User manual ASUS Z92NE

[. . . ] Notebook PC Drivers and Utilities User's Manual E2312 / Oct 2005 Table of Contents Support CD Support CD for Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 New Operating System Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Drivers for Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Then your communications will have audio without video. Only the server site can make this decision for all clients. Pause Once the network connection is built, other members in the group can hear and see you until the connection is broken. If you want to "hide" for a while, you can "pause" the audio and video and resume again later. Refer to Network Mode for more information. Sound detection If you do not like so many video windows to occupy your screen all the time, then you can enable sound detection to automatically show or hide video windows when in use or not in use. The advantage of this feature is that video windows will not occupy your screen area all the time, especially useful if you have eight members connected. Once sound detection function is enabled, you will not see any video windows at 61 first. The video window will only be displayed when someone starts to talk or other sounds are detected. If a member starts to talk, his video window will show, and disappear when there is 3 seconds of silence. Enabling sound detection To enable sound detection, open the "Setup" window, and check "Enable Sound Detection". While playings games, you should use the OSD to turn ON or OFF sound detection. User interface There are two skins available: Move your mouse to the GameFace skin and right click to show the skin menu. "Cute" skin Software Utilities "Cool" skin 62 Getting started Enabling ASUS OSD 1. Open Display Properties by right-clicking your desktop or from the control panel. Click the Advanced button on the Settings page. Select the OSD page in the Advanced page. Select Enable OSD check box and input the appropriate hotkey. Or Enable "OSD HotKey" through the GameFace options in the GameFace application Enable OSD from GameFace options. Enable OSD from display properties. Launch GameFace It will use the first Audio/Video WDM capture device it finds when GameFace starts up. You can change the Audio/Video input device from Options in the Tool menu if you have more than one Audio/Video device. But the change will not take into effect while you are playing videos or connecting to others. You must stop or disconnect to make the change effective. 63 Software Utilities GameFace Setup Press the Setup button to launch the GameFace Setup dialog box. Software Utilities The first page in the dialog box is GameFace basic settings. The second page is audio/video device settings. Local Mode You can watch TV in this mode as follows: (1) Launch GameFace setup dialog box, select the device page, choose a TV tuner card device and choose "Video Tuner" as the input device. 64 (2) Select a preferred video size, 176 x 144 or 352 x 288. (3) Press "Play" button to watch TV. You can change channels through the number panel. (4) If you are watching TV, you can press "Setup" button to launch the Tuner Card Info dialog, which allows you to set country code, input type, and other tuner card settings. (5) You have to press "Play" button first, then GameFace will be turned ON in your game, regardless of whether you are watching TV or not. Server Mode When starting a network connection, you can be a server or a client. If you are in server mode, the interface is as follows: 65 Software Utilities Activate Server Before activating the server, you have to finish the input fields, including : (1) No Video: If you only want audio communication, you can check this item. (2) Video Switching Interval: If you only display one video window in game, this value will decide how long to switch to the next video. [. . . ] You need to restart your Notebook PC and "reset your BIOS". See instructions on the next page. You may be instructed to "reset your BIOS". It entails pressing [F2] on bootup to enter BIOS setup and selecting Load Setup Defaults, and then Exit Saving Changes on the "Exit" menu. 113 Software Utilities You will be warned that you should only update your BIOS if you know it will solve a specific problem. If you update your BIOS using the wrong BIOS file, your Notebook PC may not boot up. Software Utilities 114 Wireless Console 2 (Required Utility) Topics Covered: Installing Wireless Console 2 Using Wireless Console 2 (Screens and drivers may vary depending on your model and operating system. ) 115 Software Utilities Installing Wireless Console 2 Software Utilities 1. [. . . ]