ASRock P4AL-8X User Manual - Page 6

BIOS: OS: AMI legal BIOS; Supports "Plug and Play"; ACPI 1.1 compliance wake up events; Supports jumperfree; SMBIOS 2.3.1 support; CPU frequency stepless control (only for advanced users' reference, see CAUTION 5) Microsoft® Windows® 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP compliant CAUTION! 1. About the setting of "Hyper Threading Technology", please check page 21. 2. While CPU overheat is detected, the system will automatically shutdown. Please check if the CPU fan on the motherboard functions properly before you resume the system. To improve heat dissipation, remember to spray thermal grease between the CPU and the heatsink when you install the PC system. 3. Do NOT plug a 3.3V AGP card in the AGP slot on P4AL-8X / P4AL-8XM motherboard! It may cause permanent damage! 4. Power Management for USB 2.0 works fine under Microsoft® Windows®XP. It may not work properly under Microsoft® Windows® 98/ME/2000. Please refer to Microsoft® official document at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/bus/USB/USB2support.mspx 5. Although P4AL-8X / P4AL-8XM offers stepless control, it is not recommended to perform over clocking. When the CPU frequency of P4AL-8X / P4AL-8XM is set to perform over clocking, other clocks, such as PCI clock, AGP clock, and Memory clock will also be overclocked proportionally. Frequencies other than the recommended CPU bus frequencies may cause the instability of the system or damage the CPU and the motherboard. 6