Contents

Chapter 5:Software support

 

5.1

Installing an operating system....................................................

5-1

5.2

Support DVD information.............................................................

5-1

 

5.2.1

Running the support DVD................................................

5-1

 

5.2.2

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

5-2

 

5.2.3

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

5-3

 

5.2.4

Make Disk menu..............................................................

5-5

 

5.2.5

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

5-6

 

5.2.6

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

5-6

 

5.2.7

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

5-7

5.3

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

5-9

 

5.3.1

ASUS MyLogo3...............................................................

5-9

 

5.3.2

SoundMAX ADI1988.......................................................

5-11

 

5.3.3

Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology..........................................

5-16

 

5.3.4

ASUS PC Probe II.........................................................

5-18

5.4

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

5-24

 

5.4.1

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

5-25

 

5.4.2

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

5-32

5.5

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

5-40

Chapter 6:NVIDIA® SLI™ technology support

 

6.1

Overview........................................................................................

6-1

6.2

Dual graphics card setup.............................................................

6-2

 

6.2.1

Installing SLI-ready graphics cards.................................

6-2

 

6.2.2

Installing the device drivers.............................................

6-5

 

6.2.3

Enabling the multi-GPU feature in Windows®.................

6-5

Appendix:Debug Code

 

A.1 Debug code table..........................................................................

A-1

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