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FCC Information and Copyright 

 

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class 

B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are 

designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a 
residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio 

frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the 

instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. There 

is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. 

 

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contents here and specially disclaims any implied warranties of 

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Summary of Contents for N4SLI-A9

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: ...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 NF4 Selector Card 23 5 3...

Page 3: ...Networking Processor Supports 2 PCI Express x16 interface graphics cards Supports 4 SATA 2 0 ports each channel up to 3Gb s Supports NVIDIA RAID functions including RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 Supports...

Page 4: ...and PEX1 2 slots SLI Mode PCI Express slots Two PCI Express x8 slots PEX16 1 and PEX16 2 Two PCI Express x1 slots PEX1 1 and PEX1 2 Notice Normal Mode and SLI Mode are switched by SLI NF4 selector ca...

Page 5: ...plication performance RAID 1 disk mirroring support for fault tolerance Support for both SATA and ATA 133 disk controller standards RAID 0 1 disk striping and mirroring for highest performance with fa...

Page 6: ...N4SLI A9 4 1 IEEE1394A header supports 1 1394A Firewire port optional...

Page 7: ...el Side Connectors 1 Printer Port 1 PS 2 Mouse Port 1 PS 2 Keyboard Port 1 Serial Port COM2 is optional 1 1394A Firewire Port optional 1 RJ 45 LAN jack 4 USB 2 0 Ports 6 audio ports support 8 channels...

Page 8: ...TA 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 NF4 Selector Card x 1 pre installed SPDIF Cable x 1 optional USB 2 0 Cable x 1 optional Retention Bracke...

Page 9: ...3 PCI2 BIOS DIMM2 DIMM4 DIMM1 DIMM3 IDE2 IDE1 JSATA1 JSATA2 JSATA3 JSATA4 FDD1 JCMOS1 JUSBV1 JCI1 JCFAN1 JNBFAN1 PEX1 1 PEX1 2 JUSB3 JUSB2 JUSB1 J1394A1 optional JSPDIF_OUT JSPDIF_IN1 optional JCDIN1...

Page 10: ...cket protection cap Step 2 Pull the lever toward direction A from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90 degree angle A 90 Step 3 Look for the white triangle on socket and the gold triangle on...

Page 11: ...FAN1 System Fan Power Header optional JNBFAN1 Northbridge Fan Power Header Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 12V JCFAN1 JNBFAN1 JSFAN1 1 3 1 3 1 3 3 FAN RPM rate sense Only for JCFAN1 and JSFAN1 Note The JCFA...

Page 12: ...and firmly into the slot until the retaining chip snap back in place and the DIMM is properly seated 2 2 2 DDR Installation Notice Please follow the table below to install your DDR memory module or th...

Page 13: ...ibbon cables 1 2 33 34 IDE1 IDE2 Hard Disk Connectors 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 has...

Page 14: ...t is designated as 32 bits PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PEX16 1 PEX16 2 PEX1 1 PEX1 2 PCI Express Slots PEX16 1 Normal Mode PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum bandwidth is up to 4GB s per direction PEX16 1 PEX1 1 P...

Page 15: ...opened Pin closed Pin1 2 closed 3 2 DETAIL SETTINGS JATXPWR1 JATXPWR2 ATX Power Source Connectors This connector allows user to connect 24 pin power connector on the ATX power supply Pin Assignment 1...

Page 16: ...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 Th...

Page 17: ...voltage 1 3 1 3 Pin 1 2 Close 1 J1394_USBV1 3 JUSBV1 1 3 1 3 1 3 Pin 2 3 Close Note In order to support this function Power on system via USB device J1394_USBV1 JUSBV1 jumper cap should be placed on P...

Page 18: ...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 Pin Assignment 1 MIC in S...

Page 19: ...ect the front 1394 port for digital image devices Pin Assignment 1 A 2 A 3 Ground 4 Ground 5 B 6 B 7 12v 8 12V 9 Key 1 9 10 2 10 Ground JUSB1 JUSB3 Headers for USB Ports at Front Panel This connector...

Page 20: ...ata Clear CMOS Proced ures 1 Remove AC power line 2 Set the jumper to Pin 2 3 close 3 Wait for five seconds 4 Set the jumper to Pin 1 2 close 5 Power on the AC 6 Reset your desired password or clear t...

Page 21: ...ector includes Power on Reset HDD LED Power LED Sleep button speaker and IrDA Connection It allows user to connect the PC case s front panel switch functions 1 23 2 24 Pin Assignment Function Pin Assi...

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: ...red by the system or the system will be unstable 5 2 PLACING THE SLI NF4 SELECTOR CARD There is a pre installed SLI NF4 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: ...transfer 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 S...

Page 28: ...ont view Side view 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...

Page 29: ...lti 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 in...

Page 30: ...N4SLI A9 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: ...l capacity Benefits Provides 100 data redundancy Should one drive fail the controller switches to the other drive Drawbacks Requires 2 drives for the storage space of one drive Performance is impaired...

Page 33: ...sized drives and you want to combine them to make one big drive Benefits JBOD provides the ability to combine odd size drives using all of the capacity of the drives Drawbacks Decreases performance b...

Page 34: ...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 35: ...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 36: ...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 37: ...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 38: ...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 39: ...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 40: ...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 41: ...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 42: ...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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