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USER’S NOTICE..................................................................................................................... iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .............................................................................. iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................ iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF AMD 790X CROSSFIREX MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES
OF MOTHERBOARD .................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.................................................................................................................. 3
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................................ 4
1-4 LAYOUT
DIAGRAM
& JUMPER SETTING ................................................................... 5
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE
INSTALLATION
STEPS............................................................................. 7
2-2 CHECKING
MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING .................................................. 7
2-3 INSTALL
CPU....................................................................................................................... 8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY............................................................................................................. 8
2-3-2
ABOUT AMD Athlon64 Socket AM2+ CPU..................................................... 9
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY............................................................................................................ 9
2-5 EXPANSION
CARDS ........................................................................................................... 10
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ............................ 10
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................................... 10
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD.................... 11
2-5-4 PCI-EXPRESS2.0 SLOT ........................................................................................ 11
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ................................................................................................ 12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 12
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 15
2-7
STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 19
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 20
3-2 GETTING HELP ................................................................................................................... 20
3-3 THE
MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 21
3-4
STANDARD CMOS FEATURES ........................................................................................ 22
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES .......................................................................................... 23
3-5-1 CPU FEATURE…………………………………………………………………..…23
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES .................................................................................. 25
3-6-1 PCIE CONFIGURATION…………………………………...……………………25
3-6-2 DRAM CONFIGURATION………………………………………………………26
3-6-3 HT LINK CONTROL……..………………………………………………………27
3-6-4 DRAM CONFIGURATION………………………………………………………28
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 28
3-7-1 SUPER IO DEVICE .............................................................................................. 29
3-7-2 ONCHIP IDE FUNTION ...................................................................................... 29
3-7-3 ONCHIP PCI DEVICE ......................................................................................... 30
3-7-4 ONCHIP SATA DEVICE...................................................................................... 31
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT
SETUP ..................................................................................... 31
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS
CONFIGURATION ......................................................................... 32
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS........................................................................................................ 33
3-11 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING........................................................................ 34
3-12 CPU THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS.................................................................... 34
3-13 LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS ........................................................................................ 35
3-14 LOAD OPTIMISED DEFAULTS ...................................................................................... 35
3-15 SET PASSWORD SETTINGS .......................................................................................... 35
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP ....................................... 36
4-1 ATI INSTALL ATI DRIVER PACK ........................................................................... 37
4-2 SOUND INSTALL AL662HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER ........................................... 38
4-3 LAN INSTALL TEALTEK LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER .................................. 39
4-4 RAID
INSTALL ATI SATA DRIVER AND UTILITY ............................................... 39
4-5 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2007 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ......................... 40
4-6 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 41
4-7 HOW
TO
UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 41
4-8
AMD PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INSTALLATION ............................................... 42
4-9
PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INSRUCTION .............................................................. 46
4-10 G.P.I.FUNCTION
INSTALLATION STEP........................................................................ 47
4-11 G.P.I.
LED DISPLAY............................................................................................................ 50
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