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... information 5-6 5.3 Software information 5-8 5.3.1 ASUS MyLogo2 5-8 5.3.2 AI NET2 5-10 5.3.3 ASUS Instant Music 5-11 5.3.4 Cool 'n' Quiet!™ Technology 5-14 5.3.5 Audio configurations 5-17 5.3.6 Using the NVIDIA® Firewall 5-24 5.3.7 Using the NVIDIA® nTune™ utility 5-27 5.4 RAID configurations 5-31 5.4.1 Installing hard disks 5-32 5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations 5-33 5.4.3 Silicon Image RAID configurations 5-40 5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 5-50...
... information 5-6 5.3 Software information 5-8 5.3.1 ASUS MyLogo2 5-8 5.3.2 AI NET2 5-10 5.3.3 ASUS Instant Music 5-11 5.3.4 Cool 'n' Quiet!™ Technology 5-14 5.3.5 Audio configurations 5-17 5.3.6 Using the NVIDIA® Firewall 5-24 5.3.7 Using the NVIDIA® nTune™ utility 5-27 5.4 RAID configurations 5-31 5.4.1 Installing hard disks 5-32 5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations 5-33 5.4.3 Silicon Image RAID configurations 5-40 5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 5-50...
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... 2.3, WfM2.0 AI NET 2 (continued on the next page) xi K8N4-E Deluxe specifications summary CPU Chipset System bus Memory Expansion slots Storage AI Audio IEEE 1394a USB LAN BIOS features ASUS AI Proactive Feature Socket 754 for discrete graphics card 3 x PCI Express... 133/100/66/33 hard disks - 4 x Serial ATA hard disks with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations Silicon Image Sil3114 RAID controller supports: - 4 x Serial ATA 1 hard disks with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 configurations Realtek® ALC850 High Definition Audio solution with 8-channel CODEC Audio Sensing...
... 2.3, WfM2.0 AI NET 2 (continued on the next page) xi K8N4-E Deluxe specifications summary CPU Chipset System bus Memory Expansion slots Storage AI Audio IEEE 1394a USB LAN BIOS features ASUS AI Proactive Feature Socket 754 for discrete graphics card 3 x PCI Express... 133/100/66/33 hard disks - 4 x Serial ATA hard disks with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations Silicon Image Sil3114 RAID controller supports: - 4 x Serial ATA 1 hard disks with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 configurations Realtek® ALC850 High Definition Audio solution with 8-channel CODEC Audio Sensing...
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... 1 x Floppy disk drive connector 1 x Primary IDE connector 1 x Secondary IDE connector 4 x Serial ATA connectors 4 x Serial ATA RAID connectors 1 x CPU fan connector 1 x Chipset fan connector 2 x Chassis fan connectors 1 x Power fan connector 3 x USB 2.0 ...K8N4-E Deluxe specifications summary Special features Overclocking features Internal connectors ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 ASUS Instant Music ASUS Q-Fan 2 ASUS POST Reporter ASUS Multi-language BIOS ASUS MyLogo™ 2 NVIDIA® Firewall ASUS AI Overclocking (intelligent CPU frequency tuner) ASUS PEG Link for single graphics card ASUS...
... 1 x Floppy disk drive connector 1 x Primary IDE connector 1 x Secondary IDE connector 4 x Serial ATA connectors 4 x Serial ATA RAID connectors 1 x CPU fan connector 1 x Chipset fan connector 2 x Chassis fan connectors 1 x Power fan connector 3 x USB 2.0 ...K8N4-E Deluxe specifications summary Special features Overclocking features Internal connectors ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 ASUS Instant Music ASUS Q-Fan 2 ASUS POST Reporter ASUS Multi-language BIOS ASUS MyLogo™ 2 NVIDIA® Firewall ASUS AI Overclocking (intelligent CPU frequency tuner) ASUS PEG Link for single graphics card ASUS...
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... PCI Express™ support for the latest graphics and expansion cards, increased security with NVIDIA® Firewall™, and advanced storage solutions with NVIDIA® RAID technology for details. 1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction Integrated into the NVIDIA® nForce4®-4X chipset with a 754-pin surface mount, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket...
... PCI Express™ support for the latest graphics and expansion cards, increased security with NVIDIA® Firewall™, and advanced storage solutions with NVIDIA® RAID technology for details. 1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction Integrated into the NVIDIA® nForce4®-4X chipset with a 754-pin surface mount, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket...
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...computers, peripherals, and consumer electronic devices such as camcorders, VCRs, printers,TVs, and digital cameras. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, and JBOD configurations. See pages 2-18 and 2-28 for four Serial ATA hard disks. Gigabit LAN The motherboard comes with ...nForce™4-4X chipset to provide faster data bandwidth for details. The IEEE 1394a interface allows up to select the best RAID solution using Serial ATA devices. USB 2.0 technology The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification, dramatically ...
...computers, peripherals, and consumer electronic devices such as camcorders, VCRs, printers,TVs, and digital cameras. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, and JBOD configurations. See pages 2-18 and 2-28 for four Serial ATA hard disks. Gigabit LAN The motherboard comes with ...nForce™4-4X chipset to provide faster data bandwidth for details. The IEEE 1394a interface allows up to select the best RAID solution using Serial ATA devices. USB 2.0 technology The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification, dramatically ...
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Internal connectors 1. Serial ATA RAID connectors (7-pin SATA_RAID1 [red], SATA_RAID2 [red], SATA_RAID3 [red], SATA_RAID4 [red]) 5. USB connectors (10-1 pin USB56, USB78, USB910) 10. GAME/MIDI port connector (16-1 pin GAME)... (Green 3-pin PLED) - Reset switch (Blue 2-pin RESET) Page 2-20 2-21 2-22 2-23 2-24 2-24 2-24 2-24 2-25 2-26 2-27 2-27 2-28 2-28 2-29 2-30 ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 2-5 System warning speaker (Orange 4-pin SPEAKER) - IDE connectors (40-1 pin PRI_IDE, SEC_IDE) 3. Chassis fan connectors (3-pin CHA1_FAN, 3-pin CHA2_FAN) 7. Power fan connector (3-pin PWR_FAN) 9. System...
Internal connectors 1. Serial ATA RAID connectors (7-pin SATA_RAID1 [red], SATA_RAID2 [red], SATA_RAID3 [red], SATA_RAID4 [red]) 5. USB connectors (10-1 pin USB56, USB78, USB910) 10. GAME/MIDI port connector (16-1 pin GAME)... (Green 3-pin PLED) - Reset switch (Blue 2-pin RESET) Page 2-20 2-21 2-22 2-23 2-24 2-24 2-24 2-24 2-25 2-26 2-27 2-27 2-28 2-28 2-29 2-30 ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 2-5 System warning speaker (Orange 4-pin SPEAKER) - IDE connectors (40-1 pin PRI_IDE, SEC_IDE) 3. Chassis fan connectors (3-pin CHA1_FAN, 3-pin CHA2_FAN) 7. Power fan connector (3-pin PWR_FAN) 9. System...
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... that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that the cards do not need IRQ assignments. Onboard USB 2.0 controller shared - - -- - - - Onboard 1394a shared - - -- - - - Onboard PCI SATA RAID (SI) -- - shared - - - - - - 2.5.3 Interrupt assignments Standard interrupt assignments IRQ Priority 0 1 1 2 2 - 3* 11 4* 12 5* 13 6 14 7* 15 8 3 9* 4 10* 5 11* 6 12* 7 13 8 14* 9 15* 10 Standard Function System Timer...
... that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that the cards do not need IRQ assignments. Onboard USB 2.0 controller shared - - -- - - - Onboard 1394a shared - - -- - - - Onboard PCI SATA RAID (SI) -- - shared - - - - - - 2.5.3 Interrupt assignments Standard interrupt assignments IRQ Priority 0 1 1 2 2 - 3* 11 4* 12 5* 13 6 14 7* 15 8 3 9* 4 10* 5 11* 6 12* 7 13 8 14* 9 15* 10 Standard Function System Timer...
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... Serial ATA extension module. In SATA mode, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, or JBOD configuration that allow up RAID configurations. See section "4.4.3 Onboard device configuration" for Serial ATA hard disk drives that spans across the Parallel ATA drives. SATA4 SATA3 SATA2 SATA1 K8N4-E ® K8N4-E DELUXE SATA connectors Important notes on Serial ATA • The actual...
... Serial ATA extension module. In SATA mode, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, or JBOD configuration that allow up RAID configurations. See section "4.4.3 Onboard device configuration" for Serial ATA hard disk drives that spans across the Parallel ATA drives. SATA4 SATA3 SATA2 SATA1 K8N4-E ® K8N4-E DELUXE SATA connectors Important notes on Serial ATA • The actual...
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... RSATA_RXN3 GND GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 2-23 See section "4.4.3 Onboard Device Configuration" for details. SATA_RAID3 SATA_RAID4 SATA_RAID1 SATA_RAID2 K8N4-E ® K8N4-E DELUXE SATA RAID Connectors • Before creating a RAID set to Chapter 5 for Serial ATA signal cables. See Chapter 5 for details. Refer to R A I D M o d e by default...
... RSATA_RXN3 GND GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 2-23 See section "4.4.3 Onboard Device Configuration" for details. SATA_RAID3 SATA_RAID4 SATA_RAID1 SATA_RAID2 K8N4-E ® K8N4-E DELUXE SATA RAID Connectors • Before creating a RAID set to Chapter 5 for Serial ATA signal cables. See Chapter 5 for details. Refer to R A I D M o d e by default...
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... of the primary or secondary master or slave IDE. NVRAID Configuration RAID Enable x IDE Primary Master RAID x IDE Primary Slave RAID x IDE Secondary Master RAID x IDE Secondary Slave RAID x First SATA Master RAID x Second SATA Master RAID x Third SATA Master RAID x Fourth SATA Master RAID [Disabled] Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Select Menu Item Specific Help...
... of the primary or secondary master or slave IDE. NVRAID Configuration RAID Enable x IDE Primary Master RAID x IDE Primary Slave RAID x IDE Secondary Master RAID x IDE Secondary Slave RAID x First SATA Master RAID x Second SATA Master RAID x Third SATA Master RAID x Fourth SATA Master RAID [Disabled] Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Select Menu Item Specific Help...
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... ROM of the onboard LAN chip. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Onboard LAN Boot ROM [Disabled] Allows you to enable or disable the onboard Silicon Image RAID controller. Configuration options: [Disabled] [3F8/IRQ4] [2F8/IRQ3] [3E8/IRQ4] [2E8/IRQ3] Parallel Port Address [378/IRQ7] Allows you to enable or disable the onboard...
... ROM of the onboard LAN chip. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Onboard LAN Boot ROM [Disabled] Allows you to enable or disable the onboard Silicon Image RAID controller. Configuration options: [Disabled] [3F8/IRQ4] [2F8/IRQ3] [3E8/IRQ4] [2E8/IRQ3] Parallel Port Address [378/IRQ7] Allows you to enable or disable the onboard...
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Chapter summary 5 5.1 Installing an operating system 5-1 5.2 Support CD information 5-1 5.3 Software information 5-8 5.4 RAID configurations 5-31 5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 5-50 ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe
Chapter summary 5 5.1 Installing an operating system 5-1 5.2 Support CD information 5-1 5.3 Software information 5-8 5.4 RAID configurations 5-31 5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 5-50 ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe
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... Allows you to install the Realtek ALC850 driver. Realtek ALC850 Driver Allows you to activate the devices. Make Silicon SATA/RAID Driver Disk Allows you to dynamically and automatically select the CPU speed, voltage, and power combination that matches the user's...'n' Quiet!™ Technology" for the NVIDIA® nForce™4-4X chipset. See section "5.4.2 Silicon Image RAID configurations" for Serial ATA and RAID features. Silicon Image RAID Driver Installs the Silicon Image RAID Driver. AMD Cool 'n' Quiet Driver Installs the AMD Cool 'n' Quiet!™ Technology driver.
... Allows you to install the Realtek ALC850 driver. Realtek ALC850 Driver Allows you to activate the devices. Make Silicon SATA/RAID Driver Disk Allows you to dynamically and automatically select the CPU speed, voltage, and power combination that matches the user's...'n' Quiet!™ Technology" for the NVIDIA® nForce™4-4X chipset. See section "5.4.2 Silicon Image RAID configurations" for Serial ATA and RAID features. Silicon Image RAID Driver Installs the Silicon Image RAID Driver. AMD Cool 'n' Quiet Driver Installs the AMD Cool 'n' Quiet!™ Technology driver.
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... the NVIDIA® ForceWare Networking and Firewall Administrator's Guide. NvRAID Disk Alert User's Guide Allows you to open the Silicon Image SATARaid™ Serial ATA RAID Management Software user's manual. Sil3114 User's Manual Allows you to open the NVIDIA® NvRAID™ user's manual. 5.2.4 Manuals menu The M a n u a l s menu...third party components and applications. • Most user manual files are in this menu may not be applicable for this motherboard model. NVIDIA RAID User's Guide Allows you to open the NVIDIA® RAID User's Guide. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-5
... the NVIDIA® ForceWare Networking and Firewall Administrator's Guide. NvRAID Disk Alert User's Guide Allows you to open the Silicon Image SATARaid™ Serial ATA RAID Management Software user's manual. Sil3114 User's Manual Allows you to open the NVIDIA® NvRAID™ user's manual. 5.2.4 Manuals menu The M a n u a l s menu...third party components and applications. • Most user manual files are in this menu may not be applicable for this motherboard model. NVIDIA RAID User's Guide Allows you to open the NVIDIA® RAID User's Guide. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-5
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...of three identical hard disk drives for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other RAID performance benefits. Among the advantages of data from one drive fails, the disk array management software directs all...a complete copy of the data in parallel, interleaved stacks. R A I D 5 stripes both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. R A I D 1 0 is required for this setup. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-31 In some instances, a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure. J B O D (Spanning) stands for fault-...
...of three identical hard disk drives for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other RAID performance benefits. Among the advantages of data from one drive fails, the disk array management software directs all...a complete copy of the data in parallel, interleaved stacks. R A I D 5 stripes both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. R A I D 1 0 is required for this setup. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-31 In some instances, a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure. J B O D (Spanning) stands for fault-...
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... you use either Windows® XP or Windows® 2000 operating system (OS), copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to section "5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk" for a RAID configuration: 1. Refer to a floppy disk before creating RAID configurations. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays. 2. the maximum number of three disk...
... you use either Windows® XP or Windows® 2000 operating system (OS), copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to section "5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk" for a RAID configuration: 1. Refer to a floppy disk before creating RAID configurations. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays. 2. the maximum number of three disk...
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... detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA® RAID configuration, refer to Enabled. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-33 The succeeding items become user-configurable. 3. 5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller integrated in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration. Use the NVIDIA® RAID utility to configure as RAID. Select and enable the IDE or SATA...
... detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA® RAID configuration, refer to Enabled. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-33 The succeeding items become user-configurable. 3. 5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller integrated in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration. Use the NVIDIA® RAID utility to configure as RAID. Select and enable the IDE or SATA...
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...;] Select [ENTER] Popup At the bottom of the utility. Use the up your screen. The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are the navigation keys. These keys allow you to select a RAID mode then press . The following submenu appears. Boot up or down arrow keys to move through...main menu of the screen are for reference only, and may not exactly match the items on your computer. 2. From the NVIDIA® RAID utility Define a New Array menu, select R A I D M o d e then press . Mirroring Striping Stripe Mirroring Spanning 5-34 Chapter 5: Software support NVIDIA...
...;] Select [ENTER] Popup At the bottom of the utility. Use the up your screen. The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are the navigation keys. These keys allow you to select a RAID mode then press . The following submenu appears. Boot up or down arrow keys to move through...main menu of the screen are for reference only, and may not exactly match the items on your computer. 2. From the NVIDIA® RAID utility Define a New Array menu, select R A I D M o d e then press . Mirroring Striping Stripe Mirroring Spanning 5-34 Chapter 5: Software support NVIDIA...
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... disk data? [Y] YES [N] 5. Take caution in using this option. For multimedia computer systems used mainly for your RAID 0 array then press .The available values range from 8 KB to create RAID set. The following screen appears. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-35 The following submenu appears: 8K ↑ 16K 32K 64K 128K Optim↓ If you selected Striping...
... disk data? [Y] YES [N] 5. Take caution in using this option. For multimedia computer systems used mainly for your RAID 0 array then press .The available values range from 8 KB to create RAID set. The following screen appears. ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe 5-35 The following submenu appears: 8K ↑ 16K 32K 64K 128K Optim↓ If you selected Striping...
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...: 1. From the Array List menu, use the up or down arrow keys to save settings and exit. RAID Mode: Mirroring Striping Width: 1 Striping Block: 64K Adapt Channel M/S 2 1 1 0 Master Master Index Disk Model Name 0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1 ...XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Capacity XXX.XXGB XXX.XXGB 5-36 [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Chapter 5: Software support The RAID Array details appear. Boot No Id Status 4 Healthy Vendor NVIDIA Array Model Name MIRROR XXX.XXG [Ctrl-X]Exit [↑↓]Select [B]Set Boot [N]...
...: 1. From the Array List menu, use the up or down arrow keys to save settings and exit. RAID Mode: Mirroring Striping Width: 1 Striping Block: 64K Adapt Channel M/S 2 1 1 0 Master Master Index Disk Model Name 0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1 ...XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Capacity XXX.XXGB XXX.XXGB 5-36 [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Chapter 5: Software support The RAID Array details appear. Boot No Id Status 4 Healthy Vendor NVIDIA Array Model Name MIRROR XXX.XXG [Ctrl-X]Exit [↑↓]Select [B]Set Boot [N]...