Abit GD8, User Manual

Page 1: ...GD8 Series GD8 GD8 V GD8 M GD8 MV Intel Pentium 4 System Board Socket 775 User s Manual 4200 0434 01 Rev 1 00 ...

Page 2: ...al or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners This document contains materials protected under International Copyright Laws All rights reserved No part of this manua...

Page 3: ...rs Headers 2 11 7 Additional USB Port Headers 2 12 8 Internal Audio Connectors 2 13 9 Floppy and IDE Disk Drive Connectors 2 14 10 Serial ATA Connectors 2 15 11 Status Indicators 2 15 12 PCI Express x16 Slot 2 16 13 PCI Express x1 Slots 2 16 14 Back Panel Connectors 2 17 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 3 1 3 1 SoftMenu Setup 3 2 3 2 Standard CMOS Features 3 4 3 3 Advanced BIOS Features 3 7 3 4 Advanced Chips...

Page 4: ...pendix C Install Audio Driver C 1 Appendix D Install VGA Driver GD8 M GD8 MV D 1 Appendix E Install LAN Driver E 1 Appendix F Install USB 2 0 Driver F 1 Appendix G FlashMenu BIOS Update Utility G 1 Appendix H ABIT EQ The Hardware Doctor Utility H 1 Appendix I Troubleshooting Need Assistance I 1 Appendix J How to Get Technical Support J 1 GD8 Series ...

Page 5: ...tX 9 For models GD8 M GD8 MV only 4 Memory Four 184 pin DIMM slots Un buffered Non ECC DIMM Supports Dual channel DDR 400 333 Max 4GB 5 ABIT Engineered ABIT SoftMenu Technology ABIT CPU ThermalGuard Technology ABIT EQ ABIT Audio EQ ABIT Flash Menu 6 SATA 150 Supports 4 ports SATA 150 7 ATA 133 Onboard Ultra ATA133 PCI controller For models GD8 GD8 M only 8 Audio Onboard 5 1 channel Audio CODEC Aud...

Page 6: ...d 1x PS 2 mouse 1x Serial port 1x Parallel port 1x VGA port For models GD8 M GD8 MV only 1x AUDIO1 connector Rear Left Rear Right Center Subwoofer 1x AUDIO2 connector Mic In Line In Front Left Front Right 2x USB 2 0 connectors 2x USB 2 0 connectors 1x RJ 45 Gigabit LAN connector 12 Miscellaneous ATX form factor 305mm x 245mm Specifications and information contained herein are subject to change wit...

Page 7: ...Introduction 1 3 1 2 Layout Diagram User s Manual ...

Page 8: ...1 4 Chapter 1 1 4 Chapter 1 GD8 Series GD8 Series ...

Page 9: ...he best way to attach the board is to use with studs Only if you are unable to do this should you attach the board with spacers Line up the holes on the board with the mounting holes on the chassis If the holes line up and there are screw holes you can attach the board with studs If the holes line up and there are only slots you can only attach with spacers Take the tip of the spacers and insert t...

Page 10: ...ull it away from the retention tab 2 Rotate the lever to fully open position 3 Use your right thumb on the bottom right side of the load plate and lift it up to fully open position 4 Use your right thumb and forefinger to grasp the CPU package Be sure to grasp on the edge of the substrate and face the Pin 1 indicator toward the bottom left side Aim at the socket and place the CPU package vertical ...

Page 11: ...an assembly onto the socket Align the four fasteners toward the four mounting holes on the motherboard For detailed information on how to install your heatsink and fan assembly please refer to the instruction manual came packed with the heatsink and fan assembly you bought 10 Press each of the four fasteners down into the mounting holes 11 Rotate the fastener clock wise to lock the heatsink and fa...

Page 12: ...patibility obtain memory modules from the same vendor Due to chipset resource allocation the system may detect less than 4GB of system memory in the installation of four 1GB DDR memory modules Due to chipset limitation 128MB DIMM modules or double sided x16 memory chips are not supported There are several methods of different DDR configurations depending on how the DIMMs are populated on each syst...

Page 13: ...B 512MB 256MB 10 256MB 512MB 256MB 512MB Power off the computer and unplug the AC power cord before installing or removing memory modules 1 Locate the DIMM slot on the board 2 Hold two edges of the DIMM module carefully keep away of touching its connectors 3 Align the notch key on the module with the rib on the slot 4 Firmly press the module into the slots until the ejector tabs at both sides of t...

Page 14: ...he board that you may refer to WARNING Always power off the computer and unplug the AC power cord before adding or removing any peripheral or component Failing to so may cause severe damage to your motherboard and or peripherals Plug in the AC power cord only after you have carefully checked everything 1 ATX Power Input Connectors This motherboard provides two power connectors to connect power sup...

Page 15: ...de power to the cooling fans installed in your system CPUFAN1 CPU Fan Power Connector SYSFAN1 System Fan Power Connector AUXFAN1 AUXFAN2 Auxiliary Fan Power Connector WARNING These fan connectors are not jumpers DO NOT place jumper caps on these connectors User s Manual ...

Page 16: ... clear the CMOS memory Pin 1 2 shorted default Normal operation Pin 2 3 shorted Clear CMOS memory WARNING Turn the power off first including the 5V standby power before clearing the CMOS memory Failing to do so may cause your system to work abnormally or malfunction GD8 Series ...

Page 17: ...oard Mouse port Pin 2 3 shorted Enable wake up function support at Keyboard Mouse port USB PWR1 Pin 1 2 shorted default Disable wake up function support at USB1 port Pin 2 3 shorted Enable wake up function support at USB1 port USB PWR2 Pin 1 2 shorted default Disable wake up function support at USB2 port Pin 2 3 shorted Enable wake up function support at USB2 port User s Manual ...

Page 18: ... front panel by the extension cable provided with the chassis To use the audio connector at rear panel disconnect the extension cable attach the jumpers back at pin 5 6 and pin 9 10 default setting Pin Pin Assignment Pin Pin Assignment 1 Audio Mic 2 Ground 3 Audio Mic Bias 4 VCC 5 Speaker Out Right Channel 6 Speaker Out Right Channel Return 7 X 8 NC 9 Speaker Out Left Channel 10 Speaker Out Left C...

Page 19: ...ation will only cause the LED not lighting but a wrong connection of the switches could cause system malfunction HLED Pin 1 3 Connects to the HDD LED cable of chassis front panel RST Pin 5 7 Connects to the Reset Switch cable of chassis front panel SPKR Pin 13 15 17 19 Connects to the System Speaker cable of chassis SLED Pin 2 4 Connects to the Suspend LED cable if there is one of chassis front pa...

Page 20: ...s These headers each provide 2 additional USB 2 0 ports connection through an USB cable designed for USB 2 0 specifications Pin Pin Assignment Pin Pin Assignment 1 VCC 2 VCC 3 Data0 4 Data1 5 Data0 6 Data1 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 NC 10 NC GD8 Series ...

Page 21: ...Hardware Setup 2 13 8 Internal Audio Connectors This connector connects to the audio output of internal CD ROM drive or add on card User s Manual ...

Page 22: ... the floppy connector Port IDE1 connects up to two Ultra ATA 100 IDE drives For models GD8 and GD8 M two additional Ultra ATA 133 100 66 33 IDE ports are supported via IDE2 and IDE3 connectors Connect the single end blue connector at the longer length of ribbon cable to the IDE port of this board the other two ends gray and black connector at the shorter length of the ribbon cable to the connector...

Page 23: ...al ATA cable For more information on how to configure the function mode for SATA please refer to the item On Chip Serial ATA in the BIOS menu of OnChip IDE Device 11 Status Indicators D19 5VSB This LED lights up when the power supply is connected with power source D20 VCC This LED lights up when the system power is on User s Manual ...

Page 24: ...pter 2 12 PCI Express x16 Slot This slot is used to attach the next generation of graphics architecture 13 PCI Express x1 Slots These slots are used to attach the next generation of I O architecture GD8 Series ...

Page 25: ...Connects to the rear left and rear right channel in the 5 1 channel audio system Cen Sub Center Subwoofer Connects to the center and subwoofer channel in the 5 1 channel audio system AUDIO2 Mic In Connects to the plug from external microphone Line In Connects to the line out from external audio sources F L F R Front Left Front Right Connects to the front left and front right channel in the 5 1 cha...

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Page 27: ...mory count begins and then the following message appears on the screen PRESS DEL TO ENTER SETUP If this message disappears before you respond restart the system by pressing Ctrl Alt Del keys or by pressing the Reset button on computer chassis Only when it failed by these two methods can you restart the system by powering it off and then back on After pressing Del key the main menu screen appears N...

Page 28: ... enter the manual option User Define WARNING The wrong settings of the multiplier and external clock in certain circumstances may cause CPU damage Setting the working frequency higher than the PCI chipset or processor specs may cause abnormal memory module functioning system hangs hard disk drive data lose abnormal functioning of the VGA card or abnormal functioning with other add on cards Using n...

Page 29: ... between CPU and DRAM PCI Express Frequency This item determines the frequency for PCI Express Fixed PCI Frequency This item determines the PCI bus frequency This option allows you to keep your PCI clock at some fixed frequency to improve system stability Voltage Control This item selects the voltage supplied to your system To adjust the following items manually select the Manual option CPU Core V...

Page 30: ...mm ss This item sets the time you specify usually the current time in the format of Hour Minute and Second IDE Channel 1 Master Slave IDE Channel 2 Master Slave IDE Channel 3 Master Slave IDE Channel 4 Master Slave Click Enter key to enter its submenu NOTE The items IDE Channel 3 Master Slave and IDE Channel 4 Master Slave appear only when the item On Chip Serial ATA in the OnChip IDE Device menu ...

Page 31: ...ally Capacity This item displays the approximate capacity of the disk drive Usually the size is slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk checking program Cylinder This item configures the numbers of cylinders Head This item configures the numbers of read write heads Precomp This item displays the number of cylinders at which to change the write timing Landing Zone This it...

Page 32: ...t Diskette The system boot will stop for all errors except a diskette error All But Disk Key The system boot will stop for all errors except a diskette or keyboard error Base Memory This item displays the amount of base memory installed in the system The value of the base memory is typically 640K for system with 640K or more memory size installed on the motherboard Extended Memory This item displa...

Page 33: ...pear only when using such processor The Hyper Threading Technology helps your PC work more efficiently by maximizing processor resources and enabling a single processor to run two separate threads of software simultaneously bringing forth greater performance and system responsiveness when running multiple applications at once Quick Power On Self Test When set to Enabled this item speeds up the Pow...

Page 34: ...t Device Second Boot Device and Third Boot Device items respectively The BIOS will boot the operating system according to the sequence of the drive selected Set Boot Other Device to Enabled if you wish to boot from another device other than these three items Boot Up Floppy Seek When set to Enabled the BIOS will check whether the floppy disk drive is installed or not Boot Up NumLock Status This ite...

Page 35: ...delay time A larger value will give more delay time to the device for which to initialize and to prepare for activation Intel OnScreen Branding This item determines whether to display the Intel Inside logo or not at system boots up Disable Unused PCI Clock This option disables the clock of PCI slot that is not in use Yes The system automatically detect the unused DIMM and PCI slots and stop sendin...

Page 36: ...rols the latency between the DRAM read command and the time that the data becomes actually available DRAM RAS to CAS Delay This item controls the latency between the DRAM active command and the read write command DRAM RAS Precharge This item controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to the DRAM Precharge Delay tRAS This item controls the number of DRAM clocks used for the DRAM par...

Page 37: ...ether to initiates from PCI Express Slot or PCI Slot first when system boots up PEG Onchip VGA Control This item selects which one to initiates from Onchip VGA or PEG Port when system boots up Leave this item to its default Auto settings PEG Force X1 When set to Enabled this item forces the PEG port down to x1 mode OnChip Video Memory Size This option specifies the amount of system memory that can...

Page 38: ...ble or disable the IDE 1 controller OnChip Serial ATA This item determines the function for on chip Serial ATA Disabled Disable the Serial ATA controller Auto Allows the Serial ATA controller to be arranged by BIOS automatically Combined Mode Parallel ATA and Serial ATA are combined together Supports up to 4 IDE drives Enhanced Mode Enable both Parallel ATA and Serial ATA Supports up to 6 IDE driv...

Page 39: ... connector served as Secondary Master and Secondary Slave channel The remaining SATA1 and SATA3 connectors are disabled IDE 2 IDE1 connector served as Secondary Master and Secondary Slave channel SATA1 and SATA3 connector served as Primary Master and Primary Slave channel The remaining SATA2 and SATA4 connectors are disabled Refer to the following table for the relationships between IDE and SATA p...

Page 40: ... 2 0 controller USB Keyboard Support Via This item allows you to select BIOS for using USB keyboard in DOS environment or OS in OS environment USB Mouse Support Via This item allows you to select BIOS for using USB mouse in DOS environment or OS in OS environment OnChip Audio Controller This option enables or disables the audio controller SuperIO Device Click Enter key to enter its submenu GD8 Ser...

Page 41: ...lows the parallel port to use 378 IRQ7 as its I O port address The majority of parallel ports on computer systems use IRQ7 and I O Port 378H as the standard setting 278 IRQ5 This option allows the parallel port to use 278 IRQ5 as its I O port address 3BC IRQ7 This option allows the parallel port to use 3BC IRQ7 as its I O port address Parallel Port Mode This item specifies the parallel port mode N...

Page 42: ...disables the LAN controller Invoke Boot Agent This item allows you to use the boot ROM instead of a disk drive to boot up the system and access the local area network directly 3 6 Power Management Setup ACPI Suspend Type This item selects the type of Suspend mode S1 PowerOn Suspend Enables the Power On Suspend function S3 Suspend To RAM Enables the Suspend to RAM function GD8 Series ...

Page 43: ...en a system that has powered down WakeUp by Ring Two options are available Disabled or Enabled The default setting is Disabled When set to Enabled any event affecting from Modem Ring will awaken a system that has powered down WakeUp by Onboard LAN When set to Enabled you can remotely wake up a PC in Soft Off condition via a LAN card that support the wake up function WakeUp by Alarm When set to Ena...

Page 44: ...t with the COM port or USB type Some PS 2 mice cannot wake up the system because of compatible problems If the specs of your keyboard are too old it may fail to power on KB Power ON Password This item sets the password required in order to power on your computer NOTE Do not forget your password or you will have to clear the CMOS and reset all parameters in order to utilize this function again Hot ...

Page 45: ...m sets each system interrupt to either PCI Device or Reserved PCI VGA Palette Snoop This item determines whether the MPEG ISA VESA VGA cards can work with PCI VGA or not Enabled MPEG ISA VESA VGA cards work with PCI VGA Disabled MPEG ISA VESA VGA cards do not work with PCI VGA Allocate IRQ To Video This item assigns an IRQ for the VGA card installed Enabled Automatically assign an IRQ for the VGA ...

Page 46: ...ow long each PCI device can hold the bus before another takes over When set to higher values every PCI device can conduct transactions for a longer time and thus improve the effective PCI bandwidth For better PCI performance you should set the item to higher values PIRQ_0 Use IRQ No PIRQ_7 Use IRQ No This item specifies the IRQ number manually or automatically for the devices installed on PCI slot...

Page 47: ...igh Temp is exceeded CPU FanEQ High Temp CPU FanEQ Low Temp This item sets the temperature limit that would activate the function of CPU FanEQ Control option SYS FanEQ Control This item allows you to control the SYS fan speed down to a specific percentage SYS FanEQ Max Control SYS FanEQ Min Control When set to a specific percentage the SYS fan speed will run at the percentage you set in this item ...

Page 48: ... the current status of the CPU and environment temperatures fan speeds and system power voltage NOTE The hardware monitoring features for temperatures fans and voltages will occupy the I O address from 294H to 297H If you have a network adapter sound card or other add on cards that might use those I O addresses please adjust your add on card I O address to avoid using these addresses 3 9 Load Fail...

Page 49: ... OS please follow its on screen instruction Insert the Driver Utility CD into CD ROM drive it should execute the installation program automatically If not double click the execution file at the main directory of this CD to enter the installation menu After entering the installation menu move your curser to Drivers tab Click Intel Chipset Software Utility The following screen appears 1 Click Next 2...

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Page 51: ...uction Insert the Driver Utility CD into CD ROM drive it should execute the installation program automatically If not double click the execution file at the main directory of this CD to enter the installation menu After entering the installation menu move your curser to Drivers tab Click ITE IDE Controller The following screen appears 1 Click Next 2 Click Continue Anyway 3 Choose Yes I want to res...

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Page 53: ...t double click the execution file at the main directory of this CD to enter the installation menu After entering the installation menu move your curser to Drivers tab Click Audio Driver The following screen appears 1 Click Next 2 Choose Yes I want to restart my computer now and click Finish to complete setup 3 After the system restarted a shortcut icon appears at the right corner of Windows task b...

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Page 55: ... Insert the Driver Utility CD into CD ROM drive it should execute the installation program automatically If not double click the execution file at the main directory of this CD to enter the installation menu After entering the installation menu move your curser to Drivers tab Click VGA Driver The following screen appears 1 Click Next 2 Click Yes 3 Choose Yes I want to restart my computer now and c...

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Page 57: ...lity CD into CD ROM drive it should execute the installation program automatically If not double click the execution file at the main directory of this CD to enter the installation menu After entering the installation menu move your curser to Drivers tab Click LAN Driver The following screen appears 1 Click Install Base Driver 2 Click OK to complete setup Click Exit to exit the installation progra...

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Page 59: ...iver NOTE The USB 2 0 Driver packed in the Driver Utility CD is currently available for Windows 9x and ME only To install this driver for Windows XP or Windows 2000 you have to download their latest service pack first from Microsoft s web site User s Manual ...

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Page 61: ...system For those of other OS please follow its on screen instruction Insert the Driver Utility CD into CD ROM drive it should execute the installation program automatically If not double click the execution file at the main directory of this CD to enter the installation menu After entering the installation menu move your curser to ABIT Utility tab Click FlashMenu The following screen appears 1 Cli...

Page 62: ...G 2 Appendix G 6 This FlashMenu screen appears You can easily update the BIOS from clicking Update From File One Click LiveUpdate or LiveUpdate Step by Step button GD8 Series ...

Page 63: ...Windows XP operating system For those of other OS please follow its on screen instruction Insert the Driver Utility CD into CD ROM drive it should execute the installation program automatically If not double click the execution file at the main directory of this CD to enter the installation menu After entering the installation menu move your curser to ABIT Utility tab Click ABITEQ The following sc...

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Page 65: ...est the following three troubleshooting methods to discharge CMOS data recover the hardware default status and then make the motherboard working again No need to bother returning the motherboard to where you bought from or go through an RMA process Step 1 Switch off the power supply unit and then switch it on again after one minute If there is no power switch on the power supply unit disconnect it...

Page 66: ...y to start the system each time you insert a card until the system will not start Keep the VGA card and the interface card that caused the problem inserted on the motherboard remove any other cards or peripheral and start again If you still cannot start note the information related to both cards in the add on Card space provided and don t forget to indicate the motherboard model version BIOS ident...

Page 67: ...aster Example In the HDD space check the box in the Brand space write Seagate in the Specifications space write ST31621A 1 6GB 8 CD ROM Drive Indicate the brand and specifications of your CD ROM drive Specify if it uses IDE1 or IDE2 and check in case you give no indication we will consider that your CD ROM is IDE2 Master Example In the CD ROM drive space check the box in the Brand space write Mits...

Page 68: ...me Phone Number Contact Person Fax Number E mail Address Model BIOS ID Motherboard Model No DRIVER REV OS Application Hardware Name Brand Specifications CPU HDD IDE1 IDE2 CD ROM Drive IDE1 IDE2 System Memory ADD ON CARD Problem Description GD8 Series ...

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Page 70: ... or refund policies How they serve you is also a good reference for your next purchase 6 Contacting ABIT If you feel that you need to contact ABIT directly you can send email to the ABIT technical support department First please contact the support team for the branch office closest to you They will be more familiar with local conditions and problems and will have better insight as to which resell...

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Page 72: ...p www abit com tw 8 Reporting Compatibility Problems to ABIT Because of tremendous number of email messages we receive every day we are forced to give greater weight to certain types of messages than to others For this reason any compatibility problem that is reported to us giving detailed system configuration information and error symptoms will receive the highest priority For the other questions...