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ASUS P2Z-VM User’s Manual

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

Manual / Checklist

How this Manual is Organized

This manual is divided into the following sections:

Introduction

Manual information and checklist

II.

Features

Information and specifications concerning this product

III. Hardware Setup

Instructions on setting up the motherboard and jumpers

IV.

BIOS Setup

Instructions on setting up the BIOS software

Software Setup

Instructions on setting up the included support software

VI.

Software Reference Reference 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 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

(1) COM2 connector with bracket

(1) Bag of spare jumper caps

(1) Support CD with drivers and utilities

(1) This Motherboard User’s Manual

ASUS IrDA-compliant infrared module (optional)

ASUS S370 CPU card (optional)

ASUS PCI-L101 Wake-On-LAN 10/100 Ethernet Card (optional)

Summary of Contents for P2Z-VM

Page 1: ...R P2Z VM Pentium III II CeleronTM Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...g Products 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...

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Page 4: ...sm 21 Heatsinks 21 Installing the Processor 22 Recommended Heatsinks for Slot 1 Processors 24 4 Expansion Cards 25 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 25 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 25 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 26 Accelerated Graphics Port 26 5 External Connectors 27 Power Connection Procedures 37 IV BIOS SETUP 38 Flash Memory Writer Utility 38 Main Menu 38 Managing and Updatin...

Page 5: ... Exit Without Saving 60 V SOFTWARE SETUP 63 Windows 98 First Time Installation 63 P2Z VM Support CD Autorun Screen 64 Installing the Video Driver and Utility 65 Installing Audio Utilites 69 Installing the Software Wavetable 70 Installing PCCillin 71 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE 73 ATI Player 73 Task Control Panel 73 Audio CD Player 74 MPEG Player 75 TV Tuner 76 Teletext 76 Capture 77 AudioRack32 79 VII A...

Page 6: ...lar installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on...

Page 7: ...Software Reference Reference 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 SECC SECC2 SEPP 1 Ribbon cable for master and slave IDE drives 1 Ribbon cable for 1 5 25 and 2 ...

Page 8: ...nt level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display appli cations using a 1X or 2X mode bus This slot is available as an option with Rage IIC only PCI Audio optional Features ESS Solo 1 32 bit PCI audio onboard SB Link Features Creative s SB Link allowing SB16 compatibility us ing Intel s PC PCI DMA and serialized IRQ protocols to AWE64D or compat ible PCI audio cards SMBus Features the System ...

Page 9: ...ity 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 through onboard SYMBIOS firmware Performance Features Concurrent PCI Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas ter busses to the memory and processor Double the IDE Tra...

Page 10: ...disabled to allow the computer to be powered up using your keyboard Message LED requiresACPI OS support Turbo LEDs now 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 a...

Page 11: ...roller 2 DIMM Sockets Intel 440ZX AGPset ATI Multimedia Connector Slot 1 AGP Port optional ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP ATX Power 4MB VGA Memory Rage IIC 8MB VGA Memory Rage Pro T USB1 B USB2 T PS 2 Mouse B PS 2 Keyboard T Parallel B Serial VGA Serial COM1 VGA Connector T Joystick Midi B Out In Mic optional ESS Solo 1 3D PCI Audio optional SB Link Connector Serial COM2 Header ...

Page 12: ... LINK DIMM Socket 2 64 72 bit 168 pin module PCI Slot 2 PCI2 PCI Slot 3 PCI3 CR2032 3V Lithium Cell CMOSPower 2Mbit Flash EEPROM Programable BIOS CPU_FAN PWR_FAN PS_FAN KB_WAK AUDIO_EN VGAEN WOL_CON FS3 CD_IN MODEM_IN COM2 2 MB SDRAM 2 MB SDRAM 2 MB SDRAM 2 MB SDRAM IR Multi I O Keyboard Controller FS4 32 bit PCI Audio Chipset GAME AUDIO optional Mic In Line Out Line In COM1 VGA PARALLEL PORT 0 1 ...

Page 13: ...1 8 female optional 7 GAME_AUDIO p 29 Joystick Midi Connector 15 pin female optional 8 USB p 29 Universal Serial BUS Ports 1 2 Two 4 pin female 9 PRIMARY SECONDARYIDEp 30 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors Two 40 1pins 10 FLOPPY p 30 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1pins 11 IR p 31 IrDA Compliant Infrared Module Connector 5 pins 12 WOL_CON p 31 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pins 13 CHA_ CPU_ PWR_FAN p 32 C...

Page 14: ...ork 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 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...

Page 15: ...he spacebar depending on your motherboard to power up your computer This feature requires an ATX power supply that can supply at least 300mA on the 5VSB lead The default is set to Disable because not all computers have the appropriateATX power supply Your computer will not power ON if you set this to Enable and do not have the appropriate ATX power supply WARNING This jumper setting must coincide ...

Page 16: ...ection of the CPU s External frequency or BUS Clock The BUS Clock multiplied by the BUS Ratio equals the CPU s Internal frequency the advertised CPU speed P2Z VM CPU External Clock Bus Frequency Selection R P2Z VM FS1 FS2 FS0 FS3 FS4 75 0MHz 37 5MHz 83 0MHz 41 6MHz 100 3MHz 33 4MHz 103MHz 34 3MHz 66 8MHz 33 4MHz CPU PCI 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 CPU PCI FS1 FS2 FS0 FS3 FS4 124 0MHz 31 0MHz 133...

Page 17: ...eron 466MHz 7 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 Pentium II Celeron 433MHz 6 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 Celeron 400MHz 6 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 Pentium II Celeron 366MHz 5 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 Pentium II Celeron 333MHz 5 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 Pentium II Celeron 300MHz 4 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2...

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Page 19: ...64 128 256MB x1 Socket 2 Rows 2 3 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Total System Memory Max 512MB 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 used because of the strict timing issues involved under this speed If your DIMMs are not PC100 compliant set th...

Page 20: ...nsity P2Z VM 168 Pin DIMM Sockets 20 Pins 60 Pins 88 Pins Lock R P2Z VM 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 an...

Page 21: ...tion 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 ...

Page 22: ...sink clip through the holes at theSECC2 SEPP sback makingsurethatthe bottom of the clip plate sits against the processors s back Remove the tab from the thermal grease which is located on the bot tom of the heatsink and place the heatsink over the processor A slight rocking motion may be necessary to place the heatsink on the SECC2 SEPP with one pair of the heatsink clip legs going first through t...

Page 23: ...ly The SECC locks should be outward when se cured so that the lock shows through the retention mechanism s lock holes 3 Insert the SECC SECC2 SEPP SECC with Pentium II only Push the SECC s two locks inward until you hear a click the picture in step 2 shows the locks in the outward position and inward in the picture below With the heatsink facing the motherboard s chipset push the SECC SECC2 or SEP...

Page 24: ...ith Fan dissipate heat more efficiently and with an optional hardware monitor they can monitor the fan s RPM and use the alert function with the Intel LANDesk Client Manager LDCM and the ASUS PC Probe software Elan Vital Heatsink with Fan To install simply follow the procedures for Installing the Processor The Elan Vi tal heatsink however comes with a lever to clamp the heatsink into the SEC car t...

Page 25: ...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 the use IRQs System IRQs are available to cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first then any remaining IRQs are available to PCI cards Currently there are two types of ISA cards The original ISA expansion ...

Page 26: ... 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 DMA chan...

Page 27: ...or 6 pin PS2KBMS The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not de tected expansion cards can use IRQ12 See PS 2 Mouse Control in BIOS Features Setup of BIOS SETUP PS 2 Mouse 6 pin Female 2 PS 2 Keyboard Connector 6 pin PS2KBMS This connection is for a standard keyboard using a PS 2 plug mini DIN This connector will not allow standardAT size large DIN keyboard plugs You m...

Page 28: ... 25 pin Female 4 Serial Port COM1 Connector 9 pin COM1 One serial port is ready for a mouse or other serial devices A second serial port is available using a serial port bracket connected from the motherboard to an expansion slot opening See Onboard Serial Port in Chipset Features Setup of BIOS SETUP for settings Serial Port 9 pin Male COM 1 5 Monitor VGA Output Connector 15 pin VGA This connector...

Page 29: ... or 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 MIDIConnector 15 pinGAME_AUDIO withoptionalonboardaudio 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: ...IP You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector You may install one operating system on an IDE drive and an other on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS Features Setup P2Z VM IDE Connectors NOTE Orient the red markings usually zigzag on the IDE ribbon cable to PIN 1 Pri...

Page 31: ...therboard according to the pin definitions P2Z VM Infrared Module Connector Front View 5V IRTX IRRX NC GND Back View 5V IRRX IRTX NC GND R P2Z VM 12 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pin WOL_CON These connector connects to LAN cards with a Wake On LAN output such as the ASUS PCI L101 See APPENDIX The connector powers up the system when a wakeup packet or signal is received through the LAN card IMPORTANT Thi...

Page 32: ...igned fan with rotation signal 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 P2Z VM 12 Volt Cooling Fan Power Chassis Fan Power Power Supply Fan GND Rotation 12V GND Rotation 12V CPU F...

Page 33: ...MODEM_IN connector allows mono input and output for a voice modem mi crophone and speaker interface P2Z VM Internal Audio Connectors R P2Z VM Input Output Ground Ground MODEM_IN CD_IN Right Audio Channel Left Audio Channel Ground Ground 16 Serial Port COM 2 Header 10 1 pin COM2 The optional serial port bracket can be used to add an additional serial port for additional serial devices P2Z VM Serial...

Page 34: ...wake up the system If you want to use this connector Suspend Switch in Power Management Setup of BIOS SETUP section should be on the default setting of Enable 20 System Warning Speaker Connector 4 pin SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker 21 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch 2 pin PWR The system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pushing t...

Page 35: ...ation 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 yourATX power supply can supply at least 10mA on the 5 volt standby lead 5VSB You may experience difficulty in powering on your system if your power supply cannot support the load For Wake On LAN support your ATX power supply must supply at least...

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Page 37: ...The LED on the monitor may light up or switch between orange and green after the system s if it complies with green standards or if it has a power standby fea ture The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running addi tional messages will appear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power the system may have failed a power on te...

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: ...W or FTP or a BBS Bulletin Board Service seeASUS CONTACT INFORMATION on page 3 for details and save to the disk you created earlier 2 Boot from the disk you created earlier 3 At the A prompt type AFLASH and then press Enter 4 At the Main Menu type 2 and then press Enter See 2 Update BIOS In cluding Boot Block and ESCD on the previous page for more details and the rest of the steps WARNING If you e...

Page 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: ...a can be read from and write on Primary IDE hard disk drives must have its partition set to active also possible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A This field sets the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system The available options for drives A are 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in None Floppy 3 Mode ...

Page 45: ...next to each function heading Details of BIOS Features Setup CPU Internal Core Speed This function is reserved for future use and is currently disabled Boot Virus Detection Enabled This field allows you to set boot virus detection ensuring a virus free boot sector This new antivirus solution is unlike native BIOS tools which offer limited virus protection typically by write protecting the partitio...

Page 46: ... 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 Options...

Page 47: ...u install other expansion cards with ROMs on them you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K by the amount used for this purpose Boot Up NumLock Status On This field enables users to activate the Number Lock function upon system boot Typematic Rate Setting Disabled When enabled you can set the t...

Page 48: ...odule such as memory type size speed voltage interface and module banks SDRAM CAS Latency This controls the latency between SDRAM read command and the time that the data actually becomes available Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay This controls the latency between SDRAM active command and the read write com mand Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS Precharge Time This controls the idle...

Page 49: ...s 15MB to 16MB memory address space to ISA expan sion cards that specifically require this setting This makes the memory from 15MB and up unavailable to the system Expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB The default is Disabled Onboard FDC Controller Enabled When Enabled this field allows you to connect your floppy disk drives to the onboard floppy disk drive connector instead of a separ...

Page 50: ...econd 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 in HARD WARE SETUP Onboard PCI IDE Enable Both You can select to enable the primary IDE channel secondary IDE...

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

Page 53: ...d En abled boots up your system after reapplying power Power Up By Keyboard Disabled This allows the computer to be powered on by pressing any key on the keyboard Set of Enabled to set this feature WARNING This setting must coincide with the key board power up jumper setting or else conflicts will occur Wake On LAN Disabled This allows you to remotely power up your system through your network by s...

Page 54: ...nedforeachPCIslot ThedefaultsettingforSlot 1 IRQ and Slot 3 IRQ isAuto whichusesauto routingtodetermineIRQuse Theother options are manual settings of NA 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 or 15 for each slot The default setting for Slot 2 Audio IRQ is 5 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 ...

Page 55: ...ld will then appear 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 car...

Page 56: ...creen Press Y and then Enter to confirm Press N and then Enter to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen Load Setup Defaults The Load Setup Defaults option allows you to load the default values to the sys tem configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration set tings for the system To load these default values highlight Load Setup D...

Page 57: ...again After setting a password the screen automatically re verts to the main screen To implement password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prompt for the password If you want to disable either password press Enter instead of entering a new password when the Enter Password prompt appears A message confirms the password has been d...

Page 58: ...e En hanced IDE support for four devices you can only install two IDE hard disk drives Your IDE controller must support the Enhanced IDE features in order to use Drive E and Drive F The onboard PCI IDE controller supports Enhanced IDE with two connectors for connecting up to four IDE devices If you want to use another con troller that supports four drives you must disable the onboard IDE controlle...

Page 59: ...if you do not need the data stored on the hard disk If the parameters listed differ from the ones used when the disk was formatted the disk will not be readable If the auto detected parameters do not match the ones that should be used for your disk do not accept them Press N to reject the presented settings and enter the correct ones manually from the Standard CMOS Setup screen IV BIOS SETUP IV BI...

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

Page 61: ...ASUS P2Z VM User s Manual 61 R SUPPORT CD ...

Page 62: ...Installing the Video Driver and Utility 64 Making Monitor Adjustments 66 Installing Audio Utilites 69 Installing PCCillin 70 Installing the Software Wavetable 71 VI SOFTWARE REFERENCE 73 ATI Player 73 Task Control Panel 73 Audio CD Player 74 MPEG Player 75 TV Tuner 76 Teletext 76 Capture 77 AudioRack32 79 ...

Page 63: ...hen click here 4 Clickhere 5 Clickhere Onboard Video Windows 98 will also detect the onboard video chip and may attempt to install a driver from its system registry When prompted to restart select No Then follow the procedures for installing the video driver later in this section IMPORTANT Selecting No for the initial restart prompt is a necessary step be causeWindows may load an older driver that...

Page 64: ...EG video playback with excellent color quality plus a host of advanced multimedia features InstallAudio Driver Audio driver installation instructions for the onboard audio Install Audio Utilities Installs the AudioRack32 audio utility Install Software Wave Table Expands the audio sound capability for increased sound effects Install PCCillin Installs PC cillin virus protection software View the onl...

Page 65: ...khere 4 Select I agree with this Agreement and then click here 5 Select Express Setup and then click here Installing the Video Driver and Utility Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen ...

Page 66: ...iver and restarted your computer theATI Desk top Help will appear to assist you in customizing the display V S W SETUP Windows 98 You can also make monitor adjustments by right clicking on the Windows desktop and choosing Properties and then clicking the Settings tab Click here V SOFTWARE SETUP ...

Page 67: ...ill be asked If your screen is unreadable and you are un able to read and answer the question within a few seconds your original settings wil be restored You may also press ESC to abort the settings changes V SOFTWARE SETUP Color Page The page allows you to correct color tone differences between real color values and the way your monitor or falt panel displays them You can also store various color...

Page 68: ...ers are multi monitor com patible Check with your other card manufacturers to determine what version of their drivers you need The current 5 20 driver does not support DirectDraw or D3D applications on the secondary display When you are configured for multi monitor these types of appli cations will only function on the primary display The ATI Player is one such appli cation In multiple monitor con...

Page 69: ...dows 98 Installing Audio Utilites Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen 2 Click here 3 Click here 4 Click here to start AudioRack32 1 Clickhere ...

Page 70: ...stalling the Software Wavetable Insert the Support CD that came with your motherboard into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen 3 Select Install ESS Software Wavetable and then click here 2 Clickhere 1 Clickhere ...

Page 71: ...e or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen 2 Clickhere 5 Click Express Install and then click here 6 Insert a floppy disk and then click here 3 Enter your name and company and then click here 7 Once the Emergency Clean disk is created click here Follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation 4 Clickhere 1 Clickhere ...

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Page 73: ... CDs MPEG For playing MPEG and AVI video files TV Tuner For displaying cable or broadcast television and smooth full motion video available only on video models Teletext For displaying European teletext including FastText Capture For capturing still images video sequences or audio only available only on video models Task Control Panel The Task control panel indicates what mode the player is in and...

Page 74: ...Skip Forward Track Up Time Mode Setup Eject Volume Control Volume Mute Position Slider Time Display Audio CD Player You can use the Audio CD Player to play standard audio CDs Advanced features such as Intro Play which plays the first ten seconds of each track and Loop play are available The Audio CD Player uses Windows 95 standard INI file to store disc names track names and the play list You can ...

Page 75: ...1files MPEG2 0InteractiveCDs Karaoke CDs and AVI files Loop Play Volume Mute Open File Volume Control Previous Track Audio Track Select Skip to End Skip Forward Rewind Skip Back Play Full Screen Play Stop Next Track Setup Current File Name Click here to switch to MPEG mode Time Frames Indicator Unzoom Capture Still Images ...

Page 76: ...eletext You can use this to move through major pages and sub pages of European teletext Click here to switch to Teletext mode FastText Buttons Index Next Main Page Next Sub Page Go To Page Main Page Previous Channel Next Channel Previous Sub Page Channel Number Previous Main Page Edit Main Page Number Next Sub Page NOTE Teletext is available only in Europe Cable TV Input Composite Video Input S vi...

Page 77: ...evisionandMPEG movies as well as streams of full motion video plus audio from a video source Capturing Still Images from Television Capturing Still Images from MPEG Clips Click here to switch to MPEG mode Click here to capture the current frame Click here to switch to TV Tuner mode Click here to capture the current frame ...

Page 78: ... a Sequence of Frames Capture Still Images Captured File Name Open File Set Up Capture Volume Mute Volume Control Channel Name Channel Number Channel Up Channel Down Click here to record to an AVI file on your hard disk Capturing a Stream of Video and Audio Click here to switch to Capture mode Click here to record video and audio to an AVI file on your hard disk ...

Page 79: ...he AudioRack32 has five main parts Command Center customizes the appearance of the AudioRack32 Audio Mixer controls the volume and balance of the AudioRack32 devices Digital Audio Player plays and records files in the WAV format MIDI Player enables you to play MIDI files Compact Disk Player enables you to play audio CDs on a CD ROM drive In addition the AudioRack32 has a miniature mode enabling yo...

Page 80: ...isplay displays hides the Digital Audio Player accesses On line Help displays hides the Compact Disk Player displays hides the Audio Mixer displays hides the MIDI Player The Command Center Display Counter shows you which track or file in the playlist the component is playing Component Icon is displayed when the associated component is shown and is not displayed when the component is hidden Transpo...

Page 81: ...u used with each CD and loads that playlist automatically whenever you insert that CD The Compact Disk Player Controls plays the MIDI file currently loaded goes back one file in the playlist activates or deactivates the Pause goes forward one file in the playlist stops the file currently playing enables or disables the Auto Repeat goes back one second in the MIDI file opens the Set Playlist dialog...

Page 82: ...b treble bass and 3 D effects The Audio Mixer Controls The two Playback and Record toggle buttons are used to switch between Playback mode and Record mode The Effects toggle button switches the display to the effects panel where you can use the buttons to enable and disable effects and the sliders to control the amount of the effect There are a number of audio source modules displayed on the Audio...

Page 83: ...e end of the wave file or to the next file in the current playlist plays the wave file currently loaded enables or disables the Auto Repeat activates or deactivates the Pause opens the Audio Recorder window stops the file currently playing opens the Set Playlist dialog box goes back one second in the wave file starts a new file by opening the New Options dialog box goes forward one second in the w...

Page 84: ...laying enables disables the Auto Repeat goes back one second in the MIDI file opens the Set Playlist dialog box goes forward one second in the MIDI file The MIDI Player Display By clicking on the image of the floppy drive you can display the length and name of the current MIDI file in the playlist Click the display to return to the image of the floppy drive The MIDI Player has an indicator to show...

Page 85: ...s starts a new audio file inserts the Clipboard audio at the cursor or replaces the selected portion opens an audio file mixes the Clipboard audio with the audio beginning at the cursor saves an audio file starts recording reverses the last change you made to the current audio file plays the currently loaded audio file removes the selected portion of the audio file and stores it on the Clipboard s...

Page 86: ... AudioRack CD Player as Default CD Player During installation you will be asked if you want to use AudioRack CD player as the default CD player Normally Windows 95 CD player is the default and will automatically run when an audio CD is inserted into the CD ROM If you answer Yes the installation program will overwrite the value of the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT AudioCD shell play command in the registry...

Page 87: ...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 88: ...P5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 2 50Volts 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 CPU Def 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 2 60Volts 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 Reserved 1 2 3 JP5 JP4 JP2 JP1 JP3 ASUS S370 Jumper Settings Setting the CPU voltage is not necessary for current socket 370 processors If re quired your socket 370 processor should have its voltage requirement printed on its surface or documentation If no voltage is indicat...

Page 89: ... 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 90: ...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 91: ... transfers data between com puter components such as memory disks and the display adapter The BIOS in structions are built into the computer s read only memory BIOS parameters can be configured by the user through the BIOS Setup program The BIOS can be updated using the provided utility to copy a new BIOS file into the EEPROM Bit Binary Digit Represents the smallest unit of data used by the comput...

Page 92: ...stem 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 93: ...itry 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 ...

Page 94: ...dge 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 t...

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