Asus C-P55T2D manual

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ASUS C-P55T2D User's Manual II USER'S NOTICE Product Name: ASUS C-P55T2D Manual Revision: 1.43 Release Date: May 1997 No part of this product, including the product and software may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any lan- guage in any form by any means without the express written [...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User's Manual III ASUS CONT ACT INFORMA TION ASUST eK COMPUTER INC. Marketing Info: Address: 150 Li-T e Road, Peitou, T aipei, T aiwan, ROC T elephone: 886-2-894-3447 Fax: 886-2-894-3449 Email: info@asus.com.tw T echnical Support: Fax: 886-2-895-9254 BBS: 886-2-896-4667 Email: tsd@asus.com.tw WWW : http://www .asus.com.tw/ Gopher[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User's Manual IV CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................ 1 How this manual is or ganized .......................................................... 1 Item Checklist .................................................................................. 1 II. FEA TURES .........................[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User's Manual V CONTENTS V . DESKT OP MANAGEMENT ................................... 31 Desktop Management Interface (DMI) .......................................... 31 Introducing the DMI Configuration Utility ........................ 31 System Requirements ......................................................... 31 Using the D[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User's Manual VI Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • This device may not cause harmful interference, and • This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. T[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 1 I. INTRODUCTION How this manual is organized This manual is divided into the following sections: I. Introduction: Manual information and checklist II. Featur es: Information and specifications concerning this product III. Installation: Instructions on setting up the CPU card IV . BIOS Setup: BIOS software setup inf[...]

2 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual II. FEA TURES Features of This CPU card The C-P55T2D is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants great versatility in the assembly of a computer system. This CPU card: • PS/2 Connectors: PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard connectors on bracket. • V ersatile Pr ocessor Support: Intel Pentium ® 75-233MH[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 3 III. INST ALLA TION Jumper Settings CPU to BUS Fr equency Ratio (JP15, 16) These jumpers set the frequency ratio between the Internal frequency of the CPU and the External frequency (called the BUS Clock ) within the CPU. CPU : BUS Frequency Ratio Complete Names: Intel Pentium P54C, P55C-MMX AMD K5, K6 IBM/Cyrix 6X[...]

4 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual III. INST ALLA TION Single/Dual Power Plane CPU V oltage Regulator Selections (JP1, 20) The following jumpers set the voltage supplied to the CPU. Determine whether your CPU has a Single Power Plane or Dual Power Planes and then the volt- age that it uses. When a single power plane CPU is installed, the dual power p[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 5 III. INST ALLA TION APIC Dual CPU Selection (JP14) This jumper turns on or off the multiprocessor operating system’ s support for multi- processors regardless of the number of processors installed in the system. For single pr ocessor operating systems (e.g. DOS, OS/2 W arp, W in3.1x, W in95, Nextstep): Y ou can u[...]

6 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual Dual CPU Identification T able For 75-, 90, 100-, 120-, 133-, 150-, 166-, 200-MHz Pentium Processors (Dual CPU T able) III. INST ALLA TION III. INST ALLA TION T ype Speed MHz S-Spec V oltage (Core/BUS) 0/2 75/50 SX969 STD 0/2 75/50 SX998 STD 0/2 75/50 SZ994 5 STD 0/2 75/50 SU070 6 STD 0/2 75/50 SX961 STD 0/2 75/50 S[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 7 BIOS Chip The BIOS chip on the the Pentium CPU card and the Pentium Pro CPU card are different. If purchasing a Baseboard with a CPU Card, the BIOS is correctly in- stalled. If purchasing an additional card which uses a different processor , it should come with a BIOS chip to replace the one installed on your Baseb[...]

8 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual IV . BIOS (Flash Memory W riter) IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE Flash Memory W riter Utility 1. Enable "Boot Block Programming" jumper as shown in section III. 2. Make sure the system is running in real mode. This utility will not operate if the system is under protected mode or virtual mode. This means that you cann[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 9 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS (Flash Memory W riter) 1. Save Curr ent BIOS to File (Perform as soon as system is running) This option allows you to copy the contents of the Flash memory chip into a file in the FLASH directory . This gives you a backup copy of the original motherboard BIOS in case you need to re-in[...]

10 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS (Flash Memory W riter) T o select an option, type its corresponding number in the provided space and then press the <Enter> key . Follow these procedure to update the PnP motherboard BIOS. 1. Download the new BIOS by selecting the second command option from the Advanced Features [...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 11 IV . BIOS (BIOS Setup) The motherboard supports two programmable Flash ROM chips: 5 V olt and 12 V olt. Either of these memory chips can be updated when BIOS upgrades are re- leased. Use the Flash Memory W riter utility to download the new BIOS file into the ROM chip as described in detail at the beginning of BIOS[...]

12 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual Load Defaults The “Load BIOS Defaults” option loads the minimized settings for troubleshoot- ing. “ Load Setup Defaults ”, on the other hand, is for loading optimized defaults for regular use. Choosing defaults at this level, will modify all applicable settings. A section at the bottom of the above screen d[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 13 Details of Standard CMOS Setup: Date T o set the date, highlight the “Date” field and then press the page up/page down or +/- keys to set the current date. Follow the month, day and year format. V alid values for month, day and year are: Month: 1 to 12 Day: 1 to 31 Y ear: up to 2099 T ime T o set the time, hig[...]

14 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual For IDE hard disk drives, you can: • Use the Auto setting for detection during bootup (see below) • Use the IDE HDD AUT O DETECTION in the main menu to automatically enter the drive specifications, or you can: • Enter the specifications yourself manually by using the “User” option The entries for specifyi[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 15 Drive A, Drive B These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system. The available options for drives A and B are: 360KB, 5.25 in. 1.2MB, 5.25 in. 720KB, 3.5 in. 1.44MB, 3.5 in. 2.88MB, 3.5 in. None T o enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its corresponding fiel[...]

16 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE BIOS Features Setup This “BIOS Features Setup” option consists of configuration entries that allow you to improve your system performance, or let you set up some system features accord- ing to your preference. Some entries here are required by the motherboard’ s design to remain in their d[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 17 Quick Power On Self T est This field speeds up the Power -On Self T est (POST) routine by skipping retesting a second, third, and fourth time. Setup default setting for this field is Enabled . A complete test of the system is done on each test. HDD Sequence SCSI/IDE First When using both SCSI and IDE hard disk dri[...]

18 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Some display cards that are nonstandard VGA such as graphics accelerators or MPEG V ideo Cards may not show colors properly . The setting Enabled should correct this problem. Otherwise leave this on the setup default setting of Disabled . OS/2 Onboard Memory > 64M When using OS/2 operating [...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 19 Chipset Features Setup This “Chipset Features Setup” option controls the configuration of the board’ s chipset. Control keys for this screen are the same as for the previous screen. Auto Configuration The default setting of 60ns DRAM sets the optimal timings for items 2 through 9 for 60ns DRAM modules. If yo[...]

20 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual [DRAM and ECC] If all your DRAM modules have parity chips (e.g. 8 chips + 4 parity chips), they are considered 36bits. This motherboard sums the memory per bank and therefore two modules will give 72bits and the following will be displayed: If your DRAM modules do not have parity chips (e.g. 8 chips), they are cons[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 21 Onboard Parallel Port This field sets the address of the onboard parallel port connector . Y ou can select either: 3BCH / IRQ 7, 378H / IRQ 7 (default) , 278H / IRQ 5, Disabled. If you install an I/O card with a parallel port, ensure that there is no conflict in the address assign- ments. The PC can support up to [...]

22 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual Power Management Setup This “Power Management Setup” option allows you to reduce power consumption. This feature turns of f the video display and shuts down the hard disk after a period of inactivity . Details of Power Management Setup: Power Management (User Define) This field acts as the master control for th[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 23 IV . BIOS (Power Management) IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE Suspend Switch This field enables or disables the SMI connector on the motherboard. This connec- tor connects to the lead from the Suspend switch mounted on the system case. De- fault setting for this field is Enable . Doze Speed (div by) , Stdby Speed (div by) Thes[...]

24 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual PNP and PCI Setup This “PNP and PCI Setup” option configures the PCI bus slots. All PCI bus slots on the system use INT A#, thus all installed PCI cards must be set to this value. PNP OS Installed This field allows you to use a Plug-and-Play (PnP) operating system to configure the PCI bus slots instead of using[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 25 (Plug & Play / PCI) IV . BIOS DMA x Used By ISA These fields indicate whether or not the displayed DMA channel for each field is being used by a legacy (non-PnP) ISA card. A vailable options include: No/ICU and Ye s . The first option, the default setting, indicates either that the displayed DMA channel is not[...]

26 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual Load BIOS Defaults This “Load BIOS Defaults” option allows you to load the troubleshooting default values permanently stored in the BIOS ROM. These default settings are non-opti- mal and disable all high performance features. T o load these default settings, high- light “Load BIOS Defaults” on the main scre[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 27 IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS (Passwords) Supervisor Password and User Password These two options set the system passwords. “Supervisor Password” sets a pass- word that will be used to protect the system and the Setup utility; “User Password” sets a password that will be used exclusively on the system. By [...]

28 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual IV . BIOS SOFTW ARE IV . BIOS (Hard Drive Detect) IDE HDD Auto Detection This “IDE HDD Auto Detection” option detects the parameters of an IDE hard disk drive, and automatically enters them into the Standard CMOS Setup screen. Up to four IDE drives can be detected, with parameters for each listed inside the box[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 29 IMPOR T ANT : If your hard disk was already formatted on an older previous system, incorr ect parameters may be detected. Y ou will need to enter the cor - rect parameters manually or use low-level format if you do not need the data stor ed on the hard drive. If the parameters listed dif fer from the ones used whe[...]

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ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 31 Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility This motherboard supports DMI within the BIOS level and provides a DMI Con- figuration Utility to maintain the Management Information Format Database (MIFD). DMI is able to auto-detect and record information pertinent to a computer ’ s system such as the CPU type, C[...]

32 ASUS C-P55T2D User’ s Manual Using the DMI Configuration Utility Edit DMI (or delete) Use the ← → (left-right) cursors to move the top menu items and the ↑↓ (up-down) cursor to move between the left hand menu items. The bottom of the screen will show the available keys for each screen. Press enter at the menu item to enter the right ha[...]

ASUS C-P55T2D User ’ s Manual 33 Save MIFD Y ou can save the MIFD (normally only saved to flash ROM) to a file by entering the drive and path here. If you want to cancel save, you may press ESC and a message “Bad File Name” appears here to show it was not saved. Load MIFD Y ou can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and [...]

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