INTEL G31 User Manual

USER'S MANUAL

Intel G31 Express Chipset

Intel ICH7 Chipset

Based

M/B for LGA 775 Quad Core Ready

Intel Core Processor Family

No. G03-MI5G31SVM-F

Rev: 1.0

Release date: April, 2010

Trademark:

* Specifications and Information contained in this docume ntation ar e furnishe d for inf ormation use only , and ar e

subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer.

Environmental Safety Instruction

z Avoid the dusty, humidity and temperature extremes. Do not place the product in any

area where it may become wet.

z 0 to 40 centigrade is the suitable temperature. (The figure comes from the request of

the main chipset)

z Generally speaking, dramatic changes in temperature may lead to contact malfunction

and crackles due to constant thermal expansion and contraction from the welding spots’ that connect components and PCB. Computer should go through an adaptive phase before it boots when it is moved from a cold environment to a warmer one to avoid condensation phenomenon. These water drops attached on PCB or the surface of the components can bring about phenomena as minor as computer instability resulted from corrosion and oxidation from components and PCB or as major as short circuit that can burn the components. Suggest starting the computer until the temperature goes up.

z The increasing temperature of the capacitor may decrease the life of computer. Using

the close case may decrease the life of other device because the higher temperature in the inner of the case.

z Attention to the heat sink when you over-clocking. The higher temperature may

decrease the life of the device and burned the capacitor.

Environmental Protection Announcement

Do not dispose this electronic device into the trash while discarding. To minimize pollution and ensure environment protection of mother earth, please recycle.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER 1 IN T RO D U C T I O N O F INTEL G31 MO T H ER B O A R D S ER I E S

1-1 FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD .............................................................................1

1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD...............................................2

1-2 SPECIFICATION.........................................................................................................3

1-3 ITEM CHECKLIST.......................................................................................................3

1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM....................................................................................................4

CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION

2-1 INSTALL LGA 775 SUPPORTED INTEL PROCESSOR...........................................5

2-2 INSTALL MEMORY ....................................................................................................5

2-3 EXPANSION CARDS..................................................................................................6

CHAPTER 3 CONNCTORS AND HEADERS

3-1 CONNECTORS...........................................................................................................7

3-2 HEADERS ...................................................................................................................10

3-3 JUMPER SETTING.....................................................................................................12

CHAPTER 4 USEFUL HELP

4-1 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS............................................................................................14

4-2 TROUBLE SHOOTING ...............................................................................................14

Chapter 1

Introduction of Intel G31 Motherboard Series

1-1 Features of motherboard

The Intel G31 chipset motherboard series are based on the latest Intel G31 Express Chipset and Intel ICH7 Chipset technology which supports Intel LGA775 Pentium D, Pentium 4, Celeron D, Conroe CPU and Intel Pentium H7 CPU under the 65W; Inte l® Core 2 Quad Proc e s s o r （Intel® Core 2 Quad series support only one CPU, could it be possible that other CPU above the 65W limitation）, Intel® Pentium® Dual Core

Processor, Intel® Celeron Dual Core Processor, Intel® Celeron 400 Processor and Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and fully supports the future 45nm processors. The motherboard is optimized to deliver innovative features and professional desktop platform solution with the advantages of the new generation dual core Intel® Core 2 Duo® Processor for those who demand the best experience of personal computing.

The motherboards implement Intel G31 Express Chipset which supports Front Side Bus 1333MHz of data transferring. The motherboard supports dual-channel DDRII 533/DDRII 667/DDRII 800 memory module with capacity expandable to 4GB. The motherboard is embedded with ICH7 chipset of providing one parallel Ultra ATA 100 interface for one IDE drives and two serial ATA2 interface of 3Gb / s data transfer rate for two serial ATA devices.

The G31 motherboard series offer one PCI-Express x16 graphics slot of 4Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each relative direction which gets 3.5 times of bandwidth more than AGP 8X and up to 8Gbyte/sec peak concurrent bandwidth at full speed to guarantee the ultimate GPU computing performance. One 32-bit PCI slot guarantees the rich connectivity for the I/O of peripherals. The motherboards are designed of tackling the profuse multimedia requirements nowadays.

The motherboards provide 10/100 Ethernet LAN function by using the PCI-E megabit LAN. The embedded Realtek ALC662 chipset is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro standards providing HD Audio 6-CH CODEC offers you with the home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility.

Embedded USB controller as well as capability of expanding to 6 of USB2.0 functional ports delivering 480Mb/s of rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the demands of future USB peripherals which are also equipped with hardware monitor function on system to monitor and protect your system and maintain your non-stop business computing.

Some special features---

CPU Thermal Throttling/CPU Vcore 7-shift/OC-CON

in this motherboard are designed for power user to use the over-clocking function in more flexible ways. But please be caution that the over-clocking maybe causes the fails in system reliabilities. This motherboard provides the guaranteed performance

and meets the demands of the next generation computing. But if you insist to gain more system performance with variety possibilities of the components you choose, please be careful and make sure to read the detailed descriptions of these value added product features, please get them in the coming section.

1-1.1 Special Features of Motherboard

CPU Thermal Throttling Technology--- (The CPU Overheat Protection Technology)

To prevent the increasing heat from damage of CPU or accidental shutdown while at high workload, the CPU Thermal Throttling Technology will force CPU to enter partially idle mode from 87.5% to 12.5% according to preset CPU operating temperature in BIOS (from 40℃ to 90℃). When the system senses the CPU operating temperature reaching the preset value, the CPU operating bandwidth will be decreased to the preset idle percentage to cool down the processor. When at throttling mode the beeper sound can be optionally selected to indicate it is in working.

CPU Vcore 7-Shift--- (Shift to Higher Performance) The CPU voltage can be adjusted up by 7 steps for the precisely over-clocking of

extra demanding computing performance. Solid Capacitors --（High-polymer Solid Electrolysis Aluminum Capacitors）

The working temperature is from 55 degrees Centigrade below zero to 125 degrees Centigrade, Solid capacitors possess superior physical characteristics that can be while reducing the working temperature between 20 degrees Centigrade each time, intact extension 10 times of effective product operation lives, at not rising degrees Centigrade of working temperatures each time a relative one, life of product decline 10% only too.

1-2 Specification

Spec Description

Design

Chipset

CPU Socket

(LGA775 )

Memory Socket

Expansion Slots

Integrate IDE and

Serial ATA2

LAN

HD Audio

BIOS

Multi I/O

z Micro ATX Form Factor; PCB size: 22.5*17.1cm z Intel G31 Chipset z Intel ICH7 Chipset z Support Intel LGA775 Pentium D, Pentium 4, Celeron D, Conroe

CPU and Intel Pentium H7 CPU.

z Intel® Core 2 Quad Processor（Intel® Core 2 Quad series support

only one CPU, could it be possible that other CPU above the 65W limitation）, Intel® Pentium® Dual Core Processor, Intel® Celeron

Dual Core Processor, Intel® Celeron 400 Processor and Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor

z Suggest the power of the CPU should be below 65W z Support FSB Frequency 533/667/800/1066/1333MHz z 240-pin DDRII RAM module socket x 2 z Support Dual channel DDRII 533/DDRII 667/DDRII 800 MHz RAM

Module and which is expandable to 4GB

z PCI-Express x16 slot 1pcs. z 32-bit PCI slot 1pcs

z One PCI IDE controller that supports PCI Bus Mastering, ATA

PIO/DMA and the ULTRA DMA 33/66/100 functions that deliver the data transfer rate up to 100 MB/s; two Serial ATA2 ports each provides 3.0 Gb /sec data transfer rate

z Integrated PCI-E 10/100 LAN chip z Support Fast Ethernet LAN function of providing 10Mb / 100Mb

data transfer rate

z Realtek ALC662 6-CH HD Audio Codec integrated z Audio driver and utility included

z AMI 8MB DIP Flash ROM z PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors` z Serial port x1 z VGA connector X1 z USB 2.0 connector x 4, header x1 z RJ-45 LAN connector X1 z Audio connector x1 (Line-in, Line-out, MIC) z Hard Disk connector x1 z SATA connector x2 z Front Panel Audio header x1 z HDMI-SPDIF header x1

1-3 Item Checklist

Intel G31 Platform Processor Chipset based motherboard

CD for motherboard utilities

User’s Manual

Cable for IDE

Cable for Serial ATA Port

Back panel

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