ASRock A75M: 1. Introduction

1. Introduction

Thank you for purchasing ASRock A75M motherboard, a reliable motherboard

produced under ASRock’s consistently stringent quality control. It delivers excellent

performance with robust design conforming to ASRock’s commitment 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 specications and the BIOS software might be

updated, the content of this manual will be subject to change without no-

tice. In case any modications of this manual occur, the updated version

will be available on ASRock website without further notice. You may nd

the latest VGA cards and CPU support lists on ASRock website as well.

ASRock website http://www.asrock.com

If you require technical support related to this motherboard, please visit

our website for specic information about the model you are using.

www.asrock.com/support/index.asp

1.1 Package Contents

ASRock A75M Motherboard

(Micro ATX Form Factor: 9.6-in x 8.5-in, 24.4 cm x 21.6 cm)

ASRock A75M Quick Installation Guide

ASRock A75M Support CD

2 x Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cables (Optional)

1 x I/O Panel Shield

ASRock Reminds You...

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To get better performance in Windows

7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

/ Vista

64-

bit, it is recommended to set the BIOS option in Storage Conguration to

AHCI mode. For the BIOS setup, please refer to the “User Manual” in our

support CD for details.

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1.2 Specifications

Platform - Micro ATX Form Factor: 9.6-in x 8.5-in, 24.4 cm x 21.6 cm

- All Solid Capacitor design

CPU - Support for Socket FM1 100W processors

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- Supports AMD’s Cool ‘n’ Quiet

Technology

- UMI-Link GEN2

Chipset - AMD A75 FCH (Hudson-D3)

Memory - Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Technology (see CAUTION 1)

- 2 x DDR3 DIMM slots

- Support DDR3 2400+(OC)/1866/1600/1333/1066/800

non-ECC, un-buffered memory (see CAUTION 2)

- Max. capacity of system memory: 16GB (see CAUTION 3)

Expansion Slot - 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot

- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot

- 2 x PCI slots

- Supports AMD Dual Graphics

Graphics - AMD Radeon HD 65XX/64XX graphics

- DirectX 11, Pixel Shader 5.0

- Max. shared memory 512MB (see CAUTION 4)

- Dual VGA Output: support HDMI and D-Sub ports by

independent display controllers

- Supports HDMI 1.4a Technology with max. resolution up to

1920x1200 @ 60Hz

- Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920x1600 @

60Hz

- Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and

HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI (Compliant HDMI

monitor is required) (see CAUTION 5)

- Supports Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D with HDMI 1.4a

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- Supports AMD Steady Video

: New video post processing

capability for automatic jutter reduction on home/online

video

- Supports HDCP function with HDMI port

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- Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD playback

with HDMI port

Audio - 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection

(Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec)

- Premium Blu-ray audio support

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- Supports THX TruStudio

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LAN - PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s

- Realtek RTL8111E

- Supports Wake-On-LAN

- Supports LAN Cable Detection

- Supports Energy Efcient Ethernet 802.3az

- Supports PXE

Rear Panel I/O I/O Panel

- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port

- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port

- 1 x D-Sub Port

- 1 x HDMI Port

- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port

- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports

- 1 x eSATA3 Connector

- 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports

- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED

LED)

- HD Audio Jack: Rear Speaker/Central/Bass/Line in/Front

Speaker/Microphone (see CAUTION 6)

SATA3 - 5 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0,

RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug” functions

USB 3.0 - 4 x USB 3.0 ports, support USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 up to 5Gb/s

Connector - 5 x SATA3 6.0Gb/s connectors

- 1 x IR header

- 1 x CIR header

- 1 x Print port header

- 1 x COM port header

- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header

- CPU/Chassis/Power FAN connector

- 24 pin ATX power connector

- 8 pin 12V power connector

- Front panel audio connector

- 3 x USB 2.0 headers (support 6 USB 2.0 ports)

BIOS Feature - 32Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with GUI support

- Supports “Plug and Play”

- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events

- Supports jumperfree

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- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support

- DRAM, VDDP, SB Voltage Multi-adjustment

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Support CD - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version),

CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial

Unique Feature - ASRock Extreme Tuning Utility (AXTU) (see CAUTION 7)

- ASRock Instant Boot

- ASRock Instant Flash (see CAUTION 8)

- ASRock APP Charger (see CAUTION 9)

- ASRock XFast USB (see CAUTION 10)

- ASRock On/Off Play Technology (see CAUTION 11)

- Hybrid Booster:

- ASRock U-COP (see CAUTION 12)

Hardware - CPU Temperature Sensing

Monitor - Chassis Temperature Sensing

- CPU/Chassis/Power Fan Tachometer

- CPU/Chassis Quiet Fan

- CPU/Chassis Fan Multi-Speed Control

- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore

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OS - Microsoft

Windows

7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

/ Vista

64-bit / XP

SP3 / XP 64-bit compliant

Certications - FCC, CE, WHQL

- ErP/EuP Ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)

(see CAUTION 13)

* For detailed product information, please visit our website: http://www.asrock.com

WARNING

Please realize that there is a certain risk involved with overclocking, including adjusting the

setting in the BIOS, applying Untied Overclocking Technology, or using the third-party over-

clocking tools. Overclocking may affect your system stability, or even cause damage to the

components and devices of your system. It should be done at your own risk and expense.

We are not responsible for possible damage caused by overclocking.

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CAUTION!

1. 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 14 for proper installation.

2. Whether 2400/1866/1600MHz memory speed is supported depends on

the CPU you adopt. If you want to adopt DDR3 2400/1866/1600 memory

module on this motherboard, please refer to the memory support list on

our website for the compatible memory modules.

ASRock website http://www.asrock.com

3. Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be

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less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows

7 /

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Vista

/ XP. For Windows

64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such

limitation.

4. The maximum shared memory size is dened by the chipset vendor and

is subject to change. Please check AMD website for the latest informa-

tion.

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5. xvYCC and Deep Color are only supported under Windows

7 64-bit /

7. Deep Color mode will be enabled only if the display supports 12bpc

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in EDID. HBR is supported under Windows

7 64-bit / 7 / Vista

64-bit /

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Vista

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6. For microphone input, this motherboard supports both stereo and mono

modes. For audio output, this motherboard supports 2-channel, 4-chan-

nel, 6-channel, and 8-channel modes. Please check the table on page 3

for proper connection.

7. ASRock Extreme Tuning Utility (AXTU) is an all-in-one tool to ne-tune

different system functions in a user-friendly interface, which is including

Hardware Monitor, Fan Control and IES. In Hardware Monitor, it shows

the major readings of your system. In Fan Control, it shows the fan speed

and temperature for you to adjust. In IES (Intelligent Energy Saver), the

voltage regulator can reduce the number of output phases to improve

efficiency when the CPU cores are idle without sacrificing computing

performance. Please visit our website for the operation procedures of

ASRock Extreme Tuning Utility (AXTU).

ASRock website: http://www.asrock.com

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