MSI K9N Neo V3 Series, User Manual

Page 1: ...i K9N Neo V2 V3 Series MS 7369 V1 X Mainboard G52 73691X1...

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Page 3: ...lace the power cord such a way that people can not step on it Do not place anything over the power cord 8 Always Unplug the Power Cord before inserting any add on card or module 9 All cautions and war...

Page 4: ...interference by one or more of the measures listed below Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on...

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Page 8: ...ts Guide 2 2 CPU Central Processing Unit 2 3 Memory 2 6 Power Supply 2 8 Back Panel 2 10 Connectors 2 12 Jumper 2 18 Slots 2 19 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 3 1 Entering Setup 3 2 The Main Menu 3 4 Standard C...

Page 9: ...RAID Drives Management B 12 Appendix C nVidia System Driver C 1 nVidia System Driver Installation C 2 nVidia Utility Installaion C 5 Appendix D Dual Core Center D 1 Activating Dual Core Center D 2 Ma...

Page 10: ...ATX mainboard The K9N Neo V2 V3 Series mainboards are based on nVidia nForce 520 nForce 560 single chipset for optimal system efficiency Designed to fit the advanced AMD Athlon 64X2 Athlon 64 Sempron...

Page 11: ...B Max For more information on compatible components please visit http global msi com tw index php func testreport LAN Supports Giga LAN 10 100 1000 Fast Ethernet by Realtek RTL8111B RTL 8211BL optiona...

Page 12: ...l port support SPP EPP ECP mode 4 USB 2 0 Ports 1 LAN jack 6 audio jacks On Board Pinheaders 3 USB 2 0 pin headers 1 Chassis Intrusion Switch pinheader 1 SPDIF Out pinheader 1 Front Panel Audio pinhea...

Page 13: ...ttom COM portA Top LAN Jack Bottom USBports USB ports T M B Line In Line Out Mic T RS Out M CS Out B SS Out JAUD1 JCD1 ALC888 SYSFAN1 CPUFAN1 SYSFAN2 JPW1 BATT JBAT1 LAN Chip JCI1 PCI3 PCI2 PCI1 PCI_E...

Page 14: ...st Power Cable SATA Cable User s Guide MSI motherboard MSI Driver Utility CD The pictures are for reference only and may vary from the packing contents of the product you purchased Back IO Shield Stan...

Page 15: ...dures While doing the installation be careful in holding the components and follow the installation procedures For some components if you install in the wrong orientation the components will not work...

Page 16: ...12 PCI Slots p 2 19 SATA1 4 p 2 13 SYSFAN2 p 2 14 FDD1 p 2 12 PCIE x16 slot p 2 19 CPU p 2 3 Quick Components Guide JAUD1 p 2 15 JBAT1 p 2 18 JFP2 p 2 17 JCD1 p 2 14 JCI1 p 2 14 JPW1 p 2 8 SPDOUT1 p...

Page 17: ...tp global msi com tw index php func cpuform CPU Central Processing Unit Important Overheating Overheating will seriously damage the CPU and system Always make sure the cooling fan can work properly to...

Page 18: ...ed the pins should be completely embedded into the socket and can not be seen Please note that any violation of the correct installation procedures may cause permanent damages to your mainboard 5 Pres...

Page 19: ...s shown in this section are for demonstration of the cooler installation for Socket AM2 CPUs only The appearance of your mainboard may vary depending on the model you purchase Important 2 Then press d...

Page 20: ...ore information on compatible components please visit http global msi com tw index php func testreport Dual Channel mode Population Rule In Dual Channel mode the memory modules can transmit and receiv...

Page 21: ...the memory module is properly inserted in the DIMM slot Volt Notch Important DDR2 memory modules are not interchangeable with DDR and the DDR2 standard is not backwards compatible You should always in...

Page 22: ...onnector allows you to connect an ATX 24 pin power supply To connect the ATX 24 pin power supply make sure the plug of the power supply is inserted in the proper orientation and the pins are aligned T...

Page 23: ...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 or unplug t...

Page 24: ...eed communications port that sends receives 16 bytes FIFOs You can attach a serial mouse or other serial devices directly to the connector LAN RJ 45 Jack The standard RJ 45 jack is for connec tion to...

Page 25: ...iate the color of the audio jacks for different audio sound effects Line In Blue Line In is used for external CD player tapeplayer or other audio devices Line Out Green Line Out is a connector for spe...

Page 26: ...E Connector IDE1 This connector supports IDE hard disk drives optical disk drives and other IDE devices Important If you install two IDE devices on the same cable you must configure the drives separat...

Page 27: ...the Serial ATA cable into 90 degree angle Otherwise data loss may occur during transmission SATA1 SATA3 Serial ATA Connector SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 This connector is a high speed Serial ATA interfac...

Page 28: ...t the red wire is the positive and should be connected to the 12V the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND If the mainboard has a System Hardware Monitor chipset on board you must use a...

Page 29: ...is connected 5 LINEout_R Analog Port Right channel 6 MIC_JD Jack detection return from front panelmicrophone JACK1 7 Front_JD Jackdetectionsenselinefrom theHighDefinitionAudioCODEC jackdetection resis...

Page 30: ...PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 VCC 2 VCC 3 USB0 4 USB1 5 USB0 6 USB1 7 GND 8 GND 9 Key no pin 10 USBOC Pin Definition Important Note that the pins of VCC and GND must be connected correctly to avoid possibl...

Page 31: ...erSwitch low reference pull up 9 RSVD_DNU Reserved Donot use JFP1 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 GND Ground 2 SPK Speaker 3 SLED SuspendLED 4 BUZ Buzzer 5 PLED PowerLED 6 BUZ Buzzer 7 NC Noco...

Page 32: ...th the CMOS RAM the system can auto matically boot OS every time it is turned on If you want to clear the system configuration set the jumper to clear data Important You can clear CMOS by shorting 2 3...

Page 33: ...ons PCI Express x16 Slot PCI Express x1 Slot 32 bit PCI Slot PCI Interrupt Request Routing The IRQ acronym of interrupt request line and pronounced I R Q are hardware lines over which devices can send...

Page 34: ...IOS Setup program and allows you to configure the system for optimum use You may need to run the Setup program when An error message appears on the screen during the system booting up and requests you...

Page 35: ...HOENIX 2nd 5th digit refers to the model number 6th digit refers to the chipset as I Intel N nVidia and V VIA 7th 8th digit refers to the customer as MS all standard customers V1 0 refers to the BIOS...

Page 36: ...Then you can use the control keys to enter values and move from field to field within a sub menu If you want to return to the main menu just press the Esc General Help F1 The BIOS setup program provid...

Page 37: ...rated peripherals Power Management Features Use this menu to specify your settings for power management PNP PCI Configurations This entry appears if your system supports PnP PCI H W Monitor This entry...

Page 38: ...lt values set by the mainboard manufacturer specifi cally for optimal performance of the mainboard BIOS Setting Password Use this menu to set the password for BIOS Save Exit Setup Save changes to CMOS...

Page 39: ...t date The format is day month date year day Day of the week from Sun to Sat determined by BIOS Read only month The month from Jan through Dec date The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by numeric functi...

Page 40: ...utility that monitors your disk status to predict hard disk failure This gives you an opportunity to move data from a hard disk that is going to fail to a safe place before the hard disk becomes offli...

Page 41: ...how the company logo on the bootup screen Settings are Enabled Shows a still image logo on the full screen at boot Disabled Shows the POST messages at boot Quick Booting Setting the item to Enabled al...

Page 42: ...sor to older operating systems Chipset Feature Press Enter to enter the sub menu and the following screen appears HPET The HPET High Precision Event Timers is a component that is part of the chipset Y...

Page 43: ...operating system Onboard LAN Controller This item is used to enable disable the onboard LAN controller LAN Option ROM This item is used to decide whether to invoke the Boot ROM of the LAN controller...

Page 44: ...corresponding interrupt for the first serial port Parallel Port There is a built in parallel port on the on board Super I O chipset that provides Standard ECP and EPP features It has the following op...

Page 45: ...setting of this field Set tings are S1 The S1 sleep mode is a low power state In this state no system context is lost CPU or chipset and hardware main tains all system context S3 The S3 sleep mode is...

Page 46: ...red Wake Up Event Setup Press Enter and the following sub menu appears Resume From S3 By PS 2 Keyboard This setting determines whether the system will be awakened from what power saving modes when inp...

Page 47: ...r values PCI Slot 1 2 3 IRQ These items specify the IRQ line for each PCI slot PNP PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system and PnP Plug Play feature PCI or Peripheral...

Page 48: ...user can use these settings to reserve the IRQ by assigning an Reserved setting to it Onboard I O is configured by AMIBIOS All IRQs used by onboard I O are configured as Available If all IRQs are set...

Page 49: ...with in a specific range You can select a fan target value here If the current CPU fan temperature reaches to the target value the smart fan function will be activated It provides several sections to...

Page 50: ...ontrol Important To ensure that Cool n Quiet function is ac tivated and will be working properly it is required to double confirm that 1 R u n B IO S S e t u p a n d s e le c t Frequcncy Voltage Contr...

Page 51: ...e field is adjustable This setting determines the time RAS takes to read from and write to a memory cell RAS Precharge Time TRP When the MCT Timing Mode sets to Manual the field is adjustable This ite...

Page 52: ...M PCI Frequency This item is used to auto disable the DIMM PCI slots When set to Enabled the system will remove turn off clocks from empty DIMM PCI slots to minimize the elec tromagnetic interference...

Page 53: ...ard The Fail Safe Defaults are the default values set by the BIOS vendor for stable system performance When you select Load Fail Safe Defaults a message as below appears Selecting Ok and pressing Ente...

Page 54: ...nd press Enter You may also press Esc to abort the selection and not enter a password To clear a set password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will show up confir...

Page 55: ...88 Audio Appendix A The Realtek ALC888 provides 10 channel DAC that si multaneously supports 7 1 sound playback and 2 chan nels of independent stereo sound output multiple streaming through the Front...

Page 56: ...Service Pack1 or later before installing the driver The following illustrations are based on Windows XP environment and could look slightly different if you install the drivers in different operating...

Page 57: ...A 3 Realtek ALC888 Audio 3 Click Next to install the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Click here Select this option 4 Click Finish to restart the system Click here...

Page 58: ...el audio feature now Click the audio icon from the system tray at the lower right corner of the screen to activate the HD Audio Configuration It is also available to enable the audio driver by clickin...

Page 59: ...nt You may choose the provided sound effects and the equalizer will adjust automatically If you like you may also load an equalizer setting or make an new equalizer setting to save as an new one by us...

Page 60: ...without losing the settings Load Whenever you would like to use preload settings simply click this the whole list will be shown for your selection Delete To delete the pre saved settings which are cr...

Page 61: ...Pop Live Club Rock shown on the page to pull down the arrow in Others you will find more optimized settings available to you Karaoke Mode Karaoke mode brings Karaoke fun back home Simply using the mus...

Page 62: ...nd let them output respectively from the indicated real panel or front panel This feature is very helpful when 2 people are using the same computer together for different purposes Click the button and...

Page 63: ...d from the rear panel which is the default setting Then you must to select the Realtek HD Audio 2nd output from the scroll list first and use a different program to play the second audio source for ex...

Page 64: ...gle or multiple volume controls or to completely mute sound output Tool Show the following volume controls This is to let you freely decide which volume control items to be displayed Advanced controls...

Page 65: ...completely mute sound input Tool Show the following volume controls This is to let you freely decide which volume control items to be displayed Enable recording multi streaming Tool Mute Important AL...

Page 66: ...H Speaker for 5 1 Speaker Output e 8CH Speaker for 7 1 Speaker Output Speaker Configuration 1 Plug the speakers in the corresponding jack 2 Dialogue connected device will pop up for your selection Ple...

Page 67: ...jack detection option Jack detection function only works with HD audio front panel Mute rear panel output when front headphone plugged in Enable auto popup dialogue when device has been plugged in On...

Page 68: ...ability of a digital signal prevents the quality of the signal from degrading when it is converted to analog Output Sampling Rate 44 1KHz This is recommend while playing CD 48KHz This is recommended w...

Page 69: ...up and make testing sound If any speaker fails to make sound then check whether the cable is inserted firmly to the connector or replace the bad speakers with good ones Or you may click the auto test...

Page 70: ...rom being recorded by mi crophone together with your sound For example you might have chance to use VOIP function through Internet with your friends The voice of your friend will come out from speaker...

Page 71: ...888 Audio 3D Audio Demo In this tab you may adjust your 3D positional audio before playing 3D audio applica tions like gaming You may also select different environment to choose the most suitable envi...

Page 72: ...Audio Controller Audio Codec You may also select the language of this utility by choosing from the Language list Also there is a selection Show icon in system tray Switch it on and an icon will show i...

Page 73: ...tion mode properly in the software utility connect your speakers to the correct phone jacks in accordance with the setting in software utility n 2 Channel Mode for Stereo Speaker Output 1 Line In 2 Li...

Page 74: ...MS 7369 Mainboard A 20 n 4 Channel Mode for 4 Speaker Output 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels 5 No function 6 No function 3 1 2 6 4 5...

Page 75: ...A 21 Realtek ALC888 Audio n 6 Channel Mode for 6 Speaker Output 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels 5 Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel 6 No function 1 2 6 4 5 3...

Page 76: ...7369 Mainboard A 22 n 8 Channel Mode for 8 Speaker Output 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels 5 Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel 6 Line Out Side channels 1 2 6 4 5...

Page 77: ...used by the world s lead ing businesses to the common PC desktop This tech nology uses multiple drives to either increase total disk space or to offer data protection For all levels RAID techniques o...

Page 78: ...RAID 0 Non critical data requiring high performance High data throughput No fault tolerance multiple None RAID 1 Small databases or any other small capacity environment requiring fault tolerance 100...

Page 79: ...esired RAID array 3 Boot from the Windows CD use the floppy disk that has the RAID driver to copy and install the nForce RAID software Check p B 7 for details 4 Initialize the NVRAID Array Disks Setti...

Page 80: ...aster The channel controller status of each hard disk is given in the Port columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists In the example above 0 0 means the hard drive is attached to Controller 0 Cha...

Page 81: ...KB but the values can be between 4 KB and 128 KB Assigning the Disks The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block These are the drives that are availa...

Page 82: ...t up 3 Use the arrow keys to select the array that you want to set up then press Enter The Array Detail window appears 4 If you want to mark this disk as empty and wipe out all its contents then press...

Page 83: ...ect NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER and then press Enter 3 Press S again at the Specify Devices screen then press Enter 4 Select NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller and then press Enter The follow ing Windows S...

Page 84: ...n is completed then take out the floppy 5 Follow the instructions on how to install Windows XP After Windows XP is com pletely installed it is recommended that you install the the RAID management tool...

Page 85: ...the RAID software which will upgrade the Windows IDE driver and install the RAID software 1 Start the NVIDIA nForce Drivers installation program to open the NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers page 2 Selec...

Page 86: ...gs Control Panel then open the Administrative Tools folder and double click on Computer Management 2 Click Disk Management under the Storage section The Initialize and Convert Disk Wizards appears 3 C...

Page 87: ...he Computer Management window appears The actual disks listed will depend on your system and the unallocated partition is the total combined storage of two hard disks You must format the unallocated d...

Page 88: ...ros to the sectors of each hard disk Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array Rebuild a broken mirrored array Watch the progress of rebuilding an array Only applies to RAID 1 RAID 0 1 and RAID 5 arrays Synchr...

Page 89: ...irrored array to be used instead of the failed disk Dedicated Disk A dedicated free disk is a disk that is assigned to a RAID 1 RAID 0 1 or RAID 5 array and that disk is used by that array only when n...

Page 90: ...ree is RAID enabled 2 Boot into Windows and run the NVRAIDMAN program If the disk is not part of any RAID array then it will appear under the Free Disk section of the RAID GUI Step 2 Dedicate the Free...

Page 91: ...be designated to the mirror array 5 Click Next The Completing the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation page appears 6 Click Finish As shown in figure below the ST380011A drive is now a dedicated free disk in...

Page 92: ...een assigned to a particular array it can be removed at any time To remove the disk right click on the dedicated disk and select Remove Disk to remove it In the previous example simply right click on...

Page 93: ...eneral Requirements and Limitations The new array capacity must be equal to or greater than the previous array For example it is possible to morph from a RAID 1 array to a RAID 0 array as long as the...

Page 94: ...able by the system Hot Plug Array allows the user to add or remove an entire array without degrading the array in the process NVRAIDMAN can be used to hot plug a RAID disk To hot plug a disk simply do...

Page 95: ...ay and writes all zeros to the disks Initialization of newly configured RAID arrays is recommended to ensure consistency and reliable performance on any supported fault tolerant array such asRAID 5 RA...

Page 96: ...Array Wizard Welcome screen click Next 4 At the RAID Array Selection page make sure that RAID Mode is set to Mirroring and Stripe Size is set to its default value of 64K then click Next 5 At the Free...

Page 97: ...A Create Array Wizard screen The NVRAIDMAN windows shows the created RAID array as shown below The Initialization Process As you can see from the screen shot above the initialization process has start...

Page 98: ...array and one of the drives fail then you need the lost data on the newly added drive Rebuilding Instructions After creating a mirrored array you can rebuild the array using the following steps 1 Go t...

Page 99: ...t then click Next The Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array page appears 6 Click Finish The array rebuilding starts after a few seconds and a small pop up message appears towards the bottom right corner...

Page 100: ...Arrays Rebuilding an array works only when using RAID 1 RAID 0 1 or RAID 5 Rebuilding does not apply to RAID 0 and JBOD arrays Rebuilding applies to a degraded fault tolerant array You can rebuild a d...

Page 101: ...n array do the following This example assumes you have already created a fault tolerant array such as RAID 1 1 Right click on Mirroring and select Synchronize Array as shown in Figure below 2 The Sync...

Page 102: ...MSI provides a setup CD along with your mainboard which contains the required drivers for your system and many other useful and powerful utility to bring you the best experience for your office profe...

Page 103: ...ailable for Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating system Please follow the following step to install the driver correctly 1 Click on the NVIDIA MCP68 System Driver button to install the NVIDIA System...

Page 104: ...tall All the components shown here will be selected to be installed by default Then click Next 3 The system will start installing the selected driver components automatically 4 Then the following scre...

Page 105: ...the following screen displays the installation of NVIDIA IDE SW Driver Click Yes to continue 6 The following screen indicates that the installation is complete Click Yes to restart your computer or c...

Page 106: ...b and the screen below will display 2 Then click on the NVIDIA Utility tab and the screen below will display 3 Click the nTune Utility icon to install it nTune Utility provides a safe and easy way to...

Page 107: ...ainboard MSI Graphics card in windows such as CPU GPU clock voltage fan speed and temperature Before you install the Dual Core Center please make sure the system has meet the following requirements 1...

Page 108: ...ty MSI Utility Dual Core Center it will have an icon in the system tray a short cut icon on the desktop and a short cut path in your Start up menu You may double click on each icon to enable Dual Core...

Page 109: ...brand only hardware status of the MSI mainboard would be available Introduction Click each button appearing above to enter sub menu to make further configuration or to execute the function M B Click...

Page 110: ...you can adjust and monitor the fan speeds of MB and graphics card Temperature In this sub menu you can monitor the temperatures of MB and graphics card User Profile In this sub menu you can set the v...

Page 111: ...e it will restore the default settings instead Usually the Dynamic Overclocking Technology will be powered only when users PC runs huge amount of data like 3D games or video process and the motherboar...

Page 112: ...rease the clock or click the minus sign button to decrease the clock And finally click the Apply button to apply the values adjusted If you do not want to apply the adjustments click the Cancel button...

Page 113: ...age or click the minus sign button to decrease And finally click the Apply button to apply the adjustments If you do not want to apply the adjustments click the Cancel button to cancel Or click the De...

Page 114: ...section or click the minus sign button to decrease Or click the Default button to restore the default values On the underside it shows the graphs of the fan speed Only the curves of the item which the...

Page 115: ...perature In the Temperature sub menu you can see temperature status of your system On the underside it shows the graphs of the temperatures Only the curves of the item which the button is lit up with...

Page 116: ...u click the setting button that besides the user profile bar and the next screen will appear Here you can define the clock fan speed voltage by your need click the button to choose a value quickly or...

Page 117: ...draw bar to set the minimal fan speed When the fan speed is lower than the threshold you defined the system will pop up a warning message Finally you can choose the user profile by click the button in...