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Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Pro Manual

Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Pro Manual

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Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer ...................................................................... 2
(2)
(3)
Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS ........................................................................................ 6
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Making a SATA controller driver disk ..................................................................................... 9
(5)
Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation ......................................................... 11
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Configuring a bootable RAID array with Microsoft Windows 2000 ...................................... 14

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra; nVIDIA nForce4 SLI) ....2 Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer ..............2 Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup ........3 Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS ..................6 Making a SATA controller driver disk ..................

  • Page 2: Configuring Sata Hard Drive(S) (Controller: Nvidia Nforce4 Ultra; Nvidia Nforce4 Sli)

    Ác Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra; Åé nVIDIA nForce4 SLI) ¤¤ To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: ¤å (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. (3)* Configure RAID set in RAID BIOS.

  • Page 3: Configuring Sata Controller Mode And Boot Sequence In Bios Setup

    (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the SATA controller is configured correctly in system BIOS Setup and set BIOS boot sequence for the SATA hard drive(s)/RAID array. Step 1: Turn on your computer and press Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test).
  • Page 4 Ác Step 2: If you do not create RAID, select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu. Åé In the Hard Disk Boot Priority submenu, select the model of the SATA hard drive onto which you wish to install Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.
  • Page 5 Step 3: To boot from Windows installation CD-ROM, set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CD-ROM (Figure 4). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features } Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] Item Help First Boot Device [CD-ROM] Menu Level}...

  • Page 6: Configuring Raid Set In Raid Bios

    Ác (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS Enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array. Skip this step and proceed to Section 4 if Åé you do not want to create RAID. ¤¤ Step 1: ¤å After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility"...
  • Page 7 Step 5: Next, select the hard drives which you wish to be included in the disk array. The Free Disks section displays the information about the currently installed SATA hard drives. Press the TAB key to move to the Free Disks section. Select the target hard drives using the UP or DOWN ARROW key and use the RIGHT ARROW key to add the hard drives to the Array Disks section (Figure 7).
  • Page 8 Ác After that, the Array List screen displaying the RAID array you created will appear (Figure 9). If you want to set the disk array as boot device, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select the array Åé and press B.

  • Page 9: Making A Sata Controller Driver Disk

    (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drive/RAID array on the nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra/SLI controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive/RAID array may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk.
  • Page 10 Ác Step 4: Double-click MENU.exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 13 below will appear (Note 1) Åé ¤¤ ¤å Figure 13 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk and select the nVIDIA Series ATA driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu (for example, from the menu in Figure 13, press G to select nVIDIA Series ATA (Note 2)

  • Page 11: Installing Sata Controller Driver During Os Installation

    (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the driver. The following is an example of Windows XP installation.
  • Page 12 Ác Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 16 below Åé will appear. Use the ARROW keys to select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER* (Figure 16) and press ENTER. Later, when a screen similar to Figure 17 appears, you must press S to select additional driver. ¤¤...
  • Page 13 Step 4: When the next screen (Figure 18) appears, press ENTER to continue the SATA driver installation from the floppy disk. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device...

  • Page 14: Configuring A Bootable Raid Array With Microsoft Windows 2000

    Ác (6) Configuring a bootable RAID array with Microsoft Windows 2000 Problem: Users cannot install Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 (or previous versions) to a bootable Åé RAID volume. ¤¤ There are two solutions to resolve this issue. Solutions 1: ¤å...
  • Page 15 Step 3: After system restarts, press F10 to enter the NVIDIA RAID setup utility. Select Striping in the RAID Mode filed (Figure 21). Move to the Free Disks section with the TAB key. Select the desired disk and use the RIGHT ARROW key to add it to Array Disks menu.
  • Page 16 Ác Step 5: Install the NVIDIA nForce Driver Package while in Windows 2000 and reboot the system. Go to Åé START>Programs>Nvidia Corporation and select NVRAID manager. You should see the single disk RAID array (in striping mode) that was created from the boot disk. Select the single boot disk RAID Array ¤¤...

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