Operating System And Drivers; Installing A Sata Controller Driver - Quanmax QDSP-1000 User Manual

Operating System and Drivers

If your product does not come with an operating system pre-installed, you will need
to install an operating system and the necessary drivers to operate it. After you have
finished assembling your system and connected the appropriate power source,
power it up using the power switch and install the desired operating system.
You can download the drivers for the product from the Quanmax website at
www.quanmax.com
please contact Quanmax.

Installing a SATA Controller Driver

You have prepared a floppy disk with the SATA controller driver and configured
BIOS settings; the following is an example of Windows XP installation.
Step 1:
Restart your system to boot from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as
soon as you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver"
message . After pressing F6, there will be a few moments of some files being loaded
before you see the next screen.
Windows Setup
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Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver
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and install as instructed there. For other operating systems,
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