User manual AOPEN I915GMM-HFS0501A

[. . . ] Table of Contents Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 1 A Thank-you Note Before You Get Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. 2 Features of This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. 3 Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Chapter 2 Introduction to This Motherboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 1 How does your motherboard look like?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 2 Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. 3 Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. 1 Quick Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. 2 Installation You Have to Know. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] These features are related to system performance. Warning: Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything. You may change the parameter settings to improve system performance. However, it may cause your system to be unstable if the setting is not correct for your system configuration. Advanced Chipset features > DRAM Timing Selectable Available options: By SPD: System will define timing according to default of Dram. (Default) Manual: Allow user to define timing himself. Advanced Chipset features > CAS Latency Time When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing. Available options: 2, 2. 5, 3 Advanced Chipset features > DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay This field lets user to insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals, used when RAM is written to, read from, or refreshed. Fast gives fater performance; and Slow give more stable performance. This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system. Available options: 2, 3, 4, 5 49 Advanced Chipset features > DRAM RAS# Precharge If an insufficient number of cycles are allowed for the RAS to accumulate its charge before DRAM refresh, the refresh may be incomplete and the DRAM may fail to retain data. Fast give faster performance; and Slow gives more stable performance. This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system. Available options: 2, 3, 4, 5 Advanced Chipset features > Active to Precharge Delay Select the operating system that is active to precharge delay. Available options: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Advanced Chipset features > System Memory Frequency This item is used to set DRAM timing. Available options: DDR: 333 MHz, DDRII400 MHz, 533 MHz Advanced Chipset features > System BIOS cacheable Allow the system BIOS to be cached to allow faster system performance. Available options: Disabled, Enabled Advanced Chipset features > Video BIOS cacheable Allow the video BIOS to be cached to allow faster video performance. Available options: Disabled, Enabled Advanced Chipset features > Intruder Detection This item allow user to detect the housing is opened or not. It works only when the housing is designed with CASE OPEN cable and connected to motherboard. Available options: Disabled, Enabled Advanced Chipset features > PEG/On Chip VGA Control This item is used to select display first from onboard VGA or PCI ExpressGraphic card. Advanced Chipset features > Boot Display This item is used to set booting display. Available options: Auto, CRT, TV, EFP Advanced Chipset features > Init Display First If you installed a PCI VGA card, this item lets you decide which one is the initial display card. Advanced Chipset features > On-Chip Video Memory Size This item allows user to control the on-chip frame buffer size, fixed memory size, DVMT. Advanced Chipset features > On-Chip Frame Buffer Size Advanced Chipset features > FIXED Memory Size Advanced Chipset features > DVMT Memory Size 50 Advanced Chipset features > TV Format Available options: Auto, NTSC_M, NTSC_M_J, NTSC_433, NTSC_N, PAL_B, PAL_G, PAL_D, PAL_H, PAL_I, PAL_M, PAL_N, PAL_60, SECAM_L, SECAM_L1, SECAM_B, SECAM_D, SECAM_G, SECAM_H, SECAM_K, SECAM_K1. [. . . ] All you have to do is just click on the "GO", and no more steps afterward, of all listed drivers, grey checks indicate necessary drivers; you cannot click them off. Red checks can be disabled if you don't want to install them now. Press the icon will prompt the "Install Driver" page. You may also press "Back" to return to the Main page. Once clicking "GO", EzInstall will run the installing procedure automatically, and prompt a reboot dialog (Some drivers or utilities may skip the reboot part). 67 6. 2 Installing Utilities Installing Utilities is virtually the same as installing drivers. AOpen provides you many friendly and powerful utilities to manage your system. [. . . ]