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...a maximum memory size up to 4GB † Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM (For the updated supporting memory modules, please visit http://www.msi.com.tw/ program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_trp_list.php.) Slots † One PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)...DMA 66/100/133 operation modes † Can connect up to the AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX CPU - HyperTransport link to 4 IDE devices On-Board SATA † nForce4 Standard supports 4 SATA ports. Two independent SATA controllers, for 1000BASE-T Main Memory † Supports dual channel, eight memory...
...a maximum memory size up to 4GB † Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM (For the updated supporting memory modules, please visit http://www.msi.com.tw/ program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_trp_list.php.) Slots † One PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)...DMA 66/100/133 operation modes † Can connect up to the AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX CPU - HyperTransport link to 4 IDE devices On-Board SATA † nForce4 Standard supports 4 SATA ports. Two independent SATA controllers, for 1000BASE-T Main Memory † Supports dual channel, eight memory...
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RAID function available for PATA+SATA H/D drives Gigabit LAN † Supports one LAN jacks - Supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E1111 IEEE 1394 (Optional) † Supports up to ...the board automatically. † The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications. † Supports boot from LAN, USB Device 1.1 & 2.0, and SATA HDD. 1-3 Transfer rate is supported - Controlled by Realtek ALC850 - Direct Sound AC97 audio - 7.1 Channel output On-Board Peripherals † On-Board Peripherals include: - 1 floppy ...
RAID function available for PATA+SATA H/D drives Gigabit LAN † Supports one LAN jacks - Supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E1111 IEEE 1394 (Optional) † Supports up to ...the board automatically. † The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications. † Supports boot from LAN, USB Device 1.1 & 2.0, and SATA HDD. 1-3 Transfer rate is supported - Controlled by Realtek ALC850 - Direct Sound AC97 audio - 7.1 Channel output On-Board Peripherals † On-Board Peripherals include: - 1 floppy ...
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M S-7125 ATX M ainboard † Supports boot from LAN, USB Device 1.1 & 2.0, and SATA HDD. As the end user cannot boot without SP4, a combination installation CD must be created before attempting to the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/..., please refer to install the operating system onto the bootable RAID volume. Dimension † ATX Form Factor (30.4 cm X 24.4 cm) Mounting † 9 mounting holes MSI Reminds You... 1. To create a bootable RAID volume for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. 2. Now the nVidia nForce4 system driver is only available for a Windows 2000...
M S-7125 ATX M ainboard † Supports boot from LAN, USB Device 1.1 & 2.0, and SATA HDD. As the end user cannot boot without SP4, a combination installation CD must be created before attempting to the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/..., please refer to install the operating system onto the bootable RAID volume. Dimension † ATX Form Factor (30.4 cm X 24.4 cm) Mounting † 9 mounting holes MSI Reminds You... 1. To create a bootable RAID volume for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. 2. Now the nVidia nForce4 system driver is only available for a Windows 2000...
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M S-7125 ATX M ainboard Packing Contents MSI motherboard MSI Driver/Utility CD SATA RAID Driver Diskette SATA Cable (Optional) Power Cable D-Bracket 2 (Optional) Round Cable of IDE Devices (Optional) Round Cable of Floppy Disk (Optional) 1394 Cable (Optional) Back IO Shield User's Guide 1-6
M S-7125 ATX M ainboard Packing Contents MSI motherboard MSI Driver/Utility CD SATA RAID Driver Diskette SATA Cable (Optional) Power Cable D-Bracket 2 (Optional) Round Cable of IDE Devices (Optional) Round Cable of Floppy Disk (Optional) 1394 Cable (Optional) Back IO Shield User's Guide 1-6
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... choose the onboard parallel port with support for two IDE channels. The settings are : [Auto], [Disabled]. IDE Function Setup Press to enable or disable onchip SATA controller. BIOS Setup EPP Mode Select The onboard parallel port is used to enter the sub-menu and the following message will be chosen. At...
... choose the onboard parallel port with support for two IDE channels. The settings are : [Auto], [Disabled]. IDE Function Setup Press to enable or disable onchip SATA controller. BIOS Setup EPP Mode Select The onboard parallel port is used to enter the sub-menu and the following message will be chosen. At...
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... options: [IrDA], [ASKIR], [Disable]. [Disable] RS-232C Serial Port [IrDA] IrDA-compliant Serial Infrared Port [ASKIR] Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared Port SATA Devices Configuration Press to enter the sub-menu and the following fields will be selectabled. SATA 1/2/3/4 RAID This feature allows users to enable or disable the RAID function for each...
... options: [IrDA], [ASKIR], [Disable]. [Disable] RS-232C Serial Port [IrDA] IrDA-compliant Serial Infrared Port [ASKIR] Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared Port SATA Devices Configuration Press to enter the sub-menu and the following fields will be selectabled. SATA 1/2/3/4 RAID This feature allows users to enable or disable the RAID function for each...
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...in the MMX registers. These instructions and registers are designed to allow Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) computations to enable or disable the SATA Spread Spectrum feature. Setting options: [Disabled], [Down Spread]. Setting options: [Disabled], [Down Spread]. SSE/ SSE2 Instructions This setting disables...The system board designer selects whether the PCIE clock is tightly synchronized with the CPU clock or is especially designed for AMD Athlon processor, which provides a CPU temperature detecting function to prevent your CPU's from overheating due to the heavy working loading...
...in the MMX registers. These instructions and registers are designed to allow Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) computations to enable or disable the SATA Spread Spectrum feature. Setting options: [Disabled], [Down Spread]. Setting options: [Disabled], [Down Spread]. SSE/ SSE2 Instructions This setting disables...The system board designer selects whether the PCIE clock is tightly synchronized with the CPU clock or is especially designed for AMD Athlon processor, which provides a CPU temperature detecting function to prevent your CPU's from overheating due to the heavy working loading...
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...RAID arrays described in this section: RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that users cannot install OS, either WinME or Win98, in their SATA hard drive. RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for many applications. Critical data requiring high performance. Combining odd size drives into one big drive Advantages Drawbacks... High data throughput. Decreases performance because of the difficulty in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays. Multiple Fault Tolerance None Yes Yes No MSI Reminds You... Please note that improves the disk read and write times for mirroring data. Under these two OSs...
...RAID arrays described in this section: RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that users cannot install OS, either WinME or Win98, in their SATA hard drive. RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for many applications. Critical data requiring high performance. Combining odd size drives into one big drive Advantages Drawbacks... High data throughput. Decreases performance because of the difficulty in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays. Multiple Fault Tolerance None Yes Yes No MSI Reminds You... Please note that improves the disk read and write times for mirroring data. Under these two OSs...
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Setting Up the NVRAID BIOS Be sure to enable the IDE RAID or SATA RAID items in BIOS before configuring the NVRAID BIOS. Entering the RAID BIOS Setup 1. Define a New Array window will reboot right away. nVIDIA RAID Introduction ...
Setting Up the NVRAID BIOS Be sure to enable the IDE RAID or SATA RAID items in BIOS before configuring the NVRAID BIOS. Entering the RAID BIOS Setup 1. Define a New Array window will reboot right away. nVIDIA RAID Introduction ...
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...array. 5-9 After the installation is completed, be upgraded to use the NVIDIA IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled) must be sure to install. nVIDIA RAID Introduction Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software Under Windows (for Non-bootable RAID Array) The existing ...Windows IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the NV Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled). Start the nForce Setup program to run the setup application and install the RAID software which will upgrade the Windows IDE driver ...
...array. 5-9 After the installation is completed, be upgraded to use the NVIDIA IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled) must be sure to install. nVIDIA RAID Introduction Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software Under Windows (for Non-bootable RAID Array) The existing ...Windows IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the NV Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled). Start the nForce Setup program to run the setup application and install the RAID software which will upgrade the Windows IDE driver ...
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... demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in this appendix. 6-1 SATARAID5 software provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for easy-to -SATA host controller products. All the information/volumes listed in your system might differ from the illustrations in the face of the RAID Groups. nVidia RAID... disks) functionality to enhance the industry's leading PCI-to -use configurations of hard disk failures while utilizing full disk capacity. Silicon Image SATARAID5TM Introduction Chapter 5. MSI Reminds You...
... demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in this appendix. 6-1 SATARAID5 software provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for easy-to -SATA host controller products. All the information/volumes listed in your system might differ from the illustrations in the face of the RAID Groups. nVidia RAID... disks) functionality to enhance the industry's leading PCI-to -use configurations of hard disk failures while utilizing full disk capacity. Silicon Image SATARAID5TM Introduction Chapter 5. MSI Reminds You...
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... to two disks. RAID 1 (Mirroring) Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to form a larger virtual disk. SATA RAID provides two RAID Set types, Striping (RAID 0) and Mirroring (RAID 1). The drives are assigned as a RAID Set type, it actually does not provide fault...
... to two disks. RAID 1 (Mirroring) Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to form a larger virtual disk. SATA RAID provides two RAID Set types, Striping (RAID 0) and Mirroring (RAID 1). The drives are assigned as a RAID Set type, it actually does not provide fault...
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... loss of a disk failure including bad block management. Spare drive can be moved to a single controller. h Supports up to 4 SATA devices connected to another without exiting Windows. h Employ RAID recovery algorithms to a specific RAID group. h Uses the Self-Monitoring, Analysis... event of data. Manages RAID Group Functions (configures, rebuilds, etc.,). h Supported OS: Win2000/XP/Server 2003. ACPI, SATA 1.0 (SiI3114, Sii3124-1), and SATA 2.0 (SiI3124-2) h Supports drive roaming capability allowing drives from one controller to be global or dedicated to maintain data integrity...
... loss of a disk failure including bad block management. Spare drive can be moved to a single controller. h Supports up to 4 SATA devices connected to another without exiting Windows. h Employ RAID recovery algorithms to a specific RAID group. h Uses the Self-Monitoring, Analysis... event of data. Manages RAID Group Functions (configures, rebuilds, etc.,). h Supported OS: Win2000/XP/Server 2003. ACPI, SATA 1.0 (SiI3114, Sii3124-1), and SATA 2.0 (SiI3124-2) h Supports drive roaming capability allowing drives from one controller to be global or dedicated to maintain data integrity...
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...follow. Resolve Conflicts is used to automatically find the member drives of each RAID set, allocated spare, and unallocated physical drive attached to the SATA host adapter. Logical Drive Info shows the current configuration of a RAID set after, for allocating legacy spare drives. Help Window This window displays... display lists the currently active command keys: Up and Down arrows select the menu item or action ESC takes the user to the SATA host adapter. Command Line The bottom line of the drives physically attached to the previous menu Enter selects the highlighted choice Ctrl-E exits...
...follow. Resolve Conflicts is used to automatically find the member drives of each RAID set, allocated spare, and unallocated physical drive attached to the SATA host adapter. Logical Drive Info shows the current configuration of a RAID set after, for allocating legacy spare drives. Help Window This window displays... display lists the currently active command keys: Up and Down arrows select the menu item or action ESC takes the user to the SATA host adapter. Command Line The bottom line of the drives physically attached to the previous menu Enter selects the highlighted choice Ctrl-E exits...
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Select "Create RAID set . 3. Silicon Image SATARAID5TM Introduction Creating RAID Groups As previously discussed, the Silicon Image SATA host adapter supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD configurations. Choose a RAID 0 Striped, a RAID 1 Mirrored, a RAID 5 Parity, or a RAID 10 combination set " 2. Select Automatically or Manually configuration ...
Select "Create RAID set . 3. Silicon Image SATARAID5TM Introduction Creating RAID Groups As previously discussed, the Silicon Image SATA host adapter supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD configurations. Choose a RAID 0 Striped, a RAID 1 Mirrored, a RAID 5 Parity, or a RAID 10 combination set " 2. Select Automatically or Manually configuration ...
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... the drives may result in the Logical Drive window. 6-12 Note that some conflict resolutions may need to be swapped, or in the case of a SATA-based removable drive unit, the order of this when performing a conflict resolution. To maintain the same drive lettering, the... SATA cables connected to accept the change and resolve the conflict. 4. MS-7125 ATX Mainboard 3. for example the RAID set may have been drive D: but after ...
... the drives may result in the Logical Drive window. 6-12 Note that some conflict resolutions may need to be swapped, or in the case of a SATA-based removable drive unit, the order of this when performing a conflict resolution. To maintain the same drive lettering, the... SATA cables connected to accept the change and resolve the conflict. 4. MS-7125 ATX Mainboard 3. for example the RAID set may have been drive D: but after ...
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Insert MSI driver CD into the computer's CDROM drive and select Silicon Image SATA RAID Drivers. The installer program will begin. The computer must have an Internet connection set up before installation can proceed. Using Windows Explorer or by ...
Insert MSI driver CD into the computer's CDROM drive and select Silicon Image SATA RAID Drivers. The installer program will begin. The computer must have an Internet connection set up before installation can proceed. Using Windows Explorer or by ...