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User Guide - Page 2
...help resources for PCB 1.X
Date September 2007
Technical Support
If a problem arises with your place of its contents.
Visit the MSI website for FAQ, technical guide, BIOS updates, driver updates, and other countries.
W indows® 95/98...but no solution can be obtained from the user's manual, please contact your system and no guarantee is given as to make changes without notice.
User Guide - Page 8
... BIOS Features 3-8 Integrated Peripherals 3-11 Power Management Setup 3-13 PNP/PCI Configurations 3-16 H/W Monitor ...3-18 Cell Menu ...3-19 Load Fail-Safe/ Optimized Defaults 3-22 BIOS Setting Password 3-23 Appendix A Realtek ALC888 Audio A-1 Installing the Realtek HD Audio Driver A-2 Software Configuration A-4 Hardware Setup A-19 Appendix B SATA RAID B-1 RAID Configuration B-2
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User Guide - Page 16
... damages or risks caused by inadequate operation or beyond product specifications is designed to prevent overheating. Overclocking This mainboard is not recommended. For the latest information about CPU, please visit http://global.msi.com.tw/index. Hardware Setup
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
The mainboard supports AMD® Athlon64 X2/ Athlon64/ Sempron processors in Socket...
User Guide - Page 18
... the CPU Fan cable to the CPU fan connector on the top to purchase and install them before turning on the model you purchase.
1. Mainboard photos shown in BIOS (Chapter 3). 2. Then press down the lever.
4. Hardware Setup
Installing CPU Cooler Set
W hen you are for demonstration of the clip to hook first.
2. Hook one end...
User Guide - Page 24
IDE1
Important
If you install two IDE devices on the same cable, you must configure the drives separately to IDE device's documentation supplied by setting jumpers.
Refer to master / slave mode by the vendors for jumper setting instructions.
2-11 Hardware Setup
Connectors
Floppy Disk Drive Connector: FDD1
This connector supports 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB or 2.88MB floppy...
User Guide - Page 33
...(PCI_EX1);
4. these two PCIE x16 lanes will work. the graphics card is Installed on the model you have to enable the CrossFire in BIOS by ATI that : a. CrossFire ...install only ONE graphics card, make sure that allows the power of the same brand and specifications; Only Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)& Windows® XP Profes -sional x64 Edition & Windows® Vista support...
User Guide - Page 34
...™ Control Center that needs to be enabled for more details, please consult the graphics card manual from the view drop menu. After entering the O.S., click the "Catalyst™ Control Center" icon on the desktop.
Hardware Setup
3.W hen all of the hardware and software has been properly set up and installed, reboot the system.
User Guide - Page 42
...SATA connector. Setting to Auto enables LBA mode if the device supports it and...Setup
Device/ Vender/ Size It will showing the device information that is going to fail to a safe place before the hard disk becomes offline. DM A M ode Select DMA Mode. CPU Infromation/ BIOS Version/ M emory Information These items show the CPU information, BIOS version and memory status of floppy drives installed...
User Guide - Page 44
... Press to use, consult the vendor of your operating system. BIOS Setup
IOAPIC Function This field is part of the chipset. Due to compliance with the means to get to run in APIC mode.
To find out which MPS (Multi-Processor Specification) version to enable economical and efficient implementation of hardware extensions designed...
User Guide - Page 46
... controller.
3-11 Onboard IEEE1394 Controller (optional) This item allows you to enable/disable the onboard ESATA controller.
Integrated Peripherals
BIOS Setup
USB Controller This setting allows you need to use a USB-interfaced device in the operating system. USB Device Legacy Support Select [Enabled] if you to enable/disable the onboard LAN controller. Onboard LAN Controller This...
User Guide - Page 48
...CPU or chipset) and hardware main- Set- ACPI Standby State
This item specifies the power saving modes for ACPI function.
If your operating
system supports ACPI, such as Windows 98SE/ 2000/... to save energy. If your BIOS supports S3 sleep mode.
tem when a "wake up" event occurs.
3-13
Power Management Setup
BIOS Setup
Important
S3-related functions described in
formation...
User Guide - Page 52
...and perform the service required by assigning an [Reserved] setting to enter the...settings to reserve the IRQ by the I/O device.
3-17 After receiving the signal, when the operating system is determined by AMIBIOS. IRQ 3/4/5/7/9/10/11/14/15 These items specify the bus where the specified IRQ line is used by onboard I /O is configured by reading the ESCD NVRAM. BIOS Setup
IRQ Resource Setup...
User Guide - Page 66
... rear and front panels individually. 1. Multi-Stream Function ALC888 supports an outstanding feature called Multi-Stream, which means you may ... Realtek HD Audio front output items.
Important
Before set up, please make sure the playback devices are using the ... purposes. A-8 MS-7388 Mainboard
Mixer
In the Mixer part, you may play different audio sources simultaneously and let ...setup.
User Guide - Page 88
... should confirm that contains the RAID driver,Press the "S" key to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver.
5. B-8 W hen prompted, insert the floppy disk or media (Floppy, CD/DVD Or USB) and press Enter.
6. Press ENTER again to appear. After you have successfully installed the ATI RAID driver, and W indows setup should be shown a list of available...
User Guide - Page 89
... will auto-run and the setup screen will be automatically installed.
SATA RAID
Installing the RAID Driver Under Windows (for Non-bootable RAID Array)
1. The ATI System Driver
includes RAID Driver. 4. Important
You must install the RAID driver to enable RAID. Under the Driver tab, click on ATI System Driver. B-9 The driver will appear. 3. Insert the MSI CD into the CD-ROM...
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