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USER’S NOTICE .........................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .........................................................................iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF AMD 785G 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.................................................................................................... 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 AM3 INSTALLATION.......................................................... 9
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY .................................................................................................... 10
2-5 EXPANSION CARDS.................................................................................................. 11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION .......................... 11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD .............................................. 11
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT ...................................................................................... 11
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS ...................................................................................... 12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ............................................................................................. 12
2-6-2 HEADERS ..................................................................................................... 15
2-7 STARTING
UP
YOUR COMPUTER ........................................................................... 18
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP ..................................................................................................... 19
3-2 GETTING HELP .......................................................................................................... 19
3-3 THE
MAIN MENU........................................................................................................ 20
3-4 STANDARD
BIOS FEATURES .................................................................................. 21
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES .................................................................................. 22
3-5-1 CPU CONFIGURATION ............................................................................. 23
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES ........................................................................... 23
3-6-1 MEMORYCONFIGURATION ..................................................................... 24
3-6-2 INTERNAL GRAPHICES CONFIGURATION ............................................ 25
3-6-3 PCI EXPRESS CONFIGURATION ............................................................ 25
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS................................................................................... 26
3-7-1 ONBOARD SATA DEVICE .......................................................................... 26
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE CONTROL ...................................................................... 26
3-7-3 SUPER IO CONFIGURATION ..................................................................... 27
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT SETUP ............................................................................... 27
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL ................................................................................. 28
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS .................................................................................................. 29
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATION .................................................................. 29
3-11 THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS........................................................................... 30
3-12 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING .................................................................. 31
3-13 BIOS SECURITY FEATURES................................................................................... 32
3-14 LOAD OPTIMISED DEFAULTS /LOAD STANDARD DEFAULTS .......................... 32
3-15 SAVE CHAGES AND EXIT/DIACARD CHANGES AND EXIT ................................ 32
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA/WINDOWS7.......................... 34
4-1 ATI INSTALL ATI DRIVER PACK ....................................................................... 35
4-2 SOUND INSTALL HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER ................................................... 36
4-3 LAN INSTALL GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER................................................. 37
4-4 RAID INSTALL ATI SATA DRIVER AND UTILITY .................................................... 38
4-5 NORTON INSTALL NORTON 2009ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM................................... 38
4-6 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .................. 38
4-7 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .................. 38
4-8 HDMI INSTALLATI HDMI AUDIO DRIVER ............................................................. 39
4-9 OVERCLOCK INSTALL OVER CLOCK DRIVER UTILITY ....................................... 39
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