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English Manual. - Page 7
... Reset Disks to Non-RAID 88 Exit RAID BIOS 92 Install a New Windows XP 93 Existing Windows XP with RAID built as data storage 97 Appendix - CrossFileTM Technology 101
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English Manual. - Page 11
... Optical S/PDIF out connector 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF out connector 6 x USB 2.0 ports 1 x RJ-45 LAN port 1 x 1394a port 1 x External SATA port 6 x Audio jacks Hardware Monitor System voltage detection CPU/System/NB temperature detection CPU/System/NB fan speed detection System voltage warning CPU/System/NB overheating warning CPU/System/NB fan speed control Onboard 1394a Support...
English Manual. - Page 21
... sure the motherboard supports the expansion card. Carefully read the manual that came with your expansion card. ■ Always turn off the computer and unplug the power cord from the power outlet before installing an expansion card to prevent hardware damage. ■ The PCI-E2_16X slot and the two PCI-E x1 (PCI-E1_1X, PCI-E2_1X) slots are shared, if an expansion card was installed into the...
English Manual. - Page 54
... 9.0C driver. Intel Matrix Storage Manager Install this driver needs BIOS SATA Mode being set to [AHCI] or [RAID]. This restriction forces us to find out another way to install this driver. Please go to "5-5 Existing Windows XP with RAID built as data storage." for more detail. 2. Software Use these options to install additional software programs.
AEGIS PANEL Foxconn new utility software for...
English Manual. - Page 55
... you are using, you can choose appropriate driver for the diskette. Create (32bit/64bit) JMicron SATA RAID Floppy Allows you to create (32bit/64bit) JMicron SATA RAID Floppy. Create (32bit/64bit) Intel MSM SATA RAID Floppy Allows you to create (32bit/64bit) Intel MSM SATA RAID Floppy. Please go to Chapter 5, "Installing a New Windows XP on a Brand New RAID System" for more detail. 4. Browse CD...
English Manual. - Page 61
... is a useful utility to backup and update your system BIOS, drivers and utilities by local or online.
Supporting Operating Systems : ■ Windows 2000 ■ Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit) ■ Windows 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit) ■ Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
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Using FOX LiveUpdate :
1. Local Update 1-1 Local Update - BIOS Information
This page lets you know...
English Manual. - Page 63
... Update - Update BIOS
This page lets you update your system BIOS from Internet. Click "start", it will search the new BIOS from Internet. Then follow the wizard to finish the update operation.
Click here
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Current information
Select BIOS to update
Search new BIOS from Internet
Browse detailed information Update BIOS Close the window
2-2 Online Update - Update Driver This page lets you update...
English Manual. - Page 64
... driver to update
Browse detailed information Install the selected driver
Close the window
2-3 Online Update - Update Utility This page lets you update utilities from Internet. Click "start", it will search the new utilities from Internet. Then follow the wizard to finish the update operation.
Click here
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Select the utility to update 57
Current information
Search new utilities from Internet...
English Manual. - Page 65
...2-4 Online Update - Update All This page lets you update your system drivers from Internet. Click "start", it will search all new BIOS/drivers/utilities from Internet. Then follow the wizard to finish the update operation.
Click here
Current information
Search all new BIOS/ drivers/utilities from Internet
Close the window
Browse detailed BIOS information
Browse detailed driver information
Browse...
English Manual. - Page 67
... prompt you to install the new version.
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Prompt you to install the new FOX LiveUpdate
3-2 Configure - System This page lets you set the backup BIOS location and change different skin of the Fox LiveUpdate utility.
Click here
Determine if the FOX LiveUpdate can auto run when the system starts up
Set the location of download files or...
English Manual. - Page 69
...) system with new RAID built as
data storage. It includes the following information : ■ RAID Configuration Introduction ■ Intel® Matrix Storage Manager ■ Create a RAID Driver Diskette ■ BIOS Configuration ■ Create RAID in BIOS ■ Install a New Windows XP ■ Existing Windows XP with RAID built as data storage.
The RAID BIOS Setup pictures shown in this...
English Manual. - Page 70
...can skip) 2. Follow 5-2 to set BIOS setting SATA mode to RAID or AHCI. 3. Follow 5-3 to create RAID in BIOS. 4. Run setup program to install Intel® Matrix Storage Manager driver into your current
Windows XP system. (Vista can skip this step) 5. Format new RAID partitions.
What kinds of hardware and software you need here : 1. A CD-ROM drive. 2. Several SATA hard disks. 3. A MARS driver CD.
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English Manual. - Page 73
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Steps to Install Serial ATA Hard Disks :
1. Install SATA hard disks into the drive bays. 2. Connect one end of the SATA cable to motherboard's SATA connector, and the
other end to SATA hard disk. 3. Connect SATA power cable to the power connector of SATA hard disk.
WARNING!
■ Both AHCI and RAID modes need to install Intel® Matrix Storage driver. ■ Set SATA mode in BIOS to AHCI...
English Manual. - Page 74
... the SATA Mode in BIOS to either AHCI or RAID first. You also need to create a RAID driver diskette for use in installing your Windows XP system. Windows Vista has native RAID driver in itself, you can skip these steps. 1. Find another PC, put a diskette into its
floppy drive, this diskette will be formatted later. Put the MARS driver CD into CDROM drive, the...
English Manual. - Page 75
...Check if the diskette contains the driver files. Later, when in the process of installing Windows XP in your RAID system, it will ask you to use this floppy diskette to provide driver for additional specific devices, for example, a RAID device.
10. Install Serial ATA Hard Disks : 10-1. Shut down your computer. 10-2. Install SATA hard disks into the drive bays, connect all power and SATA cables. 68
English Manual. - Page 100
...5-4 Install a New Windows XP
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When you set the SATA Mode in BIOS to either AHCI or RAID, you need
to follow these steps to install your Windows XP system.
1. Press to enter BIOS Setup during POST. 2. Insert the Windows installation CD into the optical drive. 3. Set the "First Boot Device" to "CDROM", save changes and exit the BIOS setup.
Phoenix - AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Advanced BIOS...
English Manual. - Page 101
...or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s):
* To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drivers, or special
disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If...
English Manual. - Page 103
...in the floppy drive during Windows XP installation, otherwise, Windows may ask you to put it inside again by below message. There are many times Windows XP may copy files from the floppy drive, please remember.
11. Follow the Windows XP install processes to finish the set up.
Windows XP Professional Setup
Insert the disk labeled: Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver
into drive A: * Press ENTER when...
English Manual. - Page 104
... case, you need to install the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager into your Windows XP system first. The conditions to install Intel® driver successfully, you need : 1. BIOS SATA mode must be set to [AHCI] or [RAID]. 2. You'd better have an IDE CD drive. If you have a SATA CD drive and the BIOS SATA mode was set to [AHCI] or [RAID], in Windows XP platform, this CD...
English Manual. - Page 109
... connector
Connect to slave graphics card DVI connector
6. Power on your computer and get into OS (Windows® XP 32-bit with SP2 or Windows® XP Professional 64-bit Edition).
7. Install Microsoft's .NET Framework Version 1.1. Without it, The ATI CatalystTM Control Center can not launch properly.
8. Install the ATI graphics card drivers and restart your computer. Then you will find "ATI...