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P2B-F

Pentium

III / II / Celeron

Motherboard

USER’S MANUAL

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Page 1: ...R P2B F Pentium III II CeleronTM Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...oducts 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 ...

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Page 4: ...Heatsinks 19 Installing the Processor 20 ASUS Smart Thermal Solutions 22 Recommended Heatsinks for Slot 1 Processors 23 4 Expansion Cards 24 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 24 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 24 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 25 ISA Cards and Hardware Monitor 25 Accelerated Graphics Port AGP 25 5 External Connectors 26 Power Connection Procedures 33 IV BIOS SETUP 34 ...

Page 5: ...ity Submenu 57 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE 59 ASUS PC Probe 59 Starting ASUS PC Probe 59 Using the ASUS PC Probe 60 Intel LANDesk Client Manager 62 Main Client Manager Window 62 Using the Taskbar icons 63 Using the Select Computer Dialog Box 64 To select a computer 65 To discover new computers 65 To refresh PC health 65 To remove a computer from the list 65 To wake up a computer 65 Displaying the Proper...

Page 6: ...ar 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: ... ReferenceReference material for the included support 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 1 Ribbon cable for master and slave IDE drives 1 Ribbon cable for 1 5 25 and 2 3 5 flopp...

Page 8: ... 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 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 bus SB Link Feature...

Page 9: ...stallation proce dures for Windows 95 98 NT Symbios SCSI BIOS Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through the 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 Maste...

Page 10: ... can de termine the stage the computer is in Asimple glimpse 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 Today s operating systems such as Windows 95 98 NT and OS 2 req...

Page 11: ...S 2 Mouse B PS 2 Keyboard T Parallel B Serial B COM1 5 PCI Slots 2 ISA Slots Programmable 2Mbit Flash EEPROM Intel PIIX4E PCIset Multi I O 4 DIMM Slots Intel 440BX AGPset IDE Connectors B COM2 Accelerated Graphics Port Wake On LAN Connector SB Link Connector Hardware Monitor optional ATX Power Connector Floppy Connector Slot 1 ...

Page 12: ...X Power Connector USB PS 2 TOP USB 1 BOTTOM USB 2 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 1 TOP Mouse BOTTOM Keyboard PCI Slot 5 SECONDARY IDE PRIMARY IDE Panel Connectors Infrared Connector ISA Slot 1 ISA Slot 2 ASUS ASIC CHASSIS FLOPPY Slot 1 DIMM Socket 0 64 72 bit 168 pin module SMB Connector DIMM Socket 1 64 72 bit 168 pin module DIMM Socket 2 64 72 bit 168 pin module DIMM Socket 3 64 72 bit 168 pin m...

Page 13: ...tor 34 pins 6 USB p 28 UniversalSerialBUSPortConnectors1 2 Two4 pinfemale 7 Primary Secondary IDE p 28 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors Two 40 1 pins 8 IDELED p 28 IDE LED Activity Light 2 pins 9 CHA_ PWR_ CPU_FAN p 29 Chassis Power Supply CPU FanPowerLead 3 pins 10 WOL_CON p 29 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pins 11 IR p 30 Infrared Port Module Connector 5 pins 12 SBLINK p 30 SB Link Connector 6 1 pins ...

Page 14: ... WARNING Computer motherboards and expansion cards contain very delicate Integrated Circuit IC chips To protect them against damage from static electric ity you should follow some precautions whenever you work on your computer 1 Unplug your computer when working on the inside 2 Use a grounded wrist strap before handling computer components If you do not have one touch both of your hands to a safel...

Page 15: ...appropriateATX power supply Your computer will not func tion if you set this to Enable and if you do not have the rightATX power supply Disable Default KBWK Enable P2B F Keyboard Power Up R 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 AGP Frequency Selection AGPFS This option sets the frequency ratio between the AGP bus frequency and the CPU bus frequency The default sets the AGP bus frequency to be 2 3 of the CPU bus frequency...

Page 16: ...quals the CPU s Internal fre quency the advertised CPU speed 4 CPU Core BUS 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 Bus Frequency NOTE Overclocking your processor is not recommended It may result in a slower speed Voltage Regulator Output Selec...

Page 17: ... SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Socket 2 Rows 2 3 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Socket 3 Rows 4 5 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Socket 4 Rows 6 7 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Total System Memory Max 1024MB General DIMM Notes For the system CPU bus to operate at 100MHz use only PC100 compliant DIMMs When this motherboard operates at 100MHz most system will not even boot if non compliant modules are...

Page 18: ...ity Lock P2B F 168 Pin DIMM Memory Sockets 20 Pins 60 Pins 88 Pins R 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 and a...

Page 19: ...ecommended 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 processo...

Page 20: ... 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 Suppo...

Page 21: ...e SECC SECC2 SEPP in place by pushing the SECC SECC2 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 c...

Page 22: ...ink 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 TheASUS P2T Cable can only be used in a Slot 1 motherboard with a 2 pin thermal sensor connector To Use the ASUS P2...

Page 23: ... 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 with fan because both...

Page 24: ...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 require to use IRQs System IRQs are avail able to cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first then any remaining IRQs are available to PCI cards Currently there are two types of ISAcards The original ISA expansion c...

Page 25: ...he 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 select a DM...

Page 26: ...12 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 PS 2 Mouse 6 pin Female 2 PS 2 Keyboard Connector 6 pin female This connection is for a standard keyboard using an PS 2 plug mini DIN This connector will not allow standard AT size large DIN keyboard plugs You may use a DIN to mini DIN adapter on standa...

Page 27: ...le The two serial ports can be used for pointing devices or other serial devices See Onboard Serial Port in Chipset Features Setup of the BIOS SETUP COM 1 COM 2 Serial Ports 9 pin Male 5 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1pin FLOPPY This connector supports the provided floppy disk drive ribbon cable After con necting the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the floppy dri...

Page 28: ... Boot Sequence in the BIOS Features Setup of BIOS SETUP Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong 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 one operating system on an IDE drive and an other on a ...

Page 29: ...eep soft off mode This is to reduce both energy consumption and system noise WARNING The CPU and or motherboard will overheat if there is no airflow across the CPU and onboard heatsinks Damage may occur to the motherboard and or the CPU fan if these pins are incorrectly used These are not jumpers do not place jumper caps over these pins P2B F 12Volt Cooling Fan Power Power Supply Fan R Chassis Fan...

Page 30: ...u must connect the optional Infrared IrDA module to the motherboard R 5V GND IRTX NC IRRX 12 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 youwillhavecompatibilityissuesunderDOSenvironment SBLINK Serial IRQ PC PCI Request Sideband Signal PC PCI Grant Sideband Signal DGND 2 1 5 6 NOTE Pin 3 is removed to ensure co...

Page 31: ... 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 15 Chassis Intrusion Alarm Lead 4 1 pin CHASSIS This requires an external detection mechanism such as a chassis intrusion moni tor sensor or microswitch The sensor is triggered when ...

Page 32: ...ding figure connects to the case mounted suspend switch If you do not have a switch for the connector you may use the Turbo Switch since it does not have a function SMI is activated when it detects a short to open moment and therefore leaving it shorted will not cause any prob lems This may require one or two pushes depending on the position of the switch 21 ATX Power Switch Soft Off Switch 2 pin ...

Page 33: ...witch 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 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 settings and conne...

Page 34: ...een 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 either...

Page 35: ...rom 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 program ming is finished Flashed Suc cessfully 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 screen appears Type the filename of your ne...

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: ...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 Test POST Press Delete t...

Page 38: ...n 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 contr...

Page 39: ...e using SCSI controller cards refer to their respective documentations on how to configure and setup SCSI devices 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...

Page 40: ...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 fi...

Page 41: ...each function heading Details of BIOS Features Setup CPU Internal Core Speed Manual 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...

Page 42: ... Setup default setting for this field is Enabled A complete test of the system is done on each test HDD Sequence SCSI IDE First IDE When using both SCSI and IDE hard disk drives IDE is 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 ...

Page 43: ...formance as information access is faster than the ROM C8000 CBFFF to DC000 DFFFF Disabled These fields are used for shadowing other expansion card ROMs If you install other expansion cards with ROMs on them you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K by the amount used for this purpose Boot Up Nu...

Page 44: ...e 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 clocks after issuing a precharge command to SDRAM Leave on default setting DRAM Idle Timer This controls the idle clocks before closing an opened SDRAM page Leave on default setting SDRAM MA Wai...

Page 45: ...ally 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 chips they are considered 64 bits and the following will be disp...

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: ...cept 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 statem...

Page 48: ...ed 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 suspend mode activates 30 sec 1 Min 2 Min 4 ...

Page 49: ... peak hours Set to Enabled to set this feature IMPORTANT This feature requires the ASUS PCI L101 LAN Card and an ATX power 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 ...

Page 50: ... 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 displayed...

Page 51: ... the six available options the ISA MEM Block SIZE field will then appear for selecting the block size If you have more than one legacy ISA card in your system that requires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 36K or 64K If you are using an ICU to accomplish this task leave ISA MEM Block BASE to its default setting of No ICU SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS Auto The default ...

Page 52: ...en 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 Defa...

Page 53: ...tting 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 disabled Forgot...

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...

Page 56: ...s information on your motherboard 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...

Page 57: ...rivers for your onboard VGA and or audio to work properly NOTE This is not available if your motherboard does not have onboard VGA and audio Other allows you to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 3 01 for viewing the LDCM manual and or Trend PC Cillin a virus protection software DOS Utility Submenu ASUS DMI Configuration Utility gives information on using the DMI configuration utility This utility is lo...

Page 58: ...58 ASUS P2B F User s Manual This page was intentionally left blank V S W SETUP Contents V SOFTWARE SETUP ...

Page 59: ...creen appears allowing 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 t...

Page 60: ...re Status Analog view 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 Tem...

Page 61: ...s a problem the icon 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 Obtain information on your motherboard 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 ...

Page 62: ...eive 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 Manager Client M...

Page 63: ...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 64: ...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 65: ...e 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 Compu...

Page 66: ...his 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 otherwis...

Page 67: ... 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 tole...

Page 68: ...lows 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 ing and will prevent th...

Page 69: ...le 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 enter N to...

Page 70: ...ant 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 ...

Page 71: ...sing 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 s...

Page 72: ...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 73: ...ure 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 socket 370 processors is exactly like socket 7 processors...

Page 74: ...5 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 indicate...

Page 75: ... 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 76: ...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 77: ...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 compute...

Page 78: ...tem DOS is the foundation 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 Endian Endian is a byte order system used in data transfers In big endian architectures the ...

Page 79: ...try the display the keyboard the diskette drive and other I O devices PS 2 Port PS 2 ports are based on IBM Micro Channel Architecture This type of architecture transfers data through a 16 bit or 32 bit bus A PS 2 mouse and or keyboard may be used on ATX motherboards RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID can be set up to provide mirroring for fault tolerance parity for data guard ing or s...

Page 80: ...e and falling edge Hence the data transfer rate is double of the PIO mode 4 or DMA mode 2 16 6MB s x2 33MB s USB Universal Serial Bus A new 4 pin serial peripheral 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...

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