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... 62 4-2-2 Updating the BIOS with the @BIOS Utility 65 4-3 EasyTune 5 ...67 4-4 Windows Vista ReadyBoost 68 Chapter 5 Appendix ...69 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 69 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller 69 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette 74 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 75 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 80 5-2-1 Configuring...
... 62 4-2-2 Updating the BIOS with the @BIOS Utility 65 4-3 EasyTune 5 ...67 4-4 Windows Vista ReadyBoost 68 Chapter 5 Appendix ...69 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 69 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller 69 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette 74 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 75 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 80 5-2-1 Configuring...
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...a question mark still exists in Universal Serial Bus Controller in the dialog box. • For USB 2.0 driver support under the Windows XP operating system, please install the Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later. After the system restart, "Xpress Install" will continue to install other ...go to install and press the Install button following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) • After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your system. Drivers Installation Or you wish to My Computer, double-click the optical...
...a question mark still exists in Universal Serial Bus Controller in the dialog box. • For USB 2.0 driver support under the Windows XP operating system, please install the Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later. After the system restart, "Xpress Install" will continue to install other ...go to install and press the Install button following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) • After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your system. Drivers Installation Or you wish to My Computer, double-click the optical...
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...8226; Xpress Recovery and Xpress Recovery2 are not supported. Xpress Recovery2 can back up data on the first SATA connector is the first physical drive. Windows® XP with Xpress Recovery cannot be restored using Xpress Recovery2. • USB hard drives are not supported. • Hard drives in the...back up/restore the first physical hard drive that allows you to quickly compress and back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are attached to the first and second SATA connectors, the hard drive on PATA and SATA hard drives and restore it. Chapter 4 Unique...
...8226; Xpress Recovery and Xpress Recovery2 are not supported. Xpress Recovery2 can back up data on the first SATA connector is the first physical drive. Windows® XP with Xpress Recovery cannot be restored using Xpress Recovery2. • USB hard drives are not supported. • Hard drives in the...back up/restore the first physical hard drive that allows you to quickly compress and back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are attached to the first and second SATA connectors, the hard drive on PATA and SATA hard drives and restore it. Chapter 4 Unique...
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...Xpress Recovery2 1. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2007, Award Software, Inc. When the Windows operating system is detected, Xpress Recovery2 will automatically create a new partition to check disk allocation. When finished, go to Disk... 1. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to enter Xpress Recovery2 later, simply press during the POST (Figure 9). If you see the following message: Press any key to startup Xpress Recovery2 (Figure 8), press any key to enter Xpress Recovery2. . . Figure 10 Figure 11 3. GA-73VM-S2 F1a . . . ....
...Xpress Recovery2 1. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2007, Award Software, Inc. When the Windows operating system is detected, Xpress Recovery2 will automatically create a new partition to check disk allocation. When finished, go to Disk... 1. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to enter Xpress Recovery2 later, simply press during the POST (Figure 9). If you see the following message: Press any key to startup Xpress Recovery2 (Figure 8), press any key to enter Xpress Recovery2. . . Figure 10 Figure 11 3. GA-73VM-S2 F1a . . . ....
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... Internet connection (for example, avoid a power loss or switching off the Internet). In Windows, close all applications and TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) programs. This helps prevent unexpected...failures when performing a BIOS update. 2. Installing and Using @BIOS: Use the motherboard driver disk included with the @BIOS Utility A. Before You Begin: 1. During the BIOS...; Installing the @BIOS utility. • Accessing the @BIOS utility. B. C. Unique Features GIGABYTE product warranty does not cover any BIOS damage or system failure resulting from an inadequate BIOS flashing...
... Internet connection (for example, avoid a power loss or switching off the Internet). In Windows, close all applications and TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) programs. This helps prevent unexpected...failures when performing a BIOS update. 2. Installing and Using @BIOS: Use the motherboard driver disk included with the @BIOS Utility A. Before You Begin: 1. During the BIOS...; Installing the @BIOS utility. • Accessing the @BIOS utility. B. C. Unique Features GIGABYTE product warranty does not cover any BIOS damage or system failure resulting from an inadequate BIOS flashing...
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...to an available SATA port on the motherboard. B. Then connect the power connector from your SATA RAID drives, please go to GIGABYTE's website to create RAID, you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity). Configure a RAID array in your computer Attach... hard drive. • An empty formatted floppy disk. • Windows Vista/XP setup disk. • Motherboard driver disk.(Note 3) 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller A. If you do not want to download the Windows Vista SATA RAID driver. - 69 - Appendix Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive...
...to an available SATA port on the motherboard. B. Then connect the power connector from your SATA RAID drives, please go to GIGABYTE's website to create RAID, you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity). Configure a RAID array in your computer Attach... hard drive. • An empty formatted floppy disk. • Windows Vista/XP setup disk. • Motherboard driver disk.(Note 3) 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller A. If you do not want to download the Windows Vista SATA RAID driver. - 69 - Appendix Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive...
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...in the menu in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3).A command prompt window will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. exe file in Figure 2, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto your system. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard Figure 3 - 74 - For users without a startup... disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. Press to exit when finished. (Note 1) (Note 2) Figure 1...
...in the menu in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3).A command prompt window will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. exe file in Figure 2, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto your system. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard Figure 3 - 74 - For users without a startup... disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. Press to exit when finished. (Note 1) (Note 2) Figure 1...
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... as soon as you do not want to install Windows Vista/XP onto your system to boot from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you see the next screen. 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System Now that below appears, insert the... floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and press (Figure 2). Installing Windows XP Step 1: Restart your hard drive(s). A. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar...
... as soon as you do not want to install Windows Vista/XP onto your system to boot from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you see the next screen. 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System Now that below appears, insert the... floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and press (Figure 2). Installing Windows XP Step 1: Restart your hard drive(s). A. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar...
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The screen will appear. Windows Setup You have any device support disks from the motherboard driver disk. (Note) The selectable item(s) displayed in Figure 3 may differ according to the RAID or AHCI driver you must press to select an additional driver. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard - 76 - Step 3: When installing the RAID driver, for example, if Setup correctly recognizes the...
The screen will appear. Windows Setup You have any device support disks from the motherboard driver disk. (Note) The selectable item(s) displayed in Figure 3 may differ according to the RAID or AHCI driver you must press to select an additional driver. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard - 76 - Step 3: When installing the RAID driver, for example, if Setup correctly recognizes the...
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...device manufacturer, press S. * If you can proceed with Windows, press ENTER. Windows Setup Setup will be finished in about one minute. This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. The driver installation will load support for the following mass storage device...(s): NVIDIA RAID Driver (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) * To specify additional SCSI ...
...device manufacturer, press S. * If you can proceed with Windows, press ENTER. Windows Setup Setup will be finished in about one minute. This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. The driver installation will load support for the following mass storage device...(s): NVIDIA RAID Driver (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) * To specify additional SCSI ...
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... this stage), select Load Driver. (Figure 7). B. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard - 78 - Installing Windows Vista (Note) (The procedure below assumes that below appears (RAID hard drive(s) will not be sure to run the .exe file to install the SATA AHCI driver in your system.) Step 1: Restart your floppy disk (Figure 8). (You should go to GIGABYTE's website to that...
... this stage), select Load Driver. (Figure 7). B. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard - 78 - Installing Windows Vista (Note) (The procedure below assumes that below appears (RAID hard drive(s) will not be sure to run the .exe file to install the SATA AHCI driver in your system.) Step 1: Restart your floppy disk (Figure 8). (You should go to GIGABYTE's website to that...
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... installed from the motherboard driver disk and your system tray. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard - 80 - High Definition Audio (HD Audio) HD Audio includes multiple high quality digital-to be simultaneously processed. A. Before installing the audio driver, make a telephone call over the Internet, and etc. The picture to the following instructions use Windows XP as the example...
... installed from the motherboard driver disk and your system tray. GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard - 80 - High Definition Audio (HD Audio) HD Audio includes multiple high quality digital-to be simultaneously processed. A. Before installing the audio driver, make a telephone call over the Internet, and etc. The picture to the following instructions use Windows XP as the example...