who owns an Asus P4PE, some questions

[jaytone]

I am new to this board and need some help with its setup

1. In the BIOS in has the ULTRA DMA set to Disabled by default. Should I enable it and if so, what setting do I use. I have all the latest technology hardware, such as a Maxtor 80 gig 7200rpm, etc.

2. I see that it comes with a cable for the Firewire 1394. I have not installed it yet. I installed XP and in the Device Manager, it shows up. What do I have to do to use, it ? Do I just plugged the cable into the motherboard ?

3. There are two ports on the firewire, and each looks different, why ?

3. I have onboard sound and it came with a Digital Audio connector (SPDIF1) that says I can use it for Digital instead of analog. It only has one jack on it for the speakers. I have the Klipsch 4.1 and the Klipsch needs to be connected to two outputs, one for front speakers and one for back. How do I use this SPDIF connector for my speakers ?

Thanks

 

[corkyg]

Am in the process of building a P4PE system - and have gotten past the basic assemble and boot to floppy phase, thus accessing BIOS. The Ultra DMA setting default is disabled. This only shows if you manually select USER TYPE HDD. Set it to Auto and you won't see that option, and your UDMA will be correct.

The two Firewire ports are 6-wire and 4-wire. The 6-wire port is for devices requiring power from the computer. The 4-wire port is used for cameras, camcorders, and external devices that have their own power. To use the ports, you connect the Firewire cables red plugs to the two plugs bottom center of P4PE, and then the white ends go in the backplane port. Devices then plug into those ports - normally they are hot-plugged.

Can't answer your question on the digital audio port - I don't use that.

 

[jaytone]

Thank you

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

the SPDIF is only for digital speakers, you need to use the other sound plugs there should be one for front speakers and one for back and one for the SUB if you have a SUB

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: jaytone

3(b). I have onboard sound and it came with a Digital Audio connector (SPDIF1) that says I can use it for Digital instead of analog. It only has one jack on it for the speakers. I have the Klipsch 4.1 and the Klipsch needs to be connected to two outputs, one for front speakers and one for back. How do I use this SPDIF connector for my speakers ?

Thanks

My P4PE has 3 audio outputs. You can plug in the digital output in addition.

I have mine set up for multichannel sounds, so the speaker output is plugged to the front 2 speakers, and I believe (check the manual) that the microphone becomes the rear output.