Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2 Owner's manual

GA-M68M-S2

AM2+ / AM2

AMD PhenomTM II /AMD PhenomTM /

AMD AthlonTM II /AMD AthlonTM /

AMD SempronTM

Rev. 1001

12MC-M68MS2-1001R

Motherboard

GA-M68M-S2

Aug. 14, 2009

Motherboard

GA-M68M-S2

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REV : X.X X.X

REV : 1.0 1.0 BIOS

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GA-M68M-S2 .................................................................................... 7

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

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

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

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

1-3 .................................................................. 12

1-3-1 (CPU)................................................................................. 12

1-3-2 ................................................................................................. 14

1-4 ....................................................................................... 15

1-4-1 ....................................................................................... 15

1-4-2 ............................................................................................ 16

1-5 ................................................................................................. 17

1-6 ................................................................................... 18

1-7 ....................................................................................... 20

BIOS ....................................................................................... 31

2-1 ..................................................................................................... 32

2-2 BIOS .............................................................................. 33

2-3 MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) ( / ) ...................................... 35

2-4 Standard CMOS Features ( CMOS )........................................... 38

2-5 Advanced BIOS Features ( BIOS )..................................... 40

2-6 Integrated Peripherals ( )....................................................... 42

2-7 Power Management Setup ( )............................................... 45

2-8 PnP/PCI Configurations ( PCI ) ............................. 47

2-9 PC Health Status ( )............................................................. 48

2-10 Load Fail-Safe Defaults ( ) ............................................ 50

2-11 Load Optimized Defaults ( ) .......................................... 50

2-12 Set Supervisor/User Password ( /)................... 51

2-13 Save & Exit Setup ( ) ................................ 52

2-14 Exit Without Saving ( )........................... 52

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3-1 ....................................................................................... 53

3-2 ............................................................................................ 54

3-3 ().......................................................................................... 54

3-4 ................................................................................................. 55

3-5 ..................................................................................................... 55

3-6 Download Center ............................................................................................ 56

....................................................................................... 57

4-1 Xpress Recovery2 ............................................................................... 57

4-2 BIOS .................................................................................. 60

4-2-1 Q-Flash BIOS................................................................... 60

4-2-2 @BIOS BIOS......................................................................... 63

4-3 EasyTune 6 .......................................................................................... 64

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

5-1 Serial ATA ........................................................................... 65

5-1-1 SATA ................................................................................ 65

5-1-2 Windows XP SATA RAID/AHCI .70

5-1-3 SATA RAID ................................................... 71

5-2 /........................................................................ 75

5-2-1 2 / 4 / 5.1 / 7.1 ............................................................................... 75

5-2-2 S/PDIF /................................................................................. 78

5-2-3 ............................................................................................ 80

5-2-4 ............................................................................................ 82

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

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

5-3-2 ........................................................................................................... 84

5-4 ..................................................................................................... 86

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GA-M68M-S2 - 1

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IDE - 1

SATA 3Gb/s - 1

I/O - 1

( 12CF1-1FD001-7*R)

2USB 2.0 ( 12CR1-1UB030-5*R)

2SATA ( 12CF1-2SERPW-0*R)

(S/PDIF +) ( 12CR1-1SPINO-1*R)

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GA-M68M-S2

KB_MS

LPT

ATX

Socket AM2

COMA

ATX_12V

F_PANEL

PWR_LED

CLR_CMOS

PCI1

PCI2

IT8718

BAT

F_USB1

F_USB2

CODEC FDD

CD_IN

GA-M68M-S2

IDE

NVIDIA®

GeForce 7025/

nForce 630a

SYS_FAN

CPU_FAN

R_USB

DDR2_1

DDR2_2

RTL8201CL

PCIEX1

USB

LAN

SATA2_0

SATA2_1

VGA

SPDIF_IO

M_BIOS

B_BIOS

CI

F_AUDIO PCIEX16

AUDIO

HDA_SUR

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DDR2 1066/800/667 MHz DIMM

PCIe CLK

(100 MHz) AM3/AM2+/AM2

CPU

CPU CLK+/-(200 MHz)

Hyper Transport Bus

2 SATA 3Gb/s

ATA-133/100/66/33

IDE Channel

PCI Bus

8 USB Ports

Dual Channel Memory

LPC BUS

PCI CLK

(33 MHz)

2 PCI

D-Sub

LAN RJ45 RTL8201CL

PS/2 KB/Mouse

COM Port

LPT Port

Floppy

1 PCI Express x16

PCI Express x16

1 PCI Express x1

PCI Express Bus

x1

PCIe CLK

(100 MHz)

IT8718

Dual BIOS

Line Out

MIC

CODEC

Line In

S/PDIF In

Side Speaker Out

Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out

Surround Speaker Out

S/PDIF Out

NVIDIA®

GeForce 7025/

nForce 630a

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1-1

•

•(CPU)

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1-2

(CPU) AM3 / AM2+ / AM2

AMD PhenomTM II / AMD PhenomTM / AMD AthlonTM II

/AMD AthlonTM / AMD SempronTM

( )

Hyper Transport Bus 2000 MT/s

NVIDIA® GeForce 7025/nForce 630a

21.8V DDR2 DIMM 8 GB ( )



DDR2 1066/800/667 MHz

( )

Realtek ALC883

High Definition Audio

2 / 4 / 5.1 / 7.1 ( )

S/PDIF /

CD

RTL8201CL (10/100 Mbit)

1PCI Express x16 x16

1PCI Express x1

2PCI

NVIDIA® GeForce 7025/nForce 630a

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

IDE

-2SATA 3Gb/s 2SATA 3Gb/s

- SATA RAID 0 RAID 1

iTE IT8718

-1 1

USB NVIDIA® GeForce 7025/nForce 630a

8USB 2.0/1.1 (4 4

USB )

124-pin ATX

14-pin ATX 12V

1

1IDE

2SATA 3Gb/s

1CPU

1

1S/PDIF /

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1

2USB 2.0/1.1

1

1PS/2

1

1D-Sub

4USB 2.0/1.1

1RJ-45

3 ( / / )

I/O iTE IT8718



CPU/

CPU ( )

BIOS 28 Mbit flash

AWARD BIOS

DualBIOSTM

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

@BIOS

Q-Flash

Xpress BIOS Rescue

Download Center

Xpress Install

Xpress Recovery2

EasyTune ( )

Norton Internet Security (OEM )

Microsoft® Windows® Vista/XP

Micro ATX 24.4 x 22.5

( ) Windows Vista/XP 32-bit 4 GB

4 GB

( ) 7.1 5.1/7.1 (

)

( ) CPU CPU

() EasyTune

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1-3

(CPU)

•CPU

(CPU )

•CPU

•CPU ( ) CPU

CPU

•CPU

•CPU CPU

•CPU

CPU

1-3-1 (CPU)

A. CPU ( ) CPU ( )

AM3 / AM2+ / AM2 CPU

AM2

CPU

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B. CPU CPU

CPU ( )

CPU

CPU CPU

CPU

CPU CPU CPU

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CPU CPU

1-3-2 CPU CPU ( )

CPU CPU

()

CPU

CPU (CPU_FAN)

CPU

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1-4

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( )

•

1-4-1 2DDR2

(Dual Channel Technology) BIOS

2DDR2 (Channel)

0 (Channel 0) DDR2_1 ( 1)

1 (Channel 1) DDR2_2 ( 2)

CPU

1. DDR2

2.

DDR2_1

DDR2_2

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1-4-2

DDR2 DDR DDR2

DDR2

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1-5

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1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6. BIOS

7.

PCI Express x1

PCI

PCI Express x16

/PCI Express x16

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PCI Express x16

PCI Express

x16

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1-6

PS/2 PS/2

PS/2 ( ) ( )

D-Sub 15-pin D-Sub D-Sub

USB USB 2.0/1.1 USB USB

/USB USB

(RJ-45) (Fast Ethernet) 10/

100 Mbps

//

100 Mbps

10 Mbps

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( )

( ) 2

4/5.1/7.1

( )

7.1 5.1/7.1 (

)2/4/5.1/7.1

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1-7

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1

2

8

3

15

16

14

11

17 7

6

54 10

9

13

1) ATX_12V

2) ATX

3) CPU_FAN

4) SYS_FAN

5) FDD

6) IDE

7) SATA2_0 / SATA2_1

8) PWR_LED

9) BAT

10) F_PANEL

11) F_AUDIO

12) HDA_SUR

13) CD_IN

14) SPDIF_IO

15) F_USB1 / F_USB2

16) CI

17) CLR_CMOS

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Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2 Owner's manual

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