Driver Installation Guide; Installing Windows; 64-Bit / Vista; Tm Tm - ASROCK 970DE3/U3S3 User Manual

2.10 Driver Installation Guide

To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical
drive fi rst. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and
listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side
to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly.

2.11 Installing Windows

XP 64-bit With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows
on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATA2 HDDs with RAID functions,
please follow below procedures according to the OS you install.
2.11.1 Installing Windows
If you want to install Windows
more SATA / SATA2 HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATA2 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 diskette into the fl oppy drive.
WARNING! Formatting the fl oppy diskette will
lose ALL data in it!
Start to format and copy fi les [YN]?
Please insert a fl oppy diskette into the fl oppy drive, and press any key.
E. The system will start to format the fl oppy diskette and copy SATA / SATA2 drivers
into the fl oppy diskette.
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