Qdi N2 User manual

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N2 series mainboard

QDI Driver CD 2000

Users manual

1 IDE ribbon cable

1 floppy ribbon cable

I/O s ield

2 10-pin ribbon cable wit bracket for USB3,4,5,6 (optional)

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Declaration of Conformity

QUANTUM DESIGNS(HK) LTD.

20th loor, Devon House, Taikoo Place, 979 Kings Road,

Quarry Bay, Hong Kong

declares that the product

Mainboard

is in conformity with

(reference to the specification under which conformity is declared in

accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive

!"EN 55022 Limits and met ods of measurements of radio disturbance

c aracteristics of information tec nology equipment

!"EN 50081-1 Generic emission standard Part 1:

Residential, commercial and lig t industry

!"EN 50082-1 Generic immunity standard Part 1:

Residential, commercial and lig t industry

European Representative:

QDI COMPUTER( UK ) LTD. QDI COMPUTER( SCANDINAVIA )A/S

QDI SYSTEM HANDEL GMBH QDI EUROPE B.V

QDI COMPUTER( FRANCE ) SARL QDI COMPUTER HANDELS GMBH

LEGEND QDI SPAIN S.L. QDI COMPUTER( SWEDEN )AB

Signature : Place / Date : HONG KONG/2002

Printed Name : Xu Wenge Position/ Title : Assistant President

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Declaration of Conformity

Trade Name: QDI Computer ( U. S . A. Inc.

Model Name:

Responsible Party: QDI Computer ( U. S. A. Inc.

Address: 41456 Christy Street

Fremont, CA 94538

Telephone: (510 668-4933

Facsimile: (510 668-4966

Equipment Classification: FCC Class B Subassembly

Type of Product: Motherboard

Manufacturer: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. peration is subject to

the following two conditions : (1) this device may not cause harmful

interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received,

including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Tested to comply with FCC standards.

Signature : Date : 2002

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CONTENTSCONTENTS

CONTENTS

1. Introduction .....................................................1

Overview.....................................................................1

Key eatures ..............................................................1

2. Installation Instructions ..............................5

External Connectors....................................................5

Jumper Setting ...........................................................13

Clear CMOS( JCC ) ...................................................14

Enable ront/Back Panel USB Device Wake-up

unction (J ISB/JUSB)...............................................14

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CONTENTSCONTENTS

CONTENTS

Enable keyboard password power-on function(JKB)......15

CPU Core Voltage Selection (JVID)...................................16

CPU Core Voltage Setting (J2)..........................................16

Overclocking Jumper Setting (J SB)................................18

Enable/Disable Onboard Audio(JP4, JP5, J24).................18

3. BIOS Description....................................19

Utility Support.................................................. 19

AWD LASH.EXE .............................................................19

AWARD BIOS Description......................................20

Entering Setup .................................................................20

Load ail-Safe Defaults....................................................20

Load Optimized Defaults ..................................................20

Standard CMOS eatures Setup......................................20

QDI Innovation features....................................................24

Advanced BIOS eatures Setup......................................25

Advanced Chipset eatures Setup..................................27

Power Management Setup...............................................28

PnP/PCI Configurations Setup...........................................30

Integrated Peripherals......................................................31

PC Health Status...............................................................34

Password Setting.............................................................35

Boot with BIOS defaults...................................................35

Appendix.............................................................,.......36

QDI Utility CD.....................................................................36

Norton AntiVirus.............................................................. 36

Installing n orce Core Driver Under Windows98.............37

LogoEasy II...................................................................... 40

BIOS-ProtectEasy........................................................... 41

RecoveryEasy II............................................................. .42

BootEasy........................................................................ 47

BootEasy(German)......................................................... 48

N2(Spanish).....................................................................49

N2( rench)...................................................................... 52

N2(Italian).........................................................................56

DDR DIMM Configuration Matrix for IGP-128......................58

Layout

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Caution

Be sure to unplug the AC power supply before adding or removing

expansion cards or 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 heatsink

to keep them fully contacted to meet the heat sink requirement.

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Manual for N2 series

Chapter 1

Introduction

Overview

N2 series of mainboards utilize n orce 420D chipset consisting of two components: Crash

12 and MCP-D, providing a fully compatible, high performance and cost-effective ATX

platform. The new integrated technologies, together with AGP 4X support, AC97 audio, 6

USB ports and ATA 100/66/33, give customers an advanced, multimedia solution at

reasonable price. It provides 200/266MHz host bus speed to support AMD socket 462

processors and the largest DDR memory capacity is up to 1.5GB. It also provides advanced

fearures such as Wake up by USB devices, Wake-on-Modem, ACPI and Keyboard Password

Power-on functions. Suspend to RAM, the optimal implementation of the Advanced

Configuration 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 Riser Card (AMR), Primary/Secondary Modem Riser Card

(AMR), 10/100Mb LAN Riser Card, 1Mb HomePNA Riser Card, USB Ports Riser Card and

ACR SPDI Card. QDI innovation, lets the PC boot freely and rapidly.

Form Factor

#ATX form factor of 305mm x 224mm

Microprocessor

#Supports 200/266MHz SB speed

#Supports AMD Socket 462 Athlon processors at 700/750/800/900/950MHz/1GHz/1.1/

1.2/1.3/1.333/1.4/1.533/1.6/1.733/1.8GHz and future processors

#Supports AMD Socket 462 Duron processors at 600/650/700/800/850/900/950MHz/

1GHz/1.1GHz and future processors

Chipset

#n orce 420D chipset: Crash 12 + MCP-D

Memory

#Provides three 184-pin DDR SDRAM Interfaces

#Supports DDR200/DDR266 SDRAM

#Supports 64/128/256/512Mb techonology up to 1.5GB

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2Manual for N2 series

Introduction

Onboard IDE

#Two fast IDE interfaces supporting four IDE devices including IDE hard disks and

CDROM drives

#Supports Ultra DMA33/66/100

6 USB

#USB 1.1 compliant

#""

"Supports wake-up from S1 (power on suspend), S3 (depends on device)

Onboard I/O

#One floppy port supporting up to two 3.5 or 5.25 floppy drives with 360K/720K/

1.2M/1.44M/2.88M format

#""

"Two high speed 16550 fast compatible UARTs(COM1/COM2/COM3/COM4 selective)

with 16-byte send/receive I O

#One parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode

#Supports PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard

#Provides one IrDA connector

#All I/O ports can be enabled/disabled in the BIOS setup

Onboard Audio

#Standard AC97 Codec interface

#Provides onboard Line-in Jack, Microphone-in Jack, Speaker-out Jack with onboard

amplifier and MIDI/Joystick Connector

Onboard AG

#AGP 1.5V Connector supports AGP 2.0 including AGP 4X data transfers

Advanced Features

#PCI v2.2 Specification Compliant

#Provides Trend ChipAwayVirus On Guard

#Supports Windows 98/2000/ME/XP soft-off

#Supports Wake-on-LAN and Wake-on-Modem

#Supports Keyboard Password Power-on function

#Supports system monitoring (monitors system temperature, CPU temperature, voltages

and fan speed)

#Provides an ACR slot t support some cards: Audio Riser Card (AMR), Primary/Second-

ary Modem Riser Card (AMR), 10/100Mb LAN Riser Card, 1Mb HomePNA Riser Card,

USB Ports Riser Card and ACR SPDI Card

#Providing QDI innovations: BootEasy, logoEasyII, BIOS-ProtectEasy, RecoveryEasyII

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Manual for N2 series

Chapter 1

BIOS

#Licensed advanced AWARD( Phoenix ) BIOS

#Supports lash ROM with plug and play ready

#Supports IDE CDROM or SCSI bootup

Green Function

#Supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and ODPM (OS Di -

rected Power Management)

#Supports ACPI power status: S0( ull-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 slots

IDE ( 2 ) IDE ports

LOPPY( 1 ) loppy Drive port

DDR( 3 ) DIMM socket

USB( 6 ) USB connectors

VGA( 1 ) VGA connector

ACR( 1 ) ACR slot

UART( 2 ) UART connectors

PARALLEL( 1 ) Parallel connector

IrDA( 1 ) IrDA connector

MIDI/Joystick( 1 ) MIDI/Joystick connector

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