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Contents

CHAPTER 1. GETTING STARTED .................................................................................... 1

NTRODUCTION

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PECIFICATION

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UICK

ONTENT

ABLE

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ONFIGURATION

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ARDWARE

NSTALLATION

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CHAPTER 2. BIOS SETUP ................................................................................................. 27

NTRODUCTION

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AIN

ENU

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DVANCED

BIOS F

EATURES

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NTEGRATED

ERIPHERALS

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OWER

ANAGEMENT

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ARDWARE

ONITOR

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OAD

EFAULTS

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XIT

ENU

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CHAPTER 3: SOFTWARE SETUP.................................................................................... 49

OFTWARE

IST

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OFTWARE

NSTALLATION

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UPER

5.1 C

HANNEL

ETUP

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PEAKER

EST

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CHAPTER 4: TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................................... 54

Summary of Contents for PX845GEV Series

Page 1: ...g the vendor s approval in writing Disclaimer We make no warranty of any kind with regard to the content of this user s manual The content is subject to change without notice and we will not be respon...

Page 2: ...PX845PEV GEV Series Socket 478 Intel 82845PE GE 82801DB Supports Intel Pentium 4 Processor USER S Maunal 2002 08 20...

Page 3: ...ION 11 CHAPTER 2 BIOS SETUP 27 INTRODUCTION 27 MAIN MENU 29 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES 31 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 38 POWER MANAGEMENT 43 HARDWARE MONITOR 46 LOAD DEFAULTS 47 EXIT MENU 48 CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE...

Page 4: ...of up to 2GB You can install DDR 333 266 200 PC2700 2100 1600 SDRAM with the option of using the BIOS Setup to over clock to DDR400 The PX845PEV GEV series provides one AGP Slot for 4X 1 5V only AGP c...

Page 5: ...Southbridge Chip Intel 82801DB I O Controller Winbond IO W83627HF AC 97 Codec Relteck ALC650 DRAM Memory Supports 333 PC2700 266 PC2100 200 PC1600 DDR Double Data Rate SDRAM Supports 64MB 128MB 256MB...

Page 6: ...or software MPEG DVD decode Intel Digital Video DVO ports support digital displays and TV out Integrated 350MHz RAMDAC Support ADD card BUS Slots 1 AGP slot 1 5V only Five 32 bit PCI bus slots Flash M...

Page 7: ...550 UART Supports Infrared Data Transmission using IrDA Supports PS 2 mouse and PS 2 keyboard Supports 360KB 720KB 1 2MB 1 44MB and 2 88MB floppy disk drives MIDI compatible Game port compatible IDE F...

Page 8: ...100 Mbit sec Ethernet support Watch Dog Timer This mainboard contains a special feature called the Watch Dog Timer which is used to detect when the system is unable to handle over clocking configurati...

Page 9: ...PCI 1 2 3 4 5 23 CPU FAN System FAN Peripheral expend FAN CPUFAN CHASFAN AUXFAN 11 Front Panel Indicator SW LED 16 Speaker Connector SPEAKER 17 Infrared Connector IrDA 17 Front USB Headers USB 2 USB3...

Page 10: ...801DB U6 U17 BAT1 JP1 CASE OPEN SPDIF SPEAKER SW LED USB2 USB3 CHASFAN Phoenix Bios KB MS USB LAN PRT COM FRONT AUDIO CD IN IrDA CPUFAN PCI3 PCI5 LAN CHIP PCI4 Intel 82845PE U10 ALC 650 AGP AUXFAN PCI...

Page 11: ...1DB U6 U17 BAT1 JP1 CASE OPEN SPDIF SPEAKER SW LED USB2 USB3 CHASFAN Phoenix Bios KB MS USB PRT COM FRONT AUDIO CD IN IrDA CPUFAN PCI3 PCI5 PCI4 Intel 82845PE U10 ALC 650 AGP AUXFAN PCI1 PCI2 DIMM1 AT...

Page 12: ...U17 BAT1 JP1 CASE OPEN SPDIF SPEAKER SW LED USB2 USB3 CHASFAN Phoenix Bios KB MS USB LAN PRT COM VGA FRONT AUDIO CD IN IrDA CPUFAN PCI3 PCI5 LAN CHIP PCI4 Intel 82845GE U10 ALC 650 AGP AUXFAN PCI1 PCI...

Page 13: ...B U6 U17 BAT1 JP1 CASE OPEN SPDIF SPEAKER SW LED USB2 USB3 CHASFAN Phoenix Bios KB MS USB PRT COM VGA FRONT AUDIO CD IN IrDA CPUFAN PCI3 PCI5 PCI4 Intel 82845GE U10 ALC 650 AGP AUXFAN PCI1 PCI2 DIMM1...

Page 14: ...our system hardware Wear a wrist ground strap before handling components Electrostatic discharge may damage your system components Subject CPU Processor Installation Memory Installation Back Panel Con...

Page 15: ...own Match the dot on the CPU with the pin 1 receptor on the socket and lower the CPU onto the socket The bottom of the CPU should be flush with the face of the socket 3 Lower the lever until it snaps...

Page 16: ...nd you attach the CPU fan to the CPUFAN Header Socket 478 Intel 82801DB U6 U17 BAT1 JP1 CASE OPEN SPDIF SPEAKER SW LED USB2 USB3 CHASFAN Phoenix Bios KB MS USB LAN PRT COM FRONTAUDIO CD IN IrDA CPUFAN...

Page 17: ...ature called Watch Dog Timer which is used to detect when the system is unable to perform using the manual over clocking configurations After you power on the system BIOS will check the last system PO...

Page 18: ...B The layout is PX845PEV PRO RAM Module Installation 1 Match the notch on the button of the RAM module with the corresponding pattern in the DIMM slot This ensures that the module is inserted properly...

Page 19: ...USB ports These attach to USB connectors embedded into the computer case or connected to a USB connector bracket The PX845PEV GEV PRO also provides a LAN port You can plug LAN devices directly into t...

Page 20: ...s Your monitor attaches directly to the VGA connector on this mainboard Game Port Connector SOUND This connector allows you to connect a joystick or game pad for playing computer games This port can a...

Page 21: ...Power Button This connector can be attached to a front panel power switch The switch must pull the Power Button pin to ground for at least 50 ms to signal the power supply to switch on or off the tim...

Page 22: ...such as laptops and PDAs The layout is PX845PEV PRO The speaker cannot be connected to the audio subsystem and can not receive output from the audio subsystem Soc ket 478 Intel 82801DB U6 U17 BAT1 JP1...

Page 23: ...drives to IDE1 If you attach two drives you must use a ribbon cable with three connectors You must also configure one drive as the master and one drive as the slave using the jumpers located on each d...

Page 24: ...ll display alert messages up on boot up Please make sure your computer case have the case open lead The layout is PX845PEV PRO Intel 82801DB U17 BAT1 JP1 CASE OPEN SPDIF USB2 USB3 Phoenix Bios KB MS U...

Page 25: ...2 Set JP1 to OFF 2 3 Closed 3 Wait several seconds 4 Set JP1 to ON 1 2 closed 5 Connect the AC power cable and turn on your system 6 Reset your desired password or clear CMOS data The following proce...

Page 26: ...S PDIF connector to the other end of an S PDIF audio module which bears S PDIF digital output However you must have an S PDIF supported speaker with S PDIF digital input to connect to the S PDIF digi...

Page 27: ...escription of the output connectors Front Panel Audio Header FRONT AUDIO If your computer case has been designed with embedded audio equipment You can attach these components to the FRONT_AUDIO panel...

Page 28: ...AGP cards PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots This mainboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for expansion cards wh...

Page 29: ...2V PIN Assignment PIN Assignment 1 Ground 3 12V 2 Ground 4 12V ATX_PWR PIN Assignment PIN Assignment 1 3 3V 11 3 3V 2 3 3V 12 12V 3 Ground 13 Ground 4 5V 14 PS_ON 5 Ground 15 Ground 6 5V 16 Ground 7 G...

Page 30: ...WARDTM BIOS includes additional features such as virus and password protection as well as special configurations for fine tuning the system chipset The defaults for the BIOS values contained in this d...

Page 31: ...enu bar Right arrow Move to the item on the right menu bar Esc Main Menu Quit without saving changes Submenus Exit Current page to the next higher level menu Move Enter Move to the item you desired Pg...

Page 32: ...the Main Menu will appear on the screen then Main menu allows you to select from several configuration options Use the left right arrow keys to select a particular configuration screen from the top me...

Page 33: ...b menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu Drive A Drive B 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5in 2 88M 3 5 in None Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system Video EGA VGA...

Page 34: ...e system to try to boot from other devices if the system fails to boot from the 1st 2nd 3rd boot devices Options Enabled default Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek When Enabled the BIOS tests seeks floppy d...

Page 35: ...ing This will decrease the time needed to boot the system Options Enabled default Disabled Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two floppy drives choose Enabled to assign physical drive B to logical dr...

Page 36: ...ssible failure of storage drives Options Disabled default Enabled Small LOGO EPA Show This item allows you to show or hide the small LOGO EPA Options Disabled default Enabled Advanced Chipset Features...

Page 37: ...is enabled Options Enabled default Disabled Video BIOS Cacheable Select Enabled to allow caching of the video BIOS which may improve resulting in better system performance If any other program writes...

Page 38: ...on card and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the OS cannot boot Options Disabled default Enabled Resources Controlled By BIOS can automatically configure all the boo...

Page 39: ...which detected by the system CPU Voltage Volt This item allows you to adjust your CPU core voltage Options range from 1 100V 1 850V CPU Clock Ratio Before you configure this option please make sure th...

Page 40: ...RAM CPU Clock Ratio This option allows you to over clock the system When CPU host frequency is set to 100 Options Auto default 1 50X Debug Mode 2 00X 2 66X When CPU host frequency is set to 133 Option...

Page 41: ...the first and or second IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate an interface if you are going to install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface Options Enabled default Disabled IDE Primar...

Page 42: ...ighlight the INTEL OnChip PCI Device label and then press the enter key it will take you a submenu with the following options USB Controller This option should be enabled if your system has a USB port...

Page 43: ...power failed Options Off default On Former Sts Power On Function This option allows you to select a way to power on your computer Options Password Hot KEY Mouse Left Mouse Right Any KEY BUTTON ONLY de...

Page 44: ...ultaneous bi directional transmission Half duplex mode permits transmission in only one direction at a time Options Half default Full Use IR Pins Consult your IR peripheral documentation to select the...

Page 45: ...port during ECP mode Options 3 default 1 Game Port Address Game Port I O Address Options 201 default 209 Disabled Midi Port Address Midi Port Base I O Address Options 330 300 default 290 Disabled Midi...

Page 46: ...elect the suspend type using the ACPI operating system Options S1 POS default Power on Suspend S3 STR Suspend to RAM S1 S3 POS and STR Run VGABIOS if S3 Resume Select whether you want to run VGABIOS w...

Page 47: ...will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen default This option only writes blanks to the video buffer DPMS Su...

Page 48: ...abled default Enabled RTC Wake Up When Enabled you can set the date and time at which the RTC real time clock alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode Options Enabled Disabled default Date of Month...

Page 49: ...suspend power on activity by configuring these fields Devices include Primary IDE 0 Primary IDE 1 Secondary IDE 0 Secondary IDE 1 FDD COM LPT Port PCI PIRQ A D Options Disabled default Enabled Hardwar...

Page 50: ...ault Settings Load System Default Settings Load System turbo Settings Load System Turbo Settings Load CMOS From BIOS Load defaults from flash ROM for systems without batteries Save CMOS From BIOS Save...

Page 51: ...configuration changes to CMOS memory and exit setup A confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup A...

Page 52: ...auto run You can also launch the Driver CD Installation Utility manually Follow the steps below 1 The first screen Main Screen will display two buttons Click PX845PEV PX845GEV Category Platform Intel...

Page 53: ...eries 50 2 On the PX845PEV PX845GEV screen click Mainboard Driver 3 On the Mainboard Driver screen install Intel Chipset INF update Realtek Audio Driver or Intel Lan Driver etc by clicking on the resp...

Page 54: ...have two programs to install Follow the instructions on the screen after clicking the buttons 5 If you click the Browse CD button from the screen in step 2 we can browse all the files in the Drive CD...

Page 55: ...uper 5 1 Channel Setup 1 After into the system click the audio icon from the Windows screen 2 Click Speaker Configuration button you can see the screen like the picture below 3 You can choice 2 4 or 6...

Page 56: ...ctor 1 Click the audio icon from the Windows screen 2 Click Speaker Test button you can see the screen like the pictures below 3 Select the speaker which you want to test and clicking on it 2 Channel...

Page 57: ...ive is active but system seems hung Causes Memory DIMM is partially dislodged from the slot on the mainboard Solutions 1 Power Down 2 Using even pressure on both ends of the DIMM press down firmly unt...

Page 58: ...Then perform a low level format partition and then a high level format of the hard drive Re install all saved data when completed Problem 6 Screen message says Invalid Configuration or CMOS Failure Ca...

Page 59: ...onnected properly Solutions Check hard drive cable Problem 13 Cannot boot the system after installing a second hard drive Causes 1 Master slave jumpers not set correctly 2 Hard drives are not compatib...

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