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...in this manual are legally registered to the specifications and features in this manual is protected by copyright laws and is 1.0. No part of GIGABYTE. Changes to their respective owners. For example, "REV: 1.0" means the revision of the product, read the Quick Installation Guide included with ... read or download the information on/from the Support\Motherboard\Technology Guide page on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. The trademarks mentioned in this manual may be made by any means without prior notice...
...in this manual are legally registered to the specifications and features in this manual is protected by copyright laws and is 1.0. No part of GIGABYTE. Changes to their respective owners. For example, "REV: 1.0" means the revision of the product, read the Quick Installation Guide included with ... read or download the information on/from the Support\Motherboard\Technology Guide page on your motherboard revision before updating motherboard BIOS, drivers, or when looking for technical information. The trademarks mentioned in this manual may be made by any means without prior notice...
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... the Onboard SATA Controller 79 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette 85 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 87 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 92 ...5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio 92 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIF In Cable (Optional 94 5-2-3 Configuring Microphone Recording 96 5-2-4 Using the Sound Recorder 98 5-3 Troubleshooting 99 5-3-1 Frequently Asked Questions 99 5-3-2 Troubleshooting Procedure 100 5-4 Regulatory Statements 102 Only for GA-EP43...
... the Onboard SATA Controller 79 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette 85 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 87 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 92 ...5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio 92 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIF In Cable (Optional 94 5-2-3 Configuring Microphone Recording 96 5-2-4 Using the Sound Recorder 98 5-3 Troubleshooting 99 5-3-1 Frequently Asked Questions 99 5-3-2 Troubleshooting Procedure 100 5-4 Regulatory Statements 102 Only for GA-EP43...
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... No. 12CR1-1SPDIN-01R) COM port cable (Part No. 12CF1-1CM001-32R) LPT port cable (Part No. 12CF1-1LP001-01R) - 7 - Box Contents GA-EP43-DS3LR or GA-EP43-DS3L or GA-EP43-S3L motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide One IDE cable and one floppy disk drive cable Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The...
... No. 12CR1-1SPDIN-01R) COM port cable (Part No. 12CF1-1CM001-32R) LPT port cable (Part No. 12CF1-1LP001-01R) - 7 - Box Contents GA-EP43-DS3LR or GA-EP43-DS3L or GA-EP43-S3L motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Quick Installation Guide One IDE cable and one floppy disk drive cable Two SATA 3Gb/s cables I/O Shield • The...
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...x16 Graphics Card: • Installing a Graphics Card: Gently push down on the card are completely inserted into the PCI Express x16 slot. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 20 - Carefully read the manual that supports your card. PCI Express x1 Slot PCI Express x16 Slot PCI Slot Follow the steps... card. Make sure the card is fully inserted into the slot. 4. Locate an expansion slot that came with a screw. 5. Install the driver provided with the slot, and press down on your computer. Remove the metal slot cover from the slot. Secure the card's metal bracket to...
...x16 Graphics Card: • Installing a Graphics Card: Gently push down on the card are completely inserted into the PCI Express x16 slot. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 20 - Carefully read the manual that supports your card. PCI Express x1 Slot PCI Express x16 Slot PCI Slot Follow the steps... card. Make sure the card is fully inserted into the slot. 4. Locate an expansion slot that came with a screw. 5. Install the driver provided with the slot, and press down on your computer. Remove the metal slot cover from the slot. Secure the card's metal bracket to...
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...key to XpressRecovery2 during the POST. After system restart, the device boot order will directly boot from the device configured in Boot Menu. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 36 - To show the BIOS POST screen at system startup, refer to the instructions on the Full Screen LOGO Show ... :POST Screen :BIOS Setup/Q-Flash :XpressRecovery2 :Boot Menu :Qflash Function Keys B. In Boot Menu, use the up hard drive data using the motherboard driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change the first boot device setting as needed. : Q-Flash Press the key to access the ...
...key to XpressRecovery2 during the POST. After system restart, the device boot order will directly boot from the device configured in Boot Menu. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 36 - To show the BIOS POST screen at system startup, refer to the instructions on the Full Screen LOGO Show ... :POST Screen :BIOS Setup/Q-Flash :XpressRecovery2 :Boot Menu :Qflash Function Keys B. In Boot Menu, use the up hard drive data using the motherboard driver disk, the key can access Boot Menu again to change the first boot device setting as needed. : Q-Flash Press the key to access the ...
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...storage driver to AHCI mode. Only for the SATA controllers and configures the SATA controllers to PATAmode. (Default) AHCI (Note) Configures the SATA controllers to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing and hot plug. Disabled Disables AHCI for GA-EP43-S3L. ...systems that cannot be shared with other device. Disabled Disables RAID for GA-EP43-DS3LR. (Note) Supported on Windows® Vista® operating system only. - 51 - BIOS Setup RAID Enables RAID for GA-EP43-DS3L. SATA Port0-3 Native Mode Specifies the operating mode of the integrated...
...storage driver to AHCI mode. Only for the SATA controllers and configures the SATA controllers to PATAmode. (Default) AHCI (Note) Configures the SATA controllers to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing and hot plug. Disabled Disables AHCI for GA-EP43-S3L. ...systems that cannot be shared with other device. Disabled Disables RAID for GA-EP43-DS3LR. (Note) Supported on Windows® Vista® operating system only. - 51 - BIOS Setup RAID Enables RAID for GA-EP43-DS3L. SATA Port0-3 Native Mode Specifies the operating mode of the integrated...
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... looks like that shown in Device Manager, please remove the question mark (by right-clicking your optical drive. Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) • After installing...(or later), if a question mark still exists in Universal Serial Bus Controller in the screen shot below. (If the driver Autorun screen does not appear automatically, go to My Computer, double-click the optical drive and execute the Run.exe program.) 3-1 Installing ...
... looks like that shown in Device Manager, please remove the question mark (by right-clicking your optical drive. Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) • After installing...(or later), if a question mark still exists in Universal Serial Bus Controller in the screen shot below. (If the driver Autorun screen does not appear automatically, go to My Computer, double-click the optical drive and execute the Run.exe program.) 3-1 Installing ...
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3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software. You can click the Install button on the right of an item to install it. 3-3 Technical Manuals This page provides GIGABYTE's application guides, content descriptions for this driver disk, and the motherboard manuals. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 62 -
3-2 Application Software This page displays all the utilities and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software. You can click the Install button on the right of an item to install it. 3-3 Technical Manuals This page provides GIGABYTE's application guides, content descriptions for this driver disk, and the motherboard manuals. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 62 -
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3-4 Contact Click the URL on this manual to the GIGABYTE Web site. Or read the last page of this page to link to check the contact information for GIGABYTE Taiwan headquarter or worldwide branch offices. 3-5 System This page provides the basic system information. - 63 - Drivers Installation
3-4 Contact Click the URL on this manual to the GIGABYTE Web site. Or read the last page of this page to link to check the contact information for GIGABYTE Taiwan headquarter or worldwide branch offices. 3-5 System This page provides the basic system information. - 63 - Drivers Installation
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The latest version of the BIOS, drivers, or applications will be displayed. 3-6 Download Center To update the BIOS, drivers, or applications, click the Download Center button to link to the GIGABYTE Web site. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 64 -
The latest version of the BIOS, drivers, or applications will be displayed. 3-6 Download Center To update the BIOS, drivers, or applications, click the Download Center button to link to the GIGABYTE Web site. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 64 -
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... SATA connectors, the hard drive on the amount of data). • It is recommended to back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are attached to quickly compress and back up your system data and perform restoration of the hard drive, make sure to leave enough unallocated space...
... SATA connectors, the hard drive on the amount of data). • It is recommended to back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are attached to quickly compress and back up your system data and perform restoration of the hard drive, make sure to leave enough unallocated space...
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...Figure 11 3. Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. When finished, go to Disk Management to start backing up your hard drive. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to search the first physical hard drive as the target drive and detect whether this hard drive contains the Windows operating system. Xpress ... Recovery2 for the first time. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2008, Award Software, Inc. Figure 12 GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will stay permanent in Xpress Recovery2 1. When you wish to store the backup image file. - 68...
...Figure 11 3. Accessing Xpress Recovery2 1. When finished, go to Disk Management to start backing up your hard drive. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to search the first physical hard drive as the target drive and detect whether this hard drive contains the Windows operating system. Xpress ... Recovery2 for the first time. Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2008, Award Software, Inc. Figure 12 GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard Xpress Recovery2 will stay permanent in Xpress Recovery2 1. When you wish to store the backup image file. - 68...
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... ... About Q-Share ... Figure 2. Find the Q-Share icon in your computer to another computer simply using Q-Share After installing Q-Share from the motherboard driver disk, go to Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE> Q-Share.exe to launch the Q-Share tool. Data Sharing Enabled Description Displays the computers with data sharing enabled Enables data sharing Disables...
... ... About Q-Share ... Figure 2. Find the Q-Share icon in your computer to another computer simply using Q-Share After installing Q-Share from the motherboard driver disk, go to Start>All Programs>GIGABYTE> Q-Share.exe to launch the Q-Share tool. Data Sharing Enabled Description Displays the computers with data sharing enabled Enables data sharing Disables...
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.... Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: A. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver. (Note 2) E. C . If you may prepare only one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other ...Required when the SATA controller is recommended that you begin Please prepare: • At least two SATA hard drives (to the hard drive. Only for GA-EP43-DS3LR. (Note 1) Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID, you do not want to create RAID array on the motherboard. ...
.... Chapter 5 Appendix 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: A. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver. (Note 2) E. C . If you may prepare only one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other ...Required when the SATA controller is recommended that you begin Please prepare: • At least two SATA hard drives (to the hard drive. Only for GA-EP43-DS3LR. (Note 1) Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID, you do not want to create RAID array on the motherboard. ...
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... BE LOST. Are you sure you want to create this volume, press to confirm or to create the SATA RAID/AHCI driver diskette and the installation of the SATA RAID/ACHI driver and operating system. - 83 - Step 5: Enter the array capacity and press . Create RAID Volume 2. Finally press on the Create Volume...
... BE LOST. Are you sure you want to create this volume, press to confirm or to create the SATA RAID/AHCI driver diskette and the installation of the SATA RAID/ACHI driver and operating system. - 83 - Step 5: Enter the array capacity and press . Create RAID Volume 2. Finally press on the Create Volume...
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...system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCI mode, you first have to copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to your USB flash drive and then extract it (see instructions on the next page). See the instructions below about... setup process. Figure 1 Figure 2 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. For example, from the motherboard driver disk to exit when finished. Prepare a startup disk that in Figure 2, select 7) Intel Matrix Storage Manager 32 bit for Windows...
...system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCI mode, you first have to copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to your USB flash drive and then extract it (see instructions on the next page). See the instructions below about... setup process. Figure 1 Figure 2 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. For example, from the motherboard driver disk to exit when finished. Prepare a startup disk that in Figure 2, select 7) Intel Matrix Storage Manager 32 bit for Windows...
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... extracted, a screen similar to your USB flash drive. When a screen similar to begin extracting the driver. message, and then press to that in Figure 6 will appear. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 86 - For example, to install the Windows Vista 32-bit operating system(Note) on the ...Intel ICH10R SATA controller, copy the MSM32 file (Figure 4) located in the BootDrv folder in the motherboard driver disk to your USB flash...
... extracted, a screen similar to your USB flash drive. When a screen similar to begin extracting the driver. message, and then press to that in Figure 6 will appear. GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 86 - For example, to install the Windows Vista 32-bit operating system(Note) on the ...Intel ICH10R SATA controller, copy the MSM32 file (Figure 4) located in the BootDrv folder in the motherboard driver disk to your USB flash...
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... or do not want to manually specify an adapter. Appendix Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Currently, Setup will be a few moments of Windows XP and Vista installation. Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of one or more... is an example of some files being loaded before you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" (Figure 1). S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 2 - 87 - After pressing , there will load support for use with Windows, press ENTER. 5-1-3 ...
... or do not want to manually specify an adapter. Appendix Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Currently, Setup will be a few moments of Windows XP and Vista installation. Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of one or more... is an example of some files being loaded before you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" (Figure 1). S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 2 - 87 - After pressing , there will load support for use with Windows, press ENTER. 5-1-3 ...
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... (Select Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 4 GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 88 - Select the SCSI Adapter you want to the previous screen. Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA...F3=Exit Figure 3 If a message appears saying one of the items displayed and press . The driver installation will appear. If you do not have chosen to continue the driver installation from the following mass storage device(s): Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R SATA RAID Controller * To ...
... (Select Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 4 GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard - 88 - Select the SCSI Adapter you want to the previous screen. Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA...F3=Exit Figure 3 If a message appears saying one of the items displayed and press . The driver installation will appear. If you do not have chosen to continue the driver installation from the following mass storage device(s): Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R SATA RAID Controller * To ...
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WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to run on your computer. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 5 - 89 - This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. Appendix Step 4: After the SATA RAID/AHCI driver installation is completed, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation.
WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to run on your computer. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 5 - 89 - This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to Setup. Appendix Step 4: After the SATA RAID/AHCI driver installation is completed, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation.