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... NOTICE, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY ASUS. ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT.
Copyright ©1999 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved.
Product Name: ASUS P2Z-VM Manual Revision: 1.02 E352 Release Date: March 1999
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Power Connection Procedures 37
IV. BIOS SETUP 38
Flash Memory Writer Utility 38 Main Menu 38 Managing and Updating Your Motherboard's BIOS 40
6. BIOS Setup 41 Load Defaults 42
Standard CMOS Setup 42 Details of Standard CMOS Setup 42
BIOS Features Setup 45 Details of BIOS Features Setup 45
Chipset Features Setup 48 Details of Chipset Features Setup 48
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...Video Driver and Utility 65
Installing Audio Utilites 69
Installing the Software Wavetable 70
Installing PCCillin 71
VI. SOFTWARE REFERENCE 73
ATI Player 73 Task Control Panel 73 Audio CD Player 74 MPEG Player 75 TV Tuner 76 Teletext 76 Capture 77
AudioRack32 79
VII. APPENDIX 87
The ASUS S370 CPU Card 87
ASUS PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet Card 89
Glossary 91
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... device drivers and installation procedures for Windows 95/98/NT.
• Symbios SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard SYMBIOS firmware.
Performance Features: • Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas-
ter busses to the memory and processor.
• Double the IDE Transfer Speed: This motherboard with its chipset improves...
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... use Windows 95, the Resources tab under Device Manager displays the resource settings being used by a particular device (to gain access, double-click the System icon under the Control Panel program). Ensure that no two devices share the same IRQs or your computer will experience problems when those two devices are in use at the same time.
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IV. BIOS SETUP
6. BIOS Setup
The motherboard supports two programmable Flash ROM chips: 5-Volt and 12Volt. Either of these memory chips can be updated when BIOS upgrades are released. Use the Flash Memory Writer utility to download the new BIOS file into the ROM chip as described in detail in this section.
All computer motherboards provide a Setup utility program for specifying the system ...
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.... Windows 98, by default, installs the APM. Double-click Power Management in the Control Panel to select your preferred Power Schemes and/or power management behaviors (under the Advanced tab).
Video Off Option (Suspend -> Off ) This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power management. The settings are Always On and Suspend -> Off.
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Windows 98 First Time Installation 63 Installing the Video Driver and Utility 64 Making Monitor Adjustments 66 Installing Audio Utilites 69 Installing PCCillin 70 Installing the Software Wavetable 71
VI. SOFTWARE REFERENCE 73
ATI Player 73 Task Control Panel 73 Audio CD Player 74 MPEG Player 75 TV Tuner 76 Teletext 76 Capture 77
AudioRack32 79
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... procedures for installing the video driver later in this section.
IMPORTANT: Selecting No for the initial restart prompt is a necessary step because Windows may load an older driver that is incompatible with the onboard video chip. Always use the driver available on the ASUS Support CD or applicable driver updates from your ASUS vendor or from the ASUS web site.
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V. SOFTWARE SETUP
P2Z-VM Support CD Autorun Screen
Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive or double-click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
• Install Video Driver and Utility: Installs the video driver necessary for your graphics controller to have higher performance, resolutions, and special ...
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... Video Driver and Utility
Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive or double-click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen.
1. Click here.
2. Click here.
3. Click here.
4. Select I agree with this Agreement and then click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
5. Select Express Setup and then click here.
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V. SOFTWARE SETUP
Making Monitor Adjustments
After you have installed the video driver and restarted your computer, the ATI Desktop Help will appear to assist you in customizing the display.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
You can also make monitor adjustments by right-clicking on the Windows desktop and choosing Properties and then clicking the Settings tab.
Click here.
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... the secondary display. When you are configured for multi-monitor, these types of applications will only function on the primary display. The ATI Player is one such application.
In multiple monitor configurations with both a PCI and an AGP card in the system, Windows 98 will define the PCI card as primary and the AGP as secondary display.
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V. SOFTWARE SETUP
Installing Audio Utilites
Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive or double-click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen.
1. Click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
2. Click here.
3. Click here.
4. Click here to start AudioRack32.
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V. SOFTWARE SETUP
Installing the Software Wavetable
Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive or double-click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen.
1. Click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
2. Click here.
3. Select Install ESS Software Wavetable and then click here.
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... to bring up the autorun screen.
1. Click here.
2. Click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
3. Enter your name and company and then click here.
4. Click here.
5. Click Express Install and then click here.
6. Insert a floppy disk and then click here.
7. Once the Emergency Clean disk is created, click here. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation.
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... A", "Aux B", "Mic", and "Mono In". AudioRack can only display six of them at a time. You may configure the settings by modifying the file "auddrive.ini" in the Windows directory. Under the section [MixerRak], you can enable or disable the display of each input by setting its corresponding binary value to 1(enable) or 0(disable).
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VII. APPENDIX ASUS LAN Card
VII. APPENDIX
Features
• Intel 82558 Ethernet LAN Controller (Fully integrated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX) • Wake-On-LAN Remote Control Function Supported • PCI Bus Master Complies to PCI Local Bus Rev. 2.1 specifications • Consists of MAC & PHY (10/100Mbps) interfaces • Complies to IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T and IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX interfaces •...
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..." from "Start | Shut Down..." will reboot your computer.
Bus Master IDE PIO (Programmable I/O) IDE requires that the CPU be involved in IDE access and waiting for mechanical events. Bus master IDE transfers data to/from the memory without interrupting the CPU. Bus master IDE driver and bus master IDE hard disk drives are required to support bus master IDE mode.
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...drive control circuitry directly on the drive itself, eliminating the need for a separate adapter card (in the case for SCSI devices). UltraDMA/ 33 IDE devices can achieve up to 33MB/Sec transfer.
LPT Port (Line Printer Port) Logical device name reserved by DOS for the computer parallel ports. Each LPT port is configured to use a different IRQ and address assignment.
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