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Asus K8N-LR User Manual (120 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Computer hardware | Size: 5.64 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

January 2006

2

Contents

3

Safety information

8

About this guide

9

Typography

10

K8N-LR speciﬁcations summary

11

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

15

1.2 Package contents

15

1.3 Special features

16

CrashFree BIOS 2

17

ASUS MyLogo2™

17

Hardware

19

2.1 Before you proceed

21

2.2 Motherboard overview

22

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

23

2.2.5 Layout Contents

24

ASUS K8N-LR 2-5

25

2.3.2 Installing the CPU

26

2.3.1 Overview

26

ASUS K8N-LR 2-7

27

Retention Module Base

28

CPU Heatsink

28

CPU_FAN2

30

CPU_FAN1

30

Rotation

30

2.4 System memory

31

2.4.4 Removing a DIMM

32

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

32

2.5 Expansion slots

33

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

34

2.5.4 PCI Express x16 slot

34

2.5.5 PCI/PCI-X slots

35

(Default)

36

Clear CMOS

36

ASUS K8N-LR 2-17

37

K8N-LR Keyboard Power Setting

37

K8N-LR LAN_EN2 Setting

38

BIOS recovery

39

ACT/LINK

40

2.7.2 Internal connectors

41

K8N-LR SATA Connectors

42

For Power Supply

45

Power Connector

45

24-pin Power Connector

45

ASUS K8N-LR 2-27

47

AUX_PANEL1

47

Powering up

49

ASUS K8N-LR 3-1

51

3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up

52

BIOS setup

53

DOS environment

55

XP environment

55

A:\>afudos /oOLDBIOS1.rom

56

Updating the BIOS file

57

4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

58

4.1.4 ASUS Update utility

61

4-8 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

62

4.2 BIOS setup program

64

4.2.2 Menu bar

65

4.2.3 Navigation keys

65

4.2.1 BIOS menu screen

65

4-12 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

66

4.3 Main menu

67

Type [Auto]

68

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

68

4.3.5 IDE Configuration

69

Conﬁguration nVidia RAID ROM

70

RAID Option ROM [Disabled]

70

Disable/Enable nVidia

70

4.3.6 System Information

71

4.4 Advanced menu

72

4.4.2 Chipset

73

Memory Configuration

74

ECC Configuration

75

SouthBridge Configuration

76

Serial Port2 Mode [Normal]

77

Parallel Port Address [378]

78

Parallel Port Mode [Normal]

78

Onboard BCM5721 LAN [Enabled]

78

4.4.4 PCI PnP

79

4.4.5 MPS Configuration

80

ASUS K8N-LR 4-27

81

4.4.7 USB Configuration

82

Cool ʻNʼ Quiet [Enabled]

83

Hyper Transport Configuration

83

CPU HT Link Speed [Auto]

83

CPU HT Link Width [Auto]

83

4.5 Power menu

84

4.5.4 APM Configuration

85

RTC Resume [Disabled]

86

4.5.5 Hardware Monitor

87

4.6 Boot menu

88

ASUS K8N-LR 4-35

89

4.6.3 Security

90

Change User Password

91

Exit Options

92

Exit & Save Changes

92

Exit & Discard Changes

92

Discard Changes

92

Load Setup Defaults

92

4-40 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

94

5.1 Setting up RAID

97

5.2 NVIDIA

99

RAID conﬁgurations

99

5.2.2 Entering the NVIDIA

100

RAID Utility

100

ASUS K8N-LR 5-5

101

ASUS K8N-LR 5-7

103

5.2.5 Rebuilding a RAID set

104

5.2.6 Deleting a RAID array

105

5.2.7 Clearing the disk data

106

Chapter summary

108

6.1 RAID driver installation

109

6.2 LAN driver installation

111

6.3 Support CD information

112

6.3.2 Drivers menu

113

6.3.3 Management Software

114

6.3.4 Utilities

115

Reference information

117

Appendix summary

118

A.1 K8N-LR block diagram

119

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