User manual ASUS P4S800D-E DELUXE

[. . . ] P4S800D-E Deluxe User Guide Motherboard E1381 Checklist First Edition December 2003 Copyright © 2003 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product warranty or service will not be extended if: (1) the product is repaired, modified or altered, unless such repair, modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS; or (2) the serial number of the product is defaced or missing. 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. [. . . ] For example, use 8-bit, mono quality at 22Khz sampling rate. You may want to create a separate folder for your wave files so you can locate them easily in one place. 5. From the Voice Editor screen, click on the Add button to display the Add Wave File window. Close the window when done. ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe motherboard 3-7 7. Click a POST event on the Voice Editor screen, then on the Edit button. Locate and select your wave file for the event then click on the arrow opposite Voice1. Click on the Write button to compress the file and copy into the EEPROM. Click Yes on the confirmation window that appears. If you receive an error message telling you that the files exceed the total allowable size, do one or all of the following. · Try to modify your messages to make them shorter · Save the wave files at a lower quality · Skip lesser used events like FDD Detection, IDE HDD Detection, etc. 3-8 Chapter 3: Powering up Chapter 4 This chapter tells how to change the system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. Detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided. BIOS setup Chapter summary 4. 1 4. 2 4. 3 4. 4 4. 5 4. 6 4. 7 Managing and updating your BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-37 ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe motherboard 4. 1 Managing and updating your BIOS The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) setup. ASUS AFUDOS(Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk in DOS mode. ) 2. ASUS CrashFree BIOS (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk or the motherboard support CD. ) 4. ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in a Windows® environment. ) Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities. Important notes It is recommended that you save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a bootable floppy disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original motherboard BIOS using the ASUS Update or AFUDOS utilities. Visit the ASUS website and download the latest BIOS file for this motherboard using the ASUS Update utility. 4. 1. 1 Creating a bootable floppy disk 1. At the DOS prompt, type: format A:/S then press <Enter>. Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP environment a. If you are using WindowsTM XP, select Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the format options field, then click Start. OR If you are using WindowsTM 98SE/ME/2000, select Full option button from the format type, then click Start. ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe motherboard 4-1 2. Copy the original (or the latest) motherboard BIOS to the bootable floppy disk. 4. 1. 2 Using AFUDOS to update the BIOS Update the BIOS using the AFUDOS. EXE utility in DOS environment. Visit the ASUS website (www. asus. com) to download the latest BIOS file for your motherboard. Save the BIOS file to a bootable floppy disk. Write down the BIOS file name to a piece of paper. Copy the AFUDOS. EXE utility from the support CD to the bootable floppy disk that contains the BIOS file. [. . . ] From the SIS 180 RAID utility menu, click the Configuration tab then Create Raid. From the Available Disks pane, select a disk then click the down arrow to add the disk on the Selected Disks pane. 5. After all fields and parameters are set, click the Create button to display the Create Stripe RaidSet dialog box. Item Notes: Source: Target: Create Only: Displays the first selected disk. This operation will destroy all data on the selected disk and create a clean stripe array without any data. [. . . ]