Instruction manual

B-4
845PE Max2 ATX Mainboard
Installing Driver During New Windows XP Installation
1. Start the installation:
a. Floppy Install: Boot the computer with the Windows XP
installation diskettes.
b. Floppyless Install: Boot from floppy and type “WINNT”.
After files have been copied, the system will reboot. On the
reboot, after the message “Setup is inspecting your
computer’s hardware configuration...” appears, press <F6>.
c. CD-ROM Install: Boot from the CD-ROM. Press <F6> after
the message “Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI
or RAID driver” appears.
2. When the “Windows XP Setup” window is generated, press “S” to
specify an additional device(s)
3. Insert the Promise Technology
®
driver diskette into drive A: and press
“Enter” key.
4. Choose “WinXP Promise MBUltra133 IDE Controller” from the list
that appears on screen, and then press the “Enter” key.
NOTE: Immediately following the loading of the selected driver the
Installation Program will notify you of following:
“The driver you provided seems to be newel than the Windows de-
fault driver.
Windows already has a driver that you can use for “WinXP Promise
MBUltra133 IDE Controller”.
Unless the device manufacture prefers that you use the driver on the
floppy disk, you should use the driver in Windows.”
5. Press “S” to use the driver on the floppy disk, and then press “enter”
to continue with installation.
If you press “enter” to use “Windows default driver”, you will en-
counter the following error message in the next phase of the
installation:
“Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer”
NOTE: Restart installation and then use option “S” to load driver
from floppy disk.