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 CUR-DLS

Dual Socket370 Motherboard

USER’S MANUAL

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Page 4: ... 16 3 4 Motherboard Settings 16 3 5 System Memory DIMM 17 3 5 1 SDRAM Configurations 17 3 5 2 DIMM Installation 18 3 6 Central Processing Unit CPU 19 3 7 1 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 20 3 7 Expansion Cards 20 3 7 2 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 21 3 8 Connectors 22 SCSI Connection Notes 32 3 9 Starting Up the First Time 33 4 BIOS SETUP 35 4 1 Managing and Updating Your BIOS 35 4 1 ...

Page 5: ...n 50 4 4 2 I O Device Configuration 51 4 4 3 PCI Configuration 53 4 4 4 Shadow Configuration 55 4 5 Power Menu 56 4 5 1 Power Up Control 58 4 5 2 Hardware Monitor 60 4 6 Boot Menu 61 4 7 Exit Menu 63 5 OS Driver Installation 65 6 Software Reference 99 7 APPENDIX 101 7 1 Glossary 101 ...

Page 6: ...e 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 a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV...

Page 7: ...NCE Reference material for the included software 7 APPENDIX Optional items and general reference 1 2 Item Checklist Check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items contact your retailer 1 ASUS Motherboard 1 I O Shield 1 Ribbon cable for master and slave IDE drives 1 68 pin LVD SCSI ribbon cable for Ultra160 Ultra2 devices with Terminator 1 Ribbon cable for a 3 5 floppy...

Page 8: ...roller 4MB PC100 SDRAM and LCD panel connector Smart Networking FeaturestheIntel82559Fast EthernetLANController fully integrated 10BASE T 100BASE TX Supports Wired for Management remote wake up and OnNow initiative to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership TCO 4GB PC133 Memory Support Equipped with four Dual Inline Memory Mod ule DIMM sockets to support PC133 registered SDRAMs available in 64 128 256 ...

Page 9: ...he RTC used for keeping time Server Health Monitoring Provides an easy way to examine and manage sys tem status information such as CPU and systerm voltages temperatures and fan status through the onboard hardware ASUS ASIC Enhanced ACPI Programmable BIOS Flash EEPROM offering enhanced ACPI for Windows NT and Windows 2000 compatibility and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setu...

Page 10: ...eases options for intelligent IO and Server Management cards SDRAM Optimized Performance This motherboard supports PC133 regis tered Synchronous Dynamic RandomAccess Memory SDRAM which increases the data transfer rate to 1064MB s max ACPIReady ACPI AdvancedConfigurationandPowerInterface isalsoimple mented on all ASUS smart series motherboards ACPI provides more Energy Saving Features for future op...

Page 11: ...ser before the sys tem resources are used up to prevent possible application crashes Suggestions will give the user information on managing their limited resources more effi ciently Dual Function Power Button Through BIOS the power button can be defined as the Stand by a k a Suspend or Sleep button or as the Soft Off see ATX Power Soft Off Switch Lead in 3 8 Connectors for more information button ...

Page 12: ...y Disk Drive Connector 7 2 IDE Connectors UltraDMA33 Support 6 1 Parallel Port Connector Top 24 2 Serial COM1 COM2 Port Connectors Bottom 23 25 1 RJ 45 Fast Ethernet Connector Top 26 2 USB Port Connectors Bottom 26 1 PS 2 Mouse Connector Top 27 1 PS 2 Keyboard Connector Bottom 27 1 VGA Monitor Connector 22 Network Features Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet Controller 21 Wake On LAN Connector see layout on...

Page 13: ...ASUS CUR DLS User s Manual 13 2 FEATURES 2 FEATURES Component Location 2 2 1 Component Locations 5 26 24 22 23 27 2 17 3 25 4 20 21 1 9 6 8 15 12 10 11 7 13 16 19 18 14 ...

Page 14: ...PCI5 64 bit 66 33MHz PCI6 64 bit 66 33MHz 2MB SDRAM 2MB SDRAM DIMM Socket 3 64 72 bit 168 pin module 6 7 VGA ATX_POWER CHA_FAN1 CPU_FAN1 CPU_FAN2 PANEL IDELED R Intel Fast Ethernet ServerWorks RCC NB6635 North Bridge ATI RAGE XL VGA Controller ServerWorks RCC IB6566 South Bridge LSI SCSI Controller CONFIG Switches reserved USBPORT 3 4 Digital Flat Panel DFP Connector 1 2 3 4 WOR SCSI B 68 Pin Ultr...

Page 15: ... 1 pins 10 FLOPPY p 25 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1 pins 11 IDE1 IDE2 p 26 Primary Secondary IDE Connectors Two 40 1 pins 12 WOL_CON p 27 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pins 13 WOR p 27 Wake On Ring Connector 2 pins 14 IDELED p 28 IDE SCSI Activity LED 2 pins 15 CPU_FAN1 2 CHA_FAN1 2 p 28 CPU and Chassis Fan Connectors Four 3 pin 16 SMB p 29 SMBus Connector 5 1 pins 17 NIC PANEL p 29 NIC Activity LED...

Page 16: ...ow some precautions whenever you work on your computer 1 Unplug your computer when working on the inside 2 Use a grounded wrist strap before handling computer components If you do not have one touch both of your hands to a 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 con nectors or other componen...

Page 17: ... Configuration Module Chips Memory MB 64Mbit 8M x 8 Single Sided 9 64 Double Sided 18 128 64Mbit 16M x 4 Double Sided 18 128 Double Sided Stacked 36 256 128Mbit 32M x 4 Double Sided 18 256 Double Sided Stacked 36 512 128Mbit 16M x 8 Single Sided 9 128 Double Sided 18 256 256Mbit 32M x 8 Single Sided 9 128 Double Sided 18 256 256Mbit 64M x 4 Single Sided 18 512 Double Sided Stacked 36 1024 IMPORTAN...

Page 18: ... and therefore have a higher pin density compared to SIMMs CUR DLS 168 Pin DIMM Sockets 20 Pins 60 Pins 88 Pins Lock CUR DLS R The DIMMs must be 3 3V registered for this motherboard To determine the DIMM type check the notches on the DIMMs see figure below 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 inser...

Page 19: ...rner should point towards the end of the lever Because the CPU has a corner pin for two of the four corners the CPU will only fit in the orientation as shown The picture is for reference only you should have a CPU fan that covers the face of the CPU With the added weight of the CPU fan no force is required to insert the CPU Once completely inserted close the socket s lever while holding down the C...

Page 20: ...t for possible future use 3 Carefully align the card s connectors and press firmly 4 Secure the card on the slot with the screw you removed above 5 Replace the computer system s cover 6 Set up the BIOS if necessary see 4 4 3 PCI Configuration 7 Install the necessary software drivers for your expansion card Expansion Cards 3 H W SETUP Socket 370 Socket 370 RCC CNB30LE MA Cntl MD 100 133MHz Buffer D...

Page 21: ...or standard PC devices Use this table when configuring your system and for resolving IRQ conflicts ISA Interrupt IRQ Assignments ISA INT Priority Standard Function ISA 00 1 System Timer ISA 01 2 Keyboard Controller ISA 02 N A Programmable Interrupt ISA 03 11 Communications Port COM2 ISA 04 12 Communications Port COM1 ISA 05 13 Sound Card sometimes LPT2 ISA 06 14 Floppy Disk Controller ISA 07 15 Pr...

Page 22: ... connectors before installation because there may be exceptions IDE ribbon cable must be less than 46 cm 18 in with the sec ond drive connector no more than 15 cm 6 in from the first connector 1 PS 2 Mouse Connector Green 6 pin PS2KBMS The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If one is not detected expansion cards can use IRQ12 See PS 2 Mouse Function Control in 4 4 Advanc...

Page 23: ...t to a Lo cal Area Network LAN through a network hub RJ45 5 Parallel Port Connector Burgundy 25 pin PRINTER You can enable the parallel port and choose the IRQ through Onboard Parallel Port see 4 4 2 I O Device Configuration NOTE Serial printers must be connected to the serial port Parallel Printer Port 25 pin female 6 Serial Port Connectors Teal Turquoise 9 pin COM1 COM2 Two serial ports can be u...

Page 24: ...USB Header 10 1 pin USBPORT If the USB port connectors on the back panel are inadequate one USB header is available for two additional USB port connectors Connect the provided USB connector set to the header and mount it to an open slot on your chassis CUR DLS R CUR DLS USB Header USBPORT NC GND USBP2 USBP2 USB Power GND USBP3 USBP3 USB Power 1 5 6 10 Connectors 3 H W SETUP ...

Page 25: ... Open Alarm Lead CUR DLS R Ground Chassis Signal 3 CHASSIS Same as the Chassis intrude lead in the panel connectors 4 no connection 1 10 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 floppy drives Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong...

Page 26: ...ly Refer to your hard disk documentation for the jumper settings BIOS now supports specific device bootup see Boot Sequence in 4 6 Boot Menu Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 20 plugged If you have more than two UltraDMA 33 devices you will need to purchase another UltraDMA 33 cable TIP You may configure two hard disks to be both Mast...

Page 27: ...ndby power CUR DLS Wake On LAN Connector IMPORTANT Requires an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5 volt standby power 5 Volt Standby PME Ground WOL_CON CUR DLS R 13 Wake On Ring Connector 2 pin WOR This connector connects to internal modem cards with a Wake On Ring output The connector powers up the system when a ringup packet or signal is received through the internal modem card NOTE For exter...

Page 28: ... expansion slots Depending on the fan manufacturer the wiring and plug may be different The red wire should be positive while the black should be ground Connect the fan s plug to the board taking into consid eration the polarity of the connector NOTE The Rotation signal is to be used only by a specially designed fan with rotationsignal TheRotationsperMinute RPM canbemonitoredusingIntelLDSM Utility...

Page 29: ...ment Bus de vices SMBus devices communicate by means of the SMBus with an SMBus host and or other SMBus devices SMBus is a specific implementation of an I2 C bus which is a multi device bus that is multiple chips can be connected to the same bus and each one can act as a master by initiating data transfer CUR DLS SMBus Connector CUR DLS R 1 SMB SMBCLK Ground SMBDATA 5V 17 NIC Activity LED 2 pin Th...

Page 30: ... 7 APPENDIX If the chassis intrusion lead is not used a jumper cap must be placed over the pins to close the circuit 22 Reset Switch Lead 2 pin This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without having to turn off your power switch This is a preferred method of rebooting to prolong the life of the system s power supply 23 System Power LED Lead 3 1 pi...

Page 31: ...nnot support the load For Wake On LAN support your ATX power supply must supply at least 720mA 5VSB CUR DLS ATX Power Connector CUR DLS R 3 3 Volts 12 0 Volts Ground Power Supply On Ground Ground Ground 5 0 Volts 5 0 Volts 5 0 Volts Power Good 12 0 Volts 3 3 Volts 3 3 Volts Ground 5 0 Volts Ground 5 0 Volts Ground 5V Standby 28 Two 68 pin Ultra160 Ultra2 SCSI Connectors This motherboard has two 68...

Page 32: ...tes an advanced multimode I O cell that sup ports both single ended SE Ultra2 and Ultra160 devices With Ultra160 Ultra2 devices the SCSI bus platform performs at full Ultra160 Ultra2 speeds up to 160MB sec or 80MB sec and extended cabling 12m or 25m in a point to point configura tion When an SE device is attached the bus defaults to an SE speed and 1 5m cable length IMPORTANT Connect SCSI devices ...

Page 33: ...front of the case 6 The power LED on the front panel of the system case will light For ATX power supplies the system LED will light when the ATX power switch is pressed The LED on the monitor may light up or switch be tween orange and green after the system s if it complies with green standards or if it has a power standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running...

Page 34: ...rating system before switching off the power switch ForATX power supplies you can press the ATX power switch after exiting or shutting down your operating system If you use Windows 9X click the Start button click Shut Down and then click Shut down the computer The power supply should turn off after Windows shuts down NOTE The message You can now safely turn off your computer will not appear when s...

Page 35: ...T A S at the DOS prompt to create a bootable system floppy disk DO NOT copy AUTOEXEC BAT CONFIG SYS to the disk 2 Type COPYD AFLASH AFLASH EXEA assuming D is your CD ROM drive to copy AFLASH EXE to the just created boot disk NOTE AFLASH works only in DOS mode It will not work with DOS prompt in Windows and will not work with certain memory drivers that may be loaded when you boot from your hard dr...

Page 36: ... revision will solve your problems Care less updating can result in your motherboard having more problems 1 Download an updated ASUS BIOS file from the Internet WWW or FTP see ASUS 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 Ent...

Page 37: ...utomatically only when neces sary This will minimize the chance that a failed update will prevent your system from booting up When the programming is finished Flashed Successfully will be displayed Updating BIOS NOTE When you see the message Boot Block is different you may still press Y to update the BIOS Yet if the update fails your system will run a greater risk of boot failure depending on whet...

Page 38: ...ht prevent your system from booting up Just repeat the process and if the problem still persists update the original BIOS file you saved to disk above If the Flash Memory Writer utility was not able to successfully update a complete BIOS file your system may not be able to boot up If this happens your system will need servicing 8 Follow the onscreen instructions to continue ...

Page 39: ...hen you start up the computer the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program This appears during the Power On Self Test POST Press Delete to call up the Setup utility If you are a little bit late in pressing the mentioned key POST will continue with its test routines thus preventing you from calling up Setup If you still need to call Setup restart the system by pressing Ctrl Alt ...

Page 40: ...tice a legend bar The keys in the legend bar allow you to navigate through the various setup menus The following table lists the keys found in the legend bar with their corresponding alternates and functions Navigation Key s Function Description F1 or Alt H Displays the General Help screen from anywhere in the BIOS Setup Esc Jumps to the Exit menu or returns to the main menu from a sub menu or key...

Page 41: ...that a right pointer symbol as shown in the left view appears to the left of certain fields This pointer indicates that a sub menu can be launched from this field A sub menu con tains additional options for a field parameter To call up a sub menu simply move the highlight to the field and press En ter The sub menu will then immediately appear Use the legend keys to enter values and move from field...

Page 42: ...lid values for month day and year are Month 1 to 12 Day 1 to 31 Year 100 year range Use the Tab or Shift Tab keys to move between the month day and year fields Legacy Diskette A 1 44M 3 5 in Legacy Diskette B None Sets the type of floppy drives installed Configuration options None 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled This is required to sup...

Page 43: ...sful the correct values will be filled in for the remaining fields on this sub menu If automatic detection fails your hard disk drive may be too old or too new You can try updating your BIOS or enter the IDE hard disk drive parameters manually NOTE After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS new IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned such as with FDISK and then formatted...

Page 44: ...heads and sectors per track for your drive Refer to your drive documentation or look on the drive for this information If no drive is installed or if you are removing a drive and not replacing it select None Translation Method LBA Select the hard disk drive type in this field When Logical BlockAddressing is enabled 28 bit addressing of the hard drive is used without regard for cylinders heads or s...

Page 45: ...e This field can also be configured manu ally Note that when this field is automatically configured the set value may not always be the fastest value for the drive Refer to the documentation that came with your hard drive to determine the optimal value and set it manu ally NOTE To make changes to this field the Type field must be set to User Type HDD Configuration options Disabled 2 Sectors 4 Sec ...

Page 46: ...hat the drive size appear in the field for the hard disk drive that you just configured Main Menu Boot Up NumLock Status On This field enables users to activate the Number Lock function upon system boot Configuration options Off On Keyboard Auto Repeat Rate 12 Sec This controls the speed at which the system registers repeated keystrokes Options range from 6 to 30 characters per second Configuratio...

Page 47: ...OS Setup menus To clear the password highlight this field and press Enter The same dialog box as above will appear Press Enter and the password will be set to Disabled A Note about Passwords The BIOS Setup program allows you to specify passwords in the Main menu The passwords control access to the BIOS during system startup The pass words are not case sensitive In other words it makes no differenc...

Page 48: ...r Serial Number is a unique number that is added to every Pentium III processor to help verify the identity of the user across the Internet Set this field to Enabled when you need increased security for doing busi ness online or e commerce Otherwise leave it to its default setting of Dis abled for greater anonymity when surfing the Internet NOTE This field is available only when a Pentium III proc...

Page 49: ...use IRQ12 will be reserved for expansion cards only if a PS 2 mouse is not detected Enabled will always reserve IRQ12 whether on startup a PS 2 mouse is detected or not Configuration options Enabled Auto OS 2 Onboard 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 Configuration op...

Page 50: ...herwise your system may not boot Configuration options UC USWC Memory Hole At 15M 16M Disabled This field allows you to reserve an address space for ISA devices that re quire it Configuration options Disabled Enabled High Priority PCI Mode Enabled This field allows you to give PCI slot 1 a higher priority You may want to leave on the default setting if you are using an IEEE 1394 PCI card Con figur...

Page 51: ...ly Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8H IRQ4 Onboard Serial Port 2 2F8H IRQ3 These fields allow you to set the addresses for the onboard serial connec tors Serial Port 1 and Serial Port 2 must have different addresses Configu ration options 3F8H IRQ4 2F8H IRQ3 3E8H IRQ4 2E8H IRQ10 Disabled UART2 Use Standard Infrared Disabled When enabled this field activates the onboard standard infrared feature and sets t...

Page 52: ...llows you to set the operation mode of the parallel port Normal allows normal speed operation but in one direction only EPP allows bidirectional parallel port operation ECP allows the parallel port to operate in bidirectional DMA mode ECP EPP allows normal speed operation in a two way mode Configuration op tions Normal ECP EPP ECP EPP ECP DMA Select 3 This field allows you to configure the paralle...

Page 53: ...ld correct this problem Otherwise leave this on the default setting of Disabled Configuration options Disabled Enabled PCI Latency Timer 32 Leave on default setting for best performance vs stability Onboard SCSI BIOS Auto Auto allows the motherboard s BIOS to detect whether you have a Symbios SCSI controller If the Symbios SCSI controller is detected the motherboard s Symbios BIOS will be enabled ...

Page 54: ...erm Enabled These fields allow you to enable or disable the onboard SCSI termination on the primary and secondary SCSI channels Configuration options En abled Disabled USB Function Enabled This motherboard supports Universal Serial Bus USB devices Set to En abled if you want to use USB devices Configuration options Disabled Enabled ONB VGA BIOS First No This field when set to Yes gives priority to...

Page 55: ...faster than the ROM Configuration options Disabled Enabled C8000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled These fields are used for shadowing other expansion card ROMs If you install other expansion cards with ROMs on them you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K by the amount used for this purpose Configuration...

Page 56: ... the system into power saving mode after a brief period of system inactiv ity Min Saving is almost the same as Max Saving except that the system inactiv ity period is longer Disabled disables the power saving features User Define allows you to set power saving options according to your preference Configuration options User Define Disabled Min Saving Max Saving IMPORTANT Advanced Power Management A...

Page 57: ... feature Blank Screen only blanks the screen use this for monitors without power management or green features If set up in your system your screen saver will not display with Blank Screen selected V H SYNC Blank blanks the screen and turns off vertical and horizontal scan ning Configuration options Blank Screen V H SYNC Blank DPMS Standby DPMS Suspend DPMS OFF DPMS Reduce ON HDD Power Down Disable...

Page 58: ...he computer is in Soft off mode NOTE The computer cannot receive or transmit data until the com puter and applications are fully running Thus connection cannot be made on the first try Turning an external modem off and then back on while the computer is off causes an initialization string that will also cause the system to power on Configuration options Disabled Enabled Wake On LAN Disabled Wake O...

Page 59: ...em power up You may config ure your system to power up at a certain time of the day by selecting Every day or at a certain time and day by selecting By Date NOTE Automatic Power Up will not work if the system is powered down by operating sys tems such as Windows 98 which have ACPI support enabled Configura tion options Disabled Everyday By Date ...

Page 60: ...ble to detect the CPU fan speed and the chassis fan speed in rotations per minute RPM The presence of the fans is automatically detected Set to Ignore only if necessary VCORE1 Voltage VCORE2 Voltage 3 3V Voltage 5V Voltage 12V Voltage 12V Voltage 5V Voltage xx xV The onboard hardware monitor is able to detect the voltage output by the onboard voltage regulators Set to Ignore only if necessary NOTE...

Page 61: ...vableDevices IDEHardDrive ATAPI CD ROM and Other Boot Device Removable Device Legacy Floppy Configuration options Disabled Legacy Floppy LS120 ZIP 100 ATAPI MO IDE Hard Drive This field allows you to select which IDE hard disk drive to use in the boot sequence Pressing Enter will show the product IDs of all connected IDE hard disk drives ATAPI CD ROM This field allows you to select which ATAPI CD ...

Page 62: ...iguration options No Yes MPS 1 4 Support Enabled This field allows you to enable or disable the MultiProcessor Specification 1 4 support Configuration options Disabled Enabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled This field speeds up the Power On Self Test POST routine by skipping retesting a second third and fourth time Configuration options Disabled Enabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Disabled When enabled ...

Page 63: ... a message asking if you want to save your changes before exiting Pressing Enter will then save changes while exiting Exit Discarding Changes This option should only be used if you do not want to save the changes you have made to the Setup program If you have made changes to fields other than system date system time and password the system will ask for con firmation before exiting 4 7 Exit Menu On...

Page 64: ...e val ues to the non volatile RAM Discard Changes This option allows you to discard the selections you made and restore the values you previously saved After selecting this option a confirmation is requested Select Yes to discard any changes and load the previously saved values Save Changes This option saves your selections without exiting the Setup program You can then return to other menus and m...

Page 65: ... CUR DLS Dual Socket370 Motherboard 5 OS Driver Installation ...

Page 66: ...Preparing a LSI Driver Diskette 75 B New System Installation 75 C Existing System Installation 76 II Intel 82559 Network Driver Installation 77 A Preparing Intel 82559 Lan Driver Diskette 78 B Update Driver on an Existing System Installation 78 III ATI Rage XL Display Driver Installation 80 3 Novell NetWare Server 81 I LSI SCSI Driver Installation 81 A Preparing a LSI Driver Diskette 81 B NetWare ...

Page 67: ...uilding the SCO OpenServer BTLD Diskette 92 B New System Installation 93 C Existing System Installation 93 I Intel 82559 Network Driver Installation 94 III ATI Rage XL Display Driver Installation 94 6 SCO UnixWare Server 95 I LSI SCSI Driver Installation 95 A Building the SCO UnixWare C8XX BTLD Diskette 95 B New System Installation 96 C Existing System Installation 96 II Intel 82559 Network Driver...

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Page 69: ...Windows NT subdirectory For example the SYM_HI SYS driver is located in the WINNTHI subdirectory Copy the I386 and MINIPORT subdirectories to the root directory of a clean floppy diskette Use this driver diskette during Windows NT installation or Use the self extracting image files for Windows NT drivers The SYM_HI SYS executable driver is located on theASUS Driver Support CD at SDMS DISKIMAG NT_H...

Page 70: ...r Diskette Section 4 Depending on the driver being installed either LSI PCI High Performance Driver or LSI Logic Ultra3 PCI SCSI Driver is shown highlighted Press Enter to proceed 5 Windows NT should now recognize the miniport driver s and the SCSI hard ware Press Enter to continue At this point simply follow the Microsoft Win dows NT installation procedure As for the onboard LAN and VGA please re...

Page 71: ...nd the SCSI hard ware Press Enter to continue At this point simply follow the Microsoft Win dows NT installation procedure As for onboard LAN and VGA installation please refer the later sections for network and VGA driver installation C Existing System Installation 1 Boot Windows NT system and log on as Administrator 2 Click on the Start button Select Settings Control Panel 3 Double click on SCSI ...

Page 72: ...rating system destination where operating system is the OS for which you are creating the diskette and destination is the drive letter and path such as A If no destination is specified the A drive will be used The possible operating system options are NT Microsoft Windows NT W2K Microsoft Windows 2000 NW Novell NetWare servers and clients Make sure you have a 1 44 MB formatted non bootable diskett...

Page 73: ...s as prompted C Existing System Installation 1 Double click the Network icon in the Control Panel 2 Select the Adapter tab 3 Click Add You ll see a list of adapters 4 Don t select an adapter from this list Instead insert the PRO 100 adapter diskette or ASUS Driver Support CD and click Have Disk 5 Type D LAN for CD or A for floppy in the dialog box and click OK Then follow the prompts to complete i...

Page 74: ...up menu 3 Select the Settings tab 4 Select Display Type 5 Select Change from the display options 6 Select Have Disk 7 Windows NT system will prompt you for the correct path enter the path of the driver such as D ATI NT40 assuming your CD ROM drive is letter D 8 A list of video adapters will be displayed Select the XPERT LCD PCI then click on OK button 9 Windows NT will once again prompt for confir...

Page 75: ...K represents the specific Windows NT subdirectory For example the LSI_U3 SYS driver is located in the Ultra32K subdirectory Copy all the files start ing from the I386 subdirectory through the MINIPORT subdirectory to the root directory of a clean floppy diskette Use this LSI driver diskette during installation or Use the self extracting image files for Windows 2000 drivers For the SYM_HI SYS drive...

Page 76: ...oint simply follow the Mi crosoft Windows 2000 installation procedure C Existing System Installation 1 Boot Windows 2000 and log on as Administrator 2 Right click on My Computer and click on Properties 3 Click on the Hardware tab and then click on the Device Manager button 4 Click the to the left of the SCSI and RAID controllers line Find the adapter desiredforthedriverupgradeanddoubleclickontheen...

Page 77: ... the completion of WHQL testing some drivers that are distributed with adapters or downloaded from the LSI Logic web site at www lsilogic com may not be digitally signed 12 The system will load the driver from the LSI driver diskette A message box may appear indicating that the target existing driver is newer than the source upgrade driver Click No to cancel the driver upgrade at this point or cli...

Page 78: ...ows NT 2K Microsoft Windows 2000 NW Novell NetWare servers and clients Make sure you have a 1 44 MB formatted non bootable diskette in the floppy drive when using this utility Alternately you can use the MAKEW2K BAT files located in the LAN root directory on this CD to simplify this process MAKEW2K BAT Creates a drivers disk for Windows 2000 B Update Driver on an Existing System Installation 1 Boo...

Page 79: ...rivers for this device 8 Click Have Disk Select a location for the network driver User can use floppy diskette or CD ROM drive LAN directory from ASUS Driver Sup port CD Click OK 9 Select Intel PRO 100 PCI Adapter from the listed Network Adapters Click Next System would prompt you an Update Driver Warning message Click Yes to continue Installing driver ...

Page 80: ...pl file from D LAN in advanced in the dialog box and click OK 11 Click Finish Windows 2000 system will prompt if you want to restart the system now After system been restarted the new driver will be loaded into the system III ATI Rage XL Display Driver Installation Windows 2000 system can correctly recognize ATI RAGE XL PCI driver during system installation User need not to load any driver for sup...

Page 81: ...developing CDMs to support their specific devices In the following the NetWare 5 x 4 xx and 3 12 installation procedure are listed for the reference A Preparing a LSI Driver Diskette The SDMS NWPA drivers for the Novell NetWare operating system are located on the ASUS Driver Support CD at SDMS DRIVERS NetWare Copy all the drivers into a diskette and it will be used for the NetWare system instal la...

Page 82: ...ter in the Novell NetWare Installation Manual 2 When the NetWare installation procedure prompts you for a driver disk insert the LSI driver for NetWare diskette into drive A Then use the INS key to select an unlisted driver Adialog box appears If the driver diskette is in the A drive press Enter to continue The SYMHINW HAM or the LSI_U3NW HAM driver appears as a selection 3 Highlight Disk and CD R...

Page 83: ...this will create another file 312PTD EXE An swer Y to the prompt to overwrite CDROM NLM 8 Run the new created 312PTD EXE It will create the 312PTD directory and copy files into this directory 9 Create the directory c server 312 CDSAVE Copy CDROM NLM to c server 312 CDSAVE 10 Update the server with the following command from the DOS prompt cd c server 312 312ptd native loader lswap loader exe c ser...

Page 84: ...t Windows 2000 NW Novell NetWare servers and clients Make sure you have a 1 44 MB formatted non bootable diskette in the floppy drive when using this utility Alternately you can use the MAKENW BAT files located in the LAN root directory on this CD to simplify this process MAKENW BAT CreatesadriversdiskforNovellNetWareserversandclients B NetWare 4 XX 5 X Installations 1 Prepare the Intel PRO 100 Ne...

Page 85: ...WSERVER E100B LAN from ASUS driver support CD and any updated NLMs to a diskette 2 Install NetWare 3 12 according to the NetWare instructions And remember to copy the Intel PRO 100 driver into NetWare home directory c server 312 3 Download LAN NLMs patch file ODI33G EXE from Novel support web site at http Support novell com 4 Copy the download file ODI33G EXE to a temporary directory c server 312 ...

Page 86: ...llation 5 Driver Installation Novell Netware III ATI Rage XL Display Driver Installation User can select the Super VGA for the X Server on NetWare 5 x server system The other NetWare system didn t support X Server and user didn t need the VGA driver support ...

Page 87: ...S UNIXES SOLARIS SOLARIS SYMITU DD For DOS System Users Under this section DOS system users have two choices 1 Use a utility that will copy the raw dd image onto a 1 44 Mbytes floppy dis kette This dd image is located at SDMS DRIVERS UNIXES SOLARIS SOLARIS SYMITU DD RAWRITE3 COM which is a public domain utility is available on this CD ROM at this location SDMS DRIVERS UNIXES RAWRITE3 COM Instructi...

Page 88: ...the Continue Driver Update Installation screen appears 6 Remove the Solaris Driver ITU diskette from the diskette drive and insert the next Solaris Driver ITU diskette you want if any 7 Press F2_Continue TheLoadingDriverUpdateSoftwarescreenappears along with a progress bar that shows the percentage of drivers that have been ex tracted from the diskette 8 Repeat Step 4 through Step 8 until all the ...

Page 89: ...nto the diskette drive 16 Press Enter Packages and or patches that contain the new drivers are installed from the diskette onto your machine Messages about each installation appear accordingly When the following prompt appears Please insert the Driver Update diskette labelled SYMHISL Press EN TER when ready 17 Insert the SYMHISL ITU diskette into the floppy diskette drive When the prompt asking if...

Page 90: ...ompt etc init d volmgt stop 4 Insert the Solaris Driver ITU diskette into the diskette drive 5 Mount the Solaris Driver ITU diskette at the mnt mount point mount F pcfs dev diskette mnt Note You must mount the Solaris Driver ITU diskette at this point in the file structure to update your system successfully 6 Execute the install script on the diskette mnt DU sol_27 i86pc Tools install sh i The ins...

Page 91: ... operating environment is finished booting and running the new devices whose drivers you installed are avail able for use II Intel 82559 Network Driver Installation Solaris7 system can correctly recognize Intel 82559 controller by itself at installa tion step User didn t need to load the network driver for the onboard LAN device III ATI Rage XL Display Driver Installation Solaris 7 cannot supportA...

Page 92: ... the UNIX prompt type dd if path sco dd of dev fd0135ds18 The path is where the dd image is located On this CD ROM the dd image file is located here SDMS DRIVERS UNIXES OPNSERVR SCO DD For DOS System Users Under this section DOS system users have two choices 1 Use a utility that will copy the raw dd image onto a 1 44 Mbytes floppy dis kette This dd image is located at SDMS DRIVERS UNIXES OPNSERVR ...

Page 93: ...ystem may prompt you to enter a routine number Please enter which routine 0 40 to replace to list a to add slhainit at the end default n to do nothing or q to quit Enter the indicated routine number that precedes this message Then the system may prompt with another inquiry Please en ter which routine 0 2 to replace to list a to add slhapoll at the end default n to do nothing or q to quit Enter the...

Page 94: ...on bundled driver for SCO OpenServer 5 0 x user must download the Prob100 Network Driver from SCO FTP site at ftp ftp sco com pub drivers OSR505 network Or user can find the Intel 82559 Network driver from ASUS Driver Support CD at LAN UNIX SCO5 To install these drivers take the following steps 1 Log on as root 2 Download and copy the Intel 82559 volume image VOL 000 000 from SCO web site or copy ...

Page 95: ... For UnixWare 2 1 X the dd image file is located here SDMS DRIVERS UNIXES UNIXWARE UW21X UNIXWARE DD For UnixWare 7 the dd image file is located here SDMS DRIVERS UNIXES UNIXWARE UW7 UNIXWARE DD For DOS System Users Under this section DOS system users have two choices 1 Use a utility that will copy the raw dd image onto a 1 44 Mbytes floppy dis kette For UnixWare 2 1 X this dd image is located at ...

Page 96: ... C8XX Package for LSI SCSI controller Before you install the C8XX driver make a backup copy of the existing kernel 1 Log on as root 2 At the shell prompt type cp stand unix stand unix safe Use this copy of the old kernel to reboot the system if the driver installation fails Refer to Troubleshooting for more information 3 Once the old kernel is saved insert the PCI SCSI SCO UnixWare driver diskette...

Page 97: ...d 1 From the UnixWare 7 1 1 OS Updates CD ROM Disk 2 pkgadd d cdrom1 nd 2 Or from a download file image or copied from support CD Copy the driver to a temporary directory for example usr tmp nd_711 pkg pkgadd d usr tmp nd_711 pkg NOTE Do not use tmp as the download directory It could fail with a No space message during pkgadd The warnings WARNING UnixWare Update 7 x x should be reapplied can be sa...

Page 98: ...3C1010 controller For detailed pro cedure please check the README file from ASUS support CD as below or wait ing for the new released Linux RedHat kernel SDMS DRIVERS UNIXES LINUX README II Intel 82559 Network Driver Installation Linux RedHat 6 x system can correctly recognize Intel 82559 controller during in stallation User doesn t need to load or modify the network driver for the onboard LAN dev...

Page 99: ... CUR DLS Dual Socket370 Motherboard 6 Software Reference The software package for this motherboard was not complete during the production of this manual Check ASUS Web site for manual updates ...

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Page 101: ...tion defines a cross platform interface designed to support many operating systems ACPI defines a flexible and abstract hardware interface that pro vides a standard way to integrate power management features throughout a PC sys tem including hardware operating system and application software This enables the system to automatically turn ON and OFF peripherals such as CD ROMs net work cards hard di...

Page 102: ...sing of host based appli cations CPU Central Processing Unit The CPU sometimes called Processor actually functions as the brain of the computer It interprets and executes program commands and processes data stored in memory Currently there are socket 370 for Pentium III FC PGA and Celeron PPGA socket 7 for Pentium AMD Cyrix IBM slot 1 for Pentium II and III slot 2 for Xeon and slot A for AMD proce...

Page 103: ...r can perform data transfer without local CPU help and further more the CPU can be treated as one of the Bus Masters PCI 2 1 supports concur rent PCI operation to allow the local CPU and bus master to work simultaneously Plug and Play BIOS The ISA bus architecture requires the allocation of memory and I O address DMA channels and interrupt levels among multiple ISAcards However configuration of IS...

Page 104: ...s SDRAM organization and timing parameters SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions A set of new instructions added to existing architectures that enables a better visual experience with an accelerated 3D geometry pipeline and support for new applica tions such as real time video encoding and speech recognition System Disk A system disk contains the core file of an operating system and is used to boot up the...

Page 105: ...700MHz 64MB to 192MB Memory 2X AGP 3D w 8MB VRAM 100MHz Processor Side Bus M8300 8200 Series Thin Light Convertible Notebook PC 13 3 or 12 1 TFT Color Display 366MHz to 650MHz 64MB to 192MB Memory Supports Two Hard Drives L7300 7200 Series All in One Compact Notebook PC 13 3 or 12 1 TFT Color Display 366MHz to 650MHz 64MB to 192MB Memory ...

Page 106: ...rives Eight 1 6 inch or 1 inch SCSI hard drives Barebone Servers New New Pentium III Maximum Ultra2 SCSI 5 25 Pentium II Memory Onboard Fixed Storage Hot Swap Trays Support GB Channels Devices AP100 1 Slot1 1 1 3 0 AP200 2 Slot1 1 1 3 0 AP2000 2 Slot1 1 1 4 3 or 5 AP3000 2 Xeon 2 2 4 3 or 5 AP2300 2 Socket370 4 2 Ultra3 4 3 or 5 AP6000 2 Slot1 1 1 4 8 AP8000 2 Xeon 2 2 4 8 AP6300 2 Socket370 4 2 U...

Page 107: ...to configure RAID Ten 1 0 or six 1 6 Ultra2 SCSI SCA 2 hot swappable drive bays 19 rack mountable height 5U LED for hard disk power and working status Two8cmsystemfansandfour6cm drive fans Aluminum disk arrays for easy heat dissipation 350W redundant power supply ASUS PCI DA2200 Series SCSI RAID Card PCI DA2200 series support 5x86 133 processor One 72 pin SIMM socket supports up to 128MB cache mem...

Page 108: ...ansfer mode Compatible with all CD formats Supports multi read function CD R CD RW Ultra Fast CD ROM 8x DVD ROM Drive Industry leadingperformanceforeventhemost demanding applications Maximum transfer rate 8X DVD ROM 40X CD ROM High speed digital audio extraction Supports UltraDMA 33 transfer mode Complies with MPC3 standard Supports Multi Read function ...

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