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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................ii
MANUAL REVIS1ION INFORMATION ............................................................................ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................ii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF V4MDF/V4MDFT 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 ................................................................7
2-2 CHECKING
MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING......................................7
2-3 INSTALL CPU ..........................................................................................................8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................8
2-3-2 ABOUT AMD ATHLON & DURON 462-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 IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD............................................11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD..........12
2-5-4 AGP SLOT .....................................................................................................12
2-6 CONNECTORS, 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
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 AGP FUNCTION SETTING........................................................................27
3-6-3 PCI TIMING SETTINGS .............................................................................27
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS.............................................................................28
3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION...........................................................................28
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION...................................................................29
3-7-3 ONBOARD 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 PNP/PCI
CONFIGURATION SETUP ...................................................................33
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES ........................................................................................34
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS............................................................................................34
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL ...........................................................................35
3-12 LOAD
STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ..................................................36
3-13 SET
SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ..............................................................36
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 95/98/98SE/NT4.0/2000/XP...................37
4-1 VIA 4 IN 1
INSTALL VIA SERVICE PACK 4 IN 1 DRIVER
.............................38
4-2 VGA
INSTALL VIA VGA DRIVER
..........................................................39
4-3 SOUND
INSTALL
ALC
AUDIO CODEC DRIVER
.......................................40
4-4 LAN
INSTALL RTL810X LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER
.......................41
4-5 PC-HEALTH
INSTALL
MY GUARD FOR VIA8237 UTILITY
.............................42
4-6 USB2.0
INSTALL VIA USB2.0 DEVICE DRIVER
........................................43
4-7 PC-CILLIN
INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2004 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM
....................44
4-8 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND............................................................45
4-9 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ........................................................................................45
CHAPTER 5 INSTALLATION OF MagicTwin .................................................................46
5-1 INSTALLATION OF MagicTwin (A 2-User-System Solution) ...........................46
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