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... card Installation 2-27 2.8 Connectors 2-28 2.8.1 Rear panel connectors 2-28 2.7.2 Internal connectors 2-30 2.8.3 Onboard switches 2-41 2.9 Starting up for the first time 2-43 2.10 Turning off the computer 2-44 2.10.1 Using the OS shut down function 2-44 2.10.2 Using the dual function power switch 2-44 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 3.1 Managing and updating your BIOS 3-1 3.1.1 ASUS...
... card Installation 2-27 2.8 Connectors 2-28 2.8.1 Rear panel connectors 2-28 2.7.2 Internal connectors 2-30 2.8.3 Onboard switches 2-41 2.9 Starting up for the first time 2-43 2.10 Turning off the computer 2-44 2.10.1 Using the OS shut down function 2-44 2.10.2 Using the dual function power switch 2-44 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 3.1 Managing and updating your BIOS 3-1 3.1.1 ASUS...
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...4.3.7 ASUS TurboV 4-25 4.4 RAID configurations 4-27 4.4.1 RAID definitions 4-27 4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 4-28 4.4.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 4-28 4.4.4 AMD® Option ROM Utility 4-28 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-32 4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS....... 4-32 4.5.2 Creating a RAID/SATA driver disk in Windows 4-32 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows® OS installation 4-32 4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive 4-33 Chapter 5: ATI® ...
...4.3.7 ASUS TurboV 4-25 4.4 RAID configurations 4-27 4.4.1 RAID definitions 4-27 4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 4-28 4.4.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 4-28 4.4.4 AMD® Option ROM Utility 4-28 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-32 4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS....... 4-32 4.5.2 Creating a RAID/SATA driver disk in Windows 4-32 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows® OS installation 4-32 4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive 4-33 Chapter 5: ATI® ...
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...1 port onboard) (continued on rear (SATA On-the-Go) * Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows® 32-bit operation system may ...installed memory of less than 3GB. Crosshair III Formula specifications summary CPU Chipset System Bus Memory Expansion Slots Multi-GPU Technology Storage LAN High Definition Audio IEEE 1394 AMD socket AM3 Phenom™ II / Athlon™ II / Sempron™ 100 Series...65533;�m����o��r�y *Refer to www.asus.com or user manual for up to 2 PATA devices - 5 x ...
...1 port onboard) (continued on rear (SATA On-the-Go) * Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows® 32-bit operation system may ...installed memory of less than 3GB. Crosshair III Formula specifications summary CPU Chipset System Bus Memory Expansion Slots Multi-GPU Technology Storage LAN High Definition Audio IEEE 1394 AMD socket AM3 Phenom™ II / Athlon™ II / Sempron™ 100 Series...65533;�m����o��r�y *Refer to www.asus.com or user manual for up to 2 PATA devices - 5 x ...
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...motherboard against static electricity and shields it ideally protects your favorite settings. ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 allows users to share and distribute their favorite settings. You can be stored in one easy step with one cable at a time, making it convenient and easy to install. ASUS Q-Connector The ASUS...® Anti-Virus engine, which is renowned for individual users and home offices. ASUS O.C. Simply launch this tool and update BIOS using an OS-based flash utility. 1-6 Chapter 1: Product Introduction It is a user-friendly BIOS update...
...motherboard against static electricity and shields it ideally protects your favorite settings. ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 allows users to share and distribute their favorite settings. You can be stored in one easy step with one cable at a time, making it convenient and easy to install. ASUS Q-Connector The ASUS...® Anti-Virus engine, which is renowned for individual users and home offices. ASUS O.C. Simply launch this tool and update BIOS using an OS-based flash utility. 1-6 Chapter 1: Product Introduction It is a user-friendly BIOS update...
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...menu for better overclocking capability. • Always install DIMMs with the same CAS latency. To operate at the vendormarked or at a lower frequency than the vendor-marked value. For effective use a more memory installed on the motherboard. • This motherboard does not support DIMMs made up of the... lower-sized channel for the OS can be about 3GB or less. Any excess memory from the higher-sized channel...
...menu for better overclocking capability. • Always install DIMMs with the same CAS latency. To operate at the vendormarked or at a lower frequency than the vendor-marked value. For effective use a more memory installed on the motherboard. • This motherboard does not support DIMMs made up of the... lower-sized channel for the OS can be about 3GB or less. Any excess memory from the higher-sized channel...
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... ASUS website at any time without notice. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-1 Refer to locate the file ASSETUP.EXE from the BIN folder. The DVD automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is NOT enabled in your OS documentation for detailed information. • Ensure that you can install to install If Autorun is enabled in your hardware. • Motherboard...
... ASUS website at any time without notice. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-1 Refer to locate the file ASSETUP.EXE from the BIN folder. The DVD automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is NOT enabled in your OS documentation for detailed information. • Ensure that you can install to install If Autorun is enabled in your hardware. • Motherboard...
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...• For system stability, set ASUS EPU to High Performance Mode while ...proceed more detailed adjustments using ASUS TurboV. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-25 For advanced overclocking:... the OS. Install the ASUS TurboV utility from 200MHz to 500MHz in TurboV. 4.3.7 ASUS TurboV ASUS TurboV allows... you to overclock the CPU frequency, CPU voltage, QPI/ Memory controller voltage, and DRAM voltage in WIndows® environment and takes effect in ASUS... TurboV will not be saved to BIOS settings and will not be kept on the next system boot. To launch ASUS...
...• For system stability, set ASUS EPU to High Performance Mode while ...proceed more detailed adjustments using ASUS TurboV. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-25 For advanced overclocking:... the OS. Install the ASUS TurboV utility from 200MHz to 500MHz in TurboV. 4.3.7 ASUS TurboV ASUS TurboV allows... you to overclock the CPU frequency, CPU voltage, QPI/ Memory controller voltage, and DRAM voltage in WIndows® environment and takes effect in ASUS... TurboV will not be saved to BIOS settings and will not be kept on the next system boot. To launch ASUS...
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...data striping and data mirroring combined without parity (redundancy data) having to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation. If one drive to Windows® XP / Vista limitation, a RAID array with the AMD SB750 chipset that of RAID 5...get all applications to configure Serial ATA hard disk drives as RAID volumes. RAID 5 stripes both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-27 The motherboard supports the following RAID configurations: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10. • You must be calculated and written. Among...
...data striping and data mirroring combined without parity (redundancy data) having to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation. If one drive to Windows® XP / Vista limitation, a RAID array with the AMD SB750 chipset that of RAID 5...get all applications to configure Serial ATA hard disk drives as RAID volumes. RAID 5 stripes both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-27 The motherboard supports the following RAID configurations: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10. • You must be calculated and written. Among...
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... Place the motherboard support DVD into the floppy disk drive. 5. Insert a floppy disk into the optical drive. 3. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to enter the BIOS setup utility. 3. Press during Windows® OS installation To install the RAID ...is included in Windows® 1. Save changes and exit BIOS. 6. To work around this OS limitation, refer to avoid a computer virus infection. 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during POST to install third-party SCSI or RAID driver. 2. Start Windows®. 2. 4.5 Creating a RAID driver...
... Place the motherboard support DVD into the floppy disk drive. 5. Insert a floppy disk into the optical drive. 3. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to enter the BIOS setup utility. 3. Press during Windows® OS installation To install the RAID ...is included in Windows® 1. Save changes and exit BIOS. 6. To work around this OS limitation, refer to avoid a computer virus infection. 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during POST to install third-party SCSI or RAID driver. 2. Start Windows®. 2. 4.5 Creating a RAID driver...
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... issue, add the USB floppy disk drive's Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) to complete the installation. Select Device Manager. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-33 Follow the succeeding screen instructions to the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. When prompted to select the ...SCSI adapter to install, ensure that you install the RAID driver from a floppy disk during the OS installation. The name of the ...
... issue, add the USB floppy disk drive's Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) to complete the installation. Select Device Manager. ROG Crosshair III Formula 4-33 Follow the succeeding screen instructions to the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. When prompted to select the ...SCSI adapter to install, ensure that you install the RAID driver from a floppy disk during the OS installation. The name of the ...
