Mach N2VIEW User manual

N2VIEW
(2-User-System Solution)
USER'S MANUAL
M/B For Socket-A Athlon/Duron Processor
NO. G03-N2VIEW
Rev:2.0
Release date: December 2003
Trademark:
* Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are
subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer.

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USER’S NOTICE ..........................................................................................................ii
MANUAL REVISION INFORMATION..........................................................................ii
COOLING SOLUTIONS ..............................................................................................ii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION OF N2VIEW MOTHERBOARD
1-1 THE WORLD FIRST 2-USER MOTHERBOARD......................................................... 1
1-2 FEATURE OF MOTHERBOARD..........................................................................2
1-3 SPECIFICATION .....................................................................................................3
1-4 PERFORMANCE LIST ........................................................................................... 4
1-5 LAYOUT DIAGRAM & JUMPER SETTING ...................................................... 5
CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION STEPS ................................................................7
2-2 CHECKING MOTHERBOARD'S JUMPER SETTING......................................7
2-3 INSTALL CPU ..........................................................................................................9
2-3-1 GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................9
2-3-2 ABOUT AMD ATHLON & DURON 462-PIN CPU..................................9
2-4 INSTALL MEMORY ............................................................................................... 10
2-5 EXPANSION CARD .................................................................................................11
2-5-1 PROCEDURE FOR EXPANSION CARD INSTALLATION ..................11
2-5-2 ASSIGNING IRQ FOR EXPANSION CARD............................................ 11
2-5-3 INTERRUPT REQUEST TABLE FOR THIS MOTHERBOARD.......... 12
2-5-4 AGP SLOT ..................................................................................................... 12
2-6 CONNECTORS, HEADERS....................................................................................13
2-6-1 CONNECTORS .............................................................................................13
2-6-2 HEADERS ......................................................................................................15
2-7 STARTING UP YOUR COMPUTER.....................................................................18
CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCING BIOS
3-1 ENTERING SETUP .................................................................................................. 19
3-2 GETTING HELP.......................................................................................................19
3-3 THE MAIN MENU ...................................................................................................20
3-4 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES............................................................................ 21
3-5 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES ............................................................................. 22
3-6 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES .....................................................................24
3-7 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS.............................................................................25
3-7-1 ONCHIP IDE FUNCTION........................................................................... 26
3-7-2 ONCHIP DEVICE FUNCTION ..................................................................27
3-7-3 ONCHIP SUPER IO FUNCTION...............................................................27
3-8 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ......................................................................... 28
3-9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP ................................................................... 29
3-9-1 IRQ RESOURCES .......................................................................................30
3-10 PC HEALTH STATUS............................................................................................31
3-11 MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL............................................................................32
3-12 LOAD STANDARD/OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS .................................................. 33
3-13 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD ..............................................................33
CHAPTER 4 DRIVER & FREE PROGRAM INSTALLATION
MAGIC INSTALL SUPPORTS WINDOWS 9X/NT/2K/XP .........................................34
4-1 NFORCE INSTALL NVIDIA NFORCE PACK DRIVER ............................35
4-2 VGA INSTALL NVIDIA VGA DRIVER.................................................36
4-3 SOUND INSTALL ALC AC97 AUDIO CODEC DRIVER .......................36
4-4 USB 2.0 INSTALL NVIDIA USB 2.0 DRIVER ......................................... 37
4-5 PC-CILLIN INSTALL PC-CILLIN2002 ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM..............38
4-6 PC-HEALTH INSTALL NFORCE2 HARDWARE DOCTOR UTILITY..........39
4-7 MAGIC BIOS INSTALL BIOS LIVE UPDATE UTILITY................................... 41
4-8 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ........................................................................................42
CHAPTER 5 INSTALLATION OF MagicTwin ..............................................................43
5-1 INSTALLATION OF MagicTwin (A 2-User-System Solution) .......................... 43
TABLE OF CONTENT

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USER’S NOTICE
COPYRIGHT OF THIS MANUAL BELONGS TO THE MANUFACTURER. NO PART OF THIS MANUAL,
INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT MAY BE REPRODUCED,
TRANSMITTED OR TRANSLATED INTO ANY LANGUAGE IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS WITHOUT
WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE MANUFACTURER.
THIS MANUAL CONTAINS ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED TO USE N2VIEW MOTHER-BOARD AND WE
DO ASSURE THIS MANUAL MEETS USER’S REQUIREMENT BUT WILL CHANGE, CORRECT ANY TIME
WITHOUT NOTICE. MANUFACTURER PROVIDES THIS MANUAL “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMANGES FOR LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OF DATA,
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PRODUCTS AND CORPORATE NAMES APPEARING IN THIS MANUAL MAY OR MAY NOT BE
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USED ONLY FOR IDENTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION AND TO THE OWNER’S BENEFIT, WITHOUT
INTENT TO INFRINGE.
Manual Revision Information
Reversion Revision History Date
2.0 Second Edition December 2003
Item Checklist
5N2VIEW Motherboard
5Cable for IDE/Floppy
5CD for motherboard utilities
□Cable for USB2 Port (Option)
5Y-Cable for 2 Keyboard/ 2 Mouse
5Quick Installation Guide MagicTwin Manual
5N2VIEW User’s Manual
AMD Athlon™ / Duron™ Processor Family
Cooling Solutions
As processor technology pushes to faster speeds and higher performance, thermal management
becomes increasingly crucial when building computer systems. Maintaining the proper thermal
environment is key to reliable, long-term system operation. The overall goal in providing the proper
thermal environment is keeping the processor below its specified maximum case temperature.
Heatsinks induce improved processor heat dissipation through increased surface area and concentrated
airflow from attached fans. In addition, interface materials allow effective transfers of heat from the
processor to the heatsink. For optimum heat transfer, AMD recommends the use of thermal grease and
mounting clips to attach the heatsink to the processor.
When selecting a thermal solution for your system, please refer to the website below for collection of
heatsinks evaluated and recommended by AMD for use with AMD processors. Note, those heatsinks
are recommended for maintaining the specified Maximum T case requirement. In addition, this
collection is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all heatsinks that support AMD processors.
For vendor list of heatsink and fan, please visit：
http://www1.amd.com/products/duron/thermals
http://www1.amd.com/products/athlon/thermals

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Chapter 1
Introduction of N2VIEW Motherboard
1-1 The World First 2-User Motherboard
Introduction
The N2VIEW MagicTwin is the world’s first multi-user enabled motherboard solution
available in the market. The special designed 2-user-system motherboard allows two users to
share the computing power of a single PC system. With integrated circuitry onboard, the
N2VIEW MagicTwin®motherboard comes with innovative software, the MagicTwin,
allowing 2 users to be connected to it and runs up to two (2) stations directly from it. The
unique and copyright-protected technology, allows each of the 2 users to feel like having
himself his own Windows-XP computer. Each user needs to have himself his own keyboard,
mouse, sound device, and monitor. All remaining PC hardware will be shared, even the IP.
Both users can operate on their own station concurrently, similar to the operation on standard
PC, the Windows applications to create and edit documents, to do web surfing, to access
email, just to name a few. There is no obvious delay because of the Time-slicing/Multiplexing
technology built-in. Each user gets an exact and extremely short defined moment to access to
the PC system, devices, applications and Windows itself. Resources are only claimed for
nanoseconds at a time. Both users get from Windows and the PC, what they really need when
they need it! The MagicTwin solution turns the single PC into a cost-effective multi-user
system.
The setup is intuitive and easy. In only a few minutes, users can install and start using their
new workstation. No network administrator is needed as everything to network the
workstations together is done automatically with the MagicTwin software. To configure 2
users system you will need:
9One Motherboard with onboard circuitry support for MagicTwin
9One PS/2 Keyboard Y-cable for two Keyboards connection (cable or wireless)
9One PS/2 Mouse Y-cable for two Mice connection (cable or wireless)
9Two Standard Monitors (CRT, LCD)
9Optional: USB-Multimedia Sound Device or any USB-Speaker
9Installation CD (driver, installation program, tools and manual)
91.2GHz or higher processor
9Minimum of 256MB RAM (128MB per workstation/user)

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1-2 Feature of motherboard
The N2VIEW motherboard is design for use AMD Athlon/Duron/Athlon XP 200MHz/
266MHz/333MHz/400MHz (Double Data Rate) Front Side Bus Frequency CPU, which
utilize the Socket-A design.
N2VIEW motherboard use the newest nVIDIA nForce2 IGP north bridge chipset, integrated
GeForce4 MX series Graphics Processing Unit. Support DDR 266/333 with internal graphic
core. N2VIEW whose 200MHz/266MHz/333MHz/400MHz (Double Data Rate) Front Side
Bus frequency delivers a clear upgrade path to the future generation of 266MHz/333MHz/
400MHz processors and memory interface DDR266/DDR33. The motherboard provided three
184-pin DDR DIMMs support PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAMs maximum size up to
3GB. Supports both 64-bit and 128-bit (Dual Channel) DDR SDRAM. For those wanting
even greater graphic performance, an AGP 4X/8X slot is included on the board. Compliant
with AGP 3.0 8x interface at 533MHz.
These motherboards use nVIDIA nForce2 MCP2 south bridge offers ULTRA ATA
66/100/133 to provide speedier HDD throughout that boosts overall system performance.
The motherboard including LAN MAC Controller chip support 10/100 Mb/sec Base transfer
rate for network. With USB control as well as capability of expanding to 6 USB function ports
support USB2.0/USB1.1 Devices, meet future USB demand.
A special design in hardware for protecting Athlon XP CPU from burned, the system will auto
shutdown power supply when CPU is overheat, or the CPU FAN is stop. The motherboard has
built-in hardware monitor function. This will monitor and protect your computer.
In we design in CPU Vcore Voltage, DDR memory 2.5V Voltage, AGP 1.5V Voltage those
can minor adjustable in BIOS setup. This design can let users approach over clock demand
and also can make system more stable. The motherboard provides special function in BIOS
Setup to setting CPU Host clock let users to approach over clocking, and special design in
hardware to protect BIOS from virus crash BIOS data.
N2VIEW provides high performance & meets future specification demand. It is really wise
choice for your computer.
1-3 Specification

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Spec Description
Design ∗ATX form factor 4 layers PCB size: 30.5x21.0cm
Chipset ∗nVIDIA nForce2 Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP) north bridge
∗nVIDIA nForce2 Media and Communications Processor
(MCP2) south bridge
CPU Socket ∗Support AMD Athlon 1.1GHz∼1.4GHz processor
∗Support AMD Duron 900MHz∼1.3GHz processor
∗Support AMD Athlon XP1500+~XP3200+ processor
∗Support 200MHz/266MHz/333MHz/400MHz (Double Data Rate)
Front Side Bus frequency processors
∗Reserves support for future AMD Athlon XP processors
Memory Socket
(Dual Channel)
∗184-pin DDR module socket x3
∗Support DDR266/DDR333 DDR SDRAM
∗Support both 64-bit and 128-bit (Dual Channel) DDR SDRAM
∗Expandable to 3.0GB
Expansion Slot &
Headers
∗AGP slot x1 support AGP 3.0 & 4X/8X mode
∗32-bit PCI slot x5
Integrate IDE ∗Two PCI IDE controllers support PCI Bus Mastering, ATA
PIO/DMA and the ULTRA DMA 33/66/100/133 functions that
deliver the data transfer rate up to 133 MB/s
6 channel Audio ∗Realtek ALC 6-channel AC97’ Codec integrated support
Front/Rear/Center-Base 6 channel Speaker
∗Audio driver and utility included
BIOS ∗Award 2MBit Flash ROM
On board LAN ∗nVIDIA LAN MAC controller chip including
∗Support 10/100 Mb/sec data transfer rate
Multi I/O ∗PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors, Support
Keyboard/Mouse Y-cable for 2-user-system solution
∗Floppy disk drive connector x1
∗Parallel port x1, Serial port x2
∗USB2.0 connector x4, headers x2 (connecting cable option)
∗Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC & Game Port headers)
1-4 Performance List
The following performance data list is the testing result of some popular benchmark testing
programs. These data are just referred by users, and there is no responsibility for different

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testing data values gotten by users (the different Hardware & Software configuration will
result in different benchmark testing results.)
Performance Test Report (for N2VIEW)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (FSB 166MHZ)
DRAM: 512MB DDR400 X1 (Winbond DDR W942508BH-5)
256MB DDR400 X1 (Winbond DDR W942508BH-5)
VGA Expansion Card: ATI 9700 PRO (1024x768x32bit color)
Hard Disk Driver: IBM IC35L040AVVN07-0 (ATA-100 7200RPM)
BIOS: Award Optimal default
OS: Win XP Professional
166/166 166/166 Dual
Channel
3D Mark 2001SE 2934 4390
3D Mark 2003 157 218
3D Winbench 2000 (32/32bit) 80.6 123
PC Mark 2002
CPU/Memory/HDD 6269 / 4276 / 868 6299 / 4663 / 885
Content Creation Winstone 2002 41.7 43.9
Content Creation Winstone 2003 37.1 37.8
Business Winstone 2002 34.2 34.8
Winbench 99 V1.2 :
Business Disk Winmark99 9440 9510
Hi-end Disk Winmark99 31400 32000
Business Graphic Winmark 625 827
Hi-end Graphic Winmark 1790 1880
SYS Mark 2001/2002 : SISMark 2001/2002 Rating ( Internet Content Creation /
Office Productivity )
SISMark 2001 240 (239 / 241) 246 (246 / 247)
SISMark 2002 241 (303 / 191) 248 (321 / 191)
SISOFT Sandra 2003 :
Dhrystone ALU MIPS 7829 7892
Whetstone FPU MFLOPS 3130 3130
RAM Int Buffered iSSE2 MB/S 2251 2181
RAM Float Buffered iSSE2 MB/S 1943 2112
Integer SSE2 IT/S 11539 11536
Floating-Point SSE2 IT/S 12186 12202
QUAKE3 DEMO1 FPS 130.0 188.9
DEMO2 FPS 130.7 189.9
Return to Castle Wolfenstein FPS 82.3 115.7
WCPUID System / CPU Clock 167.04 / 2471.57 167.05 / 2171.59
1-5 Layout Diagram & Jumper Setting
LINE-OUT
LINE-IN
MIC
PS/2 Mouse
PS/2 Keyboard
PRINT
LAN

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Jumpers
Jumper Name Description Page
JP2 Keyboard Power On Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block P.6
Front Panel Audio
PC99 Back Panel
CD Audio
K/B Power ON Jumper (JP2)
USB Port
/
LAN Connector
PS2 KB/Mouse Port
USB Port (USB2)
AGP 4X/8X Slot
Floppy Connector
nVIDIA nForce2 IGP Chip
Front Panel Connector
ATA 133 IDE Conn.
Clear CMOS (JP6)
ATX Power Connector
CPU FAN
2MBit Flash ROM BIOS
CPU Socket
DDR DIMM X3
SFAN2
nVIDIA nForce2 MCP Chip
Speak Connector
Winbond 83627HF Chip
GAME Port Connector
PCI Slot
Wake On LAN
SFAN1
(JP8)
CPU F.S.B. Frequency Selector
USB Wake-Up Jumper (JP4)
USB Port
USB Wake-Up Jumpe
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(JP1)
Audio Connector (CN1)
IR Connector
COM1 Connecto
r
AC97’ Audio Codec
COM2 Connecto
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JP1, JP4 USB Wake-Up Enabled/Disabled 3-pin Block P.6
JP8 CPU Front Side Bus Frequency 2-pin Block P.6
JP6 CMOS RAM Clear jumper 3-pin Block P.7
Connectors
Connector Name Description Page
PWR ATX Power Connector 20-pin Block P.12
KYB PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard
Connector
6-pin Female P.12
USB1 USB Port Connector 2 x 4-pin Connector P.12
UL1 USB/LAN Port Connector 2 x 4-pin/RJ45 Connector P.12
LPT Parallel Port Connector 25-pin Female P.12
CN1
(Line-OUT/Line-IN/MIC)
Audio Connector 3 phone jack Connector P.12
VGA/VGA2 VGA Port Connector D-Sub 15-pin Connector P.12
FDD Floppy Driver Connector 34-pin Block P.13
IDE1/IDE2 Primary/Secondary IDE
Connector
40-pin Block P.13
Headers
Header Name Description Page
COM1/COM2 Serial Port COM1/COM2
Header
9-pin Block P.14
AUDIO Line-Out, MIC Header 9-pin Block P.14
GAME Game Port Header 15-pin Block P.14
USB2 USB Port Headers 4-pin Block P.14
HD LED IDE activity LED 2-pin Block P.15
RESET Reset switch lead 2-pin Block P.15
SPEAK Speaker connector 4-pin Block P.15
PWR LED Power LED 2-pin Block P.15
PWR BTN Power switch 2-pin Block P.15
WOL Wake On-LAN Headers 3-pin Block P.15
SFAN1, SFAN2, CPUFAN FAN Headers 3-pin Block P.16
IR IR infrared module Headers 5-pin Block P.16
CDIN CD Audio-In Headers 4-pin Block P.16
Expansion Sockets
Socket/Slot Name Description Page
ZIF Socket 462 CPU Socket 462-pin PPGA CPU Socket P.8
DIMM1, DIMM2,
DIMM3
DDR SDRAM Module
Socket
184-pin DDR SDRAM Module
Expansion Socket
P.9
PCI1, PCI2, PCI3,
PCI4, PCI5
PCI Slot 32-bit PCI Local Bus Expansion slots P.10
AGP AGP 4X/8X Mode Slot AGP Expansion Slot P.11
Chapter 2
Hardware installation
2-1 Hardware installation Steps

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Before using your computer, you had better complete the following steps:
1. Check motherboard setting
2. Install CPU
3. Install Memory
4. Install Expansion cards
5. Connect Ribbon cables, Panel wires, and power supply
6. Setup BIOS
7. Install software driver & utility
2-2 Checking Motherboard’s Jumper Setting
(1) Keyboard Power On function Enabled/Disabled: JP2
USB Wake-Up function Enabled/Disabled :JP1, JP4
When setting Enabled you can using keyboard by key in password or use USB device to
power on system.
JP1, JP4 2-3 closed USB Wake-Up Enabled
JP2 2-3 closed K/B Power ON Enabled
JP1, JP4 1-2 closed USB Wake-Up Disabled (Default)
JP2 1-2 closed K/B Power ON Disabled (Default)JP2
JP4
1 3
JP2
JP4
1 3
JP1
1
3
JP1
1
3
(2) CPU Front Side Bus Frequency Setting (2-pin) : JP8
CPU Front Side Bus Frequency
ON : (AUTO)
JP8
12
OFF : 100MHz
JP8
12
Note: CPU Front Side Bus Frequency also can change setting in BIOS SETUP, please
refer page 32 Miscellaneous Control in Host Clock at Next.
Note: When overclocking cause system can not boot up, users have to keeping press the
“INS” key and push the power on button to switch on the system until the screen