Lok8u K8SLI manual

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You have to know !!! 0 Th e images and picture s in this manual are fo r refere nce only and may vary slightly from actual product installation depending on specific hardware models, third party compon ents and software versions. 0 Unplug your computer when installing components and configu ring switches and pins. 0 This mainboard con tains very de[...]

K8SLI nVIDIA ® nForce4 SLI Supp orts Socket 939 AMD ® Ath lon TM 64 Processor AMD ® Athl on TM 64 FX Processo r USER Manual Dimensions (ATX form-factor): z 194mm x 295mm (WxL) Operating System: z Supports most popular op erating system s: Windows ® 2000/XP etc.[...]

Content s CHAPTER 1. GETTING STARTED .. ............. .............. ............. ............. .....1 I NTRODUCTION ..................... ............... ................... ............... ................... ............... .. 1 S PECI FICAT IO N ................. ............... ................... ............... ................... .........[...]

INSTALLATION NOTE This mainboard complies with the ATX standard, which means the ACPI connector on this board i s 2-pin. If the Power LE D cable of your case uses a 3-pin adapter, yo u must use the 2-pin to 3-pin adapter (c ontained in the packaging). 本主機版之電路設計遵循標準 ATX 規 格，標 準 ATX 規格的 ACPI 針腳為 2 pin ?[...]

 Locate the Power LED cable attached to the case. If the Power LED cable has a 3-pin adapter, you must use th e 2-pin to 3-pin adapter which com es with the packaging.  The heads of the power cables usually have a triangular mark which indicates the positive electrode(+). Conn ect the 3-pin end of the adapter to the Power LED cable, matching [...]

K8SLI 1 Chapter 1. Getting Started Introduction Congratulations on choosing the K8SLI mainboard! It b ased on nVIDIA ® nForce4 SLI chipset. It also supports AMD ® Athlon TM 64 / AMD ® Athlon TM 64 FX Processor. The K8SLI mainboard provides 4 sockets using 184 pin DDR SDRAM (Dual channel). You c an install DDR400/ 333/ 266 (PC3200/ 2700/ 2100) SD[...]

K8SLI 2 S p ecification CPU: z Supports Socket 939 z Supports AMD ® Athlon TM 64 / AMD ® Athlon TM 64 FX Processor z HyperTransport TM Link z - supports 16-bit to be capable of opera ting up to 1GHz (2000 MT /s) with a bandwidth of up to 2 Gbytes/s in e ach direction Chipse t: z Single Chip – nVIDIA ® nForce4 SLI z I/O Controller – Winbond S[...]

K8SLI 3 LAN PHY Chip (Vit esse CIS8201): z 10/ 100/ 1000 Mbps Ethernet support Universal Serial Bus: z Supports up to eight USB ports for USB interface devices z Supports USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller Inter face (EHCI) and dual USB 1. 1 Open Host Controller In terface (OHC1) IDE Facili ties: z Supports Ultra ATA 66, Ultra ATA 100, Ultra ATA 133 [...]

K8SLI 4 ABS (Albatron BIOS Security ): z Supports ABS (Albatron BIOS Security) card (optional) z Provides BIOS backup function Green Functionality: z Supports Phoenix-Award BIOS ™ power managem e nt functionality z Contains an inactivity power down tim er that can be set f rom 1 to 15 minutes z Wakes from power saving sleep mode with any key boar[...]

K8SLI 5 Configuration Layout of K8SLI[...]

K8SLI 6 Hardware Inst allation This section wi ll assist y ou in quickly installing y our system hardw are. Wear a wrist ground strap before handling com ponents . Electrostatic disch arge may damage y our system components. CPU Processor Inst allation This mainboard supports AMD ® Athlon TM 64/ 64FX processor using a Socket 939. Before building y[...]

K8SLI 7 F AN Hea ders Three power header s are availa ble for cooling fans, which p lay an im portant role in maintaining the ambient tem perature in your sy stem. Memory Inst allation The K8SLI mainboard contain 4 sockets, which use 184- pin DDR S DRAM with a total m e mory capacity of up to 4 GB. You can in stall unbuffered DDR400/ 333/ 266(PC320[...]

K8SLI 8 T o Ena ble Dual-Channel DDR, the f ollowing conditions must be met: 1.You must use eith er DIMM1 & DIMM2 together or DIMM3 & DIMM4 togeth er or all four DIMM slots together. If you want to use only one DIMM, you m ust use DIMM1 or DIMM3. 2.You must us e matching DIMM c onfigurati ons be tween DI MM1 & DIMM2. You must use matchi[...]

K8SLI 9 RAM Module Inst allation: The following instructio ns explains mem ory module installation for these mainboards: 1. Before install your RAM module, please make sure that the power supply is UNPLUG GED . Pull the white plas tic tabs at bot h ends of the slot away fro m the slot. 2. Match the notch on the RAM module with the co rresponding pa[...]

K8SLI 10 Back Panel Configuration PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Key boa rd Conn ecto rs: KB /MS This mainboard provides a standard PS/2 mouse connector and PS/2 Keyboard connector. The pin assignments are described below: Serial and Para llel Interfac e Port s This mainboard comes equipped with one serial port, one paralle l port and one SPDIF out RCA port[...]

K8SLI 11 SPDIF out connectors S/PDIF ( Sony/Philips D igital Inter face) is an aud io transfer fi le format w hich provides high qua lity audio using optical fiber a nd digital signals. This mainboard is capable of a delivering audio output through this SPDIF connector. USB & GBLAN Connectors: USB/ GBLAN There are four USB connectors on the ba [...]

K8SLI 12 Audio Port Connectors: Sound The K8SLI com es equipped with three Au dio Ports. The three ports, Mic-in, Line-in and Front Speaker-out are standard aud io ports that provide basic audio functio nality. After y ou install the 5.1 Channel drivers for K8S LI and setup 5.1 channel A udi o effect, the thr ee audio ports are enabled for 5.1 chan[...]

K8SLI 13 Front Panel Indicator: SW/LED 、 SPEAKER HD LED (Hard Drive LED Connector) This connector can be attached to an LED on the front pane l of a computer case. The LED will flicker during disk ac tivity. This disk activity onl y applies to those IDE drive s directly attach ed to the system board. RST SW (Reset Switch Connector) This connector[...]

K8SLI 14 Connectors Floppy Disk Connector: FDC The mainboard provides a standard floppy disk connector (FDC) that supports 360K, 720K, 1 .2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk ettes. This connector supports th e floppy drive ribbon cables provided in th e packagi ng. Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2 、 SA T A1/ 2/ 3/ 4 The mainboard has a 32-bit Enhance[...]

K8SLI 15 Headers & Jumpers Front USB Headers (Y ellow): USB1/ USB2 This mainboard provides 2 USB headers on the board allowing for 4 additional USB por ts. To make use of these headers, you must atta ch a USB bracket/cable with USB ports (some models will come packaged with a USB 4-port bracket-cable). The optionally packaged bracket will have [...]

K8SLI 16 Infrared Header : IrDA (Optional) This IrDA connector can be co nfigured to support wireless inf rared and is used to attach to an infrared sensing devi ce. After the IrDA inter face is configured, y ou can use thi s connector for connectionless data transfer to and from portable devices such as laptops and PDAs. Game Port Header: GAME POR[...]

K8SLI 17 ABS (Albatron BIOS security ) Header: BIOSCN1 This mainboard includ es one ABS header (BIOSCN1) for the A B S card which can prov ide a second BIOS for the mainboard in case the orig inal BIOS is damaged. To set up the jumper on th e ABS card, please refer to f igure1. (Attention: Whether you want to use this function or not, removing this[...]

K8SLI 18 Clear CMOS Jumper: JP1 The “Clear CMOS” jumper is used when you cannot boot y our system due to some CMOS configuration such as a pas sword that is forgotten. This jumper allows you to reset the CMOS configurations, and then reconfigure. The following steps explain how to reset your CMOS con figurations when you h a ve forgo tten your [...]

K8SLI 19 Audio Connectors CD-ROM Audio-In Header: CD-IN This header is used to connect to a CD-ROM / DVD audio cable. Front Panel Audio Header : FRONT AUDIO You can use the Front Panel Audio header (FRONT AUDIO) to connect to a separate audi o bracket or to connect to case em bedded audio equipm en t. The Front AUDIO head er provides MIC-in and Lin[...]

K8SLI 20 SPDIF & FRONT AUDIO bracket (optional) You can connect th e bracket to the SPDIF and FRONT AUDIO Headers (This photo can be varie d with diff erent models). Slot s The slots in this mainboard are designed fo r expansion cards used to complement and enhance the functionality of the m ainboard. PCI-Express slot s: PCIE1/ PCIE2/ PCIE3/ PC[...]

K8SLI 21 Power Supply Att achment s A TX Power C onnec tor: A T X_PWR 、 A TX_12V This mainboard requires two ATX power connec tions. The first is a 24 -pin connector and the second is a 4-pin connector. At tac h the 4-pin conn ector fi rst and then attach the 24-pin c onnector. Make sure the connectors are secure before applying power. (A TX_PWR [...]

K8SLI 22 Chapter 2. BIOS Setup Introduction This section describes PHOENIX- AWARD™ BIOS Setup program which resides in the ROM BIOS firmware. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration. The configuration inf ormation is then saved to CMOS RAM where the data is sustained by Li-battery after power-down. The BIOS provide[...]

K8SLI 23 Supported CPUs This PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS supports the AMD ® Athlon TM 64 / 64 FX CPU. Key Function In general, you can use the arrow keys to highlight items, press <Enter> to selec t, use the <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys to change entries, press <F1> fo r help and press <Es c> to quit. Th e following tab le provid[...]

K8SLI 24 Main Menu When you ent er the PH OENIX-AWARD™ BIO S Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main menu allows y ou to select from several co nfiguration op tions. Use the left/right arrow keys to select a partic ular configuration screen from th e top menu bar or use the down arrow key to access and configure the in formatio[...]

K8SLI 25 Main Menu Setup Configuration Opti ons Item Options Desc ript ion Date mm dd yy yy Set the system date. Note that the ‘Day’ automatically changes when you set the date. Time Hh: mm: ss Set the current time of the system. IDE Primary Master Options contained in sub menu. Press <Enter> to enter the sub menu. IDE Primary Sla ve Opti[...]

K8SLI 26 Advanced BIOS Features Removable Device Priority Select removable dev ice priority . Just like floppy , LS120, ZIP-100, USB-FDD and USB-ZIP. Hard Disk Boot Priority Select hard disk boot priority. CD-ROM Bo ot Prior ity Select CD-ROM boot p riority. First /Second/Third Boot Device Select the ord er in which devices will b e searched in ord[...]

K8SLI 27 Boot Up Floppy Seek When Enabled, the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives to determine whether they have 4 0 or 80 tracks. Only 360-KB floppy drives have 40 tracks. Driv es with 720KB , 1.2MB, and 1.44MB capacity all have 80 tracks. Because very few modern PCs have 40-track floppy drives, we recommend that y ou set this fi eld to “Disabled?[...]

K8SLI 28 T ypematic Delay (Msec) The delay before keystrokes begin to repeat. Options: 250 (default) 、 50 0 、 750 、 1000 APIC Mode By enabling this option, “MPS ve rsion control for OS” can be configured. Options: Disabled 、 Enabled (def ault) MPS V e rsion Contro l For OS The 1.1 version is the older version th at supports 8 more IRQs [...]

K8SLI 29 RAS# to CAS# delay (T rcd) Select the DRA M delay tim e when being read . Options: Auto 、 2T 、 3T 、 4T 、 5T 、 6T 、 7T Row pre charge Time (T rp) You can set the time to precharge. Op tions: Auto 、 2T 、 3T 、 4T 、 5T 、 6T 、 7T 1T/2T Memory T iming Use this item to select th e memory tim ing that you installed. Options[...]

K8SLI 30 PCI / VGA Palette Snoop Some graphic controllers that are not VGA compatible take the output from a VGA controller and map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA com patibility. Options: Disabled (default) 、 Enabled PCI Latency T imer (CLK) This item allows you to set up the PCI Latency Ti me (0-255). If you sel[...]

K8SLI 31 HT Ratio This item allows y ou to set Hyper Transport Freq uency. Options: Auto(default) 、 1x 、 2x 、 3x 、 4x 、 5x HT Freque ncy This item displa ys the result of your HT Ra tio setting PCIE Clock This item allows y ou to select PCIE c lock form 100 Mhz(default) to 145Mhz. PCIE Spread S pectrum The Spread Spectrum f unction can re[...]

K8SLI 32 Integrated Peripherals Init Display First With system s that have m ultiple video card s, this option determines w hether the pri mary display use s a PCI sl ot or an PCIEx slot. Op tions : PCIEx 、 PCI Slot (default) IDE Function Setup If you highlight the “IDE Func tion Setup” label and th en pr ess the enter key, it will take you t[...]

K8SLI 33 Primary / Secondary /M aster / Slave UDMA Ultra DMA 100 functio nality can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard drives in your system. As well, your operating environment requ ires a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus m a ster driver). If your hard driv e and your system software both support Ultra DMA 100, s[...]

K8SLI 34 Onboard Device If you highlight the “Onboard Device” lab el and then press the enter key, it will take you t o a submenu with the following options: OnChip USB This option should be enabled if your sy stem has a US B port installed on the syste m board. You will need to disable this feature if you add a higher perfo rmance controller. [...]

K8SLI 35 Onboard FDC Controller Select “Enabled” if y our system has a floppy disk controller (FDC) installed on the system board and you wish to use it. If you install an add-in FDC or the system has no floppy drive, select “Disabled”. Options: Enabled (default) 、 Disabled Onboard Serial Port Select an address and corresponding interru p[...]

K8SLI 36 Power Management The Power Managem ent Setup Menu allows you to configure your syst em to utilize energy conservation features as w ell as power-up/ power-down options. ACPI Suspend T ype The item allows you to select the suspend type using the ACPI operating system. Options: S1 (POS) (default) Power on Suspend S 3 ( S T R ) S u s p e n d [...]

K8SLI 37 Note: If you select Min. or Max. Power Savi ng modes, the “HDD Power Down” value will fixed. User Define 、 Min Saving 、 Max Saving V i deo Off Method This option dete rmines the m anner in which the monitor g oes blank. Options: V/H SYN C+Blank This selection will c ause the sy stem to turn off the vertical an d horizontal synchron[...]

K8SLI 38 RTC W ake Up When “Enabled”, you can set the date and tim e at which the RTC (real-time clock) alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode. Options: Enabled 、 Disabled (defaul t). Day of Month Alarm You can choose which dat e of the mont h the system will boot up. This f ield is only configurable when “RTC Wake Up” is set to “En[...]

K8SLI 39 Load Default s Load System Default Settings Load System Def ault Settings. Load System T urbo Settings Load System Turbo Settings. Load CMOS From BIOS Load defaults from flash ROM for system s without batteries. Save CMOS T o BIOS Save defaults to flash ROM f or systems without batteries.[...]

K8SLI 40 Exit Menu Save & Exit Setup Save all configuration changes to CMOS (memory) and exit setup. A confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding . Exit Without Savi ng Abandon all changes made durin g the current session and exit setup. A conf irmation message will be displayed before proceeding .[...]

K8SLI 41 Chapter 3: Software Setup Sof tware List Sof tware Inst allation Place the Driver CD into the CD-ROM drive and the Installa tion Utility wil l auto-run. You can al so launch the Drive r CD Instal lation Utility manually by executing the nVIDIA.exe program located on the Driver CD. (For m ore details, please refer to the Readm e.txt files t[...]

K8SLI 42 ¾ Microsoft DirectX – provides so ftware of M icr os oft D ire ctX ¾ nForce Chipset Driver – Provides all the drivers needed for the chipset. It also includes the audio driver. Note: We recommend that you install the “nVIDIA IDE SW” during Windows ® XP installation. 2. Click the “Tool Menu” button and the screen will di spla[...]

K8SLI 43 Chapter 4: Troubleshooting Problem 1: No power to the sy stem. Power light does not illu minate. Fan inside power supply does not turn on. Indicator lights on keyboard are not lit. Causes: 1. Power cable is unplugged. 2. Defective power cable. 3. Power supply failure. 4. Faulty wall ou tlet; circui t breaker or fuse blown. Solutions: 1. Ma[...]

K8SLI 44 Problem 4: System only boots from the CD-ROM. The hard disk can be read and applications can be used but booting from the hard disk i s impossible . Causes: Hard Disk boot se ctor has b een corrupted . Solutions: Back u p data and application s files. Reformat the hard drive . Re-install applicatio ns and data using backu p disks. Problem [...]

K8SLI 45 Problem 10: Keyboard failure . Causes: Keyboard is disconnecte d. Solutions: Reconnect keyboard. Replace keyboard if y ou continue to experience problems. Problem 1 1 : No color on scre en. Causes: 1. Faulty Monitor. 2. CMOS incorrectly set up. Solutions: 1. If possible, connect m onito r to another system. If no color appea rs, replace mo[...]

K8SLI 46 Appendix I: 5.1 Channel Setup 1. After get into the system, click the audio icon from the Windows s creen. 2. Click Speaker Conf iguration button, y ou can see the scr een like the p icture below. 3. You can choose 2, 4 or 6 channels by you r speakers. Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect This mainboard com e s with an ALC655 Codec which support[...]

K8SLI 47 Appendix II: RAID Setup Introduction to RAID RAID (Redundant Array of Independen t Disks) te chnology is a sophisticated disk m anagement system that manages m ultiple disk drives. It enh ances I/O performance and provides redund ancy in order to prevent th e loss of data in case of individual di sk failure. The RAID f a cility on this boa[...]

K8SLI 48 NVIDIA RAID Utility Configuration The NVIDIA RAID Utility is used to conf igure RAID disk managem ent into y our hard disk s. This section will explain how to setup and m aintain your RA ID disk drives. Starting up th e NVIDIA B IOS RAID Utili ty When the system boots up during the POST (Power-On Self Test), you will be given an opportunit[...]

K8SLI 49 0.0.M = PATA1 (master drive) 0.0.S = PATA1 (slave drive) 0.1.M = PATA2 (master drive) 0.1.S = PATA2 (slave drive) 1.0.M = SATA1 1.1.M = SATA2 Creating New RAID Array 1. The first screen you will see upon initial conf iguration is the “Define New Array” screen. First, tab over to the “RAIDMode” text box and press <Enter>. The [...]

K8SLI 50 3. Next, in the “Free Disks” sec tion, you can use th e up/down arrow keys to select disks to be u sed in your RAID array. Af ter highlighting a disk, use the right-arrow key to act ivate the disk as part of the RAID Ar ray. The sele cted dis k will move over to the “Ar ray Disks ” sectio n. You can use the left-a rrow key to rever[...]

K8SLI 51 Deleting an Array 1. You can delete an existing array on the “Array Deta il” screen. Pres s the <D> key. A warning/confirmation message will d isplay (as shown below). Pre ss <Y> to confirm . 2. After the array is succes sfully deleted , the screen will display as shown below.[...]

K8SLI 52 Rebuilding a RAI D Mirrored Array This section applies to Mirror ed or Striped/Mirro red RAID configurations and describes how to reestablish the in tegrity of a m irrored environment af ter replacing one of t he drives (typic ally because of a single disk failure). After replacing th e errant drive, the rebuild process will move data from[...]

K8SLI 53 Inst all ing RAID Drivers during Windows Inst allation Installation of RAID drivers is done during the Wi ndows installation . These steps assume that the hard disks have already been connected to either the PATA or SATA connectors. It i s also assum ed that the BIO S RAID U tility has already been configur ed (see NVIDIA B IOS RAID U tili[...]

K8SLI 54 Appendix Ⅲ : SLI (Scalable Link Interface) Introduction: nVIDIA ® SLI (Scalable Link Interface) technology allows your comput er to use tw o id enti cal nVID IA ® SLI-ready PCI Expre ss™ graphi cs cards at once. Combining two nVIDIA ® SLI- certified graphi cs cards in a single system could essentially double your graphi cs performan[...]

K8SLI 55 Inst allation When installi ng two identical SLI-ready graphic cards, rememb er to connect the golden fingers of t wo graphic cards with the bridge PCB. You can only connect t he monitor with the graphic card which i s in the PCIE2 slot . Make sure that you have already installed your chipset driver and y our SLI-re ady graph ic card drive[...]

K8SLI 56 2. On the ne xt screen (be low), sel ect the “SLI mu lti-GPU” item which is on the left of the sub window . And select the checkbox of “Enabl e SLI multi-GPU” in the main screen. Click on the “Apply” button to co mplete the configuration.[...]