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Biostar NF4UL-A9 Owner's Manual

1. ee ee Ee AR EE EE ee ee ER EE 6 1 3 Layout amp COMPDONENIS ee ee ee RR RE ee Re RR ER Ee 7 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation ru arravunvnnnavnnvnnnnvnnennnnvnnenn 8 2 1 Central Processing Unit CPU ees ee ee ee ER EE EE 8 2 2 Fan HeaderS s iS ESE NEE OE EG k 10 2 3 Memory Modules Installation see ee ee ee AA ee RA 11 2 4 Connedors amp SOMS a 12 Chapter 3 Headers amp Jumpers Setup esse ese seen 13 3 1 How to setup JUMPETS ese ee ee ee ee Ee ee ee ER ee ee ee EE ee 13 3 2 Detail Settings aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasanunununnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnan 13 Chapter 4 Useful Help ese ses ese se EE EE EE EE RE EE EE RE RE EE EE 19 4 1 Award BIOS Beep Code eie ee ee ee AA AA Ke Ke Re Re 19 4 2 Troubleshooting aansnasananananananannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnna 19 Chapter 5 NVIDIA RAID Functions aanaananann n nn nnnnnnannnnnnna 20 5 1 Operation System ianaaxazaxassssasansanannnnnnannnnnnnnnnnannnnnna 20 5 2 Rald AFray S NN la ech Be se 20 5 3 How RAID WOrkS iese se ee ee ee ee AA AA AA ee ee ke ee ke ee 21 Chapter 6 WarpSpeeder TM ees ese EE EE RE EE EE RE RE EE Ee EE 25 6 1 Introduction aaa smv eee tee 25 6 2 System R quirement iiiiiiisisssasasssasasssasasaaaaaaaaaaana 25 6 3 Installation ss ese EE ee Ee ER Rg ee annet 26 6 4 WarpSpeeder indudes 1 tray icon and 5panels 27 NF4 Ultra A9 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 MOTHERBOARD FEATURES
2. JATXPWR2 By connecting this connector it will provide 12V to CPU power circuit Pin _ Assignment _ Pin _ Assignment__ God Se ee PS_ON Ground 17 Ground rv E Ground Gromd 19 food PW_OR Standby Voltage 157 Pin _ Assignment _ Pin Assignment JAXPWR2 Lojojojelololojololeo NF4 Ultra A9 Power Source Headers for USB Ports J1394_USB V1 JUSBV1 Description 3 J1394 USBV1 5V for USB ports at J1394 USB1 and JUSBLAN1 JUSBV1 5V for front USB headers JUSB1 JUSB2 JU SB3 Pin 1 2 close J1394 USBV1 USB ports at J1394 USB1 and JUSBLAN I are 5V standby powered with 5V standby voltage Voltage JUSBV1 Front USB headers JUSB1 JUSB2 JU SB3 are powered with 5V standby v oltage Pin 2 3 close Note In order to support this function Power on system via USB device 91394 USBV1 JUSBV1 jumper cap should be placed on Pin 2 3 individually Power Source Header for PS 2 Keyboard Mouse JKBMS V1 1 5V 5V for key board and mouse h Pin 1 2 close 1 5V Standby PS 2 keyboard and mouse are l H Voltage powered with 5V standby v oltage Pin 2 3 close Note In order to support this function Power on system via keyboard and mouse JKBMSV1 jumper cap should be placed on Pin 2 3 CD ROM Audio in Connector JCDIN1 This connector allows user to connect the audio source from the variety devices like CD ROM DVD ROM PCI sound card PCI TV turner card etc
3. are 3 Ground Right channel input 4 1 JCDIN1 14 NF4 Ultra A9 Front Panel Audio out Header JAUDIO2 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 With ALC850 Audio Sound Codec 1 Mic in Stereo MIC in R 2 Ground s ereo WEL 2 Right line ou Speaker out Right line out Speaker out Right 8 Key o 9 Left line out Speaker out Left Left line out Speaker out Left 11 Right line in Right line in 13 Left line in 14 Left line in M _ Stereo MC n RI Center 3 tero MG U Bass Right line out Speaker out Right 5 Right line out Speaker out Right 7 Resewed Rey 9 Left line out Speaker out Left Left line out Speaker out Left 11 Right line in Rear speaker 12 Right line in Rear speaker Right Right 13 Left line i Rear speaker Left 14 Left line ivRear speaker Left NF4 Ultra A9 Digital Audio out Connector JSPDIF OUT This connector will allow user to connect the PCI bracket SPDIF output header EHe SPDIF OUT Digital Audio in Connector JS PDIF_IN1 optional This connector will allow user to connect the PCI bracket SPDIF output header SPDIF In Power Source Header for 1394 Chip J1394PW R1 optional EN 3 3V for 1394 chipset i Def ault Pin 1 2 close 3 n 3 3V SB 3 3V SB for 1394 chipset Pin 2 3 close Header for 1394 Firewire Po
4. shown on our main panel Moreover to protect users computer systems if the setting is not appropriate when testing and results in system fail or hang WarpSpeeder technology assures the system stability by automatically rebooting the computer and then restart to a speed that is either the original system speed or a suitable one 6 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT OS Support Wndows 98 SE Windows Me Wndows 2000 Windows XP DirectX DirectX 8 1 or above The Windows XP operating system indudes DirectX 8 1 If you use Windows XP you do not need to install DirectX 8 1 25 NF4 Ultra A9 6 3 INSTALLATION 1 Execute the setup execution file and then the following dialog will pop up Please dick Next button and follow the default procedure to install tee cee IE aa bed Wire led aap pee Teg Ori heih ie peed eed eal tp gee an yma wpis TE Ee r kok H 2 When you see the followng dialog in setup procedure it means setup is completed If the Launch the WarpSpeeder Tray Uility checkbox is checked the Tray Icon utility and WarpSpeeder utility will be automatically and immediately launched after you dick Finish button Trail la basset fred E raad derde Zaig ha baked si dirg aoe m FOG CIE D Lern tg ed grepet Oo de Usage The following figures are just only for reference the screen printed in this user manual will change according to your motherboard on hand 26 NF4 Ultra A9 6
5. with which I O Address The Choices 378 IRQ7 default 278 IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 Disabled Parallel Port Mode The default value is SPP The Choices SPP default Using Parallel port as Standard Printer Port EPP Using Parallel Port as Enhanced Parallel Port ECP Using Parallel port as Extended Capabilities Port ECP EPP Using Parallel port as ECP amp EPP mode ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA Channel for the port The Choices 3 default 1 IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read write per sector where the drive can support The Choices Enabled default Disabled Power on Function This option allows you to choose the different function to power on the computer The Choices Hot Key default Password Mouse Move Mouse Click Any Key Button Only Keyboard 98 KB Power ON Password Input password and press Enter to set the Keyboard power on password Hot Key Power on This option allows you to choose a hot key to power on The Choices Ctrl F1 default Ctrl F2 Ctrl F3 Ctrl F4 Ctrl F5 Ctrl F6 Ctrl F7 Ctr F8 20 NF4 Ultra A9 6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup Menu allows you
6. 2 3 close x Clear CMOS Procedures Remove AC powerline Set the jumper to Pin 2 3 close Wait for five seconds Set the jumper to Pin 1 2 dose Power on the AC Reset your desired password or clear the CMOS data DOTB OS Case O pen Header JCI This connector allows system to monitor PC case open status If the signal has been triggered it will record to the CMOS and show the message on next boot up mel Jon Case open signal Serial ATA Connector JSATA1 JSATA4 The motherboard has a SATA Controller in nForce4 CK8 04 with 4 channels SATA interface it satisfies the SATA 1 0 spec and with transfer rate of 1 5Gb s Pin _ Assignment Pin 3 TX 4 Ground s fe 7 fore 18 NF4 Ultra A9 CHAPTER 4 USEFUL HELP 4 1 AWARD BIOS BEEP CODE Beep Sound Meaning One long beep followed by two short Video card not found orvideo card beeps memory bad High low siren sound CPU overheated System will shut down automatically One Short beep when system boot up No error found during POST Long beeps every other second No DRAM detected or install 4 2 TROUBLES HOOTING Probable 1 No power to the system at all Make sure power cable is Power light don t illuminate fan securely plugged in inside power supply does not tum 2 Replace cable ON Contact technical support 2 Indicator light on key board does not turnon System inoperative Keyboard lights Using even p
7. A Hardware CPU E Supports Socket 939 SupportsAMD Athlon 64 FX processor Supports AMD Athlon 64 processor SupportsAMD Sempron processor AMD 64 architecture enables simultaneous 32 and 64 bit computing E Supports HyperTransport Technology SupportsAMD Cool n Quiet Technology Chipset I NVIDIA nForce4 CK8 04 Ultra Supports NVIDIA Firewall Supports Gigabit Ethernet Supports 10 USB 2 0 ports Supports NVIDIA nTune Utility Supports NVIDIA Secure Networking Processor Supports 4 SATAports each channel up to 3Gb s Supports 1 PCI Express x16 interface graphics slot Supports NVIDIA RAID functions induding RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 Supports 4 IDE disk drives with PIO Mode 5 Bride Mode and Ultra DMA33 66 1 00 133 Bus Master Mode Compliant wthAC 97 version2 3 specification Complaints with PCI Express Version 1 a specification Operating Systems Supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP Note Do not support Wndows 98SE and Windows ME I Supports SCO UNIX NF4 Ultra A9 Dimensions I ATX Form Factor 23 4cm W x 29 35cm L Main Memory I Supports Dual Channel DDR I Supports 8 banksin total I Supports DDR333 and DDR400 L Maximum memory size is 4GB DIMM Socket DDR Module Total Memory Location Size MB DIMM1 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 1 DIMM2 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 1 Max is 4 GB DIMM3 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 1 DIMM4 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 1 DDR Installation Notice I
8. Down 1 min User Define default Allows you to set each mode individually When not disabled each of the ranges are from 1 mm to I hr except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1 min to 15 mm and disable Video Off Method This option determines the manner in which the monitor is goes blank V H SYNC Blank default This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video buffer DPMS Initial display power management signaling The Choices Stop Grant PwrOn Suspend HDD Power Down When enabled the hard disk drive will power down and after a set time of system inactivity All other devices remain active The Choices Disabled default 1 Min 2 Min 3 Min 4 Min 5 Min 6 Min 7 Min 8 Min 9 Min 10 Min 11 Min 12 Min 13 Min 14 Min 15Min Soft Off by PWR BTTN Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft Off state when the system has hung The Choices Delay 4 Sec Instant Off default WOL PMEf From Soft Off The Choices Disabled default Enabled WOR RI From Soft Off The Choices Disabled default Enabled 22 NF4 Ultra A9 USB Resume from S3 The Choices Disabled default Enabled Power On by Alarm When you select Enabled an alarm returns the system to Full ON state The Choices Disa
9. Level Err94 Enh Disabled gt DRAM Configuration Press Enter CPU Spread Spectrum Center Spread SATA Spread Spectrum Disabled PCIE Spread Spectrum Disabled SSE SSE2 Instructions Enabled System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Tle Move PU PD Value Fi Save ESC Exit Fi General Help FS Vali F Optimized Defaults CPU Frequency This item allows you to select the CPU Frequency The Choices 200 default HT Frequency This item allows you to select the HT Frequency The Choices 4x default HT Width This item allows you to control the utilized width of the outgoing side of the HyperTransport link Err94 Enh This item allows you to enable disable the sequential Prufetch Feature of K8 CPU The choices Disabled default enable 12 NF4 Ultra A9 DRAM Configuration Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility DRAM Configuration Menu Level b gt tiee Move Enter Select PU PD Value F1 Save ESC Exit Fi General Help F5 Previous Values F Optimized Defaults CAS Latency This field specify the cas latency i e cas to read data valid The Choices CL 2 5 Default CL 3 0 CL 2 0 Min RAS active time tRAS This field specifies the minimum RAS active time Typically 45 60 Nsec The Choices 6 BUS CLOCKS Default 13 BUS CLOCKS 14 BUS CLOCKS 15 BUS CLOCKS RAS to CAS Delay tRCD This field specifies the RAS to CAS Delay to read write command to the same bank Typical
10. controlling the entire system The rest of this manual is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using Setup Plug and Play Support These AWARD BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1 0A specification ESCD Extended System Configuration Data write is supported EPA Green PC Support This AWARD BIOS supports Version 1 03 of the EP A Green PC specification APM Support These AWARD BIOS supports Version 1 1 amp 1 2 of the Advanced Power Management APM specification Power management features are implemented via the System Management Interrupt SMI Sleep and Suspend power management modes are supported Power to the hard disk drives and video monitors can be managed by this AW ARD BIOS ACPI Support Award ACPI BIOS support Version 1 0 of Advanced Configuration and Power interface specification ACPI It provides ASL code for power management and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI specification developed by Microsoft Intel and Toshiba NF4 Ultra A9 PCI Bus Support This AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2 1 of the Intel PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect local bus specification DRAM Support DDR SDRAM Double Data Rate Synchronous DRAM are supported Supported CP Us This AWARD BIOS supports the AMD CPU Using Setup In general you use the arrow keys to highlight items press lt Enter gt to select use the lt PgUp gt and lt PgDn gt keys to change en
11. gt Supports 8 channels audio output I Chip ALC655 optional gt Compliant wthAC 97 version2 3 specification gt Supports 6 channels audio output IEEE 1394A Chip optional E Chip VIAVT 6307 I Supports 2 ports with transfer up to 400Mb s NF4 Ultra A9 Gigabit Ethernet LAN NVIDIA Gigabit MAC VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201 Supports 10 Mb s 100 Mb s and 1Gb s auto negotiation Half Full duplex capability Supports personal Firewall setup Supports ACPI power management Supports NVIDIA StreamT hru technology Isochronous controller paired wth HyperTransport results in fastest networking perfomance Security E NVIDIA Networking Processor I NVIDIA Firewall technology Native firewall solution protects the PC from intruders by filtering unauthorized traffic I Advanced features Remote access configuration monitoring Command line interface CLI WMI scripts I NVIDIA Active Armor Enhance network security and providing users an environment with both fast and secure Storage I NVIDIA RAID Technology RAID 0 disk striping for highest system and application 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 perfomance with fault tolerance NF4 Ultra A9 Internal On board Connectors and Headers 1 audio out header supports audio out facilities 1 front panel he
12. m Figure 1 Main Menu Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Standard CMOS Features Voltage Control Advanced BIOS Features Load Optimized Defaults Advanced Chipset Features Set Supervisor Password Integrated Peripherals Set User Password Power Management Setup Save amp Exit Setup PnP PCI Configurations Exit Without Saving PC Health Status Upgrade BIOS Esc Quit F9 Menu in TJ Select Item F1 Save amp Exit Setup Standard CMOS Features This submenu contains industry standard configurable options Advanced BIOS Features This submenu allows you to configure enhanced features of the BIOS Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure special chipset features Integrated Peripherals This submenu allows you to configure certain IDE hard drive options and Programmed Input Output features NF4 Ultra A9 Power Management Setup This submenu allows you to configure the power management features PnP PCI Configurations This submenu allows you to configure certain Plug and Play and PCI options PC Health Status This submenu allows you to monitor the hardware of your system Frequency Voltage Control This submenu allows you to change CPU Vcore Voltage and CPU PCI clock However this function is strongly recommended not to use Not properly change the voltage and clock may cause the CPU or M B damage Load Optimized Defaults This selection allows you to reload the
13. to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and power up power down features m Figure 6 Power Management Setup Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Power Management Setup AGPI function ACPI Suspend Type Power Management Video Off Method HDD Power Down Soft Off by PBIN WOLCPMEH gt From Soft Off WORCRI gt From Soft Off USB Resume from 3 Power On by Alarm PWRON After PWR Fail tl gt lt Move ACPI function Enabled S1 lt POS User Define DPMS Support Disabled Instant Off Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Item Help Off I xit Fi General Help This item displays the status of the Advanced Configuration and Power Management ACPD The Choices Enabled default Disabled ACPI Suspend Type The item allows you to select the suspend type under the ACPI operating system The Choices S1 POS default S3 STR S1 83 Power Management Power on Suspend Suspend to RAM POS STR This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 HDD Power Down 2 Suspend Mode There are four options of Power Management three of which have fixed mode settings Min Power Saving Minimum power management Suspend Mode I hr 21 NF4 Ultra A9 HDD Power Down 15 min Max Power Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CP Us Suspend Mode I min HDD Power
14. user select a restoring way if system need to do a fail safe reboot Pitan s ket area y Geer hal vil decks what kid of boring you raard lo do alter sritem lakia inbars Opliont Bien Heroes ho Handves Died mk EPU Clock vakum NF4 Ultra A9 C Auto overclock button User can dick this button and WarpSpeeder will set the best and stable performan and frequency automatically WarpSpeeder utility will execute a series of testing untl system fail Then system will do fail safe reboot by using Watchdog function After reboot the WarpSpeeder utility will restore to the hardware default setting or load the verified best and stable frequency according to the Recovery Dialog s setting d Verify button User can dick this button and WarpSpeeder will proceed a testing for current frequency If the testing is ok then the current frequency will be saved into system registry If the testing fail system will do a fail safe rebooting After reboot the WarpSpeeder utility will restore to the hardware default setting orload the verified best and stable frequency according to the Recovery Dialog s setting Note Because the testing programs invoked in Auto overclock and Verify include DirectDraw Direct3D and DirectShow tests the DirectX 8 1 or newer runtime library is required And please make surey our display card s color depth is High color 16 bit or True color 24 32 bit tha
15. 1 S PDIF Cable x 1 optional USB 2 0 Cable x 1 optional IEEE 1394 Cable x 1 optional Serial ATA Power Switch Cable x 1 optional NF4 Ultra A9 1 3 LAYOUT amp COMPONENTS E JCFANI1 vjofojofo cfol o olo oifn TX n u o D D n o D D o o D FEXH Giga LAN PCHEX16 EE Ji894PURI IEEE 1394 i Chip optiond optional ET FDIF OUT J1394A1 ISPDIF IN tional st JSFAN1 Eie E Note W represents the 1 pin NF4 Ultra A9 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 1 CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT CPU Step 1 Remove the socket protection cap Step 2 Pull the lever sideways away from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90 degree angle NF4 Ultra A9 Step 3 Look for the black cut edge on socket and the white dot on CPU should point forwards this black cut edge The CPU will fit only in the correct orientation oc E Step 4 Hold the CPU down fimly and then dose the lever to complete the installation Se z ET Step 5 Put the CPU Fan on the CPU and buckle it Connect the CPU FAN power cable to the JCFAN1 This completes the installation NF4 Ultra A9 2 2 FAN HEADERS CPU FAN Power Header JCFANI Pin Assignment if eed 2 12V FAN RPM rate sense Pin if om GE FAN RPM rate sense Pin aAssgnment i Gem Note The JCFAN1 JSFAN1and JNBFAN1 support system coolingf an with Smart Fan Control utility It support
16. 4 WARPSPEEDERTM INCLUDES I TRAY ICON AND 5 PANELS 1 Tray Icon Whenever the Tray Icon utility is launched it will display a little tray icon on the right side of Windows Taskbar QO 11 33 AM This utility is responsible for conveniently invoking WarpSpeeder M 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 little tray icon to pop up a popup menu as following figure The Launch Utility item in the popup menu has the same function as mouse left click on tray icon and Exit item will close Tray Icon utility if selected Lanuch Utility i Est fer Sete EEU 27 NF4 Ultra A9 2 Main Panel If you click the tray icon WarpSpeederTM utility will be invoked Please referto the following figure the utility s first window you will see is Main Panel Main Panel contains features as follows a Display the CPU Speed CPU external clock Memory dock AGP dock and PCI dock infomation b Contains About Voltage Overclock and Hardware Monitor Buttons for invoking respective panels C With a user friendly Status Animation it can represent 3 overclock percentage stages Man walking overdock percentage from 100 110 Panther running overclock percentage from 110 120 Car racing overclock percentage from 120 above i MHz o DE L g 66 5 MHz on 8 ES 333 MHz P
17. BIOS when the system is having problems particularly with the boot sequence These configurations are factory settings optimized for this system A confirmation message will be displayed before defaults are set Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Set Supervisor Password Setting the supervisor password will prohibit everyone except the supervisor from making changes using the CMOS Setup Utility You will be prompted with to enter a password NF4 Ultra A9 Set User Password If the Supervisor Password is not set then the User Password will function in the same way as the Supervisor Password If the Supervisor Password is set and the User Password is set the User will only be able to view configurations but will not be able to change them Enter Password Save amp Exit Setup Save all configuration changes to CMOS memory and exit setup Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding SAVE to CMOS and EXIT Y N Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding Quit Without Saving Y N N Upgrade BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade bios BIOS UPDATE UTILITY Y N N NF4 Ultra A9 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories Each category includes no one or more than one setup items Use the arrow keys to hig
18. CICLOCK MHz R 13 7 NERO 100 Te gan PERCENTAGE Hardware Monitor Button 2 Over clock percentage 100 PV Overclock Bullion Voltage Button OA 11 46 AM 28 NF4 Ultra A9 3 Voltage Panel Click the Voltage button in Main Panel the button will be 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 want to get the best performance of overclocking we recommend you click the option Yes NF4 Ultra A9 4 Overclock Panel Click the Overclock button in Main Panel the button will be highlighted and the Overclock Panel will slide out to left as the following figure 7 a Flecovers Dab y yr ed gt MT Baton i Lid MHz Butan ele Bikes IHH Euston do va nem O verdlock Panel contains the these features a 3MHz button 1M Hz button 1MHz button and 3M Hz button provide 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 ev ery speed you overclock by click the Verify button Or you can just click Auto ov erclock button and let WarpSpeeder automatically gets the best resultfory ou b Recovery Dialog button Pop up the following dialog Let
19. NF4 Ultra A9 FCC Information and Copyright This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules T hese limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications There is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation The vendor makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents here ands pecially disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability 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 orin whole is not allowed without first obtaining the vendor approval in writing The content of this users manual is subject to be changed without notice and we will not be responsible for any mistakes found in this users manual All the brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction sees esbesss iese ses Ese ee as Ge eek bg dee 1 1 1 Motherboard Features se se se se ee ee ee ee ER RA RA AA Re Re Re ke ke 1 1 2 Package ChedkliSt
20. NLY 1 KB Power ON Password Enter Hot Key Power ON Gtrl F1 tl gt Move Enter Select PU PD Value Fi Save ESC Exit Fi General Help 5 Previous Values F7 Optimized Defaults IDE Function Setup Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility IDE Function Setup OnChip IDE Channelg Enabled Primary Master PIO Auto I mary Slave PIO Auto Menu Level aa mary Master UDMA Auto imary Slave UDMA Auto 1 OnChip IDE Channeli Enabled Secondary Master PIO Auto 1 Secondary Slave PIO Auto Secondary Master UDMA Auto Secondary Slave UDMA Auto IDE DMA transfer access Enabled Serial ATA A Enabled SATA A DMA transfer Enabled I Serial ATA B Enabled SATA B DMA transfer Enabled I IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled tl Move rotepar Iogi PU PD Value PA ve ESC Exit Fi General Help 3 timi Previous Values imized Defaults If you highlight the literal Press Enter next to the IDE Function Setup label and then press the enter key it will take you a submenu with the following options OnChip IDE Channel 0 1 The motherboard chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled to activate the first and or second IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate an interface if you are going to install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface The Choices Enabled default Disabled 15 NF4 Ultra A9 Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO The IDE PIO Pr
21. Please follow the table below to install your DDR memory module or the system may not boot up or may not function propery I SS represents Single Side DDR memory module I DS represents Double Side DDR memory module I Star sign represents leave the DIMM socket empty omm sss gt sps SSDS omme gt gt ssos Ds seos sos sss om gt SSS On board IDE I 2 on board connectors support 4 IDE disk drives I Supports PIO mode 5 Block Mode and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 bus master mode Serial ATA E 4 on board Serial ATA connectors support 4 serial ATA SATA ports I Compliant with SATA2 0 spedfication E Data transfer rates up to 3Gb s NF4 Ultra A9 Slots Three 32bit PCI bus master slots Two PCI Express x1 slots PCI Express 1 0a compliant Bandwidth 250MB s per direction E One PCI Express x16 slot PCI Express 1 0a compliant Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 4GB s simultaneously per direction foran aggregate of 8GB s totally I One Xtreme Graphics Port slot See p 12 for detail information Super 1 0 I Chip ITE IT8712F I Low Pin Count Interface I Provides the most commonly used legacy Super VO functionality I Environment Control initiatives H W Monitor Fan Speed Controller ITE s Smart Guardian function On board AC 97 Audio Sound Codec E Chip ALC850 gt Compliant wthAC 97 version2 3 specification
22. ader supports front panel facilities 1 CD in connector supports CD ROM audioin function 1 SPDIF out connector supports digital audio out function 1 SPDIFin connector supports digital audioin function optional 1 IEEE1394 header supports 1 1394 Firewire port optional 1 floppy connector supports 2 FDD devices with 360K 720K 1 2M 1 44M and 2 88Mbytes 2 IDE connectors support 4 IDE disk drives 3 USB headers support 6 USB 2 0 ports at front panel 4 Serial ATA connedors support 4 SATA devices Rear Back Panel Side Connectors 1 PS 2 Mouse Port 1 PS 2 Keyboard Port 1 Printer Port 1 Serial Port COM2 is optional 1 1394 Firewire Port optional 1 RJ 45 LAN jack 4 USB 2 0 Ports 6 audio ports support 8 channels audio out facilities with ALC850 LAN 4394 Pott Conrector his optioral OLEG Printer Port PS Keyboard COMI COM2 opti mal Center Left Line in Pear Line out Side mucin N NF4 Ultra A9 E 3 audio ports support 6 channels audio out facilities with ALC655 optional LAN Comedor SE EF ZWE optional B BIOS amp Software BIOS Award legal BIOS Supports APM1 2 Supports ACPI Supports USB Function Bundled Software Supports 9th Touch WINFLASHER and FLASHERTM PACKAGE CHECKLIST FDD Cable x 1 HDD Cable x 1 User s Manual x 1 Serial ATA Cable x 1 Fully Setup Driver CD x 1 Rear VO Panel for ATX Case x
23. bled default Enabled POWER After PWR Fail This setting specifies whether your system will reboot after a power fail or interrupts occurs Off Leaves the computer in the power off state On Reboots the computer Former Sts Restores the system to the status before power failure or interrupt occurs The Choices Off default On Former Sts 23 NF4 Ultra A9 7 PnP PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system PCI or Personal Computer Interconnect is a system which allows I O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed of the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings m Figure 7 PnP PCI Configurations Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility PnP PCI Configurations Init Display First PCI Slot Resources Controlled By Auto Menu Level gt PCI UGA Palette Snoop Disabled Maximum Payload Size 4096 tl gt Move Enter Select PU PD Value Fi Save ESC Exit Fi General Help F7 0 F5 Previous Values timized Defaults Init Display First With systems that have multiple video cards this option determines whether the primary display uses a PCI Slot or an AGP Slot The Choices PCI Slot default AGP Resources Controlled By By Choosing Auto ESCD default the system BIOS will detect the sy
24. e IDE Hard Disk boot sector If this function is enabled and an attempt is made to write to the boot sector BIOS will display a warning message on the screen and sound an alarm beep Disabled default Virus protection is disabled Enabled Virus protection is activated uick Power On Self Test Enabling this option will cause an abridged version of the Power On Self Test POST to execute after you power up the computer Enabled default Enable quick POST Disabled Normal POST Boot Up NumLock Status Selects the NumLock State after power on On default Numpad is number keys Off Numpad is arrow keys Gate A20 Option Select if chipset or keyboard controller should control Gate A20 Normal A pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20 Fast default Lets chipset control Gate A20 NF4 Ultra A9 Typematic Rate Setting When a key is held down the keystroke will repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller When enabled the typematic rate and typematic delay can be configured Disabled default Enabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec Sets the rate at which a keystroke is repeated when you hold the key down The Choices 6 default 8 10 12 15 20 24 30 Typematic Delay Msec Sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the keystroke The Choices 250 default 500 750 1000 Security Option This option will enable only mdividuals with passwords to bring the syste
25. e ee kkr 6 3 Advanc d BIOS Features ees isssa sees Es EEN itra nrin Aranora DE ER He GES ee wee a alana sk denna 9 4 Advanced Chipset Features 2ai aaaaaiaaaassssnnnsssnannssnnnnnanannnnnnnnnnnnnsnnnnnnnnnnuna 12 5 Integrated Peripherals yiana Dass S EDE OG danene GE EE 15 6 Power Management Setup aaaaaaaassasaaaaaasaaaaaaaaasasasaanaanasaanananansansnnnnnnninnnni 21 7 PnP PCI Configurations sees ser Reed oe N eg side EG ER N ee BE oe Ge de ee ER ee Ge Beveg de 24 SPC Health Status sieni ER Asla ln EE k V aaa a l aa 26 9 Frequency Voltage Control iss se sesse ee ee Ea Ge AA Re ee E AE ee AR RR ee ee 28 NF4 Ultra A9 BIOS Setup Introduction This manual discussed Award Setup program built into the ROM BIOS The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration This special information is then stored in battery backed RAM so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off The Award BIOS installed in your computer system s ROM Read Only Memory is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS This means that it supports Intel Pentium 4 processor input output system The BIOS provides critical low level support for standard devices such as disk drives and serial and parallel ports Adding important has customized the Award BIOSTM but nonstandard features such as virus and password protection as well as special support for detailed fine tuning of the chipset
26. e of a hardware failure RAID techniques can be applied for high availability solutions or as a form of automatic backup that eliminates tedious manual backups to more expensive and less reliable media Features and Benefits gt Drives Minimum 2 and maximum is 2 gt Uses RAID 1 isideal for small databases or any other application that requires fault tolerance and minimal capadty gt Benefits Provides 100 data redundancy Should one diive fail the controller switches to the other drive gt Drawbacks Requires 2 drives for the storage space of one drive Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds gt Fault Tolerance Yes NF4 Ultra A9 RAID 0 1 RAID 0 drives can be mirrored suing RAID 1 techniques Resulting in a RAID 0 1 solution for improved performance plus resiliency N Boki Block 3 P Features and Benefits gt Drives Minimum 4 and maximum is 6 or 8 depending on the platform gt Benefits Optimizes for both fault tolerance and performance allowing for automatic redundancy May be simultaneously used with other RAID levels in an array and allows for spare disks gt Drawbacks Requires twice the available disk space for data redundancy the same as RAID level 1 gt Fault Tolerance Yes NF4 Ultra A9 Spanning JBOD JBOD stands for Just a Bunch of Disks Each drive is accessed as if it were on a standard SCSI host bus adapter This is useful when a single drive configu
27. e techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 Spanning JBOD JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different sizes in to one large disk NF4 Ultra A9 5 3 HOW RAID WORKS RAID 0 The controller stripes data across multiple drives in 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 T he size of each block is determined by the strip size parameter which you set during the creation ofthe RAID set based on the system environment This technique reduces overall disk access time and offers high bandwidth Features and Benefits gt Drives Minimum 1 and maximum is up to 6 or 8 Depending on the platform gt Uses Intended for non critical data requiring high data throughput or any environment that does not require fault tolerance gt Benefits provides increased data throughput especially for large files No capacity loss penalty for parity gt Drawbacks Does not deliver any fault tolerance If any drive in the array fails all data is lost gt Fault Tolerance No 21 NF4 Ultra A9 RAID 1 Every read and write is actually carried out in parallel across 2 disk drives in a RAID 1 array system The mirrored backup copy of the data can reside on the same disk or on a second redundant drive in the array RAID 1 provides a hot standby copy of data if the active volume or drive is corrupted or becomes unavailable becaus
28. fault enable ONBOARD DE VICE Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility 0 rd Device Disabled USB Keyboard Support USB Mouse Support Disabled Menu Level pb AC Audio Auto MAG Lan Auto Onboard Lan Boot ROM Disabled MAC Media Interface Pin Strap Onboard 1394 Enabled tl gt Move Enter Select PU PD Value F1 Save ESC Exit Fi General Hel OnChip USB This option should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board You will need to disable this feature if you add a higher performance controller The Choices V1 1 V2 0 default Disabled V1 1 17 NF4 Ultra A9 USB keyboard Support Enables support for USB attached keyboard The Choices Disabled default Enabled USB Mouse Support Enables support for USB attached mouse The Choices Disabled default Enabled AC97 Audio This option allows you to control the onboard AC97 audio The Choices Auto default Disabled MAC LAN nVIDIA This option allows you to change the state ofthe onboard MAC LAN The Choices Auto Default Disabled Onboard LAN Boot ROM This item allows you to enable or disable Onboard LAN Boot ROM The Choices Disabled default Enabled MAC Media Interface The Choices Pin Strap default Onboard 1394 This item allows you to enable or disable the Onboard 1394 Controller The Choices Enabled default Disabled 18 NF4 Ultra A9 ONBOARD IO Address Phoeni
29. his PCI slot is designated as 32 bits Xtreme Graphics Port Slot XGP1 This XGP Xtreme Graphics Port slot is a spedal design that only supports compatible AGP VGA cards To install the system with an add on AGP VGA card please make sure to install the driver of add on AGP VGA card before onboard VGA driver installation If the onboard VGA driver has already been installed before you install the add on AGP VGA card the system will automatically set the onboard VGA as the primary graphics adapter For the onboard VGA driver can t be removed completely and to solve this problem please follow the steps below 1 Disable onboard VGA utility under the operating system and reboot PC After PC restarts the system will automatically set the AGP VGA card as the graphics adapter 2 Re install your operating system to ensure the AGP VGA card function can be used Note Please go to http www biostar com tw for more detailed infomation about XGP compatible AGP cards NF4 Ultra A9 CHAPTER 3 HEADERS amp JUMPERS SETUP 3 1 HOW TOSETUP JUMPERS The illustration shows how to set up jumpers When the jumper cap is placed on pins the jumperis close if not that means the jumperis open bag ai z a 4 Pin opened Pin dosed Pin1 2 closed 3 2 DETAIL SETTINGS ATX Power Source Connectors JATXPW R1 J ATXPW R2 JATXPWR1 This connector allows user to connect 20 pin power connector on the ATX power supply
30. hlight the item and then use the lt PgUp gt or lt PgDn gt keys to select the value you want in each item m Figure 2 Standard CMOS Setup Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Standard CMOS Features Date Cnm ddiyy Jan 27 2005 Time Chh mm ss 10 47 17 Menu Level b gt IDE Channel Master gt IDE Channel Slave Change the day month IDE Channel 1 Master year and century gt IDE Channel 1 Slave Drive A 1 44M 3 5 in Drive B None Video LEGA UGA I Halt On All But Keyboard tlee Move Enter Select PU PD Value F1 Save i Fi General Help Previ es z Optimize H NF4 Ultra A9 Main Menu Selections This table shows the selections that you can make on the Main Menu Item Options Description Date mm dd yy Set the system date Note that the Day automatically changes when you set the date Time hh mm ss Set the system internal clock IDE Primary Master Options are in its sub Press lt Enter gt to enter the menu sub menu of detailed options IDE Primary Slave Options are in its sub Press lt Enter gt to enter the menu sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Master Options are in its sub Press lt Enter gt to enter the menu sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Slave Options are in its sub Press lt Enter gt to enter the menu sub menu of detailed options Drive A 360K 5 25 in Select the type of floppy Dri
31. ly 20 Nsec The Choices 3 BUS CLOCKS Default 2 BUS CLOCKS 4 BUS CLOCKS 5 BUS CLOCKS 6 BUS CLOCKS 7 BUS CLOCKS Row precharge Time tRP This field specifies the Row precharge Time Precharge to Active or Auto Refresh of the same bank Typically 20 24 Nsec The Choices 3 BUS CLOCKS Default 2 BUS CLOCKS 4 BUS CLOCKS 5 BUS CLOCKS 6 BUS CLOCKS CPU Spread Spectrum The choices Center Spread default SATA Spread Spectrum This item allows you to disable enable the SATA spread spectrum function The choices Disabled default enable 13 NF4 Ultra A9 PCIE Spread Spectrum This item allows you to disable enable the SATA spread spectrum function The choices Disabled default enable SSE SSE2 Instructions The choices Enabled default Disabled System BIOS Cacheable Selecting the Disabled option allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at FO000h FFFFFh which can improve system performance However any programs writing to this area of memory will cause conflicts and result in system errors The Choices Disabled default Enabled 14 NF4 Ultra A9 5 Integrated Peripherals m Figure 5 Integrated Peripherals Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Integrated Peripherals IDE Function Setup Press Enter RAID Config Press Enter Onboard Device Press Enter Menu Level gt Onboard IO Address Press Enter IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled POWER ON Function BUTTON O
32. m online and or to use the CMOS Setup Utility System A password is required for the system to boot and is also required to access the Setup Utility Setup default A password is required to access the Setup Utility only This will only apply if passwords are set from the Setup main menu APIC MODE Selecting Enabled enables ACPI device mode reporting from the BIOS to the operating system The Choices Enabled default Disabled MPS Version Control For OS The BIOS supports version 1 1 and 1 4 of the Intel multiprocessor specification Select version supported by the operation system running on this computer The Choices 1 4 default 1 1 OS Select For DRAM gt 64MB A choice other than Non OS2 is only used for OS2 systems with memory exceeding 64MB The Choices Non OS2 default OS2 Summary Screen Show This item allows you to enable disable display the Summary Screen Show The Choices Disabled default Enabled 10 NF4 Ultra A9 Cache Setu These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the device in the sequence selected in these items CPU Internal Cache Depending on the CPU chipset in use you may be able to increase memory access time with this option Enabled default Enable cache Disabled Disable cache External Cache This option enables or disables Level 2 secondary cache on the CPU which Boot Seg amp Floppy Setup Hard Disk Boot Priority These BIOS attempt to l
33. n POST If your computer contains a monitoring system it will show PC health status during POST stage The item offers several delay time for you to choose The Choices Enabled default Disabled CPU Vcore 1 5V 3 3 V 5 0 V 12 0 V 5V 5 VSB Voltage Battery Detect the system s voltage status automatically CPU Temperature This field displays the current temperature ofthe CPU 26 NF4 Ultra A9 Current CPU FAN Speed This field displays the current speed of CPU fan Current SYS FAN Speed This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan 27 NF4 Ultra A9 9 Frequency Voltage Control m Figure 8 PC Health Status Voltage Control Hammer Vid control StartUp Hammer Fid control StartUp Menu Level gt DDR Voltage Regulator Default xit Fi General Help tlee Move Enter Select PU PD Value F1 Save ESC E d Defau F5 Previous Values F Optimi Hammer Vid Control This item allows you to set different CPU frequency The Choices StartUp default and other choices from 800Mhz to 5000Mhz Hammer Fid Control This item allows you to set different CPU voltage The Choices StartUp default and other choices from 1 625V to 0 8V DDR Voltage Regulator This item allows you to set different DDR voltage The Choices 2 7V 2 8V 2 9V 28
34. oad the operating system from the device in the sequence selected in these items The Choices Pri Master Pri Slave Sec Master Sec Slave USBHDDO USB HDDI USB HDD and Bootable Add in Cards First Second Third Boot Other Device These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items The Choices Floppy LS120 HDD 0 SCSI CDROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 ZIP 100 LAN Disabled Swap Floppy Drive For systems with two floppy drives this option allows you to swap logical drive assignments The Choices Disabled default Enabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabling this option will test the floppy drives to determine if they have 40 or 80 tracks Disabling this option reduces the time it takes to boot up The Choices Enabled default Disabled 11 NF4 Ultra A9 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure the specific features of the chipset installed on your system This chipset manage bus speeds and access to system memory resources such as DRAM It also coordinates communications with the PCI bus The default settings that came with your system have been optimized and therefore should not be changed unless you are suspicious that the settings have been changed incorrectly m Figure 4 Advanced Chipset Setup Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Advanced Ghipset Features CPU Frequency Item Help 1 HT Frequency HT Width 116 116 Menu
35. ogrammed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 to 4 will increased performance progressively In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device The Choices Auto default Mode0 Model Mode2 Mode3 Mode4 Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Ultra DMA 100 functionality can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard drives in your system As well your operating environment requires a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 100 select Auto to enable BIOS support The Choices Auto default Disabled IDE DMA Transfer Access The Choices Enabled default Disabled Serial ATA A Enables support for Serial ATA1 The Choices Enabled default Disabled SATA DMA transfer The Choices Enabled default Disabled Serial ATA B Enables support for Serial ATA2 The Choices Enabled default Disabled SATA2 DMA transfer The Choices Enabled default Disabled IDE Prefetch Mode The Choices Enabled default Disabled 16 NF4 Ultra A9 RAID Configuration wardbB MO RAID Config RAID Enable Disabled Menu Level k Enter Select PU PD Value F1 Save ESC Exit Fi General Help F5 Previous Values F7 Optimized Defaults t gt Move RAID Enable The choices Disabled de
36. ration is needed but it offers no speed improvement or fault tolerance nVIDIA Single Logical nForce 4 Drive CK8 04 Ultra Features and Benefits gt Uses JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you want to combine them to make one big drive gt Benefits JBOD provides the ability to combine odd size drives using all of the capadty of the diives gt Drawbacks Decreases performance because of the difficulty in using drives concurrently gt Fault Tolerance Yes gt x For more detailed setup information please refer to the Driver CD or go to http www nvidia com page pg 20011106217193 html to download NVIDIA nForce Tutorial Flash 24 NF4 Ultra A9 CHAPTER 6 WARPSPEEDER 6 1 INTRODUCTION WarpSpeeder a new powerful control utility features three user friendly functions including Overclock Manager Overvoltage Manager and Hardware Monitor With the Overdock Manager users can easily adjust the frequency they prefer or they can get the best CPU performance with just one click The Overvoltage Manager on the other hand helps to power up CPU core voltage and Memory voltage The cool Hardware Monitor smartly indicates the temperatures voltage and CPU fan speed as well asthe chipset information 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
37. ressure on both ends of are on power indicator lights are lit the DIMM press down firmly until the and hard drive is spinning module snaps into place System does not boot from hard disk 1 Check cable running from disk to driv e can be booted from optical drive disk controller board Make sure both ends are securely plugged in check the drive type in the standard CMOS setup Backing up the hard drive is extremely important All hard diskg are capable of breaking down at any time System only bootsfrom optical drive Back up data and applications files Hard disk can be read and applications Ref ormat the hard drive Re install can be used but bootingfrom hard disklapplications and data using backup is impossible disks Screen message Says Invalid Review system s equipment Make Cannot boot system after installing Set master slave jumpers correctly second hard drive Run SETUP program and select correct drive types Call the drive manuf acturers f or compatibility with other drives NF4 Ultra A9 CHAPTER 5 NVIDIA RAID FUNCTIONS 5 1 OPERATION SYSTEM E Windows XP home Edition E Windows XP Professional Edition H Windows 2000 Professional 5 2 RAIDARRAYS NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays RAID 0 RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves disk read and writes times for many applications RAD 1 RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data RAID 0 1 RAID 0 1 combines th
38. rt at Front Panel J1394A1 optional This connector allows user to connect the front 1394 port for digital image devices i A rd ELE FETA EE Eks io om 16 NF4 Ultra A9 Header for Front Panel Facilities JPANEL1 This 24 pin connectorindudes 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 JPANEL1 3 Pin Assignment Function Pin Assignment Function oe Sleep control 2 Sleep Speaker 4 Ground button 5 f Joomector SR INR OE Powered 9 HDD LED Hard drive Power LED _ Power LED HDD LED LED Power LED Ground Reset Power button Power on Reset control button button vm Es NA ay 1 r r Connector Ground Connector Headers for USB Ports at Front Panel JUSB1 JUSB3 This connector allows user to connect additional USB cables at PC front panel and also can be conneded with internal USB devices like USB card reader Pin _ Assignment Pin _ Assignment Ps use as 7 around 8 Ground Cele ome 17 NF4 Ultra A9 Close CMOS Header JCMOS1 By placing the jumper on pin2 3 it allows user to restore the BIOS safe setting and the CMOS data please carefully follow the procedures to avoid damaging the motherboard JCMOS1 Assignment 1 H Normal Operation Def aut Pin 1 2 close R Clear CMOS daa Pin
39. s 3 pin head connector When connecting with wires onto connectors please note that the red wire is the positiv e and should be connected to pin 2 and the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND 10 NF4 Ultra A9 2 3 MEMORY MODULES INSTALLATION 2 2 1 DDR Module installation 1 Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the retaining dips outward Align a DIMM on the slot such thatthe notch on the DIMM matches the break on the Slot To Va 2 Insert the DIMM vertically and fimlyinto the slot until the retaining chip snap back in place and the DIMM is properly seated 11 NF4 Ultra A9 2 4 CONNECTORS amp SLOTS Floppy Disk Connector FDD1 The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360K 720K 1 2M 1 44M and 2 88M floppy disk types This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables Hard Disk Connectors IDE1 IDE2 The motherboard has a 32 bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO Mode 0 5 Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 functionality It has two HDD connectors IDE1 primary and IDE2 secondary The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive so you can connect up to four hard disk drives The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1 Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots PCI1 PCI3 This motherboard is equipped with 3 standard PCI slot PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and itis a bus standard for expansion cards T
40. ss to the VGA palette and registers the snoop data In PCI based systems where the VGA controller is on the PCI bus and a non VGA graphic controller is on an ISA bus the Write Access to the palette will not show up on the ISA bus if the PCI VGA controller responds to the Write In this case the PCI VGA controller should not respond to the Write it should only snoop the data and permit the access to be forwarded to the ISA bus The non VGA ISA graphic controller can then snoop the data on the ISA bus Unless you have the above situation you should disable this option Disabled default Disables the function Enabled Enables the function Maximum Payload Size Set the maximum payload size for Transaction packets TLP The Choice 4096 default 25 NF4 Ultra A9 8 PC Health Status m Figure 8 PC Health Status Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility PG Health Status Chassis Open Warnning Disabled Disabled Shutdown Temperature Show H V Monitor in POST Enabled Tlee Move Enter Se ESC Exit Fi General Help Previ e H ize z mized D Chassis Open Warning This item allows you to enable or disable Chassis Open Warning beep The Choices Disabled Default Enabled Shutdo wn Temperature This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode The Choices Disabled default 60 C 140F 65 C 149F 70 C 158F 75 C 167F Show H W Monitori
41. stem resources and automatically assign the relative IRQ and DMA channel for each peripheral By Choosing Manual the user will need to assign IRQ amp DMA for add on cards Be sure that there are no IRQ DMA and I O port conflicts IRQ Resources This submenu will allow you to assign each system interrupt a type depending on the type of device using the interrupt When you press the Press Enter tag you will be directed to a submenu that will allow you to configure the system interrupts This is only configurable when Resources Controlled By is set to Manual 24 NF4 Ultra A9 IRQ 3 assigned to PCI Device IRQ4 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 5 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 7 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 9 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 10 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 11 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 12 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 14 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 15 assigned to PCI Device PCI VGA Palette Snoop Choose Disabled or Enabled Some graphic controllers which are not VGA compatible take the output from a VGA controller and map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA compatibility However the color information coming from the VGA controller is drawn from the palette table inside the VGA controller to generate the proper colors and the graphic controller needs to know what is in the palette of the VGA controller To do this the non VGA graphic controller watches for the Write acce
42. t is required f or Direct3D rendering 5 Hardware Monitor Panel Click the Hardware Monitor button in Main Panel the button will be highlighted and the Hardware Monitor panel will slide out to left as the following figure In this panel you can get the real time status infomation of your system The information will be refreshed every 1 second ee won 31 NF4 Ultra A9 6 About Panel Click the about button in Main Panel the button will be highlighted and the About Panel will slide out to up as the following figure In this panel you can get model name and detail infomation in hints of all the chipset that are related to overclocking You can also get the mainboard s BIOS model and the Version number of WarpSpeeder utility Pu Tt i ar 5 Version 0 9 5 9 NF4 Ultra A9 Note Because the overclock overvoltage and hardware monitor features are controlled 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 other panels functions This property can make WarmpSpeeder utility more robust 08 15 2005 33 NF4 Ultra A9 BIOS Setup BIOS Setup lintlsubuesstnsltaksslsa is t nin ecscevessuecessdedesecsvucudecessetsecteiell 1 Main Menu EO AE EE EE EE B aaa 3 2 Standard CMOS FeatureS uses ss ss se ree de Re Ke SE Ee Ge Ge ee dee Ge E
43. tries press lt F1 gt for help and press lt Esc gt to quit The following table provides more detail about how to navigate in the Setup program by using the keyboard Keystroke Function Up arrow Move to previous item Down arrow Move to next item Left arrow Move to the item on the left menu bar Right arrow Move to the item on the right menu bar Move Enter Move to the item you desired PgUp key Increase the numeric value or make changes PgDnkey Decrease the numeric value or make changes Key Increase the numeric value or make changes Key Decrease the numeric value or make changes Esc key Main Menu Quit and not save changes into CMOS Status Page Setup Menu and Option Page Setup Menu Exit Current page and return to Main Menu F1 key General help on Setup navigation keys F5 key Load previous values from CMOS F7 key Load the optimized defaults F10 key Save all the CMOS changes and exit NF4 Ultra A9 1 Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility the Main Menu will appear on the screen The Main Menu allows you to select from several setup functions Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press lt Enter gt to accept and enter the sub menu WARNING The information about BIOS defaults on manual Figure 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 is just for reference please refer to the BIOS installed on board for update information
44. ve B 1 2M 5 25 in disk drive installed in your i system 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in None Video EGA VGA Select the default video CGA 40 device CGA 80 MONO NF4 Ultra A9 Item Options Description Halt On All Errors Select the situation in which No Errors you want the BIOS to stop Base Memory Al but Keyboard All but Diskette All but Disk Key N A the POST process and notify you Displays the amount of conventional memory detected during boot up Extended Memory N A Displays the amount of extended memory detected during boot up Total Memory N A Displays the total memory available in the system NF4 Ultra A9 3 Advanced BIOS Features m Figure 3 Advanced BIOS Setup Phoenix Hwardb etup Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning Disabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled Boot Up NumLock Status On Menu Level gt Gate A2 Option Fast Typematic Rate Setting Disabled Security Option Setup APIC Mode Enabled MPS Version Control For OS 1 41 OS Select For DRAM gt 64MB Non 082 Summary Screen Show Enabled gt Cache Setup Press Enter gt Boot Seq amp Floppy Setup Press Enter Tlee Move Enter Select PU PD Value F1 Save ESC Exit Fi General Help F5 Previous Values F7 Optimized Defaults Virus Warning This option allows you to choose the Virus Warning feature that is used to protect th
45. x AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Onboard IO Address Onboard FDC Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8 IRQ41 Onboard IR Function Disabled Menu Level kk UART Mode Select IrDA UR2 Duplex Mode Half Onboard Parallel Port 378 1RQ71 Parallel Port Mode SPP ECP Mode Use DMA 3 Tle Move Enter Select PU PD Value F1 Save ESC Exit Fi General Help alue Ha nized D Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If install and FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this field The Choices Enabled default Disabled Onboard Serial Port 1 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports The Choices Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 default 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Auto Onboard IR Function The Choices Disabled default Enabled UART Mode Select This item allows you to determine which Infra Red IR function of onboard VO chip The Choices Normal default AS KIR IrDA UR2 Duplex Mode Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port Full duplex mode permits simultaneous two direction transmission Half duplex mode permits transmission in one direction only at a time The Choices Half default Full 19 NF4 Ultra A9 Onboard Parallel Port This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller

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