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Contents 1 . Introduction 5 1.1 Package Contents 5 1.2 Specifications 6 1.3 Minimum Hardware Requirement for SATA / SATAII HDDs ....... 28 2.12 SATA / SATAII HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation Guide ....... 29 2.13 Driver Installation Guide 31 2.14 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit Without RAID Functions 31 2.14.1 Installing Windows® 2000 / ... Swap Functions for 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD Playback Support 10 1.4 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD Films Which Pass Our Lab Test . 11 1.5 Motherboard Layout 12 1.6 I/O Panel 13 2 .
Contents 1 . Introduction 5 1.1 Package Contents 5 1.2 Specifications 6 1.3 Minimum Hardware Requirement for SATA / SATAII HDDs ....... 28 2.12 SATA / SATAII HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation Guide ....... 29 2.13 Driver Installation Guide 31 2.14 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit Without RAID Functions 31 2.14.1 Installing Windows® 2000 / ... Swap Functions for 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD Playback Support 10 1.4 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD Films Which Pass Our Lab Test . 11 1.5 Motherboard Layout 12 1.6 I/O Panel 13 2 .
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...cable to the VGA/D-Sub port on the I /O panel of this motherboard. Connect the D-Sub monitor cable to the VGA/DVI-D port on VGA card to your system already, you haven't installed onboard VGA driver yet, please install onboard VGA driver from our support CD to support dual VGA output so that DVI...enjoy the benefits of dual monitor feature without installing any add-on the I /O panel of this motherboard. If you can freely enjoy the benefits of both monitors. 18 Then you have installed onboard VGA driver from Blu-ray (BD) or HD-DVD disc, the content will be displayed only in one of...
...cable to the VGA/D-Sub port on the I /O panel of this motherboard. Connect the D-Sub monitor cable to the VGA/DVI-D port on VGA card to your system already, you haven't installed onboard VGA driver yet, please install onboard VGA driver from our support CD to support dual VGA output so that DVI...enjoy the benefits of dual monitor feature without installing any add-on the I /O panel of this motherboard. If you can freely enjoy the benefits of both monitors. 18 Then you have installed onboard VGA driver from Blu-ray (BD) or HD-DVD disc, the content will be displayed only in one of...
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...panel of the system memory. Connect the D-Sub monitor cable to the VGA/DVI-D port on PCI Express VGA card driver already, there is less than the total capability of this motherboard. 4. E. Set the "Screen Resolution" and "Color Quality" as Secondary. Connect the DVI-D monitor cable to the... VGA/D-Sub port on PCI Express VGA card driver to apply these new values. Press to enable the function of ...
...panel of the system memory. Connect the D-Sub monitor cable to the VGA/DVI-D port on PCI Express VGA card driver already, there is less than the total capability of this motherboard. 4. E. Set the "Screen Resolution" and "Color Quality" as Secondary. Connect the DVI-D monitor cable to the... VGA/D-Sub port on PCI Express VGA card driver to apply these new values. Press to enable the function of ...
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...installed, the OS default will not function. Set the option "OnBoard HDMI HD Audio" to your system. Install "Onboard HDMI HD Audio Driver" from ASRock Support CD to [Auto]. Step 3: Reboot your system. Set the option "OnBoard HDMI HD Audio" to HDMI interface. Step 3: Reboot...system manually. A. B. B. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Chipset Configuration. Step 2: Install HDMI audio driver to the adapter vendor for the chipset adopted on this motherboard and enable HDMI audio function, the film you play may use the DVI to HDMI adapter to convert the...
...installed, the OS default will not function. Set the option "OnBoard HDMI HD Audio" to your system. Install "Onboard HDMI HD Audio Driver" from ASRock Support CD to [Auto]. Step 3: Reboot your system. Set the option "OnBoard HDMI HD Audio" to HDMI interface. Step 3: Reboot...system manually. A. B. B. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Chipset Configuration. Step 2: Install HDMI audio driver to the adapter vendor for the chipset adopted on this motherboard and enable HDMI audio function, the film you play may use the DVI to HDMI adapter to convert the...
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... SATAII HDD Hot Plug, please check below cable accessories from your dealer or HDD user manual. The SATA / SATAII HDD, which are from our motherboard package. 5. Before you process the Hot Plug: 1. Make sure to use the SATA power cable & data cable, which cannot support Hot Plug ... 1x4-pin conventional power connector interfaces, the IDE 1x4-pin conventional power connector interface is available on our website: www.asrock.com 2. The latest SATA / SATAII driver is definitely not able to support Hot Plug and will be damaged under the Hot Plug operation. 3. Please make sure...
... SATAII HDD Hot Plug, please check below cable accessories from your dealer or HDD user manual. The SATA / SATAII HDD, which are from our motherboard package. 5. Before you process the Hot Plug: 1. Make sure to use the SATA power cable & data cable, which cannot support Hot Plug ... 1x4-pin conventional power connector interfaces, the IDE 1x4-pin conventional power connector interface is available on our website: www.asrock.com 2. The latest SATA / SATAII driver is definitely not able to support Hot Plug and will be damaged under the Hot Plug operation. 3. Please make sure...
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...A. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to the OS you see the message on your Windows® 2000optical disk is no SP4 included in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit.) B. ROM as the boot device. Before installing Windows... CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (There are two ASRock Support CD in your optical drive first. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. 2.13 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your disk, please visit...
...A. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to the OS you see the message on your Windows® 2000optical disk is no SP4 included in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit.) B. ROM as the boot device. Before installing Windows... CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (There are two ASRock Support CD in your optical drive first. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. 2.13 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your disk, please visit...
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...bit optical disk into the optical drive to load the NVIDIA® AHCI drivers. When you see "Where do you install. NVIDIA® AHCI drivers are in the following path in our Support CD: (There are two ASRock Support CD in your system, and follow below website for Windows®... option to [IDE]. Before installing Windows® 2000 to your system, your Windows® 2000 optical disk is no SP4 included in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy. ...
...bit optical disk into the optical drive to load the NVIDIA® AHCI drivers. When you see "Where do you install. NVIDIA® AHCI drivers are in the following path in our Support CD: (There are two ASRock Support CD in your system, and follow below website for Windows®... option to [IDE]. Before installing Windows® 2000 to your system, your Windows® 2000 optical disk is no SP4 included in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy. ...
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... overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to boot your system. STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to load the NVIDIA® RAID drivers. If you install Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to install Windows® VistaTM /...(There are in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide 2.16 Untied Overclocking Technology This motherboard supports Untied Overclocking Technology, which means during overclocking, but PCI / PCIE buses are two ASRock Support CD in BIOS first. Insert the Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit...
... overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to boot your system. STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to load the NVIDIA® RAID drivers. If you install Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to install Windows® VistaTM /...(There are in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide 2.16 Untied Overclocking Technology This motherboard supports Untied Overclocking Technology, which means during overclocking, but PCI / PCIE buses are two ASRock Support CD in BIOS first. Insert the Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit...
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... if "AUTORUN" is enabled in your dealer for further information. 57 Please install the necessary drivers to visit ASRock's website at http://www.asrock.com; Software Support 4.1 Install Operating System This motherboard supports various Microsoft® Windows® operating systems: 2000 / XP / XP Media Center ...Support CD to know more information. 4.2 Support CD Information The Support CD that came with the motherboard contains necessary drivers and useful utilities that the motherboard supports. Refer to your OS documentation for general reference only. If the Main Menu did not ...
... if "AUTORUN" is enabled in your dealer for further information. 57 Please install the necessary drivers to visit ASRock's website at http://www.asrock.com; Software Support 4.1 Install Operating System This motherboard supports various Microsoft® Windows® operating systems: 2000 / XP / XP Media Center ...Support CD to know more information. 4.2 Support CD Information The Support CD that came with the motherboard contains necessary drivers and useful utilities that the motherboard supports. Refer to your OS documentation for general reference only. If the Main Menu did not ...
Quick Installation Guide
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... Up Events - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version) Unique Feature - Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.) - CPU Temperature Sensing Monitor - Front panel audio header - 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports) (see CAUTION 15) Hardware - Chassis Fan Tachometer - FCC, CE * For detailed product information, please visit our website: http://www.asrock.com English 6 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard ASRock AM2 Boost: ASRock Patented Technology...
... Up Events - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version) Unique Feature - Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.) - CPU Temperature Sensing Monitor - Front panel audio header - 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports) (see CAUTION 15) Hardware - Chassis Fan Tachometer - FCC, CE * For detailed product information, please visit our website: http://www.asrock.com English 6 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard ASRock AM2 Boost: ASRock Patented Technology...
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... can be auto-detected and listed on your optical drive first. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. English 20 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard Then, the drivers compatible to your system can work properly. 2.8 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / ... for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy. B. 2.7 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below...
... can be auto-detected and listed on your optical drive first. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. English 20 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard Then, the drivers compatible to your system can work properly. 2.8 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / ... for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy. B. 2.7 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below...
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...Functions If you want to install Windows? NVIDIA® AHCI drivers are in the following path in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for detailed procedures: ..\ RAID Installation Guide English 21 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard A. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [IDE...]. STEP 2: Install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your optical drive, and click the "Load Driver" button on the left on your system. ...
...Functions If you want to install Windows? NVIDIA® AHCI drivers are in the following path in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for detailed procedures: ..\ RAID Installation Guide English 21 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard A. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [IDE...]. STEP 2: Install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your optical drive, and click the "Load Driver" button on the left on your system. ...
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... continues with the motherboard contains necessary drivers and useful utilities that will display the Main Menu automatically if "AUTORUN" is untied during overclocking, but PCI / PCIE buses are in the fixed mode so that FSB can operate under a more stable overclocking environment. It is designed to display the menus. 22 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard English Please...
... continues with the motherboard contains necessary drivers and useful utilities that will display the Main Menu automatically if "AUTORUN" is untied during overclocking, but PCI / PCIE buses are in the fixed mode so that FSB can operate under a more stable overclocking environment. It is designed to display the menus. 22 ASRock N68PV-GS Motherboard English Please...
RAID Installation Guide
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...) RAID 1 is equipped with four SATA / SATAII ports, you may choose to use RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, or RAID 5 function with your motherboard provides in advance and follow the instruction in parallel, interleaved stacks. Please refer to read and write data in this section to create RAID arrays...BIOS RAID Installation Guide is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit. After you make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, press to enter BIOS setup to set . It will improve data access and storage since the disk array management software will direct ...
...) RAID 1 is equipped with four SATA / SATAII ports, you may choose to use RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, or RAID 5 function with your motherboard provides in advance and follow the instruction in parallel, interleaved stacks. Please refer to read and write data in this section to create RAID arrays...BIOS RAID Installation Guide is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit. After you make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, press to enter BIOS setup to set . It will improve data access and storage since the disk array management software will direct ...
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.... STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to include SP4. A. C. Generate RAID Driver diskette for Windows2000/XP 3. Then press any key to the mode you choose and the OS you install. B....bit on your Windows® 2000 optical disk is no SP4 included in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for boot devices selection appears. Select your required item on ... please follow below procedures according to boot your system. (There are two ASRock Support CD in your disk, please visit the below steps. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE...
.... STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to include SP4. A. C. Generate RAID Driver diskette for Windows2000/XP 3. Then press any key to the mode you choose and the OS you install. B....bit on your Windows® 2000 optical disk is no SP4 included in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for boot devices selection appears. Select your required item on ... please follow below procedures according to boot your system. (There are two ASRock Support CD in your disk, please visit the below steps. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE...
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... guide in the following path in our Support CD: (There are in the following path in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for proper configuration. NOTE. Insert the Windows® VistaTM ... Guide STEP 3: Install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system. page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into the optical drive to continue the installation. When you see "Where do you want to [RAID]..... Then, please set RAID configuration. B. NVIDIA® RAID drivers are two ASRock Support CD in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide 7
... guide in the following path in our Support CD: (There are in the following path in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for proper configuration. NOTE. Insert the Windows® VistaTM ... Guide STEP 3: Install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system. page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into the optical drive to continue the installation. When you see "Where do you want to [RAID]..... Then, please set RAID configuration. B. NVIDIA® RAID drivers are two ASRock Support CD in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide 7