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ASUS P2V-B User’s Manual

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Install Chipset Patch and VGARTD Driver

Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive
or double-click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the setup screen.

1.

 

  Click here.

V. SOFTWARE SETUP

V

.  S/W SETUP

Windows 98

2.

 

  Click here.

3. Select the components you

want installed and then
click here.

*4. Select your preferences and

then click here.

*5. Select your preferences and

then click here.

*6. Select your preferences and

then click here.

7. Click here and then

click Finish to restart.

*These steps may or may not appear depend-
ing on the components you selected in step 3.

NOTE: The Chipset Patch is only for Win-
dows 95. The VGARTD driver is for AGP
display cards only. This driver is not neces-
sary for PCI cards in Windows 98, which in-
stalls its default driver. See section on P2V-B
Support CD for other information.

Summary of Contents for P2V-B

Page 1: ...R P2V B Pentium III II CeleronTM Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

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Page 4: ... Heatsinks 21 Installing the Processor 22 ASUS Smart Thermal Solutions 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 Connectors 28 Power Connection Procedures 37 Flash Memory Wri...

Page 5: ...ing 60 V SOFTWARE SETUP 63 Operating Systems 63 Windows 98 First Time Installation 63 P2V B Support CD 64 Installation Menu 64 LDCM Local Setup 65 LDCM Administrator Setup 67 ASUS PC Probe Setup 68 Adobe Acrobat Reader 69 Bus Master 70 Install Chipset patch and VGARTD Driver 71 Instal PC Cillin 72 Uninstalling Programs 73 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE 75 Intel LANDesk Client Manager 75 ASUS PC Probe 81 De...

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

Page 8: ...nd fan status through the optional onboard hardware monitoring ASIC and Intel LDCM or ASUS PC Probe AGPSlot Supports 1X or 2X mode AGP graphics cards for high performance component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications SMBus Features the System Management Bus interface which is used to physi cally transport commands and information between SMBus devices PCI ISA Expansion...

Page 9: ...ms and components are based on the following high level goals Support for Plug and Play compatibility and power management for configuring and man aging all system components and 32 bit device drivers and installation proce dures for Windows 95 98 NT Symbios SCSI BIOS Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards or other Symbios SCSI cards through the onboard SYMBIOS firmware Performance Features ...

Page 10: ...act as informa tion providers Through the way a particular LED illuminates the user 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 Sys...

Page 11: ...s 2 ISA Slots Programmable Flash EEPROM VIA PCIset Multi I O Keyboard Controller 3 DIMM Sockets VIA AGPset IDE Connectors CPU Slot 1 Serial Ports COM1 COM2 AGP Slot Wake On LAN Connector Wake On Ring Connector Hardware Monitor optional ATX Power AT Power USB MIR Parallel Port Floppy Connector Universal Retention Module ...

Page 12: ... 2 USB MIR CHASIS AT Keyboard ISA Slot 1 ISA Slot 2 PANEL IR COM 2 COM 1 IDELED PWR_FAN CHA_FAN CPU_FAN WOL_CON FREQ MULT BUS FREQ BF1 BF2 BF0 BF3 P8 P9 RT3 FS1 FS2 FS0 FS3 VIO SMB RT2 CLRTC SECONDARY IDE PRIMARY IDE CR2032 3V Lithium Cell CMOSPower 2Mbit Flash EEPROM Programable BIOS VIA VT82C596A PCIset Accelerated Graphics Port AGP CPU Slot 1 PCI Slot 1 PCI1 PCI Slot 2 PCI2 PCI Slot 3 PCI3 ASUS...

Page 13: ...PRIMARY SECONDARYIDEp 30 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors Two 40 1pins 6 IDELED p 30 IDEActivity LED Connector 2 pins 7 CHA_ CPU_ PWR_FAN p 31 Chassis CPU PowerSupplyFanConnectors Three3pins 8 WOL_CON p 31 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pins 9 MSG LED PANEL p 32 Message LED Lead 2 pins 10 SMI PANEL p 32 System Management Interrupt Lead 2 pins 11 PWR SW PANEL p 32 ATX Power Soft Power Switch Lead 2 pins 1...

Page 14: ...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 from the s...

Page 15: ...2 3 R P2V B 3 Voltage Regulator Output Selection VCORE This jumper sets the VCORE voltage supplied to the microprocessor P2V B CPU VCORE Voltage Selection Test 1 2 3 Normal Default 1 2 3 VCORE R P2V B III H W SETUP Jumpers 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 strongly r...

Page 16: ... FS2 FS3 R P2V B WARNING Frequencies above 100MHz exceed the specifications for the on board chipset and are not guaranteed to be stable WARNING PCI frequencies above 33MHz exceed the specifications for PCI cards and are not guaranteed to be stable Jumpers III H W SETUP 5 CPU to BUS Frequency Multiple BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 This option sets the frequency multiple between the Internal frequency of the CPU...

Page 17: ...tium III II 450MHz 4 5x 100MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 Pentium II Celeron 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 Pentium II 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 ...

Page 18: ...perates at 100MHz thus most systems will not even boot if non compliant modules are used because of the strict timing issues involved under this speed If your DIMMs are not PC100 compliant set the CPU bus frequency to 66MHz for system stability Two possible memory chips are supported SDRAM with and without ECC SDRAM chips are generally thinner with higher pin density than EDO Ex tended Data Output...

Page 19: ... Sockets 20 Pins 60 Pins 88 Pins Lock R P2V B 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 also to prevent the wron...

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Page 21: ...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 processor could overheat and damage both the processor and the motherboard You m...

Page 22: ...he SECC2 SEPP s back making sure that the bot tom of the clip plate sits against the processors s back Remove the tab from the thermal grease which is located on the bottom of the heatsink Unlocked Folding Support Arms Locked Folding Support Arms To unlock the support arms simply flip them up to an upright position Push each end of the clamps until they lock Lock Lock bottom The top clamp is wider...

Page 23: ...f you purchased an ASUS Smart Fan ASUSS P2FAN with an integrated thermalsensor cable ASUSP2T Cable orpurchasedseparatelytheP2T Cable youcanconnectthe thermal sensor cableto your motherboard s thermal sensor connector See next page for information on ASUS Smart Thermal Solutions 3 Insert the SECC SECC2 SEPP SECC with Pentium II only Push the SECC s two locks inward until you hear a click the pictur...

Page 24: ...ee 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 1 Simply peel off the tab from the sensor and then stick the sensor near the middle edge of the Intel boxed processor heatsink with fan middle or to either the upper or lower edge of the Celeron heatsink right as indicated To Use the ASUS P2T C...

Page 25: ... Processor The Elan Vital heatsink however comes with a lever to clamp the heatsink into the SEC cartridge Mount the heatsink in the orientation as shown then flip the lever from Unlock to Lock CPU III H W SETUP IMPORTANT ASUS guarantees accurate readings only for the ASUS Smart Fan and the Intel boxed processor heatsink with fan because both have similar heat distribution and heatsink material WA...

Page 26: ...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 27: ...thing 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 c...

Page 28: ... adapter in order to connect a PS 2 keyboard to this AT connector P2V B Keyboard Connector Keyboard Connector 5 pin female This motherboard accepts an AT Keyboard Connector Plug as shown here R P2V B 2 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1 pin FLOPPY This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable After connect ing the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the...

Page 29: ...nserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 26 plugged NOTE Serial printers must be connected to the serial port P2V B Parallel Port Connector Parallel Connector PS 2 Mouse Connector Orient the red stripe on the cable to PIN 1 PIN 1 USB MIR R P2V B 4 Serial Ports 10 1 pin COM1 COM2 These connectors support the provided serial port ribbon cables with mounting bracket Connect...

Page 30: ...on 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 P2V B Primary Secondary IDE Connectors NOTE Orient the red markings usual...

Page 31: ...ed fan with rotation signal WARNING These connectors have power Damage may occur to the mother board and or the CPU fan if these connectors are incorrectly used P2V B Fan Connectors Chassis Fan Power GND Rotation 12V Power Supply Fan CPU Fan Power GND Rotation 12V GND Rotation 12V R P2V B 8 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pin WOL_CON This connector connects to a LAN card with a Wake On LAN output such as ...

Page 32: ...Setup of BIOS SETUP section should be on the default setting of Enable 11 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch Lead 2 pin PWR SW The system power can be controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pushing the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Pushing the switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds will turn the system off The system power LED shows the statu...

Page 33: ... 5 Volt 4 Ground 3 USB Port 0 2 USB Port 0 1 USB 5 Volt P2V B USB PS 2 Mouse 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 R P2V B 17 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 5 pin IR This connector supports the optional wireless transmitting and receiving inf...

Page 34: ...Enabled seePowerManagementSetupunderBIOSSETUP andthatyour system has anATX power supply with at least 720mA 5Vstandby power P2V B Wake On Ring Connector WOR Pin 2 PIXRI Pin 1 Ground R P2V B 19 Chassis Intrusion Sensor Lead 4 1 pin CHASIS This lead is for a chassis intrusion monitor or sensor The sensor is triggered when a high level signal is sent to the chassis signal lead This occurs when a pane...

Page 35: ...s 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 to the same bus and each one can act as a master by initiating data transfer P2V B SMBus Connector 5V Ground SMBCLK SMBDATA R P2V B Connectors III H W SETUP ...

Page 36: ...lts 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 R P2V B 22 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: ...ed 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...

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: ... 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 en...

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: ...n anymore However if the configuration stored in the CMOS memory on the board gets lost or damaged or if you change your system hardware configuration you will need to respecify the configuration values The configuration values usually get lost or corrupted when the power of the onboard CMOS battery weakens The preceding screen provides you with a list of options At the bottom of this screen are t...

Page 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: ...NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Details of BIOS Features Setup 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 table With this new solution your computer i...

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: ...ule 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 Precharge Time This controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to SDRAM Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay This controls the latency between SDRAM active command and the read write command Leave on def...

Page 49: ...eo memory of the processor It can greatly improve the display speed by caching the display data You must leave this on the default setting of UC uncacheable if your display card cannot support this feature or else your system may not boot Memory Hole At 15M 16M Disabled Enabling this feature reserves 15MB to 16MB memory address space to ISA expan sion cards that specifically require this setting T...

Page 50: ...idi rectional parallel port operation at maximum speed ECP allows the parallel port to operate in bidirectional mode and at a speed faster than the maximum 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 Disa...

Page 51: ... to set power saving options according to your preference IMPORTANT Advanced Power Management APM should be installed to keep the system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode activated by the BIOS Power Management For DOS environments you need to add the statement DEVICE C DOS POWER EXE in you CONFIG SYS ForWindows 3 x andWin dows 95 you need to install Windows with the APM feature A ...

Page 52: ...ssed from the keyboard or when there is activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels HDD Power Down Disable Shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of inactivity This time period is user configurable to 1 15 Min or Disable This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives Suspend Mode Disable Sets the period of time after which the susppend mode activates 30 sec 1 Min 2 Min...

Page 53: ...during off peak hours Enabled sets this 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 a...

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: ...r for selecting the block size If you have 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 BIOS to detect whether you have a Symbios SCSI card if detected the ...

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: ...ng 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 th...

Page 58: ...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 59: ...f 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 BIO...

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: ...ASUS P2V B User s Manual 61 R SUPPORT CD ...

Page 62: ...US PC Probe Setup 68 Adobe Acrobat Reader 69 Bus Master 70 Install Chipset Patch and VGARTD Driver 71 Instal PC Cillin 72 Uninstalling Programs 73 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE 75 Intel LANDesk Client Manager 75 ASUS PC Probe 81 Desktop Management Interface DMI 84 VII APPENDIX 87 ASUS CIDB Chassis Intrusion Sensor Module 87 ASUS S370 CPU Card 89 ASUS PCI L101 Fast Ethernet Card 91 Glossary 93 V S W SETUP ...

Page 63: ...nboard audio and video chips and may attempt to in stall a driver from its system registry When prompted to restart select No and then follow the normal setup procedures later in this section IMPORTANT Selecting No for the initial restart prompt is a necessary step be causeWindows may load an older display driver that is incompatible with the onboard VGA chip Always use the driver available on the...

Page 64: ...older created on your system during setup Adobe Acrobat Reader Installs the Adobe Acrobat Reader software necessary to view user s manuals saved in PDF format such as that of the ASUS PC Probe Updated or other language versions of this motherboard s manual is available in PDF format at any of our web sites Bus Master Installs the BusMaster PCI IDE driver for improved performance Sup ported only un...

Page 65: ...ive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the setup screen NOTE LDCM will not run if ASUS PC Probe utility is installed To uninstall PC Probe see section on Uninstalling Programs 6 Select the components you want to install and then click here 4 Clickhere 3 Clickhere 1 Clickhere 2 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP 5 Clickhere ...

Page 66: ...ASUS P2V B User s Manual 66 V S W SETUP Windows 98 11 Click here and then click Finish to restart 10 Click here 9 Clickhere 8 Clickhere 7 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP ...

Page 67: ...our CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the setup screen NOTE LDCM will not run if ASUS PC Probe utility is installed To uninstall PC Probe see section on Uninstalling Programs 3 Clickhere 5 Clickhere 4 Clickhere 6 Click here and then click Finish to restart 1 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP 2 Clickhere ...

Page 68: ...drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the setup screen NOTE ASUS PC Probe will not run if Intel s LDCM utility is installed To uninstall Intel s LDCM utility see section on Uninstalling Programs 2 Clickhere 3 Clickhere 4 Make any desired setting changes and then click here 5 Clickhere 1 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP ...

Page 69: ...ard into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the setup screen 3 Clickhere 4 Clickhere 1 Clickhere 5 Clickhere 2 Clickhere V S W SETUP Windows 98 6 Select this to display Adobe Reader information otherwise click Finish to complete Setup 7 Click OK to start using Adobe Reader ...

Page 70: ... or disable DMA mode for your IDE devices by going through steps 1 to 2 and then the following steps and finally step 4 DMA is capable of very fast transfer rates using Bus Mastering Bus Master DMA uses less CPU resources than other transfer modes and therefore it is useful in multitasking environments where the CPU can work on a different program while data is transferred to or from IDE devices s...

Page 71: ...and then click here 4 Select your preferences and then click here 5 Select your preferences and then click here 6 Select your preferences and then click here 7 Click here and then click Finish to restart These steps may or may not appear depend ing on the components you selected in step 3 NOTE The Chipset Patch is only for Win dows 95 The VGARTD driver is for AGP display cards only This driver is ...

Page 72: ...omputer to bring up the setup screen 1 Clickhere 2 Clickhere V SOFTWARE SETUP V S W SETUP Windows 98 5 Click Express Install and then click here 6 Insert a floppy disk and then click here 3 Enter the necessary information and then click here 4 Clickhere 7 Once the Emergency Clean Disk is created click here Follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation ...

Page 73: ...ams Add Remove Programs is a basic component within Windows You may use this function if a program does not provide its own uninstallation program 1 Double click here to open the Add Remove Programs Properties dialog box 3 Clickhere 2 Select the program you wish to remove and click here ...

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Page 75: ... your computer 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 runn...

Page 76: ...Opens the Configure Notifications dialog box Opens the Configure Global Notifications dialog box Opens the File Transfer dialog box Reboots the computer Opens the DMI Explorer Opens the Set Access Rights dialog box File Select Computer File Export to clipboard View Notification Log View Global Notification Log View Remote Access Log Tools Configure Notifications Tools Configure Global Tools Transf...

Page 77: ...uters 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 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE ...

Page 78: ...list 1 In the Select Computer dialog box click the computer name you want to re move 2 Click the Remove Computer button on the toolbar or press Delete 3 At the prompt click the Yes button TIP Perform this task each time you remove a computer from the network since the name of that computer is not automatically removed from this list To wake up a computer 1 In the Select Computer dialog box click t...

Page 79: ...port 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 ot...

Page 80: ...thout 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 tolerance level For exampl...

Page 81: ...plash screen 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 that ASUS PC Probe is running Left clicking the icon will all...

Page 82: ...w of PC s temperature Digital view of PC s temperature warning threshold Temperature Warning threshold adjustment Analog view of PC s voltages Digital view of PC s voltages Upper warning threshold adjustment Lower warning threshold adjustment Digital view of PC s voltage warning thresholds PC Voltage Status PC s Fan Rotations per minute PC s Temperature C F PC s Voltages PC Status Summary VI S W R...

Page 83: ...e PC speaker beeps and the ASUS PC Probe monitor is displayed Using the ASUS PC Probe PC Probe Task Bar Icon PC Probe System Info Get information on your mainboard and BIOS from this screen Change PC Probe refresh times here Click the items you wish to reset to its default values and click this button Click here to start PC Probe each time you enter Windows PC Probe Settings VI S W REFERENCE ASUS ...

Page 84: ...d user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers housing configurations and ven dor information Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIFD This DMI Configuration Utility provides the same reliability as PnP updat ing and will prevent the refreshing failures associated...

Page 85: ...n 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 86: ...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 87: ...ing 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 se...

Page 88: ...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 89: ...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 90: ...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 91: ... 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 92: ...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 93: ...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 94: ...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 95: ...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 96: ...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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