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USER’S NOTICE........................................................................................................................... ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .................................................................................... ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS .............................................................................................................. ii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF I848AS/I848A MOTHERBOARD
1-1 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD ............................................................................... 1
1-2 SPECIFICATION........................................................................................................... 2
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST................................................................................................. 3
1-4 LAYOUT
DIAGRAM
& JUMPER SETTING............................................................ 4
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE
INSTALLATION STEPS ..................................................................... 6
2-2 CHECKING
MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING........................................... 6
2-3 INSTALL
CPU................................................................................................................ 7
2-3-1 GLOSSARY ......................................................................................................... 7
2-3-2 ABOUT INTEL PENTIUM 4 478-PIN CPU.................................................... 8
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY ..................................................................................................... 8
2-5 EXPANSION CARD....................................................................................................... 9
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ....................... 9
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD ................................................. 10
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD............... 10
2-5-4 AGP SLOT ........................................................................................................... 11
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ......................................................................................... 12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS................................................................................................... 12
2-6-2 HEADERS............................................................................................................ 15
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER .......................................................................... 18
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING
SETUP ....................................................................................................... 19
3-2 GETTING HELP ............................................................................................................ 19
3-3 THE MAIN MENU......................................................................................................... 20
3-4 STANDARD
CMOS
FEATURES................................................................................. 21
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES................................................................................... 22
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES........................................................................... 24
3-6-1 DRAM TIMING SETTINGS............................................................................. 25
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS .................................................................................. 26
3-7-1 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION............................................................................ 26
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION ................................................................... 27
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION ................................................................ 28
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT SETUP .............................................................................. 29
3-8-1 PM TIMER RELOAD EVENTS ...................................................................... 30
3-9 PNP/PCI
CONFIGURATION SETUP ......................................................................... 31
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES ............................................................................................. 32
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS ................................................................................................. 32
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS
CONTROL................................................................................. 33
3-12 LOAD
STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS........................................................ 34
3-13 SET
SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ................................................................... 34
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 98SE/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP ........................... 35
4-1 INF
INSTALL INTEL 848 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER ....................... 36
4-2 SOUND
INSTALL ALC AC97’ CODEC AUDIO DRIVER ............................ 37
4-3 LAN
INSTALL REALTEK LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER .................... 38
4-4 USB2.0
INSTALL INTEL USB2.0 DRIVER .................................................... 38
4-5 PC-HEALTH
INSTALL SMART GUARDIAN SOFTWARE FOR
HARDWARE
MONITORING DEVICE...................................... 39
4-5-1 HOW TO UTILIZE PC-HEALTH................................................................... 40
4-6 MBIOS&DX9 INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY AND DIRECTX9.. 40
4-7 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2004 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM............. 42
4-8 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS.............................................................................................. 44
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