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5-20 Chapter 5: Software support

Turning the NVFirewall™ off

Take caution when using this option, your computer becomes vulnerable

to viruses, hackers or intruders after you turn off the ﬁrewall.

To turn off the NVFirewall™:

1. From the NVIDIA Firewall™

summary menu, click the

Current Firewall Proﬁle combo

list box then select Off.

The following conﬁrmation box

appears.

2. Click Turn Firewall OFF.

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Motherboard 1
Revised Edition V3 2
February 2006 2
Contents 3
Safety information 9
About this guide 10
Typography 11
(continued on the next page) 12
Product 15
1.1 Welcome! 17
1.2 Package contents 17
1.3 Special features 18
HyperTransport™ Technology 19
Serial ATA II technology 19
Dual RAID solution 19
PCI Express™ interface 19
S/PDIF digital sound ready 20
IEEE 1394a support 20
USB 2.0 technology 20
AI Audio technology 21
AI Cool-Pipe 21
Precision Tweaker 21
AI NET 2 21
ASUS Multi-language BIOS 23
ASUS MyLogo2™ 23
ASUS Instant Music 23
Hardware 25
2.1 Before you proceed 27
A8N-SLI PREMIUM 28
2.2.3 Motherboard layout 29
2.2.4 Layout Contents 30
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 2-5 31
2.3.2 Installling the CPU 32
2.3.1 Overview 32
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 2-7 33
Retention Module Base 34
CPU Heatsink 34
Rotation 36
2.4 System memory 37
(Continued on the next page) 38
DDR400 Qualified Vendors List 39
2.4.4 Removing a DIMM 40
2.4.3 Installing a DIMM 40
2.5 Expansion slots 41
2.5.4 PCI slots 42
2.5.3 Interrupt assignments 42
2.5.6 PCI Express x1 slot 43
2.5.7 PCI Express x4 slot 43
Normal Clear CMOS 44
(Default) 44
ACT/LINK 45
2.7.2 Internal connectors 47
SATA_RAID2 49
SATA_RAID4 49
SATA_RAID1 49
SATA_RAID3 49
CHA1_FAN 50
CHA2_FAN 50
CHIP_FAN 50
Power supply requirements 52
+5VSB_MB 54
Chassis Signal 54
Requires an ATX power supply 55
Powering up 57
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 3-1 59
3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up 60
3.3 ASUS POST Reporter™ 61
3-4 Chapter 3: Powering up 62
3.3.2 Winbond Voice Editor 63
Changing the default language 64
3-8 Chapter 3: Powering up 66
BIOS setup 67
DOS environment 69
XP environment 69
2000 environment 69
4.1.2 Updating the BIOS 70
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 4-3 71
4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 72
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 4-5 73
4.1.5 ASUS EZ Flash utility 75
4.1.6 ASUS Update utility 76
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 4-9 77
4.2 BIOS setup program 79
4.2.2 Menu bar 80
4.2.1 BIOS menu screen 80
4.2.4 Menu items 81
4.2.5 Sub-menu items 81
4.2.6 Configuration fields 81
4.2.3 Legend bar 81
4.2.7 Pop-up window 82
4.2.8 General help 82
4.3 Main menu 83
Access Mode [Auto] 84
Extended Drive 86
Access Mode 86
Capacity 86
Cylinder 86
4.3.7 HDD SMART Monitoring 87
4.3.8 Installed Memory 87
4.4 Advanced menu 88
DRAM Configuration 89
4-22 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 90
4.4.2 PCIPnP 91
IRQ Resources 92
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 4-25 93
4-26 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 94
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 4-27 95
4-28 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 96
4.4.4 SLI Configuration 97
Overclock Profile [Auto] 98
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 4-31 99
4.4.6 LAN Cable Status 100
4.4.7 PEG Link Mode 101
4.4.9 Instant Music 102
4.4.8 Speech Configuration 102
4.5 Power menu 103
4.5.3 APM Configuration 104
Day of Month Alarm [Disabled] 105
4.5.4 Hardware Monitor 106
CPU Target Temperature 107
4.6 Boot menu 108
4.6.2 Removable Drives 109
4.6.3 Hard Disk Drives 109
4.6.4 CDROM Drives 110
4.6.6 Security 112
Password Check 113
4.7 Exit menu 114
Load Setup Defaults 115
Discard Changes 115
4-48 Chapter 4: BIOS setup 116
Software 117
Chapter summary 118
5.2 Support CD information 119
5.2.2 Drivers menu 120
5.2.3 Utilities menu 121
5.2.4 Manuals menu 123
5.2.6 Other information 124
Browse this CD 125
Technical support Form 125
Filelist 126
5.4 Software information 127
5.4.2 AI NET 2 129
5.4.3 Audio configurations 130
S/PDIF option 131
Speaker Configuration 132
AI Audio feature 133
HRTF Demo 134
General settings 135
5.4.4 Using the NVIDIA 136
Firewall™ 136
Setting security profiles 137
Turning the NVFirewall™ off 138
5.5 RAID conﬁgurations 139
5.5.1 Installing hard disks 140
5.5.2 NVIDIA 141
RAID configurations 141
Entering the NVIDIA 142
RAID utility 142
Creating a RAID Volume 142
Rebuilding a RAID array 144
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 5-27 145
Deleting a RAID array 146
Clearing a disk data 147
Setting the BIOS RAID items 148
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 5-31 149
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 5-33 151
target 152
2000/XP 159
5.8 Using the NVIDIA 161
nTune™ utility 161
5.8.2 Clock control 162
5.8.3 Voltage/Fan control 162
5.8.4 Information 163
5.8.5 Other options 163
5.9.2 Using the SLI mode 165
6.1 Overview 169
6-2 Chapter 6: NVIDIA 170
SLI™ technology support 170
6.2 Dual graphics card setup 171
6-4 Chapter 6: NVIDIA 172
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 6-5 173
6-6 Chapter 6: NVIDIA 174
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 6-7 175
6-8 Chapter 6: NVIDIA 176
Multi-monitor 177
RAID or LAN 177
6-10 Chapter 6: NVIDIA 178
Appendix 179
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium A-1 181
A-2 Appendix 182

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