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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 © 1998 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved.
Product Name: ASUS P2B98-XV Manual Revision: 2.00 Release Date: August 1998
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... II Processor 18 AAVID Heatsink 19 Elan Vital Heatsink 19 4. Expansion Cards 23 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 23 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 23 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 24 5. External Connectors 24 Power Connection Procedures 31
IV. BIOS SOFTWARE
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Flash Memory Writer Utility 32 Main Menu 32 Managing and Updating Your Motherboard's BIOS 34
6. BIOS Setup...
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... ASUS Motherboard (1) Retention mechanism & heatsink support for CPU (1) 9pin male serial external connector set (1) IDE ribbon cable for master and slave drives (1) Floppy ribbon cable for (1) 5.25inch floppy and (2) 3.5inch floppies (1) Bag of spare jumpers (1) Support drivers and utilities: (1) User's Manual ASUS PCI-L101 Wake-on-LAN 10/100 Ethernet Card (optional)
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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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... 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power, the system may have failed a power-on test. Recheck your jumper settings and connections or call your retailer for assistance.
7. During power-on, hold down to enter BIOS setup. Follow the instructions in the next section, BIOS SOFTWARE.
* Powering Off your computer: You must first exit or shut down your operating...
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... new BIOS and the path, for example, A:\XXXXXXX.AWD, and then press .
When prompted to confirm the BIOS update, press Y to start the update.
The utility starts to program the new BIOS information into the flash ROM. When the programming is finished, Flashed Successfully will be displayed.
Follow the onscreen instructions to continue.
IV. BIOS Flash Memory Writer
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... from booting up. Just repeat the process, and if the problem still persists, update the original BIOS file you saved to disk above. If the Flash Memory Writer utility was not able to successfully update a complete BIOS file, your system may not be able to boot up. If this happens, your system will need service.
IV. BIOS Updating BIOS
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IV. BIOS SOFTWARE
6. BIOS Setup
The motherboard supports two programmable Flash ROM chips: 5 Volt and 12 Volt. 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 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.
Video Off Option (Suspend -> Off ) This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power management. The settings are Suspend -> Off and Always On.
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... chipset: Installs the necessary drivers for PCI card and PCI bridge for Windows 95/95a (OSR1) and 95b (OSR2) for ASUS motherboards.
Browse this CD: Allows you to quickly view the contents of the CD using Windows Explorer.
Technical Support Form: View the ASUS Technical Support Form.
Read Me: View additional notes concerning this product.
Exit: Exit the current menu.
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First Time Installation
When starting Windows 95 (OSR2.0) or Windows NT 4.0, the operating system will detect that you have a new PCI Multimedia Device, then an Update Device Driver Wizard will appear. 1. Click Next.
2. Click Other Locations to direct the wizard to the audio driver files.
3. Click the Browse button to locate the "\DRIVERS\ATI435\WIN95" (or NT40) directory on the ASUS Support CD...
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... click on the CD drive in "My Computer" if the CD is already inserted). The ASUS Windows 95 Install Shell appears.
2. Click Install Windows 95 Display Driver to begin the installation wizard. The ATI Setup help screen appears.
3. Click to begin installation.
4. The procedure for installing a new display driver appears. Click to open the Display Properties window.
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... CD or double-click on your CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup.exe in the root directory of the CD.
2. Click Install Video Player.
3. From the Setup panel, click Video Player and follow the self-explanatory instructions to complete the installation.
4. When finished, click Yes to restart your computer.
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..." button to restore all settings to the default.
Settings: This allows you to adjust the Color palette, Font size, and Display area. Choose "Center dialog boxes" to keep messages visible, "Enable task bar icon" for easy access to the ATI configuration menus, and "Show settings icon on task bar" for quick resolution changes.
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... previous procedures, you may use the following steps:
1. Insert the ASUS installation CD (or double-click on the CD drive in "My Computer" if CD already inserted)- The ASUS Windows NT Install Shell appears.
2. Click Install Windows NT Display Driver. Display Properties and installation information appears.
3. Select the Settings tab and continue from step 2 above.
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... load ATI drivers after completing installation.
AutoCAD Driver Not Installing Properly If using a 386, ensure that AutoCAD has been configured for the appropriate ADI driver. The protected mode driver requires extended memory.
Error Codes and Messages Problems and solutions for some common errors found by the test program are provided for your reference as follows:
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... other. The previously installed player will work abnormally. You can reinstall ATI Video Player to recover it.
Why can I not use the TV output function in Windows 95? You need to make sure that your resolution is 800x600 or under and refresh rate equal to or less than 60Hz in NTSC and 50Hz in PAL.
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... dialog box appears. 3. Click the Device Manager tab. Be sure that View devices by type is selected. 4. Double-click Display adapters. 5. You will find two (or more) conflicting adapters. 6. Disable all previous adapters by selecting them and clicking Remove. 7. Close Device Manager and restart Windows 95. 8. Your display driver should work correctly this time.
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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 internal/external frequencies, and memory...
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VI. ASUS LAN Card
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 • Fully supports 10BASE-T...