BCM MX945GSE3 Manuel d'utilisateur

MX945GSE Intel® Atom N270 CPU with 945GSE/ICH7M Chipsets Mini ITX Motherboard User’s Manual v1.1 BCM Advanced Resea

Back Panel & I/O Shield Drawing 1-6

Power Consumption Component Description CPU Intel® Atom Processor 200 Series Memory Corsair 1G DDR2-800 x1 Hard Disk Western Digital 80G

Safety Compliance & MTBF Safety Compliance Certification Standard number Title of standard EN 55022: 2006 Product family standard EN 2

Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Quick Components Guide 2-1

Memory The DIMM slot is intended for system memory modules. Installing Memory Modules 1. Locate the SO-DIMM slot on the mainboard. 2. Align t

Power Supply System Power Connector: ATX1 This connector allows you to connect a 20-pin power supply. To connect the power supply, make sure the pow

Back Panel I/O Serial Port The serial port is a 16550A high speed communications port that sends/ receives 16 bytes FIFOs. You can attach a serial

Audio Ports These audio connectors are used for audio devices. You can differentiate the color of the audio jacks for different audio sound effects.

Connector IDE Connector: IDE1 This connector supports IDE hard disk drives, optical disk drives and other IDE devices. If you install two IDE

Serial ATA Connector: SATA1, SATA2 This connector is a high-speed Serial ATA interface port. Each connector can connect to one Serial ATA device.

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Please refer to the recommended CPU fans at CPU vendor’s official website or consult the mainboard vendor for proper CPU cooling fan. Backlight

Note that the pins of VCC and GND must be connected correctly to avoid possible damage. Serial Port Connector: COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4 This conn

Audio Amplifier Connector: JAMP1 The JAMP1 is used to connect audio amplifiers to enhance audio performance. Front Panel Connector: JFP1

Front Panel Audio Connector: JAUD1 This connector allows you to connect the front panel audio and is compliant with Intel® Front Panel I/O Connect

LVDS Flat Panel Connector: JLVDS1 The LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signal) connector provides a digital interface typically used with flat panels. A

Jumper LVDS Power Selection Jumper: JVDD1 Use this jumper to specify the operation voltage of the LVDS interfaced flat panel. COM Port Power Ju

Slot PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Express Slot The CON1 is Mini PCI-E connector for wireless LAN, TV tuner, and Intel® Turbo Memory (Rob

Chapter 3 BIOS Setup Entering Setup Power on the computer and the system will start POST (Power On Self Test) process. When the message below appea

Getting Help After entering the Setup menu, the first menu you will see is the Main Menu. Main Menu The main menu lists the setup functions you ca

The Menu Bar Main Use this menu for basic system configurations, such as time, date etc. Advanced Use this menu to set up the items of special

This manual is created and written by BCM Technical Dept., with the information from the MX945GSE specifications, and Intel 82945GSE Specifications.

Power Use this menu to specify your settings for power management. Exit This menu allows you to load the BIOS default values or factory default set

Main BIOS Information, Processor, System Memory These items show the firmware and hardware specifications of your system. Read only. System Time

Advanced CPU Configuration These items show the advanced specifications of your CPU. Read only. 3-6

Max CPUID Value Limit The Max CPUID Value Limit BIOS feature allows you to circumvent problems with older operating systems that do not support Hyper

IDE Configuration ATA/IDE Configuration This setting specifies the operation mode of the onboard ATA/IDE controller. Legacy IDE Channels This

[Type] Press PgUp/<+> or PgDn/<-> to select [Manual], [None] or [Auto] type. Note that the specifications of your drive must match with th

Super IO Configuration Serial Port Address, Serial Port IRQ Select an address and a corresponding interrupt for the serial port. Parallel Port

Hardware Health Configuration Chassis Intrusion The field enables or disables the feature of recording the chassis intrusion status and issuing

ACPI Settings General ACPI Configuration Suspend Mode This item specifies the power saving modes for ACPI function. If your operating system

Advanced ACPI Configuration ACPI Version Features This setting allows you to select the ACPI version. ACPI APIC Support This BIOS feature is u

CONTENTS Chapter 1 Product Overview... 1-1 Mainboard Specifications ...

Legacy USB Support Set to [Enabled] if your need to use any USB device in the operating system that does not support or have any USB driver installed

Boot Boot Settings Configuration 3-15

Quick Boot Enabling this setting will cause the BIOS power-on self test routine to skip some of its tests during bootup for faster system boot. Qui

Security Supervisor Password / Change Supervisor Password Supervisor Password controls access to the BIOS Setup utility. These settings allow you

Chipset North Bridge Configuration 3-18

Configure DRAM Timing by SPD Selects whether DRAM timing is controlled by the SPD (Serial Presence Detect) EEPROM on the DRAM module. Setting to [Auto

Flat Panel Type Use the field to select the resolution of the flat panel display. South Bridge Configuration USB Functions This setting specif

Power Restore on AC Power Loss This setting specifies whether your system will reboot after a power failure or interrupt occurs. Available setti

Exit Save Changes and Exit Save changes to CMOS and exit the Setup Utility. Discard Changes and Exit Abandon all changes and exit the Setup Ut

Chapter 4 System Resources Watch Dog Timer Setting Software Code SIO_IDX equ 4EH SIO_DTAequ 4FH Timer equ 10; reset after 10 seconds 1. Enter

Chapter 1 Product Overview Motherboard Specifications System Processor - Intel® Atom processor N270 (1.6GHz single core with HT) FSB - 533MHz Chipse

AMI POST Code Bootblock Recovery Code Checkpoints The Bootblock recovery code gets control when the BIOS determines that a BIOS recovery needs to o

POST Code Checkpoints The POST code checkpoints are the largest set of checkpoints during the BIOS pre-boot process. The following table describes th

keys to limit memory test. Display total memory in the system. 3C Mid POST initialization of chipset registers. 40 Detect different devices (Parallel

- 1x chassis intrusion switch header - 1x S/PDIF-Out header - 1x amplifier header - 1x LVDS connector - 1x 20-pin ATX power connector Environmental Sl

Block Diagram 1-3

Motherboard Layout MX945GSE Mini ITX Mainboard 1-4

Board Dimension 1-5