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ENVIROMENTAL SAFETY INSTRUCTION................................................................iii
USER’S NOTICE .........................................................................................................iv
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION.........................................................................iv
COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................iv
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION OF H55 EXPRESS CHIPSET MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD .............................................................................1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD...............................................2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.........................................................................................................3
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST................................................................................................4
1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM....................................................................................................5
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS.......................................................................7
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING................................................7
2-3 INSTALLING CPU.......................................................................................................8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY...................................................................................................8
2-3-2
ABOUT INTEL LGA 1156 CPU SOCKET.................................................9
2-3-3 LGA 1156 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE......................................................10
2-3-4 INTEL REFERENCE THERMAL SOLUTION ASSEMBLY..........................11
2-4 INSTALLING MEMORY..............................................................................................12
2-5 EXPANSION CARDS..................................................................................................13
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION..........................13
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................................13
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.....................................................................................14
2-5-4 INSTALLING THE CROSSFIRE BRIDGE CARD.........................................14
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS........................................................................................15
2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................15
2-6-2 HEADERS .....................................................................................................18
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ...........................................................................22
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .....................................................................................................23
3-2 GETTING HELP ..........................................................................................................23
3-3 THE MAIN MENU........................................................................................................24
3-4 STANDARD BIOS FEATURES ..................................................................................25
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES..................................................................................26
3-5-1 CPU FEATURES ...........................................................................................27
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES ...........................................................................28
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...................................................................................29
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP...............................................................................30
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL...................................................................................31
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.................................................................................................31
3-11 USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS................................................................................32
3-12 PASSWORD SETTINGS.............................................................................................33
3-13 LOAD OPTIMAL DEFAULTS/LOAD STANDARD DEFAULTS ................................34
3-14 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/ DISCARD CHANGES AND EXIT................................34
CHAPTER 4 Driver Installation
MAGIC INSTALL Supports WINDOWS XP/ Vista/ 7 .........................................................35
4-1 INF: Install Intel INF Chipset System Driver............................................................36
4-2 IMSS: Install Intel IMSS Chipset System Driver......................................................37
4-3 VGA: Install VGA Driver ............................................................................................38
4-4 LAN: Gigabit Ethernet LAN Driver............................................................................39
4-5 SOUND: Install Audio Codec Driver ........................................................................40
4-6 AHCI: Install Intel AHCI Driver..................................................................................41
4-7 User's Manual .............................................................................................................42
4-8 How to Update BIOS..................................................................................................42
4-9 G.P.I. Function LED Display .....................................................................................43
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