ASROCK FM2A55M-VG3 Installation Guide

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5. Press the arrow keys to move to Disk Assignments. Press the spacebar to toggle between N and Y for each
available drive. Y means this physical drive will be assigned to the logical drive.
Assign the appropriate number of physical drives to your logical drive.
For optimal performance, assign physical drives of the same model and
capacity.
Your PC’s boot drive is not listed under Drive Assignments.
6. Press Ctrl-Y to save your logical drive configuration. The name prompt appears.
Do one of the following actions:
Press Ctrl-Y to display a name field.
Type a name in the field and press Enter.
Press any other key to use the default name, such as Logical Drive 1.
If you set Fast Initialization, the following message displays:
7. Do one of the following actions:
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Press Ctrl-Y to perform the fast initialization.
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Press any other key to cancel logical drive creation.
You have the option of using all of the physical drive capacity for one logical drive or allocating a portion to a
second logical drive.
This option is not available for JBOD or RAID Ready logical drives.
8. Choose one of the following actions:
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Allocate the full capacity of the physical drives to a single logical drive. Go to “One Logical Drive” below.
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Split the capacity of the physical drives between two logical drives.
One Logical Drive
Continued from Create Logical Drive step 8, above.

ASROCK FM2A55M-VG3 Specifications

General

Non-ECC	Yes
Memory channels	Dual-channel
Memory slots type	DIMM
Number of memory slots	2
Supported memory types	DDR3-SDRAM
Supported memory clock speeds	1066, 1333, 1600, 1866 MHz
Processor socket	Socket FM2
Processor manufacturer	AMD
Compatible processor series	AMD A
Processor thermal power (max)	100 W
Number of SATA II connectors	4
USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) connectors	-
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Certification	- FCC, CE, WHQL - ErP/EuP
Component for	PC
Power source type	ATX
Motherboard chipset	AMD A55 FCH
Audio output channels	5.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	micro ATX
Windows operating systems supported	Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Basic x64, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Professional x64, Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Starter x64, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Windows 8, Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows 8 Enterprise x64, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Pro x64, Windows 8 x64, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Business x64, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Enterprise x64, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Basic x64, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Home Premium x64, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Ultimate x64
RAID levels	0, 1, 10
Supported storage drive interfaces	SATA II
Graphics card	Radeon HD 7000
DirectX version	11
Maximum resolution	1920 x 1600 pixels
Maximum graphics card memory	2048 MB
BIOS type	UEFI AMI
ACPI version	1.1

Weight and Dimensions

Width	- mm