Asus P5L-MX manuals

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Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

August 2006

2

Contents

3

Safety information

7

About this guide

8

Typography

9

P5L-MX specications summary

10

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

14

1.2 Package contents

14

1.3 Special features

14

Serial ATA technology

15

945G chipset

15

DDR2 memory support

15

PCI Express™ interface

15

CrashFree BIOS 2

16

ASUS EZ Flash BIOS

16

ASUS MyLogo 2

16

1.4 Before you proceed

17

1.5 Motherboard overview

18

1.5.3 Motherboard layout

19

1.6.1 Installling the CPU

20

Fastener

23

Motherboar d hole

23

CPU FAN PWR

24

CPU FAN IN

24

CPU FAN PWM

24

ASUS P5L-MX 1-13

25

Narrow end of the groove

26

1.7 System memory

27

1.7.4 Installing a DIMM

31

1.7.5 Removing a DIMM

31

1.8 Expansion slots

32

1.8.3 Interrupt assignments

33

1.8.4 PCI slots

34

1.8.5 PCI Express x16

34

1.8.6 PCI Express x1

34

1.9 Jumpers

35

(Default)

36

1.10 Connectors

37

1.10.2 Internal connectors

38

P5L-MX IDE Connector

39

3. Serial ATA connectors

40

Rotation

41

P5L-MX USB 2.0 Connectors

43

Legacy AC’97-complian

44

Azalia-compliant

44

ASUS P5L-MX 1-33

45

System Panel Connector

45

BIOS setup

47

DOS environment

48

XP environment

48

2000 environment

48

2.1.2 ASUS EZ Flash utility

49

2.1.3 AFUDOS utility

50

Updating the BIOS file

51

2.1.5 ASUS Update utility

54

ASUS P5L-MX 2-9

55

2.2 BIOS setup program

57

2.2.2 Menu bar

58

2.2.1 BIOS menu screen

58

2.2.3 Navigation keys

58

ASUS P5L-MX 2-13

59

2.3 Main menu

60

Type [Auto]

61

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

61

IDE Conguration

62

2.3.6 System Information

63

2.4 Advanced menu

64

FSB 1066 266 MHz

65

FSB 800 200 MHz

65

FSB 533 133 MHz

65

MCH Chipset Voltage [Auto]

66

2.4.2 USB Configuration

67

2.4.3 CPU Configuration

68

2.4.4 Chipset

69

Boot Display Device [Auto]

70

Flat Panel Type [Type 1]

70

PEG Buffer Length [Auto]

71

Link Latency [Auto]

71

PEG Root Control [Auto]

71

Slot Power [Auto]

71

HD Audio Controller [Enabled]

72

Parallel Port Address [378]

72

Parallel Port Mode [ECP]

72

Parallel Port IRQ [IRQ7]

73

2.4.6 PCI PnP

74

Suspend Mode [Auto]

75

ACPI 2.0 Support [No]

75

ACPI APIC Support [Enabled]

75

APM Conguration

75

Hardware Monitor

75

2.5.4 APM Configuration

76

ASUS P5L-MX 2-31

77

2.5.5 Hardware Monitor

78

ASUS P5L-MX 2-33

79

2.6 Boot menu

80

ASUS P5L-MX 2-35

81

2.6.3 Security

82

Change User Password

83

Clear User Password

83

Exit Options

84

Exit & Save Changes

84

Exit & Discard Changes

84

Discard Changes

84

Load Setup Defaults

84

2-40 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

86

Software

87

3.2 Support CD information

88

3.2.2 Drivers menu

89

3.2.3 Utilities menu

90

3.2.4 Make Disk menu

91

3.2.5 Manuals menu

92

CPU features

93

A.1 Intel

94

A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

94

Technology (EIST)

94

A.2.2 Using the EIST

95

A.3 Intel

96

Hyper-Threading Technology

96

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

March 2007

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

945G chipset

15

DDR2 memory support

15

PCI Express™ interface

15

Serial ATA technology

15

1.4 Before you proceed

16

P5L-MX/IPAT

17

1.5.3 Motherboard layout

18

1.6.1 Installling the CPU

19

Fastener

22

Motherboar d hole

22

CPU FAN PWR

23

CPU FAN IN

23

CPU FAN PWM

23

Narrow end of the groove

25

1.7 System memory

26

1.7.4 Installing a DIMM

30

1.7.5 Removing a DIMM

30

1.8 Expansion slots

31

1.8.3 Interrupt assignments

32

1.8.4 PCI slots

33

1.8.5 PCI Express x16

33

1.8.6 PCI Express x1

33

1.9 Jumpers

34

1.10 Connectors

36

1.10.2 Internal connectors

37

P5L-MX/IPAT IDE Connector

38

3. Serial ATA connectors

39

Rotation

40

Right Audio Channel

42

Left Audio Channel

42

Legacy AC’97-compliant

43

Azalia-compliant

43

System Panel Connector

44

BIOS setup

45

DOS environment

46

XP environment

46

2000 environment

46

2.1.2 AFUDOS utility

47

Updating the BIOS file

48

2.1.3 AFUWIN utility

49

2.2 BIOS setup program

50

2.2.2 Menu bar

51

2.2.1 BIOS menu screen

51

2.2.3 Navigation keys

51

2-8 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

52

2.3 Main menu

53

2.4 Advanced menu

54

Enable or Disable BIOS

55

ACPI Auto Conguration

55

2.4.8 CPU Configuration

56

2.4.9 IDE Configuration

57

2.4.10 Super IO Configuration

58

Serial Port Configuration

59

Parallel Port Configuration

59

2.5 Chipset menu

60

2.5.2 South Bridge

61

Legacy USB Support [Auto]

62

Device Reset timeout [20 sec]

62

2.6 Boot menu

63

2.7 Security

64

2.7.2 User Password

65

2.8 Exit menu

66

Restore Defaults

67

2-24 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

68

Software

69

3.2 Support CD information

70

3.2.2 Drivers menu

71

3.2.3 Utilities menu

72

3.2.4 Manuals menu

73

CPU features

75

A.1 Intel

76

A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

76

Technology (EIST)

76

A.2.2 Using the EIST

77

A.3 Intel

78

Hyper-Threading Technology

78





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