Gigabyte Technology GA-EP45-UD3LR - Manuals

Hardware Installation - 9 - 1-1 Installation Precautions The motherboard contains numerous delicate electronic circuits and components which can becomedamaged as a result of electrostatic discharge (ESD). Prior to installation, carefully read the user'smanual and follow these procedures: • Prior to ...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 10 - 1-2 Product Specifications C P U  Support for an Intel ® Core TM 2 Extreme processor/ Intel ® Core TM 2 Quad processor/Intel ® Core TM 2 Duo processor/ Intel ® Pentium ® Dual-Core processor/Intel ® Celeron ® processor in the LGA 775 package(Go to GIGABYTE's web...

Hardware Installation - 13 - 1-3 Installing the CPU and CPU Cooler Read the following guidelines before you begin to install the CPU: • Make sure that the motherboard supports the CPU.(Go to GIGABYTE's website for the latest CPU support list.) • Always turn off the computer and unplug the power cord...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 16 - 1-4 Installing the Memory Read the following guidelines before you begin to install the memory: • Make sure that the motherboard supports the memory. It is recommended that memory ofthe same capacity, brand, speed, and chips be used.(Go to GIGABYTE's website for...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 18 - 1-5 Installing an Expansion Card Read the following guidelines before you begin to install an expansion card: • Make sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. Carefully read the manual thatcame with your expansion card. • Always turn off the computer and...

Hardware Installation - 19 - • When removing the cable connected to a back panel connector, first remove the cablefrom your device and then remove it from the motherboard. • When removing the cable, pull it straight out from the connector. Do not rock it side to sideto prevent an electrical short in...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 20 - Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out Jack (Orange) Use this audio jack to connect center/subwoofer speakers in a 5.1/7.1-channel audio configuration. Rear Speaker Out Jack (Black) Use this audio jack to connect rear speakers in a 4/5.1/7.1-channel audio configuration. S...

Hardware Installation - 21 - 1-7 Internal Connectors Read the following guidelines before connecting external devices: • First make sure your devices are compliant with the connectors you wish to connect. • Before installing the devices, be sure to turn off the devices and your computer. Unplug thep...

Hardware Installation - 31 - 18) CI (Chassis Intrusion Header) This motherboard provides a chassis detection feature that detects if the chassis cover has beenremoved. This function requires a chassis with chassis intrusion detection design. Pin No. Definition 1 Signal 2 GND 1 Open: Normal Short: Cl...

- 33 - BIOS Setup Chapter 2 BIOS Setup BIOS (Basic Input and Output System) records hardware parameters of the system in the CMOS on themotherboard. Its major functions include conducting the Power-On Self-Test (POST) during systemstartup, saving system parameters and loading operating system, etc. ...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 34 - 2-1 Startup Screen The following screens may appear when the computer boots. A. The LOGO Screen (Default) B. The POST Screen Function Keys:<TAB>: POST SCREEN Press the <Tab> key to show the BIOS POST screen. To show the BIOS POST screen at systemstar...

- 35 - BIOS Setup 2-2 The Main Menu Once you enter the BIOS Setup program, the Main Menu (as shown below) appears on the screen. Usearrow keys to move among the items and press <Enter> to accept or enter a sub-menu. (Sample BIOS Version: GA-EP45-UD3L E19) CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 38 - Robust Graphics Booster Robust Graphics Booster (R.G.B.) helps to enhance the performance of the graphics chip andm e m o r y . A u t o a l l o w s t h e B I O S t o a u t o m a t i c a l l y s e t t h e R . G . B . m o d e b a s e d o n s y s t e m configuratio...

- 39 - BIOS Setup CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) Allows you to manually set the CPU host frequency. This item is configurable only if the CPU Host Clock Control option is enabled. The adjustable range is from 100 MHz to 1200 MHz. For an 800 MHz FSB CPU, set this item to 200 MHz.For a 1066 MHz FSB CPU, set...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 40 - CPU Clock Drive Allows you to adjust the amplitude of the CPU and North Bridge clock.Options are: 700mV, 800mV (default), 900mV, 1000mV. PCI Express Clock Drive Allows you to adjust the amplitude of the PCI Express and North Bridge clock.Options are: 700mV, 800m...

- 45 - BIOS Setup 2-4 Standard CMOS Features Date Sets the system date. The date format is week (read-only), month, date and y e a r . S e l e c t t h edesired field and use the up arrow or down arrow key to set the date. Time Sets the system time. For example, 1 p.m. is 13:0:0. Select the desired f...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 46 - • Auto Lets BIOS automatically detect IDE/SATA devices during the POST. (Default) • None If no IDE/SATA devices are used, set this item to None so the system will skip the detection of the device during the POST for faster system startup. • Manual Allows you to ...

- 47 - BIOS Setup 2-5 Advanced BIOS Features CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2008 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features  Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] First Boot Device [Floppy] Second Boot Device [Hard Disk] Third Boot Device [CDROM] Password Check [Setup] HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability [...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 48 - (Note) This item is present only if you install a CPU that supports this feature. For more information about Intel CPUs' unique features, please visit Intel's website. CPU Multi-Threading (Note) Allows you to determine whether to enable all CPU cores and multi-t...

- 49 - BIOS Setup Delay For HDD (Secs) Allows you to set a delay time for the BIOS to initialize the hard drive as the system boots up. Theadjustable range is from 0 to 15 seconds. (Default: 0) Full Screen LOGO Show Allows you to determine whether to display the GIGABYTE Logo at system startup. Disa...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 50 - 2-6 Integrated Peripherals SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel ICH10R Southbridge) Enables or disables RAID for the SATA controllers integrated in the Intel ICH10R Southbridge orconfigures the SATA controllers to AHCI mode. Disabled Disables RAID for the SATA controllers...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 52 - Link Detected Displays transmission speed Cable Length Displays the approximate length of the attached LAN cable. Note: The Gigabit hub will only operate at a speed of 10/100 Mbps in MS-DOS mode; it will operateat a normal speed of 10/100/1000 Mbps in Windows mo...

- 53 - BIOS Setup 2-7 Power Management Setup CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2008 Award Software Power Management Setup ACPI Suspend Type [S3(STR)] Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN [Instant-Off] PME Event Wake Up [Enabled] Power On by Ring [Enabled] Resume by Alarm [Disabled] x Date (of Month) Alarm E v e...

- 55 - BIOS Setup 2-8 PnP/PCI Configurations PCI1 IRQ Assignment Auto BIOS auto-assigns IRQ to the first PCI slot. (Default) 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 Assigns IRQ 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 to the first PCI slot. PCI2 IRQ Assignment Auto BIOS auto-assigns IRQ to the second PCI slot. (Default) 3,4,5,7,9...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 56 - 2-9 PC Health Status Reset Case Open Status Keeps or clears the record of previous chassis intrusion status. Enabled clears the record of previous chassis intrusion status and the Case Opened field will show "No" at next boot. (Default: Disabled) Case Op...

- 57 - BIOS Setup CPU Smart FAN Control Enables or disables the CPU fan speed control function. Auto lets the BIOS decide whether toenable this function. Enabled allows the CPU fan to run at different speed according to the CPUtemperature. You can adjust the fan speed with EasyTune based on system r...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 58 - 2-10 Load Fail-Safe Defaults Press <Enter> on this item and then press the <Y> key to load the safest BIOS default settings.In case system instability occurs, you may try to load Fail-Safe defaults, which are the safest and moststable BIOS settings f...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 60 - 2-13 Save & Exit Setup 2-14 Exit Without Saving CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2008 Award Software  MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.)  Standard CMOS Features  Advanced BIOS Features  Integrated Peripherals  Power Management Setup  PnP/PCI Configura...

Drivers Installation - 61 - Chapter 3 Drivers Installation 3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions useWindows XP as the example operating system.) • After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard d...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 62 - 3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software.You can click the Install button on the right of an item to install it. 3-3 Technical Manuals This page provides GIGABYTE's application g...

Drivers Installation - 63 - 3-4 Contact Click the URL on this page to link to the GIGABYTE Web site. Or read the last page of this manual to checkthe contact information for GIGABYTE Taiwan headquarter or worldwide branch offices. 3-5 System This page provides the basic system information.

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 64 - 3-6 Download Center To update the BIOS, drivers, or applications, click the Download Center button to link to the GIGABYTE Web site. The latest version of the BIOS, drivers, or applications will be displayed.

Unique Features - 65 - 4-1 Xpress Recovery2 "*" Xpress Recovery2 checks the first physical hard drive in the following sequence: The first PATA IDE connector, the second PATA IDE connector, the first SATA connector, the second SATAconnector and so forth. For example, when hard drives are att...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 66 - Figure 1 Figure 3 3 . Select a file system (for example, NTFS) and begin the installation of the operating system (Figure 3). Installation and Configuration (The following procedure uses Windows XP as the example operating system.) A. Installing Windows XP and P...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 68 - C. Using the Backup Function in Xpress Recovery2 1 . Select BACKUP to start backing up your hard drive data (Figure 10). 2 . Xpress Recovery2 will then begin to search the first physical hard drive as the target drive and detect whether this hard drive contains ...

Unique Features - 69 - E. Removing the Backup 1 . If you wish to remove the backup file, select REMOVE (Figure 15). 2 . After the backup file is removed, no backup image file will be present in Disk Management and hard drive space will be freed up (Figure 16). Figure 15 Figure 16 D. Using the Restor...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 70 - 4-2-1 Updating the BIOS with the Q-Flash Utility A. Before You Begin: 1 . From GIGABYTE's website, download the latest compressed BIOS update file that matches your motherboard model. 2 . Extract the file and save the new BIOS file (e.g. ep45ud3l.f1) to your flo...

Unique Features - 71 - B. Updating the BIOS When updating the BIOS, choose the location where the BIOS file is saved. The follow procedureassumes that you save the BIOS file to a floppy disk. Step 1:1 . Insert the floppy disk containing the BIOS file into the floppy disk drive. In the main menu of Q...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 72 - Step 6:Select Save & Exit Setup and then press <Y> to save settings to CMOS and exit BIOS Setup. The procedure is complete after the system restarts. Press <Y> to load BIOS defaults Step 4:Press <Esc> and then <Enter> to exit Q-Flash ...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 74 - 4-3 EasyTune 6 GIGABYTE's EasyTune 6 is a simple and easy-to-use interface that allows users to fine-tune theirsystem settings or do overclock/overvoltage in Windows environment. The user-friendly EasyTune 6interface also includes tabbed pages for CPU and memory...

Unique Features - 75 - 4-4 Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced (Note 1) is a revolutionary technology that delivers unpar- alleled power savings with a click of the button. Featuring an advanced proprietary hardware andsoftware design, GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver A...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 76 - Total Mode - Button Information Table B. Total Mode In Total Mode, users are able to see how much total power savings they have accumulated in a setperiod of time since activating Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced for the first time (Note 4) . (Note 1) Before using ...

Unique Features - 77 - 4-5 Q-Share Q-Share is an easy and convenient data sharing tool. After configuring your LAN connection settingsand Q-Share, you are able to share your data with computers on the same network, making full use ofInternet resources. Directions for using Q-Share After installing Q...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 78 - 4-6 Time Repair Based on the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services technology, Time Repair allows you toquickly back up and restore your system data in the Windows Vista operating system. Time Repairsupports NTFS file system and can restore system data on PATA a...

Appendix - 79 - Only for GA-EP45-UD3LR. (Note 1) Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID array on the SATA controller.(Note 2) Required when the SATA controller is set to AHCI or RAID mode. Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the ste...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 80 - B. Configuring SATA controller mode in BIOS Setup Make sure to configure the SATA controller mode correctly in system BIOS Setup . Step 1:Turn on your computer and press <Delete> to enter BIOS Setup during the POST (Power-On Self-Test).To create RAID, set ...

Appendix - 81 - C. Configuring a RAID array in RAID BIOS Enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array. Skip this step and proceed to the installationof Windows operating system for a non-RAID configuration. Step 1:After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot ...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 82 - Step 3:After entering the CREATE VOLUME MENU screen, enter a volume name with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) under the Name item and press <Enter>. Then, select a RAID level (Figure 4). There are four RAID levels supported: RAID 0, RAI...

Appendix - 83 - Step 5:Enter the array capacity and press <Enter>. Finally press <Enter> on the Create Volume item to begin creating the RAID array. When prompted to confirm whether to create this volume, press <Y> to confirmor <N> to cancel (Figure 6). Figure 6 Intel(R) Matr...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 84 - Delete RAID Volume To delete a RAID array, select Delete RAID Volume in MAIN MENU and press <Enter>. In the DELETE VOLUME MENU section, use the up or down arrow key to select the array to be deleted and press <Delete>. When prompted to confirm your s...

Appendix - 85 - 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette (Required for AHCI and RAID Mode) To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCImode, you need to install the SATA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 86 - Copying the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive Step 1:On an alternative system, copy the SATA RAID/AHCI driver to your USB flash drive from the motherboarddriver disk. For example, to install the Windows Vista 32-bit oper...

Appendix - 87 - Figure 1 Figure 2 Step 2:When a screen similar to that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCIdriver and press <S> (Figure 2). Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Windows Setup S=Specify Additional Device ...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 88 - Step 3:When Setup correctly recognizes the Intel ICH10R SATA RAID/AHCI driver in the floppy disk, acontroller menu similar to Figure 3 below will appear. Use the up or down arrow key to select one ofthe items displayed and press <Enter>. If you set the SAT...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 90 - B. Installing Windows Vista (The procedure below assumes that only one RAID array exists in your system.) Step 1:Restart your system to boot from the Windows Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installationsteps. When a screen similar to that below appears,...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 92 - 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio The motherboard provides six audio jacks on theback panel which support 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel audio.The picture to the right shows the default audio jackassignments.The integrated H...

Appendix - 95 - S/PDIF Out: The S/PDIF out jacks can transmit audio signals to an external decoder for decoding to get the bestaudio quality. Connect a S/PDIF coaxial cable or a S/PDIF optical cable (eitherone) to an external decoder for transmitting the S/PDIF digitalaudio signals. S/PDIF Coaxial C...

Appendix - 99 - 5-3 Troubleshooting 5-3-1 Frequently Asked Questions To read more FAQs for your motherboard, please go to the Support\Motherboard\FAQ page onGIGABYTE's website. Q : In the BIOS Setup program, why are some BIOS options missing?A : Some advanced options are hidden in the BIOS Setup pro...

GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 102 - 5-4 Regulatory Statements Regulatory Notices This document must not be copied without our written permission, and the contents there of must not beimparted to a third party nor be used for any unauthorized purpose. Contravention will be prosecuted.We believe th...

Appendix - 103 - Finally, we suggest that you practice other environmentally friendly actions by understanding andusing the energy-saving features of this product (where applicable), recycling the inner and outerpackaging (including shipping containers) this product was delivered in, and by disposin...

Appendix - 111 - Contact Us     GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Address: No.6, Bau Chiang Road, Hsin-Tien,Taipei 231, Taiwan TEL: +886-2-8912-4000 FAX: +886-2-8912-4003Tech. and Non-Tech. Support (Sales/Marketing) :http://ggts.gigabyte.com.twWEB address (English): http://www.gigabyte.com.twWEB a...

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