Gigabyte GA-EP43C-DS3 Owner's manual

GA-EP43C-DS3

LGA775

Intel® CoreTM / Intel® Pentium® /

Intel® Celeron®

Rev. 1001

12MC-EP43CDS3-1001R

Jul. 30, 2008

Motherboard

GA-EP43C-DS3

Motherboard

GA-EP43C-DS3

Jul. 30, 2008

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REV : X.X X.X

REV : 1.0 1.0 BIOS

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GA-EP43C-DS3 ................................................................................ 7

................................................................................................. 8

................................................................................................... 9

1-1 ..................................................................................... 9

1-2 ..................................................................................................... 10

1-3 .................................................................. 13

1-3-1 (CPU)................................................................................. 13

1-3-2 ................................................................................................. 15

1-4 ....................................................................................... 16

1-4-1 ....................................................................................... 16

1-4-2 ............................................................................................ 17

1-5 ................................................................................................. 18

1-6 ................................................................................... 19

1-7 ....................................................................................... 21

BIOS ....................................................................................... 33

2-1 ..................................................................................................... 34

2-2 BIOS .............................................................................. 35

2-3 MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) ( / ) ...................................... 37

2-4 Standard CMOS Features ( CMOS )........................................... 45

2-5 Advanced BIOS Features ( BIOS )..................................... 47

2-6 Integrated Peripherals ( )....................................................... 50

2-7 Power Management Setup ( )............................................... 53

2-8 PnP/PCI Configurations ( PCI ) ............................. 55

2-9 PC Health Status ( )............................................................. 56

2-10 Load Fail-Safe Defaults ( ) ............................................ 58

2-11 Load Optimized Defaults ( ) .......................................... 58

2-12 Set Supervisor/User Password ( /)................... 59

2-13 Save & Exit Setup ( ) ................................ 60

2-14 Exit Without Saving ( )........................... 60

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....................................................................................... 61

3-1 ............................................................................... 61

3-2 ............................................................................................ 62

3-3 ().......................................................................................... 62

3-4 ................................................................................................. 63

3-5 ..................................................................................................... 63

3-6 Download Center ............................................................................................ 64

....................................................................................... 65

4-1 Xpress Recovery2 ............................................................................... 65

4-2 BIOS .................................................................................. 70

4-2-1 Q-Flash BIOS................................................................... 70

4-2-2 @BIOS BIOS......................................................................... 73

4-3 EasyTune 6 .......................................................................................... 74

4-4 -(DES Advanced) ............................................. 75

4-5 Q-Share ................................................................................................ 77

4-6 Time Repair .......................................................................................... 78

.......................................................................................................... 79

5-1 /........................................................................ 79

5-1-1 2 / 4 / 5.1 / 7.1 ............................................................................... 79

5-1-2 (S/PDIF )( )................................................. 81

5-1-3 ............................................................................................ 83

5-1-4 ............................................................................................ 85

5-2 ..................................................................................................... 86

5-2-1 ................................................................................................................ 86

5-2-2 ........................................................................................................... 87

5-3 ..................................................................................................... 89

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2USB 2.0 ( 12CR1-1UB030-51R)

2IEEE 1394a ( 12CF1-1IE008-01R)

2SATA ( 12CF1-2SERPW-01R)

(S/PDIF ) ( 12CR1-1SPDIN-01R)

( 12CF1-1CM001-32R)

( 12CF1-1LP001-01R)

GA-EP43C-DS3 - 1

- 1

- 1 - 1

IDE - 1 - 1

SATA 3Gb/s - 4

I/O - 1

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GA-EP43C-DS3

KB_MS CPU_FAN

LGA775

ATX

GA-EP43C-DS3

F_AUDIO

ATX_12V_2X4

Intel® P43

PCIEX1_1

SYS_FAN2

F1_1394F_PANEL PWR_LED

F_USB2

IDE

F_USB1

CD_IN

FDD

PCI1

CODEC

TSB43AB23

PCI2

PCI3

BATTERY

IT8718

Intel® ICH10

CLR_CMOS

CI

DDR2_1

DDR2_2

DDR2_3

DDR2_4

SPDIF_I

SATA2_3

RTL8111C

SATA2_2

SATA2_1

SATA2_0

PHASE LED

USB

AUDIO

R_SPDIF

USB_1394_2

USB_1394_1

USB_LAN1

PWR_FAN

JMicron 368

M_BIOS B_BIOS

SATA2_5

SATA2_4

LPTCOMA

SPDIF_O

PCIEX16

PCIEX1_2

PCIEX1_3

SYS_FAN1

DDR3_2

DDR3_1

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1 PCI Express x16 LGA775

Processor

Host

Interface

Intel®

P43

3 PCI

PCI Bus

6 SATA 3Gb/s

PCI CLK

(33 MHz)

3 IEEE 1394a

12 USB Ports

CPU CLK+/-

(400(O.C.)/333/266/200 MHz)

TSB43AB23

Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out

Line-Out

MIC

Line-In

SPDIF In

SPDIF Out

Side Speaker Out

Surround Speaker Out

CODEC

PCIe CLK

(100 MHz)

PCI Express x16

Intel® ICH10

3 PCI Express x1

PCI Express Bus

x1

ATA-133/100/66/

33 IDE Channel

JMicron

368

x1 x1

PCIe CLK

(100 MHz)

RTL

8111C

LAN

RJ45

Floppy

PS/2 KB/Mouse

LPT Port

COM Port

IT8718

LPC Bus

MCH CLK

(400(O.C.)/333/266/200 MHz)

DDR2 1066/800/667 MHz

Dual Channel Memory

DDR3 1600/1333/

1066/800 MHz

Dual Channel Memory

Dual BIOS

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1-1

•

•(CPU)

•

GA-EP43C-DS3 - 10 -

1-2

(CPU) LGA775 Intel® CoreTM 2 Extreme /

Intel® CoreTM 2 Quad / Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo /

Intel® Pentium® / Intel® Celeron®

( )

L2 CPU

(FSB) 1600(O.C.)/1333/1066/800 MHz

Intel® P43

Intel® ICH10

DDR3

-21.5V DDR3 DIMM 4 GB

-

-DDR3 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz

DDR2

-41.8V DDR2 DIMM 16 GB ( )

-

-DDR2 1066/800/667 MHz

(DDR2 DDR3

)

Realtek ALC888

High Definition Audio

2 / 4 / 5.1 / 7.1

S/PDIF /

CD

1Realtek 8111C (10/100/1000 Mbit)

1PCI Express x16

3PCI Express x1

3PCI



-6SATA 3Gb/s 6SATA 3Gb/s

JMicron 368

-1IDE ATA-133/100/66/33 2

IDE

iTE IT8718

-1 1

IEEE 1394 T.I. TSB43AB23

3IEEE 1394a (2 1

IEEE 1394a )

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USB 

12 USB 2.0/1.1 (8 4

USB )

124-pin ATX

18-pin ATX 12V

1

1IDE

6SATA 3Gb/s

1CPU

2

1

1S/PDIF

2USB 2.0/1.1

1IEEE 1394a

1

1PS/2

1S/PDIF

8USB 2.0/1.1

2IEEE 1394a

1RJ-45

6 ( / / /

/ / )

I/O iTE IT8718



CPU/

CPU/ /

CPU

CPU/ /

CPU/ ( )

GA-EP43C-DS3 - 12 -

BIOS 28 Mbit flash

AWARD BIOS

DualBIOSTM

PnP 1.0a DMI 2.0 SM BIOS 2.4 ACPI 1.0b

@BIOS

Q-Flash

Virtual Dual BIOS

Download Center

Xpress Install

Xpress Recovery2

EasyTune ( )

-(Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced)

Time Repair

Q-Share

Norton Internet Security (OEM )

Microsoft® Windows® Vista/XP

ATX 30.5 x 24.4

( ) Windows Vista/XP 32-bit 4 GB

4 GB

( ) CPU/ CPU/

() EasyTune

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1-3

(CPU)

•CPU

(CPU )

•CPU

•CPU CPU CPU (

CPU CPU )

•CPU

•CPU CPU

•CPU

CPU

1-3-1 (CPU)

A. CPU CPU

LGA775 CPU

CPU

GA-EP43C-DS3 - 14 -

B. CPU CPU

CPU

(CPU )

CPU CPU

( ) CPU

(CPU

)

CPU

(CPU

CPU )

CPU

CPU CPU

CPU

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CPU CPU

CPU ' '

()

CPU (CPU_FAN)

CPU

1-3-2 CPU CPU (Intel®)

()

CPU

GA-EP43C-DS3 - 16 -

1-4

POST

Flex Memory Mode Intel® Flex (Intel® Flex Memory Technology)

/

2

4

DDR2_1 DDR2_2 DDR2_3 DDR2_4

DS/SS - - DS/SS - -

- - DS/SS - - DS/SS

DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS

(SS DS -- )

DDR2_1

DDR2_2

DDR2_3

DDR2_4

DDR3_1

DDR3_2

•

( )

•

•DDR2 DDR3

1-4-1 4DDR2 2DDR3

(Dual Channel Technology) BIOS

4DDR2 (Channel)

0 (Channel 0) DDR2_1 DDR2_2 ( 12)

1 (Channel 1) DDR2_3 DDR2_4 ( 34)

2DDR3 (Channel)

0 (Channel 0) DDR3_1

1 (Channel 1) DDR3_2

DDR2

1. DDR2

2. DDR2

( ) DDR2

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DDR3

1. DDR3

2. DDR3 DDR3

(DDR3_1 DDR3_2) (

)

1-4-2

DDR2

DDR2/DDR3

DDR2 DDR3 DDR DDR

DDR2 DDR3

DDR3

DDR2

DDR3

DDR2

DDR3

DDR2

GA-EP43C-DS3 - 18 -

1-5

•

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6. BIOS

7.

/PCI Express

•

PCI Express

•PCIEX16

PCI Express x1

PCI

PCI Express x16

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•

/

1 Gbps

100 Mbps

10 Mbps

1-6

PS/2 PS/2

PS/2 ( ) ( )

S/PDIF

IEEE 1394a IEEE 1394a

IEEE 1394a

USB USB 2.0/1.1 USB USB

/USB USB

(RJ-45) (Gigabit Ethernet)

1 GB (1 Gbps)

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2/4/5.1/7.1

( )

5.1/7.1

( )

4/5.1/7.1

( )

7.1

( )

( ) 2

4/5.1/7.1

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