Asus A55BMPLUSCSM manual

A55BM-A/USB3

Motherboard

Contents

Page Page Product introduction BIOS information Appendices Electrical safety Operation safety How this guide is organized Where to find more information Conventions used in this guide Typography Package contents A55BM-A/USB3specifications summary ASUS 5X Protection ASUS Digital Power Design ASUS DRAM Fuse ASUS ESD Guards ASUS High-Quality 5K-HourSolid Capacitors Page Standby Power LED 1.2.1Placement direction 1.2.2Screw holes 1.2.3Motherboard layout 1.3.1Installing the APU 1.3.2APU heatsink and fan assembly installation To install the APU heatsink and fan assembly To uninstall the APU heatsink and fan assembly 1.4.1Overview 1.4.2Memory configurations 1.4.3Installing a DIMM To remove a DIMM 1.5.1Installing an expansion card 1.5.2Configuring an expansion card 1.5.3PCI slot 1.5.4PCI Express x1 slot 1.5.5PCI Express x16 slot IRQ assignments for this motherboard Del 2.USB device wake-up (3-pinUSBPWF) 1.7.1Rear panel connectors Audio 2, 4, 6, or 8-channelconfiguration 1.7.2Internal connectors 2.ATX power connectors (24-pinEATXPWR, 4-pinATX12V) 3.Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pinSATA3G 1~6) 4.System panel connector (10-1pin PANEL) •System power LED (2-pinPWR_LED) •Hard disk drive activity LED (2-pinHDD_LED) •Reset button (2-pinRESET) 5.Speaker connector (4-pinSPEAKER) 6.Digital audio connector (4-1pin SPDIF_OUT) 7.Front panel audio connector (10-1pin AAFP) 8.USB 2.0 connectors (10-1pin USB34, USB56) 9.Serial port connector (10-1pin COM) 1.8.1Installing an operating system 1.8.2Support DVD information To run the Support DVD Page 2.1.1EZ Update 2.1.2ASUS EZ Flash 2.1.3ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility Recovering the BIOS 2.1.4ASUS BIOS Updater Before updating BIOS Booting the system in DOS environment Updating the BIOS file Entering BIOS Setup at startup Entering BIOS Setup after POST BIOS menu screen EZ Mode Page Advanced Mode Menu bar Adding items to My Favorites 2.4Main menu 2.5Ai Tweaker menu 2.6Advanced menu 2.7Monitor menu 2.8Boot menu 2.9Tools menu 2.10Exit menu Federal Communications Commission Statement IC: Canadian Compliance Statement Canadian Department of Communications Statement VCCI: Japan Compliance Statement VCCI Class B Statement KC: Korea Warning Statement REACH ASUS Recycling/Takeback Services ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America) ASUS COMPUTER GmbH (Germany and Austria) DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY EC Declaration of Conformity