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Chapter 3 Drivers Installation 49 3-1 Install Chipset Drivers 49 3-2 SoftwareApplications 50 3-3 Driver CD Information 50 3-4 Hardware Information 51 3-5 Contact Us ...51 Chapter 4 Appendix 53 4-1 Unique Software Utilities 53 4-1-1 EasyTune 5 Introduction 53 4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 Introduction 54 4-1-3 Flash BIOS Method Introduction 56 4-1-4 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 65 4-1-5 2- / 4- / 6- / 8- Channel Audio Function Introduction 75 4-2 Troubleshooting 80 - 5 -
Chapter 3 Drivers Installation 49 3-1 Install Chipset Drivers 49 3-2 SoftwareApplications 50 3-3 Driver CD Information 50 3-4 Hardware Information 51 3-5 Contact Us ...51 Chapter 4 Appendix 53 4-1 Unique Software Utilities 53 4-1-1 EasyTune 5 Introduction 53 4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 Introduction 54 4-1-3 Flash BIOS Method Introduction 56 4-1-4 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 65 4-1-5 2- / 4- / 6- / 8- Channel Audio Function Introduction 75 4-2 Troubleshooting 80 - 5 -
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... align the VGA card to the onboard PCI Express x16 slot and press firmly down on the card are indeed seated in motherboard. 4. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 16 - English 1-5 Installation of Expansion Cards You can install your expansion card by the latch at the end...document before install the expansion card into expansion slot in the slot. 5. Press the expansion card firmly into the computer. 2. Install related driver from BIOS. 8. Power on the computer, if necessary, setup BIOS utility of expansion card from the operating system. Replace your computer's ...
... align the VGA card to the onboard PCI Express x16 slot and press firmly down on the card are indeed seated in motherboard. 4. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 16 - English 1-5 Installation of Expansion Cards You can install your expansion card by the latch at the end...document before install the expansion card into expansion slot in the slot. 5. Press the expansion card firmly into the computer. 2. Install related driver from BIOS. 8. Power on the computer, if necessary, setup BIOS utility of expansion card from the operating system. Replace your computer's ...
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... your OS or device(s) vendors. For more information please contact your OS does not support USB controller, please contact OS vendor for possible patch or driver upgrade. Side Speaker Out The default Side Speaker Out jack. Line In The default Line In jack.
... your OS or device(s) vendors. For more information please contact your OS does not support USB controller, please contact OS vendor for possible patch or driver upgrade. Side Speaker Out The default Side Speaker Out jack. Line In The default Line In jack.
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One IDE connector can connect to one IDE device as Master and the other as Slave (for the SATA 3Gb/s and install the proper driver in the IDE connector. 40 39 2 1 IDE1 IDE2 7) SATAII0/1/2/3 (SATA 3Gb/s Connectors) SATA 3Gb/s can then connect to the computer via an IDE connector. English 6) ...
One IDE connector can connect to one IDE device as Master and the other as Slave (for the SATA 3Gb/s and install the proper driver in the IDE connector. 40 39 2 1 IDE1 IDE2 7) SATAII0/1/2/3 (SATA 3Gb/s Connectors) SATA 3Gb/s can then connect to the computer via an IDE connector. English 6) ...
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... you connect the front panel audio module. To connect an AC97 front panel audio module to the instructions on Page 79 about the software settings. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 22 - For optional front panel audio module, please contact your chassis manufacturer. 10 9 2 1 HD Audio: Pin No. 1 2 3 ... 3 MIC Power 4 NC 5 Line Out (R) 6 NC 7 NC 8 No Pin 9 Line Out (L) 10 NC By default, the audio driver is configured to work or even damage it. English 8) F_AUDIO (Front Audio Connector) This connector supports either HD (High Definition) or AC97 front ...
... you connect the front panel audio module. To connect an AC97 front panel audio module to the instructions on Page 79 about the software settings. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 22 - For optional front panel audio module, please contact your chassis manufacturer. 10 9 2 1 HD Audio: Pin No. 1 2 3 ... 3 MIC Power 4 NC 5 Line Out (R) 6 NC 7 NC 8 No Pin 9 Line Out (L) 10 NC By default, the audio driver is configured to work or even damage it. English 8) F_AUDIO (Front Audio Connector) This connector supports either HD (High Definition) or AC97 front ...
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...defaulted. Please pick the item that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive, the driver CD-title will reboot automatically after install the drivers, afterward you want and press "install" followed the item; After restarting your system automatically. After... Service Pack, it will continue to install. Insert the driver CD-title that you can press "Xpress Install" to install all the drivers that recommended to install other drivers. Drivers Installation English Chapter 3 Drivers Installation Pictures below are shown in "Universal Serial Bus controller...
...defaulted. Please pick the item that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive, the driver CD-title will reboot automatically after install the drivers, afterward you want and press "install" followed the item; After restarting your system automatically. After... Service Pack, it will continue to install. Insert the driver CD-title that you can press "Xpress Install" to install all the drivers that recommended to install other drivers. Drivers Installation English Chapter 3 Drivers Installation Pictures below are shown in "Universal Serial Bus controller...
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English 3-2 Software Applications This page displays all the tools that Gigabyte developed and some free software, you can choose anyone you want and press "install" to install them. 3-3 Driver CD Information This page lists the contents of software and drivers in this CD-title. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 50 -
English 3-2 Software Applications This page displays all the tools that Gigabyte developed and some free software, you can choose anyone you want and press "install" to install them. 3-3 Driver CD Information This page lists the contents of software and drivers in this CD-title. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 50 -
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English 3-4 Hardware Information This page lists all device you have for this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Please see the last page for details. - 51 - Drivers Installation
English 3-4 Hardware Information This page lists all device you have for this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Please see the last page for details. - 51 - Drivers Installation
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... the bottom left corner of the screen. At least 64M bytes of the hard disk will appear in the future. 2. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. System storage capacity and the reading/writing speed of system memory 3. If you wish to run Xpress Recovery2 later... by pressing the F9 key: Steps: After entering BIOS Setup, go to Advanced BIOS Feature and set to enter Xpress Recovery2 without the CD-ROM. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 54 - Press any key to enter Xpress Recovery2. Boot from CD-ROM. If you complete installations of hard disk data. English...
... the bottom left corner of the screen. At least 64M bytes of the hard disk will appear in the future. 2. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. System storage capacity and the reading/writing speed of system memory 3. If you wish to run Xpress Recovery2 later... by pressing the F9 key: Steps: After entering BIOS Setup, go to Advanced BIOS Feature and set to enter Xpress Recovery2 without the CD-ROM. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 54 - Press any key to enter Xpress Recovery2. Boot from CD-ROM. If you complete installations of hard disk data. English...
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... backup file must be backed up and restoring only the first physical hard disk. SATA IDE channel 3 f. RESTORE: Restore the backed-up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Limitations: 1. Not compatible to be reserved. 3. Hard disks detection sequence is compliant with more than data restoration. 3. SATA IDE channel 4 Precautions...
... backup file must be backed up and restoring only the first physical hard disk. SATA IDE channel 3 f. RESTORE: Restore the backed-up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Limitations: 1. Not compatible to be reserved. 3. Hard disks detection sequence is compliant with more than data restoration. 3. SATA IDE channel 4 Precautions...
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... from your computer Attach one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (Note ) (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (Note ) (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in RAID BIOS. (Note ) (4) Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller... driver. (Note ) (5) Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. (Note) Before you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity for setting up RAID array. - 65 -...
... from your computer Attach one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (Note ) (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (Note ) (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in RAID BIOS. (Note ) (4) Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller... driver. (Note ) (5) Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. (Note) Before you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity for setting up RAID array. - 65 -...
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... Capacity 111.79GB 111.79GB [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Figure 9 To delete the array, press D in the Array List screen. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 70 - When the "Delete this array?" To exit the Nvidia RAID utility, press ESC in the main menu or Ctrl+X in ...boot device, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to cancel. Array List - Now, you can proceed to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. English After that, the Array List screen displaying the RAID array you created will show Yes. MediaShield Utility May 22 2006 ...
... Capacity 111.79GB 111.79GB [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Figure 9 To delete the array, press D in the Array List screen. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 70 - When the "Delete this array?" To exit the Nvidia RAID utility, press ESC in the main menu or Ctrl+X in ...boot device, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to cancel. Array List - Now, you can proceed to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. English After that, the Array List screen displaying the RAID array you created will show Yes. MediaShield Utility May 22 2006 ...
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... the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Press 0 to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>). Figure 12 - 71 - Appendix First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the menu. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to exit when finished. At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. From... (XP) if you wish to the floppy disk. Figure 10 Figure 11 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. Your system will open similar to a floppy disk. For example, from the startup disk.
... the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Press 0 to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>). Figure 12 - 71 - Appendix First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the menu. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to exit when finished. At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. From... (XP) if you wish to the floppy disk. Figure 10 Figure 11 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. Your system will open similar to a floppy disk. For example, from the startup disk.
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... controllers for use with Windows, press ENTER. After pressing F6, there will load support for use with the SATA driver. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 14 GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 72 - Currently, Setup will be a few moments of one or more mass storage... devices installed in your system, or you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 13 Step 2: ...
... controllers for use with Windows, press ENTER. After pressing F6, there will load support for use with the SATA driver. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 14 GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 72 - Currently, Setup will be a few moments of one or more mass storage... devices installed in your system, or you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 13 Step 2: ...
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...have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want from the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for the ...following list, or press ESC to return to select additional driver. Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue F3=...
...have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want from the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for the ...following list, or press ESC to return to select additional driver. Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue F3=...
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Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 18 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will have to be installed.) GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 74 - This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional ...
Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 18 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will have to be installed.) GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 74 - This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional ...
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... speaker out jack via the audio software.Please follow the steps to open the Audio Control Panel. - 75 - Appendix STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in and out) simultaneously. Stereo Speakers Connection and Settings: We recommend that you can also find the icon...
... speaker out jack via the audio software.Please follow the steps to open the Audio Control Panel. - 75 - Appendix STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in and out) simultaneously. Stereo Speakers Connection and Settings: We recommend that you can also find the icon...
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In the upper left list, click 2CH Speaker. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 76 - English STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I /O tab. Choose Headphone or Line Out depending on the device connected and ... find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you what type of equipment is completed. 4 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find the icon in Control Panel). Doubleclick the icon to open the Audio Control Panel.
In the upper left list, click 2CH Speaker. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 76 - English STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I /O tab. Choose Headphone or Line Out depending on the device connected and ... find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you what type of equipment is completed. 4 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find the icon in Control Panel). Doubleclick the icon to open the Audio Control Panel.
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... then click OK. The 4-channel audio setup is completed. - 77 - The 6-channel audio setup is completed. 6 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you what type of equipment is connected.
... then click OK. The 4-channel audio setup is completed. - 77 - The 6-channel audio setup is completed. 6 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you what type of equipment is connected.
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...in 8-channel speakers to open the Audio Control Panel. Choose a device depending on the type of speaker connected (8-channel audio consists of equipment is completed. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 78 - The 8-channel audio setup is connected. Doubleclick the icon to the rear speaker jacks, a small window will pop... up and ask you can also find the icon in Control Panel). English 8 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you what type of Front Speaker Out (Line Out), Rear Speaker Out, ...
...in 8-channel speakers to open the Audio Control Panel. Choose a device depending on the type of speaker connected (8-channel audio consists of equipment is completed. GA-M55plus-S3G (rev. 3.0) Motherboard - 78 - The 8-channel audio setup is connected. Doubleclick the icon to the rear speaker jacks, a small window will pop... up and ask you can also find the icon in Control Panel). English 8 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you what type of Front Speaker Out (Line Out), Rear Speaker Out, ...