Gigabyte GA-8IRXP User Manual

GA-8IRXP

P4 Titan DDR Motherboard

USER’S M ANUAL

Pent ium®4 P rocessor Motherboard

Rev. 2005

12MD-8IRXP-2005

Table of Content

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Item Checklist................................................................................. 3

WARNING! ..................................................................................... 3

Chapter 1 Introduction...................................................................... 4

Chapter 2 Hardware I nstallation Process ........................................... 7

Features Summary ................................................................................................4

GA-8IRXP Motherboard Layout........................................................................... 6

Step 1: Install the Central Processing Unit (CPU) ............................................8

Step 1- 1 CPU Installation ....................................................................................8

Step 1- 2 : CPU Heat Sink Installation..................................................................9

Step 2: Install memory modules ........................................................................10

Step 3: Install expansion cards.......................................................................... 11

Step 4: Connect ribbon cables, cabinet wires, and power supply...............12

Step 4- 1 : I/O Back Panel Introduction ..............................................................12

Step 4-2 :Connectors & Jumper Setting Introduction ........................................14

Chapter 3 BIOS Setup ....................................................................20

The Main Menu.....................................................................................................20

Dual BIOS / Q-Flash Utility .................................................................................20

Select Language ..................................................................................................20

Load Optimized Default ......................................................................................22

Save & Exit Setup ................................................................................................23

Chapter 4 Driver Installation ............................................................24

Chapter 5 BIOS Flash Procedure .....................................................26

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Item Checklist

þ The GA-8IRXP motherboard þ IDE cable x 3 / Floppy cable x 1 þ CD for motherboard driver & utility (Special CD) þ GA-8IRXP user’s manual þ Quick P C Installation Guide þ 4-Port USB Cable x 1 þ 2-Port USB Cable x 1 þ I/O Shield

W ARNING!

Computer motherboards and expansion cards contain very delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips. To protect them against damage from static electricity, you should follow some precautions whenever you work on your computer.

1. Unplug your computer when working on the inside.

2. Use a grounded wrist strap before handling computer components. If you do not have one, touch both of your hands to a safely grounded object or to a metal object, such as the power supply case.

3. Hold components by the edges and try not touch the IC chips, leads or connectors, or other components.

4. Place components on a grounded antistatic pad or on the bag that came with the components whenever the components are separated from the system.

5. Ensure that the ATX power supply is switched off before you plug in or remove the ATX ower connector on the motherboard.

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Installing the motherboard to the chassis…

If the motherboard has mounting holes, but they don’t line up with the holes on the base and there are no slots to attach the spacers, do not become alarmed you can still attach the spacers to the mounting holes. Just cut the bottom portion of the spacers (the spacer may be a little hard to cut off, so be careful of your hands). In this way you can still attach the motherboard to the base without worrying about short circuits. Sometimes you may need to use the plastic springs to isolate the screw from the motherboard PCB surface, because the circuit wire may be near by the hole. Be careful, don’t let the screw contact any printed circuit write or parts on the PCB that are near the fixing hole, otherwise it may damage the board or cause board malfunctioning.

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Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction

Features Summary

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Form Factor — 30.6cm x 24.4cm ATX size form factor , 4 layers PCB. CPU — Socket 478 for Intel® Micro FC-PGA2 Pentium® 4 processor

Chipset — Chipset 82845 HOS T/AGP/Controller

Memory — 3 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets

I/O Control — IT8712 Slots — 1 CNR(Communication and Networking Riser) Slot

On-Board IDE — 2 IDE controllers on the Intel 82801BA PCI chipset

On-Board Peripherals — 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K,1.2M, 1.44M

Hardware Monitor — CPU/Power/System Fan Revolution detect

— Intel P entium®4 400MHz FSB — Support Intel ® Pent ium ® 4 (Northwood, 0.13um) processor — 2nd cache depend on CPU

— 82801B A(ICH2) I/O Controller Hub

— Support s PC2100 DDR or PC1600 DDR DIMM — Supports up to 2GB DRAM (Max) — Support s only 2.5V DDR DIMM — Supports 64bit ECC type DRAM integrity mode

— 1 AGP slot 4X (1.5V only) device support — 6 PCI slot supports 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant

provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM (IDE1, IDE2) with PIO, Bus Master (Ultra DMA33/ATA66/ATA100) operation modes.

— IDE3 and IDE4 Compat ible with RAID,Ultra ATA133/100.

and 2.88M bytes.

— 1 Parallel port supports Normal/EPP/ECP mode — 2 Serial ports (COMA & COMB) — 4 x USB 2.0 , 2 x USB 1.1 by cable and 2 x USB 1.1 onboard — 1 IrDA connector for IR

— CPU/Power/System Fan Control — CPU Overheat Warning — System Volt age Detect

to be continued......

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On-Board Sound — Creative CT5880 Sound Chipset + Sigmatel 9708T CODEC

— Line In/Line Out/Mic In/CD In/AUX_IN/TELE/Game Port

On-Board RAID — Onbard Promise PDC20276

— Supports data striping (RAID 0) or mirroring (RAID 1) — Supports concurrent dual IDE controller operation — Supports IDE bus master operation — Displays status and error checking messages during boot-up — Mirroring supports automatic background rebuilds — Features LBA and Extended Interrupt 13 drive translation in

cont roller onboard BIOS On-Board LAN — Intel 82562ET LAN PHY On-Board USB 2.0 — NEC D720100AS1 Chipset On-Board MS,SD,SC — Winbond SMART @I/O Chipset (Memory Stick , Security Digital and

SC header) PS/2 Connector — PS/2 Keyboard interface and PS/2 Mouse interace BIOS — Licensed AWARD BIOS, 4M bit x 2 FWH

— Supports Dual BIOS — Supports Multi Language — Supports Q-Flash

Additional Features — PS/2 Keyboard power on by password

— PS/2 Mouse power on — External Modem wake up — STR(Suspend-To-RAM) — Wake on LAN (WOL) — AC Recovery — Poly fuse for keyboard over-current protection — USB KB/Mouse wake up from S3 — Supports @BIOS — Supports EasyTuneIII

Special Features — Over Voltage (DDR/AGP/CPU)

— Over Clock (CPU/PCI/AGP)

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Please set the CPU host frequency in accordance with your processor’s specifications. We don’t recommend you to set the system bus frequency over the CPU’s specification because these specific bus frequencies are not the standard specifications for CPU, chipset and most of the peripherals. Whether your system can run under these specific bus frequencies properly will depend on your hardware configurations, including CPU, Chipsets,SDRA M,Cards….etc.

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Introduction

GA-8I RXP Motherboard Layout

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KB_ MS

COMA

COMB

LINE_OUT

LINE_IN

MIC_IN

USB

AC97

82562ET

LPT1

GAME

LAN

CD_IN

AUX_12V

AUX_IN

TELE

F_A UDIO

SOCKET478

Brookdale

PCI1

PCI2

PCI3

PCI4

CPU_FAN

AGP

GA-8IRXP

BATTERY

IT8712

DDR1

DDR2

ICH2

IDE4

DDR3

IDE2

ATX

IDE1

BACKUP BIOS

MAIN BI OS

F_PANEL

FLOPPY

IR/CIR

W83L 518D

S_IRQ

PWR_FAN

CASE OPEN

CT5880

P4 Titan-DDR

CNR

WOL

PCI5

PCI6

IDE3

PDC20276

SYS FAN

USB2

USB3

NEC

USB4

USB 2.0

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Chapter 2 Hardw are Installation Process

To set up your computer, you must com plete the following setps:

Step 1- Install the Centr al Processing Unit (CPU) Step 2- Install memory modules Step 3- Install expansion cards Step 4- Connect ribbon cables, cabinet wires, and power supply Step 5- Setup BIOS software Step 6- Install supporting software tools

Step 2Step1Step4

Step 4

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Step 4

Step3

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Step 1: Install the Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Step 1-1 CPU Instal lation

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Pin1 indicator

CPU Top View CPU Bottom View

Socket Actuation Lever

1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and up to 90-degree angle.

3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish CPU installation.

Please make sure the CPU type is supported by the motherboard.

Pin1indicator

Pin1 indicator

2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a (golden) cut edge on the CPU upper corner. Then insert the CPU into the socket.

If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it will cause improper installation. Please change the insert orientation.

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Step 1-2 : CPU Heat Sink Installation

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1. Fasten the heatsink supporting-base onto the CPU socket on the mainboard.

Pleas e use Intel approved cooling fan.

We recommend you to apply the thermal tape to provide better heat conduction between

your CPU and hea tsink. (The CPU cooling fan might stick to the CPU due to the hardening of the thermal paste. During this condition if you t ry to remove the cooling fan, you might pull the processor out of the CPU socket alone with the cooling fan, and might damage the processor. To avoid this from happening, we suggest you to either use thermal tape instead of thermal paste, or remove the cooling fan with extreme caution.)

Mak e sure the CPU fan power cable is plugged in to the CPU fan connector, this completes

the inst allation.

Plea se refer to CPU heat sink user’s manual for more detail installationprocedure.

2. Make sure the CPU fan is plugged to the CP U fan connector, than install complet e.

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Step 2: Install memory modules

The motherboard has 3 dual inline memory module (DIMM) sockets, but it can only support a maximum of 4 banks of DDR memory. DDR slot 1 uses 2 banks, DDR slot 2&3 share the remaining

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2 banks. Please refer to the following tables for possible memory configurations supported. The BIOS will automatically detects memory type and size. To install the memory module, just push it vertically into the DIMM Slot .The DIMM module can only fit in one direction due to the notch. Memory size can vary between sockets.

Total Memory Sizes Wit h Unbuffered DDR DIMM Devices used on DIMM 1 DIMM x 64 / x 72 2 DIMMs x 64 / x 72 3 DIMMs x 64 / x 72

64 Mbit (2Mx8x4 banks) 128 MBytes 256 MBytes 256 MBytes 64 Mbit (1Mx16x4 banks) 32 MBytes 64 MBytes 96 MBytes 128 Mbit(4Mx8x4 banks) 256 MBytes 512 MBytes 512 MBytes 128 Mbit(2Mx16x4 banks) 64 MBytes 128 MBytes 196 MBytes 256 Mbit(8Mx8x4 banks) 512 MBytes 1 GBytes 1 GBytes 256 Mbit(4Mx16x4 banks) 128 MBytes 256 MBytes 384 MBytes 512 Mbit(16Mx8x4 banks) 1 GBytes 2 GBytes 2 GBytes 512 Mbit(8Mx16x4 banks) 256 MBytes 512 MBytes 768 MBytes

Notes: Double-sided x16 DDR memory devices are not support by Intel 845 chipset.

D:Double Sided DIMM S:Single Sided DIMM X:Not Use

DDR1 DDR2 DDR3 S S S D S S D D X

D X D S D X S X D

DDR

1. The DIMM slot has a notch, so the DIMMmemory module can only fit in one direction.

2. Insert the DIMM memory module verticallyinto the DIMM slot. Then push it down.

3. Close the pla stic clip at both edges of theDIMM slots to lock the DIMM module. Reverse the installation steps when you wish to remove the DIMM module.

When STR/DIMM LED is ON, do not install/remove DIMM from socket.

Please note that the DIMM module can only fit in one direction due to the two notches. Wrong orientation will cause improper installation. Please change the insert orientation.

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Step 3: Install expansion cards

1. Read t he related expansion card’s instruction document before install the expansion card into the computer.

2. Remove your computer’s chassis cover , screws and slot bracket from the computer.

3. Press the expansion card firmly into expansion slot in motherboard.

4. Be sure the met al contacts on the card are indeed seated in the slot.

5. Replace the screw to secure the slot bracket of the expansion card.

6. Replace your computer’s chassis cover .

7. Power on the computer, if necessary, setup BIOS utility of expansion card from BIOS.

8. Install relat ed driver from the operating system.

Please carefully pull out the small whitedrawable bar at the end of the AGP slot when you try to install/ Uninstall the AGP

AGP Card

card. Please align the AGP card to the onboard AGP slot and press firmly down on the slot .Make sure your AGP card is locked by t he small white- drawable bar.

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Issues To Beware Of When Installing CNR

Please use standard CNR card like the one in order to avoid mechanical problem.

Standard CNR Card

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Step 4: Connect ribbon cables, cabinet wires, and power supply

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Step 4-1 : I/O Back Panel Introduction

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PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connector

PS/2 Mouse Connector (6 pin Female)

PS/2 Keyboard Connector (6 pin Female)

ØThis connector supports standard PS/2

keyboard and PS/2 mouse.

v Parallel Po rt and Serial Ports (COMA/COMB)

Parallel P ort (25 pin Female)

ØThis connector supports 2 standard COM ports

and 1 Parallel port. Device like printer can be connected t o Parallel port ; mouse and modem etc can be connected to Serial ports.

COMA COMB

Serial Ports (9 pin Male)

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