Asus M3A - Motherboard - ATX - Creating a RAID Driver Disk

ASUS M3A 5-33
5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk
A oppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
XP/Vista
operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set.
To create a RAID driver disk:
1. Boot your computer.
2. Press <Del> during POST to enter the BIOS setup utility.
3. Set the optical drive as the primary boot device.
4. Save changes and exit BIOS.
5. Insert the support CD into the optical drive.
6. Press the any key when the system prompts “Press any key to boot from the
optical drive.” The following menu appears:
a) AMD RAID Driver Disk
b) Jmicron JM363 32 bit AHCI/RAID Driver Disk
c) Jmicron JM363 64 bit AHCI/RAID Driver Disk
d) FreeDOS command prompt
Please choose a ~ d:_
7. Press <a> to create a RAID driver disk.
8. Insert a formatted oppy disk into the oppy drive then press <Enter>.
9. Follow succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.
- OR -
1. Start Windows
®
.
2. Place the motherboard support CD into the optical drive.
3. When the Drivers menu appears, click AMD Chipset Driver to create an AMD
RAID driver disk.
4. Insert a oppy disk into the oppy disk drive.
5. Follow succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.
Write-protect the oppy disk to avoid computer virus infection.
To install the RAID driver:
1. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to
install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.
2. Press <F6> then insert the oppy disk with RAID driver into the oppy disk
drive.
3. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.