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USER'S MANUAL G Intel 41 Express and ICH7 Chipset Based M/B for LGA775 Quad Core Ready Intel Core Processor Family Trademark: * Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer.
TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF INTEL G41 MOTHERBOARD SERIES FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD ..................1 1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD ............. 2 SPECIFIC A TION ........................3 ITEM CHECKLIST......................... 4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM ......................4 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION INSTALL INTEL LAG775 SOCKET CPU ................5 INSTALL MEMORY.......................
Chapter 1 Introduction of Intel G41 Motherboard Series Features of Motherboard The G41 Express and ICH7 chipset motherboard series are based on Intel G41 Express chipset and ICH7 chipsets technology which supports the innovative 45nm and 65nm Quad-Core, Dual-Core Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo processors, Intel® Pentium Dual Core, Intel® Celeron Dual Core Conroe processors and Intel®...
read the detailed descriptions of these value added product features, please get them in the coming section. 1-1.1 Special Features of motherboard CPU Thermal Throttling Technology --- (The CPU Overheat Protection Technology) To prevent the increasing heat from damage of CPU or accidental shutdown while at high workload, the CPU Thermal Throttling Technology will force CPU to enter partially idle mode from 87.5% to 12.5% according to preset CPU operating temperature in BIOS (from 40 ℃...
1-3 Item Checklist Intel G41 Express and ICH7 chipset based Motherboard User’s Manual CD for motherboard utilities SATA Cable I/O Back Panel Shield 1-4 Layout Diagram CPU Socket mPGA775 ATX 12V Power Connector CPU FAN PS2 KB/Mouse Port SPDIF-OUT Connector DDRIII HDMI Connector DIMMx2...
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation Turn off your power when installing system components. Failure to do so WARNING! may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and the components. 2-1 Install Intel LGA775 Socket CPU This motherboard provides a 775-pin DIP, LGA775 Land Grid Array socket, referred to as the LGA775 socket supports Intel Pentium 4 processor in the 775 Pin package utilizes Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA) package technology.
Install Memory The motherboards provide two 240-pin DDRIII DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULES (DIMM) slots for DDRIII memory expansion available from minimum memory size of 1GB to maximum memory size of 4GB DDRII SDRAM. Valid Memory Configurations of 2-DIMM Design Motherboard Memory Module 240-Pin DIMM Total Memory...
2-3 Expansion Cards The G41 Express chipset based motherboard series offer one PCI-Express2.0 x16 by 16lane graphics slots which get 7 times of bandwidth more than AGP8X. This graphics slot offers 8 Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each relative direction and up to 16Gbyte/sec concurrent bandwidth at full speed.
Chapter 3 Connectors, Headers & Jumpers Setting 3-1 Connectors (1) Power Connector (24-pinblock): ATXPWR ATX Power Supply connector: This is a new defined 24-pins connector that usually comes with ATX case. The ATX Power Supply allows using soft power on momentary switch that connect from the front panel switch to 2-pins Power On jumper pole on the motherboard.
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This connector is standard RJ-45 connector for Network. connector support 10M/100Mbps/1Gb data transfer rate. Audio Line-In, Lin -Out, MIC, RS-OUT, CS-OUT, SS-OUT Connector : AUDIO These Connectors are 6 Phone-Jack for LINE-OUT, LINE-IN, MIC, RS-OUT, CS-OUT, SS-OUT audio connections. Line-in: (BLUE) Audio input to sound chip Audio output to speaker Line-out: (GREEN)
(10) Serial-ATA Port connector: SATA1~SATA4 These connectors support the provided Serial ATA and Serial ATA2 IDE hard disk cable to connecting the motherboard and serial ATA hard disk. SATA3 SATA4 SATA2 SATA1 Serial-ATA1 & 2 Compatible Connectors 3-2 Headers (1) Line-Out/MIC Header for Front Panel (9-pin): FP_AUDIO These headers connect to Front Panel Line-out, MIC connector with cable.
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(3) Speaker connector: SPEAK This 4-pin connector connects to the case-mounted speaker. See the figure below. (4) Power LED: PWR LED The Power LED is light on while the system power is on. Connect the Power LED from the system case to this pin. (5) IDE Activity LED: HD LED This connector connects to the hard disk activity indicator light on the case.
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(9) CD Audio-In Headers (4-pin): CDIN1 CDIN are the connectors for CD-Audio Input signal. Please connect it to CD-ROM CD-Audio output connector. CDIN CD Audio-In Headers (10) Serial COM Port Header: COM1 COM1 is the 9-pin block pin-header. Pin1 Serial COM Port 9-pin Block (11) Parallel Port header (25-pin): PARALLEL The onboard parallel port header is a 25-pin connector for connecting devices such as old-fashioned printer.
Pin 1 IR infrared module Headers (13) HDMI_SPDIF_Out header: SPDIF_Out The SPDIF output is capable of providing digital audio to external speakers or compressed AC3 data to an external Dolby digital decoder. Use this feature only when your stereo system has digital input function. Some of the VGA Card need connect SPDIF_IN Connector, so its HDMI Port can make sounds.
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(2) USB function Enabled/Disabled: JP2 2-3 Closed USB Power ON Enabled 1-2 Closed USB Power ON Disable (Default) USB Power On Setting (3) CMOS RAM Clear (3-pin): JBAT A battery must be used to retain the motherboard configuration in CMOS RAM short 1-2 pins of JBAT to store the CMOS data.
Chapter 4 Useful Help 4-1 How to Upgrade BIOS STEP 1. Prepare a bootable floppy disk. (You may make one by click START click RUN type SYS A: click OK) STEP 2. Download upgrade tools and the latest BIOS files of the motherboard from official website and then make a copy of it to your bootable floppy disk after decompressing these files STEP 3.
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