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... Updater 3-45 Chapter 4: Software support 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2 Support DVD information 4-1 4.2.1 Running the support DVD 4-1 4.2.2 Drivers menu 4-2 4.2.3 Utilities menu 4-3 4.2.4 Make disk menu 4-4 4.2.5 Manual menu 4-4 4.2.6 Video menu 4-5 4.2.7 ASUS Contact information 4-5 4.2.8 Other information 4-6 4.3 Software information 4-8 4.3.1 ASUS AI Suite II 4-8 4.3.2 Tool 4-9 4.3.3 DIGI+ VRM 4-14 4.3.4 EPU 4-18 4.3.5 FAN Xpert 4-19 4.3.6 Probe II 4-20 4.3.7 Sensor Recorder 4-22...
... Updater 3-45 Chapter 4: Software support 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2 Support DVD information 4-1 4.2.1 Running the support DVD 4-1 4.2.2 Drivers menu 4-2 4.2.3 Utilities menu 4-3 4.2.4 Make disk menu 4-4 4.2.5 Manual menu 4-4 4.2.6 Video menu 4-5 4.2.7 ASUS Contact information 4-5 4.2.8 Other information 4-6 4.3 Software information 4-8 4.3.1 ASUS AI Suite II 4-8 4.3.2 Tool 4-9 4.3.3 DIGI+ VRM 4-14 4.3.4 EPU 4-18 4.3.5 FAN Xpert 4-19 4.3.6 Probe II 4-20 4.3.7 Sensor Recorder 4-22...
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... floppy disk drive 4-45 Chapter 5: Multiple GPU technology support 5.1 ATI® CrossFireX™ technology 5-1 5.1.1 Requirements 5-1 5.1.2 Before you begin 5-1 5.1.3 Installing CrossFireX graphics cards 5-2 5.1.4 Installing the device drivers 5-3 5.1.5 Enabling the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology 5-3 5.2 NVIDIA® SLI™ technology 5-5 5.2.1 Requirements 5-5 5.2.2 Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards 5-5 5.2.3 Installing the device...
... floppy disk drive 4-45 Chapter 5: Multiple GPU technology support 5.1 ATI® CrossFireX™ technology 5-1 5.1.1 Requirements 5-1 5.1.2 Before you begin 5-1 5.1.3 Installing CrossFireX graphics cards 5-2 5.1.4 Installing the device drivers 5-3 5.1.5 Enabling the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology 5-3 5.2 NVIDIA® SLI™ technology 5-5 5.2.1 Requirements 5-5 5.2.2 Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards 5-5 5.2.3 Installing the device...
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xvii Crosshair V Formula specifications summary Internal I/O Connectors Software Form Factor 1 x USB 3.0/2.0 connector supports additional 2 USB 3.0/2.0 ports 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors support additional 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports 7 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (Red)...START (Power on) button 1 x RESET button 1 x Go button 1 x Audio front panel (AAFP) header 1 x System panel connector Drivers Sound Blaster® X-Fi 2 Utility Kaspersky® Anti-Virus DAEMON Tools Pro Standard ROG CPU-Z ASUS Utilities ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6" (30.5cm x 24.4cm) *Specifications are subject to change without notice.
xvii Crosshair V Formula specifications summary Internal I/O Connectors Software Form Factor 1 x USB 3.0/2.0 connector supports additional 2 USB 3.0/2.0 ports 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors support additional 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports 7 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (Red)...START (Power on) button 1 x RESET button 1 x Go button 1 x Audio front panel (AAFP) header 1 x System panel connector Drivers Sound Blaster® X-Fi 2 Utility Kaspersky® Anti-Virus DAEMON Tools Pro Standard ROG CPU-Z ASUS Utilities ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6" (30.5cm x 24.4cm) *Specifications are subject to change without notice.
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... the bracket opposite the slot that they support. Remove the system unit cover (if your motherboard is completely seated on shared slots, ensure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that came with it and make the necessary hardware settings for the card. 2. When using PCI cards on the slot. 5. Align...
... the bracket opposite the slot that they support. Remove the system unit cover (if your motherboard is completely seated on shared slots, ensure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that came with it and make the necessary hardware settings for the card. 2. When using PCI cards on the slot. 5. Align...
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This item appears only when you set the SATA configuration. The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to the corresponding SATA port. Set to [RAID] ...
This item appears only when you set the SATA configuration. The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to the corresponding SATA port. Set to [RAID] ...
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... configuration. You can only set SATA Port5-Port6 to [IDE] if Port1-Port4 is a monitor system. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] ROG Crosshair V Formula 3-19 Set to [AHCI] when you want to report warning messages during the POST. SATA Port5-Port6 [AHCI] Allows you to set SATA Hot...SATA Channel item to [Enabled]. [IDE] [AHCI] Set to [IDE] when you set to [IDE] S.M.A.R.T. The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives...
... configuration. You can only set SATA Port5-Port6 to [IDE] if Port1-Port4 is a monitor system. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] ROG Crosshair V Formula 3-19 Set to [AHCI] when you want to report warning messages during the POST. SATA Port5-Port6 [AHCI] Allows you to set SATA Hot...SATA Channel item to [Enabled]. [IDE] [AHCI] Set to [IDE] when you set to [IDE] S.M.A.R.T. The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives...
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ROG Crosshair V Formula 3-23 ASM1061 Storage OPROM [Enabled] This item appears only when you set the previous item to [Enabled] and allows you to use the Serial ATA ...] Set to [IDE] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to enable or disable the OptionRom of commands. The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of the ASM1061...
ROG Crosshair V Formula 3-23 ASM1061 Storage OPROM [Enabled] This item appears only when you set the previous item to [Enabled] and allows you to use the Serial ATA ...] Set to [IDE] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to enable or disable the OptionRom of commands. The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of the ASM1061...
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Chapter summary 4 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2 Support DVD information 4-1 4.3 Software information 4-8 4.4 RAID configurations 4-38 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-43 ROG Crosshair V Formula
Chapter summary 4 4.1 Installing an operating system 4-1 4.2 Support DVD information 4-1 4.3 Software information 4-8 4.4 RAID configurations 4-38 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-43 ROG Crosshair V Formula
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...notice. Double-click the ASSETUP.EXE to change at www.asus.com for better compatibility and system stability. 4.2 Support DVD information The support DVD that came with the motherboard package contains the drivers, software applications, and utilities that you can install to your...information Click an item to locate the file ASSETUP.EXE from the BIN folder. Refer to avail all motherboard features. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-1 4.1 Installing an operating system This motherboard supports Windows® X��P�/�6�4��-b��...
...notice. Double-click the ASSETUP.EXE to change at www.asus.com for better compatibility and system stability. 4.2 Support DVD information The support DVD that came with the motherboard package contains the drivers, software applications, and utilities that you can install to your...information Click an item to locate the file ASSETUP.EXE from the BIN folder. Refer to avail all motherboard features. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-1 4.1 Installing an operating system This motherboard supports Windows® X��P�/�6�4��-b��...
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... Drivers appear only when ROG ThunderBolt has been installed in the system. 4-2 Chapter 4: Software support USB 3.0 Driver Installs the USB 3.0 driver. Browser Configuration Utility Installs the browser configuration utility. Realtek Audio Driver Installs the Realtek® audio driver and application. AMD Chipset Driver Installs the AMD® chipset driver. ASUS ROG THUNDERBOLT LAN Driver Installs the ASUS ROG ThunderBolt LAN driver...
... Drivers appear only when ROG ThunderBolt has been installed in the system. 4-2 Chapter 4: Software support USB 3.0 Driver Installs the USB 3.0 driver. Browser Configuration Utility Installs the browser configuration utility. Realtek Audio Driver Installs the Realtek® audio driver and application. AMD Chipset Driver Installs the AMD® chipset driver. ASUS ROG THUNDERBOLT LAN Driver Installs the ASUS ROG ThunderBolt LAN driver...
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Most user manual files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). AMD AHCI/RAID Driver Disk Allows you to create an AMD AHCI/RAID driver disk. 4.2.5 Manual menu The Manuals menu contains a list of the user manual. Install the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader from the Utilities menu before opening a user manual file. 4-4 Chapter 4: Software support Click an item to create the AMD AHCI/RAID 32/64bit driver disk. 4.2.4 Make disk menu The Make disk menu contains items to open the folder of supplementary user manuals.
Most user manual files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). AMD AHCI/RAID Driver Disk Allows you to create an AMD AHCI/RAID driver disk. 4.2.5 Manual menu The Manuals menu contains a list of the user manual. Install the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader from the Utilities menu before opening a user manual file. 4-4 Chapter 4: Software support Click an item to create the AMD AHCI/RAID 32/64bit driver disk. 4.2.4 Make disk menu The Make disk menu contains items to open the folder of supplementary user manuals.
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...from the Windows® desktop. Click the icon to the optical drive. The actual screenshots vary with the software application for regerence only. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer: 1. The AI Suite II main window appears. Launching AI Suite II You can launch AI Suite II right...II v1.xx.xx. After launching the application, the AI Suite II icon appears in this user manual are for more information. 4.3.1 ASUS AI Suite II ASUS AI Suite II allows you through the installation. Using AI Suite II Click each button to select and launch a desired utility, to ...
...from the Windows® desktop. Click the icon to the optical drive. The actual screenshots vary with the software application for regerence only. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer: 1. The AI Suite II main window appears. Launching AI Suite II You can launch AI Suite II right...II v1.xx.xx. After launching the application, the AI Suite II icon appears in this user manual are for more information. 4.3.1 ASUS AI Suite II ASUS AI Suite II allows you through the installation. Using AI Suite II Click each button to select and launch a desired utility, to ...
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... audio output, jack-sensing feature, retasking functions and multi-streaming technology that you have successfully installed the LAN driver and have the latest version of the Windows Media Player installed on the desktop. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-35 4.3.11 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB 2 This application is available only under Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating...
... audio output, jack-sensing feature, retasking functions and multi-streaming technology that you have successfully installed the LAN driver and have the latest version of the Windows Media Player installed on the desktop. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-35 4.3.11 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB 2 This application is available only under Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating...
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...be of the same size or larger than the existing drive. Refer to a second drive. If one drive to section 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk for this setup. Use two new drives or use an existing drive and three new drives for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise ... XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Windows® XP SP2 or later versions. • Due to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation. With the RAID 10 configuration you get all applications to the surviving drive as a data disk only. • ...
...be of the same size or larger than the existing drive. Refer to a second drive. If one drive to section 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk for this setup. Use two new drives or use an existing drive and three new drives for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise ... XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Windows® XP SP2 or later versions. • Due to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation. With the RAID 10 configuration you get all applications to the surviving drive as a data disk only. • ...
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...When the Make Disk menu appears, press to complete the process. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to create a RAID driver disk. 7. Boot your computer. 2. Save changes and exit BIOS. 6. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to avoid...driver disk A floppy disk with the RAID driver or the support DVD. • The motherboard does not provide a floppy drive connector. You have to use either a USB flash drive with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in Windows®: 1. ROG Crosshair V Formula...
...When the Make Disk menu appears, press to complete the process. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to create a RAID driver disk. 7. Boot your computer. 2. Save changes and exit BIOS. 6. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to avoid...driver disk A floppy disk with the RAID driver or the support DVD. • The motherboard does not provide a floppy drive connector. You have to use either a USB flash drive with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in Windows®: 1. ROG Crosshair V Formula...
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...flash drive. 4-44 Chapter 4: Software support To install the RAID driver for Windows® Vista or later OS 1. To install the RAID driver for Windows® XP 1. During the OS installation, click Load Driver to allow you to complete the installation. Follow the succeeding screen ...instructions to select the installation media containing the RAID driver. 2. Insert the USB flash drive with RAID driver into the optical drive, and then click Browse. 3. 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows® OS installation If you use a SATA optical drive to...
...flash drive. 4-44 Chapter 4: Software support To install the RAID driver for Windows® Vista or later OS 1. To install the RAID driver for Windows® XP 1. During the OS installation, click Load Driver to allow you to complete the installation. Follow the succeeding screen ...instructions to select the installation media containing the RAID driver. 2. Insert the USB flash drive with RAID driver into the optical drive, and then click Browse. 3. 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows® OS installation If you use a SATA optical drive to...
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Using another computer, plug the USB floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. Browse the contents of the USB floppy disk drive varies with different vendors. 4. To solve this issue, add the USB floppy disk drive's Vendor ID... or start menu, and then select Manage from a floppy disk during the OS installation. The name of the RAID driver disk to the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. Select Device Manager. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-45 Double-click the file. 4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive Due to the steps below: 1. Refer to OS...
Using another computer, plug the USB floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. Browse the contents of the USB floppy disk drive varies with different vendors. 4. To solve this issue, add the USB floppy disk drive's Vendor ID... or start menu, and then select Manage from a floppy disk during the OS installation. The name of the RAID driver disk to the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. Select Device Manager. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-45 Double-click the file. 4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive Due to the steps below: 1. Refer to OS...
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...Programs and Features. For Windows 7, go to uninstall all current applications. 2. Turn off your current graphics card driver/s. 4. ROG Crosshair V Formula 5-1 Download the latest driver from the AMD website at www.amd.com. • Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide...to install multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. Select your computer. To uninstall existing graphics card drivers 1. Close all existing graphics card drivers before installing ATI CrossFireX graphics cards to your system. • We recommend that you install additional chassis ...
...Programs and Features. For Windows 7, go to uninstall all current applications. 2. Turn off your current graphics card driver/s. 4. ROG Crosshair V Formula 5-1 Download the latest driver from the AMD website at www.amd.com. • Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide...to install multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. Select your computer. To uninstall existing graphics card drivers 1. Close all existing graphics card drivers before installing ATI CrossFireX graphics cards to your system. • We recommend that you install additional chassis ...
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...(www.amd.com). 5.1.5 Enabling the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology After installing your graphics card package to install the device drivers. ROG Crosshair V Formula 5-3 Right-click on the Windows® desktop and select Catalyst(TM) Control Center. Launching the ATI Catalyst Control Center To ... cards. You can also right-click the ATI icon in Windows environment. 5.1.4 Installing the device drivers Refer to the documentation that your PCI Express graphics card driver supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology. Ensure that came with your graphics cards and the...
...(www.amd.com). 5.1.5 Enabling the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology After installing your graphics card package to install the device drivers. ROG Crosshair V Formula 5-3 Right-click on the Windows® desktop and select Catalyst(TM) Control Center. Launching the ATI Catalyst Control Center To ... cards. You can also right-click the ATI icon in Windows environment. 5.1.4 Installing the device drivers Refer to the documentation that your PCI Express graphics card driver supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology. Ensure that came with your graphics cards and the...
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Prepare two SLI-ready graphics cards. 2. If your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI technology. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website (www.nvidia.com). • Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the minimum ... units (GPU) graphics cards. The graphics cards and the motherboard layout may vary with models, but the installation steps remain the same. 1. ROG Crosshair V Formula 5-5 Follow the installation procedures in this section. 5.2.1 Requirements • In SLI mode, you should have two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are...
Prepare two SLI-ready graphics cards. 2. If your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI technology. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website (www.nvidia.com). • Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the minimum ... units (GPU) graphics cards. The graphics cards and the motherboard layout may vary with models, but the installation steps remain the same. 1. ROG Crosshair V Formula 5-5 Follow the installation procedures in this section. 5.2.1 Requirements • In SLI mode, you should have two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are...