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Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 4
... floppy disk 2-2 2.1.2 Updating the BIOS 2-3 2.1.3 Saving the current BIOS file 2-5 2.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility 2-6 2.1.5 ASUS EZ Flash utility 2-8 2.1.6 ASUS Update utility 2-9 2.2 BIOS setup program 2-12 2.2.1 BIOS menu screen 2-13 2.2.2 Menu bar 2-13 2.2.3 Legend bar 2-14 2.2.4 Menu items 2-14 2.2.5 Sub-menu items 2-14 2.2.6 Configuration fields 2-14 2.2.7 Pop-up window...
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... ASUS EZ Flash 2 2-49 2.8 Exit menu 2-50
Chpater 3:Software Support 3.1 Installing an operating system 3-2 3.2 Support CD information 3-2
3.2.1 Runninig the support CD 3-2 3.2.2 Drivers menu 3-3 3.2.3 Utilities menu 3-4 3.2.4 Make Disk menu 3-5 3.2.5 Manuals menu 3-6 3.2.6 ASUS Contact information 3-7 3.3 Software information 3-8 3.3.1 ASUS Music Alarm 3-8 3.4 NVIDIA® SLI™...
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...information you need when installing and configuring the motherboard.
How this guide is organized
This guide contains the following parts: • Chapter 1: Product introduction
This chapter describes the features of the motherboard and the new technology it supports. • Chapter 2: BIOS setup This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. Detailed descriptions...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 13
...Floppy disk drive connector 2 x IDE connectors 4 x Serial ATA connectors 1 x 24-pin ATX power connector 1 x 4-pin ATX 12 V power connector 2 x USB connectors for additional four USB 2.0 ports
(1 USB connector on WiFi model) 1 x S/PDIF connector 2 x Internal audio connectors (CD, AUX) 1 x Chassis intrusion connector 1 x Front panel audio connector 1 x SLI selector card connector CPU, Chassis, Power...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 25
... a 100º angle (A), then push the PnP cap from the load plate window to remove (B).
B A
Load plate
Alignment key
5. Position the CPU over
the socket, making sure
that the gold triangle
is on the bottom-left
corner of the socket.
The socket alignment
CPU notch
key should fit into the
CPU notch.
Gold triangle mark
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Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 31
... memory modules, the system may only recognize less than 3 GB because the address space is reserved for other critical functions. This limitation appears on Windows® XP 32-bit operation system which does not support Physical Address Extension (PAE).
• If you install Windows® XP 32-bit operation system, a total memory of less than 3GB is recommended.
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Notes on memory limitations
The motherboard can support up to 16 GB on the operating systems listed below. You may install a maximum of 2 GB DIMMs on each slot, but only DDR2-533 2 GB density modules are available for this configuration.
32-bit
64-bit
Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
Windows® Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition
Windows® Server...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 35
... next page. 3. Install the software drivers for the expansion card.
When using PCI cards on shared slots, ensure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that the cards do not need IRQ assignments. Otherwise, conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups, making the system unstable and the card inoperable. Refer to the table on the next page for details.
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...D: is your optical drive. e. Press , then follow screen instructions to continue.
2. Copy the original or the latest motherboard BIOS file to the bootable floppy disk.
2.1.2 Updating the BIOS
The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) can be updated using the AwardBIOS Flash Utility. Follow these instructions to update the BIOS using this utility.
1. Download the latest BIOS file from the ASUS web site...
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... from it... Fail
Detecting floppy drive A media...
DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing so can cause system boot failure!
4. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process. The recovered BIOS may not be the latest BIOS version for this motherboard. Visit the ASUS website (www.asus.com) to download the latest BIOS file.
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... (ISP).
Installing ASUS Update To install ASUS Update:
1. Place the support CD in the optical drive. The Drivers menu appears. 2. Click the Utilities tab, then click Install ASUS Update VX.XX.XX. See
page 3-4 for the Utilities screen menu. 3. The ASUS Update utility is copied to your system.
Quit all Windows® applications before you update the BIOS using this utility.
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Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 61
... the BIOS version that you wish to download. Click Next.
5. Follow the screen instructions to complete the update process.
The ASUS Update utility is capable of updating itself through the Internet. Always update the utility to avail all its features.
Updating the BIOS through a BIOS file To update the BIOS through a BIOS file:
1. Launch the ASUS Update utility from the Windows® desktop by...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 62
... example, you can enable the security password feature or change the power management settings. This requires you to reconfigure your system using the BIOS Setup program so that the computer can recognize these changes and record them in the CMOS RAM of the LPC chip.
The LPC chip on the motherboard stores the Setup utility. When you start up the...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 104
... the drivers, software applications, and utilities that you can install to avail all motherboard features.
The contents of the support CD are subject to change at any time without notice. Visit the ASUS website(www.asus.com) for updates.
3.2.1 Running the support CD
Place the support CD to the optical drive. The CD automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 106
... Utilities menu shows the applications and other software that the motherboard supports.
ASUS InstAll-Installation Wizard for Utilities Install all of the utilities through the Installation Wizard.
Marvell Yukon VCT Application Installs the Marvell® Yukon Virtual Cable Tester™ (VCT) application that diagnoses and reports LAN cable faults and shorts using the Time Domain Reflectometry...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 107
....microsoft.com) for updates Anti-virus Utility
3.2.4 Make Disk menu
The Make Disk menu contains items to create the NVIDIA® nForce™ 4 SATA RAID driver disk.
NVIDIA 32bit SATA RAID Driver Creates the NVIDIA® 32bit driver disk for Serial ATA RAID features.
NVIDIA 64bit SATA RAID Driver Creates the NVIDIA® 64bit driver disk for Serial ATA RAID features.
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... the installation procedures in this section.
3.4.1 Requirements
• You should have two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are NVIDIA® certified.
• Visit the ASUS website (www.asus.com) for a list of qualified SLI‑ready graphics cards for this motherboard.
• Make sure that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI technology. Download the latest driver from...
Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 116
... in place.
SLI flexible cable connector
7. Connect a VGA cable or a DVI-I cable to the graphics card installed on the blue PCI Express slot.
Installing the device drivers Refer to the documentation that came with your graphics card package to install the device drivers.
Make sure that your PCI Express graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI technology. Download the latest driver from the...
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Enabling the multi-GPU feature in Windows
After installing your graphics cards and the device drivers, enable the Multi‑Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) feature in the NVIDIA nView properties.
To enable the multi-GPU feature:
1. Click the NVIDIA Settings icon on your Windows taskbar.
2. From the pop-up menu, select nView Desktop Manager then click nView Properties.
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Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 122
...Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU that supports the Intel® EM64T. 2. Install a 64-bit operating system (Windows® XP Professional x64
Edition or Windows® Server 2003 x64 Edition). 3. Install the 64-bit drivers for the motherboard components and devices
from the support CD. 4. Install the 64-bit drivers for expansion cards or add-on devices, if any.
Refer to the expansion card or add-on...