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P2L97-S

Pentium

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 II Motherboard

USER’S MANUAL

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Page 1: ...R P2L97 S Pentium II Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

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Page 4: ... Processor 19 AAVID Heatsink 23 Elan Vital Heatsink 23 4 Expansion Cards 24 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 24 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 24 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 25 ISA Cards and Hardware Monitor 25 Accelerated Graphics Port 25 5 External Connectors 26 Power Connection Procedures 33 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 34 Support Software 34 Flash Memory Writer Utility 34 Main Menu 35 Ad...

Page 5: ...agement Interface DMI 56 Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 56 System Requirements 56 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 57 VI ADAPTEC SCSI SELECT 59 Configuring the SCSI Adapter 59 Configure View Host Adapter Settings 59 SCSI Disk Utilities 59 VII ADAPTEC EZ SCSI UTILITY 61 Quick Start Instructions 61 Windows95 or WindowsNT 61 Windows Windows for Workgroups 3 1x 61 DOS 61 Troubl...

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: ...CSI driver installation and usage Item Checklist Check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items contact your retailer ASUS P2L97 S motherboard Retention mechanism heatsink support 1 IDE ribbon cable 1 floppy ribbon cable 50 pin Fast SCSI cable ASUS P2L97 S Support Drivers Utilities Flash Memory Writer utility to update the FLASH BIOS Desktop Management Interface DMI u...

Page 8: ... controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels supports PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2 and supports Enhanced IDE devices such as Tape Backup and CD ROM drives Two floppy drives of either 5 25inch or 3 5inch 1 44MB or 2 88MB are also supported with out an external card Supports Japanese standard Floppy 3 mode 3 5 inch disk drive 1 2MB and LS 120 flop...

Page 9: ...ble 2MB Flash ROM 3 PCI Slots Accelerated Graphics Port 1 ISA Slot 1 ISA PCI Shared Slot PS 2 Mouse Top PS 2 K board Bottom Parallel Top Serial Bottom 3 DIMM Sockets Intel 440LX AGPset Hardware Monitor Multi I O Floppy Disk Drive Connector SEC CPU Slot COM 1 Bottom Narrow Wide SCSI Connectors Adaptec s 7880 Ultra Fast Wide SCSI Chipset Intel PIIX4 PCIset ...

Page 10: ...dware Monitor ISA Slot 1 ISA Slot 2 Panel Connect Intel PIIX4 PCIset Floppy Disk Drives Accelerated Graphics Port Intel 440LX AGPset Single Edge Contact CPU Slot DIMM Socket 3 64 bit 168 pin module DIMM Socket 2 64 bit 168 pin module DIMM Socket 1 64 bit 168 pin module BIOS Power CR2032 3V Lithium Cell Secondary IDE Primary IDE Adaptec 7880 SCSI Chipset 50 Pin SCSI Connector ATX Power Connector Mo...

Page 11: ...al Serial BUS Ports 1 2 two 4 pin female 7 Primary Second IDE p 28 Primary Secondary IDE Connector 40 pin blocks 8 HDLED p 29 IDE LED Activity Light 2 pins 9 CHA_ CPU_ PWR_FAN p 29 Chassis CPU PowerSupplyFanConnectors 3 pinblock 10 IR p 30 Infrared Port Module Connector 5 pins 11 ATXPWR p 30 ATX Motherboard Power Connector 20 pin block 12 WOL p 31 Wake on LAN 3 pins Reserved 13 NARROW WIDESCSI p 3...

Page 12: ...2 and to connect pins 2 3 Jumpers with two pins will be shown as for Short On and for Open Off For manufacturing simplicity the jumpers may be sharing pins from other groups Use the diagrams in this manual instead of following the pin layout on the board Settings with two jumper numbers require that both jumpers be moved together To connect the pins simply place a plastic jumper cap over the two p...

Page 13: ...1 Onboard SCSI Setting SCSI This motherboard gives you the option of using the onboardAdaptec 7880 SCSI BIOS through either the PnP and PCI Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE or the use of jumper caps Selection SCSI Enable 1 2 Disable 2 3 Enable SCSI Disable SCSI P2L97 S SCSI Setting 1 2 3 1 2 3 R ...

Page 14: ...requency These must be set in conjunction with the CPU Bus Frequency Intel Pentium II Processor in a SEC Cartridge 233 333MHz 512KB 256KB 0KB L2 Cache WARNING Frequencies above 66Mhz exceed the specifications for the onboard Intel Chipset and are not guaranteed to be stable Set the jumpers by the Internal speed of your processor as follows BUS Freq Freq Ratio CPU Model Freq Ratio BUS F FS2 FS1 FS0...

Page 15: ...the onboard button cell battery To clear the RTC data 1 Turn off your computer and unplug its AC power 2 Short the two solder points labeled CLRTC 3 Turn on your computer 4 Hold down Delete during bootup and enter BIOS setup to re enter user preferences Short the solder points to clear CMOS P2L97 S Real Time Clock RAM CLRTC CLRTC R ...

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Page 17: ...ura tion in BIOS Chipset Features Setup Install memory in any combination as follows DIMM Location 168 pin DIMM Memory Modules Total Memory Socket 1 Rows 0 1 SDRAM EDO 8 16 32 64 128MB x1 Socket 2 Rows 2 3 SDRAM EDO 8 16 32 64 128MB x1 Socket 3 Rows 4 5 SDRAM EDO 8 16 32 64 128MB x1 Total System Memory Max 384MB Parity EDO DIMM 9 chips Non Parity SDRAM DIMM 8 chips General DIMM Notes not true for ...

Page 18: ...y Sockets 88 Pins 60 Pins 20 Pins FRONT R The Dual Inline Memory Module DIMM memory modules must be 3 3Volt Un buffered Synchronous DRAM SDRAM or Extended Data Output EDO You can identify the type of DIMM module by the illustration below 168 Pin DIMM Notch Key Definitions 3 3V DRAM Key Position Voltage Key Position Unbuffered RFU Buffered Reserved 3 3V 5 0V The notch on the DIMM module will shift ...

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

Page 20: ...ention mechanism is designed to fit into the SEC slot only one way TIP Orient the mechanism s lock holes toward the motherboard s chipset see motherboard layout for the location of the Intel 440LX AGPset Be sure to align the notch in the mechanism with the small rib on one side of the slot and that the mechanism is properly seated on the board Then screw the captive nuts in place WARNING Do not ov...

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

Page 22: ...see next page The support base is necessary to secure the heatsink without fan Secure the heatsink by sliding the heatsink support top bar into the bottom groove of the heatsink until it locks into the heatsink support base posts 3 3 8 Heatsink support base 7 6 Connect the Heat Sensor Cable to the R_CPU optional If you purchased the specially designed fan and thermal monitor heatsink you can conne...

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

Page 24: ...there are 16 IRQs available but most of them are already in use leaving 6 IRQs free for expansion cards 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 card design now referred to as legacy ISA ...

Page 25: ...IRQ To install a PCI card you need to set the INT interrupt assignment Since all the PCI slots on this mother board use an INTA set the jumpers on your PCI cards to INT A Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards Some ISAcards both legacy and PnP may also need to use a DMA Direct Memory Access channel DMA assignments for this motherboard are handled the same way as the IRQ assignment process described ...

Page 26: ...he first connector 1 PS 2 Keyboard Connector 6 pin Female This connection is for a standard keyboard using an PS 2 plug mini DIN This connector will not allow standard AT size large DIN keyboard plugs You may use a DIN to mini DIN adapter on standard AT keyboards PS 2 Keyboard 6 pin Female 2 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin Female The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not ...

Page 27: ...inting devices or other serial devices See Onboard Serial Port in Chipset Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE COM 1 COM 2 Serial Ports 9 pin Male 5 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1pin FLOPPY This connector supports the provided floppy disk drive ribbon cable After con necting the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the floppy drives Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserti...

Page 28: ... Please refer to the docu mentation of your hard disk for the jumper settings BIOS now supports SCSI device or IDE CD ROM bootup see HDD Sequence SCSI IDE First Boot Sequence in the BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 20 plugged TIP You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ri...

Page 29: ...ink s instead of the 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 this connector NOTE The Rotation signal is to be used only by a specially designed fan with rotation signal WARNING The CPU and or motherboard w...

Page 30: ...red IrDA module to the motherboard 5V IRRX IRTX NC GND 5V IRTX IRRX NC GND Back View R 11 ATX Power Supply Connector 20 pin ATXPWR This connector connects to a ATX power supply The plug from the power sup ply will only insert in one orientation because of the different hole sizes Find the proper orientation and push down firmly but gently making sure that the pins are aligned P2L97 S ATX Power Con...

Page 31: ...rs This motherboard has onboard 50 Pin Ultra Fast SCSI connector for 8 bit SCSI devices and 68 Pin Ultra Wide SCSI connector for 16 bit SCSI devices P2L97 S Onboard SCSI Connectors 50 pin Fast SCSI II Connector 68 pin Fast Wide SCSI III Connector R IMPORTANT The 68 Pin Ultra Wide SCSI Connector is always terminated and will only work as an end device motherboard is an end device and has permanent ...

Page 32: ... SOFTWARE section to the preferred time after which the system must go into suspend mode when you press the switch 16 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch PWR_SW The system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pressing the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Press ing the switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds will turn the system off The ...

Page 33: ...monitor LED may light up after the system s if it complies with green stan dards or if it has a power standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running additional messages will appear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power the system may have failed a power on test Recheck your jumper set tings and connection...

Page 34: ...OS file This file works only in DOS mode NOTE The following 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 un...

Page 35: ...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 program ming is finished Flashed Suc cessfully will be displayed To update your current BIOS type 2 at the Main Menu and then press Enter The Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD screen appears Type the filename of your n...

Page 36: ... 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 37: ...ou 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 Te...

Page 38: ... 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 precedong screen provides you with a list of options At the bottom of this screen are th...

Page 39: ...ds refer to their respective 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 n...

Page 40: ...ible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A Drive B None These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system The available options for drives A and B are 360KB 5 25 in 1 2MB 5 25 in 720KB 3 5 in 1 44MB 3 5 in 2 88MB 3 5 in None To enter the configuration value for a particular drive highlight its corresponding field an...

Page 41: ...ext 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 partition...

Page 42: ...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 are A C A CDROM C CDROM C A D A E A F A C only LS ZIP C and C A The ...

Page 43: ... Memory 64M Disabled When using OS 2 operating systems with installed DRAM of greater than 64MB you need to set this option to Enabled otherwise leave this on Disabled Video ROM BIOS Shadow Enabled This field allows you to change the video BIOS location from ROM to RAM Relo cating to RAM enhances system performance as information access is faster than the ROM C8000 CBFFF to DC000 DFFFF Disabled Th...

Page 44: ...ems 2 through 5 for 60ns DRAM modules If you are using 70ns DRAM modules you must change this item to 70ns DRAM See section III for DRAM installation information SDRAM Configuration 12ns SDRAM Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay Auto Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS Precharge Time Auto Leave on default setting MA Wait State Auto Leave on default setting SDRAM Banks Close Policy Arbit...

Page 45: ...up to 16MB The default is Disabled DRAM are xx bits wide If all your DRAM modules have parity chips e g 8 chips 4 parity chips they are considered 36bits This motherboard sums the memory per bank and therefore two modules will give 72bits and the following will be displayed If your DRAM modules do not have parity chips e g 8 chips they are considered 32bits and the following will be displayed inst...

Page 46: ...ximum 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 Disabled When enabled this field activates the ...

Page 47: ... except that this time the system inac tivity period is longer Disable disables the power saving features User Define al lows you to set power saving options according to your preference IMPORTANT Advanced Power Management APM should be installed to keep the system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode activated by the BIOS Power Management For DOS environments you need to add the sta...

Page 48: ... is activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels HDD Power Down Disable Shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of inactivity This time period is user configurable to 1 15 Min or Disable This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives Suspend Mode Disable Sets the period of time after which each of these modes activate 1 Min 2 Min 4 Min 8 Min 10 Min 20 Min 30 Min 1 Hour 2...

Page 49: ...s 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 at a certain time and day by selecting By Date Fan Monitor xxxxRPM The onboard hardware monitor is able to detect the Chassis Fan Speed CPU Fan Speed and the Power Supply Fan Speed in Rotations Per Minu...

Page 50: ...how IRQ use is determined for each PCI slot The default setting for each field is Auto which uses auto routing to determine IRQ use The other options are manual settings of NA 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 or 15 for each slot PCI Latency Timer 32 PCI Clock The default setting of 32 PCI Clock enables maximum PCI performance for this motherboard IRQ xx Used By ISA No ICU These fields indicate whether or not the...

Page 51: ...ICU to specify its address range select a base address from the six available options the ISA MEM Block SIZE field will then appear for selecting the block size If you have more than one legacy ISA card in your system that requires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 36K or 64K If you are using an ICU to accomplish this task leave ISA MEM Block BASE to its de...

Page 52: ...reen Press Y and then Enter to confirm Press N and then Enter to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen Load Setup Defaults This Load Setup Defaults option allows you to load the default values to the sys tem configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration set tings for the system To load these default values highlight Load Setup D...

Page 53: ...e sensitive and can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters long type in your password and then press Enter The system confirms your password by asking you to type it again After setting a password the screen automatically re verts to the main screen To implement password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prompt for the password If yo...

Page 54: ... 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 55: ...or your disk do not accept them Press N to reject the presented settings and enter the correct ones manually from the Standard CMOS Setup screen Save Exit Setup Select this option to save into the CMOS memory all modifications you specified during the current session To save the configuration changes highlight the Save Exit Setup option on the main screen type Y and then press Enter Exit Without S...

Page 56: ...g of DMI information versus creating a new BIOS image file and requiring the user to update the whole BIOS This DMI Con figuration Utility also allows the system integrator or end user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers housing configurations and ven dor information Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI...

Page 57: ... available for editing The blue text Press ENTER for detail contains a second pop up menu is available use the plus minus keys to change the settings Enter to exit and save ESC to exit and not save If the user has made changes ESC will prompt you to answer Y or N Enter Y to go back to the left hand screen and save enter N to go back to left hand screen and not save If editing has not been made ESC...

Page 58: ...ress 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 BIOS V DMI Using DMI Utility...

Page 59: ...e default of Low ON High ON and press Enter then use the up and down arrows to make your new selection and press Enter Press ESC to go back to the Options menu Press ESC again and select Yes to exit the program SCSI Disk Utilities The SCSI Disk Utilities option displays information on SCSI IDs 0 though 15 list ing all devices on the bus including non disk devices When you select a device from the ...

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Page 61: ...k Start instructions on page 4 Then reboot your com puter and follow these instructions 1 Install Windows95 or WindowsNT version 3 51 or above and start it running on your computer 2 Insert the Adaptec EZSCSI Setup Diskette in your floppy disk drive 3 Click the Start button and select Run 4 Type a setup if you are using the A drive or b setup if you are using the B drive Then click OK 5 Follow the...

Page 62: ... to control host adapters and other kinds of devices Win dows95 and WindowsNT include a set of miniport drivers for various types of SCSI host adapters The host adapter miniport driver is automatically installed and con figured during Windows95 and WindowsNT installation if your host adapter is al ready installed To make sure the driver is installed correctly in systems running Windows95 open the ...

Page 63: ...uestion answer If a yellow exclamation point appears in front of your host adapter name the resources that the driver uses probably do not match the resources used by the hardware Double click the host adapter name then click on the Resource tab Deselect the Use automatic settings box and edit the resources Interrupt Request Direct Memory Access etc so they match those used by the host adapter If ...

Page 64: ...e start the computer in MS DOS mode When the DOS prompt appears follow the Quick Start instructions for DOS My CDROM drive doesn t work properly under Windows95 Some older models of SCSI CDROM drives are not compatible with the embedded Windows95 CDROM driver You can add support for the CDROM drive by doing the following 1 Click the Start button and select Restart the computer in MS DOS mode 2 Whe...

Page 65: ...nes to your config sys and autoexec bat files to load these device drivers if it finds these kinds of devices on your computer To learn more about the Adaptec EZSCSI device drivers including their command line option information see the online Adaptec EZSCSI Online Reference a Win dows Help application DOS and Windows3 1x ASPI Managers ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface managers are software...

Page 66: ...en appears read it and press Enter to continue Press F1 at any time to view Help Information about your SCSI disk devices appears on the screen 3 Use the arrow keys to move the highlight bar to a disk device you want to format or verify then press Enter 4 When the next screen appears select either Format or Verify to verify that the disk is free of surface defects then press Enter WARNING Back up ...

Page 67: ...host adapter and that they are powered Then follow these steps 1 Change to the directory where afdisk exe is located usually c scsi type afdisk at the DOS prompt and press Enter Information about your SCSI disk devices appears on the screen The number that appears after Target is the device s SCSI ID 2 Use the arrow keys to move the highlight bar to the disk device you want to partition then press...

Page 68: ...umbers you want Partitions up to 2Gigabytes are supported 5 When the number of cylinders is what you want press Esc When the confir mation prompt appears select Yes and press Enter to create the partition To create more partitions on the same disk device repeat steps 3 4 and 5 As you create partitions on the disk they are added to the window at the upper right of the screen as shown here Select SC...

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