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Manual Revision 1.0
September 12, 2006
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES:
THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES WHICH EXTEND BEYOND THE
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HANDLING PROCEDURES:
Static electricity can severely damage your equipment. Handle the mainboard and
any other device in your system with extreme care and avoid unnecessary contact
with system components on the mainboard. Always work on an antistatic surface
to avoid possible damage to the mainboard from static discharge. Always have
the power supply unplugged and powered off when inserting and removing
devices within the computer chassis. The Manufacturer assumes no responsibility
for any damage to the mainboard that results from failure to follow instruction or
failure to observe safety precautions.
CAUTION
The mainboard is subject to damage by static electricity.
Always observe the handling procedures.
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IntroductionIntroduction
Introduction
IntroductionIntroduction
1-1 Package Contents ................................................................................1
1-2 Mainboard Features .............................................................................. 2
1-3 Mainboard Specification .........................................................................4
1-4 System Block Diagram ........................................................................... 6
InstallationInstallation
Installation
InstallationInstallation
2-1 CPU Installation ....................................................................................7
2-2 Jumper Settings ...................................................................................8
2-3 System Memory Configuration ...............................................................9
2-4 Rear I/O Port........................................................................................10
2-5 Internal Connectors ..............................................................................10
BIOS SetupBIOS Setup
BIOS Setup
BIOS SetupBIOS Setup
3-1 Main Menu............................................................................................13
3-2 Standard CMOS Setup ..........................................................................14
3-3 Advanced BIOS Features ...................................................................... 14
3-4 Power BIOS Features............................................................................ 16
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1-1 Package Contents
Introduction
Section 1 -- Introduction
Contents
A. Mainboard
B. User’s manual
C . Floppy drive cable
D. HDD drive cable
E. CD (drivers and utilities)
F. I/O Shield
G. SATA II data cable
Optional items
H. Extra USB2.0 port cable
I. COM port bracket
J. Thermo Stick cable
If you need the optional item, please
contact your dealer for assistance.
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If you intend to setup RAID:
When installing Windows XP/2000 into any RAID drive, the O/S setup will require a floppy disk containing the RAID
driver. This step will show you how to prepare this driver floppy.
1. Locate a PC and insert the bundled CD into its CD-ROM drive
2. A main menu screen will appear (Autorun feature)
3. Select the page “RAID floppy”
4. Insert a blank floppy into the A:drive
5. Click on the required RAID controller driver to begin copy into the floppy
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1-2 Mainboard Features
Socket AM2
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Socket AM2 (940-pin) based motherboards are designed to provide performance enhancements for AMD
Athlon AM2 processor-based systems, and it also expected to be the next-generation of platform
innovations.
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Chipset
The board is designed with nVidia nF6100-400 / nF6100-405 / nF6100-430 chipset, featuring performance
and stability with the most innovative technology and features.
For more details about the nVidia chipset, please visit the nVidia Web site at
VGA
Chipset contains integrated VGA. The VGA core shares memory usage with system memory, therefore
sometimes referred to as Unified Memory Architecture (UMA).
PCI-Express (PCI-E)
Next generation peripheral interface to succeed to current PCI bus for the next decade. With smaller slot size
and 250MB/sec (PCI-E*1) or 4GB/sec(PCI-E*16) maximum transfer, PCI-Express overcomes PCI bus bottleneck.
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AM2 Processor deliver, check out the AMD website
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DDR2
DDR2 ushers in the new era of DDR memory technology. DDR2 memory offers faster speed, higher data
bandwidth and lower power consumption over DDR.
Dual Channel
Supports dual channel of DDR2 memory to give you twice the memory bandwidth for greater system
performance.
Hardware Monitoring
Hardware monitoring enables you to monitor various aspects of the system operation and status. This
includes CPU temperature, voltage and fan speed in RPMs.
10/100 LAN
This mainboard is mounted with a 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN PHY. It allows the mainboard to connect to a
local area network by means of a network hub.
Serial ATA II
S-ATA II is the second generation SATA interface with double the transferring speed up to 300MB/sec. It
supports NCQ to provide faster reading speed for your storage devices.
SATA RAID
RAID function available on chipset’s SATA II ports.
USB2.0
A popular USB standard for plugging in peripherals with up to 480Mbps transfer speed while maintaining
backward compatibility with older USB1.1 device.
6ch
Mainboard is equipped with 6 channel of audio to support Dolby Digital 5.1 audio for DVD-playback. The onboard
audio jacks can be configured for normal 2 channel mode or 6 channel mode.
AMD Cool'n'QuietTM Technology
AMD's Cool'n'QuietTM Technology lowers CPU operating voltage when the system is in idle mode. This helps to
reduce heat dissipation and in effect lowers the fan speed to noise from your PC.
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Special Features
Thunder Probe
A hardware diagnostic software to monitor voltage, temperature and speed of a variety of hardware. It also
includes an ingenious built in fan control feature called Smart Fan.
Magic Flash
An automatic BIOS update utility in Windows environment, making DOS-based flash utility or bootable diskette
a thing of the past.
Magic Screen
Software utility to personalize the boot-up screen with your favorite images or logos.
Magic Health
Reports your system hardware status for every boot-up to help detect faults early. Monitor hardware status
including CPU temperature, CPU/Memory/Chipset voltage, fan RPM speed for chassis fan, CPU fan & Power
supply fan.
EZ-Boot
Simply press “ESC” to select your bootable device. No more hassle to search the BIOS menu, change and
re-start.
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PowerBIOS
Supporting a full range of overclocking setting via BIOS. Various adjustable feature include CPU/Memory/
Chipset voltage tweaking.
Thermo Stick (Optional)
Flexible thermometer to let you measure any temperature by software. Ideal for monitoring VGA card,
chipset or even disk drives temperatures.
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1-3 Mainboard Specification
Processor
Support Socket-AM2 (940 pin) based AMD Athlon-X2/Athlon-64/Sempron processors
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Support 2.0GTs 16X16 wide Hyper Transport bus
Support VMM (Virtualization-Machine-Monitoring)
Chipset
nVidia nF6100-400 / nF6100-405 / nF6100-430 Chipset
Integrate GeForce6-class Texture engine, Support Microsoft DirectX 9.0c, Shader Model 3.0 Graphics
Processing Unit, 300MHz RAMDAC for display resolutions up to and including 1920 x 1440 at 75 Hz
Main Memory
Four 240-pin unbuffered non-ECC DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support single-sided or double-sided 1.8v DDR2-533/667/800 DIMMs with dual channel architecture in
256Mb/512Mb/1Gb technologies
Supports up to 16GB memory size
Expansion Slots
Two PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.3
One PCI-E (x1) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a
One PCI-E (x16) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a, support x8 or x16 bandwidth (Optional)
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USB
Eight USB2.0 connectors from nF6100-400/nF6100-405 chipest, or Ten USB2.0 connectors from
nF6100-430 chipest (4 connectors at rear panel)
LAN
One 10/100 Ethernet from onboard Realtek RTL8201 LAN PHY
P-ATA IDE
One IDE interface (up to 2 IDE devices) with UDMA-33/66/100/133 support from embedded IDE controller
S-ATA RAID
Two S-A TA II ports with up to 300MB/s bandwidth from nF6100-400/nF6100-405, support RAID 0, 1 (Optional)
Four S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s bandwidth from nF6100-430, support RAID 0, 1, 0+1 (Optional)
I/O
Onboard EPoX EP1308 LPC bus I/O controller
Legacy peripheral interface for PS/2 keyboard & mouse, FDD, Parallel, Serial, and IrDA (v1.0 compliant)
Support Hardware Monitoring for fan speed monitoring and CPU temperature sensing
Intelligent fan speed control for CPU-fan (PWM), Chassis-fan and Power-fan for quiet operation
Audio
6 channel audio from onboard Realtek ALC8xx High Definition audio compliant CODEC
- Support CD-In
- Support Jack detection for fool-proof audio device installation
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