User manual BIOSTAR GF8100 M2 PLUS SETUP MANUAL

[. . . ] GF8100 M2+ SE Setup Manual FCC Information and Copyright This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. There is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. The vendor makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents here and specially disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any purpose. [. . . ] RAID 1 provides a hot-standby copy of data if the active volume or drive is corrupted or becomes unavailable because of a hardware failure. RAID techniques can be applied for high-availability solutions, or as a form of automatic backup that eliminates tedious manual backups to more expensive and less reliable media. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 2, and maximum is 2. Uses: RAID 1 is ideal for small databases or any other application that requires fault tolerance and minimal capacity. Fault Tolerance: Yes. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 20 GF8100 M2+ SE RAID 0+1: RAID 0 drives can be mirrored using RAID 1 techniques. Resulting in a RAID 0+1 solution for improved performance plus resiliency. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 4, and maximum is 6 or 8, depending on the platform. Benefits: Optimizes for both fault tolerance and performance, allowing for automatic redundancy. May be simultaneously used with other RAID levels in an array, and allows for spare disks. Drawbacks: Requires twice the available disk space for data redundancy, the same as RAID level 1. Fault Tolerance: Yes. - GeForce 8100 Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 21 Motherboard Manual RAID 5: RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. Fault tolerance is maintained by ensuring that the parity information for any given block of data is placed on a different drive from those used to store the data itself. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 3. Uses: RAID 5 is recommended for transaction processing and general purpose service. Benefits: An ideal combination of good performance, good fault tolerance, and high capacity and storage efficiency. Fault Tolerance: Yes. Disk 1 DATA 1 DATA 3 PARITY DATA 7 DATA 9 PARITY Disk 2 GeForce 8100 DATA 2 PARITY DATA 5 DATA 8 PARITY DATA 11 Disk 3 PARITY DATA 4 DATA 6 PARITY DATA 10 DATA 12 For more detailed setup information, please refer to the Driver CD, or go to http://www. nvidia. com/object/IO_28159. html to download the NVIDIA RAID User's Guide. 22 GF8100 M2+ SE CHAPTER 5: USEFUL HELP 5. 1 DRIVER INSTALLATION NOTE After you installed your operating system, please insert the Fully Setup Driver CD into your optical drive and install the driver for better system performance. You will see the following window after you insert the CD The setup guide will auto detect your motherboard and operating system. Note: If this window didn't show up after you insert the Driver CD, please use file browser to locate and execute the file SETUP. EXE under your optical drive. A. Driver Installation To install the driver, please click on the Driver icon. The setup guide will list the compatible driver for your motherboard and operating system. Software Installation To install the software, please click on the Software icon. The setup guide will list the software available for your system, click on each software title to launch the installation program. C. Manual Aside from the paperback manual, we also provide manual in the Driver CD. Please download the latest version of Acrobat Reader software from http://www. adobe. com/products/acrobat/readstep2. html 23 Motherboard Manual 5. 2 SOFTWARE Installing Software 1. The drivers installation program would appear if the Autorun function has been enabled. [. . . ] Back up data and applications Hard disk can be read and applications files. Make sure Configuration" or "CMOS Failure. " correct information is in setup. Call the drive manufacturers for compatibility with other drives. 31 Motherboard Manual APPENDENCIES: SPEC IN OTHER LANGUAGE GERMAN Spezifikationen Sockel AM2+ CPU Die AMD 64-Architektur unterstützt eine 32-Bit- und AMD Athlon 64 / Athlon 64 FX / Althlon 64 64-Bit-Datenverarbeitung X2 / Sempron / Phenom Prozessoren Unterstützt Hyper Transport 3. 0 und PowerNow FSB Chipsatz Unterstützt HyperTransport 3. 0 mit einer Bandbreite von bis zu 5. 2 GT/s GeForce 8100 ITE8718F Low Pin Count-Schnittstelle Umgebungskontrolle, Hardware-Überwachung "Smart Guardian"-Funktion von ITE DDR2 DIMM-Steckplätze x 2 Dual-Kanal DDR2 Speichermodul Unterstützt DDR2 533 / 667 / 800 Unterstützt DDR2 1066 (by AM2+ CPU) registrierte DIMMs. ECC DIMMs werden nicht unterstützt. Super E/A Bietet die häufig verwendeten alten Super E/A-Funktionen. Arbeitsspeich Max. [. . . ]