Asus Motherboard A8N-SLI SE User Manual download pdf (Page 125)

ASUS A8N-SLI SE 5-19

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 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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