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Biostar T-Series TForce4 SLI PACKAGE CHECKLIST ...I /O Slots:...5 B. Card and I CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ...1 1.1 MOTHERBOARD FEATURES ...1 1.2 LAYOUT AND COMPONENTS ...2 CHAPTER 2: HARDWARE INSTALLATIONS ...3 2.1 CPU ASSEMBLY ...3 A. DDR Installation Notice...4 D. Know your CPU Version ...4 2.3 PERIPHERALS ...5 A. Memory Space...4 C. Connectors and Headers:...6 CHAPTER 3: NVIDIA SLI FUNCTION ...12 3.1 REQUIREMENTS...12 3.2 PLACING THE SLI-NF4 SELECTOR CARD ...12 3.3 THINGS TO NOTICE...13 3.4 INSTALLING SLI-READY GRAPHICS CARDS...
Biostar T-Series TForce4 SLI PACKAGE CHECKLIST ...I /O Slots:...5 B. Card and I CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ...1 1.1 MOTHERBOARD FEATURES ...1 1.2 LAYOUT AND COMPONENTS ...2 CHAPTER 2: HARDWARE INSTALLATIONS ...3 2.1 CPU ASSEMBLY ...3 A. DDR Installation Notice...4 D. Know your CPU Version ...4 2.3 PERIPHERALS ...5 A. Memory Space...4 C. Connectors and Headers:...6 CHAPTER 3: NVIDIA SLI FUNCTION ...12 3.1 REQUIREMENTS...12 3.2 PLACING THE SLI-NF4 SELECTOR CARD ...12 3.3 THINGS TO NOTICE...13 3.4 INSTALLING SLI-READY GRAPHICS CARDS...
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... Supports NVIDIA Secure Networking Processor. Note: Does not support Windows 98SE and Windows ME. Supports ACPI power management. RAID 1 disk mirroring support for ... technology Isochronous controller paired with transfer up to 400Mb/s. 1 TForce4 SLI Gigabit Ethernet LAN NVIDIA Gigabit MAC + VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201. Three ...to 3Gb/s. RAID 0+1 disk striping and mirroring for highest system and application performance. Biostar T-Series Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 MOTHERBOARD FEATURES CPU Supports Socket 939. Maximum memory space ...
... Supports NVIDIA Secure Networking Processor. Note: Does not support Windows 98SE and Windows ME. Supports ACPI power management. RAID 1 disk mirroring support for ... technology Isochronous controller paired with transfer up to 400Mb/s. 1 TForce4 SLI Gigabit Ethernet LAN NVIDIA Gigabit MAC + VITESSE Gigabit PHY VSC8201. Three ...to 3Gb/s. RAID 0+1 disk striping and mirroring for highest system and application performance. Biostar T-Series Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 MOTHERBOARD FEATURES CPU Supports Socket 939. Maximum memory space ...
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...out the selector card ○1 about 450. The default setting is a pre-installed SLI-NF4 selector card on the motherboard. TForce4 SLI Step 3: Invert the selector card and insert the edge labeled "SLI MODE". To use two graphics cards, firstly, you have to set the selector card ... at least the minimum power required by the system, or the system will be unstable. 3.2 PLACING THE SLI-NF4 SELECTOR CARD There is Normal Mode, only supports single graphics card. Biostar T-Series Chapter 3: NVIDIA SLI Function 3.1 REQUIREMENTS Only Windows XP supports SLI (Dual Video) function.
...out the selector card ○1 about 450. The default setting is a pre-installed SLI-NF4 selector card on the motherboard. TForce4 SLI Step 3: Invert the selector card and insert the edge labeled "SLI MODE". To use two graphics cards, firstly, you have to set the selector card ... at least the minimum power required by the system, or the system will be unstable. 3.2 PLACING THE SLI-NF4 SELECTOR CARD There is Normal Mode, only supports single graphics card. Biostar T-Series Chapter 3: NVIDIA SLI Function 3.1 REQUIREMENTS Only Windows XP supports SLI (Dual Video) function.
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... tab to complete the setting. TForce4 SLI Step 6: Check before Enable SLI multi-GPU item, and click on OK to display Display Properties dialog box. Step 4: Click Advanced icon in NVIDIA nView properties. Step 5: Select NVIDIA GeForce tab, and then click on Multi-GPU item on the Windows taskbar. Biostar T-Series 3.5 ENABLING MULTI-GPU FEATURE...
... tab to complete the setting. TForce4 SLI Step 6: Check before Enable SLI multi-GPU item, and click on OK to display Display Properties dialog box. Step 4: Click Advanced icon in NVIDIA nView properties. Step 5: Select NVIDIA GeForce tab, and then click on Multi-GPU item on the Windows taskbar. Biostar T-Series 3.5 ENABLING MULTI-GPU FEATURE...
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TForce4 SLI 4.3 HOW RAID WORKS RAID 0: The controller "stripes" data across multiple drives in to 6 or 8. The size of each block is determined by the stripe size ... improves disk read and write times for many applications. Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 15 User's Manual Biostar T-Series Chapter 4: NVIDIA RAID Functions 4.1 OPERATION SYSTEM Supports Windows XP Home/Professional Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional. 4.2 RAID ARRAYS NVRAID supports the following types of the RAID set during the creation of RAID arrays...
TForce4 SLI 4.3 HOW RAID WORKS RAID 0: The controller "stripes" data across multiple drives in to 6 or 8. The size of each block is determined by the stripe size ... improves disk read and write times for many applications. Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 15 User's Manual Biostar T-Series Chapter 4: NVIDIA RAID Functions 4.1 OPERATION SYSTEM Supports Windows XP Home/Professional Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional. 4.2 RAID ARRAYS NVRAID supports the following types of the RAID set during the creation of RAID arrays...
TForce4 SLI BIOS setup guide
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... Serial-ATA B. The Choices: Auto (default), Mode0, Mode1, Mode2, Mode3, Mode4. TForce4 SLI Primary / Secondary /Master / Slave PIO The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for Serial-ATA A. As well, your operating environment requires a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver). Serial-ATA...
... Serial-ATA B. The Choices: Auto (default), Mode0, Mode1, Mode2, Mode3, Mode4. TForce4 SLI Primary / Secondary /Master / Slave PIO The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for Serial-ATA A. As well, your operating environment requires a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver). Serial-ATA...
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... On(default). The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Show H/W Monitor in POST If your CPU FAN to enable or disable Chassis Open Warning beep. TForce4 SLI 8 PC Health Status A、Figure 8. CPU FAN Control by The Choice "smart" can make your computer contains a monitoring system, it will show ...PC health status during POST stage. The item offers several delay time for you to choose. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. CPU Vcore/ +1.5V+3.3V/ +5.0V/ +12.0V/ 5VSB/ Voltage Battery Detect the system's voltage status automatically. 25 The ...
... On(default). The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Show H/W Monitor in POST If your CPU FAN to enable or disable Chassis Open Warning beep. TForce4 SLI 8 PC Health Status A、Figure 8. CPU FAN Control by The Choice "smart" can make your computer contains a monitoring system, it will show ...PC health status during POST stage. The item offers several delay time for you to choose. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. CPU Vcore/ +1.5V+3.3V/ +5.0V/ +12.0V/ 5VSB/ Voltage Battery Detect the system's voltage status automatically. 25 The ...
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B 、Figure 8. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. The Choices: Disabled (default), 60℃/140F, 65℃/149F, 70℃/158F, 75℃/167F. Current CPU FAN Speed This field ... FAN to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. The Choices: Disabled (Default), Enabled. Current SYS FAN Speed This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan. TForce4 SLI CPU Temperature This field displays the current temperature of CPU fan. PC Health Status Chassis Open Warning This item allows you to reduce noise.
B 、Figure 8. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. The Choices: Disabled (default), 60℃/140F, 65℃/149F, 70℃/158F, 75℃/167F. Current CPU FAN Speed This field ... FAN to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. The Choices: Disabled (Default), Enabled. Current SYS FAN Speed This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan. TForce4 SLI CPU Temperature This field displays the current temperature of CPU fan. PC Health Status Chassis Open Warning This item allows you to reduce noise.