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Appendix B: Installing the Windows OS
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Appendix B
Installing Windows
After all hardware has been installed, you must fi rst confi gure Intel South Bridge
RAID settings before you install the OS and other software drivers. Please note
that the ICH7R Driver does not support the Windows 2000 OS.
B-1 Installing Windows XP/2000/2003
Turn on the system and insert the Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003 Setup 1.
CD in the CD or DVD drive.
Reboot the system. 2.
The system will perform the POST and search for a bootable drive. 3.
When prompted by the system asking whether you wish to boot from the CD, 4.
press the space bar on your keyboard.
The Windows OS Setup screen will display. Windows OS Setup will automati- 5.
cally load all Windows-supplied device drivers and then continue with the
Windows XP/2000/2003 installation.
You will be asked to enter the disk partition where the Operating System is to 6.
be installed (please see Warning below), and to enter the date/time, and the
Windows Activation Key.
After the Windows XP/2000/2003 OS Installation is completed, the system will 7.
automatically reboot.
Insert the Supermicro Setup CD that came with your motherboard into the 8.
CD drive during system boot, and the main screen will display. Follow the on-
screen instructions.
Note: To install the Linux Operating System, please refer to the OS Installation
Guides posted on our web site at www.supermicro.com/support/manuals. For other
Operating System platforms, please follow your software provider's instructions.
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Warning: You will lose all data residing in a disk drive partition when it
is deleted or reformatted.