EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821
Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501
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CHAPTER 1 - Introduction to nForce Motherboards 4
1-1 Motherboard Features 4
1-1.1 Special Feat ures of the Motherboard 5
1-2 Specifications 6
1-3 Layout Diagram and Jumper Settings 7
1-3.1 Jumpers, Connec tors, Headers, and Sockets 8
CHAPTER 2 - Hardware Installation 10
2-1 Hardware Installation Steps 10
2-2 Checking The Motherboard Jumper Settings 10
Clearing the CMOS RAM 10
Keyboard Power On Function 11
USB Power On Fu nction 11
2-3 Installing The CPU 11
Glossary of Terms 11
2-3-2 About AMD Athlon64 939-pin CPUs 12
2-4 Installing Memory 13
Memory Installat ion Diagrams 14
2-5 Expansion Cards 15
2-5-1 Procedure F or Expansion Card Installation 15
2-5-2 Assigning IRQs For Expansion Cards 15
2-5-3 Interrupt Requ est Table 16
2-5-4 PCI-Expres s Slots 16
Diagram of PCI-Ex press Slot Locations and Functions 16
Table of Standard IRQ Assignments 17
2-5-5 SLI Bridge Ins tallation For NVIDIA SLI Cards (SLI Version Only) 18
2-6 Connectors and Headers 20
2-6-1 Connector Locat ions 20
2-7 Starting Up Your Computer 29
Beep Code Table 29
CHAPTER 3 - BIOS 30
3-0 Introducting BIOS 30
3-1 Entering BIOS Setup 30
CHAPTER 4 - DRIVER INSTALLATION 31
4-0 Driver Installation 31
4-1 RAID Installation 32
APPENDIX 1 - POST CODES 33
Quick Debug POST Codes 33
Boot Block POST Codes 34
APPENDIX 2 - TRADEMARKS AND NOTICES 35
Copyrights, Trademarks, and Notices 35
FCC Compliance Statement 35
APPENDIX 3 - WARRANTY INFORMATION 36
37 APPENDIX 4 - CONTACTING SUPPORT AND OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION