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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 P5-99VM
Manual Revision: 1.04 E405
Release Date:
June 1999
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...76 Creative Multimedia Decks 79 Creative CD Player 80 Creative MIDI Player 81 Creative Remote 82 Creative Wave Player 83 SB AudioPCI 64V Mixer 84 Creative WaveStudio 85 Creative Soundo'LE 85 Desktop Management Interface (DMI 87
VII. APPENDIX 91 ASUS PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet Card 91 Features 92 Software Driver Support 92 Question and Answer 92 Glossary 93
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... your retailer.
(1) ASUS Motherboard (1) IDE ribbon cable for master and slave drives (1) COM2 cable with bracket (1) Ribbon cable for (1) 5.25" and (2) 3.5" floppy disk drives (1) Bag of spare jumpers (1) Support CD with drivers and utilities (1) Motherboard User's manual
ASUS IrDA-compliant module (optional) ASUS PCI-L101 Wake-On-LAN 10/100 ethernet card (optional)
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...system components, and 32-bit device drivers and installation procedures for Windows 95/98/NT.
• Symbios SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards or other Symbios SCSI cards through the onboard SYMBIOS firmware.
Performance Features • Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas-
ter busses to the memory and processor.
• High-Speed Data...
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... configure the card's jumpers manually and then install it in any available slot on the ISA bus. You may use Microsoft's Diagnostic (MSD.EXE) utility included in the Windows directory to see a map of your used and free IRQs. For Windows 95 users, the "Control Panel" icon in "My Computer," contains a "System" icon, which gives you a "Device Manager" tab...
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IV. BIOS SETUP
6. BIOS Setup
The motherboard supports 5-volt programmable 2-Mbit Flash ROM chips. 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 configuration and settings....
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... system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode activated by the BIOS Power Management. For DOS environments, you need to add DEVICE=C:\DOS\POWER.EXE in you CONFIG.SYS. For Windows 3.x and Windows 95, you need to install Windows with the APM feature. A battery and power cord icon labeled "Power" will appear in the "Control Panel." Choose "Advanced" in the Power Management Field...
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V. SOFTWARE SETUP 61
Operating Systems 61 Windows 98 First Time Installation 61
P5-99VM Support CD 62 Installation Menu 62
Install ASUS PC Probe Vx.xx 63 Install VGA Driver 64 Install Audio Driver 65 Install PC-Cillin 98 Vx.xx 66 Install ADOBE AcroBat Reader Vx.x 67 Install IDE Bus Master Driver 68 Uninstalling Programs 69
VI. SOFTWARE REFERENCE 71
ASUS PC Probe 71 SiS 530 Display ...
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... older display driver that is incompatible with the onboard VGA chip. Always use the driver available on the ASUS Support CD or an applicable driver update from your ASUS vendor or from the ASUS web site.
V. S/W SETUP Operating Systems
NOTE: The screen displays in this and the following section may not reflect exactly the screen contents displayed on your screen.
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.... • Exit: Exits the CD installation menu.
Additonal CD Contents: DMI Configuration Utility in the DMI folder, Flash BIOS writer in the AFLASH folder, IDE Bus Master driver for improved performance under WIndows in the BUSMASTR folder, USB patch to fix problems when using the USB driver under WIndows 95 OSR 2.1 in the USBPATCH folder.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
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... 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 setup screen.
1. Click here.
2. Click here.
3. Click here.
4. Click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
5. Click here.
6. Click here.
7. Click here.
8. Click Next and when the Setup Complete box appears, click Finish to complete Setup.
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... your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive or double-click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the setup screen.
Install VGA Driver installs the video driver necessary to have higher VGA performance, resolutions, and special features.
1. Click here.
2. Click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
3. Click here.
4. Click here.
5. Click here and then click Finish to restart.
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... Audio Driver
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 setup screen.
1. Click here.
2. Click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
3. Click here.
4. Click here.
5. Click here.
6. Click here to start the installation.
7. Click here.
8. Click here and then click Finish to restart.
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V. SOFTWARE SETUP
Install PC-Cillin 98 Vx.xx
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 setup screen.
1. Click here.
2. Click here.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
3. Click here to signify your acceptance of the License Agreement.
4. Setup will proceed with the installation if scanning found no viruses...
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... 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 setup screen.
1. Click here.
2. Click here.
3. Click here to signify your acceptance of the License Agreement.
4. Click here to begin installation.
5. Click here and then click Finish to restart.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
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V. SOFTWARE SETUP
Install IDE Bus Master Driver
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 setup screen. This option is available only for Windows NT systems.
1. Click here.
2. Click here and then click Next to start the installation.
V. S/W SETUP Windows 98
3. Select the mode* that you want...
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... DIM Utility
VI. SOFTWARE REFERENCE
Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility
This motherboard supports DMI within the BIOS level and provides a DMI Configuration Utility to maintain the Management Information Format Database (MIFD). DMI is able to auto-detect and record information pertinent to a computer's system such as the CPU type, CPU speed, and...
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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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... 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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