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In  each  settng  menu,  you  can  select  desred  values  for  manual  overclockng.  Smply 
clck the rght sde of the button whch arranges an arrow sgn, and a drop-down menu 
wll appear below the button, then select a value.
Clck  the  arrow  sgn and  the  drop-down 
menu wll appear.
In  the  “System  Warnng”  block,  you  can  set  the  maxmum  CPU/  system    temperature 
and the mnmum CPU/ system fan speed by usng the scroll bar. The system wll pop-
up a warnng message to warnng you when the temperature/ fan speed  s over/ lower 
the values you set.
Set the thresholds of CPU  temperture  & CPU FAN speed. 
						

							
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After you adjust the values n settng menu, you can save t for future use.
Clck  the  Save  button,  and  enter  a  name n 
the empty box. Then, clck Save button agan 
to save the settngs.
Important
It provdes you to save up to 20 user settngs. 
Clck the Load button and choose a saved user settng to load the settngs for the sys-tem.
Clck  the  Load  button,  and 
choose a saved user settng.
Important
Every  tme  you  turn-off  the  system,  the  settngs  wll  be  restored  to  the  factory  default.  If  you  want  to  use  the  saved  settngs,  you  have  to  load  t  after  enterng  the  operatng 
system every tme.  
						

							
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Ths  appendx  wll  assst  users 
n  configurng  and  en
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ablng RAID functonalty on platforms
Appendx C
Intel ICH10R SATA 
RAID 
						

							
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introduction
The ICH10R provdes a hybrd soluton that combnes 6 ndependent SATAII ports for 
support of up to 6 Seral ATAII (Seral ATAII RAID) drves.
Seral  ATAII  (SATAII)  s  the  latest  generaton  of  the  ATA  nterface.  SATA  hard  drves 
delver blsterng transfer speeds up to 3 Gb/s. Seral ATA uses long, thn cables, mak
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ng  t easer to connect your drve and  mprovng the arflow nsde your PC. The most 
outstandng features are:
Supports 3 Gb/s transfers wth CRC error checkng.
Supports Hot-plug-n-play feature.
Data handlng optmzatons  ncludng tagged command queung, elevator seek and 
packet chan command.
Intel® ICH10R  offers  RAID  level  0  (Strpng),  RAID  level  1  (Mrrorng  and  Duplexng), 
RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Dstrbuted Party), RAID level 10 (A Strpe of Mrrors) , 
Intel® Martx Storage Technology and Intel® Rapd Recover Technology.
RAID 0 breaks the data  nto blocks whch are wrtten to separate hard drves. Spread
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ng  the  hard  drve  I/O  load  across  ndependent  channels  greatly mproves  I/O  perfor-mance.
RAID 1 provdes data redundancy by mrrorng data between the hard drves and pro
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vdes enhanced read performance. 
RAID 5 Provdes data strpng at the byte level and also strpe error correcton  nforma
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ton. Ths results  n excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5  s one of the 
most popular mplementatons of RAID. 
RAID 10 Not one of the orgnal RAID levels, multple RAID 1 mrrors are created, and a 
RAID 0 strpe s created over these. 
Intel® Matrx RAID Technology  s the advanced ablty for two RAID volumes to share the 
combned space of two hard drves beng used n unson.
Intel® Rapd Recover Technology utlzes RAID 1 functonalty to copy data from a des-
gnated Master drve to a desgnated Recovery drve. The sze of the Master drve must 
be  less  than  or  equal  to  the  sze  of  the  Recovery  drve.  When  a  Recovery  volume  s 
created, complete capacty of the Master drve wll be used as the Master volume. Only 
one  Recovery  Volume  can  exst  on  a  system.  There  are  2  methods  of  updatng  the 
data on the Master to the Recovery drve. They are Contnuous Update Polcy and On 
Request Update Polcy.
Important
The least number of hard drves for RAID 0, RAID 1, Recovery or Matrx mode  s 2. The 
least number of hard drves for RAID 10 mode  s 4. And the least number of hard drves 
for RAID 5 mode s 3.
All the  nformaton/ volumes/ pctures lsted  n your system mght dffer from the llustra
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tons n ths appendx. 
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bioS configuration
The  Intel  Matrx  Storage  Manager  Opton  ROM  should  be ntegrated  wth  the  system 
BIOS on all motherboards wth a supported Intel chpset. The Intel Matrx Stroage Man-
ager  Opton  ROM  s  the  Intel  RAID mplementaton  and  provdes  BIOS  and  DOS  dsk 
servces. Please use  +  keys to enter the “Intel
® RAID for Seral ATA” status 
screen, whch should  appear early  n system boot-up, durng the POST (Power-On Self 
Test). Also, you need to enable the RAID functon  n BIOS to create, delete and reset 
RAID volumes.
Usng the Intel Matrx Stroage Manager Opton ROMCreatng, Deletng and Resettng RAID Volumes:
The  Seral  ATA  RAID  volume  may  be  configured  usng  the  RAID  Configuraton  utlty 
stored wthn the Intel RAID Opton ROM. Durng the Power-On Self Test (POST), the 
followng message wll appear for a few seconds:
The  “Drvce  Model”,  “Seral  #”  and  “Sze” n  the  followng  example  mght  be  dfferent from your system.
   Important
After the above message shows, press  and  keys smultaneously to enter the 
RAID Configuraton Utlty.
Important
The followng procedure s only avalable wth a newly-bult system or  f you are renstall-
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After  pressng  the    and    keys  smultaneously,  the  followng  wndow  wll  ap-pear:
Create RAID Volume Select opton 1 Create RAID Volume” and press  key. The followng screen 
appears. Then  n the Name field, specfy a RAID Volume name and then press the 
 or  key to go to the next field.
Use  the  arrow  keys  to  select  the  RAID  level  best  suted  to  your  usage  model  n 
RAID Level. 
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In the Dsk field, press  key and the followng screen appears. Use  
key to select the dsks you want to create for the RAID volume, then clck  
key to finsh selecton.3.
Then  select  the  strp  value  for  the  RAID  array  by  usng  the  “upper  arrow”  or 
“down  arrow”  keys  to  scroll  through  the  avalable  values,  and  pressng  the 
  key  to  select  and  advance  to  the  next  field.  The  avalable  values 
range  from  4KB  to  128  KB n  power  of  2 ncrements.  The  strp  value  should 
be  chosen  based  on  the  planned  drve  usage.  Here  are  some  typcal  values: 
 RAID0 -128KB / RAID10 - 64KB / RAID5 - 64KB.
Then select the capacty of the volume  n the Capacty field. The default value s the 
maxmum volume capacty of the selected dsks.
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Important
Snce you want to create two volumes (Intel Matrx RAID Technology), ths default sze (maxmum)  needs  to  be  reduced.  Type  n  a  new  sze  for  the  first  volume.  As  an  ex-
ample:  f you want the first volume to span the first half of the two dsks, re-type the sze 
to be half of what  s shown by default. The second volume, when created, wll automat
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cally span the remander of two hard drves.
Then the followng  screen  appears  for you to confirm  f you are sure to create the 
RAID volume. Press  to contnue.6.
Then the followng screen appears to ndcate that the creaton s finshed.7. 
						

							
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Delete RAID Volume 
Here  you  can  delete  the  RAID  volume,  but  please  be  noted  that  all  data  on  RAID 
drves wll be lost. 
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Important 
If your system currently boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume n the Intel RAID 
Opton ROM, your system wll become unbootable.
Select opton 2 Delete RAID Volume  from the man menu wndow and press  
key  to  select  a  RAID  volume  for  deleton.  Then  press    key  to  delete  the 
selected RAID volume. The followng screen appears.
Press  key to accept the volume deleton. 
						

							
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Reset Dsks to Non-RAID 
Select  opton  3  Reset  Dsks  to  Non-RAID  and  press    to  delete  the  RAID 
volume and remove any RAID structures from the drves. The followng screen  
appears:
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Press  key to accept the selecton.
Important
You wll lose all data on the RAID drves and any nternal RAID structures when you 
perform ths operaton.
Possble reasons to “Reset Dsks to Non-RAID” could  nclude ssues such as  ncom
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patble RAID configuratons or a faled volume or faled dsk.
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