Intel PMH55 User Manual

USER'S MANUAL Of

Intel H55 Express Chipset

Based

M/B for Intel LGA 1156 Processors

PMH55

MB Rev.: 1.0

Manual Rev.: EG100

Release date: January, 2010

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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.

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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

ENVIROMENTAL SAFETY INSTRUCTION................................................................iii

USER’S NOTICE ......................................................................................................... iv

MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION .........................................................................iv

COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................iv

CHAPTER 1

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

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

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

1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST................................................................................................4

1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM....................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION OF H55 EXPRESS CHIPSET MOTHERBOARDS

CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION

2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS ....................................................................... 7

2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING................................................7

2-3 INSTALLING CPU....................................................................................................... 8

2-3-1 GLOSSARY...................................................................................................8

2-3-2

2-3-3 LGA 1156 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE ......................................................10

2-3-4 INTEL REFERENCE THERMAL SOLUTION ASSEMBLY .......................... 11

2-4 INSTALLING MEMORY..............................................................................................12

2-5 EXPANSION CARDS..................................................................................................13

2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION..........................13

2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................................13

2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.....................................................................................14

2-5-4 INSTALLING THE CROSSFIRE BRIDGE CARD ......................................... 14

2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS........................................................................................15

2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................15

2-6-2 HEADERS .....................................................................................................18

2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ...........................................................................22

CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS

3-1 ENTERING SETUP ..................................................................................................... 23

3-2 GETTING HELP ..........................................................................................................23

3-3 THE MAIN MENU........................................................................................................24

3-4 STANDARD BIOS FEATURES ..................................................................................25

3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES .................................................................................. 26

3-5-1 CPU FEATURES ...........................................................................................27

3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES ...........................................................................28

3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS................................................................................... 29

3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP...............................................................................30

3-9 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL................................................................................... 31

3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.................................................................................................31

3-11 USER OVERCLOCK SETTINGS................................................................................ 32

3-12 PASSWORD SETTINGS............................................................................................. 33

3-13 LOAD OPTIMAL DEFAULTS/LOAD STANDARD DEFAULTS ................................ 34

3-14 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/ DISCARD CHANGES AND EXIT................................ 34

CHAPTER 4 Driver Installation

MAGIC INSTALL Supports WINDOWS XP/ Vista/ 7 ......................................................... 35

4-1 INF: Install Intel INF Chipset System Driver............................................................ 36

4-2 IMSS: Install Intel IMSS Chipset System Driver...................................................... 37

4-3 VGA: Install VGA Driver ............................................................................................38

4-4 LAN: Gigabit Ethernet LAN Driver............................................................................ 39

4-5 SOUND: Install Audio Codec Driver ........................................................................40

4-6 AHCI: Install Intel AHCI Driver..................................................................................41

4-7 User's Manual ............................................................................................................. 42

4-8 How to Update BIOS..................................................................................................42

4-9 G.P.I. Function LED Display .....................................................................................43

ABOUT INTEL LGA 1156 CPU SOCKET ................................................. 9

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.

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USER’S NOTICE

COPYRIGHT OF THIS MANUAL BELONGS TO THE MANUFACTURER. NO PART OF THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARES DESCRIBED IN IT MAY BE REPRODUCED, TRANSMITTED OR TRANSLATED INTO ANY LANGUAGE IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE MANUFACTURER.

THIS MANUAL CONTAINS ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR THE UTILIZATION OF THIS MOTHERBOARDS TO MEET THE USER’S REQUIREMENTS. BUT IT WILL CHANGE, CORRECT AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. MANUFACTURER PROVIDES THIS MANUAL “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMANGES FOR LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OF DATA, INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND THE LIKE).

PRODUCTS AND CORPORATE NAMES APPEARING IN THIS MANUAL MAY OR MAY NOT BE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OR COPYRIGHTS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPANIES, AND THEY ARE USED ONLY FOR IDENTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION AND TO THE OWNER’S BENEFIT, WITHOUT INTENT TO INFRINGE.

Manual Revision Information

Reversion Revision History Date

1.0 First Edition January, 2010

Item Checklist

Intel H55 chipset based Motherboard

User’s Manual

DVD for motherboard utilities

SATA Cable

I/O Back Panel Shield

Intel Core Processor Family Cooling Solutions

As processor technology pushes to faster speeds and higher performance, thermal management becomes increasingly crucial while building computer systems. Maintaining the proper thermal environment is the key to reliable, long-term system operation. The overall goal in providing the proper thermal environment is keeping the processor below its specified maximum case temperature. Heat sinks induce improved processor heat dissipation through increased surface area and concentrated airflow from attached fans. In addition, interface materials allow effective transfers of heat from the processor to the heat sink. For optimum heat transfer, Intel recommends the use of thermal grease and mounting clips to attach the heat sink to the processor. When selecting a thermal solution for your system, please refer to the website below for collection of heat sinks evaluated and recommended by Intel for use with Intel processors. Note, those heat sinks are recommended for maintaining the specified Maximum T case requirement. In addition, this collection is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all heat sinks that support Intel processors.

Chapter 1

Introduction of Intel H55 Express Chipset

Motherboards

1-1 Features of Motherboard

The Intel H55 Express chipset based motherboard series are based on Intel H55

Express chipset technology which supports the innovative Intel LGA 1156 socket Intel® Core™ i7, Intel® Core™ i5（Lynnfield & Clarkdale）, Core™ i3 and Pentium®

Processor.

The Intel H55 Express chipset based motherboard series comes with an integrated DDRIII memory controller for dual channel DDRIII 1066 /DDRIII 1333 MHz system memories which are expandable to 16 GB capacity and the new generation of PCI Express interface for the latest graphics AMD cards. The Intel H55 Express chipset motherboard series are absolutely the ultimate solution for game enthusiasts and applications, and it also meets the demanding usage of computing of gaming, multimedia entertainment and business applications.

The motherboard provides six serial ATA2 interfaces of 3.0 Gb / s data transfer rate for six serial ATA devices.

The H55 Express chipset Based motherboard provides Gigabit LAN function by using Gigabit LAN chip which support 10M / 100M / 1Gbps data transfer rate. Embedded

8-channel ALC883 HD CODEC is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro standards that offer you with the home cinema quality and absolutely software compatibility.

The H55 Express chipset based motherboard series offer two PCI-Express2.0 x16 graphics slots. With PE1 being PCI Express 2.0 x16by16 lane slot and PE3 being PCI Express 2.0 x16by4 lane slot. These two graphics slots are fully compatible with the latest AMD CrossFireX Technology to guarantee the fully operational Multi-GPUs graphics function and avoid the possible installation error. One PCI Express x1 I/O slot and one 32-bit PCI slot guarantee the rich connectivity for the I/O of peripherals.

Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 10 of USB2.0 functional ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the future USB demands 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 Smart Fan/OC-CON／G.P.I. Function/3D Audio/ DIY Clear Button/Power on Button/Reset Button in this motherboard is designed for power user to use the over-clocking function in more flexible ways. But please be caution that the over-clocking may cause the failure in system reliability. 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 Smart Fan--- The Noise Management System

It’s never been a good idea to gain the performance of your system by sacrificing its acoustics. CPU Smart Fan Noise Management System is the answer to control the noise level needed for now-a-day’s high performance computing system. The system will automatically increase the fan speed when CPU operating loading is high, after the CPU is in normal operating condition, the system will low down the fan speed for the silent operating environment. The system can provide the much longer life cycle for both CPU and the system fans for game use and business requirements.

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.

G.P.I. Function—Green power indicator function The full name of G.P.I technology is Green Power Indicator technology, obviously technology utilized to low power consumption. G.P.I is a technology with remarkable power saving function.

DIY Clear Button— CMOS1 Button

These CMOS Buttons is to facilitate the clear COMS process for power user

overclocking function. The user can easily clear or restore COMS settings by pressing

down the button, without taking trouble to remove the case and locate the jumper for clear CMOS. （Please remove or turn off the power supply before COMS clear）

Power on Button You can easily start the computer by pressing down this button for a few seconds, without troubling yourself to locate the front panel jumpers to find the Power on jumper.

Reset Button

You can easily restart the computer by pressing down this button for a few seconds, without troubling yourself to locate the front panel jumpers to find the reset jumper.

1-2 Specification

Spec Description

U-ATX form factor, 4 layers blue PCB size:

Design

Chipset z

CPU Socket

Memory Sockets

Expansion Slots

Serial ATA2

Gigabit LAN

8-CH HD Audio

BIOS z

23.0cmx24.5cm

Intel H55 Express Chipset

z supports the innovative Intel LGA 1156 socket Intel®,

Core™ i7, Core™ i5（Lynnfield & Clarkdale）, Core™ i3

and Pentium® Processor.

DDRIII module slot x 4

Support 4pcs DDRIII 1066/DDRIII 1333 memory modules

expandable to 16GB.

Support dual channel function

1pcs PCI-Express2.0 x16by16 lane slot

1pcs PCI-Express2.0 x16by4 lane slot

1pcs 32-bit PCI slot

1pcs PCI-Express2.0 x1 slot

The Intel H55 chipset supports six internal Serial ATA ports

for six SATA devices providing 3.0 Gb/sec data transfer rate.

Integrated Realtek PCI-E Gigabit LAN chip

Supports Fast Ethernet LAN function provide

10Mb/100Mb/ 1Gb /s data transfer rate.

Realtek ALC883 8-channel HD Audio Codec integrated

Support 8-channel 3D surround & Positioning Audio

Audio driver and utility included

AMI 32MB SMT Flash ROM

PS/2 keyboard connector x1

PS/2 mouse connector x1

Coaxial S/PDIF Out connector x1

Optical S/PDIF Out connector x1

HDMI Connector x1

DVI Connector x1

VGA Connector x1

SATA connector x6

Multi I/O

USB2.0 port x4 and header x3

RJ-45 LAN connector x1

Audio connector x1 (8-CH Audio)

Front Panel Audio Header x1

Serial Port headerx1

HDMI-SPDIF header x1

IR header x 1

WI-FI header x 1

1-3 Performance List

The following performance data list is the testing result of some popular benchmark testing programs. These data are just referred by users, and there is no responsibility for different testing data values gotten by users (the different Hardware & Software configuration will result in different benchmark testing results.)

CPU: Intel CPU 3.07GHZ 08# HDD: WesternDigtal 160GB SATA VGA: onboard VGA BIOS: R1.00 MEMORY: Apacer 2G1333 VGA DRIVER: 06.14.14.10.5160

3DMark Vantage 3D Mark 2006 3D Mark 2005 AQUAMRK3 PCMark2005 System / CPU / Memory Graph / HDD Content Creation Winstone 2004 Business Winstone 2004 Winbench 99 V2.0: Business/Hi-end Disk Winmark99

Business/Hi-end Graphic Winmark SYSMark 2004: SISMark Rating(Internet Content Creation / Office Productivity ) SYSMark 2004 3D Creation/2D Creation Web publication Communication/Document Creation

DATA Analysis

SISOFT Sandra 2005 : 1.CPU Arithmetic Benchmark 2.Memory bandwidth Benchmark

3.CPU Multi-Media Benchmark

1. Dhrystone ALU MIPS

Whetstone FPU iSSE3 GFLOP

2.Int/Float Buffered iSSE2 MB/S

3.Integer/Floating-Point IT/S

UT2003 Benchmark (flyby/botmatch)

189.550140

Quake3 DEMO1 /DEMO2 FPS

Return to Castle Wolfenstein FPS

Super Pi (1M) Second

CPUZ System / CPU Clock 1330*23 3067

PMH55

4339 1293 2915

8509/5147

6156

5421

3227

54.5

33.5

21600

301

683

570

474

193/400

353

42.21

33.02

37.18

8.26

285.2/281.6

13.469s

89.948509

1-4 Layout Diagram

PS/2 Mouse

Connector

PS/2 Keyboard

Connector

Coaxial

SPDIF_OUT

HDMI

Connector

Optical

SPDIF_OUT

VGA Connector

DVI Connector

RJ-45 LAN

USB Connectors

Line-IN

RS-OUT

Line-OUT CS-OUT

SS-OUT

MIC-IN

KB/MS Power On (JP1)

PS2 KB/MS Port

(KB1)

Coaxial/Optical SPDIF_OUT Connectors

HDMI Connector

VGA Connector

Over

DVI Connector

USB Connector

RJ-45 Over

USB Connector

Audio Connector

PCI Express2.0x16by16lane slot

Realtek ALC883

Audio Decode

PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot

HDMI-SPDIF

PCI Slot

PCI Express2.0x16by4 lane slot

CDIN Header

Front Panel Audio

G.P.I LED

ATX 12V

Power Connector

SYSFAN2

JP2

Gigabit LAN Chip

4-pin PWR Connector

CPU Socket

JBAT

Wi-Fi Header

COM Header

IR Header

CPU FAN1

Intel H55 Chipset

JP5

JP3

USB Headers

CMOS1

DDRIII Slot x 4

Power LED Header Speaker Header

ATX Power Conn.

SYSFAN1

Serial-ATAII Connecto

(SATA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Reset on Button

Power on Button

Front Panel Header

Jumpers

Jumper Name Description

JBAT CMOS RAM Clear 2-pin Block

JP1 KB/MS Power On Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block JP2/ JP3 USB Power On Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block

Connectors

Connector Name Description

ATXPWR ATX Power Connector 24-pin Block ATX12V ATX 12V Power Connector 8-pin Block J1 Large 4-pin Power Connector 4-pin Block

KB1 PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard Connector 6-pin Female

USB from UL1 and USB1 RJ 45 LAN from UL1 RJ-45 LAN Port Over USB Connectors. 8-pin Connector AUDIO 8-CH Audio Connector 6 phone jack Connector

SATA~SATA6 Serial ATA2 Connector 7-pin Connector

SPDIF_ Out Coaxial S/PDIF Out Connector 1-pin Connector SPDIF_ Out2 Optical S/PDIF Out Connector 1-pin Connector

USB 2.0 Port Connectors 4-pin Connector

Headers

Header Name Description

FP_AUDIO SPEAKER, MIC Header 9-pin Block USB2,USB3,USB4 USB Port Headers 9-pin Block SPEAK PC Speaker Header 4-pin Block PWR LED Power LED Header 3-pin Block JW_FP(PWR

LED/Reset/

HD LED/PWR BTN) CPUFAN1 CPUFAN Header 4-pin Block SYSFAN1, SYSFAN2 System FAN Headers 3-pin Block CDIN CD Audio-In Header 4-pin Block IR1 IR Header 5-pin Block

COM1 Serial Port Header 9-pin Block

HDMI-SPDIF SPDIF-Out Header 2-pin Block WI-FI1 WI-FI Header 11-pin Block

Front Panel Header (including Power LED/ IDE activity LED/Reset switch / Power On Button lead)

9-pin Block

Sockets and Slots

Socket/Slot Name Description

CPU Socket LGA 1156 CPU socket LGA 1156 CPU socket DIMM1~DIMM4 PCI1 PE2 PE1

PE3

DDRIII module Sockets 240-pin DDRIII module sockets PCI slot 32-bit PCI Local Bus Expansion slot PCI-Express2.0 x 1 slot PCI-Express2.0 x 1 Expansion slot PCI-Express2.0x16by

16lane slot

PCI-Express2.0x16by4 lane

slot

PCI-Express2.0 x16 by16 lane Expansion slot PCI-Express2.0 x16 by 4 lane Expansion

slot

Chapter 2

Hardware Installation

WARNING!

Turn off your power when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards.

2-1 Hardware installation Steps

Before using your computer, you had better complete the following steps:

1. Check motherboard jumper setting

2. Install CPU and Fan

3. Install System Memory (DIMM)

4. Install Expansion cards

5. Connect IDE Front Panel /Back Panel cable

6. Connect ATX Power cable

7. Power-On and Load Standard Default

8. Reboot

9. Install Operating System

10. Install Driver and Utility

2-2 Checking Motherboard’s Jumper Setting

(1) CMOS RAM Clear (2-pin): JBAT

A battery must be used to retain the motherboard configuration in CMOS RAM, short 1-2 pins of JBAT to clear the CMOS data.

To clear the CMOS, follow the procedure below:

1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power

2. Remove ATX power cable from ATX power connector

3. Locate JBAT and short pins 1-2 for a few seconds, if shorted with the jump cap,

short for a few seconds then pull out the hat.

4. Connect ATX power cable back to ATX power connector

Note: When should clear CMOS

1. Troubleshooting

2. Forget password

3. After over clocking system boot fail

JBAT

1-2 Open： Normal

CMOS Clear Setting

1-2 Short： CMOS Clear

(2) KB/MS Power on Function Enabled/Disabled: JP1

JP1

1-2 Closed KB/MS Power ON Disable (Default)

Keyboard/Mouse Power On Setting

JP1

2-3 Closed KB/MS Power ON Enabled

(3) USB Power On function Enabled/Disabled: JP2/JP3

JP2/ JP3 JP2 / JP3

2-3 closed USB Power On En abled

1-2 c losed USB Pow er On Disable

(Defaul t)

USB Power-On Setting

2-3 Installing CPU

2-3-1 Glossary

Chipset (or core logic) - two or more integrated circuits which control the interfaces

between the system processor, RAM, I/O devises, and adapter cards. Processor slot/socket - the slot or socket used to mount the system processor on the motherboard.

Slot (PCI-E, PCI, RAM) - the slots used to mount adapter cards and system RAM. PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect - a high speed interface for video cards,

sound cards, network interface cards, and modems; runs at 33MHz. PCI Express2.0- Peripheral Component Interconnect Express2.0, developed in 2003, the speed of each line doubled from the previous PCI-E of 2.5Gbps to 5 Gbps.

Serial Port - a low speed interface typically used for mouse and external modems. Parallel Port - a low speed interface typically used for printers. PS/2 - a low speed interface used for mouse and keyboards. USB - Universal Serial Bus - a medium speed interface typically used for mouse,

keyboards, scanners, and some digital cameras. Sound (interface) - the interface between the sound card or integrated sound connectors and speakers, MIC, game controllers, and MIDI sound devices.

LAN (interface) - Local Area Network - the interface to your local area network. BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) - the program logic used to boot up a computer

and establish the relationship between the various components. Driver - software, which defines the characteristics of a device for use by another device or other software.

Processor - the "central processing unit" (CPU); the principal integrated circuit used for doing the "computing" in "personal computer"

Front Side Bus Frequency -

the working frequency of the motherboard, which is

generated by the clock generator for CPU, DRAM and PCI BUS.

CPU L2 Cache -

the flash memory inside the CPU, normal it depend on CPU type.

2-3-2 About Intel LGA 1156 CPU Socket

This motherboard provides an 1156-pin DIP, LGA 1156 Land Grid Array socket, referred to as the LGA 1156 socket.

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.

NOTED!

Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor’s heat sink 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.

To install a CPU, first turn off your system and remove its cover. Locate the LGA 1156 socket and open it by first pulling the level sideways away from the socket then upward to a 135-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.

When you install the CPU into the LGA 1156 socket, there’s no force required CPU insertion; then press the level to locate position slightly without any extra force.

Alignment key

Pin-1 Indicator

2-3-3 LGA 1156 CPU Installation Guide

1. Please make sure that CPU socket is facing

towards you and the level is on you left hand side.

2. Press down the level and move it to the left side

to make sure it is freed from the hook and then open it upwards about 135 degree.

3. Open the level upwards about 135 degree and the

metal protection plate will be pulled up at the same time.

4. Remove the plastic protective cap from the

socket. (Put it to the original place if CPU is not installed. Do not touch the metal contact point of the CPU socket).

Pin-1 Indicator

Alignment

Key

Alignment

Key

5. Make sire that golden finger in the right place as shown in the above illustration and

match the two alignment keys on the CPU with two points of the socket. CPU can only be correctly installed with this direction. Incorrect installation might cause damage to CPU.

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