QDI N2, Manual

Page 1: ...optional Notice The information in this document is subject to change in order to improve reliability design or function without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of this c...

Page 2: ...disturbance characteristics of information technology equipment EN 50081 1 Generic emission standard Part 1 Residential commercial and light industry EN 50082 1 Generic immunity standard Part 1 Reside...

Page 3: ...facturer Quantum Designs HK Ltd Address 20th Floor Devon House Taikoo Place 979 King s Road Quarry Bay HONG KONG Supplementary Information This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation...

Page 4: ...O N T E N T S C O N T E N T S 1 Introduction 1 Overview 1 Key Features 1 2 Installation Instructions 5 External Connectors 5 Jumper Setting 13 Clear CMOS JCC 14 Enable Front Back Panel USB Device Wak...

Page 5: ...20 Load Optimized Defaults 20 Standard CMOS Features Setup 20 QDI Innovation features 24 Advanced BIOS Features Setup 25 Advanced Chipset Features Setup 27 Power Management Setup 28 PnP PCIConfigurati...

Page 6: ...other system peripherals especially the memory devices otherwise your mainboard or the system memory might be seriously damaged Caution Be sure to add some Silicone Grease between the CPU and the heat...

Page 7: ...on and Power Interface ACPI specification makes the PC s power consumption drop to the lowest possible level and enable quick wakeup In addition it provides an ACR slot to support some cards Audio Ris...

Page 8: ...nboard Audio Standard AC 97 Codec interface Provides onboard Line in Jack Microphone in Jack Speaker out Jack with onboard amplifierandMIDI JoystickConnector Onboard AGP AGP 1 5V Connector supports AG...

Page 9: ...ent Supports ACPI power status S0 Full on S1 Suspend S3 Suspend to RAM S4 STD suspend to Disk depends on OS S5 Soft off Main Expansion Slots and Connectors Slot Port Quantity Description PCI 5 PCI slo...

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Page 11: ...ouse Connector PS 2 keyboard connector is for the usage of PS 2 keyboard If using a standard AT size keyboard an adapter should be used to fit this connector PS 2 mouse connector is for the usage of P...

Page 12: ...power supply plug to this connector in its proper orientation The power switch POWER SW should be connected to a momentary switch When powering up your system first turn on the mechanical switch of t...

Page 13: ...ED is on ACPI LED Connector ACPI LED The ACPI LED is a dual color light with three pins Pin1and Pin2 drive different color lights If Pin1 drives the orange light then Pin2 drives the green light the f...

Page 14: ...t panel USB cables to provide additional four USB ports And the mainboard also have one header on board which may connect to a cable to provide a additionalUARTport Infrared Header IrDA This connector...

Page 15: ...N AUX_IN MODEM CD_IN is a sony standard CD audio connector it can be connected to a CD ROM drive through a CD audio cable AUX_IN allow you to receive stereo audio input from sound sources such as a TV...

Page 16: ...at ing system once to make sure this function takes effect Wake Up On Internal Modem WOM Through this function the system which is in the suspend or soft off status can be waked up by a ring signal re...

Page 17: ...etwork to alert the network manager through the on board LAN controller within ICH4 Advanced Communications Riser Slot ACR The ACR connector uses a standard connector that is reversed and offset Legac...

Page 18: ...tions 12 Manual for N2 series JSP Connector The JSP output is capable of providing digital audio to external speakers or compressed AC3 data to an external Dolby digital decoder JSP 1 GND JSP out N2en...

Page 19: ...DMI information will be updated automatically However setting jumper JAV as closed makes flashing BIOS and updating DMI information impossible Therefore set JAV as open when changing the sys tem hardw...

Page 20: ...he system can be waked up from its power saving mode including ACPI S3 by activating USB device Before using this function set JUSB JFUSB as pin1 pin2 closed Otherwise set JUSB JFUSB as pin2 pin3 clos...

Page 21: ...power off your system In this case the power button s power on function has been disabled Note 1 If using this function 5VSB line of the power supply should be capable of delivering enough current fo...

Page 22: ...lly If it is set as JUMPER SET the CPU core voltage can be set manually by jumper J2 CPU Core Voltage Setting J2 The jumper J2 allows you to adjust the CPU core voltage manually to improve the CPU ove...

Page 23: ...375 1 0 0 1 0 1 400 1 0 0 0 1 1 425 1 0 0 0 0 1 450 0 1 1 1 1 1 475 0 1 1 1 0 1 500 0 1 1 0 1 1 525 0 1 1 0 0 1 550 0 1 0 1 1 1 575 0 1 0 1 0 1 600 0 1 0 0 1 1 625 0 1 0 0 0 1 650 0 0 1 1 1 1 675 0 0...

Page 24: ...r not your system can be overclocked depends on your processor s capability We do not guaran tee the overclocking system to be stable Warning Be sure your selection is right CPU over speed will be dan...

Page 25: ...6 xx or Windows 9x environment 2 Copy AWDFLASH EXE version 8 03 from the directory Utility located on QDI Driver CD to your new bootable diskette 3 Download the updated BIOS file from the Website http...

Page 26: ...Figure 1 Main Menu Load Fail Safe Defaults The Fail Safe Defaults are secure and useful for system It is recommended users load the Fail Safe defaults when the system is in trouble Load Optimized Defa...

Page 27: ...2 IDE channels installed in the computer system TherearethreechoicesprovidedfortheEnhancedIDEBIOS None Auto andManual None means no HDD is installed or set Auto means the system can auto detect the h...

Page 28: ...ribed by sector head and cylinder number into its own physical address inside the HDD LARGE mode Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support in some cases users do not want LBA T...

Page 29: ...tected All errors Whenever the BIOS detects a non fatal error the system will stop and you will be prompted All But Keyboard The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error but it will stop for all...

Page 30: ...Menu language English Select RecoveryEasyII Interface Menu language Select Chinese Hotkey for Null Backup Recovery interface can not be used by Backup Recovery Pressing Hotkey F2 F12 Select Hotkey to...

Page 31: ...Invalidates this function CPU Enabled Enables CPU internal cache Internal Cache Disabled Disables CPU internal cache External Cache Enabled Enables CPU external cache Disabled Disables CPU external ca...

Page 32: ...isabled keyboard controller when enabled the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected Typematic Rate 6 30 The rate at which character repeats when you chars sec hold down a key Typematic Del...

Page 33: ...o cacheable Disabled Video RAM area is not cacheable AGP Aperture Size 32 512M Sets the effective seze of the Graphics Aperture to be used in the particular PAC Configuration Frame Buffer Size 8M 32M...

Page 34: ...YNC In addition to Blank Screen BIOS will also turn Blank off the V SYNC H SYNC signals from VGA card to monitor DPMS Support This function is enabled only for VGA cards supporting DPMS Note When the...

Page 35: ...omes up to UART1 or UART2 from external modem to LAN Wake up Header from LAN adapter or to modem Ring on Header from internal modem card Disabled Do not allow Ring LAN wake up RTC Resume Enabled RTC a...

Page 36: ...figuration Enabled The system BIOS will reset configuration data Data once then automatically set this item as disabled Disabled Disables this function Resources Manual Assigns the system resources IR...

Page 37: ...MA Master Slave UDMA device is detected Disable Disables this function IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled Enables IDE Prefetch Mode Disabled Disables IDE Prefetch Mode Init Display First PCI SLOT Initializes t...

Page 38: ...ot Key Power Ctrl F1 F12 Set the Hotkey Power On On Onboard FDC Enabled Onboard floppy drive controller is enabled Controller Disabled Onboard floppy drive controller is disabled Onboard Serial 3F8 IR...

Page 39: ...P Mode Select EPP1 7 Set EPP Mode as EPP 1 7 or EPP1 9 Version EPP1 9 ECP Mode Use 3 Set ECP Mode Use DMA 1 or 3 DMA 1 PWRON After off on The system remains OFF ON Former state when PWR Fail Former St...

Page 40: ...power supply The Voltage Battery is the Voltage Battery voltage of the battery Current CPUFAN Speed Speed of fan RPM Revolution Per Minute Current CHSFAN Speed connected to the fan header CPUFAN Curr...

Page 41: ...SABLED If you have selected System in Security Option of Advanced BIOS Features menu you will be prompted for the password every time the system reboots or any time you try to enter BIOS Setup Ifyouha...

Page 42: ...Reader V5 0 B N2 french doc N2 Spanish doc etc Norton AntiVirus When you install Norton AntiVirus and accept options your computer is safe Norton AntiVirus automatically checks boot records for viruse...

Page 43: ...ties SMBUSandMemoryController underWindows98 Currently the NVIDIA installer supports Windows XP Windows 2000 and Windows ME Use the following procedure to install all NVIDIA devices under Windows 98 u...

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Page 45: ...Appendix 39 Manual for N2 series N2en p65 02 6 4 16 53 39...

Page 46: ...orts simultaneous display of logo and sign on message of the BIOS testing system LOGOEASY II is a tool that can be operated in multi platforms to refresh and change LOGO graphics including DOS WINDOWS...

Page 47: ...the Website http www qdigrp com and copy the BIOS file xxxxxx bin to your hard disk 3 Boot the system into DOS environment Put your favor picture into BIOS file by CBLOGO EXE command Forexample CBLOG...

Page 48: ...ng system and its upper software making it impossible to be attacked completely Ease to Operate 1 RcoveryEasy II is supported in both Chinese and English You can easily enter Backup or Recover interfa...

Page 49: ...cluding NULL and F2 F12 Key F11 is default If NULL is selected Backup interface can not be used with pressing hotkey If you select one key of the rest 11 options you can enter Backup interface by pres...

Page 50: ...croll the highlight bar to the option you want to work with using arrow key Press ENTER to confirm figure 3 Backup Interface Hard Disk Selection Menu If you installed the system with several IDE hard...

Page 51: ...reeing the hard disk space 6 Exit Backup Menu It is used to Exit Backup Interface Press Recovery Hotkey to enter Recovery Interface duringthe POST Power On Self Test then the follwing interface will a...

Page 52: ...nts in other partitions will be untouched 3 Recover Whole Disk It used to restore all the Hard Disk data stored in current backup area to current Hard DIsk This op eration will restore the partition t...

Page 53: ...tion features it can be easily booted quickly BootEasy save all the information when PC first normally boot up and it restores all the parameters for the system and thus let the PC boot freely and rap...

Page 54: ...b und kann so innerhalb von wenigen Sekunden den Boot Prozess abschlie en Bei nderungen am System beispielsweise nach dem Einbau eines neuen Prozessors muss deshalb zuvor die BootEasy Funktion deaktiv...

Page 55: ...gruesa Consulte el apartado Jumper Settings en el manual de usuario de su placa Legend QDI N2 en el cap tulo 2 5 Inserte el procesador en el socket y conecte el ventilador del procesador en el conect...

Page 56: ...Legend QDI N2 Presione la tecla F10 y seleccione la opci n Save Exit Setup en el men de configuraci n de la Bios para guardar los cambios y reiniciar el sistema 4 Instale el sistema operativo en el di...

Page 57: ...l CD Usted puede leer todos los documentos incluidos en este CD incluidos Utility and Documents Los ficheros incluidos en Utility son A Awdflash exe B Cblogo exe C Lf exe Los ficheros incluidos en Doc...

Page 58: ...c ble lectrique reli au bo tier d alimentation de l unit centrale de l ordinateur est d connect Se relier la terre gr ce un bracelet li au poignet A d faut de disposer d un bracelet maintenir un cont...

Page 59: ...fiant que le liser rouge de ces derni res correspond l emplacement de la broche num ro 1 du connecteur 9 Connecter les c bles de l unit centrale de l ordinateur sur les broches int gr es la carte m re...

Page 60: ...syst me Dans ce but il est important de v rifier que la s quence de d marrage du syst me param trable partir du menu de BIOS permet la proc dure d installation du syst me d exploitation de s initiali...

Page 61: ...ossier A QflashV1 0 B Norton AntiVirus 2002 3 Browse CD Avec cette option il est possible de consulter l ensemble des donn es contenues sur le CD ROM d installation Legend QDI Applications contenues d...

Page 62: ...ve essre collegato nello speciale connettore targato CPUFAN 6 Inserire il modulo i di memoria nell apposito memory slots 7 Inserire le periferiche Pci negli appositi Pci slots 8 Collegare le periferic...

Page 63: ...e giuste condizioni di partenza la sequenza di boot 5 Dopo una giusta installazione accertarsi che non vi siano conflitti tra le periferiche in uso 6 Dopo questo ultimo passo procedere all installazio...

Page 64: ...58 Manual for N2 series DDR DIMM Configuration Matrix for IGP 128 N2en p65 02 6 4 16 54 58...

Page 65: ...er DIMM Part Number DIMM Speed Number of Density Banks Loads HYNIX HYMD1166458 H 128MB PC2100B 1 HYNIX HYMD1326458 H 256MB PC2100B 2 MICRON MT8VDDT1664AG 265A1 128MB PC2100B 1 MICRON MT16VDDT3264AG 26...

Page 66: ...Mainboard Layout Note The layout includes all options It is for your reference only N2en p65 02 6 4 16 54 60...