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Summary of Contents for EP-8NPAJ

Page 1: ...EXCLUDES ALL OTHER WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REGARDING ITS PRODUCTS INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRA...

Page 2: ...e from the manufacturer s Web site 3 Replace mainboard 4 Remove and replace the add on card C1h C5h 1 M emory module inserted incorrectly 2 M emory compatibility problem 3 M emory module damaged 1 Rei...

Page 3: ...U Insertion 3 2 Jumper Settings 3 4 System Memory Configuration 3 5 Expansion Slots 3 6 Device Connectors 3 7 Power On Off Remote 3 14 External Modem Ring in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Function KB...

Page 4: ...ing 4 21 Section 5 RAID Configuration Introduction 5 1 NVidiaRAIDFeatures 5 3 Enable RAID Function 5 4 Section 6 Driver Installation Easy Driver Installation 6 1 Realtek Sound Manager Quick User guide...

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Page 6: ...ive cable D HDD drive cable E CD drivers and utilities F I O Shield G S ATA data and power cable Optional Items H IEEE 1394 two ports cable I Game COM bracket cable J Extra USB2 0 port cable K S PDIF...

Page 7: ...Force4 please visit the NVIDIA Web site at http www nvidia com PCI Express PCI E Next generation peripheral interface to succeed to current PCI bus for the next decade With smaller slot size and 250MB...

Page 8: ...e onboard audio jacks can be configured for normal 2 channel mode or 6 channel mode 8ch Optional Delivers 8 channel audio to bring you the latest in audio realism from DVD movies and games Perfect for...

Page 9: ...e FSB Chipset Memory voltage tweaking 80 Port An onboard LED display trouble shooting device facilitating user to detect boot up problems QuickSPDIF On board SPDIF out connector for quick connection t...

Page 10: ...Introduction Page 1 5 1 3 System Block Diagram...

Page 11: ...Introduction Page 1 6...

Page 12: ...2Mb technologies Supports up to 3GB memory size Expansion Slots Three PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2 3 Three PCI E x1 connectors compliant with PCI Express 1 0a One PCI E x16 connectors complian...

Page 13: ...DA v1 0 compliant Support Hardware Monitoring for fan speed monitoring CPU System temperature Intelligent fan speed control for quiet operation n o i t a r u g i f n o C 0 5 8 C L A r o F r o l o C k...

Page 14: ...r port One S PDIF Out Coaxial jack One S PDIF Out Optical Optional One Serial port One RJ45 LAN connector Four USB2 0 ports Three Audio jacks or Six Audio jacks for high end model only Onboardconnecto...

Page 15: ...n LAN by PME Support USB resume in S3 Onboard 80 Port LED display for system debugging PowerBIOS for excellent overclocking capabilities through Programmable FSB PCI E and PCI Clock output frequency w...

Page 16: ...Installation Page 3 1 Mainboard Layout Note Depending on the model you purchased some components are optional and may not be available Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 17: ...rt the CPU Make sure the processor is fully inserted into the socket Figure 2 Easy Installation Procedure The following must be completed before powering on your new system 3 1 CPU Installation 3 2 Ju...

Page 18: ...thermal compound to the top of the CPU Figure 4 Step 4 Insert the heatsink as shown above Press the clips in the direction of the arrows shown in Figure 4 to secure the assembly to the CPU socket Ste...

Page 19: ...S To CMOS Clear data please follow the steps below 1 Turn off the system 2 Change the jumper from 1 2 to 2 3 position for a few seconds 3 Replace the jumper back to the 1 2 position 4 Turn on the syst...

Page 20: ...JEDEC DDR DIMM specification Figure 6 DDR DIMM 1 DDR DIMM 2 DDR DIMM 3 o N t o l S 0 0 4 R D D s M M I D 3 s M M I D 2 M M I D 1 1 M M I D S S S S S S S D S D S S S D 2 M M I D S S S D S S S S S D 3...

Page 21: ...letely seated Ensure the VGA slot clicker is locked as shown in the picture below 3 Secure the card s bracket to the PC case with a screw PCI E Slots The mainboard is equipped with three PCI E 1compli...

Page 22: ...PU_FAN JSYS_FAN JCPU_FAN JSYS_FAN JPWR_FAN JPWR_FAN 3 5 Device Connectors The I O back panel for this mainboard is shown below When installing the mainboard into the computer case use the bundled I O...

Page 23: ...cables are designed to fit in only one orientation Insert the plugs into the connectors until they fit in place The board requires a minimum of 300 Watt power supply to operate Your system configurat...

Page 24: ...erted the rear panel audio will be disabled 1 Rear Line out FR Front Line out R Rear Line out FL Front Line out L MIC_In NC 5V Key 9 2 10 GND CD_IN_Left 1 CD_IN_Right CD_Reference AUX_IN_Left 1 AUX_IN...

Page 25: ...ication SATA2 SATA1 SATA3 SATA4 1 GND A B B GND A GND GAME1 Game MIDIconnector This port works well with any application that is compatible with the standard PC joystick COM2 Serial Port Connector The...

Page 26: ...2 CUSB3 CUSB4 CUSB3 CUSB4 CUSB5 Six USB 2 0 ports This mainboard includes additional USB2 0 ports identified by 10 pin connector If you wish to use the additional USB ports install the card edge brac...

Page 27: ...ppendix C for POST codes RESET PW ON PW ON button and RESET button Optional These buttons located onboard to turn on off the system easily especially while debugging or testing the system LED3 LED2 LE...

Page 28: ...eboot without having to power off the system thus prolonging the life of the power supply or system PW_ON This is connected to the power button on the case To use the Soft Off by PWR BTTN feature refe...

Page 29: ...power supplies with Remote On Off feature The 4 pin ATX12V connector must be plugged in for the system to operate safely The chassis power button should be connected to the mainboard front panel PW_ON...

Page 30: ...d set USB Wake Up from S3 to Enabled c When in Windows open the Control Panel Power Management application and click the Advanced tab In the Power buttons section select Stand By from the drop down li...

Page 31: ...Installation Page 3 16...

Page 32: ...system such as hard drive replacement or a device is added It is possible for the CMOS battery to fail causing CMOS data loss If this happens you will need install a new CMOS battery and reconfigure y...

Page 33: ...STANDARD CMOS FEATURES in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY Menu Figure 2 Standard CMOS Features Setup allows the user to configure system settings such as the current date and time type of hard disk drive insta...

Page 34: ...ected item Figure3 BIOSFeaturesSetup Removable Device Priority This item allows you to select the hard disk boot priority Options Floppy LS120 ZIP100 USB FDD0 USB FDD1 USB ZIP0 USB ZIP1 Hard Disk Boot...

Page 35: ...ble the virus warning First Second Third Boot Device The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items Options Floppy LS120 Hard Disk CDROM ZIP100...

Page 36: ...predicts device performance S M A R T Software resides on both the disk drive and the host computer If a device failure is predicted the host software through the Client WORKS S M A R T applet warns...

Page 37: ...lock cycles needed after a bank active command before a precharge can occur sets the minimum RAS pulse width Options Auto 5 15 RAS to CAS dealy Trcd This item sets the timing parameters for the system...

Page 38: ...0MHz 5x 1000MHz CPU Spread Spectrum Options Disabled Center Spread SATA Spread Spectrum Options Disabled Down Spread PCIE Spread Spectrum Options Disabled Down Spread System BIOS Cacheable This item a...

Page 39: ...of operation for the IDE drive Ultra DMA 100 133 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver If your hard drive and your syst...

Page 40: ...e support for USB mouse under DOS Options Enabled Disabled AC97 Audio This item allows you disable the chipset on chip AC97 Audio Options Auto Disabled NV Lan PXE Bootrom Enables the onboard NV LAN Bo...

Page 41: ...ddress and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports Options 3F8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Disabled Auto UART Mode Select This field configures the 2nd serial port for IR app...

Page 42: ...ess for the Midi port Options 290 300 330 Disabled Midi Port IRQ Select an interrupt for the Midi port Options 5 10 4 5 Power Management Setup Choose the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in the CMOS SETUP UTILI...

Page 43: ...abled USB Resume from S3 S4 This item allows a USB device to wake up the system from S3 S4 suspend state Options Enabled Disabled Power On by Alarm When set to Enable alarm resume you can set the date...

Page 44: ...Options Ctrl F1 Ctrl F12 PwerOn After Pwr Fail This item enables your computer to automatically restart or return to its last operat ing status after power returns from a power failure Off The system...

Page 45: ...olled manually The IRQ Resources field becomes available and you can set which IRQ X and DMA X are assigned to PCI and onboard devices Auto BIOS assigns the interrupt resource automatically PCI VGA Pa...

Page 46: ...at the effects of an overheating system requires ACPI to be enabled in Power Manage ment BIOS and ACPI compliant operating system The default is Disabled Options available are 60o C 140o F to 75o C 16...

Page 47: ...e The voltage level of the battery 5V 5V Standby The voltage level of the switching power supply Smart Fan for CPU Temperature This item allows you set CPU fan temperature to smartly adjust the fan sp...

Page 48: ...u to increment the CPU s clock generator at 1 MHz step This works together with CPU Clock Ratio below to set the CPU operating frequency CPU Clock Generator x CPU Clock Ratio CPU Frequency For example...

Page 49: ...z 166Mhz 200Mhz CPU Ratio Control This item allows you to enable the CPU clock ratio control Choose Enabled to key in a CPU clock Ratio in the next selection Options Enabled Disabled CPU Clock Ratio U...

Page 50: ...cribed below Load Fail Safe Defaults When you press Enter on this item you get a confirmation dialog box LoadFail SafeDefaults Y N N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable minima...

Page 51: ...to abort the selection and not enter a password To disable a password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will confirm the password will be disabled Once the passwor...

Page 52: ...our system off The next time you boot your computer the BIOS configures your system according to the Setup selections stored in CMOS After saving the values the system is restarted again Exit Without...

Page 53: ...BIOS Page 4 22...

Page 54: ...ives in an array are called members All disk members in a formed disk array are recognized as a single physical drive to the operating system Hard disk drives can be combined together through a few di...

Page 55: ...the capacity of the smallest drive Under a RAID 1 setup an extra drive called the spare drive can be attached Such a drive will be activated to replace a failed drive that is part of a mirrored array...

Page 56: ...n be used by any available mirrored array while a dedicated disk can be used only by the array to which it is assigned RAID Across PATA and SATA NVRAID can span across both Parallel ATA as well as Ser...

Page 57: ...controller s BIOS utility NVIDIA nForce4 4X Power on the system and wait for the RAID BIOS Setting utility message on the screen Press the F10 key to enter its BIOS configuration utility Refer to App...

Page 58: ...into the floppy Method 2 1 Locate another computer and insert the bundled CD into its CD ROM drive 2 A main menu screen will appear Autorun feature 3 Select the page RAID floppy 4 Insert a blank flopp...

Page 59: ...ve 2 When the main menu appears click on the RAID driver corresponding to the RAID controller you have configured in Step 1 See driver installation in section 6 for more details Note For information o...

Page 60: ...tem can allows you to install the drivers selectively Step 1 Click nVIDIA nForce Driver to install chipset driver Step 2 Click AC 97 AUDIO Driver to install audio driver Step 3 Click USB V2 0 Driver t...

Page 61: ...ager For more detailed information refer to Sound Manager manual in the CD Sound Effect 1 Right click Sound Effect button on the task bar and select Sound Manager 2 Select Sound Effect page to set the...

Page 62: ...There are 10 bands of equalizer control check ON when you want to adjust the equalizer Figure 4 4 This page displays the mainboards s phone jack function when a corresponding audio mode no of speaker...

Page 63: ...rning message will appear to remind users to check the connection Figure 6 Connector Sensing 6 Push Start button to start the sensing Please remember to terminate all audio applications before startin...

Page 64: ...ngs used in the Speaker Configuration page Current Connection column shows the type of device detected If the results do not match an exclamation mark will appear on the right side Figure 7 Connector...

Page 65: ...lation Page 6 6 Figure 9 9 This page lets you test the HRTF 3D Positional Audio features HRTF Demo Figure 10 Microphone 10 The Noise Suppression feature uses software to reduce background delay microp...

Page 66: ...Installation Page 6 7 Figure 11 11 This page displays information regarding the audio hardware and software To remove Sound Manager icon from Windows Task bar uncheck Show icon in system tray General...

Page 67: ...suit your needs This section of the manual is intended to provide a quick user guide to setup Sound Manager For more detailed information refer to Sound Manager manual in the CD Sound Effect 1 Right c...

Page 68: ...gure 14 3 This page displays the mainboards s phone jack function when a corresponding audio mode is selected Figure 3 above shows the phone jack setup for 8 channel mode 4 This page lets you test the...

Page 69: ...ger icon from Windows Task bar uncheck Show icon in system tray Figure 16 General Figure 17 SPDIF 6 This page shows S PDIF In function on your system S PDIF In a Click Auto Lock to detect S PDIF input...

Page 70: ...Sensing 8 EZ Connection shows the result of the detection Audio Connector column reflects the settings used in the Speaker Configuration page Current Connection column shows the type of device detecte...

Page 71: ...ure 20 Connector Sensing 9 After closing EZ Connector this page will show the latest connector status as above Figure 21 Microphone Effect 10 The Noise Suppression feature uses software to reduce back...

Page 72: ...le and it will self extract Copy these extracted files to a bootable floppy disk Note The floppy disk should contain NO device drivers or other programs 1 Type A AWDFLASH and press Enter Key 2 You wil...

Page 73: ...me to save previous BIOS to file 6 To confirm and proceed please key in Y to start the programming 7 The BIOS update is finished xxxxx bin F1 Reset F10 Exit XXXXX XXXX xxxxx bin xxxxx bin XXXXX XXXX x...

Page 74: ...he down arrow key until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode box either Mirroring Striping Spanning or Stripe Mirroring Selecting the Striping Block Size Striping block size is given in kil...

Page 75: ...d and ready to be moved 3 Continue pressing the right arrow key until all the disks that you want to use as RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks block Completing the RAID BIOS Setup After assign...

Page 76: ...on about the array that you selected such as Striping Block used RAID Mode Striping Width Disk Model Name and disk capacity If you want to mark this disk as empty and wipe out all its contents then pr...

Page 77: ...Appendix B 4...

Page 78: ...cial keyboard controller for Winbond 977 series Super I O chips 2 Enable keyboard interface 09h Reserved 0Ah 1 Disable PS 2 mouse interface optional 2 Auto detect ports for keyboard mouse followed by...

Page 79: ...information 4 Onboard clock generator initialization Disable respective clock resource to empty PCI DIMM slots 5 Early PCI initialization Enumerate PCI bus number Assign memory I O resource Search fo...

Page 80: ...6h Reserved 57h 1 Display PnP logo 2 Early ISA PnP initialization Assign CSN to every ISA PnP device 58h Reserved 59h Initialize the combined Trend Anti Virus code 5Ah Reserved 5Bh Optional Feature Sh...

Page 81: ...not for full screen logo 3 If password is set ask for password 83h Save all data in stack back to CMOS 84h Initialize ISA PnP boot devices 85h 1 USB final Initialization 2 NET PC Build SYSID structure...

Page 82: ...A nVIDIA nForce nForce nForce nForce nForce4 4 4 4 4 4X 4X 4X 4X 4X mainboard for AMD mainboard for AMD mainboard for AMD mainboard for AMD mainboard for AMD Socket Socket Socket Socket Socket 754 bas...

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