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- Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 1
® A7N266 JumperFree™ DDR DRAM 266MHz NVIDIA® nForce 420™ Socket A - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 2
Intel Pentium Intel VIA 3Com 3Com C-Media Windows MS-DOS Adobe Acrobat Adobe System Trend ChipAwayVirus Symbios Symbios Logic nVidia NVIDIA BIOS 1.22 1.24 ... © 2001 : A7N266 : 1.00 T853 : 2001 12 2 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 3
[email protected] +1-510-608-4555 +1-877-918-ASUS(2787)... [email protected] www.asus.com ASUS COMPUTER GmbH ( ) Harkortstr. 25, 40880 Ratingen, BRD, Germany 49-2102-4420-66 [email protected] 49-2102-9599-0 ... / 49-2102-9599-10 .. 49-2102-9599-11 www.asuscom.de/de/support www.asuscom.de A7N266 3 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 4
2.1 A7N266 8 2.1.1 ...8 2.1.2 ...9 2.1.3 10 2.2 12 3. 3.1 14 3.2 15 3.3 16 3.4 17 3.5 23 3.5.1 DDR DIMM 23 3.5.2 24 3.5.3 25 3.6 CPU 26 3.7 ...27 3.7.1 27 3.7.2 IRQ 28 3.7.3 ACR 29 3.7.4 AGP Pro 30 3.8 31 3.9 45 4 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 5
65 4.4.3 PCI Configuration PCI 67 4.4.4 Shadow Configuration 69 4.5 Power Menu 70 4.5.1 Power Up Control/ 71 4.5.2 Hardware Monitor/ 72 4.6 Boot Menu/ 73 4.7 Exit Menu 75 5. 5.1 77 5.2 Windows 77 5.3 A7N266 78 5.3.1 78 5.3.2 79 5.3.3 Windows 98 80 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 6
91 6.5 CyberLink PowerPlayer SE 92 6.5.1 CyberLink PowerPlayer SE 92 6.5.2 CyberLink PowerPlayer 92 6.6 CyberLink VideoLive Mail 93 6.6.1 VideoLive Mail 94 6.6.2 VideoLive Mail 94 7. 7.1 95 7.2 56K 99 7.1.1 / 99 7.1.2 99 7.1.3 Windows 98 100 6 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 7
1.1 BIOS 1.2 1. BIOS (1) (1) 40 80 UltraDMA/100/66/33 IDE (1) 40 80 (1) (1) USB (1) (1) (1) COM 2 (1) S/PDIF ( ) (1) ( ) (2) ( ) (1) AGP-DVI/TV A7N266 7 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 8
PCI Bus IDE USB UltraDMA 100/66/33 MB/sec IDE PCI 2.2 PCI AC 97 IDE 100 USB • PC2100/PC1600 Double Date Rate PC2100/PC1600 SDRAM DDR DIMM DDR SDRAM DDR 1.5 GB DDR • JumperFreeTM JumperFreeTM Vcore DDR SDRAM BIOS • BIOS SDRAM MO/ZIP/ / 2Mb FWH IDE CPU/ /SCSI / 8 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 9
• IDE PIO • AGP Pro AGP 4X AMD Athlon™ XP / Athlon™ / Duron™ Socket PCI IDE 3 &4 IDE CD-RW 32 PCI 2.2 133MB Ultra DMA 100/66 DVD AGP Pro 1.5 AGP AGP Pro • • USB PDA • • / • • PS/2 • PS/2 • USB USB MIDI ( ) ( ) ( ) PS/2 PS/2 LED () () • AGP • ATX 3.3V AGP ATX A7N266 9 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 10
DVD PCtel 56K CMI8738 24 SBPROTM FM S/PDIF /DLS • C.O.P. CPU CPU AMD® Athlon™ XP CPU • ACPI ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Windows 98/ME/ 2000 OSPM OS Direct Power Management 24 ACPI ACPI Windows 98/ME/2000 • BIOS PC 99 Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 32 10 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 11
2. • BIOS • CPU • ACPI LED • • 2000 OS/2 Windows 95/98/ME Windows NT/ • CPU ASIC • • ASIC A7N266 11 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 12
/ PC2100 DDR DRAM 1.5 GB 5 PCI 18 1 AGP Pro 22 1 ACR 15 I/O 1 7 2 IDE UltraDMA/100 6 1 25 1 VGA 24 1 COM1 26 1 COM2 10 USB Port 0 Port 1 27 USB Ports 2/3/4/5 13 1 IrDA 11 1 PS/2 28 1 PS/2 28 ASIC 14 Realtek LAN LAN(RJ-45) 17 27 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 13
2. - 12 3 4 56 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 7 20 8 19 9 18 17 10 16 15 14 13 12 11 A7N266 13 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 14
INT_LINEIN INT_MIC HEADPHONE JEN BSEL0 BSEL1 C-Media CMI8738 SPDIF AUD_EN AGP PRO WARNING PCI PCI AUX CD PCI MODEM Realtek RTL8100 PCI LAN_EN PCI ACR 0 1 23 45 NB_FAN nVidia MCP CR2032 3V CMOS 2Mb BIOS Super I/O USBPWR45 USBPWR23 USB45 USB23 JTPWR CLRTC VID1 VID2 VID3 VID4 COM2 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 15
-45 p. 32 6) COM1/COM2 p. 33 7) VGA p. 33 8) GAME_AUDIO p. 34 9) AUDIO p. 34 10) IDELED p. 35 11) FLOPPY p. 35 12) PRIMARY/SEC. IDE p. /Center) ( / )( ) ( / )( ) USB (+5V / +5VSB) CMOS 2 pin AMD 32 PCI AGP Pro ACR PS/2 6 pin PS/2 6 pin 0 & 1 4-pin 25-pin 9-pin /MIDI IDE - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 16
) SPEAKER(PANEL) 28) LED 29) SMI 30) PWR 31) RESET p. 39 p. 40 p. 40 p. 41 p. 41 p. 42 p. 42 p. 43 p. 44 p. 44 p. 44 p. 44 p. 44 p. 44 p. 44 SMBus SMI ATX 5-1 pins 12-1 pins 3 pins 3 pins 3 pins 2 pins 4 pins 4-1 pins 2 pins 3 pins 2 pins 2 pins 2 pins / 2 pins 2 pins - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 17
3. 3.4 Switch Jumper 1. 2. CPU, RAM 3. 4. 5. ATX ATX LED LED 1) (2) AGP (LED - Light Emitting Diodes) (LED1) (3) (1) AGP 3.3 AGP AGP (+3.3V) 1.5 A7N266 PLED 01 01 01 ON OFF Standby Powered ® Power Off WARNING A7N266 Onboard LED ON Incorrect AGP Card OFF Correct AGP - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 18
3. 2) JumperFreeTM JEN JumperFree™ BIOS JumperFree™ [2-3] BSEL jumpers jumpers [1-2] A7N266 01 01 01 JEN 12 23 ® Disable Enable (Default) A7N266 Jumper Mode Setting 3) CPU:DRAM (BSEL0, BSEL1) CPU CPU CPU 100:100 Mhz CPU JEN jumper [1-2] CPU DRAM BSEL0 BSEL1 JEN 133 133 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 19
® 01 01 1234 VID1 VID2 VID3 VID4 (CPU Default) 1234 VID1 VID2 VID3 VID4 1.85/1.825Volts 1234 VID1 VID2 VID3 VID4 1.80/1.775Volts A7N266 CPU Core Voltage Selection 5) DDR (VDDR) DDR 1234 VID1 VID2 VID3 VID4 1.75/1.725Volts 1234 VID1 VID2 VID3 VID4 1.70/1.675Volts Setting 2.7V 2.6V 2.5V - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 20
3. 6) Bass Center (BCS1, BCS2) C-Media PCI C-Media Center/Bass, to Bass /Center Line-In Line-Out Mic A7N266 01 01 01 3 ® 2 2 1 BCS1 BCS2 BCS1 BCS2 A7N266 Bass Center Setting CENTER / BASS BASS / CENTER (Default) 7) [2-3] (LAN_EN) ( [1-2] A7N266 LAN ) (RTL8100) 01 01 01 LAN_EN - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 21
) A7N266 [2-3] ) PCI ( 01 01 01 AUD_EN ® 3 2 2 1 Enable (Default) Disable A7N266 Audio Codec Setting 9) USB USB01_PWR/USB23_PWR/USB45_PWR +5V USB RAM +5VSB USB CPU RAM +5VSB +5VSB +5V +5VSB S1 CPU S3 2A/ +5VSB +5VSB 1. abled 2. +5VSB +5VSB A7N266 01 01 01 ® A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 22
3. 10) BIOS CMOS CMOS 1 2 Jumper 3 4 BIOS 5 6 Jumper 7 CLRTC [2-3] [1-2] A7N266 BIOS 01 01 01 ® A7N266 Clear RTC RAM CLRTC 12 23 Normal (Default) Clear CMOS 22 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 23
DDR SDRAM Capacity DIMM 1 (A0) DIMM2 (B0) DIMM3 (B1) 128 MB 64MB - 1B or 2B 64MB - 1B or 2B X 192 MB 128MB - 1B or 2B 64MB - 1B or 2B X 256 MB 128MB - 1B or 2B 128MB - 1B or 2B X 128MB - 1B or Table Legend: 1B = 1 bank: a single load module. 2B = 2 bank: a dual load module. A7N266 23 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 24
3. 3.5.2 184 DDR SDRAM 2.5V unbuffered DDR DIMM 01 01 01 A7N266 ® A7N266 184-Pin DDR DIMM Sockets 1. 2. SDR 3. SDR 104 Pins 80 Pins 24 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 25
3. 1. 2. 3.5.3 • • 18 DIMM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) DIMM • BIOS • DIMM • 64 128 256 MB 128 256 512 MB A7N266 25 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 26
3. 3.6 CPU AMD Athlon XPTM AthlonTM DuronTM Socket 462 Socket A A7N266 CPU NOTCH TO INNER CORNER LOCK 01 01 01 ® A7N266 Socket 462 CPU NOTCH AMD™ Athlon 1. Socket A 90 3. Socket 462 Socket A LEVER 4. Socket A 5. Socket A Socket A 1 Socket A 2 3 Socket A 26 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 27
3. 3.7 3.7.1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 4.4.3 PCI BIOS IRQXX Used By ISA A7N266 27 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 28
3.7.2 IRQ IRQ 0 1 2 3* 4* 5* 6 7* 8 9* 10* 11* 12* 13 14* 15* * 3. IRQ IRQ AT 6 IRQ IRQ 16 IRQ PCI PCI IRQ IRQ IRQ PCI MIDI 4 IRQ 1 2 N/A 11 COM 2 12 COM 1 13 LPT 2 14 15 LPT 1 3 CMOS/ 4 ACPI 5 PCI 6 PCI 7 PS/2 8 9 IDE 10 IDE 28 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 29
3. PCI PCI PCI PCI PCI AGP Pro ACR USB INT-A ------- --- ----- INT-B ------- ------- --- INT-C ----- INT-D --- INT-E ----------- ------- 3.7.3 ACR Advanced Communication Riser Phoneline Networking Alliance HomePNA ACR AMR ACR PCI Home A7N266 01 01 01 ® A7N266 Advanced - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 30
01 01 AGP 6600 AGP Card without Retention Notch ® A7N266 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP PRO) 20-pin bay Rib (inside slot) TOP VIEW 28-pin bay Rib AGP Pro AGP AGP 3.3V AGP card: OKA1Y.5to/ 3u.3seV. AGP AGP 4X SiS305 LED 1.5V AGP 1.5 3.3 V AGP AGP 3.3V AGP AGP 4X 3.3V 3.3V AGP 30 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 31
3. 3.8 15 1 PS/2 PS/2 BIOS 46 6-pin P2KBMS PS/2 1 IRQ12 PS/2 PS/2 Mouse (6-pin female) 2 PS/2 6-pin P2KBMS PS/2 mini DIN AT large DIN PS/2 AT PS/2 Keyboard (6-pin female) A7N266 31 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 32
3. 3 USB0 / USB1 4-pin USB USB USB USB Universal Serial Bus (USB) 4 25-pin PRINTER BIOS 4.4.2 Parallel (Printer) Port (25-pin female) 5) RJ-45 (RJ-45) ( ) USB (LAN) RJ-45 32 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 33
3. 6 9-pin COM1 / COM2 COM1 COM2 BIOS 4.4.2 / 01 01 01 COM 1 Serial Port (9-pin male) A7N266 COM2 ® PIN 1 A7N266 Serial COM2 Bracket 7) (Blue 15-pin VGA) VGA VGA Monitor (15-pin female) A7N266 33 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 34
8) /MIDI 3. 15-pin GAME_AUDIO MIDI Game/MIDI (15-pin female) 9) 1/8 Line Out Line In Line Out Mic Line Out Line In Mic 1/8" Stereo Audio Connectors 34 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 35
IDE IDE IDE IDE A7N266 01 01 01 ® IDELED A7N266 IDE Activity LED TIP: If the case-mounted LED does not light, try reversing the 2-pin plug. 11 34-1 pin FLOPPY 01 01 01 A7N266 ® NOTE: Orient the red markings on the floppy ribbon cable to PIN 1 PIN 1 A7N266 Floppy Disk Drive Connector - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 36
/100/66 IDE Primary Master IDE Slave Secondary 4.6 UltraDMA66 UltraDMA/100/66 IDE BIOS UltraDMA100 / UltraDMA100 / UltraDMA66 Secondary IDE Connector Primary IDE Connector UltraDMA/100 UltraDMA/66 IDE 100MB/s 66MB/s A7N266 40- 80- IDE 01 01 01 NOTE: Orient the red markings ® (usually - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 37
3. 13 / / CPU_FAN, PWR_FAN, CHA_FAN 350mA 4.2 12 Minute Rotation RPM Rotations Per CPU CPU 01 A7N266 ® 01 01 CHA_FAN GND +12V Rotation CPU_FAN GND +12V Rotation NB_FAN GND +12V Rotation A7N266 12-Volt Cooling Fan Power 14 USB USB 10-1 pin USB2_3, USB4_5 USB USB USB 01 01 01 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 38
3. 15 IrDA IrDA COM2 IrDA 5 pin IR IrDA 4.4.2 UART2 A7N266 01 01 01 +5 V IRRX GND IRTX SIR CIR Standard Infrared (SIR) Front View Back View NC GND NC CIRRX +5VSB ® IR_CON A7N266 Infrared Connector SIR CIR IRTX +5V GND (NC) IRRX 38 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 39
01 +3.3VDC -12.0VDC COM ® PS_ON# COM COM COM -5.0VDC +5.0VDC +5.0VDC A7N266 ATX Power Connector +3.3VDC +3.3VDC COM +5.0VDC COM +5.0VDC COM PWR_OK +5VSB +12.0VDC 17 SMBus 5-1 pin SMB SMBus System Management Bus SMBus 01 01 01 A7N266 ® SMB 1 A7N266 SMBus Connector SMBCLK Ground SMBDATA +5V - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 40
) MPEG 01 01 01 A7N266 AUX (White) Left Audio Channel Ground Right Audio Channel ® MODEM Modem-In Ground Ground Modem-Out A7N266 Internal Audio Connectors CD (Black) Right Audio Channel Ground Left Audio Channel 19) (3-pin MIC2 ) 01 A7N266 ® 01 01 MIC Power MIC Input Ground INT_MIC - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 41
3. 20) (3-pin HPHONE ) 01 A7N266 ® 01 01 HEADPHONE 1 HP OUT LT GND HP OUT RT A7N266 True-Level Line Out Header 21) (3-pin INT_LINEIN) ( ) MIC2 01 A7N266 ® 01 01 Left Channel GND Right Channel INT_LINEIN 1 A7N266 Line In Connector A7N266 41 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 42
) CD-ROM DVD-ROM CD-RW CDSPDIFIN SPDIFOUT A7N266 01 01 01 SPDIF ® SPDIF_IN +5V SPDIF_OUT GND GND 1 A7N266 Digital Audio Connector 23 4-1 pin CHASSIS 7. CIDB A7N266 CHASSIS 01 01 01 ® +5Volt (Power Supply Stand By) Chassis Signal Ground 1 A7N266 Chassis Open Alarm Lead CIDB 42 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 43
01 01 01 A7N266 Keyboard Lock Speaker Power LED Connector PLED+ PLEDKeylock Ground +5V Ground Ground Speaker ® MLED+ MLEDExtSMI# Ground PWR GND Reset Ground A7N266 System Panel Connectors Message LED SMI Lead Reset SW ATX Power Switch* * Requires an ATX power supply. A7N266 43 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 44
3. 25) (3-1 pin PWRLED) 26) (2-pin KEYLOCK) 27) (4-pin SPEAKER) 28) (2-pin MSG.LED) 29) SMI (2-pin SMI) Turbo Menu 30) ATX / Suspend Mode BIOS 4.5 Power ACPI (2-pin PWRSW) 31) Reset Windows 98 CPU clock (2-pin RESET) 44 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 45
3. 3.9 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. a. b. SCSI ( c. ATX 6. / ) ATX 30 Award BIOS Award POST CPU 3 . A7N266 45 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 46
3. 7. Del * ATX ATX BIOS Windows95/98 3. 46 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 47
.EXE AFLASH.EXE BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS DOS AFLASH DOS AFLASH 1. CONFIG.SYS 2. DOS 3. 4. DOS DOS BIOS Winodws MS- DOS FORMAT A:/S AUTOEXEC.BAT COPY D:\AFLASH\AFLASH.EXE A:\ D AFLASH.EXE BIOS A:\AFLASH Enter AFLASH 4. BIOS BIOS Flash Memory unknown ACPI BIOS A7N266 BIOS 47 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 48
4. BIOS 5. 1. Save Current BIOS to File Enter Save Current BIOS To File 6. XXX Enter A:\XXX-XX. 4. BIOS BIOS 48 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 49
4. BIOS 4.1.2 BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS 1. ( WWW FTP) BIOS 3 2. 3. A:\ AFLASH.EXE 4. MAIN MENU 2 Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD 5. Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD BIOS A:\XXX-XX.XXX Enter 6. Y 4. BIOS BIOS A7N266 49 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 50
4. BIOS 7. AFLASH BIOS Flashed Successfully BIOS 8. BIOS BIOS BIOS 4. BIOS BIOS 50 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 51
4. BIOS 4.2 BIOS BIOS Basic Input and Output System BIOS BIOS BIOS RUN SETUP BIOS BIOS Read-Only Memory EEPROM Electrical Erasable Programmable BIOS EEPROM BIOS BIOS BIOS CMOS RAM BIOS DELETE CTRL - DEL BIOS POST Power-On Self Test DELETE RESET ALT - 4. BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 52
4. BIOS 4.2.1 BIOS BIOS MAIN ADVANCED POWER BOOT EXIT BIOS BIOS 4. BIOS 4.2.2 BIOS or or ← or → (keypad arrow) ↑ or ↓ (keypad arrows) - (minus key) + (plus key) or spacebar or or Exit BIOS 52 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 53
4. BIOS F1 Alt + H Home PgUp Enter PgDn End Esc ESC Enter BIOS 4.7 F5 BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS [ ] BIOS 4. BIOS A7N266 53 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 54
4.3 Main Menu BIOS 4. BIOS System Time [XX:XX:XX] 00 23 + Shift 00 59 System Date [XX/XX/XXXX] Diskette B [none.] [360K 5.25 in.] [1. 2M 5.25 in.] [720K 3.5 in.] [1.44M 3.5 in,] [2.88M 3.5 in.][None] Floppy 3 Mode Support [Disabled] 1.2MB 3.5 [Disable] [Drive A] [Drive B] [Both] 54 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 55
4. BIOS 4.3.1 Primary & Secondary Master/Slave 4. BIOS IDE Auto Type [Auto] [Auto] IDE BIOS IDE : [Auto] ... [None] - IDE IDE BIOS IDE FDISK active A7N266 55 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 56
cylinders heads sectors LBA 504MB LBA [LBA] [LARGE] [Normal] [Match Partition Table] [Manual] Cylinders Cylinder lation Method [User Type HDD] [Manual] Trans- Head Head lation Method [User Type HDD] [Manual] Trans- Sector Sector Translation Method [User Type HDD] [Manual] 56 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 57
CHS Maximum LBA Capacity BIOS LBA Multi-Sector Transfers [Maximum] [User Type HDD] : [Dis- abled] [2 Sectors] [4 Sectors [3] [4] [0] [1] Ultra DMA Mode [Disabled] Ultra DMA IDE [Disabled] Ultra DMA [Type] [User] UltraDMA Mode [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [Disabled] [CD-ROM] - IDE [LS-120] - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 58
BIOS 4.3.2 4. BIOS Boot Up NumLock Status [On] [Off] [On] Number Lock Keyboard Auto-Repeat Rate [12/Sec] Sec] [12/Sec] [15/Sec] [20/Sec] [24/Sec] [30/Sec] [6/Sec] [8/Sec] [10/ Keyboard Auto-Repeat Delay [1/4 Sec] [1/2 Sec] [3/4 Sec] [1 Sec] [1/4 Sec] Language [English] BIOS 58 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 59
password BIOS User password BIOS Supervisor Enter Enter BIOS RTC 1 2 Jumper 3 4 BIOS 5 6 Jumper 7 CMOS RTC [2-3] BIOS [1-2] Halt On [All Errors] [All Errors] [No Errors] [All,But Keyboard] [All,But Diskette] [All,But Disk/Key] Installed Memory [XXX MB] 4. BIOS A7N266 59 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 60
Manual] [Manual] System Frequency Multiple (9.5x ) CPU CPU BIOS (MHz) [5x][5.5x][6.0x]...[12.0x][12.5x] CPU/PCI Frequency(MHz) (100/33) PCI CPU CPU/Memory Frequency Ratio [Auto] CPU/PCI Frequency(MHz) [1:1] [3:4] JumperFree AMD CPU Speed System/PCI Frequency CPU [103/33] ... [158/33] 60 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 61
Update [Enabled] BIOS [Disabled] [Enabled] BIOS CPU CPU PS/2 Mouse Function Control [Auto] Auto IRQ 12 PS/2 MOUSE [Enabled] 12 PS/2 MOUSE PS/2 MOUSE IRQ 12 PS/2 MOUSE IRQ [Enabled] [Auto] USB Legacy Keyboard Support [Disabled] [Secondary] [Disabled] [Primary] [Primary] [Secondary] USB - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 62
4. BIOS BIOS CPU CPU CPU 100MHz 1. CMOS ) 2. CMOS CMOS RTC ( CPU BIOS BIOS 22 59 CPU Upgrade/Reinstallation 100MHz 3. CPU 1 CPU 4. CPU 2 CPU BIOS CPU CPU CPU CPU 4. BIOS 62 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 63
BIOS SDRAM Configuration [By SPD] 2 5 [By SPD] SPD (Serial Presence Detect) 2 5 EEPROM memory type size speed voltage module banks [User Define][7ns(143MHz)][8ns(125MHz)] [By SPD] SDRAM Configuration [User Aperture Size [64MB] AGP [32MB] [64MB] [128MB] [256MB] [512MB] A7N266 63 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 64
] UC uncacheable Onboard VGA BIOS Update [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] MCP IDE Controller [Both] [Both] [Primary] [Secondary] [Disabled] MCP USB Controller [Enabled] USB Keyboard support [Enabled] [Disabled] USB Legacy USB MCP Audio Controller [Auto] A7N266-E [Disabled] [Auto] MCP DOLBY - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 65
4.4.2 I/O Device Configuration I/O 4. BIOS I/O Onboard FDC Swap A & B [No Swap] [No Swap] [Swap AB] Floppy Disk Access Control [R/W] [Read Only] (R/W) Onboard ] [Enabled] Onboard Parallel Port [378H/IRQ7] Parallel Port Mode ECP DMA Select [Disabled] [378H/IRQ7] [278H/IRQ5] A7N266 65 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 66
4. BIOS Parallel Port Mode [ECP+EPP] DMA EPP ECP ECP+EPP [Normal] [EPP] [ECP] [ECP+EPP] ECP DMA Select [3] ECP ECP ] Onboard MIDI [Disabled] [Disabled] MIDI I/O ECP ECP ECP Normal Two-way Parallel Port Mode [1] [3] [200H-207H] [208H- [330H-331H] [300H-301H] 4. BIOS I/O 66 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 67
IRQ IRQ Auto [3] [4] [5] [7] [9] [10] [11] [12] [14] [15] PCI PCI [Auto] [NA] PCI/VGA Palette Snoop [Disabled] [Disabled] MPEG [Enabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] PCI Latency Timer [32] [32] Primary VGA BIOS [AGP VGA Card] optimal [Onboard VGA Card] [AGP VGA Card] [Onboard VGA] A7N266 67 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 68
x Reserved for Legacy Drive [No/ICU] DMA [No/ICU] DMA DMA ICU [Yes] [No/ICU] [Yes] PNP ICU ISA ISA DMA PCI UMB 4. BIOS PCI TSM MEM Block BASE [No/ICU] PnP ISA C800 DFFF BASE [No/ICU] [D400] [D800] [DC00] ISA ICU MEM Block Size ICU TSM MEM Block [ - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 69
4. BIOS 4.4.4 Shadow Configuration Video ROM BIOS Shadow [Enabled] VIDEO BIOS ROM [Disabled] [Enabled] C8000-DFFFF Shadow [Disabled] ROM ROM 640K 1024K RAM RAM [Disabled] [Enabled] 4. BIOS A7N266 69 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 70
OFF] DPMS OFF DPMS Reduce ON Blank Screen V/H SYNC + Blank DPMS Standby DPMS Suspend DPMS (Display Power Management System) BIOS DPMS [Blank Screen] [V/H SYNC+Blank] DPMS BIOS GREEN Blank Screen [Blank Screen] [V/H SYNC+Blank] [DPMS Standby] [DPMS Suspend] [DPMS OFF] [DPMS Reduce ON - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 71
PWR Button < 4 Secs [Soft off] Soft Off ATX ATX Suspend ATX ATX [Soft off] [Suspend] 4.5.1 Power Up Control 4. BIOS AC PWR Loss Restart [Disabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] Power Up From P/S2 Keyboard [Space bar] [Space bar] bar] [Disabled] Space bar [Disabled] [Space A7N266 71 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 72
Hardware Monitor 4. BIOS MB Temperature [xxxC/xxxF] CPU Temperature [xxxC/xxxF] POWER TemperatureN/A CPU Fan Speed [xxxxRPM] CHIP Fan Speed [xxxxRPM] PWR Fan Speed N/A CPU VCORE Voltage, +3.3V Voltage, +5V Voltage, +12V Voltage [xx.xxV] CPU [Ignore] error. Enter Power setup menu for details - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 73
4.6 Boot Menu 4. BIOS Space [Removable Devices] [IDE Hard Drive] [ATAPI CD-ROM] [Other Boot Device] Removable Device [Legacy ] IDE ATAPI CD-ROM [Enter] ATAPI IDE ATAPI Other Boot Device Select [INT18 Device (Network)] [Disabled] [SCSI Boot Device] [INT18 Device (Network)] A7N266 73 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 74
4. BIOS Boot Virus Detection [Enabled] BIOS BIOS [Disabled] [Enabled] Disabled Quick Power On Self Test [Enabled] POST Boot Up Floppy Seek [Enabled] [Enabled] BIOS Interrupt Mode [APIC] [APIC] [PIC] POST [Disabled] [Enabled] A [Disabled] 4. BIOS 74 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 75
4. BIOS 4.7 Exit Menu Exit BIOS BIOS 4. BIOS : Esc Exit Saving Change BIOS Yes BIOS CMOS BIOS Enter BIOS BIOS Enter Exit Discarding Change Enter BIOS BIOS No Yes BIOS CMOS No BIOS CMOS A7N266 75 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 76
4. BIOS Load Setup Default F5 Yes No BIOS Discard Changes Enter BIOS Save Changes BIOS Enter BIOS Enter BIOS BIOS Yes No BIOS BIOS Yes No 4. BIOS 76 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 77
5. 5.1 Windows 98/ME/2000 Windows 95 OSR 2.0 Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3.0 5.2 Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows 5 . Windows 98 A7N266 77 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 78
5. 5.3 A7N266 E) 5.3.1 E:\Setup.exe ( 5. Windows 98 • NVIDIA nForce ( Win98 • NVIDIA Windows NT INF ) • C-Media ( & NVIDIA Windows ME Windows NT INF ) 80 VGA C-Media • Realtek RTL8139 RTL8139 • V2.15.04 Realtek • V3.28.07 • Microsoft DirectX 8.0a ASUS Live Update BIOS - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 79
5. • Adobe Acrobat Reader V5.0: PDF • Cyberlink & Cyberlink VideoLive Mail Adobe Acrobat Reader Cyberlink PowerPlayer SE • • E-Color 3Deep CRT LCD • BIOS CPU • • • 5.3.2 5 . Windows 98 A7N266 79 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 80
Windows 98 nVidia® Win98 1. PCI System Management Bus 2. PCI Standard Host CPU Bridge 3. PCI Standard RAM Controller nVidia® PCI System Management Bus 1. 2. PCI System Management Bus 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. D D :\Drivers\Chipset\Nvidia\win9x\SMbus 8. 9. PCI System Management 10. 11. PCI - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 81
5. PCI Standard Ram Controller 1. 2. PCI standard RAM Controller 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. D D : \Drivers\Chipset\Nvidia\win9x\MemoryController 8. 9. NVIDIA nForce 220/420 Memory Controller nForce 420 Memory Controller DDR 10. NVIDIA 5 . Windows 98 A7N266 81 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 82
6. 6. 6.1 BIOS 1. W i n d o w s / / AsusUpdate Vx. xx.xx ASUSUpdate Vx.xx.x 2. Next 3. / FTP Auto Select Next 4. Next BIOS 5. BIOS BIOS BIOS 82 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 83
6.2 6.2.1 - PC Probe CPU Show up in next execution A7N266 83 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 84
6.2.2 CPU CPU CPU 84 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 85
CPU FAT A7N266 85 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 86
CPU CPU 86 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 87
6.2.3 CPU !!! A7N266 87 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 88
6.3 6.3.1 C-Media 1. C-Media / /PCI Audio Application/Auto Rack/ Mixer C-Media C-Media PCI / 2. C-Media Advanced Line- In Line-Out Mic-In / 6.3.2 C-Media 1. C - M e d i a Multi-Channel Audio Demo / /PCI Au- dio Application/ Multi-Chan- nel Audio Demo 88 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 89
2. C - M e d i a Multi-Channel Audio Demo 3. 6.3.3 / / / Line Out Line In Mic A7N266 89 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 90
3Deep color Tuner 6.4 3Deep Color Tuner 3Deep color tuner 3D 3Deep color tuner 6.4.1 3Deep 1. 3Deep color tuner 2. 3. 90 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 91
3Deep Color Tuner 4. 5. 6. True Internet Color True Internet Color® Setup 6.4.2 3Deep 3Deep - - 3Deep - 3Deep Control Panel 3Deep 3Deep 3Deep gamma Gamma Set Game Run Color Wizard ? A7N266 91 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 92
PowerPlayer SE 6.5 CyberLink PowerPlayer SE CyberLink PowerPlayer SE CD MP3 6.5.1 CyberLink PowerPlayer SE CyberLink PowerPlayer / PowerPlayer SE PowerPlayer /CyberLink 6.5.2 CyberLink PowerPlayer i-Power! OK 92 A7N266 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 93
VideoLive Mail 6.6 CyberLink VideoLive Mail CyberLink VideoLive Mail Plus 3.0 ( VLM 3) VLM3 VLM 3 VLM 3 Internet VLM 3 CIF (352 x 288 pixel) (176 x 144) 1:900 500KB VLM 3 Windows Video for Windows AVI 30 VLM 3 QCIF Video for A7N266 93 - Asus A7N266 | Motherboard DIY Troubleshooting Guide - Page 94
VideoLive Mail 6.6.1 VideoLive Mail VideoLive Mail VideoLive Mail VideoLive Mail x.x VLM3 CyberLink 6.6.2 VideoLive Mail 94 A7N266
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