Page 4 - Table of Contents
- 4 - Table of Contents Item Checklist ................................................................................................................. 6Optional Accessories ...................................................................................................... 6GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboa...
Page 8 - Block Diagram
- 8 - Block Diagram Center/Subwoofer Spear Out DDRII 800/667/533/400 MHz DIMM PCIe CLK (100 MHz) PCI Express x16 VGA AMD Socket AM2 C P U CPU CLK+/-(200 MHz) Hyper Transport Bus nVIDIA ® GeForce 6100/ nForce 430 IT8716 4 SATA 3Gb/s ATA33/66/100/133 IDE Channel PCI CLK (33 MHz) 2 PCI PCI Bus 10 USB P...
Page 9 - Hardware Installation; English; Considerations Prior to Installation; Preparing Your Computer; Chapter 1 Hardware Installation
Hardware Installation - 9 - English 1-1 Considerations Prior to Installation Preparing Your Computer The motherboard contains numerous delicate electronic circuits and components which canbecome damaged as a result of electrostatic discharge (ESD). Thus, prior to installation, pleasefollow the instr...
Page 10 - Feature Summary
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 10 - English 1-2 Feature Summary C P U Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon TM 64 FX / Athlon TM 64 X2 Dual-Core / Athlon TM 64 / Sempron TM processor Front Side Bus 2000 MHz Chipset nVIDIA ® GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset LAN Realtek RTL8211 (10/100/1000 Mbit) Audio Onboar...
Page 12 - Installation of the CPU and CPU Cooler; otherwise overheating and permanent damage of the CPU may occur.; Socket Lever
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 12 - English 1-3 Installation of the CPU and CPU Cooler 1-3-1 Installation of the CPU Fig.1Position lever at a 90 degree angle. Please use extra care when installing the CPU. The CPU will not fit if positioned incorrectly.Rather than applying force, please change the positi...
Page 14 - is switched off to prevent hardware damage.; Installation of Memory
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 14 - English Fig.1The DIMM socket has a notch, so the DIMM memory module canonly fit in one direction. Insert the DIMM memory module verticallyinto the DIMM socket. Then push it down. Fig.2Close the plastic clip at both edges of the DIMM sockets to lock theDIMM module.Rever...
Page 15 - Dual Channel Memory Configuration
Hardware Installation - 15 - English Dual Channel Memory Configuration The GA-M61PM-S2 supports the Dual Channel Technology. After operatingthe Dual Channel Technology, the bandwidth of Memory Bus will double. Due to CPU limitation, if you wish to operate the Dual Channel Technology, follow the guid...
Page 16 - Installation of Expansion Cards; Installing a PCI Express x16 expansion card:
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 16 - English 1-5 Installation of Expansion Cards You can install your expansion card by following the steps outlined below:1 . Read the related expansion card's instruction document before install the expansion card into the computer. 2 . Remove your computer's chassis cove...
Page 17 - I/O Back Panel Introduction; Connects to serial-based mouse or data processing devices.
Hardware Installation - 17 - English 1-6 I/O Back Panel Introduction PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connector To install a PS/2 port keyboard and mouse, plug the mouse to the upper port (green) and thekeyboard to the lower port (purple). Parallel Port The parallel port allows connection of a printer, ...
Page 18 - Connectors Introduction; MIC In; The default MIC In jack. Microphone must be connected to MIC In jack.
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 18 - English 1-7 Connectors Introduction Line Out (Front Speaker Out) The default Line Out (Front Speaker Out) jack. Stereo speakers, earphone or front surroundspeakers can be connected to Line Out (Front Speaker Out) jack. MIC In The default MIC In jack. Microphone must be...
Page 29 - CONTROL KEYS; Chapter 2 BIOS Setup
BIOS Setup - 29 - English BIOS (Basic Input and Output System) includes a CMOS SETUP utility which allows user to configurerequired settings or to activate certain system features.The CMOS SETUP saves the configuration in the CMOS SRAM of the motherboard.When the power is turned off, the battery on ...
Page 30 - Load Optimized Defaults; item in the BIOS Setup when somehow the system
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 30 - English The Main Menu (For example: BIOS Ver. : D1) Once you enter Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu (as figure below) will appear on thescreen. Use arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept or enter the sub-menu. <F12> : B...
Page 31 - BIOS Setup; This setup page includes all onboard peripherals.
BIOS Setup - 31 - English Standard CMOS Features This setup page includes all the items in standard compatible BIOS. Advanced BIOS Features This setup page includes all the items of Award special enhanced features. Integrated Peripherals This setup page includes all onb...
Page 32 - Standard CMOS Features; Date
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 32 - English 2-1 Standard CMOS Features Date The date format is <week>, <month>, <day>, <year>. Week The week, from Sun to Sat, determined by the BIOS and is display-only Month The month, Jan. Through Dec. Day The day, from 1 to 31 (or the maximum al...
Page 33 - Drive A
BIOS Setup - 33 - English Access Mode Use this to set the access mode for the hard drive. The two options are:Large/Auto(default:Auto) Capacity Capacity of currently installed hard drive. Hard drive information should be labeled on the outside drive casing. Enter the appropriate optionbased on this ...
Page 34 - Advanced BIOS Features; AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 34 - English 2-2 Advanced BIOS Features AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control Auto AMD Cool'n'Quiet driver manages clock and VID to best serve the thermal,performance and power requirements. (Default value) Disabled Disable this function. Hard Disk Boot Priority Select boot sequenc...
Page 35 - Password Check; System; Init Display First; PCI Slot
BIOS Setup - 35 - English Password Check System The system can not boot and can not access to Setup page will be denied if thecorrect password is not entered at the prompt. Setup The system will boot, but access to Setup will be denied if the correct passwordis not entered at the prompt. (Default va...
Page 36 - Integrated Peripherals; Serial-ATA RAID Config; NV SATA RAID function
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 36 - English 2-3 Integrated Peripherals Serial-ATA RAID Config CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2006 Award Software Serial-ATA RAID Config Item HelpMenu Level ` NV SATA RAID function [Disabled] x NV SATA 1 Primary RAID Enabled x NV SATA 1 Secondary RAID Enabled x NV SA...
Page 38 - Parallel Port Mode
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 38 - English Onboard Serial Port 2 Auto BIOS will automatically setup the port 2 address. 3F8/IRQ4 Enable onboard Serial Port 2 and address is 3F8/IRQ4. 2F8/IRQ3 Enable onboard Serial Port 2 and address is 2F8/IRQ3. (Default value) 3E8/IRQ4 Enable onboard Serial Port 2 and ...
Page 39 - Power Management Setup; ACPI Suspend Type
BIOS Setup - 39 - English 2-4 Power Management Setup ACPI Suspend Type S1(POS) Set ACPI suspend type to S1/POS(Power On Suspend). (Default value) S3(STR) Set ACPI suspend type to S3/STR(Suspend To RAM). Soft-Off by Power button Instant-Off Press power button then Power off instantly. (Default value)...
Page 40 - PnP/PCI Configurations
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 40 - English Power On By Mouse Disabled Disabled this function. (Default value) Double-Click Double click on PS/2 mouse left button to power on the system. Power On By Keyboard Disabled Disabled this function. (Default value) Keyboard 98 If your keyboard have "POWER Key...
Page 41 - PC Health Status; Case Opened
BIOS Setup - 41 - English 2-6 PC Health Status Reset Case Open Status Disabled Don't reset case open status. (Default value) Enabled Clear case open status at next boot. Case Opened If the case is closed, Case Opened will show "No." If the case is opened, Case Opened will show "Yes."...
Page 42 - CPU Smart FAN Mode; Auto; Load Fail-Safe Defaults
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 42 - English CPU Smart FAN Mode This option is available only when CPU Smart FAN Control is enabled. Auto BIOS autodetects the type of CPU fan you installed and sets the optimal CPUSmart FAN control mode for it. (Default value) Voltage Set to Voltage when you use a CPU fan ...
Page 43 - Set Supervisor/User Password
BIOS Setup - 43 - English 2-9 Set Supervisor/User Password When you select this function, the following message will appear at the center of the screen to assistyou in creating a password.Type the password, up to eight characters, and press <Enter>. You will be asked to confirm thepassword. Ty...
Page 44 - -11 Exit Without Saving
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 44 - English 2-10 Save & Exit Setup Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility and save the user setup value to RTC CMOS.Type "N" will return to Setup Utility. 2-11 Exit Without Saving Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility without saving to RTC CMOS.Typ...
Page 45 - Drivers Installation; Chapter 3 Drivers Installation; Install Chipset Drivers
Drivers Installation - 45 - English Pictures below are shown in Windows XP.Insert the driver CD-title that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive, the driverCD-title will auto start and show the installation guide. If not, please double click the CD-ROMdevice icon in "My computer"...
Page 46 - Software Applications
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 46 - English 3-2 Software Applications This page displays all the tools that Gigabyte developed and some free software, you can choose anyoneyou want and press "install" to install them. 3-3 Driver CD Information This page lists the contents of software and drivers ...
Page 47 - Hardware Information; This page lists all device you have for this motherboard.; Contact Us; Please see the last page for details.
Drivers Installation - 47 - English 3-4 Hardware Information This page lists all device you have for this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Please see the last page for details.
Page 49 - Chapter 4 Appendix; Unique Software Utilities; User Interface Overview
Appendix - 49 - English Chapter 4 Appendix 4-1 Unique Software Utilities (Not all model support these Unique Software Utilities, please check your MB features.) 4-1-1 EasyTune 5 Introduction EasyTune 5 presents the most convenient Windows based system performance enhancement andmanageability utility...
Page 50 - How to use the Xpress Recovery2; Advanced BIOS Feature; enter Xpress Recovery2 by pressing the key in the future.
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 50 - English 4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 Introduction Xpress Recovery2 is designed to provide quick backup and restora-tion of hard disk data. Supporting Microsoft operating systems includingWindows XP/2000/NT/98/Me and DOS, and file systems includingFAT16, FAT32, and NTFS, Xpre...
Page 51 - The Main Screen of Xpress Recovery2
Appendix - 51 - English 1. RESTORE: Restore the backed-up data to your hard disk.(This button will not appear if there is no backupfile.) 2. BACKUP: Back up data from hard disk. 3. REMOVE: Remove previously-created backup filesto release disk space.(This button will not appear if there is no backupf...
Page 52 - Utility; Del; Utility on Dual BIOS Motherboards.
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 52 - English 4-1-3 Flash BIOS Method Introduction Method 1 : Q-Flash TM Utility Q-Flash TM is a BIOS flash utility embedded in Flash ROM. With this utility, users only have to stay in the BIOS menu when they want to updateBIOS. Q-Flash TM allows users to flash BIOS without ...
Page 53 - Appendix; button on your keyboard and then; in the boot screen to enter BIOS menu.; Exploring the Q-Flash; / Dual BIOS utility screen
Appendix - 53 - English Entering the Q-Flash TM utility: CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award Software Standard CMOS FeaturesAdvanced BIOS FeaturesIntegrated PeripheralsPower Management SetupPnP/PCI ConfigurationsPC Health StatusMB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) Select LanguageLoad Fail-Saf...
Page 54 - Move to the BIOS file you want to flash and press; After pressing; Enter
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 54 - English Dual BIOS Utility Boot From......................................... Main Bios Main ROM Type/Size.............................SST 49LF003A 512K Backup ROM Type/Size.........................SST 49LF003A 512K Wide Range Protection Disable Boot From Main Bios Auto...
Page 55 - Please do not take out the floppy disk when it begins flashing BIOS.
Appendix - 55 - English 3. Press Y button on your keyboard after you are sure to update BIOS. Then it will begin to update BIOS. The progress of updating BIOS will be displayed. Dual BIOS Utility Boot From......................................... Main Bios Main ROM Type/Size............................
Page 57 - utility screen; Move to the BIOS file you want to flash and press Enter.
Appendix - 57 - English Exploring the Q-Flash TM utility screen The Q-FlashBIOS utility screen consists of the following key components. Task menu for Q-Flash utility: Contains the names of three tasks. Blocking a task and pressing Enter key on your keyboard to enableexecution of the task. Action ba...
Page 58 - Press Y button on your keyboard after you are sure to update BIOS.; Part One
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 58 - English 3. Press Y button on your keyboard after you are sure to update BIOS. Then it will begin to update BIOS. The progress of updating BIOS will be shown at the same time. Q-Flash Utility V1.30 Flash Type/Size.................................SST 49LF003A 256K Keep D...
Page 60 - III. In method I, if the BIOS file you need cannot be found in @BIOS; server, please go onto
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 60 - English III. Save BIOSIn the very beginning, there is "Save Current BIOS" icon shown in dialog box. It means to save thecurrent BIOS version. IV. Check out supported motherboard and Flash ROM:In the very beginning, there is "About this program" icon sho...
Page 61 - (4) Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver.; Before you begin
Appendix - 61 - English (Note) Required for setting up RAID array. To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system.(2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup.(3) Configure RAID set in RAID BIOS. (Note ) (4) Make a floppy ...
Page 62 - Figure 1; controls the SATAII0 connector and; NV SATA 1 Secondary RAID; controls
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 62 - English CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2006 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Serial-ATA RAID Config [Press Enter] On-Chip IDE Channel0 [Enabled] On-Chip MAC Lan [Auto] NV Serial-ATA Controller [All Enabled] IDE Prefetch Mode [Enabled] USB Memory Type [SHADO...
Page 63 - First Boot Device; under the; Advanced BIOS; menu to; CDROM; Figure 3
Appendix - 63 - English CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2006 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control [Auto] Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] First Boot Device [CDROM] Second Boot Device [Hard Disk] Third Boot Device [CDROM] Boot Up Floppy Seek [Disabled] Passwo...
Page 64 - key to enter the RAID BIOS
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 64 - English (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS Enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array. Skip this step if you do not want to createRAID. Step 1:After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a messagewhich say...
Page 65 - Figure 7
Appendix - 65 - English Step 6:Press F7 after selecting the target hard disks. A message which says "Clear disk data?" will appear(Figure 7). If you are sure to clear the data in the selected hard drives, press Y. (If the hard drivescontain previously created RAID array, you need to press Y ...
Page 66 - Figure 9; BBS
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 66 - English To read more information about the RAID array, press ENTER to enter the Array Detail screen (Figure9), where you should see detailed information about RAID mode, disk block size, disk model name,and disk capacity, etc. Figure 9 Figure 8 After that, the Array Li...
Page 67 - c d b o o t d r v; BootDrv; m e n u
Appendix - 67 - English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install operating system onto RAID disks successfully, you need to install the SATA RAID driverduring OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during the Windowssetup process. Skip this step if you do not want t...
Page 68 - (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation; as soon as
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 68 - English Figure 13 Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 14 Windows Setup S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devicesinstalled in your system, o...
Page 69 - NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER
Appendix - 69 - English Step 3:If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 15 belowwill appear. Use the ARROW keys to select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (Figure 15) and press ENTER. Later, when a screen similar to Figure 16 appears, you must press S ...
Page 71 - Introduction; H D A u d i o; Stereo Speakers Connection and Settings:
Appendix - 71 - English 4-1-5 2- / 4- / 6- / 8- Channel Audio Function Introduction STEP 1 :After installation of the audio driver, you should findan Audio Manager icon in your system tray (youcan also find the icon in Control Panel). Double-click the icon to open the Audio Control Panel. Note that ...
Page 72 - Headphone; or; Line Out; depending on; OK; nel audio setup is completed.; Channel Audio Setup; CH Speaker
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 72 - English STEP 3:After a speaker or headphone is plugged into therear Line Out jack, a small window will pop up andask you what type of equipment is connected.Choose Headphone or Line Out depending on the device connected and click OK . The 2-chan- nel audio setup is com...
Page 73 - Channel Audio Setup; CH Speaker; . T h e 4 - c h a n n e l a u d i o s e t u p i s
Appendix - 73 - English 6 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 :After installation of the audio driver, you should findan Audio Manager icon in your system tray (youcan also find the icon in Control Panel). Double-click the icon to open the Audio Control Panel. STEP 2:In the Audio Control Panel, click the Aud...
Page 74 - CH Speaker; . T h e 8 - c h a n n e l a u d i o s e t u p i s; Channel Audio Setup
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 74 - English STEP 2:In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I/O tab. In the upper left list, click 8CH Speaker . STEP 3:After plugging in 8-channel speakers to the rearspeaker jacks, a small window will pop up andask you what type of equipment is connected.Choose a devi...
Page 75 - Sound Effect Configuration:
Appendix - 75 - English Sound Effect Configuration: At the Sound Effect menu, users can adjust sound option settings as desired. AC'97 Audio Configuration: To enable the front panel audio connector to sup-port AC97 Audio mode, go to the Audio ControlPanel and click the Audio I/O tab. In the ANA- LOG...
Page 76 - Troubleshooting; AWARD BIOS Beep Codes
GA-M61PM-S2 Motherboard - 76 - English 4-2 Troubleshooting Below is a collection of general asked questions. To check general asked questions based on a specificmotherboard model, please log on to GIGABYTE's website. Question 1: I cannot see some options that were included in previous BIOS after upd...
Page 80 - yy; GIGABYTE Global Service System
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