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Asus Motherboard A8N-SLI SE User Manual (152 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Computers | Size: 5.49 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

Revised Edition V1

2

September 2005

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

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 1-3

19

AI Audio technology

20

USB 2.0 technology

20

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 1-5

21

Hardware

23

2.1 Before you proceed

25

A8N-SLI SE

26

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

27

2.2.4 Layout Contents

28

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 2-5

29

2.3.2 Installing the CPU

30

2.3.1 Overview

30

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 2-7

31

Re ten tio n M odu le Bas e

32

CP U Heat sin k

32

Re ten tio n b rac ket lo ck

32

Re ten tio n b rac ket

32

CP U Fan

32

Rotation

34

2.4 System memory

35

DDR400 Qualified Vendors List

36

2.4.4 Removing a DIMM

38

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

38

2.5 Expansion slots

39

2.5.4 PCI slots

40

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

40

2.5.6 PCI Express x1 slot

41

2.5.7 PCI Express x4 slot

41

2.6 Jumpers

42

2.7.1 Rear panel connectors

43

2.7.2 Internal connectors

45

A8N-SLI SE SATA Connectors

46

A8N-SLI SE Fan Connectors

47

CHA1_FAN

47

A8N-SLI SE COM Port Connector

48

A8N-SLI SE Game Connector

50

FP_AUDIO

51

Powering up

53

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 3-1

55

3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up

56

BIOS setup

57

DOS environment

59

Windows® XP environment

59

Windows® 2000 environment

59

4.1.2 Updating the BIOS

60

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 4-3

61

4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

62

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 4-5

63

4.1.5 ASUS EZ Flash utility

65

4.1.6 ASUS Update utility

66

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 4-9

67

4.2 BIOS setup program

69

4.2.2 Menu bar

70

4.2.1 BIOS menu screen

70

4.2.4 Menu items

71

4.2.5 Sub-menu items

71

4.2.6 Conﬁguration ﬁelds

71

4.2.3 Legend bar

71

4.2.7 Pop-up window

72

4.2.8 General help

72

4.3 Main menu

73

Access Mode [Auto]

74

Extended Drive

76

Access Mode

76

Capacity

76

Cylinder

76

4.3.6 HDD SMART Monitoring

77

4.3.7 Installed Memory

77

4.3.8 Usable Memory

77

4.4 Advanced menu

78

DRAM Conﬁguration

79

4-22 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

80

4.4.2 PCI PnP

81

IRQ Resources

82

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 4-25

83

4-26 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

84

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 4-27

85

4-28 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

86

4.4.4 SLI Conﬁguration

87

Overclock Proﬁle [Auto]

88

PCI Express Clock [100MHz]

89

DDR Voltage [Auto]

89

CPU Multiplier [Auto]

89

CPU Voltage [Auto]

89

4.4.6 PEG Link Mode

90

PEG Root Control [Auto]

91

PEG Buffer Length [Auto]

91

4.5 Power menu

92

4.5.3 APM Conﬁguration

93

Day of Month Alarm [Disabled]

94

4.5.4 Hardware Monitor

95

CPU Target Temperature

96

4.6 Boot menu

97

4.6.2 Removable Drives

98

4.6.3 Hard Disk Drives

98

Case Open Warning [Enabled]

99

Quick Boot [Enabled]

99

Bootup Num-Lock [On]

99

Typematic Delay (Msec) [250]

100

Full Screen LOGO [Enabled]

100

Halt On [All, But Keyboard]

100

4.6.5 Security

101

Password Check

102

4.7 Exit menu

103

Discard Changes

104

Load Setup Defaults

104

Software

105

Chapter summary

106

5.2 Support CD information

107

5.2.2 Drivers menu

108

5.2.3 Utilities menu

109

Microsoft DirectX

110

Anti-virus Utility

110

ADOBE Acrobat Reader

110

ASUS Screen Saver

110

5.2.4 Manuals menu

111

5.2.6 Other information

112

Browse this CD

113

Technical support Form

113

Filelist

114

5.3 Software information

115

5.3.2 Audio configurations

117

S/PDIF option

118

Speaker Configuration

119

AI Audio feature

120

HRTF Demo

121

General settings

122

5.3.3 Using the NVIDIA

123

Firewall™

123

Setting security profiles

124

Turning the NVFirewall™ off

125

5.4 RAID conﬁgurations

126

5.4.1 Installing hard disks

127

5.4.2 NVIDIA

128

RAID configurations

128

Entering the NVIDIA

129

RAID utility

129

Creating a RAID Volume

129

Rebuilding a RAID array

131

Deleting a RAID array

133

Clearing a disk data

134

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 5-29

135

2000/XP

136

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 5-31

137

5.7 Using the NVIDIA

138

nTune™ utility

138

5.7.2 Clock control

139

5.7.3 Voltage/Fan control

139

5.7.4 Information

140

5.7.5 Other options

140

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 5-35

141

5.8.2 Using the SLI mode

142

6.1 Overview

145

6.2 Dual graphics card setup

146

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 6-3

147

6-4 Chapter 6: NVIDIA

148

SLI™ technology support

148

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 6-5

149

6-6 Chapter 6: NVIDIA

150

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 6-7

151

Multi-monitor

152

RAID or LAN

152

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