Asus Maximus III Formula - Manual (Page 7)

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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 ® Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility ......... 4-28
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 ® ...................... 4-32
4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during
Windows ® OS installation .............................................. 4-33
4.5.4 Using a USB floppy disk drive ....................................... 4-33
Chapter 5: ATI ® CrossFireX™ technology support
5.1 ATI ® CrossFireX™ technology .................................................... 5-1
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 ® CrossFireX™ technology ................... 5-3
5.2 NVIDIA ® SLI™ technology ........................................................... 5-5
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 ® SLI™ technology ......................... 5-6
Appendix: Debug code table