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...revision number on our website. Changes to use GIGABYTE's unique features, read or download the information on/from the Support\Motherboard\Technology Guide page on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. The trademarks... mentioned in the use of this product, GIGABYTE provides the following types of documentations: For quick set-up ...
...revision number on our website. Changes to use GIGABYTE's unique features, read or download the information on/from the Support\Motherboard\Technology Guide page on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. The trademarks... mentioned in the use of this product, GIGABYTE provides the following types of documentations: For quick set-up ...
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... 57 3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers 57 3-2 Application Software 58 3-3 Technical Manuals 58 3-4 Contact ...59 3-5 System ...59 3-6 Download Center 60 Chapter 4 Unique Features 61 4-1 Xpress Recovery2 61 4-2 BIOS ... 5 Appendix ...73 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 73 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller 73 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette for W indows XP 79 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 80 5-2 Configuring AudioInput and Output 85 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio 85 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIF In Cable (Optional...
... 57 3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers 57 3-2 Application Software 58 3-3 Technical Manuals 58 3-4 Contact ...59 3-5 System ...59 3-6 Download Center 60 Chapter 4 Unique Features 61 4-1 Xpress Recovery2 61 4-2 BIOS ... 5 Appendix ...73 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 73 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller 73 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette for W indows XP 79 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 80 5-2 Configuring AudioInput and Output 85 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio 85 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIF In Cable (Optional...
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Box Contents GA-MA770-UD3 or GA-MA770-US3 motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide One IDE cable and one floppy disk drive cable Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The box contents above ...
Box Contents GA-MA770-UD3 or GA-MA770-US3 motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide One IDE cable and one floppy disk drive cable Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The box contents above ...
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...the lever on the card are completely inserted into the PCI Express x16 slot. Remove the metal slot cover from the slot. Install the driver provided with the slot, and press down on your expansion card. • Always turn off the computer and unplug the power cord ...to install an expansion card: • Make sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. After installing all expansion cards, replace the chassis cover(s). 6. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 18 - Align the card with the expansion card in the slot. 3. PCI Express x1 Slot PCI Express x16 Slot PCI Slot ...
...the lever on the card are completely inserted into the PCI Express x16 slot. Remove the metal slot cover from the slot. Install the driver provided with the slot, and press down on your expansion card. • Always turn off the computer and unplug the power cord ...to install an expansion card: • Make sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. After installing all expansion cards, replace the chassis cover(s). 6. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 18 - Align the card with the expansion card in the slot. 3. PCI Express x1 Slot PCI Express x16 Slot PCI Slot ...
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...the Full Screen LOGO Show item on BIOS Setup settings. 2-1 Startup Screen The following screens may appear when the computer boots. The LOGO Screen (Default) B. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 34 - A. AMD 770 BIOS for one time only. Note: The setting in Boot Menu. Function Keys : BIOS Setup : XpressRecovery2 : ...Keys: : POST SCREEN Press the key to XpressRecovery2 during the POST. In Boot Menu, use the up hard drive data using the motherboard driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change the first boot device setting as needed. : Q-FLASH Press the key to access...
...the Full Screen LOGO Show item on BIOS Setup settings. 2-1 Startup Screen The following screens may appear when the computer boots. The LOGO Screen (Default) B. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 34 - A. AMD 770 BIOS for one time only. Note: The setting in Boot Menu. Function Keys : BIOS Setup : XpressRecovery2 : ...Keys: : POST SCREEN Press the key to XpressRecovery2 during the POST. In Boot Menu, use the up hard drive data using the motherboard driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change the first boot device setting as needed. : Q-FLASH Press the key to access...
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... TLB Erratum (Note) Enables or disables the Patch AMD TLB Erratum function. (Default: Enabled) AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control Auto Lets the AMD Cool'n'Quiet driver dynamically adjust the CPU clock and VIA to exit this feature. - 43 - First/Second/Third Boot Device Specifies the boot order from your computer and...
... TLB Erratum (Note) Enables or disables the Patch AMD TLB Erratum function. (Default: Enabled) AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control Auto Lets the AMD Cool'n'Quiet driver dynamically adjust the CPU clock and VIA to exit this feature. - 43 - First/Second/Third Boot Device Specifies the boot order from your computer and...
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... - Windows XP. Onboard Audio Function Enables or disables the onboard audio function. (Default: Auto) If you wish to install operating systems that allows the storage driver to Disabled. Options are : Auto, 2F8/IRQ3, 3F8/IRQ4(default), 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, Disabled. OnChip SATA Port4/5 Mode (SATAII4/5 connectors) This option is configurable...
... - Windows XP. Onboard Audio Function Enables or disables the onboard audio function. (Default: Auto) If you wish to install operating systems that allows the storage driver to Disabled. Options are : Auto, 2F8/IRQ3, 3F8/IRQ4(default), 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, Disabled. OnChip SATA Port4/5 Mode (SATAII4/5 connectors) This option is configurable...
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...are installed, follow the onscreen instructions to do so may affect the driver installation. • Some device drivers will install all the drivers that shown in the motherboard driver disk. • For USB 2.0 driver support under the Windows XP operating system, please install the Windows ...opti cal drive. You can click the Install All button and "Xpress Install" will restart your system. Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) • ...
...are installed, follow the onscreen instructions to do so may affect the driver installation. • Some device drivers will install all the drivers that shown in the motherboard driver disk. • For USB 2.0 driver support under the Windows XP operating system, please install the Windows ...opti cal drive. You can click the Install All button and "Xpress Install" will restart your system. 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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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. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 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. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 58 - 3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software.
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Or read the last page of fices. 3-5 System This page provides the basic system information. - 59 - Drivers Installation 3-4 Contact Click the URL on this page to link to check the contact information for GIGABYTE Taiwan headquarter or worldwide branch of th is manual to the GIGABYTE Web site.
Or read the last page of fices. 3-5 System This page provides the basic system information. - 59 - Drivers Installation 3-4 Contact Click the URL on this page to link to check the contact information for GIGABYTE Taiwan headquarter or worldwide branch of th is manual to the GIGABYTE Web site.
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The latest version of the BIOS, drivers, or applications will be displayed. 3-6 Download Center To update the BIOS, drivers, or applications, click the Download Center button to link to the GIGABYTE Web site. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 60 -
The latest version of the BIOS, drivers, or applications will be displayed. 3-6 Download Center To update the BIOS, drivers, or applications, click the Download Center button to link to the GIGABYTE Web site. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 60 -
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... supported. • Hard drives in advanced (10 GB or more is recommended; Xpress Recovery2 can back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are installed. • The amount of data and hard drive access speed may affect the speed at the end of the hard drive, make sure...
... supported. • Hard drives in advanced (10 GB or more is recommended; Xpress Recovery2 can back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are installed. • The amount of data and hard drive access speed may affect the speed at the end of the hard drive, make sure...
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Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to search the first physical hard drive as the target d rive and detect whether this hard drive contains the Windows operating system. Figure 12 GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will begin to access Xpress Recovery2 for... simply press during the POST (Figure 9). When you wish to enter Xpress Recovery2. . . After you use the backup function in Xpress Recovery2 for GA-MA770-UD3 E1 . . . . : BIOS Setup : XpressRecovery2 : Boot Menu : Qflash 11/06/2008-RD780-SB700-6A66AG09C-00 Figure 9 C. If you...
Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to search the first physical hard drive as the target d rive and detect whether this hard drive contains the Windows operating system. Figure 12 GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will begin to access Xpress Recovery2 for... simply press during the POST (Figure 9). When you wish to enter Xpress Recovery2. . . After you use the backup function in Xpress Recovery2 for GA-MA770-UD3 E1 . . . . : BIOS Setup : XpressRecovery2 : Boot Menu : Qflash 11/06/2008-RD780-SB700-6A66AG09C-00 Figure 9 C. If you...
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...AHCI or RAID mode. - 73 - Make a floppy disk containing the SA TA RAID/AHCI driver. (Note 2) E. Then connect the power connector from your computer . Install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and operating system. (Note 2) Before you begin Please prepare: • At least two 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. B. Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below...
...AHCI or RAID mode. - 73 - Make a floppy disk containing the SA TA RAID/AHCI driver. (Note 2) E. Then connect the power connector from your computer . Install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and operating system. (Note 2) Before you begin Please prepare: • At least two 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. B. Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below...
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... more details, refer to exit when finished. For example, from the menu. From your system. See the instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS mode . (Note) Prepare a startup disk that in Figure 2. At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. Your system...appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Figure 3 - 79 - A command prompt window will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your RAID/AHCI hard drives, select (5) SB700/750 SATA for the AMD SB700 ...
... more details, refer to exit when finished. For example, from the menu. From your system. See the instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS mode . (Note) Prepare a startup disk that in Figure 2. At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. Your system...appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Figure 3 - 79 - A command prompt window will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your RAID/AHCI hard drives, select (5) SB700/750 SATA for the AMD SB700 ...
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... you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System You are ready to that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the SA TA RAID/AHCI...before you see the message "Press F6 if you need to manually specify an adapter. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 2 GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 80 - Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of Windows XP and Vista installation. After pressing , there will ...
... you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System You are ready to that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the SA TA RAID/AHCI...before you see the message "Press F6 if you need to manually specify an adapter. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 2 GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 80 - Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of Windows XP and Vista installation. After pressing , there will ...
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...Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from the floppy disk. Step 3: When Setup correctly recognizes the AMD SB700 SATA RAID/AHCI driver in about one or some file(s) cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct SA TA RAID/AHCI... driver again from the motherboard driver disk. Windows Setup Setup will appear . Use the arrow keys to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional ...
...Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from the floppy disk. Step 3: When Setup correctly recognizes the AMD SB700 SATA RAID/AHCI driver in about one or some file(s) cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct SA TA RAID/AHCI... driver again from the motherboard driver disk. Windows Setup Setup will appear . Use the arrow keys to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional ...
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To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 5 GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 82 - Step 4: After the SATA RAID/AHCI driver installation is completed, you can proceed with the W indows XP installation. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to run on your computer.
To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 5 GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 82 - Step 4: After the SATA RAID/AHCI driver installation is completed, you can proceed with the W indows XP installation. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to run on your computer.
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... steps. For users using a SA TA optical drive, be detected at this stage), select Load Driver. (Figure 6). Method A: Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system to boot from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive before installing Windows Vista (go to the BootDrv folder and save... the whole SB750V foler to the LH64A folder. Method B: Insert the USB flash drive containing the driver files and browse to load the driver. Figure 7 - 83 - Appendix When a screen similar to that below assumes that only one RAID array exists in your system.)...
... steps. For users using a SA TA optical drive, be detected at this stage), select Load Driver. (Figure 6). Method A: Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system to boot from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive before installing Windows Vista (go to the BootDrv folder and save... the whole SB750V foler to the LH64A folder. Method B: Insert the USB flash drive containing the driver files and browse to load the driver. Figure 7 - 83 - Appendix When a screen similar to that below assumes that only one RAID array exists in your system.)...
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Figure 8 Step 4: After the driver is loaded, the RAID drive will appear. Select the RAID drive and then press Next to continue the OS installation (Figure 9). GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 84 - Figure 9 The install menus described in Figure 8 appears, select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and press Next. Step 3: When a screen as shown in this chapter are for reference only and may differ by driver version.
Figure 8 Step 4: After the driver is loaded, the RAID drive will appear. Select the RAID drive and then press Next to continue the OS installation (Figure 9). GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 84 - Figure 9 The install menus described in Figure 8 appears, select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and press Next. Step 3: When a screen as shown in this chapter are for reference only and may differ by driver version.