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4.2.7 ASUS Contact information .............................................. 4-6
4.2.8 Other information ............................................................ 4-7
4.3 Software information ................................................................... 4-9
4.3.1 Sound Blaster X-Fi audio utility ....................................... 4-9
4.3.2 ASUS PC Probe II ......................................................... 4-13
4.3.3 ASUS AI Suite ............................................................... 4-19
4.3.4 ASUS Fan Xpert ........................................................... 4-21
4.3.5 ASUS EPU-6 Engine .................................................... 4-22
4.3.6 TurboV EVO .................................................................. 4-23
4.4 RAID configurations .................................................................. 4-27
4.4.1 RAID definitions ............................................................ 4-27
4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks ..................................... 4-28
4.4.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ...................................... 4-28
4.4.4 Intel
4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk ....................................................... 4-32
4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS .... 4-32
4.5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows
4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during
Windows
4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive ....................................... 4-33
Chapter 5:
5.1 ATI CrossFireX™ technology .................................................... 5-1
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5.1.1 Requirements .................................................................. 5-1
5.1.2 Before you begin ............................................................. 5-1
5.1.3 Installing CrossFireX graphics cards .............................. 5-2
5.1.4 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 5-3
5.1.5 Enabling the ATI
5.2 NVIDIA SLI™ technology ........................................................... 5-5
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5.2.1 Requirements .................................................................. 5-5
5.2.2 Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards .......................... 5-5
5.2.3 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 5-6
5.2.4 Enabling the NVIDIA
Appendix:
Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility ......... 4-28
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OS installation .............................................. 4-33
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ATI CrossFireX™ technology support
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CrossFireX™ technology ................... 5-3
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Debug code table
SLI™ technology ......................... 5-6
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