User manual ASUS X57VN EXPRESS GATE QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] 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. · Intel, LANDesk, and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. · IBM and OS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines. · Symbios is a registered trademark of Symbios Logic Corporation. [. . . ] INSTALLATION DRAM Memory Installation Procedures IMPORTANT: Install memory modules in symmetric pairs. The SIMM memory modules will only fit in one orientation as shown because of a "Plastic Safety Tab" on one end of the SIMM slots which requires the "Notched End" of the SIMM memory modules. 21 1234 5678 System Memory Notched End 72 Pin SIMM Sockets i960 Memory 2. Press the memory module firmly into place starting from a 45 degree angle making sure that all the contacts are aligned with the slot. With your finger tips, rock the memory module into a vertical position so that it clicks into place. Clip 72 Pin DRAM in SIMM Socket Plastic Safety Tab (This Side Only) Mounting Hole 4. The plastic guides should go through the two mounting holes on the sides and the clips should snap on the other side. To release the memory module, squeeze both clips outward and rock the module out of the clips. ASUS P/I-P65UP8 User's Manual 19 III. Central Processing Unit The P/I-P65UP8 baseboard provides a CPU card slot that can be used with the ASUS C-PKND or C-P6ND CPU cards, which are available separately. You must purchase any one of these CPU cards (see next page for a brief description) to complete the system's board. System Case The system case must be a full-size tower or server case to give a clearance as follows: 2 3/4" (7. 0 cm) PS/2 Mouse Secondary PCI 1 Short Card Secondary PCI 2 Long Card Secondary PCI 3 Long Card Pentium II Processor Secondary PCI 4 Long Card PCI 3 Short Expansion Card PCI 1 Long Expansion Card PCI 2 Long Expansion Card ISA 1 Expansion Card ISA 2 Expansion Card ISA 3 Expansion Card Pentium II Heatsink PS/2 Keyboard 2 1/2" (6. 4 cm) 12. 2" (30. 7 cm) System Cabinet Clearance Area Requirement for the P/I-P65UP8 + CPU Card NOTE: The C-P6ND Pentium Pro CPU card can easily fit in the given space, but the C-PKND Pentium II CPU card will block the ISA 3 slot. 20 ASUS P/I-P65UP8 User's Manual 5" (12. 7 cm) III. INSTALLATION One end of the CPU card has a bracket, which should slide into the system case front panel. Be sure that the system case can support a long PCI card on the first slot and that a groove is available for the bracket. Refer to your respective CPU card's documentation for details. Set up the BIOS if necessary (such as IRQ xx Used By ISA: Yes in PNP AND PCI SETUP) Install the necessary software drivers for your expansion card. Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards IMPORTANT: Interrupt requests are shared as shown by the following table: PCI slot 1 PCI slot 2 PCI slot 3 Onboard VGA 7880 SCSI i960 processor 2nd-PCI slot 1 2nd-PCI slot 2 2nd-PCI slot 3 2nd-PCI slot 4 Symbios SCSI INT-A shared ------shared --shared ch. 2 INT-B -shared --shared ------INT-C --shared shared -------INT-D -----shared shared ---shared ch. 1 If using PCI cards on shared slots, make sure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that the cards do not need IRQ assignments. Conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups that will make the system unstable or cards inoperable. ASUS P/I-P65UP8 User's Manual III. INSTALLATION Some expansion cards need to use an IRQ to operate. Generally an IRQ must be exclusively assigned to one use. In a standard design there are 16 IRQs available but most of them are already in use, leaving 6 IRQs free for expansion cards. Both ISA and PCI expansion cards may require to use IRQs. System IRQs are available to cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first, then any remaining IRQs are available to PCI cards. Currently, there are two types of ISA cards. The original ISA expansion card design, now referred to as legacy ISA cards, requires that you configure the card's jumpers manually and then install it in any available slot on the ISA bus. You may use Microsoft Diagnostics (MSD. EXE) utility located in the Windows directory to see a map of your used and free IRQs. If you use Windows 95, the Resources tab under Device Manager displays the resource settings being used by a particular device (to gain access, double-click the System icon under the Control Panel program). [. . . ] Windows NT will boot into a default mode and start the Display applet allowing for mode selection. ASUS P/I-P65UP8 User's Manual 37 IV. VGA Installation (Windows NT 4. 0) IV. VGA Installation Windows NT 3. 51 Video Driver Installation Boot Windows NT in standard VGA mode (recommended). Insert the ASUS support CD into your CD-ROM drive. [. . . ]