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P8F217 series User’s Manual Version 1.3 Date: 7/15/04 P8F217 series User’s Manual...
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Trademark All trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Any question please visit our website at http://www.freetech.com. P8F217 series User’s Manual...
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Hardware P8F217L Motherboard ............Cable Kit 40-pin ATA100 IDE Flat Cable.......... 34-pin Floppy Cable............Dual-USB Port Cable ............DB9 COM Port Cable............Audio Cable.……………………………………………………… I/O Shield………………………………………………………… Printed Matter and Software User’s Manual ..............Driver CD ................P8F217 series User’s Manual...
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FLASH THE BIOS............. 42 BIOS A ............42 LASH ..............42 LASH ETHOD APPENDIX C. SYSTEM RESOURCES..........44 I/O Port Address Map ............. 44 Memory Address Map ............45 System IRQ and DMA Resource .......... 46 ONLINE SERVICES………………………………...……………………...48 P8F217 series User’s Manual...
Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 Interface Intel ICH4 built-in Hi-Speed USB 2.0 controller and onboard IEEE 1394 chipset let P8F217 series offer up to 480 Mbps of Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and 100/200/400 Mbps of IEEE 1394 interfaces. P8F217 series User’s Manual...
One external bi-direction parallel port with SPP/ECP/EPP mode Floppy Port One FDD port supports up to two FDD IrDA Port One IrDA compliant Infrared interface supports CIR/SIR K/B & Mouse External PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports on rear I/O panel P8F217 series User’s Manual...
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S/P DIF digital audio encoding signal input and output Line-in, line-out, CD-in and MIC-in Connector External three phone jack for 5.1 channel audio on rear panel External S/P DIF connector on rear panel Internal 10-pin header for line-in/-out, MIC-out, 4-pin header for CD-in P8F217 series User’s Manual...
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Mini-ITX Socket 478 Pentium 4 Motherboard with Intel Extreme VGA, LAN, TV-out, 5.1-CH/SPDIF Audio, Hi-Speed USB 2.0, IEEE1394 Interface P8F217L Same with P8F217 but support 24-bit dual channel LVDS For further product information please visit the website at http://www.freetech.com P8F217 series User’s Manual...
S/P DIF, Line-in/out, Mic-in Agere FW323 IEEE1394 and CD-in Interface Controller Intel 845GV GMCH Intel 82801DB ICH4 With 400/533 MHz Host Bus With Hi-Speed USB 2.0 200 / 266 /333 MHz Memory UltraATA100 IDE Intel PRO/100+ LAN Mac P8F217 series User’s Manual...
AV TV-out RCA Jack Standard VGA1 VGA DB15 Female Connector Standard LAN RJ45 Connector with LED Standard USRJ1 Dual USB Connector Standard IEEE1394 Connector Standard Audio RCA Connector Standard RJACK2 S/P DIF Digital Audio Connector Standard P8F217 series User’s Manual...
The board’s data of CMOS can be setting in BIOS. If the board refuses to boot due to inappropriate CMOS settings, here is how to proceed to clear (reset) the CMOS to its default values. Jumper: JRTC Type: onboard 3-pin header JRTC Mode Clear CMOS Normal Operation Default setting JRTC P8F217 series User’s Manual...
Embedded Solid State Disk The P8F217 series supports the IDE-based, bootable and driver free DiskOnModule (DOM) embedded flash disk. The onboard 40-pin IDE1 and 44-pin IDE2 box header supports normal DOM (DiskOnModule) or M- systems DiskOnChip IDE Pro flash disk with or without the additional Vcc power cable.
Extreme Graphics with 266 MHz VGA core, 256-bit 3D engine and Intel Dynamic Video Memory up to 64MBytes shared with system memory. The CRT / analog VGA interface includes one external DB15 female connector on bracket on board. P8F217 series User’s Manual...
Ethernet Interface The P8F217 series is integrated with Intel PRO/100+ Fast Ethernet interface at the type of 10Base-T/100Base-TX auto-switching Fast Ethernet with full duplex and IEEE 802.3U compliant. The P8F217 series LAN interface is controlled by the Intel 82801DB ICH4 and 82562ET PHY, and connect with the external RJ45 connector on rear I/O panel.
Audio Interface The P8F217 series offers the AC97 3D audio with 5.1-channel and S/P DIF interface based on Intel ICH4 and Realtek ALC650 codec. JAUDIO CDIN 1 2 3 4 Red: Center / Mic-in Blue: Rear / Line-in Green: Front / Line-out...
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Line Out – Left Line Out – Right Ground Jumper: J2 Type: onboard 3-pin header Mode S/P DIF Output S/P DIF Input Default setting Connector: CDIN Type: 4-pin header Description CD – Left Ground Ground CD – Right P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
2.10 Switch and Indicator JFRNT Connector: JFRNT Type: onboard 14-pin (2 x 7) 2.54-pitch header Function Signal Signal Function Vcc (+) (+) Vcc IDE LED Power Active Reset Reset Speaker Power PWRBT Button SPKIN P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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>Power Management Setup Set User Password >PnP / PCI Configurations Save & Exit Setup >PC Health Status Exit Without Saving ↑ ↓ → ← : Select Item Esc : Quit F10 : Save & Exit Setup P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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Chapter 4 Audio Channel Configuration In order to enable 5.1 channel, please follow the setup steps below: lunch the Control Panel lunch the Sound Effect Manager 3.select Speaker Configuration and choose 6 channel mode for 5.1 speaker output P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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Please setup the display device properly before you boot up the system. For configure your Display device, please follow the instructions below: 1. lunch the display properties. 2. Select settings option and click Advanced Button 3. Select Intel(R) Extreme Graphics and click Graphics properties P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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4. There will be a different device list depends on your connecting devices For Monitor: You can configure the Colors, Screen area (resolution) and Refresh Rate. For Notebook: If you connect a LCD panel though LVDS interface, you can configure the Colors and Screen Area (resolution) here. P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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If you connect the Monitor and LCD panel at the same time, here can let you configure if you want to have a clone dual display function. (Notice: TV-out does not have the ability with dual display.) P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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Connector: VGA Type: 15-pin D-sub female connector on bracket Description Description Description Ground GREEN Ground 5VCDA BLUE Ground HSYNC LVGA5V VSYNC Ground Ground 5VCLK LAN Port Connector: LAN Type: RJ45 connector with LED on bracket Description P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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Get the “.bin” file including the image of new BIOS you want to update. Power on the system and flash the BIOS. Re-star the system. Any question about the BIOS re-flash please contact your distributors or visit our website at below: http://www.freetech.com P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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PC Compatible Eisa/Isa HAL 00C0-00CF PC Compatible Eisa/Isa HAL 00F0-00FF PC Compatible Eisa/Isa HAL 01CE-01CF VgaSavve 01F0-01F7 atapi 02F8-02FE Serial 0378-037A Parport 03B0-03BB VgaSavve 03C0-03DF VgaSavve 03F0-03F5 Floppy 03F6-03F6 atapi 03F7-03F7 Floppy 03F8-03FE Serial E000-E0FF alcxnt E400-E43F alcxnt P8F217 Series User’s Manual...
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