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Ultra; nVIDIA nForce4 SLI 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 6 (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk 9 (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation
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nForce4 SLI) ¤¤ ¤å To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (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 SATA controller driver
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Exit F7: Optimized Defaults F1: General Help Figure 1 (This BIOS setup screen is captured from GA-K8N Ultra-SLI, BIOS ver.:F2a) 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
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/PD/+/-: Change Priority F10: Save Figure 2 ESC: Exit If you wish to create RAID, configure the RAID array in RAID BIOS (refer to page 6) first. After finished, re-enter the system BIOS Setup to set hard disk boot priority before OS installation. Select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced
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Step 3: To boot from Windows installation CD-ROM, set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CD-ROM (Figure 4). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features } Hard Disk Boot Priority First Boot Device Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Boot
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F10 key to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. NVIDIA RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4.76 Copyright (C) 2004 NVIDIA ARROW key to select a RAID mode. The supported RAID modes include Mirroring (default), Striping, Stripe RAID 0 (Striping) is selected, you can manually set the striping block size. In the Striping
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Step 5: Next, select the hard drives which you wish to be included in the disk array. The Free Disks section displays the information about the currently installed SATA hard drives. Press the TAB key to move to the Free Disks section. Select the target hard drives using the UP or DOWN ARROW key and
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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 Hard Drive Configurations (nForce series) - 8 -
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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-ROM drive. The installation utility
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press I to select nVIDIA Series ATA (2K) if you wish to install Windows 2000). 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. (Note 1): The name of the
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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
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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 copy the correct SATA driver again from the motherboard driver CD. "*" If you want to create RAID, select both NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER and then NVIDIA
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the next screen (Figure 18) appears, press ENTER to continue the SATA driver installation from the floppy disk. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) * To specify additional SCSI
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Problem: Users cannot install Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 (or previous versions) to a bootable RAID volume. ¤¤ There are two solutions to resolve this issue. Solutions 1: ¤å Use the NVRAID tool (nForce Driver 20 (This BIOS setup screen is captured from GA-K8N Ultra-SLI, BIOS ver. F2a) SATA Hard
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, press F7 to complete the configuration. When prompted to Clear Disk Data (Figure 22), press N. Then press CTRL+X to exit the NVIDIA RAID BIOS. Restart the computer to boot into Windows 2000. RAID Mode: Striping NVIDIA RAID Utility Nov 5 10 2004 - Define a New Array - Striping Block: Optimal
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the NVIDIA nForce Driver Package while Select Convert Array under the System Tasks and select Next following the instructions. ¤å Select the desired type of RAID array you want to users choose not to install Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or 4, RAID is still supported on Windows 2000. However, users