Asus OWNER'S MANUAL, User Manual

Page 1: ... P2V Pentium II Celeron Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

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Page 4: ...sm 19 Heatsinks 19 Installing the Processor 20 ASUS Smart Thermal Solutions 22 Recommended Heatsinks for Slot 1 Processors 23 4 Expansion Cards 24 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 24 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 24 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 25 ISA Cards and Hardware Monitor 25 5 External Connectors 26 Power Connection Procedures 33 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 34 Flash Memory Writer Util...

Page 5: ...ts 52 Supervisor Password and User Password 53 IDE HDD Auto Detection 54 Save Exit Setup 55 Exit Without Saving 55 V DESKTOP MANAGEMENT 56 Desktop Management Interface DMI 56 Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 56 System Requirements 56 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 57 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 57 VI ASUS LAN Card 59 ASUS PCI L101 Fast Ethernet Card 59 Features...

Page 6: ...this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different...

Page 7: ...t Software Information on the included support software Item Checklist Please check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your retailer 1 ASUS Motherboard 1 Universal Retention Mechanism for SECC SECC2 SEPP 1 IDE ribbon cable for master and slave drives 1 Floppy ribbon cable for 1 5 25inch floppy and 2 3 5inch floppies 1 Bag of spare jumper caps 1 Su...

Page 8: ... Graphics Port cards for high performance component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications SMBus Features the System Management Bus interface which is used to physically transport commands and information between SMBus devices PCI ISA Expansion Slots Provides four 32 bit PCI and three 16 bit ISA slots Intelligence Supports Keyboard Power Up Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm...

Page 9: ... 2 B COM 1 B COM 2 Programmable 2Mbit Flash EEPROM 3 ISA Slots T PS 2 Mouse B PS 2 Keyboard T Parallel B Serial 3 DIMM Sockets Chipset CPU Slot 1 ATX Power Connector 4 PCI Slots Universal Folding Retention Mechanism Accelerated Graphics Port Wake On LAN Connector Hardware Monitoring ASIC CPU Thermal Sensor Connector ...

Page 10: ...lot 3 VIA VT82C596A PCIset VIA VT82C693 Chipset Flash EEPROM Programable BIOS PWR_FAN CHA_FAN Hardware Monitor ATX Power Conenctor CPU Slot 1 Panel Connectors Infrared Connector IDE LED USB PS 2 TOP USB 1 BOTTOM USB 2 Multi I O R Wake On LAN Connector BUS FREQ BF2 BF3 BF1 BF0 CLRTC BUS FREQ FS1 FS2 FS0 ISA Slot 1 ISA Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 1 COM 1 Parallel Port COM 2 TOP Mouse BOTTO...

Page 11: ...9 pin male 5 FLOPPY p 27 Floppy Drive Connector 34 pin block 6 USB p 28 Universal Serial BUS Ports 1 2 two 4 pin female 7 Primary Secondary IDE p 28 Primary Secondary IDE Connector 40 pin blocks 8 IDELED p 28 IDE LED Activity Light 2 pins 9 CHA_ PWR_ CPU_FAN p 29 Chassis Power Supply CPU FanPowerLead 3 pinblock 10 CHASIS p 29 Chassis Intrusion Alarm Lead 4 1 pins 11 IR p 30 Infrared Port Module Co...

Page 12: ...h of your hands to a safely grounded object or to a metal object such as the power supply case 3 Hold components by the edges and try not to touch the IC chips leads or connectors or other components 4 Place components on a grounded antistatic pad or on the bag that came with the component whenever the components are separated from the system Jumper Settings 1 Keyboard Power Up KBPWR This allows y...

Page 13: ...U bus frequency to avoid this limitation See next page for frequency settings R P2V AGP Frequency Selection AGPFS AGP Frequency 2 3 CPU Bus or Host Frequency 2 3 AGPFS AGP Frequency CPU Bus or Host Frequency 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 Default WARNING AGP bus frequencies above 66MHz exceed the specifications for the AGP interface and are not guaranteed to be stable 3 Voltage Input Output Selection VIO This ju...

Page 14: ... FS1 FS2 FS0 FS1 FS2 FS0 1 2 3 FS1 FS2 FS0 1 2 3 FS1 FS2 FS0 1 2 3 FS1 FS2 FS0 133MHz 33 3MHz 115MHz 38 33MHz 120MHz 40MHz 124MHz 31MHz 124MHz 41 33MHz 133MHz 44 33MHz FS3 FS3 FS3 1 2 3 1 2 3 FS3 FS3 FS3 CPU PCI FS1 FS2 FS0 FS1 FS2 FS0 110MHz 36 67MHz 112MHz 37 33MHz FS3 FS3 1 2 3 CPU PCI 1 2 3 1 2 3 FS1 FS2 FS0 1 2 3 FS1 FS2 FS0 140MHz 35MHz 150MHz 37 5MHz FS3 FS3 4 CPU Bus Frequency FS0 FS1 FS2 ...

Page 15: ...I II 450MHz 4 5x 100MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 Pentium II 400MHz 4 0x 100MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 Pentium II 350MHz 3 5x 100MHz 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 Celeron 466MHz 7 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 Celeron 433MHz 6 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 Celeron 400MHz 6 0x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 Celeron 366MHz 5 5x 66MHz 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 ...

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Page 17: ...lows DIMM Location 168 pin DIMM Total Memory Socket 1 Rows 0 1 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Socket 2 Rows 2 3 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Socket 3 Rows 4 5 SDRAM 8 16 32 64 128 256MB x1 Total System Memory Max 768MB NOTES At the time this User s Manual was written 256MB DIMMs are only available as registered memory DIMMs that have more than 18 chips are not supported on this motherboard For the...

Page 18: ...in density Lock P2V 168 Pin DIMM Memory Sockets 20 Pins 60 Pins 88 Pins R The DIMMs must be 3 3Volt unbuffered SDRAMs To determine the DIMM type check the notches on the DIMMs see figure below 168 Pin DIMM Notch Key Definitions 3 3V DRAM Key Position Voltage Key Position Unbuffered RFU Buffered Reserved 3 3V 5 0V The notches on the DIMM will shift between left center or right to identify the type ...

Page 19: ... II processors for more information for the boxed Pentium III II and Celeron processors are those with three pin fans that can be connected to the fan connectors on the motherboard WARNING Be sure that there is sufficient air circulation across the processor s heatsink by regularly checking that your CPU fan is working Without sufficient circulation the processor could overheat and damage both the...

Page 20: ...locked when shipped Using the SECC fan with the Pentium II Pushthetwolockarmsonedirectiontoclamp the heatsink onto the processor and the other direction to release Using the SECC2 fan with the Pentium III Insert the four heatsink s pins through the holes of the SECC2 Place the metal clip on the ends of the pins and slide until it locks into place Unlocked Folding Support Arms Locked Folding Suppor...

Page 21: ... SECC SECC2 SEPP in place by pushing the SECC SECC2 SEPP until it is firmly seated on the Slot 1 connector SECC with Pentium II only The SECC locks should be outward when se cured so that the lock shows through the retention mechanism s lock holes SECC2 SEPP Push lock inward SECC SECC SECC2 SEPP CPU fan cable to fan connector CPU fan cable to fan connector CPU fan cable to fan connector CPU fan ca...

Page 22: ...nk on the preceding page for the relevant procedures Note that the S P2FAN comes with a rock arm design for easy FAN CPU installation ASUS P2T Cable The optional ASUS P2T Cable can be usedforaPentium III IIprocessorpack agedinanSECC2 SECCoraCeleron processor packaged in an SEPP NOTE TheASUS P2T Cable can only be used in a Slot 1 motherboard with a 2 pin thermal sensor connector To Use the ASUS P2T...

Page 23: ...Fan NOTE The SEPP heatsink and fan for Intel Celeron processors is similar to the SECC2 heatsink and fan except that the clamping design is different WARNING Do not insert the sensor between the processor and heatsink other wise it will cause damage to the P2T Cable IMPORTANT ASUS guarantees accurate readings only for the ASUS Smart Fan and the Intel boxed processor heatsink with fan because both ...

Page 24: ...IRQ will be used leaving 5 IRQs free If your motherboard has ISA audio onboard an extra 3 IRQs will be used leaving 3 IRQs free Both ISA and PCI expansion cards may require to use IRQs System IRQs are avail able to cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first then any remaining IRQs are available to PCI cards Currently there are two types of ISAcards The original ISA expansion card design now re...

Page 25: ...you need to set the INT interrupt assignment Since all the PCI slots on this mother board use an INTA set the jumpers on your PCI cards to INT A Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards Some ISAcards both legacy and PnP may also need to use a DMA Direct Memory Access channel DMA assignments for this motherboard are handled the same way as the IRQ assignment process described earlier You can select a D...

Page 26: ...ale This connection is for a standard keyboard using an PS 2 plug mini DIN This connector will not allow standardAT size large DIN keyboard plugs You may use a DIN to mini DIN adapter on standard AT keyboards PS 2 Keyboard 6 pin Female 2 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin Female The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not de tected expansion cards can use IRQ12 See PS 2 Mouse ...

Page 27: ... Male The two serial ports can be used for pointing devices or other serial devices See Onboard Serial Port in Chipset Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE COM 1 COM 2 Serial Ports 9 pin Male 5 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 34 1pin FLOPPY This connector supports the provided floppy disk drive ribbon cable After con necting the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the flop...

Page 28: ...Boot Sequence in the BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE Pin 20 is removed to prevent in sertinginthewrongorientationwhenusingribboncableswithpin20plugged TIP You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector You may install one operating system on an IDE drive and an other on a SCSI ...

Page 29: ...or Intel LDCM Utility WARNING The CPU and or motherboard will overheat if there is no airflow across the CPU and onboard heatsinks Damage may occur to the motherboard and or the CPU fan if these pins are incorrectly used These are not jumpers do not place jumper caps over these pins P2V 12Volt Cooling Fan Power Chassis Fan Power CPU Fan Power Power Supply Fan GND Rotation 12V R 10 Chassis Intrusio...

Page 30: ...e available you must connect the optional Infrared IrDA module to the motherboard 5V IRRX IRTX FIRRX GND R 12 ATX Power Supply Connector 20 pin ATXPWR This connector connects to an ATX power supply The plug from the power supply will only insert in one orientation because of the different hole sizes Find the proper orientation and push down firmly but gently making sure that the pins are aligned P...

Page 31: ...ower supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power IMPORTANT Requires an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5 volt standby power Wake on LAN Connector 5 Volt Standby No Connection Ground R 14 SMBus Connector 5 1 pin SMB This connector allows you to connect SMBus devices SMBus devices commu nicate by means of the SMBus with an SMBus host and or other SMBus de vices The SMBus or System Management Bu...

Page 32: ...ch Soft Power Switch PWR SW The system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pushing the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Push ing the switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds will turn the system off The system power LED shows the status of the system s power 18 Reset Switch Lead RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted r...

Page 33: ...t up after the system s if it complies with green stan dards or if it has a power standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running additional messages will appear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power the system may have failed a power on test Recheck your jumper set tings and connections or call your retai...

Page 34: ...OS file This file works only in DOS mode NOTE The following screen displays are provided as examples only and may not reflect the screen contents displayed on your system Main Menu 1 Save Current BIOS To File This option allows you to save a copy of the original motherboard BIOSincaseyouneedtoreinstall it Itisrecommendedthatyousave AFLASH EXEandtheBIOSfile to a bootable floppy disk To save your cu...

Page 35: ...om a new BIOS file See the next page for proce dures on downloading an updated BIOS file The utility starts to program the new BIOS information into the flash ROM When the program ming is finished Flashed Suc cessfully will be displayed To update your current BIOS type 2 at the Main Menu and then press Enter The Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD screen appears Type the filename of your new...

Page 36: ...r FTP or a BBS Bulletin Board Service seeASUS CONTACT INFORMATION on page 3 for details and save to the disk you created earlier 2 Boot from the disk you created earlier 3 At the A prompt type AFLASH and then press Enter 4 At the Main Menu type 2 and then press Enter See 2 Update BIOS In cluding Boot Block and ESCD on the previous page for more details and the rest of the steps WARNING If you enco...

Page 37: ... the motherboard reconfiguring your system or you receive a Run Setup message you will need to enter new setup information This section describes how to configure your system using this utility The BIOS ROM of the system stores the Setup utility When you turn on the com puter the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program This ap pears during the Power On Self Test POST Press Del...

Page 38: ...ion anymore However if the configuration stored in the CMOS memory on the board gets lost or damaged or if you change your system hardware configuration you will need to respecify the configuration values The configuration values usually get lost or corrupted when the power of the onboard CMOS battery weakens The preceding screen provides you with a list of options At the bottom of this screen are...

Page 39: ...tion VI for instructions If you install other vendor s SCSI controller card refer to their respective documentations on how to install the required SCSI drivers For IDE hard disk drive setup you can Use the Auto setting for detection during bootup Use the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION in the main menu to automatically enter the drive specifications Enter the specifications yourself manually by using the ...

Page 40: ...tive also possible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A Drive B These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system The available options for drives A and B are 360KB 5 25 in 1 2MB 5 25 in 720KB 3 5 in 1 44MB 3 5 in 2 88MB 3 5 in None To enter the configuration value for a particular drive highlight its corresponding...

Page 41: ...res Setup Boot Virus Detection Enabled This field allows you to set boot virus detection ensuring a virus free boot sector This new antivirus solution is unlike native BIOS tools which offer limited virus protection typically by write protecting the partition table With this new solution your computer is protected against boot virus threats earlier in the boot cycle that is before they have a chan...

Page 42: ...I drives or the primary operating system to boot using a SCSI hard disk drive Boot Sequence A C This field determines where the system looks first for an operating system Options are A C A CDROM C CDROM C A CDROM A C D A E A F A C only LS ZIP C LAN A C LAN C A and C A The setup default setting is to check first the floppy disk and then the hard disk drive that is A C Boot Up Floppy Seek Disabled W...

Page 43: ... other expansion cards with ROMs on them you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K by the amount used for this purpose Boot Up NumLock Status On This field enables users to activate the Number Lock function upon system boot Typematic Rate Setting Disabled When enabled you can set the two typema...

Page 44: ...e speed voltage interface and module banks SDRAM CAS Latency This controls the latency between SDRAM read command and the time that the data actually becomes available Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS Precharge Time This controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to SDRAM Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay This controls the latency between SDRAM active command and th...

Page 45: ...memory of the processor It can greatly improve the display speed by caching the display data You must leave this on the default setting of UC uncacheable if your display card cannot support this feature or else your system may not boot Memory Hole At 15M 16M Disabled Enabling this feature reserves 15MB to 16MB memory address space to ISA expan sion cards that specifically require this setting This...

Page 46: ...operation at maximum speed ECP allows the parallel port to operate in bidirectional mode and at a speed faster than the maximum data transfer rate ECP EPP allows normal speed operation in a two way mode ECP DMA Select 3 This selection is available only if you select ECP or ECP EPP in the Parallel Port Mode Select either DMA Channel 1 3 or Disable UART2 Use Infrared Disabled When enabled this field...

Page 47: ...cept that this time the system inac tivity period is longer Disable disables the power saving features User Define al lows you to set power saving options according to your preference IMPORTANT Advanced Power Management APM should be installed to keep the system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode activated by the BIOS Power Management For DOS environments you need to add the statem...

Page 48: ...s activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels HDD Power Down Disable Shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of inactivity This time period is user configurable to 1 15 Min or Disable This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives Suspend Mode Disable Sets the period of time after which the suspend mode activates 30 sec 1 Min 2 Min 4 Min 8 Min 20 Min 30 Min 40 Min 1 Hou...

Page 49: ...ASUSPCI L101LANCard seeVII ASUS LAN Card and an ATX power supply with at least 720mA 5V standby power Automatic Power Up Disabled This allows you to have an unattended or automatic power up of your system You may configure your system to power up at a certain time of the day by selecting Everyday which will allow you to set the time or at a certain time and day by selecting By Date Fan Monitor xxx...

Page 50: ...e is determined for each PCI slot The default setting for each field is Auto which uses auto routing to determine IRQ use The other options are manual settings of NA 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 or 15 for each slot PCI Latency Timer 32 PCI Clock The default setting of 32 PCI Clock enables maximum PCI performance for this motherboard IRQ xx Used By ISA No ICU These fields indicate whether or not the displ...

Page 51: ...quires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 32K or 64K If you are using an ICU to accomplish this task leave ISA MEM Block BASE to its default setting of No ICU SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS Auto Auto allows the motherboard s BIOS to detect whether you have a Symbios SCSI card If a Symbios SCSI card is detected the motherboard s Symbios BIOS will be enabled if no Symbios ...

Page 52: ...en Press Y and then Enter to confirm Press N and then Enter to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen Load Setup Defaults This Load Setup Defaults option allows you to load the default values to the sys tem configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration set tings for the system To load these default values highlight Load Setup Def...

Page 53: ...setting a password the screen automatically re verts to the main screen IV BIOS Passwords Forgot the password If you forgot the password you can clear the password by erasing the CMOS Real Time Clock RTC RAM The RAM data containing the password information is powered by the onboard button cell battery To erase the RTC RAM 1 Unplug your computer 2 Short the solder points 3 Turn ON your computer 4 H...

Page 54: ...n hanced IDE support for four devices you can only install two IDE hard disk drives Your IDE controller must support the Enhanced IDE features in order to use Drive E and Drive F The onboard PCI IDE controller supports Enhanced IDE with two connectors for connecting up to four IDE devices If you want to use another con troller that supports four drives you must disable the onboard IDE controller i...

Page 55: ... your disk do not accept them Press N to reject the presented settings and enter the correct ones manually from the Standard CMOS Setup screen Save Exit Setup Select this option to save into the CMOS memory all modifications you specified during the current session To save the configuration changes highlight the Save Exit Setup option on the main screen type Y and then press Enter Exit Without Sav...

Page 56: ...of DMI information versus creating a new BIOS image file and requiring the user to update the whole BIOS This DMI Con figuration Utility also allows the system integrator or end user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers housing configurations and ven dor information Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI C...

Page 57: ...d the blue text are available for editing The orange text shows auto detected information and are not available for editing The blue text Press ENTER for detail contains a second pop up menu is available use the plus minus keys to change the settings Enter to exit and save ESC to exit and not save If the user has made changes ESC will prompt you to answer Y or N Enter Y to go back to the left hand...

Page 58: ...ss ESC and a message Bad File Name appears here to show it was not saved Load MIFD You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here Load BIOS Defaults You can load the BIOS defaults from a MIFD file and can clear all user modified and added data You must reboot your computer in order for the defaults to be saved back into the Flash BIOS V DMI Using DMI Utility ...

Page 59: ...ng theASUS PCI L101 on anASUS motherboard leave the jumper on its defaut setting of ASUS If you are using another brand of motherboard set the jumper to Other Connect the Wake on LAN WOL output signal to the motherboard s WOL_CON in order to utilize the wake on LAN feature of the moth erboard Connect the LAN activity output signal LAN_LED to the system cabinet s front panel LAN_LED in order to dis...

Page 60: ...Novell Netware 3 x 4 x DOS OS 2 Client NDIS 2 01 Drivers Microsoft LAN Manager Microsoft Windows 3 11 IBM LAN Server NDIS 3 0 Drivers Microsoft Windows NT Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 3 11 Question and Answer Q What is Wake On LAN A The Wake On LAN feature provides the capability to remotely power on sys tems supporting Wake On LAN by simply sending a wake up frame With this feature remo...

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