Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal Manual
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- Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 1
2 (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 2 (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS 6 (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk 9 (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation 11 (6) Configuring a bootable RAID array with Microsoft Windows 2000 14 - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 2
one SATA controller on your motherboard, you may refer to the motherboard user's manual to identify the SATA controller for the connector. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 3
General Help F7: Optimized Defaults 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 Configurations (P4 nForce4 SLI series) - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 4
Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu. In the Hard Disk Boot Priority submenu, select the model of the SATA hard drive onto which you wish to install Microsoft Windows 2000/XP. You should Change Priority F10: Save Figure 4 SATA Configurations (P4 nForce4 SLI series) - 4 - ESC: Exit - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 5
] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] [PEG] higf: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save F3: Language F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults Figure 5 Step 4: Save and exit BIOS Setup. - 5 - SATA Configurations (P4 nForce4 SLI series) - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 6
key to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. MediaShield IDE ROM BIOS 5.16 Copyright (C) 2005 key to select a RAID mode. The supported RAID modes include Mirroring (default), Striping, RAID 0 (Striping) is selected, you can manually set the striping block size. In the Striping SLI series) - 6 - - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 7
disk data ? 1.0.M ST3120026AS [g] Add 1.1.M ST3120026AS [Y] YES [N] NO [f ] Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [hi] Select [ENTER] Popup Figure 9 - 7 - SATA Configurations (P4 nForce4 SLI series) - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 8
Nvidia RAID utility, press ESC in the main menu or Ctrl+X in the Array List screen. Now, you can proceed to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. SATA Configurations (P4 nForce4 - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | 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-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 10
an empty floppy disk and select the nVIDIA Serial ATA driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu (for Windows XP or press H to select nVIDIA C19 Series Raid (2K) if you wish to install Windows 2000). Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 11
insert the floppy disk containing the SATA driver and press S. Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage 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 - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 12
mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue F3=Exit Figure 18 If a message appears saying one or some file(s) cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct SATA driver again from the motherboard driver CD. "*" If you want to - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 13
you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue F3=Exit Figure 19 After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 14
issue. Solutions 1: Use the NVRAID tool (nForce Driver Version 5.xx) to convert the boot volume to a RAID array. Here are the detailed step-by-step instructions: Step 1: Install Windows 2000 onto a selected hard drive. Download and install Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 from Microsoft's website. Step - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 15
(Figure 24), press N. Then press CTRL+X to exit the NVIDIA RAID BIOS. Restart the computer to boot into Windows 2000. RAID Mode: Striping MediaShield RAID Utility Feb 8 2005 - Define a ] Finish [TAB] Navigate [hi] Select [ENTER] Popup Figure 24 - 15 - SATA Configurations (P4 nForce4 SLI series) - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal | Manual - Page 16
Driver Package while in Windows the System Tasks and select Next following the instructions. ¤å Select the desired type of RAID downloads/servicepacks/sp4/HFdeploy.htm Note: If users choose not to install Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or 4, RAID is still supported on Windows 2000. However, users
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Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: nVIDIA nForce4 SLI)
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Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer
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Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup
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Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS
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Making a SATA controller driver disk
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Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation
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Configuring a bootable RAID array with Microsoft Windows 2000
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