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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................iii
ITEM CHECKLIST ................................................................................................................iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF SIS 741CX CHIPSET MOTHERBOARD
1-1 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD..........................................................................1
1-2 SPECIFICATION .....................................................................................................2
1-3 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING.......................................................3
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS ................................................................5
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING......................................5
2-3 GLOSSARY...............................................................................................................7
2-3-1 SETTING CPU BUS CLOCK & MEMORY CLOCK JUMPER.............8
2-3-2 OVER CLOCK RUNNING ..........................................................................8
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY................................................................................................9
2-5 EXPANSION CARDS...............................................................................................10
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ..................10
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD ............................................10
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD..........11
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS....................................................................................12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................12
2-6-2 HEADERS......................................................................................................14
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER.....................................................................20
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP..................................................................................................21
3-2 GETTING HELP.......................................................................................................21
3-3 THE MAIN MENU ...................................................................................................22
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES............................................................................23
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES..............................................................................24
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES......................................................................25
3-6-1 DRAM TIMING SETTING..........................................................................26
3-6-2 AGP TIMING SETTINGS............................................................................27
3-6-3 PCI TIMING SETTINGS.............................................................................27
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS.............................................................................28
3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION...........................................................................28
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION...................................................................29
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION...........................................................30
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP.........................................................................31
3-8-1 WAKE UP EVENTS......................................................................................32
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP....................................................................33
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS............................................................................................34
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL............................................................................34
3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS...................................................35
3-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ..............................................................35
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 95/98/98SE/NT4.0/2000..........................36
4-1 AGPXD INSTALL SiS AGPXD DRIVER.......................................................37
4-2 IDE INSTALL SiS MINI IDEDRIVER ....................................................38
4-3 VGA INSTALL SiS MIRAGE VGA DRIVER ...........................................39
4-4 SOUND INSTALL ALC AC’97 CODEC AUDIO DRIVER............................40
4-5 LAN INSTALL Realtek LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER ..........................41
4-6 USB2.0 INSTALL SiS USB2.0 DEVICE DRIVER.........................................41
4-7 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2006 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM...................42
4-8 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY...........43
4-9 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND............................................................44
4-10 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ........................................................................................44
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