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Biostar NF4UL-A9 User Manual - page 6
NF4UL-A9
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IEEE 1394A Chip (optional)
Chip: VIA VT6307.
Supports 2 ports with transfer up to 400Mb/s.
Gigabit Ethernet LAN
NVIDIA Gigabit MAC + VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201.
Supports 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1Gb/s auto-negotiation.
Half/Full duplex capability.
Supports personal Firewall setup.
Supports ACPI power management.
Supports NVIDIA StreamThru technology
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Isochronous controller paired with Hyper Transport results
in fastest networking performance
Security
NVIDIA Networking Processor.
NVIDIA Firewall technology
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Native firewall solution, protects the PC from intruders by
filtering unauthorized traffic.
Advanced features
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Remote access, configuration, monitoring
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Command line interface (CLI)
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WMI scripts.
NVIDIA Active Armor
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Enhance network security, and providing users an
environment with both fast and secure.
Storage
NVIDIA
RAID
Technology
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RAID 0 disk striping for highest system and application
performance
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RAID 1 disk mirroring support for fault tolerance
Support for both SATA and ATA-133 disk controller
standards
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RAID 0+1 disk striping and mirroring for highest
performance with fault tolerance
Summary of NF4UL-A9
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Nf4ul-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 part 15 of the fcc rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This e...
Page 2: Table of Contents
Table of contents ii chapter 1: introduction..................................................... 1 1.1 motherboard features .............................................................. 1 1.2 package checklist...................................................................... 6 1.3 layout & com...
Page 3: Chapter 1: Introduction
Nf4ul-a9 1 chapter 1: introduction 1.1 m otherboard f eatures a. Hardware cpu supports socket 939. • supports amd athlon 64 processor. • supports amd athlon 64 fx processor. • supports amd sempron processor. • amd 64 architecture enables simultaneous 32 and 64 bit computing. • supports hypertranspor...
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Nf4ul-a9 2 dimensions atx form factor: 23.4cm (w) x 29.35cm (l) main memory • supports dual channel ddr. • supports 8 banks in total. Supports ddr333 and ddr400. Certified ddr400 list: - please check the website: http://www.Biostar.Com.Tw/products/mainboard/board.Php3? Name=nf4ul-a9 maximum memory s...
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Nf4ul-a9 3 serial ata 4 on-board serial ata connectors support 4 serial ata (sata) ports. Compliant with sata2.0 specification. Data transfer rates up to 3gb/s. Slots λ three 32bit pci bus master slots. λ two pci-express x1 slots: - pci express 1.0a compliant. - bandwidth 250mb/s per direction. λ on...
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Nf4ul-a9 4 ieee 1394a chip (optional) chip: via vt6307. Supports 2 ports with transfer up to 400mb/s. Gigabit ethernet lan nvidia gigabit mac + vitesse gigabit phy vsc8201. Supports 10 mb/s, 100 mb/s and 1gb/s auto-negotiation. Half/full duplex capability. Supports personal firewall setup. Supports ...
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Nf4ul-a9 5 internal on-board connectors and headers 1 audio-out header supports audio-out facilities. • 1 front panel header supports front panel facilities. 1 cd-in connector supports cd-rom audio-in function. • 1 spdif-out connector supports digital audio-out function. • 1 spdif-in connector suppo...
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Nf4ul-a9 6 • 3 audio ports support 6 channels audio-out facilities (with alc655, optional). Ps/2 mouse ps/2 keyboard printer port com1 com2 (optional) 1394 port (optional) usb *2 lan connector usb *2 line-in/rear line-out mic-in/ center/ left b. Bios & software bios award legal bios. Supports apm1.2...
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Nf4ul-a9 7 1.3 l ayout & c omponents so c k e t 9 3 9 jkbms1 jusblan1 c o m 1 jcom1 c o m 2 jcom2 (optional) j p rnt 1 j1394_usb1 earphonejack1 jaudio2 jkbmsv1 j1394_usbv1 j1394pwr1 (optional) jatxpwr2 jatxpwr1 pci-ex16 xgp1 pci1 pci3 pci2 bios di m m 2 d imm4 d imm1 d imm3 ide2 ide1 jsata1 jsata2 j...
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Nf4ul-a9 8 chapter 2: hardware installation 2.1 c entral p rocessing u nit (cpu) step 1: pull the lever sideways away from the socket and then raise the lever up to a 90-degree angle. Step 2: look for the black cut edge on socket, and the white dot on cpu should point forwards this black cut edge. T...
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Nf4ul-a9 9 step 3: hold the cpu down firmly, and then close the lever to complete the installation. Step 4: put the cpu fan on the cpu and buckle it. Connect the cpu fan power cable to the jcfan1. This completes the installation..
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Nf4ul-a9 10 2.2 f an h eaders cpu fan power header: jcfan1 pin assignment 1 ground 2 +12v 1 3 3 fan rpm rate sense system fan power header: jsfan1 pin assignment 1 ground 2 +12v 1 3 3 fan rpm rate sense north bridge fan power header: jnbfan1 pin assignment 1 ground 2 +12v 1 3 3 fan rpm rate sense no...
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Nf4ul-a9 11 2.3 m emory m odules i nstallation 2.2.1 ddr module installation 1. Unlock a dimm slot by pressing the retaining clips outward. Align a dimm on the slot such that the notch on the dimm matches the break on the slot. 2. Insert the dimm vertically and firmly into the slot until the retaini...
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Nf4ul-a9 12 2.4 c onnectors , & s lots floppy disk connector: fdd1 the motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360k, 720k, 1.2m, 1.44m and 2.88m floppy disk types. This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables. Hard disk connectors: ide1/ide2 the motherb...
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Nf4ul-a9 13 chapter 3: headers & jumpers setup 3.1 h ow to setup j umpers the illustration shows how to set up jumpers. When the jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “close”, if not, that means the jumper is “open”. Pin opened pin closed pin1-2 closed 3.2 d etail s ettings atx power source co...
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Nf4ul-a9 14 power source headers for usb ports: j1394_usbv1/jusbv1 assignment description 1 3 pin 1-2 close +5v j1394_usbv1: +5v for usb ports at j1394_usb1 and jusblan1. Jusbv1: +5v for front usb headers (jusb1/jusb2/jusb3). 1 3 pin 2-3 close +5v standby voltage j1394_usbv1: usb ports at j1394_usb1...
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Nf4ul-a9 15 front panel audio-out header: jaudio2 this connector will allow user to connect with the front audio out put headers on the pc case. It will disable the output on back panel audio connectors. With alc850 audio sound codec: 1 2 13 14 pin assignment pin assignment 1 mic in/stereo mic-in r....
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Nf4ul-a9 16 digital audio-out connector: jspdif_out this connector will allow user to connect the pci bracket spdif output header. Pin assignment 1 +5v 2 spdif out 1 3 jspdif_out 3 ground digital audio-in connector: jspdif_in1 (optional) this connector will allow user to connect the pci bracket spdi...
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Nf4ul-a9 17 header for front panel facilities: jpanel1 this 24-pin connector includes power-on, reset, hdd led, power led, sleep button, speaker and irda connection. It allows user to connect the pc case’s front panel switch functions. 1 2 23 24 jpanel1 pin assignment function pin assignment functio...
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Nf4ul-a9 18 close cmos header: jcmos1 by placing the jumper on pin2-3, it allows user to restore the bios safe setting and the cmos data, please carefully follow the procedures to avoid damaging the motherboard. Jcmos1 assignment 1 3 pin 1-2 close normal operation (default). 1 3 pin 2-3 close clear ...
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Nf4ul-a9 19 chapter 4: useful help 4.1 a ward bios b eep c ode beep sound meaning one long beep followed by two short beeps video card not found or video card memory bad high-low siren sound cpu overheated system will shut down automatically one short beep when system boot-up no error found during p...
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Nf4ul-a9 20 chapter 5: nvidia raid functions 5.1 o peration s ystem windows xp home edition windows xp professional edition windows 2000 professional 5.2 r aid a rrays nvraid supports the following types of raid arrays: raid 0: raid 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves disk read and writes...
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Nf4ul-a9 21 5.3 h ow raid w orks raid 0: the controller “stripes” data across multiple drives in a raid 0 array system. It breaks up a large file into smaller blocks and performs disk reads and writes across multiple drives in parallel. The size of each block is determined by the strip size paramete...
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Nf4ul-a9 22 raid 1: every read and write is actually carried out in parallel across 2 disk drives in a raid 1 array system. The mirrored (backup) copy of the data can reside on the same disk or on a second redundant drive in the array. Raid 1 provides a hot-standby copy of data if the active volume ...
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Nf4ul-a9 23 raid 0+1: raid 0 drives can be mirrored suing raid 1 techniques. Resulting in a raid 0+1 solution for improved performance plus resiliency. Nvidia nforce 4 ck8-04 ultra block 2 block 4 block 6 block 1 block 3 block 5 block 2 block 4 block 6 block 1 block 3 block 5 features and benefits d...
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Nf4ul-a9 24 spanning (jbod): jbod stands for “just a bunch of disks”. Each drive is accessed as if it were on a standard scsi host bus adapter. This is useful when a single drive configuration is needed, but it offers no speed improvement or fault tolerance. Nvidia nforce 4 ck8-04 ultra disk 1: 40gb...
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Nf4ul-a9 26 chapter 6: warpspeeder™ 6.1 i ntroduction [warpspeeder™], a new powerful control utility, features three user-friendly functions including overclock manager, overvoltage manager, and hardware monitor. With the overclock manager, users can easily adjust the frequency they prefer or they c...
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Nf4ul-a9 27 6.3 i nstallation 1. Execute the setup execution file, and then the following dialog will pop up. Please click “next” button and follow the default procedure to install. 2. When you see the following dialog in setup procedure, it means setup is completed. If the “launch the warpspeeder t...
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Nf4ul-a9 28 6.4 [w arp s peeder ™] includes 1 tray icon and 5 panels 1. Tray icon: whenever the tray icon utility is launched, it will display a little tray icon on the right side of windows taskbar. This utility is responsible for conveniently invoking [warpspeeder™] utility. You can use the mouse ...
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Nf4ul-a9 29 2. Main panel if you click the tray icon, [warpspeeder™] utility will be invoked. Please refer to the following figure; the utility’s first window you will see is main panel. Main panel contains features as follows: a. Display the cpu speed, cpu external clock, memory clock, agp clock, a...
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Nf4ul-a9 30 3. Voltage panel click the voltage button in main panel, the button will be highlighted and the voltage panel will slide out to up as the following figure. In this panel, you can decide to increase cpu core voltage and memory voltage or not. The default setting is “no”. If you want to ge...
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Nf4ul-a9 31 4. Overclock panel click the overclock button in main panel, the button will be highlighted and the overclock panel will slide out to left as the following figure. Overclock panel contains the these features: a. “–3mhz button”, “-1mhz button”, “+1mhz button”, and “+3mhz button”: provide ...
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Nf4ul-a9 32 c. “auto-overclock button”: user can click this button and [warpspeeder™] will set the best and stable performance and frequency automatically. [warpspeeder™] utility will execute a series of testing until system fail. Then system will do fail-safe reboot by using watchdog function. Afte...
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Nf4ul-a9 33 6. About panel click the “about” button in main panel, the button will be highlighted and the about panel will slide out to up as the following figure. In this panel, you can get model name and detail information in hints of all the chipset that are related to overclocking. You can also ...
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Nf4ul-a9 34 note: because the overclock, overvoltage, and hardware monitor features are controlled by several separate chipset, [warpspeeder™] divide these features to separate panels. If one chipset is not on board, the correlative button in main panel will be disabled, but will not interfere other...
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Nf4ul-a9 35 2/15, 2005.