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EVGA

 

 

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Fan Connections 

There are three fan connections on the motherboard. The fan speed can be 
detected and viewed in the 

PC Health Status

 section of the CMOS Setup. The 

fans are automatically turned off after the system enters S3, S4 and S5mode.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System Fan 

CPU Fan 

Note: The CPU fan cable can be either a 3-pin or a 4-pin 

connector. Connect a 3-pin connector to pins 1, 2, and 3 on the 

motherboard connector. 

Power Fan 

Sense 

+12V 

Ground 

Sense

Control

+12V

Ground

+12V

Ground

Sense

Summary of Contents for 113-M2-E113-TR

Page 1: ...User s Guide EVGA nForce 730a Motherboard...

Page 2: ...EVGA ii...

Page 3: ...rd Specifications 10 Unpacking and Parts Descriptions 12 Unpacking 12 Equipment 12 EVGA nForce 730a Motherboard 13 Hardware Installation 16 Safety Instructions 16 Preparing the Motherboard 17 Installi...

Page 4: ...OM1 30 FDD Connector 30 Expansion Slots 31 PCI Slots 32 PCI Express x1 Slots 32 PCI Express x16 Slot 32 Onboard Buttons 33 Clear CMOS Button 33 RESET and POWER Button 33 Post Port Debug LED and LED St...

Page 5: ...Lock Status 46 Security Option 46 APIC Mode 47 MPS Version Control For OS 47 Full Screen LOGO Show 47 Advanced Chipset Features Menu 48 Init Display First 48 Hybrid SLI 49 Display Detection 49 iGPU Fr...

Page 6: ...n by Alarm 57 POWER ON Function 57 Hot Key Power On 58 PWRON After PWR Fail 58 PnP PCI Configuration Menu 59 Resources Controlled By 60 IRQ Resources 60 PCI VGA Palette Snoop 60 Maximum Payload Size 6...

Page 7: ...i K8 NB HT Width 70 CPU Voltage 70 Memory Voltage 70 Chipset Voltage 71 HT Voltage 71 Load Timing Voltage Set 71 Save Timing Voltage Set 72 Installing Drivers and Software 73 Drivers Installation 73 A...

Page 8: ...dard CMOS Features Menu 39 Figure 6 Advanced BIOS Features Menu 44 Figure 7 Advanced Chipset Features 48 Figure 8 Integrated Peripherals Menu 51 Figure 9 Power Management Setup Menu 56 Figure 10 PnP P...

Page 9: ...emory Graphics Card Power Supply EVGA assumes you have purchased all necessary parts needed to allow for proper system funtionality Intentions of the Kit This kit provides you with the motherboard and...

Page 10: ...t 64bit Contains NVIDIA GeForce 8200 nForce 730a Chipset Support Hybrid SLI technology to enhance Add on Graphic card performance by nVidia Software settings for Windows Vista only Integrated VGA Inte...

Page 11: ...s NVIDIA MediaShield RAID with support for RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0 1 RAID 5 and JBOD Supports hot plug and NCQ Native Command Queuing Onboard LAN LAN interface built in onboard Supports 10 100 1000 Mbit...

Page 12: ...ment The following equipment is included in the motherboard box The EVGA nForce 730i Motherboard This PCI Express motherboard contains the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 nForce 730i chipset and offers NVIDIA Hyb...

Page 13: ...nd each one connects a single drive to the motherboard 1 IDE ATA 133 HDD Cable Passes data between the IDE connection on the motherboard and IDE device 1 Driver Installation CD Contains drivers and so...

Page 14: ...Connectors Figure 2 4 Power Fan Connector 14 Clear CMOS Button 24 8 pin ATX_12V Power Connector 5 24 Pin ATX Power Connector 15 System Fan Connector 25 Motherboard Battery 6 IDE Connector 16 Power Bu...

Page 15: ...l________ Blue Line In Line In Line In Green Line Out Front Speaker Out Front Speaker Out Pink Mic In Mic In Mic In Orange Center Subwoofer Center Subwoofer Black Rear Speaker Out Rear Speaker Out Gre...

Page 16: ...the CPU Installing the CPU fan Installing the memory Installing the motherboard Connecting cables and setting switches Safety Instructions To reduce the risk of fire electric shock and injury always f...

Page 17: ...Unhook the socket lever by pushing down and away from the socket 2 Align the notches in the processor with the notches on the socket 3 Lower the processor straight down into the socket with out tiltin...

Page 18: ...ockets are divided into two colors to help you identify the channel pairs To obtain best performance simply mount DIMM sockets of the same color Four DIMMs Install into slots 1 2 3 and 4 Use the follo...

Page 19: ...motherboard into a system case Be sure that the CPU fan assembly has enough clearance for the system case covers and that assembly is aligned with the vents on the covers Installing the I O Shield The...

Page 20: ...m of nine 9 spacers 1 Carefully place the motherboard onto the studs spacers located inside the chassis 2 Align the mounting holes with the studs spacers 3 Align the connectors to the I O shield 4 Ens...

Page 21: ...stallation EVGA January DU 03751 001_v01 21 FDD IDE Serial ATA II Chassis Fans Expansion slots CMOS Clear Button See Figure 1 on page 15 to locate the connectors and Button referenced in the following...

Page 22: ...ard Firmly plug the power supply cable into the connector and make sure it is secure Figure 1 PW1 Motherboard Connector Table 1 PW1 Pin Assignments Connector Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 12 13 24 1 3 3V 13...

Page 23: ...able with the two closely spaced black and gray connectors to the Ultra ATA master device 3 Connect the gray connector to a slave device If you install two hard disk drives you must configure the seco...

Page 24: ...0MB s data transfer rate There are six 6 serial ATA connectors on the motherboard that support RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 0 1 and JBOD configurations Note The SATA3 port only supports AHCI and RAID mod...

Page 25: ...l four cables Be sure to match the name on the connectors to the corresponding pins PWRSW Attach the power button cable from the case to these two pins Pressing the power button on the front panel tur...

Page 26: ...an optional external bracket containing four 4 more USB2 0 ports 1 Secure the bracket to either the front or rear panel of your chassis not all chassis are equipped with the front panel option 2 Conn...

Page 27: ...vides two kinds of audio output choices the Front Audio the Rear Audio The front Audio supports re tasking function Table 4 Front Audio Connector Connector Pin Signal Front Audio Connector 1 PORT1_L 2...

Page 28: ...EVGA 28 SPK Header The speaker header is connects to the case s speaker for PC beeps Table 5 CSPK Header Pins Connector Pin Signal Speaker Header 1 VCC 2 Empty 3 GND 4 Speaker Speaker Header 2 4 3 1...

Page 29: ...wed in the PC Health Status section of the CMOS Setup The fans are automatically turned off after the system enters S3 S4 and S5mode System Fan CPU Fan Note The CPU fan cable can be either a 3 pin or...

Page 30: ...rial COM header for your machine Connect one side of a switching cable to the header and then attach the serial COM device to the other side of the cable FDD Connector The motherboard supports a stand...

Page 31: ...ard contains six expansion slots three PCI Express slots and three PCI slots For a full list of PCI Express x16 graphics card supported by this motherboard go to www nvidia com estore 1 1 PCI slot 3 2...

Page 32: ...ess x1 slots that are designed to accommodate less bandwidth intensive cards such as a modem or LAN card The x1 slots provide 250 MB sec bandwidth PCI Express x16 Slot The PCI Express x16 slot is rese...

Page 33: ...asily and convenient for clear CMOS Clear CMOS Button The motherboard uses the CMOS RAM to store all the set parameters The CMOS can be cleared by press the CMOS button RESET and POWER Button These on...

Page 34: ...LED will display the CPU temperature after entering the O S LED Status Indicators The onboard LED Lights indicate the system s status CHIPSET LED LED1 This LED to show the power status of Chipset CPU...

Page 35: ...d descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided This section includes the following information Enter BIOS Setup Main Menu Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Featur...

Page 36: ...ix Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility It is strongly recommended that you do not change the default BIOS settings Changing some settings could damage your computer Main Menu The main menu allows you to sel...

Page 37: ...B LAN and MAC control Power Management Setup Use this menu to configure power management power on and sleep features PnP PCI Configurations Use this menu to modify the system s Plug and Play and PCI c...

Page 38: ...bmenus Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Fail Safe defaults system settings Load Optimized Defaults Load Optimized defaults system settings Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Use this command to set...

Page 39: ...te that all data in white is for information only data in yellow is changeable data in blue is non changeable and data in a red box is highlighted for selection Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save...

Page 40: ...figure the individual IDE and SATA channels Select a channel and press Enter to display the IDE SATA sub menu IDE Channel 0 Master None IDE Channel 0 Slave None SATA 1 A0 None SATA 2 B0 None SATA 1 A1...

Page 41: ...nding zone and sector You can manually enter the values or you can press Enter to display a window that tells you the min and max values The BIOS supports the following HDD Access Modes CHS For HDD le...

Page 42: ...ose Press Enter to accept the changes and return to the Standard CMOS Features menu Halt On Halt On determines whether or not the computer stops if an error is detected during power on Use the Page Up...

Page 43: ...s All But Disk Key The system boot does not stop for a keyboard or disk error but will stop for all other errors Memory These settings are display only values that are determined by the BIOS POST Powe...

Page 44: ...he sub menus Figure 4 Advanced BIOS Features Menu Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Removable Device Priori...

Page 45: ...your system Use the arrow keys to go to the various devices Then use the or keys to move the device priority up or down in the list To go back to the previous menu press Esc CD ROM Boot Priority Use...

Page 46: ...umLock Select On to activate the keyboard NumLock when the system is started Select Off to disable the NumLock key Security Option The Security Options allows you to require a password every time the...

Page 47: ...n Control For OS Use this function to select the Multi Processor Specification MPS version that BIOS passes to the operating system Use the Page Up and Page Down keys to scroll through the options Ful...

Page 48: ...nter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Init Display First Onboard x Hybrid SLI Disabled x Display Detection Disabled i...

Page 49: ...ns are Auto and Manual Frame Buffer Size When you set the iGPU Frame Buffer Control item to Manual then allows you to set frame buffer size for onboard GPU The options are 16M 32M 64M 128M 256M 512M a...

Page 50: ...ll force the CPU to enter an idle mode from 87 5 to 12 5 according to preset CPU operating temperatures in the BIOS MCP78 PCIE training The cards supporting gen2 mode will be trained in Gen2 mode by B...

Page 51: ...eripherals Menu Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults IDE Function Setup Press Enter MCP Storage Config Press E...

Page 52: ...ry Master and Slave PIO Select from Auto or Mode 1 through Mode 4 Primary Master Slave UDMA When OnChip IDE Channel0 is set to Enabled you can disable the primary Master and Slave UDMA or set it to Au...

Page 53: ...ode IDE Use the Serial ATA hard disk drivers as Parallel ATA storage devices RAID Create a RAID 0 1 0 1 5 and JBOD configuration AHCI Use the AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface to enables advance...

Page 54: ...nboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if you wish to use onboard floppy disk controller FDC If you install an external FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this field Onboard Serial...

Page 55: ...elect the USB Operation Mode for USB device Options are Full Low Speed and High Speed USB Keyboard Function Use this function to enable or disable support for USB keyboard under DOS USB Mouse Function...

Page 56: ...ct PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults ACPI function Enabled APCI Suspend Type S1 S3 Soft Off by PBTN Instant Off WOL PME From...

Page 57: ...off state Power On by Alarm This function allows you to enable or disable the Power on by alarm function Set to Disable to prevent power on by alarm When set to Enable you can manually put in the day...

Page 58: ...t can be used to power on the system Options for this function are Ctrl Esc Ctrl F1 Ctrl Space Anykey PWRON After PWR Fail This function enables your computer to automatically restart or return to its...

Page 59: ...iguration Menu Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Resources Controlled By Auto ESCD x IRQ Resources Press En...

Page 60: ...By to Manual With this field enabled press Enter to see options Use Legacy ISA for devices compliant with the original PC AT Bus specification Use PCI ISA PnP for devices compliant with the plug and p...

Page 61: ...ration menu allows you to set the maximum TLP payload size in bytes for the PCI Express devices Use the Page Up and Page Down keys to scroll through sizes or enter the number using the keyboard number...

Page 62: ...change with system usage Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F7 Defaults SmartFan Function Press Enter Shutdown Temperature Disabled VCC 4 96V DIMM V 1...

Page 63: ...mited duty cycle range open to fan control Shutdown Temperature This is the temperature that the computer will turn off the power to combat the effects of an overheating system requires ACPI to be ena...

Page 64: ...increments Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults iGPU Frequency 500MHz CPU Feature Press Enter DRAM Configurati...

Page 65: ...lize the additional hardware capabilities provided by Intel Virtualization Technology AMD K8 Cool Quiet Control Reduce the noise and heat from your PC when AMD s Cool n QuietTM Move Enter Select PU PD...

Page 66: ...ber CPU DID The options are 0 to 4 CPU FID The options are 0000 to 0007 in the hex number CPU VID The options are 0000 to 0018 in the hex number Secure Virtual Machine Mode This item allows you to set...

Page 67: ...ue Figure 12 DRAM Configuration Menu Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults DRAM Timing Setting Press Enter Timi...

Page 68: ...e minimum RAS active time options are Auto 5 through 18 Trc Row Cycle Time RAS to RAS or auto refresh time of the same bank options are Auto 11 through 26 Trtp Precharge Time The Precharge Time option...

Page 69: ...Unganged Dual 64bit independent channel CKE Base Power Down Mode When in power down mode if all pages of the DRAMs associated with a CKE pin are closed then these parts are placed in power down mode O...

Page 70: ...you to set the HyperTransport speed between the CPU and Northbridge The options are Auto and 200MHz to 1 8GHz in 200MHz increments K8 NB HT Width This item allows you to set the HyperTransport width b...

Page 71: ...nts Load Timing Voltage Set This function loads the system voltages and timing settings that were defined in the System Voltages menu You can set up to two profile settings using the Save timing volta...

Page 72: ...ngs that were defined in the System Voltages menu There are two profile options that can be loaded The default setting is Auto for all settings Press Enter to see the options Save timing voltage set P...

Page 73: ...nd additional NVIDIA software The CD that has been shipped with your EVGA motherboard contains the following software and drivers NVIDIA nForce motherboard drivers Audio drivers RAID drivers Adobe Acr...

Page 74: ...ss memory DVD Digital Versatile Disc DVI Digital Video Interface FDC Floppy Disk Controller FSB Front Side Bus FTW For The Win GHz Gigahertz GPU Graphics Processing Unit HDD Hard Disk Drive HDMI High...

Page 75: ...onent Interconnect Express PCI X Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended POST Power on Self Test PWM Pulse Width Modulation QDR Quad Data Rate RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RGB Red Gree...

Page 76: ...ED POST Code readout will also display current CPU temperatures Table 3 Award POST Code Award POST Codes Code Name Description 01 Reserved 02 Jumps to E000 segment Execution of POST routines in E000 0...

Page 77: ...Table Initialize first 120 interrupt vectors with SPURIOUS_INT_HDLR and initialize INT 00h 1Fh according to INT_TBL 1C CMOS Battery Check Test CMOS and check Battery Fail 1D Early PM Early PM initiali...

Page 78: ...3C Test Timer Test 8254 Timer 0 Counter 2 3D Reserved 3E Test 8259 1 Mask Verify 8259 Channel 1 masked interrupts by alternately turning off and on the interrupt lines 3F Reserved 40 Test 8259 2 Mask...

Page 79: ...de page mode and clear the memory 53 Reserved 54 Reserved 55 CPU display Detect CPU speed and display CPU vendor specific version string and turn on all necessary CPU features 56 Reserved 57 PnP Init...

Page 80: ...erved 6F FDD install Install FDD and setup BIOS data area parameters 70 Reserved 71 Reserved 72 Reserved 73 Initialize Hard Drive Initialize hard drive controller 74 Reserved 75 Detect HDD IDE device...

Page 81: ...tore boot partition head and cylinders values in RAM 94 Final Init Final init for last micro details before boot 95 NumLock Set NumLock status according to Setup 96 Boot Attempt Set low stack Boot via...

Page 82: ...EVGA 82 Award POST Codes Code Name Description BF Program MCP To program chipset from defaults values E1 EF Setup Pages E1 Page 1 E2 Page 2 etc FF Boot...

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