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Asus M2N-MX User Manual (72 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Hardware | Size: 3.25 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition V1

2

January 2007

2

Contents

3

Safety information

7

M2N-MX specications summary

8

Product

11

1.1 Special features

12

PCI Express™ interface

13

Gigabit LAN solution

13

USB 2.0 technology

13

High Definition Audio

13

ASUS Q-Fan technology

14

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2

14

ASUS EZ Flash 2

14

1.2 Before you proceed

15

1.3 Motherboard overview

16

1.3.2 Placement direction

17

1.3.3 Screw holes

17

1.4.1 Installing the CPU

18

Gold triangl e

19

Small triang l e

19

Retention Mo d u le Base

20

CPU Heatsink

20

112 Pins128 Pins

22

1.5.3 Installing a DIMM

24

1.5.4 Removing a DIMM

24

1.6 Expansion slots

25

1.8.3 PCI slots

27

1.8.4 PCI Express x1 slot

27

1.8.5 PCI Express x16 slot

27

Normal Clear RTC

28

(Default)

28

1.10 Connectors

30

Orient the red markings on

31

NOTE: Orient the red markings

32

(usually zigzag) on the ID

32

Digital Audio Connector

34

Right Audio Channel

35

Left Audio Channel

35

System Panel Connector

38

BIOS setup

39

DOS environment

40

XP environment

40

2000 environment

40

MSDOWNLD.TMP

41

2.1.3 AFUDOS utility

42

Updating the BIOS file

43

2.1.5 ASUS Update utility

45

Chap ter 2: B IOS setu p

46

2.2 BIOS setup program

47

2.2.2 Menu bar

48

2.2.1 BIOS menu screen

48

2.2.3 Navigation keys

48

ASUS M2N-MX

49

2.3 Main menu

50

2.3.4 IDE Configuration

51

Type [Auto]

53

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

53

2.3.7 System Information

54

2.4 Advanced menu

55

North Bridg e Con figur ation

56

2.4.2 Chipset

56

South Bridg e Con figur ation

58

Parallel Port Address [378]

59

Parallel Port Mode [Normal]

59

Parallel Port IRQ [IRQ7]

59

2.4.4 PCI PnP

60

2.4.5 USB Configuration

61

AI Overclocking [Auto]

62

CPU Frequency [200]

63

PCI Express Frequency [Auto]

63

Spread Spectrum [Enabled]

63

2.5 Power menu

64

2.5.5 APM Configuration

65

2.5.6 Hardware Monitor

66

2.6 Boot menu

67

2.6.3 Security

69

Change User Password

70

Clear User Password

70

2.7 Tools menu

71

Exit Options

72

Exit & Save Changes

72

Exit & Discard Changes

72

Discard Changes

72

Load Setup Defaults

72

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