ASRock FM2A85X Extreme4: I/O Panel

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ASRock  FM2A85X Extreme4  Motherboard

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I/O Panel

** There are two LED next to the LAN port. Please refer to the table below for the LAN port LED  

    indications. 

LAN Port LED Indications

       Activity/Link LED        

SPEED LED

Status        Description            Status           Description 

Off           No Link                Off             10Mbps connection

Blinking   Data Activity        Orange      100Mbps connection

On           Link 

         Green        1Gbps connection

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PS/2  Mouse/Keyboard  Port  (Green/Purple)     *** 10  Front  Speaker  (Lime)    

2 

D-Sub  Port  (VGA1)  

11  Microphone  (Pink)

3 

USB 3.0  Ports  (USB34)      

12  USB 3.0  Ports  (USB56) 

      * 4 

USB 2.0  Ports  (USB01)                                      **** 13  eSATA3  Connector  (eSATA1) 

     ** 5 

LAN  RJ-45  Port 

14  Clear  CMOS  Switch  (CLRCBTN) 

6 

Central / Bass  (Orange) 

15  HDMI  Port  (HDMI1)

7 

Rear  Speaker  (Black) 

16  DVI-D  Port  (DVI1) 

8 

Optical  SPDIF  Out  Port 

17  USB 3.0  Ports  (USB12)

9 

Line  In  (Light  Blue)

LAN Port

ACT/LINK

    LED

SPEED

  LED

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If you use 2-channel speaker, please connect the speaker’s plug into “Front Speaker Jack”.     

      See the table below for connection details in accordance with the type of speaker you use.

TABLE for Audio Output  Connection

Audio Output Channels   Front Speaker  Rear Speaker 

Central / Bass 

 Line In or  

(No. 10) 

(No. 7) 

(No. 6)          Side Speaker

  (No. 

9) 

2 

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4 V 

V 

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6 

V 

V V --

8 

V 

V V V

* It is recommended to install the USB Keyboard/Mouse cable to USB 2.0 ports (USB01) 

   instead of USB 3.0 ports.

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ASRock  FM2A85X Extreme4  Motherboard

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To enable Multi-Streaming function, you need to connect a front panel audio cable to the front  

panel audio header. After restarting your computer, you will 

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 nd “Mixer” tool on your system. 

Please select “Mixer ToolBox”               , click “Enable playback multi-streaming”, and click  “ok”.  

Choose “2CH”, “4CH”, “6CH”, or “8CH” and then you are allowed to select “Realtek HDA Pri-

mary output” to use Rear Speaker, Central/Bass, and Front Speaker, or select “Realtek  HDA 

Audio 2nd output” to use front panel audio.    

**** eSATA3 connector supports SATA Gen3 in cable 1M.