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Pentium Super7 Motherboard
USER’S MANUAL
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USER'S NOTICE No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be repro- duced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (“ASUS”). ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EI- THER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED
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ASUS CONTACT INFORMATION ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Asia-Pacific) Marketing Address: 150 Li-Te Road, Peitou, Taipei, Taiwan 112 Telephone: +886-2-2894-3447 Fax: +886-2-2894-3449 Email: info@asus.com.tw Technical Support Tel (English): +886-2-2894-3447 ext. 706 Tel (Chinese): +886-2-2894-3447 ext. 111 Fax: +886-2-2895-9254 Email: tsd@asus.com.tw Newsgroup: news2.asus.com.tw WWW: www.asus.com.tw FTP: ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America) Marketing Address: 6737 Mowry Avenue,
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CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION........................................................................... 7 How this Manual is Organized ........................................................ 7 Item Checklist .................................................................................. 7 II. FEATURES .................................................................................... 8 ASUS P5A Motherboard ................................................................. 8 Introduction to ASU
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CONTENTS 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 ..........................................
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FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • This device may not cause harmful interference, and • This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provid
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I. INTRODUCTION How this Manual is Organized I. Introduction Manual information and checklist II. Features Information and specifications concerning this product III. Installation Instructions on setting up the motherboard IV. BIOS Software Instructions on setting up the BIOS software V. Support Software Information on the included support software VI. ASUS CIDB Installation of the ASUS CIDB Chassis Sensor (optional) VII. ASUS L101 Card Installation of the ASUS LAN card (optional) APPENDIX Glos
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II. FEA TURES Features II. FEATURES ASUS P5A Motherboard ® • ALi AGPset: ALi (Acer Laboratories Inc.) Aladdin V AGPset with support for a 100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), and all current Socket 7 processors. ™ ™ • Multi-Processor/Multi-Speed Support: AMD K6 -III/400 & faster, AMD K6 - ™ ™ ® ® ™ 2/266 & faster, AMD K6 /166 & faster, AMD K5 /90–133, IBM /Cyrix 6x86MX / ™ ™ ® ® MII (PR166 & faster), IDT WinChip 2 /240 & faster, IBM /Cyrix 6x86-PR166+ ® ™ (Rev 2.7 or
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II. FEATURES Introduction to ASUS Smart Series Motherboards Performance • SDRAM Optimized Performance: ASUS Smart Series motherboards support the new generation memory—Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM)—which increases the data transfer rate to 800MB/sec max using PC100-compliant SDRAM. • Double the IDE Transfer Speed: ASUS Smart Series motherboards with ALi’s Aladdin V chipset improves IDE transfer rate using UltraDMA/33 Bus Master IDE, which can handle data transfer up to 33MB/s
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II. FEA TURES Smart Series II. FEATURES • Voltage Monitoring and Alert: System voltage levels are monitored to ensure stable current to critical motherboard components. Voltage specifications are more critical for future processors, so monitoring is necessary to ensure proper system configuration and management. • System Resources Alert: Today’s operating systems, such as Windows 95, Win- dows NT, and OS/2, require much more memory and hard drive space to present enormous user interfaces and r
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II. FEATURES Parts of the ASUS P5A Motherboard ATX Power CPU ZIF ALi Aladdin V 3 DIMM Socket 7 AGPset Sockets PS/2 Mouse (top) and Keyboard USB Port Serial and Parallel Connectors 512KB/1MB Pipelined Burst L2 Cache Game/MIDI Port (optional) Accelerated Graphics Port ESS Audio (optional) 5 PCI Slots Health Monitoring Chip (optional) 2 ISA Slots ASUS P5A User’s Manual 11 II. FEA TURES Motherboard Parts
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III. INST ALLATION Motherboard Layout III. INSTALLATION ASUS P5A Motherboard Layout Top: Mouse CPU_FAN Bottom: Keyboard PS2 Board Power Input for ATX Power Supply KBMS KBPWR Top: USB 1 CPU ZIF Socket 7 Bottom: USB 2 USB PWR_FAN CPU Thermal Sensor (Hardware Monitor) VID0 VID1 VID2 VID3 CPU Voltage BF2 BF1 BF0 Frequency Ratio 512KB/1MB Pipelined Burst ALi L2 Cache Aladdin V M1541 AGPset Tag RAM CD1 Row 01 23 45 AUX Modem AGP Slot Connector FS0 FS1 FS2 FS3 BUS Frequency PCI Slot 1 Audio R Chipset
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III. INSTALLATION Jumpers 1) CLRTC p. 14 Real Time Clock (RTC) RAM 2) KBPWR p. 15 Keyboard Power Up 3) VIO1 p. 15 +3V Voltage Selection 4) SGNT,SREQ,SOLOID p. 15 Audio Selection 5) FS0, FS1, FS2, FS3 p. 16 CPU External (BUS) Frequency Selection 6) BF0, BF1, BF2 p. 16 CPU to BUS Frequency Ratio 7) VID0, VID1, VID2, VID3 p. 18 Voltage Regulator Output Selection Expansion Slots 1) DIMM Sockets p. 19 168-Pin DIMM Memory Expansion Sockets 2) CPU ZIF Socket 7 p. 21 Central Processing Unit (CPU) Socket
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R III. INST ALLATION Jumpers III. INSTALLATION Installation Steps Before using your computer, you must complete the following steps: 1. Set Jumpers on the Motherboard 2. Install System Memory Modules 3. Install the Central Processing Unit (CPU) 4. Install Expansion Cards 5. Connect Ribbon Cables, Cabinet Wires, and Power Supply 6. Setup the BIOS Software 1. Jumpers WARNING! Computer motherboards, baseboards and components, such as SCSI cards, contain very delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips.
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R R R III. INSTALLATION 2. Keyboard Power Up (KBPWR) This allows you to disable or enable the keyboard power up function. Set to Enable if you want to use your keyboard (by pressing ) to power up your computer. 1 1 2 2 3 3 Disable Enable (DEFAULT) This feature requires an ATX power supply that can supply at least 300mA on the +5VSB lead and the new ACPI BIOS support. The default is set to Disable because not all computers have the appropriate ATX power supply. Your computer will not fu
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R III. INST ALLATION Jumpers III. INSTALLATION 5. CPU External (BUS) Frequency Selection (FS3, FS2, FS1, FS0) These jumpers tell the clock generator what frequency to send to the CPU, chipset, and AGP. These allow the selection of the CPU’s External frequency (or BUS Clock). The BUS Clock times the BUS Ratio equals the CPU's Internal fre- quency (the advertised CPU speed). 6. CPU to BUS Frequency Multiple (BF0, BF1, BF2) These jumpers set the frequency ratio between the Internal frequency o
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III. INSTALLATION Set the jumpers by the Internal speed of your CPU as follows: (BUS Freq.) (Freq. Mult.) CPU Model Freq. Mult. BUS F. FS3 FS2 FS1 FS0 BF0 BF1 BF2 AMD-K6-III/450 450MHz A-4.5x 100MHz [2-3] [1-2] [1-2] [1-2] [2-3] [2-3] [2-3] AMD-K6-III/400 400MHz A-4.0x 100MHz [2-3] [1-2] [1-2] [1-2] [2-3] [1-2] [2-3] AMD-K6-2/475 475MHz A-5.0x 95MHz [2-3] [1-2] [1-2] [2-3] [1-2] [2-3] [2-3] AMD-K6-2/450 450MHz A-4.5x 100MHz [2-3] [1-2] [1-2] [1-2] [2-3] [2-3] [2-3] AMD-K6-2/400 400MHz A-4.0x 100
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R III. INST ALLATION Jumpers III. INSTALLATION Compatible Cyrix CPU Identification The only Cyrix 6x86-PR166+ CPU that is supported on this motherboard must be Revision 2.7 or later. Look on the un- derside of the CPU for the serial number. The number should read G8DC6620A or later. 7. Voltage Regulator Output Selection (VID0, 1, 2, 3) These jumpers set the Core voltage supplied to the CPU. Switching regulators allow some jumper settings to be the same for two voltages of different power pl
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III. INSTALLATION 2. System Memory (DIMM) This motherboard uses only Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs). Sockets are available for 3.3Volt (power level) unbuffered Synchronous Dynamic Random Ac- cess Memory (SDRAM) of either 8, 16, 32, 64, 128MB, or 256MB to form a memory size between 8MB and 768MB. One side (with memory chips) of the DIMM takes up one row on the motherboard. To utilize the chipset’s Error Checking and Correction (ECC) feature, you must use a DIMM module with 9 chips per side (
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