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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION..............................................................................ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................ii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF 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......................................6
2-3 INSTALL CPU ..........................................................................................................8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................8
2-3-2 ABOUT INTEL PENTIUM 4 478-PIN CPU ..............................................9
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY ...............................................................................................10
2-5 EXPANSION CARD.................................................................................................11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION..................11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD............................................11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD..........12
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS....................................................................................12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS.............................................................................................12
2-6-2 HEADERS......................................................................................................15
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER.....................................................................17
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP..................................................................................................18
3-2 GETTING HELP.......................................................................................................18
3-3 THE MAIN MENU ...................................................................................................19
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES............................................................................20
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES .............................................................................21
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES .....................................................................23
3-6-1 DRAM TIMING SETTINGS.......................................................................24
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS.............................................................................25
3-7-1 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION......................................................................26
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION..............................................................27
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION ..........................................................28
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP.........................................................................29
3-8-1 PM TIMER RELOAD EVENTS.................................................................30
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP ...................................................................30
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES .......................................................................................31
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS............................................................................................32
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL............................................................................33
3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ..................................................34
3-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD..............................................................34
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 98SE/NT4.0/2000/XP.............................35
4-1 INF INSTALL INTEL 845 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER............................36
4-2 VGA INSTALL INTEL 845G VGA DRIVER.................................................36
4-3 SOUND INSTALL ALC AUDIO CODEC DRIVER............................................37
4-4 LAN INSTALL VIA VT6105 PCI 10/100MB FAST ETHERNET DRIVER...38
4-5 PC-HEALTH INTEL 845 PC-HEALTH MONITOR ........................................39
4-6 MBIOS&DX9 INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY AND DIRECTX 9..........40
4-7 IAA INSTALL INTEL APPLICATION ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE.41
4-8 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2004 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM............42
4-9 HOW TO INSTALL USB 2.0 DRIVER..................................................................43
4-10 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND............................................................44
4-11 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS........................................................................................44
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