Amd 880g User manual

USER'S MANUAL

AMD 880G & AMD SB850

Based

M/B for Socket AM3

AMD Processor

NO. G03-BA510PRO-F

Rev

：

1.0

Release date: June, 2010

Trademark:

* Specifications and information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are

subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer.

Environmental Protection Announcement

Do not dispose this electronic device into the trash while discarding. To minimize pollution

and ensure environment protection of mother earth, please recycle.

ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY INSTRUCTION ...........................................................iii

USER’S NOTICE.........................................................................................................iv

MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION.........................................................................iv

COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................iv

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF AMD 880G 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 AM3 CPU INSTALLATION.................................................9

2-4 INSTALL MEMORY ....................................................................................................9

2-5 EXPANSION CARDS..................................................................................................10

2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION..........................10

2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD ..............................................10

2-5-3 EXPANSION SLOTS.....................................................................................11

2-6 CONNECTORS AND 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 BIOS FEATURES ..................................................................................22

3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES..................................................................................23

3-5-1 CPU CONFIGURATION...................................................................................24

3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES...........................................................................24

3-6-1 ONBOARD VGA CONFIGURATION .........................................................25

3-6-2 PCI EXPRESS CONFIGURATION ............................................................26

3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...................................................................................26

3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT FEATURES .......................................................................27

3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONFIGURATION.....................................................................28

3-10 PC HEALTH...............................................................................................................29

3-11 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING..................................................................29

3-11-1 MEMORY CONFIGURATION ..................................................................31

3-12 BIOS SECURITY FEATURES .................................................................................32

3-13 LOAD OPTIMAL/FAILSAFE DEFAULTS.................................................................33

3-14 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/DISCARD CHANGES AND EXIT ..............................34

CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION

MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS XP/VISTA/7.....................................................35

4-1 DOTNET INSTALL MICROSOFT DOTNETX 3.5 DRIVER....................................36

4-2 ATI INSTALL ATI INTEGRATED DRIVER PACK.................................................36

4-3 SOUND INSTALL ALC HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER...........................................37

4-4 LAN INSTALL GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER ..............................................38

4-5 USB3.0 INSTALL USB3.0 DRIVER..........................................................................39

4-6 RAIDDISK INSTALL ATI SATA DRIVER AND UTILITY ...........................................40

4-7 NORTON INSTALLNORTON 2010 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ............................40

4-8 HDMI INSTALL ATI HDMI AUDIO DRIVER...............................................................41

4-9 FUSION INSTALL FUSION DRIVER AND TOOLS....................................................41

4-10 OVERCLOCK INSTALL OVERCLOCK DRIVER AND UTILITY.............................43

4-11 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ............................................................................................43

4-12 AMD PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INSTALLATION ..............................................43

TABLE OF CONTENT

iii

4-13 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION.....................................................48

4-14 G.P.I FUNCTION LED DISPLAY.............................................................................. 50

APPENDIX I ................................................................................................................................51

Environmental Safety Instruction

zAvoid the dusty, humidity and temperature extremes. Do not place the product in

any area where it may become wet.

z0 to 40 centigrade is the suitable temperature. (The figure comes from the request

of the main chipset)

zGenerally speaking, dramatic changes in temperature may lead to contact

malfunction and crackles due to constant thermal expansion and contraction from

the welding spots’ that connect components and PCB. Computer should go

through an adaptive phase before it boots when it is moved from a cold

environment to a warmer one to avoid condensation phenomenon. These water

drops attached on PCB or the surface of the components can bring about

phenomena as minor as computer instability resulted from corrosion and oxidation

from components and PCB or as major as short circuit that can burn the

components. Suggest starting the computer until the temperature goes up.

zThe increasing temperature of the capacitor may decrease the life of computer.

Using the close case may decrease the life of other device because the higher

temperature in the inner of the case.

zAttention to the heat sink when you over-clocking. The higher temperature may

decrease the life of the device and burned the capacitor.

USER’S NOTICE

MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT MAY BE

REPRODUCED, TRANSMITTED OR TRANSLATED INTO ANY LANGUAGE IN ANY FORM OR BY

ANY MEANS WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE MANUFACTURER.

THIS MANUAL CONTAINS ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED TO USE 880G MOTHERBOARD AND

WE DO ASSURE THIS MANUAL MEETS USER’S REQUIREMENT BUT WILL CHANGE, CORRECT

ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. MANUFACTURER PROVIDES THIS MANUAL “AS IS” WITHOUT

WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL,

INCIDENTIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMANGES FOR LOSS OF

PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OF DATA, INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND

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BENEFIT, WITHOUT INTENT TO INFRINGE.

Manual Revision Information

Reversion Revision History Date

1.0 First Edition June, 2010

Item Checklist

5AMD 880G Platform Processor Chipset based motherboard

5User’s Manual

5DVD for motherboard utilities

5HDD Cable

5SATA Cable

5I/O back panel shield

AMD AM3 Processor Family

Cooling Solutions

As processor technology pushes to faster speeds and higher performance with increasing

operation clock, thermal management becomes increasingly crucial while building computer

systems. Maintaining the proper computing environment without thermal increasing is the key to

reliable, stable, and 24 hours system operation. The overall goal is keeping the processor

below its specified maximum case temperature. Heatsinks induce improved processor heat

dissipation through increasing surface area and concentrated airflow from attached active

cooling fans. In addition, interface materials allow effective transfers of heat from the

processor to the heatsink. For optimum heat transfer, AMD recommends the use of thermal

grease and mounting clips to attach the heatsink to the processor.

Please refer to the website below for collection of heatsinks evaluated and recommended for

Socket AM3 processors by AMD. In addition, this collection is not intended to be a

comprehensive listing of all heatsinks that support Socket-AM3 processors.

Chapter 1

Introduction of AMD 880G Motherboards

1-1 Features of motherboard

The AMD 880G chipset motherboard series are based on the latest AMD 880G

Chipset and the SB 850 chipset which supports the following AM3 CPU under 125W

power consumption: Phenom™ II X 4, Phenom™ II X3 , Phenom™ II X2; Athlon™ II

X4; Athlon™ II X3; Athlon™ II X2 and Sempron AM3 CPU. With an integrated

low-latency high-bandwidth DDRIII memory controller and a highly-scalable Hyper

Transport technology-based system bus up to HT 3.0. AMD 880G Platform Processor

Chipset motherboard series deliver the outstanding system performance and

professional desktop platform solution.

The AMD 880G Series motherboards support new generation Socket AM3

processors with an integrated DDRIII memory controller for Dual channel DDRIII

800/DDRIII 1066 / DDRIII 1333 Module up to 16GB, also providing DDRIII 128Mb

GPU Memory. The motherboard supports ULTRA ATA 133 connectors and Serial

ATA3 with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD functions which support up to two IDE and six

Serial ATA3 devices to accelerate hard disk drives and guarantee the data security

without failure in advanced computing performance.

The AMD 880G motherboards provide 10/100/1000 LAN function with Gigabit LAN

chip which supports 10/100/1000Mbps data transfer rate. And the embedded

8-channel HD Audio CODEC is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro standards

that offer you with the home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility.

The AMD 880G Series motherboards deliver outstanding value and performance for

gamers, with a true bandwidth design for Multi-GPU configurations. This high

bandwidth architecture in the AMD 880G chipset is with the flexibility for single or dual

card configurations. The AMD 880G chipset provides two PCI Express 2.0 x16@8

lane slots to support simultaneous operation of graphics cards for astonishing

performance with brilliant and intense 3D graphics.

AMD 880G Series motherboard series offer two PCI-Express 2.0x16@ 8 lanes

graphics slots. When PE4 installed switch card, the PE1 becomes PCI-Express

2.0x16@ 16 lanes graphics slot. Two PCI Express x1 I/O slot tackling the most

demanding multimedia tasks nowadays. The AMD 880G motherboards also carry two

32-bit PCI slots to guarantee the rich connectivity for the I/O peripheral devices. The

motherboard is embedded with a mini-PCIE slot that supports WiFi card. This

motherboard support Hybrid CrossFireX function, the VGA Card on PE1 or PE4 will

activate a Hybrid CrossFire with the onboard VGA Card, the performance will be

increased 15% to 75%.

Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 12 of USB2.0

functional ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity and two of USB3.0

functional ports delivering 5 Gbps bandwidth of rich connectivity.(USB3.0 can not run

under DOS, but can be run under the OS)

These motherboards meet the future USB demands which are also equipped with

hardware monitor function on system to monitor and protect your system and

maintain your non-stop business computing.

Some special features--- CPU Smart Fan / CPU Vcore 7-shift / OC-CON / G.P.I

Function/3D Audio in this motherboard are designed for power user to use the

over-clocking function in more flexible ways. But please be caution that the

over-clocking maybe causes the fails in system reliabilities. This motherboard

provides the guaranteed performance and meets the demands of the next generation

computing. But if you insist to gain more system performance with variety possibilities

of the components you choose, please be careful and make sure to read the detailed

descriptions of these value added product features, please get them in the coming

section.

1-1.1 Special Features of Motherboard

CPU Smart Fan--- (The Noise Management System)

It’s never been a good idea to gain the performance of your system by sacrificing its

acoustics. CPU Smart Fan Noise Management System is the answer to control the

noise level needed for now-a-day’s high performance computing system. The system

will automatically increase the fan speed when CPU operating loading is high, after

the CPU is in normal operating condition, the system will low down the fan speed for

the silent operating environment. The system can provide the much longer life cycle

for both CPU and the system fans for game use and business requirements.

CPU Vcore 7-Shift--- (Shift to Higher Performance)

The CPU voltage can be adjusted up by 7 steps for the precisely over-clocking of

extra demanding computing performance.

OC-CON ---（High-polymer Solid Electrolysis Aluminum Capacitors）

The working temperature is from 55 degrees Centigrade below zero to 125 degrees

Centigrade, OC-CON capacitors possess superior physical characteristics that can

be while reducing the working temperature between 20 degrees Centigrade each time,

intact extension 10 times of effective product operation lives, at not rising degrees

Centigrade of working temperatures each time a relative one, life of product decline

10% only too.

G.P.I. Function—(Green power indicator function)

The full name of G.P.I technology is Green Power Indicator technology, obviously

technology utilized to low power consumption. G.P.I is a technology with remarkable

power saving function.

3D Audio—(3D Audio Sound Effect)

OP with two-stage Butterworth filter and quadruple noninverting amplifier enhances

bass effect under the 100MHz range to perfect audio effect, brings you stunning

shock experience in video game, true-to-life simulated feeling when watching films

and the greatest touch as that in the concert. There is a 3D Audio button integrated on

the board. Press down the button to enable 3D audio effect or press again to disabled

it.

1-2 Specification

Spec Description

Design zATX form factor; PCB size: 30.5cm x24.5cm

Chipset zAMD 880G North Bridge Chipset

zAMD SB 850 South Bridge Chipset

CPU Socket AM3

zSupport AMD AM3 CPU : Phenom™ II X 4, Phenom™ II X3 ,

Phenom™ II X2 processor; Athlon™ II X4; Athlon™ II X3; Athlon™ II

X2 processor and Sempron AM3 CPU under 125W Power

consumption

zSupport HT 3.0

Memory Slot

z240-pin DDRIII Module slot x 4

zSupport 4pcs DDRIII 800/DDRIII 1066 /DDRIII 1333 Modules

Expandable to 16GB

zDual channel supported

Expansion Slot

z2pcs PCI-Express 2.0x16 by 8 lane

z2pcs PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slot

z2pcs 32-bit PCI slot

Integrate IDE and

Serial ATA3 RAID

zJMB368 chip support one IDE HD connector that deliver the data

transfer rate up to 133 MB/s for 2 IDE Devices

zSB 850 supports 6 Serial ATAIII 6 Gb/s connectors with RAID 0, 1,

10,5 and JBOD function

Gigabit LAN

zIntegrated Gigabit LAN chip.

zSupport Fast Ethernet LAN function of providing 10Mb/100Mb/1000

Mb/s data transfer rate

8 CH-Audio

zRealtek Azalia 8-channel Audio Codec integrated

zSupport 8-channel 3D surround & Positioning Audio

zAudio driver and utility included

Sideport Memory zEmbedded DDR III 128Mb sideport memory

BIOS zAMI 16MB SMT Flash ROM

Multi I/O

zPS/2 keyboard

zCoaxial /Optical SPDIF_OUT connectors

zHDMI connector

zDVI connector (HDMI connector and DVI connector can not be used

at the same time)

zVGA connector

zRJ-45 connector x1

zUSB3.0 port x 2；USB2.0 port x 4 and headers x 3

zAudio connector x1 (8CH Audio)

zHard Disk Drive Connector x1

zAUDIO1 header x1

zSerial port header x1

zHDMI-SPDIF header x1

zIR1 header x1

zPARALLEL1 header x1

zCDIN header x1

1-3 Performance List

The following performance data list is the testing result of some popular benchmark

testing programs. These data are just referred by users, and there is no responsibility

for different testing data values gotten by users (the different Hardware & Software

configuration will result in different benchmark testing results.)

Performance Test Report

CPU: HDX810WFK4FGI

MEMORY: KINGSTON 2G 1333 X2

Hard Disk Driver: WD160G SATA

BIOS: T04

3D Mark 2003 5842

3D Mark 2005 2162

3D Mark 06 4714

PCMark2005

System / CPU / Memory 6260/7909/4892

Graph / HDD 2967/5324

Content Creation Winstone 2004 46.3/

Business Winstone 2004 30.5

Winbench 99 V2.0:

Business/Hi-end Disk Winmark99 28600

Business/Hi-end Graphic Winmark

SySMark 2004: SISMark Rating(Internet Content Creation / Office Productivity )

SySMark 2004

3D Creation / 2D Creation

/ Web publication

Communication / Document Creation

/ Data Analysis

SiSOFT Sandra 2005 : 1.CPU Arithmetic Benchmark 2.Memory bandwidth Benchmark

3.CPU Multi-Media Benchmark

1.Dhrystone ALU MIPS 35.20GIPS

Whetstone FPU iSSE2 FLOPS 34GIPS

2.Int/Float Buffered iSSE2 MB/S 101.3MB/S/44.16MB/S

3.Integer/Floating-Point SSE2 IT/S 12.34GB/S /12.37GB/S

UT2003 Benchmark (flyby/botmatch) 245.282/124.758

Quake3 DEMO1 / DEMO2 582.2FPS/571.3FPS

Return to Castle Wolfenstein FPS

Super Pi (1M) Second 26.578

CPUZ System / CPU Clock 200*13/2000

1-4 Layout Diagram

Rear I / O for BA-510PRO

USB 2.0 Connectors

RS-OUT

Line-OUT

CS-OUT

SS-OUT

MIC-IN

DVI

Connector

HDMI

Connector

Coaxial

SPDIF_OUT

Connector

Optical

SPDIF_OUT

Connector

USB 3.0

Connectors

VGA

Connector PS/2

Keyboard Port

RJ-45

Connector Line-IN

16 MBit SMT Flas

ROM BIOS

Front Panel Header

ATA 133 IDE

Conn (IDE1)

AM3 CPU Socket

ATX Power Conn.

PS2 KB Port

Over USB Port

Audio Connector

RJ-45 Ove

USB Connectors

DDR III Slot x 4

ATX 12V2

Power Connector

Realtek ALC883

Audio Decode

CDIN1

Gigabit LAN Chip

Speaker Header

USB Heade

(USB1, 2, 3)

Power Led Header

AMD 880G Chipset

AMD SB 850 Chipset

Front Panel

AudioHeader

KB/USB Power on (JP1)

IR1 Header

PARALLEL1 Header

USB 3.0

Connectors

HDMI-SPDIF

Header

CPUFAN1

SATA III

Connectors

4-pin PWR Connector

PCI Express 2.0 x16

by 8-lane Slot

HDMI Connector

VGA over DVI

Connector

PCI Express 2.0 x1 Slot

SYSFAN2

Clear CMOS (JBAT)

DDRIII 128Mb

GPU Memory

COM1 Header SYSFAN1

Coaxial Over Optical

SPDIF_OUT Connectors

PCI Slot

3D Audio Button

SSP＿LED

Mini PCIE Slot

Jumpers

Jumper Name Description

JP1 KB/USB Power On Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block

JBAT Clear CMOS Header 2-pin Block

Connectors

Connector Name Description

ATXPWR1 ATX Power Connector 24-pin Block

ATX12V2 ATX 12V Power Connector 8-pin Block

J2 Power Connector 4-Pin Block

KB from UK1 PS/2 Keyboard Connector 6-pin Female

SPDIF_OUT1

/SPDIF_OUT2

Coaxial/Optical SPDIF_OUT Connector 1-phone Jack

USB from UK1, UL1 USB2.0 Port Connector 4-pin Connector

CN3,CN4 USB3.0 Port Connector 4-pin Connector

RJ-45 LAN from UL1 Gigabit LAN Port Connector 8-pin Connector

CN2 8-CH HD Audio Connector 6- phone jack Conn.

IDE1 Primary IDE Connector 40-pin Block

SATA1~SATA6 Serial ATAIII Connectors 7-pin Connector

VGA D-Sub Connector 15-pin Connector

DVI1 Digital Visual Interface 29-pin Connector

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia 19-pin Connector

Headers

Header Name Description

AUDIO1 Front Panel SPEAKER, MIC header 9-pin Block

USB1, USB2,USB3 USB Port Headers 9-pin Block

SPEAK1 PC Speaker connector 4-pin Block

PWR LED1 Power LED 3-pin Block

JW_FP1 (HD LED/PWR

LED/ Reset/ Power Button)

Front Panel Header

9-pin Block

SYSFAN1/2 FAN Headers 3-pin Block

CPUFAN1 FAN Header 4-pin Block

CDIN1 CD Audio-In Header 4-pin Block

IR1 IR infrared module Headers 5-pin Block

COM1 Serial Port COM1 Header 9-pin Block

PARALLEL1 PARALLEL Header 25-pin Block

HDMI-SPDIF SPDIF Out header 2-pin Block

Expansion Sockets

Socket/Slot Name Description

ZIF Socket AM3 CPU Socket 938-pin PGAB CPU Socket

DDRIII 1~DDRIII 4 DDRIII Module Socket 240-pin DDRIII Module Socket

PCI1,PCI2 PCI Slots 32-bit PCI Local Bus Expansion slots

PE2,PE3 PCI-Express 2.0 x1Slot PCI-Express 2.0 x1 Expansion Slots

PE1,PE4 PCI-Express 2.0x16 Slot PCI-Express 2.0x16 Expansion Slots

Chapter 2

Hardware Installation

WARNING! Turn off your power when adding or removing expansion cards or

other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe

damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards.

2-1 Hardware installation Steps

Before using your computer, you had better complete the following steps:

1. Check motherboard jumper setting

2. Install CPU and Fan

3. Install System Memory (DIMM)

4. Install Expansion cards

5. Connect IDE and Front Panel /Back Panel cable

6. Connect ATX Power cable

7. Power-On and Load Standard Default

8. Reboot

9. Install Operating System

10. Install Driver and Utility

2-2 Checking Motherboard’s Jumper Setting

(1) KB/USB function Enabled/Disabled: JP1

KB & USB Power On Setting

2-3 Closed KB/USB Power ON Enabled

JP1

1-2 Closed KB/USB Power ON Disable (Default)

(2) CMOS RAM Clear (2-pin): JBAT

A battery must be used to retain the motherboard configuration in CMOS RAM

short 1-2 pins of JBAT to clear the CMOS data.

WARNNING：Please remove or turn off the power supply before CMOS clear!

To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below:

1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power

2. Remove ATX power cable from ATX power connector

3. Locate JBAT and short pins 1-2 for a few seconds, if shorted with the jump cap,

short for a few seconds then pull out the hat.

4. Connect ATX power cable back to ATX power connector

Note: When should clear CMOS

1. Troubleshooting

2. Forget password

3. After over clocking system boot fail

CMOS Clear Setting

1-2 Short：CMOS Clear

JBAT

1-2 Open：Normal

2-3 Install CPU

2-3-1 Glossary

Chipset (or core logic) - two or more integrated circuits which control the interfaces

between the system processor, RAM, I/O devises, and adapter cards.

Processor socket - the socket used to mount the system processor on the

motherboard.

Slot (PCI-E, PCI, RAM) - the slots used to mount adapter cards and system RAM.

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect - a high speed interface for video cards,

sound cards, network interface cards, and modems; runs at 33MHz.

PCI Express2.0- Peripheral Component Interconnect Express2.0, developed in 2003,

the speed of each line doubled from the previous PCI-E of 2.5 Gbps to 5 Gbps.

Serial Port - a low speed interface typically used for mouse and external modems.

Parallel Port - a low speed interface typically used for printers.

PS/2 - a low speed interface used for mouse and keyboards.

USB - Universal Serial Bus - a medium speed interface typically used for mouse,

keyboards, scanners, and some digital cameras.

Sound (interface) - the interface between the sound card or integrated sound

connectors and speakers, MIC, game controllers, and MIDI sound devices.

LAN (interface) - Local Area Network - the interface to your local area network.

BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) - the program logic used to boot up a computer

and establish the relationship between the various components.

Driver - software, which defines the characteristics of a device for use by another

device or other software.

Processor - the "central processing unit" (CPU); the principal integrated circuit used

for doing the "computing" in "personal computer"

Front Side Bus Frequency - the working frequency of the motherboard, which is

generated by the clock generator for CPU, DRAM and PCI BUS.

CPU L2 Cache - the flash memory inside the CPU, normal it depend on CPU type.

2-3-2 About AMD AM3 CPU Installation

This motherboard provides a socket AM3 surface mount, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF)

socket, referred to as the mPGA socket supports AMD AM3 processor.

The CPU that comes with the motherboard should have a cooling FAN attached to

prevent overheating. If this is not the case, then purchase a correct cooling FAN

before you turn on your system.

WARNING! Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor’s

heatsink and CPU cooling FAN is working correctly, otherwise it may

cause the processor and motherboard overheat and damage, you

may install an auxiliary cooling FAN, if necessary.

To install a CPU, first turn off your system and remove its cover. Locate the ZIF

socket and open it by first pulling the level sideways away from the socket then

upward to a 90-degree angle. Insert the CPU with the correct orientation as shown

below. The notched corner should point toward the end of the level. Because the CPU

has a corner pin for two of the four corners, the CPU will only fit in the orientation as

shown.

CPU ZIF mPGAB Socket

Colden Arrow

Socket AM3

When you put the CPU into the ZIF socket, No force required to insert of the CPU,

and then press the level to locate position slightly without any extra force.

2-4 Install Memory

This motherboard provides four 240-pin DDRIII DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULES

(DIMM) socket for DDRIII memory expansion available to maximum memory volume

of 16GB DDRIII SDRAM.

Valid Memory Configurations

Bank 240-Pin DIMM PCS Maximum Capacity

Bank 0, 1 (DDRIII 1) DDRIII 800/DDRIII 1066/DDRIII 1333 X1 4GB

Bank 2, 3 (DDRIII 2) DDRIII 800/DDRIII 1066/DDRIII 1333 X1 4GB

Bank 4, 5 (DDRIII 3) DDRIII 800/DDRIII 1066/DDRIII 1333 X1 4GB

Bank 6, 7 (DDRIII 4) DDRIII 800/DDRIII 1066/DDRIII 1333 X1 4GB

Total System Memory (Max.4GB) 4 16GB

Dual channel Limited!

1. Dual channel function only supports when 2 DIMM Modules plug in either both DDRIII

1 & DDRIII 2 or DDRIII 3 & DDRIII 4 or four DIMM Modules please plug in DDRIII

1~DDRIII 4.

2. Memory modules must be the same type, same size, and same frequency for dual

channel function.

Install DDR SDRAM modules to your motherboard is not difficult, you can refer to

figure below to see how to install a 240-Pin DDRIII 800/DDRIII 1066/DDRIII 1333

SDRAM module.

DDRIII 2(BANK2+BANK3)

DDRIII 1 (BANK0+BANK1)

DDRIII 4(BANK6+BANK7)

DDRIII 3(BANK4+BANK5)

DDRIII 1 & DDRIII 2: Dual Channel 1

DDRIII 3 & DDRIII 4: Dual Channel 2

Graph 2-4

NOTE! When you install DIMM module fully into the DIMM socket the eject

tab should be locked into the DIMM module very firmly and fit into its

indention on both sides.

2-5 Expansion Cards

2-5-1 Procedure for Expansion Card Installation

1. Read the documentation for your expansion card and make any necessary

hardware or software setting for your expansion card such as jumpers.

2. Remove your computer’s cover and the bracket plate on the slot you intend to

use.

3. Align the card’s connectors and press firmly.

4. Secure the card on the slot with the screen you remove above.

5. Replace the computer system’s cover.

6. Set up the BIOS if necessary.

7. Install the necessary software driver for your expansion card.

2-5-2 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Card

Some expansion cards need an IRQ to operate. Generally, an IRQ must exclusively

assign to one use. In a standard design, there are 16 IRQs available but most of them

are already in use.

Standard Interrupt Assignments

IRQ Priority Standard function

0 N/A System Timer

1 N/A Keyboard Controller

2 N/A Programmable Interrupt

3 * 8 Communications Port (COM2)

4 * 9 Communications Port (COM1)

5 * 6 Sound Card (sometimes LPT2)

6 * 11 Floppy Disk Controller

7 * 7 Printer Port (LPT1)

8 N/A System CMOS/Real Time Clock

9 * 10 ACPI Mode when enabled

10 * 3 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering

11 * 2 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering

12 * 4 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port

13 N/A Numeric Data Processor

14 * 5 Primary IDE Channel

15 * 1 Secondary IDE Channel

* These IRQs are usually available for ISA or PCI devices.

NOTE! If using PCI cards on shared slots, make sure that the drivers

support “Shared IRQ” or that the cards don’t need IRQ assignments.

Conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups that will make the

system unstable or cards inoperable.

2-5-3 Expansion Slots