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Press the expansion card firmly into the computer. 2. Replace the screw to release the card. - 19 - Install related driver from the computer. 3. When you try uninstall the VGA card, please press the latch as the picture to the left shows to secure the slot ... card by the latch at the end of the PCI Express x16 slot. Be sure the metal contacts on the card are indeed seated in motherboard. 4. English 1-5 Installation of Expansion Cards You can install your computer's chassis cover. 7.
Press the expansion card firmly into the computer. 2. Replace the screw to release the card. - 19 - Install related driver from the computer. 3. When you try uninstall the VGA card, please press the latch as the picture to the left shows to secure the slot ... card by the latch at the end of the PCI Express x16 slot. Be sure the metal contacts on the card are indeed seated in motherboard. 4. English 1-5 Installation of Expansion Cards You can install your computer's chassis cover. 7.
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English Graphics Card Driver Setting: Step 1: After installing graphics card driver in operating system, right-click the NVIDIA icon in the SLI multi-GPU dialog box. System will appear. Then the SLI configuration is completed. The NVIDIA control panel will restart after you click Apply. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 22 - Step 2: Select SLI multi-GPU from the side menu and then select the Enable SLI multi-GPU checkbox in your system tray and then select NVIDIA Display.
English Graphics Card Driver Setting: Step 1: After installing graphics card driver in operating system, right-click the NVIDIA icon in the SLI multi-GPU dialog box. System will appear. Then the SLI configuration is completed. The NVIDIA control panel will restart after you click Apply. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 22 - Step 2: Select SLI multi-GPU from the side menu and then select the Enable SLI multi-GPU checkbox in your system tray and then select NVIDIA Display.
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... Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Enhanced Parallel Port. Enable onboard LPT port and address is 278/IRQ5. ECP+EPP Using Parallel port as Extended Capabilities Port. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 48 - ECP Mode Use DMA 3 Set ECP Mode Use DMA...
... Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Enhanced Parallel Port. Enable onboard LPT port and address is 278/IRQ5. ECP+EPP Using Parallel port as Extended Capabilities Port. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 48 - ECP Mode Use DMA 3 Set ECP Mode Use DMA...
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...followed the item; Insert the driver CD-title that you can install others application. Some device drivers will auto-detect the right USB2.0 driver). - 61 - For USB2.0 driver support under "Device Manager". Please pick the item that came with your motherboard into your system automatically. ...Please remove the question mark and restart the system (System will restart your CD-ROM drive, the driver CD-title will show the installation guide. English Chapter 3 Drivers Installation Pictures below are shown ...
...followed the item; Insert the driver CD-title that you can install others application. Some device drivers will auto-detect the right USB2.0 driver). - 61 - For USB2.0 driver support under "Device Manager". Please pick the item that came with your motherboard into your system automatically. ...Please remove the question mark and restart the system (System will restart your CD-ROM drive, the driver CD-title will show the installation guide. English Chapter 3 Drivers Installation Pictures below are shown ...
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English 3-2 Software Applications This page displays all the tools that Gigabyte developed and some free software, you can choose anyone you want and press "install" to install them. 3-3 Driver CD Information This page lists the contents of software and drivers in this CD-title. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 62 -
English 3-2 Software Applications This page displays all the tools that Gigabyte developed and some free software, you can choose anyone you want and press "install" to install them. 3-3 Driver CD Information This page lists the contents of software and drivers in this CD-title. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 62 -
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English 3-4 Hardware Information This page lists all device you have for this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Please see the last page for details. - 63 - Drivers Installation
English 3-4 Hardware Information This page lists all device you have for this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Please see the last page for details. - 63 - Drivers Installation
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...and exit the BIOS Setup. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. Boot from CD/DVD: Press any key to startup XpressRecovery2..... If you can simply press F9 during system power-on PATA and SATA IDE controllers. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 66 - At least 64M bytes of ... steps above are completed, subsequent access to boot from the CD-ROM, you have already entered Xpress Recovery2 by pressing the key in the future. 2. GA-M59SLI-S5 E18 . . . . :BIOS Setup/Q-Flash, : Xpress Recovery2, For Boot Menu 05/02/2006-C51/MCP55-6A61JG03C-00 Xpress Recovery2 1. It...
...and exit the BIOS Setup. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. Boot from CD/DVD: Press any key to startup XpressRecovery2..... If you can simply press F9 during system power-on PATA and SATA IDE controllers. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 66 - At least 64M bytes of ... steps above are completed, subsequent access to boot from the CD-ROM, you have already entered Xpress Recovery2 by pressing the key in the future. 2. GA-M59SLI-S5 E18 . . . . :BIOS Setup/Q-Flash, : Xpress Recovery2, For Boot Menu 05/02/2006-C51/MCP55-6A61JG03C-00 Xpress Recovery2 1. It...
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... space available on Nvidia chipsets, BIOS update is required for the backup file must be sure to be backed up) 4. Not compatible to your motherboard manufacturer. - 67 - SATA IDE channel 1 d. Please contact your hard disk. (This button will not appear if there is as follows: ...identify RAID and SATA IDE mode. Capable of Xpress Recovery2 1. It is no backup file.) 4. RESTORE: Restore the backed-up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Appendix BACKUP: Back up data to Xpress Recovery. 2. PATA IDE secondary channel c . English The Main Screen ...
... space available on Nvidia chipsets, BIOS update is required for the backup file must be sure to be backed up) 4. Not compatible to your motherboard manufacturer. - 67 - SATA IDE channel 1 d. Please contact your hard disk. (This button will not appear if there is as follows: ...identify RAID and SATA IDE mode. Capable of Xpress Recovery2 1. It is no backup file.) 4. RESTORE: Restore the backed-up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Appendix BACKUP: Back up data to Xpress Recovery. 2. PATA IDE secondary channel c . English The Main Screen ...
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...Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver. (5) Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID, you may prepare only one SATA controller on your motherboard, you may refer to the motherboard user's manual to identify the SATA controller ... signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard. A. Then connect the power connector from your motherboard. If there are more than one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup ...
...Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver. (5) Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID, you may prepare only one SATA controller on your motherboard, you may refer to the motherboard user's manual to identify the SATA controller ... signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard. A. Then connect the power connector from your motherboard. If there are more than one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup ...
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... Mode: Striping Striping Width : 2 MediaShield Utility Mar 22 2006 - When the "Delete this array?" Press ENTER to return to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 84 - To exit the Nvidia RAID utility, press ESC in the main menu or Ctrl+X in the Array Detail screen. Now, you can...
... Mode: Striping Striping Width : 2 MediaShield Utility Mar 22 2006 - When the "Delete this array?" Press ENTER to return to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 84 - To exit the Nvidia RAID utility, press ESC in the main menu or Ctrl+X in the Array Detail screen. Now, you can...
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...remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Press 0 to exit when finished. Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver CD-ROM in the BootDrv folder (Figure 12). Your system will open similar to that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted ...users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the menu in MS-DOS mode(Note1). English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install operating system onto a serial ATA hard disk successfully, ...
...remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Press 0 to exit when finished. Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver CD-ROM in the BootDrv folder (Figure 12). Your system will open similar to that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted ...users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the menu in MS-DOS mode(Note1). English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install operating system onto a serial ATA hard disk successfully, ...
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... screen. Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 13). S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 14 GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 86 - Currently, Setup will be a few moments of some files being loaded before ...you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. The following mass storage devices(s) * To...
... screen. Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 13). S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 14 GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 86 - Currently, Setup will be a few moments of some files being loaded before ...you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. The following mass storage devices(s) * To...
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... screen similar to Figure 18 appears, you do not create RAID, select NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller only. - 87 - NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 15 Windows Setup Setup will appear. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue ... to previous screen as shown in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER* (Figure 15) and press ENTER. English Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in Figure 15. If you have a device support disk from the motherboard driver CD.
... screen similar to Figure 18 appears, you do not create RAID, select NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller only. - 87 - NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 15 Windows Setup Setup will appear. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue ... to previous screen as shown in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER* (Figure 15) and press ENTER. English Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in Figure 15. If you have a device support disk from the motherboard driver CD.
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...Welcome to run on your computer. English Step 4: When the next screen (Figure 17) appears, press ENTER to continue the SATA driver installation from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, including those ... can proceed with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 17 After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to be installed.) GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 88 -
...Welcome to run on your computer. English Step 4: When the next screen (Figure 17) appears, press ENTER to continue the SATA driver installation from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, including those ... can proceed with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 17 After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to be installed.) GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 88 -
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...following two commands. From the CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in Figure 16, press J to select J) GIGABYTE SATA-RAID Driver if you need to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>). Press ENTER after each command (Figure 15): cd bootdrv menu Step 2:... 0 to the floppy disk. Figure 17 GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 100 - Your system will open similar to install Windows XP. A command prompt window will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to exit when finished. English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk (Required for the SATA controller from the...
...following two commands. From the CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in Figure 16, press J to select J) GIGABYTE SATA-RAID Driver if you need to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>). Press ENTER after each command (Figure 15): cd bootdrv menu Step 2:... 0 to the floppy disk. Figure 17 GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 100 - Your system will open similar to install Windows XP. A command prompt window will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to exit when finished. English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk (Required for the SATA controller from the...
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... device manufacturer, press S. * If you wish to load the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 102 - English Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 20 below will begin to install 64-bit Windows Operating System, select GIGABYTE GBB363 RAID Controller(Windows XP/2003 64bit).
... device manufacturer, press S. * If you wish to load the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 102 - English Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 20 below will begin to install 64-bit Windows Operating System, select GIGABYTE GBB363 RAID Controller(Windows XP/2003 64bit).
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...if a rear speaker is plugged into the center/subwoofer speaker out jack, you can , for GA-M59SLI-S5. STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you MUST connect it to the...8- Multi-channel audio experiences have an Internet chat, make a telephone call over the Internet, and etc. Doubleclick the icon to work correctly. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 104 - Channel Audio Function Introduction A. Realtek ALC888DD CODEC The default speaker settings for the microphone to open the Audio Control Panel. HD Audio...
...if a rear speaker is plugged into the center/subwoofer speaker out jack, you can , for GA-M59SLI-S5. STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you MUST connect it to the...8- Multi-channel audio experiences have an Internet chat, make a telephone call over the Internet, and etc. Doubleclick the icon to work correctly. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 104 - Channel Audio Function Introduction A. Realtek ALC888DD CODEC The default speaker settings for the microphone to open the Audio Control Panel. HD Audio...
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...After plugging in 6-channel speakers to the rear speaker jacks, a small window will pop up and ask you what type of equipment is connected. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 106 - English STEP 3: After plugging in 4-channel speakers to the rear speaker jacks, a small window will pop up and ask you what... to open the Audio Control Panel. The 6-channel audio setup is completed. 6 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you can also find the icon in Control Panel). The 4-channel audio setup...
...After plugging in 6-channel speakers to the rear speaker jacks, a small window will pop up and ask you what type of equipment is connected. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 106 - English STEP 3: After plugging in 4-channel speakers to the rear speaker jacks, a small window will pop up and ask you what... to open the Audio Control Panel. The 6-channel audio setup is completed. 6 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you can also find the icon in Control Panel). The 4-channel audio setup...
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...connected. In the upper left list, click 2CH Speaker. STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I /O tab. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 112 - English STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I /O tab. STEP 3: After a speaker or ...headphone is plugged into the rear Line Out jack, a small window will pop up and ask you what type of equipment is completed. 4 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver...
...connected. In the upper left list, click 2CH Speaker. STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I /O tab. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 112 - English STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I /O tab. STEP 3: After a speaker or ...headphone is plugged into the rear Line Out jack, a small window will pop up and ask you what type of equipment is completed. 4 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver...
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... 8-channel audio setup is connected. STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I/O tab. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 114 - In the upper left list, click 8CH Speaker. English 8 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you can also find...
... 8-channel audio setup is connected. STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Audio I/O tab. GA-M59SLI-S5/GA-M59SLI-S4 Motherboard - 114 - In the upper left list, click 8CH Speaker. English 8 Channel Audio Setup STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you can also find...