Asus P5MT-C manuals

Asus P5MT-C Specifications (154 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Server/workstation motherboards | Size: 8.33 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

Revised Edition V2

2

March 2006

2

Contents

3

Safety information

8

About this guide

9

Typography

10

P5MT-C speciﬁcations summary

11

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

15

1.2 Package contents

15

1.3 Special features

16

Gigabit LAN solution

17

Serial ATA II technology

17

Built-in SATA RAID solution

17

USB 2.0 technology

17

CrashFree BIOS 2

18

ASUS Smart Fan technology

18

ASUS MyLogo2™

18

Hardware

19

2.1 Before you proceed

21

2.2 Motherboard overview

22

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

23

2.2.4 Layout contents

24

ASUS P5MT-C 2-5

25

2.3.1 Installing the CPU

26

Fastener

29

Motherboard hole

29

Narrow end

29

ASUS P5MT-C 2-11

31

Narrow end of the groove

32

2.4 System memory

33

112 Pins128 Pins

33

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

34

2.4.4 Removing a DIMM

34

2.5 Expansion slots

35

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

36

2.5.5 PCI slots

37

2.5.4 PCI Express x8 slots

37

2.6 Jumpers

38

P5MT-C FM CPU Setting

39

P5MT-C Keyboard Power Setting

40

P5MT-C VGA Setting

40

LSI RAID ROM

41

(Default)

41

INTEL RAID ROM

41

P5MT-C BIOS Recovery Setting

42

RECOVERY1

42

2.7 Connectors

43

NOTE: Orient the red markings

44

(usually zigzag) on the IDE

44

Connector Setting Use

45

P5MT-C USB 2.0 Connectors

46

SYS-THEAMAL2

47

I2C_DATA

48

24-pin Power Connector

49

GND+12V DC

49

P5MT-C System Panel Connector

50

Powering up

51

AMI BIOS beep codes

53

3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up

54

BIOS setup

55

DOS environment

57

2000 environment

57

4.1.2 AFUDOS utility

58

Updating the BIOS file

59

4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

60

4.1.4 ASUS Update utility

63

4-8 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

64

4.2 BIOS setup program

66

4.2.2 Menu bar

67

4.2.1 BIOS menu screen

67

4.2.3 Navigation keys

67

4-12 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

68

4.3 Main menu

69

Type [Auto]

70

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

70

4.3.5 IDE Configuration

71

IDE Detect Time Out [35]

72

4.3.6 System Information

73

4.4 Advanced menu

74

MPS Conﬁguration

75

MPS Revision [1.4]

75

Select MPS Revision

75

Remote Access [Disabled]

76

Select Remote Access

76

4.4.4 CPU Configuration

77

4.4.5 Chipset

78

PEG Port [Enabled]

79

Parallel Port Address [378]

80

Parallel Port Mode [ECP]

80

4.4.7 PCI PnP

81

4.5 Power menu

82

4.5.2 APM Configuration

83

4.5.3 Hardware Monitor

84

ASUS P5MT-C 4-29

85

4.6 Boot menu

86

ASUS P5MT-C 4-31

87

4.6.3 Security

88

Change User Password

89

4.7 Exit menu

90

Exit & Discard Changes

91

Discard Changes

91

Load Setup Defaults

91

Exit & Save Changes

91

4-36 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

92

RAID support

93

5.1 RAID conﬁgurations

95

BIOS Setup

96

5.2 Intel

97

ROM Utility

97

ASUS P5MT-C 5-5

99

ASUS P5MT-C 5-7

101

ASUS P5MT-C 5-9

103

5.2.5 Deleting a RAID set

104

5.2.7 Exiting the Intel

105

Matrix Storage Manager

105

utility

105

5.2.8 Rebuilding the RAID

106

Utility

107

5.3.1 Creating a RAID set

109

Using Easy Configuration

110

ASUS P5MT-C 5-17

111

ASUS P5MT-C 5-19

113

Using New Configuration

114

ASUS P5MT-C 5-21

115

ASUS P5MT-C 5-23

117

Using the Initialize command

118

ASUS P5MT-C 5-25

119

Using the Objects command

120

ASUS P5MT-C 5-27

121

Using the Rebuild command

123

Using the Check Consistency

125

ASUS P5MT-C 5-35

129

5.4 Global Array Manager

130

Driver installation

131

Chapter summary

132

6.1 RAID driver installation

133

2000/2003 Server

134

2000/2003 Server OS

135

During Windows

135

SATA RAID

136

To an existing Windows

137

ASUS P5MT-C 6-7

139

Enterprise ver. 3.0

140

ASUS P5MT-C 6-9

141

6.2 LAN driver installation

143

6.2.2 Red Hat

144

6.3 VGA driver installation

145

utilities installation

147

6.4.4 Utilities menu

148

6.4.5 Contact information

148

Reference information

149

Appendix summary

150

A.1 Intel

151

A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

151

Technology (EIST)

151

A.2.2 Using the EIST

152

A.3 Intel

153

Hyper-Threading Technology

153

A.4 Block diagrams

154

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