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ASUS MEL-B User’s Manual

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IV

.  BIOS

 Flash Memory W

riter

IV. BIOS SETUP

Flash Memory Writer Utility

AFLASH.EXE: This is the Flash Memory Writer utility that updates the BIOS by uploading
a new BIOS file to the programmable flash ROM chip on the motherboard. To determine the
BIOS version of your motherboard, check the last four numbers of the code displayed on the
upper left-hand corner of your screen during bootup. Larger numbers represent a newer BIOS
file. This file works only in DOS mode.

NOTE: 

 The following screen displays are provided as examples only and may not reflect the

screen contents displayed on your system.

Main Menu

1. Save Current BIOS To File

This option allows you to save a
copy of the original motherboard
BIOS in case you need to reinstall
it. It is recommended that you save
AFLASH.EXE and the BIOS file
to a bootable floppy disk.

IMPORTANT!

  If  “unknown” is displayed after Flash Memory:, the memory chip is

either not programmable or is not supported by the ACPI BIOS and therefore, cannot be
programmed by the Flash Memory Writer utility.

To save your current BIOS, type
[1] at the Main Menu and then
press <Enter>. The Save Current
BIOS To File screen appears.
Type a filename and the path, for example, A:\XXX-X and then press <Enter>.

Summary of Contents for MEL-B

Page 1: ...R MEL B Socket 370 Baby AT Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...roducts and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trade marks or copyrights of their respective companies and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners benefit without intent to infringe Intel LANDesk and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation IBM and OS 2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Symbios is...

Page 3: ...com tw pub ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL America Marketing Address 6737 Mowry Avenue Mowry Business Center Building 2 Newark CA 94560 USA Fax 1 510 608 4555 Email info usa asus com tw Technical Support Fax 1 510 608 4555 BBS 1 510 739 3774 Email tsd usa asus com tw WWW www asus com FTP ftp asus com tw pub ASUS ASUS COMPUTER GmbH Europe Marketing Address Harkort Str 25 40880 Ratingen BRD Germany...

Page 4: ... Expansion Cards 20 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 21 ISA Cards and Hardware Monitor 21 5 External Connectors 22 Using the ASUS CIDB 31 The ASUS CIDB Chassis Sensor 31 Setting up the ASUS CIDB 32 ASUS CIDB Additional Considerations 32 Power Connection Procedures 33 Flash Memory Writer Utility 34 IV BIOS SETUP 34 Main Menu 34 Managing and Updating Your Motherboard s BIOS 36 6 BIOS Setup 37 Lo...

Page 5: ...etup 50 Details of PNP and PCI Setup 50 Load BIOS Defaults 52 Load Setup Defaults 52 Supervisor Password and User Password 53 IDE HDD Auto Detection 54 Save Exit Setup 55 Exit Without Saving 55 V SOFTWARE SETUP 57 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE 69 APPENDIX 83 ...

Page 6: ...ular installation If 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 interfer ence 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 o...

Page 7: ...ware VI Software Reference Reference material for the included support software Item Checklist Check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your retailer 1 ASUS Motherboard 1 IDE ribbon cable for master and slave drives 1 Ribbon cable for 1 5 25 and 2 3 5 floppy disk drives 1 Serial cable connector set 1 Parallel PS 2 mouse connector set 1 Bag of spar...

Page 8: ...PU and system voltages temperatures and fan sta tus through the onboard hardwareASIC and bundled LDCM orASUS PC Probe Wake On LAN Header Supports Wake On LAN activity through an optional ASUS PCI L101 Fast Ethernet card or a similar ethernet card SB Link Features Creative s SB Link allowing SB16 compatibility us ing Intel s PC PCI and serialized IRQ protocols toAWE64D or compatible PCI audio cards...

Page 9: ... all is that this new technol ogy is compatible with existingATA 2 IDE specifications so there is no need to upgrade current hard drives or cables Concurrent PCI Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas ter buses to memory to CPU PC 98 Compliant Both the BIOS and hardware levels of the motherboard meets PC 98 compliancy The new PC 98 requirements for systems and components are bas...

Page 10: ...rashes Suggestions will give the user information on manag ing their limited resources more efficiently Auto Fan Off The system fans will power off automatically even in sleep mode This function reduces both energy consumption and system noise and is a important feature to implement silent PC systems Dual Function Power Button The system can be in one of two states one is Sleep mode and the other ...

Page 11: ...OM 2 Multi I O Chip Wake On Ring Header Intel 440LX AGPset ATX Power Connector AT Power Connector Keyboard Connector Parallel Connector PS 2 Mouse USB IrDA Header AGP Port Socket 370 3 DIMM Sockets Hardware Monitor 2 ISA Slots 3 PCI Slots DIP Switches Wake On LAN Header SB LinkTM Header Intel PIIX4 PCIset Programmable Flash EEPROM ...

Page 12: ...FLOPPY ATX Power Connector 2Mbit Flash EEPROM Programmable BIOS PCI Slot 1 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 ISA Slot 2 ISA Slot 1 CR2032 3V Lithium Cell CMOS Power IDE1 IDE2 Socket 370 Thermal Sensor PWR_FAN KBPWR IR IDELED Panel Connectors CPU_FAN CHA_FAN CL_RTC SMB KB PS2KB Intel 440LX AGPset 3 2 1 0 5 4 Keyboard PARALLEL USB MIR WOL_CON SBLINK PS 2 P8 P9 Serial Ports COM 2 COM 1 Hardware Monitor DIP Switc...

Page 13: ... CPU_ PWR_FAN p 25 Chassis CPU PowerSupplyFanConnectors Three3 pin 8 WOL_CON p 25 Wake On LAN Header 3 pins 9 MSG LED PANEL p 26 System Message LED 2 pins 10 SMI PANEL p 26 SMI Switch Lead 2 pins 11 PWR SW PANEL p 26 ATX Power Soft Off Switch Lead 2 pins 12 RESET PANEL p 26 Reset Switch Lead 2 pins 13 PWR LED PANEL p 26 SystemPowerLEDLead 3 1 pins 14 KEYLOCK PANEL p 26 KeyboardLockSwitch Lead 2 pi...

Page 14: ...mponents If you do not have one touch both of your hands to a safely grounded object or to a metal object such as the power supply case 3 Hold components by the edges and try not to touch the IC chips leads or connectors or other components 4 Place components on a grounded antistatic pad or on the bag that came with the component whenever the components are separated from the system 1 Keyboard Pow...

Page 15: ...uency Selector 1 Frequency Selector 2 Frequency Selector 3 Reserved Reserved VIO Setting Frequency Ratio 1 Frequency Ratio 2 Frequency Ratio 3 Frequency Ratio 4 2 VIO Setting DIP6 The onboard voltage regulator allows you to select the voltage supplied to the DRAM chipset AGP and the CPU s I O buffer IMPORTANT Setting this jumper to Add 0 1 Volt may cause your system to become unstable It is strong...

Page 16: ... frequency multiple between the Internal frequency of the CPU and the External frequency called the BUS Clock within the CPU MEL B CPU BUS Frequency Multiple 8 0x 8 1 ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7 5x 15 2 ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7 0x 7 1 ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6 5x 13 2 ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6 0x 6 1 5 0x 5 1 ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 5x 9 2 ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 0x 4 1 ...

Page 17: ...ic Random Ac cess Memory SDRAM of either 8 16 32 64 128MB or 256MB One side with memory chips of the DIMM takes up one row on the motherboard To utilize the chipset s Error Checking and Correction ECC feature you must use a DIMM module with 9 chips per side standard 8 chips side 1 parity chip and make the proper settings in BIOS Chipset Features Setup of BIOS SETUP Memory speed setup is recommende...

Page 18: ...s 60 Pins 88 Pins Lock TheDIMMsmustbe3 3VUnbufferedforthismotherboard TodeterminetheDIMM type check the notches on the DIMMs see figure below 168 Pin DIMM Notch Key Definitions 3 3V DRAM Key Position Voltage Key Position Unbuffered RFU Buffered Reserved 3 3V 5 0V The notches on the DIMM module will shift between left center or right to identify the type and also to prevent the wrong type from bein...

Page 19: ...install a CPU first turn off your system and remove its cover Locate the ZIF socket and open it by first pulling the lever sideways away from the socket then upwards to a 90 degree right angle Insert the CPU with the correct orientation as shown The notched corner should point towards the end the of the lever Because the CPU has a corner pin for two of the four corners the CPU will only fit in the...

Page 20: ... Expansion Cards Some expansion cards need to use an IRQ to operate Generally an IRQ must be exclusively assigned to one use In a standard design there are 16 IRQs available but most of them are already in use leaving 6 IRQs free for expansion cards Both ISA and PCI expansion cards may require the use IRQs System IRQs are available for cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first then the remain...

Page 21: ...t something called the INT interrupt assignment Since all the PCI slots on this motherboard use an INTA be sure that the jumpers on your PCI cards are set to INT A Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards Some ISAcards both legacy and PnP may also need to use a DMA Direct Memory Access channel DMA assignments for this motherboard are handled the same way as the IRQ assignment process described earlier...

Page 22: ... 2 keyboard adapter in order to connect a PS 2 keyboard to this AT connector MEL B Keyboard Connector Keyboard Connector 5 pin female This motherboard accepts an AT Keyboard Connector Plug as shown here 2 Floppy drive connector 34 1 pin FLOPPY This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable After connect ing the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the f...

Page 23: ...event inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 26 plugged NOTE Serial printers must be connected to the serial port MEL B Parallel Connector Connect the Red stripe to Pin 1 Pin 1 Parallel Connector PS 2 Mouse Connector PARALLEL 4 Serial Port Connectors 10 1 pin COM1 COM2 These connectors support the provided serial port ribbon cables with mounting bracket Connect the ri...

Page 24: ...orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 20 plugged TIP You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector You may install up to four operating systems on each IDE drive and select the boot disk through Boot Sequence in BIOS Features Setup MEL B IDE Connectors Primary IDE Connector Sec...

Page 25: ...lly designed fan with rotation signal WARNING These connectors have power Damage may occur to the mother board and or the CPU fan if these connectors are incorrectly used MEL B 12Volt Cooling Fan Power Chassis Fan Power GND Rotation 12V Power Supply Fan CPU Fan Power GND Rotation 12V 8 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pin WOL_CON This connector connects to a LAN card with a Wake On LAN output such as the A...

Page 26: ...e this connector Suspend Switch in Power Management Setup of BIOS SETUP section should be on the default setting of Enable 11 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch Lead 2 pin PWR SW The system power can be controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pushing the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Pushing the switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds will turn...

Page 27: ... Port 0 4 Ground 5 no connection 6 PS 2 Mouse Clock 7 Ground 8 no connection 9 5 Volt MEL B PS 2 Mouse USB IrDA Module Connector 10 USB 5 Volt 11 USB Port 1 12 USB Port 1 13 Ground 14 no connection 15 PS 2 Mouse Data 16 Ground 17 Infrared Receive 18 Infrared Transmit Optional USB MIR Parallel Connector PS 2 Mouse Connector 1 9 18 10 USB MIR 17 IrDA Compliant infrared module connector 5 pin IR This...

Page 28: ...Brn Ground Blk 5 0 Volts Red Ground Blk 5 0 Volts Red Ground Blk 5V Standby Gry Vlt MEL B ATX Power Connector 3 3Volts 12 0Volts Ground Power Supply On Ground Ground Ground 5 0 Volts 5 0 Volts 5 0 Volts Power Good 12 0Volts 3 3 Volts 3 3 Volts Ground 5 0 Volts Ground 5 0 Volts Ground 5V Standby 19 AT Power Supply Connector 12 pin PS 2 This connector connects to a standard 5 Volt power supply To co...

Page 29: ...eband Signal 5 6 PC PCI Request Sideband Signal 1 DGND 2 DGND Serial IRQ 4 21 SMBus Connector 5 1 pin SMB This connector allows you to connect SMBus devices SMBus devices commu nicate by means of the SMBus with an SMBus host and or other SMBus de vices The SMBus or System Management Bus is a specific implementation of an I2 C bus which is a multi master bus that is multiple chips can be connected ...

Page 30: ...UPOn ModemAct Power Up Con trolissettoEnabled seePowerManagementSetupunderBIOSSETUP andthatyour system has anATX power supply with at least 720mA 5Vstandby power MEL B Wake On Ring Header WOR Pin 1 PIXRI Pin 2 Ground 23 Chassis Intrusion Sensor Lead 4 1 pin CHASIS This lead is for a chassis intrusion monitor or sensor The sensor is triggered when a high level signal is sent to the chassis signal l...

Page 31: ...g use the LDCM v3 3 software or place a jumper on or short manually the CLR jumper momentarily 5 If you have an updated BIOS with intrusion support Booting the computer after an intrusion will require a password which is configured through BIOS Connectors III H W SETUP Buzzer to sound the alarm Photo sensor to detect intrusion by light Intrusion memory Photo sensor sensitivity adjustment Battery f...

Page 32: ... The CIDB can benefit these mother boards by providing a chassis switch which will operate even when the power is removed Pins 2 3 of the SW jumper can be used for a momentary toggle switch and the CIDB s battery will be used to send an intrusion signal to the motherboard s intrusion memory Connectors III H W SETUP Setting up the ASUS CIDB CON Sensitivity adjustment for the photo sensor 0 is least...

Page 33: ...ch is pressed The monitor LED may light up after the system s if it complies with green stan dards or if it has a power standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running additional messages will appear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you turn ON the power the system may have failed a power ON test Recheck your jumper set ti...

Page 34: ...creen displays are provided as examples only and may not reflect the screen contents displayed on your system Main Menu 1 Save Current BIOS To File This option allows you to save a copy of the original motherboard BIOSincaseyouneedtoreinstall it Itisrecommendedthatyousave AFLASH EXEandtheBIOSfile to a bootable floppy disk IMPORTANT If unknown is displayed after Flash Memory the memory chip is eith...

Page 35: ...m a new BIOS file See the next page for proce dures on downloading an updated BIOS file The utility starts to program the new BIOS information into the flash ROM When the pro gramming is finished Flashed Successfully will be displayed To update your current BIOS type 2 at the Main Menu and then press Enter The Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD screenappears Type the filename of your new BI...

Page 36: ... FTP or a BBS Bulletin Board Service seeASUS CONTACT INFORMATION on page 3 for details and save to the disk you created earlier 2 Boot from the disk you created earlier 3 At the A prompt type AFLASH and then press Enter 4 At the Main Menu type 2 and then press Enter See 2 Update BIOS In cluding Boot Block and ESCD on the previous page for more details and the rest of the steps WARNING If you encou...

Page 37: ...u are installing the motherboard 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 computer the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program This appears during the Power On Self Test ...

Page 38: ...ymore 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 preceding screen provides you with a list of options At the bottom of this screen are the c...

Page 39: ...mentations on how to install the re quired SCSI drivers For IDE hard disk drive setup you can Use the Auto setting for detection during bootup Use the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION in the main menu to automatically enter the drive specifications Enter the specifications yourself manually by using the User option The entries for specifying the hard disk type include CYLS number of cylinders HEAD numberofr...

Page 40: ...ble with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A Drive B None These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system The available options for drives A and B are 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in None To enter the configuration value for a particular drive highlight its corresponding field and then...

Page 41: ... to each function heading Details of BIOS Features Setup CPU Internal Core Speed This function is reserved for future use and is currently disabled Boot Virus Detection Enabled This field allows you to set boot virus detection ensuring a virus free boot sector This new antivirus solution is unlike native BIOS tools which offer limited virus protection typically by write protecting the partition ta...

Page 42: ...tems to be used on both IDE and SCSI drives or the primary operating system to boot using a SCSI hard disk drive Boot Sequence A C This field determines where the system looks first for an operating system Options areA C C A A CDROM C CDROM C A D A E A F A Conly LS ZIP C LAN A C and LAN C A The setup default setting A C is to check first the floppy disk and then the hard disk drive Boot Up Floppy ...

Page 43: ...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 640K and 1024K by the amount used for this purpose Boot Up NumLock Status On This field enables users to activate the Number Lock function upon system boot Typematic Rate Setting Disabled When enabled you can set the two typemat...

Page 44: ...RAM For SDRAM only This sets the optimal timings of settings for items 2 5 depending on the memory modules that you are using This 8 pin serial EEPROM device stores critical param eter information about the module such as memory type size speed voltage inter face and module banks The default setting is 12ns SDRAM If your DIMM mod ules are all 10ns SDRAM you may set this to 10ns SDRAM SDRAM RAS to ...

Page 45: ...16MB memory address space to ISA expan sion cards that specifically require this setting This makes the memory from 15MB and up unavailable to the system Expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB The default is Disabled DRAM are xx bits wide If all your DIMMs have ECC e g 8 chips 1 ECC chip they are considered 72bits and the following will be displayed If your DIMMs do not have ECC e g 8 c...

Page 46: ...maximum unidirectional data transfer rate ECP EPP allows normal speed operation in a two way mode ECP DMA Select 3 This selection is available only if you select ECP or ECP EPP in the Parallel Port Mode Select either DMA Channel 1 3 or Disable UART2 Use Infrared Disabled When enabled this field activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second serial UART to support the infrared module co...

Page 47: ... the system inac tivity period is longer Disable disables the power saving features User Define al lows you to set power saving options according to your preference IMPORTANT Advanced Power Management APM should be installed to keep the system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode activated by the BIOS Power Management For DOS environments you need to add the statement DEVICE C DOS PO...

Page 48: ...d from the keyboard or when there is activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels HDD Power Down Disable Shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of inactivity This time period is user configurable to 1 15 Min or Disable This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives Suspend Mode Disable Sets the period of time after which each of these modes activate 30 sec 1 Min 2 Min 4...

Page 49: ...ant your system to boot up after the power has been interrupted Disabled leaves your system OFF after reapplying power and En abled boots up your system after reapplying power Wake On LAN Enabled This allows you to remotely power up your system through your network by send ing a wake up frame or signal With this feature you can remotely upload download data to from systems during off peak hours En...

Page 50: ...s determined for each PCI slot The default setting for each field is Auto which uses auto routing to determine IRQ use The other options are manual settings of NA 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 or 15 for each slot PCI Latency Timer 32 PCI Clock The default setting of 32 PCI Clock enables maximum PCI performance for this motherboard IRQ xx Used By ISA No ICU These fields indicate whether or not the displaye...

Page 51: ...or 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 are using an ICU to accomplish this task leave ISA MEM Block BASE to its default setting of No ICU Symbios SCSI BIOS Auto Auto allows the BIOS to detect whether you have a Symbios SCSI card if detected the on...

Page 52: ...n Press Y and then Enter to con firm Press N and then Enter to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen Load Setup Defaults The 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 Defa...

Page 53: ...ing a password the screen automatically reverts to the main screen To implement password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prompt for the password If you want to disable either password press Enter instead of entering a new password when the EnterPassword promptappears Amessageconfirmsthepasswordhasbeendisabled Forgot the passwor...

Page 54: ... hanced 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...

Page 55: ...or your disk 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 type Y and then press Enter Exit Without S...

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Page 58: ...TUP Table of Contents Operating Systems 59 MEL B Support CD Windows 98 59 Support CD Contents 60 Installing PCCillin 61 Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader 62 Installing ASUS PC Probe 63 LDCM Local Setup 65 LDCM Administrator Setup 67 Uninstalling Programs 67 ...

Page 59: ...For Windows 95 you must use OSR 2 0 or later For Windows NT 4 0 you must use Service Pack 3 0 or later MEL B Support CD Windows 98 Insert the support CD or double click your CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun menu or run Setup exe in the root directory of the Support CD NOTE The Support CD contents are constantly updated without notice V S W SETUP Operating Systems ...

Page 60: ...with LDCM installed Please refer to the user s manual in Adobe Acrobat PDF format located in the ASUSLM directory on the ASUS Support CD or see the PC Probe section in this user s manual Install PCCillin Installs PC cillin virus protection software View the online help if you have any questions AdobeAcrobat Reader Installs theAdobeAcrobat Reader software necessary to view the LDCM manual in the LD...

Page 61: ... drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen 1 Clickhere 2 Clickhere 3 Enter your name and company and then click here 4 Clickhere 6 Insert a floppy disk and then click here 5 Click Express Install and then click here 7 Once the Emergency Clean disk is created click here Follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation V S W SETUP Windows 98 ...

Page 62: ...Windows 98 Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader 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 3 Clickhere 4 Clickhere 1 Clickhere 5 Clickhere 2 Clickhere ...

Page 63: ...d into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen NOTE ASUS PC Probe will not run if Intel s LDCM utility is installed To uninstall Intel s LDCM utility see section on Uninstalling Programs 2 Clickhere 3 Clickhere 4 Make any desired setting changes and then click here 5 Clickhere 1 Clickhere ...

Page 64: ...o your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen NOTE LDCM will not run if ASUS PC Probe utility is installed To uninstall PC Probe see section on Uninstalling Programs 1 Clickhere 2 Clickhere 3 Clickhere 4 Clickhere 5 Select the components you want to install and then click here 6 Clickhere ...

Page 65: ...ASUS MEL B User s Manual 65 V SOFTWARE SETUP V S W SETUP Windows 98 9 Clickhere 10 Click here 7 Clickhere 8 Clickhere 11 Click here and then click Finish to restart ...

Page 66: ...our motherboard into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen NOTE LDCM will not run if ASUS PC Probe utility is installed To uninstall PC Probe see section on Uninstalling Programs 1 Clickhere 2 Clickhere 4 Clickhere 3 Clickhere 5 Click here and then click Finish to restart ...

Page 67: ...ams Add Remove Programs is a basic component within Windows You may use this function if a program does not provide its own uninstallation program 1 Double click here to open the Add Remove Programs Properties dialog box 2 Select the program you wish to remove and click here 3 Clickhere ...

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Page 70: ...4 Using the Taskbar icons 75 Using the Select Computer Dialog Box 76 To select a computer 77 To discover new computers 77 To refresh PC health 77 To remove a computer from the list 77 To wake up a computer 77 Displaying the Properties of a Client Computer 78 Understanding the Computer Status Icons 79 Desktop Management Interface DMI 80 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE ...

Page 71: ... you to Show Monitor or Hide You can select whether you want the splash screen to show the next time it opens Click ASUS PC Probe from the Start button to run the utility if you exit the utility or did not set it to Run when Windows Starts The PC Probe icon will appear on the taskbar s system tray indicating thatASUS PC Probe is running Left clicking the icon will allow you to see your PC status V...

Page 72: ...of PC s temperature Digital view of PC s temperature Digital view of PC s temperature warning threshold Temperature Warning threshold adjustment Analog view of PC s voltages Digital view of PC s voltages Upper warning threshold adjustment Lower warning threshold adjustment Digital view of PC s voltage warning thresholds PC Voltage Status PC s Fan Rotations per minute PC s Temperature C F PC s Volt...

Page 73: ...n s head mirror flashes red the PC speaker beeps and the ASUS PC Probe monitor is displayed Using the ASUS PC Probe PC Probe Task Bar Icon PC Probe System Info Get information on your mainboard and BIOS from this screen Change PC Probe refresh times here Click the items you wish to reset to its default values and click this button Click here to start PC Probe each time you enter Windows PC Probe S...

Page 74: ... system events Client Manager has been implemented in two different ways The client version enables you to view information and manage alerts for a local computer This version does not permit you to select remote computers transfer files or reboot other computers The first time you run Client Manager it seraches your network for other computers running Client Manager Client Manager creates a list ...

Page 75: ...Opens the Configure Notifications dialog box Opens the Configure Global Notifications dialog box Opens the File Transfer dialog box Reboots the computer Opens the DMI Explorer Opens the Set Access Rights dialog box File Select Computer File Export to clipboard View Notification Log View Global Notification Log View Remote Access Log Tools Configure Notifications Tools Configure Global Tools Transf...

Page 76: ...es the health of known computers Removes a computer from the list of discovered computers Wakes up a sleeping computer Shows all discovered computers Shows only available computers Shows only unhealthy computers Shows a simple list view Shows a detailed list view VI S W REFERENCE Intel LDCM VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE ...

Page 77: ... list 1 In the Select Computer dialog box click the computer name you want to re move 2 Click the Remove Computer button on the toolbar or press Delete 3 At the prompt click the Yes button TIP Perform this task each time you remove a computer from the network since the name of that computer is not automatically removed from this list To wake up a computer 1 In the Select Computer dialog box click ...

Page 78: ...ers that support the Wake On LAN technology may have re mote wakeup disabled in the BIOS by default Before Client Manager can wake up a remote computer you will need to enable this option in the BIOS configuration of each remote computer Displaying the Properties of a Client Computer You can display the properties of any discovered client computer even if you cannot otherwise access the computer b...

Page 79: ...up instruction is listed as Unavailable not Wake Pending Normal The computer is operating within normal tolerances Warning A computer that has exceeded a warning tolerance level For example the PC Health indicator can be configured to display a warning icon if a hard disk is running low on space Critical A computer that has exceeded a creitical tolerance level For example if the hard disk is runni...

Page 80: ...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 refreshing failures associat...

Page 81: ...e available for editing The orange text shows auto detected information and are not available 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 e...

Page 82: ...ay press ESC and a message 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 VI SOFTWARE REFEREN...

Page 83: ... motherboard leave the jumper on its defaut setting of ASUS If you are using another brand of motherboard set the jumper to Other Connect the Wake on LAN WOL output signal to the motherboard s WOL_CON in order to utilize the wake on LAN feature of the moth erboard Connect the LAN activity output signal LAN_LED to the system cabinet s front panel LAN_LED in order to display the LAN data activity AP...

Page 84: ...S 2 Client NDIS 2 01 Drivers Microsoft LAN Manager Microsoft Windows 3 11 IBM LAN Server NDIS 3 0 Drivers Microsoft Windows NT Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 3 11 Question and Answer Q What is Wake On LAN A The Wake On LAN feature provides the capability to remotely power on sys tems supporting Wake On LAN by simply sending a wake up frame With this feature remotely uploading downloading d...

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