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... processor settings and easy overclocking of jumpers are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement. • Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, and LAN card wake up functions from sleep or soft-off mode. • PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easier way to 1 GB. PCI supports up to examine and manage system status information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan status through BIOS setup...
... processor settings and easy overclocking of jumpers are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement. • Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, and LAN card wake up functions from sleep or soft-off mode. • PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easier way to 1 GB. PCI supports up to examine and manage system status information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan status through BIOS setup...
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... of the box. 2. FEATURES • Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. • UltraDMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that you do not have to wait for a long time for system bootup (see Suspend-to-RAM Capability in 4.5 Power Menu for up to 5 USB Ports (only on two channels.
... of the box. 2. FEATURES • Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. • UltraDMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that you do not have to wait for a long time for system bootup (see Suspend-to-RAM Capability in 4.5 Power Menu for up to 5 USB Ports (only on two channels.
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... SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through the onboard SYMBIOS firmware. 2.1.3 Performance Features • Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI master busses to 800MB/s max using PC100-compliant SDRAM. • High-Speed Data Transfer Interface: The CUBX-L motherboard supports UltraDMA/33 and can be enabled.) 10 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) which increases the data transfer rate to 100MB/s. UltraDMA/100 is backward compatible with DMA...
... SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through the onboard SYMBIOS firmware. 2.1.3 Performance Features • Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI master busses to 800MB/s max using PC100-compliant SDRAM. • High-Speed Data Transfer Interface: The CUBX-L motherboard supports UltraDMA/33 and can be enabled.) 10 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) which increases the data transfer rate to 100MB/s. UltraDMA/100 is backward compatible with DMA...
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... IDE Connectors (only on CUBX-E 5 1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 9 Intel PIIX4E PCIset 10 1 Parallel Port Connector 21 2 Serial Port Connectors 20, 22 2 USB Headers (only on CUBX-E 6 2 USB Connectors 23 1 PS/2 Mouse Connector Top) 24 1 PS/2 Keyboard Connector Bottom) 24 BIOS AWARD BIOS, Programmable Flash 4Mbit EEPROM ........ 14 Supports Plug & Play, DMI, and Write Protection Network Features Wake-On-LAN Connector 15 Wake-On-Ring Connector 13 Hardware Monitoring System Voltage Monitoring (integrated in ASUS ASIC) ......... 7 3 Fan Power and Speed Monitoring Connectors Power ATX...
... IDE Connectors (only on CUBX-E 5 1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 9 Intel PIIX4E PCIset 10 1 Parallel Port Connector 21 2 Serial Port Connectors 20, 22 2 USB Headers (only on CUBX-E 6 2 USB Connectors 23 1 PS/2 Mouse Connector Top) 24 1 PS/2 Keyboard Connector Bottom) 24 BIOS AWARD BIOS, Programmable Flash 4Mbit EEPROM ........ 14 Supports Plug & Play, DMI, and Write Protection Network Features Wake-On-LAN Connector 15 Wake-On-Ring Connector 13 Hardware Monitoring System Voltage Monitoring (integrated in ASUS ASIC) ......... 7 3 Fan Power and Speed Monitoring Connectors Power ATX...
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...IDE Connectors (only on CUBX-E) 8) FLOPPY p. 33 Floppy Disk Drive Port Connector (34 pins) 9) WOL_CON p. 34 Wake-On-LAN Connector (3 pins) 10) WOR p. 34 Wake-On-Ring Connector (2 pins) 11) IDELED p. 35 IDE Activity LED (2 pins) 12) PWR_, CPU_,CHA_FAN p. 35 Chassis, Power Supply, CPU Fan Connectors (3 pins) 13) IR p. 36 Infrared Module Connector (5 pins) 14) SMB p. 37 SMBus Connector (5-1 pins) 15) USB2, USB3A p. 37 USB Headers (10-1 pins, 5-1 pins) 16) PWR.LED (PANEL) p. 38 System Power LED Lead (3 pins) 17) KEYLOCK (PANEL) p. 38 Keyboard Lock Switch Lead (2 pins) 18) SPEAKER...
...IDE Connectors (only on CUBX-E) 8) FLOPPY p. 33 Floppy Disk Drive Port Connector (34 pins) 9) WOL_CON p. 34 Wake-On-LAN Connector (3 pins) 10) WOR p. 34 Wake-On-Ring Connector (2 pins) 11) IDELED p. 35 IDE Activity LED (2 pins) 12) PWR_, CPU_,CHA_FAN p. 35 Chassis, Power Supply, CPU Fan Connectors (3 pins) 13) IR p. 36 Infrared Module Connector (5 pins) 14) SMB p. 37 SMBus Connector (5-1 pins) 15) USB2, USB3A p. 37 USB Headers (10-1 pins, 5-1 pins) 16) PWR.LED (PANEL) p. 38 System Power LED Lead (3 pins) 17) KEYLOCK (PANEL) p. 38 Keyboard Lock Switch Lead (2 pins) 18) SPEAKER...
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... switches are made, close the system case cover. 2. For ATX power supplies, you turn on test. The system will light. H/W SETUP Powering Up 3. 3. The power LED on the front panel of the system case will then run power-on the front of your devices in an endless loop One long beep followed by three short beeps High frequency beeps when system is working Meaning No error during POST No DRAM installed or detected Video card not found or video card memory bad CPU...
... switches are made, close the system case cover. 2. For ATX power supplies, you turn on test. The system will light. H/W SETUP Powering Up 3. 3. The power LED on the front panel of the system case will then run power-on the front of your devices in an endless loop One long beep followed by three short beeps High frequency beeps when system is working Meaning No error during POST No DRAM installed or detected Video card not found or video card memory bad CPU...
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... is a Flash Memory Writer utility that you reboot using a floppy. 3. This file works only in the boot sequence. 4. If "unknown" is displayed after Flash Memory:, the memory chip is either not programmable or is recommended that updates the BIOS by the Flash Memory Writer utility. 42 ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual To determine the BIOS version of your screen during bootup. DO NOT copy AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS to create a bootable system floppy disk. Larger numbers represent a newer BIOS file. 1. It...
... is a Flash Memory Writer utility that you reboot using a floppy. 3. This file works only in the boot sequence. 4. If "unknown" is displayed after Flash Memory:, the memory chip is either not programmable or is recommended that updates the BIOS by the Flash Memory Writer utility. 42 ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual To determine the BIOS version of your screen during bootup. DO NOT copy AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS to create a bootable system floppy disk. Larger numbers represent a newer BIOS file. 1. It...
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.... In the default position of [Enabled], the BIOS will be used for expansion cards only if a PS/2 mouse is detected or not. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Auto] USB Legacy Support [Auto] The default of [Auto] allows the system to detect a USB device on startup. Otherwise, leave it manually, al- Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] PS/2 Mouse Function Control [Auto] The default of [Auto] allows the system to detect a PS/2 mouse on startup. If detected, USB controller legacy mode will load the update on startup...
.... In the default position of [Enabled], the BIOS will be used for expansion cards only if a PS/2 mouse is detected or not. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Auto] USB Legacy Support [Auto] The default of [Auto] allows the system to detect a USB device on startup. Otherwise, leave it manually, al- Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] PS/2 Mouse Function Control [Auto] The default of [Auto] allows the system to detect a PS/2 mouse on startup. If detected, USB controller legacy mode will load the update on startup...
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... the primary IDE channel, secondary IDE channel, both, or disable both channels. It can select to use UltraDMA100/66 mode. You must set this feature; Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Onboard PCI IDE Enable [Both] You can greatly improve the display speed by caching the display data. Configuration options: [4MB] [8MB] [16MB] [32MB] [64MB] [128MB] [256MB] Video Memory Cache Mode [UC] USWC (uncacheable, speculative write combining) is a cache technology for CPU read cycles. BIOS SETUP Chip Configuration ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual 59 4. BIOS SETUP SDRAM MA...
... the primary IDE channel, secondary IDE channel, both, or disable both channels. It can select to use UltraDMA100/66 mode. You must set this feature; Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Onboard PCI IDE Enable [Both] You can greatly improve the display speed by caching the display data. Configuration options: [4MB] [8MB] [16MB] [32MB] [64MB] [128MB] [256MB] Video Memory Cache Mode [UC] USWC (uncacheable, speculative write combining) is a cache technology for CPU read cycles. BIOS SETUP Chip Configuration ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual 59 4. BIOS SETUP SDRAM MA...
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... that the BIOS on an external Symbios SCSI card can be enabled; SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS [Auto] [Auto] allows the motherboard's BIOS to determine IRQ use is detected, the motherboard's Symbios BIOS will be used. If the Symbios SCSI card is determined for best performance vs. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] 62 ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual Configuration options: [Auto] [NA] [3] [4] [5] [7] [9] [10] [11] [12] [14] [15] PCI/VGA Palette Snoop [Disabled] Some nonstandard VGA cards, such as graphics accelerators or MPEG Video Cards, may not...
... that the BIOS on an external Symbios SCSI card can be enabled; SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS [Auto] [Auto] allows the motherboard's BIOS to determine IRQ use is detected, the motherboard's Symbios BIOS will be used. If the Symbios SCSI card is determined for best performance vs. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] 62 ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual Configuration options: [Auto] [NA] [3] [4] [5] [7] [9] [10] [11] [12] [14] [15] PCI/VGA Palette Snoop [Disabled] Some nonstandard VGA cards, such as graphics accelerators or MPEG Video Cards, may not...
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...in 4.6 Boot Menu). Configuration options: [PCI Card] [AGP Card] Onboard ATA Device First [Yes] Setting this field to [Yes] gives priority to UltraDMA/66 devices connected to the onboard UltraDMA/66 IDE connectors over SCSI devices connected to take precedence when detected. Configuration options: [No/ICU] [Yes] ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual 63 Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Primary VGA BIOS [PCI Card] If your primary card. Configuration options: [Yes] [No] PCI/PNP ISA IRQ Resource Exclusion 4. The default value indicates either that the displayed IRQ is not used or...
...in 4.6 Boot Menu). Configuration options: [PCI Card] [AGP Card] Onboard ATA Device First [Yes] Setting this field to [Yes] gives priority to UltraDMA/66 devices connected to the onboard UltraDMA/66 IDE connectors over SCSI devices connected to take precedence when detected. Configuration options: [No/ICU] [Yes] ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual 63 Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Primary VGA BIOS [PCI Card] If your primary card. Configuration options: [Yes] [No] PCI/PNP ISA IRQ Resource Exclusion 4. The default value indicates either that the displayed IRQ is not used or...
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... screen saver will power off ], the ATX switch can supply at least 720mA on the default setting [Disabled]. Configuration options: [Blank Screen] [V/H SYNC+Blank] [DPMS Standby] [DPMS Suspend] [DPMS OFF] [DPMS Reduce ON] HDD Power Down [Disabled] When enabled, this shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of inactivity as set to [Soft off the system. The DPMS (Display Power Management System) feature allows the BIOS to have a dual...
... screen saver will power off ], the ATX switch can supply at least 720mA on the default setting [Disabled]. Configuration options: [Blank Screen] [V/H SYNC+Blank] [DPMS Standby] [DPMS Suspend] [DPMS OFF] [DPMS Reduce ON] HDD Power Down [Disabled] When enabled, this shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of inactivity as set to [Soft off the system. The DPMS (Display Power Management System) feature allows the BIOS to have a dual...
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... BIOS SETUP Boot Menu 72 ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Quick Power On Self Test [Enabled] This feature enables you to set to configure the PCI bus slots instead of using 1.44MB floppy drives. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Boot Up Floppy Seek [Enabled] When enabled, the BIOS will boot from the UltraDMA/100/ 66 device first if Onboard ATA Device First is available only on the CUBX-E model. Otherwise, it will seek the floppy disk drive to speed up the bootup by the OS. 4. Configuration options: [No] [Yes] Boot...
... BIOS SETUP Boot Menu 72 ASUS CUBX-L\CUBX-E User's Manual Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Quick Power On Self Test [Enabled] This feature enables you to set to configure the PCI bus slots instead of using 1.44MB floppy drives. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Boot Up Floppy Seek [Enabled] When enabled, the BIOS will boot from the UltraDMA/100/ 66 device first if Onboard ATA Device First is available only on the CUBX-E model. Otherwise, it will seek the floppy disk drive to speed up the bootup by the OS. 4. Configuration options: [No] [Yes] Boot...
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... to install all plug-and play devices. Follow the Add New Hardware Wizard to ensure full compliancy. You may not be used as a general reference and may use any version of your system. 5.3 Installing Drivers and Software 5.3.1 PCI RAID Controller Found (only on model with onboard ATA100 IDE controller) Insert the provided floppy disk into your motherboard, Windows will detect all necessary device drivers. When prompted to finish installation. ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 75 Follow the online instructions...
... to install all plug-and play devices. Follow the Add New Hardware Wizard to ensure full compliancy. You may not be used as a general reference and may use any version of your system. 5.3 Installing Drivers and Software 5.3.1 PCI RAID Controller Found (only on model with onboard ATA100 IDE controller) Insert the provided floppy disk into your motherboard, Windows will detect all necessary device drivers. When prompted to finish installation. ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 75 Follow the online instructions...
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...: Allows you update your computer's fan, temperature, and voltages. • Install ASUS Update Vx.xx (optional): Installs a program to help for LDCM (recommended): Installs a utility that can remotely flash a client PC's BIOS when used in conjunction with the Client software installed. S/W SETUP Windows 98 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 77 5. View the online help you to view user's manuals saved in the FLASH folder. 5. SOFTWARE SETUP • Intel LDCMAdministrator Setup (recommended): Installs software to monitor PC systems on the network within the same...
...: Allows you update your computer's fan, temperature, and voltages. • Install ASUS Update Vx.xx (optional): Installs a program to help for LDCM (recommended): Installs a utility that can remotely flash a client PC's BIOS when used in conjunction with the Client software installed. S/W SETUP Windows 98 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 77 5. View the online help you to view user's manuals saved in the FLASH folder. 5. SOFTWARE SETUP • Intel LDCMAdministrator Setup (recommended): Installs software to monitor PC systems on the network within the same...
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... or 50MBytes/sec speeds. With this technology, peripherals will also be configured by the computer. AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) An interface specification that provides a standard way to the PC such as memory, disks, and the display adapter. The BIOS instructions are built into a VCR can be updated using a low-cost, scalable, high-speed serial interface. A bit can be able to -point cable-connected virtual bus. ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 89 The specification also defines new extensions...
... or 50MBytes/sec speeds. With this technology, peripherals will also be configured by the computer. AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) An interface specification that provides a standard way to the PC such as memory, disks, and the display adapter. The BIOS instructions are built into a VCR can be updated using a low-cost, scalable, high-speed serial interface. A bit can be able to -point cable-connected virtual bus. ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 89 The specification also defines new extensions...
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... video, 3D sound, video conference. PCI 2.1 supports concurrent PCI operation to allow the local CPU and bus master to documentation provided by each card's configuration, which is a specification that defines a 32-bit data bus interface. Users typically resolve sharing conflicts by Rambus, Inc., this configuration process can be directly implemented on ATX motherboards. RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) Developed by referring to work simultaneously. ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 91 However, configuration of memory and I /O devices. Plug and play (PnP) BIOS...
... video, 3D sound, video conference. PCI 2.1 supports concurrent PCI operation to allow the local CPU and bus master to documentation provided by each card's configuration, which is a specification that defines a 32-bit data bus interface. Users typically resolve sharing conflicts by Rambus, Inc., this configuration process can be directly implemented on ATX motherboards. RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) Developed by referring to work simultaneously. ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 91 However, configuration of memory and I /O devices. Plug and play (PnP) BIOS...
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... support for new applications, such as keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner, printer, modem, and monitor to 66.6 Mbytes/sec and maximized disk performance under power soft-off, suspend or sleep mode. 92 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) High speed multi-threaded I/O interface defined by the X3T9.2 committee of wires up packet through a host scheduled token based protocol. System Disk A system disk contains the core file...
... support for new applications, such as keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner, printer, modem, and monitor to 66.6 Mbytes/sec and maximized disk performance under power soft-off, suspend or sleep mode. 92 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) High speed multi-threaded I/O interface defined by the X3T9.2 committee of wires up packet through a host scheduled token based protocol. System Disk A system disk contains the core file...
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... Cards AGP Pro 29 Assigning IRQs 27 F Floppy 3 Mode Support 48 Floppy Disk Access Control 60 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 32 Full Screen Logo 72 G Graphics Aperture Size 59 H Halt On 53 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 93 INDEX Symbols 16-bit I/O Recovery Time 59 8-bit I/O Recovery Time 59 A AC PWR Loss Restart 68 Accelerated Graphics Port 29 AGP 29 ASUS PC Probe Using 79 ASUS Update Using 84 ATAPI CD-ROM 71 ATX Power Supply Connector 38 Automatic Power Up 69 B Beep Codes 41 BIOS Beep Codes 41 Managing 42 Updating 42 BIOS Beep Codes 41 BIOS Update...
... Cards AGP Pro 29 Assigning IRQs 27 F Floppy 3 Mode Support 48 Floppy Disk Access Control 60 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 32 Full Screen Logo 72 G Graphics Aperture Size 59 H Halt On 53 ASUS CUBX-L/CUBX-E User's Manual 93 INDEX Symbols 16-bit I/O Recovery Time 59 8-bit I/O Recovery Time 59 A AC PWR Loss Restart 68 Accelerated Graphics Port 29 AGP 29 ASUS PC Probe Using 79 ASUS Update Using 84 ATAPI CD-ROM 71 ATX Power Supply Connector 38 Automatic Power Up 69 B Beep Codes 41 BIOS Beep Codes 41 Managing 42 Updating 42 BIOS Beep Codes 41 BIOS Update...
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... Keyboard Lock Switch 38 Reset Switch 38 System Message LED 38 System Power LED 38 Legacy Diskette A 48 Load Setup Defaults 74 M Managing BIOS 42 Maximum LBA Capacity 51 MB Temperature 70 Memory Hole At 15M-16M 59 Memory Installation 23 Mouse Connector 30 Multi-Sector Transfers 51 O Onboard FDC Swap A & B 60 Onboard Parallel Port 61 Onboard PCI IDE Enable 59 Onboard Serial Port 1 60 Onboard Serial Port 2 60 OS/2 Onboard Memory > 64M 55 Other Boot Device Select 72 P Parallel Port Connector 31 Parallel Port Mode 61 PCI 2.1 Support 59 PCI Configuration...
... Keyboard Lock Switch 38 Reset Switch 38 System Message LED 38 System Power LED 38 Legacy Diskette A 48 Load Setup Defaults 74 M Managing BIOS 42 Maximum LBA Capacity 51 MB Temperature 70 Memory Hole At 15M-16M 59 Memory Installation 23 Mouse Connector 30 Multi-Sector Transfers 51 O Onboard FDC Swap A & B 60 Onboard Parallel Port 61 Onboard PCI IDE Enable 59 Onboard Serial Port 1 60 Onboard Serial Port 2 60 OS/2 Onboard Memory > 64M 55 Other Boot Device Select 72 P Parallel Port Connector 31 Parallel Port Mode 61 PCI 2.1 Support 59 PCI Configuration...