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Asus Motherboard P5GC-MX User Manual (90 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Hardware | Size: 8.85 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition

2

January 2007

2

Contents

3

Safety information

7

About this guide

8

Typography

9

P5GC-MX specications summary

10

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

14

1.2 Package contents

14

1.3 Special features

14

ASUS P5GC-MX 1-3

15

ASUS EZ Flash

16

ASUS Q-Fan technology

16

High Definition Audio

16

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2

16

1.4 Before you proceed

17

1.5 Motherboard overview

18

1.5.3 Motherboard layout

19

1.6.1 Installling the CPU

20

Fastener

23

Motherboard hole

23

CPU FAN PWR

24

CPU FAN IN

24

CPU FAN PWM

24

ASUS P5GC-MX 1-13

25

Narrow end of the groove

26

1.7 System memory

27

1.7.4 Installing a DIMM

29

1.7.5 Removing a DIMM

29

1.8 Expansion slots

30

1.8.3 Interrupt assignments

31

1.8.4 PCI slots

32

1.8.6 PCI Express x16

32

1.8.5 PCI Express x1

32

1.9 Jumpers

33

(Default)

34

1.10 Connectors

35

Orient the red markings on

36

IDE Connector

37

3. Serial ATA connectors

38

SPDIFOUT

39

Right Audio Channel

41

Left Audio Channel

41

BIOS setup

45

DOS environment

46

XP environment

46

2000 environment

46

2.1.2 ASUS EZ Flash utility

47

2.1.3 AFUDOS utility

48

Updating the BIOS file

49

2.1.5 ASUS Update utility

52

ASUS P5GC-MX 2-9

53

2.2 BIOS setup program

55

2.2.2 Menu bar

56

2.2.1 BIOS menu screen

56

2.2.3 Navigation keys

56

ASUS P5GC-MX 2-13

57

2.3 Main menu

58

Type [Auto]

59

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

59

IDE Conguration

60

2.3.6 System Information

61

2.4 Advanced menu

62

Device #1 Netac

63

Emulation Type [Auto]

63

2.4.2 CPU Configuration

64

2.4.3 Chipset

65

DRAM Frequency [Auto]

66

Hyper Path 3 [Auto]

66

Boot Display Device [Auto]

67

TV Connector [Auto]

67

HDTV Output [Auto]

67

TV Standard [VBIOS-Default]

67

Slot Power [Auto]

68

HD Audio Controller [Enabled]

68

Parallel Port Address [378]

69

Parallel Port Mode [ECP]

69

2.4.5 PCI PnP

70

Suspend Mode [Auto]

71

ACPI 2.0 Support [Disabled]

71

APM Conguration

71

Hardware Monitor

71

2.5.4 APM Configuration

72

ASUS P5GC-MX 2-29

73

2.5.5 Hardware Monitor

74

2.6 Boot menu

75

2-32 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

76

2.6.3 Security

77

Change User Password

78

Clear User Password

78

Exit Options

79

Exit & Save Changes

79

Exit & Discard Changes

79

Discard Changes

79

Load Setup Defaults

79

Software

81

3.2 Support CD information

82

3.2.2 Drivers menu

83

3.2.3 Utilities menu

84

ADOBE Acrobat Reader V7.0

85

Microsoft DirectX 9.0c

85

WinDVD Copy5 Trial

85

Corel Snapfire Plus SE

85

CPU features

87

A.1 Intel

88

A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

88

Technology (EIST)

88

A.2.2 Using the EIST

89

A.3 Intel

90

Hyper-Threading Technology

90

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