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...any means without prior notice. Disclaimer Information in the use GIGABYTE's unique features, read the User's Manual. For instructions on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. Documentation Classifications In ...order to assist in this product, GIGABYTE provides the following types of documentations: For quick set-up of GIGABYTE. Example: Changes to the ...
...any means without prior notice. Disclaimer Information in the use GIGABYTE's unique features, read the User's Manual. For instructions on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. Documentation Classifications In ...order to assist in this product, GIGABYTE provides the following types of documentations: For quick set-up of GIGABYTE. Example: Changes to the ...
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... the Onboard SATA Controller 79 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette 85 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 87 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 92 ...5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio 92 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIF In Cable (Optional 94 5-2-3 Configuring Microphone Recording 96 5-2-4 Using the Sound Recorder 98 5-3 Troubleshooting 99 5-3-1 Frequently Asked Questions 99 5-3-2 Troubleshooting Procedure 100 5-4 Regulatory Statements 102 Only for GA-EP45...
... the Onboard SATA Controller 79 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette 85 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 87 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 92 ...5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio 92 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIF In Cable (Optional 94 5-2-3 Configuring Microphone Recording 96 5-2-4 Using the Sound Recorder 98 5-3 Troubleshooting 99 5-3-1 Frequently Asked Questions 99 5-3-2 Troubleshooting Procedure 100 5-4 Regulatory Statements 102 Only for GA-EP45...
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Box Contents GA-EP45-UD3LR or GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide One IDE cable Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The box contents above are subject to change without notice. ...
Box Contents GA-EP45-UD3LR or GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide One IDE cable Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The box contents above are subject to change without notice. ...
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... panel with your expansion card in the slot. 3. Install the driver provided with the slot, and press down on the card are completely inserted into the PCI Express x16 slot. Make sure the card is securely seated in your card. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 18 - Align the card with the expansion card in...
... panel with your expansion card in the slot. 3. Install the driver provided with the slot, and press down on the card are completely inserted into the PCI Express x16 slot. Make sure the card is securely seated in your card. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 18 - Align the card with the expansion card in...
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... BIOS POST screen. To exit Boot Menu, press . The system will still be used for one time only. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 34 - In Boot Menu, use the up hard drive data using the driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change the first boot device setting as needed. : Q-FLASH...
... BIOS POST screen. To exit Boot Menu, press . The system will still be used for one time only. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 34 - In Boot Menu, use the up hard drive data using the driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change the first boot device setting as needed. : Q-FLASH...
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Disabled Disables RAID for GA-EP45-UD3L. SATA Port0-3 Native Mode Specifies the operating mode ... Native IDE mode. Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to AHCI mode. SATA AHCI Mode (Intel ICH10 Southbridge) Configures the SATA controllers integrated in Legacy ...Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to AHCI mode. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 50 - Disabled Disables AHCI for GA-EP45-UD3LR. In Legacy mode the SATA controllers use dedicated IRQs that do ...
Disabled Disables RAID for GA-EP45-UD3L. SATA Port0-3 Native Mode Specifies the operating mode ... Native IDE mode. Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to AHCI mode. SATA AHCI Mode (Intel ICH10 Southbridge) Configures the SATA controllers integrated in Legacy ...Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to AHCI mode. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 50 - Disabled Disables AHCI for GA-EP45-UD3LR. In Legacy mode the SATA controllers use dedicated IRQs that do ...
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... click the Install All button and "Xpress Install" will continue to install other applications included in the motherboard driver disk. • For USB 2.0 driver support under the Windows XP operating system, please install the Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later. Failure... to install. • Please ignore the popup dialog box(es) (e.g. Drivers Installation Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) •...
... click the Install All button and "Xpress Install" will continue to install other applications included in the motherboard driver disk. • For USB 2.0 driver support under the Windows XP operating system, please install the Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later. Failure... to install. • Please ignore the popup dialog box(es) (e.g. Drivers Installation Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) •...
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3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 62 - 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.
3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 62 - 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.
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3-4 Contact Click the URL on this manual to the GIGABYTE Web site. Drivers Installation Or read the last page of this page to link to check the contact information for GIGABYTE Taiwan headquarter or worldwide branch offices. 3-5 System This page provides the basic system information. - 63 -
3-4 Contact Click the URL on this manual to the GIGABYTE Web site. Drivers Installation Or read the last page of this page to link to check the contact information for GIGABYTE Taiwan headquarter or worldwide branch offices. 3-5 System This page provides the basic system information. - 63 -
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The latest version of the BIOS, drivers, or applications will be displayed. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 64 - 3-6 Download Center To update the BIOS, drivers, or applications, click the Download Center button to link to the GIGABYTE Web site.
The latest version of the BIOS, drivers, or applications will be displayed. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 64 - 3-6 Download Center To update the BIOS, drivers, or applications, click the Download Center button to link to the GIGABYTE Web site.
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... system data and perform restoration of the hard drive, make sure to quickly compress and back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are installed. • The amount of system memory • VESA compatible graphics card • Windows® XP with Xpress Recovery cannot be restored using Xpress...
... system data and perform restoration of the hard drive, make sure to quickly compress and back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are installed. • The amount of system memory • VESA compatible graphics card • Windows® XP with Xpress Recovery cannot be restored using Xpress...
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...Figure 10 Figure 11 3. When finished, go to Disk Management to start backing up your hard drive. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to startup XpressRecovery2..... Select BACKUP to check disk allocation. If you wish to store the backup image file. - 68 ...the Windows operating system. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2008, Award Software, Inc. Figure 12 GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will then begin the backup process (Figure 11). Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. Using the Backup Function in your hard drive data...
...Figure 10 Figure 11 3. When finished, go to Disk Management to start backing up your hard drive. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to startup XpressRecovery2..... Select BACKUP to check disk allocation. If you wish to store the backup image file. - 68 ...the Windows operating system. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2008, Award Software, Inc. Figure 12 GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will then begin the backup process (Figure 11). Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. Using the Backup Function in your hard drive data...
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... system tray and right-click on the same network, making full use of Internet resources. Directions for using Q-Share After installing Q-Share from the motherboard driver disk, go to Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE> Q-Share.exe to configure the data sharing settings. 4-5 Q-Share Q-Share is NOT enabled. - 77 -
... system tray and right-click on the same network, making full use of Internet resources. Directions for using Q-Share After installing Q-Share from the motherboard driver disk, go to Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE> Q-Share.exe to configure the data sharing settings. 4-5 Q-Share Q-Share is NOT enabled. - 77 -
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...drives with identical model and capacity). Only for GA-EP45-UD3LR. (Note 1) Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID, you do not want to the hard drive. B. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver. (Note 2) E. Installing SATA hard drive...mode 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. Appendix Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps...
...drives with identical model and capacity). Only for GA-EP45-UD3LR. (Note 1) Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID, you do not want to the hard drive. B. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver. (Note 2) E. Installing SATA hard drive...mode 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. Appendix Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps...
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... cancel (Figure 6). Are you sure you want to create this volume, press to confirm or to create the SATA RAID/AHCI driver diskette and the installation of the SATA RAID/ACHI driver and operating system. - 83 - Appendix Delete RAID Volume 3. All Rights Reversed. [ MAIN MENU ] 1. Step 5: Enter the array capacity and press...
... cancel (Figure 6). Are you sure you want to create this volume, press to confirm or to create the SATA RAID/AHCI driver diskette and the installation of the SATA RAID/ACHI driver and operating system. - 83 - Appendix Delete RAID Volume 3. All Rights Reversed. [ MAIN MENU ] 1. Step 5: Enter the array capacity and press...
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...your optical drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3). Press to copy the driver in your optical drive (example: D:\>). Without the driver, the hard drive may not be recognized during the OS installation. Figure 1 Figure 2 (Note) For users without... a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. See the instructions below about how to exit when finished. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to your system. Press after each command (Figure 1): cd bootdrv menu Step 2: When...
...your optical drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3). Press to copy the driver in your optical drive (example: D:\>). Without the driver, the hard drive may not be recognized during the OS installation. Figure 1 Figure 2 (Note) For users without... a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. See the instructions below about how to exit when finished. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to your system. Press after each command (Figure 1): cd bootdrv menu Step 2: When...
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...will appear. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 86 - Figure 4 Step 2: Double-click the MSM32 file in Figure 5 appears, type "yes" after the "Continue extraction?" When a screen similar to begin extracting the driver. After the driver is extracted, a screen similar to your USB flash drive from the motherboard driver disk to... system(Note) on the Intel ICH10R SATA controller, copy the MSM32 file (Figure 4) located in the BootDrv folder in the motherboard driver disk to that in the USB flash drive. Figure 5 Figure 6 (Note) To install the Windows Vista 64-bit operating system,...
...will appear. GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 86 - Figure 4 Step 2: Double-click the MSM32 file in Figure 5 appears, type "yes" after the "Continue extraction?" When a screen similar to begin extracting the driver. After the driver is extracted, a screen similar to your USB flash drive from the motherboard driver disk to... system(Note) on the Intel ICH10R SATA controller, copy the MSM32 file (Figure 4) located in the BootDrv folder in the motherboard driver disk to that in the USB flash drive. Figure 5 Figure 6 (Note) To install the Windows Vista 64-bit operating system,...
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... will be a few moments of Windows XP and Vista installation. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Appendix A. The following mass storage devices(s) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including ...ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 2 - 87 - Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to that you have prepared the SATA RAID/AHCI driver diskette and configured the required BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows Vista/XP onto your system, or you have any device ...
... will be a few moments of Windows XP and Vista installation. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Appendix A. The following mass storage devices(s) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including ...ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 2 - 87 - Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to that you have prepared the SATA RAID/AHCI driver diskette and configured the required BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows Vista/XP onto your system, or you have any device ...
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...check the floppy disk or copy the correct SATA RAID/AHCI driver again from the floppy disk. If you do not have chosen to select one minute. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 4 GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 88 - Use the up or down arrow key ...from the following list, or press ESC to return to continue the driver installation from the motherboard driver disk. The driver installation will appear. Step 3: When Setup correctly recognizes the Intel ICH10R SATA RAID/AHCI driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to specify additional mass...
...check the floppy disk or copy the correct SATA RAID/AHCI driver again from the floppy disk. If you do not have chosen to select one minute. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 4 GA-EP45-UD3LR/UD3L Motherboard - 88 - Use the up or down arrow key ...from the following list, or press ESC to return to continue the driver installation from the motherboard driver disk. The driver installation will appear. Step 3: When Setup correctly recognizes the Intel ICH10R SATA RAID/AHCI driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to specify additional mass...
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WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to run on your computer. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 5 - 89 - This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. Appendix To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. Step 4: After the SATA RAID/AHCI driver installation is completed, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation.
WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to run on your computer. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 5 - 89 - This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. Appendix To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. Step 4: After the SATA RAID/AHCI driver installation is completed, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation.