Asus P4S8X manuals

Owner’s manuals and user’s guides for Server/workstation motherboards Asus P4S8X.
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Table of contents

Motherboard

1

Sepetember 2002

2

About this guide

3

Contents

4

Safety information

6

FCC/CDC statements

7

ASUS contact information

8

Chapter 1

9

ASUS P4S8X motherboard

10

Welcome!

11

Core Specifications

12

1.3 Special Features

13

Motherboard Components

14

1.4.1 Component Locations

15

1.5 Value-added Solutions

16

Chapter 2

17

2.1 Motherboard installation

19

2.2 Motherboard layout

20

2.2.1 Layout contents

21

2.3 Before you proceed

22

2.4.1 Overview

23

90 - 100

24

Gold Mark

25

Retention Module Base

26

CPU Heatsink

26

Retention Lock

27

Retention Hole

27

Retention Hook Snapped

27

CPU Fan Connector (CPUFAN)

28

104 Pins

29

2.5.2 Memory configurations

30

2.5.3 Installing a DIMM

31

2.5.4 Removing a DIMM

32

2.6 Expansion slots

33

2.6.3 PCI slots

35

2.6.4 AGP slot

35

2.7 Jumpers

36

FP_LO_SWL

37

FP_LO_SWR

37

P4S8X Clear RTC RAM

38

PS/2 Mouse (6-pin Female)

39

Parallel Port (25-pin Female)

40

5. SOFTWARE SETUP

41

P4S8X IDE Activity LED

42

PRI_ATA133

43

P4S8X 12-Volt Fan Connectors

44

+12V DC COM

45

P4S8X USB 2.0 Header

46

P4S8X Digital Audio Connector

47

P4S8X 1394 Headers

48

IEEE1394_2

48

SEC_SATA

49

P4S8X Smartcard

50

SMARTCON

50

P4S8X Audio Panel Connector

51

FP_AUDIO

51

P4S8X System Panel Connectors

52

Chapter 3

53

Award BIOS Beep Codes

55

3.2 Vocal POST Messages

56

POST Message Action

57

3.3 Powering off the computer

58

Chapter 4

59

4.2 BIOS Setup program

66

4.2.1 BIOS menu bar

67

4.2.2 Legend bar

67

General help

68

Scroll bar

68

Sub-menu

68

4.3 Main menu

69

Type [Auto]

70

[User Type HDD]

71

SMART Monitoring [Disabled]

73

PIO Mode [4]

73

Ultra DMA Mode [Disabled]

73

4.3.2 Keyboard Features

74

Language [English]

75

A note about passwords

75

Halt On [All Errors]

75

Installed Memory [XXX MB]

75

4.4 Advanced Menu

76

1.750V, 1.775V, 1.800V

77

USB Legacy Support [Auto]

78

4.4.1 Chip Configuration

79

PCI 2.1 Support [Enabled]

81

Onboard PCI IDE Enable [Both]

81

UART2 Use As [COM Port]

82

Parallel Port Mode [ECP+EPP]

83

ECP DMA Select [3]

83

4.4.3 PCI Configuration

84

USB 2.0 Function [Enabled]

85

Onboard ATA device [Enabled]

85

IRQ XX Reserved [No/ICU]

86

4.5 Power Menu

87

4.5.1 Power Up Control

89

Automatic Power Up [Disabled]

90

4.5.2 Hardware Monitor

91

4.6 Boot Menu

92

ASUS MyLogo

93

feature

93

4.7 Exit Menu

94

Load Setup Defaults

95

Discard Changes

95

Save Changes

95

Chapter 4: BIOS Setup

96

Chapter 5

97

5.2 Support CD information

99

5.3.1 Installation Procedure

100

5.4 Using the Promise

102

Chip for RAID 0 or 1

102

5.4.2 Enter FastTrak376

104

BIOS and FastBuild Utility

104

Y -Create and Duplicate

106

N -Create Only

106

5.6 ASUS PC Probe

112

5.6.2 Using ASUS PC Probe

113

Information

114

5.7 ASUS Live Update

117

5.8 ASUS MyLogo

118

5.9 3Deep Color Tuner

120

5.9.2 The 3Deep Control Panel

121

5.10 Winbond Voice Editor

122

Changing the default language

123

5.11 Winbond Smart Manager

126

5.11.2 Using Smart Manager

128

5.11.3 Smart Manager Modes

129

Chapter 5: Software reference

132

Glossary

133

Appendix: Glossary

136





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