Intel PMG41-D2 User Manual

M/B for LGA 775 Quad Core Ready

USER'S MANUAL

Intel G41 Express Chipset

Intel ICH7 Chipset

Based

Intel Core Processor Family

PMG41-D2

MB: Rev: 1.0

Manual: Rev: EG100

Release date: Nov., 2009

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* Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are

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

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF INTEL G41 MOTHERBOARD SERIES

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

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

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

1-3 ITEM CHECKLIST ..............................................................................................................4

1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING ................................................................... 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.............................................................................................................................. 11

CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION

4-1 INF: Install Intel INF Chipset System Driver ......................................................................... 16

4-2 VGA: VGA Driver..................................................................................................................... 17

4-3 LAN: LAN Driver...................................................................................................................... 18

4-4 SOUND: Install Audio Driver................................................................................................... 19

4-5 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS......................................................................................................... 20

4-6 Trouble Shooting........................................................................................................................ 20

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.

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® Pentium® 4 Processor，Celeron 4xx Processor, Dual-Core Intel® Pentium® D Processor 8 and 9 Series, Intel® Core 2 Quad, Intel® Core 2 Duo® (Code Name: Conroe) 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. Through the high bandwidth of dual channel DDR2 533MHz/DDR2 667MHz /DDR2 800 system memories which are expandable to 8GB.

The motherboards implement Intel G41 Express Chipset which supports Front Side Bus 1333MHz of data transferring and offers with 266/333MHz/400MHz memory clock frequency for Dual channel DDRII533/DDRII667/DDRII800 memory DIMM to double the performance of memory access. The motherboard is embedded with ICH7 chipset of providing one parallel Ultra ATA 100 interface for one IDE drives and four serial ATA2 interface of 3Gb / s data transfer rate for four 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 PCI Express x1 I/O slots and two 32-bit PCI slots guarantee 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 8 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.

OC-CON ---（High-polymer Solid Electrolysis Aluminum Capacitors）

The working temperature is from 55 degrees Centigrade below zero to 125 degrees Centigrade, OC-CON 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

Micro ATX form factor 4 layers PCB size: 24.5*18cm

Design Chipset

CPU Socket (LGA775 )

Memory Socket

Expansion Slots

Integrate IDE and

Serial ATA2

Integrated VGA

LAN

HD Audio

Intel G41 Memory Controller Hub (MCH) Chipset

Intel 82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7) Chipset

z z Support 45nm and 65nm Quad-Core, Dual-Core Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core

2 Duo processors, Intel® Pentium Dual Core, Intel® Celeron Dual Core Conroe processors and Intel® Celeron 400 Conroe-L processors 775-Land LGA Package utilizes Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FCLGA) package processor Suggest the power of the CPU should below 65w

Support FSB Frequency1333 MHz

240-pin DDR2 RAM module socket x 2

Support Dual channel DDR2 533/DDR2 667 /DDR2 800/MHz RAM

Module and which is expandable to 8GB.

PCI-Express x16 slot 1pcs.

PCI-Express x1 slot 1pcs

32-bit PCI slot 2pcs

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; four Serial ATA2 ports each provides 3.0 Gb /sec data transfer rate. Integrated Graphic Media Accelerator 4500

Integrated PCI-E 10/100 LAN chip

Support Fast Ethernet LAN function of providing 10Mb / 100Mb data

transfer rate Realtek ALC662 6-CH HD Audio Codec integrated

Support 6-CH 3D surround & Positioning Audio

Audio driver and utility included

BIOS

Multi I/O

AMI 8MB DIP Flash ROM

PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors

Floppy disk drive connector x1

Parallel header x1 / Serial port x1

D-Sub 15-pin VGA Conn.

USB 2.0 connector x 4, headers x2

HDMI-SPDIF header x1

SATA Connector x4

RJ45 LAN connector x1

Audio connector x1 (Line-in, Line-out, MIC)

1-3 Item Checklist

Intel G41

Cable for IDE

CD for motherboard utilities

Cable for Serial ATA Port

Intel G41

Back panel

Platform Processor Chipset based motherboard

Platform Processor Chipset motherboard User’s Manual

1-4 Layout Diagram & Jumper Setting

PS2 KB/Mouse

Port

COM ATX 12V Power Connector

B／MS Power ON

Jumper (JP1)

CPU Socket mPGA775

DDR2 DIMMx2

ATX Power Connector

VGA

USB Port

RJ45 Over

6-CH Audio Connector

PCI –E Megabit LAN

Controller

CPU FAN

SYSFAN1

USB Power ON Jumper

(JP2)

Intel G41Express

Chipset

IDE Connector

PCI Express x16

PCI Express x1

CD Audio In

6-CH ALC662 HD

Audio Codec

32-bit PCI Slot

Front Panel Audio

SYS FAN2

Intel 82801GB

ICH Chipset

Front Panel Connector

Power Led & Speaker Header

Serial-ATA2 Connector

(SATA1, 2, 3, 4)

Parallel Connector

HDMI-SPDIF Connector

Floppy Connector

USB Connector

Chapter 2

Hardware Installation

2-1 Install LGA 775 Supported Intel Processor

This motherboard provides a 775-pin surface mount, LGA775 Land Grid Array socket, referred to as the LGA775 socket supports Intel Pentium 4 processor in the 775 Pin package utilizes Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA) package technology.

The CPU that comes with the motherboard should have a cooling FAN attached to prevent overheating. If this is not the case, then purchase a correct cooling FAN before you turn on your system.

WARNING! 1.

Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor’s heatsink and CPU cooling FAN is working correctly, otherwise it may cause the processor and motherboard overheat and damage, you may install an auxiliary cooling FAN, if necessary.

. Suggest the power of CPU should below 65w.

To install a CPU, first turn off your system and remove its cover. Locate the LGA775 socket and open it by first pulling the level sideways away from the socket then upward to a 90-degree angle. Insert the CPU with the correct orientation as shown below. The notched corner should point toward the end of the level. Because the CPU has a corner pin for two of the four corners, the CPU will only fit in the orientation as shown.

LGA775

Colden Arrow

CPU LGA775 Socket

2-2 Install Memory

This motherboard provides two 240-pin DDR2 DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULES (DIMM) socket for DDR2 memory expansion available from minimum memory volume of

128MB to maximum memory volume of 8GB DDR2 SDRAM.

Valid Memory Configurations

Bank 240-Pin DIMM PCS Total Memory

Bank 0, 1 (DIMM1) DDR2 533/DDR2 667/DDR2 800 X1 4GB Bank 2, 3 (DIMM2) DDR2 533/DDR2 667/DDR2 800 X1 4GB

Total Memory (Max.8GB)

Recommend DIMM Module Combination

2 8GB

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