About this guide

Audience

This guide provides general information and installation instructions about the ASUS Pundit P3-PH5 barebone system. This guide is intended for experienced users and integrators with hardware knowledge of personal computers.

How this guide is organized

This guide contains the following parts:

1.Chapter 1: System introduction

This chapter gives a general description of the barebone system. The chapter lists the system features including introduction on the front and rear panel, and internal components.

2.Chapter 2: Basic installation

This chapter provides step-by-step instructions on how to install components in the system.

3.Chapter 3: Getting started

This chapter helps you power up the system and install drivers and utilities from the support CD.

4.Chapter 4: Motherboard info

This chapter gives information about the motherboard that comes with the system. This chapter includes the motherboard layout, jumper settings, and connector locations.

5.Chapter 5: BIOS setup

This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup menus and describes the BIOS parameters.

6.Appendix: CPU features

The Appendix describes the CPU features and technologies that the motherboard supports.

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