Contents

5.2

Support CD information ........................................................

5-1

 

5.2.1 Running the support CD..........................................

5-1

 

5.2.2

Drivers menu...........................................................

5-2

 

5.2.3

Utilities menu ..........................................................

5-3

 

5.2.4

Manuals menu .........................................................

5-5

 

5.2.5

ASUS Contact information ......................................

5-6

 

5.2.6

Other information ...................................................

5-6

5.4

Software information............................................................

5-9

 

5.4.1

ASUS MyLogo2™.....................................................

5-9

 

5.4.2

AI NET 2................................................................

5-11

 

 

Using the Virtual Cable Tester™ ...........................

5-11

 

5.4.3

Audio configurations.............................................

5-12

 

5.4.4 Using the NVIDIA® Firewall™..................................

5-18

5.5

RAID configurations ............................................................

5-21

 

5.5.1

Installing hard disks...............................................

5-22

 

5.5.2

NVIDIA® RAID configurations.................................

5-23

 

5.5.3 Silicon Image RAID configurations.........................

5-30

5.6

Creating a RAID driver disk .................................................

5-40

5.7

Cool ʻnʼ Quiet!™ Technology ...............................................

5-41

 

5.7.1 Enabling Cool ʻnʼ Quiet!™ Technology ...................

5-41

 

5.7.2 Launching the Cool ʻnʼ Quiet!™ software ..............

5-42

5.8

Using the NVIDIA® nTune™ utility .......................................

5-43

 

5.8.1 Managing your nForce™ system............................

5-43

 

5.8.2

Clock control.........................................................

5-44

 

5.8.3

Voltage/Fan control..............................................

5-44

 

5.8.4

Information ...........................................................

5-45

 

5.8.5

Other options........................................................

5-45

5.9

Using the ASUS AI Selector utility ......................................

5-46

 

5.9.1 Launching the ASUS AI Selector ...........................

5-46

 

5.9.2 Using the SLI mode...............................................

5-47

Chapter 6: SLI™ technology support

6.1 Overview...............................................................................

6-1

6.1.1

Requirements ..........................................................

6-1

6.1.2

ASUS Certified SLI Graphics cards ..........................

6-1

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