Contents

 

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

Manual 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 MyLogo2™...........................................................

5-9

 

5.3.2

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

5-11

 

5.3.3

ASUS AI Suite...............................................................

5-17

 

5.3.4

ASUS EPU Utility -- AI Gear 3+......................................

5-19

 

5.3.5

ASUS AI Nap.................................................................

5-21

 

5.3.6

ASUS Q-Fan 2...............................................................

5-22

 

5.3.7

ASUS AI Booster...........................................................

5-23

 

5.3.8

AI Audio 2 (SoundMAX® High Definition Audio utility)...

5-24

 

5.3.9

ASUS Express Gate......................................................

5-33

5.4

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

5-40

 

5.4.1

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

5-40

 

5.4.2

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

5-41

 

5.4.3

Marvell® eSATA RAID configurations.............................

5-48

 

5.4.4

Marvell® SAS RAID configurations................................

5-54

5.5

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

5-63

 

5.5.1

Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS....

5-63

 

5.5.2

Creating a SATA RAID driver disk in Windows®............

5-63

Chapter 6:NVIDIA® SLI™ technology support

 

6.1

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

6-1

 

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

6-1

6.2

Graphics card setup.....................................................................

6-2

 

6.2.1

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

6-2

 

6.2.2

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

6-5

 

6.2.3

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

6-6

 

6.2.4

Enabling the NVIDIA® SLI™ technology in Windows®.....

6-6

Appendix:CPU features

 

A.1 Intel® EM64T..................................................................................

A-1

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