ASUS A7N8X-VM 400 Manual Do Utilizador

Features

Contents

Notices ........................................................................................................ v

Safety information ...................................................................................... vi

About this guide ......................................................................................... vii

A7N8X-VM/400 specification summary .................................................... viii

1.1

Welcome! ....................................................................................... 1-2

1.2

Package contents .......................................................................... 1-2

1.3

Special features ............................................................................. 1-2

1.4

Motherboard components .............................................................. 1-4

1.5

Motherboard layout ........................................................................ 1-7

1.6

Motherboard installation ................................................................ 1-8

1.6.1

Placement direction ......................................................... 1-8

1.6.2

Screw holes ..................................................................... 1-8

1.7

Before you proceed ....................................................................... 1-9

1.8

Central Processing Unit (CPU) .................................................... 1-10

1.9

System memory ........................................................................... 1-11

1.10 Expansion slots ........................................................................... 1-12

1.10.1

Configuring an expansion card ...................................... 1-12

1.10.2

Standard Interrupt Assignments .................................... 1-12

1.10.3

AGP slot ......................................................................... 1-13

1.10.4

PCI slots ........................................................................ 1-13

1.11 Jumpers ....................................................................................... 1-14

1.12 Connectors .................................................................................. 1-16

2.1

Managing and updating your BIOS ............................................... 2-2

2.1.1

Creating a bootable floppy disk ....................................... 2-2

2.1.2

Using AFUDOS to copy the current BIOS ....................... 2-3

2.1.3

Using AFUDOS to update the BIOS ................................ 2-4

2.1.4

Using ASUS EZ Flash to update the BIOS ...................... 2-5

2.1.5

ASUS Update .................................................................. 2-6

2.2

BIOS Setup program ..................................................................... 2-8

2.2.1

BIOS menu bar ................................................................ 2-8

2.2.2

Legend bar ....................................................................... 2-9