775i915PL-SATA2 User Manual Version 1.0 Published June 2005 Copyright©2005 ASRock INC. All rights reserved.
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Contents 1 Introduction ................................................... 5 1.1 Package Contents .......................................................... 5 1.2 Specifications ................................................................ 6 1.3 Supported PCI Express VGA Card List for AGI Express Slot (PCI Express x 4) ................................................... 8 1.4 Motherboard Layout ...................................................... 9 1.5 ASRock 8CH I/O ..................................
Software Support ........................................... 38 4.1 Install Operating System ............................................... 4.2 Support CD Information ................................................. 4.2.1 Running Support CD ............................................ 4.2.2 Drivers Menu ........................................................ 4.2.3 Utilities Menu ........................................................ 4.2.4 “LGA 775 CPU Installation Live Demo” Program .. 4.2.
Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing ASRock 775i915PL-SATA2 motherboard, a reliable motherboard produced under ASRock’s consistently stringent quality control. It delivers excellent performance with robust design conforming to ASRock’s commitment to quality and endurance. In this manual, chapter 1 and 2 contain introduction of the motherboard and step-bystep guide to the hardware installation. Chapter 3 and 4 contain the configuration guide to BIOS setup and information of the Support CD.
1.2 Specifications Platform: CPU: ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.0-in, 30.5 cm x 20.3 cm 775-Pin Socket supporting Intel® Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D processor (in 775-land LGA package) Chipsets: North Bridge: Intel® 915PL chipset, FSB @ 800 / 533MHz, supports Hyper-Threading Technology (see CAUTION 1) South Bridge: Intel® ICH6, supports SATA 1.5Gb/s Memory: 2 DDR DIMM slots: DDR1 and DDR2 supports PC3200 (DDR400) / PC2700 (DDR333), Max.
4 Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports 1 RJ-45 Port Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central/Bass / Line In / Front Speaker / Microphone (see CAUTION 6) AMI legal BIOS, Supports “Plug and Play”, ACPI 1.1 compliance wake up events, Supports jumperfree, CPU frequency stepless control (only for advanced users’ reference, see CAUTION 7) Microsoft® Windows® 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit compliant (see CAUTION 8) BIOS: OS: CAUTION! 1. About the setting of “Hyper Threading Technology”, please check page 26.
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1.4 Motherboard Layout 1 3 2 4 5 6 20.3cm (8.0 in) Intel 915PL Chipset CD1 PCIE2 SATA2_EN2 SATA2_EN1 SATA2_EN3 SATA2_EN4 1 7.1CH 10 PCI EXPRESS 11 In IC te H l 6 PCI 1 775i915PL-SATA2 1 PCI LAN PCI 2 SATA2_EN5 SATA4 USB2.
1.5 ASRock 8CH I/O 1 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 *7 2 11 12 10 Parallel Port RJ-45 Port Side Speaker (Gray) Rear Speaker (Black) Central / Bass (Orange) Line In (Light Blue) 8 9 10 11 12 13 3 6 4 7 5 8 9 Microphone (Pink) USB 2.0 Ports (USB01) USB 2.0 Ports (USB23) Serial Port: COM1 PS/2 Keyboard Port (Purple) PS/2 Mouse Port (Green) Front Speaker (Lime) * If you use 2-channel speaker, please connect the speaker’s plug into “Front Speaker Jack”.
Chapter 2 Installation 775i915PL-SATA2 is an ATX form factor (12.0" x 8.0", 30.5 x 20.3 cm) motherboard. Before you install the motherboard, study the configuration of your chassis to ensure that the motherboard fits into it. Make sure to unplug the power cord before installing or removing the motherboard. Failure to do so may cause physical injuries to you and damages to motherboard components. 2.1 Screw Holes Place screws into the holes indicated by circles to secure the motherboard to the chassis.
2.3 CPU Installation For the installation of Intel 775-LAND CPU, please follow the steps below. 775-Pin Socket Overview Before you insert the 775-LAND CPU into the socket, please check if the CPU surface is unclean or if there is any bent pin on the socket. Do not force to insert the CPU into the socket if above situation is found. Otherwise, the CPU will be seriously damaged. Step 1. Open the socket: Step 1-1. Disengaging the lever by depressing down and out on the hook to clear retention tab.
For proper inserting, please ensure to match the two orientation key notches of the CPU with the two alignment keys of the socket. Step 2-3. Carefully place the CPU into the socket by using a purely vertical motion. Step 2-4. Verify that the CPU is within the socket and properly mated to the orient keys. Step 3.
2.4 Installation of CPU Fan and Heatsink This motherboard is equipped with 775-Pin socket that supports Intel 775-LAND CPU. Please adopt the type of heatsink and cooling fan compliant with Intel 775-LAND CPU to dissipate heat. Before you installed the heatsink, you need to spray thermal interface material between the CPU and the heatsink to improve heat dissipation. Ensure that the CPU and the heatsink are securely fastened and in good contact with each other.
2.5 Installation of Memory Modules (DIMM) 775i915PL-SATA2 motherboard provides two 184-pin DDR (Double Data Rate) DIMM slots, and supports Dual Channel Memory Technology. For dual channel configuration, you always need to install two identical (the same brand, speed, size and chip-type) memory modules in the DDR DIMM slots to activate Dual Channel Memory Technology. Otherwise, it will operate at single channel mode.
2.6 Expansion Slots (PCI, PCI Express, and AGI Express Slots (PCI Express x 4)) There are 4 PCI slots, 2 PCI Express slots, and 1 AGI Express slot (PCI Express x 4) on this motherboard. PCI slots: PCI slots are used to install expansion cards that have the 32-bit PCI interface. PCIE Slots: PCIE1 (PCIE x 16 slot) is used for PCI Express cards with x16 lane width graphics cards. PCIE2 (PCIE x 1 slot) is used for PCI Express cards, such as Gigabit LAN card, SATA2 card, etc.
2.7 Dual Graphics Feature This motherboard supports Dual Graphics Technology. When installing the add-on VGA cards to this motherboard, you are allowed choosing two different ways to decide the function of PCIE2 slot (PCIE x 1), AGI Express slot, and SATA II. The default value of this feature is to enable PCIE2 slot (PCIE x 1), AGI Express slot (only PCI Express x 1), and SATA II. You can also adjust the jumpers to disable PCIE2 slot (PCIE x 1) and SATA II.
2.8 Surround Display Feature This motherboard supports Surround Display upgrade. With the external add-on PCI VGA card and PCI Express VGA card, you can easily enjoy the benefits of Surround Display feature. 2.9 Jumpers Setup The illustration shows how jumpers are setup. When the jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Short”. If no jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Open”. The illustration shows a 3-pin jumper whose pin1 and pin2 are “Short” when jumper cap is placed on these 2 pins.
2.10 Onboard Headers and Connectors Onboard headers and connectors are NOT jumpers. Do NOT place jumper caps over these headers and connectors. Placing jumper caps over the headers and connectors will cause permanent damage of the motherboard! FDD connector (33-pin FLOPPY1) FLOPPY1 Pin1 (see p.9 No. 23) the red-striped side to Pin1 Note: Make sure the red-striped side of the cable is plugged into Pin1 side of the connector. Primary IDE connector (Blue) (39-pin IDE1, see p.9 No.
Serial ATA (SATA) Power Cable (Optional) connect to the power supply connect to the SATA HDD power connector USB 2.0 Header USB_PWR P-7 P+7 GND DUMMY (9-pin USB67) (see p.9 No. 20) 1 GND P+6 P-6 USB_PWR USB 2.0 Header ASRock 8CH I/O accommodates 4 default USB 2.0 ports. If those USB 2.0 ports on the I/O panel are not sufficient, this USB 2.0 header is available to support 2 additional USB 2.0 ports. ASRock 8CH I/O accommo- USB_PWR P-5 P+5 GND DUMMY (9-pin USB45) (see p.9 No.
System Panel Header PLED+ PLEDPWRBTN# GND (9-pin PANEL1) (see p.9 No. 18) 1 This header accommodates several system front panel functions. DUMMY RESET# GND HDLEDHDLED+ Chassis Speaker Header (4-pin SPEAKER 1) (see p.9 No. 16) 1 SPEAKER DUMMY DUMMY +5V Chassis Fan Connector (3-pin CHA_FAN1) (see p.9 No. 17) CPU Fan Connector (4-pin CPU_FAN1) (see p.9 No. 5) GND +12V CHA_FAN_SPEED GND +12V CPU_FAN_SPEED FAN_SPEED_CONTROL ATX Power Connector Please connect the chassis speaker to this header.
2.11 Serial A ATTA (SA (SATTA) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts JMicron JMB360 chipset that supports Serial ATAII (SATAII) hard disks, and Intel ICH6 south bridge chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks. STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis. STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk.
Chapter 3 BIOS SETUP UTILITY 3.1 Introduction This section explains how to use the BIOS SETUP UTILITY to configure your system. The BIOS FWH chip on the motherboard stores the BIOS SETUP UTILITY. You may run the BIOS SETUP UTILITY when you start up the computer. Please press during the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) to enter the BIOS SETUP UTILITY, otherwise, POST will continue with its test routines.
3.1.2 Navigation Keys Please check the following table for the function description of each navigation key.
Main BIOS SETUP UTILITY H/W Monitor Boot Advanced Security Exit Configure CPU Advanced Settings WARNING : Setting wrong values in below sections may cause system to malfunction. CPU Configuration Chipset Configuration ACPI Configuration IDE Configuration PCIPnP Configuration Floppy Configuration SuperIO Configuration USB Configuration Enter F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Go to Sub Screen General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc.
Ratio Status This is a read-only item, which displays whether the ratio status of this motherboard is “Locked” or “Unlocked”. If it shows “Unlocked”, you will find an item Ratio CMOS Setting appears to allow you changing the ratio value of this motherboard. Ratio Actual Value This is a read-only item, which displays the ratio actual value of this motherboard. Ratio CMOS Setting If the ratio status is unlocked, will find this item appear to allow you changing the ratio value of this motherboard.
3.3.2 Chipset Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Chipset Configuration Options Auto 166MHz (DDR333) 200MHz (DDR400) [Auto] DRAM Frequency [Disabled] Flexibility Option Configure DRAM Timing by SPD [Enabled] [Auto] DRAM CAS# Latency Boot Graphic Adapter Priority [PCIE/PCI] OnBoard LAN OnBoard AC'97 Audio [Enabled] [Auto] VCCM VDDQ [Auto] [Low] +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.
and [15 DRAM Clocks]. Boot Graphic Adapter Priority This allows you to select [PCIE/PCI] or [PCI/PCIE] as the boot graphic adapter priority. The default value is [PCIE/PCI]. OnBoard LAN This allows you to enable or disable the “OnBoard LAN” feature. OnBoard AC’97 Audio Select [Auto], [Enabled] or [Disabled] for the onboard AC’97 Audio feature. VCCM Use this to select VCCM. Configuration options: [High], [Low],and [Auto]. The default value of this feature is [Auto]. VDDQ Use this to select VDDQ.
PS/2 Keyboard Power On Use this item to enable or disable PS/2 keyboard to turn on the system from the power-soft-off mode. RTC Alarm Power On Use this item to enable or disable RTC (Real Time Clock) to power on the system. 3.3.4 IDE Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Set [Compatible] when Legacy OS (MS-DOS, WinMe / 98SE) device is used.
IDE Device Configuration You may set the IDE configuration for the device that you specify. We will use the “Primary IDE Master” as the example in the following instruction. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Primary IDE Master Device Vendor Size LBA Mode Block Mode PIO Mode Async DMA Ultra DMA S.M.A.R.T. :Hard Disk :ST340014A :40.0 GB :Supported :16Sectors :4 :MultiWord DMA-2 :Ultra DMA-5 :Supported Type LBA/Large Mode Block (Multi-Sector Transfer) PIO Mode DMA Mode S.M.A.R.T.
Block (Multi-Sector Transfer) The default value of this item is [Auto]. If this feature is enabled, it will enhance hard disk performance by reading or writing more data during each transfer. PIO Mode Use this item to set the PIO mode to enhance hard disk performance by optimizing the hard disk timing. DMA Mode DMA capability allows the improved transfer-speed and data-integrity for compatible IDE devices. S.M.A.R.T. Use this item to enable or disable the S.M.A.R.T.
3.3.6 Floppy Configuration In this section, you may configure the type of your floppy drive. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Floppy Configuration [1.44 MB 31 2"] Floppy A Select the type of floppy drive connected to the system. +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. 3.3.
Parallel Port Address Use this item to set the address for the onboard parallel port or disable it. Configuration options: [Disabled], [378], and [278]. Parallel Port Mode Use this item to set the operation mode of the parallel port. The default value is [ECP+EPP]. If this option is set to [ECP+EPP], it will show the EPP version in the following item, “EPP Version”. Configuration options: [Normal], [Bi-Directional], and [ECP+EPP]. EPP Version Use this item to set the EPP version. Configuration options: [1.
3.3.8 USB Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced USB Configuration USB Controller USB 2.0 Support Legacy USB Support To enable or disable the onboard USB controllers. [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. USB Controller Use this item to enable or disable the use of USB controller. USB 2.0 Support Use this item to enable or disable the USB 2.
CPU Quiet Fan This item allows you to identify the temperature of CPU fan. If you set this option as [Disabled], the CPU fan will operate in full speed. If you set this option as [Enabled], you will find the items “Target CPU Temperature ( C)”, “Tolerance ( C)”, and “Minimun Fan Speed” appear to allow you adjusting them. The default value is [Disabled]. Target CPU Temperature ( C) The target temperature will be between 50 C and 65 C. The default value is [50].
3.5.1 Boot Settings Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Boot Boot Settings Configuration Boot From Network Bootup Num-Lock To enable or disable the boot from network feature. [Disabled] [On] +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. Boot From Network Use this item to enable or disable the Boot From Network feature.
3.7 Exit Screen Main Advanced BIOS SETUP UTILITY H/W Monitro Boot Exit Options Security Exit Exit system setup after saving the changes. Save Changes and Exit Discard Changes and Exit Discard Changes F10 key can be used for this operation. Load Optimal Defaults Enter F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Go to Sub Screen General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc.
Chapter 4 Software Suppor Supportt 4 . 1 Install Operating System This motherboard supports various Microsoft ® Windows® operating systems: 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit. Because motherboard settings and hardware options vary, use the setup procedures in this chapter for general reference only. Refer to your OS documentation for more information. 4 . 2 Support CD Information The Support CD that came with the motherboard contains necessary drivers and useful utilities that enhance the motherboard features.
