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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF P45 EXPRESS AND ICH10 MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.................................................................................................................. 4
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................................ 5
1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM ........................................................................................................... 6
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 INTEL LGA775 CPU............................................................................ 10
2-3-3 LGA 775 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE............................................................. 11
2-4 INSTALLING MEMORY .................................................................................................... 20
2-5 EXPANSION CARD ............................................................................................................. 21
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION............................ 21
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD...................................................... 21
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.............................................................................................. 22
2-5-4 INSTALLING THE CROSSFIRE BRIDGE CARD............................................ 22
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS................................................................................................ 24
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 24
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 27
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 31
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP.............................................................................................................. 32
3-2 GETTING HELP................................................................................................................... 32
3-3 THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 33
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES........................................................................................ 34
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 35
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.................................................................................. 36
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS......................................................................................... 37
3-7-1 ONBOARD SATA FUNCTION............................................................................. 37
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION........................................................................ 38
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION..................................................................... 39
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 40
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL ......................................................................................... 41
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.......................................................................................................... 42
3-11 THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS............................................................................. 42
3-12 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING......................................................................... 43
3-12-1 CPU FEATURE................................................................................................... 44
3-12-2 DRAM TIMING SETTING................................................................................ 44
3-13 PASSWORD SETTING........................................................................................................ 44
3-14 LOAD STANDARD /OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS.............................................................. 45
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 2000/XP ................................................................ 46
4-1 INF INSTALL INTELP45 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER.................................... 47
4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC888 HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER........................................ 48
4-3 LAN INSTALL REALTEK GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER....................... 49
4-4 USB2.0 INSTALL INTELUSB 2.0 DRIVER................................................................ 49
4-5 RAID INSTALL JMICRON RAID DRIVER............................................................ 50
4-6 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2007 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM......................... 51
4-7 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 52
4-8 RAID DISK INSTALL JMICRON X32 RAID DISK.................................................. 53
4-9 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 53
4-10 INTEL PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INTRODUCTION........................................... 53
4-11 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION........................................................ 55
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