Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 Installation (SAS
Daughter Board)
Below information describes how to manually install Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition on Altos R5250 SAS daughter board installed.
Drivers Required
For Windows XP x64 Installation, the following device drivers are required.
Device
SAS Daughter
Board
Onboard NVIDIA
NFP3600 Chipset
Onboard NVIDIA
nForce Networking
Controller
Onboard XGI Z9s
ATI FireGL V5200
Software Required
The management utility for SAS daughter board and NIC can be found in the
EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 (or later).
Software
MegaRAID Storage
Manager
ForceWare Network
Access Manager
Configuring SAS Daughter Board
Please refer to the Appendix B. for the SAS Daughter Board Configuration.
Installation Tips
As Windows XP x64 can't recognize the SAS daughter board, you need to
1.
make a driver diskette from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 first before the
installation.
Press F6 at the beginning of installation for providing the driver diskette
2.
for the SAS DAUGHTER BOARD.
Select "LSI Fusion-MPT SAS Driver (XP-64)" as target driver
3.
After loading the RAID driver from diskette, follow the normal procedure
4.
to finish the installation.
Chipset Driver Package Installation
After the installation completes, you would see the following devices
1.
with yellow mark in Device Manager.
64
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
1.25.10.00
\Disk\r5250\sas\sas1068\x64\vista
Package 9.21
\Disk\R5250\onboard\Chipset\x64\wsxp
\
65.3.1.0
Including in chipset driver package
9.21
6.14.10.900
\Disk\r5250\onboard\xgiz9s\x64\wsxp\
8.323.1.0
\Disk\R5250\graphic\V5200\x64\wsxp\
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
2.30
\app\R5250\sas\lsi1068\Windows\
65.31
Including in chipset driver package
9.21