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Page 1: ...12 2003 nVIDIA nVIDIA nVIDIA nVIDIA nVIDIA nForce2 128 IGP nForce2 128 IGP nForce2 128 IGP nForce2 128 IGP nForce2 128 IGP mainboard mainboard mainboard mainboard mainboard for AMD Socket A processor...

Page 2: ...XCLUDES 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 WARRAN...

Page 3: ...l ATA Optional 1 5 Mainboard Form Factor 1 6 I O Shield Connector 1 7 Power On Off Remote 1 7 System Block Diagram 1 8 Section 2 Features Mainboard Features 2 1 Section 3 Installation Mainboard Layout...

Page 4: ...ation Setup 4 19 PC Health Status 4 21 Power BIOS Features 4 23 Defaults Menu 4 24 Supervisor User Password Setting 4 25 Exit Selecting 4 26 Section 5 Driver Installation Easy Driver Installation 5 1...

Page 5: ...B User s manual C Floppy disk drive cable D HDD drive cable E CD and diskette drivers and utilities F I O Shield G COM port cable Deluxe Pack Items H S ATA data and power cable Other Optional Items I...

Page 6: ...e designed to support AMD AthlonTM processors This innovation is made possible by integrating the L2 cache memory on chip with the processor Socket A will help enable smaller enclosures and ultimately...

Page 7: ...s requests from the AMD Athlon XP Processor to boost system performance beyond its nominal speed grade The nForce2 IGP 128 delivers twice the bandwidth by implementing the new NVIDIA DualDDR Memory Ar...

Page 8: ...Memory Access DMA mode operations as well as UltraDMA 133 100 66 33 standards for a maximum data transfer rate of 133MB sec per channel LAN Optional The motherboard mounts the LAN chipset It allows th...

Page 9: ...A interface cable requires lower voltages and uses smaller cable connectors providing ease of installation You can easily upgrade storage devices that are compatible with the serial ATA interface spec...

Page 10: ...will help systems integrators differentiate their products in the marketplace and better meet your needs By integrating more I O down onto the board and better positioning the hard drive and floppy c...

Page 11: ...as Windows ME 2000 98SE XP Note For maintaining the DDR SDRAM power during STR ACPI S3 function it is strongly recommended to use ATX power supplies that have a 5VSB current of 1A 1000mA Please check...

Page 12: ...Introduction Page 1 8 Figure 5 System Block Diagram System Block Diagram...

Page 13: ...pin DDR DIMM sockets for 64 bit Unbuffered Single Double side and Non ECC DDR 200 266 333 400 DIMMs Supports 128 bit dual channel memory architecture Supports up to 2GB memory size BIOS Flash EEPROM...

Page 14: ...v2 2 compliant In 2 CH mode supports Line In Blue Line Out Green and Mic In Pink at rear panel In 6 CH mode supports Rear speaker out Blue Front speaker out Green and Center Subwoofer speaker out Pink...

Page 15: ...monitoring software utility for voltages tempera tures and fan speeds sensing EZ Boot An easy way let end user can choose to boot from hard drive CD ROM floppy Supports exclusive KBPO Keyboard Power...

Page 16: ...A JKHAI Page 2 4 Page Left Blank...

Page 17: ...Installation Page 3 1 Section 3 INSTALLATION...

Page 18: ...Installation Page 3 2 Mainboard Layout Figure 1...

Page 19: ...thlonTM as reference Step 1 Open the socket by raising the actuation lever Step 2 Insert the processor Ensure proper pin 1 orientation by aligning the FC PGA corner marking with the socket corner clos...

Page 20: ...re 5 Step 4 Thermal compound and qualified heatsink recommended by AMD are a must to avoid CPU overheat damage For more information about installing your CPU please refer to the AMD website article So...

Page 21: ...Jumper This jumper is used to select the front side bus of the CPU installed on the mainboard Settings 1 2 100 133MHz 2 3 133 166MHz Default Note Overclocking may result to the CPU s or system s inst...

Page 22: ...ystem Figure 6 Table 1 DDR DIMM 2 DDR DIMM 1 Bank 0 Bank 1 3 3 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout The mainboard accommodates two PC1600 2100 2700 3200 184 pin DIMMs Dual In line Memory Modules...

Page 23: ...cing the chip firmly into the socket and pressing straight down as shown in figure 8 until the white clips close and the module fits tightly into the DIMM socket figure 9 Figure 7 DIMM notch Figure 9...

Page 24: ...order to remove the bracket 5 Align the card above the slot then press it down firmly until it is completely seated in the slot 6 Secure the card to the chassis with the screw you removed in step 4 7...

Page 25: ...GP card edge connector is not inserted properly 1 AGP card component is not blocked by DIMM socket lock 2 AGP slot clicker is locked 3 AGP card edge connector is inserted properly 1 AGP slot clicker i...

Page 26: ...nnect to this fan connector JPWR_FAN Ground 12V Sence JCPU_FAN JPWR_FAN JCPU_FAN USB2 0 ports Parallel Port PS 2 Mouse RJ45 LAN Optional Mic in Center Subwoofer Pink Line out Front out Green Line in R...

Page 27: ...r Connector PW12 4 pin ATX12V Power Connector The mainboard is equipped with a standard 20 pin ATX main power connector and a 4 pin 12V power connector for connecting an ATX12V power supply The plugs...

Page 28: ...Front Panel Audio Connector When the jumpers are removed this connec tor can be used for front panel audio The front panel line out phone jack should have a normal close switch Without a phone plug in...

Page 29: ...such as CD player sampler or DAT recorder It allows the digital transmission of audio data in S PDIF format 1 5 2 6 VCC NC GND SPDIF_IN SPDIF_OUT SATA1 SATA2 Serial ATA Connectors Optional by VIA VT6...

Page 30: ...al USB 2 0 1 1 ports If you wish to use the additional USB ports install the card edge bracket to the system chassis then insert its cables to this 10 pin connector USB2 0 allows data transfer speed u...

Page 31: ...or system PW_ON This is connected to the power button on the case Using the Soft Off by Pwr BTTN feature you can choose either Instant Off turns system off immediately or 4 sec delay push the button...

Page 32: ...ume from S3 S4 Enabled if you have USB devices c Install Windows XP 2000 ME 98SE d Restart the system e Open the Control Panel Power Management application and click the Advanced tab In the Power butt...

Page 33: ...is required To power on your system again normally Step 1 Unplug the ATX power cord or turn off the ATX power supply switch Step 2 Wait a few minutes for the CPU to cool Step 3 Check that the CPU heat...

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Page 35: ...eneral the information saved in the CMOS RAM will stay unchanged unless there is a configuration change in the system such as hard drive replacement or a device is added It is possible for the CMOS ba...

Page 36: ...d item will appear so that the user can modify associated configuration parameters 4 1 Standard CMOS Setup Choose STANDARD CMOS FEATURES in the CMOS SETUP UTILITY Menu Figure 2 Standard CMOS Features...

Page 37: ...mode used to support a special 3 5 inch drive used in Japan This is a 3 5 inch disk that stores 1 2 MB The default setting for this is disabled 4 2 Advanced BIOS Features Selecting the ADVANCED BIOS...

Page 38: ...we recommend that you first disable the virus warning CPU Internal Cache This controls the status of the processor s internal cache area Options Enabled Disabled External Cache This controls the stat...

Page 39: ...bled Options Enabled Disabled Boot Up NumLock Status This controls the state of the NumLock key when the system boots The default is On On The keypad acts as a 10 key pad Off The keypad acts like curs...

Page 40: ...I bus configurations by incorporating extended bus definitions Enable this for Windows NT or Linux For older operating systems select Version 1 1 Options 1 1 1 4 OS Select For DRAM 64 MB Some operatin...

Page 41: ...ws you determine Full Screen LOGO display during POST Options Enabled Disabled Small Logo EPA Show If the BIOS combined a bit map file internal this option lets users determine it showing or not at sc...

Page 42: ...y of 100 MHz you should select a multiplier of 8 so that 8 Multiplier x 100 MHz frontside bus 800 MHz CPU clock FSB Frequency Enables you to set the CPU frontside bus speed Enables you to subtle tunin...

Page 43: ...to its original location to close the bank or the number of cycles required to page memory before the next bank activate command can be issued Options 1 7 CAS Latency Enables you to select the CAS lat...

Page 44: ...AGP Frequency This item allows you to select the Onchip AGP frequency Options 100MHz 110Mhz 120MHz 130MHz AGP 8X Support Enables AGP 8X supports Options Disabled Enabled AGP Fast Write Capability Thi...

Page 45: ...hannel 0 1 The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled default to activate each channel separately Options Enabled Disabled Figure5...

Page 46: ...Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 select Auto to enable UDMA by BIOS or you can manually disable it Options Auto Disabled IDE Prefetch Mode Selecting Enabled reduces latency between each drive read write cycle...

Page 47: ...Machine MAC NV addrress selection Options Enabled Disabled MAC NV Address Input Optional Allows you to input the MAC NV address IDE DMA Transfer access Allows you select IDE DMA transfer access functi...

Page 48: ...hot key combination to be used for powering on the system The default is Ctrl F1 Options Ctrl F1 Ctrl F12 Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installe...

Page 49: ...Port Mode This field allows the user to select the parallel port mode Options SPP EPP ECP ECP EPP EPP Mode Select This item allows you to determine the IR transfer mode of onboard I O chip Options EPP...

Page 50: ...ent ACPI Function This item allows you to set the ACPI function Options Enabled Disabled ACPI Suspend Type This item allows you to select S1 POS or S3 STR function Options S1 POS S3 STR S1 S3 Power Ma...

Page 51: ...after the set time of system inactivity the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active Options Disabled 1 15 Min HDD Down In Suspend Lets you enable the HDD to power o...

Page 52: ...e system by USB device when you save the computer power at S3 S4 Options Enabled Disabled Power On by Alarm When enabled you can set the date and time in the following two fields Any event occurring a...

Page 53: ...sabled Normal Setting Enabled If you have plugged in some Legacy cards to the system and they were recorded into ESCD Extended System Configuration Data you can set this field to Enabled in order to c...

Page 54: ...t the bus master can retain the ownership of the bus Options 0 255 INT Pin1 to Pin4 Assignment These settings allow the user to specify what IRQ will be assigned to PCI devices in the chosen slot The...

Page 55: ...d CPU Warning Temperature Sets the temperature at which the computer will respond to an overheating CPU The default is Disabled Options Disabled 50O C 122O F 70O C 158O F Current CPU Temperature Displ...

Page 56: ...V 5VSB V The voltage level of the switching power supply VBAT V The voltage level of the battery ACPI Shutdown Temperature This is the temperature that the computer will turn off the power to combat...

Page 57: ...PU Vcore voltage Options Default 1 400V to 2 200V in 0 025V increments We recommend that you leave this at the default value AGP Voltage Regulator This item allows you to adjust the AGP slot voltage O...

Page 58: ...ribed 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 minimal...

Page 59: ...Type the password and press Enter You may also press Esc to abort the selection and not enter a password To disable a password press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will co...

Page 60: ...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 61: ...IDIA Display DRIVER to install Graphical driver Step 3 Click C MEDIA AUDIO DRIVER to install audio driver Step 4 Click VIA SATA DRIVER to install serial ATA driver Optional Step 5 Click USB V2 0 DRIVE...

Page 62: ...Below is list brief guide of C Media Audio Configuration For more detailed information please refer to user s manual in the attached CD You are able to access the control panel from two places a The s...

Page 63: ...5 3 1 Speaker output When you open the 3D Audio Configuration you will see the default Output tab as the figure below Speaker Output tab collects main setting options for analog output to speakers 2 c...

Page 64: ...ing digital sound sources It s not effective for analog input sources 2 S PDIF C Media driver supports digital S PDIF output Sony Philips Digital InterFace developed by SONY PHILIPS to provide a low d...

Page 65: ...convenience You can control microphone options in the tab though you can also reach them in Microsoft volume control 5 Xear 3D C Media driver now supports Xear 3D 5 1 Virtual SPEAKER SHIFTER and soun...

Page 66: ...and what application you are running You do NOT have to endure unbalanced speaker placement due to spatial limitation You can enjoy multi channel surround sound with even an earphone or usual 2 speak...

Page 67: ...hannel surround music and use it to test SPEAKER SHIFTER too All demo music sound here will repeat playing if you don t press Stop button Xear 3D Play3D Demo Xear 3D Advanced Program also provides int...

Page 68: ...6 Information There is a C Media audio related Information tab in 3D Audio Configuration You can get a whole picture about the audio chip driver version 3D Audio Engine Microsoft DirectX Version and...

Page 69: ...vailable only after installing the nVidia VGA driver To configure the display click Start on your Windows desktop point to Settings then click Control Panel In the Control Panel dialog box double clic...

Page 70: ...5 10 The GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU tab is used to configure the supported Direct3D Click Move Direct3D to further configure this function The screen below is used to further configure Direct3D by se...

Page 71: ...Drivers Installation Page 5 11 The screen below is used to select the orientation of the dispaly The screen below shows informa tion such as the DirectX version driver version etc...

Page 72: ...Drivers Installation Page 5 12 Page Left Blank...

Page 73: ...nd it will self extract Copy these extracted files to a bootable DOS floppy disk Note The DOS floppy disk should contain NO device drivers or other programs 1 Type A AWDFLASH and press Enter Key 2 You...

Page 74: ...to save previous BIOS to file 6 Are you sure to program y n please key in Y to start the programming 7 The programming is finished xxxxx bin F1 Reset F10 Exit XXXXX XXXX xxxxx bin xxxxx bin XXXXX XXXX...

Page 75: ...endix B B 1 EEPROM BIOS Remover Do not remove the BIOS chip unless instructed by a technician and only with a PLCC IC extractor tool The BIOS socket may be damaged if using an improper method to repla...

Page 76: ...Appendix B 2 Page Left Blank...

Page 77: ...n is very easy You only need to copy the Ghost7 folder or Ghost exe to your hard disk In which Disk indicates hard disk options Partition indicates partition options Check indicates check options Desc...

Page 78: ...the following figure There are 3 hard disk functions 1 Disk To Disk disk cloning 2 Disk To Image disk backup 3 Disk From Image restore backup Important 1 To use this function the system must have at...

Page 79: ...ackup 1 Select the location of the Source drive 3 Click OK to display the following confirmation screen Select Yes to start 2 Select the location for storing the backup file Disk From Image Restore Ba...

Page 80: ...Select the Destination drive of the disk to be restored 3 When restoring disk backup set the required partition size as shown in the following figure 4 Click OK to display the following confirmation s...

Page 81: ...ion To Partition Partition Cloning The basic unit for partition cloning is a partition Refer to disk cloning for the operating method Partition To Image Partition Backup 1 Select the disk to be backed...

Page 82: ...2 Select the source partition 5 Select Yes to start performing backup 4 Is the file compressed There are 3 options 1 No do not compress data during backup 2 Fast Small volume compression 3 High high...

Page 83: ...7 3 Select the disk to be restored 4 Select the partition to be restored 5 Select Yes to start restoring Check This function is to check possible error caused by defective FAT or track during backup o...

Page 84: ...lete Office programs require 360MB The remaining space can be used to store data After installing Windows use Ghost to create a backup area for the system and to store the file Image file in drive D T...

Page 85: ...store types include General Windows and Windows and Application Programs If you select General Windows the system is restored to the general Windows operation condition The command is Ghost exe clone...

Page 86: ...t of Autoexec bat includes MSCDEX EXE D IDECD001 L Z Ghost exe clone mode load src z original gho dst 1 sure rb 2 Write the backup image file original gho of the entire hard disk or partition into the...

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