iUSER’S NOTICE ..........................................................................................................1MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..........................................................................1COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................1CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF 845GDM/845GDML/845LDM/845LDML MOTHERBOARD1-1 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD..........................................................................21-2 SPECIFICATION .....................................................................................................31-3 PERFORMANCE LIST ...........................................................................................41-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING ......................................................5CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS ................................................................72-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING......................................72-3 INSTALL CPU ..........................................................................................................82-3-1 GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................82-3-2 ABOUT INTEL PENTIUM 4 478-PIN CPU ..............................................92-4 INSTALL MEMORY ...............................................................................................102-5 EXPANSION CARD .................................................................................................102-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ..................112-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD ............................................112-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD..........112-5-4 AGP SLOT .....................................................................................................122-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS....................................................................................132-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................132-6-2 HEADERS ......................................................................................................162-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER.....................................................................19CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS3-1 ENTERING SETUP ..................................................................................................203-2 GETTING HELP.......................................................................................................203-3 THE MAIN MENU ...................................................................................................213-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES............................................................................223-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES .............................................................................233-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES .....................................................................253-6-1 DRAM TIMING SETTINGS .......................................................................263-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS.............................................................................273-7-1 ONBOARD IDE FUNCTION ......................................................................273-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTION..............................................................283-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION ..........................................................293-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP .........................................................................303-8-1 PM TIMER RELOAD EVENTS.................................................................313-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP ...................................................................313-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES .......................................................................................323-10 PC HEALTH STATUS............................................................................................323-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL............................................................................333-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ..................................................343-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ..............................................................35CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATIONMAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 95/98/98SE/NT4.0/2000 .........................364-1 INF INSTALL INTEL 845 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER .............................374-2 IAA INSTALL INTEL APPLICATION ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE ........374-3 VGA INSTALL INTEL 845G VGA DRIVER ..................................................384-4 SOUND INSTALL ALC OR CMI AUDIO CODEC DRIVER ...............................384-5 LAN INSTALL RTL8100 LAN CONTROLLER DRIVER..............................414-6 PC-HEALTH INTEL 845 PC-HEALTH MONITOR ........................................424-7 MAGIC BIOS INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY ................................434-8 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ...........444-9 HOW TO INSTALL USB 2.0 DRIVER ..................................................................454-10 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND............................................................464-11 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ........................................................................................46TABLE OF CONTENT