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Chapter 2 Hardware Setup
If your motherboard has already been installed in your computer you may still need
to refer to this chapter if you plan to upgrade your system's hardware.
This motherboard is electrostatic sensitive. Do not touch without
wearing proper safety gadget and make sure to disconnect the power
cable from the power source before performing any work on your
motherboard. Not doing so may result in electrical shock!
2-1 Installing a CPU Processor for Socket A
The Socket A, designed for AMD® Athlon/Duron/XP processors, has been
incorporated as a standard motherboard specification. To insert your CPU into
Socket A please do the following:
1. Locate a cut edge on the top surface of the CPU close to one if it's corners. The
same corner will also be cut off, leaving a noticeable notch in the CPU's corner.
These markings indicate Pin 1 of the CPU.
2. Pull up the lever of Socket 462 so that it is perpendicular with the surface of the
motherboard. Gently insert the CPU with Pin 1 at the same corner of Socket 462
that contains the end of the lever. Allow the weight of the CPU to push itself into
place. Do not apply extra pressure as doing so may result in damaging your CPU.
Snap the lever back into place.
Installing an AMD® approved heat sink with cooling fan is necessary for
proper heat dissipation from your CPU. Failing to install these items may
result in overheating and possible burn-out of your CPU.
In order to boot up with a newly installed CPU, AC Power must be
switched off before installation.
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2-2 Setting Your CPU’s Performance:
Frequency Configuration:
If you install a CPU on this motherboard, you must set the [
Front Side Bus
Frequency
]
JP3
according to your processor (
See Section 2.4
).
* CPU Speed = Multiplier x FSB Frequency
AMD (K7) Duron CPU
Model CPU
Speed
FSB
Frequency
Multiplier Vcore
L2
Cache
Micron
process
600 600
MHz 100
6.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
650 650
MHz 100
6.5 1.6V
64KB
0.18
700 700
MHz 100
7.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
750 750
MHz 100
7.5 1.6V
64KB
0.18
800 800
MHz 100
8.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
850 850
MHz 100
8.5 1.6V
64KB
0.18
900 900
MHz 100
9.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
950 950
MHz 100
9.5 1.6V
64KB
0.18
1.0G 1.0
GHz 100
10.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
1.1G 1.1
GHz 100
11.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
1.2G 1.2
GHz 100
12.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
1.3G 1.3
GHz 100
13.0 1.6V
64KB
0.18
You do not need to make voltage settings because this board will automatically
set your CPU voltage.
