Gigabyte Ga945gcms2l User Guide

							- 51 - BIOS Setup
2-12Set Supervisor/User Password
CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Award Software
`Standard CMOS Features
`Advanced BIOS Features
`Integrated Peripherals
`Power Management Setup
`PnP/PCI Configurations
`PC Health Status
`Frequency/Voltage Control
ESC: QuitKLJI: Select Item
F8: Q-FlashF10: Save & Exit Setup
Change/Set/Disable Password
Load Fail-Safe Defaults
Load Optimized Defaults
Set Supervisor Password
Set User Password
Save & Exit Setup
Exit Without Saving
Enter Password:
Press  on this item and type the password with up to 8 characters and then press . You
will be requested to confirm the password. Type the password again and press .
The BIOS Setup program allows you to specify two separate passwords:
Supervisor Password
When a system password is set and the Password Check item in Advanced BIOS Features is
set to Setup, you must enter the supervisor password for entering BIOS Setup and making BIOS
changes.
When the Password Check item is set to System, you must enter the supervisor password (or
user password) at system startup and when entering BIOS Setup.
User Password
When the Password Check item is set to System, you must enter the supervisor password (or
user password) at system startup to continue system boot. In BIOS Setup, you must enter the
supervisor password if you wish to make changes to BIOS settings. The user password only
allows you to view the BIOS settings but not to make changes.
To clear the password, press  on the password item and when requested for the password,
press  again. The message PASSWORD DISABLED will appear, indicating the password has
been cancelled. 
						

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2-13Save & Exit Setup
2-14Exit Without Saving
CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Award Software
`Standard CMOS Features
`Advanced BIOS Features
`Integrated Peripherals
`Power Management Setup
`PnP/PCI Configurations
`PC Health Status
`Frequency/Voltage Control
ESC: QuitKLJI: Select Item
F8: Q-FlashF10: Save & Exit Setup
Save Data to CMOS
Load Fail-Safe Defaults
Load Optimized Defaults
Set Supervisor Password
Set User Password
Save & Exit Setup
Exit Without Saving
Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? Y
CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Award Software
`Standard CMOS Features
`Advanced BIOS Features
`Integrated Peripherals
`Power Management Setup
`PnP/PCI Configurations
`PC Health Status
`Frequency/Voltage Control
ESC: QuitKLJI: Select Item
F8: Q-FlashF10: Save & Exit Setup
Abandon all Data
Load Fail-Safe Defaults
Load Optimized Defaults
Set Supervisor Password
Set User Password
Save & Exit Setup
Exit Without Saving
Quit Without Saving (Y/N)? N
Press  on this item and press the  key. This saves the changes to the CMOS and exits the
BIOS Setup program. Press  or  to return to the BIOS Setup Main Menu.
Press  on this item and press the  key. This exits the BIOS Setup without saving the
changes made in BIOS Setup to the CMOS. Press  or  to return to the BIOS Setup Main Menu. 
						

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Chapter 3Drivers Installation
3-1 Installing Chipset Drivers
After inserting the driver disk, Xpress Install will automatically scan the system and then list all the
drivers that are recommended to install. Please select the item that you wish to install and press the
Install button following the item. Or you can press Xpress Install to install all the driver items.
•Please ignore the popup dialog box(es) (e.g. the Found New Hardware Wizard) dis-
played when Xpress Install is installing the drivers. Failure to do so may affect the driver
installation.
•Some device drivers will restart your system automatically during the driver installation.
After the system restart, Xpress Install will continue to install other drivers.
•After the drivers are installed, follow the onscreen instructions to restart your system. You
can install other applications included in the motherboard driver disk.
•For USB 2.0 driver support under the Windows XP operating system, please install the
Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later. After installing the SP1 (or later), if a question mark still
exists in Universal Serial Bus Controller in Device Manager, please remove the
question mark (by right-clicking your mouse and select Uninstall) and restart the system.
(The system will then autodetect and install the USB 2.0 driver.) •Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use
Windows XP as the example operating system.)
•After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your optional drive.
The driver Autorun screen is automatically displayed which looks like that shown in the screen
shot below. (If the driver Autorun screen does not appear automatically, go to My Computer,
double-click the optical drive and execute the Run.exe program.) 
						

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3-2 Software Applications
This page displays all the tools and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software.  You
may press the Install button following an item to install it.
3-3 Driver CD Information
This page provides information about the drivers, applications and tools in this driver disk. 
						

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3-4 Hardware Information
This page provides information about the hardware devices on this motherboard.
3-5 Contact Us
Check the contacts information of the GIGABYTE headquarter in Taiwan and the overseas branch
offices on the last page of this manual. 
						

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4-1 Xpress Recovery2
Xpress Recovery2 is a utility that allows you to quickly compress and
back up your system data and perform restoration of it. Supporting
NTFS, FAT32, and FAT16 file systems, Xpress Recovery2 can back
up data on PATA and SATA hard drives and restore it.
* Xpress Recovery2 checks the first physical hard drive in the following sequence:  The first PATA
IDE connector, the second PATA IDE connector, the first SATA connector, the second SATA
connector and so forth. For example, when hard drives are attached to the first IDE and the first
SATA connectors, the hard drive on the first IDE connector is the first physical drive. When hard
drives are attached to the first and second SATA connectors, the hard drive on the first SATA
connector is the first physical drive.
Before You Begin:
•Xpress Recovery2 will check the first physical hard drive* for the operating system. Xpress
Recovery2 can only back up/restore the first physical hard drive that has the operating system
installed.
•As Xpress Recovery2 will save the backup file at the end of the hard drive, make sure to leave
enough unallocated space in advanced (10 GB or more is recommended; actual size require-
ments vary, depending on the amount of data).
•It is recommended to back up your system soon after the operating system and drivers are
installed.
•The amount of data and hard drive access speed may affect the speed at which the data is backed
up/restored.
•It takes longer to back up a hard drive than to restore it.
System Requirements:
•Intel® x86 platform
•At least 64 MB of system memory
•VESA compatible graphics card
•Windows
® XP with SP1 or later
•Xpress Recovery and Xpress Recovery2 are different utilities. For example, a backup file
created with Xpress Recovery cannot be restored using Xpress Recovery2.
•USB hard drives are not supported.
•Hard drives in RAID/AHCI mode are not supported.
Chapter 4 Unique Features 
						

							GA-945GCM-S2L/S2C Motherboard - 58 -Figure 1
Figure 3 3 . Select a file system (for example, NTFS) and begin the installation of the operating system (Figure 3).
Installation and Configuration
(The following procedure uses Windows XP as the example operating system.)
A. Installing Windows XP and Partitioning the Hard Drive
1. Set CD-ROM drive as the first boot device under Advanced BIOS Features in the BIOS Setup
program. Save the changes and exit.
2. When partitioning your hard drive (Figure 1), make sure to leave unallocated space for Xpress
Recovery2 (10 GB or more is recommended; actual size requirements vary, depending on the
amount of data) (Figure 2).
Figure 2 
						

							Unique Features - 59 - 4. After the operating system is installed, right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop and
select Manage (Figure 4). Go to Computer Management to check disk allocation. Xpress
Recovery2 will save the backup file to the unallocated space (black stripe along the top)(Figure 5).
Please note that if there is no enough unallocated space, Xpress Recovery2 cannot save the
backup file.
Figure 5
Figure 4
5. If your hard drive is not properly partitioned before you install the operating system, you may
create new partitions using free space on your hard drive (Figure 6, 7). However, if Disk
Management shows the hard drive only contains the System partition without any unallocated
space, you will not be able to create new partitions or use Xpress Recovery2. If this occurs,
reinstall the operating system and re-partition your hard drive.
Figure 7
In the New Partition Wizard, you MUST select Primary
partition. This will reserve unallocated space for Xpress
Recovery2 to use.
Figure 6 
						

							GA-945GCM-S2L/S2C Motherboard - 60 - 2. After you use the backup function in Xpress Recovery2 for the first time, Xpress Recovery2 will
stay permanent in your hard drive. If you wish to enter Xpress Recovery2 later, simply press
 during the POST (Figure 9).Figure 8
Figure 9
B. Accessing Xpress Recovery2
1. Boot from the motherboard driver disk to access Xpress Recovery2 for the first time.When you
see the following message: Press any key to startup Xpress Recovery2
(Figure 8), press any key to enter Xpress Recovery2.
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Boot from CD/DVD:
Press any key to startup XpressRecovery2.....
C. Using the Backup Function in Xpress Recovery2
1. Select BACKUP to start backing up your hard drive data (Figure 10).
2. Xpress Recovery2 will then begin to search the first physical hard drive as the target drive and
detect whether this hard drive contains the Windows operating system. When the Windows
operating system is detected, Xpress Recovery2 will begin the backup process (Figure 11).
Figure 10 Figure 11
Xpress Recovery2 will automatically create a
new partition to store the backup image file. 3. When finished, go to Disk Management to check disk allocation.
Figure 12
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