User manual ASUS P4S800D

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Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. ii Contents Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] · Check the CPU fan and make sure it turns on after you applied power to the system. · Make sure that your CPU fan supports the fan speed detection function. See the "ASUS contact information" on the inside front cover of this manual. No floppy disk detected No IDE hard disk detected CPU temperature too high CPU fan failed CPU voltage out of range System completed Power-On Self Test · No action required Computer now booting from operating · No action required system You may disable the ASUS POST ReporterTM in the BIOS setup. See section "4. 4. 6 Speech Configuration". 3-4 Chapter 3: Powering up 3. 3. 2 Winbond Voice Editor The Winbond Voice Editor software allows you to customize the vocal POST messages. See section "5. 2. 3 Utilities menu" for details. To avoid conflicts, do not run the Winbond Voice Editor while running the ASUS PC Probe. Follow these steps to use the Winbond Voice Editor. Launching the program Launch the program either from the Winbond Voice Editor icon on your desktop, or from the Windows Start menu, Programs/Winbond Voice Editor/ Voice Editor. The Winbond Voice Editor screen appears. Default Messages POST Events Playing the default wave files To play the default wave files, simply click on a POST event on the left side of the screen, then click the Play button. The default language setting is English. ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe motherboard 3-5 Changing the default language 1. The event messages for the language you selected appear on the Voice Editor screen. For some languages, not all events have a corresponding message due to file size constraints. 3. The next time you boot your computer, the POST messages are announced in the language that you selected . 3-6 Chapter 3: Powering up Customizing your POST messages If your language is not in the selection or if you wish to record your own POST messages to replace the pre-installed wave files, you may easily do so. Launch the Voice Editor and take note of the list of POST events on the leftmost column of the screen. Prepare your message for each event. The total compressed size for all the wave files must not exceed 1Mbit, so make your messages as short as possible. 3. Use a recording software, such as Windows Recorder, to record your messages. It is recommended that you save your files in low quality to keep them small. At the DOS prompt, type the command line: afudos /i<filename> where "filename" means the latest (or original) BIOS file that you copied to the bootable floppy disk. The screen displays the status of the update process. The BIOS information on the screen is for reference only. What you see on your screen may not be exactly the same as shown. A:\>afudos /iP4S800D. rom AMI Firmware Update Utility - Version 1. 10 Copyright (C) 2002 American Megatrends, Inc. 0x0008CC00 (9%) DO NOT shutdown or reset the system while updating the BIOS!Doing so may cause system boot failure! 4-2 Chapter 4: BIOS Setup When the BIOS update process is complete, the utility returns to the DOS prompt. A:\>afudos /iP4S800D. rom AMI Firmware Update Utility - Version 1. 10 Copyright (C) 2002 American Megatrends, Inc. Reboot the system from the hard disk. 4. 1. 3 Using AFUDOS to copy BIOS from PC The AFUDOS. EXE utility can also be used to copy the current system BIOS settings to a floppy or hard disk. The copy can be used as a backup in case the system BIOS fails or gets corrupted. At the DOS prompt, type the command line: afudos /o<filename> where "filename" can be any user provided filename of not more than eight (8) alpha-numeric characters for the main filename and three (3) alpha-numeric characters for the extension name. Press <Enter>. The BIOS information on the screen is for reference only. What you see on your screen may not be exactly the same as shown. Main filename Extension name A:\>afudos /oMYBIOS03. rom AMI Firmware Update Utility - Version 1. 10 Copyright (C) 2002 American Megatrends, Inc. The utility will copy the current system BIOS by default to the floppy disk. [. . . ] The SIS RAID utility main interface has two tabs: View and Configuration. The default value displayed is the information of the first device detected. 3. The Configuration tab contains a subset of tabs: Create Raid, Delete Raid and Raid Recovery. You can switch to the different tabs by clicking on it. 5-20 Chapter 5: Software support Creating an Array for Performance (RAID 0) Follow these steps to create a RAID 0 array: You must have at least two hard disks installed to create a RAID 0 array. 1. [. . . ]