® TUSL2-C Intel® 815EP ATX Motherboard USER’S MANUAL
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CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 7 1.1 How This Manual Is Organized .................................................. 7 1.2 Item Checklist ............................................................................. 7 2. FEATURES ........................................................................................ 8 2.1 The ASUS TUSL2-C .................................................................. 8 2.1.1 Specifications ........
CONTENTS 4.4 Advanced Menu ........................................................................ 58 4.4.1 Chip Configuration ........................................................ 61 4.4.2 I/O Device Configuration .............................................. 64 4.4.3 PCI Configuration ......................................................... 66 4.4.4 Shadow Configuration ................................................... 68 4.5 Power Menu .............................................................
FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • • This device may not cause harmful interference, and This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
1. INTRODUCTION 1. INTRODUCTION Manual / Checklist 1.1 How This Manual Is Organized This manual is divided into the following sections: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. INTRODUCTION FEATURES HARDWARE SETUP BIOS SETUP SOFTWARE SETUP SOFTWARE REFERENCE APPENDIX Manual information and checklist Production information and specifications Instructions on setting up the motherboard.
2. FEATURES 2.1 The ASUS TUSL2-C The ASUS TUSL2-C motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants advanced features processed by the fastest processors. 2.1.1 Specifications • 2.
2. FEATURES • • • • • • • • • • Around-the-Clock Intrusion Detection: Chassis intrusion circuitry can log chassis open events into LDCM.
2. FEATURES 2.1.2 Optional Components The following onboard components are optional at the time of purchase: • Onboard Audio: C-Media Audio Chip CMI8738 supporting the latest PCI 6 channel and HRTF 3D Audio sound circuitry. A software package helps setup the multi-channel PC sound system. • Smart Card Reader Compatible: PC/SC compliant Smart Card Reader connectivity. 2. FEATURES Performance 2.1.
2. FEATURES 2.1.4 Intelligence • • • • • • • Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm: To prevent system overheat and system damage, the CPU, power supply, and system fans can be monitored for RPM and failure. All the fans are set for its normal RPM range and alarm thresholds. Temperature Monitoring and Alert: To prevent system overheat and system damage, this motherboard supports processor thermal sensing and auto-protection.
2. FEATURES 2.2 TUSL2-C Motherboard Components See opposite page for locations. Location Processor Support Socket 370 for Pentium III/Celeron (FC-PGA/2) Processors .. 2 Feature Setting DIP Switches ................................................... 6 2. FEATURES MB Components Chipsets Intel 815EP Chipset .................................................................. 3 Intel I/O Controller Hub 2 (ICH2) ......................................... 11 Low Pin Count (LPC) Multi-I/O Chipset .................
2. FEATURES 2.2.1 Component Locations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 27 2.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.1 TUSL2-C Motherboard Layout PS/2KBMS T: Mouse B: Keyboard KBPWR CPU_FAN Line In Mic In 4 5 DIP Switches 2 3 PRIMARY IDE 0 1 DSW FLOPPY 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.2 Layout Contents Motherboard Settings 1) JEN 2) USWR01 USWR56 3) AUDIO_EN 4) KBPWR 5) VIO 6) BCS1, BCS2 7) DSW p.18 JumperFree™ Mode (Enable/Disable) p.19 USB Device Wake Up (Enable/Disable) p.20 p.20 p.21 p.21 p.22 Onboard CMI8738 PCI 6 ch. Audio (Enable/Disable) Keyboard Power Up (Enable/Disable) Voltage I/O Setting (3.3V/3.40V/3.60V) Bass Center Setting (BASS/CENTER, CENTER/BASS) CPU External Frequency Setting p.24 p.26 p.27 p.28 p.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 19) 20) 21) 22) WOL_CON WOR_CON USB56 SMB p.38 p.38 p.39 p.39 Wake-On-LAN Connector (3 pin) Wake-On-Ring Connector (2 pin) USB Headers (10-1 pin) SMBus Connector (5-1 pin) 23) ATXPWR p.40 ATX Power Supply Connector (20 pin) 24) JTPWR p.40 Power Supply Thermal Sensor Connector (2 pin) 25) PWRLED (PANEL) p.41 System Power LED Lead (3-1 pin) 26) KEYLOCK (PANEL) p.41 Keyboard Lock Switch Lead (2 pin) 27) SPEAKER (PANEL) p.41 System Warning Speaker Connector (4 pin) 28) MSG.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.3 Hardware Setup Procedure Before using the computer, it is necessary to complete the following steps: • Check Motherboard Settings • Install Memory Modules • Install the Central Processing Unit (CPU) • Install Expansion Cards • Connect Ribbon Cables, Panel Wires, and Power Supply 3.4 Motherboard Settings 3. H/W SETUP Motherboard Settings WARNING! Computer motherboards and expansion cards contain delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips.
3. HARDWARE SETUP Motherboard Feature Settings The motherboard’s onboard functions are either adjusted through jumpers or DIP switches. When using DIP switches, the white block represents the switch position. The example below shows all the switches in the OFF position. ON 1 2 3 4 5 DSW ON OFF ® TUSL2-C TUSL2-C DIP Switches 1. Frequency Selection 2. Frequency Selection 3. Frequency Selection 4. Frequency Selection 5. Frequency Selection. 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 2) USB Device Wake Up (USWR01, USWR56) These jumpers disable or enable the USB device wake up function. Set these jumpers to Enable to wake up the computer with USB devices. This feature requires an ATX power supply that can supply at least 2A on the +5VSB lead. The default is set to Disable because not all computers have the appropriate ATX power supply. The computer will not power ON if the jumper is set to Enable and if the wrong ATX power supply is connected.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3) Onboard Audio Setting (AUDIO_EN) (audio model only) The onboard 6 channel Audio chip may be enabled or disabled using these jumpers. Disable the onboard Audio Codec if using a PCI audio card on any of the expansion slots or a primary audio/modem CNR on a CNR slot, (see section 3.7.3 CNR Slot). Setting AUDIO_EN Disable [1-2] Enable [2-3] (default) AUDIO_EN 2 3 1 2 ® 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 5) Voltage I/O Setting (VIO) This jumper sets the voltage supplied to the DRAM, chipset, AGP, and PCI. The default setting of 3.40V should be used unless processor overclocking requires a higher voltage. Setting VIO 3.30 V [1-2] 3.40 V [2-3] (default) 3.60 V [3-4] VIO 3 4 2 3 1 2 3.30 V 3.40 V 3.60 V (Default) 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 7) CPU External Frequency Setting (DSW) This option tells the clock generator what frequency to send to the CPU, DRAM, AGP, and the PCI bus. This permits the selection of the CPU’s External frequency. IMPORTANT: 1. In JumperFree mode, all DSW switches must be set to OFF. 2. When JumperFree mode is enabled, use BIOS setup in place of these switches (see CPU Internal Frequency in the Advanced Menu of BIOS Setup). NOTE: Only selected switches are illustrated.
3. HARDWARE SETUP External Frequency Table The following table is for use by experienced motherboard installers only. Overclocking can result in system instability or even shortening the life of the processor. 66:100 66:100 66:100 66:100 66:100 66:100 66:100 66:100 100:100 100:100 100:100 100:100 100:100 100:100 100:100 100:100 133:133 133:133 133:133 133:133 133:133 133:133 133:133 133:133 133:100 133:100 133:100 133:100 133:100 133:100 133:100 133:100 64.4 60.0 66.0 68.3 70.0 75.0 80.0 83.0 99.6 90.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.5 System Memory (DIMM) NOTE: No hardware or BIOS setup is required after adding or removing memory. This motherboard uses only Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs). Sockets are available for 3.3Volt (power level) unbuffered Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM). One side (with memory chips) of the DIMM takes up one row on the motherboard. Memory speed setup is possible through BIOS, Section 4.4.1 Chip Configuration. Install memory in any combination as follows: 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.5.2 Memory Installation WARNING! Make sure that you unplug your power supply when adding or removing memory modules or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards (see 3.3 Hardware Setup Procedure for more information). Insert the module(s) as shown. Because the number of pins are different on either side of the breaks, the module only fits in the orientation below.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.6 Central Processing Unit (CPU) The motherboard provides a ZIF Socket 370, for CPU installation. A fan and heatsink should be attached to the CPU to prevent overheating. Purchase and install a fan and heatsink before turning on the system. Pentium III Coppermine/ Celeron Gold Arrow Tualatin ® TUSL2-C TUSL2-C Socket 370 Gold Arrow 3. H/W SETUP CPU 1. Locate the Socket 370 and open it by pulling the lever gently sideways away from the socket. Then lift the lever upwards.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.7 Expansion Cards WARNING! 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 (see 3.3 Hardware Setup Procedure for more information). 3.7.1 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 3. H/W SETUP Expansion Cards 1. Read the documentation for your expansion card and make any necessary hardware or software settings for your expansion card, such as jumpers. 2.
3. HARDWARE SETUP Interrupt Request Table for this Motherboard Interrupt requests are shared as shown by the following table: 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.7.4 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Slot This motherboard provides an accelerated graphics port (AGP 4X) slot to support AGP graphics cards. ® TUSL2-C 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.8 External Connectors WARNING! Some pins are used for connectors or power sources. These are clearly distinguished from jumpers in the Motherboard Layout. Placing jumper caps over these connector pins will cause damage to your motherboard. IMPORTANT: Ribbon cables should always be connected with the red stripe to Pin 1 on the connectors. Pin 1 is usually on the side closest to the power connector on hard drives and CD-ROM drives, but may be on the opposite side on floppy disk drives.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 3) Universal Serial Bus Ports 0 & 1 (Black two 4-pin USB) Two USB ports are available for connecting USB devices. An optional USB header is available if you need more USB ports. USB 0 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1 3. H/W SETUP Connectors 4) Parallel Port Connector (Burgundy 25-pin PRINTER) You can enable the parallel port and choose the IRQ through Onboard Parallel Port (see 4.4.2 I/O Device Configuration). NOTE: Serial printers must be connected to the serial port.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 6) Game/MIDI Connector (Gold 15-pin GAME_AUDIO) (optional) You may connect game joysticks or game pads to this connector for playing games. Connect MIDI devices for playing or editing professional audio. Game/MIDI (15-pin Female) 3. H/W SETUP Connectors 7) Audio Port Connectors (Three 1/8” GAME_AUDIO) (optional) Line Out (lime) can be connected to headphones or preferably powered speakers.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 9) Primary (Blue) / Secondary IDE Connectors (Two 40-1pin IDE) These connectors support the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. Connect the cable’s blue connector to the motherboard’s primary (recommended) or secondary IDE connector, and then connect the gray connector to your UltraDMA/100 slave device (hard disk drive) and the black connector to your UltraDMA/100 master device. It is recommended that non-UltraDMA/100 devices be connected to the secondary IDE connector.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 10) IDE Activity LED (2-pin IDELED) 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. IDELED ® TUSL2-C TUSL2-C IDE Activity LED 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 12) Internal Audio Connectors (4-pin CD1, AUX, VIDEO, MODEM) These connectors allow you to receive stereo audio input from such sound sources as a CD-ROM, TV tuner, or MPEG card. The MODEM connector allows the onboard audio to interface with a voice modem card with a similar connector. AUX (White) Right Audio Channel Ground Left Audio Channel CD (Black) Right Audio Channel Ground Left Audio Channel Modem-Out Ground Modem-In ® TUSL2-C MODEM TUSL2-C Internal Audio Connectors 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP NC IRRX GND IRTX SMBDATA +3VSB SMBCLK LOCKKEY NC +5 V 15) ASUS iPanel Connector (12-1 pin AFPANEL) This connector allows you to attach an optional ASUS iPanel, an easy to access drive bay with front I/O ports, status LEDs, and space reserved for a hard disk drive.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 17) ASUS iPanel Audio Connector (12-1 pins AAPANEL) Connect the audio cable from the optional ASUS iPanel to this for front panel audio control. AAPANEL Line out_R AGND3 Line out_L ® MICPWR Line in_R AGND2 Line in_L AGND MIC2 TUSL2-C 3. H/W SETUP Connectors TUSL2-C Audio Panel Connectors 18) Chassis Intrusion Lead (2-pin ACHA) This lead is for a chassis designed for chassis intrusion detection.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 19) Wake-On-LAN Connector (3-pin WOL_CON) This connector supplies a LAN card with a Wake-On-LAN output, such as the ASUS PCI-L101 Ethernet card (see 7. Appendix). The connector powers up the system when a wakeup packet or signal is received through the LAN card. IMPORTANT: This feature requires that Wake On LAN or PCI Modem is enabled (see 4.5.1 Power Up Control) and that your system has an ATX power supply with at least 720mA +5V standby power.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 21) USB Headers (10-1-pin USB56) If the USB ports on the back panels are inadequate, one USB header is available for two additional USB ports. Connect the 10-1 pin ribbon cable from the provided 2-port USB connector set to the two midboard 10-1 pin USB header and mount the USB connector set to an open slot on your chassis. USB Power USBP3– USBP3+ GND USB56 10 6 5 1 ® TUSL2-C Front Panel USB Header 3.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 23) ATX Power Supply Connector (20-pin block ATXPWR) This connector attaches to an 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 pins are aligned. IMPORTANT: Make sure that your ATX power supply at least 10mA (750mA recommended) on the +5-volt standby lead (+5VSB).
3. HARDWARE SETUP The following is for items 25–31 +5V Ground Ground Speaker MLED+ MLEDExtSMI# Ground PWR GND PLED+ PLEDKeylock Ground Power LED Speaker Connector ® Message LED TUSL2-C SMI Lead TUSL2-C System Panel Connectors Reset Ground Keyboard Lock Reset SW ATX Power Switch* * Requires an ATX power supply. ASUS TUSL2-C User’s Manual 3.
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3. HARDWARE SETUP 3.9 Starting Up the First Time 1. After all connections are made, close the system case cover. 2. Be sure that all switches are off (in some systems, marked with ), and the power input voltage is set to comply with the standard used in your country (220V-240V or 110-120V). 3. Connect the power supply cord into the power supply located on the back of your system case according to your system user’s manual. 4.
3. HARDWARE SETUP 7. During power-on, hold down to enter BIOS setup. Follow the instructions in 4. BIOS SETUP. * Powering Off your computer: You must first exit or shut down your operating system before switching off the power switch. For ATX power supplies, you can press the ATX power switch after exiting or shutting down your operating system.
4. BIOS SETUP 4.1 Managing and Updating Your BIOS 4.1.1 Upon First Use of the Computer System It is recommended that you save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS along with a Flash Memory Writer utility (AFLASH.EXE) to a bootable floppy disk in case you need to reinstall the BIOS later. AFLASH.EXE is a Flash Memory Writer utility that updates the BIOS by uploading a new BIOS file to the programmable flash ROM on the motherboard. This file works only in DOS mode.
4. BIOS SETUP 5. Select 1. Save Current BIOS to File from the Main menu and press . The Save Current BIOS To File screen appears. 6. Type a filename and the path, for example, A:\XXX-XX.XXX and then press . 4.
4. BIOS SETUP 4.1.2 Updating BIOS Procedures WARNING! Update the BIOS only if you have problems with the motherboard and you know that the new BIOS revision will solve your problems. Careless updating can result in your motherboard having more problems! 4. BIOS SETUP Updating BIOS 1. Download an updated ASUS BIOS file from the Internet (WWW or FTP) (see ASUS CONTACT INFORMATION on page 3 for details) and save to the boot floppy disk you created earlier. 2. Boot from the floppy disk. 3.
4. BIOS SETUP 7. The utility starts to program the new BIOS information into the Flash ROM. The boot block is updated automatically only when necessary. This minimizes the possibilities of boot problems in case of update failures. When the programming is done, Flashed Successfully appears. 8. Follow the onscreen instructions to continue. 4. BIOS SETUP Updating BIOS WARNING! If you encounter problems while updating the new BIOS, DO NOT turn off the system because this may cause boot problems.
4. BIOS SETUP 4.2 BIOS Setup Program This motherboard supports a programmable EEPROM that can be updated using the provided utility as described in 4.1 Managing and Updating Your BIOS. The utility is used if you are installing a motherboard, reconfiguring your system, or prompted to “Run Setup”. This section describes how to configure your system using this utility. Even if you are not prompted to use the Setup program, at some time in the future you may want to change the configuration of your computer.
4. BIOS SETUP 4.2.1 BIOS Menu Bar The top of the screen has a menu bar with the following selections: MAIN Use this menu to make changes to the basic system configuration. ADVANCED Use this menu to enable and make changes to the advanced features. POWER Use this menu to configure and enable Power Management features. BOOT Use this menu to configure the default system device used to locate and load the Operating System. EXIT Use this menu to exit the current menu or specify how to exit the Setup program.
4. BIOS SETUP General Help In addition to the Item Specific Help window, the BIOS setup program also provides a General Help screen. This screen can be called up from any menu by simply pressing or the + combination. The General Help screen lists the legend keys with their corresponding alternates and functions. Saving Changes and Exiting the Setup Program See 4.7 Exit Menu for detailed information on saving changes and exiting the setup program.
4. BIOS SETUP 4.3 Main Menu When the Setup program is accessed, the following screen appears: 4. BIOS SETUP Main Menu System Time [XX:XX:XX] Sets your system to the time that you specify (usually the current time). The format is hour, minute, second. Valid values for hour, minute and second are Hour: (00 to 23), Minute: (00 to 59), Second: (00 to 59). Use the or + keys to move between the hour, minute, and second fields.
4. BIOS SETUP 4.3.1 Primary & Secondary Master/Slave 4. BIOS SETUP Master/Slave Drives NOTE: Before attempting to configure a hard disk drive, make sure you have the configuration information supplied by the manufacturer of the drive. Incorrect settings may cause your system to not recognize the installed hard disk. To allow the BIOS to detect the drive type automatically, select [Auto]. Type [Auto] Select [Auto] to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive.
