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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup

After entering the IDE hard disk drive information into BIOS, use a disk

utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format new IDE hard disk drives.

This is necessary so that you can write or read data from the hard disk.

Make sure to set the partition of the Primary IDE hard disk drives to

active.

Precomp

This field displays the precompressed volumes on the hard disk, if any, on

the motherboard.

Landing Zone

This field displays the drive’s maximum usable capacity as calculated by

the BIOS based on the drive information you entered.

Sector

This item shows the number of sectors per track.

1 2 ... 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 ... 123 124

Motherboard 1
Revised edition V2 2
August 2003 2
Contents 3
Safety information 7
About this guide 8
ASUS contact information 10
(continued on the next page) 11
Chapter 1 13
1.1 Welcome! 15
1.2 Package contents 15
1.3 Special features 16
Gigabit LAN solution 17
6-channel audio feature 17
CPU overclocking 17
ASUS Q-Fan technology 17
ASUS POST Reporter™ 17
IEEE 1394 support 18
USB 2.0 technology 18
1.3.2 Value-added solutions 19
1.4 Motherboard overview 20
1.4.2 Core specifications 22
(on 1394 models only) 24
Chapter 2 25
2.1 Motherboard installation 27
2.2 Motherboard layout 28
2.3 Before you proceed 29
PC-DL Socket 604 30
Prestonia 30
Gold Arrow 30
Marked Corner 31
Standoff 32
Motherboard hole 32
Heatsink angled side 33
Heatsink retention mechanism 33
Retention clip 34
Center tab position when 34
Fan cable 36
Fan connector 36
Rail stopper 36
Side rail 36
Protruding tabs 36
2.5 System memory 37
2.5.3 Installing a DIMM 39
2.5.4 Removing a DIMM 39
2.6 Expansion slots 40
ASUS PC-DL Deluxe motherboard 41
2.6.3 PCI slots 42
2.6.4 AGP Pro slot 43
(Default) 44
+5V +5VSB 44
PC-DL 1394 Setting 45
PC-DL Clear RTC RAM 46
2.8 Connectors 47
PC-DL IDE Connectors 48
SEC_IDE1 48
PRI_IDE1 48
PC-DL SATA Connectors 49
BIOS items 50
PC-DL SATA RAID Connectors 51
SATA_RAID1 51
SATA_RAID2 51
UltraATA 133 hard disks 52
PC-DL Chassis Open Alarm Lead 53
CHASSIS1 53
PC-DL ATX Power Connectors 54
PC-DL Digital Audio Connector 55
SPDIF_OUT1 55
PC-DL USB 2.0 Headers 56
CD1 (Black) AUX1 (White) 57
PC-DL System Panel Connector 58
PC-DL Intel Panel Connector 58
FP_AUDIO1 58
Chapter 3 61
Award/Phoenix BIOS beep codes 63
3.2 Vocal POST Messages 64
POST Message Action 65
3.3 Powering off the computer 66
Chapter 4 67
DOS environment 69
98SE environment 69
XP environment 69
4.1.2 Updating the BIOS 70
4.2 BIOS Setup program 71
4.2.2 Menu bar 72
4.2.1 BIOS menu screen 72
4.2.4 General help 73
4.2.5 Sub-menu 73
4.2.6 Scroll bar 73
4.2.7 Pop-up window 73
4.2.3 Navigation keys 73
4.3 Main menu 74
Security Option [Setup] 75
Halt On [All Errors] 75
Auto-Detection [Press Enter] 76
Access Mode [Auto] 76
Manual HDD type selection 77
Capacity [xxxxx MB] 77
Cylinder 77
Landing Zone 78
4.4 Advanced menu 79
4.4.2 Integrated Peripherals 82
**On-Chip Serial ATA Setting 84
SATA Mode [IDE] 84
On-chip Serial ATA [Disabled] 84
Onboard Device 85
CSA LAN (Giga-LAN) [Enabled] 86
Onboard TI1394 [Enabled] 86
Operating Mode [IDE] 86
Super IO Device 87
ECP Mode Use DMA [3] 88
PWRON After PWR-Fail [Off] 88
Game Port Address [201] 88
Midi Port Address [330] 88
Midi Port IRQ [10] 88
4.4.3 PnP/PCI Configuration 89
IRQ Resources 90
4.5 Power menu 91
4.5.1 Hardware Monitor 94
4.6 Boot menu 95
1. Floppy Disk 96
Removable Device Priority 96
1. Ch0 S. [ASUS CDS520/A] 96
CD-ROM Priority 96
Type Rate [6] 98
Type Delay [250] 98
Save & Exit Setup [Enter] 99
Exit Without Saving [Enter] 99
Load Setup Defaults [Enter] 99
Discard Changes [Enter] 99
Save Changes [Enter] 99
Discard Changes 100
Save Changes 100
Chapter 5 101
Chapter summary 102
5.1 Support CD contents 103
5.1.3 Utilities 104
5.1.4 Contact 104
5.2 Winbond Voice Editor 105
Changing the default language 106
5.3 SoundMAX 109
4 XL software 109
Setup wizards 110
Audio preferences 111
Listening environment options 111
5.4 Promise 112
RAID configurations 112
5.4.1 Install the hard disks 113
No Array defined 114
Performance 115
Create Only 116
Security 116
Create and Duplicate 117
[ Select Drive for Rebuild ] 119
[ Keys Available ] 119
5.5 Intel 120
RAID for Serial ATA 120
5.5.4 Creating a RAID Volume 122
5.5.5 Deleting a RAID Volume 123
RESET ALL DATA RAID DATA 124

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