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ASUS M2N-E SLI
6-1
6.1 Overview
The motherboard supports the NVIDIA
®
SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface) - Intel
®
Edition technology that allows you to install two identical PCI Express™ x16
graphics cards. Follow the installation procedures in this section.
Requirements
• You should have two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are NVIDIA
®
certied.
• Make sure that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI technology.
Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website (www.nvidia.com).
• Make sure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the
minimum power required by your system. See “9. ATX power connectors” on
page 2-28 for details.
• The NVIDIA SLI technology supports Windows
®
XP™ 32-bit/64bit operating
system only.
• Visit the NVIDIA zone website (http://www.nzone.com) for the latest certied
graphics card and supported 3D application list.
- Motherboard 1
- First Edition 2
- October 2006 2
- Contents 3
- Safety information 8
- About this guide 9
- Typography 10
- (continued on the next page) 11
- Product 13
- 1.1 Welcome! 15
- 1.2 Package contents 15
- 1.3 Special features 16
- Serial ATA 3Gb/s RAID 17
- PCI Express™ interface 17
- S/PDIF digital sound ready 17
- USB 2.0 technology 17
- IEEE 1394a support 17
- 1.3.2 ASUS Special features 18
- Hardware 19
- 2.1 Before you proceed 21
- M2N-E SLI 22
- 2.2.3 Motherboard layout 23
- 2.2.4 Layout Contents 24
- Gold triangle 26
- Small triangle 26
- Retention Module Base 27
- CPU Heatsink 27
- Qualied Vendors List 32
- DDR2-800 32
- DDR2-667 33
- DDR2-533 34
- 2.4.3 Installing a DIMM 35
- 2.4.4 Removing a DIMM 35
- 2.5 Expansion slots 36
- 2.5.3 Interrupt assignments 37
- 2.5.4 PCI slots 37
- 2.5.5 PCI Express x1 slot 38
- 2.5.6 PCI Express x16 slots 38
- Clear RTC 39
- (Default) 39
- 2.7 Connectors 42
- Orient the red markings on 44
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 2-31 51
- Powering up 53
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 3-1 55
- 3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up 56
- BIOS setup 57
- DOS environment 59
- XP environment 59
- 2000 environment 59
- 4.1.2 Updating the BIOS 60
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-3 61
- 4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS s e tup 62
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-7 65
- 4.1.6 ASUS Update utility 66
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-9 67
- 4.2 BIOS setup program 69
- 4.2.2 Menu bar 70
- 4.2.1 BIOS menu screen 70
- 4.2.4 Menu items 71
- 4.2.5 Sub-menu items 71
- 4.2.6 Configuration fields 71
- 4.2.3 Legend bar 71
- 4.2.7 Pop-up window 72
- 4.2.8 General help 72
- 4.3 Main menu 73
- Access Mode [Auto] 74
- 4.3.6 SATA 1, 2, 3, 4 76
- 4.3.8 Installed Memory 77
- 4.4 Advanced menu 78
- Overclock Profile [Auto] 79
- PCI Express Clock [100MHz] 79
- DDR2 Voltage [Auto] 79
- CPU Multiplier [Auto] 79
- CPU Voltage [Auto] 80
- 4.4.3 CPU Configuration 81
- DRAM Timing Control 82
- Tcl[Auto] 82
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-25 83
- 4.4.4 PCIPnP 84
- IDE Function Setup 85
- 4-28 Chapter 4: BIOS s e tup 86
- NVRAID Configuration 87
- USB Configuration 88
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-31 89
- 4.4.6 SLI Configuration 90
- 4.5 Power menu 91
- 4.5.3 APM Configuration 92
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-35 93
- 4.5.4 Hardware Monitor 94
- 12V Voltage[11.90V] 95
- 4.6 Boot menu 96
- 4.6.2 Removable Drives 97
- Case Open Warning [Enabled] 98
- Quick Boot [Enabled] 98
- 4.6.4 Security 100
- Password Check 101
- 4.7 Tools menu 102
- 4.8 Exit menu 103
- Load Setup Defaults 104
- Discard Changes 104
- Software 105
- Chapter summary 106
- 5.2 Support CD information 107
- 5.2.2 Drivers menu 108
- 5.2.3 Utilities menu 109
- 5.2.4 Make Disk menu 110
- 5.2.5 Manuals menu 111
- 5.2.7 Other information 112
- Browse this CD 113
- Technical support Form 113
- Filelist 114
- 5.3 Software information 115
- 5.3.2 ASUS PC Probe II 117
- Preferences 118
- Hardware monitor panels 119
- WMI browser 120
- DMI browser 120
- PCI browser 121
- Configuring PC Probe II 122
- 5.4 RAID congurations 123
- 5.4.1 Installing hard disks 124
- 5.4.2 NVIDIA 125
- RAID configurations 125
- Entering the NVIDIA 126
- RAID utility 126
- Creating a RAID Volume 126
- Rebuilding a RAID array 128
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 5-23 129
- Deleting a RAID array 130
- Clearing a disk data 131
- PCI Express graphics cards 133
- 6.1 Overview 135
- 6.2 Dual graphics card setup 136
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 137
- Chapter 6: NVIDIA 138
- SLI™ technology support 138
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