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SAFETY ENVIROMENTAL INSTRUCTION ....................................................................iii
USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................iv
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................iv
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................iv
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION OF X58 EXPRESS AND ICH10R MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD .................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.................................................................................................................. 4
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................................ 5
1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM ........................................................................................................... 6
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS............................................................................. 8
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING .................................................. 8
2-3 INSTALL CPU....................................................................................................................... 9
2-3-1 GLOSSARY............................................................................................................. 9
2-3-2
ABOUT INTEL LGA 1366CPU
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2-3-3 LGA 1366 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE........................................................... 11
2-3-4 INTEL REFERENCE THERMAL SOLUTION ASSEMBLY........................... 13
2-4 INSTALLING MEMORY .................................................................................................... 14
2-5 EXPANSION CARDS ........................................................................................................... 15
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION............................ 15
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD...................................................... 15
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.............................................................................................. 16
2-5-4 INSTALLING THE CROSSFIRE BRIDGE CARD ............................................ 17
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS................................................................................................ 19
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 19
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 22
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 25
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 26
3-2 GETTING HELP................................................................................................................... 26
3-3 THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 27
3-4 STANDARD BIOS FEATURES........................................................................................... 28
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 29
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.................................................................................. 30
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 30
3-7-1 ONBOARD SATA DEVICE .................................................................................. 30
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE CONTROL......................................................................... 31
3-7-3 SUPER IO CONFIGURATION ............................................................................ 31
3-7-4 USB CONFIGURATION ....................................................................................... 33
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT FEATURES ............................................................................. 33
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL ......................................................................................... 34
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.......................................................................................................... 35
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATION .................................................................... 35
3-11 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING......................................................................... 36
3-12 BIOS SECURITY FEATURES............................................................................................ 36
3-13 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS/LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS............................... 37
3-14 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/ DISCARD AND EXIT ....................................................... 37
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 2000/XP ................................................................ 38
4-1 INF INSTALL INTELX58 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER.................................... 39
4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC 888 HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER....................................... 40
4-3 LAN INSTALL REALTEK GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER....................... 41
4-4 RAID INSTALL JMICRON RAID DRIVER............................................................ 41
4-5 NORTON INSTALL NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2009.................................... 42
4-6 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 43
4-7 RAID DISK INSTALL JMICRON RAID DISK.......................................................... 43
4-8 AHCI INSTALL INTEL AHCI DRIVER ...................................................................... 44
4-9 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 45
4-10 INTEL PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INTRODUCTION ........................................... 45
4-11 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION........................................................ 47
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