Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI on NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
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Date: 06.11.2007 |
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The south bridge nForce 430i supports 4 SerialATA II lines. The matching connectors are installed near the south bridge:
There are also two ParallelATA connectors which are orientated in parallel to the board's plane. In the end, as many as eight hard disks altogether can be plugged in to the board: 4 disks through the SerialATA II and 4 - through the ParallelATA.
Then, on the board there is a Gigabit LAN controller 88E1116 made by Marvell (PHY):
Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI supports eight USB 2.0 ports: four on the rear panel, with four more plugged in with brackets (missing in the bundle). We also note that the PCB design provides for installation of the Firewire controller which is missing on the board in question.
The last thing to dwell on is the integrated High Definition Audio. The ALC888 chip is used as the codec.
The board's rear panel looks like this:
Instead of one of the COM ports, there is an optical SP-DIF output. There are no other special traits, except that COM and LPT ports are not supported at all.
Traditionally, a jumpers layout diagram:
abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI uses only one jumper: CCMOS1 intended for clearing the CMOS settings. It is located on the bottom-left corner, near the power-on and reboot buttons:
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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