert the module straight down to the
14 Maximum The Performance of the Dual Channel To obtain the highest performance of Dual Channel, the configuration of DIMM must meet the following c
15 Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables Connect the 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector and IDE connector. Be careful o
16 Connecting Front Panel Cable Attach the power LED, speaker and reset switch connectors to the corresponding pins. If you enable “Suspend Mode” ite
17 Connecting ATX Power Cables This motherboard comes with a 24-pin and 4-pin ATX power connector as shown below. Make sure you plug them in the righ
18 3.3 Other Installation for Your Reference Setting CPU Voltage and Frequency Setting CPU Core Voltage This motherboard supports Voltage ID (VID) fu
19 Connecting Serial ATA II To connect a serial ATA II disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends of the serial ATA II cable
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20 Adjusting your Hard Disk Setting Except its original 1 set of parallel IDE, this motherboard supports the latest serial ATA hard disk. If you are
21 If you desire to change the default setting, press Enter for selection list: Disabled: You can choose this item if there are only traditional IDE
22 Connecting PCI Express x 16 Graphics Slot i945Ga-PLF / i945Pa-PLF provides a PCI Express x 16 Graphics slot, a red slot having the latest PCI Expr
23 Connecting PCI Express x 1 Slot This motherboard provides two PCI Express x 1 slots, which are located between the PCI Express x 16 and traditiona
24 Connecting IrDA The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplin
25 Connecting Game Port This motherboard comes with a game port (Joystick-Midi) for you to connect any midi devices or joysticks. To use this functio
26 Gigabit LAN Supported On the strength of Realtek Gigabit LAN controller on board, this motherboard provides 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for office an
27 Connecting USB2.0 This motherboard provides eight USB 2.0 ports to connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboard, modem, printer, etc. There are fou
28 Connecting 1394 With IEEE1394 Chip on board (Agere 1394), having its data transfer rate up to 400Mb/s, this interface can connect to devices that
29 Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect This motherboard comes with an AC’97 (Realtek ALC880) CODEC, which supports the latest 7.1 Channel with high qualit
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30 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 th
31 Connecting CD_IN This connector is designed to connect CD Audio cable from CDROM or DVD drive to onboard sound. R GND L AUX-IN
32 Connecting COM2 ( for i945Ga-PLF only) i945Ga-PLF provides two serial ports. One of them is on back panel connector, and the other is on the upper
33 Connecting Case Open The “CASE OPEN” header provides chassis intrusion-monitoring function. To make this function work, you have to enable it in t
34 Connecting S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides
35 Colored Coded Back Panel (for i945Ga-PLF) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, VGA port, USB, IEEE 1
36 Colored Coded Back Panel (for i945Pa-PLF) The onboard I/O devices have PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN Connector, COM1, COM2, USB, IEEE 1394,
37 LED Indication LED indication including Standby LED and BOOT LED are AOpen’s considerate designs that aim at providing you friendly system informa
38 3.4 Jumper Settings JP14 Clear CMOS Data You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follo
39 Chapter 4 Special Features and Utilities 4.1 Other Useful Features With excellent design ability of R&D team, AOpen boasts for its various p
4 1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for purchasing AOpen products. Once again, this mo
40 Chapter 5 Setting BIOS 5.1 Introduction System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu; this menu allows you to configure the sy
41 Del 5.2 How To Use Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup Program Generally, you can use arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, press <Enter
42 5.4 Definition of Power Master Please press the Del button after you start the computer, then you can enter the BIOS setting page. Once you get in
43 Automatic Mode Once you enable this mode, Power Master will detect your processor true loading automatically. When the processor loading is heavy,
44 Silent Mode Once you enable this mode, Power Master will detect your processor true loading automatically. In order to provide you the quietest wo
45 5.5 BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment With outstanding R&D ability of AOpen, we now bring you a whole new BIOS Flash wizard ---- EzWinF
46 Warning: The new BIOS upgrade will permanently replace your original BIOS setting when flashing. You may need to reconfigure the BIOS setting bef
47 5.6 Vivid BIOS technology Have you been fed up with the conservative and immutable POST screen? Let’s rule out the tradition idea that POST scree
48 Chapter 6 Installing Drivers You may think that installing drivers and utilities would be a repeated task of going through those installation
49 Once clicking “GO”, EzInstall will run the installing procedure automatically, and prompt a reboot dialog (Some drivers or utilities may skip t
5 1.2 Features of This Manual To help you grab the useful information of this motherboard and aware of certain conditions that you might need to know
50 6.2 Installing Utilities Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilitie
51 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Chapter 7 Troubleshooting
52 Chapter 8 Technical Support Dear Customer, Thanks for choosing AOpen products. We invite you to register at http://www.aopen.com to become a Gold
53 Model Name and BIOS Version Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). For example: i
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6 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard 2.1 How does your motherboard look like? 1. COM2 Connector (i945Ga-PLF only) 18. Realtek
7 2.2 Specification Here is the main function of your motherboard. Models i945Ga-PLF i945Pa-PLF CPU Intel FC-LGA4 CPU Socket T 533/800/1066MHz Inte
8 2.3 Block Diagram Intel 945G / 945P Chipset DDRII DIMM x 4 Dual Channel DDRII 400/533/667 SDRAM Up to 4GB LGA775
9 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Quick Installation Procedure Chapter 3 Hardware Installation1. Installing CPU 2. Installing
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