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CHAPTER 2: HARDWARE INSTALLATION 

2.1 C

ENTRAL 

P

ROCESSING 

U

NIT 

(CPU) 

 

 

Step 1:

 Remove the socket protection cap. 

 

Step 2:

 Pull the lever toward direction A from the socket and then raise 

the lever up to a 90-degree angle. 

A

90

 

Step 3:

 Look for the white triangle on socket, and the gold triangle on 

CPU should point forwards this white triangle. The CPU will fit 
only in the correct orientation.   

 

Содержание N4SLI-A9

Страница 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...

Страница 2: ...Chapter 4 Useful Help 20 4 1 Award BIOS Beep Code 20 4 2 Extra Information 20 4 3 Troubleshooting 22 Chapter 5 NVIDIA SLI Function 23 5 1 Requirements 23 5 2 Placing the SLI NF4 Selector Card 23 5 3...

Страница 3: ...Networking Processor Supports 2 PCI Express x16 interface graphics cards Supports 4 SATA 2 0 ports each channel up to 3Gb s Supports NVIDIA RAID functions including RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 Supports...

Страница 4: ...and PEX1 2 slots SLI Mode PCI Express slots Two PCI Express x8 slots PEX16 1 and PEX16 2 Two PCI Express x1 slots PEX1 1 and PEX1 2 Notice Normal Mode and SLI Mode are switched by SLI NF4 selector ca...

Страница 5: ...plication performance RAID 1 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 fa...

Страница 6: ...N4SLI A9 4 1 IEEE1394A header supports 1 1394A Firewire port optional...

Страница 7: ...el Side Connectors 1 Printer Port 1 PS 2 Mouse Port 1 PS 2 Keyboard Port 1 Serial Port COM2 is optional 1 1394A Firewire Port optional 1 RJ 45 LAN jack 4 USB 2 0 Ports 6 audio ports support 8 channels...

Страница 8: ...TA Cable x 1 BRI 2 SLI Bridge x 1 Fully Setup Driver CD x 1 Rear I O Panel for ATX Case x 1 SLI NF4 Selector Card x 1 pre installed SPDIF Cable x 1 optional USB 2 0 Cable x 1 optional Retention Bracke...

Страница 9: ...3 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 optional JSPDIF_OUT JSPDIF_IN1 optional JCDIN1...

Страница 10: ...cket protection cap Step 2 Pull the lever toward direction A from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90 degree angle A 90 Step 3 Look for the white triangle on socket and the gold triangle on...

Страница 11: ...FAN1 System Fan Power Header optional JNBFAN1 Northbridge Fan Power Header Pin Assignment 1 Ground 2 12V JCFAN1 JNBFAN1 JSFAN1 1 3 1 3 1 3 3 FAN RPM rate sense Only for JCFAN1 and JSFAN1 Note The JCFA...

Страница 12: ...and firmly into the slot until the retaining chip snap back in place and the DIMM is properly seated 2 2 2 DDR Installation Notice Please follow the table below to install your DDR memory module or th...

Страница 13: ...ibbon cables 1 2 33 34 IDE1 IDE2 Hard Disk Connectors 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...

Страница 14: ...t is designated as 32 bits PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PEX16 1 PEX16 2 PEX1 1 PEX1 2 PCI Express Slots PEX16 1 Normal Mode PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum bandwidth is up to 4GB s per direction PEX16 1 PEX1 1 P...

Страница 15: ...opened Pin closed Pin1 2 closed 3 2 DETAIL SETTINGS JATXPWR1 JATXPWR2 ATX Power Source Connectors This connector allows user to connect 24 pin power connector on the ATX power supply Pin Assignment 1...

Страница 16: ...is enabled please plug in this PEX power source connector to make sure the system is working under a stable environment Please read Chapter 5 for detail information JCDIN1 CD ROM Audio in Connector Th...

Страница 17: ...voltage 1 3 1 3 Pin 1 2 Close 1 J1394_USBV1 3 JUSBV1 1 3 1 3 1 3 Pin 2 3 Close Note In order to support this function Power on system via USB device J1394_USBV1 JUSBV1 jumper cap should be placed on P...

Страница 18: ...Panel Audio out Header 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 Assignment 1 MIC in S...

Страница 19: ...ect the front 1394 port for digital image devices Pin Assignment 1 A 2 A 3 Ground 4 Ground 5 B 6 B 7 12v 8 12V 9 Key 1 9 10 2 10 Ground JUSB1 JUSB3 Headers for USB Ports at Front Panel This connector...

Страница 20: ...ata Clear CMOS Proced ures 1 Remove AC power line 2 Set the jumper to Pin 2 3 close 3 Wait for five seconds 4 Set the jumper to Pin 1 2 close 5 Power on the AC 6 Reset your desired password or clear t...

Страница 21: ...ector includes Power on Reset HDD LED Power LED Sleep button speaker and IrDA Connection It allows user to connect the PC case s front panel switch functions 1 23 2 24 Pin Assignment Function Pin Assi...

Страница 22: ...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...

Страница 23: ...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...

Страница 24: ...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...

Страница 25: ...red by the system or the system will be unstable 5 2 PLACING THE SLI NF4 SELECTOR CARD There is a pre installed SLI NF4 selector card on the motherboard The default setting is Normal Mode only support...

Страница 26: ...insert the edge labeled SLI MODE Step 4 Push down the selector card until the retention clips snap into place Notice Make sure to insert the card into the slot completely 1 Insert the card with a deg...

Страница 27: ...transfer rate PEX1 1 and PEX1 2 slots provide PCI Express x1 interface expansion card function Coordinate with graphics card driver to set Dual Video function 5 4 INSTALLING SLI READY GRAPHICS CARDS S...

Страница 28: ...ont view Side view Step 7 To securely fix the connector between two graphics cards a retention bracket must be installed Step 7 1 Remove any of the bracket cover between the two graphics cards Step 7...

Страница 29: ...lti GPU feature in NVIDIA nView properties Step 1 Click NVIDIA Settings icon on the Windows taskbar Step 2 Select nView Properties in nView Desktop Manager pop up menu Step 3 Click Properties icon in...

Страница 30: ...N4SLI A9 28 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 the setting...

Страница 31: ...ystem 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 strip size parameter which you set...

Страница 32: ...l 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...

Страница 33: ...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 b...

Страница 34: ...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...

Страница 35: ...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...

Страница 36: ...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...

Страница 37: ...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...

Страница 38: ...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...

Страница 39: ...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...

Страница 40: ...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...

Страница 41: ...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...

Страница 42: ...ntrolled 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 interfere ot...

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