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970DE3/U3S3

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Version 1.0
Published March 2012
Copyright©2012 ASRock INC. All rights reserved.
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  • Page 1: User Manual

    970DE3/U3S3 User Manual Version 1.0 Published March 2012 Copyright©2012 ASRock INC. All rights reserved.

  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    fi tness for a particular purpose. In no event shall ASRock, its directors, offi cers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages (including damages for loss of profi...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1. Introduction ..............5 Package Contents ..............5 Specifi cations ................6 Motherboard Layout ..............12 I/O Panel .................. 13 2. Installation ..............14 Pre-installation Precautions ..............14 CPU Installation ................. 15 Installation of CPU Fan and Heatsink ........15 Installation of Memory Modules (DIMM) ........
  • Page 4 3. BIOS SETUP UTILITY ............32 Introduction ................32 3.1.1 BIOS Menu Bar ............... 32 3.1.2 Navigation Keys ............... 33 Main Screen ................33 OC Tweaker Screen..............34 Advanced Screen ..............38 3.4.1 CPU Confi guration ............39 3.4.2 Chipset Confi guration ............40 3.4.3 ACPI Confi...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    In case any modifi cations of this manual occur, the updated ver- sion will be available on ASRock website without further notice. You may fi nd the latest VGA cards and CPU support lists on ASRock website as well. ASRock website http://www.asrock.com...

  • Page 6: Specifi Cations

    1.2 Specifications Platform - ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 7.5-in, 30.5 cm x 19.1 cm - All Solid Capacitor design - Support for Socket AM3+ processors - Support for Socket AM3 processors: AMD Phenom II X6 / X4 / X3 / X2 (except 920 / 940) / Athlon II X4 / X3 / X2 / Sempron processors - Supports 8-Core CPU - Digi Power Design...
  • Page 7 ASRock MAGIX Multimedia Suite - OEM Unique Feature - ASRock OC Tuner (see CAUTION 5) - ASRock Intelligent Energy Saver (see CAUTION 6) - ASRock Instant Boot - ASRock Instant Flash (see CAUTION 7) - ASRock OC DNA (see CAUTION 8)
  • Page 8 - FCC, CE, WHQL - ErP/EuP Ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required) (see CAUTION 16) * For detailed product information, please visit our website: http://www.asrock.com WARNING Please realize that there is a certain risk involved with overclocking, including adjusting the setting in the BIOS, applying Untied Overclocking Technology, or using the third-party over- clocking tools.
  • Page 9 Please visit our website for the operation procedures of Intelligent Energy Saver. ASRock website: http://www.asrock.com ASRock Instant Flash is a BIOS fl ash utility embedded in Flash ROM. This convenient BIOS update tool allows you to update system BIOS ®...
  • Page 10 - ASRock APP Charger. Simply installing the APP Charger driver, it makes your iPhone charged much quickly from your computer and up to 40% faster than before. ASRock APP Charger allows you to quickly charge many Apple devices simultaneously and even supports continuous charging when your PC enters into Standby mode (S1), Sus- pend to RAM (S3), hibernation mode (S4) or power off (S5).
  • Page 11 14. Although this motherboard offers stepless control, it is not recommended to perform over-clocking. Frequencies other than the recommended CPU bus frequencies may cause the instability of the system or damage the CPU. 15. While CPU overheat is detected, the system will automatically shutdown. Before you resume the system, please check if the CPU fan on the moth- erboard functions properly and unplug the power cord, then plug it back again.

  • Page 12: Motherboard Layout

    B: USB3 USB 3.0 T: USB0 B: USB1 USB 2.0 Top: T: USB0 RJ-45 B: USB1 CMOS BATTERY Chipset USB 3.0 CLRCMOS1 970DE3/U3S3 PCIE1 SATA3_2(PORT 7) PCIE2 SATA3_1(PORT 6) Fast RAM Fast USB PCIE3 Fast LAN CHA_FAN1 PCIE4 SB710 RoHS Chipset...

  • Page 13: I/O Panel

    1.4 I/O Panel PS/2 Mouse Port (Green) USB 2.0 Ports (USB01) LAN RJ-45 Port USB 3.0 Port (USB01) Line In (Light Blue) USB 2.0 Ports (USB23) ** 4 Front Speaker (Lime) Serial Port: COM1 Microphone (Pink) PS/2 Keyboard Port (Purple) * There are two LED next to the LAN port.

  • Page 14: Installation

    2. Installation This is an ATX form factor (12.0-in x 7.5-in, 30.5 cm x 19.1 cm) motherboard. Before you install the motherboard, study the confi guration of your chassis to ensure that the motherboard fi ts into it. Pre-installation Precautions Take note of the following precautions before you install motherboard components or change any motherboard settings.

  • Page 15: Cpu Installation

    2.1 CPU Installation Step 1. Unlock the socket by lifting the lever up to a 90 angle. Step 2. Position the CPU directly above the socket such that the CPU corner with the golden triangle matches the socket corner with a small triangle. Step 3.

  • Page 16: Installation Of Memory Modules (Dimm)

    2.3 Installation of Memory Modules (DIMM) This motherboard provides four 240-pin DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3) DIMM slots, and supports Dual Channel Memory Technology. For dual channel confi guration, you always need to install identical (the same brand, speed, size and chip-type) DDR3 DIMM pair in the slots.

  • Page 17: Installing A Dimm

    Installing a DIMM Please make sure to disconnect power supply before adding or removing DIMMs or the system components. Step 1. Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the retaining clips outward. Step 2. Align a DIMM on the slot such that the notch on the DIMM matches the break on the slot.

  • Page 18: Expansion Slots (Pci And Pci Express Slots)

    2.4 Expansion Slots (PCI and PCI Express Slots) There are 2 PCI slots and 4 PCI Express slots on this motherboard. PCI Slots: PCI slots are used to install expansion cards that have the 32-bit PCI interface. PCIE Slots: PCIE1 / PCIE2 / PCIE4 (PCIE x1 slot; Black) is used for PCI Express cards with x1 lane width cards, such as Gigabit LAN card and SATA2 card.

  • Page 19: Jumpers Setup

    2.5 Jumpers Setup The illustration shows how jumpers are setup. When the jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Short”. If no jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Open”. The illustration shows a 3-pin jumper whose pin1 and pin2 are “Short”...

  • Page 20: Onboard Headers And Connectors

    2.6 Onboard Headers and Connectors Onboard headers and connectors are NOT jumpers. Do NOT place jumper caps over these headers and connectors. Placing jumper caps over the headers and connectors will cause permanent damage of the motherboard! FDD connector (33-pin FLOPPY1) (see p.12 No.
  • Page 21 Serial ATA (SATA) Either end of the SATA data Data Cable cable can be connected to the SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 hard (Optional) disk or the SATA3 connector on this motherboard. USB 2.0 Headers Besides four default USB 2.0 ports on the I/O panel, there (9-pin USB4_5) are three USB 2.0 headers on...
  • Page 22 1. High Defi nition Audio supports Jack Sensing, but the panel wire on the chassis must support HDA to function correctly. Please follow the instruction in our manual and chassis manual to install your system. 2. If you use AC’97 audio panel, please install it to the front panel audio header as below: A.
  • Page 23 The front panel design may differ by chassis. A front panel module mainly consists of power switch, reset switch, power LED, hard drive activity LED, speaker and etc. When connecting your chassis front panel module to this header, make sure the wire assignments and the pin assign-ments are matched correctly.
  • Page 24 ATX Power Connector Please connect an ATX power supply to this connector. (24-pin ATXPWR1) (see p.12 No. 10) Though this motherboard provides 24-pin ATX power connector, it can still work if you adopt a traditional 20-pin ATX power supply. To use the 20-pin ATX power supply, please plug your power supply along with Pin 1 and Pin 13.

  • Page 25: Serial Ata2 (Sata2) / Serial Ata3 (Sata3) Hard Disks Installation

    2.7 Serial ATA2 (SATA2) / Serial ATA3 (SATA3) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts AMD SB710 chipset that supports Serial ATA2 (SATA2) hard disks and RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD) functions. It also adopts ASMedia ASM1061 chipset that supports Serial ATA3 (SATA3) hard disks. You may install SATA2 / SATA3 hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices.

  • Page 26: Operation Guide

    3. Please make sure the SATA / SATAII driver is installed into system properly. The latest SATA / SATAII driver is available on our support website: www.asrock.com 4. Make sure to use the SATA power cable & data cable, which are from our motherboard package.

  • Page 27: How To Hot Plug A Sata / Sataii Hdd

    How to Hot Plug a SATA / SATAII HDD: Points of attention, before you process the Hot Plug: Please do follow below instruction sequence to process the Hot Plug, improper procedure will cause the SATA / SATAII HDD damage and data loss. Step 1 Step 2 Please connect SATA power cable 1x4-pin end...

  • Page 28: Driver Installation Guide

    B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATA2 Driver Diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears.

  • Page 29: Installing Windows

    STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID confi guration. Before you start to confi gure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation guide in the Support CD for proper confi guration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD: ..

  • Page 30: 64-Bit / Vista

    ® 2.12 Installing Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions ® If you want to install Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit / XP / XP 64- bit OS on your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install.

  • Page 31: 64-Bit / Vista

    ® 2.12.2 Installing Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit Without RAID Functions ® If you want to install Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit on your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps. Using SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs with NCQ and Hot Plug functions (AHCI mode) STEP 1: Set up BIOS.

  • Page 32: Bios Setup Utility

    3. BIOS SETUP UTILITY 3.1 Introduction This section explains how to use the BIOS SETUP UTILITY to confi gure your sys- tem. The SPI Memory on the motherboard stores the BIOS SETUP UTILITY. You may run the BIOS SETUP UTILITY when you start up the computer. Please press <F2>...

  • Page 33: Navigation Keys

    Use [Enter], [TAB] System Time [ :00:09] or [SHIFT-TAB] to System Date [Thu 03/01/2012] select a field. BIOS Version : 970DE3/U3S3 P1.00 Use [+] or [-] to : AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight Core Processor Type configure system Time. Processor (64bit) Processor Speed...

  • Page 34: Oc Tweaker Screen

    3.3 OC Tweaker Screen In the OC Tweaker screen, you can set up overclocking features. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main OC Tweaker Advanced H/W Monitor Boot Security Exit EZ Overclocking Overclocking may cause damage to your CPU and Load Optimized CPU OC Setting [Press Enter] motherboard.
  • Page 35 AMD C-State Support This allows you to enable or disable AMD C-State Support. The default value is [Enabled]. Processor Maximum Frequency It will display Processor Maximum Frequency for reference. North Bridge Maximum Frequency It will display North Bridge Maximum Frequency for reference. Processor Maximum Voltage It will display Processor Maximum Voltage for reference.
  • Page 36 HT Bus Width This feature allows you selecting Hyper-Transport bus width. The default value is [Auto]. Memory Confi guration Memory Clock This item can be set by the code using [Auto]. You can set one of the stan- dard values as listed: [400MHz DDR3_800], [533MHz DDR3_1066], [667MHz DDR3_1333] and [800MHz DDR3_1600].
  • Page 37 TRAS Use this item to change TRAS Auto/Manual setting. The default is [Auto]. Command Rate Use this item to change Command Rate Auto/Manual setting. The default is [Auto]. Use this item to change TRC Auto/Manual setting. The default is [Auto]. Use this item to change TWR Auto/Manual setting.

  • Page 38: Advanced Screen

    3.4 Advanced Screen In this section, you may set the confi gurations for the following items: CPU Confi gu- ration, Chipset Confi guration, ACPI Confi guration, Storage Confi guration, PCPPnP Confi guration, Floppy Confi guration, Super IO Confi guration and USB Confi guration. BIOS SETUP UTILITY H/W Monitor Boot...

  • Page 39: Cpu Confi Guration

    3.4.1 CPU Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced CPU Configuration Cool' n' Quiet [Enabled] [Enabled] Secure Virtual Machine Enhanced Halt State(C1E) [Disabled] CPU Thermal Throttle [Auto] Select Screen Select Screen Select Item Select Item Change Option Change Option General Help General Help Load Defaults Load Defaults Save and Exit...

  • Page 40: Chipset Confi Guration

    3.4.2 Chipset Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Chipset Settings Onboard HD Audio [Auto] Front Panel [Auto] Onboard Lan [Enabled] Primary Graphics Adapter [PCI] Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. Onboard HD Audio Select [Auto], [Enabled] or [Disabled] for the onboard HD Audio feature.

  • Page 41: Acpi Confi Guration

    3.4.3 ACPI Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced ACPI Settings Select auto-detect or disable the STR feature. Suspend To RAM [Auto] Check Ready Bit [Auto] Away Mode Support [Disabled] Restore on AC / Power Loss [Power Off] [Disabled] Ring-In Power On PCI Devices Power On [Disabled] PS / 2 Keyboard Power On...
  • Page 42 ACPI HPET table Use this item to enable or disable ACPI HPET Table. The default value is [Enabled]. Please set this option to [Enabled] if you plan to use this moth- ® erboard to submit Windows Vista certifi cation.

  • Page 43: Storage Confi Guration

    3.4.4 Storage Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Configure onboard Storage Configuration serial ATA controller. Onboard SATA Controller [Enabled] SATA Operation Mode [AHCI] SATA IDE Combined Mode [Enabled] [AHCI] Onboard SATA3 Operation Mode IDE1 Master [Hard Disk] IDE1 Slave [Not Detected] SATAII_1 [Not Detected] SATAII_2...

  • Page 44: Pcipnp Confi Guration

    3.4.5 PCIPnP Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Value in units of PCI Advanced PCI / PnP Settings clocks for PCI device latency timer [32] PCI Latency Timer register. PCI IDE BusMaster [Enabled] Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit...

  • Page 45: Floppy Confi Guration

    3.4.6 Floppy Configuration In this section, you may confi gure the type of your fl oppy drive. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Floppy Configuration Select the type of floppy drive connected to the [1.44 MB 3 "] Floppy A system. Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help...

  • Page 46: Super Io Confi Guration

    3.4.7 Super IO Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Configure Super IO Chipset Allow BIOS to Enable or Disable Floppy Controller. OnBoard Floppy Controller [Disabled] Serial Port Address [3F8 / IRQ4] Infrared Port Address [Disabled] Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit...

  • Page 47: Usb Confi Guration

    3.4.8 USB Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced USB Configuration To enable or disable the onboard USB controllers. USB Controller [Enabled] USB 2.0 Support [Enabled] Legacy USB Support [Enabled] USB 3.0 Controller [Enabled] [Disabled] USB Keyboard/Remote Power On USB Mouse Power On [Disabled] Select Screen Select Item...

  • Page 48: Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen

    3.5 Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen In this section, it allows you to monitor the status of the hardware on your system, including the parameters of the CPU temperature, motherboard temperature, CPU fan speed, chassis fan speed, and the critical voltage. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main OC Tweaker...

  • Page 49: Boot Screen

    3.6 Boot Screen In this section, it will display the available devices on your system for you to confi g- ure the boot settings and the boot priority. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main OC Tweaker Advanced H/W Monitor Boot Security Exit Boot Settings Configure Settings during System Boot.

  • Page 50: Security Screen

    3.7 Security Screen In this section, you may set or change the supervisor/user password for the system. For the user password, you may also clear it. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Security Main OC Tweaker Advanced H/W Monitor Boot Exit Security Settings Install or Change the password.

  • Page 51: Exit Screen

    3.8 Exit Screen BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main OC Tweaker Advanced H/W Monitor Boot Security Exit Exit Options Exit system setup after saving the Save Changes and Exit changes. Discard Changes and Exit Discard Changes F10 key can be used for this operation. Load BIOS Defaults Load Performance Setup Default Load Power Saving Setup Default...

  • Page 52: Software Support

    Click on a specifi c item then follow the installation wizard to install it. 4.2.4 Contact Information If you need to contact ASRock or want to know more about ASRock, welcome to visit ASRock’s website at http://www.asrock.com; or you may contact your...

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