Intel P31

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USER’S NOTICE.....................................................................................................................iii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..............................................................................iii
COOLING SOLUTIONS........................................................................................................iii
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION OF P31 EXPRESS AND ICH7 MOTHERBOARDS
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 & 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 LGA775 CPU
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2-3-3 LGA 775 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE............................................................. 10
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY............................................................................................................ 19
2-5 EXPANSION CARD ............................................................................................................. 20
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION............................ 20
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD...................................................... 20
2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.............................................................................................. 21
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS................................................................................................ 22
2-6-1 CONNECTORS....................................................................................................... 22
2-6-2 HEADERS ............................................................................................................... 25
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................................. 28
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .............................................................................................................. 29
3-2 GETTING HELP................................................................................................................... 29
3-3 THE MAIN MENU................................................................................................................ 30
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES........................................................................................ 31
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.......................................................................................... 32
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.................................................................................. 34
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................... 34
3-7-1 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION................................................................................ 35
3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION........................................................................ 36
3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION..................................................................... 36
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................................................... 38
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION.............................................................................................. 39
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.......................................................................................................... 40
3-11 MISCELANEOUS CONTROL........................................................................................... 40
3-12 PASSWORD SETTING........................................................................................................ 41
3-13 LOAD STANDARD /OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS .............................................................. 42
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 2000/XP ................................................................ 43
4-1 INF INSTALL INTELP31 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER.................................... 44
4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC883 HD CODEC AUDIO DRIVER........................................ 45
4-3 LAN INSTALL REALTEK MEGABIT LAN DRIVER........................................... 46
4-4 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN 2007 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM......................... 46
4-5 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY .............. 48
4-6 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS..................................................................................................... 48
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