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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................ii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF N250DAG 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 AMD K8 754-PIN CPU ............................................................. 8
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY............................................................................................................ 9
2-5 EXPANSION
CARD.............................................................................................................. 10
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ............................... 10
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD......................................................... 10
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD....................... 11
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
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS.......................................................................................... 25
3-7-1 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION................................................................................... 25
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION........................................................................... 26
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION ....................................................................... 27
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP...................................................................................... 28
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP ................................................................................ 29
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES .................................................................................................... 30
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS ........................................................................................................ 30
3-11 CLOCK/VOLTAGE
CONTROL ....................................................................................... 31
3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ............................................................... 32
3-13 SET
SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD........................................................................... 32
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP........................................ 33
4-1 NFORCE
INSTALL NFORCE INTEGRATED DRIVER .................................... 34
4-2 SOUND
INSTALL ALC655 AUDIO CODEC DRIVER..................................... 36
4-3 USB2.0
INSTALL INTEL USB2.0 DRIVER ...................................................... 37
4-4 PC-HEALTH INSTALL ITE SMART GUARDIAN SOFTWARE FOR HARDWARE
MONITORING
DEVICE........................................................................ 37
4-5 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2004 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ..................... 38
4-6 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 40
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