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P2-99B

Pentium

III / II / Celeron

Motherboard

USER’S MANUAL

Summary of Contents for P2-99B

Page 1: ...R P2 99B Pentium III II CeleronTM Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...ames 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 Celeron is a trademark of Intel Corporation IBM and OS 2 are registered trademarks of International Busines...

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Page 4: ...on Mechanism 21 Heatsinks 21 Installing the Processor 22 ASUS Smart Thermal Solutions only for motherboards with hardware monitor 24 Recommended Heatsinks for Slot 1 Processors 25 4 Expansion Cards 26 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 26 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 26 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 27 ISA Cards and Hardware Monitor 27 Accelerated Graphics Port AGP 27 5 External Co...

Page 5: ...assword 57 IDE HDD Auto Detection 58 Save Exit Setup 60 Exit Without Saving 60 V SOFTWARE SETUP 61 ASUS Smart Motherboard Support CD 61 Installation Submenu 62 DOS Utility Submenu 63 ASUS Contact Information 64 Uninstalling Programs 65 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE 67 ASUS PC Probe only w optional hardware monitor 67 Intel LANDesk Client Manager only w optional hardware monitor 72 Desktop Management Inter...

Page 6: ...lar 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 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...

Page 7: ...port software VII Appendix Optional items and general reference Item Checklist Please check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your retailer 1 ASUS Motherboard 1 Universal Retention Mechanism for SECC2 SECC SEPP Processors 1 Ribbon cable for master and slave IDE drives 1 Ribbon cable for 1 5 25 and 2 3 5 floppy disk drives 1 Serial cable connector...

Page 8: ...nal Provides an easier way to examine and man age system status information such as CPU and system voltages temperatures and fan status through the onboard hardware monitor ASIC and the bundled LDCM by Intel or PC Probe from ASUS AGP Slot Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high performance component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications us ing a 1X or 2X mode...

Page 9: ...nd installation proce dures for Windows 95 98 NT Symbios SCSI BIOS Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard SYMBIOS firmware Performance Features Concurrent PCI Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas ter busses to the memory and processor Double the IDE Transfer Speed ASUS smart series motherboards with Intel chipsets improves IDE transfer rate using Bus Mast...

Page 10: ...provides useful informa tion to the user Remote Ring On requires external modem This allows a computer to be turned on remotely through an external modem With this benefit on hand any usercanaccessvitalinformationfromtheircomputerfromanywhereintheworld System Resources Alert only w optional hardware monitor Today s oper ating systems such asWindows 95 98 NTand OS 2 require much more memory and har...

Page 11: ...yboard 3 PCI Slots 2 ISA Slots Programmable Flash EEPROM Intel PIIX4E PCIset Multi I O 3 DIMM Sockets Intel 440ZX AGPset IDE Connectors Slot 1 Serial Ports COM1 COM2 AGP Port Wake On LAN Connector Wake On Ring Connector Hardware Monitor optional ATX Power AT Power USB MIR Parallel Port Floppy Connector ...

Page 12: ...IS Keyboard CR2032 3V Lithium Cell CMOS Power 2Mbit Flash EEPROM Programmable BIOS VCORE P2 99B R WOR DIMM Socket 3 64 72 bit 168 pin module PANEL IR COM 2 COM 1 IDELED PWR_FAN CHA_FAN CPU_FAN Wake On LAN WOL_CON FREQ MULT BUS FREQ BF1 BF2 BF0 BF3 P8 P9 RT3 PCI Slot 1 PCI1 PCI Slot 2 PCI2 PCI Slot 3 PCI3 DIMM Socket 1 64 72 bit 168 pin module DIMM Socket 2 64 72 bit 168 pin module Intel 440ZX AGPs...

Page 13: ...1pins 6 IDELED p 30 IDE Activity LED Lead 2 pins 7 CHA_ CPU_ PWR_FAN p 31 Chassis CPU PowerSupplyFanConnectors Three3 pin 8 WOL_CON p 31 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pins 9 MSG LED PANEL p 32 System Message LED Lead 2 pins 10 SMI PANEL p 32 System Management Interrupt Switch Lead 2 pins 11 PWR SW PANEL p 32 ATX Power Soft Off Switch Lead 2 pins 12 RESET PANEL p 32 Reset Switch Lead 2 pins 13 PWR LED PA...

Page 14: ...p before handling computer components 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 f...

Page 15: ...ts 1 2 3 3 50Volts Default 1 2 3 R P2 99B 3 Voltage Regulator Output Selection VCORE This jumper sets the core voltage supplied to the microprocessor P2 99B CPU Core Voltage Selection Test 1 2 3 Normal Default 1 2 3 R P2 99B VCORE WARNING Using a higher voltage Test for VCORE or 3 66Volts for VIO may help when overclocking but may result in the shortening of your computer component s life It is st...

Page 16: ...33MHz 1 2 3 CPU PCI FS0 FS1 FS2 FS3 110 00MHz 36 67MHz 1 2 3 112 00MHz 37 33MHz 1 2 3 105 0MHz 35 0MHz 1 2 3 CPU PCI FS0 FS1 FS2 FS3 CPU PCI FS0 FS1 FS2 FS3 5 CPU Core External Frequency Multiple BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 This option sets the frequency multiple between the Internal frequency of the CPU and the CPU s External frequency These must be set in conjunction with the CPU External Frequency P2 99B C...

Page 17: ...1 2 1 2 2 3 Pentium III II 450MHz 4 5x 100MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 Pentium II 400MHz 4 0x 100MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 Pentium II 350MHz 3 5x 100MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 Celeron 466MHz 7 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 Celeron 433MHz 6 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 Celeron 400MHz 6 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 Celeron 366MHz 5 5x 66MH...

Page 18: ...d uses only Dual Inline Memory Modules DIMMs Sockets are available for 3 3Volt power level unbuffered Synchronous Dynamic Random Ac cess Memory SDRAM The Intel 440ZX AGPset does not support ECC However ECC memory modules may still be used but the ECC function will not be available Memory speed setup is recommended through SDRAM Configuration under Chipset Features Setup in BIOS SETUP Install memor...

Page 19: ...y P2 99B 168 Pin DIMM Memory Sockets 20 Pins 60 Pins 88 Pins Lock R P2 99B The DIMMs must be 3 3Volt unbuffered SDRAMs To determine the DIMM 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 will shift between left center or right to identify the type...

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Page 21: ...recommended heatsinks for Pentium III II processors for more information for the boxed Pentium III II and Celeron processors are those with three pin fans that can be connected to the fan connectors on the motherboard WARNING Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor s heatsink by regularly checking that your CPU fan is working Without sufficient circulation the process...

Page 22: ...e locked when shipped Using the SECC fan with the Pentium II Pushthetwolockarmsonedirectiontoclamp the heatsink onto the processor and the other direction to release Using the SECC2 fan with the Pentium III Insert the four heatsink s pins through the holes of the SECC2 Place the metal clip on the ends of the pins and slide until it locks into place Unlocked Folding Support Arms Locked Folding Supp...

Page 23: ...he SECC2 SECC SEPP in place by pushing the SECC2 SECC SEPP until it is firmly seated on the Slot 1 connector SECC with Pentium II only The SECC locks should be outward when se cured so that the lock shows through the retention mechanism s lock holes SECC2 SEPP Push lock inward SECC SECC SECC2 SEPP CPU fan cable to fan connector CPU fan cable to fan connector CPU fan cable to fan connector CPU fan ...

Page 24: ...e the ASUS S P2FAN See 2 Attach the Heatsink on the preceding page for the relevant procedures Note that the S P2FAN comes with a rock arm design for easy FAN CPU installation ASUS P2T Cable The optional ASUS P2T Cable can be usedforaPentium III IIprocessorpack agedinanSECC2 SECCoraCeleron processor packaged in an SEPP NOTE The ASUS P2T Cable can only be used in a Slot 1 motherboard with a 2 pin t...

Page 25: ...k Fan SECC2 Heatsink Fan NOTE The SEPP heatsink and fan for Intel Celeron processors is similar to the SECC2 heatsink and fan except that the clamping design is different WARNING Do not insert the sensor between the processor and heatsink other wise it will cause damage to the P2T Cable IMPORTANT ASUS guarantees accurate readings only for the ASUS Smart Fan and the Intel boxed processor heatsink w...

Page 26: ...board 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 require the use of IRQs System IRQs are available to cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first then any remaining IRQs are available to PCI cards Currently there are two types of ISA cards The original ISA expansion...

Page 27: ... 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 You can se...

Page 28: ...dapter in order to connect a PS 2 keyboard to this AT connector P2 99B Keyboard Connector Keyboard Connector 5 pin female This motherboard accepts an AT Keyboard Connector Plug as shown here R P2 99B 2 Floppy Disk Drive Cconnector 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 th...

Page 29: ... wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 26 plugged NOTE Serial printers must be connected to the serial port P2 99B Parallel Connector Connect the Red stripe to Pin 1 Pin 1 Parallel Connector PS 2 Mouse Connector R P2 99B 4 Serial Port Headers 10 1 pin COM1 COM2 These connectors support the provided serial port ribbon cables with mounting bracket Connect the ribbon cables to these con...

Page 30: ...ntation 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 P2 99B IDE Connectors Primary IDE Connector Second...

Page 31: ... signal WARNING These connectors have power Damage may occur to the mother board and or the CPU fan if these connectors are incorrectly used P2 99B 12Volt Cooling Fan Power Chassis Fan Power CHA_FAN Power Supply Fan PWR_FAN CPU Fan Power CPU_FAN GND Rotation 12V R P2 99B GND Rotation 12V GND Rotation 12V 8 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pin WOL_CON This connector connects to a LAN card with a Wake On LAN...

Page 32: ...connector Suspend Switch in Power Management Setup of BIOS SETUP section should be on the default setting of Enable 11 ATX Power Soft Off 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 the system off ...

Page 33: ...ound 3 USB Port 0 2 USB Port 0 1 USB 5 Volt P2 99B PS 2 Mouse USB IrDA Module Connector 18 Infrared Transmit 17 Infrared Receive 16 Ground 15 PS 2 Mouse Data 14 Key 13 Ground 12 USB Port 1 11 USB Port 1 10 USB 5 Volt Optional USB MIR 1 9 18 10 USB MIR Parallel Connector PS 2 Mouse Connector R P2 99B 17 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 5 pin IR This connector supports the optional wireless ...

Page 34: ...ed see Power Management Setup under BIOS SETUP and that your system has anATX power supply with at least 720mA 5Vstandby power P2 99B Wake On Ring Connector WOR R P2 99B Pin 2 PIXRI Pin 1 Ground 19 Chassis Intrusion Sensor Lead optional 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 lead This occu...

Page 35: ...deband 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 36: ... 12 0 Volts Ground Power Supply On Ground Ground Ground 5 0 Volts 5 0 Volts 5 0 Volts Power Good 12 0 Volts 3 3 Volts 3 3 Volts Ground 5 0 Volts Ground 5 0 Volts Ground 5V Standby 23 AT Power Supply Connector 12 pin PS 2 This connector connects to a standard 5 Volt power supply To connect the leads from the power supply ensure first that the power supply is not plugged Most power supplies provide ...

Page 37: ... 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 t...

Page 38: ...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 eit...

Page 39: ...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 40: ... 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 encounter problems while up...

Page 41: ...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 42: ...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 preceding screen provides you with a list of options At the bottom of this screen ...

Page 43: ...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 44: ...to active also possible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A Drive B 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...

Page 45: ...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 46: ... always the boot disk using drive letter C default setting of IDE This new feature allows a SCSI hard disk drive to be the boot disk when set to SCSI This allows 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 ar...

Page 47: ...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 48: ...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 49: ...M Disabled Enabling this feature reserves 15MB 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...

Page 50: ...bled 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 field is set to Disabled which leaves the second serial port UART to support the COM2 seria...

Page 51: ... 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 sta...

Page 52: ...essed 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 the susppend mode activates 30 sec 1 Min 2 Mi...

Page 53: ...his feature IMPORTANT Thisfeaturerequirestheoptional networkinterfaceandanATXpower supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power Automatic Power Up Disabled This allows you to have an unattended or automatic power up of your system You may configure your system to power up at a certain time of the day by selecting Everyday which will allow you to set the time or at a certain time and day by selectin...

Page 54: ...use 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 dis...

Page 55: ...ve more than one legacy ISAcard in your system that requires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 32K 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 motherboard s BIOS to detect whether you have a Symbios SCSI card If a Symbios SCSI card is detected the mot...

Page 56: ...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 57: ...again After setting a password the screen automatically re verts 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 Enter Password prompt appears A message confirms the password has been d...

Page 58: ...e En 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 controlle...

Page 59: ...if you do not need the data stored on the hard disk If the parameters listed differ from the ones used when the disk was formatted the disk will not be readable If the auto detected parameters do not 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 IV BIOS SETUP IV BI...

Page 60: ...the configuration changes highlight the Save Exit Setup option on the main screen type Y and then press Enter Exit Without Saving Select this option to exit the Setup utility without saving the modifications you specify during the current session To exit without saving highlight the Exit Without Sav ing option on the main screen and then press Enter IV BIOS SETUP Save Exit ...

Page 61: ...erboard BIOS and CPU Browse This CD allows you to see the contents of the ASUS Support CD User s Manual displays the motherboard user s manual in pdf format Technical Support Form opens up a blank Technical Support Request Form for you to fill and print out when you run into technical difficulties and need technical assistance Read Me opens up a file containing additional notes Home returns you to...

Page 62: ...uter s fans tem peratures and voltages NOTE Will not run with LDCM installed To uninstall a program see Uninstalling Programs at the end of this section ASUS LiveUpdate installs a program to help you update your BIOS or download a BIOS image file Driver installs the necessary components to work properly NOTE This is not avail able if your motherboard does not have onboard VGA audio and SCSI Other ...

Page 63: ...ing the DMI configu ration utility This utility is located in the DMI folder under the root directory of the support CD Flash BIOS Utility DOS Version provides information on the Flash BIOS utility AFLASH EXE Choose Restart in MS DOS mode and then type aflash from the AFLASH folder on the support CD Click here to bring up the DOS Utility Submenu ...

Page 64: ...64 ASUS P2 99B User s Manual V SOFTWARE SETUP V S W SETUP Windows 98 V S W SETUP Windows 98 Click here to bring up ASUS Contact Information ASUS Contact Information ...

Page 65: ...alling Programs 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 3 Clickhere 2 Select the program you wish to remove and click here ...

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Page 67: ... and CPU type CPU speed and internal external frequencies through the DMI Explorer Starting ASUS PC Probe WhenASUS PC Probe starts a splash screen appears allowing you to select whether to show the screen again when you open PC Probe or not To by pass this startup screen clear the Show up in next execution check box To open ASUS PC Probe click the Windows Start button point to Pro grams and then A...

Page 68: ...perature Monitor Shows the PC s temperature Temperature Warning threshold adjustment Move the slider up to increase the threshold level or down to decrease the threshold level Fan Monitor Shows the PC s fan rotation Voltage Monitor Shows the PC s voltages Fan Warning threshold adjustment Move the slider up to increase the threshold level or down to decrease the threshold level ...

Page 69: ...rrefreshtimesofthePC stem perature fan rotation and voltages History Lets you record the monitoring activity of a certain component of your PC by date time and target history Hard Drives ShowstheusedandfreespaceofthePC s hard disk drives and the file allocation table or file system used Memory Shows the PC s memory load memory usage and paging file usage ...

Page 70: ...of devices in your PC DMI Explorer Shows information pertinent to the PC such as CPU type CPU speed and in ternal external frequencies and memory size Utility Lets you run programs outside of the ASUS Probe modules To run a program click Execute Program VI S W REFERENCE ASUS PC Probe ...

Page 71: ...C Probe icon will bring up a menu to open or exit ASUS PC Probe and pause or resume all sys tem monitoring When the ASUS PC Probe senses a problem with your PC portions of the ASUS PC Probe icon changes to red the PC speaker beeps and the ASUSPCProbemonitorisdis played VI S W REFERENCE ASUS PC Probe ...

Page 72: ...uter s health Receive notifications for 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 searches your network for other computers running Client...

Page 73: ...the remote access log 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 Configu...

Page 74: ...DCM Discovers new computers on the network Refreshes 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 ...

Page 75: ...ve a computer from the 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 Comp...

Page 76: ...this feature Some computers 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 otherwi...

Page 77: ...e process of booting without having received a wakeup 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 critical tol...

Page 78: ... 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 refreshing fa...

Page 79: ...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 80: ...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 81: ...Using the ASUS CIDB 1 You must have an ASUS motherboard with a chassis connector 2 Connect the CIDB directly to the chassis connector or use the provided extension cable and mount the CIDB to the chassis using a double sided foam adhesive tape CAUTION The CIDB component pins and metallic points must not come in contact with another metallic surface or else shorting will occur 3 Check the hardware ...

Page 82: ...If there is no power to the motherboard i e re moving the power cord or turning the power supply s switch off the alarm will not sound but the CIDB will still remember an intrusion event which BIOS and LDCM will detect on the next bootup 2 Motherboard with chassis intrusion components Photo sensor switch and memory will not operate with power removed Power is required to send a signal to the mothe...

Page 83: ...ntion mechanism Using the ASUS S370 The general procedure for using the ASUS S370 CPU card 1 Check the voltage setting for your socket 370 processor using the jumpers on the card if necessary For current socket 370 processors the default setting should be used See the reverse side of the ASUS S370 CPU card or the next page for voltage settings 2 Install the socket 370 processor Installation of soc...

Page 84: ...P5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 2 50Volts 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 CPU Def 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 2 60Volts 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 Reserved 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 ASUS S370 Jumper Settings Setting the CPU voltage is not necessary for current socket 370 processors If re quired your socket 370 processor should have its voltage requirement printed on its surface or documentation If no voltage is indicat...

Page 85: ... 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 VI...

Page 86: ...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...

Page 87: ... transfers data between com puter components such as memory disks and the display adapter The BIOS in structions are built into the computer s read only memory BIOS parameters can be configured by the user through the BIOS Setup program The BIOS can be updated using the provided utility to copy a new BIOS file into the EEPROM Bit Binary Digit Represents the smallest unit of data used by the comput...

Page 88: ...on which all other programs and software applications oper ate including Windows DOS is responsible for allocating system resources such as memory CPU time disk space and access to peripheral devices For this reason DOS constitutes the basic interface between you and your computer Hardware Hardware is a general term referring to the physical components of a computer sys tem including peripherals s...

Page 89: ...de mirroring for fault tolerance parity for data guard ing or striping for data distribution over several drives for increased performance A RAID card is required to setup a RAID system RAM Random Access Memory There are several different types of RAM such as DRAM Dynamic RAM EDO DRAM Extended Data Output DRAM SDRAM Synchronous DRAM ROM Read Only Memory ROM is nonvolatile memory used to store perm...

Page 90: ...heral bus that allows plug and play computer peripherals such as keyboard mouse joystick scanner printer and modem ISDN to be auto matically configured when they are attached physically without having to install drivers or reboot With USB the traditional complex cables from back panel of your PC can be eliminated ...

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