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USER’S NOTICE...........................................................................................................................1
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION..........................................................................................1
COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF
P4845GDB/P4845GDBL/P4845GEB/P4845GEBL/P4845PEB/P4845PEBL
MOTHERBOARD
1-1 FEATURE 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 4 478-PIN CPU...........................................................9
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY .......................................................................................................10
2-5 EXPANSION CARD......................................................................................................10
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ...................................11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD......................................................11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD ..................................11
2-5-4 AGP SLOT ........................................................................................................12
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ...........................................................................................13
2-6-1 CONNECTORS.................................................................................................13
2-6-2 HEADERS..........................................................................................................16
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
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES .................................................................................25
3-6-1 DRAM TIMING SETTINGS ................................................................................26
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS..........................................................................................27
3-7-1 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION .............................................................................27
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION ......................................................................28
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION....................................................................29
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT SETUP....................................................................................30
3-8-1 PM TIMER RELOAD EVENTS............................................................................31
3-9 PNP/PCI
CONFIGURATION SETUP..............................................................................32
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES .............................................................................................33
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.....................................................................................................33
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL......................................................................................34
3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS..................................................................35
3-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD...........................................................................35
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 95/98/98SE/NT4.0/2000/XP.................................36
4-1 INF
INSTALL INTEL 845 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER ................................37
4-2 VGA
INSTALL INTEL 845G VGA DRIVER ................................................38
4-3 SOUND
INSTALL ALC AUDIO CODEC DRIVER ..........................................38
4-4 LAN
INSTALL VIA VT6105 PCI 10/100MB FAST ETHERNET DRIVER ......39
4-5 PC-HEALTH
INTEL 845 PC-HEALTH MONITOR ..................................................40
4-5-1 HOW TO UTILIZE PC-HEALTH..........................................................................40
4-6 MBIOS&DX8
INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY AND DIRECTX8.1 ..................41
4-7 IAA
INSTALL INTEL APPLICATION ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE ...........42
4-8 PC-CILLIN
INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM.........................43
4-9 HOW TO INSTALL USB 2.0 DRIVER ..............................................................................44
4-10 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND ......................................................................45
4-11 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS................................................................................................45
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