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ASUS MEZ-VM User’s Manual

III. HARDWARE SETUP

13. SB-Link™ Connector (6-1 pin SBLINK)

If you have a Sound Blaster compatible PCI audio card, you must link it to this
connector. Otherwise, you will have compatibility issues under DOS environment.

MEZ-VM SB-Link™ Header

NOTE: Pin 3 is removed to ensure the
correct orientation of the cable on it.

SBLINK

PC/PCI Request
Sideband Signal

DGND

Serial IRQ

PC/PCI Grant

Sideband Signal

14. Stereo Audio In Connector (4-pin CD_IN)

The CD_IN connector can be used to receive stereo audio input from an internal
CD-ROM drive or other sound sources such as a TV tuner or MPEG card.

MEZ-VM Stereo Audio In Connector

Left Audio Channel

Right Audio Channel

Ground

CD_IN

Connectors

III. H/W SETUP

Summary of Contents for MEZ-VM

Page 1: ...R MEZ VM Socket 370 AGP Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

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Page 4: ...pansion Card Installation Procedure 20 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 20 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 21 5 External Connectors 22 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 Load Defaults 38 Standard CMOS Setup 38 Details of Standard CMOS Setup 38 BIOS Features Setup 41 Deta...

Page 5: ...ASUS MEZ VM User s Manual 5 CONTENTS 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 65 Appendix 79 ...

Page 6: ...cular 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 ...

Page 7: ...p Information on setting up the included support software 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 Floppy ribbon cable for 1 5 25 floppy and 2 3 5 floppies 1 COM2 connector with...

Page 8: ...16 32 64 128 or 256MB up to 512MB AGP Slot Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high performance component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications us ing a 66MHz bus PCI ISA Expansion Provides two 32 bit PCI expansion slots and one 16 bit ISA expansion slot Wake On LAN Header Supports Wake On LAN activity through an optional ASUS PCI L101 Fast Ethernet card or a ...

Page 9: ...tes up to 33MB sec The best of 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 meet PC 98 compliancy The new PC 98 requirements for s...

Page 10: ...umption 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 is the Soft Off mode Pushing the power button for less than 4 seconds places the system into Sleep mode When the power button is pressed for more than 4 seconds it enters the Soft Off mode Remote Ring On requires modem ...

Page 11: ... Parallel Port VGA Connector 2 DIMM Sockets 2 PCI Slots Wake On LAN Header T Joystick Midi B Out In Mic optional Intel PIIX4E PCIset SB LinkTM Header Programmable Flash EEPROM 1 ISA Slot AGP Port Multi I O Chip Serial COM2 Header Audio Codec optional Intel 440ZX AGPset ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP2X Rage IIC AGP VGA Chipset 4MB VGA Memory Rage IIC 8MB VGA Memory Rage Pro Creative Labs PCI Audio optional ...

Page 12: ...Power Row 0 1 DIMM Socket 2 64 72 bit 168 pin module DIMM Socket 1 64 72 bit 168 pin module 2 3 0 1 CPU_FAN FREQ MULT BF0 BF2 BF1 BF3 INT_EN Multi I O Keyboard Controller COM2 Socket 370 Intel 440ZX AGPset ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X Rage IIC VGA Chipset Intel PIIX4E Chipset Buzzer 8MB available on Rage Pro only ASUS ASIC RTCCLR PANEL PRINTER 2 MB SDRAM 2 MB SDRAM GAME_AUDIO Mic In Line Out Line In MOD...

Page 13: ...le 7 GAME_AUDIO p 24 Joystick Midi Connector 15 pin female optional 8 GAME_AUDIO p 24 Audio Port Connectors Three 1 8 female optional 9 PRIMARY SECONDARYIDE p 25 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors Two 40 1pins 10 FLOPPY p 25 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1pins 11 IR p 26 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 5 pins 12 WOL_CON p 26 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pins 13 SBLINK p 27 SB LinkTM Connector 6...

Page 14: ...ne 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 Hardware Setup Steps Before using your comp...

Page 15: ...ernal interrupt routing Some TV tuners or MPEG cards may require the interrupt be assigned by the onboard chipset in which case INT_EN must be enabled VGAEN allows you to enable or disable the onboard VGA Disable the onboard VGA if you are using a VGA card on the expansion slot 3 Audio Setting AUDIOEN The onboard 32 bit PCI audio may be enabled or disabled using this jumper Setting AUDIOEN Enable ...

Page 16: ... CPU Model Freq Ratio BUS F FS0 FS1 FS2 FS3 FS4 BF3 BF2 BF1 BF0 Celeron PPGA 366MHz 5 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 Celeron PPGA 333MHz 5 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 Celeron PPGA 300MHz 4 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 MEZ VM CPU Settings 0 1 CPU Core Bus Frequency Multiple 5 5x 11 2 1 2 3 BF3 BF2 BF1 BF0 5 0x 5 1 1 2 3 BF3 BF2 BF1 BF0 6 0x 6 1 1 2 3 B...

Page 17: ... 8chips sidemodulesdonotsupportECC only9chips sidemodulessupportECC Single sided DIMMs come in 16 32 64 128MB double sided come in 32 64 128 256MB Install memory in any combination as follows DIMM Location 168 pin DIMM Memory Modules Total Memory Socket 1 Rows 0 1 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Socket 2 Rows 2 3 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Total System Memory Max 512MB 2 System Memory DIMM NOTE N...

Page 18: ...ides MEZ VM 168 Pin DIMM Sockets 0 1 Lock Lock 88 pins 60 pins 20 pins 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 t...

Page 19: ...ulling 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 one orientation as shown The picture is for reference only you should have a CPU fan that will cover the ...

Page 20: ...ssigned to one use In a standard design there are 16 IRQs available but most of them are already in use by parts of the system which leaves 6 free for expansion cards If your motherboard has PCI audio onboard an extra IRQ will be used leaving 5 IRQs free If your motherboard has ISA audio onboard an extra 3 IRQs will be used leaving 3 IRQs free Both ISA and PCI expansion cards may need to use IRQs ...

Page 21: ... BIOS automatically assigns an IRQtoaPCIslotthathasacardinitthatrequiresanIRQ ToinstallaPCIcard youneed to set something called the INT interrupt assignment Since all the PCI slots on this motherboarduseanINTA besurethatthejumpersonyourPCIcardsaresettoINTA 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 ...

Page 22: ...ower connector on hard drives and some floppy drives IDE ribbon cable must be less than 18 inches 46 cm with the second drive connector no more than 6 inches 15 cm from the first connector 1 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin PS2KBMS The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not de tected expansion cards can use IRQ12 See PS 2 Mouse Control in BIOS Features Setup of BIOS SETUP P...

Page 23: ... IRQ through Onboard Parallel Port in Chipset Features Setup of BIOS SETUP NOTE Serial printers must be connected to the serial port Parallel Printer Port 25 pin Female 5 Serial Port COM1 Connector 9 pin COM1 One serial port is ready for a mouse or other serial devices A second serial port is available using a serial port bracket connected from the motherboard to an expansion slot opening See Onbo...

Page 24: ...s or game pads to this connector for playing games Connect MIDI devices for playing or editing audio Joystick Midi 15 pin Female 8 Audio Port Connectors Three 1 8 GAME_AUDIO Line Out can be connected to headphones or preferably powered speakers Line In allows tape players or other audio sources to be recorded by your com puter or played through the Line Out Mic allows microphones to be connected f...

Page 25: ...n 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 one operating system on an IDE drive and an other on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS Features Setup MEZ VM IDE Connectors NOTE Orient the red markings on the IDE ribbon cab...

Page 26: ... to the pin definitions MEZ VM Infrared Module Connector 0 1 Front View Back View 5V IRTX IRRX NC GND 5V IRRX IRTX NC GND 12 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pin WOL_CON These connector connects to LAN cards with a Wake On LAN output such as theASUS PCI L101 The connector powers up the system when a wakeup packet or signal is received through the LAN card IMPORTANT This feature requires that the WAKE On LA...

Page 27: ...3 is removed to ensure the correct orientation of the cable on it SBLINK PC PCI Request Sideband Signal 5 6 1 DGND 2 DGND Serial IRQ PC PCI Grant Sideband Signal 14 Stereo Audio In Connector 4 pin CD_IN The CD_IN connector can be used to receive stereo audio input from an internal CD ROM drive or other sound sources such as a TV tuner or MPEG card MEZ VM Stereo Audio In Connector 0 1 Left Audio Ch...

Page 28: ...ono input and output for a voice modem mi crophone and speaker interface MEZ VM Voice Modem In Connector 0 1 MODEM Input Output Ground Ground 16 Serial Port COM 2 Header 10 1 pin COM2 The optional serial port connector and bracket can be used to add an additional serial port for additional serial devices MEZ VM Serial COM 2 Header 0 1 Pin 1 ...

Page 29: ... of the expansion slots Depending on the fan manufacturer the wiring and plug may be different The red wire should be positive while the black should be ground Connect the fan s plug to the board taking into consideration the polarity of the this connector NOTE The Rotation signal is to be used only by a specially designed fan with rotation signal WARNING The CPU and or motherboard will overheat i...

Page 30: ...ices connected to the Primary or Secondary IDE con nectors will cause the LED to light up 21 System Power LED Lead 3 1 pin PLED This 3 1 pin connector connects the system power LED which lights when the system is powered on and blinks when it is in sleep mode 22 Reset Switch Lead 2 pin RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without having t...

Page 31: ...MI is activated when it detects a short to open moment and therefore leaving it shorted will not cause any problems May require one or two pushes depending on the position of the switch The key board will always allow wake up the SMI lead cannot wake up the system 26 System Warning Speaker Connector 4 pin SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker You may leave this disconne...

Page 32: ...ure that the pins are aligned IMPORTANT Make sure that yourATX power supply can supply at least 10mA on the 5 volt standby lead 5VSB You may experience difficulty in powering on your system if your power supply cannot support the load For Wake On LAN support your ATX power supply must supply at least 720mA 5VSB MEZ VM ATX Power Connector 0 1 3 3 Volts 12 0 Volts Ground Power Supply On Ground Groun...

Page 33: ...The LED on the monitor may light up or switch between orange and green after the system s if it complies with green standards or if it has a power standby fea ture The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running addi tional 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 te...

Page 34: ...ng 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 BIOSincaseyouneedtoreinstall it Itisrecommendedthatyousave AFLASH EXEandtheBIOSfile to a bootable floppy disk IMPORTANT If unknown is displayed after Flash Memory the memory chip is ...

Page 35: ...from 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...

Page 36: ...W or 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 e...

Page 37: ...you 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 com puter the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program This ap pears during the Power On Self T...

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

Page 39: ...documentations 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 numbe...

Page 40: ... be read from and write on Primary IDE hard disk drives must have its partition set to active also possible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A None This field records the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system The avail able options 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 Floppy 3 Mode Support D...

Page 41: ...next 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 partitio...

Page 42: ...ows multiple operating systems 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 ...

Page 43: ...u 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 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 t...

Page 44: ...odule such as memory type size speed voltage interface and module banks SDRAM CAS Latency This controls the latency between SDRAM read command and the time that the data actually becomes available Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay This controls the latency between SDRAM active command and the read write com mand Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS Precharge Time This controls the idle...

Page 45: ...B to 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 Onboard FDC Controller Enabled When Enabled this field allows you to connect your floppy disk drives to the onboard floppy disk drive connector instead of a separate c...

Page 46: ...a second serial port connected to the onboard COM2 connector it will no longer work if you enable the infrared feature By default this field is set to Disabled which leaves the second serial port UART to support the COM2 serial port connector See IrDA compliant infrared module connector under section III Onboard PCI IDE Enable Both You can select to enable the primary IDE channel secondary IDE cha...

Page 47: ...g except that this time 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 st...

Page 48: ...ssed 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 Mi...

Page 49: ...want 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 E...

Page 50: ...se is 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 disp...

Page 51: ...re 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 onboard Symbios BIOS will be enabled if not ...

Page 52: ...creen Press Y and then Enter to confirm 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 D...

Page 53: ...ting a password the screen automatically re verts to the main screen To implement password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS SETUP 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 Enter Password prompt appears A message confirms the password has been disabled F...

Page 54: ...n 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 i...

Page 55: ...match the ones that should be used for 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...

Page 56: ...ASUS MEZ VM User s Manual 56 This page was intentionally left blank IV BIOS SETUP IV BIOS SETUP ...

Page 57: ...ASUS MEZ VM User s Manual 57 V SOFTWARE SETUP R V S W SETUP ...

Page 58: ...SETUP 57 Operating Systems 59 Windows 98 First Time Installation 59 MEZ VM Support CD 60 Support CD Autorun Menu 60 Installing the Video Driver and Utility 61 Installing the Audio Driver 62 Installing PCCillin 63 Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader 64 V S W SETUP ...

Page 59: ...tect the onboard audio and video chips and may attempt to in stall a driver from its system registry When prompted to restart select No and then follow the normal setup procedures later in this section IMPORTANT Selecting No for the initial restart prompt is a necessary step be causeWindows may load an older display driver that is incompatible with the onboard ATI 3D Rage chip Always use the drive...

Page 60: ...river and Utility Installs the video driver and utilities for the onboard VGA chipset InstallAudio Driver Audio driver installation instructions for the onboard audio Install PCCillin Installs PC cillin virus protection software View the online help if you have any questions Browse this CD Allows you to see the contents of the ASUS support CD Read Me View additional notes with Notepad LDCM Introdu...

Page 61: ...cessary for your card to have higher performance resolutions and special features You can also install the ATI Player a software multimedia player which provides full screen MPEG video playback with excellent color quality plus a host of advanced multimedia features 1 Clickhere 2 Click here to begin the installation wizard 3 Click here and follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation ...

Page 62: ...motherboard into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen 7 Clickhere 8 Click here and then click Finish to restart 5 Clickhere 6 Click and then click here 3 Clickhere 4 Clickhere 1 Clickhere 2 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP V S W SETUP Windows 98 ...

Page 63: ...y Computer to bring up the autorun screen 1 Clickhere 2 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP V S W SETUP Windows 98 5 Click Express Install and then click here 6 Insert a floppy disk and then click here 3 Enter your name and company and then click here 4 Clickhere 7 Once the Emergency Clean disk is created click here Follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation ...

Page 64: ...er 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 2 Clickhere 1 Clickhere 5 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP V S W SETUP Windows 98 ...

Page 65: ...l Time Effects 71 Creative WaveStudio 72 ATI Player 73 Features 73 Playing Audio CDs Only in window 95 74 Playing Media Files 75 Playing Interactive Discs Video CD 2 0 75 Desktop Management Interface DMI 76 Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 76 Starting the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 76 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 77 ASUS PCI L101 Fast Ethernet Card 79 Features 80 Soft...

Page 66: ...your CD ROM drive and MIDI device It con sists of Creative Remote and other players such as Creative CD Creative Wave and Creative MIDI Common operations Tracks Playlist Skip Backward Rewind Skip Forward Fast Forward Power Off Menu Minimize Volume Repeat Mode Intro Mode Touch Sensitive Display NOTE The terms track and file are used interchangeably throughout this section VI S W REFERENCE Creative ...

Page 67: ...le display forms Fine control of track s playing position Introduction Mode Repeat Playlist Mode RepeatTrack Mode and Shuffle Mode for playback Playlist compilation of CD tracks into a collection Fast track selection Direct volume control for multiple sound cards Using the CD Playlist To access the Playlist dialog box click on the CD player Enter CD Title Displays sequence of tracks to be played E...

Page 68: ...st Mode RepeatTrack Mode and Shuffle Mode for playback Playlist compilation of different MIDI files Fast track selection Direct volume control for multiple sound cards Stop Play Pause Using the MIDI Playlist To access the Playlist dialog box click on the MIDI player Displays the Playlist a sequence of the tracks to be played Enter artist name Enter track notes Select a collection a saved playlist ...

Page 69: ...n addition it consists of several advanced features like Ability to launch any of the available Creative Multimedia Decks players for more direct control over a device Touch sensitive display Multiple display forms Fast track selection Color scheme selection VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE Invoke player Select an active player Displays the Playlist dialog box of the active player Starts recording Opens clos...

Page 70: ...rack s playing position Introduction Mode Repeat Playlist Mode RepeatTrack Mode and Shuffle Mode for playback Playlist compilation of different wave files Fast track selection Direct volume control for multiple sound cards VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE Stop Play Pause Record Activates the Record Setting dialog box which allows you to select the format of the wave file to record Uses one left or right chan...

Page 71: ...etween the three different spatial presets Off On and Wide By default this switch is set to Off The reverb effect will make the MIDI instruments on the card sound as if they were playing in a large concert hall or stadium The three degrees of reverb provided are Off On and Full This effect can be applied to the Syn thesizer device The chorus effect will add depth to the card s synthesizer sounds T...

Page 72: ...ng functions easily Play edit and record 8 bit tape quality and 16 bit CD quality wave data Enhance your wave data or create unique sounds with various special effects and editing operations such as rap reverse echo mute pan cut copy and paste Open and edit several wave files at the same time Import and export raw RAW data files VI S W REFERENCE Creative WaveStudio ...

Page 73: ...anel may not look exactly like the illustration only installed or available features will have controls CDAudio Play standard audio CDs only in Windows 95 98 MPEG Playback Play MPEG and AVI video files Features The question mark on top right of the Video Screen allows inspection into each button on the control panel Click on the then on a button that you would like to know about C ATI Player Windo...

Page 74: ...ive 2 In the Audio CD panel click the Setup Dialogs button 3 Click the Disc Info tab 4 From the Available Tracks list add or remove tracks as desired The Play List displays your current selections 5 Click OK 6 In the Audio CD panel click the Play button The Audio CD player uses Windows 95 standard INI file to store disc names track names and the play list You can use the Setup dialog to enter the ...

Page 75: ...o play a file 1 In the Playback panel click the File Open button 2 Select a file from the list 3 Click Add then click OK 4 Click the Play button 5 The file plays in the Display panel Playing Interactive Discs Video CD 2 0 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE PAL NTSC Loop Track Playlist Volume Mute Open File Volume Control Next Track Audio Track Select File Name Last Frame Advance First Frame Rewind Full Screen ...

Page 76: ...ation Utility also allows the system 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 in...

Page 77: ...on and the blue text are 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...

Page 78: ...t to cancel save you may 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 BI...

Page 79: ... 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 80: ...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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