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Chapter 4: Software Support
4.1 Installing an operating system .................................................................4-1
4.1.1 Windows
®
7 and USB 3.0 driver for 100 Series .......................... 4-1
4.2 Support DVD information .......................................................................... 4-8
4.2.1 Running the support DVD ........................................................... 4-8
4.2.2 Obtaining the software manuals.................................................. 4-9
4.3 Software information ...............................................................................4-10
4.4 AI Suite 3 ...................................................................................................4-10
4.5 Dual Intelligent Processors 5 ..................................................................4-13
4.6 ROG Audio features .................................................................................4-29
4.7 Sonic Radar II ...........................................................................................4-36
4.8 GameFirst III .............................................................................................4-38
4.9 KeyBot II....................................................................................................4-41
4.10 ASUS Media Streamer .............................................................................4-43
4.11 RAMDisk ...................................................................................................4-45
4.12 MemTweakIt .............................................................................................. 4-48
4.13 ROG CPU-Z ............................................................................................... 4-50
4.14 RAMCache ................................................................................................4-51
Chapter 5: RAID Support
5.1 RAID configurations ..................................................................................5-1
5.1.1 RAID denitions .......................................................................... 5-1
5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks .................................................. 5-2
5.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS .................................................... 5-2
5.1.4 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility .................. 5-3
5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk ......................................................................5-7
5.2.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS .................. 5-7
5.2.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows
®
.................................... 5-8
5.2.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows
®
OS installation ........ 5-8
Appendix
Notices .................................................................................................................... A-1
ASUS contact information ...................................................................................... A-5