manualshive.com logo in svg

MSI MS-7236, Manual

Share
Download
MSI MS-7236 Manual Download Page 3

iii

Copyright Notice

The  material  in  this  document  is  the  intellectual  property  of 

MICRO-STAR

INTERNATIONAL

. We take every care in the preparation of this document, but no

guarantee is given as to the correctness of its contents.  Our products are under
continual improvement and we reserve the right to make changes without notice.

Trademarks

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

AMD, Athlon

™

64 and Athlon

™

 FX are registered trademarks of AMD Corporation.

Intel

®

 and Pentium

®

 are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.

PS/2  and OS

®

/2 are  registered trademarks of    International Business Machines

Corporation.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.  Windows

®

 98/2000/NT/

XP are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, DualNet, and nForce are registered trademarks or trade-
marks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Netware

®

 is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc.

Award

®

 is a registered trademark of  Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

AMI

®

 is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc.

Kensington and MicroSaver are registered trademarks of the Kensington Technology
Group.
PCMCIA and CardBus are registered trademarks of the Personal Computer Memory
Card International Association.

Revision History

Revision

Revision   History

Date

V1.0

First  release for PCB 1.X

Nov. 2005

This device complies with Part 15  of the FCC Rules.  Operation is subject to  the
following two conditions:
(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that
may cause undesired operation

Summary of Contents for MS-7236

Page 1: ...i MS 7236 v1 X ATX Mainboard 945PL Neo G52 M7236X1 ...

Page 2: ...o radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the measures listed below Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connec the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected ...

Page 3: ...e registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation NVIDIA the NVIDIA logo DualNet and nForce are registered trademarks or trade marks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and or other countries Netware is a registered trademark of Novell Inc Award is a registered trademark of Phoenix Technologies Ltd AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc Kensington and MicroSaver are registe...

Page 4: ...rvice personnel The power cord or plug is damaged Liquid has penetrated into the equipment The equipment has been exposed to moisture The equipment has not work well or you can not get it work according to User s Manual The equipment has dropped and damaged The equipment has obvious sign of breakage 12 Do not leave this equipment in an environment unconditioned storage temperature above 600 C 1400...

Page 5: ...v WEEE Statement ...

Page 6: ...vi ...

Page 7: ...vii ...

Page 8: ...ssing Unit CPU 2 3 Introduction to LGA 775 CPU 2 3 CPU Cooler Installation 2 4 Memory 2 7 Memory Module Population Rules 2 7 Installing DDR2 Modules 2 8 Power Supply 2 9 ATX 24 Pin Power Connector ATX1 2 9 ATX 12V Power Connector JPW1 2 9 Mouse Keyboard Connector 2 10 Back Panel 2 10 Serial Port Connector COM Port 2 11 USB Connectors 2 11 LAN RJ 45 Jack 2 12 Audio Port Connectors 2 12 Parallel Por...

Page 9: ...tup 3 2 Control Keys 3 2 Getting Help 3 2 Main Menu 3 2 Default Settings 3 2 The Main Menu 3 4 Standard CMOS Features 3 6 Advanced BIOS Features 3 8 Advanced Chipset Features 3 10 Integrated Peripherals 3 12 Power Management Features 3 15 PCI PNP Resource Management 3 18 H W Monitor 3 20 Cell Menu 3 20 Load Fail Safe Optimized Defaults 3 24 BIOS Setting Password 3 25 Chapter 4 Introduction to Real...

Page 10: ...ATX mainboard The 945PL Neo mainboard is based on Intel 945PL and Intel ICH7 chipset for optimal system efficiency Designed to fit the advanced Intel Pentium 4 Prescott LGA775 processor the 945PL Neo mainboard delivers a high performance and professional desk top platform solution Getting Started ...

Page 11: ... four unbuffered DIMM of 1 8 Volt DDR2 SDRAM Supports up to 2GB memory size Supports a maximum of 4 banks of memory modules Supports Dual channel DDR memory architecture Supports DDR2 400 533 memory interface Slots One PCI Express x16 slot One PCI Express x1 slot Four 32 bit v2 3 Master PCI bus slots support 3 3v 5v PCI bus interface On Board IDE One Ultra DMA 66 100 IDE controllers integrated in ...

Page 12: ...n ICH7 Realtek ALC850 8 channels audio codec Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement Compliance with AC97 V2 3 spec BIOS The mainboard BIOS provides Plug Play BIOS which detects the periph eral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface DMI function which records your mainboard specifications Mounting and Dimension ATX Form Factor...

Page 13: ...3 PCI4 JCD1 JCOM1 JIR1 JCI1 DIMM1 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM4 CPUFAN1 BIOS Intel Intel ICH7 945PL ATX1 IDE1 FDD1 JAUD1 ALC850 Top mouse Bottom keyboard Top Parallel Port Bottom COM portA USB ports T M B Line In Line Out Mic T RS Out M CS Out B SPDIFOut Top LAN Jack Bottom USB ports BATT JBAT1 SATA2 SATA4 SATA1 SATA3 JUSB2 JUSB1 JFP1 JFP2 Winbond W83627EHG ...

Page 14: ...wer Cable SATA Cable 1 Optional User s Guide MSI motherboard MSI Driver Utility CD Standard Cable for IDE Devices Optional Back IO Shield The pictures are for reference only and may vary from the packing contents of the product you purchased ...

Page 15: ...are and system status during real time operation In the left side it shows the current system status including the Vcore 3 3V 5V and 12V In the right side it shows the current PC hardware status such as the CPU system temperatures and all fans speeds When you click the red triangles in the left and right sides two sub menus will open for users to adjust the thresholds of system to send out the war...

Page 16: ...ou may click Auto to start testing the maximum CPU overclocking value The CPU FSB will automatically increase the testing value until the PC reboots Or you may click Default to restore the default values Right wing PC hardware status during real time operation In the right sub menu here you can configure the PC hardware status such as CPU system temperatures and fan speeds You may use the scroll b...

Page 17: ...ules and expansion cards as well as how to setup the jumpers on the mainboard Also it provides the instructions on connecting the periph eral devices such as the mouse keyboard etc While doing the installation be careful in holding the compo nents and follow the installation procedures Hardware Setup ...

Page 18: ...de JPW1 p2 9 CPU p2 3 CPUFAN1 DIMM1 4 p2 7 IDE1 p2 15 JBAT1 p2 20 SATA1 4 p2 16 JFP2 p2 17 JFP1 p2 17 FDD1 p2 14 JAUD1 p2 18 JCD1 p2 17 JCOM1 p2 19 PCI1 4 p2 22 JCI1 p2 20 JIR1 p 2 19 PCI E1 2 p2 21 PWRFAN1 SYSFAN1 p2 14 ATX1 p2 9 Back Panel p2 10 ...

Page 19: ...U from overheating Replacing the CPU While replacing the CPU always turn off the ATX power supply or unplug the power supply s power cord from grounded outlet first to ensure the safety of CPU Overclocking This motherboard is designed to support overclocking However please make sure your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting while doing overclocking Any attempt to operate beyond pr...

Page 20: ... apply some silicon heat transfer compound on CPU before installing the heat sink cooler fan for better heat dispersion Follow the steps below to install the CPU cooler correctly Wrong installation will cause the damage of your CPU mainboard 2 Remove the cap from lever hinge side as the arrow shows 1 The CPU socket has a plastic cap on it to protect the contact from damage Before you install the C...

Page 21: ...r CPU packing 6 After confirming the CPU direction for correct mating put down the CPU in the socket housing frame Be sure to grasp on the edge of the CPU base Note that the align ment keys are matched 8 Cover the load plate onto the package 7 Visually inspect if the CPU is seated well into the socket If not take out the CPU with pure vertical motion and reinstall alignment key 5 Lift the load lev...

Page 22: ...suggest you do not plug unplug the CPU too often 10 Align the holes on the mainboard with the heatsink Push down the cooler until its four clips get wedged into the holes of the mainboard 12 Turn over the mainboard to con firm that the clip ends are cor rectly inserted 11 Press the four hooks down to fas ten the cooler Then rotate the lock ing switch refer to the correct di rection marked on it to...

Page 23: ... Install at least one DIMM module on the slots Each channel supports up to a maximum size of 1GB and maximum 2 bank memory modules Important 1 Each DIMM can work respectively for single channel DDR while both channels in different color populated with same amount of memory size will work as dual channel DDR 2 The mainboard supports up to 2 double side or 4 single side memory modules MSI Reminds Yo...

Page 24: ...entation 2 Insert the DIMM memory module vertically into the DIMM slot Then push it in until the golden finger on the memory module is deeply inserted in the socket 3 The plastic clip at each side of the DIMM slot will automatically close Volt Notch MSI Reminds You You can barely see the golden finger if the module is properly in serted in the socket ...

Page 25: ...s you to connect an ATX 24 pin power supply To connect the ATX 24 pin power supply make sure the plug of the power supply is inserted in the proper orientation and the pins are aligned Then push down the power supply firmly into the connector ATX 12V Power Connector JPW1 This 12V power connector is used to provide power to the CPU ATX1 1 12 24 13 MSI Reminds You 1 These two connectors connect to t...

Page 26: ...an plug a PS 2 mouse keyboard directly into this connector The connector location and pin assignments are as follows PS 2 Mouse Keyboard 6 pin Female 2 1 3 4 5 6 PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 Mouse Keyboard Data Mouse Keyboard data 2 NC Noconnection 3 GND Ground 4 VCC 5V 5 Mouse KeyboardClock Mouse Keyboardclock 6 NC Noconnection Pin Definition Keyboard COM Port USB Ports Mic L Out L In Mouse Parallel ...

Page 27: ...etReady 7 RTS Request To Send 8 CTS ClearTo Send 9 RI Ring Indicate Pin Definition 9 Pin Male DIN Connector COM Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 USB Connectors The mainboard provides an OHCI Open Host Controller Interface Universal Serial Bus root for attaching USB devices such as keyboard mouse or other USB compatible devices You can plug the USB device directly into the connector USB Ports 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...

Page 28: ...audio application provided by Realtek ALC850 to offer support for 7 1 channel audio operation and can turn rear audio connectors from 2 channel to 4 5 1 7 1 channel audio Giga bit LAN Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 D0P Differential Pair 0 2 D0N Differential Pair 0 3 D1P Differential Pair 1 4 D2P Differential Pair 2 5 D2N Differential Pair 2 6 D1N Differential Pair 1 7 D3P Differential Pai...

Page 29: ...P mode 13 1 14 25 PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 STROBE Strobe 2 DATA0 Data0 3 DATA1 Data1 4 DATA2 Data2 5 DATA3 Data3 6 DATA4 Data4 7 DATA5 Data5 8 DATA6 Data6 9 DATA7 Data7 10 ACK Acknowledge 1 1 BUSY Busy 12 PE PaperEnd 13 SELECT Select 14 AUTO FEED AutomaticFeed 15 ERR Error 16 INIT InitializePrinter 17 SLIN SelectIn 18 GND Ground 19 GND Ground 20 GND Ground 21 GND Ground 22 GND Ground 23 GND Ground...

Page 30: ...en connecting the wire to the connectors always take note that the red wire is the positive and should be connected to the 12V the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND If the mainboard has a System Hardware Monitor chipset on board you must use a specially designed fan with speed sensor to take advantage of the CPU fan control CPUFAN1 SENSOR 12V GND Control MSI Reminds You 1 Always ...

Page 31: ...onnect up to two Ultra ATA drives IDE1 can connect a Master and a Slave drive You must configure second hard drive to Slave mode by setting the jumper accordingly MSI Reminds You If you install two hard disks on cable you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by setting its jumper Refer to the hard disk documentation supplied by hard disk vendors for jumper setting instructions IDE1 blue ...

Page 32: ... s Both connectors are fully compliant with SATA 1 0 and 2 0 specifications Each Serial ATA connector can connect to 1 hard disk device PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 GND 2 TXP 3 TXN 4 GND 5 RXN 6 RXP 7 GND SATA1 SATA4 Pin Definition MSI Reminds You Please do not fold the serial ATA cable in a 90 degree angle since this might cause the loss of data during the transmission Connect to serial ATA ports Take...

Page 33: ...sk LED pull up 2 FP PWR SLP MSG LED pull up 3 HD_LED_N Hard disk active LED 4 FP PWR SLP MSG LED pull up 5 RST_SW_N Reset Switch low reference pull down to GND 6 PWR_SW_P Power Switch high reference pull up 7 RST_SW_P Reset Switch high reference pull up 8 PWR_SW_N Power Switch low reference pull down to GND 9 RSVD_DNU Reserved Do not use JFP1 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 GND 2 SPK 3 SLED...

Page 34: ...dio connector allows you to connect to the front panel audio and is compliant with Intel Front Panel I O Connectivity Design Guide JAUD1 1 2 9 10 PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 AUD_MIC Frontpanel microphone inputsignal 2 AUD_GND Ground used byanalogaudio circuits 3 AUD_MIC_BIAS Microphonepower 4 AUD_VCC Filtered 5V used by analog audio circuits 5 AUD_FPOUT_R Right channel audio signal to front panel 6 A...

Page 35: ...mmunication ports that send receive 16 bytes FIFOs You can attach a serial mouse or other serial device directly to them JCOM1 10 9 2 1 PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 DCD Data Carry Detect 2 SIN Serial in or receive data 3 SOUT Receive Data Transmit 4 DTR Serial out or transmit data 5 GND Data 6 DSR Data Set Ready 7 RTS Request To Send Ring 8 CTS Clear To Send 9 RI Indicate 10 X X Pin Definition Chassis...

Page 36: ...battery to keep the system configuration data With the CMOS RAM the system can automati cally boot OS every time it is turned on If you want to clear the system configuration use the JBAT1 Clear CMOS Jumper to clear data Follow the instructions below to clear the data Jumpers MSI Reminds You You can clear CMOS by shorting 2 3 pin while the system is off Then return to 1 2 pin position Avoid cleari...

Page 37: ... O Also desktop platforms with PCI Express Architecture will be designed to deliver highest performance in video graphics multimedia and other sophisticated applications Moreover PCI Express architecture provides a high performance graphics infrastructure for Desktop Platforms doubling the capability of existing AGP 8x de signs with transfer rates of 4 0 GB s over a PCI Express x16 lane for graphi...

Page 38: ...4 PCI Slot 1 INTA INT B INTC INTD PCI Slot 2 INT B INTC INTD INTA PCI Slot 3 INTC INTD INTA INT B PCI Slot 4 INTD INTA INT B INTC PCI Slots PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots The PCI slots allow you to insert the expansion cards to meet your needs When adding or removing expansion cards make sure that you unplug the power supply first Meanwhile read the documentation for the expansion car...

Page 39: ...IOS category described in this chapter are under continuous update for better system performance Therefore the description may be slightly different from the latest BIOS and should be held for reference only 2 While booting up the BIOS version is shown in the 1st line ap pearing after the memory count It is usually in the format example A7236IMS V1 0BH 03 04 05 where 1st digit refers to BIOS maker...

Page 40: ...first screen you see is the Main Menu Main Menu The main menu displays the setup categories the BIOS supplies You can use the arrow keys to select the item The on line description for the selected setup category is displayed at the bottom of the screen Default Settings The preset Optimal Defaults of the BIOS setup program provide optimal performance settings for all devices and the system Move to ...

Page 41: ...a sub menu containing additional options can be launched from this field You can use control keys to highlight the field and press Enter to call up the sub menu Then you can use the control keys to enter values and move from field to field within a sub menu If you want to return to the main menu just press Esc General Help F1 The BIOS setup program provides a General Help screen You can call up th...

Page 42: ...e this menu to specify your settings for integrated peripherals Power Management Setup Use this menu to specify your settings for power management PNP PCI Configurations This entry appears if your system supports PnP PCI H W Monitor This entry shows the status of your CPU fan warning for overall system status Cell Menu Use this menu to specify your settings for CPU AGP frequency voltage control an...

Page 43: ...oad Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the default values set by the mainboard manufacturer specifically for optimal performance of the mainboard BIOS Setting Password Use these two menus to set the passwords for BIOS Save Changes and Exit Save changes to CMOS and exit setup Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes and exit setup ...

Page 44: ...ar day Day of the week from Sun to Sat determined by BIOS Read only month The month from Jan through Dec date The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by numeric function keys year The year can be adjusted by users Time hh mm ss This allows you to set the system time that you want usually the current time The time format is hour minute second IDE Primary Secondary Third Master Slave Press or to select t...

Page 45: ... Technology capability for the hard disks S M A R T is a utility that monitors your disk status to predict hard disk failure This gives you an opportunity to move data from a hard disk that is going to fail to a safe place before the hard disk becomes offline Settings Auto Enabled Disabled 32Bit Data Transfer Enable 32bit to maximize the IDE hard disk data transfer rate Drive A This item allows yo...

Page 46: ...Frequency FSB Speed Cache L1 Cache L2 Ratio Value These items show the CPU related information of your system read only Max CPUID Value Limit When CPUID instruction is executed newer CPU may return a value greater than 3 which causes certain problem with specific operating systems Enabling Max CPUID Value Limit will limit the returned value to 3 and less to get rid of the problem The problem is no...

Page 47: ...g options Enabled Disabled Hardware Prefetcher This item allows you to to enable disable the hardware prefetcher or in other words hardware prefetch mechanism Settings Enabled Disabled Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch This item allows you to enable disable the adjacent cache line prefetch mode When disabled only one 64 byte line from the 128 byte sector is prefetched which contains the requested data ...

Page 48: ...ngs 1 4 1 1 PCI Express Confuration Active State Power Management This field allows you to enable disable PCI Express L0s and L1 link power stats Settings Enabled Disabled Boot Device Priority The original IBM PCs loaded the DOS operating system from drive A floppy disk so IBM PC compatible systems are designed to search for an operating system first on drive A and then on drive C hard disk Howeve...

Page 49: ...g related items manually Setting options Manual Auto Memory Hole In order to improve performance certain space in memory can be reserved for ISA peripherals This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB When this area is reserved it cannot be cached Settings Disabled 15MB 16MB Initate Graphic Adapter This item allows you to select which graphics controller to use as the primary boot ...

Page 50: ...talled such as DOS and SCO Unix Set to Disabled only if you want to use any USB device other than the USB mouse Setting options Disabled Enabled USB Keyboard Legacy Support Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB keyboard USB Mouse Legacy Support Select Enabled if you need to use a USB interfaced mouse in the operating system The settings are...

Page 51: ...o enter the sub menu and the following screen appears Onboard Floppy Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install add on FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this field Setting options Enabled Disabled ATA IDE Configuration Configure SATA as These 2 items allow you to select the ATA...

Page 52: ...s It has the following options Disabled 3BC IRQ7 Line Printer port 0 278 IRQ5 Line Printer port 2 378 IRQ7 Line Printer port 1 Parallel Port Mode SPP Standard Parallel Port EPP Enhanced Parallel Port ECP Extended Capability Port ECP EPP Extended Capability Port Enhanced Parallel Port To operate the onboard parallel port as Standard Parallel Port only choose SPP To operate the onboard parallel port...

Page 53: ...If your operating system supports ACPI such as Windows 98SE Windows ME and Windows 2000 you can choose to enter the Standby mode in S1 POS or S3 STR fashion through the setting of this field Options are S1 POS The S1 sleep mode is a low power state In this state no system context is lost CPU or chipset and hardware maintains all sys tem context S3 STR The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where...

Page 54: ...s to configure the Power Button function Settings are On Off The power button functions as a normal power on off button Suspend When you press the power button the computer enters the suspend sleep mode but if the button is pressed for more than four seconds the computer is turned off Restore on AC Power Loss This setting specifies whether your system will reboot after a power failure or interrupt...

Page 55: ...ill be awakened from what power saving modes when input signal of the mouse is detected Setting options Disabled Enabled Resume On PCI PME When setting to Enabled this setting allows your system to be awakened from the power saving modes through any event on PME Power Management Event Setting options Disabled Enabled Resume On RTC Alarm This is used to enable or disable the feature of booting up t...

Page 56: ... and then set the setting of the item back to No automatically Plug Play O S When set to Yes BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for booting VGA IDE SCSI The rest of the cards will be initialized by the PnP operating system like Windows 98 2000 ME or XP When set to No BIOS will initialize all the PnP cards Select Yes if the operating system is Plug Play PCI Latency Timer This item control...

Page 57: ... are Available For Plug Play compatible devices designed for PCI bus architecture Reserved The IRQ will be reserved for further request DMA Resources Setup Press Enter and you will enter the sub menu of the items DMA Resources 0 1 3 5 6 7 for setting determine if BIOS should remove a DMA from the available DMAs passed to devices that are configurable by the system BIOS The available DMA pool is de...

Page 58: ...d automatically depending on the current temperature to keep it with in a specific range Smart Fan Tolerance You can select a fan tolerance value here for the specific range for the Smart Fan Target Temp o C item If the current temperature of the fan reaches to the maximum threshold the temperatures set in the Smart Fan Target Temp o C plus the toler ance values you set here the fan will speed up ...

Page 59: ...he items here includes some important settings of CPU and PCI functions MSI Reminds You Change these settings only if you are familiar with the chipset MSI Reminds You The settings shown in different color in CPU Voltage DDR Voltage and NB Voltage help to verify if your setting is proper for your system Gray Default setting White Safe setting Yellow High performance setting Red Not recommended set...

Page 60: ...r needed frequency CPU Dynamic OverClocking Dynamic Overclocking Technology is the automatic overclocking function included in the MSITM s newly developed CoreCellTM Technology It is designed to detect the load balance of CPU while running programs and to adjust the best CPU frequency automatically When the motherboard detects CPU is running programs it will speed up CPU automatically to make the ...

Page 61: ...tem from crashing There is a safe key Ins in BIOS In case the overclocking fails you can press Ins key while system rebooting to restore to the BIOS defaults If the system incidentally reboot for four times the BIOS will also be restored to the defaults Auto Detect PCI Clock This item is used to auto detect the PCI slots When set to Enabled the system will remove turn off clocks from empty PCI slo...

Page 62: ...acturer specifically for optimal performance of the mainboard The Fail Safe Defaults are the default values set by the BIOS vendor for stable system performance When you select Load Fail Safe Defaults a message as below appears Pressing OK loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal system performance When you select Load Optimized Defaults a message as below appears Pressing OK load...

Page 63: ...ay also press Esc to abort the selection and not enter a password To clear a set password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will show up confirming the password will be disabled Once the password is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup without entering any password When a password has been set you will be prompted to enter it every time you try...

Page 64: ...el audio output including 2 Front 2 Rear 1 Center and 1 Subwoofer channel ALC850 allows the board to attach 2 4 6 or 8 speakers for better surround sound effect The section will tell you how to install and use 2 4 6 or 8 channel audio function on the board Introduction to Realtek ALC850 ...

Page 65: ... later before installing the driver The following illustrations are based on Windows XP environment and could look slightly different if you install the drivers in different operating systems 1 Insert the companion CD into the CD ROM drive The setup screen will automatically appear 2 Click Realtek AC97 Audio Drivers MSIRemindsYou The AC97 Audio Configuration software utility is under continuous up...

Page 66: ...4 3 Introduction to Realtek ALC850 Click here Click here Select this option 4 Click Finish to restart the system 3 Click Next to install the AC 97 Audio software ...

Page 67: ... are able to use the 2 4 6 or 8 channel audio feature now Click the audio icon from the system tray at the lower right corner of the screen to activate the AC97 Audio Configuration It is also available to enable the audio driver by clicking the Sound Effect Manager from the Control Panel ...

Page 68: ... Effect Here you can select a sound effect you like from the Environment list You may also edit the properties for an environment as you wish by clicking the Edit button then just scroll the bar in the bottom for each property to adjust Edit ...

Page 69: ... EQ Setting button to remove a preset EQ setting There are also other pre set equalizer models for you to choose by clicking Others under the Equalizer part Here it provides the Karaoke function which will automatically remove human voice lyrics and leave melody for you to sing the song You may use the up arrow and down arrow button to raise lower the key and press the lower button to remove the h...

Page 70: ...for 5 1 Speaker Output e 8CH Speaker for 8 Speaker Output Speaker Configuration In this tab you can easily configure your multi channel audio function and speakers 1 First you have to select the audio configuration below which is identical to the audio jack on your mainboard In this model it uses Realtek ALC850 codec which supports 8 channel S PDIF therefore you should choose 8CH S PDIF Optical Co...

Page 71: ...connector or replace the bad speakers with good ones Or you may click the Auto Test button to test the sounds of each speaker automatically Subwoofer Front Right Rear Right Center Front Left Rear Left Side Left Side Right 3 While you are testing the speakers in 8 Channel 6 Channel Mode if the sound coming from the center speaker and subwoofer is swapped you should select Swap Center Subwoofer Outp...

Page 72: ...RTF Demo In this tab you may adjust your HRTF Head Related Transfer Functions 3D positional audio before playing 3D audio applications like gaming You may also select different environment to choose the most suitable environment you like ...

Page 73: ...on Audio Controller AC97 Codec You may also select the language of this utility by choosing from the Language list Also there is a selection Show icon in system tray Switch it on and an icon will show in the system tray Right click on the icon and the Audio Accessories dialogue box will appear which provides several multimedia features for you to take advantage of ...

Page 74: ...s no S PDIF output signal while playing analog and digital audio Output digital only With this option only digital audio will be allowed to play via SPDIF out while playing analog and digital audio Output digital and analog With this option both digital and analog audio will be allowed to play via SPDIF out while playing analog and digital audio ...

Page 75: ...rdance with the setting in software utility n 2 Channel Mode for Stereo Speaker Output Refer to the following diagram and caption for the function of each phone jack on the back panel when 2 Channel Mode is selected Back Panel 3 1 2 6 4 5 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels but no functioning in this mode 5 Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel but no functioning in ...

Page 76: ...speakers to back panel s Line Out connector and two speakers to the real chan nel Line Out connector 3 1 2 6 4 5 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels 5 Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel but no functioning in this mode 6 Optical SPDIF jack 4 ChannelAnalogAudioOutput ...

Page 77: ... back panel s Line Out connector two speakers to the rear channel and two speakers to the cen ter subwoofer channel Line Out connectors 6 ChannelAnalogAudioOutput 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels 5 Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel 6 Optical SPDIF jack 1 2 6 4 5 3 ...

Page 78: ...tor two speakers to the rear channel two speakers to the center subwoofer channel Line Out connectors and two speakers to the side channel Line Out connectors 8 ChannelAnalogAudioOutput 1 Line Out Side channels 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels 5 Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel 6 Optical SPDIF jack 1 2 6 4 5 3 ...

Reviews:

No comments

Brands by name

Popular brands

Load more brands