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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION.............................................................................. iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF P43 EXPRESS AND ICH10 MOTHERBOARDS
1-1 FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................................................... 1
1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD.................................................... 2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.................................................................................................................. 3
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST........................................................................................................ 4
1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM........................................................................................................... 5
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS.............................................................................7
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING.................................................. 7
2-3 INSTALL CPU....................................................................................................................... 8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY............................................................................................................. 8
2-3-2
ABOUT INTEL LGA775 CPU............................................................................ 9
2-3-3 LGA 775 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE............................................................. 10
2-3-4 INTEL REFERENCE THERMAL SOLUTION ASSEMBLY........................... 11
2-4 INSTALLING MEMORY.................................................................................................... 12
2-5 EXPANSION CARD............................................................................................................. 13
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION............................ 13
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD......................................................13
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.............................................................................................. 14
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS................................................................................................ 15
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 15
2-6-2 HEADERS ...............................................................................................................18
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 21
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP.............................................................................................................. 22
3-2 GETTING HELP................................................................................................................... 22
3-3 THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 23
3-4 STANDARD BIOS FEATURES...........................................................................................24
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 25
3-5-1
CPU FEATURES................................................................................................... 26
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.................................................................................. 26
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS......................................................................................... 26
3-7-1 ONBOARD SATA DEVICE.................................................................................27
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION.......................................................................27
3-7-3 SUPER IO FUNCTION.........................................................................................28
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP..................................................................................... 28
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION............................................................................................... 29
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.......................................................................................................... 29
3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATION ...................................................................... 30
3-11 Miscellaneous Control.......................................................................................................... 30
3-12 PASSWORD SETTING....................................................................................................... 31
3-13 LOAD STANDARD /OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS.............................................................. 32
3-14 SAVE CHNGES AND EXIT/DISCARD AND EXIT ........................................................ 32
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
4-1 INF: INSTALL INTEL INF CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER.............................................35
4-2 LAN: GIGABIT ETHERNET LAN DRIVER....................................................................36
4-3 SOUND: INSTALL ALC883 HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER...........................................37
4-4 AHCI: INSTALL INTEL AHCI DRIVER..........................................................................38
4-5 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS.....................................................................................................39
4-6 G.P.I FUNCTION LED DISPLAY ....................................................................................... 40