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ASUS M2N68-VM 1-9
1.6 Central Processing Unit (CPU)
The motherboard comes with a 940-pin AM2 socket designed for the AMD
Athlon™ 64 X2 / Athlon™ 64 / Athlon™ FX / Sempron™ / Phenom FX / Phenom.
The AM2 socket has a different pinout from the 940-pin socket designed for the
AMD Opteron™ processor. Ensure that you use a CPU is designed for the AM2
socket. The CPU ts in only one correct orientation. DO NOT force the CPU into
the socket to prevent bending the connectors on the socket and damaging the
CPU!
1.6.1 Installing the CPU
To install a CPU.
1. Locate the CPU socket on the motherboard.
2. Unlock the socket by pressing the
lever sideways, then lift it up to a
90°-100° angle.
Ensure that the socket lever is lifted up to 90°-100° angle, otherwise the CPU
does not t in completely.
Socket lever
M2N68-VM
M2N68-VM
CPU Socket AM2+
- Motherboard 1
- Second Edition V2 2
- August 2008 2
- Contents 3
- Safety information 7
- About this guide 8
- Typography 9
- (continued on the next page) 10
- Product 13
- 1.1 Welcome! 14
- 1.2 Package contents 14
- 1.3 Special features 14
- ASUS M2N68-VM 1-3 15
- ASUS MyLogo 2™ 17
- Green ASUS 17
- ASUS Express Gate 17
- 1.4 Before you proceed 18
- 1.5 Motherboard overview 19
- M2N68-VM 20
- 1.6.1 Installing the CPU 21
- Gold triangle 22
- Small triangle 22
- Retention Module Base 23
- CPU Heatsink 23
- 1.7 System memory 25
- Qualied Vendors Lists (QVL) 26
- DDR2-533 MHz capability 26
- DDR2-667 MHz capability 27
- DDR2-800 MHz capability 28
- ASUS M2N68-VM 1-17 29
- 1.7.3 Installing a DIMM 31
- 1.7.4 Removing a DIMM 31
- 1.8 Expansion slots 32
- Interrupt assignments 33
- 1.8.3 PCI slots 34
- 1.8.4 PCI Express x1 slot 34
- 1.8.5 PCI Express x16 slot 34
- 1.9 Jumpers 35
- 1.10 Connectors 36
- Floppy Disk Drive Connector 38
- IDE Connector 39
- SATA Connectors 40
- SPDIFOUT 41
- Legacy AC’97-compliant 43
- Azalia-compliant 43
- 12. LPT connector 45
- IBM PC-compatible computers 45
- System Panel Connector 46
- BIOS setup 47
- DOS environment 48
- XP environment 48
- Vista environment 49
- 2.1.3 AFUDOS utility 51
- Updating the BIOS le 52
- 2.1.5 ASUS Update utility 55
- 2-10 Chapter 2: BIOS setup 56
- M2N68VM.ROM 57
- 2.2 BIOS setup program 58
- 2.2.1 BIOS menu screen 59
- 2.2.2 Menu bar 59
- 2-14 Chapter 2: BIOS setup 60
- 2.3 Main menu 61
- 2.3.4 IDE Conguration 62
- Type [Auto] 63
- LBA/Large Mode [Auto] 63
- PIO Mode [Auto] 64
- DMA Mode [Auto] 64
- SMART Monitoring [Auto] 64
- 32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled] 64
- 2.3.6 SATA1, SATA2, SATA3 65
- 2.3.7 System Information 66
- 2.4 Advanced menu 67
- Memory Clock Mode [Auto] 69
- Memclock Value [200 MHz] 69
- DRAM Timing Mode [Auto] 69
- Memory Over Voltage [Auto] 69
- Chipset Over Voltage [Auto] 69
- 2.4.2 CPU Conguration 70
- NorthBridge Conguration 71
- 2.4.3 Chipset 71
- DCT Unganged Mode [Auto] 72
- Power Down Enable [Enabled] 72
- ECC Conguration 73
- SouthBridge Conguration 74
- Parallel Port Address [378] 75
- Parallel Port Mode [Normal] 75
- 2.4.5 PCI PnP 76
- 2.4.6 USB Conguration 77
- 2-32 Chapter 2: BIOS setup 78
- 2.5 Power menu 79
- 2.5.4 APM Conguration 80
- 2.5.5 Hardware Monitor 81
- 2.6 Boot menu 82
- ASUS M2N68-VM 2-37 83
- 2.6.3 Security 84
- Change User Password 85
- Clear User Password 85
- Password Check [Setup] 85
- 2.7 Tools menu 86
- 2.7.2 Express Gate [Enabled] 87
- 2.7.3 AI NET 2 87
- 2.8 Exit menu 88
- Software 89
- 3.2 Support DVD information 90
- 3.2.2 Drivers menu 91
- 3.2.3 Utilities menu 92
- 3-5ASUS M2N68-VM 93
- Library DVD 93
- 3.2.4 Make Disk menu 94
- 3.2.5 Manual menu 95
- 3.3 ASUS Express Gate 97
- The First Screen 98
- The Express Gate Environment 98
- Using the Conguration Panel 100
- Using the LaunchBar 101
- 3-15ASUS M2N68-VM 103
- Using the Photo Manager 104
- Updating Express Gate 105
- Repairing Express Gate 105
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