Intel socket 478 processor based mainboard user's manual (96 pages)
Summary of Contents for Intel G41 EXPRESS CHIPSET PMG41-D2
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USER'S MANUAL Intel G41 Express Chipset & Intel ICH7 Chipset Based M/B for LGA 775 Quad Core Ready Intel Core Processor Family PMG41-D2 MB: Rev: 1.0 Manual: Rev: EG100 Release date: Nov., 2009 Trademark: * Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are...
Intel® Core 2 Duo® Processor for those who demand the best experience of personal computing. Through the high bandwidth of dual channel DDR2 533MHz/DDR2 667MHz /DDR2 800 system memories which are expandable to 8GB.
1-1.1 Special Features of Motherboard CPU Thermal Throttling Technology ---(The CPU Overheat Protection Technology) To prevent the increasing heat from damage of CPU or accidental shutdown while at high workload, the CPU Thermal Throttling Technology will force CPU to enter partially idle mode from 87.5% to 12.5% according to preset CPU operating temperature in BIOS (from 40 ℃...
Item Checklist Intel G41 Platform Processor Chipset based motherboard Cable for IDE CD for motherboard utilities Cable for Serial ATA Port Intel G41 Platform Processor Chipset motherboard User’s Manual Back panel Layout Diagram & Jumper Setting KB/MS Power ON Jumper (JP1)
Install LGA 775 Supported Intel Processor This motherboard provides a 775-pin surface mount, LGA775 Land Grid Array socket, referred to as the LGA775 socket supports Intel Pentium 4 processor in the 775 Pin package utilizes Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA) package technology.
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One DIMM Module ----Plug in DIMM1 Two DIMM Modules---Plug in DIMM1 and DIMM2 for Dual channel function For Dual channel Limited! Dual channel function only supports when 2 DIMM Modules plug in either both DIMM1 & DIMM2 DIMM1 & DIMM2 must be the same type, same size, and same frequency for dual channel function.
2-3 Expansion Cards The G41 motherboard series offer one PCI-Express x16 graphics slot of 8Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each relative direction which gets 7 times of bandwidth more than AGP 8X and it’s up to a peak concurrent bandwidth of 16Gbyte/sec at full speed to guarantee the ultimate GPU computing performance.
Connectors, Headers & Jumpers Setting 3-1 Connectors Power Connector (24-pin block): ATXPWR Power Supply This is a new defined 24-pins connector that usually comes with ATX case. The ATX Power Supply allows using soft momentary switch that connect from the front panel switch to 2-pins Power On jumper pole on the motherboard.
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(6) Audio Line-In, Lin-Out, MIC Connector: This Connector is 3 phones Jack for LINE-OUT, LINE-IN, and MIC Line-out: (GREEN) Line-in: (BLUE) MIC: (PINK) (7) Floppy drive Connector (34-pin block): FLOPPY This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting the single plug end to motherboard, connect the two plugs at other end to the floppy drives.
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(9) Serial-ATA Port connector: SATA1 / SATA2 / SATA3/ SATA4 • These connectors support the provided Serial ATA and Serial ATA2 IDE hard disk cable to connecting the motherboard and serial ATA hard disk. (10) Serial COM Port: COM1 COM1 is the 9-pin connector. The On-board serial port can be disabled through BIOS SETUP.
3-2 Headers (1) Line-Out/MIC Header for Front Panel (9-pin): AUDIO This header is connected to Front Panel Line-out, MIC connector with cable. (2) USB Port Headers (9-pin) : USB2 / USB3 These headers are used for connecting the additional USB port plug. By attaching an option USB cable, your can be provided with two additional USB plugs affixed to the back panel.
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(7) Power switch: PWR BTN This 2-pin connector connects to the case-mounted power switch to power ON/OFF the system. (8) FAN Power Headers: SYSFAN1, SYSFAN2 (3-pin), CPUFAN (4-pin) These connectors support cooling fans of 350mA (4.2 Watts) or less, depending on the fan manufacturer, the wire and plug may be different.
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(10) Parallel Port header (25-pin): PARALLEL The On-board Parallel Port can be disabled through the BIOS SETUP. . Pin 1 PARALLEL Connector (11) SPDIF Out header: SPDIF Out The SPDIF output is capable of providing digital audio to external speakers or compressed AC3 data to an external Dolby digital decoder.
MY COMPUTER / double-click CD-ROM drive or click START / click RUN / type X:\INTEL.EXE (assuming X is your CD-ROM drive). The Intel P45 chipset driver only of Windows 2000/ Windows XP/ VISTA/ 7 Windows VISTA/ 7...
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From MENU you may make as selections: 1. INF install Intel INF chipset system driver 2. VGA install VGA chipset driver 3. LAN install LAN Driver 4. SOUND install Audio driver 5. BROWSE CD to browse the contents of the CD...
4-5 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS STEP 1. Prepare a boot floppy SYS A: click OK) STEP 2. Download upgrade tools and the latest BIOS files of the motherboard from official website and then make a copy of it to your bootable decompressing these files STEP 3.
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