AOpen XC Cube User manual

Brand: AOpen

Model: XC Cube

Category: Computer cases

Type: User manual

Disposal Instruction (US)

For better protection of our earth, please don’t throw this electronic device into

municipal trash bin when discarding. To minimize pollution and ensure utmost

protection of the global environment, please recycle the product. For more

information about the collection and recycling of Waste Electrical and Electronic

Equipment (WEEE), you are invited to visit our homepage at www.aopen.com under

“Green Products”

廃棄上の指示

より良い地球保護のために、電子機器を廃棄処分にする時は、ゴミ箱に捨てな

いで下さい。汚染を最小限に抑え、地球環境の最大限の保護のために、製品を

リサイクルして下さい。廃電気電子機器 (WEEE) の回収とリサイクルについて

の情報は、弊社ホームページwww.aopen.com の“Green Products”（環境に優

しい製品）をご覧下さい。

廢棄及回收處理

為了保護環境，請勿將本產品當作一般廢棄物處理。為減少環境污染，維護地球

資源，本產品報廢時，請回收本產品。

Instruktion til bortskaffelse (Danish)

Af hensyn til vores miljø bedes De ikke bortskaffe denne elektroniske enhed i en

almindelig affaldsspand. For at mindske forurening og sikre beskyttelse af miljøet

bedes De genbruge produktet. For yderligere information vedrørende indsamling og

genbrug af elektronik-affald (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)) er

De velkommen til at besøge vores website www.aopen.com og læse nærmere under

“Green Products”.

Verwijderingsinstructie (Dutch)

Om mogelijke schade aan het milieu of de menselijke gezondheid door

ongecontroleerde afvalverwijdering te voorkomen, moet u dit elektronisch product

scheiden van andere soorten afval en op een verantwoorde manier recyclen. Verwijder

dit product dan ook alstublieft niet samen met ander huishoudelijk afval. Voor meer

informatie over de verzameling en recycling van elektrisch afval en elektronische

apparatuur (WEEE), nodigen we u uit om onze homepage te bezoeken www.aopen.com

onder “Green Products”.

Instruction de Disposition (French)

Pour une meilleure protection de la terre, ne jetez pas ce dispositif électronique dans la

poubelle municipale lors de la disposition. Pour éliminer la pollution et assurer la plus

grande protection de l’environnement global, réutilisez s’il vous plaît le produit. Pour

plus d’informations sur la gestion des déchets d’Equipements Electriques et

Electroniques (DEEE ou WEEE), vous êtes invité à visiter notre site à www.aopen.com

sous “ Green Products”.

Entsorgungsanleitung (German)

Zum besseren Schutze unseres Planeten, schmeissen Sie elektrische Geräte bitte nicht

in öffentliche Mülleimer. Zur Verringerung der Verschmutzung und zur

Sicherstellung grösstmöglichen Schutzes der Umwelt recyceln Sie bitte das Produkt.

Für mehr Informationen zum Sammeln und Recyceln von elektrischen und

elektronischen Müll (WEEE) besuchen Sie bitte unsere Homepage unter www.aopen.

com unter dem Punkt “Green Products”.

Istruzioni per lo smaltimento (Italian)

Per una migliore salvaguardia del nostro pianeta, si prega di non gettare questo

dispositivo elettronico nei normali riﬁ uti al momento dell’eliminazione. Per ridurre al

minimo l’inquinamento ed assicurare la massima protezione dell’ambiente, si prega di

riciclare il prodotto. Per maggiori informazioni riguardanti la raccolta ed il riciclaggio

delle apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche residue (WEEE), siete invitati a visitare

la nostra homepage www.aopen.com alla voce “Green Products”.

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Instruksjoner for Resirkulering og Oppsamling (Norweigian)

For ĺ beskytte vĺr planet, kast ikke dette elektroniske utstyret sammen med vanlig

avfall. For ĺ beskytte vĺr natur og miljř, vennligst resirkuler dette produktet. For mer

informasjon om oppsamling og resirkulering i henhold til Waste Electrical and

Electronic Equipment (WEEE), se vĺr hjemmeside pĺ www.aopen.com under “Green

Products”.

Programa de Tratamento de Resíduos de Equipamentos Eléctricos e

Electrónicos (Portugese)

Para melhor protecção ambiental do nosso planeta terra, não coloque o dispositivo

electrónico no receptáculo de lixo municipal. Para minimizar a poluição e garantir

protecção máxima do ambiente global, recicle o produto. Para mais informações sobre

acerca da recolha e reciclagem de Equipamento Eléctrico e Electrónico (WEEE),

convidamos-lhe a visitar nossa página na Internet em www.aopen.com sobre “Green

Products”.

Instrucciones para depositar los productos electrónicos (Spanish)

Para proteger mejor el medio ambiente, por favor, no deposite los productos

electrónicos en los contenedores de basura tradicionales. Para reducir la contaminación

y proteger el medio ambiente se recomienda que los recicle. Para más información

acerca de dónde depositar y cómo reciclar Equipos Electrónicos y Desperdicios

Electrónicos (WEEE), por favor, visite la página web www.aopen.com y entre en la

sección Productos Ecológicos (“Green Products”).

Kassering (Swedish)

För att bättre värna om vår jord bör denna elektroniska utrustning ej kasseras

tillsammans med vanligt avfall. För att minimera mängden föroreningar och så långt

som möjligt skydda den globala miljön bör produkten återvinnas.

För vidare information om insamling och återvinning av uttjänta elektriska och

elektroniska produkter (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE), besök

avsnittet “Green Products” på vår hemsida, www.aopen.com.

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company.

Disclaimer

AOpen makes no warranties or representations, either expressed or implied, with

respect to the content herein and speciﬁ cally disclaims any warranties, merchantability

of ﬁ tness for any particular purpose.

AOpen and AOpen logos used herein are registered trademarks of AOpen Inc.

All other brand names and trademarks are owned by their respective owners.

AOpen Inc.

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Safety Instructions

1. Please read these safety instructions carefully.

2. Please keep this User’s Manual for later reference.

3. Please disconnect this equipment from connecter before cleaning. Don’t use liquid

or prayed detergent for cleaning. Use moisture sheet or cloth for cleaning.

4. Make sure the equipment is connected to the power source with the correct voltage,

frequency, and ampere.

5. All cautions and warnings on the equipment should be noted.

6. Never pour any liquid into opening; this could cause ﬁ re or electrical shock.

7. Never open the equipment. For safety reason, the equipment should only be opened

by qualiﬁ ed service personnel.

8. If one of the following situations arises, get the equipment checked by a service

personnel :

a. Liquid has penetrated into the equipment.

b. The equipment has been exposed to moisture.

c. The equipment has not work well or you can not get it work according to user’s

manual.

d. The equipment has dropped and damaged.

e. If the equipment has obvious sign of breakage.

9. Ambient operation temperature: less than 40 degrees C.

10. Caution on use of battery: Use the battery recommended by the manufacturer or the

same type of battery installed by the manufacturer. If incorrect battery is used, it

may cause explosion or ﬁ re hazard. Recycle or discard used batteries according the

manufacturer’s instruction or your local authority.

11. Safety caution concerning laser products:

DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive is “Class I Laser Product” This equipment, built

with DVD and/or CD disc drives using laser beam to read or write data on optical

discs, is classiﬁ ed as “Class 1 laser product”. While the laser optical drive is

reading data from or writing data to an optical disc, do not force open the disc drive

door. Press the Eject button to retrieve the optical disc only after the in-use indicator

goes off.

FCC notice

This device has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital

device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide

reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.

This device generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed

and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio

communications.

However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular

installation. If this device does cause harmful interference to radio or television

reception, which can be determined by turning the device off and on, the user is

encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

 Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

 Increase the separation between the device and receiver.

 Connect the device into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the

receiver is connected.

 Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for help

Notice: Shielded cables

All connections to other computing devices must be made using shielded cables to

maintain compliance with FCC regulations.

Notice: Peripheral devices

Only peripherals (input/output devices, terminals, printers, etc.) certiﬁ ed to comply

with Class B limits may be attached to this equipment. Operation with non-certiﬁ ed

peripherals is likely to result in interference to radio and TV reception.

Caution

Changes or modiﬁ cations not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the

user’s authority, which is granted by the Federal Communications Commission, to

operate this computer.

Operation conditions

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the

following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2)

this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause

undesired operation.

Notice: Canadian users

This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003

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Contents

Chapter 1 ............................................................................................................... 1

1.1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Started ........................................... 1

1.2 The Features Of This Manual ................................................................. 2

1.3 Preliminary Tools .................................................................................... 3

Chapter 2 What’s In The Box? ............................................................................ 4

2.1 What’s In The Box? ................................................................................ 4

2.2 Accessory ................................................................................................ 5

Chapter 3 Start To Assemble ............................................................................... 6

3.1 Features of XC Cube ............................................................................... 6

3.2 Starting Installing .................................................................................... 7

3.3 Cooler, Hard Disk, Floppy Drives and Optical devices .......................... 8

3.3.1 Taking Cooler out .......................................................................... 8

3.3.2 Install Hard disk ............................................................................ 9

3.3.3 Install Floppy Drive ...................................................................... 9

3.3.4 Install Optical Drive ...................................................................... 10

3.4

Cables and Connectors ............................................................................ 10

3.5 Install CPU .............................................................................................. 12

3.5.1 Install CPU On Socket T ............................................................... 12

3.5.2 Install CPU On Socket 479 ........................................................... 13

3.6 Install CPU Cooler and CPU Fan Connector .......................................... 13

3.7 Connecting DRAM to DIMM Sockets ................................................... 13

3.8 Insert Add-on card (AGP/PCI/PCIe/PCIeX1/PCIeX16) on

motherboard ............................................................................................ 14

3.9 Putting Drives Cage back to Chassis ...................................................... 15

3.10 All Set ................................................................................................... 16

3.11 How about all external peripheral? ....................................................... 17

Chapter 4 Turn On The Power! ........................................................................... 19

Postscripts .............................................................................................................. 22

Introduction To Jumper Settings and Other Connectors ............................... 23

CPU and System Fan Connector ................................................................... 24

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Chapter 1

1.1 Thank-you Note Before You Get Started

First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for purchasing our

AOpen specially-designed XC Cube. Once again, this bare-system is designed

uniquely to meet all your personal needs with our great industry-designing

ability and our everlasting perseverance to the quality of all our products.

This manual is for those who want to set up computer by themselves.

In other words, this is a book for “ Fresh drivers on the road.” If you are already

a veteran, this manual may not be suitable for you. It is our hope that novices

can build up their own computer step by step.

Now, we would like to invite you to personally experience this user-friendly

manual and all of the powerful functions this AOpen XC Cube offers.

The logos of Adobe and Acrobat are the registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

The logos of AMD, Athlon, and Duron are the registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

The logos of Intel, Intel Celeron and Pentium II&III are the registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.

The logos of nVidia are the registered trademarks of nVidia Corporation.

The logos of Microsoft, Windows are the registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in America and

other countries.

All the titles of the products and the trademarks mentioned in this manual are for the purpose of illustrative

conveniences and are possessed by their respective ﬁ rms.

We regret not informing about any changes in usage standards and other related information.

AOpen Company reserves the right of altering or modifying the content of this manual. In case of any

mistakes or incorrect descriptions, which include those on the products, AOpen makes no guarantee or

commitments.

This document is based on the copyright laws in order to protect our company and reserve all rights.

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1.2 The Features Of This Manual

In this manual, you’ll be able to learn how to:

 set up a personal computer on your own.

 correctly and safely put everything together and learn something about

hardware.

 learn some practical techniques that make doing the job easier.

In addition, this manual DOES NOT offer you:

 any sorts of back doors, such as overclocking.

 a great deal of hardware standard that are hard to comprehend.

 lengthy fanciful article or vague theories.

Instead, this manual explains profound theories in simple language by colorful

illustrations. Therefore, you will see the icons below frequently:

Note mark

Warning mark

Force direction

Contains knowledge you should know in process of

assembling, or some helpful tips.

Please be careful when you see this mark. It highlights

mistakes that occur often during assembling, or

something you need to pay attention to.

This arrow shows the right direction the force should be

imposed, or the correct assembling direction.

1.3 Preliminary Tools

“A workman must ﬁ rst sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well”. Right

before you start the assembly, there are some tools that can’t be spared.

Firstly, the most frequently-used tool is cross screwdriver by which most interior

components are ﬁ xed. A suitable screwdriver can make the following job much

easier. Being so, does any screwdriver apply? Actually a magnetic tip one is

suggested. That is because in the process of setting up your PC, the situation

is very likely to happen: you accidentally drop the screws into the interior of the

computer. In case of this, a magnetic screwdriver helps attracting the fallen

screws that are hard to reach by hands. Some screw holes are placed where

hands can hardly reach. At this time, we need a magnetic screwdriver, too. In

addition, the size of our tool also matters. Generally, the domestic 107 cross

screwdriver is the most appropriate one. Besides, a ﬂ at screwdriver is also

essential for installing CPU on socket 479.

I can get it done!!

When putting things together, it is necessary to adjust Jumper. In most cases,

things can be done barehanded. But there comes a time always when your

hands fail to reach in and ﬁ x the problem. You’ll thank God with a pliers on

hand which keeps you away from any annoying trouble for just setting one

JUMPER.

What is Jumper?

Jumper is something generally referred to “

Jumping wire” that utilizes the short circuit

of the pins to tune up some functions, such

as FSB (front side bus), ratio, and sound

switches adjusting.

Chapter 2

2.1 What’s In The Box?

Open the XC Cube box, you will ﬁ nd components as follow:

 XC Cube chassis / Drives Cage

 Motherboard

 Power Supply

 CPU Cooler

The pictures above may look different from the product you purchased.

All in One

Drives Cage

Power Supply / XC Cube Chasis

CPU Cooler

Motherboard

2.2 Accessory

Beside main components, you are supposed to see the following accessories:

 Fixed screws: After opening the accessory parcel, you’ll see the following

three different type of screws:

 IDE Cable: a 40-pin connector to connect the hard disk with IDE

interface.

 IDE Cable: a 40-pin connector to connect

the optical device IDE interface.

 Disk Drive Cable: a 34-pin connector

to connect disk drive.

40-pin hard disk connector

40-pin optical connector

34-pin connector

FDD header

Motherboard

header

As shown in the picture, the

threads on NO.1 screw are

wide and it has a

hexagonal head. It is for ﬁ xing

the mother board and

power supply on chassis.

As shown in the picture,

threads on NO.2 screw are

narrow and there is a ring

on its head. It is for ﬁ xing

the optical device drive on

the drive bays.

As shown in the picture,

the NO.3 screw’s threads

are wide as well but it has

a round head. It is for ﬁ xing

the hard disk drive on the

drives cage.

Chapter 3 Start To Assemble

3.1 Features of XC Cube

AOpen XC Cube, designed as a Mini-PC, provides you as many advantages

as it can. You may ﬁ nd that it is elegant among other traditional PC design that

obviously highlighted your individual style and taste with different color panel

provided. In addition to it’s unique appearance, AOpen XC Cube is easy to

move around in your house, suitable for decoration even in your living room.

As light and crispy as it is, it is deﬁ nitely your choice for a PC.

 Unique design that reﬂ ects your style and taste!

 Space ﬂ exibility allows you to move it from living room or to your

bedroom.

 Silent Technology, PC that is quiet even in the middle of the night.

 Easy Installation for any new hand assembling their ﬁ rst PC.

 Mini housing which saves you almost 60% of housing space.

 Hand-harmlessness design ensures you 100% security during

assembling.

 Equipped with a highly efﬁ cient power supply to keep your computer

work smoothly in most cases.

 Conform to FCC ClassB/DoC and CE standards to guarantee your

health.

 Teamed with high-efﬁ ciency motherboard to make your job a great deal

easier.

 Great extensible function where you can optionally purchase Add-on/PCI

interfaces with low-proﬁ le standards.

3.2 Starting Installing

1. Unscrew all screws on the chassis. Use your thumb to push the chassis

backward to you.

2. Lift the chassis up. Here you may see the internal of the chassis.

3.3 Cooler, Hard Disk, Floppy Drives and Optical devices

3.3.1 Taking Cooler out

Before installing hard disk, ﬂ oppy drives and optical devices into the XC Cube

chassis, let’s take the cooler out from chassis ﬁ rst.

1. Take the screws off the chassis and then take the Drives Cage out.

2. Before taking AOpen-made Cooler out, please disconnect its connector ﬁ rst.

After that, unfasten AOpen-made Cooler. For detail, please refer to EIG

wording.

3. Take the cooler out of the chassis. Put it aside for later use then.

Why AOpen Fan Cooler ?

After thermal testing and conﬁ rmation, we have

chosen this model of AOpen cooler for ﬁ tting

with XC Cube. It has been tested with optimized

air-ﬂ ow and excellent heat dissipation function

for our XC Cube system.

It is highly recommended not to use other

branded cooler to go with XC Cube.

3.3.2 Install Hard disk

After taking out Cooler, let’s focus on Installing Drives Cage. Slide hard disk

into the Drives Cage, and use screw no. 3 to screw it ﬁ rmly to the cage.

The bottom of Cooler had been protected with

a plastic cover when shipped.

Please take it off when you want to put the

cooler on CPU.

3.3.3 Install Floppy Drive

Slide in the ﬂ oppy drive as shown. Use screw no.2 to screw the 3rd and 6th

hole separately.

Heat dissipation side faces up.

Front mark

3.3.4 Install Optical Drive

Slide in the optical drive. Use screw no.2 to screw the optical drive ﬁ rmly.

Optical device must aim

at the edge of Drives

Don’t mess up screws!!

Generally there are special screws for hard disk

in the parcel when you buy a new hard disk.

There will be no harm done using those screws.

If no screws are attached, use those packed

in the accessory parcel. Make sure to use the

NO.2 screws.

3.4 Cables and Connectors

1. Before connecting necessary cables and connector to motherboard, you

may found most of the I/O panel connectors (IEEE1394, USB, Front Audio

and S/PDIF) both at front panel and back panel on motherboard have had

been connected properly as shown.

I/O connectors have had

been inserted previously.

2. Connecting ﬂ oppy cable, hard disk and optical cable on motherboard for

later use.

Hard disk

cable

Optical device

cable

3. If you happen to have Serial ATA hard disk, except EZ661L, this motherboard

comes with Serial ATA connectors onboard as well. With EzColor design, you

may easily ﬁ nd out the correct ﬂ ame-red cable with the correct header. You

may kindly install the Serial ATA cables onto Serial ATA headers.

As Serial ATA hard disk comes with different power connector, please use our

bundled SATA power connector to connect the hard disk.

Serial ATA

Cables

Power Connector

Where is Pin1 ?

When connecting IDE cables, bear in mind to

aim the red side of IDE cables at the ﬁ rst pin of

the socket where there’s an arrow mark on the

motherboard. If you are still not sure, please

refer to your motherboard manual.

3.5 Install CPU

3.5.1 Install CPU On Socket T

1. Remove plastic cap and erect CPU socket lever up.

2. Pull CPU socket plate up and install CPU onto CPU socket. Then press

plate back to CPU socket.

3. Press down CPU socket lever to ﬁ nish CPU installation.

Lever

Plastic Cap

Plate

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