Intel P45 Series User manual

USER'S MANUAL
Of
Intel P45 Express Chipset
And
Intel ICH10 Chipset
Based
M/B for LGA775 Quad Core Ready
Intel Core Processor Family
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.
NO. G03-HI04 -F
Rev:2.0
Release date: Aug., 2008

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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
TABLE OF CONTENT

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USER’S NOTICE
COPYRIGHT OF THIS MANUAL BELONGS TO THE MANUFACTURER. NO PART OF THIS
MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARES 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 FOR THE UTILIZATION OF P45
EXPRESSINTEL EDITION MOTHER-BOARDS TO MEET THE USER’S REQUIREMENTS. BUT
IT WILL CHANGE, CORRECT AT 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 THE LIKE).
PRODUCTS AND CORPORATE NAMES APPEARING IN THIS MANUAL MAY OR MAY NOT BE
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BENEFIT, WITHOUT INTENT TO INFRINGE.
Manual Revision Information
Reversion Revision History Date
2.0 First Edition Aug, 2008
Item Checklist
5Intel P45 Express and ICH10 chipset based Motherboard
5CD for motherboard utilities
58 in 1 cable package （Optional）
54 in 1 cable package （Optional）
5Intel P45 Express and ICH10 chipset based Motherboard User’s Manual
5Motherboard Quick Installation Guide
5I/O Back Panel Shield
Intel Core Processor Family
Cooling Solutions
As processor technology pushes to faster speeds and higher performance, thermal management
becomes increasingly crucial while building computer systems. Maintaining the proper thermal
environment is the key to reliable, long-term system operation. The overall goal in providing the
proper thermal environment is keeping the processor below its specified maximum case temperature.
Heat sinks induce improved processor heat dissipation through increased surface area and
concentrated airflow from attached fans. In addition, interface materials allow effective transfers of
heat from the processor to the heat sink. For optimum heat transfer, Intel recommends the use of
thermal grease and mounting clips to attach the heat sink to the processor.
When selecting a thermal solution for your system, please refer to the website below for collection of
heat sinks evaluated and recommended by Intel for use with Intel processors. Note, those heat sinks
are recommended for maintaining the specified Maximum T case requirement. In addition, this
collection is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all heat sinks that support Intel processors.

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Chapter 1
Introduction of P45 Express and ICH10 chipset based Motherboards
1-1 Features of Motherboard
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset motherboard series are based on Intel P45 Express chipset
and ICH10 chipsets technology which supports the innovative 45nm and 65nm Quad-Core,
Dual-Core Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo processors, Intel® Pentium Dual Core, Intel®
Celeron Dual Core Conroe processors and Intel® Celeron 400 Conroe-L processors.
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset Based motherboard series deliver the revolutionary levels
of performance enabling vivid, high-definition experiences and multi-tasking responsiveness
from state-of-the-art Intel dual-core and quad-core technologies and AMD CrossFire
Technology through the high bandwidth of dual channel DDR2 800 / 667MHz system
memories which are expandable to 16GB and the next generation PCI Express interface for
the latest graphics cards from both AMD and nVidea. The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset
motherboard series are absolutely the ultimate solution for game enthusiasts and applications,
and it also meets the demanding usage of computing of gaming, multimedia entertainment
and business applications.
The INTEL P45 Express and ICH10 chipset motherboard series are embedded with ICH10
chipset of providing six serial ATA2 interface of 3.0 Gb / s data transfer rate for six serial
ATA devices. More over, the motherboard provides also extra 1 Ultra ATA interface for two
IDE devices of 100 MB / s data transfer rate and two serial ATA interface of 3.0 Gb / s data
transfer rate for two serial ATA devices with JMicron 363 serial ATA RAID controller which
supports RAID 0, 1 functions.
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset Based motherboard provides Gigabit LAN function by
using the Realtek RTL8111C PCI Gigabit LAN which supports 10M / 100M / 1Gbps data
transfer rate. Embedded 8-channel ALC888 HD CODEC is fully compatible with Sound
Blaster Pro®standards that offer you with the home cinema quality and absolutely software
compatibility.
The P45 Express chipset Based motherboard series offer two PCI-Express2.0 x16 graphics slots
(One PCI-Express2.0 x16@16lane graphics slot offers 8 Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each
relative direction which get 7 times of bandwidth more than AGP8X and up to 16Gbyte/sec
concurrent bandwidth at full speed, the other PCI-Express x16@8lane graphics slots deliver
up to 4Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each relative direction .These two graphics slots are
fully compatible with the latest AMD CrossFire Technology in x8lane + x8 lane CrossFire
mode to guarantee the fully operational Bi-GPUs graphics function and avoid the possible
CrossFire installation error. Two PCI Express x1 I/O slots offer 1Gbyte/sec concurrently, over
7 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133Mbye/sec, tackling the most demanding multimedia
tasks nowadays. Three 32-bit PCI slots guarantee the rich connectivity for the I/O of
peripherals.
Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 12 of USB2.0 functional
ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the future

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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 Thermal Throttling/ CPU Smart Fan/ CPU Vcore X-shift/
Debug Port/OC-CON (optional) ／ DIY Clear/Power on Button/Reset Button 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 may cause the failure in system reliability.
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 Thermal Throttling Technology--- (The CPU Overheat Protection Technology)
To prevent the increasing heat from damage of CPU or accidental shutdown while at high
workload, the CPU Thermal Throttling Technology will force CPU to enter partially idle
mode from 87.5% to 12.5% according to preset CPU operating temperature in BIOS (from 40
℃to 90℃). When the system senses the CPU operating temperature reaching the preset
value, the CPU operating bandwidth will be decreased to the preset idle percentage to cool
down the processor. When at throttling mode the beeper sound can be optionally selected to
indicate it is in working.
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 X-Shift--- Shift to Higher Performance
The CPU voltage can be adjusted up by 8 stages for the precisely over-clocking of extra
demanding computing performance.
Debug Port--- The Professional Hardware Diagnosis System
Being bugged of abnormal system failure through the tossed and turned nights no more, the
embedded Hardware Debug Port offers you the real-time visual system healthy for the
demanding usage of computing. No more bugging by unknown system failure and no more
time wasted in the first moment of 24-hour nonstop ping business computing, the embedded
Debug Port will turn you into a well training hardware professional with the seeing system
situation. (The Post Code please refer Appendix)
OC-CON ---High-polymer Solid Electrolysis Aluminum Capacitors (Optional for HI04
series only)

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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.
DIY Clear
The CMOS Button is to facilitate the clear COMS process for power user overclocking
function. The user can easily clear or restore COMS settings by pressing down the button,
without taking trouble to remove the case and locate the jumper for clear CMOS.
Power on Button
You can easily start the computer by pressing down this button for a few seconds, without
troubling yourself to locate the front panel jumpers to find the Power on jumper.
Reset Button
You can easily restart the computer by pressing down this button for a few seconds, without
troubling yourself to locate the front panel jumpers to find the reset jumper.

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1-2 Specification
Spec Description
Design ∗ATX form factor 4 layers PCB size: 30.5x24.5cm
Chipset ∗Intel P45 Express Chipset
∗Intel ICH10 chipset
CPU Socket
LGA775
∗Support 45nm and 65nm Quad-Core, Dual-Core Intel® Core 2
Quad, Core 2 Duo processors, Intel® Pentium Dual Core,
Intel® Celeron Dual Core Conroe processors and Intel®
Celeron 400 Conroe-L processors 775-Land LGA Package
utilizes Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FCLGA) package
processor
∗Support FSB Frequency 1066/1333/1600MHz
Memory Socket
∗DDR2 Module socket x 4，
∗Support 4 pcs DDR2 667 /DDR2 800MHz DDR2 modules
expandable to 16GB.
∗Support Dual channel function
Expansion Slot
∗PCI-Express2.0 x16 slot 2pcs
∗PCI-Express2.0 x1 slot 1pcs
∗32-bit PCI slot x 2pcs
Integrate IDE and
optional Serial ATA2
RAID
∗The Intel ICH10 supports six Serial ATA ports provide 3.0 Gb
/sec data transfer rate.
∗JMB363(Optional) Serial ATA RAID PCI-E controller that
supports PCI Bus Mastering, ATA PIO/DMA and the ULTRA
DMA 66 / 100 functions that deliver the data transfer rate up
to 100 MB/s for 2 IDE Devices; two Serial ATA ports provide
3.0 Gb /sec data transfer rate for two serial ATA devices with
RAID 0, RAID1.
Gigabit LAN
∗Integrated Realtek RTL8111C PCI Gigabit LAN function.
∗Supports Fast Ethernet LAN function provide 10Mb/100Mb/
1Gb /s data transfer rate.
8CH-Audio
∗Realtek ALC888 Azalia 8-channel HD Audio Codec integrated
∗Support 8-channel 3D surround & Positioning Audio
∗Audio driver and utility included
BIOS ∗Award 8MB SPI Flash ROM
Multi I/O
∗PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
∗Floppy disk drive connector x1,Hard disk drive connector x1
∗ESATAx2, DATAx6
∗Coaxial S/PDIF Out connector x1
∗Optical S/PDIF Out connector x1
∗Serial Port headerx1/ Parallel header x1
∗HDMI-SPDIF header x1
∗IR header
∗USB2.0 port x 6 and headers x3
∗RJ45 LAN connector x1
∗Audio connectorx2 (Line-in, Line-out, MIC/ 8CH Audio)

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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
1. Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe E6850 3.0GHz (C1E disable)
2. NEC 1.44M FDD / ASUS 50X CD-ROM
3. Crucial 1G DDR2-1066 X 2 2Gbyte Memory / Team group 1G DDR3-1066 X2 2Gbyte Memory
4. Seagate ST3160811as Barracude 7200.9 SATA2
5. Nvidia Geforce 9600GTS 256M (1024X768X32BIT Color) driver : 175.16
6. Windows XP Professional OS (Service Pack 2), BIOS Load Optimal Default, Bi-Turbo disable.

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1-4 Layout Diagram
USB heade
r
s
PS/2Mouse
(Green)
USB
Power LED ／
Speaker Headers
LGA775 Socket
DDR2 667
/
800 DIMM1,2,3，4
（Yellow, Red）
ATX Power Connecto
r
(Black)
CD Audio In
32-bit PCI Slots (Yellow)
8-CH Azalia Audio Codec
PS2 KB/Mouse Port
CPU FAN
Audio Connector
KB
/
MS Power On Jumpe
r
(JP1)
ATX 12V Power Conn.
RJ45 Over USB Conn.
PCI-E x16 by 16-laneI
(Yellow)
HDMI-SPDIF
RTL8111C Gigabit LAN
Intel ICH10
Chipset
Giga LAN
Serial-ATA2 Connector
(DSATA1, 2, 3)
(Yellow)
IR Header Parallel Header
4-pin PWR Connector
Surround (Gra
y
)
CEN/BASS
(Black)
Surrback
（Orange）
MIC-IN
（Pink）
Line OUT
(Green)
Floppy Connector
Front Panel Audio
USB Power On Jumper (JP2)
USB
Line IN
(
Blue
)
SPDIF-OUT
ATA 100 IDE
Connector (Black)
(IDE)
PCI-E x16 by 4-lane (Yellow)
SYS FAN2
PS/2 Keyboard
（Purple）
SPDIF-OUT2
Coaxial S/PDIFout.
CMOS2
SYS FAN1
SPI-CON
USB
E-SATA (for HI04) over
USB Port
Intel P45 Express
Chipset
PE1
Serial Port Header
8Mbit SPI Flash ROM BIOS
USB Power On Jumper (JP3)
Front Panel Connector
SPDIF-OUT1
CMOS2
ESATA
Optional for
HI04 series
ESATA
Optional fo
r
HI04 series
Optical S/PDIFout.
E-SATA (for HI04) over
USB Port
PCI-E x16 by 8-lane (Light blue) Clear CMOS (JBAT)