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...AMI® is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. Our products are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Visit the MSI website for further guidance. Intel® and Pentium® are registered trademarks of AMD Corporation. Revision History Revision V1.0 Revision History First release Date ...XP/Vista are under continual improvement and we reserve the right to the correctness of Intel Corporation. We take every care in the United States and/or other information: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php? Award® is given as to make changes without notice...
...AMI® is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. Our products are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Visit the MSI website for further guidance. Intel® and Pentium® are registered trademarks of AMD Corporation. Revision History Revision V1.0 Revision History First release Date ...XP/Vista are under continual improvement and we reserve the right to the correctness of Intel Corporation. We take every care in the United States and/or other information: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php? Award® is given as to make changes without notice...
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FAN Speed ...A-8 Temperature ...A-9 User Profile ...A-10 Appendix B Intel ICH7R SATA RAID B-1 ICH7R Introduction B-2 BIOS Configuration B-3 Installing Software B-9 RAID Migration Instructions B-15 Degraded RAID Array B-22 ix
FAN Speed ...A-8 Temperature ...A-9 User Profile ...A-10 Appendix B Intel ICH7R SATA RAID B-1 ICH7R Introduction B-2 BIOS Configuration B-3 Installing Software B-9 RAID Migration Instructions B-15 Degraded RAID Array B-22 ix
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The 945GCM7 Series mainboards are based on Intel® 945GC & ICH7/ICH7R chipsets for choosing the 945GCM7 Series (MS-7507 v1.X) Micro-ATX mainboard. Getting Started Chapter 1 Getting Started Thank you for optimal system efficiency. Designed to fit the advanced Intel® Core 2 Duo/Pentium/Celeron LGA775 processor, the 945GCM7 Series deliver a high performance and professional desktop platform solution. 1-1
The 945GCM7 Series mainboards are based on Intel® 945GC & ICH7/ICH7R chipsets for choosing the 945GCM7 Series (MS-7507 v1.X) Micro-ATX mainboard. Getting Started Chapter 1 Getting Started Thank you for optimal system efficiency. Designed to fit the advanced Intel® Core 2 Duo/Pentium/Celeron LGA775 processor, the 945GCM7 Series deliver a high performance and professional desktop platform solution. 1-1
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...with 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB 1-2 Supports Ultra DMA 66/100 mode - Supports transfer rate up to 300 MB/s RAID (optional) - Intel® Core2 Duo/ Pemtium D/ Pemtium 4 / Celeron D Presott LGA775 processors in LGA775 package. - m si. c om . Supports ACPI Power Management Audio ..., please visit http:// glob al. Compliant with Fan Speed Control. (For the latest information about CPU, please visit http://global.msi. South Bridge: Intel® ICH7/ ICH7R (optional) chipset Memory Support - Chip integrated by Realtek® ALC888 - 5.1 channel audio-out (optional)...
...with 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB 1-2 Supports Ultra DMA 66/100 mode - Supports transfer rate up to 300 MB/s RAID (optional) - Intel® Core2 Duo/ Pemtium D/ Pemtium 4 / Celeron D Presott LGA775 processors in LGA775 package. - m si. c om . Supports ACPI Power Management Audio ..., please visit http:// glob al. Compliant with Fan Speed Control. (For the latest information about CPU, please visit http://global.msi. South Bridge: Intel® ICH7/ ICH7R (optional) chipset Memory Support - Chip integrated by Realtek® ALC888 - 5.1 channel audio-out (optional)...
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...:keyboard CPUFAN1 Parallel port Bottom: COM port VGA port ATX1 JPW1 T: 1394 port(optional) B: USB ports Top: LAN Jack Bottom: USB ports Intel 945GC SYSFAN2 JCI1 JTPM1 (optional) JSPI1 T:Line-In M:Line-Out B:Mic T:RS-Out M:CS-Out B:SS-Out (optional) Fintek F71882FG SYSFAN1 ... PCI _E2 RTL8111C/ RTL8101E PCI 2 ALC888 PCI 1 CD_IN1 JAUD1 JCOM1 JSPD1 IDE1 DIMM2 SATA4 DIMM1 RTM 876-665 BATT + Intel ICH7/ ICH7R(optional) JMicron 381 (optional) JFP2 SATA3 SATA1 SATA2 FDD 1 J1394_1(optional) JBAT1 JFP1 JUSB1 JUSB2 945GCM7 Series (MS-7507 v1.X) Micro-ATX Mainboard 1-4
...:keyboard CPUFAN1 Parallel port Bottom: COM port VGA port ATX1 JPW1 T: 1394 port(optional) B: USB ports Top: LAN Jack Bottom: USB ports Intel 945GC SYSFAN2 JCI1 JTPM1 (optional) JSPI1 T:Line-In M:Line-Out B:Mic T:RS-Out M:CS-Out B:SS-Out (optional) Fintek F71882FG SYSFAN1 ... PCI _E2 RTL8111C/ RTL8101E PCI 2 ALC888 PCI 1 CD_IN1 JAUD1 JCOM1 JSPD1 IDE1 DIMM2 SATA4 DIMM1 RTM 876-665 BATT + Intel ICH7/ ICH7R(optional) JMicron 381 (optional) JFP2 SATA3 SATA1 SATA2 FDD 1 J1394_1(optional) JBAT1 JFP1 JUSB1 JUSB2 945GCM7 Series (MS-7507 v1.X) Micro-ATX Mainboard 1-4
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...- 3 SLED 4 BUZ+ 5 PLED 6 BUZ- 7 NC 8 SPK+ DESCRIPTION Ground SpeakerSuspend LED Buzzer+ Power LED BuzzerNo connection Speaker+ CD-In Connector: CD_IN1 This connector is compliant with Intel® Front Panel I/O Connectivity Design Guide. HDD 1 +LED JFP1 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL 1 HD_LED + 2 FP PW R/SLP 3 HD_LED - 4 FP PW R/SLP 5 RST_SW - 6 PW R_SW + 7 RST_SW...
...- 3 SLED 4 BUZ+ 5 PLED 6 BUZ- 7 NC 8 SPK+ DESCRIPTION Ground SpeakerSuspend LED Buzzer+ Power LED BuzzerNo connection Speaker+ CD-In Connector: CD_IN1 This connector is compliant with Intel® Front Panel I/O Connectivity Design Guide. HDD 1 +LED JFP1 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL 1 HD_LED + 2 FP PW R/SLP 3 HD_LED - 4 FP PW R/SLP 5 RST_SW - 6 PW R_SW + 7 RST_SW...
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... detection sense line from front panel JACK2 TPM Module connector: JTPM1(optional) This connector connects to connect the front panel audio and is compliant with Intel® Front Panel I/O Connectivity Design Guide. 2 1 10 9 JAUD1 PIN SIGNAL 1 MIC_L 2 GND 3 MIC_R 4 PRESENCE# 5 LINE out_R 6 MIC_JD 7 Front_JD 8 NC 9 LINE out_L 10 LINEout_JD HD Audio...
... detection sense line from front panel JACK2 TPM Module connector: JTPM1(optional) This connector connects to connect the front panel audio and is compliant with Intel® Front Panel I/O Connectivity Design Guide. 2 1 10 9 JAUD1 PIN SIGNAL 1 MIC_L 2 GND 3 MIC_R 4 PRESENCE# 5 LINE out_R 6 MIC_JD 7 Front_JD 8 NC 9 LINE out_L 10 LINEout_JD HD Audio...
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... peripherals such as USB HDD, digital cameras, MP3 players, printers, modems and the like. MS-7507 Mainboard Front USB Connector: JUSB1 ~ 2 These connectors, compliant with Intel® I/O Connectivity Design Guide, is a 16550A high speed communication port that the pins of VCC and GND must be connected correctly to avoid possible damage...
... peripherals such as USB HDD, digital cameras, MP3 players, printers, modems and the like. MS-7507 Mainboard Front USB Connector: JUSB1 ~ 2 These connectors, compliant with Intel® I/O Connectivity Design Guide, is a 16550A high speed communication port that the pins of VCC and GND must be connected correctly to avoid possible damage...
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... digit refers to BIOS maker as A = AMI, W = AWARD, and P = PHOENIX. 2nd - 5th digit refers to the model number. 6th digit refers to the chipset as I = Intel, N = nVidia, and V = VIA. 7th - 8th digit refers to the date this chapter are under continuous update for reference only. 2. It is the BIOS version.
... digit refers to BIOS maker as A = AMI, W = AWARD, and P = PHOENIX. 2nd - 5th digit refers to the model number. 6th digit refers to the chipset as I = Intel, N = nVidia, and V = VIA. 7th - 8th digit refers to the date this chapter are under continuous update for reference only. 2. It is the BIOS version.
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...Intel Pentium4 / Celeron, AMD Athlon XP/ Sempron or compatible CPU with PCI Express slot. 2. 256MB system memory. 3. Operation system: W indows XP. 5. CD-ROM drive for software installation. 4. DotNet Frame Work 2.0 A-1 Dual Core Center Appendix A Dual Core Center Dual CoreCenter, the most useful and powerful utility that MSI... has spent much research and efforts to develop, helps users to monitor or configure the hardware status of MSI Mainboard & MSI Graphics card in windows, such as CPU/GPU clock, voltage, fan...
...Intel Pentium4 / Celeron, AMD Athlon XP/ Sempron or compatible CPU with PCI Express slot. 2. 256MB system memory. 3. Operation system: W indows XP. 5. CD-ROM drive for software installation. 4. DotNet Frame Work 2.0 A-1 Dual Core Center Appendix A Dual Core Center Dual CoreCenter, the most useful and powerful utility that MSI... has spent much research and efforts to develop, helps users to monitor or configure the hardware status of MSI Mainboard & MSI Graphics card in windows, such as CPU/GPU clock, voltage, fan...
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B-1 Intel ICH7R SATA RAID Appendix B Intel ICH7R SATA RAID The ICH7R provides a hybrid solution that combines four independent SATAII ports for support of Mirrors) and Intel® Martix Storage Technology. It offers RAID level 0 (Striping), RAID level 1 (Mirroring and Duplexing), RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Distributed Parity), RAID level 10 (A Stripe of up to four Serial ATAII (Serial ATAII RAID) drives.
B-1 Intel ICH7R SATA RAID Appendix B Intel ICH7R SATA RAID The ICH7R provides a hybrid solution that combines four independent SATAII ports for support of Mirrors) and Intel® Martix Storage Technology. It offers RAID level 0 (Striping), RAID level 1 (Mirroring and Duplexing), RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Distributed Parity), RAID level 10 (A Stripe of up to four Serial ATAII (Serial ATAII RAID) drives.
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Intel® ICH7R offers RAID level 0 (Striping), RAID level 1 (Mirroring and Duplexing), RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Distributed Parity), ...advanced ability for two RAID volumes to share the combined space of two hard drives being used in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Intel Matrix RAID Technology is one of the original RAID levels, multiple RAID 1 mirrors are created, and a RAID 0 stripe is 3. ... implementations of RAID. Supports 300MB/s transfers with CRC error checking. 2. Important The least number of Mirrors) and Intel® Martix Storage Technology.
Intel® ICH7R offers RAID level 0 (Striping), RAID level 1 (Mirroring and Duplexing), RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Distributed Parity), ...advanced ability for two RAID volumes to share the combined space of two hard drives being used in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Intel Matrix RAID Technology is one of the original RAID levels, multiple RAID 1 mirrors are created, and a RAID 0 stripe is 3. ... implementations of RAID. Supports 300MB/s transfers with CRC error checking. 2. Important The least number of Mirrors) and Intel® Martix Storage Technology.
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... Storage Manager Option ROM should be configured using the RAID Configuration utility stored within the Intel RAID Option ROM. The Intel Matrix Stroage Manager Option ROM is only available with a supported Intel chipset. During the Power-On Self Test (POST), the following message will appear for Serial ATA"...existing system to RAID. Creating, Deleting and Resetting RAID Volumes: The Serial ATA RAID volume may be integrated with the system BIOS on all motherboards with a newly-built system or if you need to enable the RAID function in system boot-up, during the POST (Power-On Self...
... Storage Manager Option ROM should be configured using the RAID Configuration utility stored within the Intel RAID Option ROM. The Intel Matrix Stroage Manager Option ROM is only available with a supported Intel chipset. During the Power-On Self Test (POST), the following message will appear for Serial ATA"...existing system to RAID. Creating, Deleting and Resetting RAID Volumes: The Serial ATA RAID volume may be integrated with the system BIOS on all motherboards with a newly-built system or if you need to enable the RAID function in system boot-up, during the POST (Power-On Self...
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Intel ICH7R SATA RAID 3. Here are some typical values: RAID0 - 128KB RAID10 - 128KB RAID5 - 64KB 5. The default value is the maximum volume capacity of 2 increments. The ...
Intel ICH7R SATA RAID 3. Here are some typical values: RAID0 - 128KB RAID10 - 128KB RAID5 - 64KB 5. The default value is the maximum volume capacity of 2 increments. The ...
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Then the following screen appears to indicate that the creation is shown by default. MS-7507 Mainboard Important Since you want to create two volumes (Intel Matrix RAID Technology), this default size (maximum) needs to be half of two hard drives. 6. As an example: if you want the first volume to ...
Then the following screen appears to indicate that the creation is shown by default. MS-7507 Mainboard Important Since you want to create two volumes (Intel Matrix RAID Technology), this default size (maximum) needs to be half of two hard drives. 6. As an example: if you want the first volume to ...
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B-7 Press key to select a RAID volume for deletion. Select option 2 Delete RAID Volume from the main menu window and press key to accept the volume deletion. Then press key to RAID and you can delete the RAID volume, but please be lost. The following screen appears. Intel ICH7R SATA RAID (2) Delete RAID Volume Here you delete the RAID volume in the Intel RAID Option ROM, your system currently boots to delete the selected RAID volume. Important If your system will be noted that all data on RAID drives will become unbootable.
B-7 Press key to select a RAID volume for deletion. Select option 2 Delete RAID Volume from the main menu window and press key to accept the volume deletion. Then press key to RAID and you can delete the RAID volume, but please be lost. The following screen appears. Intel ICH7R SATA RAID (2) Delete RAID Volume Here you delete the RAID volume in the Intel RAID Option ROM, your system currently boots to delete the selected RAID volume. Important If your system will be noted that all data on RAID drives will become unbootable.
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... appears on W indows XP Setup screen, and press the key. 5. The driver Intel(R) NH82801GR SATAII RAID Controller should appear. B-9 Insert the MSI CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Insert the driver diskette Intel IAA RAID XP Driver For ICH7R (NH82801GR) into drive A: and press . Choose ...† Confirming Windows XP/2000 Driver Installation 1. Press F6 when the message "Press F6 if you need to continue with installation. 6. Intel ICH7R SATA RAID Installing Software Install Driver in Windows XP / 2000 † New Windows XP / 2000 Installation The following details the installation...
... appears on W indows XP Setup screen, and press the key. 5. The driver Intel(R) NH82801GR SATAII RAID Controller should appear. B-9 Insert the MSI CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Insert the driver diskette Intel IAA RAID XP Driver For ICH7R (NH82801GR) into drive A: and press . Choose ...† Confirming Windows XP/2000 Driver Installation 1. Press F6 when the message "Press F6 if you need to continue with installation. 6. Intel ICH7R SATA RAID Installing Software Install Driver in Windows XP / 2000 † New Windows XP / 2000 Installation The following details the installation...
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Insert the MSI CD and click on this item B-10 Click on the Intel IAA RAID Edition to install the software. however, you cannot remove or un-install this reason, you will have the ability to un-install all other non-driver components. MS-7507 Mainboard Installation of Intel Matrix Storage Console The Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition driver may be used to operate the hard drive from the system after installation; For this driver from which the system is booting or a hard drive that contains important data.
Insert the MSI CD and click on this item B-10 Click on the Intel IAA RAID Edition to install the software. however, you cannot remove or un-install this reason, you will have the ability to un-install all other non-driver components. MS-7507 Mainboard Installation of Intel Matrix Storage Console The Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition driver may be used to operate the hard drive from the system after installation; For this driver from which the system is booting or a hard drive that contains important data.
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B-11 Intel ICH7R SATA RAID The InstallShield Wizard will begin automatically for installation showed as following: Click on the Next button to proceed the installation in the welcoming window.
B-11 Intel ICH7R SATA RAID The InstallShield Wizard will begin automatically for installation showed as following: Click on the Next button to proceed the installation in the welcoming window.
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Select a program folder in the following window, and click Next button to add the program icon. B-13 Intel ICH7R SATA RAID Select the folder in which you want the program to be installed in the following window where you want Setup to start installation.
Select a program folder in the following window, and click Next button to add the program icon. B-13 Intel ICH7R SATA RAID Select the folder in which you want the program to be installed in the following window where you want Setup to start installation.