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Biostar T-Series

TForce4 SLI

User’s Manual 

 
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installation. 

 

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FDD Cable x 1 

 

HDD Cable x 2 

 

SPDIF Cable x 1 

 

User’s Manual x 1 

 

Overclock Guide x 1 

 

Serial ATA Cable x 4 

 

BRI-2 SLI Bridge x 1 

 

Retention Bracket x 1 

 

Fully Setup Driver CD x 1 

 

SATA RAID Driver Disk x 1 

 

Rear I/O Panel for ATX Case x 1 

 

SLI-NF4 Selector Card x 1 (pre-installed) 

 

USB 2.0 Cable x 1 (optional) 

 

IEEE 1394A Cable x 1 (optional) 

 

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Summary of Contents for TFORCE4 SLI

Page 1: ...ntability or fitness for any purpose Further the vendor reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to the contents here without obligation to notify any party beforehand Duplication of this publication in part or in whole is not allowed without first obtaining the vendor s approval in writing The content of this user s manual is subject to be changed without notice and we wi...

Page 2: ...EMORY 4 A DDR Modules 4 B Memory Space 4 C DDR Installation Notice 4 D Know your CPU Version 4 2 3 PERIPHERALS 5 A Card and I O Slots 5 B Connectors and Headers 6 CHAPTER 3 NVIDIA SLI FUNCTION 12 3 1 REQUIREMENTS 12 3 2 PLACING THE SLI NF4 SELECTOR CARD 12 3 3 THINGS TO NOTICE 13 3 4 INSTALLING SLI READY GRAPHICS CARDS 13 3 5 ENABLING MULTI GPU FEATURE IN WINDOWS 14 CHAPTER 4 NVIDIA RAID FUNCTIONS...

Page 3: ...l iii CHAPTER 5 USEFUL HELP 18 5 1 AWARD BIOS BEEP CODE 18 5 2 EXTRA INFORMATION 18 A BIOS Update 18 B CPU Overheated 18 5 3 TROUBLESHOOTING 19 GERMAN 20 FRENCH 21 ITALIAN 22 SPANISH 23 PORTUGUESE 24 POLAND 25 RUSSIAN 26 ARABIC 27 JAPANESE 28 ...

Page 4: ...sfer up to 400Mb s Gigabit Ethernet LAN NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Supports ACPI power management Supports NVIDIA StreamThru technology Isochronous controller paired with Hyper Transport results in fastest networking performance Security NVIDIA Firewall technology Native firewall solution protects the PC from intruders by filtering unauthorized traffic NVIDIA RAID Technology RA...

Page 5: ... PEX16 2 PCI1 PCI3 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 JSPDIF_OUT JCDIN1 BAT1 JPANEL1 Codec nForce4 SLI Giga LAN IEEE 1394 Chip Super I O CPU1 JSFAN1 J1394PWR1 PEX16 1 SLI1 JPEXPWR1 JSFAN2 JDDR_0V 3V LED_D1 LED_D2 LED_DIMM LED_ 5SB PWRSW RSTSW JCOM2 Note represents the 1st pin ...

Page 6: ...ink assembly on the CPU and buckle it on the retention frame Connect the CPU FAN power cable into the JCFAN1 This completes the installation B About FAN Headers CPU FAN Power Header JCFAN1 System Fan Power Headers JSFAN1 JSFAN2 North Bridge Fan Power Header JNBFAN1 JCFAN1 Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 Smart Fan Control 3 FAN RPM rate sense JSFAN2 Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Ground JNBFAN1 JSFAN1 P...

Page 7: ...256MB 512MB 1GB 1 DIMM4 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 1 Max is 4 GB C DDR Installation Notice For AMD K8 939 CPU launched before Rev E see the table below to know your CPU version please follow the table below to install your DDR memory module or the system may not boot up or may not function properly SS represents Single Side DDR memory module DS represents Double Side DDR memory module Star sign represe...

Page 8: ...and a slave drive so you can connect up to four hard disk drives The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1 1 2 39 40 IDE2 IDE1 Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots PCI1 PCI3 This motherboard is equipped with 3 standard PCI slots PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and it is a bus standard for expansion cards This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI Ex...

Page 9: ... 3V 3 Ground 4 5V 5 Ground 6 5V 7 Ground 8 PW_OK 9 Standby Voltage 5V 10 12V 11 12V 12 Detect 13 3 3V 14 12V 15 Ground 16 PS_ON 17 Ground 18 Ground 19 Ground 20 5V 21 5V 22 5V 23 5V 12 1 24 13 24 Ground ATX Power Source Connector JATXPWR2 By connecting JATXPWR2 it will provide 12V to CPU power circuit Pin Assignment 1 12V 2 12V 3 Ground 2 1 4 3 4 Ground PCI Express x16 Slot Power Source Connector ...

Page 10: ...n Power on system via USB device J1394_USBV1 jumper cap should be placed on Pin 2 3 individually Front Panel Audio out Header JAUDIO2 This connector will allow user to connect with the front audio output headers on the PC case It will disable the output on back panel audio connectors Pin Assignment 1 MIC in Stereo MIC in R 2 Ground 3 Stereo MIC in L 4 Audio power 5 Right line out Speaker out Right...

Page 11: ...ader for USB Ports at Front Panel JUSBV1 Pin 1 2 Close 5V for USB ports at front panel Pin 2 3 Close USB ports at front panel are powered with 5V standby voltage 3 1 1 3 Pin 1 2 Close default 1 3 Pin 2 3 Close Note In order to support this function Power on system via USB device JUSBV1 jumper cap should be placed on Pin 2 3 individually Header for 1394A Firewire Port at Front Panel J1394A1 This he...

Page 12: ...n status If the signal has been triggered it will record to the CMOS and show the message on next boot up Pin Assignment 1 Case open signal 1 2 2 Ground Clear CMOS Header JCMOS1 By placing the jumper on pin 2 3 it allows user to restore the BIOS safe setting and the CMOS data please carefully follow the procedures to avoid damaging the motherboard 1 3 Pin 1 2 Close Normal Operation default 1 3 1 3...

Page 13: ...ATA1 JSATA4 The motherboard has an SATA Controller in nForce4 SLI with 4 channels SATA interface it satisfies the SATA 2 0 spec with transfer rate of 3 0 Gb s Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 TX 3 TX 4 Ground 5 RX 6 RX JSATA1 1 JSATA2 JSATA3 JSATA4 4 7 1 4 7 7 Ground Header for Memory Voltage Overclocking JDDR_OV 3V When processing Memory Voltage Overclocking please place the jumper to pin1 2 Closed The ...

Page 14: ...Please refer to the table below for different messages LED_D1 LED_D2 Message ON ON Normal ON OFF Memory Error OFF ON VGA Error OFF OFF Abnormal CPU Chipset error LED_DIMM This LED indicates the voltage of memory is activated normally LED_5SB This LED indicates the system is ready for Power on On Board Buttons There are 2 on board buttons RSTSW2 PSRSW1 PWRSW This is an on board Power Switch button ...

Page 15: ...ctor card on the motherboard The default setting is Normal Mode only supports single graphics card To use two graphics cards firstly you have to set the selector card to SLI Mode to support dual video cards Step 1 Push the retention clips outward to release SLI NF4 selector card Step 2 Pull the selector card out of the slot Step 3 Invert the selector card and insert the edge labeled SLI MODE Step ...

Page 16: ... one graphics card into the yellow slot PEX16 1 Step 4 Insert the second graphics card into the white slot PEX16 2 Notice Make sure both the graphics cards are seated into slots completely Step 5 Connect a 4 pin ATX power cable to PEX power connector JPEXPWR1 this will ensure the stabilization of your system Step 6 Insert the SLI Bridge BRI 2 connector on the gold fingers on each graphics card Fro...

Page 17: ...s icon on the Windows taskbar Step 2 Select nView Properties in nView Desktop Manager pop up menu Step 3 Click Properties icon in Desktop Management tab to display Display Properties dialog box Step 4 Click Advanced icon in Settings tab 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 ...

Page 18: ... a RAID 0 array system 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 stripe size parameter which you set during the creation of the RAID set based on the system environment This technique reduces overall disk access time and offers high bandwidth Features and Benefits Drives Minimum 1 ...

Page 19: ...lerance and minimal 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 during drive rebuilds Fault Tolerance Yes Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 RAID 0 1 RAID 0 drives can be mirrored using RAID 1 techniques Resulting in a RAID 0 1 solu...

Page 20: ...st if you have odd 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 because of the difficulty in using drives concurrently Fault Tolerance Yes Disk 1 40GB Disk 2 80GB Disk 3 40GB Disk 4 120GB Single Logical Drive For more detailed setup information pl...

Page 21: ... Copy AWDFLASH exe and respective BIOS onto floppy disk 5 Insert the bootable disk into floppy drive and press Enter 6 System will boot up to DOS prompt 7 Type Awdflash xxxx bf sn py r in DOS prompt 8 System will update BIOS automatically and restart 9 The BIOS has been recovered and will work properly B CPU Overheated If the system shuts down automatically after power on of system for a few secon...

Page 22: ...ing from disk to disk 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 breaking down at any time System only boots from optical drive Hard disk can be read and applications can be used but booting from hard disk is impossible 1 Back up data and application fi...

Page 23: ... Ethernet LAN NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Unterstützt die ACPI Energieverwaltung Unterstützt NVIDIA StreamThru Technologie Isochroner Controller gekoppelt mit Hyper Transport garantiert höchste Netzwerkleistung Sicherheit NVIDIA Firewall Technologie Native Firewall Lösung schützt den PC durch Filtern unautorisierten Datenverkehrs vor Eindringlingen NVIDIA RAID Technologie RAID 0...

Page 24: ... Gigabit NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Prise en charge Gestion de l alimentation ACPI Prise en charge de la technologie NVIDIA StreamThru Contrôleur isochrone couple l Hyper Transport donnant des performances réseau plus rapides Sécurité Technologie de Firewall NVIDIA Solution de firewall natif protégeant le PC des intrusions extérieures en filtrant le trafic non autorisé NVIDIA F...

Page 25: ... Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Supporto gestione energetica ACPI Supporto della tecnologia NVIDIA StreamThru Il controller isocrono accoppiato con Hyper Transport produce le più veloci prestazioni di rete Protezione Tecnologia Firewall NVIDIA Soluzione Firewall Native protegge il PC da intrusioni filtrando il traffico non autorizzato Tecnologia NVIDIA RAID Striping del disco RAID 0 per prestazioni superiori...

Page 26: ... Gigabit NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Admite administración de energía ACPI Admite la tecnología NVIDIA StreamThru Controlador isócrono asociado con Hyper Transport proporciona el mayor rendimiento para interconexión en red Seguridad Tecnología de Firewall NVIDIA Solución de firewall nativa protege el computador personal de intrusos al filtrar el tráfico no autorizado Tecnología ...

Page 27: ...t NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Suporta a gestão de energia ACPI Suporta a tecnologia NVIDIA StreamThru Controlador isócrono combinado com a arquitectura Hyper Transport para um desempenho mais rápido ao nível da rede Segurança Tecnologia de firewall NVIDIA Firewall nativa para protecção do PC contra intrusos através da filtragem de tráfego não autorizado Tecnologia NVIDIA RAID RA...

Page 28: ...IDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Obsługa zarządzania zasilaniem ACPI Obsługa technologii NVIDIA StreamThru Izochroniczny kontroler sparowany z Hyper Transport zapewnia najszybsze działanie sieci Bezpieczeństwo Technologia NVIDIA Firewall Własny firewall zabezpieczający komputer przed intruzami poprzez filtrowanie nieautoryzowanego ruchu Technologii NVIDIA RAID RAID 0 striping dysku pas...

Page 29: ... Firewire со скростью каждого порта до 400 Мбит с Гигабитный интерфейс Ethernet NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Поддерживает управление питанием ACPI Поддержка технологии NVIDIA StreamThru Изохронный контроллер объединенный с шиной HyperTransport для обеспечения повышенной производительности в сети Безопасность Технология брандмауэра NVIDIA Встроены брандмауэр защищает ПК от взломщи...

Page 30: ...4A Firewire إﻟﻰ ﻣﻨﻬﻤﺎ آﻞ ﻗﺪرة ﺗﺼﻞ 400 ﺑﺎﻳﺖ ﻣﻴﺠﺎ اﻟﺜﺎﻧﻴﺔ اﻟﻤﺤﻠﻴﺔ اﻟﺸﺒﻜﺔ MAC Gigabit NVIDIA 8201 VSC PHY Gigabit EESSVIT ﺧﻼل ﻣﻦ اﻟﻄﺎﻗﺔ إدارة ودﻋﻢ ACPI ﺗﻘﻨﻴﺔ دﻋﻢ NVIDIA StreamThru ﺑﺘﻘﻨﻴﺔ ﻣﻘﺘﺮﻧﺔ ﺗﺰاﻣﻨﻴﺔ ﺗﺤﻜﻢ وﺣﺪة Hyper Transport ﻷداء ﻣﻌﺪل أﺳﺮع ﻳﻮﻓﺮ ﻣﻤﺎ اﻟﺸﺒﻜﺎت اﻟﺘﺄﻣﻴﻦ اﻹﻧﺘﺮﻧﺖ ﻋﺒﺮ ﺣﻤﺎﻳﺔ ﺣﺎﺋﻂ ﺗﻘﻨﻴﺔ NVIDIA ﺗﺼﻔﻴﺔ ﺧﻼل ﻣﻦ اﻟﺪﺧﻼء ﻣﻦ اﻟﺸﺨﺼﻲ اﻟﺤﺎﺳﺐ ﺗﺤﻤﻲ واﻟﺘﻲ اﻷﺻﻠﻲ اﻟﺤﻤﺎﻳﺔ ﺣﺎﺋﻂ ﺣﻞ اﻟﻤﺼﺮح ﻏﻴﺮ اﻟﻤﺮور ﺗﻘ دﻋﻢ ﻨﻴﺔ ...

Page 31: ... 2 つの 1394A Firewire ポートを個別にサポー ト Gigabit イーサネット イーサネット イーサネット イーサネット LAN NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 ACPI 電源管理をサポート NVIDIA StreamThru テクノロジに対応 アイソクロナスコントローラとハイパートランスポートの組み合わせに よる 最速のネットワーキング性能 セキュリティ セキュリティ セキュリティ セキュリティ NVIDIA ファイアウォールテクノロジ ネーティブなファイアウォールソリューションが 不正トラヒックのフ ィルタリングによる侵入から PC を保護します NVIDIA RAID テクノロジ テクノロジ テクノロジ テクノロジ RAID 0 ディスクストライピングで最高のシステムおよびアプリケーションパフ ォーマンス...

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