A300 Motherboard
6.6 POWER................................................................................................................... 126
6.7 EXIT....................................................................................................................... 129
7 SOFTWARE DRIVERS....................................................................................... 133
7.1 AVAILABLE SOFTWARE DRIVERS............................................................................ 134
7.2 CHIPSET DRIVER INSTALLATION.............................................................................134
7.3 REALTEK AUDIO DRIVER INSTALLATION............................................................... 138
7.4 INTEL CHIPSET GRAPHICS DRIVER......................................................................... 142
7.5 SATA - ALI RAID DRIVER INSTALLATION............................................................145
7.5.1 Installation Steps During Windows XP Installation.......................................146
7.5.2 Installation Steps under Existing Windows XP.............................................. 147
A BIOS OPTIONS.................................................................................................... 149
B GPIO CONNECTION.......................................................................................... 155
B.1 GPIO SETTINGS AND DEFAULT VALUES................................................................ 156
B.1.1 GPIO Settings................................................................................................ 156
B.1.2 Default Settings .............................................................................................156
B.2 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE SAMPLES...........................................................................157
B.2.1 GPIO Initialization Procedure...................................................................... 157
B.2.2 General Purpose Output Procedure.............................................................. 157
B.2.3 General Purpose Input Procedure.................................................................158
C WATCHDOG TIME R.......................................................................................... 159
D ADDRESS MAPPING.......................................................................................... 163
D.1 ADDRESS MAP ...................................................................................................... 164
D.2 1ST MB MEMORY ADDRESS MAP......................................................................... 164
D.3 IRQ MAPPING TABLE............................................................................................165
D.4 DMA CHANNEL ASSIGNMENTS.............................................................................165
E EXTERNAL AC’97 AUDIO CODEC................................................................. 167
E.1 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 168
E.1.1 Accessing the AC’97 CODEC .......................................................................168
E.1.2 Driver Installation......................................................................................... 168
E.2 SOUND EFFECT CONFIGURATION........................................................................... 168
E.2.1 Accessing the Sound Effects Manager........................................................... 168
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