Asus M2N SLI - Deluxe AiLifestyle Series Motherboard User Manual

5-22 Chapter 5: Software support
5.4.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID congurations
The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller integrated in
the NVIDIA
®
SLI southbridge chipset. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and
JBOD with four independent Serial ATA channels.
Setting the BIOS RAID items
After installing the hard disk drives, make sure to set the necessary RAID items in
the BIOS before setting your RAID conguration.
To set the BIOS RAID items:
1. Boot the system and press <Del> during the Power-On Self-Test (POST) to
enter the BIOS Setup Utility.
2. From the Advanced > Onboard Devices Conguration > NVRAID
Conguration menu item in the BIOS set the RAID Enabled item to Enabled.
The succeeding items become user-congurable.
3. Select and enable the IDE or SATA drive(s) that you want to congure as
RAID. See section “5.4.3 Onboard Devices Conguration” for details.
4. Save your changes and Exit Setup.
For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA® RAID conguration, refer to the
“NVIDIA
®
RAID User’s Manual” found in your motherboard support CD.

Asus M2N SLI - Deluxe AiLifestyle Series Motherboard Specifications

General

Form Factor	ATX
Chipset	NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI
CPU Socket Type	AM2
Memory Slots	4
Memory Standard	DDR2 800/667/533
Maximum Memory Supported	8GB
Channel Supported	Dual Channel
PCI Express x16	2
PCI Express x1	2
PCI Slots	2
Audio Chipset	ADI AD1988B
LAN Chipset	Marvell 88E1116
LAN Speed	10/100/1000Mbps
Audio Ports	6
CPU Type	AMD Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 / Sempron
SATA RAID	0, 1, 0+1
Audio Channels	8
PS/2	1
USB 2.0 Ports	8
S/PDIF Out	Coaxial/Optical
Dimensions	30.5 cm x 24.4 cm
Power Pin	24-pin
LAN	Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 1394a	2 x IEEE 1394a
ATA133	1 x ATA133