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STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
B.
Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette.
A.
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.
(There are two ASRock Support CD in the motherboard gift box pack,
please choose the one for Windows
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, "Generate Serial ATA driver
diskette [YN]?", press <Y>.
D.
Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a blank
formatted diskette into floppy
drive A:
press any key to start
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press any key.
E.
The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA /
SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette.
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
your system.
After step 1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows
XP 64-bit OS on your system. At the beginning of Windows
a third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette
containing the ATI
RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be
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presented. Select the driver to install according to the OS you install. (Select "ATI
AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform" for Windows
XP, or "ATI AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform" for Windows
NOTE1. If you install Windows
want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SATA / SATAII
HDDs, you still need to set up "SATA Operation Mode" to [RAID] first. Then, please
set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide in the
following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
NOTE2. If your operating system is Windows
before you install "SATA2 Utility" from our support CD to your system.
Advanced screen
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IDE Configuration.
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