Asrock H97M-ITX/ac User Manual

H97M-ITX/ac H97M-ITX/ac

H97M Pro4H97M Pro4

Version 1.1

Published May 2014

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(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and
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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

1.1 Package Contents 1

1.2 Specications 2

1.3 Motherboard Layout 6

1.4 I/O Panel 8

1.5 WiFi-802.11ac Module and ASRock WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antenna 10

Chapter 2 Installation 15

2.1 Installing the CPU 16

2.2 Installing the CPU Fan and Heatsink 19

2.3 Installing Memory Modules (DIMM) 20

2.4 Expansion Slots (PCI Express Slots) 22

2.5 Jumpers Setup 23

2.6 Onboard Headers and Connectors 24

Chapter 3 Software and Utilities Operation 28

3.1 Installing Drivers 28

3.2 A-Tuning 29

3.3 Intel® Rapid Start Technology 35

3.4 Intel® Smart Connect Technology 40

3.5 ASRock APP Shop 44

3.5.1 UI Overview 44

3.5.2 Apps 45

3.5.3 BIOS & Drivers 48

3.5.4 Setting 49

3.6 Start8 50

Chapter 4 UEFI SETUP UTILITY 53

4.1 Introduction 53

4.1.1 UEFI Menu Bar 53

4.1.2 Navigation Keys 54

4.2 Main Screen 55

4.3 OC Tweaker Screen 56

4.4 Advanced Screen 64

4.4.1 CPU Conguration 65

4.4.2 Chipset Conguration 67

4.4.3 Storage Conguration 69

4.4.4 Intel® Rapid Start Technology 71

4.4.5 Intel® Smart Connect Technology 72

4.4.6 Super IO Conguration 73

4.4.7 ACPI Conguration 74

4.4.8 USB Conguration 76

4.4.9 Trusted Computing 78

4.5 Tools 79

4.6 Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen 82

4.7 Boot Screen 83

4.8 Security Screen 86

4.9 Exit Screen 87

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Chapter 1 Introduction

ank you for purchasing ASRock H97M-ITX/ac motherboard, a reliable

motherboard produced under ASRock’s consistently stringent quality control.

It delivers excellent performance with robust design conforming to ASRock’s

commitment to quality and endurance.

In this manual, Chapter 1 and 2 contains the introduction of the motherboard

and step-by-step installation guides. Chapter 3 contains the operation guide of the

soware and utilities. Chapter 4 contains the conguration guide of the BIOS setup.

1.1 Package Contents

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ASRock H97M-ITX/ac Motherboard (Mini-ITX Form Factor)

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ASRock H97M-ITX/ac Quick Installation Guide

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ASRock H97M-ITX/ac Support CD

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2 x Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cables (Optional)

•

1 x I/O Panel Shield

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1 x WiFi-802.11ac Module

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2 x SMA WiFi Antenna Cables

•

2 x ASRock WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antennas

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1 x WiFi Module Bracket

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2 x Screws for WiFi Module

Becau se the motherboard specications and the BIOS soware might be updated, the
content of this manual will be subject to change without notice. In ca se any modica­tions of this manual occur, the updated version will be available on ASRo ck’s website
without furth er notice. If you require technical suppor t related to this motherboard,
please visit our website for spe cic information about the model you are using. You
may nd the l atest VGA cards and CPU suppor t list on ASRock’s website a s well.
ASRock website http://www.asrock.com.

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1.2 Specications

Platform

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Mini-ITX Form Factor

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Solid Capacitor design

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High Density Glass Fabric PCB

CPU

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Supports 5

th

Generation, New 4th and 4th Generation Intel®

Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors (Socket 1150)

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4 Power Phase design

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Supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology

Chipset

•

Intel® H97

Memory

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Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Technolog y

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2 x DDR3 DIMM Slots

•

Supports DDR3 1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buered

memory

•

Max. capacity of system memory: 16GB (see CAUTION)

•

Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Prole (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2

Expansion
Slot

•

1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slot (PCIE1: x16 mode)

•

1 x Vertical Ha lf Mini-PCI Express Slot: For WiFi + BT

Module

Graphics

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Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can

be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated.

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Supports Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel® Quick

Sync Video with AVC, MVC (S3D) and MPEG-2 Full

HW Encode1, Intel® InTru

TM

3D, Intel® Clear Video HD

Technology, Intel® InsiderTM, Intel® HD Graphics 4400/4600

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Pixel Shader 5.0, DirectX 11.1

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Max. shared memory 1792MB

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ree graphics output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI

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Supports Triple Monitor

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Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @

60Hz

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Supports DVI-D with ma x. resolution up to 1920x1200 @

60Hz

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Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @

60Hz

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Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and

HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI Port (Compliant

HDMI monitor is required)

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Supports HDCP with DVI-D and HDMI Ports

•

Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with DVI-D

and HDMI Ports

Audio

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7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892

Audio Codec)

•

Premium Blu-ray Audio support

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Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)

•

ELNA Audio Caps

LAN

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PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s

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Qualcomm® Atheros® AR8171

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Supports Qualcomm® Atheros® Security Wake On Internet

Tech nolo gy

•

Supports Wake-On-LAN

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Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike

Protection)

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Supports Energy Ecient Ethernet 802.3az

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Supports PXE

Wireless
LAN

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Supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac

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Supports Dual-Band (2.4/5 GHz)

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Supports High speed wireless connection up to 433Mbps

•

Supports Bluetooth 4.0 / 3.0 + High speed class II

Rear Panel
I/O

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1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port

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1 x D-Sub Port

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1 x DVI-D Port

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1 x HDMI Port

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1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port

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2 x USB 2.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full

Spike Protection))

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4 x USB 3.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full

Spike Protection))

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1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED

LE D)

•

HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Centra l / Bass / Line in /

Front Speaker / Microphone

Storage

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5 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0,

RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel Rapid Storage Technology

13 and Intel Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and

Hot Plug

Connector

•

1 x Chassis Intrusion Header

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1 x TPM Header

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1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)

•

1 x Chassis Fan Connector (4-pin)

•

1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector

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1 x 4 pin 12V Power Connector

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1 x Front Panel Audio Connector

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1 x USB 2.0 Header (Supports 2 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD

Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))

•

1 x USB 3.0 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) (Supports ESD

Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))

BIOS
Feature

•

64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support

•

ACPI 1.1 Compliant wake up events

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SMBIOS 2.3.1 support

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CPU, DRAM, PCH 1.05V, PCH 1.5V Voltage multi-adjust-

ment

Hardware
Monitor

•

CPU/Chassis temperature sensing

•

CPU/Chassis Tachometer

•

CPU/Chassis Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by

CPU temperature)

•

CPU/Chassis Fan multi-speed control

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CASE OPEN detection

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Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Input Voltage,

CPU Internal Voltages

OS

•

Microso® Windows®

10 64-bit /

8.1 32-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 8 32-

bit / 8 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit

Certica­tions

•

FCC, CE, WHQL

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ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)

* For detailed product information, please visit our website: http://www.asrock.com

Please realiz e that the re is a certain r isk involved with o verclocking, including adjust­ing the setting in the BIOS, applying Untied Ove rclocking Technology, or using third­party o verclocking tools. Overclocking may aect your syste m’s stability, or even cause
damage to the components and dev ices of your system. It should be done at your own
risk and expe nse. We are not responsible for possible damage cau sed by overclocking.

Due to limitation , the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the re servation
for system usage under Windows® 32- bit operating systems. Windows® 64-bit operat­ing systems do not have such limitations. You can use ASRock XFast RAM to utiliz e
the memory that Windows® cannot use.

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1.3 Motherboard Layout

Intel

H97

PCIE1

DDR3_A1 (64 b it , 24 0- pi n mo du le )

DDR3_B1 ( 64 b it , 24 0- pi n mo du le )

HDLED RESE T

PLED PWRBT N

PANEL1

1

1

HD_AUDIO1

CPU_FAN1

USB 2.0
T: USB1
B: USB2

HDMI 1

USB 3.0
T: USB1
B: USB2

Top:
RJ-45

USB 3.0
T: USB3
B: USB4

Top:

CTR BA SS

Cent er:

REAR S PK

Bott om:

Opti cal

SPDI F

Top:

LINE I N

Cent er:

FRON T

Bott om:

MIC IN

4

ATXPWR1

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1

2

CMOS

Batt ery

USB3 _5_6

1

TPMS1

CLRM OS1

USB_3_4

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8

12

14

11

17

10

1

CI1

PS2

Keyb oard

/Mou se

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13

VGA1

DVI1

PCI Express 3.0

1

1

SATA3_1

SATA3_0

SATA3_4

SATA3_3

SATA3_2

MPCIE1

64Mb
BIOS

CHA_FAN1

AUDIO
CODEC

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5

6

Fron t USB 3 .0

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No. Description

1 CPU Fan Connector (CPU_FAN1)

2 ATX 12V Power Connector (ATX12V1)

3 Chassis Fan Connector (CHA_FAN1)

4 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM Slots (DDR3_A1, DDR3_B1)

5 Clear CMOS Jumper (CLRCMOS1)

6 Chassis Intrusion Header (CI1)

7 ATX Power Connector (ATXPWR1)

8 USB 3.0 Header (USB3_5_6)

9 USB 2.0 Header (USB_ 3_4)

10 System Panel Header (PANEL1)

11 SATA3 Connector (SATA3_0)

12 SATA3 Connector (SATA3_1)

13 SATA3 Connector (SATA3_2)

14 SATA3 Connector (SATA3_3)

15 SATA3 Connec tor (SATA3_4)

16 TPM Header (TPMS1)

17 Front Panel Audio Header (HD_AUDIO1)

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1.4 I/O Panel

No. Description No. Description

1 USB 2.0 Ports (USB_1_2) 8 Microphone (Pink)

2 D-Sub Port 9 Optical SPDIF Out Port

3 LAN RJ-45 Port* 10 USB 3.0 Ports (USB3_3_4)

4 Central / Bass (Orange) 11 USB 3.0 Ports (USB3_1_2)

5 Rear Speaker (Black) 12 HDMI Por t

6 Line In (Light Blue) 13 DVI-D Por t

7 Front Speaker (Lime)** 14 PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port

14 101112

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* ere are two LEDs on each LAN port. Please refer to the table below for the LAN port LED indications.

Activity / Link LED Speed LED

Status Description Status Description

O No Link O 10Mbps connection
Blinking Data Activity Orange 100Mbps connection
On Link Green 1Gbps connection

** If you use a 2- channel speaker, plea se connect the speake r’s plug into “Front Spe aker Jack”. See the table below

for connection d etails in accordance w ith the type of speaker you use.

Audio Output

Channels

Front Speaker

(No. 7)

Rear Speaker

(No. 5)

Central / Bass

(No. 4)

Line In

(No. 6)

2 V -- -- --
4 V V -- --
6 V V V --
8 V V V V

ACT/LINK LED

SPEED LED

LAN Por t

To enable Multi-Streaming, you need to connect a front panel audio cable to the front
panel au dio header. Aer re starting your computer, you will nd the “Mixer” tool
on your system. Pl ease select “Mixer ToolBox” , click “Enable playback mu lti­streaming”, and click “ok”. Choose “2CH”, “4CH”, “6CH”, or “8CH” and the n you are
allowe d to sele ct “Realtek HDA Pr imary output ” to use the Rear Speaker, Central/
Bass, and Front Speake r, or select “Realtek HDA Audio 2nd output” to use the front
panel audio.

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1.5 WiFi-802.11ac Module and ASRock WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antenna

WiFi-802.11ac + BT Module

is motherboard comes with an exclusive WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac + BT v4.0

module that oers support for WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac connectivity standards and

Bluetooth v4.0. WiFi + BT module is an easy-to-use wireless loca l area network

(WLAN) adapter to support WiFi + BT. Bluetooth v4.0 standard features Smart

Ready technology that adds a whole new class of functionality into the mobile

devices. BT 4.0 also includes Low Energy Technology and ensures extraordinary

low power consumption for PCs.

* e transmission speed may vary according to the environment.

* e WiFi + BT module is supported under Windows® 8.1 / 8.1 64-bit / 8 / 8 64-bit /

7 / 7 64-bit only.

ASRock WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antennas

(included in the package)

WiFi + BT Module

(included in the package)

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WiFi Module and WiFi Antennas Installation Guide

Step 1

Prepare the WiFi Module, WiFi Module Bracket,

and the two screws (M2*3) that come with the

package. Prepare a Phillips #0 screwdriver.

Step 2

Attach the WiFi Module Bracket to the WiFi

card, aligning the screw hole on the WiFi card

with the screw hole on the bracket. Use the screw

to attach the bracket and the WiFi card, but do

not tighten the screw.

Step 3

Insert the WiFi Module Card into the vertical

mini PCI Express slot (MPCIE1).

Step 4

Tighten the screw that holds the card in place.

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Step 5

Tighten the screw that attaches the WiFi

Module Bracket to the WiFi card (installed

in Step 2).

Step 6

Prepare the SMA Wi-Fi Antenna Cables

and WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antennas that come

with the package.

Step 7

Attach the SMA Wi-Fi Antenna Cables to

the WiFi Module.

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Step 8

Insert the RP-SMA Wi-Fi Antenna Con-

nectors to the antenna ports on the I/O

shield

Step 9

Fasten the screw nuts to secure the

antenna connectors.

Ste p 10

Connect the two WiFi 2.4/5 GHz

Antennas to the antenna connectors. Turn

the antenna clockwise until it is securely

connected.

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Ste p 11

Set the WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antenna at 90-de-

gree angle.

*You may need to adjust the direction of

the antenna for a stronger signal.

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is is a Mini-ITX form factor motherboard. Before you install the motherboard,

study the conguration of your chassis to ensure that the motherboard ts into it.

Pre-installation Precautions

Take note of the following precautions before you install motherboard components

or change any motherboard settings.

•

Make sure to unplug the power cord before installing or removing the motherboard

components. Failure to do so may cause physical injuries and damages to motherboard

components.

•

In order to avoid damage from static electricity to the motherboard’s components,

NEVER place your motherboard directly on a carpet. Also remember to use a grounded

wrist strap or touch a safety grounded object before you handle the components.

•

Hold components by the edges and do not touch the ICs.

•

Whenever you uninstall any components, place them on a grounded anti-static pad or

in the bag that comes with the components.

•

When placing screws to secure the motherboard to the chassis, please do not over-

tighten the screws! Doing so may damage the motherboard.

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2.1 Installing the CPU

1. Before you insert the 1150-Pin CPU into the socket, please check if the PnP cap i s on
the socket, if the CPU surfa ce is unclean, or if there are any bent pins in the socket.
Do not force to insert the CPU into the socket if above situation is found. Otherwise,
the CPU will be seriously damaged .

2. Unplug all power cables before installing the CPU.

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Please save and replace the cover if the processor i s removed. e cover must be placed
if you wish to retur n the motherboard for aer service.

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2.2 Installing the CPU Fan and Heatsink

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2.3 Installing Memory Modules (DIMM)

is motherboard provides two 240-pin DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3) DIMM slots,

and supports Dual Channel Memory Technology.

e DIMM only ts in one correct orie ntation. It will cause permanent dam age to
the mothe rboard and the DIMM if you force the DIMM into the slot at incor rect
orientation.

1. For dual channel conguration , you always need to in stall identical (the same

brand, speed , size and chip-type) DDR3 DIMM pairs.

2. It is unable to activate Du al Channel Memory Technology with only one memory
module installed.

3. It is not allowed to install a DDR or DDR2 memory module into a DDR3 slot;
otherwise , this motherboard and DIM M may be damaged.

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2.4 Expansion Slots (PCI Express Slots)

ere is 1 PCI Express slot and 1 mini-PCI Express slot on the motherboard.

PCIe slot:

PCIE1 (PCIe 3.0 x16 slot) is used for PCI Express x16 lane width graphics cards.

mini-PCIe slot:

MPCIE1 (mini-PCIe slot) is used for WiFi module.

Before installing an ex pansion card, please make sure that the power supply is
switched o or the power cord is unplugged. Plea se read the documentation of the
expan sion card and mak e necessary h ardware settings for the card before you start
the installation.

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If you clear the CMOS, the case open may be detec ted. Please a djust the BIOS option
“Clear Status” to clear the record of previou s chassis int rusion status.

2.5 Jumpers Setup

e illustration shows how jumpers are setup. When the jumper cap is placed on

the pins, the jumper is “Short”. If no jumper cap is placed on the pins, the jumper

is “Open”. e illustration shows a 3-pin jumper whose pin1 and pin2 are “Short”

when a jumper cap is placed on these 2 pins.

Clear CMOS Jumper

(C LRC MO S1)

(see p.11, No. 5)

CLRCMOS1 allows you to clear the data in CMOS. To clear and reset the system

parameters to default setup, please turn o the computer and unplug the power

cord from the power supply. Aer waiting for 15 seconds, use a jumper cap to

short pin2 and pin3 on CLRCMOS1 for 5 seconds. However, please do not clear

the CMOS right aer you update the BIOS. If you need to clear the CMOS when

you just nish updating the BIOS, you must boot up the system rst, and then shut

it down before you do the clear-CMOS action. Please be noted that the password,

date, time, and user default prole will be cleared only if the CMOS battery is

removed.

Clear CMOS

Default