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N4SIE-A7

Back Panel I/O Connectors

1 Serial port.

1 Parallel port.

1RJ-45 LAN jack.

1 PS/2 Mouse port.

1 PS/2 Keyboard port.

1 1394A Firewire port (optional).

4 USB 2.0 ports.

6 audio ports support 8 channels audio-out facilities.

Parallel Port

COM1

PS/2

Keyboard

PS/2

Mouse

LAN

USB x2

COM1

Parallel

USB x2

Center/Left

Rear

Side

Line-in

Line-out

MIC-in

B. BIOS & Software

BIOS

Award

legal

BIOS.

Supports

APM1.2.

Supports

ACPI.

Supports USB Function.

Software

Supports Warpspeeder™, 9th Touch™, WINFLASHER™ and
FLASHER™.

Summary of Contents for N4SIE-A7

Page 1: ...l not occur in a particular installation The vendor makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents here and specially disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitnes...

Page 2: ...ings 13 Chapter 4 Useful Help 20 4 1 Award BIOS Beep Code 20 4 2 Extra Information 20 4 3 Troubleshooting 22 Chapter 5 NVIDIA SLI Function 23 5 1 Requirements 23 5 2 Placing the SLI NF4T Selector Card...

Page 3: ...64 Technology Intel EM64T Chipset North Bridge NF4 SLI SPP South Bridge NF4 SLI MCP Dimensions ATX Form Factor 30 48cm L x 24 38cm W Operating System Supporting Supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP S...

Page 4: ...gabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Supports 10Mb s 100Mb s and 1GB s auto negotiation Half Full duplex capability Supports personal Firewall setup Supports ACPI power management On Board AC 97 Soun...

Page 5: ...0 Ultra DMA 133 100 60 33 Supports standard PIO Modes 4 0 Internal On board I O Connectors and Headers 1 front panel header supports front panel facilities 1 CD in connector supports 1 CD ROM audio i...

Page 6: ...nal 4 USB 2 0 ports 6 audio ports support 8 channels audio out facilities Parallel Port COM1 PS 2 Keyboard PS 2 Mouse LAN USB x2 COM1 Parallel USB x2 Center Left Rear Side Line in Line out MIC in B BI...

Page 7: ...A Cable x 1 BRI 2 SLI Bridge x 1 Fully Setup Driver CD x 1 Rear I O Panel for ATX Case x 1 SLI NF4T Selector Card x 1 pre installed SPDIF Cable x 1 optional USB 2 0 Cable x 1 optional Retention Bracke...

Page 8: ...JATXPWR1 PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI Ex1_1 PCI Ex1_2 PCI Ex16 1 PCI Ex16 2 IDE2 IDE1 JATXPWR2 FDD1 BAT1 Super I O Codec Giga LAN IEEE1394 Chip optional BIOS NF4 SLI SPP NF4 SLI MCP JAUXPWR1 JCDIN1 JSPDIF_IN1...

Page 9: ...ial Notice Remove Pin Cap before installation and make good preservation for future use When the CPU is removed cover the Pin Cap on the empty socket to ensure pin legs won t be damaged pin cap Step 1...

Page 10: ...s this black cut edge The CPU will fit only in the correct orientation Step 2 1 Step 2 2 Step 3 Hold the CPU down firmly and then close the lever to complete the installation Step 4 Put the CPU Fan on...

Page 11: ...2 12V 3 FAN RPM rate sense JCFAN1 1 4 4 Smart Fan Control Note The JCFAN1supports system cooling fan with Smart Fan Control utility It supports 4 pin head connector When connecting with wires onto con...

Page 12: ...Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the retaining clips outward Align a DIMM on the slot such that the notch on the DIMM matches the break on the Slot 2 Insert the DIMM vertically and firmly into the slot...

Page 13: ...e ribbon cables 1 2 33 34 IDE1 IDE2 Hard Disk Connector The motherboard has two 32 bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO Mode 0 5 Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 functionality It ha...

Page 14: ...ed as 32 bits PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI EX16 1 PCI EX16 2 PCI EX1 1 PCI EX1 2 PCI Express Slots PCI EX16 1 Normal Mode PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum bandwidth is up to 4GB s per direction PCI EX1 1 PCI...

Page 15: ...s open Pin opened Pin closed Pin1 2 closed 3 2 DETAIL SETTINGS JATXPWR1 ATX Power Connector This connector allows user to connect 20 pin power connector on the ATX power supply Pin Assignment 1 3 3V 2...

Page 16: ...e is enabled please plug in this PEX power source connector to make sure the system is working under a stable environment Please read Chapter 5 for detail information JCDIN1 CD ROM Audio in Connector...

Page 17: ...1 3 Ground JAUDIO2 Front Panel Audio out Header This connector will allow user to connect with the front audio out put headers on the PC case It will disable the output on back panel audio connectors...

Page 18: ...1394 chipset default 1 3 Pin 2 3 Close 3 3V SB for 1394 chipset J1394A1 optional Header for 1394A Firewire Port at Front Panel This connector allows user to connect the front 1394 port for digital ima...

Page 19: ...USB1 JUSB2 JUSB3 10 NC JCMOS1 Clear CMOS Header By placing the jumper on pin2 3 it allows user to restore the BIOS safe setting and the CMOS data please carefully follow the procedures to avoid damagi...

Page 20: ...w the message on next boot up Pin Assignment 1 Case open signal 1 2 2 Ground JSATA1 JSATA4 Serial ATA Connectors The motherboard has a SATA Controller in NVIDIA Crush19 with 4 channels SATA interface...

Page 21: ...functions 1 24 2 23 Pin Assignment Function Pin Assignment Function 1 5V 2 Sleep control 3 N A 4 Ground Sleep button 5 N A 6 N A N A 7 Speaker Speaker Connector 8 Power LED 9 HDD LED 10 Power LED 11...

Page 22: ...o restore BIOS If the following message is shown after boot up the system it means the BIOS contents are corrupted In this Case please follow the procedure below to restore the BIOS 1 Make a bootable...

Page 23: ...n In this case please double check 1 The CPU cooler surface is placed evenly with the CPU surface 2 CPU fan is rotated normally 3 CPU fan speed is fulfilling with the CPU speed After confirmed please...

Page 24: ...isk controller board Make sure both ends are securely plugged in check the drive type in the standard CMOS setup 2 Backing up the hard drive is extremely important All hard disks are capable of breaki...

Page 25: ...d by the system or the system will be unstable 5 2 PLACING THE SLI NF4T SELECTOR CARD There is a pre installed SLI NF4T selector card on the motherboard The default setting is Normal Mode only support...

Page 26: ...insert the edge labeled SLI MODE Step 4 Push down the selector card until the retention clips snap into place Notice Make sure to insert the card into the slot completely 1 Insert the card with a deg...

Page 27: ...r rate PEX1 1 and PEX1 2 slots provide PCI Express x1 interface expansion card function Coordinate with graphics card driver to set Dual Video function 5 4 INSTALLING SLI READY GRAPHICS CARDS Step 1 M...

Page 28: ...for future use Step 7 To securely fix the connector between two graphics cards a retention bracket must be installed Step 7 1 Remove any of the bracket cover between the two graphics cards Step 7 2 Al...

Page 29: ...e Multi GPU feature in NVIDIA nView properties Step 1 Click NVIDIA Settings icon on the Windows taskbar Step 2 Select nView Properties in nView Desktop Manager pop up menu Step 3 Click Properties icon...

Page 30: ...N4SIE A7 28 Step 5 Select NVIDIA GeForce tab and then click on Multi GPU item on the left dialog box Step 6 Check before Enable SLI multi GPU item and click on OK to complete the setting...

Page 31: ...ystem It breaks up a large file into smaller blocks and performs disk reads and writes across multiple drives in parallel The size of each block is determined by the strip size parameter which you set...

Page 32: ...s to the other drive Drawbacks Requires 2 drives for the storage space of one drive Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds Fault Tolerance Yes Spanning JBOD JBOD stands for Just a Bunch of Disk...

Page 33: ...rmation Also in the About panel you can get detail descriptions about BIOS model and chipsets In addition the frequency status of CPU memory AGP and PCI along with the CPU speed are synchronically sho...

Page 34: ...following dialog in setup procedure it means setup is completed If the Launch the WarpSpeeder Tray Utility checkbox is checked the Tray Icon utility and WarpSpeeder utility will be automatically and i...

Page 35: ...onsible for conveniently invoking WarpSpeeder Utility You can use the mouse by clicking the left button in order to invoke WarpSpeeder directly from the little tray icon or you can right click the lit...

Page 36: ...a Display the CPU Speed CPU external clock Memory clock AGP clock and PCI clock information b Contains About Voltage Overclock and Hardware Monitor Buttons for invoking respective panels c With a use...

Page 37: ...e highlighted and the Voltage Panel will slide out to up as the following figure In this panel you can decide to increase CPU core voltage and Memory voltage or not The default setting is No If you wa...

Page 38: ...user the ability to do real time overclock adjustment Warning Manually overclock is potentially dangerous especially when the overclocking percentage is over 110 We strongly recommend you verify every...

Page 39: ...f the testing fail system will do a fail safe rebooting After reboot the WarpSpeeder utility will restore to the hardware default setting or load the verified best and stable frequency according to th...

Page 40: ...hlighted and the About Panel will slide out to up as the following figure In this panel you can get model name and detail information in hints of all the chipset that are related to overclocking You c...

Page 41: ...ntrolled by several separate chipset WarpSpeeder divide these features to separate panels If one chipset is not on board the correlative button in Main panel will be disabled but will not interfere ot...

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