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Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
Safety information ....................................................................................... v
Electrical safety ..................................................................................v
Operation safety .................................................................................v
1.1
Installing the CPU ........................................................................ 1-1
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.1.4
1.1.5
1.1.6
1.1.7
1.1.8
1.2
Installing the heatsink and fan .................................................. 1-19
1.3
Installing a DIMM ........................................................................ 1-21
1.4
Installing the motherboard ........................................................ 1-23
1.5
Installing the power supply unit ............................................... 1-24
1.6
Installing an expansion card ..................................................... 1-25
1.7
Installing disk drives .................................................................. 1-26
1.7.1
1.7.2
1.7.3
1.7.4
1.7.5
1.7.6
1.8
Front panel cables ..................................................................... 1-33
1.9
Connecting the ATX power ........................................................ 1-34
1.10
Peripheral devices and accessories ........................................ 1-36
1.11
Starting up for the first time ...................................................... 1-37
2.1
AFUDOS utility ............................................................................. 2-1
2.2
Award BIOS Flash Utility ............................................................ 2-3
2.3
ASUS Update utility ..................................................................... 2-6
Intel LGA775 Socket ....................................................... 1-1
Intel LGA1366 Socket ..................................................... 1-3
Intel LGA1156 Socket ..................................................... 1-5
Intel LGA1155 Socket (1) ................................................ 1-7
Intel LGA1155 Socket (2) ................................................ 1-9
Intel LGA2011 Socket ....................................................1-11
AMD AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 Socket ................................... 1-15
AMD AM3+ Socket ........................................................ 1-17
PATA optical disk drive .................................................. 1-26
SATA optical disk drive .................................................. 1-27
Floppy disk drive ........................................................... 1-28
PATA hard disk drive ..................................................... 1-29
SATA hard disk drive ..................................................... 1-31
SAS hard disk drive ...................................................... 1-32
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