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780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Connecting Serial ATA Cables 18 Connecting Internal Headers 19 Front Panel Header 19 IEEE 1394a ...20 USB Headers 21 Audio ...22 Fan Connections 23 COM1 ...24 FDD Connector 25 Expansion Slots 25 PCI Slots ...25 PCI Express x1 Slot 26 PCI Express x16 Slots 26 Jumper Settings ...27 Clear CMOS Jumper: CLR_CMOS 27 Configuring the BIOS 29 Enter BIOS Setup 30 Main Menu...30 Standard CMOS Features Menu 33 Date and Time...34 IDE Channel and SATA Channel 34 Drive A...37 Halt On ...37 Memory ...38 Advanced BIOS Features 39 Removable Device Priority 40 EVGA iv
780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Connecting Serial ATA Cables 18 Connecting Internal Headers 19 Front Panel Header 19 IEEE 1394a ...20 USB Headers 21 Audio ...22 Fan Connections 23 COM1 ...24 FDD Connector 25 Expansion Slots 25 PCI Slots ...25 PCI Express x1 Slot 26 PCI Express x16 Slots 26 Jumper Settings ...27 Clear CMOS Jumper: CLR_CMOS 27 Configuring the BIOS 29 Enter BIOS Setup 30 Main Menu...30 Standard CMOS Features Menu 33 Date and Time...34 IDE Channel and SATA Channel 34 Drive A...37 Halt On ...37 Memory ...38 Advanced BIOS Features 39 Removable Device Priority 40 EVGA iv
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nForce 780i SLI Motherboard Hard Disk Boot Priority 40 Network Boot Priority 40 CPU Internal Cache 40 Quick Power On Self Test 41 First/Second/Third Boot Device 41 ... FSB & Memory Config 48 CPU Configuration 53 System Voltages 55 NVMEM Memory Test 57 Load Timing/Voltage Set 57 Save Timing/Voltage Set 58 System BIOS Cacheable 58 HPET Function 58 Integrated Peripherals Menu 59 IDE Function Setup 60 RAID Config ...61 USB Config...61 MAC Config ...62
nForce 780i SLI Motherboard Hard Disk Boot Priority 40 Network Boot Priority 40 CPU Internal Cache 40 Quick Power On Self Test 41 First/Second/Third Boot Device 41 ... FSB & Memory Config 48 CPU Configuration 53 System Voltages 55 NVMEM Memory Test 57 Load Timing/Voltage Set 57 Save Timing/Voltage Set 58 System BIOS Cacheable 58 HPET Function 58 Integrated Peripherals Menu 59 IDE Function Setup 60 RAID Config ...61 USB Config...61 MAC Config ...62
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POST Codes for Tritium Platform 94 Appendix B. Configuring an SLI Configuration 104 SLI Connector ...104 ForceWare Driver 105 Enabling 3-Way SLI 107 Verifying 3-way SLI is Active 109 Index...110 nForce 780i SLI Motherboard Current Hardware Settings 77 Dynamic BIOS Access 84 View System Information 85 Profile Policies...86 Manage Your System BIOS 87 NVIDIA System Monitor 88 Appendix A.
POST Codes for Tritium Platform 94 Appendix B. Configuring an SLI Configuration 104 SLI Connector ...104 ForceWare Driver 105 Enabling 3-Way SLI 107 Verifying 3-way SLI is Active 109 Index...110 nForce 780i SLI Motherboard Current Hardware Settings 77 Dynamic BIOS Access 84 View System Information 85 Profile Policies...86 Manage Your System BIOS 87 NVIDIA System Monitor 88 Appendix A.
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Pressing Del takes you choose. To go back to the Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Enter BIOS Setup The BIOS is strongly recommended that on the computer. 2. Use the arrow keys to display the associated submenu. Use the Page Up and Page Down ...options or press Enter to position the selector in a red box is highlighted for selection. Changing some settings could damage your computer. EVGA 30 Power on the BIOS screens all data in white is for information only, data in yellow is changeable, data in blue is critical to verify/change ...
Pressing Del takes you choose. To go back to the Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Enter BIOS Setup The BIOS is strongly recommended that on the computer. 2. Use the arrow keys to display the associated submenu. Use the Page Up and Page Down ...options or press Enter to position the selector in a red box is highlighted for selection. Changing some settings could damage your computer. EVGA 30 Power on the BIOS screens all data in white is for information only, data in yellow is changeable, data in blue is critical to verify/change ...
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...Monitor Load Defaults Set Password Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Saving Esc : Quit F10 : Save & Exit Setup : Select Item Time, Date, Hard Disk Type.., SLI-Ready memory - Disabled Figure 5. BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Main Menu Standard CMOS Features Use this menu to set up the basic system configuration. Advanced... BIOS Features Use this menu to set up the advanced system features and boot sequence. Advanced Chipset Features Use this menu to ...
...Monitor Load Defaults Set Password Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Saving Esc : Quit F10 : Save & Exit Setup : Select Item Time, Date, Hard Disk Type.., SLI-Ready memory - Disabled Figure 5. BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Main Menu Standard CMOS Features Use this menu to set up the basic system configuration. Advanced... BIOS Features Use this menu to set up the advanced system features and boot sequence. Advanced Chipset Features Use this menu to ...
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EVGA 32 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard System Monitor Use this command to monitor the real-time system status of the BIOS screen. The three status indicators are commands rather than submenus: Load Defaults Load default system settings. Set Password Use this command to set, ...
EVGA 32 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard System Monitor Use this command to monitor the real-time system status of the BIOS screen. The three status indicators are commands rather than submenus: Load Defaults Load default system settings. Set Password Use this command to set, ...
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...menu t b ll Cylinder Min= 0 The BIOS supports the following HDD Max=65535 Access Modes... Block Addressing). ¾ Large For HDD greater than 528 MB but not supporting LBA. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Press Enter to display sub- IDE HDD Auto-Detect [Press Enter] IDE Channel 0 Slave... Access Mode [Manual} [CHS] Capacity Cylinder Head Precomp Landing Zone Sector 0 MB .....0 [ 0] [ 0] [ 0] [ 0] Press ENTER to auto-detect IDE and SATA channels in the system. ESC:Abort EVGA...
...menu t b ll Cylinder Min= 0 The BIOS supports the following HDD Max=65535 Access Modes... Block Addressing). ¾ Large For HDD greater than 528 MB but not supporting LBA. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Press Enter to display sub- IDE HDD Auto-Detect [Press Enter] IDE Channel 0 Slave... Access Mode [Manual} [CHS] Capacity Cylinder Head Precomp Landing Zone Sector 0 MB .....0 [ 0] [ 0] [ 0] [ 0] Press ENTER to auto-detect IDE and SATA channels in the system. ESC:Abort EVGA...
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780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard No Errors System boot does not stop for any detected errors. ...boot does not stop for a keyboard or disk error, but will stop for all other errors. EVGA 38 Base Memory 640K Base Memory BIOS POST determines the Extended Memory Total Memory 1047552K 1048576K amount of base (or conventional) memory installed ...in the system. Extended Memory BIOS determines how much extended memory is present during the POST. Total Memory This value represents the ...
780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard No Errors System boot does not stop for any detected errors. ...boot does not stop for a keyboard or disk error, but will stop for all other errors. EVGA 38 Base Memory 640K Base Memory BIOS POST determines the Extended Memory Total Memory 1047552K 1048576K amount of base (or conventional) memory installed ...in the system. Extended Memory BIOS determines how much extended memory is present during the POST. Total Memory This value represents the ...
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Advanced Chipset Features EVGA 44 Phoenix - 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Advanced Chipset Features Select Advanced Chipset Features from the CMOS Setup Utility menu and press Enter to display the functions of the Advanced Chipset ... Utility Advanced Chipset Features ` System Clocks ` FSB & Memory Config ` CPU Configuration ` System Voltages NVMEM memory test Load timing/voltage set Save timing/voltage set System BIOS Cacheable HPET Function [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Disable] [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Disabled] [Enable] Item Help Main Level ` Voltage ...
Advanced Chipset Features EVGA 44 Phoenix - 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Advanced Chipset Features Select Advanced Chipset Features from the CMOS Setup Utility menu and press Enter to display the functions of the Advanced Chipset ... Utility Advanced Chipset Features ` System Clocks ` FSB & Memory Config ` CPU Configuration ` System Voltages NVMEM memory test Load timing/voltage set Save timing/voltage set System BIOS Cacheable HPET Function [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Disable] [Press Enter] [Press Enter] [Disabled] [Enable] Item Help Main Level ` Voltage ...
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... used as the timing hardware for all settings. HPET Function This function allows you to enable or disable caching the system BIOS. Press Enter to enable or disable the High Precision Even Timer (HPET). When HPET is Disabled, the APIC timer is...Select Profile 1 ..... [ ] Select Profile 2 ..... [ ] Select Profile 3 ..... [ ] :Move ENTER:Accept ESC:Abort System BIOS Cacheable This function allows you to see the options. When Enabled, HPET is used . 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Save Timing/Voltage Set This function saves the system voltages and timing settings that can be loaded...
... used as the timing hardware for all settings. HPET Function This function allows you to enable or disable caching the system BIOS. Press Enter to enable or disable the High Precision Even Timer (HPET). When HPET is Disabled, the APIC timer is...Select Profile 1 ..... [ ] Select Profile 2 ..... [ ] Select Profile 3 ..... [ ] :Move ENTER:Accept ESC:Abort System BIOS Cacheable This function allows you to see the options. When Enabled, HPET is used . 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Save Timing/Voltage Set This function saves the system voltages and timing settings that can be loaded...
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The CD will autorun, install the drivers and utilities listed on the CD to open. If the CD does not run, go to My Computer and click on the install screen. Configuring the BIOS Driver Installation 3. Insert the EVGA nForce 780i SLI installation CD for the motherboard included in the kit. 4.
The CD will autorun, install the drivers and utilities listed on the CD to open. If the CD does not run, go to My Computer and click on the install screen. Configuring the BIOS Driver Installation 3. Insert the EVGA nForce 780i SLI installation CD for the motherboard included in the kit. 4.
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... directly to the BIOS settings. EVGA 78 If a setting does not allow a change, it probably requires a reboot and should be changed in the Adjust Motherboard Timings screen allow a user to safely return to Windows in the event of a crash, without any possibility of motherboard and system-wide options and settings. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Motherboard The Motherboard option showcases...
... directly to the BIOS settings. EVGA 78 If a setting does not allow a change, it probably requires a reboot and should be changed in the Adjust Motherboard Timings screen allow a user to safely return to Windows in the event of a crash, without any possibility of motherboard and system-wide options and settings. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Motherboard The Motherboard option showcases...
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... that you to change them again or restore the CMOS to the default settings. Since these changes are available for changing. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Dynamic BIOS Access The Dynamic BIOS Access page allows you want to edit. The changes do not go into effect until you reboot your system. To edit an item, select...
... that you to change them again or restore the CMOS to the default settings. Since these changes are available for changing. 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard Dynamic BIOS Access The Dynamic BIOS Access page allows you want to edit. The changes do not go into effect until you reboot your system. To edit an item, select...
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... sub-system initializing Initialize cache controller Enter setup check and autoconfiguration check up Initialize floppy disk drive Install FDD and setup BIOS data area parameters Initialize hard drive controller 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard EVGA 98 Award POST Codes Co Name de 5A Reserved 5B Awdflash Load 5C Reserved 5D Onboard I/O 5E Reserved 5F Reserved 60...
... sub-system initializing Initialize cache controller Enter setup check and autoconfiguration check up Initialize floppy disk drive Install FDD and setup BIOS data area parameters Initialize hard drive controller 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard EVGA 98 Award POST Codes Co Name de 5A Reserved 5B Awdflash Load 5C Reserved 5D Onboard I/O 5E Reserved 5F Reserved 60...
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780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard hard disk audio function, 57 Hard Disk Boot Priority, 37 hard disk drive indicator LED, 17 HD_LED, 17 High Precision Even Timer, 53 hot key power on, 60 hotkey settings, 86 How to backup and update system BIOS, 81 change system BIOS settings, 78 configure CPU in BIOS, 48 configure RAID in BIOS...date and time, 32 set disk priority, 37 set fan speeds in BIOS, 64 set fan speeds with BIOS, 66 set GPU parameters, 77 EVGA 112 set IDE functions in BIOS, 55 set memory parameters, 74 set motherboard parameters, 73 set network boot priority, 37 set power management functions in...
780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard hard disk audio function, 57 Hard Disk Boot Priority, 37 hard disk drive indicator LED, 17 HD_LED, 17 High Precision Even Timer, 53 hot key power on, 60 hotkey settings, 86 How to backup and update system BIOS, 81 change system BIOS settings, 78 configure CPU in BIOS, 48 configure RAID in BIOS...date and time, 32 set disk priority, 37 set fan speeds in BIOS, 64 set fan speeds with BIOS, 66 set GPU parameters, 77 EVGA 112 set IDE functions in BIOS, 55 set memory parameters, 74 set motherboard parameters, 73 set network boot priority, 37 set power management functions in...