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1-22 Chapter 1: Product introduction

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA

hard disk drives. The current Serial ATA I interface allows up to 150

MB/s data transfer rate while Serial ATA II allows up to 300 MB/s data

transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s

(Ultra DMA/133)

Install the Windows

2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows

XP Service

Pack1 before using Serial ATA.

K8N-VM SATA Connectors

SATA1

SATA2

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA

_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA

_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

K8N-VM

For detailed instructions on how to conﬁgure RAID 0 and RAIID 1, refer

to the RAID manual in the support CD. See page 3-5 for details.

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Motherboard 1
First Edition 2
October 2005 2
Contents 3
Safety information 7
K8N-VM speciﬁcations summary 8
Product 11
1.1 Welcome! 12
1.2 Package contents 12
1.3 Special features 12
PCI Express™ interface 13
Serial ATA II technology 13
S/PDIF digital sound ready 13
USB 2.0 technology 13
ASUS EZ Flash BIOS 14
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 14
ASUS MyLogo2™ 14
1.4 Before you proceed 15
1.5 Motherboard overview 16
1.5.2 Placement direction 17
1.5.3 Screw holes 17
1.5.4 Layout contents 18
Installing the CPU 19
K8N-VM CPU Fan Connector 20
1.7 System memory 21
1.7.4 Removing a DIMM 22
1.7.3 Installing a DIMM 22
1.8 Expansion slots 23
1.8.3 PCI slots 25
1.8.4 PCI Express x1 slot 25
1.8.5 PCI Express x16 slot 25
1.9 Jumpers 26
K8N-VM USB Device Wake-Up 27
USBPW5678 27
K8N-VM Keyboard Power Setting 28
1.10 Connectors 29
1.10.2 Internal connectors 30
K8N-VM IDE Connectors 31
K8N-VM SATA Connectors 32
SPDIFOUT 33
Legacy AC’97-complian 34
K8N-VM ATX Power Connectors 35
K8N-VM System Panel Connector 36
BIOS setup 37
DOS environment 38
XP environment 38
2000 environment 38
2.1.2 ASUS EZ Flash utility 39
2.1.3 AFUDOS utility 40
Updating the BIOS file 41
2.1.5 ASUS Update utility 44
ASUS K8N -V M 2 - 9 45
2.2 BIOS setup program 47
2.2.2 Menu bar 48
2.2.3 Navigation keys 48
2.2.1 BIOS menu screen 48
ASUS K8N-VM 2-13 49
2.3 Main menu 50
First and Second SATA 51
2.3.5 IDE Configuration 52
2.3.6 System Information 53
2.4 Advanced menu 54
AI Overclocking [Auto] 55
CPU FSB Frequency [XXX] 55
2.4.3 CPU Configuration 56
2.4.4 Chipset 56
Memory Configuration 57
ECC Configuration 59
Chapter 2: BIOS Setup 60
ASUS K8N -V M 2-25 61
↓8↑] [16↓16↑] 62
↓4↑] [8↓8↑] [16↓16↑] 62
ASUS K8N-VM 2-27 63
2.4.6 PCI PnP 64
2.4.7 USB Configuration 65
2.5 Power menu 66
2.5.4 APM Configuration 67
2.5.6 Hardware Monitor 68
CPU Q-Fan Control [Disabled] 69
2.6 Boot menu 70
ASUS K8N-VM 2-35 71
+- Change Option 71
2.6.3 Security 72
Change User Password 73
2.7 Exit menu 74
Exit & Discard Changes 75
Discard Changes 75
Load Setup Defaults 75
Exit & Save Changes 75
2-40 Chapter 2: BIOS setup 76
Software 77
3.2 Support CD information 78
3.2.2 Drivers menu 79
3.2.3 Utilities menu 80
3.2.4 Manual menu 81

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