Nvidia MS-7374 manual Important Notification about Power Issue, Unplug all the power connectors

Hardware Setup

Important

1.Make sure that all the connectors are connected to proper ATX power sup- plies to ensure stable operation of the mainboard.

2.Power supply of 450 watts (and above) is highly recommended for system stability.

3.We recommend you to use the minimum 450 watts power supply to support the needs of SLI technology in the system.

Important Notification about Power Issue

NForce chipset is very sensitive to ESD (Electrostatic Discharge), therefore this issue mostly happens while the users intensively swap memory modules under S5 (power-off) states, and the power code is plugged while installing modules. Due to several pins are very sensitive to ESD, so this kind of memory-replacement actions might cause system chipset unable to boot. Please follow the following solution to avoid this situation.

Unplug the AC power cable (shown in figure 1) or unplug all power connectors on the mainboard (shown in figure 2) before the 1st installation or during system up- grade procedure.

Figure 1:

Unplug the AC power cable

Figure 2: Unplug all the power connectors

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