Intel G41 Express Chipset, ICH7 Chipset, Motherboard User Manual

USER'S MANUAL

Of

Intel G41 Express Chipset

&

Intel ICH7 Chipset

Based

M/B for LGA 775 Quad Core Ready

Intel Core Processor Family

No. G03-MI5G41SVMD3F

Rev: 10

Release date: May

，

2010

Trademark:

* Specifications and Information contained in this documentation a re furnis hed for i nforma tion use only , a nd are

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

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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.

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CHAPTER 1 INTR O D UCTI O N O F INTEL G41 MOTHE R 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, HEADERS & JUMPERS SETTING

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

3-2 HEADERS ...................................................................................................................9

3-3 JUPPER SETTING......................................................................................................11

CHAPTER 4 USEFUL HELP

4-1 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS............................................................................................13

4-2 TROUBLE SHOOTING ...............................................................................................13

TABLE OF CONTENT

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Chapter 1

Introduction of Intel G41 Motherboard Series

1-1 Features of motherboard

The Intel G41 chipset motherboard series are based on the latest Intel G41 Express
Chipset and Intel ICH7 Chipset technology which supports the innovative 65nm and
90nm Intel® Core 2 Quad, Intel® Core 2 Duo® (Code Name: Conroe) Processor ，Intel®

Pentium

®

Dual Core Processor, Celeron® Dual Core Processor and Celeron® 400
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 for those who demand the best experience of
personal computing.

The motherboard implements Intel G41 Express Chipset which supports Front Side
Bus 1333MHz of data transferring. The board supports dual-channel DDRIII 800
/DDRIII 1066MHz RAM Module expandable to 8GB. The motherboard is embedded
with ICH7 chipset of providing one parallel Ultra ATA 100 interface for two IDE drives,
also providing two serial ATA2 interface of 3Gb / s data transfer rate for two serial ATA
devices.

The G41 motherboard series offer one PCI-Express x16 graphics slot of 8Gbyte/sec
data transfer rate at each relative direction which gets 7 times of bandwidth more than
AGP 8X and up to 16Gbyte/sec peak concurrent bandwidth at full speed to guarantee
the ultimate GPU computing performance. One 32-bit PCI slot also enriches
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 ALC 662 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 USB 2.0
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 /CPU Vcore
Input/Output 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

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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.

CPU Vcore Input/Output 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.