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USER’S NOTICE..................................................................................................................... iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .............................................................................. iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................ iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF AMD 790X CROSSFIREX MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES
OF MOTHERBOARD .................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.................................................................................................................. 4
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................................ 5
1-4 LAYOUT
DIAGRAM
& JUMPER SETTING ................................................................... 6
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE
INSTALLATION
STEPS............................................................................. 8
2-2 CHECKING
MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING .................................................. 8
2-3 INSTALL
CPU....................................................................................................................... 9
2-3-1 GLOSSARY............................................................................................................. 9
2-3-2
ABOUT AMD Athlon64 Socket AM2+ CPU..................................................... 10
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY............................................................................................................ 10
2-5 EXPANSION
CARDS ........................................................................................................... 11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ............................ 11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................................... 11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD.................... 11
2-5-4 PCI-EXPRESS2.0 SLOT ........................................................................................ 12
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ................................................................................................ 13
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 13
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 16
2-7
STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 20
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 21
3-2 GETTING HELP ................................................................................................................... 21
3-3 THE
MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 22
3-4
STANDARD CMOS FEATURES ........................................................................................ 23
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES .......................................................................................... 24
3-5-1 CPU FEATURE…………………………………………………………………..…24
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES .................................................................................. 26
3-6-1 PCIE CONFIGURATION .............................................................................................. 26
3-6-2 DRAM CONFIGURATION………………………………………………………27
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 27
3-7-1 SUPER IO DEVICE .............................................................................................. 28
3-7-2 ONCHIP IDE FUNTION ...................................................................................... 29
3-7-3 ONCHIP PCI DEVICE ......................................................................................... 30
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT
SETUP ..................................................................................... 30
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS
CONFIGURATION ......................................................................... 32
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS........................................................................................................ 33
3-11 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING........................................................................ 34
3-12 CPU THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS.................................................................... 36
3-13 LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS ........................................................................................ 36
3-14 LOAD OPTIMISED DEFAULTS ...................................................................................... 36
3-15 SET PASSWORD SETTINGS .......................................................................................... 37
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP ....................................... 38
4-1 ATI INSTALL ATI DRIVER PACK ........................................................................... 39
4-2 SOUND INSTALL AL662HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER ........................................... 40
4-3 LAN INSTALL TEALTEK LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER .................................. 41
4-4 RAID INSTALL ATI SATA DRIVER AND UTILITY ............................................... 41
4-5 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2007 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ......................... 42
4-6 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 43
4-7 HOW
TO
UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 43
4-8
AMD PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INSTALLATION ............................................... 44
4-9 G.P.I
FUNCTION……………… .......................................................................................... 47
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