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USER’S NOTICE............................................................................................................1
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION ..........................................................................1
COOLING SOLUTIONS ...............................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF NF18GF MOTHERBOARD
1-1 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD........................................................2
1-2 SPECIFICATION.............................................................................3
1-3 PERFORMANCE
LIST .....................................................................4
1-4 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING .........................................5
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS ................................................7
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING ............................7
2-3 INSTALL
CPU ................................................................................8
2-3-1 GLOSSARY...........................................................................8
2-3-2 ABOUT AMD ATHLON & DURON 462-PIN CPU .........................9
2-4 INSTALL
MEMORY ........................................................................10
2-5 EXPANSION
CARD .........................................................................11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION .............11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD.................................11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD.......12
2-5-4 AGP SLOT ............................................................................12
2-6 CONNECTORS,
HEADERS ...............................................................12
2-6-1 CONNECTORS ......................................................................12
2-6-2 HEADERS.............................................................................15
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER ....................................................19
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING
SETUP ..........................................................................20
3-2 GETTING
HELP .............................................................................20
3-3 THE MAIN MENU ...........................................................................21
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES .........................................................22
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES ..........................................................23
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES ....................................................25
3-7 INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS ..........................................................26
3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION ........................................................27
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION..................................................28
3-7-3 ONCHIP SUPER IO FUNCTION ...............................................28
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP .......................................................29
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP ...................................................30
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES..................................................................31
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS .....................................................................32
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL .........................................................33
3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS ......................................34
3-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD...............................................34
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/NT/2K/XP...............................35
4-1 NFORCE
INSTALL NVIDIA NFORCE PACK DRIVER
.......................36
4-2 VGA
INSTALL NVIDIA VGA DRIVER
......................................37
4-3 SOUND
INSTALL ALC AUDIO CODEC DRIVER
...........................37
4-4 USB 2.0
INSTALL NVIDIA USB 2.0 DEVICE DRIVER
.....................38
4-5 PC-CILLIN
INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM
..................39
4-6 PC-HEALTH
INSTALL NFORCE2 HARDWARE DOCTOR UTILITY
...............40
4-7 MBIOS
INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY
............................42
4-8 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ..................................................................43
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