Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product PM945GC Intel
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PM945GC (V2.0) Intel ® 945GC & ICH7 Support Socket 775 Intel ® Core TM 2 D uo/ Pe ntium ® D/ Pentium ® 4/ Celeron ® D/ Celeron ® Processo r (The power consumption for the aforementioned processors must be rated at 6 5W or less.
Attention - Im p ortant Informa tion Follow the procedures below… T roubleshooting T ips Refer to other sections in this manual… Things You Have To Know 0 The images and pictures in this manual ar.
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. GETTING STARTED ....................... ............................. 1 I NTRODUCTION .................. ............... ................... ............... ................... ............... .. 1 S PECIFICATION .........
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 1 Chapter 1. Getting Started Introduction Thanks for choosing PM945GC(V2 .0) Mainboard. It is based on Intel ® 945GC Northbridge chipset and Intel ® ICH7 Southbridge chipset. I n addition, it also supports integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950 for onbo ard graphics feature.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 2 Specification CPU: Support Socket 775 Support Intel ® Core TM 2 Duo/ Pentium ® D/ Pentium ® 4/ Celeron ® D/ Celeron ® Processors (The power consumption for th e aforementioned processors mus t be rated at 65W or less.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 3 FDD Connector: Supports one FDD connector to set up to two floppy disk drives Supports 360K B/ 720KB/ 1. 2MB/ 1.44MB / 2.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 4 Green Function: Supports Phoenix-Award™ BIOS power management function Supports system-wak e-from-power-saving - mode by keyboard or mouse touching Shadow RAM: .
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 5 Configuration Layout of PM945GC (V2.0).
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 6 Hardware Installation This secti on will assi st you in quic kly installi ng your sys tem hardwa re. Wear a w rist ground strap bef ore handling c ompone nts. Elec trosta tic disc harge may damag e the syst em’s comp onent s.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 7 CPUFAN SYSFAN1/ SYSFAN2 FAN Heade rs: CPUFAN, SY SFAN1, SYSF AN2 There are three fan header s available for cooling fa ns. Th e cooling fans play an i mportant role in maintaining a mbient tempera tures in your system. The CPU FAN header is a ttached with a CPU c ooling fan.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 8 How to enable Dual-Channel DDRII: 1. These mainboards provide Du al-Channel functio nality for th e two DIMM sock ets. Enab ling Dual-Channe l can signifi cantly incr ease your data access rat es. DIMM1 and DIMM2 s hare one channel.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 9 Back Pane l Configu ration PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyb oard Ports: KB/MS This mainboard provides a standard PS/2 mouse port and a PS/2 keyboard port. The Serial Por t: COM1 This ma inboar d provi des a seri al por t COM1 on your back panel, and is used to connect mice, modem and other peri pheral devic es.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 10 Audio Ports: SOUND This mainboard provides three audio ports , the Mic, Line-in an d Line-out. These are th e standard audio ports t hat pr ovide basic audio funct ion. Line-I n ( Blue ) This port is for audi o input and connec ts to external audio devices such as CD player, tape pl ayer, etc.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 11 Hard Drive LED Header: HDLED If your cas e front pa nel has a ha rd drive LE D cable, at tach it to this hea der. The LED will f licker w hen there is ha rd disk d rive activity . Reset Switch Header: RESET This header can be attached to a moment ary SPST switch (reset button) cable on your case front panel.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 12 Hard Disk Drive Connectors : IDE1 The mainboards provide one IDE connector that supports Ultra ATA 33/66/100 IDE devices. You can attach a maximu m of two IDE devices , such as hard disk d rive (HDD), CD -ROM, DVD-ROM, etc .
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 13 Printer Interf ace Header: PARA LLEL (Optional) This mainboa rd provides a PARALLEL h eader for you co nnecting an additional printer connect or on your case ba ck panel. Att ach the cable of printer c onnecto r (Optional) onto th is header, and then you can use the prin ter connect or conne cting wit h a printe r.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 14 Clear CMOS J umper: JBAT The “Clear CMOS” function is used when you are unable boot your system an d need to reset th e BIOS settin gs (CMO S settin gs) back to th e manuf acturer ’s origin al settin gs. Th is is also a wa y to reset the system passwor d if you have forgotten it .
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 15 Front Panel Au dio Header: AUDIO If your case front pa nel has audio ports, you ca n connect them to the Front Audio Header of this mainboard. Slots Universal PCI-Ex press Inter face slot: PE2 The PE2 slot is the PCI-Express interf ace slot which can be support ed up to PCI-E x16 mode.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 16 Power Supply Attachments ATX Power Connector: ATXPWR, ATX12V These main boards prov ide two ATX power connectors, one 24-pin ATXPWR conne ctor and one 4-p in ATX12V connector. You must use a power supply that has both of thes e connectors and both connectors must be attached before the system is pow ered on.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 17 Chapter 2. BIOS Setup Introduction This se ction descr ibes PHOEN IX-AWA RD™ BIOS Set up progr am which res ides in the BIOS fir mware.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 18 Main Menu Standard CMOS F eatures Include all the adjus table items in sta ndard compa tible BIOS. Advanced BIOS F eatures Include all the adjus table items of Award sp ecial enhanc ed featu res. Advanced Chipset F eatures Include all the adjustable i tems of chipset specia l features.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 19 PC Health Status It is for mon itoring the s ystem stat us such as temperature, voltage, an d fan speeds. Miscellaneous Control It is for you to spec ify settin gs for Mis cellane ous Control, such as the CPU cl ock and frequency r atio.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 20 Chapter 3: Software Setup Software List Software In stallation Place the Driver CD into the CD -ROM drive and the Installati on Utility will auto -run. You can also launch the Driver CD Installation Utilit y manually by executing th e Intel.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 21 Fo r W i n d o w s V i s t a D r i v e r F o r Windows XP (64bit) Driver Attention Before you install the Realtek Au dio Driver on W indows ® XP (64bit) operating system, plea se go t o the Micro soft ® website to install the update for enabling HD Audio.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 22 F o r Windows XP (32bit) Driver F or Windows 2000 Driver.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 23 Intel Chipset INF – It provides all drivers for the functions which built in both the Northbridge/ Southbridge. Intel VGA Driver – It provides the d river of Intel V GA. Marvell LAN Driver – It provides the drive r of Marvell Net work.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 24 Chapter 4: Troubleshooting Problem 1: No power to the s ystem. Power l ight does not i lluminate. Fan inside p ower suppl y does not tur n on. Indicator lig hts on keyboard are not li t. Causes: 1. Power cable is unplu gged.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 25 Solutions: Back up data an d applications files. Reforma t the hard drive. Re-install a pplications and data using backup disks. Problem 5: Error message reading “SECTOR N OT FOUND” displays an d the system do es not allow certai n data t o be accessed.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 26 Problem 11: No color on screen. Causes: 1. Faulty Monito r. 2. CMOS incorrectly set up . Solutions: 1. If possible, co nnect monito r to another sy stem. If no colo r appears, replace monitor. 2. Call technical support. Problem 12: The screen di splays “C: drive fai lure.
Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0) 27 Appendix I: 6/4/2 Ch annel Audio Effect Setup Channels Setup 1. After into the system, c lick the audio icon from the Windows screen. 2. Click “Audio I/O” button, you can see t he screen l ike the pict ure below. 3. You can choose 2, 4, 6 or 8 channels by your speakers.
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