Biostar N4SLI-A9 Owner's Manual

N4SLI-A9 i FCC Information and Copyright This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, pursuant to

N4SLI-A9 8 Step 4: Hold the CPU down firmly, and then close the lever toward direct B to complete the installation. B Step 5: Put the CPU Fan on the

N4SLI-A9 9 2.3 MEMORY MODULES INSTALLATION DIMM2DIMM4DIMM1DIMM3 2.2.1 DDR Module installation 1. Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the retaining clips

N4SLI-A9 10 2.4 CONNECTORS & SLOTS FDD1: Floppy Disk Connector The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360K, 720K,

N4SLI-A9 11 PCI1~PCI3: Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots This motherboard is equipped with 3 standard PCI slot. PCI stands for Peripheral Compon

N4SLI-A9 12 CHAPTER 3: HEADERS & JUMPERS SETUP 3.1 HOW TO SETUP JUMPERS The illustration shows how to set up jumpers. When the jumper cap is place

N4SLI-A9 13 JATXPWR2: ATX Power Source Connector By connecting this connector, it will provide +12V to CPU power circuit. Pin Assignment 1 +

N4SLI-A9 14 J1394_USBV1/JUSBV1: Power Source Headers for USB Ports Pin 1-2 Close: J1394_USBV1: +5V for USB ports at J1394_USB1 and JUSBLAN1. JUSBV1: +

N4SLI-A9 15 JSPDIF_OUT/JSPDIF_IN1: Digital Audio-out Connectors (JSPDIF_IN1 is optional.) These connectors allow user to connect the PCI bracket SPD

N4SLI-A9 16 J1394PWR1 (optional): Power Source Header for 1394 Chip 13 13 Pin 1-2 Close: +3.3V for 1394 chipset (default). 13 Pin 2-3 Close: +3

N4SLI-A9 17 JCMOS1: Clear CMOS Header By placing the jumper on pin2-3, it allows user to restore the BIOS safe setting and the CMOS data, please caref

Table of Contents ii Chapter 1: Introduction... 1 1.1 Motherboard Features...

N4SLI-A9 18 JSATA1~JSATA4: Serial ATA Connectors The motherboard has a SATA Controller in nForce4 CK8-04 SLI with 4 channels SATA interface, it satisf

N4SLI-A9 19 CHAPTER 4: USEFUL HELP 4.1 AWARD BIOS BEEP CODE Beep Sound Meaning One long beep followed by two short beeps Video card not found or vide

N4SLI-A9 20 B. CPU Overheated If the system shutdown automatically after power on system for seconds, that means the CPU protection function has been

N4SLI-A9 21 4.3 TROUBLESHOOTING Probable Solution 1. No power to the system at all Power light don’t illuminate, fan inside power supply does not tur

N4SLI-A9 22 CHAPTER 5: NVIDIA SLI FUNCTION 5.1 REQUIREMENTS Only Windows XP supports SLI (Dual Video) function. Two identical SLI-ready graphics c

N4SLI-A9 23 Step 3: Invert the selector card and insert the edge labeled “SLI MODE”. Step 4: Push down the selector card until the retention clips sn

N4SLI-A9 24 5.3 THINGS TO NOTICE Normal Mode: - Only PEX16-1 slot supports PCI-Express x16 interface graphics card function. - PEX16-2, PEX1-1 and

N4SLI-A9 25 Step 5: Connect a 4-pin ATX power cable to PEX power connector (JPEXPWR1), this will ensure the stabilization of your system. Step 6: Ins

N4SLI-A9 26 5.5 ENABLING MULTI-GPU FEATURE IN WINDOWS After the graphics cards are installed, enable the Multi-GPU feature in NVIDIA nView properties.

N4SLI-A9 27 Step 5: Select NVIDIA GeForce tab, and then click on Multi-GPU item on the left dialog box. Step 6: Check before Enable SLI mu

N4SLI-A9 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 MOTHERBOARD FEATURES A. Hardware CPU Supports Socket 939. Supports AMD Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 processor.

N4SLI-A9 28 CHAPTER 6: NVIDIA RAID FUNCTIONS 6.1 OPERATION SYSTEM Supports Windows XP Home/Professional Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional. 6.2

N4SLI-A9 29 RAID 1: Every read and write is actually carried out in parallel across 2 disk drives in a RAID 1 array system. The mirrored (backup) copy

N4SLI-A9 30 Spanning (JBOD): JBOD stands for “Just a Bunch of Disks”. Each drive is accessed as if it were on a standard SCSI host bus adapter. This i

N4SLI-A9 31 CHAPTER 7: WARPSPEEDER™ 7.1 INTRODUCTION [WarpSpeeder™], a new powerful control utility, features three user-friendly functions includi

N4SLI-A9 32 7.3 INSTALLATION 1. Execute the setup execution file, and then the following dialog will pop up. Please click “Next” button and follow th

N4SLI-A9 33 7.4 [WARPSPEEDER™] INCLUDES 1 TRAY ICON AND 5 PANELS 1. Tray Icon: Whenever the Tray Icon utility is launched, it will display a little t

N4SLI-A9 34 2. Main Panel If you click the tray icon, [WarpSpeeder™] utility will be invoked. Please refer to the following figure; the utility’s fir

N4SLI-A9 35 3. Voltage Panel Click the Voltage button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the Voltage Panel will slide out to up as the

N4SLI-A9 36 4. Overclock Panel Click the Overclock button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the Overclock Panel will slide out to lef

N4SLI-A9 37 c. “Auto-overclock button”: User can click this button and [WarpSpeeder™] will set the best and stable performance and frequency automati

N4SLI-A9 2 System Memory Supports Dual Channel DDR. Supports 8 banks in total. Supports DDR333 and DDR400. Maximum memory size is 4GB. DIMM Soc

N4SLI-A9 38 6. About Panel Click the “about” button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the About Panel will slide out to up as the fol

N4SLI-A9 39 Note: Because the overclock, overvoltage, and hardware monitor features are controlled by several separate chipset, [WarpSpeeder™] divide

N4SLI-A9 BIOS Setup i BIOS Setup...1 1 Main Menu...

N4SLI-A9 1 BIOS Setup Introduction T his manual discussed Award™ Setup program built into the ROM BIOS. T he Setup program allows users to modify t

N4SLI-A9 2 PCI Bus S upport This AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2.1 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus specification.

N4SLI-A9 3 1 Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select f

N4SLI-A9 4 Power Management Setup This submenu allows you to configure the power management features. PnP/PCI Configurations This submenu allows yo

N4SLI-A9 5 Set User Password If the Supervisor Password is not set, then the User Password will function in the same way as the Supervisor Password.

N4SLI-A9 6 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories. Each category includes no, one or more t

N4SLI-A9 7 Main Menu Selections This table shows the selections that you can make on the Main Menu. Item Options Description Date mm : dd : yy Se

N4SLI-A9 3 Super I/O Chip: ITE IT8712F. Low Pin Count Interface. Provides the most commonly used legacy Super I/O functionality. Environment

N4SLI-A9 8 Item Options Description Halt On All Errors No Errors All, but Keyboard All, but Diskette All, but Disk/ Key Select the situation in wh

N4SLI-A9 9 3 Advanced BIOS Features  Figure 3. Adva nce d BIOS Setup Cache Setup These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the dev

N4SLI-A9 10 First/ Second/ Third/ Boot Other Device These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected

N4SLI-A9 11 Typematic Rate Se tting When a key is held down, the keystroke will repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller. When enabled

N4SLI-A9 12 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure the specific features of the chipset installed on your system. This chi

N4SLI-A9 13 DRAM Configuration CAS# Latency This field specifies the cas# latency, i.e. cas# to read data valid. Th

N4SLI-A9 14 PCIE Spread Spectrum This item allows you to disable \ enable the SATA spread spectrum function. The Cho ices : Disabled (default),

N4SLI-A9 15 5 Integrated Peripherals  Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals IDE Func tion Setup If you highlight the literal “Press E

N4SLI-A9 16 Primary / Secondary /Master / Slave PIO The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the

N4SLI-A9 17 RAID Configuration RAID Enable The choices: Disabled (default), enable.

N4SLI-A9 4 1 SPDIF-in connector supports digital audio-in function (optional). 1 floppy connector supports 2 FDD devices with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.

N4SLI-A9 18 USB Mouse Support Enables support for USB attached mouse. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled

N4SLI-A9 19 Onboard Serial Port 1 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports. The Choices: Disabled, 3F8/IR

N4SLI-A9 20 6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and power up

N4SLI-A9 21 Maximum power management only available for sl CPU’s. Suspend Mode = 1 min. HDD Power Down = 1 min. User De fine (default) Allows you t

N4SLI-A9 22 Power-On by Alarm When you select Enabled, an alarm returns the system to Full ON state. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled.

N4SLI-A9 23 7 PnP/PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a system whic

N4SLI-A9 24 Resources Controlled By By Choosing “Auto(ESCD)” (default), the system BIOS will detect the system resources and automatically assign th

N4SLI-A9 25 Maximum Payloa d Size Set the maximum payload size for Transaction packets (TLP). The Choice: 4096 (default.)

N4SLI-A9 26 8 PC Health Status  Figure 8. PC Health Status Chassis Open Warning This item allows you to enable or disable Chassis Open Warning be

N4SLI-A9 27 CPU Temperature This field displays the current temperature of the CPU. Current CPU FAN Speed This field displays the current speed of

N4SLI-A9 5 1.2 PACKAGE CHECKLIST FDD Cable x 1 HDD Cable x 1 User’s Manual x 1 Serial ATA Cable x 1 BRI-2 SLI Bridge x 1 Fully Setup Drive

N4SLI-A9 28 9 Voltage Control  Figure 8. PC Health Status Hammer Vid Control This item allows you to set different CPU frequency. The Choices: St

N4SLI-A9 6 1.3 LAY OUT & COMPONENTS Socket 939JKB MS1JUS BL AN1COM1JCOM 1COM2JCOM2(opti onal)JPRNT1J1394_USB1EARPHONEJACK1JAUDIO2JKBMSV1J1394_USBV

N4SLI-A9 7 CHAPTER 2: HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1 CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) Step 1: Remove the socket protection cap. Step 2: Pull the lever towa