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P2E-M

Pentium

II Motherboard

USER’S MANUAL

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Page 1: ...R P2E M Pentium II Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...ring 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 a registered trademark of Symbio...

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Page 4: ...cessor 19 AAVID Heatsink 23 Elan Vital Heatsink 23 4 Expansion Cards 25 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 25 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 25 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 26 ISA Cards and Hardware Monitor 26 Accelerated Graphics Port 26 5 External Connectors 27 Power Connection Procedures 35 Support Software 36 Flash Memory Writer Utility 36 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 36 Main Menu 36 Managi...

Page 5: ...and User Password 55 IDE HDD Auto Detection 56 Save Exit Setup 57 Exit Without Saving 57 V SUPPORT SOFTWARE 58 ASUS Smart Motherboard Support CD 58 Desktop Management Interface DMI 59 Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 59 System Requirements 59 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 60 VI ASUS LAN Card 61 ASUS PCI L101 Fast Ethernet Card 61 Features 62 Software Driver Support 62 Ques...

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 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 on ...

Page 7: ... or missing items please contact your retailer 1 ASUS Motherboard 1 Retention mechanism heatsink support for CPU 2 Attach mount bridges 1 IDE ribbon cable for master and slave drives 1 Floppy ribbon cable for 1 5 25inch floppy and 2 3 5inch floppies 1 bag of spare jumpers 1 floppy disk or CD disc with support drivers and utilities Flash Memory Writer utility to update the onboard programmable BIOS...

Page 8: ... from COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections Desktop Management Interface DMI Supports DMI through BIOS which allows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of compatibility Requires DMI enabled components See section V Ultra DMA 33 BM IDE Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE control ler with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two ...

Page 9: ...OS Direct Power Management OSPM functionality With these features implemented in the OS PCs can be ready around the clock yet satisfy all the energy saving standards To fully utilize the benefits of ACPI an ACPI supported OS such as in the next release of Windows 95 must be used PC 97 Compliant Both the BIOS and hardware levels of ASUS smart series of motherboards meet PC 97 compliancy The new PC ...

Page 10: ...n in sleep mode This function reduces both energy consumption and system noise and is a important feature to implement silent PC systems Dual Function Power Button The system can be in one of two states one is Sleep mode and the other 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 e...

Page 11: ...ash ROM T PS 2 Mouse B PS 2 Keyboard Floppy Connector 2 PCI Slots Hardware Monitor ATX Power Connector B COM 1 Thermal Sensor T Top Port Jack B Bottom Port Jack T USB 1 B USB 2 T Parallel Printer B COM 2 T Joystick Midi B Out In Mic Audio Chipset optional AGP Port 2 ISA Slots 2 DIMM Sockets Wake on LAN Connector Intel PIIX4 PCIset IDE Connectors Multi I O Chip ...

Page 12: ...N DIMM Socket 2 64 bit 168 pin module 1 0 Intel PIIX4 PCIset CR2032 3V Lithium Cell BIOS Power Secondary IDE Primary IDE Floppy Drives CHA_FAN Accelerated Graphics Port PCI Slot 1 PCI Slot 2 ISA Slot 1 ISA Slot 2 ATX Power Connector Panel Connectors IR VPANEL Frequency Ratio SMB ASUS AS97127F Multi i O Chip Audio Chipset CD2 CD1 AUX BUS Frequency RT3 PARALLEL PORT Wake on LAN SPDIFO KBPWR IDELED R...

Page 13: ...9 Joystick Midi Connector 15 pin Female optional 8 USB p 29 Universal Serial BUS Ports 1 2 Two 4 pin Female 9 PRIMARY SECONDARYIDE p 30 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors Two 40 1pins 10 IDELED p 30 IDE LEDActivity Light 2 pins 11 CHA_ CPU_ PWR_FAN p 31 Chassis CPU PowerSupplyFanConnectors Three3 pin 12 WOL_CON p 31 Wake on LAN Connector 3 pins 13 IR p 32 IrDA FastIR CompliantInfraredModuleConnector...

Page 14: ...to connect pins 2 3 Jumpers with two pins will be shown as for Short On and for Open Off For manufacturing simplicity the jump ers may be sharing pins from other groups Use the diagrams in this manual instead of following the pin layout on the board Settings with two jumper numbers require that both jumpers be moved together To connect the pins simply place a plastic jumper cap over the two pins a...

Page 15: ... Power Up KBPWR This allows you to disable or enable the keyboard power up function Set this jumper to Enable if you wish to use your keyboard by pressing the spacebar to power up your computer This feature requires an ATX power supply that can supply at least 300mAmp on the 5VSB lead The default is set to Disable because not all computers have the appropriate ATX power supply Your com puter will ...

Page 16: ...3MHz 3 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 NOTE Voltage Regulator Output Selection VID is not needed for the Pentium II processor because it sends a VID signal directly to the onboard power controller 3 CPU External BUS Frequency Selection FS0 FS1 FS2 These jumpers tell the clock generator what frequency to send to the CPU These allowtheselectionoftheCPU sExternalfrequency orBUSClock TheBUSClock ...

Page 17: ...les must have 18 chips or less Memory modules with more that 18 chips will cause unstable operation General DIMM Notes not true for all memory modules Four possible memory chips are available EDO or SDRAM with and without ECC SDRAM chips are generally thinner with higher pin density than EDO chips BIOS shows EDO or SDRAM memory on bootup screen 8 chip side modules do not support ECC only 9 chip si...

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

Page 19: ...nded that you install an auxiliary fan You should check to see that you have the following 9 items NOTE The pictures in the following pages will have the same item numbers next to them for your refer ence The design and color of your items may be slightly different Attach Mount Bridges Items 1 2 1 2 Pentium II Retention Mechanism Item 3 Lock Holes Captive Nut 3 Pentium II Processor Heatsink Item 8...

Page 20: ...ay TIP Orient the mechanism s lock holes toward the motherboard s chipsets see motherboard layout for the location of the Intel chipset Be sure to align the notch in the mechanism with the small rib on one side of the slot and that the mechanism is properly seated on the board Then screw the captive nuts in place WARNING Do not overtighten the captive nuts Doing so could damage your motherboard Ti...

Page 21: ...howing through between the thermal pad of the heatsink and the SEC cartridge WARNING If the heatsink is not mounted tightly against the SEC cartridge the CPU will overheat You may install an auxiliary fan to provide adequate circulation across the processor s passive heatsink SEC Cartridge with Heatsink Side View SEC Cartridge with Heatsink Top View Push each end of the clamps until they lock The ...

Page 22: ...a heatsink with fan see next page The support base is necessary to secure the heatsink without fan Secure the heatsink by sliding the heatsink support top bar into the bottom groove of the heatsink until it locks into the heatsink support base posts 3 3 8 Heatsink support base 7 6 Attach the Thermal Sensor Connector optional If you purchased the spe cially designed fan and thermal monitor heatsink...

Page 23: ... for the heatsink without a fan You will not however be able to use the heatsink support top bar because of the fan The heatsink support top bar will however still be included in the package in case you use a heatsink without a fan Elan Vital Heatsink The procedures for installing the Elan Vital heatsink with fan is also similar as that for the heatsink without a fan The Elan Vital heatsink howeve...

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Page 25: ... in use by parts of the system which leaves 6 free for expansion cards Both ISA and PCI expansion cards may need to use IRQs System IRQs are avail able to cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first and any remaining IRQs are then used by PCI cards Currently there are two types of ISA cards The original ISA expansion card design now referred to as Legacy ISA cards requires that you configure th...

Page 26: ...you need to set the INT interrupt assignment Since all the PCI slots on this motherboard use an INTA set the jumpers on your PCI cards 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 27: ...board Connector 6 pin Female This connection is for a standard keyboard using an PS 2 plug mini DIN This connector will not allow standardAT size large DIN keyboard plugs You may use a DIN to mini DIN adapter on standard AT keyboards PS 2 Keyboard 6 pin Female 2 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin Female The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not de tected expansion cards can ...

Page 28: ...be used for pointing devices or other serial devices See Onboard Serial Port in Chipset Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE COM 1 COM 2 Serial Ports 9 pin Male 5 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1pin FLOPPY This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable After connect ing the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the floppy drives Pin 5 is removed to preven...

Page 29: ...r played through the Line Out Mic allows microphones to be connected for inputing voice Mic Line In Line Out 1 8 Stereo Audio Connectors 7 Joystick Midi Connector 15 pin Female with optional onboard audio You may connect game joysticks or game pads to this connector for playing games Connect Midi devices for playing or editing audio Joystick Midi 15 pin Female 8 Universal Serial BUS Ports 1 2 Two ...

Page 30: ...vent 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 another on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS Features Setup P2E M IDE Connect...

Page 31: ... 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 P2E M 12 Volt Cooling Fan Power Chassis Fan Power GND Rotation 12V GND Rotation 12V Power Supply Fan CPU Fan Power R 12 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pin WOL_CON These connector connects to LAN cards with...

Page 32: ...iew 5V IRTX IRRX NC GND Back View R 5V IRRX IRTX NC GND 14 ATX Power Supply Connector 20 pin block ATXPWR This connector connects to aATX power supply The plug from the power supply will only insert in one orientation because of the different hole sizes Find the proper orientation and push down firmly making sure that the pins are aligned IMPORTANT Make sure that your ATX power supply can supply a...

Page 33: ...io In Connector 4 pin CD2 with optional onboard audio This connector allows you to receive stereo audio input from an internal CD ROM drive R Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel Ground Ground P2E M Stereo Audio In Connector 17 Digital Audio Interface 6 pin SPDIFO This connector is the digital link between the motherboard and your devices such as CD player sampler or DAT recorder It allows the d...

Page 34: ...pend Switch in the Power Management Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE section should be on the default setting of Enable 20 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch PWR 2 pins The system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pushing the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Push ing the switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds will turn the system off The...

Page 35: ... LED may light up after the system s if it complies with green stan dards or if it has a power standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running additional messages will appear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power the system may have failed a power on test Recheck your jumper set tings and connections or ca...

Page 36: ...rovided as examples only and may not reflect the screen contents displayed on your system Flash Memory Writer Utility 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...

Page 37: ...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 38: ...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 enc...

Page 39: ... 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 to call up the Setup utility If you are a little bit late p...

Page 40: ...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 the...

Page 41: ...ion VI for instructions If you install other vendor s SCSI controller card refer to their respective documentations on how to install the required 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 U...

Page 42: ...ble with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A Drive B None These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system The available options for drives A and B are 360KB 5 25 in 1 2MB 5 25 in 720KB 3 5 in 1 44MB 3 5 in 2 88MB 3 5 in None To enter the configuration value for a particular drive highlight its corresponding field and...

Page 43: ... in parenthesis 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 protect...

Page 44: ...ives 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 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...

Page 45: ...Memory 64M Disabled When using OS 2 operating systems with installed DRAM of greater than 64MB you need to set this option to Enabled otherwise leave this on Disabled Video ROM BIOS Shadow Enabled This field allows you to change the video BIOS location from ROM to RAM Relo cating to RAM enhances system performance as information access is faster than the ROM C8000 CBFFF to DC000 DFFFF Disabled The...

Page 46: ...DRAM modules you must change this item to 70ns DRAM See section III for DRAM installation information SDRAM Configuration 12ns SDRAM If your DIMM modules are all 10ns SDRAM you may set this to 10ns SDRAM SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay Auto Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS Precharge Time Auto Leave on default setting MA Wait State Auto Leave on default setting SDRAM Banks Close Policy Arbitration Leave o...

Page 47: ...connect your floppy disk drives to the onboard floppy disk drive connector instead of a separate controller card If you want to use a different controller card to connect the floppy disk drives set this field to Disabled Onboard FDC Swap A B No Swap This field allows you to reverse the hardware drive letter assignments of your floppy disk drives Two options are available No Swap and Swap AB If you...

Page 48: ...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 serial port connector See IrDA compliant infrared module connector under section III Onboard PCI IDE Enable Both You can select to enable the primary ID...

Page 49: ...his 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 statement DEVICE ...

Page 50: ...e 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 1 Min 2 Min 4 Min 8 Min 10 Min 20 Min 30 Min 1 Hour ...

Page 51: ...utomatic 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 selecting By Date Fan Monitor xxxxRPM The onboard hardware monitor is able to detect the Chassis Fan Speed CPU Fan Speed and the Power Supply Fan Speed in Rotations Per Minute RPM The Power Supply Fan Spee...

Page 52: ...IRQ 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 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 53: ... within the C800H and DFFFH address range If you have such a card and you are not using an ICU to specify its address range select a base address from the six available options the ISA MEM Block SIZE field will then appear for selecting the block size If you have more than one legacy ISA card in your system that requires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 36...

Page 54: ...een 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 This Load Setup Defaults option allows you to load the default values to the sys tem configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration set tings for the system To load these default values highlight Load Setup De...

Page 55: ... is case sensitive and can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters long type in your password and then press Enter The system confirms your password by asking you to type it again After setting a password the screen automatically re verts to the main screen To implement password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prompt for the passwor...

Page 56: ...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 controller ...

Page 57: ...r 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 Sa...

Page 58: ...same bridge address with the Local software installed The administrator should install both Local and Administrator Software Adobe Acrobat Reader Installs the Adobe Acrobat Reader software neces sary to view the LDCM manual in the LDCM directory BusMaster Installs the Intel BusMaster IDE drivers Patch for PIIX4 chipset Installs the necessary drivers for PCI card and PCI bridge for Windows 95 95a O...

Page 59: ...IOS image file and requiring the user to update the whole BIOS This DMI Con figuration 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 ...

Page 60: ...s made changes ESC will prompt you to answer Y or N Enter Y to go back to the left hand screen and save enter N to go back to left hand screen and not save If editing has not been made ESC will send you back to the left hand menu without any messages Options You can save the MIFD normally only saved to flash ROM to a file by entering the drive and path here If you want to cancel save you may press...

Page 61: ...ing theASUS PCI L101 on anASUS 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 di...

Page 62: ... Novell Netware 3 x 4 x DOS OS 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 rem...

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