User manual ASUS P5GV-MX

[. . . ] Motherboard P5GV-MX E2580 Revised Edition V2. 0 April 2006 Copyright © 2006 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved. 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. ("ASUS"). 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. [. . . ] The system may become unstable or may not boot up if the power is inadequate. The ATX 12V Specification 2. 0-compliant PSU passed the motherboard power requirement test with the following configuration: CPU : Memory : Graphics card : Parallel ATA devices : Serial ATA device : Optical drive : · Intel® Pentium® 4 3. 6 GHz 512 MB DDR (x 4) PCI Express x16 Nvidia® EN5900 IDE hard disk drive (x 2) SATA hard disk drive CD-ROM · · · · You must install a PSU with a higher power rating if you intend to install additional devices. ATX12V +12V DC GND ® EATXPWR +3 Volts +12 Volts +12 Volts +5V Standby Power OK Ground +5 Volts Ground +5 Volts Ground +3 Volts +3 Volts +12V DC GND P5GV-MX P5GV-MX ATX Power Connectors Ground +5 Volts +5 Volts +5 Volts -5 Volts Ground Ground Ground PSON# Ground -12 Volts +3 Volts ASUS P5GV-MX 1-31 8. Front panel audio connector (10-1 pin AAFP) This connector is for a chassis-mounted front panel audio I/O module that supports either HD Audio or legacy AC 97 audio standard. Connect one end of the front panel audio I/O module cable to this connector. Azalia-compliant pin definition GND PRESENCE# SENSE1_RETUR SENSE2_RETUR Legacy AC 97-compliant pin definition AGND NC NC NC ® AAFP P5GV-MX P5GV-MX Analog Front Panel Connector · · We recommend that you connect a high-definition front panel audio module to this connector to avail of the motherboard high-definition audio capability. If you want to connect a high-definition front panel audio module to this connector, make sure that the Azalia Controller item in the BIOS is set to [Enabled]. See page 2-25 for details. 9. Digital Audio connector (4-1 pin SPDIF_OUT) This connector is for the S/PDIF audio module to allow digital sound output. Connect one end of the S/PDIF audio cable to this connector and the other end to the S/PDIF module. P5GV-MX 1 SPDIF_OUT P5GV-MX Digital Audio Connector The S/PDIF module is purchased separately. 1-32 Chapter 1: Product introduction SPDIFOUT GND ® +5V PORT1 L PORT1 R PORT2 R SENSE_SEND PORT2 L MIC2_L MIC2_R Line out_R NC Line out_L 10. System panel connector (20-pin PANEL) This connector supports several chassis-mounted functions. ® PANEL IDE_LED+ IDE_LEDPWR Ground P5GV-MX IDE_LED RESET PWRSW P5GV-MX System Panel Connector The sytem panel connector is color-coded for easy connection. Refer to the connector description below for details. · System power LED (Green 3-pin PLED) This 3-pin connector is for the system power LED. The system power LED lights up when you turn on the system power, and blinks when the system is in sleep mode. Hard disk drive activity (Red 2-pin IDE_LED) This 2-pin connector is for the HDD Activity LED. The IDE LED lights up or flashes when data is read from or written to the HDD. System warning speaker (Orange 4-pin SPEAKER) This 4-pin connector is for the chassis-mounted system warning speaker. Power/Soft-off button (Yellow 2-pin PWRSW) This connector is for the system power button. Pressing the power button turns the system ON or puts the system in SLEEP or SOFT-OFF mode depending on the BIOS settings. Pressing the power switch for more than four seconds while the system is ON turns the system OFF. Reset button (Blue 2-pin RESET) This 2-pin connector is for the chassis-mounted reset button for system reboot without turning off the system power. · · · · ASUS P5GV-MX Reset Ground +5V Ground Ground Speaker PLED PLED+ PLED- SPEAKER 1-33 1-34 Chapter 1: Product introduction 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 2 2-1 ASUS P5GV-MX 2. 1 Managing and updating your BIOS The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) setup. ASUS AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy disk. ) ASUS EZ Flash (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk during POST. ) ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk or the motherboard support CD when the BIOS file fails or gets corrupted. ) ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in Windows® environment. ) Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities. Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a bootable floppy disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original motherboard BIOS using the ASUS Update or AFUDOS utilities. 2. 1. 1 1. Creating a bootable floppy disk Choose one of the following methods to create a bootable floppy disk. DOS environment a. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press <Enter>. Windows® XP environment a. Select Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the format options field, then click Start. Windows® 2000 environment To create a set of boot disks for Windows® 2000: a. From the Open field, type D:\bootdisk\makeboot a: assuming that D: is your optical drive. [. . . ] View the online help for detailed information. ADOBE Acrobat Reader Installs the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader V5. 0. ASUS Screen Saver Installs the ASUS screen saver. 3. 2. 4 ASUS Contact information Click the Contact tab to display the ASUS contact information. You can also find this information on the inside front cover of this user guide. ASUS P5GV-MX 3-5 3-6 Chapter 3: Software support The Appendix describes the CPU features that the motherboard supports. CPU features A A-1 ASUS P5GV-MX A. 1 Intel® EM64T · · The motherboard is fully compatible with Intel® Pentium® 4 LGA775 processors running on 32-bit operating systems. You can download the latest BIOS file from the ASUS website (www. asus. Visit www. microsoft. com for more information on Windows® 64-bit OS. · · Using the Intel ® EM64T feature To use the Intel® EM64T feature: 1. [. . . ]