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Chapter 1: Product introduction

ASUS POST Reporter™

The motherboard offers a new exciting feature called the ASUS POST

Reporter™ to provide friendly voice messages and alerts during the

Power-On Self-Tests (POST). Through an added external speaker, you will

hear the messages informing you of the system boot status and causes of

boot errors, if any. The bundled Winbond Voice Editor software allows you

to customize the voice messages, and provides multi-language support.

See page 3-3.

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Motherboard 1
First Edition 2
October 2003 2
Contents 3
Safety information 7
About this guide 8
Chapter 1 13
Chapter summary 14
1.1 Welcome! 15
1.2 Package contents 15
1.3 Special features 16
1.3.2 Unique ASUS features 17
ASUS POST Reporter™ 18
Chapter 2 19
2.1 Before you proceed 21
2.2 Motherboard overview 22
2.2.3 Motherboard layout 23
2.2.4 Layout Contents 24
2.3.2 Installing the CPU 26
2.3.1 Overview 26
Gold triangle 27
Socket lever 27
90°-100° angle 27
2.4 System memory 28
2.4.3 Installing a DIMM 30
2.4.4 Removing a DIMM 30
2.5 Expansion slots 31
2.5.3 Interrupt assignments 32
2.5.4 PCI slots 33
2.5.5 AGP slot 33
2.5.6 Wi-Fi slot 34
2.6 Jumpers 35
A7N8X-E Clear RTC RAM 37
2.7 Connectors 38
2.7.2 Internal connectors 39
A7N8X-E intrusion connector 40
• Install Windows 41
A7N8X-E Serial COM2 Bracket 42
A7N8X-E ATX Power Connector 43
A7N8X-E USB 2.0 Header 44
A7N8X-E IEEE-1394 Connectors 45
IE1394_2 45
FP_AUDIO 46
A7N8X-E Game Connector 47
Requires an ATX power supply 48
Chapter 3 49
3.2 Powering off the computer 52
3.3 ASUS POST Reporter™ 53
Chapter 3: Powering up 54
POST Message Action 54
3.3.2 Winbond Voice Editor 55
Changing the default language 56
Chapter 4 59
Important notes 61
4.1.2 AwardBIOS Flash Utility 62
4.1.3 ASUS Update 65
4.2 BIOS Setup program 67
4.2.2 Menu bar 68
4.2.1 BIOS menu screen 68
4.2.3 Navigation keys 68
Main menu items 69
4.3 Main menu 70
IDE Primary Master [Auto] 71
Access Mode [Auto] 72
[Manual] & [CHS] Settings 72
4.4 Advanced menu 74
4.4.1 Advanced BIOS Features 75
4.4.3 Integrated Peripherals 82
4.4.4 Power Management Setup 84
4.4.5 PnP/PCI Configurations 86
4.5 Security Menu 87
Security Option [Setup] 88
4.6 Hardware Monitor Menu 89
4.7 Exit Menu 90
Load Setup Defaults 91
Discard Changes 91
Save Changes 91
Exit & Save Changes 91
Exit & Discard Changes 91
Chapter 4: BIOS Setup 92
Chapter 5 93
5.2 Support CD information 95
5.2.2 Drivers menu 96
5.2.3 Utilities menu 97
Winbond Voice Editor 98
PC-CILLIN 2002 98
Adobe Acrobat Reader V5.0 98
ASUS Screen Saver 98
5.2.5 Other information 99
Technical Support Form 100
Filelist 100
5.3 NVIDIA 101
nForce control panel 101
RCA / Optical connectors 102
S/PDIF internal header 102
5.3.6 Applications 103
5.3.4 MIDI 103
5.3.5 Environment 103
5.3.7 Information 104
5.4 NVIDIA 105
NVSwap 1.0 Utility 105
5.5.1 Install the hard disks 107
Creating RAID Sets 109
Deleting RAID Sets 109
Resolving Conflict 109
98SE or 110
5.7 Marvell 111
Virtual Cable Tester™ (VCT) 111
Technology 111
Application 112
Items marked with an asterisk 113
“*” are required fields 113
5.8.2 Using I’m InTouch™ 114

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