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5-13 Introduction to Creative sound BlasterEAX  CONSOLE
Click on the EAX console icon to enter its configuration screen.
Here you can to configure the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit processors effects
engine. These audio effects take your computer beyond home-theater quality,
immersing you in sound so vivid, your imagination can almost see it.
Creative EAX Console consists of five sections: Effects, Karaoke, CMSS
3D, Clean-up, and Time Scaling.
Audio Effects: Environmental Sound Processing
In Audio Effects,...

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Karaoke: Creating instant karaoke music
First, you have to check the Enable Karaoke item to enable its configuraion
maen. Then you can create instant karaoke background music from any CD, MP3,
WMA, or WAV file by suppressing the vocals. You can also adjust the pitch of the
music and microphone effect to suit your voice. 

5-15 Introduction to Creative sound BlasterCMSS 3D: Simulating Surround Sound
Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) 3D makes ordinary two-channel (Left
and Right Stereo) sound seem to surround you, even through only two speakers. For
users with 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 multichannel speaker systems, CMSS can also simulate
surround sound from ordinary stereo. This is useful for watching DVDs and VCDs,
which contain only stereo soundtracks, or listening to CDs with two-channel audio.
To enable the CMSS 3D...

5-16MS-7100 ATX MainboardTime Scaling: Varying the speed of playback
Karaoke fans and musicians may sometimes wish to slow a song down (or
speed it up) to catch the lyrics or play along with the music. However, varying the
speed usually also varies the pitch of the song. With the Time Scaling feature, Sound
Blaster Live! 24-bit users can maintain the pitch of a song while varying the playback
speed.For more information and usage details on EAX ADVANCED HD, refer to the
Creative EAX online Help. 

5-17 Introduction to Creative sound BlasterGRAPHIC EQUALIZER
Click on the player icon to enter its configuration screen.
Creative Graphic Equalizer (EQ) is designed to improve and fine-tune the audio
quality of your playback. You have to check the Enabled Equalizer item to enable
the configuraion mean. Just select any one of the factory presets, or adjust the boost
or cut amount (up to 12 dB) for 10 preselected frequency bands. You can also save
the settings as a custom preset once you are satisfied with...

6-1 nVIDIA RAID IntroductionChapter 6. nVidia RAID In-
troductionNVIDIA brings Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
technology—which is used by the world’s leading businesses—to
the common PC desktop. This technology uses multiple drives to
either increase total disk space or to offer data protection. For all
levels, RAID techniques optimize storage solutions by using multiple
disks grouped together and treating them as a single storage
resource. nVidia RAID Introduction 

6-2MS-7100 ATX MainboardIntroduction
System Requirement
Operating System Support
NVRAID supports the following operating systems:
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Professional Edition
Windows 2000 Professional
RAID Arrays
NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section:
RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write
times for many applications.
RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data.
RAID 0+1: RAID 0+1 combines the...

6-3 nVIDIA RAID IntroductionBasic Configuration Instructions
The following are the basic steps for configuring NVRAID:
Non-Bootable RAID Array
1. Choose the hard disks that are to be RAID enabled in the system BIOS. (Check p.
    3-13 for details.)
2. Specify the RAID level, either Mirroring (RAID 1), Striping (RAID 0), Striping and
    Mirroring (RAID 0+1), or Spanning (JBOD) and create the desired RAID array.
3. Enter the Windows OS, run the Windows nForce Setup application and install the
    RAID...

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Understanding the “Define a New Array” Window
Use the Define a New Array window to
• Select the RAID Mode
• Set up the Striping Block
• Specify which disks to use for the RAID Array
Depending on the platform used, the system can have one or more channels. In a
typical system there is usually one controller and multiple channels, and each chan-
nel has a slave and a master.
The channel/controller/master/slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc
(location) columns of the...

6-5 nVIDIA RAID IntroductionUsing the Define a New Array Window
If necessary, press the tab key to move from field to field until the appropriate field is
highlighted.
• Selecting the RAID Mode
By default, this is set to [Mirroring]. To change to a different RAID mode, press the
down arrow key until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode box—either
[Mirroring], [Striping], [Spanning], or [Stripe Mirroring].
• Selecting the Striping Block Size
Striping Block size is given in kilobytes, and...