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USER’S NOTICE ....................................................................................................................... III
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ....................................................................................... III
COOLING SOLUTIONS ............................................................................................................ III
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF MCP 78S 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.................................................................................................... 5
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 SOCKET AM2+ CPU ............................................................. 9
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY .................................................................................................... 9
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 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT .................................................................................... 12
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS ...................................................................................... 12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ............................................................................................. 12
2-6-2 HEADERS ..................................................................................................... 16
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
BIOS FEATURES .................................................................................. 22
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES .................................................................................. 23
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES ........................................................................... 24
3-6-1 VGA CONFIGURATION ............................................................................. 24
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS................................................................................... 25
3-7-1 ONBOARD IDE DEVICE ............................................................................ 25
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE..................................................................................... 26
3-7-3 SUPER IO CONFIGURATION ..................................................................... 27
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................ 28
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL ................................................................................... 29
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS ............................................................................................... 29
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATION............................................................... 30
3-11 THERMAL THROTTLING OPTION........................................................................... 30
3-12 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS................................................................ 31
3-12-1 CPU CONFIGURATION............................................................................. 32
3-12-2 MEMORY CONFIGURATION .................................................................... 32
3-13 PASSWORD SETTINGS ........................................................................................... 33
3-14 LOAD OPTIMAL DEFAULTS/LOAD FAILSAFE DEFAULTS ................................. 34
3-15 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/DISCARD CHANGES AND EXIT .......................... 34
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
4-1 INSTALL NFORCE ......................................................................................................36
4-2 SOUND INSTALL AL888 HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER........................................ 37
4-3 LAN .......................................................................................................................... 38
4-4 USB2.0......................................................................................................................... 38
4-5 RAIDDISK .................................................................................................................... 39
4-6 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2007 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM........................... 39
4-7 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .................. 40
4-8 HDMI ....................................................................................................................... 41
4-9 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ............................................................................................ 41
4-10 AMD PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INSTALLATION .............................................. 42
4-11 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 44
APPENDIX I .................................................................................................................... 46
APPENDIX II ................................................................................................................... 48
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