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6.2 Sound configuration 

6.2.1 Speaker Setup 

The speaker setup can be configured under the Listening Environment tab as shown 
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Содержание MJ-12 X2

Страница 1: ...Alienware X2 motherboard User s Manual...

Страница 2: ...iguration 24 3 2 6 ACPI Configuration 24 3 2 7 MPS Configuration 26 3 2 8 PCI Express Configuration 27 3 2 9 Remote Access Configuration 28 3 2 10 USB Configuration 29 3 2 11 Onboard Device Configurat...

Страница 3: ...Chapter 6 SoundMAX Control Panel 65 6 1 Starting up 66 6 2 Sound configuration 67 6 2 1 Speaker Setup 67 6 2 2 Virtual Theater Surround 68 6 2 3 Acoustic Environments 68 6 2 4 Virtual Ear 69 6 2 5 Te...

Страница 4: ...Chapter 1 General specifications 4...

Страница 5: ...r IO 83627THF Memory Support for dual channel DDR2 400 MHz registered DIMM ECC or non ECC Expansion slots One x16 PCI Express slot One x8 PCI Express slot Three PCI slots SATA Two SATA ports that supp...

Страница 6: ...PS 2 keyboard connector One PS 2 mouse connector One 25 pin parallel port with ECP EPP support One UART 16550 serial port COM1 Four USB 2 0 ports One LAN RJ 45 port One 1394 port One SPDIF port Rear...

Страница 7: ...ess slots Dual DDR2 400 memory channels DDR2 memory provides a fast data transfer rate acquiring a maximum memory bandwidth of 3 2 GB per second The power consumption on DDR2 technology decreases sign...

Страница 8: ...S PDIF This motherboard facilitates connectivity to the most advanced stereo components through the S PDIF port giving high quality audio 8...

Страница 9: ...Chapter 2 Hardware information 9...

Страница 10: ...2 1 Board overview 2 1 1 The board 10...

Страница 11: ...2 1 2 MB diagram 11...

Страница 12: ...is turned on 2 1 5 Jumper Header configurations CMOS jumper JP1 This jumper allows the clearing of information stored on the system CMOS RAM memory This memory contains information about the system s...

Страница 13: ...y back in its socket 7 Plug power cable to the computer 8 Boot up and press DEL to enter setup BIOS protection jumper JP16 This jumper protects the BIOS memory from being overwritten It is a safety me...

Страница 14: ...up on the screen after the intrusion until the message is deleted This feature is available only when using a chassis that supports intrusion detection The sensor cable from the case needs to be plug...

Страница 15: ...To enable to front panel audio these connectors need to be plugged into the pin headers as follows Front panel connector 15...

Страница 16: ...Cache Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3 4GHz w EM64T 800 MHz FSB w 1MB Cache Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3 2GHz w EM64T 800 MHz FSB w 1MB Cache Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3 0GHz w EM64T 800 MHz FSB w 1MB Cache...

Страница 17: ...Chapter 3 BIOS setup 17...

Страница 18: ...and monitoring of hardware settings on the motherboard In order to enter the BIOS press DEL during the POST screen 3 1 Main In the Main screen the system time and date can be set This screen will als...

Страница 19: ...are Enabled and Disabled Hardware Prefetcher Enables or disables the hardware prefecther feature Options are Enabled and Disabled Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch Enables or disables the Adjacent Cache L...

Страница 20: ...tted configurations Primary Channel Secondary Channel 1 SATA PATA 2 PATA SATA When PATA is set to 1st channel only the devices connected to IDE1 will be detected when PATA is set to 2nd channel only d...

Страница 21: ...ry Third Fourth IDE Master Slave If the device is detected information on the device is displayed Hard Disk Write Protect Protects the hard drive from being overwritten when it is accessed through BIO...

Страница 22: ...RQ3 Serial Port2 Mode Selects the mode in which Serial Port2 will function Options are Normal IrDA and ASK IR IR I O Pin Select This setting appears when Serial Port2 Mode is set to IrDA or ASK IR It...

Страница 23: ...the Parallel Port Options are IRQ5 and IRQ7 Onboard Game Port Enable or disable the game port Options are Enabled and Disabled Onboard MIDI Port Enable or disable the onboard MIDI port Options are Di...

Страница 24: ...3 2 5 Hardware Health Configuration This screen shows real time information collected from the temperature fan speed and voltage sensors on the motherboard 3 2 6 ACPI Configuration 24...

Страница 25: ...Selects the ACPI state that is used when the system goes to sleep Options are S1 POS only and S1 S3 STR 3 2 6 2 Advanced ACPI Configuration ACPI 2 0 Features Enables RSDP Pointers to 64 bit Fixed Syst...

Страница 26: ...emote access type Options are Enabled and Disabled Terminal Type Only appears when Remote Access is enabled Selects the target terminal type Options are ANSI VT100 and VT UTF8 Serial Port Number Only...

Страница 27: ...will be enabled if it is recognized otherwise it will be disabled Options are Auto Enabled and Disabled PCI Express Port 4 Allows to enable or disable PCI Express_1 slot Display device will not be re...

Страница 28: ...w control Selects the Flow Control for console redirection Options are None Hardware and Software Redirection after BIOS POST Determines for how long the redirection to the serial port chosen above wi...

Страница 29: ...ports connected to header USB 1 are functional All USB ports Both USB 1 and USB 2 headers are functional Legacy USB Support Enables support for legacy USB devices When set to auto it will be enabled...

Страница 30: ...none of the SATA devices plugged into ports SATA_3 through SATA_6 will be recognized Options are Enabled and Disabled Onboard Sil3114 Mode Setting Enables or disables the RAID mode on the Silicon Ima...

Страница 31: ...nd 5 tRP Modifies the tRP timing tRP is the time required to terminate one row access and begin the next row access Options are Auto 3 and 4 tRCD Modifies the tRCD timing tRCD is the delay from the ti...

Страница 32: ...evice latency timer register Options are 32 64 96 128 160 192 224 and 248 Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA When enabled a PCI VGA card can request an IRQ to be assigned for it When disabled even if the PCI car...

Страница 33: ...is holding the card Options are Auto PCI Slot 1 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 5 and PCI Slot 6 IRQ 3 15 Indicates if the specific IRQ is either available or reserved for a PCI PnP device O...

Страница 34: ...Mode Set display mode for option ROM Options are Force BIOS and Keep Current Bootup Num Lock Selects state of the Num Lock key when powering up the computer Options are On and Off PS 2 Mouse Support...

Страница 35: ...ity The boot devices are listed in order of importance The system will look for a bootable device in this order and go down the list until it finds one or it will prompt that no boot device was found...

Страница 36: ...cted hard drives The first one on the list will be considered for the boot device priority list 3 4 4 Removable Drives Shows list of detected removable drives The first one on the list will be conside...

Страница 37: ...D Drives Shows list of detected optical drives The first one on the list will be considered for the boot device priority list 3 5 Security Change Supervisor Password Installs or changes a supervisor p...

Страница 38: ...Installs or changes the user password Clear User Password Removes the user password Password check Determines when to check for password Setup Requests password when entering setup Always Requests pa...

Страница 39: ...ure Allows for the remapping of overlapped PCI memory above the total physical memory Options are Enabled and Disabled 3 6 2 SouthBridge Configuration OnBoard AC 97 Audio Enables disables onboard soun...

Страница 40: ...r down hard disks in suspend or standby mode Only available when Power Management APM is enabled Options are Disabled Standby and Suspend Standby Time Out The system will go into standby n the specifi...

Страница 41: ...when Power Management APM is enabled Options are IGNORE and MONITOR Secondary Master IDE Monitors secondary master IDE device Only available when Power Management APM is enabled Options are IGNORE and...

Страница 42: ...Time Sets the time schedule for an alarm to be generated Options are chosen using and keys navigate through time using TAB Shift TAB and Enter 3 8 Exit Save Changes and Exit This option will save cha...

Страница 43: ...Load Failsafe Defaults This option will load the failsafe default values for all options This can also be performed by pressing F8 43...

Страница 44: ...Chapter 4 Silicon Image RAID Utility 44...

Страница 45: ...en the Sil3114 is enabled on the system BIOS and it is set to RAID mode see section 3 2 11 Once inside the utility keyboard navigation will be required since there is no mouse support The Up and Down...

Страница 46: ...that will be part of the RAID 3 Select Auto or Manual Configuration Auto Configuration will automatically create the RAID 0 with the first drive detected as 0 and the second one as 1 and a stripe siz...

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Страница 48: ...4 Press Y at the prompt Are you sure Y N 5 Once the RAID has been created it will show up on the bottom right corner of the screen 48...

Страница 49: ...Image RAID utility can create a blank RAID or copy the contents of one hard drive into a mirror drive 1 Select Create RAID set and choose RAID 1 2 Select auto or manual configuration Auto configuratio...

Страница 50: ...Manual configuration allows the possibility of choosing either creating a new blank RAID or mirroring a new drive from an already existing one 3 Press Y at the prompt Are you sure Y N 50...

Страница 51: ...Once the RAID has been created it will show up on the bottom right corner of the screen 4 5 Delete RAID 1 Select the Delete RAID set option and press enter 2 Select the RAID item that will be deleted...

Страница 52: ...3 Press Y to confirm when prompted 4 6 Low Level Format 1 Select the Low Level Format option 2 Select the drive that will be formated 3 Press Y to confirm when prompted 52...

Страница 53: ...Chapter 5 Adaptec RAID Utility 53...

Страница 54: ...r the Adaptec RAID utility it has to be enabled on BIOS see section 3 2 2 If there are Hard Drives connected to either of the SATA connectors the system during POST will prompt or key combination Ctrl...

Страница 55: ...enu TAB to go to next option and Shift TAB to go to previous option 5 2 Create RAID 1 Enter the Array Configuration Utility 2 Select the Create Array option from the menu 3 Use INS key to select the d...

Страница 56: ...4 Select the RAID type Options are RAID 0 Stripe and RAID 1 Mirror 5 Choose a label for the RAID This is the name that will identify the logical drive after the RAID is created 56...

Страница 57: ...explain each method RAID Create RAID via When to use RAID0 No Init Create RAID 0 on new drives RAID0 Migrate Create RAID0 from one blank drive and one with information that will be kept RAID1 Build C...

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Страница 59: ...8 Enter to create RAID 5 3 Delete RAID 1 Enter the Array Configuration Utility 2 Select the Manage Arrays option from the menu This will list the arrays detected 59...

Страница 60: ...3 Once the array that will be erased is highlighted press DEL to delete it 4 Use arrow keys to highlight the Delete option and press Enter 5 Press Y to confirm elimination 60...

Страница 61: ...5 4 Format a disk 1 Select disk utilities 2 Select the drive that will be formatted 61...

Страница 62: ...3 Select format drive option 4 Highlight option Yes and press enter to confirm the format process 62...

Страница 63: ...5 5 Verify Disk integrity 1 Select disk utilities 2 Select the drive that needs to be checked 63...

Страница 64: ...3 Select the Verify Disk Media option 4 Highlight option Yes and press Enter to confirm verification 64...

Страница 65: ...Chapter 6 SoundMAX Control Panel 65...

Страница 66: ...e and the computer has been rebooted installation setup will prompt for a necessary reboot there are three ways in which the control panel can be loaded 1 Start menu Open the start menu and go to All...

Страница 67: ...6 2 Sound configuration 6 2 1 Speaker Setup The speaker setup can be configured under the Listening Environment tab as shown below 67...

Страница 68: ...i Drive Surround Uses left right back left and back right channels Surround Sound Speakers 5 1 Sound Uses left right center back left and back right channels 6 2 2 Virtual Theater Surround This featur...

Страница 69: ...est each speaker and channel individually This can be easily done by clicking on the Test button on the bottom right section of the Listening Environment Tab It is important to note that the speaker c...

Страница 70: ...se that will come through the specified speaker The test music loop is a prerecorded sound file that outputs through the specified speaker The amount of speakers being tested depends on the speaker co...

Страница 71: ...tures MIDI playback When selecting the MIDI Music Synthesizer tab the Synthesizer Default Sound Set can be modified General MIDI describes a specific MIDI format with 128 sounds and a drum kit Most of...

Страница 72: ...nLoadable Sounds This feature allows downloading custom sound sets in to the SoundMAX synthesizer and playing these files using the Windows Media Player Simply browse for the MIDI or RMI file open it...

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