ASROCK P43C-ME User manual

Intel®P43+ ICH10 Chipsets
P43C-ME
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Detail Specification
Product Brief
CPU
Memory
Expansion Slot
Audio
LAN
Rear Panel I/O
Connector
BIOS Feature
Support CD
Accessories
Hardware Monitor
OS
Certifications
The specification is subject to change without notice. The brand and product names are trademarks of their
respective companies. Any configuration other than original product specification is not guaranteed.
Chipset
Platform
- Supports FSB1600/1333/1066/800 MHz CPUs
- Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1600 (OC) /
DDR2 1200 (OC)
- Supports ASRock Instant Boot, Instant Flash,
OC DNA, ASRock OC Tuner, IES
- 7.1 CH HD Audio (VIA®VT1718S Audio Codec
with QSound)
- Free Bundle : CyberLink DVD Suite - OEM and
Trial; Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB - Trial
- EuP Ready
- Micro ATX Form Factor: 9.6-in x 8.3-in, 24.4 cm x 21.1 cm
- LGA 775 for Intel®CoreTM 2 Extreme / CoreTM 2 Quad /
CoreTM 2 Duo / Pentium®Dual Core / Celeron®Dual
Core / Celeron®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield
and Dual Core Wolfdale processors
- Supports FSB1600/1333/1066/800 MHz
- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
- Supports Untied Overclocking Technology
- Supports EM64T CPU
- Northbridge: Intel®P43
- Southbridge: Intel®ICH10
- Dual Channel DDR3/DDR2 memory technology
- 2 x DDR3 DIMM slots
- Supports DDR3 1600(OC)/1333/1066/800 non-ECC,
un-buffered memory
- Max. capacity of system memory: 8GB
- 2 x DDR2 DIMM slots
- Supports DDR2 1200(OC)/1066/800/667 non-ECC,
un-buffered memory
- Max. capacity of system memory: 8GB
- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (blue @ x16 mode)
- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
- 2 x PCI slots
- 7.1 CH HD Audio (VIA®VT1718S Audio Codec)
- PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
- Realtek RTL8111DL
- Supports Wake-On-LAN
I/O Panel
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
- 1 x Coaxial SPDIF Out Port
- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
- 6 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED
LED)
- HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central /
Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone
- 6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support NCQ, AHCI and
Hot Plug functions
- 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices)
- 1 x Floppy connector
- 1 x IR header
- 1 x Print port header
- 1 x COM port header
- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header
- CPU/Chassis/Power FAN connector
- 24 pin ATX power connector
- 4 pin 12V power connector
- CD in header
- Front panel audio connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports)
- 8Mb AMI Legal BIOS
- Supports "Plug and Play"
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
- CPU, DRAM, GTL, NB, SB, SB 1.1, VTT Voltage
Multi-adjustment
- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version),
ASRock Software Suite (CyberLink DVD Suite - OEM
and Trial; Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB - Trial)
- CPU Temperature Sensing
- Chassis Temperature Sensing
- CPU/Chassis/Power Fan Tachometer
- CPU Quiet Fan
- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore
- Microsoft®Windows®7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit
/ XP / XP 64-bit compliant
- FCC, CE, WHQL
- EuP Ready (EuP ready power supply is required)
- Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
- 2 x SATA Data Cables (Optional)
Unique Feature - ASRock OC Tuner
- Intelligent Energy Saver
- Instant Boot
- ASRock Instant Flash
- ASRock OC DNA
- Hybrid Booster:
- CPU Frequency Stepless Control
- ASRock U-COP
- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)
Featuring the
Intel®P43 Express Chipset

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Intel®P43+ ICH10 Chipsets
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DDR2 / DDR3
DDR2 / DDR3
Combo DesignCombo Design
DDR2 1200 (OC) / DDR3 1600 (OC)
DDR2 vs DDR3 Memory Performance Comparison
EuP Ready Motherboard EuP Ready Power Supply EuP System
What is EuP?
EuP, stands for Energy Using Product, was a provision regulated by European Union to define the power
consumption for the completed system. With the great quantity and the popularly using of the electrical products
nowadays and the continuously increasing of the electrical products categories in the following 20 to 30 years,
European Union decided to establish an effective strategy to solve the energy consumption problem. That is,
according to EuP, the total AC power of the completed system shall be under 1.00W in off mode condition.
With DDR3, memory bandwidth
boost up more than 10.8%
With DDR3, memory bandwidth
boost up more than 10.8%

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OC DNA
Save your OC settings as a profile and share with
friends. Try OC DNA now!
OC DNA Instruction
Step 1 Step 2
Step 3 Step 4
Save your BIOS OC settings as User Default in BIOS OC
Tweaker menu. (For example: we name this User Default setting
as “CPU_OC3.8GHz”)
Press “Save” button to save the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” OC settings as
a profile.
Execute ASRock OC DNA under OS, you will find
“CPU_OC3.8GHz” as User Profile 1.
Send the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile to other friends.
Step 5 Step 6
When the friend receives your “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile, he can
press “Load” to load the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile in OC DNA.
After that, the friend can enter into BIOS OC Tweaker menu to
load the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile as his BIOS OC settings.
Now, you have successfully share your OC setting profile with your friends.
P43C-ME
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*The OC DNA works only when users use the same motherboard and BIOS version.

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ASRock Instant Flash is an exclusive and the most user-
friendly BIOS flash utility developed by ASRock. It is embed-
ded in Flash ROM which is used to update the system BIOS
without having to enter operating systems like MS-DOS or
Windows.
Once executing ASRock Instant Flash, the utility will automatically detect all devices such as USB, hard
disk or even floppy drive to find the exact BIOS for your system. Instead of giving you all BIOS in your
devices, the Instant Flash just list BIOS versions that apply to your motherboard model only. For
example, if you have many different BIOS of different motherboards saved in your devices, but you just
need to flash your P45 motherboard, the Instant Flash will just list the P45 BIOS versions for you. This
unique function allows you to easily select the suitable BIOS version instead of browsing through all data.
Features
ASRock Instant Flash
Instant Flash just list
BIOS versions that
apply to your
motherboard model.
Click and start
Flashing!
Simple!Simple! Quick!Quick!
ASRock Instant Boot
ASRock Instant Boot is a new feature invented exclusively by ASRock.
It can boot up system in an amazing speed,
which is 10 times faster than traditional boot up. For home users or office
PC users, ASRock Instant Boot can also
guarantee a clean Windows OS, and consumed less power! For details:
http://www.asrock.com/feature/InstantBoot/index.asp
10 Times Faster, Only 4 Secs to Boot Up to Windows!
ASRock YouTube
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=BucIjXZVxXo
* This function is applicable ONLY to single user that does not secure ID and Password to their
systems.
* The boot up time depends on the hardware configuration.

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CyberLink Power2Go 6.1 LE OEM
Power2Go 6 lets you burn and backup videos, photos, music and data onto Blu-ray
Discs and DVDs.
CyberLink MediaShow 4.1 SE OEM
Photo and video management software MediaShow edits videos and photos
instantly, creates slideshow, and allows publishing directly to YouTube and Flickr.
CyberLink PowerDVD 8.0 DTS Trial
World-renowned PowerDVD 8 DTS delivers outstanding DVD movie playback quality
on your PC.
CyberLink PowerDirector 8.0 Trial
PowerDirector - Video Editing software – edits high-definition videos including
AVCHD, allows output to PSP iPod and Blu-ray Disc.
CyberLink PowerBackup 2.5 Trial
PowerBackup backups valuable data on your PC.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Trial
The Sound Blaster X-Fi MB solution provides premium audio quality, effects and
features for PC systems equipped with onboard audio.
For gamers, the EAX®ADVANCED HD 4.0, with its state-of-the-art Multi-Environment
rendering and reverb modelling, delivers a much more realistic and immersive 3D
gaming experience than your motherboard audio ever will.