Asus A8N5X A8N5X User's Manual for English Edition - Page 107

3.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller integrated in the NVIDIA® nForce 4 southbridge chipset. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, 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 configuration. To set the BIOS RAID items: 1. Boot the system and press during the Power-On Self-Test (POST) to enter the BIOS Setup Utility. 2. From the A d v a n c e d > O n b o a r d D e v i c e s C o n f i g u r a t i o n > N V R A I D C o n f i g u r a t i o n menu item in the BIOS set the R A I D E n a b l e d item to Enabled. The succeeding items become user-configurable. 3. Select and enable the IDE or SATA drive(s) that you want to configure as RAID. See section "2.4.3 Onboard Devices Configuration" for details. 4. Save your changes and Exit Setup. For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA® RAID configuration, refer to the "NVIDIA® RAID User's Manual" found in your motherboard support CD. ASUS A8N5X 3-21