ASROCK ALIVEXFIRE-ESATA2 R3.0 User Manual

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third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette
containing the ATI
TM
RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be
presented. Select the driver to install according to the OS you install. (Select “ATI AHCI
Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform” for Windows
®
2000 and Windows
®
XP, or “ATI
AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform” for Windows
®
XP 64-bit.)
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices without NCQ and Hot Plug
functions
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [non-RAID].
STEP 2: Install Windows
®
2000 / Windows
®
XP / Windows
®
XP 64-bit OS on
your system.
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2.17.2 Installing Windows
®
Vista Vista
Vista Vista
Vista
TMTM
TMTM
TM
/ Vista / Vista
/ Vista / Vista
/ Vista
TMTM
TMTM
TM
64-bit Without 64-bit Without
64-bit Without 64-bit Without
64-bit Without
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RAID F
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unctions
If you want to install Windows
®
Vista
TM
or Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit on your SATA /
SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices with NCQ and Hot Plug
functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [AHCI].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette by following section 2.16.1 step 2 on page
33.
STEP 3: Install Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your system.
Insert the Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit optical disk into the optical drive
to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your system. When you see “Where do you want to install Windows?
” page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive,
and click the “Load Driver” button on the left on the bottom to load the ATI
TM
AHCI drivers.
ATI
TM
AHCI drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:
.. \ I386 (For Windows
®
Vista
TM
OS)
.. \ AMD64 (For Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit OS)
After that, please insert Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit optical disk into
the optical drive again to continue the installation.

ASROCK ALIVEXFIRE-ESATA2 R3.0 Specifications

General

Brand	ASROCK
Model	ALIVEXFIRE-ESATA2 R3.0
Category	Motherboard
Language	English