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® High Definition Audio utility........................

5-11

 

5.3.3

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

5-16

 

5.3.4

ASUS Music Alarm........................................................

5-22

 

5.3.5

ASUS Ai Booster...........................................................

5-25

5.4

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

5-26

 

5.4.1

RAID definitions.............................................................

5-26

 

5.4.2

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

5-27

5.5

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

5-34

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

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