Abit AN9 32X User manual

Introduction
AN9 32X
Motherboard
AMD Socket AM2
Hardware Setup
BIOS Setup Driver & Utility CD Appendix
User’s Manual
About this Manual:
This user’s manual contains all the information you may
need for settin
g
up this motherboard. To read the user’s
manual of PDF format (readable by Adobe Reader), place
the “Driver & Utility CD” into the CD-ROM drive in your
system. The auto-run screen will appear, click the
“Manual” tab to enter its submenu. If not, browse the
root directory of the CD-ROM via the File Mana
g
er, and
double click the “AUTORUN” file.
 AMD Socket AM2
ATX Motherboard
 NB: NVIDIA C51XE
SB: NVIDIA MCP55PXE
 2GHz HT
 Dual DDR2 800 DIMM Slots
 NVIDIA SLI Technology
 Dual PCI-E X16 Slots
 Dual GbE LAN
 IEEE 1394a
 8x SATA 3Gb/s with RAID
 ABIT Guru™ Technology
 ABIT Silent OTES™ Technology
 7.1 Channel HD Audio

AN9 32X
User’s Manual
English, 2nd Edition
July, 2006
Copyright and Warranty Notice
The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a
commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may
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If you do not properly set the motherboard settings, causing the motherboard to malfunction or fail,
we cannot guarantee any responsibility.
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Introduction
Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................... 1-1
Hardware Setup
BIOS Setup Driver & Utility CD Appendix
1.1 Features & Specifications .............................................................1-1
1.2 Motherboard Layout.....................................................................1-3
2. Hardware Setup ............................................................... 2-1
2.1 Choosing a Computer Chassis.......................................................2-1
2.2 Installing Motherboard .................................................................2-1
2.3 Checking Jumper Settings ............................................................2-2
2.3.1 CMOS Memory Clearing Header and Backup Battery ..............2-3
2.3.2 Wake-up Headers................................................................2-5
2.4 Connecting Chassis Components...................................................2-6
2.4.1 ATX Power Connectors ........................................................2-6
2.4.2 Front Panel Switches & Indicators Headers............................2-7
2.4.3 FAN Power Connectors ........................................................2-8
2.5 Installing Hardware......................................................................2-9
2.5.1 CPU Socket AM2 .................................................................2-9
2.5.2 DDR2 Memory Slots ..........................................................2-11
2.5.3 PCI Express X16 Add-on Slots (Install Graphics Card) .......... 2-13
2.5.4 AudioMAX Connection Slot .................................................2-15
2.6 Connecting Peripheral Devices ....................................................2-18
2.6.1 Floppy and IDE Disk Drive Connectors ................................ 2-18
2.6.2 Serial ATA Connectors .......................................................2-19
2.6.3 Additional USB 2.0 Port Headers.........................................2-20
2.6.4 Additional IEEE1394 Port Headers ...................................... 2-20
2.6.5 PCI Express X1 Add-on Slots ..............................................2-21
2.6.6 PCI Add-on Slot ................................................................2-21
2.6.7 GURU Panel Connection Header .........................................2-22
2.7 Onboard Status Display.............................................................. 2-23
2.7.1 POST Code Displayer.........................................................2-23
2.7.2 Power Source Indicators .................................................... 2-24
2.8 Connecting I/O Devices.............................................................. 2-25
3. BIOS Setup....................................................................... 3-1
3.1 µGuru™Utility..............................................................................3-2
3.1.1 OC Guru .............................................................................3-2
3.1.2 ABIT EQ .............................................................................3-4
3.2 Standard CMOS Features............................................................3-11
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3.3 Advanced BIOS Features ............................................................3-14
3.4 Advanced Chipset Features......................................................... 3-16
3.5 Integrated Peripherals................................................................3-18
3.6 Power Management Setup..........................................................3-22
3.7 PnP/PCI Configurations .............................................................. 3-25
3.8 Load Fail-Safe Defaults ..............................................................3-27
3.9 Load Optimized Defaults ............................................................3-27
3.10 Set Password...........................................................................3-27
3.11 Save & Exit Setup .................................................................... 3-27
3.12 Exit Without Saving..................................................................3-27
4. Driver & Utility CD............................................................ 4-1
4.1 nVidia nForce Chipset Driver.........................................................4-2
4.2 Realtek HD Audio Driver...............................................................4-3
4.3 Silicon Image 3132 RAID Driver....................................................4-4
4.4 Cool’n’Quiet Driver.......................................................................4-5
4.5 USB 2.0 Driver.............................................................................4-7
4.6 ABIT µGuru Utility........................................................................4-7
4.7 NVRaid Floppy Disk......................................................................4-8
5. Appendix .......................................................................... 5-1
5.1 POST Code Definitions .................................................................5-1
5.1.1 AWARD POST Code Definitions.............................................5-1
5.1.2 AC2005 POST Code Definitions.............................................5-4
5.2 Troubleshooting (How to Get Technical Support?)..........................5-5
5.2.1 Q & A.................................................................................5-5
5.2.2 Technical Support Form ......................................................5-8
5.2.3 Universal ABIT Contact Information......................................5-9
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Introduction
1. Introduction
1.1 Features & Specifications
CPU
• Supports Socket 940 AM2 Processor with 2GHz system bus using Hyper-Transport™
Technology
• Supports AMD CPU Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology
Chipset
• Northbridge: NVIDIA®C51XE Chipset
• Southbridge: NVIDIA®MCP55PXE Chipset
Memory
• Four 240-pin DIMM slots
• Supports Dual Channel DDR2 800 Un-buffered ECC/Non-ECC memory
• Supports maximum memory capacity up to 8GB
ABIT Engineered
• ABIT Guru™Technology
• ABIT Silent OTES™Technology
NVIDIA SLI Technology
• Two PCI-Express X16 slots support NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface
SATA 3Gb/s RAID
• Supports 6 ports NV SATA 3Gb/s RAID 0/1/0+1/5/JBOD
2nd SATA 3Gb/s RAID
• 1x Internal SATA 3Gb/s port
• 1x External SATA 3Gb/s port
Dual GbE LAN
• Dual NVIDIA®Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 1394
• Supports 2 Ports IEEE 1394a at 400Mb/s transfer rate
Audio
• ABIT AudioMAX HD 7.1 CH
• Supports auto jack sensing and optical S/PDIF In/Out
Expansion Slots
• 2x PCI Express x16 slots
• 2x PCI Express x1 slots
• 1x PCI slot
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