Installing The Sata Raid Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P User Manual

5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System

With the SATA RAID driver diskette and correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows Vista/XP onto
your hard drive(s). The followings are examples of Windows XP and Vista installation.
A. Installing Windows XP
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" (Figure 1). A screen will then appear
asking you to specify additional device.
Windows Setup
Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver.
Step 2:
The screen displays two drivers, both of which need to be installed. First select NVIDIA RAID Driver and
press <Enter>. On the next screen, press <S> to return to the screen in Figure 2. Then select NVIDIA nForce
Storage Controller and press <Enter>. When both of the two drivers appear on the confirmation screen,
press <Enter> to continue the driver installation. When completed, proceed with the Windows XP installation.
Windows Setup
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.
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.
NVIDIA RAID Driver (required)
NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required)
F3=Exit
Figure 1
Figure 2
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