EVGA 122-M2-NF59-AX - Manuals

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 5 Special Features of the Motherboard CPU Thermal Throttling Technology To prevent increasing heat from damaging the CPU or causing accidental shutdown while under high workload...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 6 Spec Description Design ATX form factor 6 layers PCB size: 30.5 x 24.4cm Chipset NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI X16 Technology CPU Socket AM2 Supports 64bit AMD Athlon64 Socket AM2 pro...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 7 Layout Diagram & Jumper Settings 1. PS/2 Mouse Port This port is used to connect a PS/2 mouse 2. PS/2 Keyboard Port This port is used to connect a PS/2 keyboard 3. IEEE139...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 9 Hardware Installation Hardware Installation Steps Before using your computer, please complete the following steps: 1. Check motherboard jumper settings 2. Install CPU and Fan ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 11 The CPU that you use with the motherboard should have a cooling FAN attached to prevent overheating. If this is not the case, then purchase the correct cooling FAN before you...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 12 Bank 184-Pin DIMM PCS Total Memory Bank 0, 1 (DIMM1) DDR2 533/667/800 DDR2 SDRAM Module X1 256MB~2.0GB Bank 2, 3 (DIMM2) DDR2 533/667/800 DDR2 SDRAM Module X1 256MB~2.0GB Ban...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 13 Expansion Cards WARNING! Turn off your system power when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 14 Interrupt Request Table For This Motherboard Interrupt requests are shared as shown in the table below: INT A INT B INT C INT D INT E INT F INT G INT H Slot 1 X Slot 2 X Slot...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 15 Standard Interrupt Assignments IRQ Priority Standard function 0 N/A System Timer 1 N/A Keyboard Controller 2 N/A Programmable Interrupt 3 * 8 Communications Port (COM2) 4 * 9...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 16 SLI Bridge for NVIDIA SLI Supported VGA Cards In order to activate the NVIDIA SLI technology (SLI version only), you have to install the included SLI Bridge for your NVIDIA S...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 17 STEP 3 - Be careful with the pins as to not damage the adapter or graphics cards during installation. STEP 4 - Plug the SLI Bridge adapter onto both of the NVIDIA SLI Support...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 19 ATX 12V Power Connector (8-pin block) : ATX12V This is a newly defined 8-pin connector that usually comes with the ATX Power Supply. The ATX Power Supply which fully supports...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 20 LAN Port connector: UL2 This connector is standard RJ45 connector for Ethernet connections. Audio Line-In, Lin-Out, MIC, Surrback, Surround, CEN/LEF Connector : J1 This Conne...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 22 Two hard disks can be connected to each connector. The first HDD is referred to as the “Master” and the second HDD is referred to as the “Slave”. For best performance, we str...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 23 Headers Line-Out/MIC Header for Front Panel (9-pin): AUDIO This header connects to Front Panel Line-out, MIC connector with cable. Without installing this cable, this header ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 24 Speaker connector: SPEAK This 4-pin connector connects to the case-mounted speaker. See the figure below. Power LED: PWR LED The Power LED is light on while the system power ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 27 Starting Up Your Computer After all connections are made, close your computer case cover. Be sure all the switches are off, and check that the power supply input voltage is s...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 28 BIOS Description Enter BIOS Setup The BIOS is the communication bridge between the hardware and software, correctly setting up the BIOS parameters is critical to maintain opt...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 31 Advanced BIOS Features Removable Device Priority This option is used to select the priority for Removable device startup. After pressing <Enter>, you can select the rem...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 39 ACPI Suspend Type This option is used to set the energy saving mode of the ACPI function. When you select “S1 (POS)” mode, the power will not shut off and the supply status w...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 40 Init Display First This option is used to set which display device will be used first when your PC starts up. Reset Configuration Data This option is used to set whether the ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 41 Temperature Values This option is used to set which display device will be used first when your PC starts up. System The temperature of the system CPU The temperature of the ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 42 Save & Exit Setup When you select this option and press <Enter>, the following message will appear in the center of the screen: SAVE to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? Press &...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 43 Configuring FirstPacket: Click on “Enable FirstPacket (recommended)” to enable FirstPacket. The following screen appears Figure 4 Enabling FirstPacket Select the appropriate ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 44 Figure 5 FirstPacket Application Selection Page Click on “Add” to select the executable of the game of application that you want to accelerate. For example, if you want to ac...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 45 Configuring Teaming: To configure teaming, do the following: Click on “Adjust Teaming configuration”; the following screen appears: Figure 7 Teaming Configuration Page By def...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 46 Create RAID Arrays: Use the MediaShield Creation Wizard to configure your available storage. After launching MediaShield, start the wizard. Under Management, click Create arr...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 47 Figure 4. Select Configuration Screen You will only see the screen in Figure 4 if your system has one to three free disks. If four or more free disks are available, you’ll au...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 48 Figure 5. Creating a Mirrored Array To select a Striped array, select Striping as the RAID mode and leave Stripe Size as the default. To select a Striped Mirrored array, sele...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 49 Figure 6. Selecting Disks 7. Select the disks you want to include in the Striped set. 8. Follow directions in the next few wizard screens to finish creating the array. View R...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 50 Delete RAID Arrays To delete an array, perform these steps: 1.Select Delete array from the Storage Control Panel. This brings up the Delete Array Wizard, as shown in Figure 9...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 52 Nvidia nTunre 5.0 NVIDIA nTune TM 5.0 is a full-featured application for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system components, including bus speeds and voltages, with ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 54 The controls located in the Adjust Motherboard Timings screen allow the bus speeds to be adjusted manually to increase performance for gaming, or lower performance to conserv...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 58 DRIVER INSTALLATION After your computer’s Operating System is installed, you will need to install drivers for your motherboard in order to gain full operation. Insert the Dri...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 59 Requirements: Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP) based computer with both a CD ROM drive and a 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy, and one blank 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy disk. • Insert the Driver...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 60 APPENDIX 1 Quick Debug Port Post Codes Please refer to the following Quick Debug table to assist in troubleshooting problems that are revealed through the motherboard’s Debug...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 64 FCC Compliance Information This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15, Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference, ...

EVGA Corporation 2900 Saturn St. Suite B, Brea, CA 92821 Phone: 888 / 881-EVGA - 714 / 528-4500 - Fax: 714 / 528-4501 Page 65 Contacting Customer Service EVGA is dedicated to supporting our products. Contacting EVGA Customer Service is easy! We can be reached by phone, fax, and on the web. Before co...