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MSI X38 Diamond Motherboard Drivers
Filed Under (BIOS-Mainboard, Ethernet, IDE, Network, RAID, Sound Card) by nirvana on 03-02-2010
MSI X38 Diamond Motherboard Drivers Windows 7/Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
CPU
• Supports Intel® Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo based processors in LGA775 package.
• Supports Intel® Yorkfield, Wolfdale in the LGA775 package.
• Supports FSB 1333/1066/800 MHz.
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.
Chipset
• Intel® X38 Chipset
- Supports FSB 800/1066/1333MHz.
- Supports dual channel, DDR3 800/1066/1333.
• Intel® ICH9R Chipset
- Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec, up to 12 ports.
- 4 SATAII with 2 eSATA* ports with transfer rate up to 3Gb/s.
- Supports Viiv technology
- PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC.
- ACPI 2.0 compliant.
- Serial ATA RAID 0/1/5/10.
- Integrated AHCI controller.
*eSATA function would be fully supported by VISTA ( In Box driver with AHCI driver). eSATA function would not be fully supported without AHCI driver under WinXP.
Main Memory
• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 SDRAM
• Supports up to 8GB memory size.
• Supports dual channel DDR3 memory architecture.
• Supports DDR3 800/1066/1333 memory interface.
Slots
• Two mazarine PCI Express x16 slots (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant; supports CrossFire Technology)
• Two yellow PCI Express x16 slots with x4 operations (PCI Express Bus SPEC V1.0a compliant)
• Two PCI Express x1 slots. (support PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• One 32-bit v2.3 master PCI bus slot.
- Support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface.
On-Board IDE/SATA
• One Ultra DMA 66/100/133 IDE controller integrated in Marvell® 88SE6111.
- Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes.
- Can connect up to two Ultra ATA drives.
• SATAII controller integrated in ICH9R and Silicon Image® 5723 chipset
- Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
- Supports four SATAII ports and two eSATA ports by ICH9R.
- Supports AHCI controller with SATA RAID 0/1/5/10 by ICH9R.
- Supports two SATAII ports by 5723.
- Supports SATA RAID 0/1, JBOD mode/ by 5723. (for SATA7 & SATA8 only)
Audio
• Chip integrated by Realtek® ALC888/ALC888T
- Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
- Compliant with Azalia 1.0 spec.
- Meet Microsoft Vista Premium spec.
- Supports VoIP Card. (for ALC888T only)
LAN
• Supports PCI Express LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Realtek 8111B.
• Supports Gigabit Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Intel 82566DC. (for ViiV)
IEEE1394 / FireWire
• VIA® VT6308P chipset
- Supports up to two 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, pinheader x1)
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps.
Internal I/O Connectors
- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / System x 5 FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- 1 x SPDIF-out pinheader
- 1 x chasis intrusion connector
- 1 x serial port pinheader
- 2 x USB 2.0 connectors
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 6 x Serial ATAII connectors
- 1 x ATA133 connector
- 1 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 1 port
- 1 x VoIP card connector
- 1 x TPM module connector
Back Panel I/O Ports
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 mouse
- 2 x eSATA ports (support Command Based Port Multipliers)
- 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
- 8 x USB 2.0 ports
- 2 x RJ45 LAN jacks
- 1 x IEEE1394 port
- 1 x Optical SPDIF-out
BIOS
• The mainboard BIOS provides “Plug & Play” BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
mainboard specifications.
Intel Gigabit Ethernet Drivers
Description : Driver version: 14.8.3
Update Date : 2010-01-20
File Size : 25948KB
Your System OS : Windows 7/Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
Download : 
intel_lan_all_mb.zip
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver
Description : Realtek High Definition Audio System Software WinXP Driver Version: 5.10.0.6013 Windows 7/Vista Version: 6.0.1.6013
Update Date : 2010-01-08
File Size : 83675KB
Your System OS : Windows 7/Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
Download : realtek_hd_all_mb.zip
Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Drivers
Description : Win7 32/64: 7.011.1127.2009
Update Date : 2010-01-08
File Size : 499KB
Your System OS : Windows 7(32/64bit)
Download : realtek_pcielan_7_nb.zip
Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver
Description : Intel Matrix Storage Manager is for SATA RAID and AHCI mode. Ver: 9.5.0.1037
Update Date : 2010-01-08
File Size : 34145KB
Your System OS : Windows 7/Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
Download : Intel_HECI_MB.zip
Intel INF Drivers for 3/4/5 Chipsets
Description : Xp/Vista/Win7 Version: 9.1.1.1025
Update Date : 2010-01-08
File Size : 5005KB
Your System OS : Windows 7/Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
Download : intel_p55_inf_mb.zip
Intel IAA RAID for ICH9R
Description : Support OS: WinXP/Vista Ver: 7.5.0.1017 WHQL
Update Date : 2007-10-24
File Size : 5529KB
Your System OS : Windows Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
Download : Intel_ICH9R_RAID_All_MB.zip
Intel ICH9R SATA RAID Driver (For floppy driver)
Description : Intel ICH9R SATA RAID driver
Update Date : 2007-10-24
File Size : 626KB
Your System OS : Windows Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
Download : Intel_ICH9R_RAID_floppy_MB.zip
Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Audio Driver
Description : XP Version: 5.12.1.416 Vista Version:5.10.0.21
Update Date : 2007-09-13
File Size : 13173KB
Your System OS : Windows Vista/Xp (32/64bit)
Download : Creative_SB_X-FI_MB.zip
