A SERVICE OF

logo

vi
Contents
Chapter 5: Software support
5.1 Installing an operating system ................................................... 5-1
5.2 Support CD information ..............................................................
5-1
5.2.1 Running the support CD .................................................
5-1
5.2.2 Drivers menu ...................................................................
5-2
5.2.3 Utilities menu ..................................................................
5-3
5.2.4 Make Disk menu .............................................................
5-4
5.2.5 Manuals menu ................................................................
5-5
5.2.6 ASUS Contact information ..............................................
5-6
5.2.7 Other information ............................................................
5-6
5.3 Software information
5.3.1 ASUS MyLogo3 ..............................................................
5-8
5.3.2 Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology ..........................................
5-10
5.3.3 ASUS PC Probe II .........................................................
5-13
5.3.4 ASUS Ai Gear ...............................................................
5-19
5.3.5 ASUS Ai Nap .................................................................
5-21
5.3.6 ASUS Music Alarm ........................................................
5-22
5.3.7 SoundMAX ADI1988 .....................................................
5-25
5.4 RAID congurations ..................................................................
5-30
5.4.1 Installing hard disks ......................................................
5-31
5.4.2 NVIDIA® MediaShield RAID congurations ..................
5-32
5.4.3 Silicon Image RAID congurations ...............................
5-39
5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk .......................................................
5-46
Chapter 6: NVIDIA® SLI™ technology support
6.1 Overview ....................................................................................... 6-1
6.2 Dual graphics card setup ............................................................
6-2
6.2.1 Installing SLI-ready graphics cards .................................
6-2
6.2.2 Installing the device drivers .............................................
6-5
6.2.3 Enabling the multi-GPU feature in Windows® ................
6-5