ASROCK K8A780LM - XP 64-Bit Without RAID Functions; Installing Windows XP; XP 64-Bit Without RAID; Functions; Installing Windows 7; 7 64-Bit; Vista

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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 OS
on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without 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 your SATA / SATAII HDDs without
RAID functions, please follow below steps.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage 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 2.14.1 step 2 on page
30.
STEP 3: Install Windows
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XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
After step 1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows
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XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
At the beginning of Windows
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setup, press F6 to install a third-party AHCI driver.
When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette containing the AMD AHCI
driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select the driver to
install according to the OS you install. (Select “AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-
x86 platform” for Windows
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XP, or “AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform”
for Windows
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XP 64-bit.)
NOTE. If you install Windows
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7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
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64-bit on IDE 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
NOTE. Currently, if you install Windows
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7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit on IDE HDDs
and there are no SATA / SATAII device used, please set up “SATA Operation Mode”
to [IDE] in BIOS.