User manual ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE

[. . . ] A7N8X-E Deluxe User Guide Motherboard E1876 Checklist Revised Edition V3 January 2005 Copyright © 2005 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, 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. Product warranty or service will not be extended if: (1) the product is repaired, modified or altered, unless such repair, modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS; or (2) the serial number of the product is defaced or missing. ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [. . . ] · Make sure you have connected a floppy disk to the floppy disk connector on the motherboard. · Make sure you have connected an IDE hard disk drive to the one of the IDE connectors on the motherboard. · 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 the inside front cover of this manual. 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. See section "4. 4. 6 Speech Configuration". 3-4 Chapter 3: Powering up 3. 3. 2 Winbond Voice Editor The Winbond Voice Editor software allows you to customize the vocal POST messages. See section "5. 2. 3 Utilities menu" for details. To avoid conflicts, do not run the Winbond Voice Editor while running the ASUS PC Probe. Follow these steps to use the Winbond Voice Editor. Launching the program Launch the program either from the Winbond Voice Editor icon on your desktop, or from the Windows Start menu, Programs/Winbond Voice Editor/ Voice Editor. The Winbond Voice Editor screen appears. Default Messages POST Events Playing the default wave files To play the default wave files, simply click on a POST event on the left side of the screen, then click the Play button. The default language setting is English. ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard 3-5 Changing the default language 1. The event messages for the language you selected appear on the Voice Editor screen. For some languages, not all events have a corresponding message due to file size constraints. 3. The next time you boot your computer, the POST messages are announced in the language that you selected . 3-6 Chapter 3: Powering up Customizing your POST messages If your language is not in the selection or if you wish to record your own POST messages to replace the pre-installed wave files, you may easily do so. Launch the Voice Editor and take note of the list of POST events on the leftmost column of the screen. Prepare your message for each event. The total compressed size for all the wave files must not exceed 1Mbit, so make your messages as short as possible. 3. Use a recording software, such as Windows Recorder, to record your messages. It is recommended that you save your files in low quality to keep them small. For example, use 8-bit, mono quality at 22Khz sampling rate. You may want to create a separate folder for your wave files so you can locate them easily in one place. 5. From the Voice Editor screen, click on the Add button to display the Add Wave File window. Close the window when done. ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard 3-7 7. Click a POST event on the Voice Editor screen, then on the Edit button. Locate and select your wave file for the event then click on the arrow opposite Voice1. Click on the Write button to compress the file and copy into the EEPROM. Click Yes on the confirmation window that appears. If you receive an error message telling you that the files exceed the total allowable size, do one or all of the following. · Try to modify your messages to make them shorter · Save the wave files at a lower quality · Skip lesser used events like FDD Detection, IDE HDD Detection, etc. 3-8 Chapter 3: Powering up Chapter 4 This chapter tells how to change the system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. Detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided. BIOS setup Chapter summary 4. 1 4. 2 4. 3 4. 4 4. 5 4. 6 4. 7 Managing and updating your BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] if the disk assigned as the source disk has been partitioned and has data stored on it, and a second disk is added, the data on the source drive can be copied to the destination drive, so the disks are identical, and all subsequent data will be written to both drives as a Mirrored set. If, however, the source disk does not have data stored on it, there is no need for Disk Copy. · · 4. Press "Y" to confirm or "N" to go back to the configuration options. Deleting RAID Sets 1. To remove one or more RAID sets, select "Delete RAID Set" 2. [. . . ]