About this guide

Audience

This guide provides general information and installation instructions about the ASUS Book Size Barebone System. This guide is intended for experienced users and integrators with hardware knowledge of personal computers.

How this guide is organized

This document contains the following parts:

1.Chapter 1: System Introduction

This chapter gives a general description of the ASUS book size barebone system. It includes introduction on the front and rear panel features, and the internal features.

2.Chapter 2: System Assembly

This chapter tells how to install components into the barebone system through illustrated step-by-step instructions.

3.Chapter 3: Optional Components

This chapter detail steps in installing other optional components that can be included in the system .

4.Chapter 4: System Placement

This chapter describes proper system placement for system safety and compliment space saving design.

5.Chapter 5: Motherboard Information

This chapter gives information about the P4S8L motherboard that came with the system.This chapter includes the motherboard layout, jumper settings, and connector locations. It also includes information on the USB/audio board located on the front panel.

6.Chapter 6: BIOS information

This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. It includes detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters.

7.Chapter 7: Starting up

This chapter helps you power up your system and install drivers and utilities that came with the support CD.

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