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Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Installing and Removing the Desktop Board 32 Installing and Removing a Processor 33 Installing a... Serial ATA (SATA) Cables 47 Connecting to the Internal Headers 48 S/PDIF Header 49 Front Panel Intel HD Audio Header 49 Consumer IR (CIR) Headers 49 Front Panel Header 50 Alternate Front Panel Power... the BIOS 68 4 Configuring for RAID Using Intel® Matrix Storage Technology Configuring the BIOS 69 Creating Your RAID Set 69 Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for Microsoft Windows XP Installation...
Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Installing and Removing the Desktop Board 32 Installing and Removing a Processor 33 Installing a... Serial ATA (SATA) Cables 47 Connecting to the Internal Headers 48 S/PDIF Header 49 Front Panel Intel HD Audio Header 49 Consumer IR (CIR) Headers 49 Front Panel Header 50 Alternate Front Panel Power... the BIOS 68 4 Configuring for RAID Using Intel® Matrix Storage Technology Configuring the BIOS 69 Creating Your RAID Set 69 Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for Microsoft Windows XP Installation...
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... more information on supported processors for Intel Desktop Board DP55WG http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DP55WG /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://www.intel.com/support/go to the Desktop Board through the LGA1156 socket.
... more information on supported processors for Intel Desktop Board DP55WG http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DP55WG /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://www.intel.com/support/go to the Desktop Board through the LGA1156 socket.
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...operation. USB 2.0 ports are backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices. USB 2.0 support requires both an operating system and drivers that do not support USB 2.0. The Desktop Board includes a SATA drive activity indicator (a blue LED) shown in the BIOS reverts all USB 2.0 ports to ...1000 Mb/s data rate USB 2.0 Support The Desktop Board provides 14 USB 2.0 ports (eight ports routed to back panel connectors and six ports routed to three onboard headers). Desktop Board Features Figure 2. Serial ATA Support Intel Desktop Board DP55WG supports six onboard 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA...
...operation. USB 2.0 ports are backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices. USB 2.0 support requires both an operating system and drivers that do not support USB 2.0. The Desktop Board includes a SATA drive activity indicator (a blue LED) shown in the BIOS reverts all USB 2.0 ports to ...1000 Mb/s data rate USB 2.0 Support The Desktop Board provides 14 USB 2.0 ports (eight ports routed to back panel connectors and six ports routed to three onboard headers). Desktop Board Features Figure 2. Serial ATA Support Intel Desktop Board DP55WG supports six onboard 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA...
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... press the F6 key to your Microsoft Windows XP documentation for more information about installing drivers during installation. SATA Drive Activity LED The six onboard SATA channels support the following Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels: • RAID ...Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 include the necessary RAID drivers for both AHCI and RAID without the need to use supported onboard RAID features, you must first enable RAID in the BIOS. Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Figure 3. distributed parity NOTE In order to ...
... press the F6 key to your Microsoft Windows XP documentation for more information about installing drivers during installation. SATA Drive Activity LED The six onboard SATA channels support the following Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels: • RAID ...Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 include the necessary RAID drivers for both AHCI and RAID without the need to use supported onboard RAID features, you must first enable RAID in the BIOS. Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Figure 3. distributed parity NOTE In order to ...
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...two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that allows you use the connector included with the Desktop Board to connect the two graphics cards together. Visit the NVIDIA zone website (http...to install linked PCI Express graphics cards such as NVIDIA* SLI* (Scalable Link Interface) cards. Installing and Replacing Desktop Board Components Figure 24. Make sure you to the chassis back panel with the SLI bridge (Figure 25, C)... PCI Express x16 Graphics Card Installing Linked PCI Express Graphics Cards The Desktop Board supports technology that are NVIDIA certified and the latest graphics...
...two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that allows you use the connector included with the Desktop Board to connect the two graphics cards together. Visit the NVIDIA zone website (http...to install linked PCI Express graphics cards such as NVIDIA* SLI* (Scalable Link Interface) cards. Installing and Replacing Desktop Board Components Figure 24. Make sure you to the chassis back panel with the SLI bridge (Figure 25, C)... PCI Express x16 Graphics Card Installing Linked PCI Express Graphics Cards The Desktop Board supports technology that are NVIDIA certified and the latest graphics...
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... audio connectors. Poor audio quality may occur if passive (non-amplified) speakers are shown in the table. Installing and Replacing Desktop Board Components Connecting to this output. 53 Back Panel Audio Connectors NOTE The back panel line out connector is designed to power ...either headphones or amplified speakers only. The connector assignments are connected 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. Item Description A Center Channel and LFE (Subwoofer...
... audio connectors. Poor audio quality may occur if passive (non-amplified) speakers are shown in the table. Installing and Replacing Desktop Board Components Connecting to this output. 53 Back Panel Audio Connectors NOTE The back panel line out connector is designed to power ...either headphones or amplified speakers only. The connector assignments are connected 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. Item Description A Center Channel and LFE (Subwoofer...
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Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for information on supported USB floppy disk drives. Begin Windows Setup by booting from the Internet at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/. Refer to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver. Follow the steps described above in a USB floppy disk drive...
Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Loading the Intel Matrix Storage Technology RAID Drivers and Software (Required for information on supported USB floppy disk drives. Begin Windows Setup by booting from the Internet at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/. Refer to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver. Follow the steps described above in a USB floppy disk drive...
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... BIST SPI prefetching and caching Load BSP/APS microcode Platform program base addresses Wake up all APS Initialize NEM Pass entry point of the PEI core 11 12 13 14 15 16 17, 18 19, 1A 1B, 1C PEI Phase Before MRC Set bootmode, GPIO init Early chipset register ... Detecting presence 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 74 Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Table 17 lists the Port 80h POST codes in hexadecimal notation.
... BIST SPI prefetching and caching Load BSP/APS microcode Platform program base addresses Wake up all APS Initialize NEM Pass entry point of the PEI core 11 12 13 14 15 16 17, 18 19, 1A 1B, 1C PEI Phase Before MRC Set bootmode, GPIO init Early chipset register ... Detecting presence 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 74 Intel Desktop Board DP55WG Product Guide Table 17 lists the Port 80h POST codes in hexadecimal notation.
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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...