ASROCK ALIVENF5-VSTA, User Manual

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Using SATA / SATAII HDDs without NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [non-RAID].
STEP 2: Install Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
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Vista Vista
Vista Vista Vista
TM TM
TM TM TM / Vista / Vista
/ Vista / Vista / Vista
TM TM
TM TM TM 64-bit Without 64-bit Without
64-bit Without 64-bit Without 64-bit Without
RAID Functions RAID Functions
RAID Functions RAID Functions
RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows ® Vista TM / Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit on your SATA /
SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [AHCI].
STEP 2: Install Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit OS on your system.
Insert the Windows ® Vista TM / Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit optical disk into the optical
drive to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows ® Vista TM /
Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit OS on your system. When you see “Where do you want to
install Windows?” page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive,
and click the “Load Driver” button on the left on the bottom to load the NVIDIA ® AHCI
drivers. NVIDIA ® AHCI drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:
.. \ I386 \ Vista32_AHCI (For Windows ® Vista TM OS)
.. \ AMD64 \ Vista64_AHCI (For Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit OS)
E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA /
SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette.
STEP 3: Install Windows ® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
After making a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, you can start to install Windows ® 2000
/ XP / XP 64-bit on your system. At the beginning of Windows ® setup, press F6 to
install a third-party AHCI driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver
diskette containing the NVIDIA
®
AHCI driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver
will be presented. Select the driver to install according to the OS you install. The
drivers are as below:
A. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP/2000
B. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP64
Please select A for Windows ® 2000 / XP in AHCI mode. Please select B for Windows ®
XP 64-bit in AHCI mode.