Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset
April 2007 Development Kit User’s Manual
Order Number: 317230-001US 7
About This Manual—Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset
1.0 About This Manual
This user’s manual describes the use of the Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset
Development Kit. This manual has been written for OEMs, system evaluators, and
embedded system developers. This document defines all jumpers, headers, LED
functions, and their locations on the board, along with subsystem features and POST
codes. This manual assumes basic familiarity in the fundamental concepts involved
with installing and configuring hardware for a personal computer system.
For the latest information about the Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset
Development Kit reference platform, visit:
http://developer.intel.com/design/intarch/devkits/index.htm
For design documents related to this platform, such as schematics and bill of materials,
please contact your Intel Representative.

1.1 Content Overview

Chapter 1.0, “About This Manual” — This chapter contains a description of conventions
used in this manual. The last few sections explain how to obtain literature and contact
customer support.
Chapter 2.0, “Getting Started”— Provides complete instructions on how to configure
the evaluation board and processor assembly by setting jumpers, connecting
peripherals, providing power, and configuring the BIOS.
Chapter 3.0, “Theory of Operation” — This chapter provides information on the system
design.
Chapter 4.0, “Hardware Reference”— This chapter provides a description of jumper
settings and functions, board debug capabilities, and pinout information for connectors.
Appendix A, “Heat Sink Installation Instructions” gives detailed installation instructions
for the Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset heat sink.

1.2 Text Conventions

The following notations may be used throughout this manual.
# The pound symbol (#) appended to a signal name indicates that
the signal is active low.
Variables Variables are shown in italics. Variables must be replaced with
correct values.
Instructions Instruction mnemonics are shown in uppercase. When you are
programming, instructions are not case-sensitive. You may use
either uppercase or lowercase.
Numbers Hexadecimal numbers are represented by a string of
hexadecimal digits followed by the character H. A zero prefix is