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Asus P8B-MX User Manual (150 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Computer hardware | Size: 6.26 MB |

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Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

May 2012

2

Contents

3

Safety information

8

About this guide

9

Typography

10

(continued on the next page)

11

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

15

1.2 Package contents

15

1.4 Special features

16

1.3 Serial number label

16

USB 2.0 technology

18

ASUS Fan Speed technology

18

Hardware

19

2.1 Before you proceed

21

Onboard LEDs

22

2.2 Motherboard overview

23

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

24

2.2.4 Motherboard layout

25

2.2.5 Layout contents

26

2.3.1 Installing the CPU

28

ASUS P8B-M series 2-15

33

2.4 System memory

34

2.4.4 Removing a DIMM

35

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

35

2.5 Expansion slots

36

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

37

2.5.6 PCI slot

37

PCI slot

38

PCIe x8 slot (x4 link)

38

PCIe x16 slot (x16 link)

38

ASUS P8B-M series 2-21

39

2.6 Jumpers

40

ASUS P8B-M series 2-23

41

ASUS P8B-M series 2-25

43

2.7 Connectors

45

2.7.2 Internal connectors

46

ASUS P8B-M series 2-29

47

ASUS P8B-M series 2-31

49

ASUS P8B-M series 2-33

51

ASUS P8B-M series 2-35

53

Powering up

55

ASUS P8B-M series 3-3

57

3-4 Chapter 3: Powering up

58

BIOS setup

59

4.1.1 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3

61

Drive Folder Info

62

4.1.3 BUPDATER

63

Writing BIOS:

64

4.2 BIOS setup program

65

4.2.2 Menu bar

66

4.2.1 BIOS menu screen

66

ASUS P8B-M series 4-9

67

4.3 Main menu

68

Administrator Password

69

User Password

69

Smbios Event Log [Enabled]

70

Erase Event Log [No]

70

When Log is Full [Do Nothing]

70

MECI [xx]

70

METW [xx]

70

Log OEM Codes [Enabled]

71

Convert OEM Codes [Disabled]

71

4.5 Advanced menu

72

4.5.2 Trusted Computing

73

4.5.3 WHEA Conguration

73

4.5.4 CPU Conguration

74

ASUS P8B-M series 4-17

75

4.5.5 North Bridge

76

4.5.6 South Bridge

76

4.5.7 SATA Conguration

77

4.5.9 USB Conguration

78

Serial Port [Enabled]

79

Change Settings [Auto]

80

Terminal Type [VT-UTF8]

81

Bits per second [57600]

81

Console Redirection [Enabled]

82

Console Redirection Settings

82

4.6 Monitor menu

83

4.7 Boot menu

84

ASUS EZ Flash Utility

86

(Data striping)

89

(Data mirroring)

89

Choose RAID Level For This VD

94

ASUS P8B-M series 5-9

95

Select Yes Or No

96

Using New Conguration

97

Using the Initialize command

99

Using the Objects command

101

BIOS Version A.10.09231523R

102

ASUS P8B-M series 5-17

103

ASUS P8B-M series 5-19

105

Check Consistency

105

Select VD

106

ASUS P8B-M series 5-23

109

5.2.8 Enabling WriteCache

110

5.3 Intel

111

Rapid Storage Technology

111

Option ROM Utility

111

5.3.1 Creating a RAID set

112

ASUS P8B-M series 5-27

113

5.3.3 Deleting a RAID set

115

ASUS P8B-M series 5-31

117

See section

117

5.3.2 Creating a Recovery set

117

5.3.7 Rebuilding the RAID

118

5.3.6 Exiting the Intel

118

ASUS P8B-M series 5-33

119

Chapter 6:

121

Chapter summary

122

6.1 RAID driver installation

123

C20x LSI RAID Driver

124

ASUS P8B-M series 6-5

125

During Windows

126

Server 2008 OS installation

128

ASUS P8B-M series 6-9

129

Enterprise Linux OS 5.0

130

ASUS P8B-M series 6-11

131

SUSE Linux 11 OS

132

6.2 Intel

135

chipset device software

135

6.3 LAN driver installation

137

8. When nished, press

139

to continue

139

6.4 VGA driver installation

140

ASUS P8B-M series 6-21

141

8. Click

142

6.5.2 Drivers menu

143

6.5.3 Utilities menu

144

6.5.4 Make disk menu

144

6.5.5 Contact information

144

Reference information

145

Appendix summary

146

A.1 P8B-M block diagram

147

A.2 P8B-MX block diagram

148

ASUS contact information

149

Technical Support

149

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY

150

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