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USER’S NOTICE .................................................................................................................................. ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION............................................................................................ ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS...................................................................................................................... ii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF 945 MOTHERBOARD SERIES
1-1
FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD ...................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 PECIAL 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 INTEL PENTIUM 4 LGA 775 CPU ......................................................... 9
2-3-3 LGA 775 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE ............................................................... 10
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY............................................................................................................ 19
2-5 EXPANSION
CARDS ........................................................................................................... 20
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION .............................. 20
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD ........................................................ 20
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD ...................... 21
2-5-4 PCI EXPRESS SLOT ................................................................................................ 21
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ................................................................................................ 22
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ......................................................................................................... 22
2-6-2 HEADERS .................................................................................................................. 25
2-7
STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 28
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING
SETUP .............................................................................................................. 29
3-2 GETTING HELP................................................................................................................... 29
3-3
THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 30
3-4
STANDARD CMOS FEATURES ........................................................................................ 31
3-5
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 32
3-6
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.................................................................................. 34
3-6-1 PCIEXPRESS ROOT PORT FUNCTION ............................................................. 35
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 36
3-7-1 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION................................................................................... 36
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION .......................................................................... 37
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION ....................................................................... 37
3-8
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 39
3-8-1 PM TIMER RELOAD EVENTS ............................................................................. 40
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL ......................................................................................... 40
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES.................................................................................................... 41
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS ........................................................................................................ 41
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATIONS ..................................................................... 42
3-11 BI-TURBO
CONFIGURATION ........................................................................................ 42
3-12 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS ..................................................................... 44
3-13 PASSWORD SETTINGS .................................................................................................... 46
3-14 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS............................................................... 46
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 2000/XP ................................................................ 47
4-1 INF
INSTALL INTEL 945 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER ................................... 48
4-2 VGA
INSTALL INTEL 945G VGA DRIVER .......................................................... 48
4-3 SOUND INSTALL ALC880 HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER ....................................... 49
4-4 LAN
MARVEL YUKON GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER.......................... 50
4-5 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY ................ 50
4-6 USB2.0
INSTALLUSB2.0 DRIVER......................................................................... 51
4-7 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2005 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM......................... 51
4-8 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS .................................................................................................... 52
4-9 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 53
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