User manual ASUS MAXIMUS IV EXTREME-Z

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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 Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Turn off the system after the utility completes the updating process and power on again. The system requires you to enter BIOS Setup to recover BIOS setting. To ensure system compatibility and stability, we recommend that you press <F2> to load default BIOS values. DO NOT shut down or reset the system while recovering the BIOS!Doing so can cause system boot failure! ASUS P5Q PRO Turbo 3-5 Chapter 3 3. 3 BIOS setup program A BIOS Setup program is provided for BIOS item modification. When you start up the computer, the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program. Press <Del> during the Power-On Self-Test (POST) to enter the Setup utility. Otherwise, POST continues with its test routines. If you wish to enter Setup after POST, restart the system by pressing <Ctrl+Alt+Delete>, or by pressing the reset button on the system chassis. You can also restart by turning the system off and then back on. Do this last option only if the first two failed. The Setup program is designed to make it as easy to use as possible. When using one hard disk in Normal Mode, connect the hard disk to the SATA_E1 (orange, port 0) connector on the motherboard. BIOSSETUPUTILITY Selectthetypeof deviceconnectedto thesystem. Chapter 3 3-8 Main PrimaryIDEMaster Device:HardDisk Vendor:WDCWD800JD-00LSA0 Size:80. 0GB LBAMode:Supported BlockMode:16Sectors PIOMode:4 AsyncDMA:MultiWordDMA-2 UltraDMA:UltraDMA-5 SMARTMonitoring:Supported Type [Auto] LBA/LargeMode [Auto] Block(Multi-sectorTransfer)M Auto] [ PIOMode [Auto] DMAMode [Auto] SMARTMonitoring [Auto] 32BitDataTransfer [Enabled] SelectScreen SelectItem +-ChangeOption F1GeneralHelp F10 SaveandExit ESC Exit v02. 61(C)Copyright1985-2008, AmericanMegatrends, Inc. Chapter 3: BIOS setup The BIOS automatically detects the values opposite the dimmed items (Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and SMART monitoring). These items show N/A if no IDE device is installed in the system. Type [Auto] [Not Installed] [Auto] [CDROM] [ARMD] Allows you to select the type of IDE drive installed. Select this option if no IDE drive is installed. Allows automatic selection of the appropriate IDE device type. Select this option if you are specifically configuring a CD-ROM drive. Select [ARMD] (ATAPI Removable Media Device) if your device is either a ZIP, LS-120, or MO drive. This item appears in SATA1-5 only. LBA/Large Mode [Auto] Enables or disables the LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode. [Auto] [Disabled] Select [Auto] to enable the LBA mode (Logical Block Addressing mode) if the device supports this mode, and if the device was not previously formatted with LBA mode disabled. Disables this function. Block (Multi-Sector Transfer) M [Auto] Enables or disables data multi-sectors transfers. [Auto] [Disabled] When set to [Auto], the data transfer from and to the device occurs in multiple sectors at a time if the device supports multi-sector transfer feature. When set to [Disabled], the data transfer from and to the device occurs one sector at a time. Allows automatic selection of the PIO (Programmed input/output) modes, which correspond to different data transfer rates. [. . . ] See page 2-37 for details. · · The ATI Triple CrossFireX technology is currently supported by Windows® Vista operating system only. Visit the ATI Game website (http://game. amd. com) for the latest certified graphics card and the supported 3D application list. 5. 1. 2 Before you begin For ATI CrossFireX to work properly, you have to uninstall all existing graphics card drivers before installing ATI CrossFireX graphics cards to your system. To uninstall existing graphics card drivers 1. For Windows XP, go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. [. . . ]