Asus C3 manual

® Terminator 1

Barebone System

Model C3

User Guide

Contents

Page E1727 First Edition August Table of contents Chapter 1: System Introduction Chapter 2: Basic Installation Chapter 3: Starting up Chapter 4: Motherboard Info Chapter 5: BIOS Information Page Federal Communications Commission Statement Canadian Department of Communications Statement Electrical safety Operation safety CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT Audience How this guide is organized Conventions used in this guide Where to find more information System package contents 1 . ASUS Terminator 1 barebone system with: 2 . Power cable and plug 3 . Support CD 4 . User guide System introduction 1.1Welcome 1.2Front panel 1 . Optical drive 2 . Empty 5.25-inch 6 . HDD LED 7 . Front panel I/O door 8 . USB 2.0 ports 9 . Headphone port 10 . Microphone port 1.3Rear panel 1 . GAME/MIDI port 2 . Serial port 3 . PS/2 mouse port 4 . PS/2 keyboard port 8 . Microphone port Audio ports function variation 9 . LAN (RJ-45) port 1.4Internal components Basic installation Basic components to install Tool 2.3Removing the cover 2.4Detaching the drive frame Page 2.5.1Memory configurations 2.5.2DIMM installation 2.6.1Expansion slot 2.6.2Expansion card installation 2.6.3Configuring an expansion card 2.6.4Standard interrupt assignments 2.6.5IRQ assignments for this motherboard 2.7Installing an optical drive Page 2.8Installing a hard disk drive Page 2.9.1LED cables 2.9.2UAEX module 2.10Replacing the cover Page 2.11Connecting external devices 2.12.1 Input Characteristics 2.12.2 Output Characteristics 2.12.3 Over-VoltageProtection (OVP) Starting up 3.2.1Running the support CD 3.2.2Drivers menu 3.2.3Utilities menu 3.2.4ASUS Contact information 3.2.5Other information Browse this CD Technical support form Filelist 3.3.1ASUS PC Probe Using ASUS PC Probe Monitoring Monitor Summary Temperature Monitor Fan Monitor Settings History Fan Control Hard Drives Memory Device Summary DMI Explorer Utility Execute Program 3.3.2ASUS Update Save Page infoMotherboard 4.1Introduction 4.2Motherboard layout 4.3Jumpers 1 . USB device wake-up (3-pinUSBPWR12, USBPWR34, USBPWR56, USBPWR78) 2 . Clear RTC RAM (CLRTC) 4.4Connectors 1 . IDE connectors (40-1pin PRI_IDE, SEC_IDE) 2 . Floppy disk drive connector (34-1pin FLOPPY) 3 . Internal audio connectors (4-pinCD, AUX) 4 . ATX power connectors (20-pinATXPWR, 4-pinATX +12V) 5 . Front panel audio connector (5-1pin MIC_LOUT) 6 . CPU and chassis fan connectors (3-pinCPU_FAN, CHA_FAN) 7 . IO extension module connector (22-pinIOC_MB) 8 . Serial ATA connectors (7-pinSATA1 [black], SATA2 [black]) 9 . Digital audio connector (4-1pin SPDIF_OUT) 10 . USB 2.0 connectors (10-1pin USB34, USB56, USB78) 11 . TV-out/S-Videoout connector (10-1pin J1) 12 . IEEE 1394a connectors (10-1pin IE1394_1, IE1394_2) [optional] 13 . System panel connector (20-pinPANEL) Page BIOS information 5.1.1Creating a bootable floppy disk 5.1.2Updating the BIOS using the AwardBIOS Flash Utility Page 5.1.3Recovering the BIOS with CrashFree BIOS 5.1.4ASUS Update 5.2BIOS Setup program 5.2.1BIOS menu bar 5.2.2Legend bar General help Saving changes and exiting the Setup program Scroll bar Sub-menu 5.3.1System Time [xx:xx:xx] 5.3.2System Date [xx/xx/xxxx] 5.3.3Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in.] 5.3.4HDD SMART Monitoring [Disabled] 5.3.5Primary and Secondary Master/Slave 5.3.6Installed Memory [xxx MB] 5.4.1CPU Configuration 5.4.2Memory Configuration 5.4.3Chipset Configuration 5.4.4PCIPnP 5.4.5Onboard Device Configuration Serial Port1 Address [3F8/IRQ4] Parallel Port Address [378/IRQ7] Parallel Port Mode [SPP] EPP Mode Select [EPP1.7] Parallel Port Mode 5.4.6USB Configuration 5.5Power Menu ACPI Suspend Type [S1 (POS)] 5.5.1APM Configuration Modem Ring Resume [Disabled] Power On By RTC Alarm [Disabled] Date (of Month) [0] Resume time (hh:mm:ss) [0 : 0 : 0] Restore on AC Power Loss [Power Off] PWR Button < 4 secs [Instant-Off] less more 5.5.2Hardware Monitor Q-FanFunction [Disabled] 5.6.1Boot Device Priority 5.6.2Removable drives 5.6.3Hard Disk Drives 5.6.4CD-ROMDrives 5.6.5Boot Settings Configuration Boot Up Floppy Seek [Disabled] Boot Up Num-LockStatus [On] OS Select for DRAM > 64MB [Non-OS2] Halt On [All Errors] 5.6.6Security Forgot the password Password Check [Setup] 5.7Exit Menu Exit & Save Changes Exit & Discard Changes Load Setup Defaults Discard Changes