Friday, August 02, 2002

Additional features

Additional features of the AOpen AX4B Pro 533 motherboard include: Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem Ring, PS2 connectors for connecting mice & keyboards, six USB 2.0 ports, Suspend to Disk, Suspend to RAM, RX/TX connectors for infrared, Dr. LED (optional), Watch Dog Timer, DieHard BIOS (optional), an SPDIF interface, and start-up from the mouse, keyboard, or at a pre-set time. Hardware monitoring of fan speed, CPU temperature, and of voltages is also included as a standard feature of this PC99-compliant motherboard.

The AOpen AX4B Pro 533 also includes a six-channel Realtelk ALC650 5.1 AC'97 2.2. compatible sound-card, a Realtek RTL8100BL network controller, and an integrated 2D/3D graphics card.

Below, a photo of the AOpen AX4B Pro 533.

Installation

Installation of the AOpen AX4B Pro 533 Is very simple, since there are no jumpers to configure. In short: slap the board in a case, plug-in, boot-up, and drop into the BIOS to make any adjustments.

Software bundle

The installation CD includes the Intel v4.00.1009 patch, drivers for the USB 2.0 controller, drivers for the sound-card, Adobe Acrobat Reader, a digital rendition of the user's manual, a Windows-compatible hardware monitoring utility, Norton Antivirus, Norton Crash Guard, 3Deep E-Color DirectX 8.1, and AOpen AOConfig.

Hardware bundle

The AOpen AX4B Pro 533 comes with: one 80-pin ATA100 cable, one 40-pin ATA33 cable, a floppy-drive cable, a back-plate with a pair of USB ports, and a cover for the connectors on the rear of the system.

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AOpen AX4B Pro 533