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Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. ii Contents FCC/CDC statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] · Refer to section "2. 5 System memory" for instruction on installing a DIMM. · Install a PCI VGA card into one of the PCI slots, or a 1. 5V AGP card into the AGP slot. · In JumperFree mode, check your CPU settings in BIOS and make sure you only set to the recommended settings. See section "4. 4 Advanced menu. " System failed memory test System failed VGA test System failed due to CPU over-clocking 3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up POST Message No keyboard detected Action · Check your keyboard if properly connected to the purple PS/2 connector on the rear panel. · See section "1. 4. 1 Major components" for the location of the connector. · Make sure you have connected a floppy disk to the floppy disk connector on the motherboard. · See section "2. 8 Connectors. " · Make sure you have connected an IDE hard disk drive to the one of the IDE connectors on the motherboard. · See section "2. 8 Connectors. " · Check CPU fan if working properly. · Check the CPU fan and make sure it turns on after you applied power to the system. · Make sure that your CPU fan supports the fan speed detection function. See the "ASUS contact information" on page x. No floppy disk detected No IDE hard disk detected CPU temperature too high CPU fan failed CPU voltage out of range System completed Power-On Self Test · No action required Computer now booting from operating · No action required system You may disable the ASUS POST ReporterTM in the BIOS setup. Press Y to update the main BIOS area. DO NOT shutdown or reset the system while updating the BIOS area!When the update process is done, the message, "Press a key to reboot" appears. Press any key to reboot the system with the new BIOS. 4-2 Chapter 4: BIOS Setup 4. 1. 2 Using AFLASH to update the BIOS Creating a bootable disk AFLASH. EXE is a Flash Memory Writer utility that updates the BIOS by uploading a new BIOS file to the programmable flash ROM on the motherboard. To determine the BIOS version of your motherboard, check the last four numbers of the code displayed on the upper left-hand corner of your screen during bootup. Type COPY D:\AFLASH\AFLASH. EXE A:\ (assuming D is your CD-ROM drive) to copy AFLASH. EXE to the boot disk you created. AFLASH works only in DOS mode. It does not work in the DOS prompt within Windows, and does not work with certain memory drivers that may be loaded when you boot from the hard drive. Reboot the computer from the floppy disk. BIOS setup must specify "Floppy" as the first item in the boot sequence. 4. In DOS mode, type A:\AFLASH <Enter> to run AFLASH. If the word "unknown" appears after Flash Memory:, the memory chip is either not programmable or is not supported by the ACPI BIOS and therefore, cannot be programmed by the Flash Memory Writer utility. ASUS M4A79T DELUXE motherboard user guide 4-3 5. Type a filename and the path, for example, A:\XXX-XX. XXX, then press <Enter>. 4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS Setup Updating the BIOS Update the BIOS only if you have problems with the motherboard and you are sure that the new BIOS revision will solve your problems. Careless updating may result to more problems with the motherboard! 1. Download an updated ASUS BIOS file from the Internet (WWW or FTP) (see ASUS CONTACT INFORMATION on page x for details) and save to the boot floppy disk you created earlier. [. . . ] After you have formatted the arrayed drives, install an operating system (OS). Install the RAID driver from the support CD that came with the motherboard package. Depending on the operating system you are installing, you may need to install the RAID driver during or after the OS installation. ASUS M4A79T DELUXE motherboard user guide 5-27 5. 4. 4 Creating a RAID 1 array (Security) Creating a Security Array with New Drives 1. In the FastBuildTM utility main menu, press "1" to select Auto Setup. 2. Use the arrow keys to go to the field Optimize Array for and select "Security" with the space bar. [. . . ]