Asus P4GE-MX manual

P4GE-MX

User Guide

Motherboard

Contents

Page E1722 First Edition August 1: Product introduction Chapter 2: BIOS information Chapter 3: Software support Where to find more information Electrical safety Operation safety Conventions used in this guide Typography Page Page Page Page Thank you for buying the ASUS® P4GE-MXmotherboard Chapter 1: Product introduction 1.3.1 Product Highlights Latest processor technology Onboard 10/100 LAN Integrated Graphics AGP 4X support 1.3.2 Unique ASUS features CrashFree BIOS ASUS EZ Flash BIOS ASUS MyLogo™ C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall) Onboard LED 1.5.1 Motherboard layout 1.5.2 Placement direction 1.5.3 Screw holes 1.6.1 Overview Notes on Intel® Hyper-ThreadingTechnology 1.6.2 Installing the CPU 1.7.1 DIMM sockets location 1.7.2 Installing a DIMM Standard interrupt assignments 1.8.2 IRQ assignments for this motherboard 1.8.3 PCI slots 1.8.4 AGP slot 1.Clear RTC RAM (CLRTC) <Del 2.Keyboard power (3-pinKBPWR) 3.USB device wake-up (3-pinUSBPWR_12, USBPWR_34, USBPWR_56) 1.10.1 Rear panel connectors 1.10.2 Internal connectors 3.ATX power connectors (20-pinATX_POWER1, 4-pinATX12V1) 4.Internal audio connectors (4-pinCD, AUX) 5.CPU and chassis fan connectors (3-pinCPU_FAN, CHA_FAN) 6.USB header (10-1pin USB56) 7.Front panel audio connector (10-1pin FP_AUDIO) 8.Chassis intrusion connector (4-1pin CHASSIS1) 9.GAME/MIDI connector (16-1pin GAME1) 10.Digital Audio connector (6-1pin SPDIF_OUT) 11.Serial connector (9-pinCOM2 ) 12.Power LED connector (3-pinPLED1 ) • Hard Disk Activity Lead (Red 2-pinIDE_LED) Page Important notes 2.1.1Creating a bootable floppy disk 2.1.2 Updating the BIOS with EZ Flash feature 2.1.3 Recovering the BIOS with CrashFree BIOS To recover the BIOS from a floppy disk: To recover the BIOS from the support CD: 2.1.4 ASUS Update To install ASUS Update: To update the BIOS using the ASUS Update: Save Page 2.2.1 BIOS menu screen 2.2.2 Menu bar 2.2.3 Legend bar 2.2.4 General help 2.2.5 Sub-menu 2.2.6 Pop-upwindow System Date [mm/dd/yy] System Time [hh:mm:ss] Case Open Warning [Enabled] Password Check [Setup] Supervisor Password [Clear] / User Password [Clear] Drive A [1.44M, 3.5 in.] Floppy 3 Mode Support [Disabled] Video [EGA/VGA] Halt On [All, But Keyboard] Primary and Secondary Master/Slave IDE Auto-Detection[Press Enter] Access Mode [Auto] Capacity [xxxxx MB] Cylinder Head Precomp Landing Zone 2.4.1 Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Timing Selectable [By SPD] CAS Latency Time [1.5] Active to Precharge Delay [7] DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay [3] DRAM RAS# Precharge [3] Memory Frequency for [Auto] AGP Aperture Size (MB) [64] On-ChipFrame Buffer Size [8MB] 2.4.2 Integrated Peripherals IDE DMA Transfer Access [Enabled] On-ChipPrimary PCI IDE [Enabled] Primary Master PIO [Auto] Primary Slave PIO [Auto] On-ChipSecondary PCI IDE [Enabled] Primary Master UDMA [Auto] Primary Slave UDMA [Auto] Secondary Master UDMA [Auto] Secondary Slave UDMA [Auto] Parallel Port Mode [ECP] EPP Mode Select [EPP1.7] ECP Mode Use DMA [3] Game Port Address [201] Midi Port Address [330] ACPI Suspend Type [S1& S3] USB Device Wake-UpFrom S3 [Enabled] POWER ON Function [BUTTON ONLY] KB Power ON Password [Enter] Hot Key Power ON [Ctrl-F1] PWRON After PWR-Fail[Off] Run VGABIOS if S3 Resume [No] Power Button < 4 Sec [Instant-Off] Wake-Upby PCI card [Enabled] Hardware Monitor CPU Warning Temperature [Disabled] MB Temperature [xxxºC] CPU Temperature [xxxºC] CPU Fan Speed [xxxxRPM] or [0RPM] First, Second, Third Boot Device Boot Other Device [Enabled] Boot Up Floppy Seek [Disabled] Boot up Num-Lock[On] HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability [Disabled] Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Saving Load Fail-SafeDefaults Load Optimized Defaults Page 3.2.1 Running the support CD 3.2.2 Drivers menu 3.2.3 Utilities menu ASUS PC Probe Install ASUS Update PC-CILLIN 3.2.4 ASUS Contact Information Launching the AC97 Audio Configuration panel Connector sensing feature