Asus P5GDC 2.2.3ASUS Stack Cool™

2.2.3ASUS Stack Cool™

The motherboard comes with ASUS Stack Cool™, an innovative thermal solution that provides supplementary cooliing to the motherboard. Stack Cool™ is a mini-PCB installed under the CPU socket to conduct heat away from the motherboard components. Stack Cool™ effectively lowers the motherboard temperature by as much as 10ºC.

Motherboard holes (for the CPU fan and heatsink assembly pins)

ASUS P5GDC Deluxe

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Contents

Page E1657 First Edition July Contents Chapter 1: Product introduction Chapter 2: Hardware information Chapter 3: Powering up Chapter 4: BIOS setup Chapter 5: Software support Page Federal Communications Commission Statement Canadian Department of Communications Statement Electrical safety P5GDC Deluxe specifications summary Page Page Chapter summary 1.1Welcome Thank you for buying an ASUS® P5GDC Deluxe motherboard 1.2Package contents Motherboard I/O module 1.3.1Product highlights PCI Express™ interface 8-channelhigh definition audio Dolby® Digital Live™ IEEE 1394a support Dual RAID solution Gigabit LAN USB 2.0 technology 1.3.2ASUS Proactive features 1.3.3Innovative ASUS features Hardware2 information Page 2.1Before you proceed Onboard LED 2.2.1Placement direction 2.2.2Screw holes 2.2.3ASUS Stack Cool™ 2.2.4Motherboard layout 2.2.5Layout Contents Page 2.3.1Installing the CPU Page Notes on Intel® Hyper-ThreadingTechnology 2.3.2Installing the CPU heatsink and fan Page Page 2.4.1Overview 2.4.2Memory Configurations Recommended DDR memory configurations Recommended DDR2 memory configurations DDR (400 MHz) Qualified Vendors List Page Page DDR2 (533MHz) Qualified Vendors List DDR2-533with 600 MHz capability (overclocking) 2.4.3Installing a DDR DIMM 2.4.4Removing a DDR DIMM 2.4.5Installing a DDR2 DIMM 2.4.6Removing a DDR2 DIMM 2.5.1Installing an expansion card 2.5.2Configuring an expansion card 2.5.3Interrupt assignments 2.5.4PCI slots 2.5.5PCI Express x16 slot 2.5.6PCI Express x1 slot 2.6 Jumpers 1 . Clear RTC RAM (CLRTC1) 2 . USB device wake-up (3-pinUSBPW12, USBPW34, USBPW56, USBPW78) 3 . Keyboard power (3-pinKBPWR) 2.7.1Rear panel connectors 9 . Microphone port (pink) Audio 2, 4, 6, or 8-channelconfiguration 11 . USB 2.0 ports 3 and 12 . USB 2.0 ports 1 and 13 . Optical S/PDIF Out port 2.7.2Internal connectors 3 . IDE RAID connectors (40-1pin PRI_RAID1 [red], SEC_RAID1 [red]) 4 . Serial ATA connectors (7-pinSATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black]) Serial ATA Master/Slave connectors 5 . CPU, Chassis, and Power fan connectors (4-pinCPU_FAN, 3-pinPWR_FAN, 3-pinCHA_FAN1, 3-pinCHA_FAN2) 6 . Serial port connector (10-1pin COM1) 7 . USB connectors (10-1pin USB56, USB78) 8 . ATX power connectors (24-pinEATXPWR, 4-pinATX12V) 9 . Optical drive audio connector (4-pinCD) 10 . GAME/MIDI port connector (16-1pin GAME) 11 . Chassis intrusion connector (4-1pin CHASSIS) 12 . Front panel audio connector (10-1pin AAFP) 13 . IEEE 1394a connector (10-1pin IE1394_2) 14 . System panel connector (20-pinPANEL) •System power LED (Green 3-pinPLED) •Hard disk drive activity (Red 2-pinIDE_LED) System warning speaker (Orange •Power/Soft-offbutton (Yellow 2-pinPWRSW) Page Page 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 Page Page 4.1.1Creating a bootable floppy disk 4.1.2ASUS EZ Flash utility 4.1.3AFUDOS utility Updating the BIOS file afudos /i[filename] 4.1.4ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility Recovering the BIOS from the support CD 4.1.5ASUS Update utility Updating the BIOS through the Internet Updating the BIOS through a BIOS file Open 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 4.3.5IDE Configuration only if SATA IDE Detect Time Out [35] 4.3.6System Information 4.4.1JumperFree Configuration CPU Frequency [XXX] FSB/CPU External Frequency Synchronization DRAM Frequency [Auto] PCI Express Frequency [Auto] PCI Clock Synchronization Mode [Auto] Memory Voltage [Auto] Chipset Core Voltage [Auto] CPU VCore Voltage [Auto] FSB Termination Voltage [Auto] Overclock Options [Overclock 5%] NOS Mode [Auto] Turbo NOS [Disabled] Twin Turbo NOS [Disabled] 4.4.2LAN Cable Status 4.4.3USB Configuration 4.4.4CPU Configuration VID CMOS Setting [ 62] Microcode Updation [Enabled] Max CPUID Value Limit [Disabled] Enhanced C1 Control [Auto] CPU Internal Thermal Control [Auto] 4.4.5Chipset Hyper Path 2 [Auto] Booting Graphic Adapter Priority [PCI-Express/PCI] PEG Buffer Length [Auto] Link Latency [Auto] PEG Root Control [Auto] 4.4.6Onboard Devices Configuration Serial Port1 Address [3F8/IRQ4] Parallel Port Address [378] Parallel Port Mode [ECP] Parallel Port Mode EPP 4.4.7PCI PnP PCI IDE BusMaster [Enabled] IRQ-xxassigned to [PCI Device] 4.5.1Suspend Mode [S1 (POS) only] 4.5.2ACPI 2.0 Support [No] 4.5.3ACPI APIC Support [Enabled] 4.5.4APM Configuration Power On By PCI Devices [Disabled] Power On By PS/2 Keyboard [Disabled] Keyboard Wakeup Password Keyboard Wakeup Password Not Installed 4.5.5Hardware Monitor CPU Fan Ratio [Auto] CPU Target Temperature [xxxºC] Chassis Fan1 Speed [Ignored] or [N/A] Chassis Q-FanControl [Disabled] Power Fan Speed [Ignored] or [N/A] 4.6.1Boot Device Priority 4.6.2Boot Settings Configuration 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 Ye s Exit & Discard Changes Discard Changes Load Setup Defaults Exit & Save Changes Page Software5 support Page 5.2.1Running the support CD 5.2.2Drivers menu 5.2.3Utilities menu ASUS PC Probe ASUS Update AI Booster Microsoft DirectX 9.0b PC-CILLIN 5.2.4Manuals menu 5.2.5ASUS Contact information 5.2.6Other information Browse this CD Technical support Form Filelist 5.3.1ASUS MyLogo™ Ratio 5.3.2AI Net Using the Virtual Cable Tester™ 5.3.3C-Media3D audio configuration Page Effect Environment More Option Environment Size Equalizer Device Setting Information Using Dolby® Digital Live™ 5.4RAID configurations RAID RAID 0+1 JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks 5.4.1Installing hard disks 5.4.2Intel® RAID configurations Creating a RAID Volume 1. Create RAID Volume 4. Exit Deleting a RAID Volume 2. Delete RAID Volume Resetting RAID Disks Drives 3. Reset Disks to Non-RAID 5.4.3ITE® 8212F RAID configurations Auto-configuringa RAID array Defining a RAID array Deleting a RAID array Rebuilding a RAID array Viewing your RAID configuration Auto-rebuild 5.5Creating a RAID driver disk Make ITE8212 Driver Disk O r •ITE8212 RAID Driver Disk: \Drivers\ITE8212\MakeDisk RAID Driver Disk