ASROCK G43TWINS-FULLHD, User Manual

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STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set “SATAII Configuration” to [Enhanced], and then in the option “Configure
SATAII as”, please set the option to [AHCI].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette.
A. Insert the Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.
B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a
window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot
device.
C. When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to generate Serial
ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
D. Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.
WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will
lose ALL data in it!
Start to format and copy files [YN]?
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.
E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII
drivers into the floppy diskette.
STEP 3: Install Windows ® XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system. (Windows ®
2000 is not supported.)
After making a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, you can start to install Windows ® 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 Intel
®
AHCI driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be
presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS
you install. You may select: "Intel(R) ICH10 SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop - Win-
dows XP)" for Windows
®
XP or "Intel(R) ICH10 SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop -
Windows XP64)" for Windows
®
XP 64-bit.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ function
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set “SATAII Configuration” to [Enhanced], and then in the option “Configure
SATAII as”, please set the option to [IDE].
STEP 2: Install Windows ® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs without NCQ function