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Asus P5LD-MR User Manual (160 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Computer hardware | Size: 9.96 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

June 2006

2

Contents

3

Safety information

8

About this guide

9

Typography

10

P5LD-MR specications summary

11

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

15

1.2 Package contents

15

1.3 Special features

16

ASUS P5LD-MR 1-3

17

CrashFree BIOS 2

18

ASUS Smart Fan technology

18

ASUS MyLogo2™

18

Hardware

19

2.1 Before you proceed

21

2.2 Motherboard overview

22

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

23

2.2.4 Layout contents

24

ASUS P5LD-MR 2-5

25

2.3.1 Installing the CPU

26

Fastener

29

Motherboard hole

29

Narrow end

29

CPU FAN PWR

30

CPU FAN IN

30

CPU FAN PWM

30

ASUS P5LD-MR 2-11

31

Narrow end of the groove

32

112 Pins128 Pins

33

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

35

2.4.4 Removing a DIMM

35

2.5 Expansion slots

36

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

37

2.5.6 PCI slots

38

2.5.5 PCI Express x8 slot

38

2.5.4 PCI Express x16 slot

38

2.6 Jumpers

39

LSI RAID ROM

41

(Default)

41

INTEL RAID ROM

41

P5LD-MR LAN_EN2 Setting

42

P5LD-MR LAN_EN1 Setting

42

ASUS P5LD-MR 2-23

43

P5LD-MR BIOS Recovery Setting

43

RECOVERY1

43

2.7 Connectors

44

2.7.2 Internal connectors

45

NOTE: Orient the red markings

46

(usually zigzag) on the IDE

46

Connector Setting U se

47

P5LD-MR USB 2.0 Connectors

48

SYS-THEAMAL2

49

CPU_FAN1 CPU_FAN2

50

FRNT_FAN2

50

FRNT_FAN1

50

REAR_FAN1

50

REAR_FAN2

50

24-pin Power Connector

51

+12V DC GND

51

ASUS P5LD-MR 2-33

53

Powering up

55

AMI BIOS beep codes

57

3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up

58

BIOS setup

59

DOS environment

61

XP environment

61

4.1.2 AFUDOS utility

62

Updating the BIOS file

63

4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

64

4.1.4 ASUS Update utility

67

4-8 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

68

4.2 BIOS setup program

70

4.2.2 Menu bar

71

4.2.1 BIOS menu screen

71

4.2.3 Navigation keys

71

Main menu items

72

Scroll bar

72

Pop-up w ind ow

72

4.3 Main menu

73

Type [Auto]

74

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

74

PIO Mode [Auto]

74

4.3.5 IDE Configuration

75

ALPE and ASP [Disabled]

76

4.3.6 System Information

77

4.4 Advanced menu

78

MPS Conguration

79

MPS Revision [1.4]

79

Select MPS Revision

79

Remote Access [Disabled]

80

Select Remote Access

80

4.4.4 CPU Configuration

81

4.4.5 Chipset

82

PEG Port [Enabled]

83

Parallel Port Address [378]

84

Parallel Port Mode [ECP]

84

4.4.7 PCI PnP

85

4.5 Power menu

86

4.5.2 APM Configuration

87

4.5.3 Hardware Monitor

88

ASUS P5LD-MR 4-29

89

4.6 Boot menu

90

ASUS P5LD-MR 4-31

91

Security Settings

92

Change Supervisor Password

92

Change User Password

92

4.7 Exit menu

94

Exit & Discard Changes

95

Discard Changes

95

Load Setup Defaults

95

Exit & Save Changes

95

4-36 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

96

RAID support

97

5.1 RAID congurations

99

BIOS Setup

100

5.2 Intel

101

ROM Utility

101

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-5

103

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-7

105

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-9

107

5.2.5 Deleting a RAID set

108

5.2.7 Exiting the Intel

109

Matrix Storage Manager

109

utility

109

5.2.8 Rebuilding the RAID

110

Utility

111

5.3.1 Creating a RAID set

113

Using Easy Configuration

114

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-17

115

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-19

117

Using New Configuration

118

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-21

119

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-23

121

Using the Initialize command

122

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-25

123

Using the Objects command

124

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-27

125

Using the Rebuild command

127

Using the Check Consistency

129

ASUS P5LD-MR 5-35

133

5.4 Global Array Manager

134

Driver installation

135

Chapter summary

136

6.1 RAID driver installation

137

2000/2003 Server

138

2000/2003 Server OS

139

During Windows

139

LSI Logic SATA RAID

140

To an existing Windows

141

Intel Matrix Storage

141

ASUS P5LD-MR 6-7

143

Enterprise ver. 3.0

144

ASUS P5LD-MR 6-9

145

6.2 LAN driver installation

147

6.2.2 Red Hat

148

cd tg3-<version>/src

149

insmod tg3.o

149

make install

149

6.3.2 Red Hat

150

utilities installation

151

6.4.4 Utilities menu

152

6.4.5 Contact information

153

Reference information

155

Appendix summary

156

A.1 Intel

157

A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

157

Technology (EIST)

157

A.2.2 Using the EIST

158

A.3 Intel

159

Hyper-Threading Technology

159

A.4 Block diagrams

160

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