ASRock 775Dual-VSTA User Manual - Page 28

If you want to use "VIA RAID Tool Information" in Windows® environment, please install SATA drivers from the Support CD again so that "VIA RAID Tool Information" will be installed to your system as well. 2.14 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM Without RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000 / Windows® XP / Windows® XP-64bit / Windows® VistaTM on your SATA HDDs without RAID functions or you want to install Windows® 2000 / Windows® XP / Windows® XP-64bit / Windows® VistaTM on your IDE HDDs instead of SATA HDDs, please follow the below steps. STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. Set the "Onboard SATA Operation Mode" option from [RAID] to [non-RAID]. STEP 2: Install Windows® 2000 / Windows® XP / Windows® XP-64bit / Windows® VistaTM OS on your system. After setting up BIOS, you can start to install Windows® 2000 / Windows® XP / Windows® XP-64bit / Windows® VistaTM on your system. If you don't want to set up RAID functions, there is no need to make a SATA driver diskette. 2.15 Untied Overclocking Technology This motherboard supports Untied Overclocking Technology, which means during overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed AGP / PCI / PCIE bus. You may set "CPU Host Frequency" option of BIOS setup to [Auto], which will show you the actual CPU host frequency in the following item. Therefore, CPU FSB is untied during overclocking, but AGP / PCI / PCIE bus is in the fixed mode so that FSB can operate under a more stable overclocking environment. 28