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USER'S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................iii
1-1
FEATURE 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
2-1
HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS............................................................................. 7
2-2
CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING .................................................. 7
2-3
INSTALL CPU....................................................................................................................... 8
2-3-1
GLOSSARY............................................................................................................. 8
ABOUT AMD Athlon64 940-PIN CPU .............................................................. 9
2-3-2
2-4
INSTALL MEMORY............................................................................................................ 10
2-5
EXPANSION CARD ............................................................................................................. 11
2-5-1
PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ............................ 11
2-5-2
ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD...................................................... 11
2-5-3
INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD.................... 11
2-5-4
PCI-Express SLOT ................................................................................................. 12
2-5-5
SLI BRIDGE FOR NVIDIA SLI TECH. SUPPORTED VGA CARDS............. 13
2-6
CONNECTORS, HEADERS ................................................................................................ 14
2-6-1
CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 14
2-6-2
HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 16
2-7
STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 20
3-1
ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 21
3-2
GETTING HELP ................................................................................................................... 21
3-3
THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 22
3-4
STANDARD CMOS FEATURES ........................................................................................ 23
3-5
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 24
3-6
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES .................................................................................. 26
3-6-1
DRAM CONFIGURATIONS ............................................................................... 27
3-7
INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 28
3-7-1
IDE FUNCTION SETUP ...................................................................................... 28
3-7-2
ONBOARD DEVICE............................................................................................. 29
3-7-3
SUPER IO FUNCTION SETUP........................................................................... 30
3-8
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 31
3-9
MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL........................................................................................ 32
3-9-1
IRQ RESOURCES.................................................................................................. 32
3-10
PC HEALTH STATUS ........................................................................................................ 33
3-11
THERMAL THROTTLING OPTIONS ............................................................................ 33
3-12
POWER USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS ..................................................................... 34
3-13
PASSWORD SETTINGS .................................................................................................... 35
3-14
LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ...................................................................................... 35
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP ....................................... 36
4-1
4-2
4-3
4-4
4-5
PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2006 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ........................... 41
4-6
PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 42
4-8
HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ..................................................................................................... 43
4-9 NFORCE 550 MCP PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INSTALLATION ........................ 45
4-10 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION........................................................ 50
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Debug Port Post Code....................................................................................i1
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INSTALL NFORCE INTEGRATED DRIVER .......................................... 37
INSTALL ALC880E 8-CHANNEL HD AUDIO DRIVER ........................ 38
INSTALL REALTEK GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER.................. 39
INSTALL INTEL USB2.0 DRIVER............................................................. 40
INSTALL MCP55 WINXP RAID DRIVER DISK................................... 42
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