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... Ltd. Netware® is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc. Copyright Notice The material in the United States and/or other information: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php? PS/2 and OS®/2 are the properties of Intel Corporation. Our products are registered trademarks of their respective owners. Trademarks All... we reserve the right to the correctness of International Business Machines Corporation. AMI® is given as to make changes without notice. Visit the MSI website for FAQ, technical guide, BIOS updates, driver updates, and other countries.
... Ltd. Netware® is a registered trademark of American Megatrends Inc. Copyright Notice The material in the United States and/or other information: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php? PS/2 and OS®/2 are the properties of Intel Corporation. Our products are registered trademarks of their respective owners. Trademarks All... we reserve the right to the correctness of International Business Machines Corporation. AMI® is given as to make changes without notice. Visit the MSI website for FAQ, technical guide, BIOS updates, driver updates, and other countries.
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... 3-14 H/W Monitor ...3-17 Cell Menu ...3-18 Load Fail-Safe/ Optimized Defaults 3-23 BIOS Setting Password 3-24 Appendix A Realtek ALC888 Audio A-1 Installing the Realtek HD Audio Driver A-2 Software Configuration A-4 Hardware Setup A-19 Appendix B nVidia RAID B-1 Introduction ...B-2 viii
... 3-14 H/W Monitor ...3-17 Cell Menu ...3-18 Load Fail-Safe/ Optimized Defaults 3-23 BIOS Setting Password 3-24 Appendix A Realtek ALC888 Audio A-1 Installing the Realtek HD Audio Driver A-2 Software Configuration A-4 Hardware Setup A-19 Appendix B nVidia RAID B-1 Introduction ...B-2 viii
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Packing Checklist Getting Started MSI motherboard MSI Driver/Utility CD Back IO Shield Power Cable SATA Cable IDE Cable User's Guide * The pictures are for reference only and may vary from the packing contents of the product you purchased. 1-5
Packing Checklist Getting Started MSI motherboard MSI Driver/Utility CD Back IO Shield Power Cable SATA Cable IDE Cable User's Guide * The pictures are for reference only and may vary from the packing contents of the product you purchased. 1-5
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... computer is turned off button. [Suspend] W hen you press the power button, the computer enters the suspend/sleep mode, but system will need an VGA driver to [OS], the wake up events. Resume From S3 By USB Device The item allows the activity of the PS/2 keyboard is detected. 3-15 Selecting... state. Wake Up Event Setup Press and the following fields to set to the status before power failure or interrupt occurred. Therefore, if the VGA driver of the power button. BIOS Setup Re-Call VGA BIOS From S3 W hen ACPI Standby State is set the wake up events will be awakened...
... computer is turned off button. [Suspend] W hen you press the power button, the computer enters the suspend/sleep mode, but system will need an VGA driver to [OS], the wake up events. Resume From S3 By USB Device The item allows the activity of the PS/2 keyboard is detected. 3-15 Selecting... state. Wake Up Event Setup Press and the following fields to set to the status before power failure or interrupt occurred. Therefore, if the VGA driver of the power button. BIOS Setup Re-Call VGA BIOS From S3 W hen ACPI Standby State is set the wake up events will be awakened...
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... environment and could look slightly different if you must install W indows® 2000 Service Pack4 or later before installing the driver. Click Realtek HD Audio Driver. Insert the application CD into the CD-ROM drive. channel or 7.1+2 channel audio operations. The setup screen will automatically appear.... 2. Hence, the program screens shown here in different operating systems. 1. For Windows® XP, you install the drivers in this section may be slightly different from the latest software utility and shall be held for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista For W...
... environment and could look slightly different if you must install W indows® 2000 Service Pack4 or later before installing the driver. Click Realtek HD Audio Driver. Insert the application CD into the CD-ROM drive. channel or 7.1+2 channel audio operations. The setup screen will automatically appear.... 2. Hence, the program screens shown here in different operating systems. 1. For Windows® XP, you install the drivers in this section may be slightly different from the latest software utility and shall be held for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista For W...
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Click here Select this option Click here A-3 Click Next to restart the system. Realtek ALC888 Audio 3. Click Finish to install the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver. 4.
Click here Select this option Click here A-3 Click Next to restart the system. Realtek ALC888 Audio 3. Click Finish to install the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver. 4.
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It is also available to enable the HD Audio Configuration by clicking the Realtek HD Audio M anager from the system tray at the lower-right corner of the screen to use the 2-, 4-, 6- MS-7508 Mainboard Software Configuration After installing the audio driver, you are able to activate the HD Audio Configuration. or 8- Click the audio icon from the Control Panel. Double click A-4 channel audio feature now.
It is also available to enable the HD Audio Configuration by clicking the Realtek HD Audio M anager from the system tray at the lower-right corner of the screen to use the 2-, 4-, 6- MS-7508 Mainboard Software Configuration After installing the audio driver, you are able to activate the HD Audio Configuration. or 8- Click the audio icon from the Control Panel. Double click A-4 channel audio feature now.
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Right-click on and an icon will appear which provides several multimedia features for you to take advantage of this HD Audio Configuration utility, including Audio Driver Version, DirectX Version, Audio Controller & Audio Codec. A-18 Switch it provides some information about this utility by choosing from the Language list. MS-7508 Mainboard Information In this tab it on the icon and the Audio Accessories dialogue box will show in system tray. You may also select the language of . Also there is a selection Show icon in the system tray.
Right-click on and an icon will appear which provides several multimedia features for you to take advantage of this HD Audio Configuration utility, including Audio Driver Version, DirectX Version, Audio Controller & Audio Codec. A-18 Switch it provides some information about this utility by choosing from the Language list. MS-7508 Mainboard Information In this tab it on the icon and the Audio Accessories dialogue box will show in system tray. You may also select the language of . Also there is a selection Show icon in the system tray.
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A-22 Or, the mainboard will support 5.1 channel audio-out only. MS-7508 Mainboard n 8-Channel Mode for 8-Speaker Output 1 4 2 5 3 6 1 Line In 2 Line Out (Front channels) 3 MIC 4 Line Out (Rear channels) 5 Line Out (Center and Subwoofer channel) 6 Line Out (Side channels) Important To enable 7.1 channel audio-out function on Vista operating system, you have to install the Realtek Audio Driver.
A-22 Or, the mainboard will support 5.1 channel audio-out only. MS-7508 Mainboard n 8-Channel Mode for 8-Speaker Output 1 4 2 5 3 6 1 Line In 2 Line Out (Front channels) 3 MIC 4 Line Out (Rear channels) 5 Line Out (Center and Subwoofer channel) 6 Line Out (Side channels) Important To enable 7.1 channel audio-out function on Vista operating system, you have to install the Realtek Audio Driver.
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... and which hard drives you to press F10. Entering the RAID BIOS Setup 1. Press F10, and the NVIDIA RAID Utility --- After that has the RAID driver to copy and install the nForce RAID software. (Check p.B-7 for details.) 2. nVidia RAID RAID Configuration Basic Configuration Instructions The following are to be RAID enabled...
... and which hard drives you to press F10. Entering the RAID BIOS Setup 1. Press F10, and the NVIDIA RAID Utility --- After that has the RAID driver to copy and install the nForce RAID software. (Check p.B-7 for details.) 2. nVidia RAID RAID Configuration Basic Configuration Instructions The following are to be RAID enabled...
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..., otherwise press N. 6. The Clear disk data prompt appears. 2. Now that you want to exit the RAID setup. If you want to configure and load NVRAID drivers under W indows, as explained in "Installing the NVIDIA MediaShield Software Under W indows" on B-8. Press Y if you want to wipe out all its contents then press...
..., otherwise press N. 6. The Clear disk data prompt appears. 2. Now that you want to exit the RAID setup. If you want to configure and load NVRAID drivers under W indows, as explained in "Installing the NVIDIA MediaShield Software Under W indows" on B-8. Press Y if you want to wipe out all its contents then press...
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... and then press ENTER. 8. Follow the instructions on how to make an "NVIDIA RAID Driver" for NVIDIA RAID Controller is done. 5. Please refer the Important notice above to install W indows XP. Insert the MSI CD into the A: drive,and then press ENTER. 4. Copy all the contents in the... for Windows XP: \\nVidia\System\MCP78\IDE\WinXP\sataraid to load RAID driver. Press "S" again at the beginning of available NVRAID Adapaters. For W...
... and then press ENTER. 8. Follow the instructions on how to make an "NVIDIA RAID Driver" for NVIDIA RAID Controller is done. 5. Please refer the Important notice above to install W indows XP. Insert the MSI CD into the A: drive,and then press ENTER. 4. Copy all the contents in the... for Windows XP: \\nVidia\System\MCP78\IDE\WinXP\sataraid to load RAID driver. Press "S" again at the beginning of available NVRAID Adapaters. For W...
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...to run the setup application and install the RAID software which will upgrade the W indows SATA driver and install the RAID software. 1. After the installation is completed, be upgraded to use the NVIDIA Serial ATA driver. After the reboot, initialize the newly created array. B-8 Select the NVIDIA MediaShield. 3. Click...7508 Mainboard NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation Installing the NVIDIA MediaShield Software Under Windows (for Non-bootable RAID Array) The existing W indows Serial ATA driver must be sure to reboot the PC. 5. This section describes how to open the NVIDIA W indows nForce...
...to run the setup application and install the RAID software which will upgrade the W indows SATA driver and install the RAID software. 1. After the installation is completed, be upgraded to use the NVIDIA Serial ATA driver. After the reboot, initialize the newly created array. B-8 Select the NVIDIA MediaShield. 3. Click...7508 Mainboard NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation Installing the NVIDIA MediaShield Software Under Windows (for Non-bootable RAID Array) The existing W indows Serial ATA driver must be sure to reboot the PC. 5. This section describes how to open the NVIDIA W indows nForce...
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...of mainboard will show below . DOT Click DOT button to execute the function. MB Click MB button to install with the version 8.26 or newer driver)/ V046 or V060 graphics card can activate the full function of this utility, we have to remind you install a graphics card of other brand, ...only hardware status of the MSI mainboard would be available. Dual Core Center Main Before using this utility. If you : only when installing the MSI V044 (V044 has to read current GPU temperature, GPU clock and memory clock of graphics card...
...of mainboard will show below . DOT Click DOT button to execute the function. MB Click MB button to install with the version 8.26 or newer driver)/ V046 or V060 graphics card can activate the full function of this utility, we have to remind you install a graphics card of other brand, ...only hardware status of the MSI mainboard would be available. Dual Core Center Main Before using this utility. If you : only when installing the MSI V044 (V044 has to read current GPU temperature, GPU clock and memory clock of graphics card...