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Specifications and information contained in this guide are furnished for informational
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commitment by ASRock. ASRock assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions
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With respect to the contents of this guide, ASRock does not provide warranty of any kind,
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ASRock, its directors, officers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, special,
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or product.
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions:
(1)
(2)
this device may not cause harmful interference, and
this device must accept any interference received, including interference that
may cause undesired operation.
CALIFORNIA, USA ONLY
The Lithium battery adopted on this motherboard contains Perchlorate, a toxic
substance controlled in Perchlorate Best Management Practices (BMP) regulations
passed by the California Legislature. When you discard the Lithium battery in
California, USA, please follow the related regulations in advance.
“Perchlorate Material-special handling may apply, see
www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/perchlorate”
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Copyright©2007 ASRock INC. All rights reserved.
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Motherboard L
Motherboard L
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Motherboard Layout
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Motherboard L
Motherboard L
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PS2_USB_PWR1 Jumper
ATX 12V Connector (ATX12V1)
ATX Power Connector (ATXPWR1)
775-Pin CPU Socket
North Bridge Controller
CPU Fan Connector (CPU_FAN1)
2 x 240-pin DDRII DIMM Slots
(Dual Channel A: DDRII_1, DDRII_3; Yellow)
2 x 240-pin DDRII DIMM Slots
(Dual Channel B: DDRII_2, DDRII_4; Orange)
IDE1 Connector (IDE1, Blue)
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10 Clear CMOS Jumper (CLRCMOS1)
South Bridge Controller
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Serial ATA Connector 2 (SATA_2, black)
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Serial ATA Connector 3 (SATA_3, black)
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Serial ATA Connector 1 (SATA_1, blue)
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Serial ATA Connector 0 (SATA_0, blue)
16 Chassis Fan Connector (CHA_FAN1)
Front Panel Audio Header (HD_AUDIO1)
System Panel Header (PANEL1)
Infrared Module Connector (IR1)
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18 Chassis Speaker Header (SPEAKER 1)
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20 USB 2.0 Header (USB67, Blue)
21 USB 2.0 Header (USB45, Blue)
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Floppy Connector (FLOPPY1)
23 Game Port Header (GAME1)
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25 HDMI_SPDIF Header (HDMI_SPDIF1)
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28 BIOS FWH Chip
29 AGI Express Slot (PCI Express x4)
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PCIEX1_EN1 - 5
PCI Express x1 Slot (PCIE2)
PCI Express x16 Slot (PCIE1)
SLI / XFIRE Power Connector
Internal Audio Connector: CD1 (Black)
PCI Slots (PCI1- 3)
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HD 8CH I/O
HD 8CH I/O
HD 8CH I/O
HD 8CH I/O
HD 8CH I/O
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Parallel Port
RJ-45 Port
Side Speaker (Gray)
Rear Speaker (Black)
Central / Bass (Orange)
Line In (Light Blue)
Front Speaker (Lime)
8 Microphone (Pink)
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USB 2.0 Ports (USB01)
10 USB 2.0 Ports (USB23)
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Serial Port: COM1
PS/2 Keyboard Port (Purple)
PS/2 Mouse Port (Green)
* If you use 2-channel speaker, please connect the speaker’s plug into “Front Speaker Jack”. See
the table below for connection details in accordance with the type of speaker you use.
TABLE for Audio Output Connection
Audio Output Channels Front Speaker Rear Speaker
Central / Bass
Side Speaker
(No. 7)
(No. 4)
(No. 5)
(No. 3)
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* To enable Multi-Streaming function, you need to connect a front panel audio cable to the front
panel audio header. After restarting your computer, you will find “Mixer” tool on your system.
Please select “Mixer ToolBox” , click “Enable playback multi-streaming”, and click
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“ok”. Choose “2CH”, “4CH”, “6CH”, or “8CH” and then you are allowed to select “Realtek HDA
Primary output” to use Rear Speaker, Central/Bass, and Front Speaker, or select “Realtek HDA
Audio 2nd output” to use front panel audio.
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1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
Thank you for purchasing ASRock 775XFire-VSTA motherboard, a reliable
motherboard produced under ASRock’s consistently stringent quality control. It de-
livers excellent performance with robust design conforming to ASRock’s commit-
ment to quality and endurance.
This Quick Installation Guide contains introduction of the motherboard and step-by-
step installation guide. More detailed information of the motherboard can be found in
the user manual presented in the Support CD.
Because the motherboard specifications and the BIOS software might be
updated, the content of this manual will be subject to change without
notice. In case any modifications of this manual occur, the updated
version will be available on ASRock website without further notice. You
may find the latest VGA cards and CPU support lists on ASRock website
as well. ASRock website http://www.asrock.com
1.1 Package Contents
1.1 Package Contents
1.1 Package Contents
1.1 Package Contents
1.1 Package Contents
ASRock 775XFire-VSTA Motherboard
(ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.6-in, 30.5 cm x 21.8 cm)
ASRock 775XFire-VSTA Quick Installation Guide
ASRock 775XFire-VSTA Support CD
(including LGA 775 CPU Installation Live Demo)
One 80-conductor Ultra ATA 66/100 IDE Ribbon Cable
One Ribbon Cable for a 3.5-in Floppy Drive
One Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cable (Optional)
One Serial ATA (SATA) HDD Power Cable (Optional)
One HDMI_SPDIF Cable (Optional)
One HD 8CH I/O Panel Shield
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ASRock 775XFire-VSTA Motherboard
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Specifications
Specifications
Specifications
Specifications
Specifications
Platform
CPU
Chipset
Memory
Hybrid Booster
Expansion Slot
Audio
LAN
Rear Panel I/O
- ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.6-in, 30.5 cm x 21.8 cm
- LGA 775 for Intel® Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D, supporting Cedar
Mill processors
- FSB 800/533 MHz
- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology (see CAUTION 1)
- Supports EM64T CPU
- Northbridge: Intel® 925X chipset
- Southbridge: Intel® ICH6R
- Dual Channel DDRII Memory Technology (see CAUTION 2)
- 4 x DDRII DIMM slots
- Support DDRII533
- Max. capacity: 4GB (see CAUTION 3)
- CPU Frequency Stepless Control (see CAUTION 4)
- ASRock U-COP (see CAUTION 5)
- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)
- Supports ATITM CrossFireTM
- 3 x PCI slots
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
- 1 x AGI Express slot (PCI Express x4) (see CAUTION 6)
- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
- 7.1 CH Windows® VistaTM Premium Level HD Audio
(ALC888 Audio Codec)
- Realtek PCI LAN 8101L
- Speed: 10/100 Ethernet
- Supports Wake-On-LAN
HD 8CH I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
- 1 x Serial Port: COM1
- 1 x Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)
- 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port
- HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker/Rear Speaker/Central Bass/
Line in/Front Speaker/Microphone (see CAUTION 7)
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ASRock 775XFire-VSTA Motherboard
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Connector
BIOS Feature
Support CD
Hardware
Monitor
OS
Certifications
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- 4 x Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0,
RAID 1, and Intel Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug”
functions
- 1 x ATA100 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices)
- 1 x Floppy connector
- 1 x IR header
- 1 x Game header
- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header
- CPU/Chassis FAN connector
- 20 pin ATX power connector
- 4 pin 12V power connector
- SLI/XFIRE power connector
- CD in header
- Front panel audio connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports)
(see CAUTION 8)
- 4Mb AMI BIOS
- AMI Legal BIOS
- Supports “Plug and Play”
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
- Supports jumperfree
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version)
- CPU Temperature Sensing
- Chassis Temperature Sensing
- CPU Fan Tachometer
- Chassis Fan Tachometer
- CPU Quiet Fan
- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP/XP 64-bit/VistaTM/
VistaTM 64-bit compliant (see CAUTION 9)
- FCC, CE, WHQL
66666
ASRock 775XFire-VSTA Motherboard
CAUTION!
1. About the setting of “Hyper Threading Technology”, please check page 41
of “User Manual” in the Support CD.
2. This motherboard supports Dual Channel Memory Technology. Before you
implement Dual Channel Memory Technology, make sure to read the
installation guide of memory modules on page 13 for proper installation.
3. Due to the chipset limitation, the actual memory size may be less than
4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 2000, Win-
dows® XP, Windows® XP 64-bit, Windows® VistaTM and Windows® VistaTM
64-bit.
4. Although this motherboard offers stepless control, it is not recommended
to perform over-clocking. Frequencies other than the recommended CPU
bus frequencies may cause the instability of the system or damage the
CPU.
5. While CPU overheat is detected, the system will automatically shutdown.
Before you resume the system, please check if the CPU fan on the
motherboard functions properly and unplug the power cord, then plug it
back again. To improve heat dissipation, remember to spray thermal
grease between the CPU and the heatsink when you install the PC system.
If you install PCI Express VGA card to AGI Express slot (PCI Express x
4), PCIE2 slot (PCIE x1) function will be disabled. For the information of
the compatible PCI Express VGA cards, please refer to the “Supported PCI
Express VGA Card List for AGI Express Slot (PCI Express x4)” on page 9.
For the proper installation of PCI Express VGA card, please refer to the
installation guide on page 15.
6.
7. For microphone input, this motherboard supports both stereo and mono
modes. For audio output, this motherboard supports 2-channel, 4-channel,
6-channel, and 8-channel modes. Please check the table on page 3 for
proper connection.
8. Power Management for USB 2.0 works fine under Microsoft® Windows®
VistaTM 64-bit / VistaTM / XP 64-bit / XP SP1 or SP2 / 2000 SP4.
9. Microsoft® Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit driver keeps on updating now. As
long as we have the latest driver, we will update it to our website in the future.
Please visit our website for Microsoft® Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit driver
and related information.
ASRock website http://www.asrock.com
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1.31.31.31.31.3 Minimum Hardware R
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VistaVistaVistaVistaVistaTMTMTMTMTM Premium and Basic Logo
Premium and Basic Logo
Premium and Basic Logo
Premium and Basic Logo
Premium and Basic Logo
For system integrators and users who purchase this motherboard and
plan to submit Windows® VistaTM Premium and Basic logo, please follow the
below table for minimum hardware requirement.
CPU
Memory
VGA
Celeron D 326
512MB Single Channel
DX9.0 with WDDM Driver
with 128bit VGA memory (Premium)
with 64bit VGA memory (Basic)
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