Asrock 4core1600twins motherboard User Manual

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STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set “SATAII Configuration” to [Enhanced], and then in the option “Configure
SATAII as”, please set the option to [AHCI].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette.
A. Insert the 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, “Do you want to generate Serial
ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
D. Then you will see these messages,

Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.

WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will

lose ALL data in it!

Start to format and copy files [YN]?
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.

E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII
drivers into the floppy diskette.

2.18

2.18 Installing Windows

Installing Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista

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Vista

64-bit Without RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista

/ Vista

64-bit OS

on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below
procedures according to the OS you install.

2.18.1 Installing Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit

Without RAID F

ithout RAID F

ithout RAID Functions

unctions

If you want to install Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATAII HDDs

without RAID functions, please follow below steps.

Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices with NCQ function

1. Since Windows

2000 AHCI driver is not provided by the chipset

vendor, AHCI function is not supported under Windows

2000.

2. The AHCI driver in our support CD is non-logo.

2.17

2.17 Driver 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.