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NF4ST-A9
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 equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency
energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may
cause harmful interference to radio communications. There is no guarantee
that interference will not occur in a particular installation.
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- Page 1 NF4ST-A9 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.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction... 1 Motherboard Features... 1 Package Checklist ... 6 Layout & Components ... 7 Chapter 2: Hardware Installation ... 8 Central Processing Unit (CPU) ... 8 Fan Headers... 10 Memory Modules Installation... 11 Connectors, & Slots... 12 Chapter 3: Headers &... -
Page 3: Chapter 1: Introduction
Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Bus Master Mode. Compliant with AC’97 version2.3 specification. Complaints with PCI-Express Version 1.a specification. Operating Systems Supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Note: Do not support Windows 98SE and Windows ME. Supports SCO UNIX. NF4ST-A9 EATURES... -
Page 4: Main Memory
NF4ST-A9 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=NF4ST-A9 Maximum memory size is 4GB. DIMM Socket... -
Page 5: Serial Ata
NF4ST-A9 Serial ATA 4 on-board Serial ATA connectors support 4 serial ATA (SATA) ports. Compliant with SATA1.0 specification. Data transfer rates up to 1.5Gb/s. Slots Three 32bit PCI bus master slots. Two PCI-Express x1 slots: PCI Express 1.0a compliant. Bandwidth 250MB/s per direction. - Page 6 NF4ST-A9 IEEE 1394A Chip (optional) Chip: VIA VT6307. Supports 2 ports with transfer up to 400Mb/s. Gigabit 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.
- Page 7 NF4ST-A9 1 SPDIF-in connector supports digital audio-in function (optional). 1 IEEE1394 header supports 1 1394 Firewire port (optional). 1 floppy connector supports 2 FDD devices with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes. 2 IDE connectors support 4 IDE disk drives.
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Page 8: Package Checklist
Rear I/O Panel for ATX Case X 1 USB 2.0 Cable X1 (optional) S/PDIF Cable X 1 (optional) Serial ATA Cable X 1 (optional) IEEE 1394 Cable X 1 (optional) Serial ATA Power Switch Cable X 1 (optional) NF4ST-A9 JUSBLAN1 J1394_USB1 Connector 1394 Port (optional) -
Page 9: Layout & Components
Giga LAN PCI-EX16 J1394PWR1 (optional) XGP1 IEEE 1394 Chip (optional) PCI1 JCDIN1 JSPDIF_OUT PCI2 JSPDIF_IN1 Codec PCI3 Note: ■ represents the 1 NF4ST-A9 JCFAN1 nForce4 (CK8-04) JNBFAN1 JSATA1 JSATA2 JCI1 JUSB1 Super I/O J1394A1 (optional) BIOS JPANEL1 pin. JATXPWR1 IDE2... -
Page 10: Chapter 2: Hardware Installation
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. The CPU will fit only in the correct orientation. NF4ST-A9 (CPU) - Page 11 NF4ST-A9 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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Page 12: Fan Headers
Smart Fan Control utility. It supports 3 pin head connector. When connecting with wires onto connectors, please note that the red wire is the positive and should be connected to pin#2, and the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND. NF4ST-A9 Assignment Ground CPU Fan Control... -
Page 13: Memory Modules Installation
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 retaining chip snap back in place and the DIMM is properly seated. NF4ST-A9 NSTALLATION... -
Page 14: Connectors, & Slots
PC. After PC restarts, the system will automatically set the AGP VGA card as the graphics adapter. 2. Re-install your operating system to ensure the AGP VGA card function can be used. Note: Please go to “http://www.biostar.com.tw” for more detailed information about XGP compatible AGP cards. NF4ST-A9... -
Page 15: Chapter 3: Headers & Jumpers Setup
JATXPWR2: By connecting this connector, it will provide +12V to CPU power circuit. +3.3V +3.3V Ground Ground Ground PW_OK Standby Voltage +5V +12V +12V JATXPWR1 Detect +12V JATXPWR2 +12V NF4ST-A9 Pin closed Pin1-2 closed Assignment Assignment +3.3V -12V Ground PS_ON Ground Ground Ground Ground Assignment Assignment Ground... - Page 16 NF4ST-A9 Power Source Headers for USB Ports: J1394_USBV1/JUSBV1 Assignment Pin 1-2 close +5V standby Voltage Pin 2-3 close Note: In order to support this function “Power-on system via USB device,” “J1394_USBV1/JUSBV1” jumper cap should be placed on Pin 2-3 individually.
- Page 17 NF4ST-A9 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: Assignment Stereo MIC-in R.
- Page 18 NF4ST-A9 Digital Audio-out Connector: JSPDIF_OUT This connector will allow user to connect the PCI bracket SPDIF output header. JSPDIF_OUT Digital Audio-in Connector: JSPDIF_IN (optional) This connector will allow user to connect the PCI bracket SPDIF output header. JSPDIF_IN Power Source Header for 1394 Chip: J1394PWR1 (optional) Assignment +3.3V...
- Page 19 NF4ST-A9 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. Assignment Function Speaker Connector Speaker...
- Page 20 CMOS and show the message on next boot-up. JCI1 Serial ATA Connector: JSATA1~JSATA4 The motherboard has a SATA Controller in nForce4 (CK8-04) with 4 channels SATA interface, it satisfies the SATA 1.0 spec and with transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s. Ground...
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Page 21: Chapter 4: Useful Help
Screen message says “Invalid Configuration” or “CMOS Failure.” Cannot boot system after installing second hard drive. NF4ST-A9 Meaning Video card not found or video card memory bad CPU overheated System will shut down automatically... -
Page 22: Chapter 5: Nvidia Raid Functions
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. Spanning (JBOD): JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different sizes in to one large disk. NF4ST-A9... -
Page 23: How Raid Works
Benefits: provides increased data throughput, especially for large files. No capacity loss penalty for parity. Drawbacks: Does not deliver any fault tolerance. If any drive in the array fails, all data is lost. Fault Tolerance: No. NF4ST-A9 nVIDIA nForce 4 (CK8-04) Block 2... - Page 24 NF4ST-A9 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.
- Page 25 NF4ST-A9 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. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 4, and maximum is 6 or 8, depending on the platform.
- Page 26 Fault Tolerance: Yes. For more detailed setup information, please refer to the Driver CD, or ※ go to http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20011106217193.html NVIDIA nForce Tutorial Flash. NF4ST-A9 Single Logical Drive Disk 1: 40GB Disk 2: 80GB Disk 3: 40GB Disk 4: 120GB...
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Page 28: Chapter 6: Warpspeeder
YSTEM EQUIREMENT OS Support: Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP DirectX: DirectX 8.1 or above. (The Windows XP operating system includes DirectX 8.1. If you use Windows XP, you do not need to install DirectX 8.1.) NF4ST-A9... -
Page 29: Installation
Tray Icon utility and [WarpSpeeder™] utility will be automatically and immediately launched after you click “Finish” button. Usage: The following figures are just only for reference, the screen printed in this user manual will change according to your motherboard on hand. NF4ST-A9... -
Page 30: Warpspeeder™] Includes 1 Tray Icon And 5 Panels
NF4ST-A9 ™] PEEDER INCLUDES TRAY ICON AND 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. - Page 31 NF4ST-A9 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: Display the CPU Speed, CPU external clock, Memory clock, AGP clock, and PCI clock information.
- Page 32 NF4ST-A9 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.
- Page 33 NF4ST-A9 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: “–3MHz button”, “-1MHz button”, “+1MHz button”, and “+3MHz button”: provide user the ability to do real-time overclock...
- Page 34 NF4ST-A9 “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. After reboot, the [WarpSpeeder™] utility will restore to the hardware default...
- Page 35 NF4ST-A9 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.
- Page 36 NF4ST-A9 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 panels’...
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