ii
ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY INSTRUCTION ...........................................................iii
USER’S NOTICE .........................................................................................................iv
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .........................................................................iv
COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................iv
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF AMD 890GX MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES
OF
MOTHERBOARD ............................................................................. 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD ............................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION ......................................................................................................... 3
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST................................................................................................ 4
1-4 LAYOUT
DIAGRAM.................................................................................................... 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 AM3 CPU INSTALLATION................................................. 9
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY .................................................................................................... 9
2-5 EXPANSION CARDS.................................................................................................. 10
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION .......................... 10
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD .............................................. 10
2-5-3 EXPANSION SLOTS..................................................................................... 11
2-6 CONNECTORS AND HEADERS .............................................................................. 12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ............................................................................................. 12
2-6-2 HEADERS ..................................................................................................... 15
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
BIOS FEATURES .................................................................................. 22
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES .................................................................................. 23
3-5-1 CPU CONFIGURATION ................................................................................... 24
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES ........................................................................... 24
3-6-1 ONBOARD VGA CONFIGURATION ......................................................... 25
3-6-2 PCI EXPRESS CONFIGURATION ............................................................ 26
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS................................................................................... 26
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT FEATURES ....................................................................... 27
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS
CONFIGURATION..................................................................... 28
3-10 PC HEALTH............................................................................................................... 29
3-11 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING .................................................................. 29
3-11-1 MEMORY CONFIGURATION .................................................................. 31
3-12 BIOS SECURITY ...................................................................................................... 32
3-13 LOAD OPTIMAL/FAILSAFE DEFAULTS ................................................................. 33
3-14 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/DISCARD CHANGES AND EXIT .............................. 34
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS XP/VISTA/7 ..................................................... 35
4-1 DOTNET INSTALL MICROSOFT DOTNETX 3.5 DRIVER.................................... 36
4-2 ATI INSTALL ATI INTEGRATED DRIVER PACK ................................................. 36
4-3 SOUND INSTALL ALC HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER ........................................... 37
4-4 LAN INSTALL GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER .............................................. 38
4-5 USB3.0 INSTALL USB3.0 DRIVER..........................................................................39
4-6 RAIDDISK INSTALL ATI SATA DRIVER AND UTILITY ........................................... 40
4-7 NORTON INSTALLNORTON
2009 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ............................ 40
4-8 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY ..................... 41
4-9 HDMI INSTALL ATI HDMI AUDIO DRIVER ............................................................... 41
4-10 OVERCLOCK INSTALL OVERCLOCK DRIVER AND UTILITY............................. 42
4-11 FUSION INSTALL FUSION DRIVER AND TOOLS................................................. 43
4-12 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ............................................................................................ 44
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