5.2.3

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

5-3

 

5.2.4

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

5-4

 

5.2.5

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

5-5

 

5.2.6

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

5-6

 

5.2.7

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

5-6

5.3

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

5-9

 

5.3.1

ASUS MyLogo2ª ....................................................

5-9

 

5.3.2

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

5-11

 

 

Using the Virtual Cable Testerª ...........................

5-11

 

5.3.3

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

5-12

 

5.3.4 Using the NVIDIA¨ Firewallª .................................

5-18

5.4

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

5-21

 

5.4.1

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

5-22

 

5.4.2

NVIDIA¨ RAID configurations ................................

5-23

 

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

5-30

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

5-37

Chapter 6: NVIDIA¨ SLIª technology support

6.1

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

6-1

 

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

6-1

6.2

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

6-2

 

6.2.1 Setting the ASUS EZ selector card .........................

6-2

 

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

6-4

 

6.2.3 Setting the SLI mode in BIOS .................................

6-8

 

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

6-8

 

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

6-8

Appendix: CPU features

A.1

Intel¨ EM64T ........................................................................

A-1

 

Using the Intel¨ EM64T feature ............................................

A-1

A.2

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep¨ Technology (EIST) ....................

A-1

 

A.2.1

System requirements .............................................

A-1

 

A.2.2

Using the EIST ........................................................

A-2

A.3

Intel¨ Hyper-Threading Technology ......................................

A-3

 

Using the Hyper-Threading Technology ...............................

A-3

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