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NF44X-A7 

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Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1~PCI4 

This motherboard is equipped with 4 standard PCI slot. PCI stands for 
Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for expansion 
cards. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits. 

PCI1

PCI3

PCI2

PCI4

 

PCI-Express Slots: PEX16/ PEX1_1/PEX1_2 

PEX16:  

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PCI Express 1.0a compliant. 

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Maximum bandwidth is up to 4GB/s per direction. 

PEX1_1/PEX1_2: 

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PCI Express 1.0a compliant. 

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Maximum bandwidth is up to 250MB/s per direction.

 

PEX16

PEX1_1

PEX1_2

 

Summary of Contents for NF44X-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: ...eaders 8 2 3 Memory Modules Installation 9 2 4 Connectors Slots 10 Chapter 3 Headers Jumpers Setup 12 3 1 How to setup Jumpers 12 3 2 Detail Settings 12 Chapter 4 Useful Help 19 4 1 Award BIOS Beep Co...

Page 3: ...slot Supports 2 PCI Express x1 interface slots Supports 4 SATA ports each channel up to 1 5Gb s Supports NVIDIA RAID functions including RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 Supports 4 IDE disk drives with PIO...

Page 4: ...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 fault tolerance Slots Four 32bi...

Page 5: ...hnology Native firewall solution Advanced features Remote access configuration monitoring Command line interface CLI WMI scripts Internal On board Connectors and Headers 1 audio out header supports au...

Page 6: ...l USB 2 LAN Connector USB 2 Line in Rear Line out MIC in Center Left B BIOS Software BIOS Award legal BIOS Supports APM1 2 Supports ACPI Supports USB Function Bundled Software Supports 9th Touch WINFL...

Page 7: ...SV1 JUSBV1 JATXPWR2 JATXPWR1 PEX16 PEX1_1 PEX1_2 PCI1 PCI3 PCI2 PCI4 JSPDIF_OUT1 JCDIN1 BIOS DIMM1 DIMM2 JSATA1 JSATA2 JSATA3 JSATA4 JUSB3 JUSB4 JUSB2 IDE2 IDE1 FDD1 JCFAN1 JSFAN1 BAT1 JNBFAN1 JCMOS1...

Page 8: ...IT CPU Step 1 Pull the lever sideways away from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90 degree angle Step 2 Look for the black cut edge on socket and the white dot on CPU should point forwards...

Page 9: ...Step 3 Hold the CPU down firmly and then close the lever to complete the installation Step 4 Put the CPU Fan on the CPU and buckle it Connect the CPU FAN power cable to the JCFAN1 This completes the i...

Page 10: ...JNBFAN1 1 3 1 3 1 3 3 FAN RPM rate sense Only for JCFAN1 and JSFAN1 Note The JCFAN1 and JSFAN1 support system cooling fan with Smart Fan Control utility It supports 3 pin head connector When connectin...

Page 11: ...ion 1 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...

Page 12: ...ibbon cables 1 2 33 34 Hard Disk Connectors IDE1 IDE2 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 13: ...ent Interconnect and it is a bus standard for expansion cards This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits PCI1 PCI3 PCI2 PCI4 PCI Express Slots PEX16 PEX1_1 PEX1_2 PEX16 PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum...

Page 14: ...n Pin opened Pin closed Pin1 2 closed 3 2 DETAIL SETTINGS ATX Power Source Connector JATXPWR1 This connector allows user to connect 24 pin power connector on the ATX power supply Pin Assignment 1 3 3V...

Page 15: ...B ports at JUSB1 and JUSBLAN1 JUSBV2 5V for front USB headers JUSB2 JUSB3 JUSB4 Pin 2 3 Close JUSBV1 USB ports at JUSB1 and JUSBLAN1 are powered with 5V standby voltage JUSBV2 Front USB headers JUSB2...

Page 16: ...n 2 3 Front Panel Audio out Header JFAUDIO1 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...

Page 17: ...I sound card PCI TV turner card etc Pin Assignment 1 Left channel input 2 Ground 3 Ground 1 4 4 Right channel input Case Open Headers JCI1 This connector allows system to monitor PC case open status I...

Page 18: ...t 1 5V 2 SPDIF OUT 3 Ground 1 3 Headers for USB Ports at Front Panel JUSB2 JUSB4 This connector allows user to connect additional USB cables at PC front panel and also can be connected with internal U...

Page 19: ...und 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 damaging the motherboard...

Page 20: ...23 24 optional 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 HDD L...

Page 21: ...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 22: ...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 23: ...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 24: ...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 25: ...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 26: ...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 27: ...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 28: ...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 29: ...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 30: ...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 31: ...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 32: ...are controlled 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 interf...

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