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Making SATA HDD driver diskette before Install WindowsXP/2000
If you only have Serial ATA HDDs on your system, before you install the Windows XP or
Windows 2000, you will need to make a SATA HDD driver diskette before you start to install the
Operating System.
How to make a SATA HDD driver diskette?
STEP 1: Insert the diskette which been formatted in floppy drive on a system which can start OS.
STEP 2: After booting OS insert the bundle CD in your CD-ROM
STEP 3: Copy all the files from \VIA\VIASATA\DriverDisk to floppy diskette
Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to install Windows XP or Windows
2000 on your System.
Installation of Windows XP/ Windows 2000
For installation of Windows XP or Windows 2000, please insert Windows XP or Windows 2000
CD into the CD-ROM drive. Then remove the floppy diskette, and boot the system. At the very
beginning, you will see the message at the bottom of screen, “Press F6 if you need to install a
third party SCSI or RAID driver….”
At this moment, please press <F6> key and follow the instructions of Windows XP or Windows
2000 for the proper installation.
4-9 HOW TO DISABLE ON-BOARD SOUND
Enter BIOS SETUP choose INTEGRATE PERIPHERALS choose ON-CHIP DEVICE
FUNCTION choose AC97 SOUND DEVICE
Disable on-board sound function by press PAGE DOWN KEY to Disable
4-10 HOW TO UPDATE BIOS
Method 1.
Use “Magic BIOS” update BIOS in Windows 98 (refer
page 42
)
Method 2.
In DOS Mode
STEP 1.
Prepare a boot disc. (you may make one by click START click RUN type SYS A: click
OK)
STEP 2.
Copy utility program to your boot disc. You may copy from DRIVER CD
X:\FLASH\AWDFLASH.EXE or download from our web site.
STEP 3.
Copy latest BIOS for PT88AS from our web site to your boot disc.
STEP 4.
Insert your boot disc into A:,
start the computer, type “Awdflash A:\ PT88ASAxxx.BIN /SN/PY/CC/R”
PT88ASAxxx.BIN is the file name of latest BIOS it can be PT88ASA3.BIN or
PT88ASB2.BIN
SN
means don’t save existing BIOS data
PY
means renew existing BIOS data
CC
means clear existing CMOS data
R means restart computer
STEP 5.
Push ENTER and the BIOS will be updated, computer will be restarted automatically.
