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TX97-XE USER`S MANUAL

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2. gir Lond BIUS Defaults P awl Stup lefaul ts NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Details of Power Management Setup Power Management User Define This field acts as the master control for the power management modes Max Saving puts the system into power saving mode after a brief period of system inactivity Min Saving is almost the same as Max Saving except that this time the system inac tivity period is longer Disabled disables the power saving features User Defined allows you to set power saving options according to your preference IMPORTANT Advanced Power Management APM should be installed to keep the system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode acti vated by the BIOS Power Management For DOS environments you need to add DEVICE C DOS POWER EXE in you CONFIG SYS For Windows 3 x and Windows 95 you need to install Windows with the APM feature A battery and power cord icon labeled Power will appear in the Control Panel Choose Advanced in the Power Management Field Video Off Option Susp Stby gt Off This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power management The settings are All Modes gt Off Always On Suspend gt Off and Susp Stby gt Off 48 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE Video Off Method V H SYNC Blank This field defines the video off features Three options are available V H SYNC Blank
3. position in the SCSI chain Only the devices at each end of the chain need to be terminated If you have only internal or only external devices connected to the ASUS PCI SC200 then you must terminate the ASUS PCI SC200 If you have both internal and external devices connected you must not terminate the card See the following example which illustrates this concept SCSI Device 1 SCSI Device 2 Termination Required JP5 Open Termination Required End Device SCSI Device 3 SCSI Device 4 Termination Required No Termination Required End Device JP5 Short Termination Required End Device SCSI Device 2 SCSI Device 1 SCSI ID Numbers All SCSI devices including the ASUS PCI SC200 interface card must have a SCSI identification number that is not in use by any other SCSI device There are eight possible ID numbers 0 through 7 The ASUS PCI SC200 has a fixed SCSI ID of 7 You can connect up to seven SCSI devices to the interface card You must set a SCSI ID number for each device SCSI devices vary in how they set the ID number Some use jumpers others have some kind of selector switch Refer to the manual for any device you install for details on how to set its ID number ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual
4. DPMS and Blank Only The first option which 1s the default setting blanks the screen and turns off vertical and horizontal scanning DPMS Display Power Management System allows the BIOS to control the video display card if it sup ports the DPMS feature Blank Screen only blanks the screen Use the latter for monitors that do not support the Green no power management feature NOTE Screen saver software does not work with this feature While the monitor is shut off this software cannot display PWR Button lt 4 Secs Soft Off The default of Soft Off allows the ATX switch to function as a normal system power off button when pressed for less than 4 seconds Suspend setting allows the button to have a dual function where less than 4 seconds will place the system in sleep mode No Function disables the ATX switch of any functions under 4 seconds Regardless of the setting holding the ATX switch for more than 4 seconds will power off the system PWR Up On Modem Act Enabled This allows the settings of Enabled or Disabled for powering up the computer turns the ATX power supply on when the modem begins receiving or transmitting data while the computer is off AC PWR Loss Restart Disabled This item allows you to set whether you want your system to boot up after the power has been interrupted Disabled leaves your system off after reapplying power and Enabled boots up your system after replying power PM Timers Disabled This
5. Error 1 retrieving Mach64 attributes You may ignore this message by clicking the OK button The administrator LDCM cannot cross a network bridge to other workgroups AMD and Cyrix CPUs cannot be detected by the LDCM The COM port that is in use will not show up in Input Output Ports LDCM Administrator installation requires a network card or else the admin istrator features will run very slowly Mouse Pointer information does not show when there is mouse activity after Workstation Summary is selected in Windows NT ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 58 V SUPPORT SOFTWARE Desktop Management Interface DMI 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 CPU speed and internal external frequencies and memory size The onboard BIOS will detect as many system information as possible and store those collected information in a 4KB block in the motherboard s Flash EPROM and allow the DMI to retrieve data from this database Unlike other BIOS software the BIOS on this motherboard uses the same technology implemented for Plug and Play to allow dynamic real time updating of DMI information versus creating a new BIOS image file and requiring the user to update the who
6. Load BIOS Defaults gt 5 2 S g You can load the BIOS defaults from a MIFD file and can clear all user modified and added data You must reboot your computer in order for the defaults to be saved back into the Flash BIOS 60 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual VI ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI Card SCSI BIOS and Drivers Aside from the system BIOS the Flash memory chip on the motherboard also con tains the SCSI BIOS This SCSI BIOS works in conjunction with the optional ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI controller card to provide a complete PCI Fast SCSI 2 interface All SCSI devices you install to your system require driver software to function The SCSI BIOS directly supports SCSI hard disks under the DOS Windows and OS 2 environments It also uses device drivers from the DOS floppy disk included in the PCI SC200 controller card package to support hard disks and other SCSI devices working under DOS Windows Windows NT Novell NetWare and OS 2 These drivers provide higher performance than the direct BIOS support To use these drivers you must install them into your system and add them to your system con figuration files Driver support for SCSI devices used with SCO UNIX is also pro vided These drivers are included in the second SCO UNIX floppy disk Windows 95 support is also available using the device drivers included within the Windows software The ASUS PCI SC200 is a Plug and Play adapter that is auto detected by BIOS and current operating systems tha
7. bena aaa dada bena Aa benak 26 Power Connection Procedures see es esen aras a naaa 33 IV BIOS SOFTWARE sessescceccecsevwsesecsceeswiccssecesecissvssssevesestevivesscsencess 34 SUPPO SOL AEC pen a EA AA AAA 34 Flash Memory Writer Utility ena 34 Main Menu a ee ee er era nana nana anna naaa nana naaa 34 Advanced Features Menu ee ee nennen anna naaa 35 Managing amp Updating your Motherboard s BIOS 36 0 BIOS SCUD ce AAA AAA oy Load SLANG nana agenda AAA AA nconieninias 38 ada CMOS Se airan ve rserees A E EEE E enue 38 Details of Standard CMOS Setup ee 39 BIOS PC AWG a a E E 42 Details of BIOS Features Setup reen aaaaaaan 42 Chipset Features SetU pen a iian rnin a o 45 Details of Chipset Features Setup esen 45 Power Management Setup arcecenanvssveaveaseurcsareareceseareresanceseeeisanens 48 Details of Power Management Setup aa 48 PNP PEL Mi 50 Details of PNP and PCI Setup era 50 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual CONTENTS Load BIOS Defaults nn nn na a dd D Load setup DE nn AAA D Supervisor Password and User Password a 53 IDE HDD Auto Detection erra re anna naaa aa aaa 54 SG i aaa EE 55 Baa 9 1 Pe AA 55 Wa SUPPORT SOFTWARE ena 56 ASUS TX97 Motherboard Series Support CD a 56 LANDesk Client Man
8. first and second characters Four delay rate options are available 250 500 750 and 1000 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE 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 ROH PCIA ETIS a CHIPSET FEATUR PL SOF IWERT Auto Configuration tins ERPE Contra ller DEFN Coad Burs ct Timing wil Ort Smaps HSH 2 Hurst liming PEET e adoff iming DRAM E AS Precharge Time J poet Firs DNG sH Assertion A i i waid Hi sad Senin l yr Le adafi wilt Lad l orate n frared MR EEI aT 1 CT Ii A able ra DHA Hoi aber FHI MA Hoe ice A Slav i FI IUZOHH Bade lista ILE Has ier FIODHA Hode Auto IME 1 Slave FIODHA Hode Autoa ig UBSLLE f ii Cacheahle man r ESL hiii td ve Li ii Fe le At Address Hpne Fl Helin PEPI ey wdi fy Old Values ShifttF Color Lond HIUS Uataul ts awl Selig lefaul ts NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Details of Chipset Features Setup Auto Configuration 60ns DRAM The default setting of 60ns DRAM sets the optimal timings for items 2 through 9 for 60ns DRAM modules If you are using 70ns DRAM modules you must change this item to 7Ons DRAM See section III for DRAM installation information SDRAM CAS Latency 3T If you use ASUS SDRAM DIMM modules you can set this to 27 for better perfor mance otherwise l
9. of hard disks on bootup For each field Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master and Secondary Slave you can select Auto under the TYPE and MODE fields This will enable auto detection of your IDE drives during bootup This will allow you to change your hard drives with the power off and then power on without having to reconfigure your hard drive type If you use older hard drives which do not support this feature then you must configure the hard drive in the standard method as described above by the User option NOTE After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS new IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned such as with FDISK and then formatted before data can be read from and write on Primary IDE hard disk drives must have its partition set to active also possible with FDISK NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE Drive A Drive B None 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 To enter the configuration value for a particular drive highlight its corresponding field and then select the drive type using the left or right arrow key Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled This is the Japanese standard floppy drive The standard stores 1 2MB in a 3
10. plug may be different The red wire should be positive while the black should be ground Connect the fan s plug to the board taking into consid eration the polarity of the this connector NOTE The Rotation signal is to be used only by a specially designed fan with rotation signal WARNING The CPU and or motherboard will overheat if there is no air flow across the CPU and onboard heatsinks Damage may occur to the motherboard and or the CPU fan if these pins are incorrectly used These are not jumpers do not place jumper caps over these pins Chassis Fan Power CPU Fan Power Power Supply Fan Connectors Orientate the fins so that air flow runs across motherboard s regulators 12Volt Cooling Fan Power 10 Chassis Open Alarm Lead CHASSIS This lead is for an open chassis monitor A high level signal to the CHASSIS lead will indicate to the system that the chassis has been opened 5V GND CHASSIS Chassis open alarm lead ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 29 II INSTALLATION 11 Primary Secondary IDE connectors Two 40 pin Block These connectors support the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable After connecting the single end to the board connect the two plugs at the other end to your hard disk s If you install two hard disks you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by setting its jumper accordingly Please refer to the documentation of your hard disk for the jumper settings BIOS now
11. save electricity and expand the life of certain components when the system is not in use This 2 pin connector see the figure below connects to the case mounted suspend switch If you do not have a switch for the connector you may use the Turbo Switch since it does not have a function SMI is activated when it detects a short to open moment and therefore leaving it shorted will not cause any problems May require one or two pushes depending on the position of the switch Wake up can be controlled by settings in the BIOS but the keyboard will always allow wake up the SMI lead cannot wake up the system If you want to use this connector Suspend Switch in the Power Management Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE section should be on the default setting of Enable ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch PWR SW The system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead Pushing the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Push ing the switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds will turn the system off The system power LED shows the status of the system s power Reset Switch Lead RESET This 2 pin connector connects to the case mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without having to turn off your power switch This is a preferred method of rebooting in order to prolong the life of the system s power supply Keyboard Lock Switch Lead amp System Power LED PWR LED KEYLOCK This 5 pin connector conn
12. see a map of your used and free IRQs For Windows 95 users the Control Panel icon in My Computer contains a System icon which gives you a Device Manager tab Double clicking on a specific device give you Resources tab which shows the Interrupt number and address Make sure that no two devices use the same IRQs or your computer will experience problems when those two devices are in use at the same time ASUS TX97 X User s Manual II INSTALLATION To simplify this process this motherboard has complied with the Plug and Play PNP specification which was developed to allow automatic system configuration when ever a PNP compliant card is added to the system For PNP cards IRQs are as signed automatically from those available If the system has both Legacy and PNP ISA cards installed IRQs are assigned to PNP cards from those not used by Legacy cards The PCI and PNP configuration of the BIOS setup utility can be used to indicate which IRQs are being used by Legacy cards For older Legacy cards that does not work with the BIOS you can contact your vendor for an ISA Configuration Utility An IRQ number is automatically assigned to PCI expansion cards after those used by Legacy and PNP ISA cards In the PCI bus design the BIOS automatically assigns an IRQ to a PCI slot that has a card in it that requires an IRQ To install a PCI card you need to set something called the INT interrupt assignment Since all the PCI slots on this m
13. system fans are malfunctioning the system will deactivate the CPU Clock line to decrease CPU utilization to the speed upon detection of system overheat This will prevent CPU damage from system overheat The CPU utilization will restore normal operations when tem perature falls below a safe level Auto Fan Off The system fans will power off automatically even in sleep mode This function reduces both energy consumption and system noise and is a important feature to implement silent PC systems Dual Function Power Button requires ATX power supply The system can be in one of two states one is Sleep mode and the other is the Soft Off mode Pushing the power button for less than 4 seconds places the system into Sleep mode When the power button is pressed for more than 4 seconds it enters the Soft Off mode Remote Ring On requires ATX power supply This allows a computer to be turned on remotely through a modem With this benefit on hand any user can access vital information from their computer from anywhere in the world Message LED Chassis LEDs now act as information providers Through the way a particular LED illuminates the user can determine the stage the computer is in A simple glimpse provides useful information to the user ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual ll FEATURES Parts of the ASUS TX97 XE Motherboard 4 SIMM 2 DIMM CPU ZIF CPU Thermal 512KB Pipelined eo Sockets Socket Sensor Burst L2 Cache e Ea y DS PA
14. the address assignments The PC can support up to three parallel ports as long as there are no conflicts for each port Parallel Port Mode ECP EPP This field allows you to set the operation mode of the parallel port The setting Normal allows normal speed operation but in one direction only EPP allows bidi rectional parallel port operation at maximum speed ECP allows the parallel port to operate in bidirectional mode and at a speed faster than the maximum data transfer rate ECP EPP allows normal speed operation in a two way mode ECP DMA Select 3 This selection is available only if you select ECP or ECP EPP in the Parallel Port Mode Select either DMA Channel 3 or Disable UART2 Use Infrared Disabled When enabled this field activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second serial UART to support the infrared module connector on the motherboard If your system already has a second serial port connected to the onboard COM2 connector it will no longer work if you enable the infrared feature By default this field is set to Disabled which leaves the second serial port UART to support the COM2 serial port connector See section III of the baseboard manual for the IrDA compliant infrared module connector Onboard PCI IDE Enable Both You can select to enable the Primary IDE channel Secondary IDE channel Both or Disable both channels for systems with only SCSI drives IDE Ultra DMA Mode Auto This sets the IDE
15. with I O subsystems e Multi Processor Multi Speed Support Intel Pentium 75 200MHz P55C MMX P54C P54CS Cyrix P166 Rev 2 7 amp later AMD K5 PR75 133MHz AMD K6 PR200 233MHz e Versatile Memory Support Is equipped with two DIMM sockets to support 8 128MB 168 pin 3 3Volt SDRAM EDO memory modules up to 256MB Is also equipped with four SIMM sockets to support 4 64MB 72 pin Fast Page Mode FPM or Extended Data Out EDO memory modules up to 256MB SIMMs and DIMMs cannot be used at the same time e Easy Installation Is equipped with BIOS that supports auto detection of hard drives PS 2 mouse and Plug and Play devices to make setup of hard drives expansion cards and other devices virtually automatic e ISA amp PCI Expansion Provides four 16 bit ISA and four 32 bit PCI slots e Super Multi I O Provides two high speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities UART2 can also be directed from COM to the Infrared Module for wireless connections Two floppy drives of either 5 25 or 3 5 1 44MB or 2 88MB are also supported without an exter nal card Supports Japanese standard Floppy 3 mode 3 5 1 2MB Desktop Management Interface DMI Supports DMI through BIOS which allows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of compatibility Requires DMI enabled components See section V e PCI Bus Master IDE Controller Comes with an onboar
16. you change your system hardware configuration you will need to respecify the configuration values The configuration values usually get lost or corrupted when the power of the onboard CMOS battery weakens HOM PCIVISH BIOS IK97 K STANDARD CHOS SETUP AURA SOFTWARE IHE Date femidd yyul Tho Aor Li Tome Ghh eeiss 20 s HET ISES YE Sat CH S Hee FEAHJIHF 1 HHU SELIOW WHH Primary Haster Han IL T i il pe Ary Las H X tepma Haa ter i Secondary Slave Honi p H Lie ate H Hari Ch dale B Hami mise Homori car J Kode Support kamal Fetended Hemory Other Hesoru hotel Hear fis lt Select I Shai ftQF2 Change Color The above screen provides you with a list of options At the bottom of this screen are the control keys for use on this screen Take note of these keys and their respec tive uses User configurable fields appear in a different color If you need information on the selected field press the lt F1 gt key The help menu will then appear to provide you with the information you need The memory display at the lower right hand side of the screen is read only and automatically adjusts accordingly ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE Details of Standard CMOS Setup Date To 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 Valid values for month day and year are Month 1 to 12 D
17. 2 PS2MOUSE p 26 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin Female 3 PRINTER p 27 Parallel Printer Port Connector 25 pin Female 4 COMI COM2 p 27 Serial Port COM amp COM2 Two 9 pin Female 5 AUDIO optional p 27 Audio Port Line Out Line In Mic Three 1 8 Female 6 GAME optional p 28 Joystick Midi Connector 15 pin Female 7 USB p 28 Universal Serial BUS Ports 1 amp 2 Two 4 pin Female 8 FLOPPY p 28 Floppy Drive Connector 34 pin Block 9 FANPWRI 2 3 p 29 1 Chassis 2 CPU 3 Power Supply Fan Power Lead 3 pin Block 10 CHASSIS p 29 Chassis Open Alarm Lead 3 pin Block 11 Primary Second IDE p 30 Primary Secondary IDE Connector 40 pin Blocks 12 IDELED p 30 IDE LED Activity Light 13 MSG LED PANEL p 31 System Message LED 2 pins 14 SMI PANEL p 31 SMI Switch Lead 2 pins 15 PWR SW CONI p 31 ATX Power amp Soft Off Switch Lead 2 pins 16 RESET PANEL p 31 Reset Switch Lead 2 pins 17 KEYLOCK PANEL p 31 Keyboard Lock Switch Lead 5 pins 18 SPEAKER PANEL p 31 Speaker Output Connector 4 pins 19 IR p 32 Infrared Port Module Connector 20 ATXPWR p 32 ATX Motherboard Power Connector 20 pin Block ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 13 14 II INSTALLATION Installation Steps Before using your computer you must complete the following steps Set Jumpers on the Motherboard Install DRAM Modules Install the Central Processing Unit CPU Install Expansion Cards Connect R
18. 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 Intel Pentium 133MHz 2 0x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 Intel Pentium 120MHz 2 0x 60MHz 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 Intel Pentium 1OOMHz 1 5x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 Intel Pentium 90MHz 1 5x 60MHz 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 Intel Pentium 75MHz Peay SOMHz 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 AMD K6 PR233 233MHz 3 5x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 AMD K6 PR200 200MHz 3 0x 66MHz 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 AMD K6 PR166 166MHz 2 5x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 AMD K5 PR133 1OOMHz 1 5x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 AMD K5 PR120 90MHz 1 5x 60MHz 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 AMD K5 PR100 100MHz 1 5x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 AMD K5 PR90 90MHz 1 5x 60MHz 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 AMD K5 PR75 75MHz 1 5x SOMHz 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 Cyrix 166 133MHz 2 0x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 NOTE Only Cyrix Rev 2 7 or later is supported on this motherboard See next page for revision identifi cation Bootup screen will show 6x86 P166 with the Cyrix 166 installed on this motherboard ASUS TX97 X User s Manual III INSTALLATION Compatible Cyrix CPU Identification ee labeled Cyrix 6x86 P166 but must be Revision 2 7 and later FE The only Cyrix CPU that is supported on this motherboardis BE Look on the underside of the CPU for the serial number The EF mann a number should read G8DC6620A or larger 8 Voltage Regulator Output Selection VIDO 1 2 These j
19. 4MB 128MB x1 Rows 2 amp 3 168 pin SDRAM or EDO DIMM SIMM Sockets must be empty Total System Memory Max 256MB ef ASUS TX97 X User s Manual II INSTALLATION SIMM Memory Installation 1 The SIMM memory modules will only fit in one orientation as shown because of a Plastic Safety Tab on one end of the SIMM sockets which requires the Notched End of the SIMM memory modules Z O I n O be D Q m gt O 72 Pin SIMM Sockets 2 Press the memory module firmly into place starting from a 45 degree angle making sure that all the contacts are aligned with the socket System Menory 3 With your finger tips rock the memory module into a vertical position so that it clicks into place 72 Pin DRAM In SIMM socket Metal Clip _ This Side Plastic Safety Tab Only Mounting Hole l 4 The plastic guides should go through the two Mounting Holes on the sides and the Metal Clips should snap on the other side 5 To release the memory module squeeze both Metal Clips outwards and rock the module out of the Metal Clips ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 21 III INSTALLATION DIMM Memory Installation Procedures Insert the module s as shown Because the number of pins are different on either side of the breaks the module will only fit in the orientation as shown DRAM SIMM modules have the same pin contact on both sides SDRAM DIMM modules have differ
20. 5 diskette This is normally disabled but you may choose from either Drive A Drive B Both and Disabled Video EGA VGA Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system The options are EGA VGA Mono for Hercules or MDA CGA 40 and CGA 80 If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card choose the EGA VGA option Halt On All Errors This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt Choose from All Errors No Errors All But Keyboard All But Diskette and All But Disk Key ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 41 8 a gt Standard CMOS lt p B 42 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 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 default settings HOH PLIES ESA Bl T E RE HS FEATURES TL AWAD Sf WARE INC T iru e ar Bi eels eed Tids BIH AIS Shadow enn nal r ache wits e Sa CA hados ch able Pi CI Shadow ick Power Li ohhh Shi icin HOO 3 ret sein TER GIS Le nE F iral W hit Shadan ep IENDE R BN DA Shador of Floppy Seek Misal i Shadow gen Usk Hotes Lanti al Hawk Kudu hee lars i Een a k TE V in Sars be i aE Mouse Fang tio on Control Auta waotic Bate Setti a We Ai i Aletha Snoop FL e
21. AX Disabled 2 4 8 16 and 32 Security Option System This field determines when the system prompts for the password The default set ting is System where the system prompts for the User Password every time you boot up The other option is Setup where the system always boots up and prompts for the Supervisor Password only when the Setup utility 1s called up You can specify a password by using the Supervisor Password or User Password option from the main screen as explained later in this section PS 2 Mouse Function Control Auto The default of Auto allows the system to detect a PS 2 Mouse on bootup If de tected IRQ12 will be used for the PS 2 Mouse IRQ12 will be reserved for expan sion cards if a PS 2 Mouse is not detected Disabled will reserve IRQ12 for expan sion cards and therefore the PS 2 Mouse will not function ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 43 dd IV BIOS SOFTWARE PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled This function controls how VGA compatible and graphic devices handle accesses to VGA palette registers The active VGA device always responds to a read of color palette wihile either the VGA or graphic agent will be programmed to respond to write transactions to the color palette and the other will be to snoop it Some display cards that are nonstandard VGA such as graphics accelerators or MPEG Video Cards may not show colors properly The setting Enabled should correct this problem Otherwise leave this on th
22. C RAM RTCLR Operation 1 2 Default Clear Data 2 3 momentarily RTCLR RTCLR Battery Test Operation Default Clear Data EU age e 2 RTC RAM Operation Clear Data ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 17 18 II INSTALLATION 6 CPU External BUS Frequency Selection FSO FS1 FS2 These jumpers tell the clock generator what frequency to send to the CPU These allow the selection of the CPU s External frequency or BUS Clock The BUS Clock times the BUS Ratio equals the CPU s nternal frequency the advertised CPU speed 7 CPU to BUS Frequency Ratio BFO BF1 These jumpers set the frequency ratio between the Internal frequency of the CPU and the External frequency called the BUS Clock within the CPU These must be set together with the above jumpers CPU External BUS Frequency Selection cod TT TT MW 41 2 3 66MHz 4 2 3 3 1 2 5x 5 2 3 0x 1 2 5x 5 2 3 0x en 1 1 0x 1 1 4 Dn Complete Names i P54C K5 gt 1 5x 3 2 2 0 ae rA PA E P55C K6 M2 gt 3 5X 7 2 2 0 Cyrix M1 M2 Cyrix M1 gt 3 0x 3 1 2 0 CPU BUS Frequency Ratio Set the jumpers by the Internal speed of the Intel AMD or Cyrix CPU as follows BUS Freq Freq Ratio CPU Model Freq Ratio BUS Freq FS2 FSI FSO BFI BFO Intel Pentium 200MHz 3 0x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 Intel Pentium 166MHz 2 5x 66MHz 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 Intel Pentium ISOMHz 2 5x 60MHz 2 3
23. GmbH Marketing Info Address Harkort Str 25 40880 Ratingen BRD Germany Telephone 49 2102 445011 Fax 49 2102 442066 Email info ger asus com tw Technical Support BBS 49 2102 448690 Email tsd ger asus com tw ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual CONTENTS I INTRODUCTION eesseeesssecssseeseccccscccsseccsseccsseccsceccseccssecessseosseecsseeo 7 How this manualis OT FAN CO orcas ete anna AA 7 CTA Ci CII SG E TEE A A 7 M EFLA TORD oae EEE Features of the ASUS TX97 XE Motherboard ee 8 Introduction to ASUS TX97 Series of motherboards 9 Parts of the ASUS TX97 XE Motherboard 11 HI INSTALLATION seesseesseesseesssesssocssocsseosseosseosseosseosseosssessseosso 12 Map of the ASUS Motherboard meneran 12 PTS ONS P orere EEEE E EEE EE 14 Le PUNO C1 oeae E E A E E 14 TACT AA P E E E 15 Compatible Cyrix CPU Identification 19 2 System Memory SIMM amp DIMM ena 20 SIMM Memory Installation esen 21 DIMM Memory Installation Procedures 22 3 Central Processing Unit CPU emas 2 da GU aaa ESE 24 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 24 Assigning IRQs for Expansion CardsS 24 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 25 5 External CoOnnectors mina aaa
24. Hold components by the edges and try not to touch the IC chips leads or circuitry Use a grounded wrist strap before handling computer components Place components on a grounded antistatic pad or on the bag that came with the component whenever the components are separated from the system ASUS TX97 X User s Manual II INSTALLATION Jumper Settings 1 Onboard Multi I O Selection M IO You can selectively disable each onboard Multi I O item floppy serial paral lel and IrDA through Chipset Features Setup of BIOS SOFTWARE or dis able all Multi I O items at once with the following jumper in order to use your own Multi I O card Multi 1 O MAIO Enable 1 2 Default Disable 2 3 M IO M IO 1 1 2 2 3 p Enable Default Disabled Multi 1 O Setting Enable Disable 2 Flash ROM Boot Block Programming BBLKW This sets the operation mode of the boot block area of the Programmable Flash ROM to allow programming in the Enabled position This is required only if prompted by the Flash Memory Writer Utility as shown in BIOS SOFTWARE Programming BBLKW Disabled Protect 1 2 Default Enabled 2 3 BBLKW BBLKW B 3 3 Disabled Protected Enabled Default Boot Block Programming Disable Enable ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 15 J UTpers Il INSTALLATION 3 Onboard Audio Selection AUDIO with optional onboard Audio This jumper allows you to Disable the onboard audio chipset inorde
25. N ra ess B PS 2 Keyboard ee bie tE SANA INA AN T USB Port 1 B USB Port 2 3 coMl1 _ _ _ i le r Ie T Parallel Conn a p enei LJ l n con E Intel s 430TX PClset Optional T oystick M idi B Out In Mic Optional 3D Sound as 4 PCI Slots prum m wnn agi Pomme inlay TA Optional Creative iiaii M ae Ma a Labs Audio KARAK Eee PERAI i EEL TET TEST a kekk ee piii EEEL a L AR Gi barnai g i Eion eens eee IE III PAPA PEPE PEEP AAA AAA Boe 4 ISA Slots Hardware Programmable Monitor Flash ROM ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 11 II INSTALLATION Map of the ASUS Motherboard E T Mouse cos B Keyboard Board Power Input OPU Voltage for ATX Power Supply vibo oll oll ol all i as E Z Z ee SI E HPP Syl It T USB 1 CN PI M1 Olliglla 5 pepe E E L aT NIIAJ Oo eo Si m SAN l mo gt Le 2 Gol lt lt p ll l O Hs Besi 3 x O a Ol Dl oy ott N O wy ay i i BUS FREQ g z ESEA mE O O S B B 27 m a BFi 2 A JEEN EA GiGi D 3 3 3113 2 v ol oO Q N 22 2 22 5 a SISI Sis m A Eeee 3 3 lt Te TT ql HB UB Q O I N Sg CPU ZIF Socket 7 D Intel 4301TX Sony CD audio in same Mitsumi CD audio in fm m m m ajajana oc Creative Modem Panasonic Connector CD audio in 3D Sound Multi I O En Dis p so PClset Row BUS FREQ am aj F50 FS1 FS2 Floppy Drives Se
26. S RAM in section III for procedures on clearing the CMOS ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 53 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 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 ROM PCI ISA BIOS TX97 XE_ CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE INC HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE Primary Master Select Primary Master Option N Skip N OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE 849 823 32 0 1646 63 LBA 849 1647 16 65535 1646 63 NORMAL 849 823 32 65535 1646 63 LARGE Note Some OSes like SCO UNIX must use NORMAL for installation ESC Skip This screen could not be run from inside active programs and therefore could not be captured Up to four IDE drives can be detected with parameters for each listed inside the box To accept the optimal entries press the lt Y gt key or else select from the num bers displayed under the OPTIONS field 2 1 3 in this case to skip to the next drive press the lt N gt key If you accept the values the parameters will appear listed beside the drive letter on the screen The process then proceeds to the next drive letter Pressing the lt N gt key to skip rather than to accept a set of parameters causes the program to enter zeros after that drive letter Remember that if you are using another IDE controller that does not featur
27. Setup the CMOS SETUP UTILITY main program screen will appear with the following options ROH PCIYTSA ETIS TKS 7 KE_ Cae SETUP UTILITY EAT a D a a STAHDARO CHOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSHORD BIUS HHHIIRES SETUP HE FHSSHUKI CHIFSET FEATURES SETUP mE Hi0 AUTO DETECTIOH FAURE HIHIGFHEHT SETIP vt S amp S EKL SETUP PHF AMD PCI SETUP EWIT WITHOUT SAVING a HIS ERNUL TS 10 SETUP DEFAULTS Et ATER i i salai tor Fam aus Esil Setup Saari lee Change Calar ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 37 l lt R f d 38 IV BIOS SOFTWARE Load Defaults The Load BIOS Defaults option loads the minimized settings for troubleshooting 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 displays the control keys for this screen Take note of these keys and their respective uses Another section just below the control keys section displays information on the currently highlighted item in the list Standard CMOS Setup This Standard CMOS Setup option allows you to record some basic system hard ware configuration and set the system clock and error handling If the motherboard is already installed in a working system you will not need to select this option anymore However if the configuration stored in the CMOS memory on the board gets lost or damaged or if
28. UltraDMA to be active when using UltraDMA capable IDE de vices The BIOS will automatically adjust or disable this setting for slower IDE devices so that Auto or high settings will not cause problems for older IDE devices Choose Disable if you do not want this feature for all devices IDE 0 Master Slave PIO DMA Mode IDE 1 Master Slave PIO DMA Mode Auto Each channel 0 and 1 has both a master and a slave making four IDE devices possible Because each IDE device may have a different Mode timing 0 1 2 3 4 it is necessary for these to be independent PIO and DMA timings can be indepen dently set The default setting of Auto will allow auto detection to ensure optimal performance ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 47 d U IV BIOS SOFTWARE Power Management Setup This Power Management Setup option allows you to reduce power consumption This feature turns off the video display and shuts down the hard disk after a period of inactivity R WER MANAGEMENT SE TUF MAD SOF CWE THU DH PCIVTSA BGS TR9T7 HE_ P ji r Hanaoeeeni User e Fine Thermal Honitor F oo DFF Option i zm St 7 OFT GU Teaperatura SAC ie 4 aes ter PHS FI Be leeperialiire Hid i lhon i Ei ig lo i Modem Hct able za Voltage aran Pye start lisabled WLLES ii lage Ia ru isers i p 7 9 7 i L2 g T n zHenl Hide k Fan ont tor an ER ih ee z re eed UA l Help 7 PL JORARPH FS ild Values Shift Fa gt Oy ine
29. Z W X9 XE Pentium ATX Motherboard USER S MANUAL USER S NOTICE 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 permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC hereinafter referred to as ASUS except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes Specifications are subject to change without notice 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 of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose In no event shall ASUS be liable for any loss or profits loss of business loss of use or data interruption of business or for indirect special inci dental or consequential damages of any kind even if ASUS has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product ASUS may revise this manual from time to time without notice Products mentioned in this manual are mentioned for identification purposes only Product names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies e Intel LanDesk and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation e Symbios is a registered trademark of Symbios Logic Corporation Windows and MS DOS are registered
30. ager LDCM emas 56 Desktop Management Interface DMI aaa 58 Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 58 System I COE MEDISPA KERANA A 58 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 59 No A EA A 59 VI ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI Card sscssssssssssssscnsnsnnssccessssssssesssnns 61 SESEBIOS and PIV CTS pin AAA EEEn 61 The ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI Interface Card a 62 Setting Up the ASUS PCI SC200 wi sescscascsnvmvanenerenncenstecenneene 62 Setting the INT Assignment erra aaa 63 DCMT or SONES an nn AAA AAA 63 BCT TD NIA a EEEE 64 The Following Sections are Available with Optional Audio Only Creative Labs VIBRA 16C Series ccccccccccscsccccccccccccccccccccccccces 1 Audio Drivers Installation ccccccccccscsccscccccccccccccccccccccccccccccscece 3 Manual Information ccccccceccccececcccccececcccecescececesuscecususees 3 ASUS Installation CD 0 0 0 0 ccc cece cc cccccececccccceccccccecscscecusesees 3 ASUS Audio Driver CD Contents cece ccc eccccececeeceeees 3 Win95 Audio Drivers seseseseseseoeseseoeseococococosocososoceseseseseceseseseoeseoeseoeoe 4 3D SOUND DEPE 5 Win3 x Audio Drivers seseseseseococococococccecosesesosesecesescoeococococosocosesoseses 7 Configuration Manager ee nenen anas a naaa d Creative PnP Configuration Manager CTCM
31. ay 1 to 31 Year up to 2099 Time To set the time highlight the Time field and then press the page up page down or keys to set the current time Follow the hour minute and second format Valid values for hour minute and second are Hour 00 to 23 Minute 00 to 59 Second 00 to 59 You can bypass the date and time prompts by creating an AUTOEXEC BAT file For information on how to create this file please refer to the MS DOS manual Hard Disk Drives This field records the specifications for all non SCSI hard disk drives installed in your system The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices Each chan nel can support up to two hard disks the first of which is the master and the second is the slave Specifications for SCSI hard disks need not to be entered here since they operate using device drivers and are not supported by any the BIOS If you install the optional ASUS SCSI controller card into the motherboard see section VI for in structions If you install other vendor s SCSI controller card please refer to their respective documentations on how to install the required SCSI drivers To enter specifications for a hard disk drive you must select first a type You can select User and specify the specifications yourself manually or you can select from the provided predefined drive specifications To select sim
32. condary IDE Primary IDE m m VOLCTL Intel PIIX4 _ Volume Control JJ PClset PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 4 CR2032 3 Volt Lithium Cell RTC Test Clear es eee PAT FANPWRI1 Chasis open ISA Slot 2 alarm lead BBLKW m Block Program Flash ROM ISA Slot 3 for BIOS o O m 2 CG O Fo gt D lt Infrared Con IrDA Panel Connections ISA Slot 4 fea a NOTE The items in Outline are available only with the optional onboard Audio 12 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IIl INSTALLATION umpers 1 MAO p 15 Multi I O Selection Enable Disable 2 BBLKW p 15 Flash ROM Boot Block Program Disable Enable 3 AUDIO optional p 16 Onboard Audio Disable Enable 4 VOLCTL optional p 16 Digital Volume Level Control Up Down 5 RTCLR p 17 Real Time Clock RAM Operation Clear Data 6 FSO FSI FS2 p 18 CPU External Clock BUS Frequency Selection 7 BFO BFI p 18 CPU BUS Frequency Ratio p 8 VIDO VIDI VID2 19 CPU Voltage Regulator Output Selection Expansion Slots 1 System Memory p 20 System Memory Upgrade 2 SIMM Sockets p 21 72 Pin SIMM Memory Expansion Sockets 3 DIMM Sockets p 22 168 Pin DIMM Memory Expansion Sockets 4 CPU ZIF Socket 7 p 23 Central Processing Unit CPU Socket zm 5 ISA Slots p 24 16 bit ISA Bus Expansion Slots 2 D 6 PCI Slots p 24 32 bit PCI Bus Expansion Slots G Ls Connectors as 1 PS2KEYBOARD p 26 PS 2 Keyboard Connector 6 pin Female Z
33. d Uae t HEDYN na ba TE Unhoard Hesoru be TET AEE amilic lala Haac Setup Defaul Load Satin Uetawl ts A section at the lower right of the screen displays the control keys you can use Take note of these keys and their respective uses If you need information on a particular entry highlight it and then press the lt F1 gt key A pop up help menu will appear to provide you with the information you need To load the last set values press the lt F5 gt key lt F6 gt and lt F7 gt load the BIOS default values and Setup default values respectively NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Details of BIOS Features Setup Virus Warning Disabled This field protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk against acci dental modifications Any attempt to write to them will cause the system to halt and display a warning message If this occurs you can either allow the operation to continue or use a bootable virus free floppy disk to reboot and investigate your system This setting is recommended because conflicts with new operating sys tems Installation of new operating systems require that you disable this to prevent write errors External Cache Enabled These fields allow you to Enable or Disable the CPU s Level 2 secondary cache Caching allows better performance ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE Quick Power On Self Test Enabled This field speeds u
34. d Ultra DMA 33 Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels up to 33MB sec IDE transfers and supports Enhanced IDE de vices This controller supports PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2 BIOS now supports IDE CD ROM or SCSI bootup e Level 2 Cache 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAM onboard e Optional PS 2 Mouse USB IrDA Connector Supports an optional cable and bracket set to mount the connectors to an unused expansion slot on the system chassis A second IrDA connector 1s available for a standard individual infrared cable set e NCR SCSI BIOS Has firmware to support optional ASUS SCSI controller cards Optional Audio Optional onboard Creative Labs Audio with 3D sound e Optional IrDA Connector This motherboard supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual ll FEATURES Introduction to ASUS TX97 Series of motherboards Performance SDRAM Optimized Performance ASUS TX97 series of motherboards sup port the new generation memory Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory SDRAM which increases the data transfer rate from 264MB s max using EDO memory to 528MB s max Double the IDE Transfer Speed ASUS TX97 series of motherboards with Intel 430TX PCIset improves IDE transfer rate using Bus Master UltraDMA 33 IDE which can handle data transfer up to 33MB s The best of all is that this new technology is compatible wi
35. ds 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 default the system comes without any passwords To specify a password highlight the type you want and then press the lt Enter gt key A password prompt appears on the screen Taking note that the password is case sensitive and can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters long type in your password and then press the lt Enter gt key The system confirms your password by asking you to type it again After setting a password the screen automatically reverts to the main screen AOH PCE Tse RIGS TH97 HE_ CHUS SEIF LTY AUS SE IOF L HHU SOF IWER IHI STANDARD CHOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSHORD BOS HHTURES SETUP EE FHSSHURKIU CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP Ice HO AUTO DETECTIOW ind HHHHGEAHEHI SETUP SME amp ERIT SETUP PoP AWD PCI SETUP FEIT WITHOUT SAVIKE an BIOS DEFIULTS Enter Pagar d SETUP DEFAULTS thii i E Salact Itam ii fave Esil Setup LH Change Calar To implement the password protection specify in the Security Option field of the BIOS Features Setup screen when the system will prompt for the password If you want to disable either password press the lt Enter gt key instead of entering a new password when the Enter Password prompt appears A message confirms the password has been disabled NOTE If you forget the password see CMO
36. e En hanced IDE support for four devices you can only install two IDE hard disk drives Your IDE controller must support the Enhanced IDE features in order to use Drive E and Drive F The onboard PCI IDE controller supports Enhanced IDE with two connectors for connecting up to four IDE devices If you want to use another con troller that supports four drives you must disable the onboard IDE controller in the Chipset Features Setup screen When auto detection is completed the program automatically enters all entries you accepted on the field for that drive in the Standard CMOS Setup screen Skipped entries are ignored and are not entered in the screen If you are auto detecting a hard disk that supports the LBA mode three lines will appear in the parameter box Choose the line that lists LBA for an LBA drive Do not select Large or Normal The auto detection feature can only detect one set of parameters for a particular IDE hard drive Some IDE drives can use more than one set This 1s not a problem if the drive is new and there is nothing on it 54 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE IMPORTANT If your hard drive was already formatted on an older previous system incorrect parameters may be detected You will need to enter the cor rect parameters manually or use low level format if you do not need the data stored on the hard drive If the parameters listed differ from the ones used when the drive was formatted the driv
37. e bridge address with the Local software installed The administrator should install both Local and Administrator Software Adobe Acrobat Reader Installs the Adobe Acrobat Reader software necessary to view the LDCM manual LDCM_30 PDF in the LDCM directory DMI Configuration Runs requires Real Mode DOS Box the DMI Configuration utility as described at the end of section V PFLASH Runs requires Real Mode DOS Box the Flash Memory Writer utility as described at the beginning of section IV BusMaster Installs Intel BusMaster IDE drivers Browse this CD Allows you to see the contents of the ASUS support CD Technical Support Form View the Technical Support Form with Notepad Read Me View additional notes with Notepad Exit Exit the installation screen LANDesk Client Manager LDCM Use Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the LDCM manual on the ASUS support CD LDCM Administrator Setup Installs software to monitor PC systems on the net work within the same bridge address with Local software installed The admin istrator should install both Local and Administrator Software i Z LDCM Local Setup Installs software to monitor the local system Express Setup Recommended Settings can be auto detected or changed 56 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual V SUPPORT SOFTWARE Custom Setup For Experienced Users 1 Choose File New from the pull down menu of the Untitled screen Type in a system name 2 Make the ap
38. e setup default setting of Disabled OS 2 Onboard Memory gt 64M Disabled When using OS 2 operating systems with installed DRAM of greater than 64MB you need to Enable this option otherwise leave this on the setup default of Disabled Video ROM BIOS Shadow Enabled This field allows you to change the video BIOS location from ROM to RAM Relo cating to RAM enhances system performance as information access is faster than the ROM C8000 CBFFF to DC000 DFFFF Disabled These fields are used for shadowing other expansion card ROMs If you install other expansion cards with ROMs on them you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640KB and 1024KB by the amount used for this purpose Boot Up NumLock Status On This field enables users to activate the Number Lock function upon system boot Otherwise choose Off Boot Up System Speed High This has no function and should be left on the setup default Typematic Rate Setting Disabled When Enabled you can set the two typematic controls listed next Setup default setting is Disabled Typematic Rate Chars Sec This field controls the speed at which the system registers repeated keystrokes Options range from 6 to 30 characters per second Setup default setting is 6 other settings are 8 10 12 15 20 24 and 30 Typematic Delay Msec 250 This field sets the time interval for displaying the
39. e will not be readable If the auto detected parameters do not match the ones that should be used for your drive do not accept them Press the lt N gt key to reject the presented settings and enter the correct ones manually from the Standard CMOS Setup screen save and Exit Setup Select this option to save into the CMOS memory all modifications you specify during the current session To save the configuration changes highlight the Save amp Exit Setup option on the main screen and then press the lt Enter gt key HOM PCL ISA BIOS TKoT KE_ CMOS SETUP UTILITY PAA SOF TARE SAVE to CHIS and EXIT VMI E t hini 4 r Salai Itam Fin Save amp Exit Setup Loa File Change Colar l EUT ing 8 a gt Save amp Exp Exit Without Saving Select this option to exit the Setup utility without saving the modifications you specify during the current session To exit without saving highlight the Exit Without Sav ing option on the main screen and then press the lt Enter gt key ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 55 V SUPPORT SOFTWARE ASUS TX97 Motherboard Series Support CD Rev 3 00 Run INSTALL EXE in the root directory of this CD for the following options LDCM Local Setup Installs software to monitor the local system The LANDesk Client Manager must be installed in order to use the hardware manager features LDCM Administrator Setup Installs software to monitor PC systems on the net work within the sam
40. eave on default or check with your vendor for DIMM specs SDRAM Speculative Read Disabled If Enabled the CPU will issue predict commands to access the DRAM if a miss occurs the CPU will cancel this command Some operating systems under certain situations have a problem utilizing this feature so it is normally Disabled Passive Release Enabled This is a mechanism that allows concurrency of ISA EISA cycles and CPU to PCI cycles When this feature is enabled the TXC will be possible to re arbitrate PCI bus and allow the CPU to access PCI even when the PCEB has been granted the bus ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 45 Q n 46 IV BIOS SOFTWARE Delayed Transaction Disabled If Enabled this frees the PCI Bus during CPU accessing of 8 bit ISA cards which normally consume about 50 60 PCI Clocks without PCI delayed transaction If PCI Bus Masters cannot use the PCI Bus leave this on the default setting of Disabled for some ISA cards that are not PCI 2 1 compliant 16 bit I O Recovery Time 1 BUSCLK Timing for 16 bit ISA cards 8 bit I O Recovery Time 1 BUSCLK Timing for 8 bit ISA cards Video BIOS Cacheable Enabled Allows the Video BIOS to be cached to allow faster execution Leave on default setting of Enabled for better performance otherwise Disabled Memory Hole at Address None This features reserves either I4MB 16MB or 15MB I6MB memory address space to ISA expansion cards that specifically require this settin
41. ects to the case mounted keyboard lock switch for locking the keyboard and also to connect the system power LED The system power LED lights when the system 1s powered on and blinks in sleep mode Speaker Connector SPEAKER This 4 pin connector connects to the case mounted speaker Connectors TY FA System SV te No 4 Power LED ae Keyboard Lock bo n ale 5 fa m GN Speaker fa cnND Connector ba te SPKR System Panel Connections ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 31 II INSTALLATION 19 IrDA Fast IR Compliant infrared module connector IR This connector supports the optional wireless transmitting and receiving infra red module This module mounts to a small opening on system cases that sup port this feature You must also configure the setting through UART2 Use Infrared in Chipset Features Setup to select whether UART2 is directed for use with COM2 or IrDA Use the five pins as shown on the Back View and connect a ribbon cable from the module to the motherboard according to the pin definitions For the infrared feature to be available Infrared Module Connector you must connect an optional Infrared IrDA module to the motherboard 20 ATX Power Supply Connector 20 pin block This connector connects to a ATX power supply The plug from the power supply will only insert in one orientation because of the different hole sizes Find the proper orientation and push down firmly making sure that the
42. ed through the Line Out Mic allows microphones to be connected for inputing voice Line Out Line In Mic 1 8 Stereo Audio Connectors ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 27 Hl INSTALLATION 6 Joystick Midi Connector 15 pin Female with optional onboard Audio You may connect game joysticks or game pads to this connector for playing games Connect Midi devices for playing or editing audio Joystick Midi 15 pin Female e 7 Universal Serial BUS Ports 1 amp 2 Two 4 pin Female Sockets Two USB ports are available for connecting USB devices Univeral Serial Bus USB 2 8 Floppy drive connector 34 pin block This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable After connect ing the single end to the board connect the two plugs on the other end to the floppy drives Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orienta tion when using ribbon cables with pin 5 plugged NOTE Connect the Red stripe to Pin 1 Floppy Drive Connector Pin 1 ered ely eyo Ia A a Floppy Drive Connector 28 ASUS TX97 X User s Manual III INSTALLATION 9 Chassis Fan CPU Cooling Fan amp Power Supply Fan Connectors FANPWR These connectors support cooling fans of 500mAMP 6WATT or less Orien tate the fans so that the heat sink fins allow airflow to go across the onboard heat sink s instead of the expansion slots Depending on the fan manufacturer the wiring and
43. energy and if not installed and used in accordance with manufacturer s instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures e Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna e Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver e Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected e Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help WARNING The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card 1s required to assure compliance with FCC regulations Changes or modifica tions to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Canadian Department of Communications Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Cana dian Department of Communications ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual I INTRODUCTION How this manual is organized This manual is divided into the following sections IL Introducti
44. ent pint contact on each side and therefore have a higher pin density 168 Pin DIMM Memory Sockets The Dual Inline Memory Module DIMM memory modules must be 3 3 Volt Un buffered Synchronous DRAM SDRAM or Extended Data Output EDO You can identify the type of DIMM module by the illustration below a IL IL DRAM Key Position Voltage Key Position if ial RFU L Unbuffered 5 0V Reserved Buffered 3 3V 168 PIN DRAM DIMM Notch Key Definitions The notch on the DIMM module will shift between left center or right to identify the type and also to prevent the wrong type to be inserted into the DIMM slot on the motherboard You must ask your retailer for the specifications before purchasing Four clock signals are supported on this motherboard 22 ASUS TX97 X User s Manual Il INSTALLATION 3 Central Processing Unit CPU The motherboard provides a 321 pin ZIF Socket 7 that 1s backwards compatible with ZIF Socket 5 processors The CPU that came with the motherboard should have a fan attached to it to prevent overheating If this is not the case then purchase a fan before you turn on your system Apply thermal jelly to the CPU top and then install the fan onto the CPU WARNING Without a fan circulating air on the CPU and heat sinks the CPU and or heat sinks can overheat and cause damage to both the CPU and the motherboard See CPU Cooling Fan Connector at the end of this section To install a CPU first tur
45. ere is a heat sensor under the CPU and on the motherboard itself to monitor CPU and system temperature to make sure the system 1s operating at a safe heat level to avoid any failures triggered by extremely high temperature ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 9 10 Il FEATURES Voltage Monitoring and Alert System voltage levels are monitored to ensure stable current to critical motherboard components Voltage specifications are more critical for future processors so monitoring 1s necessary to ensure proper system configuration and management System Resources Alert Today s operating systems such as Windows 95 Win dows NT and OS 2 require much more memory and hard drive space to present enormous user interfaces and run large applications The system resource moni tor will warn the user before the system resources are used up to prevent pos sible application crashes Suggestions will give the user information on manag ing their limited resources more efficiently Virus Write Protection Normally viruses can destroy data on storage media such as hard drivers floppy diskettes and MO Some new generation viruses will not only destroy data on storage media but also clear BIOS data which 1s usually unprotected ASUS TX97 series of motherboards were designed to co operate with BIOS chipset and flash EPROM to disable write permission when the system s initialization stage 1s completed upon boot up CPU Slow Down When CPU fans or
46. g Memory from 14MB and up or 15MB and up will be unavailable to the system because expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB Onboard FDC Controller Enabled When enabled this field allows you to connect your floppy disk drives to the on board floppy drive connector instead of a separate controller card If you want to use a different controller card to connect the floppy drives set this field to Disabled Onboard FDC Swap A amp B No Swap This field reverses the drive letter assignments of your floppy disk drives Two options are available No Swap and Swap AB If you want to switch drive letter assignments set this field to Swap AB and the swap will be controlled in hardware This works separately from the BIOS Features floppy disk swap feature Itis func tionally the same as physically interchanging the connectors of the floppy disk drives Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8H IRQ4 Settings are 3FSH IRQ4 2F8H IRO3 3ESH IRQ4 2ESH IRQ10 and Disabled for the onboard serial connector Onboard Serial Port 2 2F8H IRQ3 Settings are JFSH IRO4 2F8H IRO3 SESH IRO4 2ESH IRQ10 and Disabled for the onboard serial connector ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE Onboard Parallel Port 378H IRQ7 This field sets the address of the onboard parallel port connector You can select either 3BCH IRQ 7 3578H IRQ 7 278H IRQ 5 Disabled If you install an I O card with a parallel port ensure that there 1s no conflict in
47. ibbon Cables Cabinet Wires and Power Supply Setup the BIOS Software SS a a 1 Jumpers Several hardware settings are made through the use of jumper caps to connect Jumper pins JP on the motherboard See Map of the Motherboard on page 4 for loca tions of jumpers The jumper settings will be described numerically such as 1 2 2 3 for no connection connect pins 1 amp 2 and connect pins 2 amp 3 respec tively Pin for our motherboards is always on top Telor on the left when holding the motherboard with the keyboard connector away from yourself A 1 1s written besides pin on jumpers with three pins The jumpers will also be shown graphically such as B to connect pins 1 amp 2 and CE to connect pins 2 amp 3 Jumpers with two pins will be shown as BE for Short On and for Open Off For manufacturing simplicity the jumpers may be sharing pins from other groups Use the diagrams in this manual instead of following the pin layout on the board Settings with two jumper numbers require that both jumpers be moved to gether To connect the pins simply place a plastic jumper cap over the two pins as diagramed WARNING Computer motheboards and components contain very delicate Integrated Circuit IC chips To protect the motherboard and other compo nents against damage from static electricity you should follow some precau tions whenever you work on your computer Unplug your computer when working on the inside
48. indicates either that the displayed DMA channel is not used or an ICU is being used to determine if an ISA card is using that channel If you install a Legacy ISA card that requires a unique DMA channel and you are not using an ICU you must set the field for that channel to Yes ISA MEM Block BASE No ICU This field allows you to set the base address and block size of a Legacy ISA card that uses any memory segment within the C800 CC00 D000 D400 D800 and DCOO address range If you have such a card and you are not using an ICU to specify its address range select a base address from the six available options the ISA MEM Block SIZE field will then appear for selecting the block size If you have more than one Legacy ISA card in your system that requires to use this address range you can increase the block size to either 8K 16K 32K or 64K If you are using an ICU to accomplish this task leave ISA MEM Block BASE to its default setting of No ICU SCSI BIOS Auto The default uses Auto settings for the onboard SCSI BIOS see section VI If you wish not to use the onboard SCSI BIOS choose Disabled ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 51 U k 0 je 7 52 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 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 To load these default se
49. lable keys for each screen Press enter at the menu item to enter the right hand screen for editing Edit component appears on top The reversed color field is the current cursor position and the blue text are available for editing The orange text shows auto detected information and are not available for editing The blue text Press ENTER for detail contains a second pop up menu is available use the plus minus keys to change the settings Enter to exit and save ESC to exit and not save If the user has made changes ESC will prompt you to answer Y or N Enter Y to go back to the left hand screen and save enter N to go back to left hand screen and not save If editing has not been made ESC will send you back to the left hand menu without any messages Notes A heading BIOS Auto Detect appears on the right for each menu item on the left side that has been auto detected by the system BIOS A heading User Modified will appear on the right for menu items that has been modified by the user ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 59 3 E 3 V SUPPORT SOFTWARE Save MIFD You 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 You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here
50. le BIOS This DMI Con figuration Utility also allows the system integrator or end user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers housing configurations and ven dor information Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIFD This DMI Configuration Utility provides the same reliability as PnP updat ing and will prevent the refreshing failures associated with updating the entire BIOS System Requirements The DMI Configuration Utility DMICFG EXE must be used in real mode in order for the program to run the base memory must be at least 180K Memory managers like HIMEM SYS required by windows must not be installed You can boot up from a system diskette without AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS files REM HIMEM SYS in the CONFIG SYS or press lt F5 gt during bootup to bypass your AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS files ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual V SUPPORT SOFTWARE Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility Edit DMI or delete e aon Weil ty MIFDI io ad HIFO Lo AIDS starting Pa Sepat FMa BIOS Build Dale i 127 10 96 BIOS Characteristics Preas ENTER for detail Sire of BIOS ROM ULCHK r ERIER I Use the amp left right cursors to move the top menu items and the N up down cursor to move between the left hand menu items The bottom of the screen will show the avai
51. m is running in real mode This utility will not operate if the system is under protected mode or virtual mode You should boot from a system floppy diskette without AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS files ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 35 i lt y 36 IV BIOS SOFTWARE Managing amp Updating your Motherboard s BIOS Upon first use of the computer system l 2 X Create a bootable system floppy diskette by typing FORMAT A S from the DOS prompt without creating AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS files Copy PFLASH EXE to your new diskette Run PFLASH EXE from your new diskette and select option 1 Save Current BIOS to File Enter the Current BIOS Revision for the file name Updating BIOS procedures only when necessary IMPORTANT Flash type may be SST or INTEL If unknown is dis played after Flash type then this ROM chip is not programmable or not supported with the PnP BIOS and therefore cannot be programmed by the Flash Memory Writer l Download an updated ASUS BIOS file from the internet WWW FTP or a BBS Bulletin Board Service and save to the diskette you created above See ASUS CONTACT INFORMATION on Page II of the User s Manual for details Turn off your computer and open the system cabinet to Enable Boot Block Programming jumper as shown in section III of the User s Manual Boot from the floppy diskette you created above At the AN prompt type PFLASH and then the lt Enter g
52. n off your system and remove its cover Locate the ZIF socket and open it by first pulling the lever sideways away from the socket then upwards to a 90 degree right angle Insert the CPU with the correct orientation as shown Use the notched corner of the CPU with the white dot as your guide The white dot should point towards the end the of the lever Notice that there is a blank area where one hole is missing from that corner of the square array of pin holes and a 1 printed on the motherboard next to that corner Because the CPU has a corner pin for three of the four corners the CPU will only fit in the one orientation as shown The picture is for reference only you should have a CPU fan that will cover the face of the CPU With the added weight of the CPU fan no force is required to insert the CPU Once completely inserted hold down on the fan and close the socket s lever IMPORTANT You must set jumpers for CPU to BUS Frequency Ratio and jumpers for BUS Frequency Selection depending on the CPU that you install Lever Lock Blank White Dot ZIF Socket 7 with Pentium Processor ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 23 f j Q G 24 II INSTALLATION 4 Expansion Cards WARNING Make sure that you unplug your power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards Expansion Card Installation Procedu
53. n save the PFLASH EXE and the BIOS to the floppy diskette ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE 2 Update BIOS Main Block from File This option updates the BIOS from a file on the disk This can either be a new file or a backup file created by the Save Current BIOS to File option This will not update the Boot Block if the Boot Block is different You will be prompted with the following if advanced features if necessary Boot Block of New BIOS is different from old one Please Use Advanced Feature to flash whole bios 3 Advanced Features Selecting this option brings up the Advanced Features screen for clearing the PnP configuration record and updating the motherboard BIOS Advanced Features Menu Advanced Features Flash Type SST 29EE010 Current BIOS Revision 401A0 xxxx Choose one of the following 1 Clear PNP ESCD Parameter Block 2 Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD Enter Choice 2 Press ESC To Exit 8 in gt xxxx denotes the current BIOS version stored in the Flash EPROM Flash Menory Witer 1 Clear PNP ESCD Parameter Block This option erases the Plug and Play PnP configuration record 2 Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD This option updates the Boot Block the motherboard BIOS and the PnP ESCD Parameter Block from a new BIOS file NOTE Update BIOS Main Block from File and Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD requires that the syste
54. oard Dual Inline Memory Modules DIMM s can be used when the SIMM sockets are not used Two sockets are available for 3 3 Volt power level Unbuffered Synchro nous DRAMs SDRAM or EDO DRAM of either 8 16 32 64 or 128MB to form a memory size between 8MB to 256MB One side with memory chips of the DIMM module takes up one Row on the motherboard IMPORTANT Memory speed setup is required through Auto Configuration in BIOS Chipset Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE If both 60ns and 70ns memory are used set Auto Configuration to 70ns Do not use memory modules with more than 24 chips per module Modules with more than 24 chips exceed the design specifications of the memory subsystem and will be unstable Memory Socket SIMM Memory Module Total Memory SIMM Sockets 1 amp 2 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB x2 Rows 0 amp 1 72 pin FPM or EDO SIMM DIMM Sockets must be empty SIMM Sockets 3 amp 4 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB x2 Rows 2 amp 3 72 pin FPM or EDO SIMM DIMM Sockets must be empty Total System Memory Max 256MB WARNING Do not install both SIMMs and DIMMs at the same time or else you will burn your memory Mixing SIMMs and DIMMs require 5 0 Volt signal level tolerant memory chips which are currently unavailable Memory Socket DIMM Memory Module o Total Memory DIMM Socket 1 SMB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB x1 Rows 0 amp 1 168 pin SDRAM or EDO DIMM SIMM Sockets must be empty DIMM Socket 2 SMB 16MB 32MB 6
55. on Manual information and checklist II Features Information and specifications concerning this product IHI Installation Instructions on setting up the motherboard 3 i 9 k i IV BIOS Setup BIOS software setup information V DMI Utility BIOS supported Desktop Management Interface VI ASUS PCI SC200 Installation of an optional Fast SCSI card VII Windows 95 Audio Software Section with optional onboard Audio VIII DOS Win3 1x Audio Software Section with optional onboard Audio Item Checklist Please check that your package is complete If you discover damaged or missing items please contact your retailer NI The ASUS TX97 XE motherboard NJ 1 IDE ribbon cable NJ 1 floppy ribbon cable NI Support drivers and utilities as follows view FILELIST TXT for details e LANDesk Client Manager LDCM Software Flash Memory Writer utility to update the FLASH BIOS Desktop Management Interface DMI utility e Audio drivers and utilities with optional onboard Audio e Readme files for descriptions and use of the files Technical Support Form M This user s manual LI Optional infrared module O Optional ASUS PCI SC200 Fast SCSI card ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 7 ll FEATURES Features of the ASUS TX97 XE Motherboard The ASUS TX97 XE 1s carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants many intelligent features in a small package This motherboard Intel Chipset Features Intel s 430TX PCIset
56. only if necessary Voltage Monitor xx xV The onboard hardware monitor is able to detect the voltages put out by the voltage regulators These values refresh upon key entries Set to gnore only if necessary NOTE If any of the monitored items are out of range you will be prompted by this message Hardware Monitor found an error enter POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP for details The bottom of the screen will instruct you to Press F1 to continue DEL to enter SETUP PNP and PCI Setup This PNP and PCI Setup option configures the PCI bus slots All PCI bus slots on the system use INTA thus all installed PCI cards must be set to this value BOM PCLYTSA BIOS 1THI7 HE_ PHP AHO FCI SETUP RNI sil THHHE LAL PHP 03 Installa No DHA 1 Used hy ISA Sli it d RTG F TR io DHA J Us i fy ISA Sloat 7 LA ie UAW oo Used Hy oi 5 lot 3 IHU Aaja alot amp Ee tie fio SH HEH Block BRS P CI Latency xz FL k VHHIUS GEWE HIES amp x g D go a ii J Us d Hy id Use As i ob ai T g By 10 F Used By 1 18 Us od By LKU 11 Used Ri Liz mi ed E t In By SC iri t Help i Old Values 5 Load HIUS Leet ead ts Level Setup eet aaa fe SS SS SS SS p ag Ct ee ee ed La mi i an La D D RINI St NOTE SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading Details of PNP and PCI Setup PNP OS Installed No When Plug and Play operating systems OS are installed interrupts may be reas signed b
57. otherboard use an INTA be sure that the jumpers on your PCI cards are set to INT A Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards Some ISA cards both Legacy and PNP may also need to use a DMA Direct Memory Access channel DMA assignments for this motherboard are handled the same way as the IRQ assignment process described above You can select a DMA channel in the PCI and PNP configuration section of the BIOS Setup utility IMPORTANT Choose Yes for those IRQ s and DMA s you wish to reserve for Legacy Non PnP ISA expansion cards in IRQ xx Used By ISA and DMA x Used By ISA of the PNP and PCI Setup in the BIOS SOFTWARE section otherwise conflicts may occur ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 25 2 Connectors 26 Hl INSTALLATION 5 External Connectors WARNING Some pins are used for connectors or power sources These are clearly separated from jumpers in Map of the Motherboard Placing jumper caps over these will cause damage to your motherboard IMPORTANT Ribbon cables should always be connected with the red stripe on the Pin 1 side of the connector The four corners of the connectors are la beled on the motherboard Pin 1 is the side closest to the power connector on hard drives and floppy drives IDE ribbon cable must be less than 18in 46cm with the second drive connector no more than 6in 15cm from the first con nector 1 PS 2 Keyboard Connector 6 pin Female This connection is for a
58. p the Power On Self Test POST routine by skipping retesting a second third and forth 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 IDE When using both SCSI and IDE hard disk drives IDE is always the boot disk using drive letter C default setting of IDE This new feature allows a SCSI hard disk drive to be the boot disk when set to SCS This allows multiple operating systems to be used on both IDE and SCSI drives or the primary operating system to boot using a SCSI hard disk drive Boot Sequence C A This field determines which logical drive not partitions the system looks first for an operating system Options are A CDROM C CDROM C A D A E A BA C only A C The setup default setting is to check first the hard disk and then the floppy drive that 1s C A Boot Up Floppy Seek Disabled When enabled the BIOS will seek the floppy A drive one time Floppy Disk Access Control R W This allows protection of files from the computer system to be copied to floppy drives by allowing the setting of Read Only to only allow reads from the floppy but not writes The setup default R W allows both reads and writes IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors HDD MAX This field enhances hard disk performance by making multi sector transfers instead of one sector per transfer Most IDE drives except older versions can utilize this feature Selections are HDD M
59. pins are aligned 2 IMPORTANT Make sure that the ATX power supply can take at least 10mAmp load on the 5Volt standby lead SVSB You may experience diffi culty in powering on your system without this 12 0V o 5 0V 5VSB S T 5 0V PW OK 7 5 0V GND GND 5 0V P GND GND 7 GND 5 0V PS ON GND H GND 3 3V 7 12 0V 3 3V T 3 3V ATX Power Connector 32 ASUS TX97 X User s Manual III INSTALLATION Power Connection Procedures 1 After all jumpers and connections are made close the system case cover 2 Make sure that all switches are in the off position as marked by O 3 Connect the power supply cord into the power supply located on the back of your system case as instructed by your system user s manual 4 Connect the power cord into a power outlet that 1s equipped by a surge protector 5 You may then turn on your devices in the following order a Your monitor b External SCSI devices starting with the last device on the chain c Your system power For ATX power supplies you need to switch on the power supply as well as press the ATX power switch on the front of the case 6 The power LED on the front panel of the system case will light For ATX power supplies the system LED will light when the ATX power switch is pressed The monitor LED may light up after the system s if 1t complies with Green standards or if it has a po
60. ply press the lt Page Up gt or lt Page Down gt key to change the option listed after the drive letter ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 39 8 a gt Standard CMOS lt p B f al O 2 40 IV BIOS SOFTWARE For IDE hard disk drive setup you can e Use the Auto setting for detection during bootup e Use the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION in the main menu to automatically enter the drive specifications e Enter the specifications yourself manually by using the User option The entries for specifying the hard disk type include CYLS number of cylinders HEAD number of read write heads PRECOMP write precompensation LANDZ landing zone SECTOR number of sectors and MODE The SIZE field auto matically adjusts according to the configuration you specify The documentation that comes with your hard disk should provide you with the information regarding the drive specifications The MODE entry is for IDE hard disks only and can be ignored for MEM and ESDI drives This entry provides three options Normal Large LBA or Auto see be low Set MODE to the Normal for IDE hard disk drives smaller than 528MB set it to LBA for drives over 528MB that support Logical Block Addressing LBA to allow larger IDE hard disks set it to Large for drives over 528MB that do not sup port LBA Large type of drive can only be used with MS DOS and is very uncom mon Most IDE drives over 528MB support the LBA mode Auto detection
61. properly assign the card s interrupt On the ASUS PCI SC200 you assign the INT by setting jumper JP or JP2 The default setting for the card already is INT A so you do not need to change the setting to use the ASUS PCI SC200 with this motherboard JPJP JPJP JPJP JPJP 1 2 2 1 2 mi ea 2 fo fe 3 Gi INT A Def INT B INT C INT D Haa WW N my Bo Onm Interrupt Settings A B C or D Terminator Settings SCSI devices are connected together in a chain by cables Internal devices con nect to the ASUS PCI SC200 with a fifty pin flat ribbon cable External devices connect to the external port with a SCSI 2 cable If there are more than one internal or external devices additional devices are connected with cables to form a daisy chain The SCSI chain must be terminated at both ends or the devices in the chain will not work properly Many SCSI devices use a set of terminating resistors to terminate the device The ASUS PCI SC200 has active termination that you set using jumper JP5 If you need to terminate the ASUS PCI SC200 you do it by setting the jumper The are two settings terminated and not terminated as shown below JP JP 5 5 Terminated Default Not Terminated Terminator Setting Terminated Not Terminated ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 63 M N u U 64 VI ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI Card Decide whether or not you need to terminate the ASUS PCI SC200 based on its
62. propriate settings on the right hand side Note following I2C and Network should not be modified Currently only ATI Video cards can be monitored by LDCM do not select Video ATT if you are using other video cards 3 Choose LM78 from the pull down menu Note the following The fans are auto detected do not make any selections for Chassis Fan CPU A Fan CPU B Fan Change the Threshold RPM to 1 500 RPM Change the Threshold RPM Min to 1 320 RPM Click Save button to save settings and exit Choose FilelSave from pull down menu enter a file name click Save Exit the program screen Run SETUP EXE and choose the your system configuration file that you have just created ed Ses NOTES l a a System will hang if you click the Workstation Summary or Drives Icon when a floppy drive is not installed For a faster response insert a floppy dis kette before choosing this function The LDCM only displays half the actual fan RPM Multiply the displayed fan RPM by 2 for the actual fan RPM Chassis Fan and CPU A Fan RPM must be at least 2 640 RPM to be monitored by the LDCM CPU B Fan must be at least 2 660 RPM to be monitored by the LDCM Fan labels are not consistent use this table for reference PC Health LDCM Notification Config BIOS Motherboard Chassis CPU Chassis CPUA Chassis CPU CPU B Extra Power LDCM currently can only detect ATI video cards choose Non ATI in Local Setup otherwise a one time message will show
63. r to use your own audio card Otherwise leave on default of Enabled Onboard Audio AUDIO Enabled 2 3 Default Disabled 1 2 AUDIO AUDIO 1 B 1 e 2 2 3 3 Disable Enable Default Onboard Audio Disable Enable 4 Onboard Digital Audio Control VOLCTL with optional onboard Audio This jumper allows you to adjust the audio volume digitally using case mounted momentary buttons Audio Control VOLCTL Volume Up 1 2 momentary Volume Down 4 5 momentary VOLCTL 1 Ground 2 Volume Up 3 Ground 4 Volume Down 5 Ground Onboard Digital Audio Control 16 ASUS TX97 X User s Manual IIl INSTALLATION 5 Real Time Clock RTC RAM RTCLR The CMOS RAM is powered by the onboard button cell battery To clear the RTC data 1 Turn off your computer 2 Move this jumper to Clear Data 3 Move the jumper back to Operation 4 Turn on your computer 5 Hold down lt Delete gt during bootup and enter BIOS setup to re enter user preferences Battery Test Jumper RTCLR You can test the battery s current by removing this jumper and attaching a cur rent meter to pins 1 amp 2 WARNING You must unplug the power cord to your power supply to ensure that there is no power to your motherboard The CMOS RAM containing BIOS setup information may be cleared by this action You should enter BIOS to Load Setup Defaults and re enter any user information after removing and reapplying this jumper RT
64. re 1 Read your expansion card documentation on any hardware and software set tings that may be required to setup your specific card 2 Setany necessary jumpers on your expansion card 3 Remove your computer system s cover r Remove the bracket on the slot you intend to use Keep the bracket for pos sible future use Carefully align the card s connectors and press firmly Secure the card on the slot with the screw you removed in step 4 Replace the computer system s cover Setup the BIOS if necessary such as IRQ xx Used By ISA Yes in PNP AND PCI SETUP 9 Install the necessary software drivers for your expansion card Se Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards Some expansion cards need to use an IRQ to operate Generally an IRQ must be exclusively assigned to one use In an standard design there are 16 IRQs available but most of them are already in use by parts of the system which leaves 6 free for expansion cards Both ISA and PCI expansion cards may need to use IRQs System IRQs are avail able to cards installed in the ISA expansion bus first and any remaining IRQs are then used by PCI cards Currently there are two types of ISA cards The original ISA expansion card design now referred to as Legacy ISA cards requires that you configure the card s jumpers manually and then install it in any available slot on the ISA bus You may use Microsoft s Diagnostic MSD EXE utility included in the Windows directory to
65. re re leased Use the Flash Memory Writer utility to download the new BIOS file into the ROM chip as described in detail in this section All computer motherboards provide a Setup utility program for specifying the sys tem configuration and settings If your motherboard came in a computer system the proper configuration entries may have already been made If so invoke the Setup utility as described later and take note of the configuration settings for future refer ence in particular the hard disk specifications If you are installing the motherboard reconfiguring your system or you receive a Run Setup message you will need to enter new setup information This section describes how to configure your system using this utility The BIOS ROM of the system stores the Setup utility When you turn on the com puter the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program This ap pears during the Power On Self Test POST Press the lt Delete gt key to call up the Setup utility If you are a little bit late pressing the mentioned key s POST will continue with its test routines thus preventing you from calling up Setup If you still need to call Setup reset the system by simultaneously pressing the lt Ctrl gt lt Alt gt and lt Delete gt keys or by pushing the Reset button on the system case You can also restart by turning the system off and then back on again But do so only if the first two methods fail When you invoke
66. section controls the time out settings for the Power Management scheme The fields included in this section are HDD Power Down which places the hard disk into its lowest power consumption mode and the Doze Standby and Suspend sys tem inactivation modes The system automatically wakes up from any power saving mode when there is system activity such as when a key is pressed from the keyboard or when there is activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels HDD Power Down shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a pe riod of inactivity This time period is user configurable to 7 15 Mins or Disable This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives The Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode fields set the period of time after which each of these modes activate At Max Saving these modes activate sequentially in the given order after one minute at Min Saving after one hour ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 49 IV BIOS SOFTWARE Fan Monitor xxxxRPM The onboard hardware monitor is able to detect the Chassis Fan Speed CPU Fan Speed and the Power Supply Fan Speed in Rotations Per Minute RPM These values refresh upon any key entries in the BIOS setup screen Set to Ignore if one of these are not used so that error messages will not be given Thermal Monitor xxxC xxxF The onboard hardware monitor 1s able to detect the CPU and Motherboard tempera tures These values refresh upon key entries Set to gnore
67. standard keyboard using an PS 2 plug mini DIN This connector will not allow standard AT size large DIN keyboard plugs You may use a DIN to mini DIN adapter on standard AT keyboards PS 2 Keyboard 6 pin Female 2 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin Female The system will direct IRQ12 to the PS 2 mouse if one is detected If not de tected expansion cards can use IRQI2 See PS 2 Mouse Control in BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE PS 2 Mouse 6 pin Female ASUS TX97 X User s Manual III INSTALLATION 3 Parallel Printer Connector 25 pin Female You can enable the parallel port and choose the IRQ through Onboard Parallel Port in Chipset Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE NOTE Serial printers must be connected to the serial port Parallel Printer Port 25 pin Female eM a i DA 5 La i a D A E oe 4 Serial Port COM1 and COM2 Connectors Two 9 pin Male The two serial ports can be used for pointing devices or other serial devices See Onboard Serial Port in Chipset Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE on a E Connectors P ae ee A COM 1 COM 2 Serial Ports 9 pin Male 5 Audio Port Connectors Three 1 8 Female with optional onboard Audio Line Out can be connected to headphones or preferably powered speakers Line In allows tape players or other audio sources to be recorded by your com puter or play
68. supports SCSI device or IDE CD ROM bootup see HDD Sequence SCSI IDE First amp Boot Sequence in the BIOS Features Setup of the BIOS SOFTWARE Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 20 plugged TIP You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector You may install one operating system on an IDE drive and another on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS Features Setup SIaPBSULOD NOLIVTIVLSNI iil Primary IDE Connector IDE Hard Drive Connectors 12 IDE activity LED IDE LED This connector supplies power to the cabinet s IDE activity LED Read and write activity by devices connected to the Primary or Secondary IDE connectors will cause the LED to light up TIP If the case mounted LED does not light try reversing the 2 pin plug IDE_LED IDE Activity LED 30 ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 13 14 15 16 17 18 III INSTALLATION Message LED Lead MSG LED This indicates whether a message has been received from a fax modem The LED will remain lit when there is no signal and blink when there is data transfer or waiting in the inbox SMI Suspend Switch Lead SMI This allows the user to manually place the system into a suspend mode or Green mode where system activity will be instantly decreased to
69. t key Enter 2 Update BIOS Main Block From File from the Main Menu or option 2 Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD from the Advanced Features Menu if prompted by option 2 of the Main Menu The program displays a second screen prompting you for the name of the BIOS file Type in the complete file name and extension of the new BIOS and then press the lt Enter gt key The utility then updates the BIOS file from disk WARNING If you encounter problems while updating the new BIOS DO NOT turn off your system since this might prevent your system from booting up Just repeat the process and if the problem still persists update the original BIOS file you saved to disk above If the Flash Memory Writer utility was not able to successfully update a complete BIOS file your system may not be able to boot up If this happens your system will need service After successfully updating the new BIOS file exit the Flash Memory Writer utility and then turn off your system Set the jumper back to its default setting of Programming Disabled or Protected Turn on your computer and hold down the lt Delete gt key to enter BIOS setup You must select Setup Default to affect the new BIOS then you may set other items from the Main Menu ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE 6 BIOS Setup The motherboard supports two programmable Flash ROM chips 5 Volt and 12 Volt Either of these memory chips can be updated when BIOS upgrades a
70. t support Plug and Play features For information about these drivers and their usage see the Readme files included in the driver packages You can print out the contents of these files using any text editor program The next few pages will instruct you on the installation of the ASUS PCI SC200 Fast SCSI Card ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 61 O m V Q a 62 VI ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI Card The ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI Interface Card Your motherboard may have come with an optional SCSI Small Computer System Interface controller card the PCI SC200 The card is also available separately This card works with the SCSI BIOS on the motherboard Together they provide a com plete PCI Fast SCSI 2 interface With the card installed in your system you can connect SCSI devices installed in your system case to the internal connector on the card You also have the additional option of connecting external SCSI devices to the external SCSI 2 connector on the card If you get the ASUS PCI SC200 later on as an option you will need to install it yourself The setup procedure is explained here Setting Up the ASUS PCI SC200 There are two jumper settings you may need to make on the card to set it up One setting assigns the PCI INT interrupt the other sets the card s termination z ee 7 j sczo0 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual VI ASUS PCI SC200 SCSI Card Setting the INT Assignment You must use PCI INT A setting in order to
71. th existing ATA 2 IDE specs so there is no need to upgrade current hard drives or cables TX97 Series e Concurrent PCI Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI master busses to memory to CPU e ACPI Ready ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface is also implemented on all ASUS 430TX series of motherboards ACPI provide more Energy Saving Features for the future operating systems OS supporting OS Direct Power Management OSPM functionality With these features imple mented in the OS PCs can be ready around the clock everyday yet satisfy all the energy saving standards To fully utilize the benefits of ACPI an ACPI supported OS such as in the next release of Windows 95 must be used e PC 97 Compliant Both the BIOS and hardware levels of ASUS TX97 series of motherboards meet PC 97 compliancy The new PC 97 requirements for systems and components are based on the following high level goals Support for Plug and Play compatibility and power management for configuring and managing all system components and 32 bit device drivers and installation pro cedures for both Windows 95 and Windows NT Intelligence e Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm To prevent system overheat and system damage the CPU fan and system fans are monitored for RPM and failure Each fan can be set for its normal RPM range and alarm thresholds Temperature Monitoring and Alert To prevent system overheat and system damage th
72. trademarks of Microsoft Corporation e Sound Blaster AWE32 and SB16 are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd e Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated The product name and revision number are both printed on the board itself Manual revisions are released for each board design represented by the digit before and after the period of the manual revision number Manual updates are represented by the third digit in the manual revision number For previous or updated manuals BIOS drivers or product release information you may visit ASUS home page at http www asus com tw or contact ASUS from the following page Copyright 1997 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC All rights reserved Product Name ASUS TX97 XE Manual Revision 1 04 Release Date April 1997 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual ASUS CONTACT INFORMATION ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC Marketing Info Address 150 Li Te Road Peitou Taipei Taiwan ROC Telephone 886 2 894 3447 Fax 886 2 894 3449 Email info asus com tw Technical Support Fax 886 2 895 9254 BBS 886 2 896 4667 Email tsd asus com tw WWW _ http www asus com tw Gopher _gopher asus com tw FTP ftp asus com tw pub ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL Marketing Info Address 721 Charcot Avenue San Jose CA 95131 USA Telephone 1 408 474 0567 Fax 1 408 474 0568 Email info usa asus com tw Technical Support BBS 1 408 474 0555 Email tsd usa asus com tw ASUS COMPUTER
73. ttings high light Load BIOS Defaults on the main screen and then press the lt Enter gt key The system displays a confirmation message on the screen Press the lt Y gt key and then the lt Enter gt key to confirm Press the lt N gt key and then the lt Enter gt key to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen Load Setup Defaults This Load Setup Defaults option allows you to load the default values to the sys tem configuration fields These default values are the optimized configuration set tings for the system To load these default values highlight Load Setup Defaults on the main screen and then press the lt Enter gt key The system displays a confirma tion message on the screen Press the lt Y gt key and then the lt Enter gt key to confirm Press the lt N gt key and then the lt Enter gt key to abort This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen ADH PCIVTSA BIS TKST K LAR BEEP UT i Hihi SF EWE Hi e E eal EFTS PASSHORD EIUS HHITURES SETUP EFE FIS SHIHKI CHIFSET FEATURES SETUP Ice HO AUTO DETECTIOW Pine HHHHGEHEHI GE TLE vt S amp S EKL 5E HF PMP AHD PCI SETUP AN SAWING Load SETUP Defaults YAH p eee Li SETUP DEFAULTS Ea thi i Salact Itam Faia taup amp Euil Setup Shii F Change Color ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE supervisor Password and User Password These two options set the system passwor
74. umpers set the voltage supplied to the CPU The voltage regulators will automatically detect and switch between Single Power Plane amp Dual Power Planes E m m m e eon III oo a m i ss b a AMDA Intel P54C Pentium A T g AMD K5 AMD K6 Cyrix 6x86 166 5 S 75 200MHz MMX 150 200MHz PR75 133MHz PR166 233MHz Rev2 7 133MHz Type Setting Voltage VID2 VID1 VIDO b Intel AMD Cryix PS54C CS K5 M1 3 5V VRE 1 2 1 2 2 3 tn Intel AMD P54C CS K5 3 4V STD 2 3 1 2 2 3 D AMD K6 PR233 3 2V 2 3 w 1 2 AMD K6 PR166 200 2 9V 1 2 2 3 2 3 Intel Cyrix P55C MMX M2 2 8V 2 3 2 3 2 3 S28 eee G93 IE 1 2 3 P54C CS M1 P54C CS K5 K6 PR233 3 5 Volts 3 4 Volts 3 2 Volts 1 2 3 K6 166 200 P55C M2 Voltage Regulator Output Selection 2 9 Volts 2 8Volis 1 2 3 ASUS TX97 X User s Manual 19 20 Il INSTALLATION 2 System Memory SIMM amp DIMM This motherboard supports four 72 pin 32 bit SIMMs Single Inline Memory Mod ules of 4 8 16 32 or 64MB to form a memory size between 8MB to 256MB The SIMMs can be either 60ns or 70ns Fast Page Mode FPM Asymmetric or Sym metric or Enhanced Data Out EDO BEDO amp Parity are not supported SIMMs must be installed in pairs so that each Row see Map of Motherboard for Row loca tions contains 64 bits of the same size and type of memory chips One side with memory chips of the SIMM module takes up half a Row on the motherb
75. ur numbers of the code displayed on the upper left hand corner of your screen during bootup Larger num bers represent a newer BIOS file NOTE A binary BIOS file is no longer included with the support software Save the motherboard s BIOS file to a floppy diskette as soon as your system is operational See Flash Memory Writer Utility in this section to Save Current BIOS to File Flash Memory Writer Utility ASUSTeK PNP BIOS FLASH MEMORY WRITER V1 5 Copyright C 1995 ASUSTeK COMPUTER Inc Flash Type SST 29EE010 Current BIOS Revision 401A0 xxxx Choose one of the following 1 Save Current BIOS To File 2 Update BIOS Main Block From File 3 Advanced Features Enter Choice 1 Press ESC To Exit xxxx denotes the current BIOS version stored in the Flash EPROM IMPORTANT Flash Type may also be INTEL 28F001BXT If unknown is Shown after Flash type then this ROM chip is not programmable or not supported with the PnP BIOS and therefore cannot be programmed by the Flash Memory Writer Main Menu 1 Save Current BIOS to File Perform as soon as system is operational This option allows you to copy the contents of the Flash memory chip onto a dis kette This gives you a backup copy of the original motherboard BIOS in case you need to reinstall it Create a bootable system floppy diskette by typing FORMAT A S from the DOS environment without creating AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS files the
76. wer standby feature The system will then run power on tests While the tests are running additional messages will ap pear on the screen If you do not see anything within 30 seconds from the time you turn on the power the system may have failed a power on test Recheck your jumper settings and connections or call your retailer for assistance Power Connections 7 During power on hold down the lt Delete gt key to enter BIOS setup Follow the next section BIOS SOFTWARE for instructions Powering Off your computer You must first exit or shut down your operat ing system before switching off the power switch For ATX power supplies you can press the ATX power switch after exiting or shutting down your oper ating system For Windows 95 users you can select shut down the computer from the Start button and the system will give three quick beeps after about 30 seconds and power off after windows shut down NOTE The message It s now safe to turn off your computer will not be shown in Windows 95 when using shut down with ATX power supplies ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual 33 q lt p i 34 IV BIOS SOFTWARE Support Software FILELIST TXT View this file to see the files included in the support software PFLASH EXE This is the Flash Memory Writer utility that updates the BIOS by uploading a new BIOS file to the programmable flash ROM chip on the mother board To determine the BIOS version check the last fo
77. y the OS when Yes is selected When a non Plug and Play OS is installed or to prevent reassigning of interrupt settings select No here 50 ASUS TX97 XE User s Manual IV BIOS SOFTWARE Slot 1 2 3 4 IRQ Auto The first four fields on the screen set how IRQ use is determined for each PCI slot Slot 1 Right is nearest the memory sockets The default setting for each field is Auto which uses auto routing to determine IRQ use The other options are manual settings of NA 9 10 11 12 14 or 15 for each slot PCI Latency Timer 32 PCI Clock 32 PCI Clock enables maximum PCI performance for this motherboard IRQ xx Used By ISA No ICU These fields indicate whether or not the displayed IRQ for each field is being used by a Legacy non PnP ISA card Two options are available No ICU and Yes The first option the default value indicates either that the displayed IRQ is not used or an ISA Configuration Utility ICU 1s being used to determine if an ISA card is using that IRQ If you install a Legacy ISA card that requires a unique IRQ and you are not using an ICU you must set the field for that IRQ to Yes For example If you install a Legacy ISA card that requires IRQ 10 then set IRQ10 Used By ISA to Yes DMA x Used By ISA No ICU These fields indicate whether or not the displayed DMA channel for each field is being used by a Legacy non PnP ISA card Available options include No ICU and Yes The first option the default setting

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