MSI MS 7030 User Guide - Page 10

Getting Started LAN h nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb LAN controller - Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip. - Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s auto-negotiation operation. - Compliant with PCI v2.2. - Supports ACPI Power Management. Audio h Realtek ALC850 7.1-channel audio codec IEEE 1394 h VIA PCI IEEE 1394 controller (3 ports supported) NV RAID (Software) h Supports 2 serial ATA plus 1 ATA 133 - RAID 1, or 1, o+1, JBOD is supported - Booting from RAID - Cross controller RAID support - Rebuilding on the Fly - Spare Disk Allocation h Supports Windows 2000 and later versions BIOS h The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically. h The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications. Mounting and Dimension h ATX Form Factor: 24.4 cm (L) x 30.5 cm (W) h 9 mounting holes MSI Reminds You... 1. Please note that users cannot install OS, either WinME or Win98, in their SATA hard drive. Under these two OSs, SATA can only be used as a normal storage device. 2. To create a bootable RAID volume for a Windows 2000 environment, Microsoft's Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) is required. As the end user cannot boot without SP4, a combination installation CD must be created before attempting to install the operating system onto the bootable RAID volume. To create the combination installation CD, please refer to the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/ servicepacks/sp4/HFdeploy.htm 1-3