Table of contents

Chapter 3: Starti ng up

3.1

Installing an operating system..............................................

3-2

3.2

Powering up...........................................................................

3-2

3.3

Support CD information.........................................................

3-2

 

3.3.1 Running the support CD..........................................

3-3

 

3.3.2

Utilities menu...........................................................

3-4

 

3.3.3

Make disk.................................................................

3-5

 

3.3.4

ASUS contact information.......................................

3-5

3.4

Software information.............................................................

3-6

Chapter 4: Motherboard I nfo

4.1

Introduction...........................................................................

4-2

4.2

Motherboard layout...............................................................

4-2

4.3

Jumpers.................................................................................

4-3

4.4

Connectors............................................................................

4-6

Chapter 5: BI OS I nformati on

5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS.........................................

5-2

5.1.1

ASUS Update utility.................................................

5-2

5.1.2 Creating a bootable floppy disk...............................

5-5

5.1.3 ASUS EZ Flash utility................................................

5-6

5.1.4

AwardBIOS Flash utility............................................

5-7

5.1.5 Saving the current BIOS file.....................................

5-9

5.1.5 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility...............................

5-10

5.2 BIOS setup program............................................................

5-11

5.2.1

BIOS menu screen..................................................

5-12

5.2.2

Menu bar................................................................

5-12

5.2.3

Legend bar............................................................

5-13

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