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... 3-34 3.7.1 Boot Device Priority 3-34 3.7.2 Hard Disk Drives; Profile 3-38 3.8.2 AI NET 2 3-39 3.8.3 ASUS EZ Flash 2 3-40 3.8.4 Express Gate 3-40 3.9 Exit menu 3-42 Chapter 4: Software support 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2...information 4-1 4.2.1 Running the support DVD 4-1 4.2.2 Drivers menu 4-2 4.2.3 Utilities menu 4-3 4.2.4 Make disk menu 4-4 4.2.5 Manual menu 4-4 4.2.6 ASUS Contact information 4-5 4.2.7 Other information 4-6 4.3 Software information 4-8 4.3.1 ASUS PC Probe II 4-8 4.3.2 ASUS AI Suite 4-14 4.3.3 ASUS Fan Xpert 4-16 vi CDROM Drives 3-34 3.7.3...
... 3-34 3.7.1 Boot Device Priority 3-34 3.7.2 Hard Disk Drives; Profile 3-38 3.8.2 AI NET 2 3-39 3.8.3 ASUS EZ Flash 2 3-40 3.8.4 Express Gate 3-40 3.9 Exit menu 3-42 Chapter 4: Software support 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2...information 4-1 4.2.1 Running the support DVD 4-1 4.2.2 Drivers menu 4-2 4.2.3 Utilities menu 4-3 4.2.4 Make disk menu 4-4 4.2.5 Manual menu 4-4 4.2.6 ASUS Contact information 4-5 4.2.7 Other information 4-6 4.3 Software information 4-8 4.3.1 ASUS PC Probe II 4-8 4.3.2 ASUS AI Suite 4-14 4.3.3 ASUS Fan Xpert 4-16 vi CDROM Drives 3-34 3.7.3...
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TurboV EVO 4-21 4.4.1 Using ASUS TurboV 4-21 4.4.2 Using ASUS TurboV Auto Tuning Mode 4-22 4.5 RAID configurations 4-25 4.5.1 RAID definitions 4-25 4.5.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 4-26 4.5.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 4-26 4.5.4 Intel® Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility......... 4-26 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-30 4.6.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS...
TurboV EVO 4-21 4.4.1 Using ASUS TurboV 4-21 4.4.2 Using ASUS TurboV Auto Tuning Mode 4-22 4.5 RAID configurations 4-25 4.5.1 RAID definitions 4-25 4.5.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 4-26 4.5.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 4-26 4.5.4 Intel® Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility......... 4-26 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-30 4.6.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS...
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... on the slot. 5. Refer to the card. Keep the screw for later use . Secure the card to the table on shared slots, ensure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that came with the slot and press firmly until the card is already installed in a chassis). 3. Replace the system cover. 2.5.2 ...to use . 4. Remove the bracket opposite the slot that they support. Align the card connector with it by adjusting the software settings. 1. Install the software drivers for details. 2-18 Chapter 2: Hardware information When using PCI cards on the next page for the expansion card.
... on the slot. 5. Refer to the card. Keep the screw for later use . Secure the card to the table on shared slots, ensure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that came with the slot and press firmly until the card is already installed in a chassis). 3. Replace the system cover. 2.5.2 ...to use . 4. Remove the bracket opposite the slot that they support. Align the card connector with it by adjusting the software settings. 1. Install the software drivers for details. 2-18 Chapter 2: Hardware information When using PCI cards on the next page for the expansion card.
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... on these utilities. Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a USB flash drive in the future. The ASUS Update utility allows you to your BIOS The following utilities allow you to manage, save, and update the motherboard BIOS in the... allows you to manage and update the motherboard Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) setup. 1. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 3-1 The Drivers menu appears. 2. BUPDATER (Updates the BIOS using the ASUS Update utility. 3.1.1 ASUS Update utility The ASUS Update is available in Windows® environment.) 2. Place the support DVD in Windows®...
... on these utilities. Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a USB flash drive in the future. The ASUS Update utility allows you to your BIOS The following utilities allow you to manage, save, and update the motherboard BIOS in the... allows you to manage and update the motherboard Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) setup. 1. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 3-1 The Drivers menu appears. 2. BUPDATER (Updates the BIOS using the ASUS Update utility. 3.1.1 ASUS Update utility The ASUS Update is available in Windows® environment.) 2. Place the support DVD in Windows®...
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The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by the PCH chip. Configuration option: [Disabled] [Enabled] IDE Detect Time Out (...]. • If you to display the submenu. Select an item then press to configure your storage devices. Configuration options: [0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35] ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 3-13
The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by the PCH chip. Configuration option: [Disabled] [Enabled] IDE Detect Time Out (...]. • If you to display the submenu. Select an item then press to configure your storage devices. Configuration options: [0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35] ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 3-13
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Chapter summary 4 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2 Support DVD information 4-1 4.3 Software information 4-9 4.4 ASUS Unique Overclocking Utility-TurboV EVO 4-21 4.5 RAID configurations 4-25 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-30 ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer
Chapter summary 4 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2 Support DVD information 4-1 4.3 Software information 4-9 4.4 ASUS Unique Overclocking Utility-TurboV EVO 4-21 4.5 RAID configurations 4-25 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-30 ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer
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... information The support DVD that came with the motherboard package contains the drivers, software applications, and utilities that you can install to locate the file ASSETUP.EXE from the BIN folder. Visit the ASUS website at any time without notice. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 4-1 Always install the latest OS version and corresponding updates to the optical...
... information The support DVD that came with the motherboard package contains the drivers, software applications, and utilities that you can install to locate the file ASSETUP.EXE from the BIN folder. Visit the ASUS website at any time without notice. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 4-1 Always install the latest OS version and corresponding updates to the optical...
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... Ethernet Driver. record. ASUS EPU-6 Engine Installs ASUS EPU-6 Engine driver and utility. Norton Internet Security 2009 Installs NIS 2009. Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices. ASUS TurboV EVO Installs ASUS TurboV EVO, the advanced overclocking tool for extreme O.C. Realtek Audio Driver Installs the Realtek® audio Driver. ASUS Express Gate Installer Installs ASUS Express Gate. 4.2.2 Drivers menu The drivers menu...
... Ethernet Driver. record. ASUS EPU-6 Engine Installs ASUS EPU-6 Engine driver and utility. Norton Internet Security 2009 Installs NIS 2009. Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices. ASUS TurboV EVO Installs ASUS TurboV EVO, the advanced overclocking tool for extreme O.C. Realtek Audio Driver Installs the Realtek® audio Driver. ASUS Express Gate Installer Installs ASUS Express Gate. 4.2.2 Drivers menu The drivers menu...
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Most user manual files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Allows you to open the folder of supplementary user manuals. Click an item to create an AHCI/RAID Driver disk. 4.2.5 Manual menu The Manuals menu contains a list of the user manual. 4.2.4 Make disk menu The Make disk menu contains items to create the Intel RAID driver disk. Install the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader from the Utilities menu before opening a user manual file. 4-4 Chapter 4: Software support
Most user manual files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Allows you to open the folder of supplementary user manuals. Click an item to create an AHCI/RAID Driver disk. 4.2.5 Manual menu The Manuals menu contains a list of the user manual. 4.2.4 Make disk menu The Make disk menu contains items to create the Intel RAID driver disk. Install the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader from the Utilities menu before opening a user manual file. 4-4 Chapter 4: Software support
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...monitoring your computer the moment you turn it on the main window right handle. 4-8 Chapter 4: Software support Click the Utilities tab, then click ASUS PC Probe II. 3. After launching the application, the PC Probe II icon appears in your system and change the utility configuration. You can... the support DVD to locate the setup.exe file from the Windows® desktop, click Start > All Programs > ASUS > PC Probe II > PC Probe II v1.xx.xx. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer: 1. Launching PC Probe II You can start installation. 2. Click this utility, you...
...monitoring your computer the moment you turn it on the main window right handle. 4-8 Chapter 4: Software support Click the Utilities tab, then click ASUS PC Probe II. 3. After launching the application, the PC Probe II icon appears in your system and change the utility configuration. You can... the support DVD to locate the setup.exe file from the Windows® desktop, click Start > All Programs > ASUS > PC Probe II > PC Probe II v1.xx.xx. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer: 1. Launching PC Probe II You can start installation. 2. Click this utility, you...
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... right after installation or anytime from the Windows® desktop, click Start > All Programs > ASUS > AI Suite > AI Suite v1.xx.xx. Click this icon to the optical drive. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer: 1. Click the Utilities tab, then click AI Suite. 3.... Using AI Suite Click each utility button to launch the utility, or click the Normal button to launch several ASUS utilities easily. 4.3.2 ASUS AI Suite ASUS AI Suite allows...
... right after installation or anytime from the Windows® desktop, click Start > All Programs > ASUS > AI Suite > AI Suite v1.xx.xx. Click this icon to the optical drive. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer: 1. Click the Utilities tab, then click AI Suite. 3.... Using AI Suite Click each utility button to launch the utility, or click the Normal button to launch several ASUS utilities easily. 4.3.2 ASUS AI Suite ASUS AI Suite allows...
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... Windows® environment with the bundled T.Probe application Installing ASUS T.Probe To install ASUS T.Probe on your computer has an enabled Autorun feature. 2. You can monitor the power phase loading and temperature in real-time. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer 1. Set the T.Probe... item in the Windows® notification area to the optical drive. The number of BIOS settings Using ASUS T.Probe Click the T.Probe icon in the Advanced ...
... Windows® environment with the bundled T.Probe application Installing ASUS T.Probe To install ASUS T.Probe on your computer has an enabled Autorun feature. 2. You can monitor the power phase loading and temperature in real-time. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer 1. Set the T.Probe... item in the Windows® notification area to the optical drive. The number of BIOS settings Using ASUS T.Probe Click the T.Probe icon in the Advanced ...
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... only if you are using Windows® XP SP2 or later versions. • Due to section 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other drive. The Intel® Matrix Storage technology supported... stripes both system performance and data safety. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 4-25 The Serial ATA RAID feature is 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. Two hard disks perform ...
... only if you are using Windows® XP SP2 or later versions. • Due to section 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other drive. The Intel® Matrix Storage technology supported... stripes both system performance and data safety. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 4-25 The Serial ATA RAID feature is 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. Two hard disks perform ...
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...Select USB floppy disk drive as the primary boot device. 4. To work around this OS limitation, refer to create a 32/64bit Intel AHCI/RAID driver disk. 7. Insert the support DVD into the USB floppy disk drive, then press . 8. For Windows® Vista or later operating systems, use ...a USB floppy disk drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk. • Windows® XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk drive due to avoid a computer virus infection. 4-30 Chapter 4: Software ...
...Select USB floppy disk drive as the primary boot device. 4. To work around this OS limitation, refer to create a 32/64bit Intel AHCI/RAID driver disk. 7. Insert the support DVD into the USB floppy disk drive, then press . 8. For Windows® Vista or later operating systems, use ...a USB floppy disk drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk. • Windows® XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk drive due to avoid a computer virus infection. 4-30 Chapter 4: Software ...
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..., plug the USB floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. During the OS installation, select Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller. 3. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 4-31 From the Universal Serial Bus controllers, right-click xxxxxx USB Floppy, and then... select Properties from the pop-up window. The name of the USB floppy disk drive varies with RAID driver into the USB floppy disk drive. ...
..., plug the USB floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. During the OS installation, select Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller. 3. ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer 4-31 From the Universal Serial Bus controllers, right-click xxxxxx USB Floppy, and then... select Properties from the pop-up window. The name of the USB floppy disk drive varies with RAID driver into the USB floppy disk drive. ...
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Click Details tab. Browse the contents of the RAID driver disk to open the file. 4-32 Chapter 4: Software support Use Notepad to locate the file txtsetup.oem. 6. The Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) are displayed. 5. A window appears, allowing you to select the program for opening the oem file. 7. 4. Double-click the file.
Click Details tab. Browse the contents of the RAID driver disk to open the file. 4-32 Chapter 4: Software support Use Notepad to locate the file txtsetup.oem. 6. The Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) are displayed. 5. A window appears, allowing you to select the program for opening the oem file. 7. 4. Double-click the file.
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..., go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. For Windows Vista, go to install multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer 5-1 5.1 ATI® CrossFireX™ technology The motherboard supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology that allows you should have two ... certified. • Ensure that you have to uninstall all current applications. 2. For Windows Vista, select Uninstall. 5. Download the latest driver from the AMD website (www.amd.com). • Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at http://game.amd....
..., go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. For Windows Vista, go to install multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer 5-1 5.1 ATI® CrossFireX™ technology The motherboard supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology that allows you should have two ... certified. • Ensure that you have to uninstall all current applications. 2. For Windows Vista, select Uninstall. 5. Download the latest driver from the AMD website (www.amd.com). • Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at http://game.amd....
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... to the documentation that your PCI Express graphics card driver supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology. Download the latest driver from the AMD website at www.amd.com. 5.1.5 Enabling the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology ...drivers. Ensure that came with your graphics cards and the device drivers, enable the CrossFireX™ feature through the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center in the Windows notification area and select Cayalist Control Center. 2. Right-click on the Windows® desktop and select Catalyst(TM) Control Center. ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer...
... to the documentation that your PCI Express graphics card driver supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology. Download the latest driver from the AMD website at www.amd.com. 5.1.5 Enabling the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology ...drivers. Ensure that came with your graphics cards and the device drivers, enable the CrossFireX™ feature through the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center in the Windows notification area and select Cayalist Control Center. 2. Right-click on the Windows® desktop and select Catalyst(TM) Control Center. ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer...
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ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer 5-5 5.2 NVIDIA® SLI™ technology The motherboard supports the NVIDIA® SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface) technology that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI technology. Follow the installation procedures in this section. 5.2.1 Requirements • In Dual ...operating system only. • Visit the NVIDIA zone website at least the minimum power required by your system. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website (www.nvidia.com). • Ensure that allows you install additional chassis fans for the latest certified ...
ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer 5-5 5.2 NVIDIA® SLI™ technology The motherboard supports the NVIDIA® SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface) technology that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI technology. Follow the installation procedures in this section. 5.2.1 Requirements • In Dual ...operating system only. • Visit the NVIDIA zone website at least the minimum power required by your system. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website (www.nvidia.com). • Ensure that allows you install additional chassis fans for the latest certified ...
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The NVIDIA 3-way SLI technology is supported by the following two methods. Right click on page 5-10). B1. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website at www.nvidia.com. • If you cannot see the NVIDIA Control Panel item in NVIDIA® Control Panel under...select NVIDIA Control Panel. If you are using a Triple SLI system, ensure to install the device drivers. • Ensure that came with your graphics card package to install the NVIDIA® 3-way SLI driver under the Windows® Vista™ operating system. Launching the NVIDIA Control Panel You can launch the...
The NVIDIA 3-way SLI technology is supported by the following two methods. Right click on page 5-10). B1. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website at www.nvidia.com. • If you cannot see the NVIDIA Control Panel item in NVIDIA® Control Panel under...select NVIDIA Control Panel. If you are using a Triple SLI system, ensure to install the device drivers. • Ensure that came with your graphics card package to install the NVIDIA® 3-way SLI driver under the Windows® Vista™ operating system. Launching the NVIDIA Control Panel You can launch the...