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ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 2-3

2.2.3 ASUS Stack Cool 2

The motherboard comes with the ASUS Stack Cool 2 cooling solution that lowers

the temperature of critical heat generating components by 20ºC. The motherboard

uses a special design on the printed circuit board (PCB) to dissipate heat that

critical components generate.

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Motherboard 1
Revised Edition V2 2
May 2006 2
Contents 3
Safety information 8
About this guide 9
Typography 10
(continued on the next page) 11
Product 15
1.1 Welcome! 17
1.2 Package contents 17
1.3 Special features 18
Dual RAID solution 19
IEEE 1394a support 19
S/PDIF digital sound ready 19
USB 2.0 technology 20
Dual Gigabit LAN solution 20
AI Gear 21
AI Nap 21
ASUS Crystal Sound 21
Advanced Thermal Design 21
1.3.3 ASUS Special features 22
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 1-7 23
ASUS Multi-language BIOS 24
ASUS O.C. Prole 24
Hardware 25
2.1 Before you proceed 27
M2N32-SLI DELUXE 28
2.2.3 ASUS Stack Cool 2 29
2.2.4 Motherboard layout 30
2.2.5 Layout contents 31
Gold triangle 34
Small triangle 34
Retention module base 35
CPU heatsink 35
Retention bracket lock 35
Retention bracket 35
CPU FAN PWM 37
CPU FAN IN 37
CPU FAN PWR 37
2.4.3 Installing a DIMM 40
2.4.4 Removing a DIMM 40
DDR2-800 MHz capability 41
2.5 Expansion slots 42
2.5.3 Interrupt assignments 43
2.5.4 PCI slots 44
2.6 Jumper 45
2.7 Connectors 46
For Wireless Edition only: 48
SATA connectors 50
SATA_RAID2 51
IEEE 1394 connector 52
CHA_FAN1 53
CHA_FAN2 53
CHA_FAN3 CHA_FAN4 53
PWR_FAN CHIP_FAN 53
Chassis intrusion connector 54
ATX power connector 54
SPDIF_OUT 57
SPDIFOUT 57
System panel connsector 58
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 2-33 59
Powering up 61
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 3-1 63
3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up 64
BIOS setup 65
4.1.1 ASUS Update utility 67
4-2 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 68
Quit all Windows 68
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 4-3 69
The ASUS Update utility is 69
DOS environment 70
XP environment 70
2000 environment 70
4.1.4 Updating the BIOS 72
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 4-7 73
4-8 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 74
4.2 BIOS setup program 76
4.2.1 BIOS menu screen 77
4.2.2 Menu bar 77
4.2.4 Menu items 78
4.2.5 Sub-menu items 78
4.2.6 Conguration elds 78
4.2.3 Legend bar 78
4.2.7 Pop-up window 79
4.2.8 General help 79
4.3 Main menu 80
PIO Mode [Auto] 81
UDMA Mode [Auto] 81
4.3.6 SATA 1-6 83
4.3.9 Usable Memory [XXX MB] 84
4.4 Advanced menu 85
Overclock Options [Disabled] 86
N.O.S. Option [Disabled] 86
PCIEX16_1 Clock [Auto] 86
PCIEX16_2 Clock [Auto] 86
CPU to NB HT Voltage [1.200V] 87
NB to SB HT Voltage [Auto] 88
NB Core/PCI-E Voltage [Auto] 88
SB Core/PCI-E Voltage [Auto] 88
4.4.3 PEG Link Mode 89
4.4.4 CPU Conguration 89
DRAM Timing Control 91
Output Driver Control 92
4.4.5 Chipset 93
IRQ-xx assigned to 94
OnChip IDE Channel0 [Enabled] 95
IDE Prefetch Mode [Enabled] 95
Serial-ATA Conguration 96
USB Conguration 96
4.5 Power menu 98
4.5.3 APM Conguration 99
Date (of Month) Alarm [31] 100
4.5.4 Hardware Monitor 101
4-36 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 102
4.6 Boot menu 103
4.6.2 Removable Drives 104
4.6.3 Hard Disk Drives 104
4.6.4 CDROM Drives 104
Case Open Warning [Enabled] 105
Quick Boot [Enabled] 105
Bootup Num-Lock [On] 105
4.6.6 Security 106
PASSWORD DISABLED !!! 107
Press any key to continue 107
4.7 Tools menu 108
4.7.2 ASUS O.C. Prole 110
213830 2001-09-05 20:00:00 111
MSDOWNLD.TMP 112
4.8 Exit menu 113
4-48 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 114
Software 115
Chapter summary 116
5.2 Support CD information 117
5.2.2 Drivers menu 118
5.2.3 Utilities menu 119
5.2.4 Make Disk menu 120
5.2.5 Manuals menu 121
5.2.7 Other information 122
Browse this CD 123
Technical support Form 123
5.3 Software information 124
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 5-9 125
5.3.3 ASUS PC Probe II 129
Preferences 130
Hardware monitor panels 131
WMI browser 132
DMI browser 132
PCI browser 133
Conguring PC Probe II 134
5.3.4 ASUS AI Gear 135
5.3.5 ASUS AI Nap 137
5.3.6 ASUS Music Alarm 138
OS conguration 139
Adjusting the volume 140
Turning off the music alarm 140
5.3.7 SoundMAX 141
High Denition Audio utility 141
Audio Setup Wizard 142
Jack conguration 143
Adjust speaker volume 143
Adjust microphone volume 143
Audio preferences 144
General options 144
Microphone options 145
Enhanced Microphone Features 145
5.4 RAID congurations 146
5.4.1 Installing hard disks 147
5.4.2 NVIDIA 148
Entering the NVIDIA 149
MeidaShield RAID utility 149
Creating a RAID Volume 149
Rebuilding a RAID array 151
Deleting a RAID array 153
Clearing a disk data 154
Setting the BIOS RAID items 155
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 5-41 157
MAIN MENU 160
Auto conguration 160
Manual conguration 160
Creating a CONCATENATION set 161
6.1 Overview 165
6.2 Dual graphics card setup 166
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 6-3 167
6-4 Chapter 6: NVIDIA 168
SLI™ technology support 168
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe 6-5 169
6-6 Chapter 6: NVIDIA 170

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