ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 R3.0 Quick Installation Guide - Page 8

9. This motherboard is bundled with one PCIE Switch card installed on PCIE2/ PCIE SWITCH slot, which allows you better flexibility to choose PCIE functions between one PCIE x16 slot and two PCIE slots for ATITM CrossFireTM without setting up jumpers. To avail of the PCI Express x16 graphics card installed on PCIE3 slot work at PCIE x16 bandwidth, please make sure that PCIE Switch card is installed on PCIE2/PCIE SWITCH slot. Please refer to page 15 for details of installing a single graphics card. 10. For microphone input, this motherboard supports both stereo and mono modes. For audio output, this motherboard supports 2-channel, 4-channel and 6-channel modes. Please check the table on page 3 for proper connection. 11. Before installing SATAII hard disk to SATAII connector, please read the "SATAII Hard Disk Setup Guide" on page 30 to adjust your SATAII hard disk drive to SATAII mode. You can also connect SATA hard disk to SATAII connector directly. 12. This motherboard supports eSATAII interface, the external SATAII specification. Please read "eSATAII Interface Introduction" on page 27 for details about eSATAII and eSATAII installation procedures. 13. Power Management for USB 2.0 works fine under Microsoft® Windows® VistaTM 64-bit / VistaTM / XP 64-bit / XP SP1 or SP2 / 2000 SP4. 1 . 3 Minimum Hardware Requirement Table for Windows® VistaTM Premium 2007 and Basic Logo For system integrators and users who purchase this motherboard and plan to submit Windows® VistaTM Premium 2007 and Basic logo, please follow below table for minimum hardware requirements. CPU Memory VGA Sempron 2800+ 1GB system memory (Premium) 512MB Single Channel (Basic) DX9.0 with WDDM Driver with 128bit VGA memory (Premium) with 64bit VGA memory (Basic) * After June 1, 2007, all Windows® VistaTM systems are required to meet above minimum hardware requirements in order to qualify for Windows® VistaTM Premium 2007 logo. English 8 ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 Motherboard