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... First release for P6N SLI
Date January 2007
Technical Support
If a problem arises with your system and no solution can be obtained from the user's manual, please contact your place of purchase or local distributor. Alternatively, please try the following help resources for further guidance.
Visit the MSI website for FAQ, technical guide, BIOS updates, driver updates, and other information...
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... 3 BIOS Setup 3-1 Entering Setup ...3-2 The Main Menu ...3-4 Standard CMOS Features 3-6 Advanced BIOS Features 3-9 Integrated Peripherals 3-12 Power Management Setup 3-15 PNP/PCI Configurations 3-18 H/W Monitor ...3-20 Cell Menu ...3-21 Load Fail-Safe/ Optimized Defaults 3-27 BIOS Setting Password 3-28 Appendix A Realtek ALC888 Audio A-1 Installing the Realtek Audio Driver A-2 Software...
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Appendix B nVidia RAID B-1 Introduction ...B-2 RAID Configuration B-3 NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation B-9 RAID Drives Management B-12
Appendix C nVidia System Driver C-1 nVidia System Driver Installation C-2 nVidia Utility Installaion C-5
Appendix D Dual Core Center D-1 Activating Dual Core Center D-2 Main ...D-3 DOT(Dynamic Over Clocking D-5 Clock ...D-6 Voltage ...D-7 FAN Speed ...D-8...
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... this kind of memory-replacement actions might cause system chipset unable to boot. Please follow the following solution to avoid this situation. Unplug the AC power cable (shown in figure 1) or unplug the power connectors (shown in figure 2 & figure 3) before the 1st installation or during system upgrade p r oc ed ur e.
Figure 1: Unplug the AC power cable
Figure 2: Unplug the...
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... Mainboard 5. After the hardware installation is completed, restart the system and install the NV SLI driver/utility. A configuration panel will be provided for Multi-GPU control. Check the Enable multi-GPU box to enable the SLI function for the onboard graphics cards (concerning the details of multi-GPU settings, please refer to your graphics card manual) .
Check the box
6. Restart...
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... environment and could look slightly different if you install the drivers in different operating systems.
1. Insert the application CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup screen will automatically appear.
2. Click Realtek HD Audio Driver.
Click here
Important
The HD Audio Configuration software utility is under continuous update to enhance audio applications. Hence, the program screens shown here in...
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Realtek ALC888 Audio 3. Click Next to install the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver.
4. Click Finish to restart the system.
Click here
Select this option
Click here A-3
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Software Configuration
After installing the audio driver, you are able to use the 2-, 4-, 6- or 8- channel audio feature now. Click the audio icon from the system tray at the lower-right corner of the screen to activate the HD Audio Configuration. It is also available to enable the audio driver by clicking the Azalia HD Sound Effect M anager from the Control...
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... floppy disk that has the RAID driver to copy
and install the nForce RAID software. (Check p.B-7 for details.) 4. Initialize the NVRAID Array Disks.
Setting Up the NVRAID BIOS
Be sure to enable the RAID mode for SATA devices in BIOS before configuring the NVRAID BIOS. After that press F10 to save the configuration and exit. The PC will reboot right away. Then enter the RAID BIOS Setup by...
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..., press Y to wipe out all the data, otherwise press N. 6. Press Enter again to go back to the previous window and then press Ctrl+X to
exit the RAID setup. Now that the RAID setup has been configured from the RAID BIOS, the next step is to configure and load NVRAID drivers under W indows, as explained in "Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software Under Windows" on p.B-9. B-6
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Important
Please follow the instruction below to make an nVIDIA Serial ATA RAID driver for yourself.
1. Insert the MSI CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Click the "Browse CD" on the Setup screen. 3. Copy all the contents in the :\\nVidia \System \C55+MCP51 \RAID to a
formatted floppy disk. 4. The driver disk for nVIDIA RAID controller is done. (2) Select "NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER" and then press Enter...
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... disk inserted in the floppy drive until the blue screen portion of W indows XP installation is completed, then take out the floppy.
5. Follow the instructions on how to install W indows XP. After W indows XP is completely installed, it is recommended that you install the the RAID management tool.
Important
Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver...
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... existing W indows IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled) must be upgraded to use the NVIDIA IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the NV Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled). This section describes how to run the setup application and install the RAID software which will upgrade the W indows IDE driver and install the RAID software. 1. Start the NVIDIA nForce...
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Installation of nVidia System Driver
Appendix C
nVidia System Driver
MSI provides a setup CD along with your mainboard, which contains the required drivers for your system, and many other useful and powerful utility to bring you the best experience for your office professional working and for your home leisure entertainment.
C-1
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MS-7350 Mainboard
nVidia System Driver Installation
Click on the Driver tab and the screen below will display.
NVIDIA System Driver
This driver is only available for W indows 2000 and W indows XP operating system. Please follow the following step to install the driver correctly. 1. Click on the NVIDIA C55/M CP51 System Driver button to install the NVIDIA
System Drivers for your W indows...
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... of nVidia System Driver 2. Then the following screen displays the available components to install. All the
components shown here will be selected to be installed by default. Then click Next.
3. The system will start installing the selected driver components automatically. 4. Then the following screen displays the information for the NVIDIA IDE SW Driver
installation. Click Next to continue...
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MS-7350 Mainboard 5. Then the following screen displays the installation of NVIDIA IDE SW Driver. Click
Yes to continue. 6. The following screen indicates that the installation is complete. Click Yes to restart
your computer or click No to restart it later.
C-4
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Installation of nVidia System Driver
nVidia Utility Installaion
1. Click on the Utility tab and the screen below will display.
2. Then click on the NVIDIA Utility tab and the screen below will display.
3. Click the nTune Utility icon to install it. nTune Utility - provides a safe and easy way to optimize PC performance.
C-5
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... status of MSI Mainboard & MSI Graphics card in windows, such as CPU/GPU clock, voltage, fan speed and temperature. Before you install the Dual CoreCenter, please make sure the system has meet the following requirements: 1. Intel Pentium4 / Celeron, AMD Athlon XP/ Sempron or
compatible CPU with PCI Express slot. 2. 256MB system memory. 3. CD-ROM drive for software installation. 4. Operation system...
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...installing the MSI V044 (V044 has to install with the version 8.26 or newer driver)/ V046 or V060 graphics card can activate the full function of this utility. If you install a graphics card of other brand, only hardware status of the MSI...CPU temperature, FSB and CPU clock of mainboard will show below. VGA Click VGA button to read current GPU temperature, GPU clock and memory clock of graphics card...