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              E1848
First Edition                
December
              Contents
Chapter 1: Product introduction                
Chapter 2: Hardware information
              Chapter 3: Powering up
Chapter 4: BIOS setup              
Appendix: Block diagrams
              Federal Communications Commission Statement
Canadian Department of Communications Statement              
Electrical safety
Operation safety              
How this guide is organized
Where to find more information              
Conventions used in this guide
              NCL-DSSeries specifications summary
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              Chapter summary
              1.1Welcome
Thank you for buying an ASUS® NCL-DSSeries motherboard                
NCL-DS
NCL-D                
NCL-DR1
              1.3.1Product highlights
              Gigabit LAN solution
Serial ATA technology                
Built-inSATA RAID solution
USB 2.0 technology                
Temperature, fan, and voltage monitoring
              1.3.2Innovative ASUS features
              Hardware2 information
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              2.1Before you proceed
Onboard LED              
2.2.1Placement direction
2.2.2Screw holes              
2.2.3CEK spring support for motherboard
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              2.2.4Motherboard layouts
              NCL-Dmodel
              NCL-DR1model
              2.2.5Layout contents
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              2.3.1Installling the CPU
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              2.3.2Installing the CPU heatsink and fan
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              2.4.1Overview
2.4.2Memory configurations              
Single rank population
Single and dual rank mixing                
Dual rank population
              2.4.3Installing a DIMM
2.4.4Removing a DIMM              
2.5.1Installing an expansion card
2.5.2Configuring an expansion card              
2.5.3Interrupt assignments
              2.5.4PCI/PCI-Xslots
2.5.5PCI Express x8 slot                
2.5.6ZCR socket
              2.6Jumpers
1 . Clear RTC RAM (CLRTC1)              
2 . CPU fan pin selection (3-pinFM_CPU1, FM_CPU2)
3 . USB device wake-up (3-pinUSBPW12, USBPW34)              
4 . Keyboard power (3-pinKBPWR1)
5 . VGA controller setting (3-pinVGA_EN1)              
6 . Gigabit LAN controller setting (3-pinLAN1_EN1)
7 . Gigabit LAN controller setting (3-pinLAN2_EN1)              
8 . SCSI controller setting (3-pinSCSI_EN1) (works in NCL-DSmodel only)
9 . Force BIOS recovery setting (3-pinRECOVERY1)              
2.7.1Rear panel connectors
              2.7.2Internal connectors
              3 . Serial ATA connectors (7-pinSATA1, SATA2)
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection            
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              5 . Hard disk activity LED connector (4-pinHDLED1)
6 . USB connector (10-1pin USB34)              
7 . CPU and system fan connectors (3-pinCPU_FAN1/2, REAR_FAN1/2, FRNT_FAN1/2)
8 . Power supply SMBus connector (5-pinPSUSMB1)              
9 . Backplane SMBus connector (6-1pin BPSMB1)
10 . Serial port connector (10-1pin COM2)              
11 . ATX power connectors (24-pinATXPWR1, 8-pinATX12V1)
12 . BMC connector (16-pinBMCCONN1)            
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              14 . Auxiliary panel connector (20-pinAUX_PANEL1)
•Front panel SMB (6-1pin FPSMB)                
•LAN activity LED (2-pin547_LED, 541_LED)
•Chassis intrusion (4-1pin CHASSIS)                
•Locator LED (6-pinLOCATOR)
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              3.1Starting up for the first time
AMI BIOS beep codes              
3.2.1Using the OS shut down function
3.2.2Using the dual function power switch            
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              4.1.1Creating a bootable floppy disk
              4.1.2AFUDOS utility
              Updating the BIOS file
afudos /i[filename] /pbnc            
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              4.1.3ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility
              Recovering the BIOS from the support CD
              4.1.4ASUS Update utility
              Updating the BIOS through the Internet
              Updating the BIOS through a BIOS file
Save              
4.2BIOS setup program
              4.2.1BIOS menu screen
4.2.2Menu bar                
4.2.3Navigation keys
              4.2.4Menu items
4.2.5Sub-menuitems                
4.2.6Configuration fields
4.2.7Pop-upwindow                
4.2.8Scroll bar
              4.3.1System Time [xx:xx:xxxx]
4.3.2System Date [Day xx/xx/xxxx]                
4.3.3Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in.]
              4.3.4Primary, Third and Fourth IDE Master/Slave
              PIO Mode [Auto]
SMART Monitoring [Auto]                
32Bit Data Transfer [Disabled]
              4.3.5IDE Configuration
              4.3.6System Information
              4.4.1USB Configuration
              USB Function [4 USB Ports]
Legacy USB Support [Auto]                
USB 2.0 Controller [Enabled]
USB 2.0 Controller Mode [HiSpeed]                
USB Mass Storage Device Configuration
              4.4.2MPS Configuration
              4.4.3Remote Access Configuration
4.4.4CPU Configuration              
4.4.5Chipset
              NorthBridge Configuration
DIMM Speed                
Memory Remap Feature [Enabled]
Memory Mirroring/Sparing [Disabled]              
4.4.6Onboard Devices Configuration
              4.4.7PCI PnP
              PCI IDE BusMaster [Enabled]
Offboard PCI/ISA IDE Card [Auto]                
IRQ-xxassigned to [PCI Device]
DMA Channel X assigned to [PCI Device]                
Reserved Memory Size [Disabled]
              4.5.1ACPI APIC Support [Enabled]
4.5.2APM Configuration              
Power Management [Enabled]
Video Power Down Mode [Suspend]                
Hard Disk Power Down Mode [Suspend]
Suspend Time Out [Disabled]                
Throttle Slow Clock Ratio [50%]
              Power On Ring [Disabled]
Power On LAN [Disabled]                
Power On By PME# [Disabled]
Power On By RTC Alarm [Disabled]                
Power On By PS/2 Keyboard [Disabled]
              4.5.3Hardware Monitor
              Smart Fan Control [Disabled]
CPU1/CPU2 Temperature [XXX]                
Front1 Temperature [XXX]
              4.6.1Boot Device Priority
              4.6.2Boot Settings Configuration
              Wait for ‘F1’ If Error [Enabled]
Hit ‘DEL’ Message Display [Enabled]                
Interrupt 19 Capture [Disabled]
              4.6.3Security
              User Access Level [Full Access]
No Access                
View Only
Limited                
Full Access
              Clear User Password
Password Check [Setup]                
Boot Sector Virus Protection [Disabled]
              4.7Exit menu
Exit & Save Changes                
Exit & Discard Changes
Discard Changes              
Load Setup Defaults
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              Appendix summary
              A.1 NCL-DSblock diagram
              A.2 NCL-Dblock diagram
              A.3 NCL-DR1block diagram