ii
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 MOTHERBO ARD...............................................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 INSTALLING CPU.......................................................................................................10
2-3-1 GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................10
2-3-2
ABOUT INTEL LGA 1156 CPU SOCKET
.................................................10
2-3-3 LGA 1156 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE ......................................................11
2-3-4 INTEL REFERENCE THERMAL SOLUTION ASSEMBLY..........................12
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY ....................................................................................................13
2-5 EXPANSION CARDS..................................................................................................14
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION C ARD INSTALLATION..........................14
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION C ARD.................................................14
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.....................................................................................15
2-5-4 INSTALLING THE CROSSFIRE/SLI BRIDGE CARD ..................................16
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS........................................................................................17
2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................17
2-6-2 HEADERS .....................................................................................................20
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ...........................................................................23
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP..................................................................................................... 24
3-2 GETTING HELP.......................................................................................................... 24
3-3 THE MAIN MENU........................................................................................................25
3-4 STANDARD BIOS FEATURES ..................................................................................26
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.................................................................................. 27
3-5-1 CPU FEATURES ...........................................................................................28
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES ...........................................................................29
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...................................................................................30
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP...............................................................................31
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL...................................................................................32
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.................................................................................................32
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATION ...............................................................33
3-11 USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS................................................................................33
3-12 PASSWORD SETTINGS.............................................................................................35
3-13 LOAD OPTIMAL DEFAULTS/LOAD STANDARD DEFAULTS ................................35
3-14 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/ DISCARD CHANGES AND EXIT................................ 36
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGR AM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS XP/VISTA/7 .....................................................37
4-1 INF INSTALL INTELH55 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER ..................................38
4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER............................................39
4-3 REALTEK INSTALL REALTEK GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER............... 40
4-4 NORTON INSTALL NORTON INT ERNET SECURITY 2010.................................. 41
4-5 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD H ARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY.................. 41
4-6 VGA INSTALL INTEL HD VG A DRIVER............................................................42
4-7 DOTNET INSTALL DOTNET....................................................................................43
4-8 IMSS INSTALL IMSS .......................................................................................... 43
4-9 AHCI/RAID INSTALL INTEL AHCI /RAID DRIVER ...............................................44
4-10 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ............................................................................................45
4-11 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION..................................................... 45
4-12 G.P.I.FUNCTION LED DISPLAY ................................................................................47