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Driver Installation GuideDriver Installation Guide

Driver Installation Guide

To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical

drive first. 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.

2.122.12

2.12

Using SAUsing SA

Using SA

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If you want to install Windows

2000, Windows

XP or Windows

XP 64-bit OS on

your SATA HDDs with RAID functions, you need to make a SATA driver diskette

before you start the OS installation.

STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.

(Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at this moment!)

STEP 2: 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.

STEP 3: When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to generate

Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.

STEP 4: Then you will see these messages,

Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.

WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will

lose ALL data in it!

Start to format and copy files [YN]?

Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.

STEP 5: The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA /

SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette.

Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to install Windows

2000

/ Windows

XP / Windows

XP 64-bit on your system directly without setting the RAID

configuration on your system, or you may start to use “RAID Installation Guide” to set

RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. Before you start to

configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD

for proper configuration. Please find the document, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installa-

tion and RAID Configuration”, at the following path in the Support CD:

.. \ Information \ Manual \ RAID Installation Guide \ English.pdf

The installation procedures for Windows Vista

are subject to change.