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USER’S NOTICE..................................................................................................................... ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .............................................................................. ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................ ii
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION OF MOTHERBOARD
1-1
FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD ...................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL 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 AMD Athlon64 754-pin CPU
.................................................................. 9
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY............................................................................................................ 10
2-5 EXPANSION
CARD ............................................................................................................. 11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION .............................. 11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD ...................................................... 11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD ...................... 12
2-5-4 PCI-Express SLOT .................................................................................................... 12
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ................................................................................................ 13
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ......................................................................................................... 13
2-6-2 HEADERS .................................................................................................................. 17
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
3-6-2 LDT & PCI TIMING SETTINGS............................................................................ 27
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 27
3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION ....................................................................................... 28
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION............................................................................... 29
3-7-3 ONCHIP SUPER IO FUNCTION ........................................................................... 30
3-8
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 31
3-8-1 WAKE UP EVENTS................................................................................................. 32
3-8-1.1 IRQS ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................ 33
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS
CONTROL........................................................................................ 33
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES..................................................................................................... 34
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS ........................................................................................................ 34
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATIONS ..................................................................... 35
3-11 THERMAL
THROTTLING OPTIONS ............................................................................ 36
3-12 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS ..................................................................... 37
3-13 PASSWORD SETTINGS .................................................................................................... 40
3-14 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS............................................................... 40
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/NT/2000/XP ................................................... 41
4-1 NFOCE
INSTALL NFORCE INTEGRATED DRIVER.................................... 42
4-2 SOUND
INSTALL ALC850 8-CHANNEL AUDIO DRIVER ........................... 44
4-3 LAN
MARVELL YUKON GIGABITETNEMET NIC DRIVER................ 45
4-4 USB2.0
INSTALL USB2.0 DRIVER ................................................................... 45
4-5 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2005 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ..................... 46
4-6 PC-HEALTH
INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY ........... 47
4-7 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS .................................................................................................... 48
APPENDIX: Debug Port Post Code....................................................................................... i1
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