Chapter 4: Troubleshooting - Albatron PX915P4 Series User Manual

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BIOS Setup Utility -> Integrated

"Combined Mode"

2. Save all BIOS configurations and exit the BIOS setup utility.

3. Place the Windows® 98/ME CD into the CD-ROM drive to begin the OS installation process. During

the installation you will see that the SATA device has been assigned to the C: drive. Continue and

complete the installation of the Windows® OS.

Because the SATA device only support windows® 2000/ XP, therefore, If you want to install

windows® 98/ ME, you must had the SATA devices simulate PATA device (by using IDE channel).

So that you should set the "On-Chip Serial ATA" options to "Combined Mode" all time in the BIOS

Setup Utility.

Installing ITE RAID Drivers during Windows® 2000/XP Installation with

the IDE RAID Device

Preparation: Before beginning with the steps in this section copy the "ITE RAID Driver" and associated

files from the bundle CD Driver to an empty floppy disk [Location of files on CD-ROM => \ Driver \ ITE

RAID \ IDE \ WIN2K (or WINXP)\ includes 4 files (iteraid.cat/ iteraid.sys/ iteraid.inf/ txtsetup.oem]. This

will have to be done on another system if you are installing the system from scratch.

1. During Windows installation, the "Windows Setup" screen will prompt you with "Press F6 if you need

to install third party SCSI or RAID driver". Press <F6>".

2. Press 's' when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device. Insert the floppy disk which

includes the "ITE RAID Driver" into the floppy drive. Press 'Enter' and select the appropriate OS

device driver.

3. Press 'Enter' again to continue the setup process.

4. Follow the setup instructions and select your choice for partition and file system.

5. After setup examines your disks, it will copy files to the Windows® 2000/ XP installation folders and

restart the system. After the system is rebooted the setup program will continue with the installation

all the way to completion.

6. Wait until Windows® 2000/ XP finishes installing devices, regional settings, networking settings,

components, and the final set of tasks. Reboot the system if you are asked to do so.

See "ITE RAID CONTROLLER" user manual for more information.