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Chapter 1:
Product introduction
Chapter 2:
Hardware information
Chapter 3:
Powering up
Chapter 4:
BIOS setup
Chapter 5:
Software support
Chapter 6:
NVIDIA® SLI™ technology support
Federal Communications Commission Statement
Canadian Department of Communications Statement
Electrical safety
Operation safety
How this guide is organized
•Chapter 1: Product introduction
•Chapter 2: Hardware information
•Chapter 3: Powering up
•Chapter 4: BIOS setup
Conventions used in this guide
DANGER/WARNING:
CAUTION:
IMPORTANT
NOTE
CPU
Chipset
System bus
Memory
VGA
ASUS AI Lifestyle
ASUS Express Gate Lite:
unique features
ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution:
ASUS Crystal Sound
Rear panel I/O ports
BIOS features
Form factor
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Chapter 1:
Product
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Serial ATA power cable for 4 devices
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AMD® Socket AM2+ Phenom™ FX / Phenom
Athlon™ / Sempron™ CPU support
HyperTransport™ 3.0 support
AMD® Socket AM2 Athlon™ Series / Sempron™ CPU support
NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI Technology
HDMI / DVI / D-SubInterface
PCIe 2.0 support
Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s technology
IEEE 1394a support
S/PDIF digital sound ready
High Definition Audio
ASUS Express Gate Lite
ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution
ASUS Crystal Sound
ASUS EZ DIY
ASUS MyLogo 2™
Precision Tweaker
AI Booster
C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall)
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Chapter 2:
Hardware
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Onboard LED
2.2.1Placement direction
2.2.2Screw holes
2.2.3Motherboard layout
2.7 Connectors
2.2.4Layout contents
Slots
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Jumper
Rear panel connectors
Internal connectors
2.3.1Installing the CPU
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2.3.2Installing the heatsink and fan
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2.4.1Overview
2.4.2Memory configurations
Recommended Memory Configurations
Important notice on installing Windows® XP 32-bitversion
Search
4GB memory installed but less memory size detected
64-bit
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Side(s): SS - Single-sidedDS - Double-sided
DIMM support:
A*:
2.4.3Installing a DIMM
2.4.4Removing a DIMM
2.5.1Installing an expansion card
2.5.2Configuring an expansion card
Standard interrupt assignments
IRQ assignments for this motherboard
2.5.4PCI slots
2.5.5PCI Express x1 slots
2.5.6PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (blue)
2.5.7Universal PCI Express x16 slot (black)
VGA configuration
PCI Express operating mode
PCIex16_1
PCIex16_2
Single VGA/PCIe card
Clear RTC RAM (3-pinCLRTC)
LAN port LED indications
Audio 2, 4, 6, or 8-channelconfiguration
Troubleshooting on HDTV overscaling or underscaling:
2.7.2Internal connectors
1.Floppy disk drive connector (34-1pin FLOPPY)
2.IDE connector (40-1pin PRI_IDE)
Mode of
device(s)
3.NVIDIA® nForce 750a SLI Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)
4.USB connectors (10-1pin USB 78, USB910, USB1112)
5.IEEE 1394a port connector (10-1pin IE1394_2)
6.CPU, chassis, and power fan connectors
(4-pinCPU_FAN; 3-pinCHA_FAN1; 3-pinPWR_FAN)
7.Chassis intrusion connector (4-1pin CHASSIS)
8.ATX power connectors (24-pinEATXPWR; 4-pinATX12V)
9.Front panel audio connector (10-1pin AAFP)
Front Panel Support Type
[HD Audio];
[AC97]
[HD Audio]
10.Optical drive audio connector (4-pinCD)
11.Serial port connector (10-1pin COM1)
12.Digital audio connector (4-1pin SPDIF_OUT)
13.Video Graphics Adapter (VGA) connector (16-pinVGA)
14.System panel connector (20-8pin PANEL)
•System power LED (2-pinPLED)
•Hard disk drive activity LED (2-pinIDE_LED)
•System warning speaker (4-pinSPEAKER)
•ATX power button/soft-offbutton (2-pinPWRSR)
15.ASUS Q-Connector(system panel)
Chapter 3:
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3.2.1Using the OS shut down function
Start
Turn Off Computer
Turn Off
ShutDown
BIOS setup
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Installing ASUS Update
Updating the BIOS through the Internet
Updating the BIOS through a BIOS file
4.1.2Creating a bootable floppy disk
My Computer
Format
Format 3 1/2 Floppy Disk
Computer
4.1.3ASUS EZ Flash 2 utility
EZ Flash
4.1.4Updating the BIOS
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4.1.5Saving the current BIOS file
4.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
Boot
Exit
4.2.1BIOS menu screen
4.2.2Menu bar
4.2.3Legend bar
4.2.4Menu items
Main
4.2.5Sub-menuitems
4.2.6Configuration fields
4.2.7Pop-upwindow
4.2.8General help
4.2.1 BIOS menu screen
4.3.1System Time [xx:xx:xx]
4.3.2System Date [Day xx/xx/xxxx]
4.3.3Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in.]
PIO Mode [Auto]
UDMA Mode [Auto]
Primary IDE Master/Slave [Auto]
Access Mode [Auto]
Transfer Mode
Extended IDE Drive [Auto]
Landing Zone
AI Tuning [Auto]
Overclock Options [Disabled]
CPU VTT Voltage [AUTO]
Memory Voltage [Auto]
1.2V HT Voltage [Auto]
NB CHIP Voltage [Auto]
POST Check LAN cable [Disabled]
DRAM Configuration
AMD Virtualization [Enabled]
AMD Live! [Disabled]
AMD Cool’n’Quiet Function [Disabled]
iGPU Frame Buffer Control [Auto]
Frame Buffer Size [128M]
Onboard GPU [Auto]
K8<->NBHT Speed [Auto]
K8<->NBHT Width [Auto]
SATA Spread Spectrum [Disabled]
Primary Display Adapter [PCI-E]
Plug & Play O/S [No]
Resources Controlled By [Auto]
IRQ Resources
Maximum Payload Size [4096]
IDE Function Setup
MCP Storage Config
Onboard 1394 [Enabled]
HD Audio [Auto]
Front Panel Support Type [HD Audio]
HDMI Audio [Auto]
Onboard LAN Device [Enabled]
Onboard LAN Boot ROM [Disabled]
Serial Port1 Address [3F8/IRQ4]
USB Controller [Enabled]
Restore on AC Power Loss [Power-Off]
PWR Button < 4 secs [Instant-Off]
Power Up On PCI/PCIE Devices [Disabled]
Power On By External Modems [Disabled]
Power On By RTC Alarm [Disabled]
Date (of Month) Alarm [XX]
Power Up By PS/2 Keyboard [Disabled]
CPU Fan Type [DC]
CPU Q-FanControl [Disabled]
CPU Q-FanProfile [Performance]
Chassis Q-FanControl [Disabled]
Chassis Q-FanProfile [Auto]
Vcore Voltage, 3.3V Voltage, 5V Voltage, 12V Voltage
CPU Temperature [xxxºC/xxxºF]
1st ~ 4th Boot Device [Removable]
1. Floppy Disks
Case Open Warning [Enabled]
Quick Boot [Enabled]
Boot Up Floppy Seek [Disabled]
Bootup Num-Lock[On]
Typematic Rate Setting [Disabled]
OS Select for DRAM > 64MB [Non-OS2]
Full Screen LOGO [Enabled]
Halt On [All, But Keyboard]
Supervisor Password
User Password
Password Check
Load BIOS Profile
Load from Profile 1/2
Load from File
Save BIOS Profile
Save to Profle 1/2
Save to File
4.7.2ASUS EZ Flash
Express Gate Lite [Enabled]
Exit & Save Changes
Exit & Discard Changes
Load Setup Default
Discard Changes
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Chapter 5:
Software
support
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5.2.1Running the support DVD
ASUS InstAll - Installation Wizard for Drivers
NVIDIA Chipset Driver Program
Realtek Audio Driver
AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Driver
USB 2.0 Driver
ASUS InstAll - Installation Wizard for Utilities
ASUS PC Probe
ASUS AI Suite
ASUS Update
ASUS Cool‘n’Quiet Utility
ASUS Express Gate Lite Installer
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
NVIDIA 32/64bit XP SATA RAID Driver (Disk 1/2)
NVIDIA 32/64bit XP AHCI Driver (Disk 1/2)
5.2.5Manual menu
5.2.6ASUS Contact information
Motherboard Info
Browse this DVD
Technical support Form
File list
5.3.1ASUS MyLogo2™
5.2.3 Utilities menu
4.1.4 AFUDOS utility
Configuration
4.1.1 ASUS Update utility
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Enabling Cool ‘n’ Quiet!™ Technology
Control Panel
Personalization
Change power settings
Power saver
Launching the Cool ‘n’ Quiet!™ software
Realtek HD Audio Manager
Information
Minimize
Exit
Configuration options
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Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Installing PC Probe
Launching PC Probe
Using PC Probe
Preference
Hardware monitor panels
WMI browser
DMI browser
PCI browser
Usage
Configuring PC Probe
Installing AI Suite
Launching AI Suite
Using AI Suite
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5.3.6ASUS AI Gear
5.3.7ASUS AI Nap
Yes
5.3.8ASUS Q-Fan2
CHASSIS
Enable
Profile
Enable
5.3.9ASUS AI Booster
Installing ASUS Express Gate Lite
The First Screen
The Express Gate Lite Environment
Using the Configuration Panel
Using the LaunchBar
How Do I Get on to the Internet
3.Make the proper network configurations
Setup
Configuring Express Gate Lite in BIOS Setup
Updating Express Gate Lite
Repairing Express Gate Lite
5.4.1RAID definitions
RAID
(Data striping)
RAID
(Data mirroring)
Installing Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks
Setting the BIOS RAID items
Entering the NVIDIA® RAID utility
Creating a RAID Volume
Rebuilding a RAID array
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Deleting a RAID array
Clearing a disk data
5.5.1Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS
5.5.2Creating a RAID/SATA driver disk in Windows®
Drivers\Chipset\Disk\RAID
Drivers\Chipset\Disk\AHCI
Chapter 6:
NVIDIA® SLI™
support
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Requirements
9. ATX power connectors
6.2.1Installing SLI-readygraphics cards
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6.2.2Installing the device drivers
6.2.3Enabling the multi-GPUfeature in Windows®