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Mother Board 

 
 
 
 

A210GDAG/A210PDAG 

/A210GDAG PRO 

 

 

User's Manual

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

AMD Socket 939 Athlon64 Processor           

Motherboard 

ATi RADEON XPRESS 200/200P 

+ ULI M1573 

NO. G03A210GDAGR20

9

 

Revision 2.0

 

 
 

Summary of Contents for A210GDAG

Page 1: ...Mother Board A210GDAG A210PDAG A210GDAG PRO User s Manual AMD Socket 939 Athlon64 Processor Motherboard ATi RADEON XPRESS 200 200P ULI M1573 NO G03A210GDAGR209 Revision 2 0...

Page 2: ...DARD CMOS FEATURES 22 3 5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES 23 3 6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES 25 3 6 1 DRAM TIMING SETTINGS 26 3 6 2 PCIE TIMING SETTINGS 26 3 6 3 HYPERTRANSPORT SETTINGS 27 3 7 INTEGRATED PERIPHE...

Page 3: ...Y OF ANY KIND AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING DAMANGES FOR LOSS OF PROFIT LOSS OF BUSINESS LOSS OF USE OF DATA INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS A...

Page 4: ...be noted 6 Disconnect this equipment from connecter before inserting add on interfaces or modules 7 Never pour any liquid into the opening this could cause fire or electrical shock 8 Explosion may occ...

Page 5: ...ure Heatsinks induce improved processor heat dissipation through increased surface area and concentrated airflow from attached fans In addition interface materials allow effective transfers of heat fr...

Page 6: ...t RAID0 RAID1 RAID 0 1 functions Integrated High Definition CODEC audio on system supports 8 channel speaker for 3D Surround Effect which is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro that gives you the...

Page 7: ...ontroller support four serial ATA IDE ports provide 150 MB sec data transfer rate for Serial ATA Devices and offer RAID 0 1 and 0 1functions On board LAN RealTek RT8110S Giga LAN controller chip suppo...

Page 8: ...003 1817 3D Mark 2005 735 AQUAMRK3 14778 1593 10258 PCMark2004 System CPU Memory 4083 4116 4994 Graph HDD 1614 4550 Content Creation Winstone 2004 33 2 Business Winstone 2004 24 5 Winbench 99 V2 0 Bus...

Page 9: ...ront Panel Connector ATA 133 IDE Connector Clear CMOS JP5 CPU FAN CPU Socket DDR DIMM X4 Power LED Speaker Connector 4MBit Flash ROM BIOS ATX Power Connector SYSFAN1 Serial ATA Connector SATA1 2 3 4 A...

Page 10: ...k P 13 SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 Serial ATA Port Connector 7 pin Block P 14 Headers Header Name Description Page AUDIO Line Out MIC Header 9 pin Block P 15 COM2A for A210GDAG serial Serial Port COM2 Hea...

Page 11: ...y the jumper settings of the motherboard 1 CMOS RAM Clear 3 pin JP5 A battery must be used to retain the motherboard configuration in CMOS RAM short 1 2 pins of JP5 to store the CMOS data To clear the...

Page 12: ...2 the low speed interface used for mouse and keyboards USB Universal Serial Bus the medium speed interface typically used for mouse keyboards scanners and some digital cameras Sound interface the inte...

Page 13: ...system WARNING Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor s heatsink and CPU cooling FAN is working correctly otherwise it may cause the processor and motherboard overheat...

Page 14: ...PC2100 PC2700 PC3200 DDR SDRAM X1 64MB 1 0GB Total System Memory Max 4 0GB 4 64MB 4 0GB NOTE Make sure the total installed memory does not exceed 4 0GB otherwise the system may hang during startup Gen...

Page 15: ...o install the necessary software drivers for your expansion cards 2 5 2 Assigning IRQs For Expansion Card Some expansion cards need to assign an IRQ address to operate Generally speaking an IRQ addres...

Page 16: ...raphics Attach and two x1 PCI Express Slot Fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1 0a support PCI Express VGA card and other PCI Express device 2 6 Connectors and pin headers...

Page 17: ...to the system board 5 Serial Port COM1 COM2 COM1 COM2 COM2 only for A210PDAG COM1 COM2 is the 9 pin D Subminiature mail connector The On board serial port can be disabled through BIOS SETUP Please ref...

Page 18: ...ppy drive Connector 34 pin block FDD This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable After connecting the single plug end to motherboard connect the two plugs at other end to the floppy...

Page 19: ...E Connector Pin 1 IDE2 Two hard disks can be connected to each connector The first HDD is referred to as the Master and the second HDD is referred to as the Slave For performance issues we strongly su...

Page 20: ...ng the additional USB port plug By attaching an option USB cable your can be provided with two additional USB plugs affixed to the back panel USB Port Headers Pin 1 USB3 VCC DATA GND DATA VCC OC DATA...

Page 21: ...4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker See the figure below 8 Power LED PWR LED The Power LED is light on while the system power is on Connect the Power LED from the system case to this...

Page 22: ...ther CRT out put or TV out in Operating system it can not support both CRT out put and TV out at the same time TV OUT Header TV_OUT Pin 1 2 5 6 12 SPDIF In Out Headers 9 pin SPDIF This headers is for...

Page 23: ...he system will then run power on test While the test are running the BIOS will alarm beeps or additional message will appear on the screen If you do not see any thing within 30 seconds from the time y...

Page 24: ...tep in the following pages of this chapter but let us first see a short description of the function keys you may use here Press Esc to quit the BIOS Setup Press up down left right to choose in the mai...

Page 25: ...e 3 1 will appear on the screen The Main Menu allows you to select from fourteen setup functions and two exit choices Use arrow keys to select among the items and press Enter to accept or enter the su...

Page 26: ...gurations This entry appears if your system supports PnP PCI PC Health Status This entry shows your PC health status Miscellaneous Control Use this menu to specify your settings for Miscellaneous cont...

Page 27: ...gh Dec Date The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by numeric function keys Year The year depends on the year of the BIOS Time The time format is hour minute second Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary...

Page 28: ...IRUS Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection If this function is enabled and someone attempt to write data into this area BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep Dis...

Page 29: ...atic rate and typematic delay can be selected The settings are Enabled Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec Sets the number of times a second to repeat a keystroke when you hold the key down The settings...

Page 30: ...ng Settings Please refer to section 3 6 2 Hypertransport Settings Please refer to section 3 6 3 System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting...

Page 31: ...installed in the system The settings are 2T 3T and 4T RAS to CAS Delay This field let s you insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals used when DRAM is written to read from or refr...

Page 32: ...ity Integrated Peripherals Item Help OnChip IDE Function Press Enter OnChip Device Function Press Enter OnChip SuperIO Device Press Enter Init Display First PCI Slot Menu Level Move Enter Select PU PD...

Page 33: ...fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automat...

Page 34: ...Controller Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB peripherals The settings are Enabled Disabled USB Keyboard Legacy Support Select Enabled if...

Page 35: ...n board Super I O chipset that Provides Standard ECP and EPP features It has the following option Disabled 3BCH IRQ7 Line Printer port 0 278H IRQ5 Line Printer port 2 378H IRQ7 Line Printer port 1 Par...

Page 36: ...nagement ACPI The settings are Enabled and Disabled Video Off Option This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked The choice are Suspend off All Modes Off and Always On Video Off Method...

Page 37: ...h mm ss Alarm You can choose what hour minute and second the system will boot up Note If you have change the setting you must let the system boot up until it goes to the operating system before this f...

Page 38: ...into each of the sub menu that follows this field a sub menu is preceded by a The settings are Auto ESCD Manual IRQ Resources When resources are controlled manually assign each system interrupt a type...

Page 39: ...ue F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Optimized Defaults F7 Standard Defaults Show PC Health in Post During Enabled it displays information list below The choice is either Enabled...

Page 40: ...ve Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Optimized Defaults F7 Standard Defaults Auto Detect PCI Clk This item allows you to enable disable auto detect PCI C...

Page 41: ...ssword up to eight characters in length and press Enter The password typed now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory You will be asked to confirm the password Type the password a...

Page 42: ...uld appear as below If the menu does not appear double click MY COMPUTER double click CD ROM drive or click START click RUN type X SETUP EXE assuming X is your CD ROM drive The ATI RS480 serial chipse...

Page 43: ...IC INSTALL MENU appears 2 Click NEXT when ATI software driver pack wizard appears 3 When the license agreement window appear click Yes 4 Select Express recommended install ATI AGP Gart driver VGA driv...

Page 44: ...o Driver 1 Click SOUND when MAGIC INSTALL MENU appears 2 Click NEXT When Realtek High Definition Audio driver windows appear 3 Click FINISH and restart your computer 4 Manual Sound Effect Setting 5 Sp...

Page 45: ...USB2 0 Driver Windows 2000 OS Please install Windows 2000 service pack 4 or later Windows XP OS Please install Windows XP service pack 1 or later 4 5 RAID Install ULI SATA Driver and Utility 1 Click R...

Page 46: ...XP Windows 2000 For installation of Windows XP or Windows 2000 please insert Windows XP or Windows 2000 CD into the CD ROM drive Then remove the floppy diskette and boot the system At the very beginni...

Page 47: ...nd Micro internet security installshield wizard windows appear 3 This is license agreement select I Accept the terms and Click NEXT 4 Click NEXT and Enter your Customer Information Click NEXT or choos...

Page 48: ...repare a boot disc you may make one by click START click RUN type SYS A click OK STEP 2 Copy utility program to your boot disc You may copy from DRIVER CD X FLASH AWDFLASH EXE or download from our web...

Page 49: ...ment a brokerage can monitor trades place orders and sell each on a different display When the home office computer is not being used for work it can be used to play the latest games several of which...

Page 50: ...ity by touching the metal surface of the computer chassis 3 After locating the PCI Express and if necessary removing the metal cover align your ATI graphics card with the slot and then press it in fir...

Page 51: ...Advanced Chipset Features screen appears 3 Use the arrow keys to navigate to AGP Aperture Size and then use the or key to set it to 128 This is the recommended setting for best general performance SU...

Page 52: ...arrow keys to navigate to SURROUNDVIEW press Enter use the arrow keys to select Enable and then press Enter 8 When the Save to CMOS and Exit prompt appears press Y These screens may look different de...

Page 53: ...ve items from one monitor to another and then click OK 5 Drag an item on your desktop across your screen until it appears on an alternate monitor You can also resize a window to stretch it across more...

Page 54: ...isplay Because the simulation creates additional information that is sent to the video hardware and monitors running multiple displays always affects performance compared to single display configurati...

Page 55: ...imulator or Flight Configuration cfg files You can save a Flight while each display is in windowed mode and then switch to full screen mode after you launch Flight Simulator 5 From the Views menu crea...

Page 56: ...is enabled Answer Yes Standby should work properly with SURROUNDVIEW Q2 Do all ATI cards support SURROUNDVIEW Can SURROUNDVIEW run on other vendors graphics cards Answer No only ATI AGP graphics cards...

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