Name: Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-DS2
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• Before installingthe drivers,rst installthe operating system. (The following instructions use

Windows 8 as the example operating system.)

• After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your optical drive. Click

on the message "Tap to choose what happens with this disc" on the top-right corner of the screen

and select "Run Run.exe." (Or go to My Computer, double-click the optical drive and execute the

Run.exe program.)

After inserting the driver disk, "Xpress Install" will automatically scan your system and then list all the drivers that

are recommended to install. You can click the Install All button and "Xpress Install" will install all the recommended

drivers. Or click Install Single Items to manually select the drivers you wish to install.

3-2 Drivers Installation

Method B:

Steps:

1. Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk.

2. From your optical drive folder, double click the Menu.exeleintheBootDrvfolder.ACommandPrompt

window will open.

3. Inserttheblankformatteddisk(ifyou'reusingaUSBoppydiskdrive,makesureitisdesignatedasdrive

A). Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For

example, for the AMD A78, select 6) hseries AHCI/RAID for XP.

Yoursystemwillthenautomaticallycopythedriverlestotheoppydisk.Pressanykeytoexitwhennished.

Refer to the following for installing the driver during the Windows setup process.

Step 1:

RestartyoursystemtobootfromtheWindowsXPsetupdiskandpress<F6>assoonasyouseethemessage

"PressF6ifyouneedtoinstalla3rdpartySCSIorRAIDdriver."Ascreenwillthenappearaskingyoutospecify

anadditionalSCSIadapter.Press<S>.

Step 2:

InserttheoppydiskcontainingtheSATARAID/AHCIdriverandpress<Enter>.SelectAMD AHCI Compatible

RAID Controller-x86 platform and press <Enter>.

Step 3:

On the next screen, press <Enter> to continue the driver installation. After the driver installation, you can proceed

withtheWindowsXPinstallation.

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