Gigabyte GA-8IRXP User Manual

GA-8IRXP

P4 Titan DDR Motherboard

USER’S MANUAL

Pent ium®4 P rocessor Motherboard Rev . 2005

12MD-8IRXP-2005

English

Table of Content
Item Checklist .................................................................................	3
WARNING! .....................................................................................	3
Chapter 1 Introduction ......................................................................	4
Features Summary ................................................................................................	4
GA-8IRXP Motherboard Layout ...........................................................................	6
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation Process ...........................................	7
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: Connectribbon 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
SelectLanguage ..................................................................................................	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

þThe GA-8IRXP motherboard

þIDE cable x 3 / Floppy cable x 1

þCD for motherboard driver & utility (Special CD)

þGA-8IRXP user’s manual

þQuick P C Installation Guide

þ4-Port USB Cable x 1

þ2-Port USB Cable x 1

þI/O Shield

WARNING!

Computer motherboards and expansion cards contain very delicat e 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.

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 t he 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 at tach 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

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Chapter 1 Introduction

FeaturesSummary

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
	—	Intel P entium®4 400MHz FSB
	—	Support Intel ® Pent ium ® 4 (Northwood, 0.13um) processor
	— 2nd cache depend on CPU
Chipset	—	Chipset 82845 HOS T/AGP/Cont roller
	—	82801B A(ICH2) I/ O Controller Hub
Memory	—	3 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets
	— 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
I/O Control	—	IT8712
Slots	—	1 CNR(Communication and Networking Riser) Slot
	—	1 AGP slot 4X (1.5V only) device support
	—	6 PCI slot supports 33MHz & PCI 2. 2 compliant
On-Board IDE	—	2 IDE controllers on the Intel 82801BA PCI chipset
		provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM (IDE1, IDE2) with PIO, Bus Master
		(Ultra DMA33/ATA66/ATA100) operation modes.
	—	IDE3 and IDE4 Compat ible with RA ID,Ultra ATA133/100.
On-Board Peripherals	— 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K,1.2M, 1.44M
		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
Hardware Monitor	—	CPU/Power/System Fan Revolution detect
	—	CPU/Power/System Fan Control
	—	CPU Overheat Warning
	—	System Volt age Detect

to be continued. .....

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On-Board Sound	—	Creat ive 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 st riping (RAI D 0) or mirroring (RAID 1)
	—	Supports concurrent dual IDE controller operat ion
	—	Supports IDE bus master operation
	—	Displays status and error checking messages during boot-up
	—	Mirroring support s aut omat ic background rebuilds
	—	Features LBA and Extended Interrupt 13 drive t ranslation 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 int erace
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(S uspend-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 E asyTuneIII
Special Features	— Over Voltage (DDR/AGP/CPU)
	—	Over Clock (CPU/PCI/AGP)

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 specificat ions for CPU, chipset and most of the peripherals. Whether your system can run under t hese specific bus frequencies properly will depend on your hardware configurations, including CPU, Chipsets,SDRA M,Cards….etc.

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GA-8IRXP Motherboard Layout

		CPU_FAN
KB_ MS
	AUX_12V
COMA	LPT1										IR/CIR
							ATX
COMB		SOCKET478							SC
LINEOUT			GA-8IRXP						SD		MS
MIC IN LINEIN	GAME	Brookdale								W83L
										518D
USB	LAN	AG P				IDE2	IDE1	FLOPPY
			DDR1	DDR2	DDR3						S IRQ
	CD_IN								PWR FAN
	F_AUDIO	PCI1
								BAC KUP		OPEN
	AUX_IN	PCI2			ICH2			BIOS
AC97		BATT ERY						MAIN		CASE
	TELE							BI OS
		PCI3
82562ET								F_PANEL
		PCI4
			IT8712		IDE4
	P4 Titan-DDR	PCI5
	CT5880		NEC		IDE3
		PCI6
		USB3	USB4		PDC20276						SYS
											FAN
	CNR	WOL					USB2

USB2.0

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Chapter 2 Hardware Installation Process

To set up your computer, you must complete 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 softwar e tools

Step4	Step1	Step 2
		Step 4
Step 4
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Step 1: Install the Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Step 1-1 CPU Installation

Pin1 indicator	Pin1indicator
CPU Top View	CPU Bottom View
Socket Actuation Lever	Pin1 indicator

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

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

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.

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

MIf 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 heat sink supporting-base	2. Make sure the CPU fan is plugged to
onto the CPU socket on t he main-	the CP U fan connector, than install
board.	complet e.

MPlease use Intel approved cooling fan.

MWe recommend you to apply the thermal tape to provide better heat conduction between your CPU and heatsink.

(The CPU cooling fan might stick to the CPU due to the hardening of the thermal paste. During this condition if you try to removethe 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.)

MMake sure the CPU fanpower cable is plugged in to the CPU fan connector, this completes the installation.

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

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Step 2: Installmemory 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 2 banks. Please refer t o 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 not ch. 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)	128MBytes	256MBytes	256MBytes
64 Mbit (1Mx16x4 banks)	32 MBytes	64 MBytes	96 MBytes
128 Mbit(4Mx8x4 banks)	256MBytes	512MBytes	512MBytes
128 Mbit(2Mx16x4 banks)	64 MBytes	128MBytes	196MBytes
256 Mbit(8Mx8x4 banks)	512MBytes	1 GBytes	1 GBytes
256 Mbit(4Mx16x4 banks)	128MBytes	256MBytes	384MBytes
512 Mbit(16Mx8x4 banks)	1 GBytes	2 GBytes	2 GBytes
512 Mbit(8Mx16x4 banks)	256MBytes	512MBytes	768MBytes

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

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

D:Double Sided DIMM S:Single Sided DIMM

X:NotUse

1. The DIMM slot has a notch, so the

DIMMmemory module can only f it in one direct ion. 2. Insert the DIMM memory module verticallyint o the

DIMM slot. Then push it down.

3. Close the plastic clip at both edges of theDIMM slots to lock the DIMM module.

Reverse the installation steps when you wish to remove the DIMM module.

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

MPlease 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 i nsert 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 comput er.
2.	Remove your computer’s chassis cover, screws and slot bracket from the computer.
3.	Press the expansion card f irmly into expansion slot in motherboard.
4.	Be sure the met al contact s on the card are indeed seat ed 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 t he operating system.

	Please carefully pull out the small white-
	drawable bar at the end of the A GP slot
	when you try to install/ Uninst all 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 whit e- drawable bar.

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

Step 4-1 : I/O Back Panel Introduction

u	v	w	y
		x

uPS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connector

PS/2 Mouse Connector	ØThis connector supports standard PS/2
(6 pin Female)	keyboard and PS/2 mouse.

PS/2 Keyboard Connector (6 pin Female)

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

Parallel P ort		ØThis connector supports 2 standard CO M ports
(25 pin Female)		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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