Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3 User Manual

5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System

With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/Vista/XP onto your hard drive(s).
A. Installing Windows XP
To install Windows XP, you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI controller driver during the OS installation.
Without the driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the
driver from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. Refer to the following for the location of the driver.
• For the AMD SB850, copy all of the files in the \BootDrv\SBxxx\x86 folder to your floppy disk. To install
Windows 64-Bit, copy the files in the x64 folder.
Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer. Refer to the following for
installing the driver during the Windows setup process.
Step 1:
Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press <F6> as soon as you see the mes-
sage "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." A screen will then appear asking you to
specify an additional SCSI adapter. Press <S>.
Step 2:
Insert the floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and press <Enter>. Then a controller menu simi-
lar to that in Figure 1 will appear. Select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform and press
<Enter>.
Windows Setup
You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows,
using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer.
Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the following list, or press ESC
to return to the previous screen.
AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform
AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform
ENTER=Select
Step 3:
On the next screen, press <Enter> to continue the driver installation. After the driver installation, you can pro-
ceed with the Windows XP installation.
F3=Exit
Figure 1
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