ASROCK ALIVEXFIRE-ESATA2 R3.0_987 Installation Manual page 33

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.
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
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STEP 4: Install Windows
your system.
After step 1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows
64-bit OS on your system. At the beginning of Windows
third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette contain-
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ing the ATI RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented.
Select the driver to install according to the OS you install. (Select "ATI AHCI Compatible
RAID Controller-x86 platform" for Windows
patible RAID Controller-x64 platform" for Windows
NOTE1. If you install Windows
and 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.
ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 Motherboard
Advanced screen
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2000 / Windows XP / Windows
® 2000 / Windows
® 2000 and Windows
® XP 64-bit.)
® 2000 / Windows ® XP / Windows
® 2000, please install the graphics card driver
IDE Configuration.
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XP 64-bit OS on
® XP / Windows ® XP
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setup, press F6 to install a
® XP, or "ATI AHCI Com-
® XP 64-bit on IDE HDDs
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