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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................iii
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION OF P43 EXPRESS AND ICH10 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 INSTALL CPU....................................................................................................................... 8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY............................................................................................................. 8
2-3-2
ABOUT INTEL LGA775 CPU
............................................................................ 9
2-3-3 LGA 775 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE............................................................. 10
2-3-4 INTEL REFERENCE THERMAL SOLUTION ASSEMBLY ........................... 11
2-4 INSTALLING MEMORY .................................................................................................... 12
2-5 EXPANSION CARD ............................................................................................................. 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
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS................................................................................................ 15
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 15
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 18
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 21
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 22
3-2 GETTING HELP................................................................................................................... 22
3-3 THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 23
3-4 STANDARD BIOS FEATURES........................................................................................... 24
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 25
3-5-1
CPU FEATURES
................................................................................................... 26
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.................................................................................. 26
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 26
3-7-1 ONBOARD SATA DEVICE................................................................................. 27
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION....................................................................... 27
3-7-3 SUPER IO FUNCTION......................................................................................... 28
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 28
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION............................................................................................... 29
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.......................................................................................................... 29
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATION ...................................................................... 30
3-11 Miscellaneous Control.......................................................................................................... 30
3-12 PASSWORD SETTING....................................................................................................... 31
3-13 LOAD STANDARD /OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS.............................................................. 32
3-14 SAVE CHNGES AND EXIT/DISCARD AND EXIT ........................................................ 32
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
4-1 INF: INSTALL INTEL INF CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER............................................. 35
4-2 LAN: GIGABIT ETHERNET LAN DRIVER.................................................................... 36
4-3 SOUND: INSTALL ALC883 HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER......................................... ..37
4-4 AHCI: INSTALL INTEL AHCI DRIVER.......................................................................... 38
4-5 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 39
4-6 G.P.I FUNCTION LED DISPLAY ....................................................................................... 40
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