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MI941

LGA775 Core

™

2 Duo

Intel

G41 Chipset

Mini-ITX Motherboard

USER’S MANUAL

Version 1.0

Summary of Contents for MI941

Page 1: ...MI941 LGA775 Core 2 Duo Intel G41 Chipset Mini ITX Motherboard USER S MANUAL Version 1 0...

Page 2: ...siness Machines Corporation Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation Microsoft Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation Winbond is a registered trademark of...

Page 3: ...e Memory 7 Setting the Jumpers 8 Connectors on MI941 11 BIOS Setup 19 Drivers Installation 41 Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 42 Intel G41 Chipset Family Graphics Driver Installation 45 Re...

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Page 5: ...on Checklist Your MI941 Core 2 Duo motherboard package should include the items listed below The MI941 motherboard This User s manual 1 x I O shield 1 x IDE cable 1 x SATA cable 1 CD containing the fo...

Page 6: ...rd Intel G41 integrated graphics with CRT and DVI display interface LAN functionality is supported with a single Gigabit Ethernet controllers MI941 is supports high end features including high definit...

Page 7: ...r Hardware Monitor One fan connectors with tachometer support CPU fan connector supports 4 wire fan with PWM control Supports three thermal diodes CPU die 2 on board Voltage monitoring for VCC process...

Page 8: ...INSTALLATIONS 4 MI941 User s Manual Board Dimensions...

Page 9: ...ection provides information on how to use the jumpers and connectors on the MI941 in order to set up a workable system The topics covered are Installing the CPU 6 ATX Power Installation 6 Installing t...

Page 10: ...e CPU socket Please note that the cover of the LGA775 socket must always be installed during transport to avoid damage to the socket ATX Power Installation The system power is provided to the motherbo...

Page 11: ...y the system memory interface has the following features Supports two 64 bit wide DDR data channels Available bandwidth up to 6 4GB s DDR3 1066 for two channel mode Supports 512Mb 1Gb 2Gb DDR3 technol...

Page 12: ...us settings and features according to your needs and applications Contact your supplier if you have doubts about the best configuration for your needs The following lists the connectors and their resp...

Page 13: ...INSTALLATIONS MI941 User s Manual 9 Jumper Locations on MI941 JP1 JP2 JP3 RS232 422 485 COM2 Selection 10 JP6 Clear CMOS Contents 10...

Page 14: ...etting pin closed JP1 1 2 JP2 3 5 4 6 JP3 3 5 4 6 JP1 3 4 JP2 1 3 2 4 JP3 1 3 2 4 JP1 5 6 JP2 1 3 2 4 JP3 1 3 2 4 JP6 Clear CMOS Contents Use JP6 a 3 pin header to clear the CMOS contents Note that th...

Page 15: ...YS_FAN1 System Fan1 Power Connector 13 SYS_FAN2 System Fan2 Power Connector 14 CN1 Serial Ports COM1 14 CN5 Gigabit LAN Intel 82583V RJ 45 USB 0 1 Connector 15 CN6 DVI D CRT Connector 15 CN7 USB 2 3 C...

Page 16: ...14 CN5 Gigabit LAN Intel 82583V RJ 45 USB 0 1 Connector 15 CN6 DVI D CRT Connector 15 CN7 USB 2 3 Connector 15 CN12 PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connectors 16 CN13 Audio Connector 16 CN8 CN9 CN10 CN1...

Page 17: ...good 5V 21 9 5VSB 5V 22 10 12V 5V 23 11 12V Ground 24 12 3 3V ATX1 ATX 12V Power Connector This connector supplies the CPU operating voltage Pin Signal Name 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 12V 4 12V DDRIII1 Chann...

Page 18: ...ata 2 7 RTS Request to send TXD Transmit data 3 8 CTS Clear to send DTR Data terminal ready 4 9 RI Ring indicator GND ground 5 10 Not Used J2 COM2 is jumper selectable for RS 232 RS 422 and RS 485 Pin...

Page 19: ...1 2 Green Blue 3 4 N C GND 5 6 GND GND 7 8 GND VCC 9 10 GND N C 11 12 DDCDATA HSYNC 13 14 VSYNC DDCCLK 15 Signal Name Pin Pin Signal Name DATA2 1 2 DATA2 GND 3 4 N C N C 5 6 DDCCLK DDCDATA 7 8 N C DAT...

Page 20: ...ock 5 Mouse clock N C 6 N C CN13 Audio Connector CN13 is a 3 jack audio connector CN8 CN9 CN10 CN11 SATA HDD Connectors Pin Signal Name 1 Ground 2 TX 3 TX 4 Ground 5 RX 6 RX 7 Ground J1 Digital I O Co...

Page 21: ...pressed the power switch will force the system to power on When pressed again it will force the system to power off Hard Disk Drive LED Connector Pins 3 and 4 This connector connects to the hard driv...

Page 22: ...Reset IDE 1 2 Ground Host data 7 3 4 Host data 8 Host data 6 5 6 Host data 9 Host data 5 7 8 Host data 10 Host data 4 9 10 Host data 11 Host data 3 11 12 Host data 12 Host data 2 13 14 Host data 13 H...

Page 23: ...able in the AMI American Megatrends Inc BIOS that comes with the board The topics covered in this chapter are as follows BIOS Introduction 20 BIOS Setup 21 Main BIOS Setup 22 Advanced Settings 23 PCIP...

Page 24: ...vailable in the AMI American Megatrends Inc BIOS that comes with the board The topics covered in this chapter are as follows BIOS Introduction 20 BIOS Setup 21 Main BIOS Setup 22 Advanced Settings 23...

Page 25: ...iately activated Pressing the Del key immediately allows you to enter the Setup utility If you are a little bit late pressing the Del key POST Power On Self Test will continue with its test routines t...

Page 26: ...Intel R Core TM 2 Duo CPU T9400 266GHz Speed 2666MHz Count 1 System Memory Size 3995MB System Time 02 29 50 System Date Fri 01 02 2009 Note If the system cannot boot after making and saving system ch...

Page 27: ...nction CPU Configurations IDE Configuration SuperIO Configuration Hardware Health Confguration ACPI Configuration APM Configuration MPS Configuration Smbios Configuration USB Configuration The Advance...

Page 28: ...the following CPU details Manufacturer the name of the CPU manufacturer Brand String the brand name of the CPU being used Frequency the CPU processing speed FSB Speed the FSB speed Cache L1 the CPU L1...

Page 29: ...cality the cache miss ratio is higher A cache miss on an Intel Pentium 4 processor based system with adjacent sector prefetch enabled brings in 128 bytes leading to higher bus utilization assuming tha...

Page 30: ...he configuration of the IDE devices installed in the system BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced PCIPnP Boot Security Chipset Exit Configure Win627DHG Super IO Chipset Select Screen Select Item Change Fie...

Page 31: ...392 V 12 196 V 5V 5 273V VBAT V 3 21 V CPU smart fan 55 C ACPI Shutdown Temperature Disabled The Hardware Health Configuration menu is used to show the operating temperature fan speeds and system volt...

Page 32: ...PI Configuration General ACPI Configuration settings Select Screen Select Item Change Field Tab Select Field F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit Suspend mode S3 STR Repost Video on S3 Resume No...

Page 33: ...ume On PME Disabled Resume On RTC Alarm Disabled Resume on Ring This option is used to enable activity on the RI ring in modem line to wake up the system from a suspend or standby state That is the sy...

Page 34: ...This option is specifies the MPS Multiprocessor Specification version for your operating system BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced PCIPnP Boot Security Chipset Exit SMBIOS Configuration SMBIOS SMI Wrapp...

Page 35: ...Support Enabled USB 2 0 Controller Mode HiSpeed BIOS EHCI Hand Off Enabled The USB Configuration menu is used to read USB configuration information and configure the USB settings Legacy USB Support T...

Page 36: ...BusMaster Off Board PCI ISA IDE Card Enabled Auto IRQ3 Available IRQ4 Available IRQ5 Available IRQ7 Available IRQ9 Available IRQ10 IRQ11 IRQ14 IRQ15 DMA Channel 0 DMA Channel 1 DMA Channel 3 DMA Chan...

Page 37: ...the PCI devices that an ISA graphics device is installed in the system so the card will function correctly PCI IDE BusMaster This uses PCI busmastering for BIOS reading writing to IDE devices OffBoar...

Page 38: ...Quick Boot This allows BIOS to skp certain tests while booting This will decrease the time needed to boot the system Quite Boot When disabled this displays normal POST messages When enabled this disp...

Page 39: ...type it again After setting a password the screen automatically returns to the main screen To disable a password just press the Enter key when you are prompted to enter the password A message will co...

Page 40: ...on BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced PCIPnP Boot Security Chipset Exit North Bridge Chipset Configuration ENABLE Allow Remapping of Overlapped PCI memory above the total physical memory DISABLE Do not...

Page 41: ...or ISA expansion cards that require a specified area of memory to work properly Initiate Graphic Adapter This option by default is set to PEG PCI IGD Graphics Mode Select Use the feature to set the am...

Page 42: ...ct Item Change Field Tab Select Field F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit USB Function 6 USB Ports USB 2 0 Controller Disabled Audio Controller Auto USB Function This option enables the number...

Page 43: ...t to accept the modifications and save all changes into the CMOS memory before exit Discard Changes and Exit This option allows you to exit the Setup utility without saving the changes you have made i...

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Page 45: ...vendor where you made the purchase The contents of this section include the following Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 42 Intel G41 Chipset Family Graphics Driver Installation 45 Realtek H...

Page 46: ...first before the software drivers to enable Plug Play INF support for Intel chipset components Follow the instructions below to complete the installation under Windows XP Vista 1 Insert the CD that co...

Page 47: ...41 User s Manual 43 3 When the welcome screen to the Intel R Chipset Software Installation Utility appears click Next to continue 4 Click Yes to accept the software license agreement and proceed with...

Page 48: ...NSTALLATION 44 MI941 User s Manual 5 On Readme Information screen click Next to continue the installation 6 The Setup process is now complete Click Finish to restart the computer and for changes to ta...

Page 49: ...y Graphics Driver Installation To install the VGA drivers follow the steps below to proceed with the installation 1 Insert the CD that comes with the board Click Intel at the left side then Intel R G4...

Page 50: ...ATION 46 MI941 User s Manual 3 When the welcome screen of the Intel R Graphics Media Accelerator Driver appears click Next to continue 4 Click Yes to to agree with the license agreement and continue t...

Page 51: ...LATION MI941 User s Manual 47 5 Click Next in the Readme File Information window 6 Click Next in the Setup Progress window 7 Setup is now complete Click Finish to restart the computer and for changes...

Page 52: ...ek High Definition Audio Driver Installation Follow the steps below to install the Realtek HD Codec Audio Drivers 1 Insert the CD that comes with the board Click Intel and then Intel R G41 Chipset Dri...

Page 53: ...InstallShield Wizard for Realtek High Definition Audio Driver appears click Next to start the installation 4 When the InstallShieldWizard has finished performing maintenance operations on Realtek High...

Page 54: ...Manual Intel PRO LAN Network Drivers Installation Follow the steps below to install Intel PRO LAN drivers 1 Insert the CD that comes with the board Click Intel and then Intel R G41 Chipset Drivers 2 C...

Page 55: ...INSTALLATION MI941 User s Manual 51 3 In the Intel Network Connections screen click Install Drivers and Software 4 In the welcome screen of the InstallShield Wizard for Intel R Network Connections cli...

Page 56: ...ERS INSTALLATION 52 MI941 User s Manual 5 In the License Agreement Select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next 6 In the Setup Options click the checkbox as shown below and click...

Page 57: ...DRIVERS INSTALLATION MI941 User s Manual 53 7 In the InstallShield Wizard screen click Install to begin the installation 8 InstallShield Wizard is completed Click Finish to exit the Wizard...

Page 58: ...mer 060h 06Fh Keyboard Controller 070h 07Fh Real Time Clock NMI 080h 09Fh DMA Page Register 0A0h 0BFh Interrupt Controller 2 0C0h 0DFh DMA Controller 2 0F0h Clear Math Coprocessor Busy Signal 0F1h Res...

Page 59: ...g table shows the IRQ used by the devices on board Level Function IRQ0 System Timer Output IRQ1 Keyboard IRQ2 Interrupt Cascade IRQ3 Serial Port 2 IRQ4 Serial Port 1 IRQ5 Reserved IRQ6 Floppy Disk Con...

Page 60: ...s before the timer counts to zero SAMPLE CODE THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES O...

Page 61: ...er n void EnableWDT int interval unsigned char bBuf bBuf Get_W627EHF_Reg 0x2D bBuf 0x01 Set_W627EHF_Reg 0x2D bBuf Enable WDTO Set_W627EHF_LD 0x08 switch to logic device 8 Set_W627EHF_Reg 0x30 0x01 ena...

Page 62: ...d int result unsigned char ucDid W627EHF_BASE 0x2E result W627EHF_BASE ucDid Get_W627EHF_Reg 0x20 if ucDid 0x88 goto Init_Finish W627EHF_BASE 0x4E result W627EHF_BASE ucDid Get_W627EHF_Reg 0x20 if ucD...

Page 63: ...DE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR...

Page 64: ...HF H void ClrKbBuf void int main int argc char argv int main int argc char argv unsigned char ucDO 0 data for digital output unsigned char ucDI data for digital input unsigned char ucBuf Set_W627HF_LD...

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