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R P5A Pentium ® Super7 Motherboard USER’S MANUAL.
2 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 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,.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 3 ASUS CONT ACT INFORMA TION ASUST eK COMPUTER INC. (Asia-Pacific) Marketing Address: 150 Li-T e Road, Peitou, T aipei, T aiwan 1 12 T elephone: +886-2-2894-3447 Fax: +886-2-2894-3449 Email: info@asus.com.tw T echnical Support T el (English): +886-2-2894-3447 ext.
4 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................... 7 How this Manual is Or ganized ........................................................ 7 Item Checklist ................
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 5 CONTENTS PNP and PCI Setup .................................................................... 52 Details of PNP and PCI Setup .............................................. 52 Load BIOS Defaults .........................
6 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • .
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 7 I. INTRODUCTION I. INTRODUCTION Sections/Checklist How this Manual is Organized I. Introduction Manual information and checklist II. Featur es Information and specifications concerning this product III. Installation Instructions on setting up the motherboard IV .
8 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual II. FEA TURES Features II. FEA TURES 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.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 9 II. FEA TURES II. FEA TURES Smart Series Introduction to ASUS Smart Series Motherboards Performance • SDRAM Optimized Performance: ASUS Smart Series motherboards support.
10 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual II. FEA TURES Smart Series II. FEA TURES • V oltage Monitoring and Alert: System voltage levels are monitored to ensure stable current to critical motherboard components. V oltage specifications are more critical for future processors, so monitoring is necessary to ensure proper system configuration and management.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 11 Parts of the ASUS P5A Motherboard II. FEA TURES II. FEA TURES Motherboard Parts 512KB/1MB Pipelined Burst L2 Cache CPU ZIF Socket 7 5 PCI Slots 2 ISA Slots 3 DIMM Sockets.
12 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION ASUS P5A Motherboard Layout Motherboard Layout III. INST ALLA TION R (OPTIONAL) SGNT SREQ SOLOID ALi Aladdin V M1541 AGPset ALi M1543C Chipset (IDE Con.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 13 III. INST ALLA TION Contents III. INST ALLA TION Jumpers 1) CLR TC p. 14 Real T ime Clock (R TC) RAM 2) KBPWR p. 15 Keyboard Power Up 3) VIO1 p. 15 +3V V oltage Selection 4) SGNT ,SREQ,SOLOID p. 15 Audio Selection 5) FS0, FS1, FS2, FS3 p.
14 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Jumper Settings 1. Real T ime Clock (R TC) RAM (CLR TC) The CMOS RAM is powered by the onboard button cell battery .
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 15 III. INST ALLA TION III. INST ALLA TION Jumpers 3. +3V V oltage Selection (VIO1) This jumper allows you to select the voltage supplied to the DRAM, chipset, AGP , and the CPU’ s I/O buffer . 2. Keyboard Power Up (KBPWR) This allows you to disable or enable the keyboard power up function.
16 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Jumpers III. INST ALLA TION 5. CPU External (BUS) Fr equency 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 ).
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 17 III. INST ALLA TION Jumpers III. INST ALLA TION 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.
18 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Jumpers III. INST ALLA TION 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 .
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 19 III. INST ALLA TION System Memory III. INST ALLA TION Install memory in any combination as follows: DIMM Location 168-pin DIMM T otal Memory Socket 1 (Rows 0&1) SDRAM.
20 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION System Memory III. INST ALLA TION DIMM Memory Installation Procedures: Insert the module(s) as shown. Because the number of pins are different on either side of the breaks, the module will only fit in the orientation as shown.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 21 III. INST ALLA TION III. INST ALLA TION CPU P5A ZIF Socket 7 Blank Lever Lock 1 R 3. Central Processing Unit (CPU) The motherboard provides a 321-pin ZIF Socket 7 that is backwards compatible with ZIF Socket 5 processors.
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ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 23 III. INST ALLA TION Expansion Cards III. INST ALLA TION 4. Expansion Cards W ARNING! Make sure that you unplug your power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards.
24 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Expansion Cards III. INST ALLA TION T o simplify this process, this motherboard complies with the Plug and Play (PNP) specification which was developed to allow automatic system configuration when- ever a PNP-compliant card is added to the system.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 25 III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 5. External Connectors IMPOR T ANT : Ribbon cables should always be connected with the red stripe to Pin 1 on the connectors.
26 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION 3. Parallel Port Connector (25-pin Female) Y ou can enable the parallel port and choose the IRQ through “Onboard Parallel Port” in Chipset Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTW ARE. NOTE : Serial printers must be connected to the serial port.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 27 III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 6. Audio Port Connectors (Three 1/8” Female) (with optional onboard audio) Line Out can be connected to headphones or preferably powered speakers. Line In allows tape players or other audio sources to be recorded by your com- puter or played through the Line Out .
28 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 9. Primary / Secondary IDE connectors (T wo 40-1 pin block) These connectors support the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. After con- necting the single end to the board, connect the two plugs at the other end to your hard disk(s).
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 29 III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 1 1. A TX Power Supply Connector (A TX, 20-pin block) This connector connects to a A TX power supply . The plug from the power supply will only insert in one orientation because of the dif ferent hole sizes.
30 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 13. CPU Cooling Fan Connectors (F AN, 3 pins) These connectors support 3-pin cooling fans of 500mA (6W) or less with a mini- mum of 3,500RPM. Orientate the fans so that the heatsink fins allow airflow to go across the onboard heatsink(s) instead of the expansion slots.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 31 III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 15. Message LED Lead (MSG.LED, 2 pins) This indicates whether a message has been received from a fax/modem. The LED will remain lit when there is no signal and blink when there is data transfer or messages waiting in the inbox.
32 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 21. W ake-on-LAN Activity Connector (3-pin WOLCON) The WOLCON connector allows the system to power up when there is a wakeup packet or signal is received from the network through the ASUS PCI-L101 LAN card (see section VI.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 33 III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 23. Stereo Audio In Connector (4-pin AUX) This connector allows you to receive stereo audio input from such sound sources as a TV tuner or MPEG card. P5A Stereo Audio In Connector R Left Audio Channel Right Audio Channel Ground Ground AUX 24.
34 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Connectors III. INST ALLA TION 25. 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.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 35 III. INST ALLA TION Power Connections III. INST ALLA TION Power Connection Procedures 1. After all jumpers and connections are made, close the system case cover . 2. Be sure that all switches are of f (in some systems, marked with ).
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 36 IV . BIOS Flash Memory Writer IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE Support Software AFLASH.EXE: This is the Flash Memory W riter utility that updates the BIOS by uploading a new BIOS file to the programmable flash ROM chip on the motherboard.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 37 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Flash Memory Writer When prompted to confirm the BIOS update, press Y to start the update. 2. Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD This option updates the boot block, the baseboard BIOS, and the ACPI extended system con- figuration data (ESCD) parameter block from a new BIOS file.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 38 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV. BIOS Flash Memory Writer Managing and Updating Y our Motherboard’s BIOS Upon First Use of the Computer System 1. Create a bootable system floppy disk by typing [FORMA T A:/S] from the DOS prompt without creating “AUT OEXEC.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 39 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE 6. BIOS Setup IV . BIOS BIOS Setup The motherboard supports two programmable Flash ROM chips: 5 volt and 12 volt.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 40 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Standard CMOS Load Defaults Load BIOS Defaults loads the minimum settings for troubleshooting. Load Setup Defaults , on the other hand, is for loading optimized defaults for regular use. Choos- ing defaults at this level will modify all applicable settings.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 41 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Standard CMOS Ti m e T o set the time, highlight the “T ime” field and then press either <Page Up>/<Page Down> or <+>/<–> to set the current time. Follow the hour , minute and second format.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 42 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Standard CMOS Auto detection of hard disks on bootup For each field: Primary Master , Primary Slave, Secondary Master , and Secondary Slave, you can select Auto under the TYPE and MODE fields.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 43 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS BIOS Features BIOS Features Setup BIOS Featur es Setup consists of configuration entries that allow you to improve your system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your preference.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 44 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS BIOS Features Quick Power On Self T est (Enabled) This field speeds up the Power-On Self T est (POST) routine by skipping retesting a second, third, and forth time. Setup default setting for this field is Enabled .
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 45 C8000 - CBFFF Shadow to DC000 - DFFFF Shadow (Disabled) These fields are used for shadowing 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 .
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 46 Chipset Features IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Chipset Features Details of Chipset Features Setup SDRAM Configuration (By SPD) This sets the optimal timing for items 2-4. Leave on default setting, depending on the memory modules that you are using.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 47 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Chipset Features IV . BIOS Chipset Features Memory Hole At 15M-16M (Disabled) Enabling this feature reserves 15MB-16MB memory address space to ISA expansion cards that specifically require this setting.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 48 Chipset Features IV . BIOS IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Chipset Features Parallel Port Mode (ECP+EPP) This field allows you to set the operation mode of the parallel port.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 49 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Power Management Power Management Setup Power Management Setup allows you to reduce power consumption. This feature turns off the video display and shuts down the hard disk after a period of inactivity .
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 50 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Power Management V ideo Off Method (DPMS OFF) This field defines the video off features. These options are available: DPMS OFF , DPMS Reduce ON , Blank Scr een , V/H SYNC+Blank , DPMS Standby , and DPMS Sus- pend .
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 51 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE Power Management Power Management IV. BIOS W ake On LAN (Enabled) This allows you to remotely power up your system thorugh your network by sendng a wake-up frame or signal. W ith this feature, you can remotely upload/download data to/from systems during off-peak hours.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 52 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Plug & Play/PCI PNP and PCI Setup This “PNP and PCI Setup” option configures the PCI bus slots. All PCI bus slots on the system use INT A#, thus all installed PCI cards must be set to this value.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 53 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Load Setup Defaults IV . BIOS Plug & Play/PCI DMA x Used By ISA (No/ICU) These fields indicate whether or not the displayed DMA channel for each field is being used by a legacy (non-PnP) ISA card.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 54 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Load Defaults Load BIOS Defaults This “Load BIOS Defaults” option allows you to load the troubleshooting default values permanently stored in the BIOS ROM. These default settings are non-opti- mal and disable all high performance features.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 55 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS Passwords Supervisor Password and User Password These two options set the system passwords. “Supervisor Password” sets a pass- word that will be used to protect the system and the Setup utility; “User Password” sets a password that will be used exclusively on the system.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 56 Hard Disk Detect IV. BIOS IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IDE HDD Auto Detection This “IDE HDD Auto Detection” option detects the parameters of an IDE hard disk drive, and automatically enters them into the Standard CMOS Setup screen.
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 57 Save IV. BIOS IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IMPOR T ANT : If your hard disk was already formatted on an older previous system, incorrect parameters may be detected. Y ou will need to enter the correct parameters manually or use low-level format if you do not need the data stored on the hard disk.
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ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 59 V . SOFTW ARE Support CD V . SUPPOR T SOFTW ARE ASUS Smart Motherboard Support CD (Included only with motherboards with onboard hardware monitoring) NOTE: The support CD version and contents are subject to change at any time without notice.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 60 Desktop Management Interface (DMI) Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility This motherboard supports DMI within the BIOS level and provides a DMI Con- figuration Utility to maintain the Management Information Format Database (MIFD).
ASUS P5A User’ s Manual 61 V . SUPPOR T SOFTW ARE Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility Edit DMI (or delete) Use the ←→ (left-right) cursors to move the top menu items and the ↑↓ (up-down) cursor to move between the left hand menu items. The bottom of the screen will show the available keys for each screen.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 62 V . SUPPOR T SOFTW ARE Save MIFD Y ou can save the MIFD (normally only saved to flash ROM) to a file by entering the drive and path here. If you want to cancel save, you may press ESC and a message “Bad File Name” appears here to show it was not saved.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 63 Connectors VI. ASUS CIDB The optional ASUS CIDB is a module for providing audio alarm and logging when there is an intrusion into the chassis of a computer system.
64 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual ASUS CIDB Additional Considerations 1. All motherboards with CIDB: If there is no power to the motherboard (i.e. re- moving the power cord or turning the power supply’ s switch off) the alarm will not sound but the CIDB will still memorize an intrusion event which BIOS and LDCM will detect on the next bootup.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 65 VII. ASUS LAN Card Parts/Layout VII. ASUS LAN Card ASUS PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet Card LAN Activity Output Signal RJ45 LEDs Motherboard type Wake on LAN Output Signal ASUS Other Intel Chipset If you are using the ASUS PCI-L101 on an ASUS motherboard, leave the jumper on its defaut setting of “ASUS.
66 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual VII. ASUS LAN Card Information VII. ASUS LAN Card Features • Intel 82558 Ethernet LAN Controller (Fully integrated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX) • W ake-On-LAN Remote Control Function Supported • PCI Bus Master Complies to PCI Local Bus Rev .
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 67 APPENDIX APPENDIX Glossary Glossary AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) An interface specification that enables high-performance 3D graphics on mainstream PCs. AGP of fers a higher throughput than PCI by providing the graphics controller with direct access to system memory .
68 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual APPENDIX Byte (Binary T erm) One byte is a group of eight contiguous bits. A byte is used to represent a single alphanumeric character , punctuation mark, or other symbol. COM Port COM is a logical device name used by to designate the computer serial ports.
ASUS P5A User ’ s Manual 69 PCI Bus (Peripheral Component Inter connect Local Bus) PCI bus is a specification that defines a 32-bit data bus interface. PCI is a standard widely used by expansion card manufacturers. Peripherals Peripherals are devices attached to the computer via I/O ports.
70 ASUS P5A User’ s Manual USB (Universal Serial Bus) A new 4-pin serial peripheral bus that allows plug and play computer peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner , printer and modem/ISDN to be auto- matically configured when they are attached physically without having to install drivers or reboot.
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Un punto importante, dopo l’acquisto del dispositivo (o anche prima di acquisto) è quello di leggere il manuale. Dobbiamo farlo per diversi motivi semplici:
Se non hai ancora comprato il Asus P5A è un buon momento per familiarizzare con i dati di base del prodotto. Prime consultare le pagine iniziali del manuale d’uso, che si trova al di sopra. Dovresti trovare lì i dati tecnici più importanti del Asus P5A - in questo modo è possibile verificare se l’apparecchio soddisfa le tue esigenze. Esplorando le pagine segenti del manuali d’uso Asus P5A imparerai tutte le caratteristiche del prodotto e le informazioni sul suo funzionamento. Le informazioni sul Asus P5A ti aiuteranno sicuramente a prendere una decisione relativa all’acquisto.
In una situazione in cui hai già il Asus P5A, ma non hai ancora letto il manuale d’uso, dovresti farlo per le ragioni sopra descritte. Saprai quindi se hai correttamente usato le funzioni disponibili, e se hai commesso errori che possono ridurre la durata di vita del Asus P5A.
Tuttavia, uno dei ruoli più importanti per l’utente svolti dal manuale d’uso è quello di aiutare a risolvere i problemi con il Asus P5A. Quasi sempre, ci troverai Troubleshooting, cioè i guasti più frequenti e malfunzionamenti del dispositivo Asus P5A insieme con le istruzioni su come risolverli. Anche se non si riesci a risolvere il problema, il manuale d’uso ti mostrerà il percorso di ulteriori procedimenti – il contatto con il centro servizio clienti o il servizio più vicino.
