Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset —Getting Started

BIOS recovery jumper

Boot Block protection jumper

Support for Serial, IrDA, serial mouse, and keyboard

2.2Included Hardware and Documentation

The following hardware and documentation is included in the development kit:

One Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset board

One Intel® Pentium M® Processor with 2 MB L2 Cache on 90 nm process in the 478 pin Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array (Micro-FCPGA) package (Installed)

One Firmware Hub (FWH) (Installed)

One MCH (915GME) heat sink (Installed)

One Type 2032, socketed 3 V lithium coin cell battery (Installed)

One DDR2 SODIMM (200 Pin)

One CPU thermal solution and CPU back plate (included in kit box – not populated on board)

One hard drive

One cable kit

2.3Software Key Features

The software in the kit was chosen to facilitate development of real-time applications based on the components used in the evaluation board. The driver CD included in the kit contains all of the software drivers necessary for basic system functionality under the following operating systems: Windows* 2000/XP/XP Embedded, and Linux*.

Note: While every care was taken to ensure the latest versions of drivers were provided on the enclosed CD at time of publication, newer revisions may be available. Updated drivers for Intel components can be found at: http://www.intel.com.

For all third-party components, please contact the appropriate vendor for updated drivers.

Note: Software in the kit is provided free by the vendor and is only licensed for evaluation purposes. Refer to the documentation in your evaluation kit for further details on any terms and conditions that may be applicable to the granted licenses. Customers using the tools that work with Microsoft* products must license those products. Any targets created by those tools should also have appropriate licenses. Software included in the kit is subject to change.

Refer to http://developer.intel.com/design/intarch/devkits for details on additional software from other third-party vendors.

2.3.1AMI* BIOS

This development kit ships pre-installed with AMI* BIOS pre-boot firmware from AMI*. AMI* BIOS provides an industry-standard BIOS platform to run most standard operating systems, including Windows* 2000/XP/XP Embedded, Linux*, and others.

The AMI* BIOS Application Kit (available through AMI*) includes complete source code, a reference manual, and a Windows-based expert system, BIOStart*, to enable easy and rapid configuration of customized firmware for your Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset .

Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset

 

Development Kit User’s Manual

April 2007

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Order Number: 317230-001US

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Intel 915GME user manual Included Hardware and Documentation, Software Key Features, 1 AMI* Bios