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2. Order 1 Order 2 Order 3 PCI Slot 1 INT A INT B INT C PCI Slot 2 INT B INT C INT D PCI Slot 3 INT C INT D INT A 2 29 BIOS Setup This chapter provides information on the BIOS Setup program and allows you to configure the system for optimum use You may need to run the Setup program when lt An error message appears on the screen during the sys tem booting up and requests you to run SETUP You want to change the default settings for customized features IA MSI Reminds You 1 The items under each BIOS category described in this chapter are under continuous update for better system performance Therefore the description may be slightly different from the latest BIOS and should be held for reference only While booting up the BIOS version is shown in the 1st line ap pearing after the memory counting It is usually in the format example W7100MS V1 0 111803 where 1st digit refers to BIOS maker as A AMI R W AWARD R 2nd 5th digit refers to the model number 6th 7th digit refers to the customer MS all standard customers V1 0 refers to the BIOS version 111803 refers to the date this BIOS is released MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Entering Setup Power on the computer and the system will start POST Power On Self Test process When the message below appears on the screen press lt DEL gt key to enter Setup Press DEL to enter SETUP If the message disappear
3. MS 7100 ATX Mainboard nn Y Cell Menu The items in Cell Menu includes some important settings of CPU AGP DRAM and overclocking functions Phoenix fAwardBI0S CHOS Setup Utility Current CPU Clock Current DOR Clock DRAH Configuration High Performance Mode Aggressive timing Dynamic Overclocking Adjust CPU FSB Frequency HT Frequency HT Width CPU Spread Spectrum SATA Spread Spectrum PCIE Spread Spectrum PCIE Clock SSEfSSE2 Instructions Cool n Quiet Adjust CPU Ratio Adjust CPU VID Extra CPU Voltage Enter Select FozPrevious Values ti Howe MSI Reminds You Current CPU DDR Clock rT FA d ELET CT Cell Henu Henu Level b Press Enter Manual Disabled Disabled 200 DRAM timing and control 5x 416 116 Center Spread Disabled Disabled 100Hhz Enabled Disabled StartUp Startup By CPU VID Fll Save ESC Exit Fi beneral Help Fi Optimized Defaults Change these settings only if you are familiar with the chipset These two items show the current clocks of CPU amp DDR Read only DRAM Configuration Press lt Enter gt to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility DRAH Configuration Timing Hode Hemclock index value Hhz CASt latency Tel Min RASH active timelTras RAS to CASH delay Tred Row precharge Time Trp Row to Row delay Terrd Row cycle time Tre Ro
4. 7 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 13 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard LAN RJ 45 Jack The mainboard provides 2 standard RJ 45 jacks for connection to single Local Area Network LAN This Giga bit LAN enables data to be transferred at 1000 100 or 10Mbps You can connect a network cable to either LAN jack Giga bit LAN Pin Definition SIGNAL DESCRIPTION CI Differential Pair 0 Differential Pair 0 00000000 Differential Pair 1 Differential Pair 2 RJ 45 LAN Jack Differential Pair 2 Differential Pair 1 Differential Pair 3 Differential Pair 3 Audio Port Connectors The left 3 audio jacks are for 2 channel mode for stereo speaker output Line Out is a connector for Speakers or Headphones Line In is used for external CD player Tape player or other audio devices Mic is a connector for microphones However there is an advanced audio application provided by Creative CA0106 to offer support for 7 1 channel audio operation and can turn rear audio connectors from 2 channel to 4 5 1 7 1 channel audio z IN S PDIF Out Coaxial zd pS Rear Speaker Out in 7 1CH 6CH Line In Center Subwoofer Speaker Out in 7 1CH 6CH S PDIF Out Optical MI in 7 1CH 6CH Hardware Setup Parallel Port Connector LPT1 The mainboard provides a 25 pin female centronic connector as LPT A parallel port is a standard printer port that supports Enhanced Parallel Port EPP and Ex tended Capabilities Parall
5. nVidia MAC LAN ROM This setting is used to enable disable the nVidia MAC LAN ROM Setting options Enabled Disabled OnBoard IEEE1394 Controller This setting is used to enable disable the onboard IEEE 1394 controller Setting options Disabled Enabled Marvell GigaBit LAN This setting controls the Marvell GigaBit LAN controller Setting options Enabled Disabled Marvell GigaBit LAN ROM This setting is used to enable disable the Marvell GigaBit LAN ROM Setting options Enabled Disabled OnBoard CREATIVE AUDIO This setting is used to enable disable the onboard Creative audio Setting options Enabled Disabled MS 7100 ATX Mainboard OnBoard Sil3132 RAID This setting controls the onboard Sil3132 RAID chip Setting options Enabled Disabled OnBoard Sil3132 Mode This setting allows you to select the Onboard Sil3132 mode Setting options SATA RAID I O Device Configuration Press lt Enter gt to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility I 0 D evice Configuration Onboard FDC Controller Enabled COM Port 1 3F 8 1 dira IR Function Select I bled Menu Level gt RxD TxD Active I i IR Transmission Delay UR Duplex Hode Use IR Fins Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode EPP Hode Select ECP Hode Use DH Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDD installed on the system
6. that means this CPU does Ax not s upport Cool n Quiet Power Schemes Advanced Hibemate UPS function aJa Select the power scheme with the mast appropriate settings for this computer Note that changing the settings below will modify 2 Run BIOS Setup and select e sead ahama Frequency Voltage eee Control Under Frequency Home Office Desk Voltage Control find ctra Cool n Quiet Support and ral Ene Manera set this item to Enable OE After TS mins b 3 Enter Windows and select Tum off harddisks Never z Start gt Settings gt Control so C Pannel gt Power Options Enter Power Options Prop CC a erties tag and select Mini mal Power Management under Power schemes Cancel Apply 4 15 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Power on Agent In the Power on Agent sub menu you can configure setting of power on power off and restarting status In the screen below you can set the date time start up programs respectively for power on power off and restarting Power On MSI 1 q Program pe Quick Guide Every time WORDPAD EXE A vd Power On Here are the available settings for Power On function Date Use the drop down list to select the date for power on Time Use the arrow keys to select the hour minute second for power on power off and restarting Then click Apply to save the changes As you click Apply the following dialogue will appear to show you the
7. Control Keys Select the item lt Esc gt Jumps to the Exit menu or returns to the main menu from a submenu lt F10 gt Save all the CMOS changes and exit Getting Help After entering the Setup menu the first menu you will see is the Main Menu Main Menu The main menu lists the setup functions you can make changes to You can use the arrow keys TJ to select the item The on line description of the highlighted setup function is displayed at the bottom of the screen Sub Menu If you find a right pointer symbol as shown in the right view appears to the left of certain fields that means a sub menu can be launched from this field A sub menu contains additional options for a field parameter You can use arrow keys Ti to highlight the field and press lt Enter gt to call up the sub menu Then you can use the control keys to enter values and move from field to field within a sub menu If you want to return to the main menu just press the lt Esc gt IDE Primary Haster IDE Primary Slave IDE Secondary Haster IDE Secondary Slave General Help lt F1 gt The BIOS setup program provides a General Help screen You can call up this screen from any menu by simply pressing lt F1 gt The Help screen lists the appropriate keys to use and the possible selections for the highlighted item Press lt Esc gt to exit the Help screen 3 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Once you enter Phoenix Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utilit
8. English French Italian German Spanish Dutch Exit x 4 4 On the next page click Install to start the installation and follow the setup intructions to complete the installation Software Installation Selection Select the software to install Sound Blaster Live 24 bit Creative MediaSource 5 Finally you have to restart the system on the last step MS 7100 ATX Mainboard After installing the creative audio driver you are able to use the 2 4 6 or 8 channel and the SPDIF audio feature now Click the creative volume control audio icon from the system tray at the lower right corner of the screen to activate the Creative Audio Configuration Or you can move the mouse to the top of screen and a Creative MediaSource Go quickstart bar will float on the desktop simply click on each icon button to enter the configuration screen Creative MediaSource Go quick start bar MeEDIASOURCE Go lt EN m SN x SDMarkOS Interes SExplorets Fu 3DMark2001 y untitled Paint Creative volume control icon 5 8 Introduction to Creative sound Blaster SURROUND MIXER Click on the surround mixer icon to enter the configuration screen F M gt gt TA CREATIVE fi ae KG Hin x _menias urce LU fak G A D A Here you can to create the perfect listening environment You can adjust volume levels select input sources and even balance your speakers 0 surrouno MIXER Sound
9. For the latest information about CPU please visit http www msi com tw program products mainboard mbd pro_mbd_cpu_support php Chipset U nVIDIA nForce4 SLI HyperTransport link to the AMD Athlon 64 Athlon 64 FX CPU HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz 2000MT s Supports 2 PCI Express x16 x1 interface Two independent SATA controllers for four drives Dual Fast ATA 133 IDE controllers IEEE802 3 nVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE T Main Memory U Supports dual channel eight memory banks DDR 266 333 400 using four 184 pin DDR DIMMs U Supports a maximum memory size up to 4GB Supports 2 5v DDR SDRAM DIMM For the updated supporting memory modules please visit http www msi com tw program products mainboard mbd pro_mbd_trp_list php Slots U Two PCI Express x16 slots supports PCI Express Bus specification v1 0a compliant U 2nd PCI Express x16 slot PCI_E3 is compatible with PCI Express x 1 U Three 32 bit Master PCI Bus slots includes one orange slot which is reserved as a communication slot U Support 3 3V 5V PCI bus Interface On Board IDE An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset provides IDE HDD CD ROM with PIO Bus Master and Ultra DMA 66 100 133 operation modes U Can connect up to 4 IDE devices On Board SATA NV RAID supports 4 SATA II ports SATA1 4 Transfer rate is up to 300 MB s Supports RAID 0 0 1 and JBOD mode U Silicon Image s SATARAID supports another 2 SATA II ports SA
10. GND GND GND GND 12V 12V 12V 12V Sensor Sensor NC Sensor C_FAN1 S FAN1 S FAN2 NB FAN1 2 16 Hardware Setup Hard Disk Connectors IDE1 IDE2 The mainboard has a 32 bit Enhanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 controller that provides PIO mode 0 4 Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 function You can connect up to four hard disk drives CD ROM or other devices de IDE2 IDE1 IDE1 Primary IDE Connector The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1 IDE1 can connect a Master and a Slave drive You must configure second hard drive to Slave mode by setting the jumper accordingly IDE2 Secondary IDE Connector IDE2 can also connect a Master and a Slave drive Chassis Intrusion Switch Connector JCI1 This connector is connected to a 2 pin chassis switch If the GND 0 2 chassis is opened the switch will be short The system will record qintRy Bf this status and show a warning message on the screen To clear JCI1 the warning you must enter the BIOS utility and clear the record MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Serial ATA Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by nForce4 SLI SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 Serial ATA Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by Silicon Image s SATARAID SATA5 SATA6 The single chip of this mainboard is nForce4 SLI which supports four serial ATA connectors SATA1 SATA4 Silicon Image s SATARA
11. y complete This operation oceurs in the background and wil mot impede your work IF you need to shutdown thee computer the rebuild vall continue where it left off when you restart To continue cick Next 6 20 nVIDIA RAID Introduction 4 Click Next The Disk Selection page appears NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Disk Selection Select a disk from vahin the RAID array Select a member dsk from the bet Name Channel Device e STIGA Secondary Master Secondary Slave 5 Select the drive that you want to rebuild by clicking it from the list then click Next The Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array page appears NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard You have successfully completed the NVIDIA Rebuld Anay wired You have chosento rebuild the following dsk TI600154 JA a filing ARTO arty WDA MUROA 55503 To close this mirad snd bagn roduking the disk dick Frish 6 Click Finish The array rebuilding starts after a few seconds and a small pop up message appears towards the bottom right corner of the screen as shown in the figure below iy Rebuild In Progress NVIDIA MIRROR 34 476 During the rebuilding process the NVRAID Management utility screen shows the status under the System Tasks and Details sections 6 21 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard More About Rebuilding Arrays e Rebuilding Occurs in the Background The rebuilding process is very slow it can take up
12. 6 Click Finish The Computer Management window appears E Fh Aton ven Wade Hin l lx Ba bas Cositas Paracas Local vakre Leyot Type Fib System Satus Capscky Fros Space i Free Fouk Tolerance Fren Took Bin Poten Base FAT Hesktiy 2008 HERE 214 N Ewert esas Sen Partition Baste FAT henkt 2008 197EB S No Shared Fold ors Sry Partition Basic Heski LS Le 100 Mo E EIN OOS lC Patton Pasc FAT Heski CSrsten 1 9368 32 He 1 Ho g Derti nance Log and Alerts By Devos Hansger y ES 7 Renovable Storage Disk Defrag rt or lt gt Disk hi arcas nt Serv ces ard Apoca Hones Eik East 20 65 CB Onine pick 1 Dect 11150 ce Onine 4 3 E Unos Y Primary pn Y Estendeo parton PB Loge dive The actual disks listed will depend on your system and the unallocated partition is the total combined storage of two hard disks You must format the unallocated disk space in order to use it 7 Format the unallocated disk space Right click Unallocated space select New Partition and follow the wizard After the drive has been formatted it is ready for use 6 11 6 12 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard RA 1D Drives LEEN There is an application called NVRAIDMAN which helps you perform the following tasks of nVDIA RAID e Viewing RAID Array Configurations View an array configuration mirrored striped mirror striped JBOD or any sup ported combination e Setting Up a Spare RAID Di
13. From Windows XP 2000 open the Control Panel from My Computer followed by the System icon Choose the Hardware tab then click the Device Manager tab Click the in front of the SCSI and RAID Controllers hardware type The driver should appear 7 13 Installation of NVIDIA System Driver MSI provides a setup CD along with your mainboard which contains the required drivers for your system and many other use ful and powerful utility to bring you the best experience for your office professional working and for your home leisure entertainment MS 7100 ATX Mainboard NVIDIA System Driver Installation Click on the Driver tab and the screen below will display ity WebSite Manual ink to the Futi to the Future NVIDIA nForce4 System Driver This driver is only available for Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating system Please follow the following step to install the driver correctly 1 Click on the NVIDIA nForce4 System Driver button to install the NVIDIA nForce4 System Drivers for your Windows OS Then the welcome dialogue will display Click Next to continue NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers The InstallShield Wizard will install NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers on your computer To continue click Next coca 8 2 Installation of nVidia System Driver Then the following screen displays the available components to i
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15. 4 11 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Non Unicode programs supported If you are using an operating system in European languages and you d like to play the media files in MEGA STICK with East Asian languages such as Chinese Japanese etc it is possible that the file names display incorrectly However you can install the Supplemental Language Support provided by Microsoft to solve this problem You need to have your Microsoft Setup CD prepared in the CD ROM The system will start to install the necessary components after the settings are configured here Follow the steps described below 1 Go to Control Panel and choose Regional and Languages Options n Fie Edt View Favortes Took Help E O Puun Eros i Address O Control Panel Y System avenge and User Accounts 2 Goto the Languages tab and enable the check box of Install files for East Asian languages A dialogue box will pop up to remind you the above selection is chosen Regional and Language Options gt Regional Options Languages Advanced Text services and input languages To view or change the languages and methods you can use to enter text click Details Supplemental language support Most languages are installed by default To install additional languages select the appropriate check box below Cj nor files for complex script and right to left languages including Install files for East Asian languages Install Supplemental Language
16. Blaster Live 24 bit Pale _ x A a Master Control Source Microphone What U Hear Ausiliary Pa SE CRE Use Creative Surround Mixer to select the device you wish to listen to or record from It operates in two possible modes Click the Basic Mode or Advanced Mode button to switch between the two modes In Basic mode you can mix sounds from various audio input sources when playing or recording control volume In Advanced mode you can control balance and vary the loudness ratio between front rear speakers fader control the relative loudness levels between Front Center Rear Center and Subwoofer loudspeakers if any For more information and usage details on Creative Surround Mixer refer to its online Help MSI Reminds You You can simply click on the Default button to load the audio volume defaults for the speakers you connected lt Msi 5 9 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard SPEAKER SETTINGS Click on the speaker settings icon to enter its configuration screen F fT a P I x mesiasounce Le PS BOP fi Here you can adjust your speaker configuration from one place You can use it to select your type of speaker system and to adjust the volume and cutoff frequency for your subwoofer This is the main application to use for the following tasks x SPEAKER SETTINGS SoundBlaster Live 24 bt L Bale x Speaker Selection Bass Management Bass Boost S
17. Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580VLSA80 1 HDS722580VLSA80 Y Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 3 Select Automatically or Manually configuration of the RAID Set RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Auto configuration Manu al configur ation Press Enter to auto matically createraid set Stripe sizeis 64K First driv eis drive 0 PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580VLSASO 1 HDS722580V LSASO LT Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit MS 7100 ATX Mainboard 4 If manual configuration is selected the chunk size of RAID Sets can be selected 5 If auto configuration is selected BIOS will select RAID member drives automatically 6 Select RAID set size with T and l keys RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Auto configuration Press Enter to auto matically Manu al configuration create raidset T Increment 1GB raid size T decrement 1GB raid size Pleaseinputtheraidsize E GE PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580V LSASO 1 HDS722580V LSASO Lt Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 7 After the RAID set size is set the message Are You Sure will display before completing the configuration Answer N to abort the c
18. Front 6 1 IrDA pinheader 1 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard BIOS U The mainboard BIOS provides Plug amp Play BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically U The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface DMI function which records your mainboard specifications U Supports boot from LAN USB Device 1 1 amp 2 0 and SATA HDD Dimension U ATX Form Factor 30 4 cm X 24 4 cm Mounting U 9 mounting holes MSI Reminds You To create a bootable RAID volume for a Windows 2000 environment Microsoft s Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 SP4 is required As the end user cannot boot without SP4 a combination installation CD must be created before attempting to install the operating system onto the bootable RAID volume To create the combination installation CD please refer to the follow ing website http www microsoft com windows2000 downloads servicepacks sp4 HFdeploy htm 1 4 Getting Started A Mainboard Layout
19. Master Gs STIGOOISA Healthy 55 9065 Secondary Slave p ds 5T3E0023AS Healthy 745368 Primary Master Once a dedicated disk has been assigned to a particular array it can be removed at any time To remove the disk right click on the dedicated disk and select the option to remove it 6 18 nVIDIA RAID Introduction Example of Dedicating a Free Disk in a RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 Array You can also assign a dedicated free disk to a RAID 1 or a RAID 0 1 array using the same process 1 Right click either the free disk that you want to dedicate to an array the array type or the array drives as shown in the figure below Then click Designate Spare to launch the Spare Disk Allocation Wizard ARVIDIA nyraid Mame E O Status Capacity Charmel Device Rebuild eray i awo M48GB Primary Master Se WOC WOIEOSD OOFNAD 24 48 GB Secondary Master SSTA Heakhy 55 90 GB Secondary Master SSTA Heathy 55 90GB Secondary Save mh n 2 Click Designate Spare and then follow the instructions in the Wizard The figure below shows an example of a RAID 1 array that has one spare disk dedicated to it Once a dedicated disk has been assigned to a particular array it can be removed at any time To remove the disk right click on the dedicated disk and select the option to remove it EA NVIDIA Heathy 33 90 Secondary Slave ee WDC WEI60SD OOFNAD Heakhy 34 4968 Primary Master i Ge WOC WOIK0
20. Support You chose to install the Chinese Japanese and Korean language files This wil require 230 MB or more of avallable disk space The files will be installed after you click OK or dialog box Apply on the Regional and Language Lx 4 12 Introduction to DigiCell 3 Then go to the Advanced tab and select the language you want to be supported the language of the filename in the MegaStick from the drop down list in the Language for non Unicode programs then click Apply The system will install the necessary components from your Microsoft Setup CD immediately Regional and Language Options oh Regional Options Languages Advanced Language for non Unicode programs This system setting enables non Unicode programs to display menus and dialogs in their native language It does not affect Unicode programs but it does apply to all users of this computer Select a lanquagetema programs you want to use Chinese Tanan Code page conversion tables C 10001 MAC Japanese C 10002 MAC Traditional Chinese Big5 C 10003 MAC Korean C 10004 MAC Arabic E 10005 MAC Hebrew Default user account settings Apply all settings to the current user account and to the default user profile 4 13 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Click on the Core Center icon in the main menu and the Core Center program will be enabled Cool n Quiet This utility provides a CP
21. The figure below shows an example of a two hard drive striped array using identical 55 90 GB IDE hard drives ST360015A where one drive is configured as Master and the other drive is configured as Slave The total disk space used is 111 80 GB Mame status Capacity channel Device we Sbriping Healthy 111 90 G3 tST2600154 Hoalthy 5 90GB Secondary Master 51360015A Heathy 55 9066 Secondary Shave NVRAID Striped Mirror Array The figure below shows an example of a four hard drive stripe mirrored array The total disk space used is 111 80 GB Mare Status Capacty Channel Device Se Stripe Mirroring Healthy 111 9043 er ST3GO0D ISA Heathy 55 9066 Secondary Master eet 5130015 Healthy 55 9068 Secondary Slave e 5135002345 Heathy 795366 Primary Master Set STSRONZSLS Healthy 74 53 G8 Secondary Master NVRAID Spanning JBOD Array The figure below shows an example of a two hard drive spanning array The total disk space used is 111 80 GB Name Matus Capaoty cChame Dewce se Spanning Healthy 111 00 s 5T3600154 Healthy 55 50 6 amp 6 Secondary Masher Ge 513600154 Healthy 55 50 G6 Secondary Slave NVRAID Mirrored Array and a Striped Array Figure 3 6 shows an example of a two hard drive mirrored array as well as a two hard drive striped array hi_ ee EA NVIDIA mwraid T BREE nA A PP System Tasks Hame Staus Capacity Channel Device Se Miraria Healthy 34 18 GB Se OC WOSIOSO OORINO Healthy 34 45 G6 Primary Master See HDI
22. and resolve the conflict RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 Resolve Conflicts LT Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 4 The conflict will be resolved The RAID Set will appear in the Logical Drive window 7 10 Silicon RAID Introduction Low Level Formatting The Low Level Format menu selection allows the complete erasure of data on a hard drive This is not an action which typically needs to be performed as formatting the drive under Windows is usually sufficient to prepare the drive for use Logical Drive Information This menu item allows the display of the assignment of physical drives within a logical set RAID set RAID 1 spare or unassigned It is a display only function Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll between the drives in the Logical Drive Properties window Press the ESC key when done viewing logical drive information RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Heb Create RAID Set Delect RAID Set Rebuild RAID Set Press Enter and select logical drive to display information in detail Low L evel Format Logical Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580V LSASO Sil Raid 1 Set 1 HDS722580V LSASO LT Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 Help MAIN MENU Create RAID S
23. as well as the Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled must be upgraded to use the NVIDIA IDE Parallel ATA driver as well as the NV Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled This section describes how to run the setup application and install the RAID software which will upgrade the Windows IDE driver and install the RAID software 1 Start the nForce Setup program to open the NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers page Select Components Cheoore the component Setup wil inctall wy NVIDIA GAAT Driver w NVIDIA SMBus Driver NVIDIA Ethernet Driver A NVIDIA IDE Driver NVIDIA Audio Diver Space Required on C sin kK Space 4yallable on C 605230 K Back Next gt Cancel 2 Select the modules that you want to install Make sure that the NVIDIA IDE Driver is selected Click Next and then follow the instructions After the installation is completed be sure to reboot the PC 5 After the reboot initialize the newly created array See Initializing and Using the Disk Array on p6 10 E 0 6 9 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Initializing and Using the Disk Array The RAID array is now ready to be initialized under Windows 1 Launch Computer Management by clicking Start gt Settings gt Control Panel then open the Administrative Tools folder and double click on Computer Management 2 Click Disk Management under the Storage section The Initialize and Convert Disk Wizards ap
24. board and you wish to use it If you install add on FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this field The settings are Enabled Disabled COM Port 1 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first serial port The settings are 3F8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 8E8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Disabled Auto IR Function Select This setting allows you to specify the operation mode for serial port 2 Setting options IrDA ASKIR Disable Disable RS 232C Serial Port IrDA IrDA compliant Serial Infrared Port ASKIR Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared Port RxD TxD Active This setting controls the receiving and transmitting speed of the IR peripheral in use Setting options Hi Hi Hi Lo Lo Hi Lo Lo IR Transmission Delay This setting determines whether the IR transmission rate will be delayed while converting to receiving mode Setting options Disabled Enabled BIOS Setup UR2 Duplex Mode This setting controls the operating mode of IR transmission reception Setting options Full Half Under Full Duplex mode synchronous bi directional trans mission reception is allowed Under Half Duplex mode only asynchronous bi directional transmission reception is allowed Use IR Pins Please consult your IR peripheral documentation to select the correct setting of the TxD and RxD signals Setting options RxD2 TxD2 IR Rx2Tx2 Parallel Port There is a built in parallel port on the
25. can load media files from your MEGA STICK or the system and edit the preferred playlist Audio Speaker Setting In this sub menu you can configure and test the multi channel audio function speakers sound effect and environment Power on Agent In this sub menu you can configure date time and auto executed programs of the power on power off and restarting features MSI Reminds You Click on back button in every sub menu and it will bring you back to the main menu lt MSI 4 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard H W Diagnostic In the H W Diagnostic sub menu you can see the information status and note of each DigiCell You may double check the connection and installation of the item marked as gray OE 8 8 8 A T A A A A te te ote te Y E H W Diagnostic MY y ee NO e Y ML MEGA Stick N A No MSI Megastick au CED fa ASA gt oy BS w You may also click on the Mail to MSI button to send your questions or suggestions to MSI s technical support staff 4 4 Introduction to DigiCell Communication In the Communication sub menu you can see the status of all the LAN WLAN Bluetooth on the screen if the hardware is installed The first icon indicates the onboard LAN on your system the second icon indicates the wireless LAN status and the third one is the information about the bluetooth on your system Click on each item for details _ MSI igiCe
26. controller 1 Master 0 1 S Channel 0 controller 1 Slave Serial ATA 1 0 M Channel 1 controller 0 Master 1 1 M Channel 1 controller 1 Master 2 0 M Channel 2 controller 0 Master 2 1 M Channel 2 controller 1 Master MSI Reminds You There is no such thing as Slave drive in Serial ATA All drives are considered to be Master since there is a one to one connection between the drive and the controller 6 4 nVIDIA RAID Introduction Using the Define a New Array Window If necessary press the tab key to move from field to field until the appropriate field is highlighted e Selecting the RAID Mode By default this is set to Mirroring To change to a different RAID mode press the down arrow key until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode box either Mirroring Striping Spanning or Stripe Mirroring e Selecting the Striping Block Size Striping Block size is given in kilobytes and affects how data is arranged on the disk It is recommended to leave this value at the default Optimal which is 32KB but the values can be between 4 KB and 128 KB e Assigning the Disks The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disks To designate a free disk to be used as a RAID array disk 1 Tab to the Free Disks section The first disk in the list is selected 2 Move it from the Free Disks block t
27. down the other end of the clip to fasten the cooling set on the top of the retention mechanism 8 Make sure the safety hook completely clasps the fixed bolt of the retention mechanism 6 Locate the Fix Lever Safety Hook and the Fixed Bolt Lift up the intensive fixed lever Fixed Lever Fixed Bolt Hardware Setup Cee ee Memory The mainboard provides 4 slots for 184 pin DDR SDRAM DIMM Double In Line Memory Module modules and supports the memory size up to 4GB You can install DDR266 333 400 modules on the DDR DIMM slots DDR 1 4 For the updated supporting memory modules please visit http www msi com tw program products mainboard mbd pro_mbd_trp_list php DIMM1 4 from bottom to top Introduction to DDR SDRAM DDR Double Data Rate SDRAM is similar to conventional SDRAM but doubles the rate by transferring data twice per cycle lt uses 2 5 volts as opposed to 3 3 volts used in SDR
28. driver J Do you want to install the NVIDIA IDE SW driver MSI Reminds You The installation of NVIDIA Firewall and ForceWare Network Access Manager It is a software firewall to protect the softwares from hacking However it is strongly suggested that you do not install this component Please follow the instruction below to make a software firewall CD for yourself 1 Insert the MSI CD into the CD ROM drive 2 Ignore the Setup screen and use Explorer to browse the CD 3 Copy all the contents including the sub folders in the InVidia System CK804 Ethernet Firewall to a formatted floppy disk 4 The driver disk for software firewall CD is done sip 6 The following screen indicates that the installation is complete Click Yes to restart your computer or click No to restart it later NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers InstallShield Wizard Complete The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers Before you can use the program you must restart your computer Yes want to restart my computer now C No will restart my computer later ee a E 8 4
29. e Agent oftware ore Center Access E MSI Point 13 1 4 Quick Guide 3 gt A A Setting E O O Introduction Click on each icon appearing above to enter the sub menu to make further configuration 4 2 MSI Click on this button to link to MSI website http www msi com tw Quick Guide Click on this button and the quick guide of DigiCell will be displayed for you to review H W Diagnostic In this sub menu it provides the information of each DigiCell button for you to check if the representing peripherals cards drivers are correctly installed Comm In this sub menu you can see the configuration details for communication products including the status strength speed and channel of the connec tion of the Ethernet LAN amp Wireless LAN Software Access Point In this sub menu you can change your connection mode to different ones and configure the advanced settings for each mode such as the authentica tion encryption etc Introduction to DigiCell Live Update You can take advantage of Live Update to detect and update BIOS and drivers online Core Center You can take advantage of Core Center to monitor the health status of your system and to overclock under Windows OS if your system supports overclocking function MEGA STICK If you have your MEGA STICK connected to your system this icon will be lit up Click this blue icon to turn DigiCell into a MP3 player and then you
30. following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation 11 Copyright Notice The material in this document is the intellectual property of MICRO STAR INTERNATIONAL We take every care in the preparation of this document but no guarantee is given as to the correctness of its contents Our products are under continual improvement and we reserve the right to make changes without notice Trademarks All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners AMD Athlon 64 and Athlon FX are registered trademarks of AMD Corporation Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation PS 2 and OS 2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation Windows 98 2000 NT XP are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation NVIDIA the NVIDIA logo DualNet and nForce are registered trademarks or trade marks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and or other countries Netware is a registered trademark of Novell Inc Award is a registered trademark of Phoenix Technologies Ltd AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc Kensington and MicroSaver are registered trademarks of the Kensington Technology Group PCMCIA and CardBus are registered trademarks of the Persona
31. it s better to disable the Dynamic Overclocking or to lower the level of overclocking options By the way if you need to conduct overclocking manually you also need to disable the D O T Ranger first Adjust CPU FSB Frequency This item allows you to select the CPU Front Side Bus clock frequency in MHz Select the number between 200 400 for needed frequency HT Frequency This setting specifies the maximum operating frequency of the link s transmitter clock Setting options 1x 1 5x 2x 2 5x 3x 4x 5x HT Width This field allows you to set the HT Width between CPU amp Chip mark means Chip to CPU HT Width And J mark means CPU to Chip HT Width Setting options 4 8 T 8 1 16 T 8 4 8 M6 416 116 CPU Spread Spectrum This setting is used to enable or disable the CPU Spread Spectrum feature When overclocking the CPU always set it to Disabled Setting options Center Spread Disabled SATA Spread Spectrum This setting is used to enable or disable the SATA Spread Spectrum feature Setting options Disabled Down Spread PCIE Spread Spectrum This setting is used to enable or disable the PCIE Spread Spectrum feature Setting options Disabled Down Spread PCIE Clock This item allows you to select the PCIE Bus clock frequency in MHz Select the number between 100 145 for needed frequency SSE SSE2 Instructions This setting disables enables the SSE SSE2 Instructions Th
32. settings Moreover with this unique utility you will be able to activate the MSI well known features Live Update and Core Center which makes it easier to update the BIOS drivers online and to monitor the system hard ware status CPU Fan temperature and speed or to overclock the CPU memory Once you have your DigiCell installed locate the setup source file in the setup CD accompanying with your mainboard path Utility gt MSI Util ity gt MSI DigiCell it will have an icon EN in the system tray a short cut icon on the desktop and a short cut path in your Start up menu You may double click on each icon to enable DigiCell Ata ae FF o short cut icon in the system tray Parent Novog Explorer ye Remate Aste rt gt short cut path in the start up menu path Start gt Progra ms gt MSI gt DigiC ell MS 7100 ATX Mainboard ha 165 7100 ATX Mainboard Man SS Before using this utility it is required to have all the integrated peripherals cards LAN card Wireless LAN card MegaStick etc and all the necessary drivers onboard LAN driver audio driver CoreCenter Live Update etc installed correctly The icon representing each item will be lit up if it is inserted installed correctly and properly Otherwise the icon will remain gray and user is not able to view the functionality connection of that item H W Diagnostic 0 A No EN ANE A Update on om
33. the maximum CPU overclocking value The CPU FSB will automatically increase the testing value until the PC reboots Or you may click Default to restore the default values Right side PC hardware status during real time operation In the right sub menu here you can configure the PC hardware status such as CPU amp system temperatures and fan speeds You may use the scroll bars to adjust each item then click OK to apply the changes The values you set for the temperatures are the maximum thresholds for the system for warnings and the values for fan speeds are the minimum thresholds Center side User mode Auto mode Here you may adjust the CPU fan speed If you choose User mode you may adjust the CPU fan speed in 8 different modes from High Speed to Low speed If you choose Cool n Quiet the system will automatically configure an optimal setting for you MSI Reminds You To ensure that Cool n Quiet function is activated and will be working properly it is required to double confirm that 1 Check the serial number printed on the top of CPU On the top of CPU there are three lines listed under AMD Athlon Find the 13 charac ters of the first line and locate the last one from those 13 characters If the last character is O or after O such as P Q R and so on that means this CPU supports Cool n Quiet function On the contrary if the last character is before O
34. this mode S PDIF Out Optical S PDIF Out Coaxial CICA e H 5 5 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Installing the You need to install the driver for Creative CA0106 to function properly before you can get access to 2 4 6 or 8 channel and SPDIF audio operations Follow the proce dures described below to install the drivers for different operating systems Installation for Windows 2000 XP For Windows 2000 you must install Windows 2000 Service Pack4 or later before installing the driver And for Windows XP you must install Windows XP Service Pack1 or later before installing the driver The following illustrations are based on Windows XP environment and could look slightly different if you install the drivers in different operating systems 1 Insert the Creative audio driver CD into the CD ROM drive The setup screen will automatically appear 2 Click Next to enter the next page Welcome to Creative Software Setup Welcome Take full advantage of your Creative product by installing and using this software Click on the arrow key to continue the installation process A MSI Reminds You MSIF The screens shown here in this appendix may be slightly different from the latest software utility and shall be held for reference only 5 6 Introduction to Creative sound Blaster 3 Select the language that you needed from the scroll list Please select a language lt Select gt
35. use Delete button to remove the media file from the play list You may remove multi media files simultaneously by using Ctrl to select multi files Shuffle To play the media file in the Play List in a random order Repeat To repeat the selected files in the Play List Print This button has 2 functions 1 To print out the details of current play list through your printer with the following information Song title Song length Singer name 2 To save the details of current play list and save the file in the plain text file format in the Program files MSI DigiCell MyMusic txt for your reference The MyMusic txt file is with the following information Song title Song length Singer name 4 10 Introduction to DigiCell There is also a toolbar for you to execute some basic function like play stop pause previous next song song info and volume adjust There is also a scroll bar on the top for you to forward rewind pause previous forward rewind bar song s information play Right click on the MP3 file and choose Info a MP3 Info dialogue will pop up to show the information of the file including the title artist aloum release year and others You may also add your own comment in the comment field Then click Save to save the change click ry Cancel to discard the change or click Remove to all this Delete information Play Environment gt l
36. version through out the whole Web site To use the function you need to install the MSI Live Update 3 application After the installation the MSI Live Update 3 icon as shown on the right will appear on the screen Double click the MSI Live Update 3 icon and the following screen will appear 3 Welcome to MSI Live Update 3 Microsoft Internet Explorer EEE Eile Edi View Favcrites Tools Jelp E gt x a A Search She Favori es A heda 6 gt amp a sz ive MSI Link to the Future Visit MSI Website English MICRO STAR INT L CO LTD MSI 5 Liv Update 3 E Live BIOS TIA o MSI Live Update 3 is a useful and powe ful aap ication for you to download ard O Live Driver update the BIOS and the Devce Drivers autorratically _ Live VGA BIOS You Jo not have to spend much time in search nc tre whole website to find the BIOS Live VGA Driver or drivers ycu want With MSI Live Update 37 ycu can compete it in several s male sleps na A Live Ost rm Plzase select the iterrs thet you want to do on the left 20 umn of the main sage C Live unity Y Note 1 oiderto gt perate ths a3plicaton propery plezse rote the fcllowing suggests E Se the IE securizy setting Download sigred Activa cont ols to Erable or Prompt System Jefaultis Promp e Disahls WehTrap of Pr rillir R ar armes hased anticnine application her executing MSI ive pare ATM Com
37. wW D35030 00FA0 Healthy 34 48 GR Secondary Master Se Striping Healthy 1115035 Swe STIGNNISA Healthy ESSE Secondary Slave 2 ST S900 15 4 Healthy 55 508 Secondary Master 6 13 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Setting Up a Spare RAID Disk You can designate a hard drive to be used as a spare drive for a RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array2 The spare drive can take over for a failed disk NVRAID supports two types of spare drives e Free Disk A free disk is a disk that is not part of any RAID array but can be used by any available RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array that requires a particular disk when one of its disks crashes or becomes unusable The process is automatic and doesn t require any user interaction For example if you have a system with four hard disks where one disk is used to boot the OS two hard drives are set up in a mirrored array and a fourth hard disk is set up as a free disk then if one of the mirrored array drives fails the free disk will be automatically assigned to the mirrored array to be used instead of the failed disk e Dedicated Disk A dedicated free disk is a disk that is assigned to a RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array and that disk is used by that array only when needed for example during a system crash where a RAID mirrored drive is broken The dedicated disk can be used only by the array that it is assigned to and not by any other array unlike a free disk which can be used by any available RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array
38. AID Set Help for resolving Delect RAID Set conflicts Rebuild RAID Set Resolve Conflicts Low L evel Format Logical Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580V LSASO 76GB Sil Raid 1 Set 30G 1 HDS722580VLSASO 76GB HDS722 580VLSA80 76G Conflict LT Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 2 Select the Conflict entry in the Logical Drive Status window and press Enter RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Create RAID Set Press En ter to sele ct Delect RAID Set the set Rebuild RAID Set Resolve Conflicts Low L evel Format Logical Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580VLSAS0O 76GB Sil Raid 1 Set 30G 1 HDS722580VLSASO 76GB HDS722 580VLSA80 76G Conflict 4T Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 7 9 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard 3 Note that some conflict resolutions may result in the drive letter assignment changing for example the RAID set may have been drive D but after the conflict resolution it may become drive E Be aware of this when performing a conflict resolution To maintain the same drive lettering the SATA cables connected to the drives may need to be swapped or in the case of a SATA based removable drive unit the order of the drives within the chassis made need to be changed Press Y to accept the change
39. Assigning a Free Disk To mark a disk as free or not a part of any array 1 Enter the system BIOS setup and make sure that the drive that you want to mark as free is RAID enabled 2 Enter the RAID BIOS and make sure that the drive is not part of any array if one exists 3 Boot into Windows and run the NVRAIDMAN program The drive appears under the Free Disk section The figure below shows an example of the NVRAIDMAN display if you have a mirror array and one free disk EA nvivta nvraid p x nA D SS OS EEE System Tasks Mara Sotu Caoacty Channel Devos se Mirroring Healthy 55 90 G8 STOMA Healthy SS 90G8 Secondary Master e TTIGONISA Healthy 55 90G5 Secordary Slave Free Disk eS TIGONCIAS Healihy 74 5368 Preary Master ee 6 14 nVIDIA RAID Introduction Assigning a Dedicated Disk To mark a disk as dedicated or reserve it for use by a specific array Step 1 Mark the Disk as a Free Disk 1 Enter the system BIOS setup and make sure that the drive that you want to mark as free is RAID enabled 2 Enter the RAID BIOS and make sure that the drive is not part of any array if one exists 3 Boot into Windows and run the NVRAIDMAN program The drive appears under the Free Disk section Step 2 Dedicate the Free Disk to an Array While running NVRAIDMAN dedicate the free disk to an array using one of the following two methods e Method 1 Select a free disk and then assign it to an array e Method 2 Sel
40. CPU can only fit in the correct orientation 4 If the CPU is correctly installed the pins should be completely embedded into the socket and can not be seen Please note that any violation of the correct installation procedures may cause permanent damages to your mainboard 5 Press the CPU down firmly into Press down the socket and close the lever the CPU As the CPU is likely to move while the lever is being closed al ways close the lever with your fingers pressing tightly on top of the CPU to make sure the CPU is properly and completely embed ded into the socket 2 4 Hardware Setup Installing AMD Athlon64 Athlon64 FX CPU Cooler Set When you are installing the CPU make sure the CPU has a heat sink and a cooling fan attached on the top to prevent overheating If you do not have the heat sink and cooling fan contact your dealer to purchase and install them before turning on the computer 1 Detach the shield of the backplate s 3 Turn over the mainboard again and paster place the mainboard on the flat surface Locate the two screw holes of the mainboard Turn over the mainboard and install Align the retention mechanism and the backplate Fix the retention mechanism and the backplate with two screws retention mechanism 2 5 5 Position the cooling set onto the re 7 Fasten down the lever 2 6 tention mechanism Hook one end of the clip to hook first and then press
41. E8053 NNC PCI_E4 SLI Connector SATA EET nVIDIA POLSES CK8 04 SLI SATA1 E M p OOOO ODDO LORIE OLLI T rm eT OTT SATA4 pepopos PCI Slot 1 SATA3 en oonogooaooaaaaoaaaaoaoonaaooaaaonooooaaoqomnagonaaao Ona VIA NB_FAN1 VT6306 E PARE CREATIVE PCI Slot 2 JDB1 Sound pnocoooooooconsacaconaacaaosoaacaa DODO oooo ooo Bluster DDAIOODO00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 s FAN2 TTT PCI Slot 3 le Jahe Ee GREE JLPC1 JFP1 JFP2 ooogoadaadadadadqaqoadadonaAdAddOAAAd0rTAOOAAdAD ODIOOTOD00000 000000000 00000000000000000 000000000 J1394_2 JUSB2 JUSB3 _JUSB1 sees 20000 ooooo SATA5 SATA6 20000 a aa EEEE BEBED J1394 1 ooon oooo Ceme MN ooon ooon K8N Diamond MS 7100 v1 X ATX Mainboard 1 5 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Packing Contents MSI Driver Utility CD SATA RAID Driver b Diskette Creative SATA Cable Audio Driver Power Cable Optional D Bracket 2 SLI Switch card SLI bridge Optional Round Cable of 1394 Cable Round Cable of Floppy Disk Optiona
42. GD OOFPNAD Meskhy 3 48 GB Secondary Master 513600154 Heakhy S5 90GB Secondary Master MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array Rebuilding is the process of recovering data from one hard drive to another All data is copied from one hard drive to another and then the data is synchronized between the two hard drives This only applies to RAID 1 array as well as a RAID 0 1 array Rebuilding Instructions After creating a mirrored array you can rebuild the array using the following steps 1 Go to Windows and run the NVRAID Management utility The figure below shows an example of a system with one mirrored array Envio avraid ze wrrory Heath 553058 Gs 5TIENOLEA Heathy SE G0GR Secondary Mide GeSTMOOISA Heathy 553065 Secondary Slave 2 Right click on Mirroring The popup menu appears OE A A AA nVIDIA vraid qx pera ee ea PT is STTGDOLSA Heathy MG Secondery Master GPSIMOOISA Meathy 55 90GB Secondary Slave 3 From the popup menu click Rebuild Array The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard appears NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Welcome to the NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard This wizard wall guide you through assigning a neve disk into an existing RAID array The NVIDIA RAID solution allows you to rebuild a naw Mirrored data copy while the system is ua and running without disrupting user and application access to the data set Rebuilding an array can take up to a day to
43. ID of this mainboard sup ports another two serial ATA connectors SATA5 SATA6 SATA1 SATA6 are high speed Serial ATA interface ports Each supports serial ATA data rates of 300MB s Both connectors are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1 0 specifications Each Serial ATA connector can connect to 1 hard disk device Please refer to the nVidia RAID Introduction amp Silicon Image RAID Introduction for detail software installation procedure SATA4 SATA5 SATA6 SATA1 SATA6 Pin Definition Ce 7 1 7 1 7 1 i SATA3 GND SATA2 p pe 7 1 Take out the dust cover and connect to the hard disk SATA1 devices Serial ATA cable optional Connect to serial ATA ports CD In Connector JCD1 The connector is for CD ROM audio connector GND JCD1 GND 0o00 2 18 Hardware Setup Front Panel Connectors JFP1 JFP2 The mainboard provides two front panel connectors for electrical connection to the front panel switches and LEDs JFP1 is compliant with Intel Front Panel I O Connectivity Design Guide JFP1 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION E 1 HD_LED P Hard disk LED pull up a tao 2 FPPWR SLP MSG LED pull up 3 HD LED N Hard disk active LED 4 FP PWR SLP MSG LED pull up JFP1 2 BHB 5 RST SW_N Reset Switch low reference pull down to GND 6 PWR_SW_P Power Switch high reference pull up HDD Reset 7 RST SW_P Reset Switch high reference pull up LED Switch 8 PWR_SW_N Power Switch low reference pull down t
44. Ja Quick Guide en Aa Y 0 Ome This icon indicates the information and connection status of onboard LAN which is read only The second icon indicates the wireless connection You may click this icon dl to configure the advanced settings in the WLAN Card Mode dialogue box see the image on p 4 8 Please note that it is only available when the Software Access Point is set to WLAN Card Mode The third icon indicates the connection using bluetooth devices If your system has connected to the bluetooth device the icon will light up 4 5 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Software Access Point In the Software Access Point sub menu you can see the status of communicating on your system and choose the desired software access point mode by clicking on the desired icon in which the default settings are configured for your usage The default software access point mode is set to WLAN Card Mode For more ad vanced security settings and channels switching click on Setting button to enter its sub menu SS H W Diagnostic A N y gt M XY et N N i GI 802 11g 1 ET cs e ig Terminology Here are the introduction of WLAN AP communication terminology WEP Key In the wireless network environment the administrator can set up password Network Key to protect the network from being attacked or unauthorized access When building the network you can set up 4 sets o
45. K8N Diamond MS 7100 v1 0 ATX Mainboard FHTAE HU E ARENA NA ARES ANI ANS IRSA RN ERE SABE SANIABIA Crane ARANA LEELTETIEET ELIET TESTIETITET TETT UAA TTT A eT TTT SLLELISELIELEEETITETTEET Tr TTT G52 M7100X1 Manual Rev 1 0 Release Date Dec 2004 m99 FCC B Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense Notice 1 The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment Notice 2 Shielded interface cables and A C power cord if any must be used in order to comply with the emission limits VOIR LA NOTICE D INSTALLATION AVANT DE RACCORDER AU RESEAU Micro Star International MS 7100 This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the
46. Manual choose specific resources by going into each of the sub menu that follows this field a sub menu is preceded by a The settings are Auto ESCD Manual IRQ Resources The items are adjustable only when Resources Controlled By is set to Manual Press lt Enter gt and you will enter the sub menu of the items IRQ Resources list IRQ 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 for users to set each IRQ a type depending on the type of device using the IRQ Settings are PCI Device For Plug amp Play compatible devices designed for PCI bus architecture Reserved The IRQ will be reserved for further request MS 7100 ATX Mainboard PCI Express relative items Maximum Payload Size This item allows you to set the PCI Express Maximum payload size per time Settings 4096 128 256 512 1024 2048 MSI Reminds You 1 RQ Interrupt Request lines are system resources allocated to I O devices When an I O device needs to gain attention of the operating system it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur After receiving the signal when the operating system is ready the system will interrupt itself and perform the service required by the I O device BIOS Setup H W Monitor This section shows the status of your CPU fan overall system status etc Monitor function is available only if there is hardware monitoring mechanism onboard Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility H W Monitor Chassis Intrusio
47. Mouse Keyboardclock 6 pin Female NC Noconnection IEEE1394 Port The back panel provides one standard IEEE 1394 port The IEEE1394 high speed serial bus complements USB by providing enhanced PC connectivity for a wide range of devices including consumer electronics audio video A V appliances storage peripherals other PCs and portable devices ED IEEE1394 Port 2 12 Hardware Setup Serial Port Connector The mainboard offers one 9 pin male DIN connector as the serial port The port is a 16550A high speed communication port that sends receives 16 bytes FIFOs You can attach a serial mouse or other serial devices directly to the connector Pin Definition 12345 PN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION Data Carry Detect Serial In or Receive Data Serial Out or Transmit Data Data Terminal Ready 6789 9 Pin Male DIN Connector Ground Data Set Ready Request To Send Clear To Send Ring Indicate O ON DOA FP OO N USB Connectors The mainboard provides two OHCI Open Host Controller Interface Universal Serial Bus roots for attaching USB devices such as keyboard mouse or other USB compatible devices You can plug the USB device directly into the connector USB Port Description PN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 5V Negative Data Channel 0 Positive Data Channel 0 Ground 5V Negative Data Channel 1 Positive Data Channel 1 Ground Taa USB Ports
48. SDRAM and requires 184 pin DIMM modules rather than 168 pin DIMM modules used by SDR SDRAM High memory bandwidth makes DDR an ideal solution for high performance PC workstations and servers DIMM Module Combination Install at least one DIMM module on the slots Each DIMM slot supports up to a maximum size of 1GB Users can install either single or double sided modules to meet their own needs Please note that each DIMM can work respectively for single channel DDR but there are some rules while using dual channel DDR Please refer to the suggested DDR population table below Users may install memory modules of different tyoe and density on different channel DDR DIMMs However the same type and density memory modules are necessary while using dual channel DDR or instability may happen Please refer to the following table for detailed dual channel DDR Other combination not listed below will function as single channel DDR 2 7 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard GREEN PURPLE GREEN PURPLE DIMM1 ChA DIMM2 ChB DIMM3 ChA DIMM4 ChB System Density 128MB 1GB 128MB 1GB A ae 256MB 2GB ooo po 128MB 1GB 128MB 1GB 256MB 2GB 128MB 1GB 128MB 1GB 128MB 1GB 128MB 1GB 512MB 4GB Recommended Memory Combination List Max Speed DIMMI DIMM2 DIMM3 DIMM4 f l mo ACI IS o E oo o mo sf s o gt a ss wo s s wo gt gt mo IES o o mo gt gt p s S Single Side D Do
49. STO Secondary Master de FTIGODISA Healthy 35 90 Secondary Stave Free Disk CA STIDOOCIAS Hashey 74 53 Primary Master Welcome to the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard This wizard vall quide yea reams tha configuration and sesignmert of an array spare RAID 1 techniques alos yoru to designate snare configured irto porras pot o raid To continue chek Neat sk Allocation Wizard Select an unused dick to allocate as a spare dick Select an unused dick from the ist Nama Se STSONCIAS i reed Chan Devre Primary Master The ram the aetate vt poe sit poets Hn pth dsk spare disk wil be erased and replaced m h content dskfalure Enviada Se em 4 From the Free Disk Selection page select one of the disks from the list Please note that there can be more than one disk to choose from 6 17 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard 5 Click Next The Completing the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation page appears NYIDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard Completing the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard You have successfully completed the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard You have chosen to alocata ST3600 LIA As a Spare Disk for the folowing RAID array NIDA MIRROR 55 895 Te dese the vitara cick Fn 6 Click Finish You have now assigned a dedicated free disk to a mirrored array oR ER A ET TT RR RE ETAT AE EJAVIDIA nvraid px 4 Se Miriio Heality 55 90 GB se STIGDOISA Healthy SS 9048 Secondary
50. T p 2 24 p 2 27 AAA a SATA1 4 PCI _E3 p 2 28 aaa i p 2 18 aaa a FAN1 p 2 16 amp ESe jJ DB1 p 2 22 jJ FP2 p 2 19 PCI Slot 1 3 mee JFP1 p 2 19 mip et pqs 00 Gee sran2 _ p 2 16 J USB1 3 p 2 19 AUDI p 2 20 SATA5 6 j1394_1 2 p 2 18 p 2 21 Hardware Setup The mainboard supports AMD Athlon64 Athlon64 FX processors The mainboard uses a CPU socket called Socket 939 for easy CPU installation When you are installing the CPU make sure the CPU has a heat sink and a cooling fan attached on the top to prevent overheating If you do not have the heat sink and cooling fan contact your dealer to purchase and install them before turning on the computer For the latest information about CPU please visit http www msi com tw pro gram products mainboard mbd pro_mbd_cpu_support php 2 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard CPU Installation Procedures for Socket 939 1 Please turn off the power and unplug the power cord before Open Lever installing the CPU 2 Pull the lever sideways away Sliding 90 degree from the socket Make sure to GEA raise the lever up to a 90 de gree angle 3 Look for the gold arrow The gold arrow should point towards the lever pivot The
51. TA5 6 Transfer rate is up to 300 MB s Supports RAID 0 amp 1 mode 1 2 Getting Started USB Interface 10 USB ports Controlled by nForce4 SLI chipset 4 ports in the rear I O 6 ports via the external bracket NV RAID Software Supports up to 4 SATA and 2 ATA133 Hard drives RAID 0 or 1 0 1 JBOD is supported RAID function available for ATA133 SATA H D or 4 SATA H D drives Silicon Image s SATARAID Software Optional U RAID 0 or 1 and multiple RAID groups are supported U Support up to 2 SATA devices connected to a single controller Dual LAN U Supports dual LAN jacks 1st LAN supports 10 100 1000 Fast Ethernet by nForce4 SLI 2nd PCI Express LAN supports 10 100 1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E8053 IEEE 1394 U Supports up to three 1394 ports rear panel x 1 pinheader x 2 Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps Audio U Power by Creative Sound Bluster 24 bits H W audio 24 bit 96 192 KHz audio quality Up to 100 db SNR clarity 7 1 Channel output supported Dolby Digital decoder Supports S PDIF digital interface PCI 2 3 Specification compliant On Board Peripherals U On Board Peripherals include 1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K 720K 1 2M 1 44M and 2 88Mbytes 1 serial port COM1 1 parallel port supporting SPP EPP ECP mode 1 Audio jack 5 in 1 coaxial fiber SPDIF out 1 D Bracket 2 pinheader 1 CD In pinheader 3 IEEE 1394 Rear 1 Front 2 10 USB1 1 2 0 ports Rear 4
52. The set will be rebuilt The status of the rebuild is displayed in the MAIN MENU window RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Create RAID Set Potato ala eb Delect RAID Set RAID1 setto rebuild Resolve Conflicts Low L evel Format Logical Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580VLSA80 Sil Raid 1 Set 1 1D5722580VLSABO HDS722 580VLSA80 Invaild Raid drive 4T Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connec tion information including the channel on the host adapter to which it is connected If after a disk failure the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set or used in another system it may have conflicting metadata specifically in reference to the drive connection information If so this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt In order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To correct this select Resolve Conflict and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will automatically be written to the replacement disk Silicon RAID Introduction 1 Select Resolve Conflicts and press Enter RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Create R
53. U temperature detection function called Cool n Quiet Cool n Quiet is a special feature designed only for AMD Athlon64 processor and with Cool n Quiet the system will be capable of detecting the temperature of the CPU according to the CPU s working loading When the CPU temperature climbs up to a certain degree the speed of the system cooling fan will be risen automatically and on the other hand the speed of the system cooling fan will slow down instantly when the CPU temperature descends to its normal degree Here the current system status including Vcore 3 3V 5V and 12V and the current PC hardware status such as the CPU amp system temperatures and all fans speeds are shown on the left and right sides for you to monitor When you click the red triangles in the left and right sides two sub menus will open for users to overclock overspec or to adjust the thresholds of system to send out the warning messages 4 14 Introduction to DigiCell Left side Current system status In the left sub menu you can configure the settings of FSB Vcore Memory Voltage and AGP Voltage by clicking the radio button in front of each item and make it available the radio button will be lighted as yellow when selected use the and buttons to adjust then click OK to apply the changes Then you can click Save to save the desired FSB you just configured Also you may click Auto to start testing
54. actus Update Microsofi Windows Installer Yv a Done 9 My Computer MESI Live Update 3 Five buttons are placed on the left column of the screen Click the desired button to start the update process Live BIOS Updates the BIOS online Live Driver Updates the drivers online Live VGA BIOS Updates the VGA BIOS online Live VGA Driver Updates the VGA driver online Live OSD Updates the firmware of the OSD products online Live Utility Updates the utilities online If the product you purchased does not support any of the functions listed above a sorry message is displayed For more information on the update instructions insert the companion CD and refer to the Live Update Guide under the Manual Tab 4 9 MEGA STICK In the MEGA STICK sub menu you can configure the settings of MSI MEGA STICK and the media files m3u mp3 wav cda wma on your system MSI Ue UI MM MM QU O WO OO OA OE OD E O 0 02 0213 back 1 ET Om MES 1 ad Basic Function Here you can edit your own play list with the buttons load save delete shuffle repeat amp print Load To load media files or the playlist of mp3 files m3u on your system or on your MEGA STICK Save To save a loaded playlist of mp3 files m3u on your system or on your MEGA STICK Delete Click on the media files in the Play List field and
55. alance of CPU while running programs and to adjust the best CPU frequency automatically When the motherboard detects CPU is running programs it will speed up CPU automatically to make the program run smoothly and faster When the CPU is temporarily suspending or staying in the low load balance it will restore the default settings instead Usually the Dynamic Overclocking Technology will be powered only when users PC need to run huge amount of data like 3D games or the video process and the CPU frequency need to be boosted up to enhance the overall performance Setting options Disabled Disable Dynamic Overclocking function Private 1st level of overclocking increasing the CPU frequency by 1 Sergeant 2nd level of overclocking increasing the CPU frequency by 3 Captain 3rd level of overclocking also the default value of Load High Performance Defaults increasing the CPU frequency by 5 Colonel 4th level of overclocking increasing the CPU frequency by 7 General 5th level of overclocking increasing the CPU frequency by 9 Commander 6th level of overclocking increasing the CPU frequency by 11 3 23 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard MSI Reminds You Even though the Dynamic Overclocking Technology is more stable than manual overclocking basically it is still risky We suggest user to make sure that your CPU can afford to overclocking regularly first If you find the PC appears to be unstable or reboot incidentally
56. by nForce4 SLI SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 ccccccccceeeeesssseeeeees 2 18 Serial ATA Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by Silicon Image s SATARAID SATA5 SATAG ooccccccccccccnnanonononononnnnnnnncnnnnns 2 18 CD i Connector GIT ti e aa aeS es 2 18 Front PanelGonnectors JEPALJ EP a EE TES 2 19 Front USB Connectors JUSB1 JUSB2 JUSB3 eee 2 19 Front Panel Audio Connector AUDI oooonnccnnnnncnccccccccccononnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonos 2 20 IrDA Infrared Module Header JIR 1 ooccccccccccccccnnccccononccnnncnonnancnnnncnnns 2 20 IEEE 1394 Connectors J1394 1 J1394 2 oooocccccccccnnnnnnoncccnnnnnnnnnncccnnnns 2 21 D Bracket 2 Connector JDB1 seriur i ee ia 2 21 NV SLI Scalable Link Interface connector PCI_E4 oe 2 24 A A ev Me cea cen eas 2 27 Clear GMOS BUON SWI arene e E auch E E wed aueincics 2 27 O E E EE E EE EE E E E EE 2 28 POLEXPress Slots PGB TSP Cl ES is weet yee i 2 28 PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots PCI1 3 ee 2 28 PCI Interrupt Request ROUtINQ cccccccccccccccccncccnncnninininnnnninnnnnenennnnnnnnininnns 2 29 Chapter 3 BIOS SO UD A do 3 1 Entera Sel De e es os ete os e o e o Mi 3 2 Selecting the First Boot Device ccccccccccccccncnnnnnnnononononononnnnnnnnnnnnononononnos 3 2 O RS e 3 3 GENO ld ed e do o do e e 3 3 TRAS MAA MENU te da ect tbls 3 4 standard CMOS Features asshole a paa paias 3 6 Advanced BIOS AM oda 3 8 Advanced Chipset Features ud 3
57. ccccccccnnnnnnnnnnnnn 7 3 Wan Menciona 7 3 PEGI VV WA QOW td AA RA AA AE 7 4 Physical Drive INtOrmatOn ici A Ad 7 4 Logical Drive niomat On aii AAA AAA AAA AA AAA 7 4 Command LIN 7 4 Creating RAID TOUS ca 7 5 Creating Spare Drive ocu 7 6 Creating BO De id 7 7 Deleting RAID Groups Spare Drive and JBOD ccceececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 7 7 Rebtlld RAID SP ia 7 8 ReSOlVING COMAS a nia E 7 8 Low Level FONSI aii AA A AAA 7 11 Logical Drive Informatlon visor 7 11 Reserved Drive and Setting Size for RAID Set Spare Drive or JBOD 7 12 installing the RAID Driver cuina 7 13 Install Driver in Windows XP 2000 cccccecccecccceeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneaeaees 7 13 Chapter 8 Installation of NVIDIA System Driver 0 ssseeeeeeeeeeeees 8 1 NVIDIA System Driver Installaion 000 00sseeseeeeseeeeeeeeeeseeeeseeseseeeesesseeseeees 8 2 Vill Getting Started Thank you for choosing the K8N Diamond MS 7100 v1 X ATX mainboard The K8N Diamond mainboard is based on nVIDIA nForce 4 SLI chipset for optimal system efficiency Designed to fit the advanced AMD K8 Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64 processor the K8N Diamond mainboard delivers a high performance and profes sional desktop platform solution MS 7100 ATX Mainboard A Mainboard Specifications CPU Supports Socket 939 for AMD K8 Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64 Socket939 processor Supports up to 4000 Athlon FX55 or higher CPU
58. channel audio signal return from front panel OAOAN DOA FWD o IrDA Infrared Module Header JIR1 The connector allows you to connect to IrDA Infrared module You must config ure the setting through the BIOS setup to use the IR function JIR1 is compliant with Intel Front Panel I O Connectivity Design Guide JIR1 Pin Definition 2 20 Hardware Setup IEEE 1394 Connectors J1394 1 J1394 2 The mainboard provides two 1394 pin headers that allow you to connect IEEE 1394 ports via an external IEEE1394 bracket Pin Definition SIGNAL 9 00000 10 1 o o oo 9 TPA Ground Ground J1394 1 J1394 2 TPB TPB Cable power Cable power Key no pin Ground IEEE1394 Bracket ana gt Optional Foolproof Design the 1394 pinheader in GREEN color D Bracket 2 Connector JDB1 The mainboard comes with a JDB1 connector for you to connect to D Bracket 2 D Bracket 2 is a USB Bracket that supports both USB1 1 amp 2 0 spec It integrates four LEDs and allows users to identify system problem through 16 various combina tions of LED signals Pin Definition DBG1 high for green color DBR1 high for red color DBG2 high for green color DBR2 high for red color DBG3 high for green color DBR3 high for red color DBG4 high for green color DBR4 high for red color Key NC 2 10 1 9 JDB1 4 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 21 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard D Bracket 2 Conn
59. connected to the controller The upper part lists RAID sets and JBOD drives reported to the system BIOS The lower part lists spare drives reserved drives conflict drives and invalid drives not reported to the system BIOS Command Line The bottom line of the display lists the currently active command keys Up and Down arrows select the menu item or action ESC takes the user to the previous menu Enter selects the highlighted choice Ctrl E exits the utility Other keys may be active depending upon the currently selected action 7 4 Silicon RAID Introduction Creating RAID Groups As previously discussed the Silicon Image SATA host adapter supports RAID 0 1 and Concatenation configurations The selection of the RAID level to be used should be based upon factors including performance data security and number of drives available It is best to carefully consider the long term role of the system and plan the data storage strategy appropriately Silicon Image has made the creation of RAID sets very simple They can be created either automatically or to allow the greatest flexibility manually 1 Select Create RAID set 2 Choose a RAID 0 Striped a RAID 1 Mirrored or a Concatenation combination set RAID Config uration U tilit y Silicon ImageInc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help PATH Stripes Delect RAID Set RAID1 Rebuild RAID Set SPA RE DRIVE Resolve Conflicts CONCATENATION Low Level Format Logical
60. d BIOS Setting Password Use this menu to set the password for BIOS Save amp Exit Setup Save changes to CMOS and exit setup Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes and exit setup 3 5 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard The items in Standard CMOS Features Menu includes some basic setup items Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the lt PgUp gt or lt PgDn gt keys to select the value you want in each item Phoenix fwardBIO CHOS Setup Utility Standard CHOS Features Time Chhimmiss Henu Level IDE Primary Haster IDE Primary Slave Change the day month IDE Secondary Haster year and century IDE Secondary lave Floppy Drive Halt 0 System Information ti eHove Enter f elect PU PD Yalue FilsSave ESC iExit Fi beneral Help F5 Previous Values Fi Optimized Defaults Date This allows you to set the system to the date that you want usually the current date The format is lt day gt lt month gt lt date gt lt year gt day Day of the week from Sun to Sat determined by BIOS Read only month The month from Jan through Dec date The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by numeric function keys year The year can be adjusted by users Time This allows you to set the system time that you want usually the current time The time format is lt hour gt lt minute gt lt second gt IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave IDE Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Master Press PgUp lt gt or PgDn lt gt t
61. d disks that are to be RAID enabled in the system BIOS Check p 3 13 for details Specify the RAID level either Mirroring RAID 1 Striping RAID 0 Striping and Mirroring RAID 0 1 or Spanning JBOD and create the desired RAID array Enter the Windows OS run the Windows nForce Setup application and install the RAID software Check p 6 9 for details Initialize the NVRAID Array Disks Bootable RAID Array 2 3 4 Choose the hard disks that are to be RAID enabled in the system BIOS Check p 3 13 for details Specify the RAID level either Mirroring RAID 1 Striping RAID 0 Striping and Mirroring RAID 0 1 or Spanning JBOD and create the desired RAID array Boot from the Windows CD use the floppy disk that has the RAID driver to copy and install the nForce RAID software Check p 6 9 for details Initialize the NVRAID Array Disks Setting Up the NVRAID BIOS Be sure to enable the IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave RAID amp SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 RAID items in nVidia RAID Config of Integrated Peripher als in BIOS refer to p 3 13 for details before configuring the NVRAID BIOS After that press F10 to save the configuration and exit The PC will reboot right away Then enter the RAID BIOS Setup by pressing F10 when prompted and follow the proce dures described below to set up the NVRAID BIOS NVRAID BIOS setup lets you choose the RAID array type and which hard drives you want to make part of t
62. demands of computer systems by improving disk I O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures while utilizing full disk capacity With Silicon Image Serial ATA host controller and SATARAID both of these problems are solved SATARAID software provides a Graphical User Interface GUI for easy to use configurations of the RAID Groups MSI Reminds You 4 msIlE All the information volumes listed in your system might differ from the illustrations in this appendix MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Introduction RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I O performance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member without loss of data SATA RAID provides two RAID Set types Striping RAID 0 and Mirroring RAID 1 RAID 0 Striping Striping is a performance oriented non redundant data mapping technique While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type it actually does not provide fault tolerance Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk Strip 3 Strip 6 i i RAID 1 Mirroring Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure If a read failure occurs on one drive the system reads the data from the other drive Concatenation Conca
63. dress ME o hd alo MAC Addes i a Y i l 3 i f i ts a i E IP Sharing Click on this icon to enable disable the IP sharing The default of this setting is disabled EA Disabled Ri mabied Enabling disabling IP sharing depends on the different situation For example 1 If your family and you are getting on Internet at home with multi computers and your ISP only provides one IP for you you may need to enable IP Sharing function in order to use this one IP to get on Internet with multi computers simultaneously 2 If you are getting on Internet in office usually the LAN card will automatically get the IP this computer uses In this case you don t have to enable this function SSID Means Service Set Identifier a unique name shared among all points in a wireless network It must be identical for all points in the network Then the card will be able to connect to an access point with the same SSID Channel Specifies the operating radio frequency channel in Infrastructure mode which should be set to an available one ex with less traffic to ensure the stable and better connection Associated Client List This option is to display information of stations that are currently associated to your wireless gateway Association Control This option allows you to control which PC can connect to the wireless LAN If you 4 7 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard enable this feature only PCs with MAC address
64. e Serial ATA RAID driver by yourself by following the instruction below 1 Insert the MSI CD into the CD ROM drive 2 Click the Browse CD botton on the Setup Screen 3 Copy all the contents including the sub folders in the inVidia IDE Silicon_Image Sil3132 RAID to a formatted floppy disk For bootable non RAID device the copy path is nVidia IDE Silicon_Image Sil3132 SATA 4 The driver disk for Silicon Image Sil 3132 SATARAID SATALINK Controller is done Choose the driver Silicon Image Sil 3132 SATARAID Controller that appears on Windows XP 2000 Setup screen and press the lt Enter gt key Press lt Enter gt to continue with installation or if you need to specify any additional devices to be installed do so at this time Once all devices are specified press lt Enter gt to continue with installation From the Windows XP 2000 Setup screen press the lt Enter gt key Setup will now load all device files and then continue the Windows XP 2000 installation U Installing OS on RAID Drive 1 2 3 After setup examines your disks it will copy files to Windows installation folders and restart the system The setup program will continue and finish the installation after restarting Wait until Windows XP 2000 finishes installing devices regional settings networking settings components and final set of tasks then reboot the system if necessary U Confirming Windows XP 2000 Driver Installation 1 2 3
65. e Streaming SIMD Exten sions SSE were introduced in the Pentium III processor The SSE extensions con sist of a new set of instructions and a new set of registers These instructions and registers are designed to allow Single Instruction Multiple Data SIMD computations to be made on single precision floating point numbers The Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE2 were introduced in the Pentium 4 and Intel 3 24 BIOS Setup Xeon processors They consist of a new set of instructions that operate on the XXM and MXCSR registers and perform SIMD operations on double precision floating point values and on integer values Several of these new SSE SSE2 instructions also operate in the MMX registers Setting options Enabled Disabled Cool n Quiet control This feature is especially designed for AMD Athlon processor which provides a CPU temperature detecting function to prevent your CPU s from overheating due to the heavy working loading Setting options Disabled Auto MSI Reminds You For the purpose of ensuring the stability of Cool n Quiet function it is always recommended to have the memories plugged in DIMM 1 Adjust CPU Ratio This item lets you adjust the CPU ratio Setting to Startup enables the CPU running at the fastest speed which is detected by system Setting options are Startup x4 x25 Adjust CPU VID This item lets you adjust the CPU VID Setting to Startup enables the CPU running at the d
66. e settings Auto 1T 2T Refresh period Tref When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable Specifies the refresh rate of the DIMM requiring the most frequent refresh Available settings Auto 1x1552 1x2064 1x2592 1x3120 1x3632 1x4128 1x4672 2x1552 2x2064 2x2592 2x3120 2x3632 2x4128 2x4672 4x1552 4x2064 4x2592 4x3120 4x3632 4x4128 4x4672 128 User Config mode This field has the capacity to automatically detect all of the following 4 fields default value If you set this field to Manual the following fields will be selectable The settings are Auto Manual Bottom of 32 bit 31 24 IO When the User Config mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This field specifies the memory which could be remapped to another address higher than OOEO This item only activities in 64 bit OS The settings are 0000 00EO0 1T 2T Memory Timing When the User Config mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This field controls the SDRAM command rate Selecting 1T makes SDRAM signal con troller to run at 1T T clock cycles rate Selecting 2T makes SDRAM signal controller run at 2T rate Setting options 1T 2T Read Preamble value When the User Config mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable The time prior to the max read DQS return when the DQS receiver should be turned on BIOS Setup This is specified in units o
67. eaker Mapping Settings item and a screen will appear as below Then you can select the left surround and right surround of the 4 5 1 content to map to side speakers or and rear speakers 4 or 5 1 Content Speaker Mapping Settings 4 25 1 Content Speaker Mapping When playing a 4 45 1 content in a 7 1 speaker configuration the left turround and right surround of the 4 5 1 content shall be mapped to As ul Ae SAKE MSI Reminds You You have to choose 7 1 speakers on Speaker Selection section to enable the 4 or 5 1Content Speaker Mapping Settings menu MS 7100 ATX Mainboard MEDIASOURCE PLAYER Click on the player icon to enter its configuration screen F a EMBEE a MediaSource Player is the digital music center for playing creating organizing and transferring digital music This is your ultimate all in one digital entertainment software J Please select a track to play 00 00 00 Tiute Al Ctrl U GER ET 7 ES ee ence With MediaSource Player you can experience immersive listening with EAX effects clean up and convert your vinyl records and cassette tapes to digital formats with the integrated recorder rip CDs and create high quality compressed digital audio files up to 320 Kbps for MP3 amp 160 Kbps for WMA burn personalized MP3 and audio CDs with a CD writer and print your own CD covers organize your digital music collection with a powerful eas
68. ect an array and then assign a free disk to it Both methods are equally simple ways of accomplishing the same task Method 1 Select a free disk and then assign it to an array 1 Right click one of the available disks under the Free Disk section The pop up menu appears nvraid z f Mare Saus Capacity Channel Oevice Seeing Healthy 55 90 Se STICOOISA Healthy 55 908 Secondary Master Se STOOISA Healthy 55 9068 Secondary Slave Free Disk y A Master Welcome to the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard This wizard will guide you through the configuration and assionment of an array spare sk RAID 1 techniques alow you to designate spare disks to configured into an array in the event of a disk failure Ta continue cick Next mE MS 7100 ATX Mainboard 3 Click Next The RAID Array Selection page appears NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard RAID Array Selection l Please selec Hoe RAID amay to recewe a spare dik S Select a RAID array from the bst Status Partitions SeNVIOIA MIRROR 55 095 Healthy None Desgnating a trae disk as a spare dsk renover from the free disk pool The LL contents of the spare dist wi be erased and replaced eth content From the RAID carey inthe event of a disk failas 4 From the RAID Array Selection page select one of the arrays from the list This is the array to which you want to allocate the dedicated free disk 5 Click Next The Completi
69. ected to JDB1 Optional Connected to JUSB1 JUSB2 or JUSB3 the USB pinheader in YELLOW color LEDs D Bracket 2 is an external USB bracket integrating four Diagnostic LEDs which use graphic signal display to help users understand their system The LEDs provide up to 16 combinations of signals to debug the system The 4 LEDs can debug all problems that fail the system such as VGA RAM or other failures This special feature is very useful for the overclocking users These users can use the feature to detect if there are any problems or failures D Bracket 2 supports both USB 1 1 amp 2 0 specification D Bracket 2 Red C Green D Bracket 2 Description System Power ON The D LED will hang here if the processor is damaged or not installed properly Early Chipset Initialization Memory Detection Test Testing onboard memory size The D LED will hang if the memory module is damaged or not installed properly 2 22 Hardware Setup Decompressing BIOS image to RAM for fast booting Initializing Keyboard Controller Testing VGA BIOS This will start writing VGA sign on message to the screen Processor Initialization This will show information regarding the processor like brand name system bus etc Testing RTC Real Time Clock Initializing Video Interface This will start detecting CPU clock checking type of video onboard Then detect and initialize the video adapter BIOS Sign On T
70. efault VID which is detected by system Setting options are Startup 0 825V 0 850V 0 875V 1 550V CPU Voltage This feature allows you to trim the voltage of CPU Memory Voltage Adjusting the DDR voltage can increase the DDR speed Any changes made to this setting may cause a Stability issue so changing the DDR voltage for long term purpose is NOT recommended NF4 Voltage NF4 voltage is adjustable in the field MSI Reminds You The settings shown in different color in CPU Voltage Memory Volt age and NF4 Voltage help to verify if your setting is proper for your system Gray Default setting Yellow High performance setting Red Not recommended setting and the system may be unstable Changing CPU Voltage Memory Voltage and NF4 Voltage may result in the instability of the system therefore it is NOT recom mended to change the default setting for long term usage 3 25 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard The two options on the main menu allow users to restore all of the BIOS settings to the default Fail Safe or Optimized values The Optimized Defaults are the default values set by the mainboard manufacturer specifically for optimal performance of the mainboard The Fail Safe Defaults are the default values set by the BIOS vendor for stable system performance When you select Load Fail Safe Defaults a message as below appears Load Fail Safe Defaults Y H H Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values fo
71. el Port ECP mode 13 1 AAA 25 14 Pin Definition PN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION STROBE Strobe DATAO Data0 DATA1 Data1 DATA2 Data2 DATA3 Data3 DATA4 Data4 DATA5 Data5 DATA6 Data6 DATA7 Data7 ACK Acknowledge BUSY Busy PE PaperEnd SELECT Select AUTO FEED AutomaticFeed ERR Error INIT Initialize Printer SLIN Select In GND Ground GND Ground GND Ground GND Ground GND Ground GND Ground GND Ground GND Ground OMAN Oa AUO N 2 15 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard The mainboard provides connectors to connect to FDD IDE HDD case LAN USB Ports IR module and CPU System FAN Floppy Disk Drive Connector FDD1 The mainboard provides a standard floppy disk drive connector that supports 360K 720K 1 2M 1 44M and 2 88M floppy disk types Oooad0aqaa FDD1 pgogooooo000o000 0 p oooooo m O Fan Power Connectors C FAN1 S FAN1 S FAN2 NB_FAN1 The C_FAN1 processor fan S_FAN1 system fan 1 S_FAN2 system fan 2 and NB_FAN1 NorthBridge Chipset fan support system cooling fan with 12V It supports three pin head connector When connecting the wire to the connectors always take note that the red wire is the positive and should be connected to the 12V the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND If the mainboard has a System Hardware Monitor chipset on board you must use a specially de signed fan with speed sensor to take advantage of the CPU fan control
72. elect Concatenation size with T and keys 5 After the Concatenation size is set the message Are You Sure will display before completing the configuration Answer N to abort the creation of the Concatenation or Y to proceed with the Concatenation creation Deleting RAID Groups Spare Drive and Concatenation 1 To remove one or more RAID sets spare drives and Concatenation select Delete RAID set 2 Select the desired item to delete from the logical drive list and press Enter 3 Press Y when asked Are You Sure 4 The drives will be returned to the selection of logical drives from which a new RAID set can be created RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Create RAID Set Delect RAID Set Rebuild RAID Set Resolve Conflicts Press En ter to sele ct aRAIDset Low L evel Form at Logical Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580VLSASO 1 HD5S722580VLSASO Sil Raid 0 Set Lt Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Rebuild RAID 1 Set This menu selection is used to initiate the copying of data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that has been installed in a RAID 1 set after the failure of one of the members 1 Select Rebuild RAID 1 set 2 Select the desired set and press Enter 3 Press Y when asked Are You Sure 4
73. elect Ctrl E Exit Main Menu The Main Menu in the upper left corner is used to choose the operation to be performed The selections are Create RAID set Delete RAID set Rebuild RAID 1 set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info 7 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Create RAID set is used to create a new legacy RAID Set or for allocating legacy spare drives Delete RAID setis used to delete a legacy RAID Set or to deallocate a legacy spare drive Rebuild RAID 1 Set is used to initiate the rebuild of a RAID 1 set after for example a drive in the Group has been replaced Resolve Conflicts is used to automatically find the member drives of a RAID set which has been disrupted physical drives swapped around for example and restore the Set to proper operation Low Level Format allows a single drive to have its data completely wiped out Drives assigned to Sets or allocated as spares cannot be low level formatted Logical Drive Info shows the current configuration of each RAID set allocated spare and unallocated physical drive attached to the SATA host adapter These operations are detailed in the pages that follow Help Window This window displays context sensitive help and status messages Physical Drive Information This window displays the model number and capacities of the drives physically attached to the SATA host adapter Logical Drive Information This window displays all logical drives
74. elp window and for user s response before changing the default size RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Create RAID Set Delect RAID Set Rebuild RAID Set Resolve Conflicts This set size has reached reserved size If you want to contin ue to increase the set size you may destroy Low L evel Format the data onthe disk Logical Drive Info Are you sure you want to increase the size Y N Please input the raid size GB PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE 0 HDS722580VLSA80 Sil Raid 1 Set 1_ HDS722580VLSASO Reserved drives LT Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 7 12 Silicon RAID Introduction Pg Installing the RAID Driver For bootable RAID array Install Driver in Windows XP 2000 U New Windows XP 2000 Installation The following details the installation of the drivers while installing Windows XP 2000 1 Start the installation Boot from the CD ROM Press F6 when the message Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI or RAID driver appears When the Windows XP 2000 Setup window is generated press lt S gt key to specify an Additional Device s Insert the driver diskette Silicon Image RAID Driver For Win2K XP driver into drive A and press lt Enter gt MSI Reminds You The Silicon Image Sil 3132 SATARAID Driver Installation Disk should be accompanied in the mainboard package You may make th
75. er Button Function This feature sets the function of the power button Settings are Power Off The power button functions as normal power off button Suspend When you press the power button the computer enters the suspend sleep mode but if the button is pressed for more than four seconds the computer is turned off Restore On AC Power Loss This item specifies whether your system will reboot after a power failure or interrupt occurs Available settings are Off Always leaves the computer in the power off state On Always leaves the computer in the power on state Last State Restores the system to the status before power failure or interrupt occurred Wake Up Event Activity Press lt Enter gt and the following sub menu appears Phoenix fwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility Wake Up Event Setup Resume 3 by PS2 Kevboard Disabled Resume 3 by PS HMouse Disabled Resume By PCI Device PHE Disabled Henu Level Pb Resume By RIC Alarm Disabled Resume S3 by PS2 Keyboard Resume S3 by PS2 Mouse These fields allow the activity of the PS2 keyboard and mouse to wake up the system from S3 sleep state Settings Enabled Disabled Resume By PCI Device PME When set to Enabled the feature allows your system to be awakened from the power saving modes through any event on PME Power Management Event Settings Enabled Disabled Resume By RTC Alarm The field is used to enable or disable the feature of booting up the s
76. et Delect RAID Set Rebuild RAIDSet Resolve Conflicts Press T 4 for logical drive information or press ESC to exit Low L evel Format Logical Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O HDS722580V LSAS0 Sil Raid 1 Set 1_ HDS722580VLSAS0 ej LT Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 7 11 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Reserved Drive and Setting Size for RAID Set Spare Drive or Concatenation Once a physical drive has been used to create a RAID set spare drive or Concatenation by BIOS utility BIOS saves user selected set or drive size in the reserved area of the physical drive There is no way to remove the reserved area information even after the user deletes the set or drive For this reason after a set or drive is deleted BIOS recognizes the physical drive as a reserved logical drive and it will not report the drive to the system BIOS When user selects to create a RAID set spare drive or Concatenation he or she has to select size for the set or drive BIOS will set a default size for it and user can use the and keys to change the size If the physical drive has never been used to create a set or drive by the BIOS before the full size of the physical drive will be set as default size Otherwise BIOS will set default size to the size it saved in the reserved area of the physical drive before If the user wants to increase the default size BIOS will display a warning message in the h
77. f 0 5ns The controller needs to know when to enbale its DQS receiver in anticipation of the DRAM DQS driver truning on for a read The controller will disable its DQS receiver until the read preamble time and then enable its DQS receiver while the DRAM asserts DQS Setting options 2ns 2 5ns 3ns 3 5ns 4ns 4 5ns 5ns 5 5ns 6ns 6 5ns 7ns 7 5ns 8ns 8 5ns 9ns 9 5ns Async Latency value When the User Config mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This field should be loaded with 4 bit value equal to th e maximum asynchronous latency in the DRAM read round trip loop Setting options 2ns 3ns 4ns 5ns 6ns 7ns 8ns 9ns 10ns 11ns S W 8 H W memory hole Remapping This field enables software hardware to remap the physical memory to the address higher than OOEO This item only activities in 64 bit OS Setting options Disabled Enabled MTRR Mapping Mode This field allows you to control the MTRR mapping Mode Setting options Disabled Continuous Aggressive timing This item allows you to enable or disable the memory clock When Enabled is selected the timing delay of memory will be shorten to increase the performance Setting options Enabled Disabled Dynamic Overclocking Dynamic Overclocking Technology is the automatic overclocking function included in the MSI s newly developed CoreCell Technology It is designed to detect the load b
78. f WEP keys which can be 5 characters 10 hex adecimal digital or 13 characters 26 hex adecimal digital and specify one of them to use Ad hoc Mode An Ad hoc network is a local area network or other small network especially one with wireless or temporary plug in connections in which some of the network devices are part of the network only for the duration of a communi cations session Users in the network can share files print to a shared printer and access the Internet with a shared modem In this kind of network new devices can be quickly added however users can only communicate with other wireless LAN computers that are in this wireless LAN workgroup and are within range Infrastructure Mode The difference between Infrastructure network and Ad hoc network is that the former one includes an Access Point In an Infrastructure network the Access Point can manage the bandwidth to maximize bandwidth utilization Additionally the Access Point enables users on a wireless LAN to access an existing wired network allowing wireless users to take advantage of the wired networks resources such as Internet email file transfer and printer sharing The scale and range of the Infrastructure networking are larger and wider than that of the Ad hoc networking Introduction to DigiCell Access Point Mode Click on Setting button of the Access Point Mode and the following screen will display Access Point Mode p T 9 No MAC Ad
79. ff states and the power code is plugged while installing modules Due to several pins are very sensitive to ESD so this kind of memory replacement actions might cause system chipset unable to boot Please follow the following solution to avoid this situation Unplug the AC power cable shown in figure 1 or unplug the JPWR1 8 JPWR2 power connectors shown in figure 2 amp figure 3 before the 1st installation or during system upgrade procedure Figure 1 Unplug the AC power cable Figure 2 Figure 3 Unplug the JPWR1 power conn 9 Unplug the JPWR2 power conn MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Back Panel The back panel provides the following connectors Parallel LAN L In RS Out m mnt gt o ee o e Keyboard COM Port 1394 Port ee USB Ports Coaxial L Out CS Out Mic SPDIF Out Optical Mouse Connector Green Keyboard Connector Purple The mainboard provides a standard PS 2 mouse keyboard mini DIN connector for attaching a PS 2 mouse keyboard You can plug a PS 2 mouse keyboard directly into this connector The connector location and pin assignments are as follows Pin Definition MEN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION Mouse Keyboard Data Mouse Keyboard data NC Noconnection GND Ground VCC 5V PS 2 Mouse Keyboard Mouse KeyboardClock
80. han nel Line Out connector 4 Channel Analog Audio Output Line In Side Surround Out Side channels but not function on this mode Line Out Front channels MIC Line Out Rear channels Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel but no functioning in this mode S PDIF Out Optical S PDIF Out Coaxial INI lo e e fe bedi 5 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard n 6 Channel Mode for 6 Speaker Output 6 Channel Analog Audio Output 5 4 N le e Es fe bel Description Connect two speakers to back panel s Line Out connector two speakers to the rear channel and two speakers to the cen ter subwoofer channel Line Out connectors Line In Side Surround Out Side channels but not function on this mode Line Out Front channels MIC Line Out Rear channels Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel S PDIF Out Optical S PDIF Out Coaxial Introduction to Creative sound Blaster n 8 Channel Mode for 8 Speaker Output Description Connect two speakers to back panel s Line Out connector two speakers to the rear channel two speakers to the center subwoofer channel Line Out connectors and two speakers to the side channel Line Out 8 Channel Analog Audio Output connectors Line In Side Surround Out Side channels Line Out Front channels MIC Line Out Rear channels but no functioning in this mode Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel but no functioning in
81. he array Entering the RAID BIOS Setup 1 Press F10 and the NVIDIA RAID After rebooting your PC wait until RAID Mode Ir Striping Block OZ you see the RAID software prompting you to press F10 The EZTS Array Disks RAID prompt appears as part of aiaiai ee the system POST and boot process prior to loading the OS Utility Define a New Array win Al The default RAID Mode is set to Mirroring and Striping Block is set to Optimal 6 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Understanding the Define a New Array Window Use the Define a New Array window to e Select the RAID Mode e Set up the Striping Block e Specify which disks to use for the RAID Array Depending on the platform used the system can have one or more channels In a typical system there is usually one controller and multiple channels and each chan nel has a slave and a master The channel controller master slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc location columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists 1 0 M M Master S Slave Controller Channel Typically channel 0 is used for Parallel ATA drivers whil channel 1 is used for Serial ATA drives In the example above 1 0 M means the hard drive is attached to Channel 1 Controller 0 and the drive is set to Master The following is a list of all possible combinations Parallel ATA 0 0 M Channel 0 controller 0 Master 0 0 S Channel 0 controller 0 Slave 0 1 M Channel 0
82. he opening that could damage or cause electrical shock 11 If any of the following situations arises get the equipment checked by a service personnel The power cord or plug is damaged Liquid has penetrated into the equipment The equipment has been exposed to moisture The equipment has not work well or you can not get it work according to User s Manual The equipment has dropped and damaged The equipment has obvious sign of breakage 12 Do not leave this equipment in an environment unconditioned storage temperature above 60 C 140 F it may damage the equipment O cc CCCC CAUTION Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced Replace only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer F 3 For better environmental protection waste batteries should be Lt collected separately for recycling or special disposal he EL E 1V CONTENTS FCC B Radio Frequency Interference Statement oooooooooccccccccccnnnnonnnoncnnncncnnnnnnnnnnann noo jii Copyright NOICE a A A ee ii Revision AUSTRIA AAA AAA a jii Salety INS tuClOnS a ii E AAA AAA AAA iv Technical SUD DOR siria asias iv Chapter 1 Getting Sta ducati 1 1 Mainboard Specifications arira a aaa 1 2 Malnboatda Lao tail iii 1 5 PAKO COMENTS a 1 6 Chapter 2 Hardware Sello aaa 2 1 Quick Components Guid 6 ticas 2 2 Gentral Processing Unit CPU a A AAA AA 2 3 CPU Installation Procedures for Socket 939 oooocconncccccoccccccnccnccccn
83. his will start showing information about logo proces sor brand name etc Testing Base and Extended Memory Testing base memory from 240K to 640K and extended memory above 1MB using various patterns Assign Resources to all ISA Initializing Hard Drive Controller This will initialize IDE drive and controller 2 23 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Initializing Floppy Drive Controller This will initialize Floppy Drive and controller Boot Attempt This will set low stack and boot via INT 19h Operating System Booting NV SLI Scalable Link Interface Connector PCI_E4 NVIDIA SLI Scalable Link Interface technology allows two GPUs to run in tandem within a system to achieve up to twice the performance of a single graphics card To utilize this technology the two GPU cards must be connected by an SLI bridge card You can find an SLI switch card on the mainboard configured to non SLI mode by default fig 1 gt YI aniic sard SLI Switch Card SLI Bridge Card non SLI mode s 44411 a PII See HALAL Fig 1 If you intend to use the SLI interface for better graphics performance please refer to the following instructions 1 Turn the latch either right or left to loosen the SLI switch card refer to fig 2 u ng E Turn the latch 10 AC e loosen the card Fig 2 MSI Reminds You Make sure that you power off the system before removing the SLI switch card 2 24 Hardware Setup 2 Remove
84. kes to read from and write to a memory cell Setting options Auto 5T 6T 7T 8T 9T 10T 11T 12T 13T 14T 15 T RAS to CASH delay Trcd When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable When DRAM is refreshed both rows and columns are addressed separately This setup item allows you to determine the timing of the transition from RAS row address strobe to CAS column address strobe The less the clock cycles the faster the DRAM performance Setting options Auto 2T 3T 4T 5T 6T 7T Row Precharge Time Trp When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This item controls the number of cycles for Row Address Strobe RAS to be allowed to precharge If insufficient time is allowed for the RAS to accumulate its charge before DRAM refresh refreshing may be incomplete and DRAM may fail to retain data This item applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system Available settings Auto 2T 3T 4T 5T 6T 7T Row to Row delay Trrd When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable Specifies the active to active delay of different banks Available settings Auto 2T 3T 4T Row cycle time Trc When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable The row cycle time determines the minimum number of clock cycles a memory row takes to complete a full cycle from row activation up to the prechargi
85. l IDE Devices Quick Guide User s Guide 1 6 Hardware Setup This chapter tells you how to install the CPU memory modules and expansion cards as well as how to setup the jumpers on the mainboard Also it provides the instructions on connecting the periph eral devices such as the mouse keyboard etc While doing the installation be careful in holding the compo nents and follow the installation procedures MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Quick Components Guide CPU p 2 3 S_FAN1 p 2 16 DDR DIMMs p 2 7 C_FAN1 JPWR2 p 2 16 p 2 10 mm ge _J CI 1 p 2 17 Be J1R1 p 2 20 Back Panel I O p 2 12 E EH Es FDD1 p 2 16 lt Lek JPWR1 p 2 10 JCD1 p 2 18 COFI IDEN 2 p 2 17 oo oa 4 PCI_ E1 p 2 28 _ PCI_E4 o Cle SWI a EC E UT ED Vee eee ANNAN ANNAN
86. l Computer Memory Card International Association Revision History Revision Revision History Date V1 0 First release for PCB 1 X Dec 2004 with nVIDIA nForce4 SLI 111 Technical Support If a problem arises with your system and no solution can be obtained from the user s manual please contact your place of purchase or local distributor Alternatively please try the following help resources for further guidance U Visit the MSI homepage amp FAQ site for technical guide BIOS updates driver updates and other information http www msi com tw amp http www msi com tw program service faq faq esc_faq_list php U Contact our technical staff at support msi com tw Safety Instructions 1 Always read the safety instructions carefully 2 Keep this User s Manual for future reference 3 Keep this equipment away from humidity 4 Lay this equipment on a reliable flat surface before setting it up 5 The openings on the enclosure are for air convection hence protects the equip ment from overheating Do not cover the openings 6 Make sure the voltage of the power source and adjust properly 110 220V be fore connecting the equipment to the power inlet 7 Place the power cord such a way that people can not step on it Do not place anything over the power cord Always Unplug the Power Cord before inserting any add on card or module All cautions and warnings on the equipment should be noted O Never pour any liquid into t
87. load support for the following mss storage device NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows Including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer press S Hf you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufaturer or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows press ENTER S Specify Additional Devices ENTER Continue F3 Exit 4 Press Enter to continue with Windows XP Installation Be sure to leave the floppy disk inserted in the floppy drive until the blue screen portion of Windows XP installation is completed then take out the floppy 5 Follow the instructions on how to install Windows XP During the GUI portion of the install you might be prompted to click Yes to install the RAID driver Click Yes as many times as needed in order to finish the installation This will not be an issue with a signed driver MSI Reminds You Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array the RAID driver will have to be installed under Windows once for that hard drive After that the driver will not have to be installed 6 8 nVIDIA RAID Introduction NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software Under Windows for Non bootable RAID Array The existing Windows IDE Parallel ATA driver
88. located in Association Control List can connect to the wireless LAN MAC Address MAC stands for Media Access Control A MAC address is the hardware address of a device connected to a network Security This option allows you to enable disable the authentication function Authentication Open Communicates the key across the network Shared Devices must have identical WEP settings to communicate WLAN Card Mode Click on Setting button of the WLAN Card Mode for the WEP status of your APs If the AP you are selecting the highlighted one is not encrypted Disabled shown in the Encryption column the screen will display as below You can click Connect to make connection to that AP click Cancel to close this dialogue box or click Refresh button to update the available WLAN connections WLAN Card Mode a a ED Channel RG54G 7 85 Open Disabled If the network you are selecting is encrypted WEP shown in the Encryption column the screen will display as below You need to enter the correct WEP key defined by AP in the specified WEP Key 1 4 fields to make the connection WLAN Card Mode 4 8 Introduction to DigiCell Live Update Click on the Live Update icon in the main menu and the Live Update program will be enabled The Live Update 3 is a tool used to detect and update your BlOS drivers VGA BIOS VGA Driver OSD Utility online so that you don t need to search for the correct BIOS driver
89. m 3 CA Effects y Karaoke cms 3D Audio Clean up enables the removal of unwanted noises like clicks and TA ou z al audio File or audio From external sources W Enable Audio Clean up Audio Source Media Files r Hiss Removal Original Hiss Level er gt Click Removal Click Meter e jo Ti T m Time Scaling Varying the speed of playback Karaoke fans and musicians may sometimes wish to slow a song down or speed it up to catch the lyrics or play along with the music However varying the speed usually also varies the pitch of the song With the Time Scaling feature Sound Blaster Live 24 bit users can maintain the pitch of a song while varying the playback speed o BEYA consoLe Sound Blaster Live 24 bit Zal X 4 gt Karaoke E CM55 3D cx Clean up Gh Time Scaling Time Scaling allows the user to speed up or slow down music without changing the pitch for WAY MP3 Audio CD and VCD V Enable Time Scaling Scale Factor 1 00 h Original Speed TEE For more information and usage details on EAX ADVANCED HD refer to the Creative EAX online Help 5 16 Introduction to Creative sound Blaster GRAPHIC EQUALIZER Click on the player icon to enter its configuration screen nc MAA Creative Graphic Equalizer EQ is designed to improve and fine tune the audio quality of your playback You have to check the Enabled Equalizer item to enable the configuraion mean Just selec
90. manufacturer press if you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufaturer or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows press ENTER S Specify Additional Devices ENTER Continue F3 Exit 3 Specify the NVIDIA drivers 1 Insert the floppy that has the RAID driver press S then press Enter The Windows Setup screen appears as below Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCS Adapter for use with Windows using a device support disk provided by an adaptar manufacturar Select the SCSI Adaptar you want from the following list or press ESC to resutrn to the previous screen RHE nee sE Loci Enter Select MSI Reminds You Please follow the instruction below to make an nVIDIA Serial ATA RAID driver for yourself 1 Insert the MSI CD into the CD ROM drive 2 Ignore the Setup screen and use Explorer to browse the CD 3 Copy all the contents including the sub folders in the nVidia System CK804 IDE Win2k XP to a formatted floppy disk 4 The driver disk for nVIDIA Serial ATA driver is done SS 1 lt Msi 2 Select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER and then press Enter 3 Press S again at the Specify Devices screen then press Enter 4 Select NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller and then press Enter The follow ing Windows Setup screen appears listing both drivers 6 7 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Windows Setup Setup will
91. n Detect Disabled Smart CPU Fan Target Disabled PE Health Status Press Enter Henu Level b thezHove Enter Select 4 2 2PU PD Value Fil ave E C Exit Fi General Help F5 Previous Values FF Optimized Defaults Chassis Intrusion Detect The field enables or disables the feature of recording the chassis intrusion status and issuing a warning message if the chassis is once opened To clear the warning message set the field to Reset The setting of the field will automatically return to Enabled later Setting options Enabled Reset Disabled Smart CPU Fan Target There are 2 pairs of Temperature FAN Speed control System Temperature with System Fan and CPU Temperature with CPU Fan W83627THF provides the Smart Fan system which can control the fan speed automatically depending on the current temperature to keep it with in a specific range Settings 40 C 104 F 40 C 104 F 40 C 104 F Disabled PC Health Status Press lt Enter gt and the following sub menu appears Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility PE Health Status Current CPU Temperature SYSTEH Fan Speed Henu Level Pb CPU Fan Speed Morthbridge FAH Speed Vcore 4 30 12 0 5 04 Battery 558 Current System CPU Temperature System Fan CPU Fan Speed Vcore 12 0V 3 3V 5 0V Battery 5VSB These items display the current status of all of the monitored hardware de vices components such as CPU voltage temperatures and all fans speeds
92. nananannnos 2 4 Installing AMD Athlon64 Athlon64 FX CPU Cooler Set cocaooccocccicicacanananano 2 5 MEMO ii A AAA AA Ad 2 7 Introduction to DDA SSDRAM viii ii AA A AAA 2 7 DIMM Module Combination cccccccnnnnnnnncnccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnenenenininnns 2 7 Recommended Memory Combination LiSt cccccnnnnncnncnnnnnnnnnnnnininininnns 2 8 Installing DDR Modules siii ta 2 9 POWE SUPIERA AA AAA AAA AAA 2 10 ATX 24 Pin Power Connector JPWR1 cccccccccccncnccccccncnnnonannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 2 10 ATX 12V Power Connector JPWR2 cocccccccccicccnccccccccconononcnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 2 10 Important Notification about Power ISSUE ccccccccccccccccccnnnncnnnnnnnonininononos 2 11 BACK Panel AAA ooo A ates sane E E A E A 2 12 Mouse Connector Green Keyboard Connector Purple 2 12 IEEE TS94 Por tnd ence E 2 12 Serial Port COMEC IOT cunsioiccia iii aa 2 13 WSB COMECIONS orname gE EA AAN 2 13 LAAN R28 ACK iii 2 14 Avdio POR CONNECTIONS a AAA 2 14 Parallel Port Connector LPT Taranii a aa 2 15 CONNECIOS A 2 16 Floppy Disk Drive Connector FDD1 ccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeseeeeeeess 2 16 Fan Power Connectors C_FAN1 S FAN1 S FAN2 NB_FAN1 2 16 Hard Disk Connectors IDE1 IDE2 oocccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnininininons 2 17 Chassis Intrusion Switch Connector JCI occcccccncnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnononoss 2 17 Serial ATA Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled
93. nd VCDs which contain only stereo soundtracks or listening to CDs with two channel audio To enable the CMSS 3D configuration mean by check the Enable CMSS 3D item Then you can select CMSS for multichannel audio enhancement on 4 4 1 5 1 6 1 or 7 1 speaker systems and CMSS 2 for movies SEAS CONSOLE Sound Blaster Live 24 bit Palw x ADVANCED I CA Effects CM55 3D provides several different modes For 3D Sarceda ria st enha headphones or multichannel speakers lv Enable CM55 3D 0 CMISS Classic 3D upmix effect Ideal for audio CDs WMAs MP3s and other stereo audio sources Stereo Surround In multi speaker setups the stereo signal is played over each speaker pair stereo x2 or stereo x3 MSI Reminds You For a 4 4 1 speaker system audio for your subwoofer is processed by the speaker system Audio Clean up Removing noise and distortion First you have to check the Enabled Audio Clean up item to enable its configuration mean Audio Clean up allows you to process prerecorded as well as real time audio in order to remove noise click sounds and other artifacts For example when recording music from old vinyl records click and pop sounds can be removed with the Clean up feature The Click Meter informs you whenever the noise clean up feature is activated during recording and also how many clicks are removed MS 7100 ATX Mainboard de Sound Blaster Live 24 bit l a
94. nel separately Settings Enabled Disabled OnChip IDE Channel 1 The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Choose Enabled to activate each channel separately Settings Enabled Disabled IDE DMA Transfer Access This item is used to enable or disable the DMA transfer function of the IDE Hard Drive The settings are Enabled Disabled SATA1 SATA2 amp SATA3 SATA4 This item is used to enable or disable onchip SATA controller The settings are Enabled Disabled nVidiaRAID Config Press lt Enter gt to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility nYidia RAID Config Henu Level Pb RAID Enabled This item is used to enable disable the onchip RAID function When you set to enable and the following fields will be selectabled Setting options Enabled Disabled IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave RAID This feature allows users to enable or disable the RAID function for each IDE hard disk drive Settings Enabled Disabled SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 RAID This feature allows users to enable or disable the RAID function for each onchip SATA hard disk drive The settings are Enabled Disabled BIOS Setup Phoenix AwardBIO CHOS Setup Utility Power Management Setup ACPI Standby State S1 P08 Video Off Method LOPHS Support Power Button Function Hi F Restore On AC Power Loss Wake U
95. next power on schedule and the system will start to count down to restart Click OK to restart the computer right away or click Later to restart your computer later MSI Reminds You Please note that the new setting will not take effect until you restart your computer 4 16 Introduction to DigiCell Power Off Restart You may configure the time in the format hh mm ss for the next power off restart Start With Use the button Add to add the start up programs as DigiCell is activated next time For example you may like to have Outlook activated or a specified website linked when you get to the office every morning Browse ACDSEE6 CORELDRW EXCEL IEXPLORE Step 1 Click on the Program field and click gt gt add the desired start pepe button to browse for the path of Outlook or with program MSGPLUS MSPAINT Internet Explorer PHOTOSHP Step 2 Click on OK to apply the setting Sie Step 3 For specified file or specified website you WINRAR may enter the file name with the complete WORDPAD path or the website link in the Parameters field To activate Outlook as DigiCell To activate a specified website is enabled nexttime as DigiC ell is enabled nexttime Of course you may use the button Delete to remove the added programs or you can right click on the selected program and click Delete Power On delete the added program MSI Remind
96. ng of the active row Available settings Auto 2T 3T 4T Row refresh cyc time Trfc When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable Auto refresh active to RAS active or RAS auto refresh Available settings Auto 9T 10T 24T 3 21 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard 3 22 Read to Write delay Trwt When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This is not a DRAM specified timing parameter but must be considered due to routing laten cies on the clock forwarded bus It is counted from the first address bus slot that was not associated with part of the read burst Available settings Auto 1T 2T 3T 4T 5T 6T Write recovery time Twr When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable It specifies the amount of delay in clock cycles that must elapse after the completion of a valid write operation before an active bank can be precharged This delay is required to guarantee that data in the write buffers can be written to the memory cells before precharge occurs Available settings Auto 2T 3T Write to Read delay Twtr When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This item controls the Write Data In to Read Command Delay memory timing This consti tutes the minimum number of clock cycles that must occur between the last valid write operation and the next read command to the same internal bank of the DDR device Availabl
97. ng the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation page appears M IDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard Completing the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation Wizard You have successfully completed the NWICIA Spore Disk Mlocation Wizard You have chosen to alocata STI600 154 As a Spare Disk for the folkvang RAID array NVIDIA MIRROR 55 896 To chose the vazand chek First 6 Click Finish As shown in figure below the ST380023AS drive is now a dedicated free disk in the mirrored array If a system crash occurs that causes any of the two ST360015A drives to fail the ST380023AS hard drive will take over and be used in the newly formed mirrored array Eo II ee Sistem ies STIGONISA Healthy 55 9068 Secondary Master Nome Stabs Caney Channel Device selning Healthy 55 90 48 as STIGO0154 Healthy 55 9948 Secondary Slave ies 5T360023A5 Healthy 74 5368 Primary Master Detail i Once a dedicated disk has been assigned to a particular array it can be removed at any time To remove the disk right click on the dedicated disk and select the option to remove it 6 16 Method 2 Select an array and nVIDIA RAID Introduction then assign a free disk to it 1 Right click on the array to which you want to assign a dedicated free disk The pop up menu appears f System Tas MWIDIA Spare Di Free Disk Selection a nvipra nv raid Por Syste lt Nome Status Capadty channel Devke 1 i nate remen
98. nstall All the components shown here will be selected to be installed by default Then click Next NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers Select Components Choose the components Setup will install NVIDIA GART Driver _ p Description NVIDIA SMBus Driver NVIDIA Ethernet Driver NWIDIA IDE Driver Space Required on C 2350 K Space Available on C 17348096 K lt Back Next gt Cancel The system will start installing the selected driver components automatically Installing system management bus driver components a 18 Cancel Then the following screen displays the information for the NVIDIA IDE SW Driver installation Click Next to continue NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers NVIDIA IDE SW Driver Information Please review the below information about the NVIDIA IDE SW driver NVIDIA IDE SW Driver Information The NWIDIA IDE SW driver replaces the ATA drivers that come with Windows with drivers that are optimized for nForce2 based desktop computers The NVIDIA IDE SW driver reduces the storage sub system bottleneck enabling the processor and other system level hardware to be more productive and efficient In most cases the NVIDIA IDE SW driver is not a requirement for your operating system to work properly 43 T E B Next gt Cancel 8 3 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard 5 Then the following screen displays the installation of NVIDIA IDE SW Driver Click Yes to continue Install NVIDIA IDE SW
99. o GND 9 RSVD_DNU Reserved Do not use JFP2 Pin Definition Speaker KEN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL Front USB Connectors JUSB1 JUSB2 JUSB3 The mainboard provides three standard USB 2 0 pin headers JUSB1 amp JUSB2 8 JUSB3 USB 2 0 technology increases data transfer rate up to a maximum throughput of 480Mbps which is 40 times faster than USB 1 1 and is ideal for connecting high speed USB interface peripherals such as USB HDD digital cameras MP3 players printers modems and the like JUSB1 8 JUSB2 8 JUSB3 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 2 9 oo 0 o j 10 VCC USBO USBO JUSB1 JUSB2 JUSB3 USB 2 0 GND Key no pin Connected to JUSB1 JUSB2 or JUSB3 the USB pinheader in YELLOW color USB 2 0 Bracket x mr MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Front Panel Audio Connector AUD1 The AUD1 front panel audio connector allows you to connect to the front panel audio and is compliant with Intel Front Panel I O Connectivity Design Guide Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION AUD_MIC Front panel microphone input signal AUD_GND Ground used by analog audio circuits AUD_MIC_BIAS Microphone power AUD_VCC Filtered 5V used by analog audio circuits AUD_FPOUT_R Right channel audio signal to front panel AUD_RET_R Right channel audio signal return from front panel HP_ON Reserved for future use to control headphone amplifier KEY No pin AUD_FPOUT_L Left channel audio signal to frontpanel AUD_RET_L Left
100. o select Manual None or Auto type Note that the specifications of your drive must match with the drive table The hard disk will not work properly if you enter improper information for this category If your hard disk drive type is not matched or listed you can use Manual to define your own drive type manually If you select Manual related information is asked to be entered to the following items Enter the information directly from the keyboard This information should be provided in the documentation from your hard disk vendor or the system manufacturer 3 6 Access Mode Capacity Cylinder Head Precomp Landing Zone Sector BIOS Setup The settings are CHS LBA Large Auto The formatted size of the storage device Number of cylinders Number of heads Write precompensation Cylinder location of the landing zone Number of sectors MSI Reminds You IDE Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Master are appearing when you connect the HD devices to the SATA connector on the mainboard Drive A This item allows you to set the type of floppy drive installed Available options None 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in Halt On The setting determines whether the system will stop if an error is detected at boot Available options are All Errors No Errors All But Keyboard All But Diskette All But Disk Key System Information The system st
101. o set up then press Enter The Array Detail window appears Array 2 NVIDIA MIRROR 74 566 Array Detail RAID Mode Mirroring Striping Width 1 Striping Block 32K Adapt Channel MS index Disk Model Name Capacity 74 566B R Rebuld D Delete C Clear Disk Enter Return 4 If you want to mark this disk as empty and wipe out all its contents then press C 5 At the prompt press Y to wipe out all the data otherwise press N 6 Press Enter again to go back to the previous window and then press F10 to exit the RAID setup Now that the RAID setup has been configured from the RAID BIOS the next step is to configure and load NVRAID drivers under Windows as ex plained in Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software Under Windows on p6 9 6 6 nVIDIA RAID Introduction Installing the RAID Driver for bootable RAID Array 1 After you complete the RAID BIOS setup boot from the Windows CD and the Windows Setup program starts 2 Press F6 and wait for the Windows Setup screen to appear Windows Setup Satup could not determina the type of one or mora mass storage devices installed in your system or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter Currently Setup will load support for the following mass storage davice s lt none gt To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device
102. o the Array Disks block by pressing the right arrow key gt The first disk in the list is moved and the next disk in the list is selected and ready to be moved 3 Continue pressing the right arrow key lt until all the disks that you want to use as RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks block NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array AAA Mirroring Striping Block Free Disks Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Loc Disk Model Name E Add 4800235 F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate ey Select ENTER Popup It shows that two disks have been assigned as RAID1 array disks in the figure above 6 5 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Completing the RAID BIOS Setup 1 After assigning your RAID array disks press F7 The Clear disk data prompt appears NVIDIA RAID Utility Define aNew Array Ra moco irony Ee Free Disks Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Model Name Clear disk data YES mno YES IN NO JU EM Del F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate pap Select ENTER Popup 2 Press Y if you want to wipe out all the data from the RAID array otherwise press N You must choose Yes if the drives were previously used as RAID drives The Array List window appears where you can review the RAID arrays that you have set up Array Model Name No 2 Healthy NVIDIA MIRROR 74 536 Ctr X Exit Haji Select B Set Boot N New Array ENTER Detail 3 Use the arrow keys to select the array that you want t
103. on board Super I O chipset that provides Standard ECP and EPP features It has the following options Disabled SBC IRQ7 Line Printer port 0 278 IRQ5 Line Printer port 2 378 IRQ7 Line Printer port 1 Parallel Port Mode SPP Standard Parallel Port EPP Enhanced Parallel Port ECP Extended Capability Port ECP EPP Extended Capability Port Enhanced Parallel Port Normal EPP Mode Select The onboard parallel port is EPP Spec compliant so after the user chooses the onboard parallel port with the EPP function the following message will be displayed on the screen EPP Mode Select At this time either EPP 1 7 spec or EPP 1 9 spec can be chosen ECP Mode Use DMA The ECP mode has to use the DMA channel so choose the onboard parallel port with the ECP feature After selecting it the following message will appear ECP Mode Use DMA At this time the user can choose between DMA channel 3 or 1 IDE Devices Configuration Press lt Enter gt to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility IDE Devices Configuration OnChip IDE Channel0 Enabled OnChip IDE Channel Enabled IDE DMA transfer access Enabled Henu Level bb SATA14SATA2 Enabled SATAI SATA4S Enabled MS 7100 ATX Mainboard OnChip IDE Channel 0 The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Choose Enabled to activate each chan
104. ononnnnnnnnnos 5 6 Installation for Windows 2000 XP occoocccococcccccnnononononononnnnnnncnnnnnnnonononnnnnns 5 6 Soltware CONnTIQUI ALON aaa 5 8 SURROUND MIXER ceranae o E E A EN 5 9 SPEAKER SET TINGS risina G ae di 5 10 MEDIA SOURCE PLAYER uc saana E E E 5 12 ENSGONSOLE uuu 5 13 GRAPHIC EQUALIZER is oia 5 17 Chapter 6 nVidia RAID Introduction mmmmooccccccccnccnnnnnnnnanananccnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnananancnnnos 6 1 HALLO CUIGUOM A AAA AAA AA 6 2 System Requires 6 2 A cece alates ia A A i 6 2 Summary of RAID Configurations cocccccncnccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnos 6 2 RAIDICON IU OW cts tii iii 6 3 Basic Configuration INStrUCtiONS ccccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnninnninos 6 3 Setting Up the NV RAID BIOS iesi ca 6 3 Installing the RAID Driver for Non bootable RAID Array esseere 6 7 NVIDIA RAID Utility instalation iii ii 6 7 Installing the RAID Driver for bootable RAID Array 0 0 0 0 6 9 Initializing and Using the Disk Array oooooooonccncccnncccccnccnnnnannnnnnnnnnnnnononononos 6 10 RAID Drives Management i 6 12 vil Chapter 7 Silicon Image SATARAID5 Introduction ceesssssssseeeeeeees 7 1 TOCINA da id d 7 2 RAID Redundant Array of Independent DISKS ooooooccccccccccccccccoonnnannnnnos 7 2 RAID String iaa 7 2 Peed INORG AAA AA ALE 7 2 JBOD Just Bunch of DISKS inicia 7 2 Creating and Deleting RAID sets with BIOS Utility oc
105. ops when any error is detected The system doesn t stop for any detected error The system doesn t stop for a keyboard error The system doesn t stop for a disk error The system doesn t stop for either a disk or a key board error Press lt Enter gt to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility System Information Item Help CPU Type BIOS Version System Memory Total Memory The items show the CPU type BIOS version and memory status of your system read only MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Phoenix AwardBIO CHOS Setup Utility Advanced BIOS Features Quick Booting Boot To O f 7 Ho IOAPIC Function Enabled Menu Level p HPS Table Version 1 4 Full Screen LOGO Display Enabled fillows the system to t Boot Sequence Press Enter skip certain tests while booting This will decrease the time needed to boot the system He rzHove Enter Select 2 PU PD Value Fil ave ESC Exit Fi beneral Help F5 Previous Values Fi Optimized Defaults Quick Boot Setting the item to Enabled allows the system to boot within 5 seconds since it will skip some check items Available options Enabled Disabled Boot To OS 2 This allows you to run the OS 2 operating system with DRAM larger than 64MB When you choose No you cannot run the OS 2 operating system with DRAM larger than 64MB But it is possible if you choose Yes IOAPIC Function This field is used
106. or many applications RAID 1 RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data RAID 0 1 RAID 0 1 combines the techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays Spanning JBOD JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different sizes into one large disk Summary of RAID Configurations Array Advantages Drawbacks Hard Fault Disks Tolerance RAID 0 Non critical data High data throughput No fault tolerance multiple None requiring high performance Small databases or any 100 data Requires 2 drives for 2 Yes other small capacity redundancy the storage space of 1 environment requiring drive fault tolerance RAID 0 1 Critical data requiring Optimized for both Requires 2 drives for 4 Yes high performance 100 data the storage space of 1 redundancy and drive the same as performance RAID level 1 Allows spare disks JBOD Combining odd size Combines and uses Decreases Multiple No drives into one big drive the capacity of odd performance because size drives of the difficulty in using drives concurrently or to optimize drives for different uses MSI Reminds You Please note that users cannot install OS either WinME or Win98 in lt Msip their SATA hard drive Under these two OSs SATA can not support 6 2 nVIDIA RAID Introduction RAID Configuration Basic Configuration Instructions The following are the basic steps for configuring NVRAID Non Bootable RAID Array 1 2 3 4 Choose the har
107. p Event Setup thi iHove Enter felect PUSPD Yalue FilsSave ESC iExit Fi beneral Help F5 Previous Values F7 Optimized Defaults A MSI Reminds You gt S3 related functions described in this section are available only when your BIOS supports S3 sleep mode ACPI Standby State This item specifies the power saving modes for ACPI function If your operating system supports ACPI such as Windows 98SE Windows ME Windows 2000 and Windows XP you can choose to enter the Standby mode in S1 POS or S3 STR fashion through the setting of this field Options are S1 POS The S1 sleep mode is a low power state In this state no system context is lost CPU or chipset and hardware main tains all system context S3 STR The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where the in formation of system configuration and open applications files is saved to main memory that remains powered while most other hardware components turn off to save energy The information stored in memory will be used to restore the sys tem when a wake up event occurs Video Off Method This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked V H SYNC Blank 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 Support Initial display power management signalling MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Pow
108. peaker Headphone Selection Speaker Test 2 2 1 Speakers x Tl Headphones 2 2 1 Speakers 414 1 Speakers 5 1 Speakers 6 1 Speakers Digital Output Only Channel j Noise mm Designating the number and configuration of speakers to use gt select the speakers type that you conneted Testing your speakers gt click on the Channel or Noise button to test the speakers Activating or deactivating Digital Output gt check the Digital Output Only item to enable the Digital Output only Managing bass output by selecting subwoofer crossover frequency and volume For more information and usage details on Creative Speaker Settings refer to its online Help Introduction to Creative sound Blaster Please follow the steps below if you want to play a 4 5 1 content in a 7 1 speaker system configurtion 1 Choose Start Setting Control Panel View X86 Control Panel Icon for Win XP only Device control and click the Decoder Tab and the screen will shown below FS Device Control 7 ETA EPIA pei7use seo Devote gt You can either set the supported decoder properties or select passthrough mode Decoder Options 5 Use Installed Decoder Ss CT 4 5 Content Speaker Mapping Settings gt o DO PA SPDIF Passthrough Dolby Digital DTS Digital Out Note External decoder is required OK Cancel Apply Help 2 Left click the 4 5 1 Content Sp
109. pears Inilinlize and Convert Dick Wizard Welcome to the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard The vazad helps vou bo neos nsv dicks snd lo comment emply Desc deks to dmamie disks You can wes duran eho create callar bara AAD l hey can b shaped or meene songs mip di Toucan sko mear angle dek ard spanned wolunes without haing to re skart the compuler Site you corsett a dik fo dmamic you can onk use ndo 2000 aed bier verse of Windows on ary woms of tel dirk To comin click Next 3 Click Next The Select Disks to Initialize window appears The disks listed depend on how many arrays you have configured Initialize and Convert Dick Wizard Seleet Disks bo dnitalize fou mus m ide a disk before Logical Disk Manaper can access it Selec ons ar more disks lo riides Imifinlize and Convert isk Wizard Select Ditka to Conve The disks you select wi be correr ed ta dynamic daks Select ons a more disks lo convert 6 10 nVIDIA RAID Introduction 5 Check the disk in the list if you want to make the array a dynamic disk then click Next The Completing the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard window appears Initialize and Convor Disk Wizard Completing the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard You have sucosssiuby completed the Iritaize and Convet Dek Weald You selected the inieaing sefngs Intag Dish 1 Convert Hone To chess thi ward chek Finish s p lt Back Frith cecel
110. pleted restart the system and install the NV SLI driver utility A configuration panel will be provided for Multi GPU control Check the Enable multi GPU box to enable the SLI function for the onboard graphics cards concerning the details of multi GPU settings please refer to your graphics card manual Plug and Play Monitor and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT General Adapter Monitor Troubleshoot Color Management GeForce 6600 GT ae BVIDIA Check the box technology for significant improvements in rendering performance Load balancing will be shown in DirectX and OpenGL applications To learn more click here Restore Defaults 6 Restart your system and a pop up will show in the system tray confirming that Multi GPU has been enabled A Multi GPU has been enabled You may notice one of your displays go blank This will happen only while multi GPU is enabled To learn more click this message MSI Reminds You If you want to remove one graphics card and quit the SLI function make sure that you reset the SLI switch card SLI mode to non SLI mode and disable the MultiGPU function 2 26 Hardware Setup a Button The motherboard provides the following jumpers for you to set the computer s function This section will explain how to change your motherboard s function through the use of button Clear CMOS Button SW1 There is a CMOS RAM on board that has a power supply from external batter
111. r the most stable minimal system performance When you select Load Optimized Defaults a message as below appears Load Optimized Defaults YH H Pressing Y loads the default factory settings for optimal system performance 3 26 BIOS Setup BIOS Setting Password When you select this function a message as below will appear on the screen Type the password up to six characters in length and press lt Enter gt The password typed now will replace any previously set password from CMOS memory You will be prompted to confirm the password Retype the password and press lt Enter gt You may also press lt Esc gt to abort the selection and not enter a password To clear a set password just press lt Enter gt when you are prompted to enter the password A message will show up confirming the password will be disabled Once the password is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup without entering any password When a password has been set you will be prompted to enter it every time you try to enter Setup This prevents an unauthorized person from changing any part of your system configuration 3 27 A gt Introduction to DigiCell DigiCell the most useful and powerful utility that MSI has spent much research and efforts to develop helps users to monitor and configure all the integrated peripherals of the system such as audio program power management MP3 files management and communication 802 11g WLAN
112. reation of the new RAID set or Y to proceed with the RAID set creation 8 RAID sets can be created in both BIOS and in the SATARaid GUI If you have excess Capacity left on your hard drives after creating a RAID set in the BIOS you can later go to the SATARaid GUI to create additional logical drives that fully utilize the capacity on all your hard drives Creating Spare Drive If there is a RAID 1 set spare driver can be created The spare drive can be allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID 1 set 1 To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set Select Create RAID set 2 Select Spare Drive and press Enter 3 Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter 4 Select spare drive size with T and keys 5 After the spare drive size is set the message Are You Sure will display before completing the configuration Answer N to abort the creation of the spare drive or Y to proceed with the spare drive creation 7 6 Silicon RAID Introduction Creating Concatenation Since BIOS no longer reports non RAID drives to the system BIOS if a non RAID boot drive or data drive is desired a Concatenation can be created so BIOS will report it to the system BIOS 1 To create a Concatenation Select Create RAID set 2 Select Concatenation and press Enter 3 Select Concatenation drive from the physical drive list and press Enter 4 S
113. rity Press lt Enter gt to enter the sub menu Then you may use the arrow keys TJ to select the desired device then press lt gt lt gt or lt PageUp gt lt PageDown gt key to move it up down in this hard disk boot priority list 3 9 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Phoenix AwardBIO CHOS Setup Utility Advanced Chipset Features Henu Level ti tMove Enter Select 2 PU PD Value FI0 Sayve ESC Exit Fi beneral Help F5 Previous Values Fi Optimized Defaults SLI Broadcast Aperture Setting options Auto Disabled BIOS Setup Phoenix fiwardBIO CHOS Setup Utility Integrated Peripherals USB Controlller Enabled USB KB Storage Support Enabled nidia HAL LAN Ante Menu Level b nVidia HAC LAN ROM Di Onboard IEEE139h Controller Harvell Gigabit LAH Marvell Gigabit LAH ROH OnBoard CREATIVE AUDIO OnBoard 113132 RAID OnBoard 113132 Mode IZO Device Configuration IDE Devices Configuration nidia RAID Config tile sMove Enter S Select IET Fil ave 5 5 FirGeneral Help F5 Previous Values FF Optimized Defaults USB Controller This setting allows you to enable disable the onboard USB controller Setting options Disabled Enabled USB KB Storage Support Select Enabled if you need to use a USB interfaced keyboard or storage device in the operating system Setting options Enabled Disabled nVidia MAC LAN This setting controls the nVidia LAN controller Setting options Auto Disabled
114. s You You can also enable the Every turn on function which will enable the specified program s and file s every time the Digi Cell utility runs MA y MSI 4 17 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Auto Login Since the Power On function allows the system to power on automatically you may have to enable this Auto Login function in the following situations 1 If you are using a computer belonging to a domain in office and you need to enter your user name password everytime when you boot up your computer 2 If there are multi users using the same computer and you d like to power on the computer automatically with one specific user Enable Auto Login Enable this setting if you want to use the Auto Login feature lt supports the following operating systems Win9X Windows ME Windows 2000 amp Windows XP Default User Name It is only available for Windows 2000 amp Windows XP If you are using a computer belonging to a domain in office please enter your login user name in this field If you are using a computer with multi users for Windows XP operating system please enter the user name you d like to auto power on in this field Default Password It is only available for Windows 2000 amp Windows XP If you are using a computer belonging to a domain in office please enter your login password in this field If you are using a computer with multi users for Windows XP operating system please enter the password for
115. s before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup restart the system by turning it OFF and On or pressing the RESET button You may also restart the system by simultaneously pressing lt Ctrl gt lt Alt gt and lt Delete gt keys Selecting the First Boot Device You are allowed to select the 1st boot device without entering the BIOS setup utility by pressing lt F11 gt When the same message as listed above appears on the screen press lt F11 gt to trigger the boot menu The POST messages might pass by too quickly for you to respond in time If so restart the system and press lt F11 gt after around 2 or 3 seconds to activate the boot menu similar to the following Select First Boot Device Ist Floppy IBM DTLA 307038 ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 40X M Up Dn Select RETURN Boot ESC cancel The boot menu will list all the bootable devices Select the one you want to boot from by using arrow keys then press lt Enter gt The system will boot from the se lected device The selection will not make changes to the settings in the BIOS setup utility so next time when you power on the system it will still use the original first boot device to boot up MSI Reminds You The items under each BIOS category described in this chapter are under continuous update for better system performance Therefore the description may be slightly different from the latest BIOS and should be held for reference only 3 2 BIOS Setup
116. s over a PCI Express x16 lane for graphics controllers while PCI Express x1 supports transfer rate of 250 MB s Oo0000000 QOODODDOODOOODODODDOIDOHODoDoodD ee oe PCI E 16 t CGODDo0D0 Do000000000000000 000000000000 000000000 00000 xpress X SIO PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots PCI1 3 The PCI slots allow you to insert the expansion cards to meet your needs When adding or removing expansion cards make sure that you unplug the power supply first Meanwhile read the documentation for the expansion card to make any necessary hardware or software settings for the expansion card such as jumpers switches or BIOS configuration The orange PCI slot PCI3 also works as a communcation slot which allows you to insert the communcation card OOOO ODODODIDDODDODDODDODDODDODOODOOOD Oooo ooood OOOO OOOO Oooo ooooood i PCI Slots 2 28 Hardware Setup PCI Interrupt Request Routing The IRQ acronym of interrupt request line and pronounced I R Q are hard ware lines over which devices can send interrupt signals to the microprocessor The PCI IRQ pins are typically connected to the PCI bus INT A INT D pins as follows
117. sk e View free and or dedicated free disks e Designate a free disk to a particular array e Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array e Rebuild a broken mirrored array e Watch the progress of rebuilding an array Viewing RAID Array Configurations To view your RAID configuration from Windows launch the NVRAID Management utility by double clicking NvRaidMan exe the default location of NvRaidMan exe is in nVidia System CK8S Win2k XP IDE WinXP of the setup CD accompanied with your mainboard The RAID configuration information appears in the right side pane as shown below I IN O A A ETT F GA NVIDIA nvraid qx e e ci decir ci rar Al o Rats Capocky Channel SetMiroring Healthy 55 9068 System Tasks seo STIGODISA Hoakhty 58 9068 Secondary Master e 5T36D0154 Haakhy 55 3005 Secondary Slave AAA MSI Reminds You The information in the figures in this part may very from what it is shown in your system NVRAID Mirrored Array The figure below shows an example of a two hard drive mirrored array using iden tical 55 90 GB IDE hard drives ST360015A where one drive is configured as Master and the other drive is configured as Slave The total hard disk space used Is 55 90 GB 1 1 GB 1 073 741 824 bytes Nams Jaws lt Copadty Channel Trevis S Pe reerinng Healthy 55 90 GB Gee STICODISA Healthy SE 00GE Secondary Masher e 513000154 Healthy 55 306B Secondary Slave nVIDIA RAID Introduction NVRAID Striped Array
118. t any one of the factory presets or adjust the boost or cut amount up to 12 dB for 10 preselected frequency bands You can also save the settings as a custom preset once you are satisfied with the adjustments AN pul GRAPHIC EQUALIZER Sound Blaster Live 24 bit y Lie AN lt lt CQ E Enable Equalizer Presets EQ Flat 1 LE 4 12d6 12d6 Bk 16k 4k a 1 SS For more information and usage details on Creative Graphic Equalizer refer to its online Help M MSI Reminds You MsiF To enter online Help for each configuration mean by click on the 2 icon nVidia RAID Introduction NVIDIA brings Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID technology which is used by the world s leading businesses to the common PC desktop This technology uses multiple drives to either increase total disk space or to offer data protection For all levels RAID techniques optimize storage solutions by using multiple disks grouped together and treating them as a single storage resource MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Introduction System Requirement Operating System Support NVRAID supports the following operating systems Windows XP Home Edition Windows XP Professional Edition Windows 2000 Professional RAID Arrays NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section RAID 0 RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write times f
119. tenation provides a method for combining drives of different sizes into one large disk 7 2 Silicon RAID Introduction Creating and deleting RAID sets must be performed in the BIOS for operating systems other than Windows 2000 and XP For 2000 and XP RAID sets can be created and managed by either the BIOS utility or the SATARAID GUI Be sure to enable the Silicon RAID Controller in Onboard Devices Configura tion of Integrated Peripherals in BIOS before configuring the silicon BIOS After that press F10 to save the configuration and exit During boot up a screen similar to that below will appear for about 5 seconds Press CTRL S or the F4 key to enter the BIOS RAID utility Sli 3132 SATARaid BIOS Version 7 2 11 Copyright C 1997 2005 Silicon Image Inc Press lt Ctrl S gt or F4 to enter RAID utility 0 HDS722580VLSA80 1 HDS722580VLSA80 The RAID Utility menu screen will be displayed A brief description of each section is presented on the next page RAID Config uration U tility Silicon ImageInc Copyright C 2005 MAIN MENU Help Create RAID Set Delect RAID Set Rebuild RAID Set Main mea Resolve Conflicts gesci Operation Low Level Format Press E nter to create RAIDset Help Wind ow Context Sensitive Logical Drive Info PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICALDRWE O HDS722580VLSAS80 1 HDS722580VLSAS0 Logical Drive Properties Physical Drive Y Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter S
120. the SLI switch card Flip it over to the other side SLI mode side and insert it slantwise at 40 degree angle into the NV SLI connector fig 3 SLI mode 3 Press down the SLI switch card and secure it with the latch fig 4 Before installing or removing an NV SLI module make sure that you unplug the power supply first ens a OOOO rn pom STA Turn the latch tc fix the card Inu TT 4 After configuring the switch card to SLI mode you can now install two graphics cards on PCI Express x16 slots With two cards installed an SLI bridge card is required to connect the atop golden fingers of these two graph ics cards fig 5 Please note that although you have installed two graphics cards only the video outputs on the first card will work Hence you only need to connect a monitor to the first PCI Express card SLI bridge card MSI Reminds You 1 Mainboard photos shown in this section are for demonstration only The appearance of your mainboard may vary depending on the model you purchase 2 If you intend to install only ONE x16 graphics card make sure that a your graphics card is Installed on the PCI_E1 slot b the SLI switch card is set to non SLI mode 3 If you intend to install TWO x16 graphics cards make sure that a these two graphics cards are of the same brand and specifications b the SLI switch card is set to SLI mode 2 25 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard 5 After the hardware installation is com
121. the user name you d like to auto power on in this field 4 18 Introduction to Creative Sound Blaster The mainboard is equipped with Creative CA0106 chip Creative CA0106 supports up to 8 channel amp SPDIF audio effect and allows the board to attach 2 4 6 or 8 speakers for better surround sound effect The section will tell you how to install and use 2 4 6 or 8 channel audio function on the board MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Using 2 4 6 amp 8 Channel Audio Function Connecting the Speakers When you have set the Multi Channel Audio Function mode properly in the software utility connect your speakers to the correct phone jacks in accordance with the setting in software utility n 2 Channel Mode for Stereo Speaker Output Refer to the following diagram and caption for the function of each phone jack on the back panel when 2 Channel Mode is selected Back Panel Line In Side Surround Out Side channels but not function on this mode Line Out Front channels MIC Line Out Rear channels but no functioning in this mode Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel but no functioning in this mode S PDIF Out Optical S PDIF Out Coaxial N e e fs leo ro 5 2 Introduction to Creative sound Blaster n 4 Channel Mode for 4 Speaker Output Back Panel Description Connect two speakers to back panel s Line Out connector and two speakers to the real c
122. to a day and occurs in the background so as not to affect the performance of the system e Rebuilding Applies Only to RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 Arrays Rebuilding an array works only when using RAID1 and or RAID 0 1 Rebuilding does not apply to RAID 0 and JBOD arrays e You Can Use Any Available Free Disk You can rebuild a mirrored array using any available Free Disk or Dedicated Disk For example the figure below shows a mirrored array using 34 48 GB HD while having two Free Disks each 55 90 GB large Fa AVIDIA nvraid isla System Tasks Nome Status Copacky Chonrel Device Se Nirroring Heakhy 34 48 G8 Se WOT WDIOGD 00FNAD Healy 34 4968 Primary Master 2 WOC WDIS0GD OOFNAD Heskhy 344838 Secondary Master Pree Cisk Detodls 5713400154 Heokhy 559068 Secondary Moster lt 573500154 Hesk w 55 9068 Secondary Slave _ A A AA gt gt lt lt To use one of these available free disks to rebuild your array follow the same steps as explained in Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array on p 5 20 except when prompted to select a disk choose one of the two available free disks 6 22 Silicon Image SATARAID Introduction Silicon Image s SATARAID software provides Serial ATA RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirroring and concatenation functionality to enhance the industry s leading PCI to SATA host controller products Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance
123. to enable or disable the APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Due to compliance with PC2001 design guide the system is able to run in APIC mode Enabling APIC mode will expand available IRQ resources for the system Settings Enabled Disabled MPS Table Version This field allows you to select which MPS Multi Processor Specification version to be used for the operating system You need to select the MPS version supported by your operating system To find out which version to use consult the vendor of your operating system Settings 1 4 1 1 Full Screen LOGO Display This item enables you to show the company logo on the bootup screen Settings are Enabled Shows a still image logo on the full screen at boot Disabled Shows the POST messages at boot 3 8 BIOS Setup Boot Sequence Press lt Enter gt to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears Phoenix AwardBIO CHOS Setup Utility Boot Sequence 2nd Boot Device Lare tisk l Ihe Jrd Boot Device Menu Level A Boot From Other Device Enabled Hard Disk Boot Priority Press Enter Select Your Boot Device Priority 1st 2nd 3rd Boot Device The items allow you to set the sequence of boot devices where BIOS attempts to load the disk operating system Boot Other Device Setting the option to Enabled allows the system to try to boot from other device if the system fails to boot from the 1st 2nd 3rd boot device Hard Disk Boot Prio
124. uble Side 2 8 Hardware Setup Installing DDR Modules 1 The DDR DIMM has only one notch on the center of module The module will only fit in the right orientation 2 Insert the DIMM memory module vertically into the DIMM slot Then push it in until the golden finger on the memory module is deeply inserted in the socket 3 The plastic clip at each side of the DIMM slot will automatically close 2 9 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard The mainboard supports ATX power supply for the power system Before inserting the power supply connector always make sure that all components are installed properly to ensure that no damage will be caused ATX 24 Pin Power Connector JPWR1 This connector allows you to connect an SSI power supply To connect the SSI power supply make sure the plug of the power supply is inserted in the proper orientation and the pins are aligned Then push down the power supply firmly into the connector Pin Definition ATX 12V Power Connector JPWR2 This 12V power connector is used to provide power to the CPU JPW1 Pin Definition 4 2 PIN SIGNAL 3 1 GND JPWR2 2 END 3 12V 4 12V 2 10 Hardware Setup Important Notification about Power Issue NForce chipset is very sensitive to ESD Electrostatic Discharge therefore this issue mostly happens while the users intensively swap memory modules under S5 power o
125. udio Effects are tta quality music enhancement effects created by the powerful audio engine in your sound device Ww Enable Audio Effects Environment Active Preset Effects Amount 50 Auditorium O ened gt Joe 100 Auditorium Ball Fark Bathroom Cathedral Chapel Church EN 00 00 00 SE MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Karaoke Creating instant karaoke music First you have to check the Enable Karaoke item to enable its configuraion maen Then you can create instant karaoke background music from any CD MP3 WMA or WAV file by suppressing the vocals You can also adjust the pitch of the music and microphone effect to suit your voice by suppressing the vocals You can also adjust the see of the music and microphone effect to suit your voi V Enable Karaoke ml Voice Suppression amount 50 Advanced Mode 2 oO _ 2 eee 100 Y Pitch 0 Semitones Low m gt j High PA 00 00 00 axe 11S amp 7 Microphone Effect Microphone effect amount 100 100 Microphone Volume 50 x 5 14 Introduction to Creative sound Blaster CMSS 3D Simulating Surround Sound Creative MultiSpeaker Surround CMSS 3D makes ordinary two channel Left and Right Stereo sound seem to surround you even through only two speakers For users with 5 1 6 1 7 1 multichannel speaker systems CMSS can also simulate surround sound from ordinary stereo This is useful for watching DVDs a
126. w refresh cyc timel Trfc Read to Write time Trut Write recovery time Twr Write to Read delay Twtr Refresh period Tref User Config mode Bottom of 32 bit 31 24 10 11 4271 Memory Timing Read Preamble value Async Latency value SAU memory hole Remapping NX UNNMNNMNNNMNNNSS lt se MSM Enter Select FS Previous t1 Move Values Timing Mode IET Auto 2 00Hhz Menu Level bb Disabled FidsSave ESC tExit FirGeneral Help Fi Optimized Defaults This field has the capacity to automatically detect all of the DRAM timing If you set this field to Manual the following fields will be selectable The settings are Auto Manual 3 20 BIOS Setup Memclock index value Mhz When it is set to Manual in Timing Mode user can place an artificial memory clock on the system Please note that memory is prevented from running faster than this frequency Setting options 100 133 166 200 CAS Latency Tcl When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This controls the CAS latency which determines the timing delay in clock cycles before SDRAM starts a read command after receiving it Settings Auto CL 2 0 CL 2 5 CL 3 0 CL 2 0 increases the system performance the most while CL 3 0 provides the most stable performance Min RAS Active Time Tras When the Timing Mode is set to Manual the field is adjustable This setting determines the time RAS ta
127. y the Main Menu will appear on the screen The Main Menu allows you to select from twelve setup func tions and two exit choices Use arrow keys to select among the items and press lt Enter gt to accept or enter the sub menu Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility t Standard CHOS Features H W Monitor t Advanced BIOS Features Cell Menu t Advanced Chipset Features Load Optimized Defaults t Integrated Peripherals BIOS Setting Password t Power Management Setup Esc Quit F9 Henu in BIOS z Select Item Fil Save amp Exit Setup Standard CMOS Features Use this menu for basic system configurations such as time date etc Advanced BIOS Features Use this menu to setup the items of AWARD special enhanced features Advanced Chipset Features Use this menu to change the values in the chipset registers and optimize your system s performance Integrated Peripherals Use this menu to specify your settings for integrated peripherals Power Management Setup Use this menu to specify your settings for power management PNP PCI Configurations This entry appears if your system supports PnP PCI H W Monitor This entry shows your PC health status Cell Menu Use this menu to specify your settings for CPU AGP frequency voltage control and overclocking 3 4 BIOS Setup Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the default values set by the mainboard manufacturer specifi cally for optimal performance of the mainboar
128. y to keep the system configuration data With the CMOS RAM the system can auto matically boot OS every time it is turned on If you want to clear the system configuration use the SW1 Clear CMOS Button to clear data Press the button in the middle of the connector top side to clear the data SW1 2 27 MS 7100 ATX Mainboard Slots The mainboard provides two PCI Express x16 slot and three 32 bit PCI bus slots PCI Express Slots PCI_E1 8 PCI_E3 The PCI Express slots as a high bandwidth low pin count serial intercon nect technology support Intel highest performance desktop platforms utilizing the Intel Pentium 4 processor with HT Technology with these platform benefits You can insert the expansion cards to meet your needs When adding or removing expansion cards make sure that you unplug the power supply first PCI Express architecture provides a high performance O infrastructure for Desktop Platforms with transfer rates starting at 2 5 Giga transfers per second over a PCI Express x1 lane for Gigabit Ethernet TV Tuners 1394 controllers and general purpose I O Also desktop platforms with PCI Express Architecture will be designed to deliver highest performance in video graphics multimedia and other sophisticated applications Moreover PCI Express architecture provides a high performance graphics PDF 166Kb infrastructure for Desktop Platforms doubling the capability of existing AGP8x designs with transfer rates of 4 0 GB
129. y to use music library search for tracks with an advanced Find feature that searches as you type transfer tracks and files seamlessly to and from your digital audio player with AudioSync and SmartFit automatically generate playlists from your music library based on your preferences with Smart Playlist rate each track up to 5 stars to automatically generate playlists of songs you like dislike with Smart Playlist automatically crossfade the end of a track with the start of the next track during playback MP3 WMA and WAV file formats are supported Introduction to Creative sound Blaster EAX CONSOLE Click on the EAX console icon to enter its configuration screen F a E S CREATIVE fi a Ka i Ween MH meb sounce Le AS Er E y SF Here you can to configure the Sound Blaster Live 24 bit processor s effects engine These audio effects take your computer beyond home theater quality immersing you in sound so vivid your imagination can almost see it Creative EAX Console consists of five sections Effects Karaoke CMSS 3D Clean up and Time Scaling Audio Effects Environmental Sound Processing In Audio Effects you have to check the Enable Audio Effects item to enable its configuration mean Then you can choose how you want to enhance all kinds of ordinary two channel sounds x SE A consoLe SoundBlaster Live 24 bit Ple _ x pra CA Effects Sy Karaoke s CM55 3D 6 Clean up o aE A
130. ystem on a scheduled time date Settings Enabled Disabled Date The field specifies the date for Resume By RTC Alarm Settings 0 31 HH MM SS The field specifies the time for Resume By RTC Alarm Format is lt hour gt lt minute gt lt second gt BIOS Setup This section describes configuring the PCI bus system and PnP Plug amp Play feature PCI or Peripheral Component Interconnect is a system which allows I O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed the CPU itself uses when communi cating with its 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 Phoenix AwardBIOS CHOS Setup Utility PoP PCI Configurations Primary Graphic s dpapter First PCIE Resources Controlled By utot ESCI Henu Level 3 Haximum Payload Size Ho rzHove Enter Select 2 PU PD Value FiM iSave ESC Exit Fi General Help F5 Previous Values Fi Optimized Defaults Primary Graphic s Adapter This item specifies which graphic card is your primary graphics adapter Settings First PCIE PCI Slot Resource Controlled By The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices However this capability means abso lutely nothing unless you are using a Plug and Play operating system such as Win dows 95 98 If you set this field to

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