Installing Windows - ASROCK ALiveNF5SLI-1394 Manual Del Usuario

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If you want to install Windows
SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: 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.
STEP 2: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID].
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 in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 4: Install Windows
your system.
After step 1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows
XP 64-bit OS on your system. At the beginning of Windows
a third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette
containing the NVIDIA ® RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be
presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS
you install.
NOTE. If you install Windows
HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions
on SATA / SATAII HDDs, you still need to set up "SATA Operation Mode" to [RAID]
in BIOS first. Then, please set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID
installation guide in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
ASRock
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID
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2000, Windows XP or Windows
Advanced screen
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2000 / Windows
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2000 / Windows XP / Windows
ALiveNF5SLI-1394 Motherboard
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XP 64-bit on your
IDE Configuration.
® XP 64-bit OS on
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XP / Windows
® setup, press F6 to install
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XP 64-bit on IDE
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