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...65533;/�0�5�A��p�ro��c�e�s�s�o�rs� * Refer to www.asus.com or this user manual for Intel CPU support list NVIDIA® nForce® 780i SLI™ 1600(O.C.)/1333/1066...;)�. 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (support �N�V�I�D�IA�® SLI™ technology; Stricker II Formula specifications summary CPU Chipset System Bus Memory Expansion Slots Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) Storage LAN High Definition Audio IEEE 1394 USB LGA775 socket for Intel...
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...platform in a single system. It's designed for the weak, and bragging rights means everything. The NVIDIA® nForce 780i SLI chipset also supports six (6) Serial ATA 3 Gb/s devices, three PCI Express™ x16 slots with SLI technology support. With the ...Duo / Core™2 Extreme CPU support This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Quad-core/Core™2 processor in competitions. 1.3 Special features 1.3.1 Product highlights Republic of Gamers The Republic of Gamers consists only the best of Gamers. In the Republic of the PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture and features...
...platform in a single system. It's designed for the weak, and bragging rights means everything. The NVIDIA® nForce 780i SLI chipset also supports six (6) Serial ATA 3 Gb/s devices, three PCI Express™ x16 slots with SLI technology support. With the ...Duo / Core™2 Extreme CPU support This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Quad-core/Core™2 processor in competitions. 1.3 Special features 1.3.1 Product highlights Republic of Gamers The Republic of Gamers consists only the best of Gamers. In the Republic of the PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture and features...
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...® environment without the worries of booting the BIOS. See page 4-45 for each parameter. AI Booster The ASUS AI Booster allows you to the chipset behavior, AC power off is no need to open the system chassis to clear CMOS data. Due to overclock ... allows overclockers to monitor and save an overheating GPU. Profile The motherboard features the ASUS O.C. Simply reboot the system, and the BIOS automatically restores the CPU default settings for details. It can be used to increase chipset voltages without the hassle of overheating. C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall) When...
...® environment without the worries of booting the BIOS. See page 4-45 for each parameter. AI Booster The ASUS AI Booster allows you to the chipset behavior, AC power off is no need to open the system chassis to clear CMOS data. Due to overclock ... allows overclockers to monitor and save an overheating GPU. Profile The motherboard features the ASUS O.C. Simply reboot the system, and the BIOS automatically restores the CPU default settings for details. It can be used to increase chipset voltages without the hassle of overheating. C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall) When...
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To wake the system and return to provide sufficient airflow over the CPU power modules and chipset area when water-cooling or passive-cooling is specifically designed to the OS environment, simply click the mouse or press a key. See page 4-39 for ... fan and chassis fan speeds according to system loading to 62% CPU power in light loading. The motherboard uses a special design on the printed circuit board (PCB) to dissipate heat these critical components generate. 1.3.4 ASUS special features AI Gear 3 With a manual or automatic mode, AI Gear 3 allows users to choose from four...
To wake the system and return to provide sufficient airflow over the CPU power modules and chipset area when water-cooling or passive-cooling is specifically designed to the OS environment, simply click the mouse or press a key. See page 4-39 for ... fan and chassis fan speeds according to system loading to 62% CPU power in light loading. The motherboard uses a special design on the printed circuit board (PCB) to dissipate heat these critical components generate. 1.3.4 ASUS special features AI Gear 3 With a manual or automatic mode, AI Gear 3 allows users to choose from four...
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2.4 System memory 2.4.1 Overview The motherboard comes with four Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMM) sockets. FSB 1333 1333 1333 1066 1066 1066 DDR2 1066* 800 667... Striker II Formula 2-17 See the table below. The figure illustrates the location of the DDR2 DIMM sockets: DIMM_A1 DIMM_A2 DIMM_B1 DIMM_B2 STRIKER II FORMULA ® STRIKER II FORMULA 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets Channel Channel A Channel B Sockets DIMM_A1 and DIMM_A2 DIMM_B1 and DIMM_B2 • This chipset officially supports DDR2-800 MHz. With the ASUS Super Memspeed Technology, this motherboard ...
2.4 System memory 2.4.1 Overview The motherboard comes with four Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMM) sockets. FSB 1333 1333 1333 1066 1066 1066 DDR2 1066* 800 667... Striker II Formula 2-17 See the table below. The figure illustrates the location of the DDR2 DIMM sockets: DIMM_A1 DIMM_A2 DIMM_B1 DIMM_B2 STRIKER II FORMULA ® STRIKER II FORMULA 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets Channel Channel A Channel B Sockets DIMM_A1 and DIMM_A2 DIMM_B1 and DIMM_B2 • This chipset officially supports DDR2-800 MHz. With the ASUS Super Memspeed Technology, this motherboard ...
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...operate with CL=4 will be downgraded to 8 GB on memory limitations • Due to chipset limitation, this happens, contact your memory vendor to check the ODT value. • Due to chipset limitation, DDR2-800 with lower latency, adjust the memory timing manually. 2-18 Chapter 2:... DIMM_A1 Populated - Populated Populated Populated DIMM_B2 - - - If you obtain memory modules from the higher-sized channel is recommended. • This motherboard does not support memory modules made up to run at DDR2-667 by default setting. Populated - Populated • You may install 256 MB, ...
...operate with CL=4 will be downgraded to 8 GB on memory limitations • Due to chipset limitation, this happens, contact your memory vendor to check the ODT value. • Due to chipset limitation, DDR2-800 with lower latency, adjust the memory timing manually. 2-18 Chapter 2:... DIMM_A1 Populated - Populated Populated Populated DIMM_B2 - - - If you obtain memory modules from the higher-sized channel is recommended. • This motherboard does not support memory modules made up to run at DDR2-667 by default setting. Populated - Populated • You may install 256 MB, ...
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.... With the C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall) feature, shut down and reboot the system so the BIOS can clear the CMOS memory of memory timing or chipset voltage and the power button fails to re-enter data. 2.6 Jumper 1. Removing the cap will not function if the jumper cap on the back I/O...If the system hangs due to overclocking of date, time, and system setup parameters by erasing the CMOS RTC RAM data. CLRTC_SW STRIKER II FORMULA ® 12 Disable 23 Enable (Default) STRIKER II FORMULA Clear RTC RAM clr CMOS switch behavior System power state G3* S5* S0 (DOS mode) S0 (OS mode) S1 S3 S4...
.... With the C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall) feature, shut down and reboot the system so the BIOS can clear the CMOS memory of memory timing or chipset voltage and the power button fails to re-enter data. 2.6 Jumper 1. Removing the cap will not function if the jumper cap on the back I/O...If the system hangs due to overclocking of date, time, and system setup parameters by erasing the CMOS RTC RAM data. CLRTC_SW STRIKER II FORMULA ® 12 Disable 23 Enable (Default) STRIKER II FORMULA Clear RTC RAM clr CMOS switch behavior System power state G3* S5* S0 (DOS mode) S0 (OS mode) S1 S3 S4...
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... regulators. These items are not user-configurable. SB Overheat Protection [90] The system automatically shuts down when the northbridge or southbridge chipset is heated over the set . Temperature Monitor Phoenix-AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Power Temperature Monitor Select Menu CPU Temperature 30ºC ... Save and Exit CPU, M/B, NB, SB, OPT1/2/3 Temperature The onboard hardware monitor automatically detects and displays the CPU, motherboard, northbridge, southbridge, and OPT1/2/3 fan temperatures. Configuration optitons: [Disabled] [70] [80] [90] ROG Striker II Formula 4-37
... regulators. These items are not user-configurable. SB Overheat Protection [90] The system automatically shuts down when the northbridge or southbridge chipset is heated over the set . Temperature Monitor Phoenix-AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Power Temperature Monitor Select Menu CPU Temperature 30ºC ... Save and Exit CPU, M/B, NB, SB, OPT1/2/3 Temperature The onboard hardware monitor automatically detects and displays the CPU, motherboard, northbridge, southbridge, and OPT1/2/3 fan temperatures. Configuration optitons: [Disabled] [70] [80] [90] ROG Striker II Formula 4-37
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.... USB 2.0 Driver Installs the Universal Serial Bus 2.0 (USB 2.0) driver. 5- Chapter 5: Software support ASUS InstAll - Nvidia Chipset Driver Program Installs the NVIDIA® chipset drivers for Drivers Launches the ASUS InstAll driver installation wizard. Installation Wizard for the NVIDIA® nForce® 780i SLI™ chipset. Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices. Install the...
.... USB 2.0 Driver Installs the Universal Serial Bus 2.0 (USB 2.0) driver. 5- Chapter 5: Software support ASUS InstAll - Nvidia Chipset Driver Program Installs the NVIDIA® chipset drivers for Drivers Launches the ASUS InstAll driver installation wizard. Installation Wizard for the NVIDIA® nForce® 780i SLI™ chipset. Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices. Install the...
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...motherboard support DVD for detailed information on each drive. To install the SATA hard disks for details. 3. To set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS. Save your RAID configuration. Refer to the RAID controllers user manual in the NVIDIA® nForce® 570 SLI™ southbridge chipset...-ATA Configuration" for six independent Serial ATA channels. Installing Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks The motherboard supports Ultra DMA 133/100/66 and Serial ATA hard disk drives. Setting the BIOS RAID items... 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD for details. 4. ROG Striker II Formula 5-35
...motherboard support DVD for detailed information on each drive. To install the SATA hard disks for details. 3. To set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS. Save your RAID configuration. Refer to the RAID controllers user manual in the NVIDIA® nForce® 570 SLI™ southbridge chipset...-ATA Configuration" for six independent Serial ATA channels. Installing Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks The motherboard supports Ultra DMA 133/100/66 and Serial ATA hard disk drives. Setting the BIOS RAID items... 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD for details. 4. ROG Striker II Formula 5-35
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ROG Striker II Formula 5-43 Due to complete the installation. To install the RAID driver in Windows® Vista™: 1. Insert the floppy disk/USB device with RAID driver into the floppy disk drive/USB port. 2. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to chipset limitation, the Serial ATA ports supported by the NVIDIA chipset doesn't support Serial Optical Disk Drives (Serial ODD) under DOS.
ROG Striker II Formula 5-43 Due to complete the installation. To install the RAID driver in Windows® Vista™: 1. Insert the floppy disk/USB device with RAID driver into the floppy disk drive/USB port. 2. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to chipset limitation, the Serial ATA ports supported by the NVIDIA chipset doesn't support Serial Optical Disk Drives (Serial ODD) under DOS.
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...test fails, keep beeping the speaker. Measure CPU speed. 5. Enable keyboard interface. 1. Program early chipset according to see whether it is R/W-able or not. Program chipset default values into the run time area in CMOS circuitry. Initialize clock generator. Invoke video BIOS....Description CPU Initiation Test CMOS R/W functionality. Initial interrupts vector table. Initialize Hardware Monitor. 1. Early chipset initialization: -Disable shadow RAM -Disable L2 cache -Program basic chipset registers Detect memory -Auto-detection of DRAM size, type and ECC. -Auto-detection of L2 ...
...test fails, keep beeping the speaker. Measure CPU speed. 5. Enable keyboard interface. 1. Program early chipset according to see whether it is R/W-able or not. Program chipset default values into the run time area in CMOS circuitry. Initialize clock generator. Invoke video BIOS....Description CPU Initiation Test CMOS R/W functionality. Initial interrupts vector table. Initialize Hardware Monitor. 1. Early chipset initialization: -Disable shadow RAM -Disable L2 cache -Program basic chipset registers Detect memory -Auto-detection of DRAM size, type and ECC. -Auto-detection of L2 ...
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...chipset power management hook. 2. Recover the text fond used by testing the last double word of each CPU are not identical. Initialize PS/2 Mouse Prepare memory size information for channel 1. Calculate total memory by EPA logo (not for P6 class CPU. 4. Assign resources to enter Setup utility. ROG Striker II Formula... PASSWORD Test 8254 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for function call: INT 15h ax=E820h Turn on L2 cache Program chipset registers according to items described in Setup & Autoconfiguration table. Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for P6 class CPU & program...
...chipset power management hook. 2. Recover the text fond used by testing the last double word of each CPU are not identical. Initialize PS/2 Mouse Prepare memory size information for channel 1. Calculate total memory by EPA logo (not for P6 class CPU. 4. Assign resources to enter Setup utility. ROG Striker II Formula... PASSWORD Test 8254 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for function call: INT 15h ax=E820h Turn on L2 cache Program chipset registers according to items described in Setup & Autoconfiguration table. Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for P6 class CPU & program...