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... drive 4-33 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 two 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 LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ solution 5-4 5.2.1 Installing LucidLogix® Virtu MVP 5-4 5.2.2 Setting up your display 5-5 5.2.3 Configuring LucidLogix®...
... drive 4-33 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 two 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 LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ solution 5-4 5.2.1 Installing LucidLogix® Virtu MVP 5-4 5.2.2 Setting up your display 5-5 5.2.3 Configuring LucidLogix®...
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xii P8Z77-V LX specifications summary Storage Form Factor Drivers ASUS Utilities ASUS Update Anti-virus software (OEM version) ATX Form Factor, 12"x 8.6" (30.5cm x 21.8 cm) *Specifications are subject to change without notice.
xii P8Z77-V LX specifications summary Storage Form Factor Drivers ASUS Utilities ASUS Update Anti-virus software (OEM version) ATX Form Factor, 12"x 8.6" (30.5cm x 21.8 cm) *Specifications are subject to change without notice.
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... not compatible with multiple VGA output that you connect USB 3.0 devices to the tables on two monitors. PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse COMBO port 2. HDMI port 10. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 2-37 Video Graphics Adapter (VGA) port 3. Intel® LAN (RJ-45) port* 4. DVI port 8. USB 2.0 ports 1 and 2 6. USB 3.0 ports 1 and 2 7. ...8226; Due to USB 3.0 controller limitation, USB 3.0 devices can only be used under Windows® OS environment and after the USB 3.0 driver installation. • USB 3.0 devices can connect two monitors to any two of the onboard VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI ports. • ...
... not compatible with multiple VGA output that you connect USB 3.0 devices to the tables on two monitors. PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse COMBO port 2. HDMI port 10. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 2-37 Video Graphics Adapter (VGA) port 3. Intel® LAN (RJ-45) port* 4. DVI port 8. USB 2.0 ports 1 and 2 6. USB 3.0 ports 1 and 2 7. ...8226; Due to USB 3.0 controller limitation, USB 3.0 devices can only be used under Windows® OS environment and after the USB 3.0 driver installation. • USB 3.0 devices can connect two monitors to any two of the onboard VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI ports. • ...
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... drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices. Status Check [Enabled] S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. 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 report warning messages during the POST. Configuration...
... drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices. Status Check [Enabled] S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. 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 report warning messages during the POST. Configuration...
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... that you install the Windows® XP Service Pack 3 or Windows® 64-bit XP / 7 / 64-bit 7 operating systems (OS) before installing the drivers for reference only. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-1 Refer to your computer, browse the contents of the support DVD to display DVD/ motherboard information Chapter 4 If Autorun is enabled in this chapter...
... that you install the Windows® XP Service Pack 3 or Windows® 64-bit XP / 7 / 64-bit 7 operating systems (OS) before installing the drivers for reference only. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-1 Refer to your computer, browse the contents of the support DVD to display DVD/ motherboard information Chapter 4 If Autorun is enabled in this chapter...
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Click the icon to the optical drive. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-3 Place the support DVD to open the AI Suite II main menu bar. Follow ...under TurboV EVO • The Auto Tuning button appears only on your computer has enabled the Autorun feature. 2. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer 1. The AI Suite II icon appears in the Windows® notification area. The ...file that came with models. • Refer to the software manual in the support DVD or visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com for more information. 4.3.1 AI Suite II AI Suite II is an all-in-one interface that ...
Click the icon to the optical drive. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-3 Place the support DVD to open the AI Suite II main menu bar. Follow ...under TurboV EVO • The Auto Tuning button appears only on your computer has enabled the Autorun feature. 2. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer 1. The AI Suite II icon appears in the Windows® notification area. The ...file that came with models. • Refer to the software manual in the support DVD or visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com for more information. 4.3.1 AI Suite II AI Suite II is an all-in-one interface that ...
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... settings window Exit button Minimize button Information button Refer to install the Realtek® Audio Driver from the support DVD that came with the motherboard package. Chapter 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-13 If the Realtek audio software is correctly installed, you will find the Realtek HD... technology for detailed software configuration. Follow the installation wizard to the software manual in the support DVD or visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com for all audio ports, eliminating cable connection errors and giving users plug and play convenience. The software provides Jack...
... settings window Exit button Minimize button Information button Refer to install the Realtek® Audio Driver from the support DVD that came with the motherboard package. Chapter 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-13 If the Realtek audio software is correctly installed, you will find the Realtek HD... technology for detailed software configuration. Follow the installation wizard to the software manual in the support DVD or visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com for all audio ports, eliminating cable connection errors and giving users plug and play convenience. The software provides Jack...
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.... It uses an installed fast SSD (min. 20GB available) as a cache for caching. Click the Drivers tab, then click Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver software. 3. Select the size allocated for details Installing Intel® Smart Response Technology 1. Key benefits are...drive speeds, reduced load and wait times, and maximized storage utilization. d. Refer to HDD in BIOS setup is necessary. The Drivers installation tab appears if your storage system. 4.4.2 Intel® Smart Response Technology Intel® Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance...
.... It uses an installed fast SSD (min. 20GB available) as a cache for caching. Click the Drivers tab, then click Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver software. 3. Select the size allocated for details Installing Intel® Smart Response Technology 1. Key benefits are...drive speeds, reduced load and wait times, and maximized storage utilization. d. Refer to HDD in BIOS setup is necessary. The Drivers installation tab appears if your storage system. 4.4.2 Intel® Smart Response Technology Intel® Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance...
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...want to install a Windows® operating system to a hard disk drive included in a RAID set, you have to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation. If one drive to Windows® XP / Vista limitation, a RAID array with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and...to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Refer to section 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other drive. Use four new hard disk drives or use an ...
...want to install a Windows® operating system to a hard disk drive included in a RAID set, you have to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation. If one drive to Windows® XP / Vista limitation, a RAID array with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and...to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Refer to section 4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other drive. Use four new hard disk drives or use an ...
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.... Follow the succeeding screen instructions to section 4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive. 4.6.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS To create a RAID driver disk without entering the OS: 1. Boot your computer. 2. Select USB floppy disk drive as the primary ... Disk menu, and then click Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Disk to enter the BIOS setup utility. 3. Chapter 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-31 Press during POST to create a RAID driver disk. 5. 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing a Windows® operating system...
.... Follow the succeeding screen instructions to section 4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive. 4.6.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS To create a RAID driver disk without entering the OS: 1. Boot your computer. 2. Select USB floppy disk drive as the primary ... Disk menu, and then click Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Disk to enter the BIOS setup utility. 3. Chapter 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-31 Press during POST to create a RAID driver disk. 5. 4.6 Creating a RAID driver disk A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing a Windows® operating system...
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... OS version. Click the name of the device you have to use another computer to copy the RAID driver from the support DVD to select the installation media containing the RAID driver. 2. Click OK. 4. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to the USB flash drive.... DVD into the USB floppy disk drive. 3. party SCSI or RAID driver. 2. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation. To install the RAID driver for Windows® Vista or later OS: 1. Before loading the RAID driver from a USB flash drive, you 've inserted, go to install third...
... OS version. Click the name of the device you have to use another computer to copy the RAID driver from the support DVD to select the installation media containing the RAID driver. 2. Click OK. 4. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to the USB flash drive.... DVD into the USB floppy disk drive. 3. party SCSI or RAID driver. 2. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation. To install the RAID driver for Windows® Vista or later OS: 1. Before loading the RAID driver from a USB flash drive, you 've inserted, go to install third...
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... another computer, plug the USB floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. From the Universal Serial Bus controllers, right-click xxxxxx USB Floppy, and then select Properties from the pop-up window. The Vendor ID (VID) and ... select the program for opening the oem file. Chapter 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-33 To solve this issue, add the USB floppy disk drive's Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) to the steps below: 1. Select Device Manager. A window appears, allowing you install the RAID driver from the pop-up window. The name of the...
... another computer, plug the USB floppy disk drive, and insert the floppy disk containing the RAID driver. 2. From the Universal Serial Bus controllers, right-click xxxxxx USB Floppy, and then select Properties from the pop-up window. The Vendor ID (VID) and ... select the program for opening the oem file. Chapter 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX 4-33 To solve this issue, add the USB floppy disk drive's Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID) to the steps below: 1. Select Device Manager. A window appears, allowing you install the RAID driver from the pop-up window. The name of the...
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...Add/Remove Programs. 3. Select your computer. For Windows XP, select Add/Remove. 5. To uninstall existing graphics card drivers: 1. Chapter 5: Chapter 5 Multiple GPU technology support 5.1 ATI® CrossFireX™ technology The motherboard supports the ATI®...all existing graphics card drivers before installing ATI CrossFireX graphics cards to install multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. For Windows XP, go to uninstall all current applications. 2. Turn off your current graphics card driver/s. 4. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 5-1 Follow the ...
...Add/Remove Programs. 3. Select your computer. For Windows XP, select Add/Remove. 5. To uninstall existing graphics card drivers: 1. Chapter 5: Chapter 5 Multiple GPU technology support 5.1 ATI® CrossFireX™ technology The motherboard supports the ATI®...all existing graphics card drivers before installing ATI CrossFireX graphics cards to install multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. For Windows XP, go to uninstall all current applications. 2. Turn off your current graphics card driver/s. 4. ASUS P8Z77-V LX 5-1 Follow the ...
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...icon in Windows environment. Click Go to continue to install the device drivers. Chapter 5 5.1.4 Installing the device drivers Refer to the documentation that your graphics cards and the device drivers, enable the CrossFireX™ feature through the ATI Catalyst™ ...driver supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology. Launching the ATI Catalyst Control Center To launch the ATI Catalyst Control Center: 1. Select Enable CrossFireX. 4. Enabling Dual CrossFireX technology 1. From the Graphics Adapter list, select the graphics card to exit the window. 2 3 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX...
...icon in Windows environment. Click Go to continue to install the device drivers. Chapter 5 5.1.4 Installing the device drivers Refer to the documentation that your graphics cards and the device drivers, enable the CrossFireX™ feature through the ATI Catalyst™ ...driver supports the ATI® CrossFireX™ technology. Launching the ATI Catalyst Control Center To launch the ATI Catalyst Control Center: 1. Select Enable CrossFireX. 4. Enabling Dual CrossFireX technology 1. From the Graphics Adapter list, select the graphics card to exit the window. 2 3 4 ASUS P8Z77-V LX...
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... Multi-Monitor support option must be enabled in BIOS and install both Intel® Graphics Accelerator, and graphics card driver before installing LucidLogix Virtu MVP from ASUS support DVD. Follow the succeeding onscreen instructions to use LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ under RAID mode. 5.2.1 ... not recommended to complete the installation. Click the Utilites tab, then click LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ Software. 3. The ASUS Support Wizard appears if your computer's VGA output and discrete graphic cards to the best available graphic source while the newly-designed Virtual...
... Multi-Monitor support option must be enabled in BIOS and install both Intel® Graphics Accelerator, and graphics card driver before installing LucidLogix Virtu MVP from ASUS support DVD. Follow the succeeding onscreen instructions to use LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ under RAID mode. 5.2.1 ... not recommended to complete the installation. Click the Utilites tab, then click LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ Software. 3. The ASUS Support Wizard appears if your computer's VGA output and discrete graphic cards to the best available graphic source while the newly-designed Virtual...