GA-EP35C-DS3R

Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R Owner's manual

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GA-EP35C-DS3R
LGA775
Intel® CoreTM / Intel® Pentium® /
Intel® Celeron®
Rev. 2101
12MC-EP35CDS3R-2101R
Dec. 21, 2007
Motherboard
GA-EP35C-DS3R
Motherboard
GA-EP35C-DS3R
Dec. 21, 2007
© 2007
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http://www.gigabyte.tw/
REV : X.X X.X
REV : 1.0 1.0 BIOS
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GA-EP35C-DS3R ............................................................................. 7
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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 SATA .................................................................................. 19
1-7 ................................................................................... 20
1-8 ....................................................................................... 22
BIOS ....................................................................................... 35
2-1 ..................................................................................................... 36
2-2 BIOS .............................................................................. 37
2-3 Standard CMOS Features ( CMOS ) ........................................... 39
2-4 Advanced BIOS Features ( BIOS ) ..................................... 41
2-5 Integrated Peripherals ( ) ....................................................... 43
2-6 Power Management Setup ( ) ............................................... 46
2-7 PnP/PCI Configurations ( PCI ) ............................. 48
2-8 PC Health Status ( ) ............................................................. 49
2-9 MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) ( / ) ...................................... 50
2-10 Load Fail-Safe Defaults ( ) ............................................ 54
2-11 Load Optimized Defaults ( ) .......................................... 54
2-12 Set Supervisor/User Password ( /) ................... 55
2-13 Save & Exit Setup ( ) ................................ 56
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2-14 Exit Without Saving ( ) ........................... 56
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3-1 ............................................................................... 57
3-2 ............................................................................................ 58
3-3 ................................................................................... 58
3-4 ..................................................................................................... 59
3-5 ................................................................................................. 59
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4-1 Xpress Recovery2 ............................................................................... 61
4-2 BIOS .................................................................................. 66
4-2-1 Q-Flash BIOS................................................................... 66
4-2-2 @BIOS BIOS ......................................................................... 69
4-3 EasyTune 5 Pro ................................................................................... 71
4-4 (Dynamic Energy Saver) ................................................ 72
4-5 Windows Vista ReadyBoost ................................................................. 74
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5-1 Serial ATA ........................................................................... 75
5-1-1 Intel® ICH9R SATA ........................................................... 75
5-1-2 GIGABYTE SATA2 .......................................................... 81
5-1-3 SATA RAID/AHCI ..... 87
5-1-4 SATA RAID/AHCI ........................................ 88
5-2 /........................................................................ 96
5-2-1 2 / 4 / 5.1 / 7.1 ............................................................................... 96
5-2-2 (S/PDIF )( ) ................................................. 98
5-2-3 .......................................................................................... 100
5-2-4 .......................................................................................... 102
5-3 ................................................................................................... 103
5-3-1 .............................................................................................................. 103
5-3-2 ......................................................................................................... 104
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2USB 2.0 ( 12CR1-1UB030-51R)
(S/PDIF ) ( 12CR1-1SPDIN-01R)
2SATA ( 12CF1-2SERPW-01R)
( 12CF1-1CM001-32R)
( 12CF1-1LP001-01R)
GA-EP35C-DS3R - 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
Intel® LGA775 CPU - 1
IDE - 1 - 1
SATA 3Gb/s - 4
SATA - 1
I/O - 1
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GA-EP35C-DS3R
KB_MS
LGA775
ATX
GA-EP35C-DS3R
CD_IN
F_AUDIO
FDD
PCIE_16
PCIE_1
CODEC
GIGABYTE
SATA2
SPDIF_I
DDRII1
DDRII2
DDRIII1
DDRIII2
PWR_FAN
LPTCOMA
PCI2
PCI3
BAT
SATAII2
F_PANEL
IT8718
RTL8111B
ATX_12V
Intel® P35
PWR_LED
AUDIO
R_USB1
USB
LAN
RCA
SPDIF
PCIE_2 SATAII3
SATAII4
SATAII5
PCIE_3
IDE1
CLR_CMOS
CI
M_BIOS
SYS_FAN1
SYS_FAN2
CPU_FAN
SATAII0
SATAII1
F_USB1F_USB2
DDRII3
DDRII4
PCI1
SPDIF_O
Intel®
ICH9R
R_USB2
R_USB3
GSATAII1
GSATAII0
B_BIOS
PHASE LED
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Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out
LGA775
Processor
Host
Interface
Intel®
P35
MCH CLK
(400 (O.C.)/333/266/200 MHz)
DDR2 1200 (O.C.)/1066/
800/667 MHz
Intel®
ICH9R
3 PCI
PCI Bus
PCI Express Bus
Dual Channel Memory
Realtek
8111B
x1
LAN
RJ45
PCI CLK
(33 MHz)
12 USB Ports
2 SATA 3Gb/s
ATA-133/100/66/
33 IDE Channel
GIGABYTE
SATA2
IT8718
Floppy
PS/2 KB/Mouse
LPT Port
COM Port
CPU CLK+/-
(400 (O.C.)/333/266/200 MHz)
Line-Out
MIC
Line-In
SPDIF In
SPDIF Out
Side Speaker Out
Surround Speaker Out
CODEC
PCIe CLK
(100 MHz)
x1
PCIe CLK
(100 MHz)
PCI Express x16
x1 x1
DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz
Dual Channel Memory
6 SATA 3Gb/s
Dual BIOS
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1-1
(CPU)
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1-2
(CPU) LGA775 Intel® CoreTM 2 Extreme /
Intel® CoreTM 2 Quad / Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo /
Intel® Pentium®/ Intel® Pentium® D /
Intel® Pentium® 4 / Intel® Pentium® 4 /
Intel® Celeron®
( )
L2 CPU
(FSB) 1600 (O.C.)/1333/1066/800 MHz
Intel® P35
Intel® ICH9R
DDR3
-21.5V DDR3 DIMM 4 GB
-
-DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz
DDR2
-41.8V DDR2 DIMM 8 GB ( )
-
-DDR2 1200 (O.C.)/1066/800/667 MHz
(DDR2 DDR3
)
Realtek ALC889A
High Definition Audio
2 / 4 / 5.1 / 7.1
S/PDIF /
CD
Realtek 8111B (10/100/1000 Mbit)
1PCI Express x16
3PCI Express x1
3PCI
-6SATA 3Gb/s (SATAII0 SATAII1 SATAII2 SATAII3
SATAII4 SATAII5) 6SATA 3Gb/s
- SATA RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10
iTE IT8718
- 1 1
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GIGABYTE SATA2
-1IDE ATA-133/100/66/33
2IDE
-2SATA 3Gb/s (GSATAII0 GSATAII1)
2SATA 3Gb/s
- SATA RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD
USB
12 USB 2.0/1.1 (8 4
USB )
124-pin ATX
14-pin ATX 12 V
1
1IDE
8SATA 3Gb/s
1CPU
2
1
1
1
1
1S/PDIF
1S/PDIF
2USB 2.0/1.1
1
1
1
1
1PS/2
1PS/2
1S/PDIF
1S/PDIF
8USB 2.0/1.1
1RJ-45
6 ( / / /
/ / )
I/O iTE IT8718
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( ) Windows XP 32-bit 4 GB
4 GB
( ) CPU CPU
() EasyTune
( ) Intel ICH9R RAID Windows 2000
CPU/
CPU/ /
CPU
CPU/ /
CPU ( )
BIOS 28 Mbit flash
AWARD BIOS
Dual BIOSTM
PnP 1.0a DMI 2.0 SM BIOS 2.4 ACPI 1.0b
@BIOS
Download Center
Q-Flash
EasyTune ( )
Xpress Install
Xpress Recovery2
Virtual Dual BIOS
Norton Internet Security (OEM )
Microsoft® Windows® Vista/XP/2000 ( )
ATX 30.5 x 24.5
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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
LGA775 CPU
CPU
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B. CPU CPU
CPU
CPU CPU
( ) CPU
(CPU
)
CPU
CPU
CPU CPU
CPU
CPU
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CPU CPU
CPU CPU
CPU
' '
(
)
CPU (CPU_FAN)
CPU
1-3-2
CPU CPU (Intel®)
(
)
CPU
GA-EP35C-DS3R - 16 -
1-4
( )
DDR2 DDR3
1-4-1
4DDR2 2DDR3
(Dual Channel Technology) BIOS
4DDR2 (Channel)
0 (Channel 0) DDRII1 DDRII2 ( 12)
1 (Channel 1) DDRII3 DDRII4 ( 34)
2DDR3 (Channel)
0 (Channel 0) DDRIII1
1 (Channel 1) DDRIII2
DDR2
1. DDR2
2. DDR2
( ) DDR2
POST
Flex Memory Mode Intel® Flex (Intel® Flex Memory Technology)
/
2
4
DDRII1 DDRII2 DDRII3 DDRII4
DS/SS - - DS/SS - -
- - DS/SS - - DS/SS
DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS
DDR2
(SS DS -- )
DDRII1
DDRII2
DDRII3
DDRII4
DDRIII1
DDRIII2
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1-4-2
DDR2
DDR2/DDR3
DDR2 DDR3 DDR DDR
DDR2 DDR3
DDR3
1. DDR3
2. DDR3 DDR3
(DDRIII1 DDRIII2) (
)
DDR3
DDR2
DDR3
DDR2
DDR3
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1-5
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. BIOS
7.
/PCI Express x16
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x1
PCI
PCI Express x16
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1-6 SATA
SATA SATA SATA
SATA SATA
SATA SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA SATA
SATA SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA SATA SATA
SATA SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA SATA
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* S/PDIF S/PDIF
1-7
PS/2 PS/2
PS/2
( ) ( )
S/PDIF
S/PDIF
USB
USB 2.0/1.1 USB USB
/USB USB
(RJ-45)
(Gigabit Ethernet)
1 GB (1 Gbps)
/
1 Gpbs
100 Mpbs
10 Mpbs
/
*
/