Asus A8N32-SLI manual

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2-1 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Onboard LED SB_PWR ON Standby Power OFF Powered Off[...]

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2-4 P ANEL A8N32-SLI ® AUX FP_AUDIO GAME CHASSIS SEC_IDE 24.5cm (9.6in) 30 5cm (12 0in) CPU_FAN DDR DIMM_B1 (64 bit,184-pin module) DDR DIMM_A1 (64 bit,184-pin module) DDR DIMM_A2 (64 bit,184-pin module) DDR DIMM_B2 (64 bit,184-pin module) PWR_FAN LAN1_USB12 IE1394_1 CHA_FAN2 FLOPPY Super I/O 8Mb BIOS TSB43AB22A PS/2KBMS T : Mouse B: K eyboard P A[...]

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2-11 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI CPU fan connector CPU_F AN GND Rotation +12V[...]

2-12 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets DIMM_A1 DIMM_A2 DIMM_B1 DIMM_B2 80 Pins 104 Pins[...]

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2-20 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Clear RTC RAM CLRTC Normal Clear CMOS (Default) 12 23 • •[...]

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2-24 • • A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Floppy disk drive connector s PIN 1 FLOPPY[...]

2-25 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI IDE connectors PRI_IDE PIN 1 SEC_IDE A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI SA T A connectors S ATA 1 S ATA 2 GND RSAT A_TXP4 RSAT A_TXN4 GND RSAT A_RXP4 RSAT A_RXN4 GND GND RSAT A_TXP3 RSAT A_TXN3 GND RSAT A_RXP3 RSAT A_RXN3 GND GND RSAT A_TXP2 RSAT A_TXN2 GND RSAT A_RXP2 RSAT A_RXN2 GND GND RSAT A_TXP1 RSAT A_TXN1 GND RSAT A_RXP1 RSAT[...]

2-26 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI SA T A RAID connector SA T A_RAID2 GND RSAT A_TXP1 RSAT A_TXN1 GND RSAT A_RXP1 RSAT A_RXN1 GND • • •[...]

2-27 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI USB 2.0 connectors USB56 USB+5V USB_P6- USB_P6+ GND NC USB+5V USB_P5- USB_P5+ GND 1 USB78 USB+5V USB_P8- USB_P8+ GND NC USB+5V USB_P7- USB_P7+ GND 1 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Internal audio connectors AUX (white) CD (black) Right Audio Channel Left Audio Channel Ground Ground Right Audio Channel Left Audio Channel Ground Gr[...]

2-28 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI IEEE 1394 connectors IE1394_2 1 TP A2- GND TPB2- +12V GND TP A2+ GND TPB2+ +12V IE1394_1 1 TP A2- GND TPB2- +12V GND TP A2+ GND TPB2+ +12V A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Front panel audio connector FP_AUDIO BLINE_OUT_L MIC2 Line out_R Line out_L BLINE_OUT_R NC MICPWR +5V A AGND[...]

2-29 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Game connector GAME +5V +5V J2B1 J2CX MIDI_OUT J2CY J2B2 MIDI_IN J1B1 J1CX GND GND J1CY J1B2 +5V A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI COM port connector PIN 1 COM1[...]

2-30 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Fan connectors CPU_F AN CHA_F AN1 PWR_F AN CHA_F AN2 GND Rotation +12V GND Rotation +12V CPU_FAN PWR_FAN CHA_FAN1 SB_FAN SB_F AN GND Rotation +12V CHA_FAN2 GND Rotation +12V GND Rotation +12V NB_FAN NB_F AN GND Rotation +12V • •[...]

2-31 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI Chassis intrusion connector CHASSIS +5VSB_MB Chassis Signal GND (Default) A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI A TX power connectors EA TXPWR A TX12V EZ_PLUG +5V EZ_DET GND +12V +12V DC GND +12V DC GND +3 V olts +3 V olts Ground +5 V olts +5 V olts Ground Ground Power OK +5V Standby +12 V olts -5 V olts +5 V olts +3 V olts -12 V olts [...]

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2-33 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI System panel connector * Requires an ATX power supply . P ANEL PLED- PWR +5V Speaker Ground RESET Ground Reset Ground Ground PWRSW PLED+ IDE_LED- IDE_LED+ IDE_LED PLED SPEAKER • • • • •[...]

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4-2 A:>afudos /oOLDBIOS1.ROM AMI Firmware Update Utility - Version 1.10 Copyright (C) 2002 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading flash ..... done Write to file ..... done A:> • • A:>afudos /oOLDBIOS1.ROM[...]

4-3 A:>afudos /iA8N32SLI.ROM AMI Firmware Update Utility - Version 1.10(ASUS V2.07 (03.11.24BB) Copyright (C) 2002 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights reserved. Warning!! Do not turn off power during flash BIOS Reading file ..... done Reading flash .... done Advance Check .... Erasing flash .... done Writing flash .... 0x0008CC00 (9%) A:>a[...]

4-4 A:>afudos /iA8N32SLI.ROM AMI Firmware Update Utility - Version 1.10(ASUS V2.07 (03.11.24BB) Copyright (C) 2002 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights reserved. Warning!! Do not turn off power during flash BIOS Reading file ..... done Reading flash .... done Advance Check .... Erasing flash .... done Writing flash .... 0x0008CC00 (9%) Verifyin[...]

4-5 Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery... Checking for floppy... Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery... Checking for floppy... Floppy found! Reading file “A8N32SLI.ROM”. Completed. Start flashing...[...]

4-6 Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery... Checking for floppy... Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery... Checking for floppy... Floppy not found! Checking for CD-ROM... CD-ROM found. Reading file “A8N32SLI.ROM”. Completed. Start flashing...[...]

4-7 EZFlash starting BIOS update Checking for floppy... • • EZFlash starting BIOS update Checking for floppy... Floppy found! Reading file “A8N32SLI.ROM”. Completed. Start erasing.......| Start Programming...| Flashed successfully. Rebooting.[...]

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4-12 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Field Tab Select Field F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced Power Boot Exit System Time [10:55:25] System Date [Mon 09/22/2005] Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in] Language [English] Primary IDE Master [ST320410A] P[...]

4-13 Use [ENTER], [TAB], or [SHIFT-TAB] to select a field. Use [+] or [-] to configure system time. Select Screen Select Item +- Change Field Tab Select Field F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit System Time [10:55:25] System Date [Mon 09/22/2005] Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in.] Language [English] Primary IDE Master [ST320410A] Primary IDE[...]

4-14 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Field Tab Select Field F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced Power Boot Exit System Date [Mon 09/22/2005] System Time [10:55:25] Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in] Language [English] Primary IDE Master [ST320410A] P[...]

4-15 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Primary IDE Master Device : Hard Disk Vendor : ST320413A Size : 20.0GB LBA Mode : Supported Block Mode : 16 Sectors PIO Mode : 4 Async DMA : MultiWord DMA-2 Ultra DMA : Ultra DMA[...]

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4-17 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Serial-ATA 1 [Enabled] Serial-ATA 2 [Enabled] nVidia RAID Function [Disabled] SATA1 Controller [Disabled] SATA2 Controller [Disabled] DISABLED: Disables the integrated IDE contro[...]

4-18 Select Screen Select Item F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main AMIBIOS Version : 0128 Build Date : 09/05/05 Processor Type : AMD Sempron(R) Processor 3000+ Speed : 1800 MHz Count : 1 System Memory Size : 512 MB[...]

4-19 LAN Cable Status AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Configuration JumperFree Configuration CPU Configuration Chipset Onboard Devices Configuration PCI PnP USB Configuration POST Check LAN Cable [Disabled] LAN Cable Status Pair Status Length 1-2 Open 0.0M 3-6 Open 0.0M 4-5 Open 0.0M 7-8 Open 0.0M 1-2 Open N/A 3-6 Open N/A 4-5 Open N/A 7-8 Open N/A Check LA[...]

4-20 AMD Cool‘n’quiet Configuration Enable/Disable AMD K8 Cool N’Quiet Cool‘n’Quiet [Disabled] function. Configure System Frequency/Voltage AI Overclocking [Auto] SB to NB Frequency [200] Adjust PCIE Frequency [100] PEG Link Mode [Auto] Over-Voltage CPU VCORE [Disabled] Over-Voltage NB VCORE [Disabled] Over-Voltage SB VCORE [Disabled] Ove[...]

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4-24 CPU Configuration Modele Version: 14.04 Physical Count: 1 Logical Count: 1 AMD Athlon (tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Revision: D0 Cache L1: 64KB Cache L2: 512KB Speed : 2020MHz Current FSB Multiplier: 10x Maximum FSB Multiplier: 10x Able to Change Feq : Yes uCode Patch Level : 0X41 Gart Error Checking [Disabled] MTRR Mapping [Continuous] 1T/2T Memory[...]

4-25 Memory Configuration Memclock Mode [Auto] MCT Timing Mode [Auto] MCT Extra Timing Mode [Auto] TREF [7.8us] TWCL [1] R/W Queue Bypass Count [8] Bypass Max [4] Idle Cycle Limit [16] Dynamic Idle Cycle Center [Enabled] DDR Driving Strength [Normal] Enable 32-Byte Granularity [Enabled] DDR Input Strobe Skew [Disabled] User Config Mode [Auto] Bank [...]

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4-27 ECC Configuration DRAM ECC Enable [Enabled] MCA DRAM ECC Logging [Disabled] ECC Chip Kill [Disabled] DRAM SCRUB REDIRECT [Disabled] DRAM BG Scrub [Disabled] L2 Cache BG Scrub [Disabled] Data Cache BG Scrub [Disabled][...]

4-28 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Advanced Chipset Settings WARNING: Setting wrong values in below settings may cause system to malfunction. K8 to NB Frequency [Auto] K8 to NB Link Width [Auto] SB to NB Frequ[...]

4-29 Configure ITE8712 Super IO Chipset Serial Port1 Address [3F8/IRQ4] Parallel Port Address [378] Parallel Port Mode [EPP+ECP] EPP Version [1.9] ECP Mode DMA Channel [DMA3] Parallel Port IRQ [IRQ7] OnBoard Game Port [Disabled] OnBoard MIDI Port [Disabled] MIDI IRQ Select [IRQ5] 1394 [Enabled] Silicon Image Mode [RAID Mode] OnboardGBE LAN1 [Enabl[...]

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4-31 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Advanced PCI/PnP Settings WARNING: Setting wrong values in below sections may cause system to malfunction. Plug And Play O/S [No] PCI Latency Timer [64] Allocate IRQ to PCI V[...]

4-32 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced USB Configuration Module Version - 2.24.0-11.4 USB Devices Enabled: None USB 1.1 Controller [Enabled] USB 2.0 Controller [Enabled] Legacy USB Support [Enabled] USB 2.0 Contro[...]

4-33 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Field F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced Power Boot Exit Suspend Mode [Auto] Repost Video on S3 Resume [No] ACPI APIC Support [Enabled] APM Configuration Hardware Monitor[...]

4-34 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Power Restore on AC Power Loss [Power off] Power On By PME# [Disabled] Power On By LAN(MAC) [Disabled] Power On By Ring [Disabled] Power On By PS/2 Keyboard [Disabled] Power On By PS/[...]

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4-36 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Power Hardware Monitor CPU Temperature [32.5ºC/90.5ºF] MB Temperature [36.0ºC/96.5ºF] CPU Fan Speed (RPM) [3813 RPM] Chassis Fan1 Speed (RPM) [N/A] Power Fan Speed (RPM) [N/A] VCO[...]

4-37 Select Screen Select Item Enter Go to Sub-screen F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit APM Configuration Boot Device Priority Boot Settings Configuration Security Select Screen Select Item Enter Go to Sub-screen F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit Boot Device Priority 1st Boot Device [1st FLOPPY DRIVE] 2nd Boot Device [PM-ST330620A[...]

4-38 Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit Boot Settings Configuration Quick Boot [Enabled] Full Logo Display [Enabled] AddOn ROM Display Mode [Force BIOS] Bootup Num-Lock [On] PS/2 Mouse Support [Auto] Wait For ‘F1’ If Error [Enabled] Hit ‘DEL’ Message Display [Enabled] Interrupt 19 Capture [[...]

4-39 Security Settings Supervisor Password : Not Installed User Password : Not Installed Change Supervisor Password Change User Password <Enter> to change password. <Enter> again to disabled password.[...]

4-40 Security Settings Supervisor Password : Not Installed User Password : Not Installed Change Supervisor Password User Access Level [Full Access] Change User Password Clear User Password Password Check [Setup][...]

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5-28 Mirroring Striping Stripe Mirroring Spanning [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [ ↑↓ ] Select [ENTER] Popup NVIDIA RAID Utility Oct 5 2004 - Define a New Array - RAID Mode: Striping Striping Block: Optimal Free Disks Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Loc Disk Model Name 1.0.M XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1.1.M XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [ → ] Add 2.0.M XX[...]

5-29 Clear disk data? [Y] YES [N] 8K ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ 16K 32K 64K 128K Optim ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ • • •[...]

5-30 [Ctrl-X]Exit [ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ]Select [B]Set Boot [N]New Array [ENTER]Detail NVIDIA RAID Utility Oct 5 2004 - Array List - Boot Id Status Vendor Array Model Name No 4 Healthy NVIDIA MIRROR XXX.XXG [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Array 1 : NVIDIA MIRROR XXX.XXG - Array Detail - RAID Mode: Mirroring [...]

5-31 Rebuild array? [ENTER] OK [ESC] Cancel [ ↑↓ ] Select [F6] Back [F7] Finish Array 1 : NVIDIA MIRROR XXX.XXG - Select Disk Inside Array - RAID Mode: Mirroring Striping Width: 1 Striping Block: 64K Adapt Channel M/S Index Disk Model Name Capacity 2 1 Master 0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX.XXGB 1 0 Master 1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX.XXGB[...]

5-32 Delete this array? [Y] YES [N] No [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Array 1 : NVIDIA MIRROR XXX.XXG - Array Detail - RAID Mode: Mirroring Striping Width: 1 Striping Block: 64K Adapt Channel M/S Index Disk Model Name Capacity 2 1 Master 0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX.XXGB 1 0 Master 1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX.XXGB[...]

5-33 Clear disk data? [Y] YES [N] [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Array 1 : NVIDIA MIRROR XXX.XXG - Array Detail - RAID Mode: Mirroring Striping Width: 1 Striping Block: 64K Adapt Channel M/S Index Disk Model Name Capacity 2 1 Master 0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX.XXGB 1 0 Master 1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX.XXGB[...]

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5-35 Create RAID set Delete RAID set Rebuild Raid1 set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info RAID Configuration Utility - Silicon Image Inc. Copyright (C) 2004 ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ :Select Menu ESC:Previous Menu Enter:Select Ctrl-E:Exit MAIN MENU PHYSICAL DRIVE 0 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 1 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 2 XXXXX[...]

5-36 MAIN MENU Auto configuration Manual configuration chunk size 4K 8K 16K 32K 64K 128K MAIN MENU Auto configuration Manual configuration MAIN MENU Create RAID set Delete RAID set Rebuild Raid1 set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info RAID0 RAID1 RAID5 RAID10 SPARE DRIVE CONCATENATION[...]

5-37 PHYSICAL DRIVE 0 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 1 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 2 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 3 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB MAIN MENU Auto configuration Manual configuration MAIN MENU Create RAID set Delete RAID set Rebuild Raid1 set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 SPARE DRIVE RAID0 RAID1 RAID5 RAID10 SPARE DRIVE CONCAT[...]

5-38 PHYSICAL DRIVE 0 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 1 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 2 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 3 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB MAIN MENU Auto configuration Manual configuration Create with data copy Create without data copy[...]

5-39 MAIN MENU Auto configuration Manual configuration online copy offline copy[...]

5-40 PHYSICAL DRIVE 0 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 1 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 2 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB 3 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB MAIN MENU Create RAID set Delete RAID set Rebuild Raid1 set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 SPARE DRIVE RAID0 RAID1 RAID5 RAID10 SPARE DRIVE CONCATENATION[...]

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6-4 A8N32-SLI ® A8N32-SLI A TX power connectors EA TXPWR A TX12V EZ_PLUG +5V EZ_DET GND +12V +12V DC GND +12V DC GND +3 V olts +3 V olts Ground +5 V olts +5 V olts Ground Ground Power OK +5V Standby +12 V olts -5 V olts +5 V olts +3 V olts -12 V olts Ground Ground Ground PSON# Ground +5 V olts +12 V olts +3 V olts +5 V olts Ground[...]

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