ii
USER’S NOTICE..................................................................................................................... iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .............................................................................. iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................ iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF AMD 770/780V/780G MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES
OF MOTHERBOARD .................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.................................................................................................................. 3
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................................ 4
1-4 LAYOUT
DIAGRAM
& JUMPER SETTING ................................................................... 5
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 ................................................................ 10
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY............................................................................................................ 11
2-5 EXPANSION
CARDS ........................................................................................................... 12
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ............................ 12
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................................... 12
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS2.0 SLOT ........................................................................................ 13
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ................................................................................................ 14
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 14
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 17
2-7
STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 21
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 22
3-2 GETTING HELP ................................................................................................................... 22
3-3 THE
MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 23
3-4 STANDARD
BIOS
FEATURES........................................................................................... 24
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES .......................................................................................... 26
3-5-1
CPU CONFIGURATION..................................................................................... 27
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES .................................................................................. 28
3-6-1
MEMORY CONFIGURATION ......................................................................... 29
3-6-2
INTERNAL GRAPHICS CONFIGURATION ................................................ 30
3-6-3
PCI EXPRESS CONFIGURATION .................................................................. 30
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 31
3-7-1 ONBOARD SATA DEVICE ................................................................................. 32
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE CONTROL........................................................................ 32
3-7-3 SUPER IO CONFIGURATION ........................................................................... 33
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT
SETUP ..................................................................................... 34
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS
CONTROL ........................................................................................ 35
3-10 HARDWARE HEALTH CONFIGURE/PC HEALTH STATUS.................................... 36
3-11 CPU THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS.................................................................... 37
3-12 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING........................................................................ 38
3-13 BIOS SECURITY FEATURE/PASSWORD SETTINGS .............................................. 40
3-14 LOAD OPTIMAL/FAILSAFE/STANDARD DEFAULTS .............................................. 41
3-15 SAVE CHNGES AND EXIT/DISCARD AND EXIT........................................................ 41
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS2000/XP/VISTA .................................................... 43
4-1 ATI INSTALL ATI DRIVER PACK ........................................................................... 44
4-2 SOUND INSTALL AL662 HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER .......................................... 45
4-3 LAN
INSTALL LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER .................................................... 46
4-4 WIFI_N INSTALL RT2770 WIRELESS NETWORK .................................................... 46
4-5 WIFI_BG INSTALL RTL8187 WIRELESS NETWORK.............................................. 47
4-6 RAID
INSTALL SATA RAID DRIVER AND UTILITY ............................................ 48
4-7 NORTON
INSTALL NORTON 2009 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM............................. 48
4-8 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 49
4-9 HOW
TO
UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 49
4-10 AMD PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INSTALLATION ............................................... 50
4-11 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INSRUCTION .............................................................. 53
4-12 G.P.I.FUNCTION
INSTALLATION STEP........................................................................ 54
4-13 G.P.I.
LED DISPLAY............................................................................................................ 57
APPENDIX ............................................................................................................................... 58
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