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BIOS Setup

Getting Help

After entering the Setup menu, the first menu you will see is the

 

Main Menu.

M ain  M enu

The main menu lists the setup functions  you can make changes  to. You  can

use the control keys ( 

↑↓ ) 

to select the item. The on-line description of the highlighted

setup function is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Sub-M enu

If  you find a right  pointer symbol (as shown  in the right view) appears to  the

left of certain fields that means a sub-menu con-
taining additional options can be launched  from
this  field.  You  can  use  control  keys    ( 

↑↓ )

  to

highlight the field and press <Enter> to call up the
sub-menu. 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 <Esc >.

General Help <F1>

The BIOS setup program provides a General  Help screen. You can call up this

screen from any menu by simply pressing <F1>. The Help screen lists the appropriate
keys to use and the possible selections for the highlighted item. Press <Esc> to exit
the Help screen.

Summary of Contents for MS-7207

Page 1: ...i MS 7207 v2 X Micro ATX Mainboard K8NGM2 Series G52 M7207X5...

Page 2: ...radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the measures listed below Reorien...

Page 3: ...t Corporation NVIDIA the NVIDIA logo DualNet and nForce are registered trademarks or trade marks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and or other countries Netware is a registered trademark of...

Page 4: ...ce personnel The power cord or plug is damaged Liquid has penetrated into the equipment The equipment has been exposed to moisture The equipment has not work well or you can not get it work according...

Page 5: ...v WEEE Statement...

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Page 8: ...8 Power Supply 2 9 ATX 24 Pin Power Connector ATX1 2 9 ATX 12V Power Connector JPW1 2 9 Back Panel 2 10 Mouse Keyboard Connector 2 10 VGA Connector for GeForce 6150 only 2 10 Digital Panel Connector f...

Page 9: ...2 24 Slots 2 25 PCI Express Slots 2 25 PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots 2 25 PCI Interrupt Request Routing 2 25 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 3 1 Entering Setup 3 2 Control Keys 3 2 Getting Help 3 3...

Page 10: ...ng the RAID Driver for bootable RAID Array 5 7 NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation 5 9 Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software under Windows for Non bootable RAID Array 5 9 Initializing and Using the Disk Ar...

Page 11: ...ophone A 17 3D Audio Demo A 18 Information A 19 Using 2 4 6 8 Channel Audio Function A 20 Appendix B Using the TV Out Function HDTV Out Integrated B 1 Installing the TV Out Bracket B 2 Connecting S Vi...

Page 12: ...7207 v2 X Micro ATX mainboard The K8NGM2 Series mainboards are based on nVidia GeForce 6150 6100 nVidia nForce 430 410 chipsets for optimal system efficiency Designed to fit the advanced AMD K8 Athlon...

Page 13: ...30 supports RAID 0 1 0 1 and 5 nForce 410 supports RAID 0 1 only Ultra DMA 66 100 133 master mode PCI EIDE controller ACPI PC2001 compliant enhanced power management Supports USB2 0 up to 8 ports Supp...

Page 14: ...Audio header Rear central side output 1 TV out header for GeForce 6150 optional 1 RJ 45 LAN Jack 2 IDE ports support 4 IDE devices 2 4 serial ATAII ports nForce 410 430 BIOS The mainboard BIOS provid...

Page 15: ...s burnt in the BIOS core If the 1394 GUID address is lost due to an unpredictable event such as replac ing a new BIOS chip users can use the utility from MSI s website by entering the 1394 GUID addres...

Page 16: ...1 5 Getting Started Mainboard Layout K8NGM2 Series MS 7207 v2 X M ATX Mainboard...

Page 17: ...therboard MSI Driver Utility CD Back IO Shield 1394 Bracket Optional USB Bracket Optional Standard Cable for IDE Devices Standard Cable for Floppy Disk The pictures are for reference only Your packing...

Page 18: ...les and expansion cards as well as how to setup the jumpers on the mainboard Also it provides the instructions on connecting the pe ripheral devices such as the mouse keyboard etc While doing the inst...

Page 19: ...2 3 JTV1 p 2 22 Back Panel I O p 2 10 JCOM1 p 2 20 SATA1 4 p 2 17 JFP1 p 2 21 IDE1 2 p 2 16 JUSB1 JUSB2 p 2 23 SYSFAN1 p 2 15 PCI Express Slots p 2 25 J1394_1 p 2 19 SW1 p 2 24 ATX1 p 2 9 FDD1 p 2 15...

Page 20: ...ontact your dealer to purchase and install them before turning on the computer For the latest information about CPU please visit http www msi com tw pro gram products mainboard mbd pro_mbd_cpu_support...

Page 21: ...f the CPU is correctly installed 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 da...

Page 22: ...late s paster 2 Turn over the mainboard and install the backplate to the proper position 3 Turn over the mainboard again and place the mainboard on the flat surface Locate the two screw holes of the m...

Page 23: ...on the top of the retention mechanism 7 Fasten down the lever 8 Make sure the safety hook completely clasps the fixed bolt of the retention mechanism Safety Hook Fixed Bolt Fixed Lever 9 Attach the C...

Page 24: ...mory Module modules and supports the memory size up to 4GB You can install DDR 333 400 modules on the DDR DIMM slots DIMM 1 4 DIMM1 DIMM4 from left to right DIMM1 CH A DIMM3 CH A DIMM2 CH B DIMM4 CH B...

Page 25: ...f module The module will only fit in the right orientation 2 Insert the DIMM memory module vertically into the DIMM slot Then push it in until the golden finger on the memory module is deeply inserted...

Page 26: ...u to connect an ATX 24 pin power supply To con nect 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 Then push down the...

Page 27: ...use Keyboard Data Mouse Keyboard data 2 NC Noconnection 3 GND Ground 4 VCC 5V 5 Mouse KeyboardClock Mouse Keyboardclock 6 NC Noconnection Pin Definition VGA Connector The mainboard provides a DB 15 pi...

Page 28: ...Data N C T M D S Data1 T M D S Data1 T M D S Data1 3 Shield NC Pin 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Signal Assignment NC 5V GND for 5V Hot Plug Detect T M D S Data0 T M D S Data0 T M D S Data0 5 Sh...

Page 29: ...ntial Pair0 2 D0N Differential Pair 0 3 D1P Differential Pair1 4 D2P Differential Pair2 5 D2N Differential Pair 2 6 D1N Differential Pair 1 7 D3P Differential Pair3 8 D3N Differential Pair 3 PIN SIGNA...

Page 30: ...application provided by Realtek ALC880 to offer support for 7 1 channel audio operation You can use the external audio cable and the rear audio connectors to function the 2 4 5 1 7 1 channel audio IEE...

Page 31: ...t ECP mode PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 STROBE Strobe 2 DATA0 Data0 3 DATA1 Data1 4 DATA2 Data2 5 DATA3 Data3 6 DATA4 Data4 7 DATA5 Data5 8 DATA6 Data6 9 DATA7 Data7 10 ACK Acknowledge 11 BUSY Busy 12 PE...

Page 32: ...the connectors always take note that 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 Moni...

Page 33: ...er Refer to the hard disk docu mentation supplied by hard disk vendors for jumper setting instructions ATA133 Hard Disk Connectors IDE1 IDE2 The mainboard has a 32 bit Enhanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 6...

Page 34: ...he Mainboard supports four serial ATAII connectors SATA1 SATA4 SATA1 SATA4 are high speed Serial ATAII interface ports Each supports 2st genera tion serial ATA data rates of 300MB s and is fully compl...

Page 35: ...the analog header PRESENCE 0 when a High Definition Audio dongle is connected 5 PORT 2R Analog Port 2 Right channel 6 SENSE1_RETIRN Jack detection return from frontpanel JACK1 7 SENSE_SEND Jackdetecti...

Page 36: ...acket Optional JSPDO1 JSPDI1 NC SPDIF Out GND NC SPDIF In GND Audio out Connector J1 The mainboard optionally provides a audio out connector for you to attach a Audio Out bracket The Audio Out bracket...

Page 37: ...Green connector IEEE1394 Bracket Optional J1394_1 1 2 9 Serial Port Header JCOM1 Optional The mainboard offers one 9 pin header as serial port The port is a 16550A high speed communication port that...

Page 38: ...rence pull up 7 RST_SW_P Reset Switch high reference pull up 8 PWR_SW_N PowerSwitch lowreferencepull down to GND 9 RSVD_DNU Reserved Donot use JFP1 Pin Definition 1 2 9 10 JFP1 HDD LED Reset Switch Po...

Page 39: ...ion or the HDTV High Definition TeleVision and it will be able to display PC s information Pin Description Pin Description 1 GND 4 COMP 2 Yout 5 GND 3 Cout Pin Definition JTV1 TV Out Bracket Optional...

Page 40: ...eal for connecting high speed USB interface peripherals such as USB HDD digital cameras MP3 players printers modems and the like PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 VCC 2 VCC 3 USB4 4 USB5 5 USB4 6 USB5 7 GND 8 G...

Page 41: ...ge of the button Clear CMOS Button SW1 There is a CMOS RAM on board that has a power supply from external battery to keep the system configuration data With the CMOS RAM the system can auto matically...

Page 42: ...deliver highest performance in video graphics multimedia and other sophisticated applications Moreover PCI Express architecture provides a high performance graphics infrastructure for Desktop Platfor...

Page 43: ...ory described in this chapter are under continuous update for better system performance Therefore the description may be slightly different from the latest BIOS and should be held for reference only 2...

Page 44: ...m by simultaneously pressing Ctrl Alt and Delete keys Control Keys Move to the previous item Move to the next item Move to the item in the left hand Move to the item in the right hand Enter Select the...

Page 45: ...of certain fields that means a sub menu con taining additional options can be launched from this field You can use control keys to highlight the field and press Enter to call up the sub menu Then you...

Page 46: ...ed Peripherals Use this menu to specify your settings for integrated peripherals Power Management Setup Use this menu to specify your settings for power management PNP PCI Configurations This entry ap...

Page 47: ...r for stable system performance Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the default values set by the mainboard manufacturer specifi cally for optimal performance of the mainboard BIOS Setting P...

Page 48: ...ws you to set the system time that you want usually the current time The time format is hour minute second Primary Secondary IDE Master Slave Serial ATA 1 2 Primary Secondary Press or to select the ha...

Page 49: ...enhance the hard disk performance Setting options Auto Disabled PIO Mode The PIO Programmed Input Output Mode let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for the IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Mod...

Page 50: ...ne Settings Auto Enabled Disabled 32Bit Data Transfer This allows you to activate the 32bit data transfer to enhance the IDE hard disk performance Settings options Enabled Disabled Floppy A This item...

Page 51: ...n This function protects the BIOS from accidental corruption by unauthorized users or computer viruses When enabled the BIOS data cannot be changed when attempt ing to update the BIOS with a Flash uti...

Page 52: ...to select which MPS Multi Processor Specification version to be used for the operating system You need to select the MPS version supported by your operating system To find out which version to use co...

Page 53: ...uency Setting options Auto Limit MCT Timing Mode This field has the capacity to automatically detect all of the DRAM timing The settings are Auto Manual User Config mode This field has the capacity to...

Page 54: ...This function protects the BIOS from accidental corruption by unauthorized users or computer viruses When enabled the BIOS data cannot be changed when attempt ing to update the BIOS with a Flash utili...

Page 55: ...NTSC_M NTSC_J PAL_M PAL_BDGHI PAL_N PAL_NC Default OnChip VGA Trap Enable Setting options Enabled and Disabled CPU LDT Frequency MHz This setting shows the current CPU Front Side Bus clock frequency P...

Page 56: ...USB 2 0 driver installed such as DOS and SCO Unix Setting options Disabled Enabled USB Device Legacy Support Set to Enabled if your need to use any USB 1 1 2 0 device in the operating system that doe...

Page 57: ...menu and the following screen appears Onboard Floppy Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDD installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install add o...

Page 58: ...rt for two IDE channels Choose Both to activate the two channels Setting options Disabled Primary Secondary Both SATA Devices Configuration Press Enter to enter the sub menu and the following screen a...

Page 59: ...R fashion through the setting of this field Options are S1 POS The S1 sleep mode is a low power state In this state no system context is lost CPU or chipset and hardware maintains all system context S...

Page 60: ...e power off state On Leaves the computer in the power on state Last State Restores the system to the previous status before power failure or interrupt occurred Wakeup Event Setup Press Enter to enter...

Page 61: ...ey in the field for the PS 2 keyboard to power on the system Resume by MAC LAN An input signal from the LAN awakens the system from a soft off state Setting options Disabled Enabled Resume by PCI Devi...

Page 62: ...IOS stores resource information for both PNP and non PNP devices in a bit string format When the item is set to Yes the system will reset ESCD NVRAM right after the system is booted up and then set th...

Page 63: ...board I O is configured byAMIBIOS All IRQs used by onboard I O are configured as Available If all IRQs are set to Reserved and IRQ 14 15 are allocated to the onboard PCI IDE IRQ 9 will still be availa...

Page 64: ...ources allocated to I O devices When an I O device needs to gain attention of the operating system it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur After receiving the signal when the operating system is re...

Page 65: ...e warning message set the field to Reset The setting of the field will automatically return to Enabled later Setting options Enabled Reset Disabled Smart Fan Target Temperature The mainboard provides...

Page 66: ...ol n Quiet This feature is especially desiged for AMD Athlon processor which provides a CPU temperature detecting function to prevent your CPU s from overheading due to the heavy working loading Setti...

Page 67: ...e following screen appears When the motherboard s clock generator pulses the extreme values spikes of the pulses creates EMI Electromagnetic Interference The Spread Spectrum function reduces the EMI g...

Page 68: ...acturer specifically for optimal perform ance of the mainboard The Fail Safe Defaults are the default values set by the BIOS vendor for stable system performance When you select Load Fail Safe Default...

Page 69: ...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 70: ...power management MP3 files management and com munication 802 11g WLAN settings Moreover with this unique utility you will be able to activate the MSI well known feature Live Update which makes it eas...

Page 71: ...connection of that item Main Introduction Click on each icon appearing above to enter the sub menu to make further configuration MSI Click on this button to link to MSI website http www msi com tw Qu...

Page 72: ...e of PC Alert to monitor the health status of your system MEGA STICK If you have your MEGA STICK connected to your system this icon will be lit up Click this blue icon to turn DigiCell into a MP3 play...

Page 73: ...ostic sub menu you can see the information status and note of each DigiCell You may double check the connection and installation of the item marked as gray You may also click on the Mail to MSI button...

Page 74: ...your system Click on each item for details This icon indicates the information and connection status of onboard LAN which is read only The second icon indicates the wireless connection You may click t...

Page 75: ...c network is a local area network or other small network especially one with wireless or temporary plug in connections in which some of the network devices are part of the network only for the duratio...

Page 76: ...rnet in office usually the LAN card will automatically get the IP this computer uses In this case you don t have to enable this function SSID Means Service Set Identifier a unique name shared among al...

Page 77: ...u are selecting is encrypted WEP shown in the Encryption column the screen will display as below You need to enter the correct WEP key defined by AP in the specified WEP Key 1 4 fields to make the con...

Page 78: ...on the right will appear on the screen Double click the MSI Live Update 3 icon and the following screen will appear Several buttons are placed on the left column of the screen Click the desired butto...

Page 79: ...the Play List field and use Delete button to remove the media file from the play list You may remove multi media files simultaneously by using Ctrl to select multi files Shuffle To play the media fil...

Page 80: ...rewind Right click on the MP3 file and choose Info a MP3 Info dialogue will pop up to show the information of the file including the title artist album release year and others You may also add your o...

Page 81: ...install the Supplemental Language Support provided by Microsoft to solve this problem You need to have your Microsoft Setup CD prepared in the CD ROM The system will start to install the necessary co...

Page 82: ...select the language you want to be supported the language of the filename in the MegaStick from the drop down list in the Language for non Unicode programs then click Apply The system will install th...

Page 83: ...shows the current PC hardware status such as the CPU system temperatures On the middle of the screen it shows the current system status includiing the Vcore 3 3V 5V and 12V The under screen shows the...

Page 84: ...te Use the drop down list to select the date for power on Time Use the arrow keys to select the hour minute second for power on power off and restarting Then click Apply to save the changes As you cli...

Page 85: ...Explorer Step 2 Click on OK to apply the setting Step 3 For specified file or specified website you may enter the file name with the com plete path or the website link in the Parameters field Of cours...

Page 86: ...e It supports the following operating systems Win9X Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP Default User Name It is only available for Windows 2000 Windows XP If you are using a computer belonging to a dom...

Page 87: ...is used by the world s leading businesses to the common PC desktop This technology uses multiple drives to either increase total disk space or to offer data protection For all levels RAID techniques o...

Page 88: ...t Tolerance 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 tol...

Page 89: ...BOD and create the desired 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 6 7 for details 4 Initialize the NVRA...

Page 90: ...Free Disks and Array Disks lists In the example above 1 0 M means the hard drive is attached to Channel 1 Controller 0 and the drive is set to Master The following is a list of all possible combinatio...

Page 91: ...is 32KB 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...

Page 92: ...e set 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 p...

Page 93: ...ct 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 Se...

Page 94: ...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 95: ...l the RAID software which will upgrade the Windows IDE driver and install the RAID software 1 Start the NVIDIA C19 System Drivers installation program to open the NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers page 2...

Page 96: ...tings 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...

Page 97: ...nish The 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 unalloc...

Page 98: ...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 Synchronizing a RAID Array Rebuild the redundancy in...

Page 99: ...the mirrored 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...

Page 100: ...s free 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 F...

Page 101: ...will 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 di...

Page 102: ...s been 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...

Page 103: ...mode General 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...

Page 104: ...t Plug Array With respect to RAID hot plugging is the ability to add a disk to a system safely and without causing problems for the RAID software For example when a drive in a mirrored array fails the...

Page 105: ...at array 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 asRAI...

Page 106: ...ate 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 F...

Page 107: ...e NVIDIA 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 ha...

Page 108: ...5 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 G...

Page 109: ...he list 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...

Page 110: ...5 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...

Page 111: ...sync an 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 Th...

Page 112: ...system motherboard The image shows the hard drive connector ports and provides a visual indication of the location and status of the drives as follows Red rectangle A red rectangle will flash around...

Page 113: ...8 channel audio output including 2 Front 2 Rear 2 Side 1 Center and 1 Subwoofer channel ALC880 allows the board to attach 2 4 6 or 8 speakers for better surround sound effect The section will tell you...

Page 114: ...XP you must install Windows XP 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...

Page 115: ...A 3 Introduction to Realtek ALC880 4 Click Finish to restart the system 3 Click Next to install the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Click here Click here Select this option...

Page 116: ...to use the 2 4 6 or 8 channel 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...

Page 117: ...a preset EQ setting There are also other pre set equalizer models for you to choose by clicking Others under the Equalizer part Load EQ Setting Reset EQ Setting Save Preset Delete EQ Setting EQ Settin...

Page 118: ...ct 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...

Page 119: ...can be that singer 2 Key Adjustment Using Up Down Arrow to find a key which better fits your vocal range Raise the key Lower the key Remove the human voice Frequently Used Equalizer Setting Realtek r...

Page 120: ...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 the Mixer ToolBox menu will ap...

Page 121: ...layed from the rear panel which is the default setting Then you must to select the Realtek HD Audio front output from the scroll list first and use a different program to play the second audio source...

Page 122: ...o completely mute sound output Tool Show the following volume control This is to let you freely decide which volume control items to be displayed total 13 items to be chosen Advanced controls Enable p...

Page 123: ...given period you can have maximum 2 streams operating simultaneously If you want to use microphone to record usually the microphone is con nected to the MIC jack the pink one in the rear panel You can...

Page 124: ...e chosen to perform either output i e playback function or input i e Recording function we call this Retasking 1 Audio I O aims to help you set jacks right Moreover other than blue to blue pink to pin...

Page 125: ...e and the dialogue connected device pops up the default setting of blue jack is Line in Check the headphone anyway then click OK You should notice the icon beside blue jack remains the same without an...

Page 126: ...playing from the back panel will be stopped 2 Disable front panel jack detection option Find no function on front panel jacks Please check if front jacks on your system are so called AC 97 jacks If so...

Page 127: ...to an analog format Maintaining the viability 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...

Page 128: ...t 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 tes...

Page 129: ...ALC880 Microphone In this tab you may set the function of the microphone Select the Noise Suppression to remove the possible noise during recording or select Acoustic Echo Cancelltion to cancel the ac...

Page 130: ...X Mainboard 3D Audio Demo In this tab you may adjust your 3D positional audio before playing 3D audio applications like gaming You may also select different environment to choose the most suitable env...

Page 131: ...rsion 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...

Page 132: ...ing in software utility n 2 Channel Mode for Stereo Speaker Output Refer to the following diagram and caption for the function of each phone jack on the back panel when 2 Channel Mode is selected Back...

Page 133: ...Line Out connector and two speakers to the real chan nel Line Out connector 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear channels 5 Line Out Center and Subwoofer channel but no functionin...

Page 134: ...onnector two speakers to the rear channel and two speakers to the cen ter subwoofer channel Line Out connectors 6 Channel Analog Audio Output 1 Line In 2 Line Out Front channels 3 MIC 4 Line Out Rear...

Page 135: ...nector two speakers to the rear channel two speakers to the center subwoofer channel Line Out connectors and two speakers to the side channel Line Out connectors 8 Channel Analog Audio Output 1 Line O...

Page 136: ...the TV Out bracket before you can get access to the TV out function Follow the procedures described later to set up the TV Out bracket and configure the display settings Note that the TV Out bracket...

Page 137: ...connector to avoid mis inserting 4 Place the TV Out bracket into the first slot of your system case TV Out Bracket TV Out Connector S Video TV Out Connector RCA Composite Foolproof design MSI Reminds...

Page 138: ...e TV Out Function 1 Connect one end of the S Video cable to the TV Out S connector Connecting S Video cable 2 Connect the other end of the S Video cable to the TV S Video cable Connecting S Video RCA...

Page 139: ...end of the RCA cable to the blue connector of the TV Out cable The RCA cable usually comes with three connecotrs on both ends The white or red connector is for audio while the yellow one is for video...

Page 140: ...ct the other end of the HDTV cable to the HDTV 1 Connect one end of the HDTV cable to the TV Out C connectors The HDTV cable usually comes with three connecotrs on both ends Green HDTV cable Blue Red...

Page 141: ...ifferent but the procedures are the same as described To enable the TV Out function follow this procedure 3 Click Advanced to continue click here 2 In the Display Properties dialog box click the Setti...

Page 142: ...ction 4 In the nView tab click Device Set tings to set up or change settings related to the output device used for the current display 5 In the Device Selection tab first click TV and then Change Form...

Page 143: ...local TV format 7 refer to Step 4 Under Device Settings click Device Adjust ments In the Screen Adjust ment tab use the 4 way navigation keys to adjust the screen position Click Default to restore th...

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