Please refer to the picture below about pin header definition of the onboard serial port.

Yes. This board can support AMD's AM3 processors. Please visit the following website for CPU support list of A780GM-A V1.1.
Please refer to Product page - CPU tag

Please visit the following website for more information of AMD CPU.
http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUResult.aspx

There are two edition of AMD Phenom™ II X4 965 CPU. One is 125W, the other is 140W, please learn more information from the following AMD website. A780GM-A V1.1 just support the AMD Phenom™ II X4 965 125W CPU. Please refer to the CPU support list from the following website.
Please refer to Product page - CPU tag

Learn more information on AMD website:
http://products.amd.com/en-us/desktopcpuresult.aspx?f1=AMD+Phenom%e2%84%a2+II+X4&f2=965&f3=3400&f4=512&f5=AM3&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=4000&f10=False&f11=True&f12=True

Yes. This board can support AMD's AM3 processors. Please visit the following website for CPU support list of A780GM-A V1.1.
Please refer to Product page - CPU tag

Please visit the following website for more information of AMD CPU.
http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUResult.aspx

This board uses AMD SB 700 chipset with RAID 0, 1, 10 supported. Please refer to the RAID manual to build RAID mode.

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Please access “Advanced Chipset Setup” of the CMOS setup to set “Share Memory” item, if the item is set to “Auto”, Share Memory Size can be controlled according to the DRAM size. When the DRAM size is less than 512MB, Share Memory Size should be set to 64MB, while between 512MB and 1GB, it should be set to 128MB, when more than 1GB, it should be set to 256MB. When installing external PCI-Express graphics card, the system will not use Share Memory from DRAM.

This model is designed for supporting 95W CPU base on AM2+ platform. As you can see there are some 125W CPU listed on CPU support table, these CPU are validated by ECS and able to work properly. Since it is over specification, so there is an asterisk (*) in the table to identify and remind user friendly.


* means validated by ECS at time of writing. Changes to component or CPU may produce a different outcome. The result shown is for reference only and is subject to change w/o notification.

This motherboard accommodates four memory modules. It can support four 240-pin
DDR2 1066 (AM2+)/800/667/533/400 memory module. The total memory capacity is 8 GB.
Please visit the following website for memory QVL of A780GM-A V1.1
http://download.ecs.com.tw/dlfileecs/manual%5Cqvl%5CQVLofA780GM_A%20%281_1%29.pdf

Please refer to the below photo of front panel. Pin1-3 is HDD LED, Pin2-4 is power LED.

This issue can be fixed by 04/14/2010 BIOS or above, please download and update it.