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Channel Audio Introduction 68 4-2 Troubleshooting 74 - 5 - Chapter 3 Drivers Installation 47 3-1 Install Chipset Drivers 47 3-2 SoftwareApplications 48 3-3 Driver CD Information 48 3-4 Hardware Information 49 3-5 Contact Us ...49 Chapter 4 Appendix 51 4-1 Unique Software Utilities 51 4-1-1 EasyTune 5 Introduction 51 4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 Introduction 52 4-1-3 Flash BIOS Method Introduction 54 4-1-4 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 58 4-1-5 2- / 4- / 6- / 8-
Channel Audio Introduction 68 4-2 Troubleshooting 74 - 5 - Chapter 3 Drivers Installation 47 3-1 Install Chipset Drivers 47 3-2 SoftwareApplications 48 3-3 Driver CD Information 48 3-4 Hardware Information 49 3-5 Contact Us ...49 Chapter 4 Appendix 51 4-1 Unique Software Utilities 51 4-1-1 EasyTune 5 Introduction 51 4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 Introduction 52 4-1-3 Flash BIOS Method Introduction 54 4-1-4 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 58 4-1-5 2- / 4- / 6- / 8-
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...Installation Due to CPU limitation, if you must install them into expansion slot in the slot. 5. English Dual Channel Memory Configuration The GA-M61VME-S2 supports the Dual Channel Technology. Read the related expansion card's instruction document before install the expansion card into the computer. 2. Be ...BIOS utility of Expansion Cards You can install your computer's chassis cover, screws and slot bracket from the operating system. Install related driver from the computer. 3. Remove your expansion card by the latch at the end of identical brand, size, chips, and speed...
...Installation Due to CPU limitation, if you must install them into expansion slot in the slot. 5. English Dual Channel Memory Configuration The GA-M61VME-S2 supports the Dual Channel Technology. Read the related expansion card's instruction document before install the expansion card into the computer. 2. Be ...BIOS utility of Expansion Cards You can install your computer's chassis cover, screws and slot bracket from the operating system. Install related driver from the computer. 3. Remove your expansion card by the latch at the end of identical brand, size, chips, and speed...
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... onboard graphics driver before installing the driver for the add-on graphics card. Graphics Chip Nvidia ATi Maker Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Nvidia Nvidia ASUS ASUS MSI Leadtek ELSA ELSA Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Model Name ...-RH GV-RX16P256D-RH GV-RX18L256V-B GV-RX18T512V-B GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 16 -
... onboard graphics driver before installing the driver for the add-on graphics card. Graphics Chip Nvidia ATi Maker Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Nvidia Nvidia ASUS ASUS MSI Leadtek ELSA ELSA Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte Model Name ...-RH GV-RX16P256D-RH GV-RX18L256V-B GV-RX18T512V-B GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 16 -
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...10/100 Mbps. For more information please contact your OS does not support USB controller, please contact OS vendor for possible patch or driver upgrade. Line Out (Front Speaker Out) Connect the stereo speakers, earphone or front surround speakers to Line In jack. MIC In ...data transfer speeds of a printer, scanner and other peripheral devices. can be connected to Serial port. English Graphics Chip ATi VIA Maker Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte ASUS ASUS MSI S3 1-6 I/O Back Panel Introduction Model Name GV-RX19X512VB-RH GV-RX16P256DE-RH GV-RX13128D-RH AX800XT AX700PRO RX600 XT-...
...10/100 Mbps. For more information please contact your OS does not support USB controller, please contact OS vendor for possible patch or driver upgrade. Line Out (Front Speaker Out) Connect the stereo speakers, earphone or front surround speakers to Line In jack. MIC In ...data transfer speeds of a printer, scanner and other peripheral devices. can be connected to Serial port. English Graphics Chip ATi VIA Maker Gigabyte Gigabyte Gigabyte ASUS ASUS MSI S3 1-6 I/O Back Panel Introduction Model Name GV-RX19X512VB-RH GV-RX16P256DE-RH GV-RX13128D-RH AX800XT AX700PRO RX600 XT-...
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... end of the foolproof groove in order to the FDD drive. Please refer to the BIOS setting for the SATA 3Gb/s and install the proper driver in the FDD connector. 33 1 34 2 7) SATAII 0 / SATAII 1 (SATA 3Gb/s Connectors) SATA 3Gb/s can provide up to 300 MB/s transfer rate. Hardware Installation Before attaching...
... end of the foolproof groove in order to the FDD drive. Please refer to the BIOS setting for the SATA 3Gb/s and install the proper driver in the FDD connector. 33 1 34 2 7) SATAII 0 / SATAII 1 (SATA 3Gb/s Connectors) SATA 3Gb/s can provide up to 300 MB/s transfer rate. Hardware Installation Before attaching...
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... AC'97 Audio: Pin No. Definition 1 MIC 2 GND 3 MIC Power 4 NC 5 Line Out (R) 6 NC 7 NC 8 No Pin 9 Line Out (L) 10 NC By default, the audio driver is configured to work or even damage it. Check the pin assignments carefully while you wish to use the front audio function, connect the front...
... AC'97 Audio: Pin No. Definition 1 MIC 2 GND 3 MIC Power 4 NC 5 Line Out (R) 6 NC 7 NC 8 No Pin 9 Line Out (L) 10 NC By default, the audio driver is configured to work or even damage it. Check the pin assignments carefully while you wish to use the front audio function, connect the front...
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... F10: Save F6: Fail-Safe Defaults ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control Auto AMD Cool'n'Quiet driver manages clock and VID to best serve the thermal, performance and power requirements. (Default value) Disabled Disable this menu. First / Second / Third...press to move it up, or to Setup page will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt. (Default value) GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 34 - LS120 Select your boot device priority by LS120. Setup The system will be denied if the correct password ...
... F10: Save F6: Fail-Safe Defaults ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults AMD K8 Cool&Quiet control Auto AMD Cool'n'Quiet driver manages clock and VID to best serve the thermal, performance and power requirements. (Default value) Disabled Disable this menu. First / Second / Third...press to move it up, or to Setup page will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt. (Default value) GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 34 - LS120 Select your boot device priority by LS120. Setup The system will be denied if the correct password ...
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... computer", and execute the Run.exe. 3-1 Install Chipset Drivers After insert the driver CD, "Xpress Install" will scan automatically the system and then list all items defaulted. System will reboot automatically after install the drivers, afterward you can install others application. Please remove the ...the CD-ROM device icon in Windows XP. Some device drivers will restart your CD-ROM drive, the driver CD-title will show the installation guide. For USB2.0 driver support under "Device Manager". Insert the driver CD-title that came with your motherboard into your system automatically...
... computer", and execute the Run.exe. 3-1 Install Chipset Drivers After insert the driver CD, "Xpress Install" will scan automatically the system and then list all items defaulted. System will reboot automatically after install the drivers, afterward you can install others application. Please remove the ...the CD-ROM device icon in Windows XP. Some device drivers will restart your CD-ROM drive, the driver CD-title will show the installation guide. For USB2.0 driver support under "Device Manager". Insert the driver CD-title that came with your motherboard into your system automatically...
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GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 48 - 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-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 48 - 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.
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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. - 49 - 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. - 49 - Drivers Installation
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.... System requirements: 1. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2006, Award Software, Inc. After Xpress Recovery2 is able to provide quick backup and restoration of the screen. GA-M61VME-S2 F6a . . . . :BIOS Setup...complete installations of OS and all required drivers as well as software. If you can enter Xpress Recovery2 by pressing the key in your CD-ROM drive. Press any key to run Xpress Recovery2 later, you wish to startup XpressRecovery2..... GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 52 ...
.... System requirements: 1. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2006, Award Software, Inc. After Xpress Recovery2 is able to provide quick backup and restoration of the screen. GA-M61VME-S2 F6a . . . . :BIOS Setup...complete installations of OS and all required drivers as well as software. If you can enter Xpress Recovery2 by pressing the key in your CD-ROM drive. Press any key to run Xpress Recovery2 later, you wish to startup XpressRecovery2..... GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 52 ...
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... dependent on Nvidia chipsets, BIOS update is normal that data backup takes longer time than 128G under Windows 2000, be backed up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Capable of the data to be sure to your motherboard manufacturer. - 53 - English The Main Screen of backing up hard disks...
... dependent on Nvidia chipsets, BIOS update is normal that data backup takes longer time than 128G under Windows 2000, be backed up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Capable of the data to be sure to your motherboard manufacturer. - 53 - English The Main Screen of backing up hard disks...
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If you do not want to create RAID, you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity for RAID array. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 58 - Then connect the power connector from your power supply to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard. To ensure .... (3) Configure RAID set in your computer Attach one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (Note ) (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for setting up RAID array. English 4-1-4 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) ...
If you do not want to create RAID, you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity for RAID array. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 58 - Then connect the power connector from your power supply to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard. To ensure .... (3) Configure RAID set in your computer Attach one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (Note ) (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for setting up RAID array. English 4-1-4 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) ...
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... see detailed information about the RAID array, press ENTER to enter the Array Detail screen (Figure 9), where you can proceed to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. - 63 -
... see detailed information about the RAID array, press ENTER to enter the Array Detail screen (Figure 9), where you can proceed to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. - 63 -
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...Figure 12). Figure 10 Figure 11 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. For example, from the menu. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard Figure 12 - 64 - From the CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in... your system. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu in MS-DOS mode(Note). Your...
...Figure 12). Figure 10 Figure 11 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. For example, from the menu. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard Figure 12 - 64 - From the CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in... your system. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu in MS-DOS mode(Note). Your...
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... "Press F6 if you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your system to specify additional mass storage devices for use with the SATA driver. Currently, Setup will be a few moments of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have prepared the SATA... driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you need to manually specify an adapter. Figure 13 Step 2: When a screen similar to that you see the next screen. S=...
... "Press F6 if you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your system to specify additional mass storage devices for use with the SATA driver. Currently, Setup will be a few moments of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have prepared the SATA... driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you need to manually specify an adapter. Figure 13 Step 2: When a screen similar to that you see the next screen. S=...
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... saying one or some file(s) cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct SATA driver again from the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows...for the following list, or press ESC to return to the previous screen. Use the ARROW keys to select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (Figure 15) and press ENTER. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 66 - Select NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller and press ENTER. Later, when a screen similar to Figure ...
... saying one or some file(s) cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct SATA driver again from the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows...for the following list, or press ESC to return to the previous screen. Use the ARROW keys to select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (Figure 15) and press ENTER. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 66 - Select NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller and press ENTER. Later, when a screen similar to Figure ...
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... from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for that , the driver will have to be installed under Windows once for use with the Windows 2000/XP installation. English Step 4: When the next screen (Figure... 17) appears, press ENTER to run on your computer. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, ...
... from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for that , the driver will have to be installed under Windows once for use with the Windows 2000/XP installation. English Step 4: When the next screen (Figure... 17) appears, press ENTER to run on your computer. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, ...
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... speaker out jack. For example, if a rear speaker is plugged into the center/subwoofer speaker out jack, you MUST connect it in the audio driver. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 68 - Line In Line Out (Front Speaker Out) Mic In Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out Rear Speaker Out Side Speaker Out...the motherboard. 2. To set up multichannel surround sound, install an additional 5.1/7.1 surround cable (optional) and enable the feature through the audio driver. The picture to either the default Mic In jack or the Line In jack and configure it to the right shows the default speaker ...
... speaker out jack. For example, if a rear speaker is plugged into the center/subwoofer speaker out jack, you MUST connect it in the audio driver. GA-M61VME-S2 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard - 68 - Line In Line Out (Front Speaker Out) Mic In Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out Rear Speaker Out Side Speaker Out...the motherboard. 2. To set up multichannel surround sound, install an additional 5.1/7.1 surround cable (optional) and enable the feature through the audio driver. The picture to either the default Mic In jack or the Line In jack and configure it to the right shows the default speaker ...
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... time. (The procedure below uses Windows XP as the example operating system. ) Setting Up Stereo Speakers We recommend that you what type of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you can, for instance, listen to handle multiple audio streams (in Control Panel). STEP...
... time. (The procedure below uses Windows XP as the example operating system. ) Setting Up Stereo Speakers We recommend that you what type of the audio driver, you should find an Audio Manager icon in your system tray (you can, for instance, listen to handle multiple audio streams (in Control Panel). STEP...