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USER’S NOTICE ..........................................................................................................1
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION..........................................................................1
COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF 845G PRO/845G PROL 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 .................................................................................................10
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.......... 11
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 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION ......................................................................27
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION.............................................................. 28
3-7-3 ONBOARD 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 IAA INSTALL INTEL APPLICATION ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE ..37
4-3 VGA INSTALL INTEL 845G VGA DRIVER ................................................38
4-4 SOUND INSTALL CMI9738 AUDIO CODEC DRIVER...................................38
4-5 LAN INSTALL RTL8100 LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER.......................... 40
4-6 PC-HEALTH INTEL 845 PC-HEALTH MONITOR.......................................... 41
4-6-1 HOW TO UTILIZE PC-HEALTH............................................................. 42
4-7 MAGIC BIOS INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY................................ 42
4-8 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ...........44
4-9 HOW TO INSTALL USB 2.0 DRIVER ..................................................................45
4-10 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND............................................................ 46
4-11 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ........................................................................................46
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