ASROCK ALIVENF5-VSTA, Installation Manual

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2.13 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.13 Installing Windows Installing Windows Installing Windows Installing Windows Installing Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
TM TM TM TM TM
/ Vista / Vista / Vista / Vista / Vista
TM TM TM TM TM
64-bit W 64-bit W 64-bit W 64-bit W 64-bit With RAID F ith RAID F ith RAID F ith RAID F ith RAID Functions unctions unctions unctions unctions
If you want to install Windows
®
2000, Windows
®
XP, Windows
®
XP 64-bit, Windows
®
Vista
TM
or Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions,
please follow below procedures according to the OS you install.
Before installing Windows
®
2000 to your system, your Windows
®
2000 optical
disk is supposed to include SP4. If there is no SP4 included in your disk, please
visit the below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk:
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy.
htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay
2.13.1 Installing Windows 2.13.1 Installing Windows 2.13.1 Installing Windows 2.13.1 Installing Windows 2.13.1 Installing Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID
F F F F Functions unctions unctions unctions unctions
If you want to install Windows
®
2000 / Windows
®
XP / Windows
®
XP 64-bit on your SATA
/ SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
Please make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette by following section 2.12.1 step 2 on
page 23.
STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID
installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 4: Install Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
After step1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows
®
2000 / Windows
®
XP / Windows
®
XP
64-bit OS on your system. At the beginning of Windows
®
setup, press F6 to install a
third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette contain-
ing the NVIDIA ® RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the drivers will be presented.
Select the drivers to install. The drivers are as below:
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
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your system.
After that, please insert Windows ® Vista TM / Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit optical disk into
the optical drive again to continue the installation.