AMD Socket AM2+ Quad Core Processor 790GX - Manual (Page 3)

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USER’S NOTICE..................................................................................................................... iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .............................................................................. iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................ iii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF AMD 790GX 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 & JUMPER SETTING ................................................................... 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 AMD Athlon64 Socket AM2+ CPU..................................................... 9
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY............................................................................................................ 10
2-5 EXPANSION CARDS ........................................................................................................... 11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ............................ 11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQS FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................................... 11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD.................... 11
2-5-4 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT ............................................................................................. 12
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS ............................................................................................... 12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 12
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 16
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 19
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 20
3-2 GETTING HELP ................................................................................................................... 20
3-3 THE
MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 21
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES ........................................................................................ 22
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES .......................................................................................... 23
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES .................................................................................. 25
3-6-1 PCIE CONFIGURATION .................................................................................. 25
3-6-2 IGX CONFIGURATION .................................................................................... 26
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 27
3-7-1 SUPER IO DEVICE .............................................................................................. 27
3-7-2 ONCHIP IDE FUNTION ...................................................................................... 28
3-7-3 ONCHIP PCI DEVICE ......................................................................................... 29
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 30
3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONFIGURATION ......................................................................... 31
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS........................................................................................................ 32
3-11 POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTING........................................................................ 33
3-11-1 CPU FEATURE ....................................................................................................... 36
3-11-2 DRAM CONFIGURATION ................................................................................. 36
3-12 CPU THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS.................................................................... 37
3-13 LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS ........................................................................................ 37
3-14 LOAD OPTIMISED DEFAULTS ...................................................................................... 37
3-15 SET PASSWORD SETTINGS .......................................................................................... 37
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP ....................................... 39
4-1 ATI INSTALL ATI DRIVER PACK ........................................................................... 40
4-2 SOUND INSTALL AL888 HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER .......................................... 40
4-3 LAN INSTALL LAN………………………………………………………………………42
4-4 RAID INSTALL ATI SATA DRIVER AND UTILITY ............................................... 42
4-5 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2007 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ......................... 43
4-6 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 44
4-7 HOW
TO UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 44
4-8 AMD PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INSTALLATION ............................................... 45
4-9 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION........................................................ 48
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