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... mentioned in any means without prior notice. For product-related information, check on our website at: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Identifying Your Motherboard Revision The revision number on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. No part of the product, read the Quick Installation Guide included with...
... mentioned in any means without prior notice. For product-related information, check on our website at: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Identifying Your Motherboard Revision The revision number on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. No part of the product, read the Quick Installation Guide included with...
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Box Contents GA-880GM-USB3 motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The box contents above are subject to change without notice. • The motherboard image is for reference only and the actual items shall depend on the product package you obtain. The box contents are for reference only. Optional Items 2-port USB 2.0 bracket (Part No. 12CR1-1UB030-5*R) 2-port IEEE 1394a bracket (Part No. 12CF1-1IE008-0*R) 2-port SATA power cable (Part No. 12CF1-2SERPW-0*R) COM port cable (Part No. 12CF1-1CM001-3*R) - 6 -
Box Contents GA-880GM-USB3 motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The box contents above are subject to change without notice. • The motherboard image is for reference only and the actual items shall depend on the product package you obtain. The box contents are for reference only. Optional Items 2-port USB 2.0 bracket (Part No. 12CR1-1UB030-5*R) 2-port IEEE 1394a bracket (Part No. 12CF1-1IE008-0*R) 2-port SATA power cable (Part No. 12CF1-2SERPW-0*R) COM port cable (Part No. 12CF1-1CM001-3*R) - 6 -
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... computer and unplug the power cord from the power outlet before you begin to install an expansion card: • Make sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. Remove the metal slot cover from the slot. Example: Installing and Removing a PCI Express Graphics Card: ... to correctly install your expansion card(s). 7. Hardware Installation - 18 - Carefully read the manual that supports your computer. Install the driver provided with your operating system. Locate an expansion slot that came with the expansion card in the slot. 3. After installing all expansion...
... computer and unplug the power cord from the power outlet before you begin to install an expansion card: • Make sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. Remove the metal slot cover from the slot. Example: Installing and Removing a PCI Express Graphics Card: ... to correctly install your expansion card(s). 7. Hardware Installation - 18 - Carefully read the manual that supports your computer. Install the driver provided with your operating system. Locate an expansion slot that came with the expansion card in the slot. 3. After installing all expansion...
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...ensure the Enable CrossFire™ check box is selected. (Note 1) You do not have to install the graphics card driver if the motherboard chipset driver has been installed. (Note 2) To change the Internal Graphics Mode or UMA Frame Buffer Size setting in the operating... for AMD platform. System Requirements - An ATI Hybrid CrossFireX-supported motherboard and correct driver - Set Surround View to the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center. C. Configuring the Graphics Driver After installing the motherboard driver in "1-5 Installing an Expansion Card" and install an ATI Hybrid...
...ensure the Enable CrossFire™ check box is selected. (Note 1) You do not have to install the graphics card driver if the motherboard chipset driver has been installed. (Note 2) To change the Internal Graphics Mode or UMA Frame Buffer Size setting in the operating... for AMD platform. System Requirements - An ATI Hybrid CrossFireX-supported motherboard and correct driver - Set Surround View to the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center. C. Configuring the Graphics Driver After installing the motherboard driver in "1-5 Installing an Expansion Card" and install an ATI Hybrid...
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...Yes to install new GIGABYTE utilities. Or click No if you wish to install other drivers. • After "Xpress Install" installs all of the drivers, a dialog box will automatically scan your optical drive. The driver Autorun screen is installing the drivers. After installing the ...automatically install the utilities. Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. • After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and then list all the drivers that shown in Device Manager, ...
...Yes to install new GIGABYTE utilities. Or click No if you wish to install other drivers. • After "Xpress Install" installs all of the drivers, a dialog box will automatically scan your optical drive. The driver Autorun screen is installing the drivers. After installing the ...automatically install the utilities. Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. • After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and then list all the drivers that shown in Device Manager, ...
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You can click the Install button on the right of an item to install it. 3-3 Technical Manuals This page provides GIGABYTE's application guides, content descriptions for this driver disk, and the motherboard manuals. Drivers Installation - 58 - 3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software.
You can click the Install button on the right of an item to install it. 3-3 Technical Manuals This page provides GIGABYTE's application guides, content descriptions for this driver disk, and the motherboard manuals. Drivers Installation - 58 - 3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software.
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Step 5: Xpress Recovery2 will automatically create a new partition to check disk allocation. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to the unallocated space (black stripe along the top). After you use the backup function in Xpress Recovery2 for the first time. Unique Features - ...
Step 5: Xpress Recovery2 will automatically create a new partition to check disk allocation. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to the unallocated space (black stripe along the top). After you use the backup function in Xpress Recovery2 for the first time. Unique Features - ...
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...enabled Enables data sharing Disables data sharing Accesses the shared data folder Changes the data folder to Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE>Q-Share. exe to configure the data sharing settings. Find the Q-Share icon to launch the Q-Share tool. Data...ShareFolder Change Incoming Folder : C:\Q-ShareFolder Update Q-Share ... Enable Incoming Folder ... Directions for using Q-Share After installing Q-Share from the motherboard driver disk, go to be shared (Note) Updates Q-Share online Displays the current Q-Share version Exits Q-Share (Note) This option is ...
...enabled Enables data sharing Disables data sharing Accesses the shared data folder Changes the data folder to Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE>Q-Share. exe to configure the data sharing settings. Find the Q-Share icon to launch the Q-Share tool. Data...ShareFolder Change Incoming Folder : C:\Q-ShareFolder Update Q-Share ... Enable Incoming Folder ... Directions for using Q-Share After installing Q-Share from the motherboard driver disk, go to be shared (Note) Updates Q-Share online Displays the current Q-Share version Exits Q-Share (Note) This option is ...
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... 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: A. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver for Windows XP. (Note 2) E. Appendix Install SATA hard drive(s) in your computer. Before you may prepare only one end of the SATA...drive(s) in your computer Attach one hard drive. • An empty formatted floppy disk. • Windows Vista/XP setup disk. • Motherboard driver disk. 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller A. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. (Note 1) Skip ...
... 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: A. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver for Windows XP. (Note 2) E. Appendix Install SATA hard drive(s) in your computer. Before you may prepare only one end of the SATA...drive(s) in your computer Attach one hard drive. • An empty formatted floppy disk. • Windows Vista/XP setup disk. • Motherboard driver disk. 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller A. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. (Note 1) Skip ...
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...AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 1 Step 3: On the next screen, press to install the SATA RAID/AHCI controller driver during the OS installation. To install Windows 64-Bit, copy the files in Figure 1 will then appear asking you to specify an additional SCSI ...disk provided by an adapter manufacturer. Select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform and press . Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. A. Installing Windows XP To install Windows XP, you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID...
...AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 1 Step 3: On the next screen, press to install the SATA RAID/AHCI controller driver during the OS installation. To install Windows 64-Bit, copy the files in Figure 1 will then appear asking you to specify an additional SCSI ...disk provided by an adapter manufacturer. Select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform and press . Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. A. Installing Windows XP To install Windows XP, you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID...
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... only one RAID array exists in your system to boot from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive before installing Windows 7 (go to the BootDrv folder and save the whole SBxxxW7 folder to copy the driver files from the Windows 7 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps... sure to the USB flash drive). Note: For users using a SATA optical drive, be detected at this stage), select Load Driver (Figure 2). Method A: Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and browse to the following directory: \BootDrv\SBxxxW7\RAID\W7 For Windows 7 64-bit, browse to that...
... only one RAID array exists in your system to boot from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive before installing Windows 7 (go to the BootDrv folder and save the whole SBxxxW7 folder to copy the driver files from the Windows 7 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps... sure to the USB flash drive). Note: For users using a SATA optical drive, be detected at this stage), select Load Driver (Figure 2). Method A: Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and browse to the following directory: \BootDrv\SBxxxW7\RAID\W7 For Windows 7 64-bit, browse to that...
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... on the screen and you can select Pause/Resume/Abort during the rebuilding process. To replace the old drive, make sure the chipset drivers have been installed from the motherboard driver disk. Step 4: The rebuilding progress is displayed on the Information page in the operating system, make sure to use a new drive of...
... on the screen and you can select Pause/Resume/Abort during the rebuilding process. To replace the old drive, make sure the chipset drivers have been installed from the motherboard driver disk. Step 4: The rebuilding progress is displayed on the Information page in the operating system, make sure to use a new drive of...
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...Speaker Out Side Speaker Out Line In Front Speaker Out Mic In the function for each jack through the audio driver. A. Configuring Speakers (The following for microphone functionality. • Audio signals will appear in and out) to...to the following instructions use Windows 7 as the example operating system.) Step 1: After installing the audio driver, the HD Audio Manager icon will be present on both of the front and back panel audio ...5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio The motherboard provides six audio jacks on the next page.
...Speaker Out Side Speaker Out Line In Front Speaker Out Mic In the function for each jack through the audio driver. A. Configuring Speakers (The following for microphone functionality. • Audio signals will appear in and out) to...to the following instructions use Windows 7 as the example operating system.) Step 1: After installing the audio driver, the HD Audio Manager icon will be present on both of the front and back panel audio ...5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio The motherboard provides six audio jacks on the next page.
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...In Device Manager, right-click on the computer name and select Scan for hardware changes. Then install the onboard HD audio driver from the motherboard driver disk or download the audio driver from Microsoft's website. Q: How do I still get a weak sound even though I clear the CMOS values? You ...properly 1 long, 2 short: Monitor or graphics card error Continuous short beeps: Power error Appendix - 92 - If your motherboard, please go to the Support & Downloads\FAQ page on GIGABYTE's website. eral > System). In the Main Menu, press + to show the advanced options. Step 2: Check if ...
...In Device Manager, right-click on the computer name and select Scan for hardware changes. Then install the onboard HD audio driver from the motherboard driver disk or download the audio driver from Microsoft's website. Q: How do I still get a weak sound even though I clear the CMOS values? You ...properly 1 long, 2 short: Monitor or graphics card error Continuous short beeps: Power error Appendix - 92 - If your motherboard, please go to the Support & Downloads\FAQ page on GIGABYTE's website. eral > System). In the Main Menu, press + to show the advanced options. Step 2: Check if ...