TABLE OF CONTENT
USER’S NOTICE............................................................................................................1
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION..........................................................................1
COOLING SOLUTIONS...............................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1 NTRODUCTION OF 845EDA/845EDAR/845EDAK/845EDAP MOTHERBOARD
1-1 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD ..................................................................2
1-2 SPECIFICATION .......................................................................................3
1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST................................................................................4
1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING ...................................................5
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS...........................................................7
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING.......................................7
2-3 INSTALL CPU...........................................................................................8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY .....................................................................................8
2-3-2 ABOUT INTEL PENTIUM 4 478-PIN CPU.............................................9
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY...................................................................................10
2-5 EXPANSION CARD....................................................................................11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION .......................11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD...........................................11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD.................12
2-5-4 AGP SLOT.......................................................................................12
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS .........................................................................13
2-6-1 CONNECTORS.................................................................................13
2-6-2 HEADERS .......................................................................................16
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ..............................................................19
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP.....................................................................................20
3-2 GETTING HELP........................................................................................20
3-3 THE MAIN MENU .....................................................................................21
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES....................................................................22
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.....................................................................23
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES...............................................................25
3-6-1 DRAM TIMING SETTINGS................................................................26
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS.....................................................................27
3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION ..................................................................27
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION............................................................28
3-7-3 ONCHIP SUPER IO FUNCTION .........................................................29
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP..................................................................30
3-8-1 PM TIMER RELOAD EVENTS...........................................................31
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP .............................................................32
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES ............................................................................33
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS................................................................................33
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL....................................................................34
3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ................................................35
3-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD.........................................................35
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 95/98/98SE/NT4.0/2000 .............................36
4-1 INF INSTALL INTEL 845 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER.................37
4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC650 AUDIO CODEC DRIVER..........................37
4-3 RAID/ATA INSTALL PROMISE RAID/ATA DRIVER ............................38
4-4 PC-HEALTH INTEL 845 PC-HEALTH MONITOR.....................................41
4-5 MAGIC BIOS INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY..............................42
4-6 DIRECTX8 INSTALL MICROSOFT DIRECTX 8.1 DRIVER.....................44
4-7 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM...............44
4-8 HOW TO INSTALL USB 2.0 DRIVER............................................................45
4-9 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND .......................................................46
4-10 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS.............................................................................46
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