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  • Page 1

    P4M80-M4 i FCC Information and Copyright This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These li mits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residenti al installation. Thi s equi pment generates, uses and can radiate radi [...]

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    Table of Contents ii Chapter 1: In troducti on .......................................................... 1 1.1 Motherboard Features .......................................................... 1 1.2 Package Che cklist ................................................................ 4 1.3 Layout and Com ponents .......................................[...]

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    P4M80-M4 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 M OTHERBOARD F EATURES A. Hardware CPU Supports Socket 478. Supports Intel Pentium 4 processo r up to 3.4GHz. Supports Intel Celeron/Cel eron D processor . Supports Intel Pentium 4 Northwood/Pre scott CPU. Do not support Williamate CPU. Front Side Bus at 400/533/800 MHz. Chipset North Bridge: VIA P4M800. South[...]

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    P4M80-M4 2 Super I/O Chip: ITE IT8705AF . Provides the most commonly used le gacy Super I/O functionality . Environment Control initiatives:  H/W Monitor  Fan S peed Controller  ITE's "Smart Guardian" function On Board IDE T wo on-board connectors support 4 devices. Supports PIO Mode 0~4. Supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Bus[...]

  • Page 5

    P4M80-M4 3 Internal On-board I/O Connectors and Headers 1 front panel header suppo rts front pan el facilities. 1 CD-in connector support s 1 CD-ROM audio-in device. 1 front audio header support s front panel audio-out fun ction. 1 SPDIF-out con nector supports digit al audio-out function. 1 chassis open header sup ports PC case-opene d warning fun[...]

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    P4M80-M4 4 B. BIOS & Software BIOS Award legal BIOS. Supports APM1.2. Supports ACPI Supports USB Function. Software Support s Warp speeder™, 9th T ouch™, WINFLASHE R™ and FLASHER™. 1.2 P ACKAGE C HECKLIST FDD Cable X 1 HDD Cable X 1 User’s Manual X 1 Fully Setup Driver CD X 1 USB 2.0 Cabl e X1 (optional) Serial A T A Cable X 2 (option[...]

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    P4M80-M4 5 1.3 L AYOUT AND C OMPONENTS JUSB1 JAUDIO JUSBLAN1 J C O M 1 JPRNT JVGA 1 PCI1 FDD1 CNR1 BA T1 DIMM1 DIMM2 PCI3 PCI2 IDE1 IDE2 JA TXPWR2 JA TXPWR1 JCF AN1 JSF AN1 JCMOS 1 JUSB3 JUSB4 JSA TA 2 JSA TA 1 JCI1 JP ANEL1 VT8237R P4M8 00 JAUDIO1 JCDIN1 JSPDIFO1 Codec Super I/O AGP1 PU CPU1 Socket 478 LAN BIOS JKBMS1 JAUX1 (optional) Note: ■ re[...]

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    P4M80-M4 6 CHAPTER 2: HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1 I NSTALLING C ENTRAL P ROCESS ING U NIT (CPU) PU PU Step 1: Pull the lever sideways a way from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90-degree angle. Step 2: Look for the white dot/cut edg e. The white dot/cut edge should point wards the lever pivot. The CPU will fit only in the correct orientat[...]

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    P4M80-M4 7 2.2 FAN H EADERS These fan headers support cooling-fan s built in the computer . The fan cable and connector may be different a ccordi ng to the fan manufacturer . Connect the fan cable to the connector while mat ching the black wire to pin#1. JCFAN1: CPU Fan Header JSFAN1: System Fan Header Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 +12V PU JSF AN1 31 3[...]

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    P4M80-M4 8 2.3 I NSTALLING S YSTEM M EMORY DIMM1 DIMM2 PU 1. Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the ret aining clips outward. Align a DIMM on the slot such that the not ch on the DIMM ma tches the break on the Slot. 2. Insert the DIMM vertically and firmly into the slot until the retainin g chip snap back in place an d the DIMM is properly seated.[...]

  • Page 11

    P4M80-M4 9 2.4 C ONNECTORS AND S LOTS FDD1: Floppy Disk Connector The motherboard provides a st andard floppy disk connector that supports 36 0 K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This connector su ppo rts the provide d floppy drive rib bon cables. 1 23 4 33 PU IDE1/IDE2: Hard Disk Connectors The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhan ce d PC[...]

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    P4M80-M4 10 PCI1~PCI3: Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots This motherboard is equip ped with 3 standa rd PCI sl ots. PCI st ands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bu s st andard for expansion cards. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bit s. PCI3 PCI2 PCI1 PU AGP1: Accelerated Graphics Port Slot Your monitor will attach directly[...]

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    P4M80-M4 11 CNR1: Communication Network Riser Slot The CNR specification is an open Indust ry S tandard Architecture, and it defines a hardware scalable ri se r card interface, which supports mo dem only . PU[...]

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    P4M80-M4 12 CHAPTER 3: HEADERS & JUMPERS SETUP 3.1 H OW TO S ETUP J UMPERS The illustration shows how to set up jumpers. When the jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “close”, if not, that means the jumper is “open”. Pin opened Pin closed Pin1-2 closed 3.2 D ETAIL S ET TINGS JATXPWR1: ATX Po wer Connector This connector allows us[...]

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    P4M80-M4 13 JATXPWR2: ATX Po wer Connector By connecting this connector , it will provide +12V to CPU power circuit. Pin Assignment 1 +12V 2 +12V 3 Ground 4 2 3 1 PU 4 Ground JAUDIO1: Fr ont Panel Audio He ader This header allo ws user to connect the front audio o utput cable with the PC front panel. It will disable the output on back panel audio c[...]

  • Page 16

    P4M80-M4 14 JSPDIFO1: Di gi tal Au dio-out Connec tor This connector allows user to connect the PCI bracket SPDIF output hea der. Pin Assignment 1 +5V 2 SPDIF_OUT 1 3 PU 3 Ground JPANEL1: Fr ont Panel Hea der This 24-pin connector includes Power-on, Reset, HDD LE D, Po wer LED, Sleep button, speaker and IrDA Connectio n. It allo ws user to con nect[...]

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    P4M80-M4 15 JUSB3/JUSB 4: Front USB Headers This motherboard provides 2 USB 2.0 he aders, which allows user to connect additional USB cable on the PC front p anel, and also can be conn ected with internal USB devices, like USB card reader. Pin Assignment 1 +5V (fused) 2 +5V (fused) 3 USB- 4 USB- 5 USB+ 6 USB+ 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Key 1 2 9 10 JUSB4 [...]

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    P4M80-M4 16 JSATA1/JSATA2: Serial ATA Connectors The motherboard has a PCI to SA T A Controller with 2 channels SA T A interface, it satisfies the SA T A 1.0 spec and with transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s. Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 TX+ 3 TX- 4 Ground 5 RX- 6 RX+ JSA T A1 1 7 4 7 14 JSA T A2 PU 7 Ground JCDIN1: CD- RO M Audi o-in Connector This connector al[...]

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    P4M80-M4 17 JCI1: Chassi s Open Header This connector allows system to monitor PC case op en status. If the signal has been triggered, it will record to the CMOS and show the message on next boot-up. Pin Assignment 1 Case open signal 12 PU 2 Ground[...]

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    P4M80-M4 18 CHAPTER 4: USEFUL HELP 4.1 A WARD BIOS B EEP C ODE Beep Sound Meaning One long beep followed by t wo short beeps Video card not found or video card memory bad High-low siren soun d CPU overheated System will shut down automatically One Short beep when system boot-up No error found during POST Long beeps every other seco nd No DRAM detec[...]

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    P4M80-M4 19 B. CPU Overheated If the system shutdown aut omatically after power on system for seconds, that means the CPU prot e ction function ha s been activated. When the CPU is over heated, the motherboard will shutdown automatically to avoid a damage of the CPU, and the system may not power on again. In this case, please double che ck: 1. The [...]

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    P4M80-M4 20 4.3 T ROUBLESHOOTING Probable Solution 1. No power to the system at all Power light don’t illuminate, fan inside power supply does not turn on. 2. Indicator light on keyboard does not turn on. 1. Make sure power cable is securely plugged in. 2. Replace cabl e. 3. Contact technical support. System inoperative. Keyboard lig hts are on, [...]

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    P4M80-M4 21 CHAPTER 5: WARPSPEEDER™ 5.1 I NTRODUCTION [W arpS peeder™], a new powerful co ntrol utility , features three user-friendly functions inclu ding Overclock Manager , Overvoltage Manager , and Hardware M onitor . With the Overclock Manager , users can easily adjust the frequen cy they prefer or they can get the best CPU perf ormance wi[...]

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    P4M80-M4 22 5.3 I NSTALLATION 1. Execute the setup execution file, and then the followin g dialog will p op up. Please click “Next” button and follow the default proce dure to install. 2. When you see the followin g dialog in se tup procedure, it means setup is completed. If the “Launch the W arpS peeder T ray Utility” checkbox is checked, [...]

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    P4M80-M4 23 5.4 [W ARP S PEEDER ™] INCLUDES 1 TRAY ICON AND 5 PANELS 1. Tray Icon: Whenever the T ray Icon utility is l aunched, it will display a little tray icon on the right side of Windows T askbar . This utility is responsible for conveniently invoking [W arpS peeder™] Utility . Y ou can use the mo use by clicking the left button in order [...]

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    P4M80-M4 24 2. Main Panel If you click the tray icon, [W ar pS peeder™] utility will be invoked. Please refer to the following figure; the utility’ s first window you will see is Main Panel. Main Panel contains features as follows: a. Display the CPU S peed, CPU external clock, Memory clock, AGP clock, and PCI clock information. b. Cont ains Ab[...]

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    P4M80-M4 25 3. Voltage Panel Click the V oltage button in Main Panel, the button will be highlig hted and the V oltage Panel will slide out to up as the follo wing figure. In this panel, you can decide to increa se CPU core voltage a nd Memory voltage or not. The default setting is “No”. If you want to get the best performance of overclockin g,[...]

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    P4M80-M4 26 4. Overclock Panel Click the Overclock button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the Overclock Panel will slide out to lef t as the following figure. Overclock Panel contains the these features: a. “–3MHz button”, “-1MHz button”, “+1M Hz button”, and “+3MHz button”: provide user the ability to do real-ti[...]

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    P4M80-M4 27 c. “Auto-overclock button”: Us er can click this button and [W arpS peeder™] will set the best and st able performance and frequency automatically . [W arpS peeder™] utility will execute a series of testing until system fail. Then system will do fail-safe reboot by using W atchdog function. After reboot, the [W arpS peeder™] u[...]

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    P4M80-M4 28 6. About Panel Click the “about” button in Main Panel, the button will be highlig hted and the About Panel will slide out to up as the following figure. In this panel, you can get model name and det ail information in hint s of all the chipset that are related to overclocking. Y ou can also get the mainboard’s BIOS mo del and the [...]

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    P4M80-M4 29 Note: Because the overclock, overvolt ag e, and hardware monitor featu re s are controlled by several separate chip set, [WarpS peeder™] divide these features to separate panels. If one chip set is not on board, the correlative button in Main p anel will be di sabled, but will not interfere other panels’ functions. This property can[...]