Asus Crosshair III Formula manuals

Asus Crosshair III Formula User Manual (170 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Motherboard | Size: 12.81 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

Second Edition

2

June 2009

2

Contents

3

Safety information

9

Operation safety

10

About this guide

11

Typography

12

(continued on the next page)

13

Chapter 1: Product

17

1.1 Welcome!

19

1.2 Package contents

19

1.3 Special features

20

DDR3 1600 (O.C.) support

21

MemOK!

22

Extreme Tweaker

22

Voltiminder LED

22

Loadline Calibration

22

1.3.3 ROG unique features

23

1.3.4 ASUS special features

24

C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall)

25

Chapter 2: Hardware

27

2.1 Before you proceed

29

Onboard LEDs

30

ROG Crosshair III Formula 2-5

33

2.2 Motherboard overview

34

2.2.3 Layout contents

35

2.2.5 Screw holes

36

2.2.4 Placement direction

36

2.3.1 Installing the CPU

37

Gold triangle

38

Small triangle

38

2.4 System memory

42

One DIMM:

43

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44

2.5.4 Removing a DIMM

48

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

48

2.5 Expansion slots

49

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

50

2.5.4 PCI slot

51

2.5.5 PCI Express x1 slots

51

2.6 Jumper

53

2.7 I/O shield, LCD Poster

54

and Audio card Installation

54

2.8 Connectors

56

* LAN port LED indications

57

2.7.2 Internal connectors

58

6. GP connector (8-pin GP)

62

SUPREMEFX

67

RESET SW

68

2.8.3 Onboard switches

69

3. MemOK! switch

70

BIOS setup

73

3.1.1 ASUS Update utility

75

3-2 Chapter 3: BIOS setup

76

Quit all Windows

76

CROSSHAIRIIIFORMULA

77

CROSSHAIRIIIFORMULA.ROM

77

Recovering the BIOS

79

3.2 BIOS setup program

80

3.2.2 Menu bar

81

3.2.3 Navigation keys

81

3.2.1 BIOS menu screen

81

Scroll bar

82

Pop-up window

82

3.3 Extreme Tweaker menu

83

3-10 Chapter 3: BIOS setup

84

3.3.10 HT Link Speed [Auto]

85

DCT Unganged Mode [Auto]

86

Power Down Enable [Disabled]

86

Bank Swizzle Mode [Enabled]

86

DRAM Command Rate [Auto]

87

3-14 Chapter 3: BIOS setup

88

3.3.20 NB Voltage [Auto]

90

3.3.22 SB Voltage [Auto]

90

3.3.24 DRAM REF Voltages

91

3.3.27 Debug Mode [String]

91

3.4 Main menu

92

Type [Auto]

93

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

93

PIO Mode [Auto]

94

DMA Mode [Auto]

94

SMART Monitoring [Auto]

94

32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled]

94

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3.4.6 System Information

96

3.5 Advanced menu

97

3-24 Chapter 3: BIOS setup

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

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Onboard Lan [Standard]

102

Firewire 1394 [Enabled]

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 

103

3.5.5 PCI PnP

104

All LED Control [Enabled]

105

 

106

3.6 Power menu

107

 

108

Power On By PME [Disabled]

109

3.6.6 Hardware Monitor

110

Fan Speed Monitor

111

Fan Speed Control

111

Chassis Q-Fan Mode [Silent]

112

PWRFan Control [Disabled]

112

3.7 Boot menu

113

3.7.3 Security

115

Change User Password

116

Password Check [Setup]

116

3.8 Tools menu

117

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3.8.3 TweakIt Batch File

119

3.8.4 AI NET 2

120

3.9 Exit menu

121

3-48 Chapter 3: BIOS setup

122

Software

123

Chapter summary

124

4.2 Support DVD information

125

4.2.2 Drivers menu

126

4.2.3 Utilities menu

127

4.2.4 Make disk menu

129

4.2.5 Manual menu

129

4.2.6 Video menu

130

4.2.8 Other information

131

Filelist

132

Technical support form

132

4.3 Software information

133

Main Panel

136

Speakers and Headphone Panel

136

EAX Effects Panel

137

X-Fi CMSS-3D Panel

137

X-Fi Crystalizer Panel

137

Graphic Equalizer Panel

138

Mixer Panel

138

4.3.3 ASUS PC Probe II

139

Preferences

140

Hardware monitor panels

141

WMI browser

142

DMI browser

142

PCI browser

143

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4.3.4 ASUS AI Suite

145

Other feature buttons

146

4.3.5 ASUS Q-Fan 2

147

4.3.6 CPU Level Up

148

4.3.7 ASUS TurboV

149

Advanced settings menu

150

4.4 RAID congurations

151

4.4.4 AMD

152

Option ROM Utility

152

Creating a RAID volume

153

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installation

156

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157

CrossFireX™

159

5.1 ATI

161

CrossFireX™ technology

161



162

CrossFireX bridge

162

5.1.5 Enabling the ATI

163

Enabling CrossFireX settings

164

Debug code table

165

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