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USER’S NOTICE ..........................................................................................................ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION..........................................................................ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................ii
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION OF N2PA-LITE/N2PAP-LITE MOTHERBOARD
1-1 FEATURE
OF
MOTHERBOARD..........................................................................1
1-2 SPECIFICATION .....................................................................................................2
1-3 PERFORMANCE TABLE .......................................................................................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 ..........................................................................................................8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................8
2-3-2 ABOUT AMD ATHLON & DURON 462-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 .....................................................................................................12
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS....................................................................................12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................12
2-6-2 HEADERS ......................................................................................................14
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 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION...........................................................................26
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION ..................................................................27
3-7-3 ONCHIP 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............................................................................................31
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL............................................................................32
3-12 LOAD
STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ..................................................33
3-13 SET
SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ..............................................................33
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/NT/2K/XP.........................................34
4-1 NFORCE
INSTALL NVIDIA NFORCE PACK DRIVER
............................35
4-2 SOUND
INSTALL ALC AC97 AUDIO CODEC DRIVER
.......................36
4-3 USB 2.0
INSTALL NVIDIA USB 2.0 DRIVER
.........................................37
4-4 PC-CILLIN
INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM
..............37
4-5 PC-HEALTH
INSTALL NFORCE2 HARDWARE DOCTOR UTILITY
..........39
4-6 MAGIC BIOS
INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY
...................................40
4-7 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ........................................................................................42
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