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Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal Manual

Configuring sata hard drive(s) controller: silicon image sil3132
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Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image Sil3132) .................................................2
(1)
Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system ......................................................................... 2
(2)
(3)
Configuring SATA hard drives in RAID BIOS .......................................................................... 6
(4)
Making a SATA controller driver disk ................................................................................... 10
(5)
Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation ......................................................... 12

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image Sil3132) ..........2 Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system ................. 2 Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup ........3 Configuring SATA hard drives in RAID BIOS ................6 Making a SATA controller driver disk ...................

  • Page 2: Configuring Sata Hard Drive(S) (Controller: Silicon Image Sil3132)

    Ác Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image Sil3132) Åé To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: ¤¤ (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system. ¤å (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 Assure that the SATA controller is enabled in system BIOS Setup. Step 1: Turn on your computer and press Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). In BIOS Setup menu, go to Integrated Peripherals and assure that Onboard H/W SATA (Figure 1) is enabled.

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    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.

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    Step 3: To boot from Windows installation CD-ROM, set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CDROM (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 [CDROM] Menu Level}...

  • Page 6: Configuring Sata Hard Drives In Raid Bios

    Ác (3) Configuring SATA hard drives 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. ¤¤ After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message ¤å...
  • Page 7 Configuring RAID set Step 1: Select Create RAID set and press ENTER, and the RAID type selection menu will appear (Figure 7). Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a RAID type that you wish to create and press ENTER. The options include RAID 0, RAID 1, SPARE DRIVE, and CONCATENATION.
  • Page 8 Ác Step 3: After assigning the hard drives, select the size for the RAID set. BIOS will set a default size for it and you Åé can use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to change the size (Figure 9). ¤¤...
  • Page 9 Deleting RAID groups, spare drives, or CONCATENATION If you want to remove one or more RAID sets, spare drives, and CONCATENATIONs, select the Delete RAID set item (Figure 11) in Main Menu. Press ENTER and follow the on-screen instructions to delete the RAID set.

  • Page 10: Making A Sata Controller Driver Disk

    Ác (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drive on the Sil3132 controller successfully, you need Åé to install required driver for the SATA controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive ¤¤...
  • Page 11 Step 4: Double-click MENU.exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 14 below will appear. Figure 14 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk. Select the 3132 RAID/non-RAID driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. For example, from the menu in Figure 15, if you do not want to create RAID array, press 9 to select 9)Si3132 BASE Driver.

  • Page 12: Installing Sata Controller Driver During Os Installation

    Ác (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 Åé Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the SATA driver. The following is an example of ¤¤...

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    Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 19 below will appear. Use the ARROW keys to select Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRAID 5 Controller for Windows XP/Server 2003 (or the other if you wish to install Windows 2000) and press ENTER. Then (Note) it will begin to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk.

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    Ác After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen similar to that below. It indicates that you have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. You can proceed with the Åé Windows 2000/XP installation. ¤¤ WindowsXP Professional Setup ¤å...

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