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USER’S NOTICE ....................................................................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................................................iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................................................iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF VIA P4M890 CHIPSET 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 .............................................................................................6
2-2 CHECKING
MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING ...................................................................7
2-3 INSTALL CPU .......................................................................................................................................7
2-3-1 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................................7
2-3-2 ABOUT INTEL PENTIUM4 LGA 775 CPU ...........................................................................8
2-3-3 LGA 775 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE .............................................................................. ..9
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY ............................................................................................................................18
2-5 EXPANSION CARD..............................................................................................................................19
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION................................................19
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD .........................................................................19
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD .......................................20
2-5-4 PCI EXPRESS SLOT.................................................................................................................20
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS.................................................................................................................21
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ..........................................................................................................................21
2-6-2
HEADERS...................................................................................................................................24
2-7
STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ..................................................................................................27
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP...............................................................................................................................28
3-2 GETTING HELP ...................................................................................................................................28
3-3 THE
MAIN MENU ................................................................................................................................29
3-4 STANDARD
CMOS FEATURES.........................................................................................................30
3-5 ADVANCED
BIOS FEATURES ..........................................................................................................31
3-6 ADVANCED
CHIPSET FEATURES...................................................................................................33
3-6-1 CLOCK/DRIVE CONTROL ....................................................................................................34
3-6-2 AGP&P2P BRIDGE CONTROL..............................................................................................35
3-6-3 CPU&PCI BUS CONTROL......................................................................................................35
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS..........................................................................................................36
3-7-1 VIA ONCHIP IDE DEVICE .....................................................................................................36
3-7-2 VIA ONCHIP PCI DEVICE......................................................................................................37
3-7-3 SUPER I/O DEVICE..................................................................................................................38
3-8 POWER
MANAGEMENT SETUP ......................................................................................................39
3-8-1 IRQ/EVENT ACTIVILITY DETECT.....................................................................................40
3-8-1.1 IRQS ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................41
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL..........................................................................................................41
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES ....................................................................................................................42
3-10 PC
HEALTH STATUS ........................................................................................................................43
3-11 THERMAL
THROTTLING OPTION ...............................................................................................44
3-12
POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS......................................................................................44
3-13 PASSWORD
SETTINGS.....................................................................................................................47
3-14 LOAD
OPTIMIZED/FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS.................................................................................47
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP .........................................................48
4-1
VIA 4 IN 1
INSTALL VIA SERVICE PACK 4 IN 1 DRIVER ............................................49
4-2
VGA
INSTALL VIA P4M890 VGA DRIVER .............................................................50
4-3
SOUND
INSTALL VIA AC97 CODEC AUDIO DRIVER ..............................................50
4-4
LAN
INSTALL VIA LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER................................................51
4-5
PC-HEALTH
INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY..........................52
4-6
PC-CILLIN
INSTALL PC-CILLIN2006 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ...................................53
4-7
USB2.0
INSTALL VIA USB2.0 DEVICE DRIVER ........................................................54
4-8
SATA
INSTALL VIA SERIAL ATA..............................................................................55
4-9
HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND .........................................................................................56
4-10 HOW
TO
UPDATE BIOS .....................................................................................................................56
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