User manual MSI K9N NEO QUICK GUIDE

[. . . ] K9N Neo Series MS-7260 (V1. X) Mainboard G52-72601X1 i Copyright Notice T he material in this doc ument is the intellec tual property of M ICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL. We take every care in the preparation of this document, but no guarantee is given as to the correctness of its contents. Our products are under continual improvement and we reserve the right to make changes without notice. Trademarks All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, DualNet, and nForce are registered trademarks or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. [. . . ] If you set this field to [Manual], the following fields will be selectable. 3-11 M S-7260 M ainboard M emory Hole In order to improve performance, certain space in memory can be reserved for ISA peripherals. Hyper Transport Configuration Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears: SB to CPU Freq. This item allows you to select the frequency from South Bridge to CPU. SB to CPU LinkWidth This item allows you to select the HT width from SB to CPU. 3-12 BIOS Setup Integrated Peripherals USB / 2. 0 Controller This setting allows you to enable/disable the onboard USB 1. 1/ 2. 0 controller. USB Device Legacy Support Select [Enabled] if you need to use a USB-interfaced device in the operating system. Onboard LAN Controller These items are used to enable/disable the onboard LAN controller. Onboard Audio Controller This setting is used to enable/disable the onboard audio controller. On-Chip ATA Devices Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears: PCI IDE BusMaster This item allows you to enable/ disable BIOS to used PCI busmastering for reading/ writing to IDE drives. 3-13 M S-7260 M ainboard On-Chip IDE Controller This item allows you to enable/ disable IDE Controller. Serial-ATA Devices These items allow users to enable or disable the SATA controller. I/O Devices Press <Enter> to enter the sub-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-on FDC or the system has no floppy drive, select [Disabled] in this field. COM Port 1/2 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first serial port. COM Port 2 Mode This setting allows you to specify the operation mode for serial port 2. Settings are: [IrDA] IrDA-compliant Serial Infrared Port [ASKIR] Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared 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 options: [Disabled] [3BC] Line Printer port 0 [278] Line Printer port 2 [378] Line Printer port 1 Parallel Port M ode [SPP] [EPP] [ECP] [ECP + EPP] Standard Parallel Port Enhanced Parallel Port Extended Capability Port Extended Capability Port + Enhanced Parallel Port 3-14 BIOS Setup To operate the onboard parallel port as Standard Parallel Port only, choose [SPP]. To operate the onboard parallel port in the EPP mode simultaneously, choose [EPP]. By choosing [ECP], the onboard parallel port will operate in ECP mode only. Choosing [ECP + EPP] will allow the onboard parallel port to support both the ECP and EPP modes simultaneously. nVidia RAID Setup Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears: nVidia RAID Function This item is used to enable/disable the nVidia RAID function. SATA 0/ 1 Primary/ Secondary Channel These itemsallow users to enable or disable the RAID function for each SATA hard disk drive. 3-15 M S-7260 M ainboard Power Management Setup Important S3-related functions described in this section are available only when your BIOS supports S3 sleep mode. ACPI Function This item is to activate the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface) Function. If your operating system is ACPI-aware, such as Windows 98SE/ 2000/ME, select [Enabled]. [. . . ] This applies only to fault tolerant arrays such as RAID 1 and RAID 0+1. For example, assuming you have a two disk RAID 1 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. The picture below shows an example of a system with one mirrored array and two free disks. 2. [. . . ]