Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide
the same as SAS daughter board installed. Please refer to the Windows Vista
Enterprise x64 Edition Installation (SAS Daughter Board) RAID Utility
Installation section.
Windows Vista Enterprise x64 Edition Installation (with onboard
SATA RAID)
Below information describes how to manually install Windows Vista Enterprise
x64 Edition on Altos R5250 with onboard SATA RAID.
Drivers Required
For Windows Vista x64 Installation, the following device drivers are required.
Device
Onboard SATA
RAID
Onboard NVIDIA
NFP3600 Chipset
Onboard NVIDIA
nForce Networking
Controller
Onboard XGI Z9s
ATI FireGL V5200
Software Required
The management utility for onboard SATA RAID can be found in the EasyBUILD
8.0 build 100 (or later).
Software
Onboard SATA
RAID Utility
Configuring onboard SATA RAID
Please refer to the Appendix A. for the onboard SATA RAID configuration.
Installation Tips
Though Windows Vista x64 can recognize the onboard SATA RAID, we
1.
still replace the driver with the one in EasyBUILD. Please make the driver
diskette from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 first before the installation.
Please boot the system form the Windows Vista x64 CD/DVD. Follow the
2.
instructions to do the installation.
When you see the "Where do you want to install Windows?" on the
3.
screen, please insert the driver diskette and click on Load Driver.
Click on OK. You will see the NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller
4.
(A:\nvrd64.inf), NVIDIA nForce RAID Device (A:\nvrd64.inf) and NVIDIA
nForce Serial ATA Controller (A:\nvrd64.inf) listed.
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Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
5.10.2600.955
Disk\r5250\onboard\sataraid\x64\vista\
Package 1502
\Disk\R5250\onboard\Chipset\x64\vista\
65.7.4.0
Including in chipset driver package
1502
6.14.10.900
\Disk\r5250\onboard\xgiz9s\x64\vista\
8.362.0.0
\Disk\R5250\graphic\V5200\x64\vista\
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
1.4.6.08
Including in chipset driver package
1502