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... Audio 4-31 4.3.11 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB 2 4-35 4.4 RAID configurations 4-38 4.4.1 RAID definitions 4-38 4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 4-39 4.4.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 4-39 4.4.4 AMD® Option ROM Utility 4-40 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-43 4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS.... 4-43 4.5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows 4-43 4.5.3 Installing the...
... Audio 4-31 4.3.11 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB 2 4-35 4.4 RAID configurations 4-38 4.4.1 RAID definitions 4-38 4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 4-39 4.4.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 4-39 4.4.4 AMD® Option ROM Utility 4-40 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk 4-43 4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS.... 4-43 4.5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows 4-43 4.5.3 Installing the...
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Crosshair V Formula specifications summary CPU. EAX® Advanced™ HD 5.0 - ... PCIe 2.0 x1 1 x PCI 2.2 Supports 3-Way NVIDIA® SLI™ / AMD CrossFireX™ Technology SB950 South Bridge: - 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, red ASMedia® controllers: - 1 x SATA 6Gb/s port, red - 1 x eSATA 6Gb/s port, red Intel® Ethernet Gigabit LAN SupremeFX...slots (dual @ x16; C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 MHz, ECC and nonECC, un-buffered memory *Refer to www.asus.com or user manual for AM3+ FX™/Phenom™ II/Athlon™ II/ Sempron™ 100 Series ...
Crosshair V Formula specifications summary CPU. EAX® Advanced™ HD 5.0 - ... PCIe 2.0 x1 1 x PCI 2.2 Supports 3-Way NVIDIA® SLI™ / AMD CrossFireX™ Technology SB950 South Bridge: - 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, red ASMedia® controllers: - 1 x SATA 6Gb/s port, red - 1 x eSATA 6Gb/s port, red Intel® Ethernet Gigabit LAN SupremeFX...slots (dual @ x16; C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 MHz, ECC and nonECC, un-buffered memory *Refer to www.asus.com or user manual for AM3+ FX™/Phenom™ II/Athlon™ II/ Sempron™ 100 Series ...
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...details. 2-20 Chapter 2: Hardware information See section 3.5.3 Storage Configuration for details. • Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 4.4 RAID configurations or the manual bundled in the BIOS to [RAID]. If you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to AHCI mode by default. If you ...installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set the SATA Port1-4 in the motherboard support DVD. • You must install Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later versions ...
...details. 2-20 Chapter 2: Hardware information See section 3.5.3 Storage Configuration for details. • Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 4.4 RAID configurations or the manual bundled in the BIOS to [RAID]. If you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to AHCI mode by default. If you ...installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set the SATA Port1-4 in the motherboard support DVD. • You must install Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later versions ...
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... workloads by allowing the drive to use the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). This item appears only when you set the SATA configuration. Set to [RAID] when you want to internally optimize the order of SATA devices. Set to [AHCI] when you to the corresponding SATA port. Onchip SATA Channel [Enabled... 3: BIOS setup The SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to set the OnChip SATA Channel item to [Enabled]. [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI] Set to [IDE] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to create...
... workloads by allowing the drive to use the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). This item appears only when you set the SATA configuration. Set to [RAID] when you want to internally optimize the order of SATA devices. Set to [AHCI] when you to the corresponding SATA port. Onchip SATA Channel [Enabled... 3: BIOS setup The SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to set the OnChip SATA Channel item to [Enabled]. [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI] Set to [IDE] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to create...
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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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Most user manual files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Click an item 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 AMD AHCI/RAID Driver Disk Allows you to open the folder of supplementary user manuals. 4.2.4 Make disk menu The Make disk menu contains items to create the AMD AHCI/RAID 32/64bit driver disk.
Most user manual files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Click an item 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 AMD AHCI/RAID Driver Disk Allows you to open the folder of supplementary user manuals. 4.2.4 Make disk menu The Make disk menu contains items to create the AMD AHCI/RAID 32/64bit driver disk.
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...Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Windows® XP SP2 or later versions. • Due to a second drive. 4.4 RAID configurations The motherboard comes with the total capacity over 2TB can only be set as a data disk only. • If you want.... Refer to section 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk for this setup. RAID 5 stripes both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. The Serial ATA RAID feature is required for details. 4.4.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to the entire system. A RAID array over 2TB cannot be set ...
...Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Windows® XP SP2 or later versions. • Due to a second drive. 4.4 RAID configurations The motherboard comes with the total capacity over 2TB can only be set as a data disk only. • If you want.... Refer to section 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk for this setup. RAID 5 stripes both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. The Serial ATA RAID feature is required for details. 4.4.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to the entire system. A RAID array over 2TB cannot be set ...
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...: 1. To do this: 1. Refer to the power connector on entering and navigating through the BIOS Setup. However, you can set the SATA ports 5 and 6 to [RAID]. 4. See section 3.5.4 SATA Configuration for details. For optimal performance, install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array. Set the SATA... supports Serial ATA hard disk drives. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays. 2. Save your changes, and then exit the BIOS Setup. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-39
...: 1. To do this: 1. Refer to the power connector on entering and navigating through the BIOS Setup. However, you can set the SATA ports 5 and 6 to [RAID]. 4. See section 3.5.4 SATA Configuration for details. For optimal performance, install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array. Set the SATA... supports Serial ATA hard disk drives. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays. 2. Save your changes, and then exit the BIOS Setup. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-39
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...65533;u��: displays the existing RAID set information / creates a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10 configuration. • Delete LD Menu: deletes a selected RAID set to [RAID] mode. 4-40 Chapter 4: Software support To create a RAID volume using more than four hard ... / LD Define Menu ......[ 2 ] Delete LD Menu 3 ] Controller Configuration ......[ 4 ] [ Keys Available ] Press 1..4 to perform. The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are set and partition. • Controller Configuration: shows the system resources configuration. During POST, press + to...
...65533;u��: displays the existing RAID set information / creates a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10 configuration. • Delete LD Menu: deletes a selected RAID set to [RAID] mode. 4-40 Chapter 4: Software support To create a RAID volume using more than four hard ... / LD Define Menu ......[ 2 ] Delete LD Menu 3 ] Controller Configuration ......[ 4 ] [ Keys Available ] Press 1..4 to perform. The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are set and partition. • Controller Configuration: shows the system resources configuration. During POST, press + to...
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...;ty��p�r�o�m��p�t�s��th��e�f�o�l�lo�w��in the RAID set Y to select the hard disk drives you want to enter the LD View / LD Define Menu function. 2. Press + , and the... following screen appears. Creating a RAID volume To create a RAID volume: 1. Move to the Assignment item by using the down arrow key and set . 5. In the Main Menu, press to include in ...
...;ty��p�r�o�m��p�t�s��th��e�f�o�l�lo�w��in the RAID set Y to select the hard disk drives you want to enter the LD View / LD Define Menu function. 2. Press + , and the... following screen appears. Creating a RAID volume To create a RAID volume: 1. Move to the Assignment item by using the down arrow key and set . 5. In the Main Menu, press to include in ...
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...display its information. Option ROM Utility (c) 2009 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [ View LD Defination Menu ] LD No LD Name RAID Mode Drv Capacity(GB) LD 1 xxxxx RAID 0 2 157.99 Strip Block 64 KB Cache Mode WriteThru Port:ID 01:00 02:00 Drive Model xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx [ Drives Assignments... 4-42 Any Key To Continue....... The utility prompts the following messages: Press Ctrl-Y to enter the Delete LD function. 2. Dispalying a RAID set information To display a RAID set information: 1. In the Main Menu, press to delte the data in the disk! Press + to delete the...
...display its information. Option ROM Utility (c) 2009 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [ View LD Defination Menu ] LD No LD Name RAID Mode Drv Capacity(GB) LD 1 xxxxx RAID 0 2 157.99 Strip Block 64 KB Cache Mode WriteThru Port:ID 01:00 02:00 Drive Model xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx [ Drives Assignments... 4-42 Any Key To Continue....... The utility prompts the following messages: Press Ctrl-Y to enter the Delete LD function. 2. Dispalying a RAID set information To display a RAID set information: 1. In the Main Menu, press to delte the data in the disk! Press + to delete the...
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... drive as the primary boot device. 4. Go to the Make Disk menu, and then click AMD AHCI/RAID 32/64bit xxxx Driver to avoid a computer virus infection. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-43 Set the optical drive as the destination disk. 6. For Windows® Vista or later operating systems..., use a USB floppy disk drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk. • Windows® XP may not recognize...
... drive as the primary boot device. 4. Go to the Make Disk menu, and then click AMD AHCI/RAID 32/64bit xxxx Driver to avoid a computer virus infection. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-43 Set the optical drive as the destination disk. 6. For Windows® Vista or later operating systems..., use a USB floppy disk drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk. • Windows® XP may not recognize...
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... During the OS installation, click Load Driver to allow you 've inserted, go to Drivers > RAID, and then select the RAID driver for the corresponding OS version. 4. Before loading the RAID driver from a USB flash drive, �y�o�u��h�a�v�e��t�..., the system prompts you install the optical dirve to the SATA connectors 5/6 and set them to [IDE] mode. 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows® OS installation If you use a SATA optical drive to run the OS installation disk, we strongly recommend that you...
... During the OS installation, click Load Driver to allow you 've inserted, go to Drivers > RAID, and then select the RAID driver for the corresponding OS version. 4. Before loading the RAID driver from a USB flash drive, �y�o�u��h�a�v�e��t�..., the system prompts you install the optical dirve to the SATA connectors 5/6 and set them to [IDE] mode. 4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows® OS installation If you use a SATA optical drive to run the OS installation disk, we strongly recommend that you...
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...) to the steps below: 1. or 3. Select Device Manager. The name of the RAID driver disk to select the program for opening the oem file. Refer to the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. Click Details tab. Right-click My Computer on the Windows® desktop or... floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. The Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) are displayed. 5. A window appears, allowing you install the RAID driver from the pop-up window. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-45 From the Universal Serial Bus controllers, right-click xxxxxx...
...) to the steps below: 1. or 3. Select Device Manager. The name of the RAID driver disk to select the program for opening the oem file. Refer to the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. Click Details tab. Right-click My Computer on the Windows® desktop or... floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. The Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) are displayed. 5. A window appears, allowing you install the RAID driver from the pop-up window. ROG Crosshair V Formula 4-45 From the Universal Serial Bus controllers, right-click xxxxxx...