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2.12 Installing Drivers

The Support CD that comes with the motherboard contains necessary driv-

ers and useful utilities that enhance the motherboard’s features.

2.12.1 Running The Support CD

To begin using the support CD, insert the CD into your CD-ROM

drive. The CD automatically displays the Main Menu if “AUTORUN”

is enabled in your computer. If the Main Menu does not appear auto-

matically, locate and double click on the le “ASRSETUP.EXE” in the

Support CD to display the menu.

2.12.2 Drivers Menu

The drivers compatible to your system will be auto-detected and list-

ed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from top

to bottom to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you

install can work properly.

2.12.3 Utilities Menu

The Utilities Menu shows the application softwares that the mother-

board supports. Click on a specic item then follow the installation

wizard to install it.

2.12.4 Contact Information

If you need to contact ASRock or want to know more about ASRock,

you’re welcome to visit ASRock’s website at http://www.asrock.com;

or you may contact your dealer for further information.

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2.15.3 Driver Installation and Setup

Install the graphics card drivers to your system. After that, you can enable

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the Multi-Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in the NVIDIA

nView system

tray utility. Please follow the below procedures to enable the multi-GPU.

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For SLI

and Quad SLI

mode

A. Click the Start icon on your Windows taskbar.

B. From the pop-up menu, select All Programs, and then click

NVIDIA Corporation.

C. Select NVIDIA Control Panel tab.

D. Select Control Panel tab.

E. From the pop-up menu, select Set SLI and PhysX

conguration. In Set PhysX GPU acceleration item, please

select Enabled.

F. In Select an SLI conguration item, please select Enable

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SLI. And click Apply.

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G. Reboot your system.

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H. You can freely enjoy the benets of SLI

or Quad SLI

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For 3-Way SLI

mode

A. Follow steps A to E on the previous page.

B. In Select an SLI conguration item, please select Enable

3-way SLI and click Apply.

C. Reboot your system.

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D. You can freely enjoy the benets of 3-Way SLI

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* SLI

appearing here is a registered trademark of NVIDIA

Technologies Inc., and

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is used only for identication or explanation and to the owners’ benet, without

intent to infringe.

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2.16 CrossFireX

, 3-Way CrossFireX

, 4-Way CrossFireX

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and Quad CrossFireX

Operation Guide

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This motherboard supports CrossFireX

, 3-way CrossFireX

, 4-way

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CrossFireX

and Quad CrossFireX

that allows you to install up to four

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identical PCI Express x16 graphics cards. Currently CrossFireX

, 3-way

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CrossFireX

, 4-way CrossFireX

and Quad CrossFireX

are supported

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with Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / 8 / 8 64-bit OS.

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1. You should only use identical CrossFireX

-ready graphics cards that

are AMD certied.

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2. Make sure that your graphics card driver supports AMD CrossFireX

technology. Download the drivers from the AMD’s website:

www.amd.com

3. Make sure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the

minimum power your system requires. It is recommended to use a

AMD certied PSU. Please refer to the AMD’s website for details.

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4. If you pair a 12-pipe CrossFireX

Edition card with a 16-pipe card,

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both cards will operate as 12-pipe cards while in CrossFireX

mode.

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5. Different CrossFireX

cards may require different methods to enable

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CrossFireX

. Please refer to AMD graphics card manuals for detailed

installation guide.

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2.16.1 Installing Two CrossFireX

-Ready Graphics Cards

Step 1. Insert one graphics card into PCIE1 slot and the other graphics

card to PCIE5 slot. Make sure that the cards are properly seated

on the slots.

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Step 2. Connect two graphics cards by installing a CrossFire Bridge on

the CrossFire Bridge Interconnects on the top of the graphics

cards. (The CrossFire Bridge is provided with the graphics card

you purchase, not bundled with this motherboard. Please refer to

your graphics card vendor for details.)

CrossFire Bridge

Step 3. Connect a VGA cable or a DVI cable to the monitor connector or

the DVI connector of the graphics card that is inserted to PCIE1

slot.

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2.16.2 Installing Three CrossFireX

-Ready Graphics Cards

Step 1. Insert one graphics card into PCIE1 slot, another graphics card to

PCIE3 slot, and the other graphics card to PCIE5 slot. Make sure

that the cards are properly seated on the slots.

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Step 2. Use one CrossFire

Bridge to connect the graphics cards on

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PCIE1 and PCIE3 slots, and use the other CrossFire

Bridge

to connect the graphics cards on PCIE3 and PCIE5 slots. (The

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CrossFire

Bridge is provided with the graphics card you pur-

chase, not bundled with this motherboard. Please refer to your

graphics card vendor for details.)

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CrossFire

Bridge

Step 3.

Connect a VGA cable or a DVI cable to the monitor connector or

the DVI connector of the graphics card that is inserted to PCIE1

slot.

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2.16.3 Installing Four CrossFireX

-Ready Graphics Cards

Step 1. Insert one graphics card into PCIE1 slot, another graphics card

into PCIE3 slot, the third graphics card into PCIE5 slot and the

last graphics card into PCIE7 slot. Make sure that the cards are

properly seated on the slots.

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Step 2. Use one CrossFire

Bridge to connect the graphics cards on

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PCIE1 and PCIE3 slots, another CrossFire

Bridge to connect

the graphics cards on PCIE3 and PCIE5 slots, and use the third

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CrossFire

Bridge to connect the graphics cards on PCIE5 and

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PCIE7 slots. (The CrossFire

Bridge is provided with the graph-

ics card you purchase, not bundled with this motherboard. Please

refer to your graphics card vendor for details.)

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CrossFire

Bridge

Step 3. Connect a VGA cable or a DVI cable to the monitor connector or

the DVI connector of the graphics card that is inserted to PCIE1

slot.

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2.16.4 Driver Installation and Setup

Step 1. Power on your computer and boot into OS.

Step 2. Remove the AMD drivers if you have any VGA drivers installed in

your system.

The Catalyst Uninstaller is an optional download. We recommend using

this utility to uninstall any previously installed Catalyst drivers prior to in-

stallation. Please check AMD’s website for AMD driver updates.

Step 3. Install the required drivers and CATALYST Control Center then

restart your computer. Please check AMD’s website for details.

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Step 4. You will find “AMD Catalyst Control Center” on your Windows

taskbar.

AMD Catalyst Control Center

Step 5. Double-click “AMD Catalyst Control Center”. Click “View”, select

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“CrossFireX

”, and then check the item “Enable CrossFireX

”. If

you installed two graphics cards, select “2 GPUs” and click “Apply”.

If you installed three graphics cards, select “3 GPUs” and click

“Apply”. If you installed four graphics cards, select “4 GPUs” and

click “Apply”.

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2.17 Surround Display

This motherboard supports surround display upgrade. With the internal

VGA output support (HDMI) and external add-on PCI Express VGA cards,

you can easily enjoy surround display.

Please refer to the following steps to set up a surround display environ-

ment:

1. Install the VGA cards on the PCIE slots. Please refer to Installing

Memory Modules for details of proper expansion card installation

procedures.

2. Connect monitor cables to the corresponding connectors of the rear I/O

and the add-on PCI Express VGA cards.

3. Install the onboard VGA driver and the add-on PCI Express VGA card

drivers to your system. If you have installed the drivers already, there is

no need to install them again.

4. Set up a multi-monitor display.

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For Windows

8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

/ Vista

64-bit OS:

Right click the desktop, choose “Personalize”, and select the

“Display Settings” tab so that you can adjust the parameters of

the multi-monitor according to the steps below.

A. Click the number ”2” icon.

B. Click the items “This is my main monitor” and “Extend the

desktop onto this monitor”.

C. Click “OK” to save your change.

D. Repeat steps A through C for the display icon identied by the

numbers.

6. Use Surround Display. Click and drag the display icons to positions

representing the physical setup of your monitors that you would like to

use. The placement of display icons determines how you move items

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from one monitor to another.

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2.18 Dual LAN and Teaming Operation Guide

Dual LAN with Teaming enabled on this motherboard allows two single

connections to act as one single connection for twice the transmission

bandwidth, making data transmission more effective and improving the

quality of transmission of distant images. Fault tolerance on the dual LAN

network prevents network downtime by transferring the workload from a

failed port to a working port.

The speed of transmission is subject to the actual network environment or

status even with Teaming enabled.

Before setting up Teaming, please make sure whether your Switch (or

Router) supports Teaming (IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation). You can

specify a preferred adapter in Intel PROSet. Under normal conditions, the

Primary adapter handles all non-TCP/IP trafc. The Secondary adapter will

receive fallback trafc if the primary fails. If the Preferred Primary adapter

fails, but is later restored to an active status, control is automatically

switched back to the Preferred Primary adapter.

1. From Device Manager, open the properties of a team.

2. Click the Settings tab.

3. Click the Modify Team button.

4. Select the adapter you want to be the primary adapter and click the Set

Primary button.

If you do not specify a preferred primary adapter, the software will choose

an adapter of the highest capability (model and speed) to act as the default

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primary. If a failover occurs, another adapter becomes the primary. The

adapter will, however, rejoin the team as a non-primary.

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3. BIOS Information

The Flash Memory on the motherboard stores the BIOS Setup Utility.

When you start up the computer, please press <F2> or <Del> during the

Power-On-Self-Test (POST) to enter the BIOS Setup utility; otherwise,

POST continues with its test routines. If you wish to enter BIOS Setup after

POST, please restart the system by pressing <Ctl> + <Alt> + <Delete>, or

pressing the reset button on the system chassis. The BIOS Setup program

is designed to be user-friendly. It is a menu-driven program, which allows

you to scroll through its various sub-menus and to select among the prede-

termined choices. For detailed information about BIOS Setup, please refer

to the User Manual (PDF le) contained in the Support CD.

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