Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro Manual
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- Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 1
(s) (Controller: Intel ICH7R 2 (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer 2 (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 3 (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS 5 (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk ...9 (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation 11 - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 2
, you may prepare only one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 3
F7: Optimized Defaults Figure 1 The BIOS Setup menus described in this section may not show the exact settings for your motherboard. The actual BIOS Setup menu options you will see shall depend on the motherboard you have and the BIOS version. - 3 - SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 4
2: Later, select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu. In the Hard Disk Åé Boot Priority submenu, select the model of the SATA hard drive onto which you intent to install ¤¤ Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (Figure 2). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 5
BIOS Enter the RAID BIOS CTRL+ I to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Defined. Physical Disks : Port Driver Model 0 ST3120026AS 1 ST3120026AS Serial DISK/VOLUME INFORMATION ] Physical Disks : Port Driver Model 0 ST3120026AS 1 ST3120026AS Serial # - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 6
.6 GB Create Volume [ HELP ] The following are typical values: RAID0 - 128KB RAID10 - 64KB RAID5 - 64KB [KL ]-Change [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu Figure 7 [ENTER]-Select SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) - 6 - - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 7
you sure you want to creat this volume? (Y/N) : Press "ENTER" to Create the specified volume [KL ]-Change [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu Figure 9 [ENTER]-Select - 7 - SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 8
Volume option in Main Menu. Press ENTER and follow on-screen instructions. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 the ICH7R RAID BIOS utility, press ESC in Main Menu. Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA driver and operating system. SATA Hard Drives - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 9
be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk. The instructions below explain how to copy the driver. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 10
about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Step 6: Press 0 to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure 14). You have copied the SATA driver sucessfully. Figure 14 If you wish to install 64-bit Windows Operating System, select 8) Intel(R) Matrix - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 11
prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the SATA driver. The following is an example of Windows XP installation. Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as soon - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 12
copy the correct SATA driver again from the motherboard driver CD. Step 4: When the screen as shown below appears, press ENTER to continue the SATA driver installation from the floppy disk. The driver installation will be finished in about one minute. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Pro | Manual - Page 13
you have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. You can proceed with the Windows 2000/XP installation. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to Setup. This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to run on your computer. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. To
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Table of Contents
Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)
(Controller: Intel ICH7R)
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(1)
Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer
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2
(2)
Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup
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3
(3)
Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS
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5
(4)
Making a SATA Driver Disk
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Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation
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