User manual ASUS K8V DELUXE

[. . . ] K8V Deluxe User Guide Motherboard E1375 Checklist First Edition August 2003 Copyright © 2003 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. [. . . ] Prepare the support CD that came with the motherboard or a floppy disk that contains the motherboard BIOS before proceeding with the BIOS update process. If you have saved a copy of the original motherboard BIOS to a bootable floppy disk, you may also use this disk to restore the BIOS. See section "4. 1. 1 Creating a bootable floppy disk. " To recover the BIOS from a floppy disk: 1. When a corrupted BIOS is detected, the following screen message appears. Bad BIOS checksum. Insert a floppy disk that contains the original or the latest BIOS file for this motherboard. If all the necessary files are found in the floppy disk, the BIOS update process continues. Make sure that the BIOS file in the floppy disk is renamed as "K8V Deluxe. ROM". Bad BIOS checksum. Reading file "K8V Deluxe. rom". Start flashing. . . DO NOT shutdown or reset the system while updating the BIOS!Doing so may cause system boot failure! 4. When the BIOS update process is complete, reboot the system. ASUS K8V Deluxe motherboard user guide 4-5 To recover the BIOS from the support CD: 1. When a corrupted BIOS is detected, the following screen message appears. Bad BIOS checksum. Checking for floppy. . . If there is no floppy disk found in the drive, the system automatically checks the CD-ROM. 3. The support CD contains the original BIOS for this motherboard. Bad BIOS checksum. Start flashing. . . DO NOT shutdown or reset the system while updating the BIOS!Doing so may cause system boot failure! 4. When the BIOS update process is complete, reboot the system. The recovered BIOS may not be the latest BIOS version for this motherboard. Visit ASUS website (www. asus. com) to download the latest BIOS file. 4-6 Chapter 4: BIOS Setup 4. 2 BIOS Setup program This motherboard supports a programmable firmware chip that you can update using the provided utility described in section "4. 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. Even if you are not prompted to use the Setup program, you may want to change the configuration of your computer in the future. For example, you may want to enable the security password feature or change the power management settings. This requires you to reconfigure your system using the BIOS Setup program so that the computer can recognize these changes and record them in the CMOS RAM of the firmware hub. The firmware hub on the motherboard stores the Setup utility. [. . . ] After the rebuild processis complete, the user is prompted to reboot the system. Controller Configuration (6): This command shows the default for Controller Configuration. The default value is [Enabled]. 5-32 Chapter 5: Software support 5. 6 Using Makedisk. exe Important Notes 1. The Makedisk. exe utility enables you to create a floppy disk with the RAID driver necessary when configuring RAID installations. [. . . ]