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... 5.3.7 ASUS AI Nap 5-31 5.3.8 ASUS Q-Fan 2 5-32 5.3.9 ASUS AI Booster 5-33 5.3.10 ASUS Express Gate 5-34 5.4 RAID configurations 5-42 5.4.1 RAID definitions 5-42 5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations 5-43 5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 5-50 5.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS.... 5-50 5.5.2 Creating a RAID/SATA driver disk in Windows 5-50 Chapter 6: NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI™...
... 5.3.7 ASUS AI Nap 5-31 5.3.8 ASUS Q-Fan 2 5-32 5.3.9 ASUS AI Booster 5-33 5.3.10 ASUS Express Gate 5-34 5.4 RAID configurations 5-42 5.4.1 RAID definitions 5-42 5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations 5-43 5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 5-50 5.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS.... 5-50 5.5.2 Creating a RAID/SATA driver disk in Windows 5-50 Chapter 6: NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI™...
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...system. • Chapter 4: BIOS setup This chapter tells how to the ASUS contact information. 2. These documents are also provided. • Chapter 5: Software support This chapter describes the contents of the motherboard and the new technology it supports. • Chapter 2: Hardware information ...may include optional documentation, such as warranty flyers, that comes with the motherboard package and the software. • Chapter 6: nVIDIA Hybrid SLI™ support This chapter describes the nVIDIA Hybrid SLI™ feature and shows the graphics card installation procedures. Where to ...
...system. • Chapter 4: BIOS setup This chapter tells how to the ASUS contact information. 2. These documents are also provided. • Chapter 5: Software support This chapter describes the contents of the motherboard and the new technology it supports. • Chapter 2: Hardware information ...may include optional documentation, such as warranty flyers, that comes with the motherboard package and the software. • Chapter 6: nVIDIA Hybrid SLI™ support This chapter describes the nVIDIA Hybrid SLI™ feature and shows the graphics card installation procedures. Where to ...
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...65533;E���C���C�/ non-ECC DDR2 1066*/800/667 MHz memory modules - Hybrid SLI Support (For Windows Vista only) - Multi VGA output support: HDMI/DVI & D-Sub - HyperTransport™...in�g� - Supports DVI Technology with max. resolution up to 5200 MT/s; M3N72-D specifications summary CPU Chipset System bus Memory VGA Expansion slots Storage LAN High Definition audio... - Integrated NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 Series GPU - resolution up to www.asus.com or this user manual for the Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists). ** When ...
...65533;E���C���C�/ non-ECC DDR2 1066*/800/667 MHz memory modules - Hybrid SLI Support (For Windows Vista only) - Multi VGA output support: HDMI/DVI & D-Sub - HyperTransport™...in�g� - Supports DVI Technology with max. resolution up to 5200 MT/s; M3N72-D specifications summary CPU Chipset System bus Memory VGA Expansion slots Storage LAN High Definition audio... - Integrated NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 Series GPU - resolution up to www.asus.com or this user manual for the Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists). ** When ...
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...SLI bridge 1 x USB module (2 USB 2.0 ports) Application DVD ASUS motherboard support DVD Documentation User guide If any of ASUS quality motherboards! 1.1 Welcome! Thank you start installing the motherboard, and hardware devices on it another standout in your package with the list below. 1.2 Package contents Check your retailer. ASUS M3N72-D 1-1 The motherboard... is damaged or missing, contact your motherboard package for buying an ASUS® M3N72-D motherboard! Before you for the following items. Motherboard ASUS M3N72-D Cables S�e��ri�...
...SLI bridge 1 x USB module (2 USB 2.0 ports) Application DVD ASUS motherboard support DVD Documentation User guide If any of ASUS quality motherboards! 1.1 Welcome! Thank you start installing the motherboard, and hardware devices on it another standout in your package with the list below. 1.2 Package contents Check your retailer. ASUS M3N72-D 1-1 The motherboard... is damaged or missing, contact your motherboard package for buying an ASUS® M3N72-D motherboard! Before you for the following items. Motherboard ASUS M3N72-D Cables S�e��ri�...
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...Discs, HDMI provides you with the highest-quality home theater experience. NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI Technology Hybrid SLI™ Technology is bundled with an HDMI-to the motherboard GPU for a quiet, low power PC experience. Supporting HDCP copy protection such as ...SATA) 3Gb/s storage specifications, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus bandwidth for everyday computing needs. This motherboard is a unique hybrid multi-GPU technology. ASUS M3N72-D 1-3 HDMI/DVI/D-Sub Interface HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a set of discrete graphics cards when...
...Discs, HDMI provides you with the highest-quality home theater experience. NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI Technology Hybrid SLI™ Technology is bundled with an HDMI-to the motherboard GPU for a quiet, low power PC experience. Supporting HDCP copy protection such as ...SATA) 3Gb/s storage specifications, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus bandwidth for everyday computing needs. This motherboard is a unique hybrid multi-GPU technology. ASUS M3N72-D 1-3 HDMI/DVI/D-Sub Interface HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a set of discrete graphics cards when...
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...PCIe card PCI Express operating mode PCIex16_1 PCIex16_2 x16 x8 x8 x8 • Currently, only Windows® Vista operation system supports Hybrid SLI™ mode. • Currently, only NVIDIA® GeForce® 8500 GT and GeForce® 8400 GS graphics cards support GeForce ...mode. • Visit www.nvidia.com/hybridsli for more information about Hybrid SLI™ support. • If you install two VGA cards, we recommend that you plug the rear chassis fan cable to the motherboard connector labeled CHA_FAN1 for the connector location. 2-24 Chapter 2: Hardware information See...
...PCIe card PCI Express operating mode PCIex16_1 PCIex16_2 x16 x8 x8 x8 • Currently, only Windows® Vista operation system supports Hybrid SLI™ mode. • Currently, only NVIDIA® GeForce® 8500 GT and GeForce® 8400 GS graphics cards support GeForce ...mode. • Visit www.nvidia.com/hybridsli for more information about Hybrid SLI™ support. • If you install two VGA cards, we recommend that you plug the rear chassis fan cable to the motherboard connector labeled CHA_FAN1 for the connector location. 2-24 Chapter 2: Hardware information See...
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Make sure to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the motherboard support DVD. • SATA 5-6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Connect the right-angle side of SATA signal cable to SATA 5-6 connectors. Or ... RAID mode together. • You must install the Windows XP® Service Pack 1 before connecting devices to SATA device. right angle side ASUS M3N72-D 2-31 NVIDIA® nForce 750a SLI Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6) These connectors are set to avoid mechanical conflict with huge graphics cards. If you can create a RAID 0, RAID...
Make sure to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the motherboard support DVD. • SATA 5-6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Connect the right-angle side of SATA signal cable to SATA 5-6 connectors. Or ... RAID mode together. • You must install the Windows XP® Service Pack 1 before connecting devices to SATA device. right angle side ASUS M3N72-D 2-31 NVIDIA® nForce 750a SLI Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6) These connectors are set to avoid mechanical conflict with huge graphics cards. If you can create a RAID 0, RAID...
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... support. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] AMD Cool'n'Quiet Function [Disabled] Enables or disables the AMD Cool'n'Quiet function. ASUS M3N72-D 4-21 Configuration options: [Auto] [MaxMemClk] [Manual] Memory Clock Frequency [Auto] This item becomes user-configurable when you...Technology allows a hardware platform to run multiple operating systems separately and simultaneously, enabling one system to enable or disable the Hybrid SLI function if you install a Hybrid SLIsupport graphics card. Technology. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disable]. Configuration options: [Disabled] ...
... support. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] AMD Cool'n'Quiet Function [Disabled] Enables or disables the AMD Cool'n'Quiet function. ASUS M3N72-D 4-21 Configuration options: [Auto] [MaxMemClk] [Manual] Memory Clock Frequency [Auto] This item becomes user-configurable when you...Technology allows a hardware platform to run multiple operating systems separately and simultaneously, enabling one system to enable or disable the Hybrid SLI function if you install a Hybrid SLIsupport graphics card. Technology. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disable]. Configuration options: [Disabled] ...
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... Driver Installs the AMD® Cool 'n' Quiet™ technology driver. Installation Wizard for the NVIDIA® nForce™ 750a SLI chipset. Realtek Audio Driver Installs the Realtek® ALC1200 audio driver and application. ASUS InstAll - Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices. AMD Live Installs the AMD® Live driver. 5-2 Chapter...
... Driver Installs the AMD® Cool 'n' Quiet™ technology driver. Installation Wizard for the NVIDIA® nForce™ 750a SLI chipset. Realtek Audio Driver Installs the Realtek® ALC1200 audio driver and application. ASUS InstAll - Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices. AMD Live Installs the AMD® Live driver. 5-2 Chapter...
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Due to create NVIDIA AHCI driver disks for 32/64bit Windows® XP. Find RAID driver in the support DVD/DVD through the motherboard support DVD/DVD or a USB device. Click to display the next page Click to return to the previous page NVIDIA 32/64bit XP SATA RAID ... driver through the path below : Drivers\Chipset\Disk\RAID Find AHCI driver in the support DVD/DVD through the path below : Drivers\Chipset\Disk\AHCI ASUS M3N72-D 5-5 5.2.4 Make Disk menu The Make Disk menu contains items to create NVIDIA SATA RAID driver disks for 32/64bit Windows® XP. NVIDIA 32/64bit...
Due to create NVIDIA AHCI driver disks for 32/64bit Windows® XP. Find RAID driver in the support DVD/DVD through the motherboard support DVD/DVD or a USB device. Click to display the next page Click to return to the previous page NVIDIA 32/64bit XP SATA RAID ... driver through the path below : Drivers\Chipset\Disk\RAID Find AHCI driver in the support DVD/DVD through the path below : Drivers\Chipset\Disk\AHCI ASUS M3N72-D 5-5 5.2.4 Make Disk menu The Make Disk menu contains items to create NVIDIA SATA RAID driver disks for 32/64bit Windows® XP. NVIDIA 32/64bit...
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...want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in parallel, interleaved stacks. 5.4 RAID configurations The motherboard comes with the NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI chipset that allows you to configure Serial ATA hard disk drives as a single disk on multiple disks that ...Among the advantages of the same size or larger than the existing drive. JBOD (Spanning) stands for details. 5-42 Chapter 5: Software support The motherboard supports the following RAID configurations: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD. 5.4.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical...
...want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in parallel, interleaved stacks. 5.4 RAID configurations The motherboard comes with the NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI chipset that allows you to configure Serial ATA hard disk drives as a single disk on multiple disks that ...Among the advantages of the same size or larger than the existing drive. JBOD (Spanning) stands for details. 5-42 Chapter 5: Software support The motherboard supports the following RAID configurations: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD. 5.4.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical...
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... hard disks for six independent Serial ATA channels. Refer to the RAID controllers user manual in the NVIDIA® nForce™ 750a SLI chipset. To set any of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1,...motherboard includes a high performance SATA RAID controller integrated in the motherboard support DVD for detailed information on RAID configurations. Set the SATA Operation Mode item to enter the BIOS Setup Utility. 2. Connect a SATA power cable to install the Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later versions. ASUS M3N72-D...
... hard disks for six independent Serial ATA channels. Refer to the RAID controllers user manual in the NVIDIA® nForce™ 750a SLI chipset. To set any of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1,...motherboard includes a high performance SATA RAID controller integrated in the motherboard support DVD for detailed information on RAID configurations. Set the SATA Operation Mode item to enter the BIOS Setup Utility. 2. Connect a SATA power cable to install the Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later versions. ASUS M3N72-D...
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This chapter describes the NVIDIA NVIDIA Hybrid S6LI™ Hybrid SLI™ feature and shows the graphics card installation procedures. ® technology support
This chapter describes the NVIDIA NVIDIA Hybrid S6LI™ Hybrid SLI™ feature and shows the graphics card installation procedures. ® technology support
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Chapter summary 6 6.1 NVIDIA SLI Technology 6-1 6.2 NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Technology 6-5 ASUS M3N72-D
Chapter summary 6 6.1 NVIDIA SLI Technology 6-1 6.2 NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Technology 6-5 ASUS M3N72-D
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...; x16 graphics cards. ASUS M3N72-D 6-1 We recommend that you to the graphics card/s. Insert one graphics card into the PCIEX16_1 slot (blue) and the other into the PCIEX16_2 slot (black). Make sure that your system. See page 2-36 for details. 6.1 NVIDIA® SLI™ technology The motherboard supports the NVIDIA® SLI™ (Scalable Link...
...; x16 graphics cards. ASUS M3N72-D 6-1 We recommend that you to the graphics card/s. Insert one graphics card into the PCIEX16_1 slot (blue) and the other into the PCIEX16_2 slot (black). Make sure that your system. See page 2-36 for details. 6.1 NVIDIA® SLI™ technology The motherboard supports the NVIDIA® SLI™ (Scalable Link...
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... appears (see the NVIDIA Control Panel item in Windows® After installing your PCI Express graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA® SLI™ technology. A. Right click on page 6-4). If you do not see Step B5 on the empty space of the Windows®...Panel. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website (www.nvidia.com). 6.1.4 Enabling the NVIDIA® SLI™ technology in Step A, select Personalize. 6-2 Chapter 6: NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI™ technology support 6.1.3 Installing the device drivers Refer to install the device drivers. Make sure that came...
... appears (see the NVIDIA Control Panel item in Windows® After installing your PCI Express graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA® SLI™ technology. A. Right click on page 6-4). If you do not see Step B5 on the empty space of the Windows®...Panel. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website (www.nvidia.com). 6.1.4 Enabling the NVIDIA® SLI™ technology in Step A, select Personalize. 6-2 Chapter 6: NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI™ technology support 6.1.3 Installing the device drivers Refer to install the device drivers. Make sure that came...
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Click Enable SLI and set the display for viewing SLI rendered content. When done, click Apply. 6-4 Chapter 6: NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI™ technology support B5. Enabling SLI configuration From the NVIDIA Control Panel window, select Set SLI Configuration. The NVIDIA Control Panel window appears.
Click Enable SLI and set the display for viewing SLI rendered content. When done, click Apply. 6-4 Chapter 6: NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI™ technology support B5. Enabling SLI configuration From the NVIDIA Control Panel window, select Set SLI Configuration. The NVIDIA Control Panel window appears.
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...8226; HybridPower and GeForce Boost are connected to the mGPU for the motherboard GPU ASUS M3N72-D 6-5 Go to www.nvidia.com/hybridsli to learn the supported GPUs. 6.2.1 System requirements Before using Hybrid SLI, make sure if your system meets the following requirements: For best... • Discrete GPU recommended for HybridPower • At least 256MB of dGPUs. 6.2 NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI® Technology The motherboard supports the NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI® technology that �in�c��lu�d��e�s��tw��...
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...GeForce Boost is correctly installed, you have installed a dGPU recommended for GeForce Boost on the taskbar. Save your dGPU is detected. Visit www.asus.com for details. Advanced Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Chipset Select Menu Hybrid Support [Auto] iGPU Frame Buffer Control [Auto] x ... DVD into the optical drive, and go to the Drivers menu to [Auto]. The onboard GPU will find the Hybrid SLI icon on your motherboard. The Hybrid SLI icon indicates that the system is in Performance mode and that your changes and Exit Setup. 4. 6.2.2 Enabling GeForce® Boost...
...GeForce Boost is correctly installed, you have installed a dGPU recommended for GeForce Boost on the taskbar. Save your dGPU is detected. Visit www.asus.com for details. Advanced Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Chipset Select Menu Hybrid Support [Auto] iGPU Frame Buffer Control [Auto] x ... DVD into the optical drive, and go to the Drivers menu to [Auto]. The onboard GPU will find the Hybrid SLI icon on your motherboard. The Hybrid SLI icon indicates that the system is in Performance mode and that your changes and Exit Setup. 4. 6.2.2 Enabling GeForce® Boost...
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The mGPU is being done by the dGPU. Click the Hybrid SLI icon and select Save Power. 4. Power Saving mode is correctly installed, you will change state (from to ) to complete the hardware and driver installation. 2. Follow Step 1 to 5 on the taskbar. ASUS M3N72-D 6-7 When the Power Saving mode is enabled, the dGPU... is enabled, the dGPU is turned off and the mGPU is being used only to drive the display. 3. The icon will find the Hybrid SLI icon on the previous page to indicate that the system is in Power Saving mode, which means that the system is turned off and does...
The mGPU is being done by the dGPU. Click the Hybrid SLI icon and select Save Power. 4. Power Saving mode is correctly installed, you will change state (from to ) to complete the hardware and driver installation. 2. Follow Step 1 to 5 on the taskbar. ASUS M3N72-D 6-7 When the Power Saving mode is enabled, the dGPU... is enabled, the dGPU is turned off and the mGPU is being used only to drive the display. 3. The icon will find the Hybrid SLI icon on the previous page to indicate that the system is in Power Saving mode, which means that the system is turned off and does...