A300 Motherboard
drives whether configuring the SATA disk drives into RAID volumes or using them as
individual disk drives.
The system BIOS can identify SATA disk drives, but cannot control their operation. The
separately installed driver therefore is necessary.
7.5.1 Installation Steps During Windows XP Installation Step 1: Enable SATA ROM using the BIOS configuration utility. The process has been
detailed in Appendix E.
Step 2: Locate the ALi installation driver folder within the Utility CD that came with the
motherboard.
Step 3: Copy files under a sub-directory named “SATA50XX” (taking Windows XP
installation as the example) to the root directory of floppy diskette (labeled driver
diskette). The file names are listed below:
disk1
5283096D.bin
txtsetup.oem
Step 4: Also copy the OS option directory “win98_me”, “win_nt”, or “win_xp”, and related
driver files in each directory.
Step 5: Boot from Windows installation CD-ROM (set CD-ROM as the 1st Boot Device),
when the Windows XP Setup blue screen appears and prompts users to Press
F6. Please press the F6 key, if third-party SCSI or RAID driver installation is
needed.
Step 6: The setup program continues, later when the setup program prompts users to
specify additional adapters, please press the S key.
Step 7: The setup program prompts user to insert the driver diskette. Please insert the
driver diskette, and press ENTER to continue.
Step 8: The follow-up window lists out the installation choices, please select ALi
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