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2.13 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
2.14 Installing Windows® XP / XP
If you want to install Windows® XP, Windows® XP
2.14.1 Installing Windows® XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows® XP or Windows® XP
STEP 1: Set up BIOS. |
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A. | Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen | IDE Configuration. |
B.Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette.
A.Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (There are two ASRock Support CD in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for Windows® XP / XP
B.During POST at the beginning of system
C.When you see the message on the screen, “Generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
D.Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a blank formatted diskette into floppy drive A:
press any key to start
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press any key.
E.The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette.
STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
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