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Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Installing the I/O Shield 33 Installing and Removing the Desktop Board 34 Installing and Removing a Processor 35 Installing a Processor 35 Installing the Processor Fan Heat Sink 40 Connecting the Processor Fan Heat Sink ...with the Iflash Memory Update Utility 69 Recovering the BIOS 70 4 Configuring for RAID Using Intel® Matrix Storage Technology Configuring the BIOS 71 Creating Your RAID Set 71 Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for Microsoft Windows XP Installation 72 Setting Up a "RAID Ready" ...
Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Installing the I/O Shield 33 Installing and Removing the Desktop Board 34 Installing and Removing a Processor 35 Installing a Processor 35 Installing the Processor Fan Heat Sink 40 Connecting the Processor Fan Heat Sink ...with the Iflash Memory Update Utility 69 Recovering the BIOS 70 4 Configuring for RAID Using Intel® Matrix Storage Technology Configuring the BIOS 71 Creating Your RAID Set 71 Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for Microsoft Windows XP Installation 72 Setting Up a "RAID Ready" ...
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... may result in the LGA1156 package. Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Online Support For more information on supported processors for Intel Desktop Board DP55SB http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DP55SB/ index.htm • Supported processors http://processormatch.intel.com • Chipset information http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/inde x.htm • BIOS and driver updates http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ • Integration information http...
... may result in the LGA1156 package. Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Online Support For more information on supported processors for Intel Desktop Board DP55SB http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DP55SB/ index.htm • Supported processors http://processormatch.intel.com • Chipset information http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/inde x.htm • BIOS and driver updates http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ • Integration information http...
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... included external antenna enables you to Connecting the Bluetooth Antenna on page 58 for information on the back panel (see Figure 2). Desktop Board Features Two LEDs are built into the RJ-45 LAN connector located on how to connect the antenna provided with a variety of... the LAN as Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7. Driver support is occurring 10 Mb/s data rate 100 Mb/s data rate 1000 Mb/s data rate Bluetooth* Technology Support The Desktop Board includes a Bluetooth* module (Figure 1, GG). LAN Connector LEDs Table 3. Refer to...
... included external antenna enables you to Connecting the Bluetooth Antenna on page 58 for information on the back panel (see Figure 2). Desktop Board Features Two LEDs are built into the RJ-45 LAN connector located on how to connect the antenna provided with a variety of... the LAN as Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7. Driver support is occurring 10 Mb/s data rate 100 Mb/s data rate 1000 Mb/s data rate Bluetooth* Technology Support The Desktop Board includes a Bluetooth* module (Figure 1, GG). LAN Connector LEDs Table 3. Refer to...
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... port routed to an onboard vertical connector). SATA Drive Activity LED 18 USB 2.0 support requires both an operating system and drivers that do not support USB 2.0. Figure 3. Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide USB 2.0 Support The Desktop Board provides 13 USB 2.0 ports (eight ports routed to back panel connectors, four ports routed to two onboard headers, and...
... port routed to an onboard vertical connector). SATA Drive Activity LED 18 USB 2.0 support requires both an operating system and drivers that do not support USB 2.0. Figure 3. Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide USB 2.0 Support The Desktop Board provides 13 USB 2.0 ports (eight ports routed to back panel connectors, four ports routed to two onboard headers, and...
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...RAID features, you must first enable RAID in the BIOS. data striping and data mirroring • RAID 5 - Legacy I/O Intel Desktop Board DP55SB includes an I/O controller that provides the following legacy I/O features: • Consumer Infrared (CIR) support • Low pin count...power management support Expandability Intel Desktop Board DP55SB provides the following Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels: • RAID 0 - data striping • RAID 1 - distributed parity NOTE In order to install separate RAID drivers using the F6 key...
...RAID features, you must first enable RAID in the BIOS. data striping and data mirroring • RAID 5 - Legacy I/O Intel Desktop Board DP55SB includes an I/O controller that provides the following legacy I/O features: • Consumer Infrared (CIR) support • Low pin count...power management support Expandability Intel Desktop Board DP55SB provides the following Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels: • RAID 0 - data striping • RAID 1 - distributed parity NOTE In order to install separate RAID drivers using the F6 key...
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...Desktop Board supports technology that allows you use the connector included with a screw (Figure 25, B). 5. Connect the two cards together with the SLI bridge (Figure 25, C) as NVIDIA* SLI* (Scalable Link Interface) cards. You can use two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are NVIDIA certified and the latest graphics driver... two linked PCI Express graphics cards: 1. Secure the card's metal bracket to the chassis back panel with the Desktop Board to the manufacturer's instructions. 47 Observe the precautions in "Before You Begin" on the connector. 4. Installing and Replacing...
...Desktop Board supports technology that allows you use the connector included with a screw (Figure 25, B). 5. Connect the two cards together with the SLI bridge (Figure 25, C) as NVIDIA* SLI* (Scalable Link Interface) cards. You can use two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are NVIDIA certified and the latest graphics driver... two linked PCI Express graphics cards: 1. Secure the card's metal bracket to the chassis back panel with the Desktop Board to the manufacturer's instructions. 47 Observe the precautions in "Before You Begin" on the connector. 4. Installing and Replacing...
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... quality may occur if passive (non-amplified) speakers are shown in the table. Figure 28 shows the back panel audio connectors. Installing and Replacing Desktop Board Components Connecting to the Audio System After installing the Realtek audio driver from the Intel® Express Installer DVD-ROM, the multi-channel audio feature can be enabled.
... quality may occur if passive (non-amplified) speakers are shown in the table. Figure 28 shows the back panel audio connectors. Installing and Replacing Desktop Board Components Connecting to the Audio System After installing the Realtek audio driver from the Intel® Express Installer DVD-ROM, the multi-channel audio feature can be enabled.
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... the BIOS" and "Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software." Install the Intel Matrix Storage Console software via the Intel Express Installer CD included with your Desktop Board or after downloading it from the Internet at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/. Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for information...
... the BIOS" and "Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software." Install the Intel Matrix Storage Console software via the Intel Express Installer CD included with your Desktop Board or after downloading it from the Internet at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/. Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for information...
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... MRC Set bootmode, GPIO init Early chipset register programming Basic PCH init, discrete device init LAN init Exit early platform init driver SMBUS driver init Entry/Exit to SMBUS execute read/write Entry/Exit to CK505 programming Entry/Exit to PEI overclock programming MEC Memory Detection... of memory DIMMs 27 Configuring memory 28 Testing memory 29 Exit MRC driver 2A, 2B PEI After MRC Start/finish programming MTRR settings 31, 33, 34 PEIMs/Recovery Recovery has initiate, load, valid 76 Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Table 17 lists the Port 80h POST codes in hexadecimal ...
... MRC Set bootmode, GPIO init Early chipset register programming Basic PCH init, discrete device init LAN init Exit early platform init driver SMBUS driver init Entry/Exit to SMBUS execute read/write Entry/Exit to CK505 programming Entry/Exit to PEI overclock programming MEC Memory Detection... of memory DIMMs 27 Configuring memory 28 Testing memory 29 Exit MRC driver 2A, 2B PEI After MRC Start/finish programming MTRR settings 31, 33, 34 PEIMs/Recovery Recovery has initiate, load, valid 76 Intel Desktop Board DP55SB Product Guide Table 17 lists the Port 80h POST codes in hexadecimal ...
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... I/O Buses PCI enumeration, allocation, hot plug Resetting USB bus Resetting SATA bus and all devices Unrecoverable error, start with PIC Boot Device Selection (BDS) BDS driver entry Entered DXE phase Waiting for user input Checking password Entering BIOS setup Calling legacy option ROMs Keyboard/Mouse (PS/2 or USB) Keyboard initialization Mouse...
... I/O Buses PCI enumeration, allocation, hot plug Resetting USB bus Resetting SATA bus and all devices Unrecoverable error, start with PIC Boot Device Selection (BDS) BDS driver entry Entered DXE phase Waiting for user input Checking password Entering BIOS setup Calling legacy option ROMs Keyboard/Mouse (PS/2 or USB) Keyboard initialization Mouse...