GIGABYTE GA-8N-SLI User Guide
GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal
Intel® Pentium® Processor Extreme Edition
Intel® Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 LGA775
Rev. 1002
12MC-8NSLIQU-1002R
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Nov. 16, 2005
GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal
Motherboard
Nov. 16, 2005
GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal
Motherboard
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1-1 ..................................................................................... 9
1-2
1-3
1-3-1 ............................................................................................ 12
1-3-2 ................................................................................................. 13
..................................................................................................... 10
.................................................................. 12
1-4 / Cool-Plus( ) ..................................................... 14
1-5
1-6
1-7
SLI (Scalable Link Interface ) ................... 17
1-7-1 ............................................................................................ 17
1-7-2 SLI ..................................................................................... 20
1-7-3 .................................................................................. 20
....................................................................................... 14
................................................................................................. 16
1-8 Multi View ( ) .................................................... 22
1-8-1 ( Multi View ) .................................... 23
1-9 ................................................................................... 24
1-10
....................................................................................... 25
BIOS ....................................................................................... 39
(BIOS Ver. : F1) .......................................................... 40
2-1 Standard CMOS Features ( CMOS ) ........................................... 42
2-2 Advanced BIOS Features (
2-3 Integrated Peripherals (
2-4 Power Management Setup (
2-5 PnP/PCI Configurations ( PCI ) ............................. 51
2-6 PC Health Status (
2-7 MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) (
2-8 Select Language (
2-9 Load Fail-Safe Defaults ( Fail-Safe ) .......................................... 58
2-10 Load Optimized Defaults (
BIOS ) ..................................... 45
) ....................................................... 47
) ............................................... 50
) ............................................................. 52
/ ) ...................................... 53
) ........................................................................ 58
Optimized ) ...................................... 58
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2-11 Set Supervisor/User Password ( / ) ................... 59
2-12 Save & Exit Setup ( SETUP ) ................................ 60
2-13 Exit Without Saving (
SETUP ) .......................... 60
....................................................................................... 61
3-1 ............................................................................... 61
3-2
............................................................................................ 62
3-3 ..................................................................................................... 62
3-4
3-5
..................................................................................................... 63
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.......................................................................................................... 65
4-1 ............................................................................................ 65
4-1-1 EasyTune 5 ............................................................................................... 66
4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 .................................................................................. 67
4-1-3 BIOS ....................................................................................... 70
4-1-4 Serial ATA ( nVIDIA nForce4 SLI) .................... 81
4-1-5 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 ....................................................................................... 96
4-2 ................................................................................................... 100
4-3 POST Error Code ........................................................................................ 101
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GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal
SPDIF_RCA
SPDIF_O
1394_6P
KB_MS
USB
USB
AUDIO1
AUDIO2
F_AUDIO
CD_IN
SPDIF_IN
IT8712
1394_CON
LPT
LAN1
LAN2
ET1310
ALC850
TSB43AB23
88E1111
IR
PCIEX8_1
PCIEX1_1
PCIEX16_1
PCIEX1_2
PCIEX16_2
PCI
PCIEX8_2
COMA
SYS_FAN
LGA775
ATX_12V
NB_FAN
SLI Switch Module Socket
Main
Backup
BIOS
BIOS
FDD
NVIDIA C19
F_USB1
CPU_FAN
GA-8N- SLI QUAD Royal
DDRII1
DDRII2
NVIDIA CK804
BATTERY
F_USB2
F_USB3
PWR_LED
FUSB_PSEL
RF_ID
F_PANEL
DDRII3
DDRII4
SB_FAN
S_ATA3
S_ATA2
CLR_CMOS
W83L951F
MEN_FAN
RUSB_PSEL
IDE1
AUX_FAN
7_SEG_LED
ATXPWR
PWR_FAN
IDE2
S_ATA1
S_ATA0
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2 PCIEx16
Slot1 / Slot2
LGA775
Processor
CPUCLK+/-(1066/800/533MHz)
PCI-ECLK
(100MHz)
PCI Express x 16 Bus
PCI-ECLK
(100MHz)
2 PCI Express x 1
PCI Express x 16 Bus
PCI-ECLK
(100MHz)
2 PCIEx16
Slot3 / Slot4
PCI Express Bus
x1 x1
ET1310I
RJ45
LAN 1
RJ45
LAN 2
PCI Bus
TSB43AB23
1PCI
PCICLK
(33MHz)
Interface
nVIDIA
C19
x1
88E1111
nVIDIA
CK804
Marvell
CODEC
MIC
3 IEEE1394a
Surround Speaker Out
Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out
Line-In
Line-Out
Side Speaker Out
Host
NBCLK (25MHz)
HCLK+/- (133/200/266MHz)
BIOS
LPC BUS
10 USB
Ports
SPDIF In
SPDIF Out
24.576MHz
DDRII 667/533MHz DIMM
Dual Channel Memory
33MHz
25MHz
48MHz
ROMCLK33MHz
4 SATA 3Gb/s
ATA33/66/100/133
IDE Channels
Floppy
LPT Port
IT8712F
COM Port
PS/2KB
PS/2 Mouse
33 MHz
24 MHz
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- 8 -
1-1
1.
2.
3. (CPU RAM)
4.
5.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
- 9 -
1-2
LGA775 Intel
1066/800/533MHz FSB
L2 CPU
nVIDIA® nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition (Crush 19)
nVIDIA® CK804
Win 2000/XP
4 DDR II DIMM 8GB
DDR II 667 /533 unbuffered DIMMs
1.8V DDR II DIMM
4 PCI Express x 16
2 PCI Express x 1
1 PCI
IDE 2 IDE (IDE1/IDE2) nVIDIA® CK804 (UDMA 33/ATA
66/ATA 100/ATA 133) 4 IDE
- Win 2000/XP
1 2
SATA 3Gb/s 4 SATA 3Gb/s nVIDIA® CK804 (SATA0,
SATA1, SATA2, SATA3)
- Win 2000/XP
1 Normal/EPP/ECP
1 COMA
10 USB 2.0/1.1 ( x 4 x 6- )
3 IEEE1394a ( )
1
1 PS/2
1 PS/2
Agere ET1310 (10/100/1000 Mbit)(LAN1 )
Marvell 88E1111 Phy (10/100/1000 Mbit)(LAN2 )
- Win 2000/XP
2 RJ45
®
Extreme Edition / Pentium® D /Pentium® 4
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ALC850 CODEC
Jack Sensing
2 / 4 / 6 / 8
( )
/
SPDIF
SPDIF ( + )
CD
I/O IT8712F
CPU / NB / Power IC
CPU / / / Auxilliary / Memory
CPU
CPU / /
SATA 3Gb/s nVIDIA® CK804
RAID - striping (RAID 0) mirroring (RAID 1) striping + mir-
roring (RAID 0+1) RAID 5
- 300MB
-
- 4 SATA 3Gb/s
- Win 2000/XP
BIOS AWARD BIOS
DualBIOS/Q-Flash/ BIOS
@BIOS
EasyTune 5
( )
BIOS (FSB/DIMM/PCIE/CPU/North Bridge/South Bridge)
BIOS (CPU/DIMM/PCIE)
ATX 30.5 x 24.4
( ) EasyTune 5
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1-3
1-3-1
(CPU)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. CPU FAN 3000RPM.
HT
(Hyper-Threading
Technology)
- HT Intel Pentium 4
- HT
- BIOS BIOS HT
- HT
1.
(
)
(
)
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2.
4.3.
1-3-2
1.
3.
5.
2.
(
)
( Intel )
4.
(
)
6.
CPU
- 13 -
1-4 / Cool-Plus( )
1-5
1.
Cool-Plus
Cool-Plus
Cool-Plus
3.
1.
2.
3.
DDR II BIOS
2.
Cool-Plus
NB_FAN
Cool-Plus Cool-Plus
Cool-Plus
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DDR II
1.
2.
Dual Channel DDR II ( )
GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal (Dual Channel DDR
Technology) Memory Bus
1. DDR II
2. DDR II (
)
DDR II
Dual Channel Technology (SS DS )
DDR II 1 DDR II 2 DDR II3 DDR II 4
2
4
DS/SS X DS/SS X
X DS/SS X DS/SS
DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS
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1-6
1.
2. ( )
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. BIOS
8.
PCI Express x 16
/
PCI Express x 16
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1-7 SLI (Scalable Link Interface )
NVIDIA SLI NVIDIA SLI
SLI PCI Express NVIDIA GeForce
nVIDIA® nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition SLI
GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal SLI
1-7-1
I. :
SLI (GC-SLICON)
GC-SLICON SLI
SLI
SLI (GC-SLISW-C19)
GC-SLISW-C19
SLI
SLI (SLI Mode) (Normal
Mode)
SLI (GC-SLISW-3D1)
GV-3D1
GC-SLISW-3D1 "3D1 Mode"
( Normal Mode GC-SLISW-C19
)
GC-SLICON
GC-SLISW-C19
GC-SLISW-3D1
SLI (GC-SLISW-C19 GC-SLISW-3D1)
II. :
20A 500W SLI
! !!
III. :
NVIDIA SLI Windows XP
GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal SLI
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PCIEx16
5V 12V
SLI
SLI
25
SLI
" " )
SLI SLI (GC-SLISW-C19)
SLI SLI
SLI
SLI
(
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:
"1-6 "
SLI PCIE x 16
PCIEX16_2 (SLOT3)
SLI (GC-SLICON)
PCIEX16_1(SLOT2)
SLI
:
"NVIDIA "
GeForce
"SLI
(GPU)"
" SLI
(GPU)" " "
NVIDIA
SLI
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1-7-2 SLI
BIOS SLI
: SLI 2 nVidia
( GV-NX66T128D)
: BIOS PCIex16 Slot Lanes Auto
( 55 )
SLI SLI Remark
PCIEX8_2
(SLOT4)
GC-SLISW-C19 x16-x16 2
(Normal Mode) ( )
GC-SLISW-C19 x8-x8 2
(SLl Mode) ( )
x8-x8 2
PCIEX8_1
PCIEX16_1
(SLOT1)
(SLOT2)
nVidia (x16) nVidia (x16)
1
nVidia (x8) nVidia (x8)
2
3
PCIEX16_2
(SLOT3)
nVidia (x8) nVidia (x8)
1:
nVidia 2 nVidia SLI
1-7-3
( Windows XP )
SLI
( )
( 1)
(http://chinese.giga-byte.com)
1-1. 1 (2 PCIE )
Graphics Chip Maker Model Name GPU
nVidia Gigabyte * GV-NX66T128D Geforce 6600GT (NV43GT)
Gigabyte * GV-NX68T256DH Geforce 6800GT (NV45GT)
Gigabyte * GV-NX68U256D Geforce 6800 Ultra (NV45 Ultra)
Gigabyte GV-3D1 Geforce 6600GT x 2
Gigabyte * GV-NX68256D Geforce 6800
Gigabyte GV-NX78X256V-B Geforce 7800GTX
Gigabyte * GV-NX78T256V-B Geforce 7800GT
: * nVidia
S1
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1-2. 2 (2 PCIE )
Graphics Chip Maker Model Name GPU
Nvidia Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D Geforce 6600GT (NV43GT)
Gigabyte GV-NX68T256DH Geforce 6800GT (NV45GT)
Gigabyte GV-NX68U256D Geforce 6800 Ultra (NV45 Ultra)
Gigabyte GV-3D1 Geforce 6600GT x 2
Gigabyte GV-NX68256D Geforce 6800
Gigabyte GV-NX78X256V-B Geforce 7800GTX
Gigabyte GV-NX78T256V-B Geforce 7800GT
1-3. 3 (2 PCIE )
Graphics Chip Maker Model Name GPU
Nvidia Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D Geforce 6600GT (NV43GT)
Gigabyte GV-NX68T256DH Geforce 6800GT (NV45GT)
Gigabyte GV-NX68U256D Geforce 6800 Ultra (NV45 Ultra)
Gigabyte GV-3D1 Geforce 6600GT x 2
Gigabyte GV-NX68256D Geforce 6800
Gigabyte GV-3D1-68GT Geforce 6800GT x 2
Gigabyte GV-NX78T256V-B Geforce 7800GT
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1-8 Multi View ( )
Windows XP
(Multi View technology) 4
8
8
I.
/
500W( )
+12V 25A( )
II. NVIDIA 7.7.7.2( )
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1-8-1 ( Multi View )
(Multi View)
BIOS
: BIOS PCIex16 Slot Lanes Auto ( 55 )
SLI SLI Remark
SLI
PCIEX8_1
(SLOT1)
nVidia/ATI(x8) nVidia/ATI(x8) nVidia/ATI(x8) nVidia/ATI(x8)
PCIEX16_1
(SLOT2)
PCIEX16_2
(SLOT3)
PCIEX8_2
(SLOT4)
GC-SLISW-C19 8
(SLI Mode)
1:
1-8-2
1-1. 4 PCIE
Graphics Chip Maker Model Name GPU
Nvidia Gigabyte GV-NX78X256V-B Geforce 7800GTX 2 pcs
ATI Gigabyte GV-RX60P128DE Radeon X600Pro 2 pcs
( 1)
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1-9
PS/2 PS/2
PS/2 ( )
( )
COAXIAL (SPDIF_RCA )
SPDIF AC-3
AC-3 (SPDIF In)
SPDIF_O (SPDIF_O )
SPDIF AC-3
AC-3 (SPDIF In)
IEEE 1394
1394 IEEE1394 (Insitute of Electrical
Eletronics Engineers)
IEEE1394
2
Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Mbps
1
Gigabit Ethernet(PCI Express Gigabit) 10/100/1000Mbps
(USB)
USB USB / USB USB USB
USB
( )
GA-8N-SLI QUAD Royal - 24 -
/
/
2-/4-/6-/8-
1-10
6
15
16
17
25
23
1) ATX_12V
2) ATX (Power Connector)
3) CPU_FAN
4) SYS_FAN
5) PWR_FAN
6) NB_FAN
7) SB_FAN
8) AUX_FAN
9) MAN_FAN
10) F DD
11) IDE1 / IDE2
12) SATA0/1/2/3
13) PWR_LED
1
4
21
10
3
19
9
20
2
5
7
11
12
22
24
18
13
8
14
26
14) F_PANEL
15) F_AUDIO
16) CD_IN
17) SPDIF_IN
18) F_USB1 / F_USB2/F_USB3
19) FUSB_PSEL
20) RUSB_PSEL
21) COMA
22) BATTERY
23) 1394_CON
24) CLR_CMOS
25) I R
26) RF_ID
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1/2) ATX_12V / ATX (2x4 pin ATX_12V / 2x12 pin ATX)
ATX_12V CPU ATX_12V
)
ATX 24 ATX
20
( 350
5
1
13
24
1
12
1 3.3V
2 3.3V
3
4 +5V
5
6 +5V
7
8
9 5V SB(stand by +5V)
10 +12V
11 +12V(
12 3.3V(
8
4
13 3.3V
14 -12V
15
16 PS_ON(soft On/Off)
17
18
19
20 -5V
21 +5V
22 +5V
24
24
23 +5V (
)
24
)
1 +12V
2 +12V
3 +12V
4 +12V
5
6
7
8
24
)
( 24
)
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3/4/5) CPU_FAN / SYS_FAN / PWR_FAN( )
+12V 3-pin/4pin( CPU_FAN )
+12V (GND)
CPU
6/7) NB_FAN / SB_FAN ( )
( )
1
1
1
1
NB_FAN
1
CPU_FAN
PWR_FAN
SYS_FAN
1
2 +12V
3
4
( CPU_FAN )
1 +12V
2
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SB_FAN
8/9) AUX_FAN / MEN_FAN (Chip Fan Power Connector)
If you installed wrong direction, the chip fan will not work. Sometimes will damage the chip fan.
(Usually black cable is GND)
1
AUX_FAN
MEM_FAN
1
2 +12V
3
1
10) FDD ( )
360KB 720KB 1.2MB 1.44MB 2.88MB
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2
1
34
33
11) IDE1/IDE2 (IDE )
IDE IDE IDE IDE
IDE ( ) IDE
Master Slave ( IDE
) IDE IDE1
IDE2
3940
12
12) SATA0/1/2/3 (SATA 3Gb/s CK804 )
SATA 3Gb/s 300MB BIOS SATA 3Gb/s
1
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1
2TXP
7
3 TXN
4
5RXN
6 RXP
7
13) PWR_LED
PWR_LED ON OFF Power LED Sus-
pend
1
1 MPD+
2 MPD-
3 MPD-
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