Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal Manual
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- Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | 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 Royal | Manual - Page 2
Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. (3)* Configure RAID set in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the hard drive and the other end to available SATA 3Gb/s port(s) on the motherboard. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 3
Controller USB Keyboard Support USB Mouse Support Azalia Codec Onboard H/W F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults ESC: Exit F1: General Help 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 - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 4
¤å 1. SCSI-0 : Hard Disk Boot Priority Intel Volume0 Item Help 2. Bootable Add-in Cards Menu Level `` Use or to select a device, then press to move PU/PD: Value F10: Save F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults Figure 3 Step 4: Save and exit BIOS Setup. ESC: Exit F1: - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 5
system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press to enter Configuration utility" (Figure 4). Press CTRL+ I to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. RAID - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 6
Ác Step 3: After entering the Create Volume Menu screen, name the disk array with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) under the Name item. When finished, press ENTER to select a RAID level (Figure 6). There are four RAID levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 and RAID5. Select a RAID level - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 7
Step 5: After setting all the items above, select Create Volume and press ENTER (Figure 8) to begin the creation of the RAID array. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ CREATE VOLUME MENU ] Name : RAID - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 8
RAID 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 Copyright(C) [KL]-Select [ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu To exit the ICH7R RAID BIOS utility, press ESC in Main Menu. Now, you can proceed to the - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 9
drives may not 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 - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 10
floppy disk and press 1 to select 7) Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 32bit. Then it will take 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 - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 11
Now that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices(s) * - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 12
to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer. Select the SCSI Adapter you want check the floppy disk or copy the correct SATA driver again from the motherboard driver CD. Step 4: When the screen as shown below appears, press - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal | Manual - Page 13
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 repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. To quit Setup
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Table of Contents
Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)
(Controller: Intel ICH7R)
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2
(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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9
(5)
Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation
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