User's Manual

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 Denition Audio utility) ... 5-24

5.3.9 ASUS Express Gate ..................................................... 5-33

5.4 RAID congurations .................................................................. 5-40

5.4.1 RAID denitions ............................................................ 5-40

5.4.2 NVIDIA

RAID congurations........................................ 5-41

5.4.3 Marvell

eSATA RAID congurations ............................ 5-48

5.4.4 Marvell

SAS RAID congurations ................................ 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