Intel A300 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
A300 Motherboard
6.6 POWER ................................................................................................................... 126
6.7 EXIT....................................................................................................................... 129
7 SOFTWARE DRIVERS....................................................................................... 133
7.1 AVAILABLE SOFTWARE DRIVERS ............................................................................ 134
7.2 CHIPSET DRIVER INSTALLATION............................................................................. 134
7.3 REALTEK AUDIO DRIVER INSTALLATION ............................................................... 138
7.4 INTEL CHIPSET GRAPHICS DRIVER......................................................................... 142
7.5 SATA - ALI RAID DRIVER INSTALLATION ............................................................ 145
7.5.1 Installation Steps During Windows XP Installation....................................... 146
7.5.2 Installation Steps under Existing Windows XP.............................................. 147
A BIOS OPTIONS.................................................................................................... 149
B GPIO CONNECTION.......................................................................................... 155
B.1 GPIO SETTINGS AND DEFAULT VALUES ................................................................ 156
B.1.1 GPIO Settings................................................................................................ 156
B.1.2 Default Settings ............................................................................................. 156
B.2 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE SAMPLES........................................................................... 157
B.2.1 GPIO Initialization Procedure ...................................................................... 157
B.2.2 General Purpose Output Procedure.............................................................. 157
B.2.3 General Purpose Input Procedure................................................................. 158
C WATCHDOG TIMER .......................................................................................... 159
D ADDRESS MAPPING.......................................................................................... 163
D.1 ADDRESS MAP ...................................................................................................... 164
D.2 1ST MB MEMORY ADDRESS MAP ......................................................................... 164
D.3 IRQ MAPPING TABLE............................................................................................ 165
D.4 DMA CHANNEL ASSIGNMENTS............................................................................. 165
E EXTERNAL AC’97 AUDIO CODEC................................................................. 167
E.1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 168
E.1.1 Accessing the AC’97 CODEC ....................................................................... 168
E.1.2 Driver Installation......................................................................................... 168
E.2 SOUND EFFECT CONFIGURATION ........................................................................... 168
E.2.1 Accessing the Sound Effects Manager........................................................... 168
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