Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product I925XE Intel
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iii 80 P or t F r equently Asked Questions Below is a list of some basic POST Codes, possible problems and solutions. For more detailed information about POST Codes, refer to Appendix D in this manual. P O S T CODE P ro b l em S o lut i on FFh o r CFh 1 .
iv T able of Contents Section 1 Introduction Package Contents ...................................................... 1- 1 Mainboard Features ................................................... 1- 2 System Block Diagram ................................
v PC Health Status ........................................................ 4 - 1 7 Power BIOS Features ................................................. 4- 19 Defaults Menu ........................................................... 4- 22 Supervisor/User Password Setting .
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Introduction Page 1-1 Section 1 INTRODUCTION 1-1 Package Contents Contents A. Mainboard B . User’ s manual C . Floppy drive cable D . HDD drive cable E . CD (drivers and utilities) F . I/O Shield G . S-A T A data and power cable H . Game & COM bracket cable I .
Introduction Page 1-2 1-2 Mainboard Features Brief Introduction Intel ® Pentium ® 4 processors The Pentium 4 processor is designed to deliver performance across applications and usages where end-users can truly appreciate and experience the performance.
Introduction Page 1-3 Hardware Monitoring Hardware monitoring enables you to monitor various aspects of the system opera- tion and status. This include s CPU temperature, voltage and fan speed in RPMs. Dual GbE LAN T wo Gigabit-LAN controllers onboard running on the PCI-Express bus.
Introduction Page 1-4 Special Features & Magic Health Reports your system hardware status for every boot-up to help detect faults early. Monitor hardware status including CPU temperature, CPU/Memory/ Chipset voltage, fan RPM speed for chassis fan, CPU fan & Power supply fan.
Introduction Page 1-5 & SP-A T A A S-A T A to IDE conversion device includes in this package. Older IDE hard- drives can now be plugged to new Serial-A T A interface through this transition kit. SP-A T A even works for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives. & PISTON V Achieve ultimate overclocking with revolutionary 5-phase switching power.
Introduction Page 1-6 1-2 System Block Diagram.
Specification Page 2-1 Section 2 SPECIFICA TION Mainboard Specification Processor Support Intel ® Pentium 4 ® 5xx, 6xx and P4EE series processors up to 3.8+ GHz in LGA775 socket with 533/800 /1066 MHz front-side system bus Support Intel ® Celeron D ® 3xx series processors up to 3.
Specification Page 2-2 S-A T A RAID Four S-A T A ports with up to 150MBps bandwidth from ICH6R with RAID 0,1 support with Hot-Plug support LAN Tw o Gb Ethernet from onboard Marvell 88E8053 PCI.
Specification Page 2-3 BIOS Flash EEPROM with A ward Plug&Play BIOS Support ACPI S3 (Suspend T o RAM) mode in ACPI compliant O/S Support EZ Boot for fast bootable device selection .
Specification Page 2-4 Front Panel Controller Supports Reset & Soft-Off switches Supports HDD & Power LEDs Supports PC speaker Supports Front Panel Audio connector Special Feat.
Installation Page 3-1 Mainboard Layout Section 3 INST ALLA TION.
Installation Page 3-2 Easy Installation Procedure The following must be completed before powering on your new system: 3-1. CPU Installation 3-2. Jumper Settings 3-3. System Memory 3-4. Expansion Slots 3-5. Device Connectors 3-1 CPU Installation <Figure 1> Step 1 Carefully remove the plastic protection plate from the socket.
Installation Page 3-3 Step 4 a) Put the CPU lid on the socket, and close the socket by lowering and locking the actuation lever. b) Apply thermal compound to the top of the CPU and into the four holes around CPU area to install the cooler as shown. <Figure 6> Step 5 Place the CPU cooler on top of the socket.
Installation Page 3-4 3-2 Jumper Settings 1 JCMOS: Settings: 1-2: Normal (Default) 2-3: Clear CMOS Clear CMOS data Jumper If the CMOS data becomes corrupted or you forgot the supervisor or user password, clear the CMOS data to reconfigure the system back to the default values stored in the ROM BIOS.
Installation Page 3-5 3-3 System Memor y Configuration The mainboard accommodates four 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets. • Supports up to 4.0GB of 400/533MHz DDR2 SDRAM. • Supports dual channel memory interface. • Supports non-ECC memory and non-Registered DIMMs only.
Installation Page 3-6 Memory configurations supported: M M I D 1 ) t i b - 4 6 ( M M I D 2 ) t i b - 8 2 1 ( M M I D 3 ) t i b - 8 2 1 ( M M I D 4 ) t i b - 8 2 1 ( 1 # M M I DS D / S SS D / S SS D / .
Installation Page 3-7 3-4 Expansion Slots PCI-E Slots The mainboard is equipped with two PCI-E*1 compliant with PCI Express 1.0a. PCI-E VGA Slots The elongated PCI-E*16 is intended for PCI-E VGA card installation. PCI Slots The mainboard is equipped with three PCI slots.
Installation Page 3-8 JCPU_F AN / JPWR_F AN / JSYS_F AN: CPU/Power/Chassis Fan Power Connectors JCPU_F AN: The CPU must be kept cool by using a heatsink with fan assembly. JPWR_F AN: If you are installing an additional fan in the unit, connect to this fan connector.
Installation Page 3-9 FDD : Floppy Controller Connector IDE1: A T A-66/100 IDE Connector Supports up to 2 IDE devices from embedded IDE controller . PW1 IDE1 FDD PW2 When using two IDE drives, one must be set to Master mode and the other to Slave mode.
Installation Page 3-10 SPDIF: Sony/Philips Digital InterFace connector This connector links digital audio between the mainboard and your audio devices, such as CD player , sampler or DA T recorder . It allows the digital transmission of audio data in S/PDIF format.
Installation Page 3-11 GAME1: Game/MIDI connector This port works well with any application that is compatible with the standard PC joystick. COM2: Serial Port Connector The serial port can be used with modems, serial printers, remote display terminals, and other serial device.
Installation Page 3-12 LED4 LED2 LED3 LEDION : Onboard LED indicators to show the power status of CPU, Chipset and DRAM. Y ou know immediately where to look if the system fails to start.
Installation Page 3-13 LED1: 80 Port Debug LED Provides two-digit POST code to show why the system fail to boot. Allows quick and easy optimization. The LED will display the CPU temperature when you run the bundled USDM software. 80 Port Debug 7-segment LED display (Refer to Appendix D for POST codes) CUSB3/CUSB4: Four USB 2.
Installation Page 3-14 CFP: Front Panel Connector HD_LED This LED will light up whenever the hard drive is being accessed. PWR_LED This connects to the power bu.
Installation Page 3-15 3-6 T T T T T her her her her her mo Stic mo Stic mo Stic mo Stic mo Stic k Function k Function k Function k Function k Function This mainboard is equipped with a digital thermometer capability to monitor any temperature.
Installation Page 3-16 3-8 Exter nal Modem Ring-in Po wer ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO) Modem-Ring Power ON Function The mainboard supports External Modem Ring-in Power ON function. Once you connect an external modem to COM1 or COM2, you can turn on the system through remote and host dial-up control.
Installation Page 3-17 3-9 ACPI S3 (Suspend T o RAM) Function This mainboard supports the STR (Suspend T o RAM) power management scheme by maintaining the appropriate power states in the RAM interface signals. The power source to the RAM is kept active during STR (ACPI S3).
Installation Page 3-18.
BIOS Page 4-1 Section 4 BIOS SETUP Main Menu The ROM BIOS contains a built-in Setup program which allows user to modify the basic system configuration and hardware parameters. The modified data is stored in a battery-backed CMOS, so that data will be retained even when the power is turned off.
BIOS Page 4-2 The main menu displays all the major selection items. Select the item you need to reconfigure. The selection is made by moving the cursor (press any direction (arrow key ) to the item and pressing the ‘Enter’ key.
BIOS Page 4-3 4-2 Advanced BIOS Features Selecting the “ADV ANCED BIOS FEA TURES” option in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY menu allows users to change system related parameters in the displayed menu. This menu shows all of the manufacturer ’ s default values for the board.
BIOS Page 4-4 CPU L3 Cache This controls the status of the processor ’ s internal Level Three cache. Options: Enables, Disabled. Hyper-Threading T echnology Enables the CPU Hyper-Threading T echnology . Options: Enables, Disabled. It is recommend to enable Hyper-Thr eading T echnology on system with Windows XP and Linux 2.
BIOS Page 4-5 APIC Mode This item allows you to enable APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) functionality. APIC is an Intel chip that provides symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) for its Pentium systems. Options: Enabled, Disabled. HDD S.M.A.
BIOS Page 4-6 DRAM Timing Selectable For setting DRAM Timing, select By SPD to follow Intel PC DDR SDRAM Serial Presence Detect Specification. Options: Manual, By SPD. CAS Latency Time This item specifies the number of clock cycles needed after a Column Address Strobe (CAS) signal before data can be read.
BIOS Page 4-7 4-4 Integrated Peripherals Figure 5: Integrated Peripherals Marvell Lan Boot ROM Enable/disable the onboard Marvell Lan Boot ROM. Options: Enabled, Disabled. PCI Express Function Scroll to PCI Express Function and press <Enter>. The following screen appears: PCI Express Slot 1/2 PCI-E device disabled function.
BIOS Page 4-8 On-Chip IDE Devices Scroll to On-Chip IDE Devices and press <Enter>. The following screen appears: IDE HDD Block Mode IDE Block Mode allows the controller to access blocks of sectors rather than a single sector at a time. The default is Enabled.
BIOS Page 4-9 IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Select the mode of operation for the IDE drive. Ultra DMA-33/66/100 implementa- tion is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environ- ment includes a DMA driver.
BIOS Page 4-10 Onboard Devices Setup Scroll to Onboard Devices Setup and press <Enter>. The following screen appears: USB Controller Enables the USB controller. Options: Disabled, Enabled. USB 2.0 Controller Enables the EHCI (USB2.0) controller.
BIOS Page 4-11 SuperIO Devices Scroll to SuperIO Devices and press <Enter>. The following screen appears: Onboard FDC Controller Select “Enabled” if you wish to use onboard floppy disk controller (FDC). If you install an external FDC or the system has no floppy drive, select “Disabled “in this field.
BIOS Page 4-12 4-5 Power Management Setup Choose the “POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP” in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY to display the following screen. This menu allows the user to modify the power management parameters and IRQ signals. In general, these parameters should not be changed unless it’ s absolutely necessary .
BIOS Page 4-13 POWER ON Function Enables computer power on by keyboard, mouse, or hotkey activity. Password: Requires you to enter a password when using the keyboard to power on. Set the password in the next field “KB Power ON Password.” Hot KEY: Enables you to use a hot key combination to power on the computer.
BIOS Page 4-14 Max. saving : Maximum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 minute in each mode. Min. saving : Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 hour in each mode. User define : Allows user to define PM Timers parameters to control power saving mode.
BIOS Page 4-15 Power On by Ring When enabled, any modem activity awakens the system from soft-off state. Options: Enabled, Disabled. USB Wake-Up From S3 This item allows a USB device to wake-up the system from S3 suspend state. Options: Enabled, Disabled.
BIOS Page 4-16 Init Display First This item is used to select whether to initialize the VGA or PCI first when the system boots. Options: PCI Slot, PCIEx. Resources Controlled By Determines what controls system PNP/PCI resources. The default is Auto (ESCD).
BIOS Page 4-17 4-7 PC Health Status Figure 8: PC Health Status Show PC Health in POST When this function is enabled the PC Health information is displayed during the POST (Power On Self T est).
BIOS Page 4-18 1.5V The voltage level of power supplied to VGA card. VDIMM(V) The voltage level of the DRAM. VBA T(V) The voltage level of the battery.
BIOS Page 4-19 4-8 Power BIOS Features This page lets you adjust various parameters to obtain improved performance for overclocking. W arning : Overclocking requires expert knowledge and risks permanent damage to system components. W e recommend you leave these parameters at their default values for proper operation.
BIOS Page 4-20 CPU CLOCK/SPEED Enables you to increment the CPU’ s clock generator at 1MHz step. This works together with CPU Clock Ratio (below) to set the CPU operating frequency. CPU Clock Generator x CPU Clock Ratio = CPU Frequency For example, if you have a processor that is rated at 2.
BIOS Page 4-21 Key in the DEC (decimal) number for the PCI Express subtle tuning. System Memory Frequency Enables you to select a ratio of the DDR2 DRAM to match the installed DRAM frequency 400/533MHz. W e recommend that you leave this item at the default value.
BIOS Page 4-22 In the following items, “Default V oltage” indicates the original factory value, and “New V oltage” indicates the value that you assign. CPU Vcore V oltage This item allows you to adjust the CPU Vcore voltage.
BIOS Page 4-23 4-10 Super visor/User Pass wor d Setting This function lets you set either Supervisor or User Password, or both, to prevent unauthorized changes to BIOS menus. supervisor password: full rights to enter and change options of the setup menus.
BIOS Page 4-24 4-11 Exiting BIOS Save & Exit Setup Pressing <Enter> on this item asks for confirmation: Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? Y Pressing “Y” stores the selections made in the menus in CMOS – a special section of memory that stays on after you turn your system off.
RAID Configuration Page 5-1 Section 5 RAID CONFIGURA TION Introduction This section gives a brief introduction on RAID-related background knowledge and a general procedure to setup RAID system on this mainboard.
RAID Configuration Page 5-2 RAID 0 (Striping) RAID 0 reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives. If any disk member fails, it affects the entire array. The disk array data capacity is equal to the number of drive members times the capacity of the smallest member.
RAID Configuration Page 5-3 Intel ICH6R RAID features Intel ICH6R RAID features Intel ICH6R RAID features Intel ICH6R RAID features Intel ICH6R RAID features • Support RAID 0, 1 • RAID 1 spare and.
RAID Configuration Page 5-4 Enable RAID Function For any RAID controller, the general procedure to setup a RAID system is shown below: Step 1: Create RAID Array RAID arrays are created using the RAID controller ’ s BIOS utility . For Intel ICH6R 1 .
RAID Configuration Page 5-5 Step 2: Prepare driver floppy When installing W indows XP/2000/NT4.0 into any RAID disk, the O/S setup will require a floppy disk containing the RAID driver. This step will show you how to prepare this driver floppy. There are 2 methods: Method 1 1 .
RAID Configuration Page 5-6 Step 4: Install Software utility for Windows After the O/S has been installed, you may install the RAID controller ’ s driver and software. The RAID software is a W indows-based utility with graphical user interface that provides an easy operating tool to configure and manage RAID arrays.
Drivers Installation Page 6-1 Section 6 DRIVER INST ALLA TION Easy Driver Installation Insert the bundled CD into the CD-ROM and the main menu screen will appear. The main menu displays links to the supported drivers, utilities and software. Method 1 This item installs all drivers automatically.
Drivers Installation Page 6-2 Realtek Sound Manager Quick User-guide Introduction To obtain the best performance from your audio system, run the "Sound Manager" utility to adjust the settings to suit your needs. This section of the manual is intended to provide a quick user-guide to setup "Sound Manager".
Drivers Installation Page 6-3 Speaker Configuration: <Figure 3> 3 . This page displays the mainboards's phone jack function when a corresponding audio mode is selected. Figure 3 above shows the phone jack setup for 8 channel mode. 4 . This page lets you test the 3D Positional Audio features.
Drivers Installation Page 6-4 <Figure 6> SPDIF: 6 . This page shows S/PDIF-Out function on your system. S/PDIF-Out: Choose the type of audio source that will appear on the S/PDIF- out connector. 5 . This page displays information regarding the audio hardware and software.
Drivers Installation Page 6-5 7 . This mainboard is equipped with jack re-tasking feature for Front Panel audio. Simply plug Microphone/ Line-out into any front panel jack and it will work. <Figure 7> Audio Wizard: 8 . Figure 8 below shows the back panel audio.
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Appendix A-1 Appendix A A-1 Update Y our System BIOS Download the xxxxx.EXE file corresponding to your model from our website to an empty directory on your hard disk or floppy. Run the downloaded xxxxx.EXE file and it will self extract. Copy these extracted files to a bootable floppy disk.
Appendix A-2 5. Key in File Name to save previous BIOS to file. 6. T o confirm and proceed, please key in [Y] to start the programming. 7. The BIOS update is finished. xxxxx.bin F1 : Reset F10 : Exit XXXXX XXXX xxxxx.bin xxxxx.bin XXXXX XXXX xxxxx.bin xxxxx.
Appendix B-1 Appendix B B-1 Intel ® Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM This Appendix describes the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM for creating a RAID array on SA T A hard drives attached to ICH6R.
Appendix B-2 3. Click Y to confirm. Note: Option #3 “Reset Hard Drives to Non-RAID” may also be used to delete a RAID volume. This mechanism is provided as a way to reset one or more SA T A hard drives to non-RAID status, essentially deleting all metadata on the hard drives.
Appendix C-1 C-1 Intel Matrix RAID Quick Guide This Appendix provides necessary steps to build a system with Intel Matrix RAID T echnology combining both RAID 1 and RAID 0 volume on just two SA T A hard drives. This special RAID array allows both fault tolerance and speed for optimum performance.
Appendix C-2 1 . Insert the bundled CD the CD-ROM drive. 2 . Boot the system from the CD-ROM drive. 3 . A menu of various RAID controllers will appear. Look for the Intel ICH6R RAID driver. 4 . Insert a blank floppy into the A:drive 5 . Select the ICH6R driver to begin the copy into floppy drive.
Appendix C-3 disks, re-type the size to be half of what is shown by default. The second volume, when created, will automatically span the remainder of the two hard drives. 3.6. Press enter again to create the volume, press ‘Y’ to confirm. 3.7. Exit the Option ROM User Interface by selecting #4 in the main menu and ‘Y’ to confirm.
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Appendix D-1 Appendix D D-1 POST CODES POST (hex) DESCRIPTION CF h T est CMOS R/W functionality . C0h Early chipset initialization: - Disable shadow RAM - Disable L2 cache (socket 7 or below) - Program basic chipset registers C1h Detect memory - Auto-detection of DRAM size, type and ECC.
Appendix D-2 1 8 h Detect CPU information including brand, SMI type (Cyrix or Intel) and CPU level (586 or 686). 19-1Ah Reserved 1Bh Initial interrupts vector table. If no special specified, all H/W interrupts are directed to SPURIOUS_INT_HDLR & S/W interrupts to SPURIOUS_soft_HDLR.
Appendix D-3 43 h T est 8259 functionality . 4 4 h Reserved 45-46h Reserved 4 7 h Initialize EISA slot 4 8 h Reserved 4 9 h 1 . Calculate total memory by testing the last double word of each 64K page. 2 . Program writes allocation for AMD K5 CPU. 4A-4Dh Reserved 4E h 1.
Appendix D-4 6 E h Reserved 6Fh 1. Initialize floppy controller 2 . Set up floppy related fields in 40:hardware. 70-72h Reserved 7 3 h (Optional Feature) Enter A WDFLASH.EXE if : -A WDFLASH is found in floppy drive. -AL T+F2 is pressed 7 4 h Reserved 7 5 h Detect & install all IDE devices: HDD, LS120, ZIP, CDROM….
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