Asus M2A690G installation manual

V-Series M2A690G

ASUS PC (Desktop Barebone)

Installation Manual

Contents

Main ii E3061 First Edition V1 February 2007 Chapter 1: System Introduction Chapter 2: Basic Installation Chapter 3: Starting up Chapter 4: Motherboard Info Chapter 5: BIOS Information Page Notices Federal Communications Commission Statement Canadian Department of Communications Statement Safety information Electrical safety CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT Operation safety Lithium-Ion Battery Warning About this guide Audience How this guide is organized Conventions used in this guide Where to find more information System package contents Check your V-Series M2A690G system package for the following items. Chapter 1 System introduction 1.1 Welcome! 1.2 Front panel Page 1.3 Rear panel Audio 2, 4, or 6-channel conguration Voltage selector HDMI card ports 1.4 Internal components Page Page 2.1 Preparation Basic components to install Tool 2.2 Before you proceed 2.3 Removing the side cover and front panel assembly 2.4.1 Installing the CPU 2.4 Central Processing Unit (CPU) Page 2.4.2 Installing the heatsink and fan Page 2.5 Installing a DIMM 2.5.1 Memory configurations 2-9ASUS V-Series M2A690G Qualified Vendors Lists (QVL) Size Vendor Model Side(s) Component A B C Size Vendor Model Side(s) Component A B C DDR 2-5 33 DDR 2-6 67 DDR 2-6 67 DIMM Support DDR 2-8 00 2.5.3 Removing a DDR2 DIMM 2.5.2 Installing a DDR2 DIMM 2.6 Expansion slots 2.6.1 Installing an expansion card 2.6.2 Configuring an expansion card 2-13ASUS V-Series M2A690G Standard interrupt assignments IRQ assignments for this motherboard 2.6.4 PCI slots 2.6.3 PCI Express x1 slot 2.6.5 PCI Express x16 slot 2.7 Installing an optical drive 2.8 Installing a hard disk drive Page 2.9 Installing the card reader Page 2.10 Installingaoppydiskdrive 2.11 Re-connecting cables LED cables 2.12 Reinstalling the cover Page Page 3.1 Installing an operating system 3.3 Support CD information 3.2 Powering up 3.3.1 Running the support CD 3.3.2 Drivers menu 3.3.3 Utilities menu 3.3.4 Make Disk menu Make ATI RAID/AHCI Driver Make ATI RAID/AHCI Vista Driver 3.3.5 Manual menu Page 3.4 Software information ASUS PC Probe II Installing PC Probe II Launching PC Probe II Using PC Probe II Preferences Hardware monitor panels Changing the monitor panels position Moving the monitor panels Adjusting the sensor threshold value Monitoring sensor alert WMI browser DMI browser PCI browser Usage CPU usage Hard disk drive space usage Memory usage Configuring PC Probe II Page Chapter 4 Motherboard introduction 4-2 Chapter 4: Motherboard info 4.1 Introduction M2A-VM AUDIO PWR_FAN PCIEX1_1 4.3 Jumpers Page 4.4 Connectors Page right angle side 4-8 Chapter 4: Motherboard info ATX Power Connector The IEEE 1394 module is purchased separately. Fan Connectors IEEE 1394a Connector CPU_FAN CHA_FAN PWR_FAN Never connect a USB cable to the IEEE1394a connector. Doing so will damage the motherboard! Page I Page Page Page Playback of HD DVD and Blu-Ray Discs Dual display table Page 5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS 5.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk Windows DOS environment XP environment 5.1.2 ASUS EZ Flash 2 utility 5.1.3 Award BIOS Flash Utility Page 5.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility Recovering the BIOS from a floppy/USB flash disk Recovering the BIOS from the support CD Page Installing ASUS Update 5.1.5 ASUS Update utility Updating the BIOS through the Internet Updating the BIOS through a BIOS file 5.2 BIOS setup program 5.2.1 BIOS menu screen 5.2.2 Menu bar 5.2.4 Menu items 5.2.5 Sub-menu items 5.2.6 Configuration fields 5.2.3 Legend bar 5-13ASUS V-Series M2A690G 5.2.7 Pop-up window Pop-up menu 5.2.8 General help At the top right corner of the menu screen is a brief description of the selected item. 5.3 Main menu 5.3.1 System Time [xx:xx:xx] 5.3.2 System Date [Day xx/xx/xxxx] 5.3.3 Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in.] 5.3.4 Primary IDE Master/Slave Primary IDE Master/Slave [Auto] Access Mode [Auto] Page 5.3.5 SATA 1-4 Extended Drive [Auto] Access Mode [Auto] Capacity Cylinder 5.3.6 HDD SMART Monitoring [Disabled] 5.3.7 Installed Memory [xxx MB] 5.3.8 Usable Memory [XXX MB] 5.4 Advanced menu 5.4.1 JumperFree Configuration +1.2VNBSB [Auto] DDR2 Voltage Control [Auto] CPU Voltage Control [Auto] 5.4.2 CPU Configuration 5.4.3 Chipset DRAM Configuration LDT & PCI Bus Control Plug & Play O/S [No] Resources Controlled By [Auto] 5.4 .4 PC IPn P UMA Frame Buffer Size [64MB] Surroundview [Disabled] Spread Spectrum [Auto] PCI Latenct Timer (CLK) [64] 5.4.5 Onboard Device Configuration Maximum Payload Size [4096] IRQ Resources South OnChip IDE Device South OnChip PCI Device Front Panel Type [HD Audio] Primary Display Adapter [PCIEx] Onboard LAN [Enabled] 5.4.6 USB Configuration 5.5.1 ACPI Suspend Type [S1&S3] 5.5.2 ACPI APIC Support [Enabled] 5.5.3 APM Configuration 5.5 Power menu Page 5.5.4 Hardware Monitor Q-Fan Controller [Disabled] Page 5-30 Chapter 5: BIOS setup 1st ~ 4th Boot Device [Removable] Allows you to assign a removable drive attached to the system. 5.6 Boot menu 5.6.1 Boot Device Priority 5.6.2 Removable Drives 1. Floppy Disks 1. SATA 5.6.3 Hard Disk Drives 5.6.4 Boot Settings Configuration Case Open Warning [Enabled] Quick Boot [Enabled] Boot Up Floppy Seek [Disabled] OS Select for DRAM > 64MB [Non-OS2] Bootup Num-Lock [On] Typematic Rate Setting [Disabled] Full Screen LOGO [Enabled] Halt On [All, But Keyboard] 5.6.5 Security Supervisor Password User Password Password Check 5-34 Chapter 5: BIOS setup 5.7 Tools menu The succeeding items become user-congurable when you enable the ASUS Music Alarm. 5.7.1 ASUS Music Alarm ASUS Music Alarm [Disabled] Alarm Date: Sunday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/ Thursday/Friday/Saturday [Enabled] Page Load from Profile 1/2 Load from File 5.7.2 ASUS O.C. Profile Load BIOS Profile Save BIOS Profile Save to Profile 1/2 Save to File 5-38 Chapter 5: BIOS setup 5.7.3 ASUS EZ Flash 2 5.8 Exit menu Exit & Save Changes Exit & Discard Changes Load Setup Defaults Discard Changes