ASROCK N7AD-SLI, Installation Manual

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ASRock N7AD-SLI Motherboard
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Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices 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)
After that, please insert Windows ® Vista TM / Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit optical disk into
the optical drive again to continue the installation.
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This motherboard supports Untied Overclocking Technology, which means during
overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCI / PCIE buses. Before you
enable Untied Overclocking function, please enter “Overclock Mode” option of BIOS setup
to set the selection from [Auto] to [CPU, PCIE, Async.]. Therefore, CPU FSB is untied
during overclocking, but PCI / PCIE buses are in the fixed mode so that FSB can operate
under a more stable overclocking environment.
Please refer to the warning on page 7 for the possible overclocking risk
before you apply Untied Overclocking Technology.
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2.12 Installing Windows Installing Windows
Installing Windows Installing Windows
Installing Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit / Vista XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
XP / XP 64-bit / Vista XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
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If you want to install Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit on your SATA /
SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please refer to the document at the following path in
the Support CD for detailed procedures:
..\ RAID Installation Guide