Asus K8S-MX 1.5.2 Placement direction, 1.5.3 Screw holes

1.5.2 Placement direction

When installing the motherboard, make sure that you place it into the chassis in the correct orientation. The edge with external ports goes to the rear part of the chassis as indicated in the image below.

1.5.3 Screw holes

Place six (6) screws into the holes indicated by circles to secure the motherboard to the chassis.

Do not overtighten the screws! Doing so may damage the motherboard.

Place this side towards the rear of the chassis

K8S-MX

ASUS K8S-MX motherboard

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Contents

Page E1884 Revised Edition December Chapter 1: Product introduction Standard interrupt assignments IRQ assignments for this motherboard Chapter 2: BIOS Information 2.1 Managing and updating your BIOS 2.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk 2.1.2 Using AFUDOS to update the BIOS 2.1.3 Using AFUDOS to copy BIOS from PC Chapter 3: Software support 3.2.1 Running the support CD Where to find more information Electrical safety Operation safety Conventions used in this guide Typography Page Page Page Thank you for buying the ASUS® K8S-MXmotherboard Check your motherboard package for the following items 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66 cables 2 x Serial ATA cables 1 x Floppy disk cable I/O shield 1.3.1 Product Highlights 1.3.2 Unique ASUS features Onboard LED 1.5.1 Motherboard layout 1.5.2 Placement direction 1.5.3 Screw holes 1.6.1 Overview 1.6.2 Installing the CPU 1.7.1 DIMM sockets location 1.7.2Memory configurations Table 1 Recommended memory configurations Table DDR400 Qualified Vendor List (QVL) Table 1.7.3 Installing a DIMM Standard interrupt assignments 1.8.2 IRQ assignments for this motherboard 1.8.3 PCI slots 1.8.4 PCI Express x1 slot 1.8.5 AGP slot 1.Clear RTC RAM (CLRTC) To erase the RTC RAM: 1.Turn OFF the computer and unplug the power cord 3.Plug the power cord and turn ON the computer Hold down the 2.USB device wake-up (3-pinUSBPW12, USBPW34, USBPW56, USBPW78) 1.10.1 Rear panel connectors 1.10.2 Internal connectors 3.ATX power connectors (20-pinATXPWR, 4-pinATX12V) 4.Internal audio connectors (4-pinCD, AUX) 5.CPU and chassis fan connectors (3-pinCPU_FAN, CHA_FAN) 6.USB header (10-1pin USB56, USB78) 7.Front panel audio connector (10-1pin FP_AUDIO) Be default, the pins labeled LINE OUT_R/BLINE_OUT_R and the pins 8.Chassis intrusion connector (4-1pin CHASSIS) 9.GAME/MIDI connector (16-1pin GAME1) 10.Serial ATA connectors (7-pinSATA1, SATA2) 11.Digital Audio connector (6-1pin SPDIF_OUT) 12.System panel connector (10-1pin PANEL) •System Power LED Lead (Green 3-pinPLED) •System Warning Speaker Lead (Orange 4-pinSPEAKER) •Reset Switch Lead (Blue 2-pinRESET) •ATX Power Switch / Soft-OffSwitch Lead (Yellow 2-pinPWRSW ) •Hard disk activity LED (Red 2-pinIDE_LED) Page Page 2.1.1Creating a bootable floppy disk 2.1.2 Using AFUDOS to update the BIOS 2.1.3 Using AFUDOS to copy BIOS from PC 2.1.4 Using ASUS EZ Flash to update the BIOS 2.1.5 Recovering the BIOS with CrashFree BIOS 2. When the BIOS update process is complete, reboot the system To recover the BIOS from the support CD: Place the support CD in the <Ctrl+Alt+Delete 2.2.1 BIOS menu screen 2.2.2 Menu bar 2.2.3 Navigation keys 2.2.4 Menu items 2.2.5 Sub-menuitems 2.2.6 Configuration fields 2.2.7 Pop-upwindow 2.2.8 Scroll bar 2.3.1 System Time [xx:xx:xxxx] 2.3.2 System Date [Day xx/xx/xxxx] 2.3.3 Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in.] 2.3.4 Primary and Secondary IDE Master/Slave Type [Auto] LBA/Large Mode [Auto] Block (Multi-sectorTransfer) [Auto] PIO Mode [Auto] 2.3.5 Onboard PCI S-ATAController [IDE by BIOS] 2.3.6 System Information 2.4.1 JumperFree Configuration 2.4.2 CPU Configuration Memory Configuration Bank Interleaving [ Disabled] Node Interleaving [Disabled] Burst Length [ 8 Beats] Memclock Mode [ Auto] CAS Latency (CL) [Auto] 2.4.3 Chipset AGP Configuration HyperTransport Configuration MPS Configuration 2.4.4 Onboard Devices Configuration SiS190 LAN Boot ROM [Disabled] USB Configuration EPP Version [1.9] ECP Mode DMA Channel [DMA3] 2.4.5 PCI PnP 2.5.1 ACPI Aware O/S [Yes] 2.5.2 Suspend Mode [S1 (POS) only] 2.5.3 ACPI 2.0 Support [No] 2.5.4 ACPI APIC Support [Enabled] 2.5.5 BIOS-->AML ACPI table [Enabled] 2.5.6 Headless mode [Disabled] Power Button Mode [On/Off] Hard Disk Time Out (Minute) [Disabled] Resume on Ring [Disabled] Resume on PME# [Disabled] Resume on Keyboard [Disabled] 2.5.8 Hardware Monitor 2.6.1 Boot Device Priority 2.6.2 Hard Disk Drives 2.6.3 Boot Settings Configuration 2.6.4 Security User Access Level (Full Access] No Access prevents user access to the Setup utility Change User Password Installed To set a User Password: Exit & Save Changes Yes Exit & Discard Changes Discard Changes Load Setup Defaults Page Page 3.2.1 Running the support CD 3.2.2 Drivers menu 3.2.3 Utilities menu 3.2.4 Manuals 3.2.5 ASUS Contact Information 3.3.1 Installing hard disks 3.3.2 SIS RAID configurations Creating JBOD <Q <Y Creating RAID 0 for performance <N Page Creating RAID 1 for capacity Page Page To use the support CD: 2.Press <Del> during POST to enter the BIOS setup utility 3.Set the optical drive as the primary boot device 4.Save changes and exit BIOS 5.Insert the support CD into the optical drive