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Asus P5Q-EM User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

• Due to the Intel

®

VGA driver issue, the Windows

®

Display Settings menu

may offer some resolution options that your monitor does not support.

When you set a resolution not supported by your monitor, it will black out. If

this happens, wait 15 seconds for the system to return to its original setting

or restart the system and press F8 to enter Safe Mode. In Safe Mode,

change the display setting to 800 x 600, and then restart the system to

adjust the monitor resolution from the Windows

®

Display Settings menu.

• Due to the Intel

®

driver issue, some monitor resolution settings will

lead to monitor overscan or underscan. Refer to the next page for the

troubleshooting on monitor overscan/underscan problem

Playback of HD DVD and Blu-Ray Discs

The speed and bandwidth of the CPU/Memory, DVD player, and drivers will

affect the playback quality. Following is a configuration example for your

reference. Using the CPU/Memory of higher speed and bandwidth with the

higher-version DVD player and drivers will upgrade the playback quality.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz

DIMM: DDR2-800 1GB

Playback software - CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra v8.0 1730.05

• To play HD DVD or Blu-Ray Disc, make sure to use an HDCP compliant

monitor.

• You can only play HD DVD or Blu-Ray Disc under Windows

®

Vista™ OS.

15. Optical S/PDIF Out port. This port connects an external audio output device

via an optical S/PDIF cable.

16. USB 2.0 ports 5 and 6. These 4-pin Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports are

available for connecting USB 2.0 devices.