GA-8N775

Gigabyte GA-8N775 Owner's manual

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GA-8N775
Intel® Pentium® LGA775
Rev. 1002
12MC-8N775-1002R
*WEEE logo
*WEEE
Motherboard
GA-8N775
Dec 9, 2005
Motherboard
GA-8N775
Dec 9, 2005
© 2005 GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. All rights reserved.
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http://www.gigabyte.com.tw
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1-1 ..................................................................................... 9
1-2 ..................................................................................................... 10
1-3 .................................................................. 12
1-3-1 ............................................................................................ 12
1-3-2 ................................................................................................. 13
1-4 ....................................................................................... 14
1-5 ................................................................................................. 16
1-6 ................................................................................... 17
1-7 ....................................................................................... 18
BIOS ....................................................................................... 29
(BIOS E5) ................................................................... 30
2-1 Standard CMOS Features ( CMOS ) ........................................... 32
2-2 Advanced BIOS Features ( BIOS ) ..................................... 34
2-3 Integrated Peripherals ( ) ....................................................... 36
2-4 Power Management Setup ( ) ............................................... 39
2-5 PnP/PCI Configurations ( PCI ) ............................. 41
2-6 PC Health Status ( ) ............................................................. 42
2-7 MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) ....................................................................... 44
2-8 Load Fail-Safe Defaults ( Fail-Safe ) .......................................... 46
2-9 Load Optimized Defaults ( Optimized ) ...................................... 46
2-10 Set Supervisor/User Password ( /) ................... 47
2-11 Save & Exit Setup ( SETUP ) ................................ 48
2-12 Exit Without Saving ( SETUP ) .......................... 48
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3-1 ............................................................................... 49
3-2 ............................................................................................ 50
3-3 ..................................................................................................... 50
3-4 ..................................................................................................... 51
3-5 ................................................................................................. 51
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4-1 ............................................................................................ 53
4-1-1 EasyTune 5 ............................................................................................... 54
4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 ................................................................................... 55
4-1-3 BIOS ....................................................................................... 57
4-1-4 Serial ATA ............................................................................. 66
4-1-5 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 ....................................................................................... 80
4-2 ..................................................................................................... 84
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GA-8N775
ATX_12V
CPU_FAN
CODEC
IT8712F
BIOS
PCI1
PCI2
F_USB2
F_USB1
Marvell
88E1111/
88E1115
BATTERY
ATX
IDE2
FDD
SYS_FAN
GA-8N775
KB_MS
LGA775
AUDIO2
COMA
LPT
USB
F_AUDIO
CD_IN
F_PANEL
IDE1
CI
PCIE_16
PCIE_2
PCIE_1
CLR_CMOS
F_USB3
COAXIAL
USB
LAN
AUDIO1
SATAII2_3 SATAII0_1
SPDIF_IN
SPDIF_O
RF_ID
PWR_LED
DDRII1
DDRII2
DDRII3
DDRII4
PCIE_3
nVIDIA®
Crush 19
nVIDIA®
MCP-04
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LGA775
Processor
CPUCLK+/-(1066/800/533MHz)
Host
Interface
NBCLK (25MHz)
HCLK+/- (133/200/266MHz)
24 MHz
33 MHz
LPC BUS IT8712F
PCICLK
(33MHz)
2 PCI
PCI Bus
3 PCI Express x 1
PCI Express Bus
nVIDIA®
Crush 19
nVIDIA®
MCP-04
DDRII 667/533MHz DIMM
Dual Channel Memory
LAN
RJ45
Marvell
88E1111/
88E1115
BIOS
4 SATA 3Gb/s
10 USB
Ports
Line-Out
MIC
CODEC
Line-In
SPDIF In
SPDIF Out
Side Speaker Out
Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out
Surround Speaker Out
Floppy
PS/2 KB/Mouse
LPT Port
COM Port
ATA33/66/100/133
IDE Channels
PCI Express x 16 Bus
1 PCIE x 16
PCI-ECLK
(100MHz)
33MHz
ROMCLK33MHz
48MHz
25MHz
24.576MHz
x1 x1
PCI-ECLK
(100MHz)
x1
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1-1
1.
2.
3. (CPU RAM)
4.
5.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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1-2
Intel® Pentium® 4 LGA775 ( )
L2 CPU
1066/800/533MHz FSB
nVIDIA® Crush 19
nVIDIA® MCP-04
Marvell 88E1111/88E1115 (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Realtek ALC850
2/4/6/8
SPDIF /
CD
nVIDIA® MCP-04
-1 2
-2IDE (IDE1, IDE2) UDMA 33/ATA 66/ATA 100/ATA 133
4IDE
-4SATA 3Gb/s (SATAII0_1, SATAII2_3) 4SATA
3Gb/s
- SATA striping (RAID 0) mirroring (RAID 1)
striping + mirroring (RAID 0+1) RAID 5
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
4DDR II DIMM 8GB( )
DDR II 667( )/533 unbuffered DIMMs
1.8V DDR II DIMMs
1PCI Express x 16
3PCI Express x 1
2PCI
124-pin ATX
14-pin ATX 12V
1
2IDE
4SATA 3Gb/s
1CPU
1
1
1
1(CD In)
1SPDIF
3USB 2.0/1.1 6USB 2.0/1.1
1RF_ID
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1PS/2
1PS/2
1
2SPDIF ( )
1(COMA)
4USB 2.0/1.1
1RJ-45
6 ( / / / /
/ / )
I/O IT8712F
CPU
CPU /
CPU
CPU /
CPU
BIOS 14Mbit flash ROM
AWARD BIOS
@BIOS
Download Center
Q-Flash
EasyTune ( )
Xpress Install
Xpress Recovery2
Xpress Rescue
Norton Internet Security (OEM version)
ATX 30.5 x 24.4
( ) CPU
( ) PC 8GB 8GB
8GB
( ) DDRII 667 FSB 800/1066MHz
() EasyTune
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1-3
(CPU)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
HT
(Hyper-Threading Technology)
- HT Intel Pentium 4
- HT
- BIOS BIOS HT
- HT
1-3-1
1.
2.
4.3.
(
)
(
)
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1-3-2
1.
6.
CPU
3.
2.
(
)
(Intel )
4.
(
)
5.
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1-4
1.
2.
3.
DDR II BIOS
DDR II
1.
2.
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Dual Channel DDR II ( )
GA-8N775 (Dual Channel DDR Technology)
Memory Bus
1. DDR II
2. DDR II (
)
DDR II
Dual Channel Technology (SS DS )
2
4
DDR II 1 DDR II 2 DDR II3 DDR II 4
DS/SS X DS/SS X
X DS/SS X DS/SS
DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS
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1-5
1.
2. ( )
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. BIOS
8.
PCI Express x 16
/
PCI Express x 16
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1-6
PS/2 PS/2
PS/2 ( )
( )
COAXIAL (SPDIF )
SPDIF AC-3
AC-3 (SPDIF In)
OPTICAL (SPDIF )
SPDIF AC-3
AC-3 (SPDIF In)
A
Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Mbps
(USB)
USB USB /USB USB USB
USB
( )
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/
/
2-/4-/6-/8-
1-7
10) F_PANEL
11) F_AUDIO
12) CD_IN
13) SPDIF_IN
14) F_USB1 / F_USB2 / F_USB3
15) CLR_CMOS
16) CI
17) RF_ID
9
5
6
11
12
7
4
14
13
16
15
8
1) ATX_12V
2) ATX (Power Connector)
3) CPU_FAN
4) SYS_FAN
5) FDD
6) IDE1 / IDE2
7) SATAII0_1 / SATAII2_3
8) PWR_LED
9) BATTERY
2
1017
1
3
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1/2) ATX_12V / ATX (2x2 pin ATX_12V / 2x12 pin ATX)
ATX_12V CPU ATX_12V
(300
)
ATX 24 ATX
20
1
2
3 +12V
4 +12V
1 3.3V
2 3.3V
3
4 +5V
5
6 +5V
7
8
9 5V SB (stand by +5V)
10 +12V
11 +12V
12 3.3V( 24
)
13 3.3V
14 -12V
15
16 PS_ON(soft On/Off)
17
18
19
20 -5V
21 +5V
22 +5V
23 +5V
24
3
1
4
2
13 1
24 12
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3/4) CPU_FAN / SYS_FAN( )
+12V 3-pin/4pin( CPU_FAN
)
+12V (GND)
CPU
1
2 +12V
3
4
(CPU_FAN )
5) FDD ( )
360KB 720KB 1.2MB 1.44MB 2.88MB
1
2
33
34
CPU_FAN
SYS_FAN
1
1
/