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Asus M3A78 Quick Start Manual

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Welcome!

ASUS unique features

express gate

Before you proceed

Motherboard overview

Placement direction

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Installing the heatsink and fan

System memory

Installing a DIMM

Expansion slots

interrupt assignments

irq assignments for this motherboard

PCI slots

Jumpers

Connectors

Internal connectors

bios setup

Managing and updating your BIOS

AFUDOS utility

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility

recovering the bios from the support dvd

ASUS EZ Flash 2 utility

ASUS Update utility

BIOS setup program

BIOS menu screen

Navigation keys

Pop-up window

Main menu

Primary IDE Master/Slave

SATA 1-6

SATA Configuration

System Information

Advanced menu

CPU Configuration

Chipset

ecc configuration

Onboard Device Configuration

PCIPnP

USB Configuration

Power menu

APM Configuration

HW Monitor Configuration

Boot menu

Boot Device Priority

Security

change user password

Tools menu

Express Gate

Exit menu

software support

Installing an operating system

Drivers menu

Utilities menu

Make Disk menu

Manual menu

ASUS Contact information

technical support form

ASUS Express Gate

using the configuration panel

using the launchbar

updating express gate

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