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...\Technology Guide page on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. For product-related information, check on our website at: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Identifying Your Motherboard Revision The revision number on our website... motherboard looks like this manual may be made by copyright laws and is the property of the motherboard is protected by GIGABYTE without GIGABYTE's prior written permission. The logo is designated by GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Copyright © 2008 GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY...
...\Technology Guide page on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. For product-related information, check on our website at: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Identifying Your Motherboard Revision The revision number on our website... motherboard looks like this manual may be made by copyright laws and is the property of the motherboard is protected by GIGABYTE without GIGABYTE's prior written permission. The logo is designated by GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Copyright © 2008 GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY...
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... 49 3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers 49 3-2 Software Applications 50 3-3 Driver CD Information 50 3-4 Hardware Information 51 3-5 Contact Us ...51 Chapter 4 Unique Features 53 4-1 Xpress Recovery2 53 4-2 BIOS Update Utilities 58 ...5 Appendix ...65 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 65 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller 65 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette (For Windows XP and 2000 70 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System 71 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 74 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1-Channel Audio 74 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIFOut Cable...
... 49 3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers 49 3-2 Software Applications 50 3-3 Driver CD Information 50 3-4 Hardware Information 51 3-5 Contact Us ...51 Chapter 4 Unique Features 53 4-1 Xpress Recovery2 53 4-2 BIOS Update Utilities 58 ...5 Appendix ...65 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 65 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller 65 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette (For Windows XP and 2000 70 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System 71 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 74 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1-Channel Audio 74 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIFOut Cable...
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... cable (Part No. 12CF1-2SERPW-0*R) S/PDIF out cable (Part No. 12CR1-1SPOUT-0*R) - 6 - The box contents are for reference only. Box Contents GA-M61PME-S2 motherboard Motherboard driver disk (For Windows Vista) Motherboard driver disk User's Manual One IDE cable One SATA 3Gb/s cable I/O Shield • The box contents above are subject to change without notice...
... cable (Part No. 12CF1-2SERPW-0*R) S/PDIF out cable (Part No. 12CR1-1SPOUT-0*R) - 6 - The box contents are for reference only. Box Contents GA-M61PME-S2 motherboard Motherboard driver disk (For Windows Vista) Motherboard driver disk User's Manual One IDE cable One SATA 3Gb/s cable I/O Shield • The box contents above are subject to change without notice...
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... from the slot. - 17 - Secure the card's metal bracket to install an expansion card: • Make sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. Install the driver provided with your computer. Make sure the metal contacts on your expansion card. • Always turn off the computer and unplug the power cord from...
... from the slot. - 17 - Secure the card's metal bracket to install an expansion card: • Make sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. Install the driver provided with your computer. Make sure the metal contacts on your expansion card. • Always turn off the computer and unplug the power cord from...
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...Menu, use the up hard drive data using the motherboard driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change... to set the first boot device without having to access the Q-Flash utility directly without entering BIOS Setup. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 30 - For more information, refer to Chapter 4, "Xpress Recovery2." : Boot Menu Boot Menu... Motherboard Model BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2007, Award Software, Inc. M61PME-S2 D1a . . . . : BIOS Setup/Q-Flash : XpressRecovery2 : Boot Menu : Qflash 12/17/2007-NV-MCP61-6A61KG09C-...
...Menu, use the up hard drive data using the motherboard driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change... to set the first boot device without having to access the Q-Flash utility directly without entering BIOS Setup. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 30 - For more information, refer to Chapter 4, "Xpress Recovery2." : Boot Menu Boot Menu... Motherboard Model BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2007, Award Software, Inc. M61PME-S2 D1a . . . . : BIOS Setup/Q-Flash : XpressRecovery2 : Boot Menu : Qflash 12/17/2007-NV-MCP61-6A61KG09C-...
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... drives. With virtualization, one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems. (Default: Disabled) AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control Auto Lets the AMD Cool'n'Quiet driver dynamically adjust the CPU clock and VIA to run multiple operating systems and applications in the BIOS Main Menu. BIOS Setup Use the up or...
... drives. With virtualization, one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems. (Default: Disabled) AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control Auto Lets the AMD Cool'n'Quiet driver dynamically adjust the CPU clock and VIA to run multiple operating systems and applications in the BIOS Main Menu. BIOS Setup Use the up or...
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...double-click the optical drive and execute the Run.exe program.) 3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers After inserting the driver disk, "Xpress Install" will automatically scan the system and then list all the driver items. • Please ignore the popup dialog box(es) (e.g. Or you ...wish to install all the drivers that you can install other drivers. • After the drivers are recommended to do so may affect the driver installation. • Some device drivers will continue to restart your system automatically during the driver installation. After the system restart, "...
...double-click the optical drive and execute the Run.exe program.) 3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers After inserting the driver disk, "Xpress Install" will automatically scan the system and then list all the driver items. • Please ignore the popup dialog box(es) (e.g. Or you ...wish to install all the drivers that you can install other drivers. • After the drivers are recommended to do so may affect the driver installation. • Some device drivers will continue to restart your system automatically during the driver installation. After the system restart, "...
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You may press the Install button following an item to install it. 3-3 Driver CD Information This page provides information about the drivers, applications and tools in this driver disk. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 50 - 3-2 Software Applications This page displays all the tools and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software.
You may press the Install button following an item to install it. 3-3 Driver CD Information This page provides information about the drivers, applications and tools in this driver disk. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 50 - 3-2 Software Applications This page displays all the tools and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software.
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3-4 Hardware Information This page provides information about the hardware devices on this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Check the contacts information of the GIGABYTE headquarter in Taiwan and the overseas branch offices on the last page of this manual. - 51 - Drivers Installation
3-4 Hardware Information This page provides information about the hardware devices on this motherboard. 3-5 Contact Us Check the contacts information of the GIGABYTE headquarter in Taiwan and the overseas branch offices on the last page of this manual. - 51 - Drivers Installation
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... 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 the amount of data). • It is backed up/restored. • It...
... 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 the amount of data). • It is backed up/restored. • It...
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...contains the Windows operating system. Using the Backup Function in your hard drive data (Figure 10). 2. Figure 10 Figure 11 3. Figure 12 GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will begin to enter Xpress Recovery2. . . Figure 8 2. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright ...). Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. After you use the backup function in Xpress Recovery2 for the first time. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to start backing up your hard drive. When the Windows operating system is detected, Xpress Recovery2 will automatically create a ...
...contains the Windows operating system. Using the Backup Function in your hard drive data (Figure 10). 2. Figure 10 Figure 11 3. Figure 12 GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will begin to enter Xpress Recovery2. . . Figure 8 2. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright ...). Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. After you use the backup function in Xpress Recovery2 for the first time. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to start backing up your hard drive. When the Windows operating system is detected, Xpress Recovery2 will automatically create a ...
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.... Update the BIOS Using the Internet Update Function Select this option Click Update New BIOS Step 1: Select the Find BIOS From Gigabyte check box and click Update New BIOS. C. Unique Features Failure to save the current BIOS file. 2. Step 2: Select the... the @BIOS utility. • Accessing the @BIOS utility. B. Click Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE>@BIOS Select @BIOS and click Install. Options and Instructions: 1. Installing and Using @BIOS: Use the motherboard driver disk included with the @BIOS Utility A. 4-2-2 Updating the BIOS with the motherboard to your...
.... Update the BIOS Using the Internet Update Function Select this option Click Update New BIOS Step 1: Select the Find BIOS From Gigabyte check box and click Update New BIOS. C. Unique Features Failure to save the current BIOS file. 2. Step 2: Select the... the @BIOS utility. • Accessing the @BIOS utility. B. Click Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE>@BIOS Select @BIOS and click Install. Options and Instructions: 1. Installing and Using @BIOS: Use the motherboard driver disk included with the @BIOS Utility A. 4-2-2 Updating the BIOS with the motherboard to your...
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... one hard drive. • An empty formatted floppy disk. • Windows Vista/XP/2000 setup disk. • Motherboard driver disk. 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller A. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID driver. (Note) E. If you do not want to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended that you may prepare only one... cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to create RAID array on the motherboard. Appendix Install the SATA RAID driver (Note) and operating system. B.
... one hard drive. • An empty formatted floppy disk. • Windows Vista/XP/2000 setup disk. • Motherboard driver disk. 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller A. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID driver. (Note) E. If you do not want to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended that you may prepare only one... cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to create RAID array on the motherboard. Appendix Install the SATA RAID driver (Note) and operating system. B.
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... screen. Array List - After that, the Array List screen appears, displaying the RAID array that you can proceed to the installation of the SATA controller driver and operating system. - 69 - Status Vendor Array Model Name Healthy NVIDIA STRIPE 223.57G [Ctrl-X] Exit [] Select [B] Set Boot [N] New Array [ENTER] Detail...
... screen. Array List - After that, the Array List screen appears, displaying the RAID array that you can proceed to the installation of the SATA controller driver and operating system. - 69 - Status Vendor Array Model Name Healthy NVIDIA STRIPE 223.57G [Ctrl-X] Exit [] Select [B] Set Boot [N] New Array [ENTER] Detail...
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...is for Windows XP 64-bit and 9)nVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid(2K) for the NVIDIA® GeForce 6100/ nForce 430 chipset. Without the driver, the hard drive may not be recognized during the OS installation. Prepare a startup disk that in Figure 2, the NVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid...When the controller menu (Figure 2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Press to install the SATA controller driver during the Windows setup process. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard Figure 3 - 70 - For example, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto the RAID drives, press to your system....
...is for Windows XP 64-bit and 9)nVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid(2K) for the NVIDIA® GeForce 6100/ nForce 430 chipset. Without the driver, the hard drive may not be recognized during the OS installation. Prepare a startup disk that in Figure 2, the NVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid...When the controller menu (Figure 2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Press to install the SATA controller driver during the Windows setup process. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard Figure 3 - 70 - For example, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto the RAID drives, press to your system....
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...are ready to install the operating system onto your hard drive(s). Step 1: Restart your system, or you have prepared the SATA RAID driver diskette for use with Windows, including those for the following is an example of Windows XP installation. Appendix S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue... some files being loaded before you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System Now that you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar to ...
...are ready to install the operating system onto your hard drive(s). Step 1: Restart your system, or you have prepared the SATA RAID driver diskette for use with Windows, including those for the following is an example of Windows XP installation. Appendix S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue... some files being loaded before you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System Now that you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar to ...
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... Controller and press . NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 3 Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following list, or press ESC to return to the previous screen. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 72 - Select the SCSI ...Adapter you want from the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special ...
... Controller and press . NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 3 Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following list, or press ESC to return to the previous screen. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 72 - Select the SCSI ...Adapter you want from the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special ...
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... will be finished in about one minute. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 5 Step 4: After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to run... on your computer. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to continue the driver installation from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you can proceed with Windows, press ENTER. When the screen as shown below appears...
... will be finished in about one minute. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 5 Step 4: After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to run... on your computer. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to continue the driver installation from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you can proceed with Windows, press ENTER. When the screen as shown below appears...
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..., Rear speaker out, and Center/Subwoofer speaker out. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 74 - 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1-Channel Audio The motherboard provides three audio jacks on page 76. Configuring Speakers: (The following for High Definition Audio" has been installed from the motherboard driver disk and your system tray. Doubleclick the icon to...
..., Rear speaker out, and Center/Subwoofer speaker out. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard - 74 - 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1-Channel Audio The motherboard provides three audio jacks on page 76. Configuring Speakers: (The following for High Definition Audio" has been installed from the motherboard driver disk and your system tray. Doubleclick the icon to...
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Step 2: Connect your microphone to the Mic in jack (pink) on the back panel or the Line in jack on the front panel and back panel cannot be used at the same time. Step 3: Locate the Volume icon in your system tray. Note: The microphone functions on the front panel. Then configure the jack for microphone functionality. 5-2-3 Configuring Microphone Recording Step 1: After installing the audio driver, the Audio Manager icon will appear in your system tray and click it to open the volume control panel - 79 - Appendix Double-click the icon to access the Audio Control Panel.
Step 2: Connect your microphone to the Mic in jack (pink) on the back panel or the Line in jack on the front panel and back panel cannot be used at the same time. Step 3: Locate the Volume icon in your system tray. Note: The microphone functions on the front panel. Then configure the jack for microphone functionality. 5-2-3 Configuring Microphone Recording Step 1: After installing the audio driver, the Audio Manager icon will appear in your system tray and click it to open the volume control panel - 79 - Appendix Double-click the icon to access the Audio Control Panel.