Intel P55 Manuals

USER'S MANUAL Of Intel P55 Express Chipset Based M/B for Intel LGA 1156 Processors Trademark: * Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer. NO. G03-XBLUEP55-F Rev: 1.0 Release date: Aug., 2009 i Environmental Protection Announcement Do not dispose this electronic device into the trash while discarding. To minimize pollution and ensure environment protection of mother earth, please recycle. ii ENVIROMENTAL SAFETY INSTRUCTION................................................................iii USER’S NOTICE .........................................................................................................iv MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION.........................................................................iv COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................iv CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF P55 EXPRESS CHIPSET MOTHERBOARDS 1-1 FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD .............................................................................1 1-1.1 SPECIAL FEATURES OF MOTHERBOARD ...............................................2 1-2 SPECIFICATION.........................................................................................................4 1-3 PERFORMANCE LIST................................................................................................5 1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM....................................................................................................6 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS.......................................................................8 2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING................................................8 2-3 INSTALLING CPU.......................................................................................................9 2-3-1 GLOSSARY...................................................................................................9 2-3-2 ABOUT INTEL LGA 1156 CPU SOCKET.................................................10 2-3-3 LGA 1156 CPU INSTALLATION GUIDE......................................................11 2-3-4 INTEL REFERENCE THERMAL SOLUTION ASSEMBLY..........................13 2-4 INSTALLING MEMORY..............................................................................................14 2-5 EXPANSION CARDS..................................................................................................15 2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION..........................15 2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................................15 2-5-3 PCI-EXPRESS SLOT.....................................................................................16 2-5-4 INSTALLING THE CROSSFIRE/SLI BRIDGE CARD ..................................17 2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS........................................................................................18 2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................18 2-6-2 HEADERS .....................................................................................................21 2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ...........................................................................24 CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS 3-1 ENTERING SETUP .....................................................................................................25 3-2 GETTING HELP ..........................................................................................................25 3-3 THE MAIN MENU........................................................................................................26 3-4 STANDARD BIOS FEATURES ..................................................................................27 3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES ..................................................................................28 3-5-1 CPU FEATURES ...........................................................................................29 3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES ...........................................................................30 3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...................................................................................30 3-7-1 ONBOARD SATA FUNCTION......................................................................31 3-7-2 ONBOARD DEVICE FUNCTIONS................................................................31 3-7-3 ONBOARD SUPER IO FUNCTION ..............................................................32 3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP...............................................................................32 3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION.......................................................................................33 3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS.................................................................................................34 3-10-1 SMART FAN CONFIGURATION...............................................................34 3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL...................................................................................35 3-12 PASSWORD SETTINGS.............................................................................................36 3-13 LOAD OPTIMAL DEFAULTS/LOAD STANDARD DEFAULTS ................................37 3-14 SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT/ DISCARD CHANGES AND EXIT................................37 CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA/7 ............................................37 4-1 INF INSTALL INTELP55 CHIPSET SYSTEM DRIVER...................................38 4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER............................................39 4-2 SOUND INSTALL ALC 888 HD AUDIO CODEC DRIVER.....................................40 4-4 LAN INSTALL REALTEK GIGABIT ETHERNET NIC DRIVER.........................41 4-5 RAID INSTALL JMICRON AHCI/RAID DRIVER ..............................................41 4-6 NORTON INSTALL NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2009 ..................................42 4-7 PC-HEALTH INSTALL MYGUARD HARDWARE MONITOR UTILITY ..................42 4-8 RAID DISK INSTALL JMICRON AHCI/RAID DISK .............................................43 4-9 AHCI/RAID INSTALL INTEL AHCI /RAID DRIVER...............................................43 4-10 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ............................................................................................44 4-11 INTEL PLATFORM RAID FUNCTION INTRODUCTION...........................................45 TABLE OF CONTENT iii 4-12 PRO MAGIC PLUS FUNCTION INTRODUCTION.....................................................48 4-13 G.P.I.FUNCTION LED DISPLAY ................................................................................49 Environmental Safety Instruction � Avoid the dusty, humidity and temperature extremes. Do not place the product in any area where it may become wet. � 0 to 40 centigrade is the suitable temperature. (The figure comes from the request of the main chipset) � Generally speaking, dramatic changes in temperature may lead to contact malfunction and crackles due to constant thermal expansion and contraction from the welding spots’ that connect components and PCB. Computer should go through an adaptive phase before it boots when it is moved from a cold environment to a warmer one to avoid condensation phenomenon. These water drops attached on PCB or the surface of the components can bring about phenomena as minor as computer instability resulted from corrosion and oxidation from components and PCB or as major as short circuit that can burn the components. Suggest starting the computer until the temperature goes up. � The increasing temperature of the capacitor may decrease the life of computer. Using the close case may decrease the life of other device because the higher temperature in the inner of the case. � Attention to the heat sink when you over-clocking. The higher temperature may decrease the life of the device and burned the capacitor.