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Contents
5.3.1 ASUS MyLogo2™ ........................................................... 5-8
5.3.2 AI NET2 ........................................................................ 5-10
Using the Virtual Cable Tester™ .................................................. 5-10
5.3.3 ASUS PC Probe II ..........................................................5-11
5.3.4 ASUS AI Suite ............................................................... 5-17
5.3.5 ASUS AI Gear ............................................................... 5-19
5.3.6 ASUS AI Nap ................................................................ 5-20
5.3.7 ASUS AI N.O.S. ............................................................ 5-21
5.3.8 ASUS Q-Fan ................................................................. 5-22
5.3.9 ASUS AI Booster ........................................................... 5-23
5.3.10 AI Remote (Limited Edition only) .................................. 5-24
5.3.11 TPM .............................................................................. 5-32
5.3.12 SoundMAX
®
High Denition Audio utility ....................... 5-36
5.4 Windows Vista features ............................................................. 5-41
5.4.1 ASAP (ASUS Accelerated Propeller) ....................5-41
5.4.2 BitLocker Drive Encryption ............................................ 5-42
5.5 RAID congurations .................................................................. 5-43
5.5.1 Installing Serial ATA hard disks ..................................... 5-44
5.5.2 Intel
®
RAID congurations ............................................. 5-44
5.5.3 JMicron
®
RAID Conguration ........................................ 5-52
5.6 Creating a RAID driver disk ....................................................... 5-60
5.6.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS .... 5-60
5.6.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows® .................... 5-60
Chapter 6: ATI
®
CrossFire™ technology support
6.1 Overview ....................................................................................... 6-1
6.1.1 Requirements .................................................................. 6-1
6.1.2 Before you begin ............................................................. 6-1
6.2 Installing CrossFire™ graphics cards ....................................... 6-2
6.3 Software information ................................................................... 6-5
6.3.1 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 6-5
6.3.2 Using the Catalyst™ Control Center ............................... 6-7
Appendix: CPU features
A.1 Intel
®
EM64T ..................................................................................A-1
A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep
®
Technology (EIST) ........................A-1
A.3 Intel
®
Hyper-Threading Technology ...........................................A-3