Asus Crosshair III Formula User Manual download pdf (Page 36)

Place this side towards

the rear of the chassis

2.2.4 Placement direction

When installing the motherboard, ensure that you place it into the chassis in the

correct orientation. The edge with external ports goes to the rear part of the chassis

as indicated in the image below.

2.2.5 Screw holes

Place nine (9) screws into the holes indicated by circles to secure the motherboard

to the chassis.

DO NOT overtighten the screws! Doing so can damage the motherboard.

2-8 Chapter 2: Hardware information

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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
  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
  95
3.4.6 System Information 96
3.5 Advanced menu 97
3-24 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 98
 99
 101
Onboard Lan [Standard] 102
Firewire 1394 [Enabled] 102
  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
  118
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
 144
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
 155
installation 156
 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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