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ASUS C-P55T2D User’s Manual
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Page 1: ...R C P55T2D CPU Card USER S MANUAL ...
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Page 4: ...ip 7 Support Software 7 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 8 Flash Memory Writer Utility 8 The Flash Memory Writer Utility Screen 8 BIOS Setup 11 Load Defaults 12 Standard CMOS Setup 12 Details of Standard CMOS Setup 13 BIOS Features Setup 16 Details of BIOS Features Setup 16 Chipset Features Setup 19 Power Management Setup 22 Details of Power Management Setup 22 PNP and PCI Setup 24 Load BIOS Defaults 26 Load Setu...
Page 5: ... P55T2D User s Manual V CONTENTS V DESKTOP MANAGEMENT 31 Desktop Management Interface DMI 31 Introducing the DMI Configuration Utility 31 System Requirements 31 Using the DMI Configuration Utility 32 Notes 32 ...
Page 6: ...f this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit differe...
Page 7: ... Instructions on setting up the CPU card IV BIOS Setup BIOS software setup information V DMI Utility BIOS supported Desktop Management Interface Item Checklist Please check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your retailer The C P55T2D CPU card Support software view FILELIST TXT detailed contents and description Bus Master IDE Drivers PFLASH BIOS U...
Page 8: ...support dual processor configuration See page 6 table Intel Chipset Features Intel s 430HX PCIset with I O subsystems Error Checking and Correcting ECC Using Intel s 430HX PCIset and par ity DRAM modules can detect and correct 1 bit memory errors Oncard L2 Cache Memory Oncard 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAM Parts of the CPU Card Features II FEATURES PS 2 Mouse PS 2 Keyboard 3V CPU Vcore Voltage Selecti...
Page 9: ...the jumpers by the Internal speed of the Intel Pentium or compatible CPUs as follows CPU Card CPU Ext Freq CPU BUS BUS Ratio Ext on Baseboard Internal Ratio JP15 JP16 Freq JP3 JP2 233MHz 3 5x OFF OFF 66MHz 1 2 2 3 200MHz 3 0x ON OFF 66MHz 1 2 2 3 166MHz 2 5x ON ON 66MHz 1 2 2 3 150MHz 2 5x ON ON 60MHz 2 3 1 2 133MHz 2 0x OFF ON 66MHz 1 2 2 3 120MHz 2 0x OFF ON 60MHz 2 3 1 2 100MHz 1 5x OFF OFF 66M...
Page 10: ... on the Dual Power Planes at the same time WARNING Incorrect setting can damage your CPU If you are not exactly clear on CPU jumper settings check with your retailer 3 Volt CPU Vcore Voltage Selection JP1 Single Power Plane CPU Voltage Selection 1 2 P54C CS STD 3 4V Default JP1 3 2 1 3 2 1 JP1 P54C CS K5 6x86 VRE 3 5V 2 x Volt CPU Vcore Voltage Selection JP20 1 5 Dual Power Plane CPU Voltage Selec...
Page 11: ...ystem if for some reason necessary Dual CPU JP14 Enable 1 2 Default Disable 2 3 APIC Dual CPU Enable Disable 1 2 3 JP14 Disable JP14 1 2 3 Enable Default 1 2 Dual CPU Compatibility A table on the next page shows the compatible CPU s to be used on the ZIF socket for the second processor The following are codes used in the table Type 0 This type of CPU can be used as the first processor only Almost ...
Page 12: ...60 SX942 STD 2 90 60 SX943 STD 2 90 60 SX944 STD 0 2 90 60 SX968 STD 0 2 90 60 SZ9955 STD 0 2 90 60 SU0316 STD 0 2 90 60 SY006 STD 0 2 100 50 66 SX970 VRE 0 2 100 50 66 SX963 STD 0 2 100 50 66 SZ9965 STD 0 2 100 50 66 SU0326 STD Type Speed MHz S Spec Voltage Core BUS 0 2 100 66 SX962 VRE 0 2 100 66 SY007 STD 0 2 100 66 SU1105 STD 0 2 100 66 SU0996 STD 0 2 120 60 SY033 STD 0 2 120 60 SU1006 STD 0 2...
Page 13: ...rent BIOS to File III INSTALLATION Power Connection Procedures 1 After all jumpers and connections are made close the system case cover 2 Make sure that all switches are in the off position as marked by 3 Connect the power supply cord into the power supply located on the back of your system case as instructed by your system user s manual 4 Connect the power cord into an power outlet that is equipp...
Page 14: ...mode command prompt only 3 You should copy the contents of the FLASH directory to your hard disk drive Once you have accomplished the above tasks you can run the Flash Memory Writer utility To run the utility change to the directory containing PFLASH EXE and then at the DOS prompt type PFLASH Enter The Flash Memory Writer Utility Screen IMPORTANT Flash Type may also be INTEL 28F001BXT If unknown i...
Page 15: ...features if necessary Boot Block of New BIOS is different from old one Please Use Advanced Feature to flash whole bios 3 Advanced Features Selecting this option brings up the Advanced Features screen for clearing the PnP configuration record and updating the motherboard BIOS To terminate the program and return to the DOS prompt press the Esc key Se lecting the third option displays the Advanced Fe...
Page 16: ...OT TURN OFF THE SYSTEM IF THERE IS A PROBLEM If you encounter problems while downloading the new BIOS DO NOT turn off your system since this might prevent your system from booting up Just repeat the process and if the problem still persists download the original BIOS file you saved to disk 2 After successfully downloading the new BIOS file exit the Flash Memory Writer utility and then turn off you...
Page 17: ...d reconfiguring your system or you receive a Run Setup message you will need to enter new setup information This section describes how to configure your system using this utility The BIOS ROM of the system stores the Setup utility When you turn on the com puter the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program This ap pears during the Power On Self Test POST Press the Delete key to ...
Page 18: ...ard is already installed in a working system you will not need to select this option anymore However if the configuration stored in the CMOS memory on the board gets lost or damaged or if you change your system hardware configuration you will need to respecify the configuration values The configuration values usually get lost or corrupted when the power of the onboard CMOS battery weakens The abov...
Page 19: ...AUTOEXEC BAT file For information on how to create this file please refer to the MS DOS manual Hard Disks This field records the specifications for all non SCSI hard disk drives installed in your system The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices Each chan nel can support up to two hard disks the first of which...
Page 20: ...over 528MB that support Logical Block Addressing LBA to allow larger IDE hard disks set it to Large for drives over 528MB that do not sup port LBA Large type of drive can only be used with MS DOS and is very uncom mon Most IDE drives over 528MB support the LBA mode Auto detection of hard disks on bootup New Feature For each field Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master and Secondary Slave yo...
Page 21: ...port This is the Japanese standard floppy drive The standard stores 1 2MB in a 3 5 diskette This is normally disabled but you may choose from either Drive A Drive B Both Disabled Default Video Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system The options are EGA VGA Default Mono for Hercules or MDA CGA 40 CGA 80 If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card choose th...
Page 22: ...up default values respectively Details of BIOS Features Setup Virus Warning This field protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk against acci dental modifications Any attempt to write to them will cause the system to halt and display a warning message If this occurs you can either allow the operation to continue or use a bootable virus free floppy disk to reboot and investigat...
Page 23: ...be copied to floppy drives by allowing the setting of Read Only to only allow reads from the floppy but not writes The setup default R W allows both reads and writes IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors This field enhances hard disk performance by making multi sector transfers instead of one sector per transfer Most IDE drives except older versions can utilize this feature By setup default this field is set...
Page 24: ...dow These fields are used for shadowing other expansion card ROMs If you install other expansion cards with ROMs on them you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640KB and 1024KB by the amount used for this purpose Leave on default setting of Disabled Boot Up NumLock Status This field enables users to activa...
Page 25: ... on default setting of Enabled Passive Release Leave on default setting of Enabled Chipset Global Features Leave on default setting of Enabled 16 bit I O Recovery Time Timing for 16 bit ISA cards Leave on default setting of 1 BUSCLK 8 bit I O Recovery Time Timing for 8 bit ISA cards Leave on default setting of 1 BUSCLK Video BIOS Cacheable Allows the Video BIOS to be cached to allow faster executi...
Page 26: ...l for DRAM memory modules information Onboard FDC Controller When enabled this field allows you to connect your floppy disk drives to the on board floppy drive connector instead of a separate controller card If you want to use a different controller card to connect the floppy drives set this field to Disabled Default setting is Enabled Onboard FDC Swap A B This field allows you to reverse the hard...
Page 27: ...el Port Mode Select either DMA Channel 1 3 default or Disabled UART2 Use Infrared When enabled this field activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second serial UART to support the infrared module connector on the motherboard If your system already has a second serial port connected to the onboard COM2 connector it will no longer work if you enable the infrared feature By default this f...
Page 28: ...add DEVICE C DOS POWER EXE in you CONFIG SYS ForWindows 3 1x and Windows 95 you need to install Windows including the APM feature A battery and powercord icon labeled Power will appearin the Control Panel Choose Advanced in the Power Management Field Video Off Option Susp Stby Off This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power man agement The settings are Susp Stby ...
Page 29: ...ter a pe riod of inactivity This time period is user configurable to Disable or from 1 Min to 15 Min This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives The Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode fields set the period of time after which each of these modes activate 30 sec 1 Min 2 Min 4 Min 8 Min 20 Min 30 Min 40 Min 1 Hour PM Events This section sets the wake up call of the system If activity is detec...
Page 30: ...ttings of NA 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 or 15 for each slot PCI Latency Timer The default setting of 32 PCI Clock enables maximum PCI performance for this motherboard IRQ xx Used By ISA These fields indicate whether or not the displayed IRQ for each field is being used by a legacy non PnP ISA card Two options are available No ICU and Yes The first option the default value indicates either that the displaye...
Page 31: ... and DFFFH address range If you have such a card and you are not using an ICU to specify its address range select a base address from the six available options the ISA MEM Block SIZE field will then appear for selecting the block size If you have more than one legacy ISA card in your system that requires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 36K or 64K If you a...
Page 32: ...firm Press the N key and then the Enter key to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen Load Setup Defaults This Load Setup Defaults option allows you to load the default values to the sys tem configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration set tings for the system To load these default values highlight Load Setup Defaults on the mai...
Page 33: ...ase sensitive and can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters long type in your password and then press Enter The system confirms your password by asking you to type it again After setting a password the screen automatically re verts to the main screen To implement the password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prompt for the password...
Page 34: ...anced IDE support for four devices you can only install two IDE hard disk drives Your IDE controller must support the Enhanced IDE features in order to use Drive E and Drive F The onboard PCI IDE controller supports Enhanced IDE with two connectors for connecting up to four IDE devices If you want to use another con troller that supports four drives you must disable the onboard IDE controller in t...
Page 35: ...sed for your drive do not accept them Press N to reject the presented settings and enter the correct ones manually from the Standard CMOS Setup screen Save Exit Setup Select this option to save into the CMOS memory all modifications you specified during the current session To save the configuration changes highlight the Save Exit Setup option on the main screen and then press Enter Exit Without Sa...
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Page 37: ...ystem integrator or end user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers housing configurations and ven dor information Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIFD This DMI Configuration Utility provides the same reliability as PnP updat ing and will prevent the refreshi...
Page 38: ...ailable for editing The blue text Press ENTER for detail contains a second pop up menu is available use the plus minus keys to change the settings Enter to exit and save ESC to exit and not save If the user has made changes ESC will prompt you to answer Y or N Enter Y to go back to the left hand screen and save enter N to go back to left hand screen and not save If editing has not been made ESC wi...
Page 39: ...e Bad File Name appears here to show it was not saved Load MIFD You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here Load BIOS Defaults You can load the BIOS defaults from a MIFD file and can clear all user modified and added data You must reboot your computer in order for the defaults to be saved back into the Flash BIOS V DESKTOP MANAGEMENT V DMI Using DMI Utility...
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