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Driver Installation GuideDriver Installation Guide
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.
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64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
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7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
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/ Vista
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64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit on
a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please
follow below procedures according to the OS you install.
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If you want to install Windows
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XP / XP 64-bit on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more
SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage
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.
B. 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.
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.