Asus P5NSLI manuals

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Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

August 2006

2

Contents

3

Appendix: CPU features

6

Safety information

8

About this guide

9

Typography

10

(continued on the next page)

11

Product

15

1.1 Welcome!

16

1.2 Package contents

16

1.3 Special features

17

Precision Tweaker

19

AI NET 2

19

Fanless Design

19

ASUS Two-slot thermal design

19

CrashFree BIOS 2

19

1.4 Before you proceed

21

1.5 Motherboard overview

22

1.5.3 Motherboard layout

23

1.6.1 Installing the CPU

24

Fastener

27

Motherboard hole

27

Narrow end

27

CPU FAN PWR

28

CPU FAN IN

28

CPU FAN PW

28

ASUS P5NSLI Series 1-15

29

Narrow end of the groove

30

Channel Sockets

31

32-bit 64-bit

32

DDR2-533

33

1.7.3 Installing a DIMM

34

1.7.4 Removing a DIMM

34

1.8 Expansion slots

35

1.8.3 Interrupt assignments

36

1.8.4 PCI slots

37

1.8.5 PCI Express x1 slot

37

Multi-monitor

38

RAID or LAN

38

1.9 Jumpers

39

ACTIVITY/

41

LINK LED

41

LAN port

41

1.10.2 Internal connectors

42

NOTE: Orient the red markings

43

(usually zigzag) on the IDE

43

SATA3SATA1

44

SATA4SATA2

44

CPU FAN PWM

46

Power supply requirements

48

ASUS P5NSLI Series 1-35

49

P5NSLI System Panel Connector

49

Q-Connector (system panel)

50

BIOS setup

51

DOS environment

52

XP environment

52

2000 environment

52

2.1.2 Updating the BIOS

53

2-4 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

54

ASUS P5NSLI Series 2-5

55

2-6 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

56

2-8 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

58

2.1.6 ASUS Update utility

59

2-10 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

60

2.2 BIOS setup program

62

2.2.2 Menu bar

63

2.2.1 BIOS menu screen

63

2.2.3 Legend bar

64

2.2.4 Menu items

64

2.2.5 Sub-menu items

64

2.2.6 Configuration fields

64

2.2.7 Pop-up window

65

2.2.8 General help

65

2.3 Main menu

66

Access Mode [Auto]

67

Extended IDE Drive [Auto]

69

Capacity

69

Cylinder

69

2.3.7 Installed Memory

70

2.3.8 Usable Memory

70

2.4 Advanced menu

71

Frequency Control

72

Overclock Options [Disable]

72

Spread Spectrum Control

74

Voltage Control

75

2.4.2 LAN Cable Status

76

2.4.3 CPU Configuration

77

2.4.4 Chipset

78

ASUS P5NSLI Series 2-29

79

2.4.5 PCIPnP

80

IDE Function Setup

81

NVRAID Configuration

82

Onboard Marvell LAN [Enabled]

82

HD Audio [Enabled]

83

Parallel Port Mode [ECP+EPP]

83

ECP Mode Use DMA [3]

83

2.4.7 USB Configuration

84

2.5 Power menu

85

2.5.3 APM Configuration

86

ASUS P5NSLI Series 2-37

87

2.5.4 Hardware Monitor

88

2.6 Boot menu

89

2.6.2 Removable Drives

90

2.6.3 Hard Disk Drives

90

2.6.4 CDROM Drives

91

2.6.6 Security

93

Password Check

94

2.7 Tools menu

95

2.7.2 ASUS O.C. Profile

97

213830 2001-09-05 20:00:00

98

2.7.3 ASUS EZ Flash 2

99

2.8 Exit menu

100

Load Setup Defaults

101

Discard Changes

101

2-52 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

102

Software

103

3.2 Support CD information

104

3.2.2 Drivers menu

105

3.2.3 Utilities menu

106

3.2.4 Make Disk menu

107

3.2.5 Manuals menu

108

ASUS P5NSLI Series 3-7

109

3.3 Software information

110

OS configuration

111

Adjusting the volume

112

Turning off the music alarm

112

3.4 NVIDIA

113

SLI™ technology

113

Goldngers

114

ASUS P5NSLI Series 3-13

115

Installing the device drivers

116

ASUS P5NSLI Series 3-15

117

ASUS P5NSLI Series 3-17

119

CPU features

121

A.1 Intel

122

A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

122

Technology (EIST)

122

A.2.2 Using the EIST

123

A.3 Intel

124

Hyper-Threading Technology

124





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