Page 4 - Table of Contents
- 4 - Table of Contents GA-K8NE Motherboard Layout ..................................................................................... 6Block Diagram ............................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 1 Hardware Installation .....
Page 6 - GA-K8NE Motherboard Layout
- 6 - GA-K8NE Motherboard Layout DDR3 DDR2 DDR1 ATX FDD MS/KB COMB LPT COMA CODEC IT8712 nVIDIA ® nForce TM 4 - 4X BIOS PCI1 PCI2 F_USB2 F_USB1 CI SA TAII0_1 IDE2 SYS_FAN GA-K8NE F_PANEL IDE1 PCI3 ATX_12V CPU_FAN BAT CLR_CMOS Socket 754 AUDIO1 USB USB LAN F_AUDIO CD_IN Marvell88E1111 PCIE_16 AUDIO2 ...
Page 7 - Block Diagram
- 7 - Block Diagram (Note) Because of CPU limitations, if you want to install DDR400 memory modules in your system, please install either one double-sided or two single-sided DDR400 memory modules. The DDR400 speedwill drop down to DDR333 if you install two double-sided or three single-sided DDR400 ...
Page 9 - English; Considerations Prior to Installation; Preparing Your Computer; Chapter 1 Hardware Installation
Hardware Installation - 9 - English 1-1 Considerations Prior to Installation Preparing Your Computer The motherboard contains numerous delicate electronic circuits and components which canbecome damaged as a result of electrostatic discharge (ESD). Thus, prior to installation, pleasefollow the instr...
Page 10 - Feature Summary
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 10 - English CPU Socket 754 for AMD Athlon TM 64 processor (K8) 1600MH/z system bus Supports core frequencies in excess of 3000+ and faster Chipset nVIDIA ® nForce4-4X Chipset Supported on the Win 2000/XP operating systems Memory 3 DDR DIMM memory slots (supports up...
Page 12 - Installation of the CPU and Heatsink
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 12 - English 1-3 Installation of the CPU and Heatsink Before installing the CPU, please comply with the following conditions:1. Please make sure that the motherboard supports the CPU.2. Please take note of the one indented corner of the CPU. If you install the CPU in the wrong ...
Page 14 - Installation of Memory
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 14 - English Before installing the memory modules, please comply with the following conditions:1. Please make sure that the memory used is supported by the motherboard. It is recommended that memory of similar capacity, specifications and brand be used. 2. Before installing or ...
Page 15 - Installation of Expansion Cards
Hardware Installation - 15 - English 1-5 Installation of Expansion Cards You can install your expansion card by following the steps outlined below:1. Read the related expansion card's instruction document before install the expansion card into the computer. 2. Remove your computer's chassis cover, s...
Page 16 - I/O Back Panel Introduction
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 16 - English 1-6 I/O Back Panel Introduction PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connector To install a PS/2 port keyboard and mouse, plug the mouse to the upper port (green) and the keyboard to thelower port (purple). Parallel Port The parallel port allows connection of a printer, sc...
Page 17 - Connectors Introduction; Side Speaker Out
Hardware Installation - 17 - English 1-7 Connectors Introduction Side Speaker Out Connect the side surround speakers to this connector. You can use audio software to configure 2-/4-/6-/8-channel audio functioning. 1) ATX_12V2) ATX (Power Connector)3) CPU_FAN4) SYS_FAN5) FDD6) IDE1 / IDE27) SATAII0_1...
Page 27 - CONTROL KEYS; Chapter 2 BIOS Setup
BIOS Setup - 27 - English BIOS (Basic Input and Output System) includes a CMOS SETUP utility which allows user to configurerequired settings or to activate certain system features.The CMOS SETUP saves the configuration in the CMOS SRAM of the motherboard.When the power is turned off, the battery on ...
Page 29 - Set Supervisor Password; Exit Without Saving
BIOS Setup - 29 - English Set Supervisor Password Change, set, or disable password. It allows you to limit access to the system and Setup, or just to Setup. Set User Password Change, set, or disable password. It allows you to limit access to the system. Save & Exit ...
Page 30 - Standard CMOS Features; Date
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 30 - English 2-1 Standard CMOS Features Date The date format is <week>, <month>, <day>, <year>. Week The week, from Sun to Sat, determined by the BIOS and is display only Month The month, Jan. Through Dec. Day The day, from 1 to 31 (or the maximum allowe...
Page 31 - Halt on
BIOS Setup - 31 - English Hard drive information should be labeled on the outside drive casing. Enter the appropriate optionbased on this information. Cylinder Number of cylinders Head Number of heads Precomp Write precomp Landing Zone Landing zone Sector Number of sectors If a hard disk has not bee...
Page 32 - Advanced BIOS Features; Hard Disk Boot Priority
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 32 - English 2-2 Advanced BIOS Features Hard Disk Boot Priority Select boot sequence for onboard(or add-on cards) SCSI, RAID, etc. Use < > or < > to select a device, then press<+> to move it up, or <-> to move it down the list. Press<ESC> to exit t...
Page 33 - Password Check
BIOS Setup - 33 - English Password Check System The system can not boot and can not access to Setup page will be denied if thecorrect password is not entered at the prompt. Setup The system will boot, but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password isnot entered at the prompt. (Default va...
Page 34 - Integrated Peripherals; IDE DMA transfer access
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 34 - English 2-3 Integrated Peripherals On-Chip IDE Channel0 Enabled Enable onboard 1st channel IDE port. (Default value) Disabled Disable onboard 1st channel IDE port. On-Chip IDE Channel1 Enabled Enable onboard 2nd channel IDE port. (Default value) Disabled Disable onboard 2n...
Page 37 - Power Management Setup; ACPI Suspend Type; ECP Mode Use DMA
BIOS Setup - 37 - English 2-4 Power Management Setup ACPI Suspend Type S1(POS) Set ACPI suspend type to S1/POS(Power On Suspend). (Default value) S3(STR) Set ACPI suspend type to S3/STR(Suspend To RAM). Soft-Off by Power button Instant-off Press power button then Power off instantly. (Default value)...
Page 38 - USB Resume from Suspend
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 38 - English USB Resume from Suspend Disabled Disable this function. (Default value) Enable Enable USB device wake up system from suspend type. Power-On by Alarm You can set "Resume by Alarm" item to enabled and key in Date/Time to power on system. Disabled Disable this...
Page 39 - PnP/PCI Configurations; PCI 1 IRQ Assignment; PCI 2 IRQ Assignment; PCI 3 IRQ Assignment; On-board Device IRQ Assign
BIOS Setup - 39 - English 2-5 PnP/PCI Configurations PCI 1 IRQ Assignment Auto Auto assign IRQ to PCI 1. (Default value) 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 Set IRQ 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 to PCI 1. PCI 2 IRQ Assignment Auto Auto assign IRQ to PCI 2. (Default value) 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 Set IRQ 3,4,5,7,9,...
Page 40 - PC Health Status; Current CPU Temperature
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 40 - English 2-6 PC Health Status Current Voltage(V) Vcore / DDR25V / +3.3V / +12V Detect system's voltage status automatically. Current CPU Temperature Detect CPU temperature automatically. Current CPU/SYSTEM FAN Speed (RPM) Detect CPU/SYSTEM fan speed status automatically. CP...
Page 42 - Chipset core PCI-E voltage; HT-Link voltage control; DDR voltage control
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 42 - English Chipset core PCI-E voltage Normal Set Chipset core PCI-E voltage as Chipset core PCI-E required. (Default value) +0.1v Increase Chipset core PCI-E voltage +0.1V. +0.2v Increase Chipset core PCI-E voltage +0.2V. +0.3v Increase Chipset core PCI-E voltage +0.3V. HT-Li...
Page 43 - Load Optimized Defaults; Set Supervisor/User Password
BIOS Setup - 43 - English 2-8 Load Optimized Defaults Selecting this field loads the factory defaults for BIOS and Chipset Features which the system automaticallydetects. CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award Software ` Standard CMOS Features ` Advanced BIOS Features ` Integrated Peripher...
Page 44 - -11 Exit Without Saving
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 44 - English 2-10 Save & Exit Setup Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility and save the user setup value to RTC CMOS.Type "N" will return to Setup Utility. 2-11 Exit Without Saving Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility without saving to RTC CMOS.Type &#...
Page 45 - Chapter 3 Drivers Installation; Install Chipset Drivers
Drivers Installation - 45 - English Pictures below are shown in Windows XP.Insert the driver CD-title that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive, the driverCD-title will auto start and show the installation guide. If not, please double click the CD-ROMdevice icon in "My computer"...
Page 46 - Software Application
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 46 - English 3-2 Software Application This page displays all the tools that Gigabyte developed and some free software, you can choose anyoneyou want and press "install" to install them. 3-3 Software Information This page lists the contents of software and drivers in thi...
Page 47 - Hardware Information; Contact Us
Drivers Installation - 47 - English 3-4 Hardware Information This page lists all device you have for this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Please see the last page for details.
Page 49 - Chapter 4 Appendix; Unique Software Utilities; User Interface Overview
Appendix - 49 - English Chapter 4 Appendix 4-1 Unique Software Utilities 4-1-1 EasyTune 5 Introduction EasyTune 5 presents the most convenient Windows based system performance enhancement andmanageability utility. Featuring several powerful yet easy to use tools such as 1) Overclocking for enhancing...
Page 50 - What is Xpress Recovery ?; How to use the Xpress Recovery
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 50 - English 4-1-2 Xpress Recovery Introduction What is Xpress Recovery ? Xpress Recovery is a utility used to back up and restore an OS partition.If the hard drive is not working properly, the user can restore the drive toits original state. 1. Supports FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS ...
Page 51 - F9 For Xpress Recovery
Appendix - 51 - English 2. Press F9 during powering on the computer. (Text Mode) Xpress Recovery V1.0 (C) Copy Right 2003. GIGABYTE Technology CO. , Ltd. 1. Execute Backup Utility2. Execute Restore Utility3. Remove Backup Image4. Set Password5. Exit and Restart 1. If you have already entered Xpress ...
Page 52 - Press B to Backup your System or Esc to Exit
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 52 - English 1. Execute Backup Utility: Press B to Backup your System or Esc to Exit The backup utility will automatically scan your system and back up data as a backup image in your harddrive. Not all systems support access to Xpress Recovery by pressing the F9 key during comp...
Page 53 - Utility; Del; Utility on Dual BIOS Motherboards.
Appendix - 53 - English 4-1-3 Flash BIOS Method Introduction Method 1 : Q-Flash TM Utility Q-Flash TM is a BIOS flash utility embedded in Flash ROM. With this utility, users only have to stay in the BIOS menu when they want to updateBIOS. Q-Flash?allows users to flash BIOS without any utility in DOS...
Page 54 - Exploring the Q-Flash; / Dual BIOS utility screen
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 54 - English Entering the Q-Flash TM utility: CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award Software Standard CMOS FeaturesAdvanced BIOS FeaturesIntegrated PeripheralsPower Management SetupPnP/PCI ConfigurationsPC Health StatusMB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) Select LanguageLo...
Page 55 - Enter
Appendix - 55 - English Dual BIOS Utility Boot From......................................... Main Bios Main ROM Type/Size.............................SST 49LF003A 512K Backup ROM Type/Size.........................SST 49LF003A 512K Wide Range Protection Disable Boot From Main Bios Auto Recovery Enabl...
Page 58 - utility screen
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 58 - English Exploring the Q-Flash TM utility screen The Q-FlashBIOS utility screen consists of the following key components. Task menu for Q-Flash utility: Contains the names of three tasks. Blocking a task and pressing Enter key on your keyboard to enableexecution of the task...
Page 59 - Part One
Appendix - 59 - English 3. Press Y button on your keyboard after you are sure to update BIOS. Then it will begin to update BIOS. The progress of updating BIOS will be shown at the same time. Q-Flash Utility V1.30 Flash Type/Size.................................SST 49LF003A 256K Keep DMI Data Enable ...
Page 62 - -1-4 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility Introduction; RAID Levels
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 62 - English 4-1-4 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility Introduction RAID Levels RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a method of combining two hard disk drives into one logicalunit. The advantage of an Array is to provide better performance or data fault tolerance. Fault ...
Page 63 - Configuring the NVIDIA RAID BIOS; Entering the RAID BIOS Setup; Define a New Array
Appendix - 63 - English Please follow the steps below to construct a complete RAID array:1) Have ready your hard drives for RAID construction. Note: To achieve best performance, it is recommended that the hard drives used are of similar makeand storage capacity. 2) Please attach the hard drive conne...
Page 64 - Selecting the RAID Mode
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 64 - English Using the "Define a New Array" Window If necessary, press the tab key to move from field to field until the appropriate field is highlighted. Selecting the RAID Mode By default, this is set to Mirroring. To change to a different RAID mode, press the down ar...
Page 65 - Completing the RAID BIOS Setup; Clear disk data
Appendix - 65 - English Completing the RAID BIOS Setup After assigning your RAID array disks, press F7. The Clear disk data prompt appears. Press Y if you want to wipe out all the data from the RAID array, otherwise press N . You must choose Yes if the drives were previously used as RAID drives. The...
Page 67 - Installing the RAID drivers; BootDrv
Appendix - 67 - English Installing the RAID drivers To install operating system onto a serial ATA hard disk successfully, you need to install the SATA controllerdriver during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during the Windowssetup process. First of all, copy ...
Page 68 - Stereo Speakers Connection and Settings:; Introduction of audio connectors:
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 68 - English 4-1-5 2- / 4- / 6- / 8- Channel Audio Function Introduction Line Out Stereo Speakers Connection and Settings: We recommend that you use the speaker with amplifier to acquire the best sound effect if the stereo outputis applied. STEP 1:Connect the stereo speakers or...
Page 69 - Channel Audio Setup
Appendix - 69 - English STEP 3:Click "Speaker Configuration" then click on theleft selection bar and select "2CH Speaker" tocomplete 2 channel audio configuration. 4 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 :Connect the front channels to "Front Speaker Out",the rear channels to "Rear S...
Page 70 - Channel Audio Setup
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 70 - English 6 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 :Connect the front channels to "Front Speaker Out",the rear channels to "Rear Speaker Out", and theCenter/Subwoofer channels to "Center/SubwooferSpeaker Out". STEP 2 :Following installation of the audio driver, y...
Page 71 - Channel Audio Setup
Appendix - 71 - English 8 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 :Connect the front channels to "Front Speaker Out",the rear channels to "Rear Speaker Out", the Center/Subwoofer channels to "Center/Subwoofer SpeakerOut", and the side channels to "Side Speaker Out". STEP 2 :Follow...
Page 74 - Troubleshooting
GA-K8NE Motherboard - 74 - English 4-2 Troubleshooting Below is a collection of general asked questions. To check general asked questions based on a specificmotherboard model, please log on to http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Question 1: I cannot see some options that were included in previous BIOS after ...
