User manual ASUS X5QSL

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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 Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Internal audio connectors (4-pin CD, AUX) These connectors allow you to receive stereo audio input from sound sources such as a CD-ROM, TV tuner, or MPEG card. AUX(White) CD(Black) Ground Left Audio Channel Ground Right Audio Channel ® X5QSL X5QSL Internal Audio Connectors ASUS X5QSL motherboard user guide Right Audio Channel Left Audio Channel 1-21 11. System panel connector (20-pin PANEL) This connector accommodates several system front panel functions. Speaker Connector +5V Ground Ground Speaker ExtSMI# Ground PWRBIN Ground Power LED PLED +5 V HD_LED+ HD_LED- ® Reset SW ATX Power Switch* IDELED X5QSL SMI Lead * Requires an ATX power supply. X5QSL System Panel Connectors · System Power LED Lead (3-1 pin PLED) This 3-1 pin connector connects to the system power LED. The LED lights up when you turn on the system power, and blinks when the system is in sleep mode. · System Warning Speaker Lead (4-pin SPEAKER) This 4-pin connector connects to the case-mounted speaker and allows you to hear system beeps and warnings. · System Management Interrupt Lead (2-pin SMI) This 2-pin connector allows you to manually place the system into a suspend mode, or "green" mode, where system activity is instantly decreased to save power and to expand the life of certain system components. Attach the case-mounted suspend switch to this 2-pin connector. · Reset Switch (2-pin RESET) This 2-pin connector connects to the case-mounted reset switch for rebooting the system without turning off the power switch. · ATX Power Switch/Soft-Off Switch Lead (2-pin PWR) This connector connects a switch that controls the system power. Pressing the power switch turns the system between ON and SLEEP, or ON and SOFT OFF, depending on the BIOS or OS settings. Pressing the power switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds turns the system OFF. · Hard Disk Activity Lead (2-pin IDE LED) This connector supplies power to the hard disk activity LED. The read or write activities of any device connected to the primary or secondary IDE connector cause this LED to light up. 1-22 Chapter 1: Product introduction Reset Ground Chapter 2 This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup Menus. Detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided. BIOS information 2. 1 Managing and updating your BIOS · · The original BIOS file for this motherboard is in the support CD. Copy the original BIOS to a bootable floppy disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. 2. 1. 1 Creating a bootable floppy disk 1. Do either one of the following to create a bootable floppy disk. DOS environment Insert a 1. 44 MB floppy disk into the drive. At the DOS prompt, type: format a: /s , then press the <Enter> key Windows® 98SE/ME environment a. At the "C:\" prompt, type "AWDFLASH/ BIOSFILENAME" and then <Enter>. For example: "AWDFLASH/ aw0702. bin" The AWDFLASH screen appears. Follow steps 5 to 7 in "2. 1. 2 Using the Award BIOS Flash Utility. " 2. 1. 3 CrashFree BIOS feature The CrashFree BIOS feature allows you to boot the computer from a floppy disk and update the BIOS in case the original BIOS fails or gets corrupted. You must have a bootable floppy disk ready before updating the BIOS. The bootable floppy disk could be the one that you created following the procedure in section 2. 1. 1, and should contain the AWDFLASH. EXE utility. If the BIOS fails (ROM data or codes are corrupted), a message appears during POST to indicate the failure. Turn on the computer, and when prompted, place the bootable floppy disk to the floppy drive. Follow the BIOS update procedure in section "2. 1. 2 Using the Award BIOS Flash Utility. " To use the CrashFree BIOS feature on this motherboard, install a VGA card into one of the expansion slots before rebooting the computer. On motherboards with onboard VGA, such as the X5QSL, you will not see the screen display when the BIOS crashes even if you reboot the computer. 2-4 Chapter 2: BIOS information 2. 2 BIOS beep codes When you turn the power on and the system runs POST (Power On Self Tests), you will hear BIOS beeps. Refer to the following table for the meaning of the beeps. Award BIOS beep codes Beep One short beep when displaying logo Long beeps in an endless loop One long beep followed by three short beeps High frequency beeps when system is working Meaning No error during POST No DRAM installed or detected Video card not found or video card memory bad CPU overheated; System running at a lower frequency 2. 3 BIOS Setup program This motherboard supports a programmable FLASH EEPROM that you can update using the provided utility described in section "2. 1 Managing and updating your BIOS. " Use the BIOS Setup program when you are installing a motherboard, reconfiguring your system, or prompted to "Run Setup". This section explains how to configure your system using this utility. [. . . ] Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Boot up Floppy Seek [Disabled] When enabled, the BIOS will seek the floppy disk drive to determine whether the drive has 40 or 80 tracks. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Boot up NumLock Status [On] Allows you to select the power-on state for the NumLock key. Configuration options: [On] [Off] 2-26 Chapter 2: BIOS information APIC Mode [Enabled] When enabled, this option allows you to distribute interrupt routings other than the 16 IRQs. The Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) setting allows you to use the 16 IRQs only. [. . . ]