Asus XG-DLS, User Manual

Page 1: ...R XG DLS Dual Xeon ATX Motherboard USER S MANUAL ...

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Page 4: ... Cartridge Lifters 20 Step 5 Install a 2nd Processor or Termination Module 21 Step 6 Install Retention Mechanism Cap 21 Step 7 Install Retention Mechanism Frame 22 Removing the Xeon Processor 22 External Thermal Sensor optional 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 Monito...

Page 5: ... Setup 43 Chipset Features Setup 46 Details of Chipset Features Setup 46 Power Management Setup 49 Details of Power Management Setup 49 PNP and PCI Setup 52 Details of PNP and PCI Setup 52 Load BIOS Defaults 54 Load Setup Defaults 54 Supervisor Password and User Password 55 IDE HDD Auto Detection 56 Save Exit Setup 57 Exit Without Saving 57 ...

Page 6: ...lar installation If 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...

Page 7: ...unting set for two processors 1 Front side bus termination module for slot 2 connector 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 jumpers caps 1 68 pin Ultra2 cable with terminator usable on all 68pin SCSI devices 1 68 pin Ultra Wide SCSI cable not usable for Ultra2 devices 1 50 pin Ultra Fast SCSI cable 1 Suppor...

Page 8: ...ors AGPSlot SupportsAccelerated Graphics Port cards for high performance com ponent level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications PCI ISA Expansion Slots Provides five 32 bit PCI and one 16 bit ISA slots PCI4 and PCI5 has shared interrupt Super Multi I O Provides two high speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities UART2 can also be dir...

Page 9: ...ug and Play compatibility and power management for configuring and man aging all system components and 32 bit device drivers and installation proce dures for Windows 95 98 NT Anti BootVirus BIOS PC cillin Bundled Double protection for your moth erboardagainstbootsectorvirusesthroughbootfirmware Anti BootVirusBIOS and file viruses through the bundled PC cillin Symbios SCSI BIOS Supports optional AS...

Page 10: ...y pressing the space bar on the keyboard Message LED requiresACPI OS support Turbo LEDs now act as informa tion providers Through the way a particular LED illuminates the user can de termine the stage the computer is in Asimple glimpse provides useful informa tion to the user Remote Ring On requires external modem This allows a computer to be turned on remotely through an external modem With this ...

Page 11: ...SA Slots T PS 2 Mouse B PS 2 Keyboard Parallel Top Serial Bottom Intel 440GX AGPset Hardware Monitor Multi I O Dual Slot 2 Connectors for Xeon Processors COM 1 Bottom 4 DIMM Sockets Adaptec AIC 7896 Dual Chan U2 SCSI Intel PIIX4E PCIset 68pin Ultra2 SCSI Connector A 50pin Ultra Fast SCSI Connector 68pin Ultra2 SCSI Connector B Intel Fast Ethernet Ethernet Port RJ45 Floppy Connector ATX AUX Power C...

Page 12: ...64 72 bit 168 pin module DIMM Socket 3 64 72 bit 168 pin module 0 1 2 3 4 5 ROW DIMM Socket 4 64 72 bit 168 pin module 6 7 BUS FREQ FS1 FS2 FS0 CPU_FAN FLOPPY SECONDARY IDE PRIMARY IDE CLRTC PCI4 PCI Slot 4 PCI5 PCI Slot 5 AGP Accelerated Graphics Port PWR3V Ultra2 68 Pin SCSI Connector Channel A Ultra Fast 50 Pin SCSI Connector Channel B IR PANEL Connectors SB LINK 35 34 68 1 35 34 68 1 1 Ultra2 ...

Page 13: ...LOPPY p 28 Floppy Drive Connector 34 1 pins 8 HDLED p 28 Activity LED Lead 2 pins 9 Primary SecondaryIDE p 29 Primary Secondary IDE Connector 40 pins 10 SCSI 50 ULTRA2 68 p 29 Ultra Fast 50 pins Ultra2 68 pins SCSI Connectors 11 IR p 31 Infrared Port Module Connector 5 pins 12 SBLINK p 31 SB LINK Connector 6 1 pins 13 MSG LED PANEL p 32 Message LED Lead 2 pins 14 SMI PANEL p 32 SMI Suspend Switch ...

Page 14: ...ry delicate Integrated Circuit IC chips To protect them against damage from static electricity you should follow some precautions whenever you work on your computer 1 Unplug your computer when working on the inside 2 Use a grounded wrist strap before handling computer components If you do not have one touch both of your hands to a safely grounded object or to a metal object such as the power suppl...

Page 15: ...Clock The BUS Clock multiplied by the BUS Ratio equals the CPU s Internal frequency the advertised CPU speed 2 CPU Core BUS Frequency Multiple BF0 BF1 BF2 BF3 This option sets the frequency ratio between the Internal frequency of the CPU and the CPU s External frequency These must be set in conjunction with the CPU Bus Frequency Jumpers III INSTALLATION WARNING Frequencies above 100Mhz exceed the ...

Page 16: ... side 1 ECC chip and make the proper settings through Chipset Features Setup in BIOS setup Memory speed setup is recommended through SDRAM Configurationunder Chipset Features Setup in BIOS setup General DIMM Notes For the system CPU bus to operate at 100MHz use only PC100 compliant DIMMs compatible with Intel s PC100 SDRAM specifications This motherboard operates at 100MHz thus most systems will n...

Page 17: ...ides R XG DLS XG DLS 168 Pin DIMM Memory Sockets 88 Pins 60 Pins 20 Pins Lock Lock The DIMMs must be3 3VUnbuffered for this motherboard 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 ...

Page 18: ...erence only and are not to size The design and color of your items may be slightly different You should check to see that you have the following items with your motherboard III INSTALLATION Item 1 Metal Baseboard x 1 Item 2 Rubber Pad x 1 NOTE For the retention mechanism and lock bar there is a left and a right side The left side has a single dot and the right side has two dots when holding the mo...

Page 19: ...rd so that the holes match Align theASUS XG DLS motherboard over the rubber pad and metal baseboard so that the screws match up with the motherboard s screw holes Place and tighten three captive nuts in the corner locations circled Step 2 Install Retention Mechanisms Place the retention mechanisms holes over the screws and the Slot2 Screw four captive nuts onto the screws as circled in the picture...

Page 20: ...r Retention mechanism with brace bar on top One retention mechanism with brace bar installed Both retention mechanisms with both brace bars installed Step 4 Install Cartridge Lifters Each Xeon processor requires two lifters in order to allow safe removal of the pro cessor The lifters clamps the cartridge on the two holes at each top corner Installed lifter in a colapsed position Half colapsed lift...

Page 21: ...n a single processor configuration is desired a front side bus termination module is required on the free slot 2 connector The right end of the cap enters the retention mechanism and a click is heard as it snaps in place Item 7 Front Side Bus Termination Module Single processor configuration with terminator Dual processor configuration The cap must go in from the left side first with the ATX conne...

Page 22: ... only 11 is used out of 15 captive nuts in case you loose any Removing the Xeon Processor If you want to remove the processor first remove the retention mechanism frame then remove the cap The processor is pulled out of the slot 2 connector by flipping both lifters at the same time so that the processor raises out of the connector When both lifters are vertical pull out the processor by holding th...

Page 23: ...tain updated software for the Xeon processor or you would like to use another software not yet updated for the Xeon processor you may use an external thermal sensor which must be attached to the thermal plate silver surface of the Xeon cartridge NOTE If you have a power supply with thermal monitoring you may connect its thermal sensor cable to CPU1TEMP or CPU0TEMP if they are not used for CPU moni...

Page 24: ...ost of them are already in use leaving 6 IRQs free for expansion cards If your motherboard has 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 IS...

Page 25: ...s 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 DMA channel in the PCI and PnP configuration section of the BIOS Setup utility IMPORTANT To avoid conflicts reserve the necessary IRQs ...

Page 26: ... and some floppy drives IDE ribbon cable must be less than 18in 46cm with the second drive connector no more than 6in 15cm from the first connector 1 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 Function Control in BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE PS 2 Mouse 6 pin Female 2 P...

Page 27: ... Parallel Port 25 pin Female 4 Serial Port COM1 and COM2 Connectors Two 9 pin 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 Serial Ports 9 pin Male COM 1 COM 2 5 RJ 45 Connector 8 pin Female This connector can be used to connect the onboard 32 bit 10 100 Mbps Ethernet LAN Controller optional...

Page 28: ...he two plugs on the other end to the floppy drives Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orienta tion when using ribbon cables with pin 5 plugged R X G D L S XG DLS Floppy Disk Drive Connector NOTE Orient the red stripe to Pin 1 Floppy Drive Connector Pin 1 8 Activity LED 2 pins HDLED This connector supplies power to the cabinet s activity LED Read and write activity by devices connec...

Page 29: ...tures Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 20 plugged R XG DLS XG DLS IDE Connectors NOTE Orient the red stripe to PIN 1 Primary Secondary Primary IDE Connector PIN 1 PIN 1 Secondary IDE Connector 10 Ultra Fast 50 pin Ultra2 68 pin SCSI Connectors This motherboard has an onboard 50 Pin Ultra Fast SCSI connector...

Page 30: ...erent speeds mixed on the same channel will bring all the other devices on that channel down to the slowest speed Because the 50 pin Ultra Fast connector is shared on Channel B the fastest that can be attained on the Channel B 68 pin Ultra2 connector is equal to the slowest device between the two connectors Basically if you want to use both Ultra2 devices and Ultra Fast devices use the 68 pins on ...

Page 31: ...e Connector For the infrared feature to be available you must connect the optional Infrared IrDA module to the motherboard 5V IRRX IRTX NC GND 5V IRTX IRRX NC GND Back View 12 SB Link Connector 6 1 pin SBLINK Using Intel s PC PCI and serialized IRQ protocols found in this motherboard s AGPset this connector allows Sound Blaster 16 compatibility toAWE64D Digi tal or other PCI audio cards enabling u...

Page 32: ...n PWR The system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pressing the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Press 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 16 Reset Switch Lead 2 pin RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch fo...

Page 33: ...ssis Open Alarm Lead CHASSIS 5VSB Chassis Ground 21 Wake On LAN Connector 3 pin WOLCON These connector connects to LAN cards with a Wake On LAN output such as theASUS PCI L101 The connector powers up the system when a wakeup packet or signal is received through the LAN card IMPORTANT This feature requires that the WAKE On LAN Power Up Con trol is set to Enabled see Power Management Setup under BIO...

Page 34: ...inATXPWR 6 pin PWR3V This connector connects to a 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 An auxilliary connector PWR3V is provided in case the power supplied through the main connectors are insufficient R XG DLS XG DLS AT...

Page 35: ...light when theATX power switch is pressed The monitor LED may light 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 tes...

Page 36: ... 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 IMPORTANT If unknown is displayed after Flash Memory the memory chip is ei...

Page 37: ...rom 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 pro gramming is finished Flashed Successfully 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 screenappears Type the filename of your new ...

Page 38: ...or 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 enc...

Page 39: ...ou are installing 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 Te...

Page 40: ...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 the...

Page 41: ...cumentations on how to install the re quired 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 User option The entries for specifying the hard disk type include CYLS number of cylinders HEAD numbero...

Page 42: ...sible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Drive A Drive B None These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system The available options for drives A and B are 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in None To enter the configuration value for a particular drive highlight its corresponding field and th...

Page 43: ...xt to each function heading Details of BIOS Features Setup CPU Internal Core Speed This function is reserved for future use and is currently disabled 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 ...

Page 44: ...ws multiple operating systems to be used on both IDE and SCSI 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 areA C C A A CDROM C CDROM C A D A E A F A Conly LS ZIP C LAN A C and LAN C A The setup default setting A C is to check first the floppy disk and then the hard d...

Page 45: ...ng other expansion card ROMs If you install 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 Disab...

Page 46: ...dule such as memory type size 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 to CAS Delay This controls the latency between SDRAM active command and the read write com mand Leave on default setting SDRAM RAS Precharge Time This controls the idle ...

Page 47: ...o 16MB memory address space to ISA expan sion cards that specifically require this setting This makes the memory from 15MB and up unavailable to the system Expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB The default is Disabled DRAM are xx bits wide If all your DIMMs have ECC e g 8 chips 1 ECC chip they are considered 72bits and the following will be displayed If your DIMMs do not have ECC e g 8...

Page 48: ...e maximum unidirectional 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 activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second serial UART to support the infrared module ...

Page 49: ...except 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 stat...

Page 50: ...sed from the keyboard or when there is 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 each of these modes activate 30 sec 1 Min 2 Min...

Page 51: ...rs Enabled sets this feature IMPORTANT This feature requires the optional network interface see VII Net work Interface and anATX 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 s...

Page 52: ... 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 displa...

Page 53: ...BASE to its default setting of No ICU Onboard AHA BIOS Auto The default uses Auto settings for the onboard Adaptec 7896 SCSI BIOS If you do not want to use the onboard Adaptec 7896 SCSI BIOS choose Disabled ONB AHA BIOS First No This field allows you to give priority to the onboard SCSI BIOS for SCSI functions over other add on SCSI controllers The default is No SCSI Channel B A Term Enabled The o...

Page 54: ...To load these default values highlight Load Setup Defaults on the main screen and then press Enter The system displays a confirmation message on the screen 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 Supervisor Password and User Password These two options set the system passwords Supervisor Password set...

Page 55: ... a password the screen automatically reverts to the main screen To implement password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prompt for the password If you want to disable either password press Enter instead of entering a new password when the EnterPassword promptappears Amessageconfirmsthepasswordhasbeendisabled Forgot the password I...

Page 56: ...En 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 ...

Page 57: ...r 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 Sa...

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