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IDE Secondary Master IDE HDD Auto-Detection [Press Enter] IDE Primary Master Access Mode [Manual] [CHS] Capacity 40020 MB Cylinder Head Sector Transfer Mode [19158] [ 16] [ 255] UDMA 2 To auto-detect the HDD's size, head...on this channel. 2-11
IDE Secondary Master IDE HDD Auto-Detection [Press Enter] IDE Primary Master Access Mode [Manual] [CHS] Capacity 40020 MB Cylinder Head Sector Transfer Mode [19158] [ 16] [ 255] UDMA 2 To auto-detect the HDD's size, head...on this channel. 2-11
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... not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for backup purposes, without intent to infringe. ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS...and to the owners' benefit, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ("ASUS"). ii ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT. or (2) the serial number of ...
... not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for backup purposes, without intent to infringe. ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS...and to the owners' benefit, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ("ASUS"). ii ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT. or (2) the serial number of ...
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... with the package. • Before using , contact your local power company. • If the power supply is set to fix it , carefully read all the manuals that your power supply is broken, do not try to the correct voltage in any damage, contact your retailer. If possible, disconnect all cables are...
... with the package. • Before using , contact your local power company. • If the power supply is set to fix it , carefully read all the manuals that your power supply is broken, do not try to the correct voltage in any damage, contact your retailer. If possible, disconnect all cables are...
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...activities of certain system components. Speaker Power LED Connector +5 V PLED +5V Ground Ground Speaker HD_LED+ HD_LEDExtSMI# Ground PWRBIN Ground Reset Ground ® A7V8X-MX SE IDELED SMI Lead Reset SW ATX Power Switch* * Requires an ATX power supply. The LED lights up . 1-22 Chapter 1: Product introduction Pressing the ...allows you turn on the BIOS or OS settings. Attach the case-mounted suspend switch to this LED to light up when you to manually place the system into a suspend mode, or "green" mode, where system activity is in the ON mode for rebooting the system ...
...activities of certain system components. Speaker Power LED Connector +5 V PLED +5V Ground Ground Speaker HD_LED+ HD_LEDExtSMI# Ground PWRBIN Ground Reset Ground ® A7V8X-MX SE IDELED SMI Lead Reset SW ATX Power Switch* * Requires an ATX power supply. The LED lights up . 1-22 Chapter 1: Product introduction Pressing the ...allows you turn on the BIOS or OS settings. Attach the case-mounted suspend switch to this LED to light up when you to manually place the system into a suspend mode, or "green" mode, where system activity is in the ON mode for rebooting the system ...
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......on a previous system, the setup BIOS may detect incorrect parameters. If no drive is not already detected. Configuration options: [None] [Auto [Manual] Access Mode [Auto] The default [Auto] automatically detects an IDE hard disk drive. Incorrect settings may be because the hard disk drive is ... order to recognize the installed hard disk. 2-10 Chapter 2: BIOS information In cases of the IDE Primary Master in coordination with the [Manual] setting of undetected HDDs, pressing enter will detect the HDD and then open access to configure a hard disk drive, make sure you are...
......on a previous system, the setup BIOS may detect incorrect parameters. If no drive is not already detected. Configuration options: [None] [Auto [Manual] Access Mode [Auto] The default [Auto] automatically detects an IDE hard disk drive. Incorrect settings may be because the hard disk drive is ... order to recognize the installed hard disk. 2-10 Chapter 2: BIOS information In cases of the IDE Primary Master in coordination with the [Manual] setting of undetected HDDs, pressing enter will detect the HDD and then open access to configure a hard disk drive, make sure you are...
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... necessary for drives with your selections on this field, set the IDE Primary Master field to [Manual] and the Access Mode to [CHS]. ASUS A7V8X-MX SE motherboard user guide 2-11 [Manual] & [CHS] Settings IDE Primary Master IDE HDD Auto-Detection [Press Enter] IDE Primary Master... Access Mode [Manual] [CHS] Capacity 40020 MB Cylinder Head Sector Transfer Mode [19158] [ 16] [ 255] UDMA 2 Select Menu Item...
... necessary for drives with your selections on this field, set the IDE Primary Master field to [Manual] and the Access Mode to [CHS]. ASUS A7V8X-MX SE motherboard user guide 2-11 [Manual] & [CHS] Settings IDE Primary Master IDE HDD Auto-Detection [Press Enter] IDE Primary Master... Access Mode [Manual] [CHS] Capacity 40020 MB Cylinder Head Sector Transfer Mode [19158] [ 16] [ 255] UDMA 2 Select Menu Item...
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... DRAM clock parameters. Set to select the DRAM clock. To make changes to this option to Enabled allows the operating system to determine whether to [Manual]. Configuration options: [Auto] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5] 2.5 Advanced menu CPU Type AMD Athlon(tm) CPU Speed 1050MHz/280MHz Cache RAM 256K Current FSB... mouse. Sector This field configures the number of sectors per track. Refer to the drive documentation to the DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect). You can manually set according to determine the correct value.
... DRAM clock parameters. Set to select the DRAM clock. To make changes to this option to Enabled allows the operating system to determine whether to [Manual]. Configuration options: [Auto] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5] 2.5 Advanced menu CPU Type AMD Athlon(tm) CPU Speed 1050MHz/280MHz Cache RAM 256K Current FSB... mouse. Sector This field configures the number of sectors per track. Refer to the drive documentation to the DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect). You can manually set according to determine the correct value.
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...AGP interface only provides a peak data throughput of mapped memory for AGP graphic data. Configuration options: [Auto] [Manual] AGP Driving Value [DA] This item is backward-compatible to [Manual]. AGP & P2P Bridge Control AGP & P2P Bridge Control AGP Aperture Size AGP Mode AGP Driving Control AGP Driving... of 266MB/s even if you are using an AGP 4X card. This motherboard also supports the AGP 8X interface. Press to automatically select or manually assign the AGP Driving Value. Configuration options: [Min = 0000, Max = 00FF] AGP Fast Write [Disabled] This field enables or disables ...
...AGP interface only provides a peak data throughput of mapped memory for AGP graphic data. Configuration options: [Auto] [Manual] AGP Driving Value [DA] This item is backward-compatible to [Manual]. AGP & P2P Bridge Control AGP & P2P Bridge Control AGP Aperture Size AGP Mode AGP Driving Control AGP Driving... of 266MB/s even if you are using an AGP 4X card. This motherboard also supports the AGP 8X interface. Press to automatically select or manually assign the AGP Driving Value. Configuration options: [Min = 0000, Max = 00FF] AGP Fast Write [Disabled] This field enables or disables ...
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...the latency time between the DRAM read command and the moment that you set this parameter to [Auto by SPD]. Configuration options: [Manual] [Auto By SPD] [Turbo] [Ultra] DRAM CAS Latency [2.5] This field sets the override clock cycle for DRAM CAS Latency, ...Precharge (Tras) [7T] Configuration options: [6T] [7T] [8T] [9T] Active to CMD (Trcd) [5T] Configuration options: [2T] [3T] [4T] [5T] ASUS A7V8X-MX SE motherboard user guide 2-15 AGP 3.0 Calibration Cycle [Enabled] Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] DRAM Clock/Drive Control DRAM Clock/Drive Control DRAM Timing DRAM CAS Latency...
...the latency time between the DRAM read command and the moment that you set this parameter to [Auto by SPD]. Configuration options: [Manual] [Auto By SPD] [Turbo] [Ultra] DRAM CAS Latency [2.5] This field sets the override clock cycle for DRAM CAS Latency, ...Precharge (Tras) [7T] Configuration options: [6T] [7T] [8T] [9T] Active to CMD (Trcd) [5T] Configuration options: [2T] [3T] [4T] [5T] ASUS A7V8X-MX SE motherboard user guide 2-15 AGP 3.0 Calibration Cycle [Enabled] Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] DRAM Clock/Drive Control DRAM Clock/Drive Control DRAM Timing DRAM CAS Latency...
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...ESCD)] When set to [Auto (ESCD)], BIOS automatically configures all the boot Plug and Play compatible devices. Configuration options: [Auto (ESCD)] [Manual] PCI/VGA Snoop Palette [Disabled] Some non-standard VGA cards, like graphics accelerators or MPEG video cards, may not show colors properly. Setting... this item to [Manual], allows manual assignment of IRQ addresses to [Enabled] corrects this field to the default setting [Disabled]. If you cannot select IRQ DMA and ...
...ESCD)] When set to [Auto (ESCD)], BIOS automatically configures all the boot Plug and Play compatible devices. Configuration options: [Auto (ESCD)] [Manual] PCI/VGA Snoop Palette [Disabled] Some non-standard VGA cards, like graphics accelerators or MPEG video cards, may not show colors properly. Setting... this item to [Manual], allows manual assignment of IRQ addresses to [Enabled] corrects this field to the default setting [Disabled]. If you cannot select IRQ DMA and ...
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Select [PCI Device] to assign an IRQ address to [Manual]. F1 : Help ↑↓ : Select Item -/+ : Change Value F5 : Setup Defaults ESC : Exit →← : Select Menu Enter : Select Sub-menu F10 : Save and Exit...] [PCI Device] [PCI Device] [PCI Device] Select Menu Item Specific Help Where resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. Configuration options: [PCI Devices] [Reserved] ASUS A7V8X-MX SE motherboard user guide 2-21 IRQ Resources IRQ Resources IRQ 3 assigned to IRQ 4 assigned to IRQ 5 ...
Select [PCI Device] to assign an IRQ address to [Manual]. F1 : Help ↑↓ : Select Item -/+ : Change Value F5 : Setup Defaults ESC : Exit →← : Select Menu Enter : Select Sub-menu F10 : Save and Exit...] [PCI Device] [PCI Device] [PCI Device] Select Menu Item Specific Help Where resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. Configuration options: [PCI Devices] [Reserved] ASUS A7V8X-MX SE motherboard user guide 2-21 IRQ Resources IRQ Resources IRQ 3 assigned to IRQ 4 assigned to IRQ 5 ...
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... options: [Disabled] [Enabled] PS2MS Wakeup from S3 [Disabled] Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Modem Ring Resume [Disabled] This allows either settings of [Enabled] or [Disabled] for manual setup. This feature requires an ATX power supply that provides at least 1A on the system. PS2KB Wakeup Select [Hot Key] This parameter allows you...
... options: [Disabled] [Enabled] PS2MS Wakeup from S3 [Disabled] Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Modem Ring Resume [Disabled] This allows either settings of [Enabled] or [Disabled] for manual setup. This feature requires an ATX power supply that provides at least 1A on the system. PS2KB Wakeup Select [Hot Key] This parameter allows you...
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... devices. AD1980 SoundMAX Audio Driver This item installs the AD1980 SoundMAX audio driver and applications. VIA 4 in 1 Driver This item installs the VIA 4-in-1 drivers. ASUS A7V8X-MX motherboard user manual 3-3 Some items appear only on specific operating system versions. Install VIA LAN Driver Click this motherboard.
... devices. AD1980 SoundMAX Audio Driver This item installs the AD1980 SoundMAX audio driver and applications. VIA 4 in 1 Driver This item installs the VIA 4-in-1 drivers. ASUS A7V8X-MX motherboard user manual 3-3 Some items appear only on specific operating system versions. Install VIA LAN Driver Click this motherboard.