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Asus A7N8X-E User Manual (114 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Hardware | Size: 3.60 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

October 2003

2

Contents

3

Safety information

7

About this guide

8

Chapter 1

13

Chapter summary

14

1.1 Welcome!

15

1.2 Package contents

15

1.3 Special features

16

1.3.2 Unique ASUS features

17

ASUS POST Reporter™

18

Chapter 2

19

2.1 Before you proceed

21

2.2 Motherboard overview

22

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

23

2.2.4 Layout Contents

24

2.3.2 Installing the CPU

26

2.3.1 Overview

26

Gold triangle

27

Socket lever

27

90°-100° angle

27

2.4 System memory

28

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

30

2.4.4 Removing a DIMM

30

2.5 Expansion slots

31

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

32

2.5.4 PCI slots

33

2.5.5 AGP slot

33

2.5.6 Wi-Fi slot

34

2.6 Jumpers

35

A7N8X-E Clear RTC RAM

37

2.7 Connectors

38

2.7.2 Internal connectors

39

A7N8X-E intrusion connector

40

• Install Windows

41

A7N8X-E Serial COM2 Bracket

42

A7N8X-E ATX Power Connector

43

A7N8X-E USB 2.0 Header

44

A7N8X-E IEEE-1394 Connectors

45

IE1394_2

45

FP_AUDIO

46

A7N8X-E Game Connector

47

Requires an ATX power supply

48

Chapter 3

49

3.2 Powering off the computer

52

3.3 ASUS POST Reporter™

53

Chapter 3: Powering up

54

POST Message Action

54

3.3.2 Winbond Voice Editor

55

Changing the default language

56

Chapter 4

59

Important notes

61

4.1.2 AwardBIOS Flash Utility

62

4.1.3 ASUS Update

65

4.2 BIOS Setup program

67

4.2.2 Menu bar

68

4.2.1 BIOS menu screen

68

4.2.3 Navigation keys

68

Main menu items

69

4.3 Main menu

70

IDE Primary Master [Auto]

71

Access Mode [Auto]

72

[Manual] & [CHS] Settings

72

4.4 Advanced menu

74

4.4.1 Advanced BIOS Features

75

4.4.3 Integrated Peripherals

82

4.4.4 Power Management Setup

84

4.4.5 PnP/PCI Configurations

86

4.5 Security Menu

87

Security Option [Setup]

88

4.6 Hardware Monitor Menu

89

4.7 Exit Menu

90

Load Setup Defaults

91

Discard Changes

91

Save Changes

91

Exit & Save Changes

91

Exit & Discard Changes

91

Chapter 4: BIOS Setup

92

Chapter 5

93

5.2 Support CD information

95

5.2.2 Drivers menu

96

5.2.3 Utilities menu

97

Winbond Voice Editor

98

PC-CILLIN 2002

98

Adobe Acrobat Reader V5.0

98

ASUS Screen Saver

98

5.2.5 Other information

99

Technical Support Form

100

Filelist

100

5.3 NVIDIA

101

nForce control panel

101

RCA / Optical connectors

102

S/PDIF internal header

102

5.3.6 Applications

103

5.3.4 MIDI

103

5.3.5 Environment

103

5.3.7 Information

104

5.4 NVIDIA

105

NVSwap 1.0 Utility

105

5.5.1 Install the hard disks

107

Creating RAID Sets

109

Deleting RAID Sets

109

Resolving Conflict

109

98SE or

110

5.7 Marvell

111

Virtual Cable Tester™ (VCT)

111

Technology

111

Application

112

Items marked with an asterisk

113

“*” are required fields

113

5.8.2 Using I’m InTouch™

114

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