RAID Installation Guide | ASRock WiFi Motherboard K10N780SLIX3

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STEP 2: Install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.

2.13.2 Installing Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit Without RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.

Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices with NCQ and Hot Plug functions STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.

A.	Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY		Advanced screen		IDE Configuration.

B.Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [AHCI].

STEP 2: Install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system.

Insert the Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit optical disk into the optical drive to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system. When you see “Where do you want to install Windows?

”page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive, and click the “Load Driver” button on the left on the bottom to load the NVIDIA® AHCI drivers. NVIDIA® AHCI drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:

.. \ I386 \ Vista32_AHCI (For Windows® VistaTM OS)

.. \ AMD64 \ Vista64_AHCI (For Windows® VistaTM 64-bit OS)

After that, please insert Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit optical disk into the optical drive again to continue the installation.

Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices without NCQ and Hot Plug functions

STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.

A.	Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY		Advanced screen		IDE Configuration.

B.Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [non-RAID].

STEP 2: Install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system.

2.14 Installing Windows® XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please refer to the document at the following path in the Support CD for detailed procedures: